"Their coming," Adam said just as the first group appeared from around the corner. Luka and Yuki walked hand and hand closer to Jesse, Leislie, and Adam. Luka still looked ready for a fight but he must have known he was outnumbered because he backed off the closer they got even though the warning signal was still showing in his eyes. One by one the Zweilt pairs started to come to the front of the mansion. First Luka and Yuki, then Hotsuma and Shusei, after Kuroto and Senshirou showed up followed by Toko and Tsukumo.
"Are you ready?" Adam asked.
Just them Takashiro walked in.
"We're ready," he said and they all walked wondering what was going to happen.
They had already all walked into the circle when Shusei spotted it.
"What's going o-?" he said and a blue light flashed surronding them.
Adam heard yelling but then like always he couldn't hear anything and the light was asking him where it should guide the people who were in it's posession.
'New York' he thought and he felt the rush through his body as the blue light carried them across the world in only minutes. The light went away and there stood 9 surprised people and Jesse and Leislie giving him the look that he should of warned them how they were getting to where they were.
"What just happened?" a shaken up Shusei asked looking up at Adam.
Adam put on his best innocent face and looked up at him.
"I thought you'd know how we got here," he said too cutely.
"Like hell!" Hotsuma yelled pissed off he'd been caught off guard by the sudden circle.
"No really," Adam said innocently "I thought Shusei been taught that."
"What's he talking about?" Takashiro said to the 4 boys glaring at Adam.
"It's something learned," Jack said to him "usually by the God's eye."
"Learned?" Shusei asked in confusion.
"By God's Eye," Adam finished.
"Then how can you do it?" Hotsuma asked.
"Wow they really don't teach you anthing did they?" Samantha said walking out.
"What are you talking about?" Hotsuma said irratated.
"There's more then one's god eye," Addy came out.
"There is?" Shusei asked looking at Adam.
"Wait intil you meet Cory and Kyle," Jesse said.
"What are they?" Takashiro asked.
"God's Voice and Light," Jesse answered.
Hotsuma and Yuki's eyes went wide at the thought of another like them.
"How many others?" Hotsuma asked.
"Three each including the one's from your team," Adam answered.
"What groups?" Takashiro asked.
"Juat ours," he said refering to the Japan and America groups.
"Who are the thirds?" Hotsuma asked,
"Nikki," Takashiro said "She's the thrid isn't she?"
"We have a winner," Adam said.
"Just her?" Shusei asked.
"Yes," Adam said.
"Is that even possible?" Shusei asked.
"Anythings possible," Takashiro said.
"How come we've never heard of them," Luka asked Takashiro.
"It wasn't nessacary," Takashiro said.
"What do you mean?" Hotsuma said "It wasn't nessacary for us to know we're not alone!"
"Hotsuma," Shusei said "this isn't helping."
"I know!" he yelled turning back to Shusei and dropping his head on his shoulder.
'I'm not alone' he thought 'I'm not the only freak'
'You never were a freak to begin with' someone said.
"Yes I was," Hotsuma said out loud.
"Hotsuma?" Shusei asked "Who are you talking to?"
"I don't know," he said.
"He heard Nikki," Adam said.
"Why didn't we?" Shusei asked.
"She didn't want you to," Adam said simply.
"Why not?" Shusei asked.
"It wasn't meant for you," Adam said.
"What'd she say?" Shusei asked Hotsuma.
"Nothing," Hotsuma said.
'There's a reason you're here' Nikki said.
"No there's not," Hotsuma said looking down at his feet.
'Yes there is' Nikki said back 'what about that boy? I don't think he'd be okay without you'
"He'd be fine," Hotsuma said "I'm a monster."
'You mean the scars' Nikki said back
"How'd you know?" Hotsuma asked.
'I know everything' Nikki said 'Does he hate you for them?'
"No," Hotsuma said.
'He's already forgiven you for them, maybe you should forgive yourself'
"I'll try," he said looking at Shusei.
'Don't try, do' Nikki said 'for Shusei'
"I will," Hotsuma promised before taking Shusei's hand into his own and pulling him closer.
