A/N: As promised, here's the "second part" to the last chapter. ENJOY THE SHOW!
4:
Virgil:
I cursed, looking up towards the towering primate looking monster. Good grief it was ugly. You will never look at monkeys the same way again, just saying. Could this day get any worse? "Liz! Patti! Weapons ready!" Grrrr…I had to open my big mouth, now that damned Shinigami joined the shit-storm.
Here's a question. What do you do when there's an evil human around eight times your height that you need to eliminate and a Shinigami (plus his backup) that would more than likely kill you if he found out you're a demon? Hard huh?
*Maybe if I lay low, the Shinigami can take care of things without noticing Me.* I thought to myself. I mean, come on its three against one. There is no way in hell that those odds-
"What have I told you two about being symmetrical?!" I heard the Shinigami ask the two women that accompanied him (Though it looked directed more to the older looking one), "EVERYTHING. MUST. BE. BALANCED!" Then, I swear to god I'm not kidding, it turned into an argument between him and the older one, and the other one was just laughing there. This had to be a joke, somewhere out there I know the Grim Reaper was laughing his ass off.
"Wonder what the hell's wrong with those three." I asked myself as I began running off with a crowd of fleeing civilians. I stopped in my tracks as something caught my attention. It sounded like a cry for help. I turned around to see who it was.
It was a little girl that looked no older than seven. Her light brown hair tied in a ponytail and her blue eyes filled with terror as the beast began approaching. I saw another figure, it looked like her mother, running towards her. It looked as if she was trying to tell her to get away as she stood between her and the monster.
I saw that the Shinigami continued to ignore the evil human and kept arguing his statement. Then turning back towards the girl, I could see that the monster was about ready to pounce. There was no way he was going to get there in time. But I could.
You know what? To hell with taking the cowards way out.
In a flash, I called forth my demon weapon and rushed over to them before the thing could eat them in one chomp, jamming the blade in between its enormous fangs. "You should go," I told the two cowering humans, "Can't hold ugly here for long." I heard them mutter their thanks and scurry away. Soon after the monster broke free, chipping his teeth. He didn't sound happy.
Kid:
After watching the hooded stranger save that woman and child, I caught a peak of his soul wavelength. It held the air of a demons. However, it didn't match the one that I was chasing earlier, but a demon was a demon nonetheless.
"Check it out Kid," I heard Liz say in an almost impressed tone, "he's actually going toe-to-toe against a Kishin."
"Yeah," her sister agreed in her usual loud voice "And he looks pretty strong too." Just what this day needed. Although Patti had a point. That demon is carrying an enormous weapon, and he's swinging it around like it was nothing. I needed to be careful.
Virgil:
Damn, for something so ridiculously oversized this bastard's pretty quick. And seeing as it stopped trying to stomp me to death, it could think too. The ape-creature swatted me aside, climbing up to a nearby building.
"Get down here and fight!" I yelled at him. I had half the mind to go up there and kick the living life outta that thing. The bullet that grazed me kinda changed my mind. "Hey! Are you out of your-that's it." I turned towards the direction of the Shinigami that had just shot me. "Hey Jackass!" He raised his brow in surprise that I actually addressed him. I tried again. "Throw me your guns!"
"Why would I do that?" he demanded aiming at me again, his side-kicks did the same. "How do I know you won't kill me once I hand them over? And besides, as far as I'm concerned, the both of you are demons needing to be eradicated."
"First off," I yelled back, "I have honor, meaning I don't cheap shot people from behind."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"And secondly," I continued, dodging some of the junk the Kishin was hurling at us, "are you blind?"
"E-excuse me?"
"Enough with this!" The one of the blondes impatiently said, "Kid let's hurry up and finish him!"
"Are you this stupid?" I asked them harshly, "We have a common enemy here! Besides, at least with me you have a chance whereas that thing up there won't hesitate to eat you alive!" The shinigami seemed to consider it for a second, his gaze switching from me to the Kishin who was roaring and pounding his head off.
"Fine." He sighed, tossing me his twin pistols. "Liz, Patti, stand down." Grudgingly they did.
