2: A NORMAL DAY
Note: Words like -t-h-i-s- are those crossed out on Kuchinashi's notepad. Unfortunately the proper strike-through doesn't work on here so this is my way of compromising. Now enjoy and review!
Fire blazed along the horizon. Screams filled the air. Blood rained down on the cracked dry ground and soaked into it, feeding the shrivelled and dying plants which struggled to thrive in this desolate wasteland.
Men, women and children ran about in a frenzy of fear as their town was burned to the ground. They tried to save themselves, but few made it far before they were consumed by the darkness.
"Die! Die all of you!" a piercing rasping cry seemed to overpower the combined screams of the victims. A lone man stood atop a fractured building and observed the scene below. He cackled wickedly as they dropped like flies around him. They were merely insects. Nothing but unworthy vermin to be crushed.
A young woman stepped out from an alley-way below and extended a hand towards the fleeing towns people. She smiled sweetly as her sharpened talons shot out to pierce flesh and tear the innocents apart.
Those that were left unscathed by that were soon slain by an unseen man who clung to the dancing shadows of the firelight. The victims saw nothing but felt sudden biting pain. They knew nothing afterwards, their bodies sliced into pieces by an unknown attack.
"Do not spare a single one of them! Kill them all!" the raspy shriek echoed across the barren land.
The bloodbath ensued a little longer. In the end there were only eight people left standing, however they were not important. In fact you could say that they were...
Needless...
"Yamada!" Eve whined, stretching the vowels out to make the incorrect name last longer. That way she didn't have to repeat it as many times. She ran her fingers down her flowing blue hair and teased a curly lock, twisting it around like a child.
An angry priest stormed into the room and slammed his fist down on the table. "Eve! Shut up!"
"Huh?" Eve snapped back.
"Yamada ain't here anymore! Shut up and stop calling out for him!"
"Be quiet Blade! You're making so much noise." The young girl explained calmly.
"Don't tell me to be quiet! It was you making all the noise-"
"Blade! Shut up!" Old man Gido snapped from the other room.
With everyone against him, it seemed he had little choice but to quieten down. The odd couple stood around for a moment just looking at each other with questioning stares. Neither of them spoke until the tension of the silence became to great to bear.
Eve let out a deep sigh and leaned back in her chair, once again playing with her long hair. "Aw, I think I kind of miss him...He used to buy me drinks..."
Blade lowered his head and frowned, "Yeah, he was a good kid..." An awkward silence occurred, only brought to an abrupt end when the priest smashed his fist down on the table again. "Shit!"
"What?" Eve asked, rising up from her chair.
"Yamada! He never bought me my ciggies!"
Another awkward silence ran rampant throughout the small house. The two looked to each other and then out the window, then back to each other. They both opened their mouths to speak and the very same words rolled off their tongues in perfectly unscripted unison, "KILL HIM!"
There was no time to use the door, so instead they just broke down the wall of the kitchen and charged across the expansive desert of the Black Spot in search of vengeance, Yamada...And ciggies.
The two raced through one of the many deserted towns in the ruins of the Black Spot, kicking up great trails of choking dust and sand behind them. The two were neck and neck for most of the journey but after some time Eve broke ahead of the pack. In fact she became the only person in the pack. She looked around uncertainly and groaned.
"I lost Blade..."
Adam wasn't lost however, he just felt a sudden urge to go into a cafe. There was nothing suspicious about it, unless you count stalking an under-age lolicon assassin as suspicious. Okay, maybe it was suspicious...
Blade's pupils disintegrated and reformed in the shape of love hearts. His tongue dropped out of the corner of his mouth and he drooled over the young girl at the counter. In most cases a girl would be terrified by such a sight, but not this girl. Instead she strolled right up to him and gave him a great big hug, which incidentally nearly crushed his ribs and killed the perverted preacher.
"Big brother! It's been so long!" the tiny pink-haired waitress squealed.
The priest choked on his words, the air trapped in his constricted lungs. He managed to wheeze them out so that they were just barely audible. "Mio-chan ...Please...Please...Harder?"