"What did she say?" Shusei asked him looking up into amber eyes.
"Nothing that matters right now," he said and took Shusei in closer to him.
He looked up at everyone watching them intently and his face went back to the normal glare he usually sported.
"What?" he asked agaitated.
"Nothing," Takashiro said looking at everyone else who appeared to be confused. It's not everyday Hotsuma was so nice or even a kind look crossed his face without him thinking or talking to Shusei. The fact that a person he'd never met could do that made them all confused.
"Nothing," Toko said "how is that nothing?"
"How is what nothing?" Hotsuma asked.
"The look on your face," Toko laughed.
"Maybe you should wipe that smile off your face!" Hotsuma yelled.
"What did she say?" Shusei.
"Nothing that you need to worry about," a voice said and out of the house walked a blonde girl with blue eyes. She was maybe 5 foot and very thin but muscular.
"Nikki," Jesse greeted her.
"Hey Jes," Nikki said before turning to Takashiro.
"Nice to see you again although I wish it was under better circumstances," she said.
"Likewise," he said back to her.
"What circumstances?" Hotsuma asked.
"That's what I'm here to tell you," Nikki said.
"Then why are we here?" Shusei asked.
"Maybe we should sit down," Nikki suggested and turned walking into the house. Jesse, Leislie, Adam, Jack, and Danny followed.
"Well go," Sammi said.
Takashiro went into the house the Zweilts following. Yuki started to go only to find Luka and Sodom standing outside the door.
"Luka?" Yuki asked confused.
"I shouldn't go in," Luka said.
"We don't bite," Addy snorted.
"But she wouldn-," he started.
"Go in," Sammi ordered and her and Addy walked in.
"Come on," Yuki said.
Luka took his hand hesitantly and walked into the blue building. Once he walked in he was overwhelmed. The Zweilts scent was as strong as bleach.
"How many are there?" Luka asked.
"A lot. Go that way," she said and pointed to a doorway before walking into another room further down the hall. Luka looked at her before looking at Yuki. He nodded and they walked into the room. When Luka walked in he knew what would happen but he hadn't expected what he'd get, a few even drew weapons.
"Who are you?" one asked him.
"Who cares let's kill him," another said.
A boy got up and started after him. Luka put Yuki behind him and tried to draw a weapon but he couldn't. He put his body in front of Yuki and waited for the hit. He heard the clank of metal hitting metal and opened his eyes. There stood Adam his sword holding back a weapon that was midnight black with two sharp silver ends.
"Stop!" Adam commanded.
"Get the hell out of my way!" the boy yelled and hit Adam's sword again. Another boy moved in and hit Adam on the side. Adam fell his weapon disappearing as he clutched his side.
"Danny! Get in here!" he yelled out before falling, blood pooling around him.
"What's going on?" Sammi appeared, her eyes widening.
There was a flash and the 2 boys were attacking again. Sammi drew her weapon, a sliver bow with dark blue arrows. She shot one boy bringing him down before she was blind-sided by another. Sammi fell to the ground unconsience as Danny entered the room.
"What the fuck?" he exclaimed and his hand went up but he didn't draw a weapon. Luka watched as one boy fell to the ground and another dropped his sword yelling out. The he saw as Danny's arms were grabbed and restrained behind his back and they forced him to the floor. He looked around only to find Hotsuma, Shusei, Tsukumo, Toko, Kuroto, and Senshiro forced on their knees struggling to get up and help stop what was going on around them.
"What's going on?" a furious voice errupted and in walked Nikki her blue eyes turning purple as if she'd mixed them with red.
"Nikki!" Danny yelled and a dark purple haze filled the room.
The boys' faces went pale and they froze. All the sudden Luka's feet wouldn't move.
"What's going on? He asked even more confused.
"What's going on?" Nikki asked again her face turning red at the sight before her.
"A Daras is here," he said and pointed to Luka "these people tried to get in our way."
Nikki's eyes went wide and she turned to him before punching him in the face so hard he fell to the ground.
