In the dead of the night: Chapter 7
"Misaki!" "Ren!"
Yoh, Horohoro, Manta, and Chocolove rushed over to the two carried by the eidolons.
"Are you alright?" Yoh asked. He stared at the Cerberus. "I thought Eve was here since some dog walked in, mutated and ran off. I didn't know it was yours." He said to Misaki helping her down. Shiva set Ren as he seemed to have stood fine.
"Melissa was here." Misaki said. "The elevator cable was cut, not ripped off." Silence. Cerberus interrupted the silence growling against the doorway. Shiva stood in front of them all holding her arms together in an X as if guarding. Through the ceiling, was Eve.
"Excellent. I see your selection in eidolons have been proven magnificent." Eve glanced at Shiva then at Cerberus whom she seemed more pleased with.
"Melissa," Misaki stepped forward. Shiva guarded her but Misaki raised her hand signaling it was alright. "Who's your client? Is he or she a summoner?"
"I'm not suppose to tell you, Misa-dono." Eve smiled wickedly. "But yes, he is a summoner. A very powerful summoner that is. The police have been quite involved in these cases haven't they?" Misaki nodded. "Tsk tsk. He won't be too happy about this. Knowing there's another summoner here with her little friends." She observed every single one of them even their spirits.
"The people here didn't go on fire." Misaki interrupted her thoughts. Eve looked at her. Only smiling.
"I know. There…wasn't enough people for it to be put into effect." She explained. "One of the locations to hit. But instead, it wouldn't be bad to try to kill you. But with all of you here together. I'd be too outnumbered because of your spirits' protection. I can't live in this host's body much longer. Passing down the job may work much better." Eve turned around forming backing into Melissa. The glass doors cracked and flew out into the streets. "I'll see you around, Misaki." She took a few steps out and flew off into the air.
"…"
"It's all planned." Anna concluded. "The places that they strike are all planned ahead of time. The Carnegie Hall, Central Park Stadium, and this dance club."
"But there's nothing in common." Tamao said. "Besides that there are many people."
"There isn't." Misaki said. "I don't believe that any of these places have anything to do with Eve and the summoner's plan. It's just what looks like a supposed plan to throw us off track, to distract us into thinking there's a reason. Eve is powerful," Misaki explained turning to look at all of them. "There could be a possibility that she can burn the city if she wanted to. She can summon sorceresses from different kinds of dimensions, basically different versions of the original Lilith's descendants."
"!" Everyone stared at her.
"What?" Misaki asked stepping back. "You don't think I'm your enemy don't you?" she stammered confusingly. Yoh stepped forward.
"Lilith is the second Angel." Yoh explained. "A man named Kakyou Kuzuki can summon Lilith. Where did you get that name from?"
"I don't know what you're talking about!" Misaki pushed him back daring to keep eye contact. Everyone stared with accusing eyes. It made her shudder. "Lilith is Adam's demon wife. Got that?! If you don't believe me, it says so in the Torah scriptures! Lilith is the first creation. Eve is the second. They're basically two sides of the same person which comes out as Eve. The descendants come from Lilith's side, the bad side of Eve." Cerberus and Shiva stood by her side guarding her treating them as if they were enemies.
"I don't remember seeing that in the Bible. Even when I studied religion." Manta explained.
"You study religion?" Ryu asked.
"Our question is, Lilith was never mentioned in any single page, chapter, or sentence of the Christian Bible." Manta said staring at his feet.
"I don't know what you guys are thinking. It was Lilith's fault that the human race got banished. Otherwise it wouldn't make sense since Eve was the holy side. This may have something to do with that Ayume girl. Otherwise, all of you wouldn't be staring at me like this!" Shiva blasted ice around them, thick enough to hold them off for Misaki who was on Cerberus by now to take off.
The entire group took this by surprise trying to shield themselves from the blast. Yoh swept his Over Soul across the ice causing it to shatter and disappear.
"Misaki?" Pilica called out.
"Misaki?" Tamao did the same.
"She ran off." Yoh said. "Maybe we shouldn't have been like that. It may have just been by coincidence."
"Come to think of it," Manta sighed. "There may had been a Lilith in the Bible. I mean, all of the angels' names were found in scriptures of the Bible and Torah."
"Rejected by them. What was I, kidding?" Cerberus disappeared into the dog shape and ran off. Shiva remained at her side. Misaki leaned against the concrete, sat down and buried her face in her arms, sighing.
"They still think that you may be her," Shiva explained. "I know, it's rough on you. But…I think they all still care. I mean, look at Ren. He protected you."