"Oh no you don't!" A slender hand snaked it's way between the two and slapped the loli-loving lunatic right in the face. The two were separated as Blade hurtled outside and landed in the street.
Blade coughed up dust and sized up his opponent, only for his brow to furrow in concentration. "Oh, it's you...Hello Stripes."
Setsuna reacted calmly for a fraction of a second before delivering a lightning speed punch to his jaw. She then grabbed him by the collar and lifted him up to her face. "That is not my name!"
"Yes it is...Ask Mio-Chan."
Another crushing punch. "How come you remember her name and not mine?" When no answer presented itself Setsuna shook the priest fervently, intermittently slapping and punching and kicking him.
The quiet little blonde of the group stirred from behind the counter and stepped outside to see what the commotion was. She studied the group and then took out a note-pad and pen.
~What's going on -S-t-r-i-p-e-s- Setsuna?~
Unfortunately (Or perhaps fortunately,) Setsuna was too busy to read, far too engrossed in destroying the Priest.
"We fought for half the manga and you still don't remember my name! How dare you show yourself here you dumb-ass son-of-a-bitch!" A crowd was starting to gather now to watch as the waitress beat the living shit out of the big muscular warrior who lay helpless on the ground. No-one intervened, besides, they were enjoying the view (of more than just the fight.)
"Setsuna, Stop! You're gonna kill him!" Mio cried to no avail. In fact it served as quite the opposite and instead encouraged the blue-haired nemesis in her furious one-sided battle.
"Of course I'm going to kill him!" She snarled, baring her cute little fangs.
But being cute during a fight like this was not the best thing to do...Not when your opponent was Adam Blade. The love-heart pupils returned and a crazed grin spread so far across his face that it threatened to consume it.
Setsuna sensed danger and backed off, allowing the priest to rise back to his feet. But in that instant of hesitation, she let her chance slip and in turn, she lost the battle.
"Ha! You're adorable when you're mad Stripes!"
A vein popped up on Setsuna's forehead. "Grr, I thought priests went after little boys?"
Blade scowled at her and flames raged around his body, enveloping the madman. "Ha! Who are you calling a priest? Dean Drive, Fox Hound!" Blade disappeared, vanishing into thin air, only to land right in front of the young warrior. Before she could react a fist moving so fast that it as nothing but a blur collided with her chest and sent her into the cafe's wall. She fell through and landed in a heap on the other side.
The fight ended there and the Priest went back on his merry little way, slightly unsure of why exactly he had stepped outside in the first place.
Meanwhile, Eve wandered back the way she had come through, hoping she would find the moronic companion who had run off on her. She slipped through the darkest of alleys and the most crowded streets, searching everywhere for Blade.
Her efforts resulted in no results however and she ended up slinking down against a wall to sit in the gutter, tired and frustrated. She cast her gaze out upon the street before her and studied the people as they walked past.
"Hello." A cheery feminine voice startled her.
Eve looked up to see a bubbly young girl before her. She wore a red tank top which left her midriff and generous amounts of cleavage exposed. Her hair was a sandy blonde and deep blue eyes. Torn khaki shorts barely covered her thighs and knee-high leather boots adorned with spikes shone in the bright sunlight.
"Oh, hello..." Eve murmured timidly. "Uh, have you seen a big tough-looking priest with a choker around his neck?"
The girl frowned. "No, but I'll help you find him!"
"No, I'll be fine."
"Oh, but I'm looking for the same guy!"
"What?" Eve looked the girl up and down and made a disgusted face. "You aren't...He didn't...Ugh!"
"I don't understan-"
"Go away! It's not healthy to feed his addiction you know!"
A question mark appeared behind the girl. "Huh?"
Eve clenched her fists and scowled, "I said, go away! Get away from me or you'll regret it!"
This only made the girl smile. "Oh really?" Her expression turned venomous. Eve was alarmed now, but it was already too late...Her slender body was pierced by five razor sharp blades in the blink of an eye, blood spurting from her numerous wounds. She cried out in pain as another five blades sank through her pale flesh, worming their way through the soft meat of her torso and destroying her internal organs. Eve sank to the ground and went limp.
The mysterious girl withdrew her extended talons and howled with laughter.