"Bitch!" he spat and Nikki kicked him.
"How dare you attack them!" Nikki growled "you're guest in this house. Start acting like it!"
"Bu-" he started.
"Shut up!" Nikki screamed.
Nikki slapped him and he fell to the ground. He cupped him bright red cheek and Nikki looked around before sighing.
"Shit," she groaned and walked over to Luka. She knelt down and shook her head.
"I'm sorry," she said.
"For what?" he couldn't find out what part of this was her fault.
"Daras can't use weapons in here unless they're entered into the system. I should have done that first thing but I got tied up," she said and held out her hand.
"Nikki," she said.
"Luka," he said and looked at her hand.
"Shake it," she said.
Luka sat on that thought and after being nudged by Yuki took her hand and shook.
"What's going on?" Jesse and Leislie entered and looked at the wreck around them.
"Davi's group," Nikki growled getting up and turning to Jesse and Leislie "They're already causing trouble."
"Of course they are," Jesse sighed "but we couldn't just leave them to whatever's going on."
"Well we could have but I have a conscience," Nikki complained "what an awful time to be human."
Jesse chuckled.
"Only you would say that," Jesse smiled then went to a frown as he looked around.
"Look's like they did a number on this place," Jesse sighed knowing he'd probably end up making sure the colprates cleaned it up.
"You're telling me," Nikki sighed wondering how this was going to work out.
Takashiro walked in along with a man about 5' 11" with dark skin and jet black hair.
"Davi," Nikki sighed "look what you're idoit boys have done this time."
"It's not that bad," he griminced.
"Not that bad?" Nikki growled "they knocked out one of my fighters, injured another, and held one down all while trying to kill one of Takashiro's!"
"Okay okay," he said "calm down."
"I'll calm down when you control them better!" Nikki yelled clearly pissed off.
"They will clean it up," Davi promised.
"They'd better," Nikki growled before putting her hands up in front of her.
A blue-green haze filled the room and Luka regained the feeling and movement in his legs. He realized then that the purple haze had been her. The movement in his legs must have been something to do with the nerves being effected by the gas.
"It was," Nikki said sitting on the floor her eyes closed.
"What was?" Davi asked.
"Luka thought the haze was from me and affect the nerves," Nikki said "and he was right."
"Nikki," Samantha said "you shouldn't have done that."
"I know," Nikki grumbled like a kid.
"Why can't my men move?" Davi asked looking at the 2 boys.
"Danny," Nikki said "Samantha get them to the infirmary."
"Okay," Samantha said before picking one up as Addy got the other and carried them away.
"What did he do?" Davi asked after they'd gone
"Cut off the nerve system from the brain," Nikki said "and therefore they cannot move."
"That's a dangerous gift," Takashiro said walking in.
"Yes that it is," Nikki said looking at the door.
"It shouldn't be used," Davi said.
"Yes it should," Nikki said "if they're trained it's helpful."
"Are you implying something?" Davi asked.
"Yes your men are untrained and undisiplined," Nikki said.
"They are not!" Davi said irritated.
"Yes they are," a women walked in.
She was fair skinned with chocolate brown eyes and dirty blonde hair. She was 5' 6" and definatly towered over Nikki but was still smaller than Davi. Her face was cold and heard and her attitude unforgiving.
"Alisan," Nikki greeted.
"Nikki,Davi," she nodded.
"They're not untrained," Davi grumbled.
"They're untrained in all the important things," Alisan said.
"They're skilled fighters," Davi argued.
"Yes but they're not good at pair fighting, nor surivival skills," Nikki said "they're bad at anything to do with emotion, and their narrow-mindness is what will be their downfall."
"We've only lost 13 in the time we've been doing this!" Davi yelled.
"Takashiro and Alisan have both only lost 6!" Nikki yelled back.
"And what about you miss perfect?!" he yelled "How many have you lost?"
"Two," Nikki answered "but one of those I could do nothing about!"
"Maybe you could have!" Davi yelled back.
"No she could not have," Jesse said walking in and stepping in front of her.