I studied them for a second before aiming them at the beast. Now normally a guns recoil doesn't really affect either me or Soul (Well, modern guns to be exact) but when I fired these puppies? Man, these things pack a punch. I'll remind myself not to mess with this guy. I'm guessing that ugly felt it too since it wasn't long before he was on the ground again. I shot at it a few more times just to piss it off before I tossed the weapons back to their owner.
Before the ape made contact, I used my weapon to block the attack. Still, it felt like I was being hit by a truck. Crap it hurt like hell. I thrust the metal blade into its hand, causing blood to spill from it. It looked at it for about three seconds, yanked it out and tossed it aside, then slammed me to the ground. I could taste the blood in my mouth. Spitting some of it out, I saw that the women that were with the Shinigami had begun to shoot the lumbering Kishin, yet the thing didn't seem to care.
The Kishin began targeting the Shinigami, throwing anything that it could get its hands on at him. Frustrated at the failed attempts and taking advantage that his guns were jammed, it began charging at the Shinigami with murderous intent. I would hate myself for this later…
Yeah, I pushed him out of the way and took the hit for him. Bite me. It felt like getting rammed by a bullet train, I'm ganna be feeling that tomorrow for sure, demon or not. That's not to say I didn't get the bastard back. I saw that my aim had been perfect. Straight to his eye. He might have gotten my blade out of his eye, but at least his vision was limited now.
I turned to the Shinigami, about to ask for his weapons again, when I noticed he was just staring at the monster in front of us. His eyes were widened in what looked like surprise, his fist were trembling. I looked away from him and found where my sword had landed. I almost went to get it until I heard the gunshots.
"DIE YOU ASYMMETRICAL PIECE OF GARBAGE!" I heard him yell out at the top of his lungs as he SHOWERED the Kishin with enchanted bullets. Damn!
"Asymmetrical?" I wondered aloud, "What the hell's asymmetrical about-?" Then I noticed the deep bleeding scar on the left side of his face. Why didn't I do that before? I could've ended this crap a long time ago.
Now, seeing that the Kishin was distracted, I dashed over to where my weapon was. Then I just thrust the blade into the monster the minute I got in front of the Shinigami, the already dying threat looked at the sword then reduced to ash, leaving behind its corrupted soul. I lowered my weapon as a sign of peace. "Now," I sigh, "you ganna kill me?"
The armed man said nothing studying me, looking at me up and down as if to see if I would pull anything. "You're a demon." He said in a neutral tone, "And I should kill you."
"Then do it," I told him, "kill me, don't kill me, I won't stop you." What he said actually surprised me.
"Go. I'm not going to do anything." He holstered his pistols and took out his cell phone, "Oh, and you're forgetting something." He pointed towards the corrupted soul, "You killed it, and it's only fair." I shrugged, going over to where it floated, and crushed it in the palm of my hand. I felt the power course through my veins like fire. Instantly, my sore body felt better, for now. "Come on Liz, Patti, two demons escaped with their lives, but there will not be a third."
*Two?* I wondered to myself, watching the three figures disappear, "Ah crap, Soul where the hell did you go?"
Soul:
Man, what a day. Maka and must've done everything in the fair about twice. Now I was watching the sun set from a nearby empty dock, and I have to admit, I felt at peace for the first time in years. I take back everything bad I've said about humans, they're pretty cool.
"You had fun today?" I heard Maka ask, I turned around to see her standing over me, carry a verity of human foods. She sat next to me and offered them, I refused for about the tenth time today.
"This has been without a doubt one of the best days of my life." I told her smirking, "Just wished I'd known humans enjoyed themselves like this earlier." She nodded taking a sip of her drink and just stared towards the sun, who was disparately trying to stay awake.
"Oh, I almost forgot," She brought something out from that bag she was carrying around and held it out to me, "this is for you." I took it from her hands and examined it. It was a white headband with a sticker that had my name on it, and another with a large mouth surrounded with the letters E-A-T. I tried it on and looked at my reflection in the water. "Do you like it?" I heard her ask.
"Yeah, but why did you give this to me?" I asked her, she began to laugh.
"Because we're friends silly," she said giving me a play punch, "and friends give each other gifts."
"But I didn't get you anything." I told her sighing as a rub my arm.