"Only because I look like her."
"Misaki." Shiva sighed. "Only negative comments. Can't you ever think positive for a change?" Shiva disappeared.
"And to here that from an eidolon…" she sighed getting up wandering off even further. "I'm about a mile away right now." She thought about Cerberus's speed. "Maybe hitting on a few gangsters would make me feel a little better." She shivered against the cold temperature. "How many degrees is it, Mogi?"
"Ten degrees kupo!!! You need to wear a freaking jacket, kupo!" Mogi yelled in her ear.
"Don't worry! I'm just fine." Misaki lied still shivering as the snow kept falling. "I'm so stupid. I shouldn't have wandered off this far. That summoner or Melissa could attack me at any time right now." She chuckled coughing against the cold air.
"You need a jacket."
"No, I don't."
"You do."
"Don't."
"Do."
"Don't."
"…You always me make mad, kupo!" Mogi flew around her a few times. "Where are we going? Aren't we going back to the hotel? Where's everyone else? And WHY aren't you wearing a jacket?!"
"Long story, Mogi." Misaki replied.
"Don't hide from me, kupo!" Mogi sat on top of her head. A few gangsters holding guns and knives appeared down by the alley way/sidewalk. Misaki summoned Carbuncle as they continued to walk by as if they weren't there at all.
"Check it out, guys. A lil' girl." One stepped forward, probably somewhere around Ryu's age. "Watcha doing out here little girl? And what are those freaking things?!" It took all of Mogi's strength to keep his mouth shut. "Didn't you know that Manhattan was suppose to be evacuated?" Misaki kept her mouth shut. "And what's with you? You want to freeze to death or something?"
"Can you please move aside." Misaki asked.
"Ha! Someone like you?" The guy held up the knife against her throat. "You want to mess with people like us?" He reached out his hand but Carbuncle slapped it away. "Feisty little mutated dogs!" he kicked Carbuncle aside. Mogi opened its mouth to cat hiss.
The guys laughed at it.
"Mogi. Looks like they aren't too careful. Maybe a bit louder?"
"Hahaha, heh?"
"Gwar." Mogi said lamely. "Is that what you expected me to say? And yeah, I talk. GWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRR!!!" The roar sent the gangsters fifty feet down the block. Misaki grinned.
"Don't underestimate my eidolons!" Carbuncle got up pretending to have been hurt. The cute little critter began to mutate and form into a giant monster three times the size of Misaki.
"Can you please get out of our way?" Misaki asked. One of them pointed a gun at her and shot several rounds. She sighed not impressed as each bounced off Carbuncle's ultra-powerful shield. "Will you please let me get through now?"
The gangsters petrified nodded clearing the path for her. The same person shot several rounds of bullets but each just bounced off quite simply. Misaki didn't turn around and just kept walking down as the mutated creature formed back into the cute little critter bouncing along catching up with Misaki.
A few minutes later, her lips began to turn blue.
"You're catching pneumonia, kupo! But it's too late in the night to go and find a jacket for you. You should have stole one from them."
"Then they would have froze to death." Misaki replied.
"Since when did you care about other people?" Carbuncle asked telepathically.
"I don't, Carbuncle. That's just to make him" she pointed. "shut up."
"Don't think I heard that?!?!" Mogi bopped her head several times quite weakly.
"Your immature form is quite lame." Misaki remarked.
"Oh shut up, kupo!" Mogi continuously bopped her head as Misaki smiled to herself constantly shivering in the cold weather. "Summon Pheonix now, kupo! Other wise you ARE going to freeze to death."
"If I do, I'm going to give away my position."
"…Running away. Doesn't sound like a good idea. You're just running away from them." Carbuncle mentioned mentally.
"Not like I got anyone left." Misaki scolded. "I mean, friends. Seemed like they could have been the ones to change me." She smiled. "But no. I screwed up, got sent to Japan and have to live with Asakura and Kyouyama and Tamamura. I wanna go back home to Germany. Japan really sucks for me. U.S. is okay but I don't have any relatives here except for my…real…dad and stepmother." Misaki explained. "I'll probably summon Pheonix to go back to Germany since my flight tickets are back at the hotel."
There was no reply from Carbuncle.
"It's bad. Melissa can strike at any time against me." She continuously shivered. Mogi and Carbuncle looked at her with worried eyes. She coughed several times. Mogi and Carbuncle began to feel cold also. "Is the temperature dropping?"
"Of course, kupo! Can't you see that I'm shaking all over---" Misaki giggled but coughed again.