"A duras," Davi snarled.
"Leave him alone!" Nikki growled stepping forward and making her presence known.
"What the hell is going on?" a man with an accent stepped forward looking back at Nikki and Davi.
"I know you 2 don't get along but maybe for the sake of the world we could try!" he scolded.
"She said my men are unfit for combat!" he argured.
"I said the were untrained in everything important not that they were unfit for battle," Nikki said.
"Only you two," he said throwing his hands in the air as a gesture of surrender.
"Of course," Alisan agreed.
"But he's despicable!" Nikki argued.
"That he is," Alisan agreed looking at the man. He was 6' 3" towering over everyone except for Jesse who stood a few inches over him and of course Luka himself. His red hair and green eyes puzzled Luka. No matter who they met this was one they hadn't seen before, including his accent.
"Austin," Nikki greated.
"Nikki, Davi do you ever stop fighting?" he asked before turning to Alisan.
"Ali," he said smiling.
"Austin," she said and turned to Nikki and Davi.
"If you hate each other so much why'd you invite and and why'd he agree to meet," she asked.
"I've got this awful thing called a conscience. I wonder if there's anyway to get rid of it," Nikki mused.
"If something bigs coming I want in," Davi answered matter-o-factly.
"Fair enough," Alisan said then remembered of Luka and Yuki still sitting in the room Yuki clinging to him like a toddler to a teddy bear or blanket.
"Who's this?" Alisan asked and Austin looked over his eyebrows furrowing.
"I didn't know there was a new one," Austin said.
"That's Luka and Yuki from Takashiro's group," Nikki explained.
"He actually came?" Alisan said surprised.
"I'm right here!" Takashiro protested.
"I meant you brought your Zweilts!" Alisan said confused "You've never done that."
"You've been here before!" Luka asked standing.
"Yes," Takashiro admited.
"Stand back," Davi warned as he looked at Luka.
"He won't hurt you coward," Nikki snorted.
"I'm not a coward!" he yelled at Nikki.
"Yes you are," Nikki said simply before turning to Luka and Yuki. Luka immideatly puled Yuki closer to him fully prepared for a fight.
"Don't worry," Nikki said to him then looked at Yuki.
"I'm Nikki," she said and held her hand out. Yuki shook it and looked at everyone around them.
"What's going on?" he asked.
"Hai molto da imparare piccolo," Nikki said to him and smiling (A/N: That's my rough Italian skills but it means "You have a lot to learn little one")
"Huh?" he asked.
"Don't worry about it," Nikki said and turned to Ali, Takashiro, Davi, and Austin.
"Davi I cannot have a repeat of this incident understand?" Nikki said. He gritted his teeth.
"Understood," he said finally.
"Well now that it's settled may I ask what the hell happened anyway?" Austin asked looking around the room confused.
"His team decided to have some fun," Nikki said agitated.
"Well we all know how that works out," Austin said looking around the room.
"No kidding," Nikki said and looked over to the door.
"Do you guys know where to go?" she asked Luka and Yuki.
"Not really," Yuki admitted looking up at Luka.
"No," Luka answered.
"I'll take you to the new meeting room," Nikki said.
She walked out of the room with Yuki and Luka following closely behind. Luka was prepared for a fight. If only a few acted like that he didn't know what'd he'd do if there was more of them fighting against him. They walked down three or four halls all an off white with an exception of one hall that looked like paint had been thrown at people leaning against it and gotten all over. Nikki opened a door and everyone followed as she walked in. More Zweilts drew weapons but most calmed down after seeing Nikki. Those who weren't were faced with a unusaul warning.
"You hurt ANYONE on our team," she said pointdly looking at Davi's group "and I'll make sure that you won't see daylight again or better yet, I'll hand you over to the Dura's myself."
Many looked in alarm knowing it was a ligidament threat.
"So are you gonna tell us what's going on here?" Takashiro asked Nikki.
"A disturbance in the portal from the demon world to the human world," Nikki said, "a huge disturbance."
"Meaning?" someone said.
