Sorry I haven't been updating. I just wrote this up really quickly so sorry it's not very good. The next chapter won't take as long to come out as this one did. Promise!


Chapter 3

"Ah!" Tsugumi screamed as an explosion echoed through Death City. Akane grit his teeth and squinted his eyes as he looked in the direction of the explosion. A large plume of fire and smoke arose in the distance.

"Tch, damn it!" Akane turned back toward Tsugumi and grabbed her shoulders, "Harudori, I need you to go inside find Anya and Meme, then find someplace safe!"

"A-Akane, what's happening?" Her voice was shaky, her body trembled with fear as she stared into Akane's eyes.

"I don't know, I'm going to find out. You just need to go inside and stay safe. Understand?" Tsugumi stood frozen with fear. She had never experienced anything like this before. Akane shook her slightly, "Harudori! I need you to go inside, please."

"R-right, okay…" Akane released her shoulders and she walked toward her dorm. She walked inside and looked back at Akane, "Be safe…"

"Don't worry about me, I'll be back to check on you once I find out what happened. Promise," Akane said confidently before Tsugumi nodded and closing the door behind her. When the door had shut Akane turned to look back at the smoke that was now rising in the distance. He started running in that direction.

What the hell was that? Who would be dumb enough to set a bomb off in the middle of Death City? Surely whoever set it off knew that this is the home to the DWMA and the second it went off hundreds of Meisters and Weapons could possibly be there soon!

By the time Akane had arrived at the site of the explosion Stein, Spirit and Sid were all there. Shortly after Akane's arrival Clay had showed, "Akane!" Clay shouted as he approached, "what the hell happened!?"

Stein had turned to face the young Meister and Weapon pair, a cigarette loosely hanging from his mouth, "Someone had placed several explosive devices around the vicinity. Judging from the location, the explosion wasn't meant to harm anybody."

Clay looked confused, "Why set explosives and not want to hurt anybody?"

Akane answered Clay, "It's a message…"

"Precisely," Stein replied as he took a puff of his cigarette.

"A message…? What kind of message."

Sid walked toward the three followed by Spirit, the teachers all exchanged worrisome stares. With this Akane let out a shaky sigh, "A declaration of war…"