Kitty thanks all who read and reviewed. He doesn't think it involuntarily. It just happens. This chapter might be a little more descriptive so sue me. I promised Yullen and that's what you'll get…I hope. I'm a sucker for long, intense battles. It's an obsession. Plus the writer's block came back and I haven't updated in a while. You won't see me until I finish my Geography project and any other God forsaken thing I have to do for school.
Rated T for a reason…figure it out
My chances of owning D.Gray-Man is like me playing volleyball or cricket…very slim
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It was going to be a long battle. She had them everywhere in the house, he just knew it. He approached slowly and tried to be a quite as he could possibly be. All was going well when they saw him. There were three of them, looking on wit black glass for eyes. They shifted slightly but did not touch the dirt. Kanda drew closer to them making them hostile. For all he knew, they were dangerous and there was bound to be more inside. But what he didn't know was that the three were the only ones awake. He took the bag and threw it on them when he was two feet away from them. Just in their arm reach.
One stuck its hand out and touched his arm. The fabric around the skin disintegrated, leaving a nasty burn on his arm. He hissed in pain and watched as they disintegrated into nothing. A wicked smile played across his face as he collected more dirt and carefully entered the house again. This was beginning to get better. Maybe even fun…very fun. He was absolutely sure there would be more. The house seemed light than before. Did that mean that there was no one home? He walked slowly through the rooms, looking around every once in a while. The corridors seemed longer and the rooms seemed bigger.
He wondered why he didn't just trail it back to HQ. After all, he had the Innocence and didn't really care to rescue anyone. This chase just seemed…like fun. Was he actually having fun doing this?
"Bean-sprout could stay here for all I care. I like the chase," he muttered to himself.
He remembered the rooms clearly but he couldn't find the one he was looking for. This was taking too long. He began to ran which made everything seem longer than usual. He cursed silently. If he met one of these things in the hallways unexpected, this could all end. Everything he did so far could go to waste. He was not up to that. The sooner he could find the room and kill those things, the sooner he could get out of this house and this town. The rooms darkened, bringing the pale light of the moon into the house. The eclipse was about to start. If it went through, she would have no power and it would make the job all the better.
He could feel somebody following him but there was no one behind him. This feeling was foreign to him and he was trying to figure out what it was. It was like someone was watching his every movement. Just waiting for him to make a wrong move and screw up. He didn't like this feeling. He walked more slowly through the hallway. Something crunched behind him and he looked to see what it was. There was nothing. Kanda thought he couldn't be going crazy at this point in time. But it would explain why he liked the chase. The corridor was getting brighter and so were the rooms. It was as if the house itself were beginning to disappear. As if any moment now, he would fall into nothing. It was becoming excessively hard not to think somebody was behind him. He stopped in a room.
It was the one with the jars. Kanda smirked. This was just his lucky day. He dropped the dirt and walked over to one of the cupboards. He wondered briefly how he was going to kill all these things before it was too late.
"I'm sorry but I cannot permit that to happen," Ewen practically shouted at him.
"But I do and you and these things are going to die one way or the other," he replied, "Now where the hell is Moyashi?"
She smiled and waved a hand. Something wrapped itself around his neck and pulled tighter. It took him a moment to get over his shock and realize that it was a thin white arm. Since when did it have that much strength? It was not possible. He was not supposed to be that strong, not now at least. He was loosing air and fast and he needed to get out from that grasp. So he grabbed hold of the other arm and threw Allen at his master. He hit her and they went flying into the other wall. But Allen didn't let go of his chokehold so Kanda went flying along with them. If that didn't work, he would have to do it before he died from asphyxiation. If he died. If he to, Kanda would cut his arm off to get free.
Kanda half dragged Allen to the cupboards. He took hold of the top of the cupboard pulled it downwards. It was bolted to the wall and he almost strained himself pulling it. It went down with the sounds of the glass breaking on the inside. Ewen looked at him with malice. She rolled up one of her sleeves which revealed a very white arm. The cloth was caught on something stuck in her arm, near her wrist on one side. She pulled it out with blunt force and got up, fists clenched.