"Then it's best you guys just stay dormant for a while."
"Kupo!" The two eidolons disappeared. Mogi sighed. 'And I was going to say that it may give away your position then they couldn't be able to stop you from flying away. You just don't want to leave, don't you? You'll die if you don't stop all of your stupidity.'
"She hasn't come back yet. I'm getting worried." Horohoro looked out the window and at the city.
"Ha! Not like you to be so concerned especially for HER!" Vivi pointed.
"I wasn't expecting her to take off like that! I thought you were her eidolon." Horohoro narrowed his eyes.
"I am. I have confidence Misa-chan will come back. That's if she doesn't catch pneumonia or something." Vivi sighed.
"When she ran out, she wasn't wearing a coat or anything. Just a tank top, skirt, and sandals. And it's too late in the night to buy anything in New York." Chocolove said resting against the couch. "Ay. Ren, Yoh, Tamao, and Pilica have gone out to search for her. I gave her Mic just incase if she runs into any trouble."
"Yeah." Horohoro nodded.
"Hi!" he waved at her wrapping his coat/cape around her. "Feeling warmer now?"
"I didn't know you guys were in town." Misaki blinked.
"Well…she insisted." The female X-Law waved at her.
"Nothing but an old, demanding bitch, aren't you?" Misaki narrowed her eyes at her. Lyserg gasped hoping Meene wouldn't slap Misaki.
"I'll pretend I didn't hear the 'old' part." She fumed.
"Well you see," Lyserg started. "she was the only who wanted to come here for Christmas. Everyone was against her because of trying to get pass the Shaman tournament and all. But she insisted on having a vacation here. Then Jeanne decided it was a good idea so of course everyone HAD to agree to come here."
"I see. I feel sorry you," Misaki sighed. "This is all too familiar."
"Did you say something…" Meene glared. Misaki smiled waving. "Where's everyone else?" she asked. "Aren't your friends suppose to be with you?"
"Nah. I just decided to take a walk by myself." Misaki lied.
"Really…" Meene nodded unconvinced. "Anyways. This part of the city is suppose to evacuated because of some mass killings here used by a spirit?" Meene held up the newspaper in bold letters saying 'POLICE STILL INVESTIGATING ON MASS KILLINGS'. "We thought you may know something since you were here the entire time."
"Actually," Misaki said. "The entire story is, an actor named Melissa Pearce got possessed by some sorceress, descendant of Hyne, Spira, Lilith, Eve, however you want to call the mother name. But you see, her spirits are also sorceresses from other dimensions and time periods. And the major thing is!"
"What?" Lyserg asked.
"The ability to mutate your cells so you become this fat pile of ugly goo!" Misaki grinned. Lyserg and Meene didn't seem to impressed by it. "I'm serious." Misaki smiled obviously not looking too serious. "Yoh and Tamao saw the fat pile of goo that people melted into and became one big substance and just disappeared. And all of us saw her make people go on fire. Everyone died except for us coz the spirits that we combine with can protect us from it."
"That's quite odd." Meene mentioned. "Have you talked to her yet?"
"Yeah. She has a client. A summoner just like me." Misaki said.
"Then maybe we, X-Laws need to get involved in this case too." Meene stated. "I mean, it sounds quite serious. And we can get a major score in more points for our Over Soul and our tournament participation."
"Really." Misaki nodded. "Where are the other X-Laws?"
"They're in their hotel already. We found this grand suite place that they made available for Shamans." Lyserg said. By judging the expression on her face, he smiled weakly. "Let me guess…they're there too aren't they?"
"AHH!!! The X-Laws are here!" Horohoro yelled pointing down the hallway.
"Keep your voice down!" Venstar whispered loudly.
"Why the hell did you choose this place?!" Horohoro cried anime style dragging himself against the wall.
"I thought you'd be happy to see us." Jeanne waved. Chocolove waved back at her. "Or not." She smiled at Chocolove but gave a confused look to Horohoro. "Where's everyone else?" Jeanne asked.
"They went out."
"It's 2 in the morning." Marco remarked. "You don't go out at 2 in the morning. It's freezing outside."
"I could say the same for you. Where's Lyserg?" Horohoro asked.
"They wanted to look around for a while. It's practically below freezing outside but they insisted." Cebin shrugged carrying some of the luggage walking ahead in the hallway.
"We'll see you tomorrow morning." Jeanne smiled bowing slightly walking off with them going upstairs. Before she did, she turned around. "Incase if you were wondering, Meene suggested we came here for the vacation since the Shaman King must be wearing down on all of us. Of course Marco didn't like that too much at first." She smiled.
