Chapter 2! Yay.

End The Reign

02

Night Raid

Leone kicked the door to what was Night Raid's hideout open and threw me forwards. It took a few steps for me to stop, my legs feeling numb from all the dragging.

"Boss!" She basically yelled, "I've got Sidney!"

I traced the direction of which she was looking, and was met with a silver haired and purple eyed person who looked a fair few years older than me. They wore an eye patch over their right eye, as well as having what looked like some out of place armour along their right arm. From where I was, it was a little hard to discern whether they were a male or female.

"And...?" The voice made me lean in the direction of them being female, so I decided to play it safe and address her as such when needed to.

A hand came to rest on my shoulder, "She's good! We should totally recruit her!"

"Tch..."

The older woman gave me a thoughtful gaze, "So I wasn't wrong when I decided that she would be an asset to our victory."

I clenched my fist in an effort to calm myself. Though I could tell it wasn't working, so I quickly glanced around the room to try and distract myself. If this really were the leader of Night Raid, I wouldn't be wanting to piss her off. A few things I noticed were pink, purple, black and green; a rainbow of different hair colours grouped up in one place. Not that I didn't add to this, white hair and all. Finding nothing to work as a stress relief, I finally settled on going with telling them something that had become something of a catchphrase for me.

"I'd like to tell you..." There was a painfully obvious angry tone in my words, "... That I am not a girl," I could tell by now that my knuckles were white, even for my standards.

"Eh?" Both Akame and Leone, as well as the old one were too shocked for my liking.

"You're a guy?" Leone's expressions was... annoying, "But the official records stated you are a girl!"

I'll burn those records in the fiery pits of hell.

I inwardly grabbed my anger with force and pushed it down. I could vent later; for now it was probably best that I tried not to anger anyone here, lest they cut me into a million tiny pieces or something along the lines of that.

"And why is your hair so long?" She grabbed at my hair as she asked, pausing and offhandedly adding, "It's so soft..."

She was right; a guy with hair that extended down quite a length wasn't exactly something that you'd see every day. There was a reason as to why I had it so long, but I didn't trust them enough to just go and spiel to them my backstory.

"Well... I'll tell you why later."

"Those sound like the words of someone who plans to stay," She grinned, still playing with my hair, "Seriously... I've never felt hair this soft..."

"Trust me, I don't plan on staying," I yanked my hair out of her grasp and turned to face the 'boss', "Not until I know what exactly it is you want me for."

The 'boss' smirked, raising up off of the chair she had been sitting on, "It's simple, really..."

"... I want you to join Night Raid."

I gave her a blank stare.

"Could you repeat that?"

"I want you to become a member of Night Raid," She stated again, "We've seen what you can do on more than one occasion, and from going over your personal records, you've been meaning to join the Revolutionary Army, haven't you?"

"Yeah," I replied, "Though what does a group of murderers like you have anything to do with it?"

I could have sworn I saw her eyes twitch at the word 'murderers', but I didn't pay too much attention to it.

"We're a part of it."

"Oh?" That was news to me, however I couldn't let myself be convinced by one sentence. Call it over sceptical as you may, I had only just met these people outside of their wanted posters that littered the Capital, "I can't really believe it from jus-"

"You know what?" A hand slapped down on to my shoulder, "Before we get to deciding, why don't I show you around," It may have been worded like a question, but it certainly wasn't said as such.

Those who were here agreed with her stated question without so much as a single objection, not even from me. I had planned on it, but it appeared that she'd not be taking no for an answer.

This Leone seems to enjoy dragging me everywhere... I thought as, for the second time in one day, I was dragged away.

"Sidney!" A female voice called from behind me, "Sidney! Look at what I got!"

I spun on my heels, instantly taking a step back when I saw what was behind her. It was at least three metres tall, and looked like it could kill you with a single swipe, but... it was dead.

My mouth opened, yet nothing came out. I worked my jaw, "H-how..." A little squeaky, but it was there, "How did you...?" I could only look at her in awe.

"I'm gonna go show it to father!" She announced, obviously pleased with herself. Who wouldn't be though, with a Danger Beast as big as that at her age.

My right hand rose, as if I were trying to stop her...

But why?

Why would I not want her to go?

I grabbed it with my left hand and forced it back down. Everything around me had started turning dark, though I attributed it to the darkening of the night. I looked around, but everything was becoming too dark to see anything.

All of my senses suddenly switched off.

When I'd clench my fists, I wouldn't feel anything.

If I listened intently, there'd be no noise.

I'd look around, and nothing was there to be seen.

Nothing, except for a small reddish hue in the distance. Before I had even noticed, I was taking small steps towards it, as if I were an old lady attracted to a cat. I couldn't ignore it, and I needed to go to it.

No...

A step.

I know what this is...

Another step.

I don't want to see this...

Another step.

I... I can't...

The step faltered and I tripped forwards, falling into the black abyss below.

I jumped up from the bed, suppressing the desire to scream. I ran a trembling hand through the white hair that adorned my head, something that usually helped me slow the beating of my scared heart.

What the hell was that? I thought, Some kind of nightmare?

Swivelling around and quietly placing my bare feet on the cold wooden floor, I surveyed the bedroom. Something was off; I couldn't recall some of the things that were in my room being there before. For example, there was a fairly... plain theme to it that I was certain wasn't there when I went to sleep.

The scenery outside the window was different as well; instead of snow as far as the eyes could see, it was replaced by forest, and the white sky replaced by the black of night.

Oh, that was right. This wasn't my room, or, at least it wasn't my old room. I felt it was safe to assume that it was my room now, given what had just transpired some time ago.

I rose from the bed, groggily moving towards the desk over on the other side of the room. On top of it was a light blue bandana, and next to that a small rectangular mirror, framed with some simple black wood. I gazed into the mirror.

As to be expected, the white eyes were staring back at me with a half asleep, half awake look.

Wait...

I brought up a hand to feel my cheeks. They were cold and damp, and I could see the slightest bit of glistening from what little moonlight there was to light up the room.

Had I been crying?

About Sidney...

His voice, appearance, and general mannerism is quite feminine. Basically; he's very much a girl, unless you know he isn't.

There is a reason as to why, but you'll need to stay tuned to find out~