Chapter FOUR
"W-wait. So that girl knew about the Shift Project?" Mikoto breathed.
Accelerator nodded.
"When the girl first told me to find you guys, I said no." Accelerator muttered. "But for some reason, brat one seemed to take a liking to her. When brat two told her about this, brat one sided with brat two and worked together so that I didn't get a moment of peace, and said they would continue to do so until I did as brat two said."
Mikoto smiled faintly. "Brat one and brat two?" She asked. Accelerator shrug.
"How do you guys know each other?" Gunha asked, glancing at the sleeping girl.
"Misaka found her' says Misaka Misaka as she suddenly interrupts your conversation." the Last Order said.
Accelerator sighed again "We were coming back from the mall when the brat suddenly ran off somewhere" Accelerator said .
"I chased after her, and found her at the park, sitting next to something. When I got closer, I found out that it was a girl. She was knocked out, with a few deep injuries on her leg. And she was..." Accelerator trailed off again. He took a deep breath. "She's missing an eye." he said.
Mikoto stiffened.
"She's wearing an eyepatch." Accelerator quickly said.
"And Misaka begged Accel-chan to bring her home' says Misaka Misaka as she states what she thinks is the most important part of the story." Last Order stated.
Accelerator sank deeper into his chair. "This place is starting to feel like an orphanage." he sighed.
He turned towards Mikoto and Gunha. "You guys are gonna have to stay here until brat two wakes up." he said.
"Its pretty cold, though its nothing I cant handle with my guts." Gunha muttered. Accelerator shrug.
"Just grab the blanket off brat two." He said. "Her reaction is pretty funny."
Gunha smiled. He stood up and walked towards the bed. As he walked past the couch, he ripped the blanket off the sleeping girl.
The girl had very long black hair. Her legs were roughly bandaged, and she was wearing a plain black eye patch over her left eye.
Gunha wrapped the blanket around his arm. Last Order instantly grasped Gunha's arm. "Don't! You don't want to di-" Then Accelerator placed a hand over her mouth.
Gunha jumped as a hand suddenly wrapped its self around his wrist. He looked behind him. The girl was still lying in the couch with her eyes closed, but her hand was wrapped tightly around his wrist.
"Huh?" Gunha asked.
"Give. That. Back." The girl growled back threateningly.
Gunha smiled nervously. He tried to pull away, but the girl's grip tightened
Accelerator chuckled and grasped Gunha's arm. He gave it a sharp tug, but the girl dug her long nails into Gunha's skin. Gunha sucked in a breath.
"Give. It." The girl growled again. Gunha slowly dropped the blanket and the girls other hand flashed out, catching it before it fell to the ground. Her grip loosened a bit, and Accelerator ripped Gunha's hand out of the girls grip. Gunha let out a yelp of pain. "You did that on purpose. You knew she would do that!" He protested. He rubbed his wrist where the girl's nails had drawn a bit of blood.
Accelerator grinned. "I called the third and the seventh." he told the girl.
The girl sat up. She blinked a couple of times, then yawned. She glanced around the room, and lay her eyes on Mikoto. No, lay her eye on Mikoto.
Mikoto frowned slightly. It looked like the girl was not looking straight at her. Maybe abit to the right.
The girl stood up and bowed. "Are you Misaka Mikoto?" she asked. Mikoto nodded. "And you are Sogiita Gunha?" Gunha nodded as well.
The girl smiled. "I'm Yoru. Kurozuki Yoru." The girl, Yoru said.
Yoru turned to Accelerator, who was standing by the couch. "Thank you." she said.
Accelerator grunted.
"How are you feeling?' ask Misaka Misaka as she dragges Yoru back to the couch." Last Order said. She pushed Yoru onto the couch, them sat next to her.
"Still hurts here and there, but I'll live." Yoru replied.
Mikoto leaned forward and Accelerator sat back onto his chair.
"So, why did you want to talk to us?" Mikoto asked.