"Hey!"
"Anyways, I decided it wasn't such a bad idea, especially to enjoy the New Year's and all the festivities going on here in America. It's been a while since I came back here." She mentioned before the elevator doors automatically closed.
"The X-Laws and Jeanne being here. And what are we going to tell Yoh about this?" Horohoro went back inside. Seeing Vivi, he practically fell again. "And how did you get that X-Laws sign if you don't even know who they are?"
"I don't know." Vivi shrugged. "I forgot how it came. It's cool though."
"Cool, cool…right." Horohoro sighed sitting on the couch. "Chocolove?"
"Yeah? Still here." He said. "Since the search may take all night depending if Yoh is actually searching, maybe we all could just stay up and relax in the sauna."
"That's a good idea," Horohoro grinned. Kororo nodded. Chocolove picked up the phone and began dialing a few numbers waiting for the phone to ring.
"Hello Ren?" Chocolove said.
"Who's this?"
"Chocolove."
"Don't recall anyone by that name. Is that you, George?" Chocolove slammed the phone down.
"Something wrong?" Vivi asked laughing his 'hat' off.
"Shut up. Where's the phone number." Chocolove asked.
"I didn't do anything to it, stupid!" Vivi pointed. "Try calling someone else. I mean, it's not like Ren is the only person you can confide in. AHAH! AHAHA!" he stopped laughing as soon as Chocolove and Horohoro with Mic and Kororo stared. He dusted off some dust from his pants and walked off as if nothing had happened.
"That was interesting." Horohoro blinked.
"Still feeling a little cold?" Lyserg asked. Misaki shook her head and coughed a little. "Meene, the hotel is quite far from here. Flying around with a spirit may be a bad idea."
"Can't we still walk around?" Misaki asked.
"Of course not! Not in your condition! You should go see a doctor or something. There's a hospital nearby. It may be kinda crowded but some people needed blood transfers especially to those extremely few people who had suffered so much since those incidences." Meene said.
"Hospital?!" Misaki thought. 'Pass down the job. Is she insane?' "Alright. Let's go." Misaki said calmly as if nothing happened. Lyserg and Meene blinked.
"You okay?" Meene asked. "It sounds as if you were shocked about going to a hospital or something." A quick flash of a woman lying in a hospital.
"!" Misaki blinked astonished and shook her head. "Nothing. Just didn't think it had to be that serious." She coughed several more times.
"We can just pick up some medication and head on home, that's all." Lyserg said. "It's only over---!"
"What?" Meene asked looking towards the hospital on the other side of the street. "!"
"What happened to it?" Lyserg looked around to make sure there weren't any cars and ran across the street with Meene and Misaki following.
"Melissa." Misaki explained. "The hospital thing. She can't survive much longer in that host's body. And when I mean about much longer, I'm talking about a few years. She's going to use a sperm bank in the hospital to make herself give birth to it."
"And…what does she give birth to?"
"I don't know. Melissa consists of 99 power of mitochondria parasites. I only have 33 of mitochondria parasites. She can create. But I can liberate. The problem is, no matter how many of that mitochondria stuff we have, even if one of the two of us makes contacts with the sperm, we give birth to this thing that probably even Jeanne may have a lot of trouble stopping and possibly not be able to defeat or destroy at all." Misaki explained.
"There's only three of us so we can't split into any teams. But if we get separated in any way, we…" Meene looked at Misaki.
"Find the sperm bank and destroy all of it. If any of you begin to feel hot in any way, combine with your spirits. I can't answer why but if you don't believe me and refuse to do that, you'll go on fire." Misaki explained. Lyserg walked towards the door and it didn't slide open.
"Power's out." Lyserg said and cringed at the sight of the blood, red… and orange? All over the walls. "Never thought I had to do this." He said holding out his hand as his spirit, Morphine formed a knife and slashed the glass into three clean pieces before shattering against the floor. Orange goo sprayed against the marble. "Never mind. It was…glued? Together?"
"I wish Chocolove were here. I mean, he was born here in New York and lived here for thirteen years. I'm pretty sure he must have known this hospital as well." Misaki sighed. "What am I kidding, Chocolove? Ha." She walked over to the telephone. It's red light was blinking.
"The telephone seems to be alright." Meene said.
"Nada." A soft voice echoed throughout the room. The phone immediately blew up sending Meene and Misaki back a few feet. A giggle and silence. Lyserg looked around with Morphine defending him. Meene and Misaki got up looking around.
