Dark alleys, dirty streets, and drunken idiots. Is that all there is to this place?
With my bow in hand, I make my way, slapping the drunken idiots away from me.
'TAP! TAP! TAP!'
I flatten myself to the nearest wall, hearing footsteps behind me. Looking in the direction of the oncoming footsteps I see one of my current classmates. Death the Kid. What in the world is he doing here?!
Sliding along the wall, I move away from him. Well, its more them, as he has his weapons with him.
Coming upon the corner, I follow it through, only to find the entire gang there, staring at my sudden appearance.
This is just great! Now I have no way to surprise them...oh, joyous day.
I raise my bow, loaded with an arrow at the gangster nearest to me. From around the corner, I can hear voices.
First is a girls voice, "K-Kid...are we a-almost there? Th-This place is r-r-r-really cr-r-reepy!" My, oh my. She sounds rather scared.
Kid then speaks in hushed tone, "Quiet Liz! I can sense there souls nearby, if we're to loud, we lose the element of surprise."
Another, younger girl's voice, "YAY! Surprise! Surprise, surprise, surprise!" Wait... does she sound... happy?!
Now a rather annoyed sounding Kid now says, "Patty! Be quiet!" his voice lowers so that I almost miss it, "Around this corner..."
Hmmm... I wonder what they'll do. Seeing some strange chick pointing a single arrow at a giant mob.
This night is about to get very interesting...
Kid's P.o.V.
Coming around the last corner, I stop short. This is NOT something you expect to see on any given day.
What I see is... the ENTIRE mob being held at arrow point by some girl in a black cloak. What is even more surprising, is that her soul literally just came into existence, the moment I spotted her.
The girl then speaks in a rather harsh sounding voice, "Greetings, Death the Kid. What in the world are you doing here?"
How... how does she know my name?!
The lead gangster then steps forward saying, "Its a girly!" He licks his lips and gets a hungry look in his eyes. Waving the girl over, he says, "Come here, girly... Come over here so I can show you how to make love!" The other gangsters start to chuckle and hoot, shoving each other around.
The girl shudders slightly and cocks her head saying, " First off, that's disgusting! Secondly, over my dead body! Finally, why should I let you? Considering, I'm here to take your souls!"
What in the world!? That's why I'M here! Raising Liz and Patty I come up beside her saying, "I don't know who you are, but you can't do this alone. Either way, who said you could take their souls anyway?"
I hear her chuckle darkly as the mob starts to rush at us. She shoots four arrows in rapid succession, and says, "Death did." I look at her utter shock.
Father? Why? Who is this girl then? Why is she doing this on her own?
She looks at quickly with black eyes and smirks at expression no doubt. "I'm a student too, you know." She resumes her shooting, so I quickly join her.
"If your a student, then why have never seen you before? Who are you? Also, who's your weapon?" The last question came out more like an afterthought, I just couldn't sense another soul on her, that could be her weapon.
Yet, the bigger question is, why didn't I sense her soul BEFORE coming around the corner? It was like her soul just came into existence the moment I spotted her.
I could feel that she was smirking again as she chuckled. The mob, being so humongous, surrounded us. Fighting down 'at the moment' panic, we go back-to-back and continue to shoot them down.
"Hmm... it seems you want my life story..." I cringe slightly at the blunt truth of the statement. "Preferring not to be extremely rude, I'll tell you this much. My name is Silence. Silence Forgotten. As for your questions, you've never seen me before because you never see me in the first place, and will never remember me. I have no weapon partner, I make my weapon out of my own soul wavelength, along with the arrows."
Patty then says, rather loudly, "COOL! Hey big sis, do you think we could do that too?! It sounds SO COOL!"
"Patty..." Liz replies exasperated, "I don't we could... We'd have to special in a different way to pull that off."
"If you say so, big sis..."
'THRUM' The final shot is done by Silence, leaving all of us surrounded by around forty, floating souls.
I turn to face Silence as Liz and Patty begin to collect the souls. Silence's bow disappears and she throws off her hood to reveal shoulder length black hair to match her eyes, and pale white skin. She's... she's absolutely perfect! Beautiful!
"You can keep the souls. I don't need them as much as you do." Silence says, waving a hand to all the souls still floating around us.