"Of course you did," she assured me, I gave her a puzzled look. "You took me to the fair. A place I haven't been to for years." Now that I think about it, I kinda was the one that suggested we spend the day together.
"If you don't mind me asking," I cleared my throat, "why's that?" I saw her bite her lip, clearly this was a touchy subject for her. I immediately regretted asking. "I'm sorry if I pried into your personal business, I was just-"
"No, no it's ok I get it." She says coolly like it didn't matter much, "…it's just that, when I think about the fair, or this dock even, I think…of my mother."
"Oh…" was all that I could think of at the moment. We sat there in silence, just watching the orange sky and listening to a flock of nearby seagulls.
"That's funny," Maka muttered, "you're the only boy I've actually told this…all my other friends just assume I'd rather stay at home, curled up in my warm bed reading a book." I grinned, finding this amusing because I totally imagined that. She gave me this annoyed look. "Yes, I'm a bookworm."
"Hey, I don't judge." I said holding my hands up in defense. She seemed to relax, though her mind still seemed to be racing.
"You're different from other boys." She said finally, "Usually they make fun of me for being nerdish, or pretend to like me because of my mom. She's kind of a big deal." I nodded. Kinda like how everyone expects great things from me because I'm my dad's son, or treat me like a second best because I'm not "Wes material".
"Oh my god!" Maka suddenly exclaimed, checking the time frantically. "I need to get the groceries for tonight's dinner! Soul, I'm sorry but I've gotta go." She began to collect her stuff quickly and hurry off.
"Wait," I called after her, "can't I just call you later?" She stopped and grabbed my hand, writing what looked like her number with black ink.
"My dad's usually not around during the day so I'm free then." She said taking off in an easy jog.
"Right then, I'll call you later!" I called although I doubt she heard me. I took one last look at her disappearing form before gazing at the sunset once more. Then it hit me, Virgil, he was probably dodging that Shinigami, or worse. I walked outside towards the already lit street lamps and sat in a nearby bench. "So Maka and I are friends now…" I muttered to myself, rubbing the headband stickers.
"There you are," I heard Virgil's voice behind me. I turned to see him popping his neck and limping slightly I heard the cry of sirens nearby, don't know what they do or what they are, only that they're trouble. "Don't ask." He said before I could utter a sound. He stopped, eyes fixed on my headband. My heart suddenly began to race. "Where did you get that?" he asked scratching his chin.
"I got it from over there," I said quickly pointing towards the fair, "in one of the stands." Part of me hoped that he bought it, but then again, I knew better…
"They gave it to you free because it was your first time?" he asked, resuming his actions.
"Yeah, that's it." I said a little too quickly, fearing that I gave myself away. Virgil just shrugged and ruffled my hair.
"I like it, I dunno it just looks cool on you for some reason." He took out of his pocket, another shiny apple (This one was green) and chomped on it, wincing as he chewed. "Ready to head home?" I nodded, taking one last breath of fresh air before the Hell-gates imprisoned me.
What really surprised me was that he never asked why I had one sleeve rolled down all the way, completely covering my hand. Lucky me.
Maka:
After Blair helped me pick out dinner, and sneaked me back inside, I immediately set the groceries down on the table and headed towards my room. I flopped on the bed, taking out of my pocket some photos of Soul and I. I grinned as I saw how goofy and silly we looked. I was so caught up on today's events that I didn't notice the front door being unlocked. "Maka," I heard my father cry cheerfully, making me gasp, "daddy's home!" I quickly shoved the pictures inside my pillow case just as Papa opened the door to my room.
"Hi, wow, you're home early." I said faking smiling to hide my anxiousness. I almost thought about shoving him out of my room, but then where would that have gotten me? "You didn't even let me cook anything."
"Oh don't worry about that," he said waving it off, "I'll help you put everything away and we'll go get take out, just the two of us." He took off his shades and wiped them with a cloth as he waited for my answer. To be honest, all I wanted to do was sleep, I was tired from all that running around, but nevertheless, I gave Papa an actual smile and followed him, just glad that he didn't catch me with those pictures.
A/N: how was it? good? Bad? I know the action sounded a little...Meh, but it'll get better as the story goes on. Review and give me your thoughts, especially on the SoulxMaka moment near the end (It wasn't that bad, was it?)