"A lot of duras are coming," she answered "strong ones."
"How many?" another asked.
"Over 100," Nikki answered "maybe more."
"Why shouldn't we just take care of what comes into our territories?" Takashiro asked.
"There all coming out of the same portal in New York," Nikki said "when we went to face them, they skipped around. They've been avoiding us and working together when we're fighting them. It's different and by no means safe. Their planning something big, I just can't figure out what."
"What do you mean can't figure it out?" Davi stepped in.
"They've been distracting us," Nikki answered, "Everytime we go to get one of the groups something comes up to slow us down."
"Like they don't want us together?" Austin asked.
"Exactly," Nikki said, "which isn't a surprise considering the strength in numbers but then they stopped the attacks so suddenly, like they'd all been called back."
"But no one Opast is strong enough to do that," Jesse said.
"So what really happened?" Davi asked.
"Well we don't actually know but we have theories," Nikki said.
"What are your theories then?" Davi asked impaitently.
"That they're working together," Nikki said.
"But Duras don't work together in less they're being controlled," Luka cut in much to everyone's surprise.
"That's why there's holes in it," Nikki said.
"Anthing else?" a new voice said and they turned to see a man standing at the door. Bleach blonde hair, blue eyed and standing at only slightly above 5 foot.
"Nice of you to join us Kyle," Nikki said.
"I'm sorry I'm late but I only woke up when all the yelling started," he admitted.
"You were tired," Nikki said.
"So do you have anything else?" he asked.
"No," Nikki said looking iritated she had to answer that way.
"I might," he said.
"What would someone as useless as you know?" Davi asked looking at the small boy.
"How dare you!" Nikki yelled at him.
"What?" Davi asked, "He looks like he could be snapped in half."
"I'm stronger than you old man," Kyle said glaring at him.
"What did you call me?" he yelled.
"Hm," Kyle said, "you heard me."
"You punk," he said and lunged at him.
Before even Nikki could warn him, Jesse was in front of him in an instance his sword drawn and his eyes filled with rage. He swung at Davi and Davi barely was able to get out of his way, falling on his back and getting the air knocked out of his lungs.
"What do you think you're doing demon?" Davi spit at him and stood up.
"Don't you dare touch him!" Jesse growled at him.
"Why not?" Davi challenged.
"Because I will make sure you die a painful death," he threatned.
"Nikki!" he yelled at her, "Control him."
"Why?" she asked, "I don't care if he kills you."
"Nikki!" he yelled.
"What? Fine," Nikki said, "Jesse leave him alone unless he touches him again. If he does I give you full perrmission to castrate him and then choke him with the aputated gentials."
"Nikki!" he yelled.
"That's what you get for touching God's Light like that. You of people should know he'd be possessive of what's his."
"I'm not a possession!" Kyle yelled.
"Yeah but that doesn't mean he doesn't think of you as his," Nikki said.
"What do you mean his?" Kyle said agitated.
"As something to protect," Nikki explained rolling her eyes.
"But still," Kyle said.
"Don't take it personally," Nikki suggested.
"Wait THAT'S God's Light?" Davi asked.
"Yes," Kyle said.
"What is you theory?" Takashiro said to avoid another conflict.
"That the Opast are controlling other Opast who'd already been controling others," he said.
"That would make more scense," Takashiro said.
"But it'd be hard to control an Opast," Luka said.
"That's the hole in the theory," Kyle admitted.
"So those are the two options?" Austin asked.
"The ones we can think of," Nikki said.
"There's no other explanation?" Yuki asked.
"Not unless there's something we're missing," Takashiro said looking over at Luka who was hanging back with watchful eyes.
"Some Opast are stronger than others," Luka said, "maybe the boy's theory is right."
"So what are we going to do?" Takashiro asked.
"We're going to band together like they are," Nikki said.
"But what about he Duras everywhere else?" Takashiro asked.
"Has anyone seen any lately?" Nikki asked.
"No," a chorus of voices answered.
"And we've seen hundreds in this week alone," Nikki said, "they are gathering and so should we."