That wasn't the question I still have in mind, and seeing how absolutely beautiful she is, I'm finding it rather hard to focus. Yet... why is she doing this to me? What is wrong with me?! "What... What did you mean by never remembering you? I'm finding you rather unforgettable."
A light blush dusts her cheeks, making me feel as if I need to hug closely... and I need to stop this train of thought.
Silence then replies, "That's the first time I've heard that..." she shakes her head, "I may seem 'unforgettable,' but within the hour, you won't remember I even existed."
"...WHAT!?" How is that even possible?!
Silence turns and to walk away, "Exactly," she pulls up her hood and vanishes around the nearest corner.
"WAIT! SILENCE!" I yell after her, hoping she'll stop, and I quickly run around the corner she'd used. Spotting her in the shadows, still walking away, I catch up to her. Grabbing her shoulder, I spin her around.
Silence blinks at me in surprise. Warningly she says, "Reaper..."
Holding onto her arms I say, in a rather rushed manor, "I honestly don't care Silence."
What's gotten into me? What the hell is with this emotion going through me? Why do I feel as if I'll die without Silence? I have only known her for half an hour at the most!... Is... Is this what they call... love?
I look deep into Silence's eyes and continue, " I don't want to forget you, not now, not ever." Her eyes go wide, and I lean in and kiss her.
She freezes at first, then slowly starts to kiss back. Her lips are incredibly soft, and this is feeling so incredibly... right. I pull Silence into a tender embrace. After several minutes, I break the kiss, and lean my forehead against hers. She slowly opens her eyes, reveals what is a reflection of my own emotions.
"Why not just come with me, Silence? Stay with me, stick around out of the shadows? Come with me and hang out with my friends and myself? Please, Silence? For me?" I was holding her eyes till the end, when she looked away, not meeting my gaze.
"I can't do that, Kid. Not now... not ever..." Silence then looks back up at me, with pain filled eyes, while I tired to ignore the heart wrenching pain that statement brought on, but I just can't.
"Why not? Silence, just, why not?!" I return despairingly, holding onto her for, what feels like, dear life.
Sadness fills her eyes as she replies, "Simply because, I'd have to reintroduce myself, every, single, day. I don't- no- can't do that, it would break me," she then went on quietly, yet bitterly, "Besides, how can I even think to be claiming myself to be a person worth knowing, if I don't even know I am?"
What is that suppose to mean?
Then Silence continues, louder and sad once more, " I'm sorry Kid. It was nice to officially meet you, but I simply can not do what your asking me to do." Silence smirks/smiles and softly puts a hand on my cheek, "Good-bye, Death the Kid."
As she's specking, I feel my heart breaking. The sadness in her voice is heart wrenching, yet the way she says my name... is making my heart pound wildly.
As she tries to turn away, I despairingly say to her, "Silence, please... don't do this! Don't go! Don't leave me!"
Silence seems to be holding back tears as she softly says, " Close your eyes Kid," unwilling, I obey. "Farewell Kid, I'll be watching you." As she softly kisses me, my mind goes blank, this is meant to be the last one.
After a minute, my mind comes back online, and I open my eyes to see Silence has left. Why? Why did she have to leave? Slamming a fist against the neatest wall, I curse the fact that I didn't try harder to get her to stay. Feeling rather empty, I look in the direction she must have left in, and sigh. I wish I could go after her, but the same thing would just happen again... I could just track her soul!... But... What did it look like again? Why can't I remember that?! Shaking my head I try to clear it, I start to head back towards Liz and Patty, what was Silence's last name, again? She told me... I know she did!
Why can't I remember?!
Silence P.o.V.
What the hell is wrong with me?! How the hell can I be falling in love in only thirty minutes?! Seriously!
As I'm still walking along, trying to conserve my energy for the run back to Death City, I wipe the back of my hand across my eyes. Tears! Of all things!
I take off running, going faster than I did coming here, I should be back in Death City by tomorrow afternoon. Then I can return to my corner... I can watch Kid...
NO! Stop thinking about him! There is nothing that can be done, within a minute, that could change this situation! As long as my identity is gone, I have no hope, no chance at happiness.
I'm sorry if the story seems to move a bit on the fast side right here, but its how it came out.
Also, on how it doesn't seem like much of a "Two star" Mission..keep in mind, there are two of them, it makes it easier.