"Oh no you didn't…"
Kanda didn't take her on. He just went to the next one and pulled down that cupboard. All her had to do was pull the last one down. Then he noticed something that he hadn't before. The room had a small window which framed the ever present moon. Its soft glow shone into the room. It was partial but the eclipse had already started. Kanda smirked. His steps were slower because he still had an annoying bean-sprout giving him a neck-lock. It was getting ridiculous now and Kanda was getting very angry. He slammed his back into the wall but he never touched the walls. Allen was slammed into the wall again but he still didn't let go.
"He's designed to follow my instructions, nice huh?" she was getting dangerously close to him. He slugged on to the last cupboard and passed through the moonlight. When Allen was dragged into the moonlight, he let go and fell to the floor. He seemed alive in that moment but now the weakness had been discovered. Free at last, he walked to the last and final cupboard where he began to pull it down. It was bolted tightly, tighter than the others and seemed heavier than the others. He decided that this contained something else and opened it. What he found was very different from everything else.
It sat at the bottom of the cupboard, looking up at the ceiling. The light of the moon hit it and it came alive. But as it moved out of the moonlight, it fell dead again. He spent a few moments too long looking at it before a thin bloody arm began to choke him.
"I see you've found my toy. Isn't he cute?" she cooed.
"You sick bastard," she squeezed tighter making him cough for air.
"I'm sick? I'm sick? Why don't you look at yourself and then tell me I'm a bastard?" she whispered.
Kanda elbowed her in the gut but she just squeezed tighter. The smell of blood was going to his head and everything was becoming hazy. But he would not die here. Not now and definitely not by the hands of a woman. He drew Mugen and stabbed her in the shoulder. It made her release her grasp and she cradled her now bleeding shoulder. Kanda then sliced the thing in the cupboard to pieces. His throat felt sore and his breathing was in rasps. He tried to take in slow deep breaths and it worked a bit. But the metallic smell was growing stronger. He could hear her laughing and turned to see why. The room was filling with moonlight even though the eclipse was still partial.
This was probably the only calm he would see before the storm. She was just standing there, taking the light in. He staggered over to her, sword in hand. He had to get her out of the light one way or the other. His pace picked up until he was running towards her. Kanda then proceeded to jump kick her in the stomach but he found his foot being held by her hand. He looked at it incredulously for a second before using the other foot. She went back taking him with her. The light was filling in more of the room as laughed. But she was in the far corner of the room where the moon would take longest to reach.
Kanda thought that if he could keep her there for a few more minutes, just until the eclipse was halfway through, it would give him some time till she was powerless. But he was thrown back into the light and she came after him with his sword in her hand. This was bad, this was very bad. Without Mugen, it would be very difficult to beat this woman. And with her stepping into the moon light, it was made impossible. It made Kanda almost wish that he had help. But he was too stubborn to admit that. She was coming at him with his blade. He couldn't tolerate that. He would never tolerate anyone touching his sword.
The light was slowly fading away but it would take a while for it to fade from their positions.
"You see," she began, "Either way you lose. I could kill you right now with my power at its pinnacle or my subordinate could finish the job…do choose your death."
Kanda was determined not to lose and he fought for his sword. He held the blade and twisted it out of her hands with force. The edges of the sword had dug into his hands and it took a few moments before he was healed enough to wield the sword again. Kanda charged at her but some kind of force field blocked him. She flipped her hand and Allen ran into the moonlight. She had upgraded him.
"Kill him, I don't care how you do it just kill him!" she commanded.
Allen charged at Kanda who looked to deflect the attack with his sword. He wasn't afraid of hurting Allen. Allen wasn't Allen anymore. But Allen was smarter than that. And he was surprisingly fast. He went to the other side of Kanda and in that moment Kanda turned around and found…
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Kinda short today…I would put what happened next but I think you could wait till the next chapter. Did I do a totally awesome job? Tell me in a review. This is really beginning to heat up…but don't cry everybody…Kanda isn't going to die…He's just being totally awesome right now. Oh do stick around and keep reviewing my pretties. My school library is going to be open during the holidays so I might be updating during the Easter vacation if all the psychedelic powers of nature allow it. Until the next chapter…