Yoru winced, her hand holding her side, before straightening. "I'm sure you'll have lots of questions, but you much let me finish." Yoru said. "I come from a certain organization which I am not allowed to name. Once in a hundred years, a prophecy is created to foretell the troubles lying ahead." Yoru explained. "The prophecy was created just a few weeks ago, and you three," She pointed at the three present level fives, "Play a huge part in it. So do I." She paused, and glanced at the Last Order.
"I'll tell you the important bits, but I'll tell you the whole story if you agree to help me." She said. She looked at the Last Order again.
Accelerator caught her, and gently shoved the Last Order towards one of the smaller rooms with his foot. "Go play somewhere, brat." He said.
The Last Order nodded happily and skipped away, quietly entering and closing the door to a room.
Yoru took a deep breath. "Something is happening in the academy city. Something is trying to make it collapse from the inside." She turned to Mikoto.
"Your friend is out on judgement patrol, due to the explosions, right?" Mikoto nodded.
"The cause of the explosions are unknown, but we think that whatever is behind the explosions are also the ones trying to destroy the academy city."
Mikoto nodded, but Accelerator raised his hand. "You said we." Accelerator pointed out. "Who's we?"
Yoru grinned. "You noticed." she beamed. She stood up again, and straightened her clothes out. Yoru was wearing a black skirt under a black hooded jacket. She was wearing black fingerless gloves and black combat boots. Yoru unzipped the front of her jacket, and Mikoto gasped.
Wrapped around Yoru's body was a huge purple snake.
"The organization we are suspecting to have cause the explosion is one of the ANBU, Black Jack. They first let themselves known to this world through the kidnapping incident a few months ago." Yoru explained. "The kidnapping incident, was where people suddenly started disappearing. In total, over a hundred people were gone, never to be seen again."
Yoru gently stroked the snake. "But the missing people weren't killed. They were experimented on. Animal cells were placed into their human body. But something went wrong in one of the experiments, and when the Black Jack realized, the people who were in the experiment were locked into the animal body. If an eagle cell was places into your body, you were supposed to have an amazing sense of sight, and if it went well enough, probably fly as a human being, but instead, the person was trapped in the body of an eagle. If the cell was a dog, the person were supposed to receive amazing sense of smell and eyes that could catch very small movement, but instead, was trapped in the body of a dog." Yoru sighed.
"And if the cell came from a snake, you were turned into a snake." Gunha finished.
Yoru nodded. "Oracion was my best friend before he disappeared." she said.
"Is Oracion its real name?" Mikoto asked.
Yoru shook her head. "His real name is Mizuki. But the organization is looking for its escaped animals. They have records of the animals, and they know that once they escape, they will most likely head to someone they know, so we changed his name, for safety measures. Oracion is the name of Mizuki's ability."
"In the prophecy, it says I need your help in order to protect the academy city and destroy the Black Jack, but I don't care." Darque said. She curled her hands into fists, and gritted her teeth. "I'll get my revenge. I wont stop until I've destroyed every living proof there is of them. I'll save my friends, you just watch." She muttered.
Yoru looked up when Mikoto cleared her throat. "Who said I wasn't helping?" She asked.
Yoru opened her mouth. "You'll help me?" She asked.
Mikoto nodded. "I understand what it feels like to loose people important to you. Of course, I'll help." She said.
"I'm in too!" Gunha said. He punched the air. "It sounds awesome!"
Everyone looked at Accelerator. He sighed in annoyance and stood up. He massaged his temple before slinging his arm casually over Mikoto's shoulder.
"I'm in, I guess." He said. His breath tickled Mikoto's ear, and Mikoto felt her face heat up.
Gunha took one glance at her, then burst out laughing. Accelerator soon joined him.
Mikoto quickly waved her hands in front of her face. "O-ok. We agreed to help. Are you going to tell us everything?" She asked quickly.
If snakes could smile, Oracion definitely was doing so. Yoru smiled faintly and nodded. She hesitantly rubbed a tear away from her eye. "Thank you." She breathed.
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