"Looks like we can't call the others." Meene thought. Ignoring the fact a telephone blew up right in front of them, she went behind the front desk looking for papers for any directories of the hospital. "Here's one. The sperm bank is on the top floor. That's quite helpful." She stood up holding the directory in her hand. "And over there is the elevator."
The three walked towards the elevator. Before Lyserg could push the button for it to open, the elevator's doors opened automatically.
"Freaky." Lyserg shuddered daring to step in first. Misaki and Meene stepped in after he did. "36th floor, right?" he pushed the button.
"Do you have a pistol?" Misaki asked.
"Of course I do! Lots of them!" Meene showed her four pistols. "The rest are back with Marco and the others. Are you good at using them?"
"They're my specialty." Misaki picked the black one which obviously looked deadly. "Alright. Incase if this door opens at any floor and we're attacked by anyone, then we fire." The two nodded. Lyserg held his hand towards the door, Meene held her pistol in defense, and Misaki held her pistol up as the elevator moved slowly, steadily, quietly, passing the 9th floor…now 10th floor and kept moving up.
"We were at this dance club today." Misaki said showing her bare arms to them. "Melissa cut the cables and I got my arms cut."
"Yes. If only we can find a doctor, we can patch a few things up." Meene said. "I'm not too much of a doctor so I didn't know what to do. But in this kind of condition, I'd be glad if anyone here was actually alive." Misaki nodded holding Lyserg's coat/cape tightly around herself. She shivered from the cold air that was around them.
"You alright?" Lyserg asked concerned. Misaki nodded.
"I guess it just takes a while for the entire thing to warm up for me."
"But it should've been warm when I put in on you." Lyserg mentioned. The elevator stopped. At the 18th floor. "Weapons up." His face shifted to a serious look. Misaki trembled holding up her gun with both hands pointing against the door. Meene held it up with one hand holding another pack of bullets in her available hand.
The doors slid open automatically. No one there. Meene stepped out slowly and then pointed her gun around the room quickly, her eyes scanning and rescanning to see if she could have missed someone or something. The door at the end was slightly left opened.
"All clear." Meene mentioned. Lyserg and Misaki walked out of the elevator. The doors slid half way shut just as the cables snapped and the elevator flew down crashing against the floor. "The elevator!" she slammed her fist against the door. "We're going to have to use the stairs." She smiled weakly.
"Anyone in here?" Misaki called out. No answer. She shivered.
"Are you able to sense Eve yet?" Meene asked.
"A little bit." She shuddered against speaking.
"The cold." Lyserg said wrapping an arm around her shoulder. "It must have weakened your senses. Which way?"
"We keep going. Up." Misaki said, her breaths becoming to be puffs of mist. They walked towards the door that was left hanging partly open. The three walked towards the door. Meene kicked it open and pointed her gun around the room. No one there. "…Feels…kinda hot." Misaki said. Lyserg and Meene blinked looking at her. She took off the coat/cape. "Feels kinda hot." She placed a hand on her chest and breathed several times unevenly. Meene and Lyserg blinked staring at her.
"Anything?"
"Melissa is here…That thing over there," her head drooped as Lyserg caught her. Her arm pointed towards where Meene was standing. Meene turned around pointing her gun towards the shadows and shot several times at it. Several cries of inhuman screams shouted in rage before making a thump against the ground. "Feels cold."
"First you said you felt hot, now you're cold." Meene said concerned. "We can use Lyserg's Morphine to take us up to the 36th floor quickly and easy even though it may cause lots of building damages."
"Alright." Lyserg said holding out his hand. The necklace formed a solid platform below them and a pyramid above them. The pyramid moved along with the platform bursting through every single floor quickly. "I'm counting. 24th floor."
"30th floor." Meene looked up with a sweat rolling down her neck. "34th floor, 35th. HOT!" she ignited on fire and immediately called a combine which immediately ceased all of the heat she had felt. Lyserg stared in astonish-ment as it finally hit towards the thirty-sixth floor.
"Misaki." He lightly slapped her face with his hand. Misaki blinked and muttered several times before seemingly waking up. "We're here. Do you sense anything?"
"…No." she thought struggling to stand up looking around. Meene checked a few tanks which all of them had the glass shattered with the tanks all dried up.
"There's nothing here." Meene explained.
"The sperm is all gone." Misaki spoke in a whisper. Lyserg's eyes widened in surprise. 'She sounds like Ayume-san.' "Melissa took all the sperm and trying to create the Ultimate Being from herself. But what does the summoner have to do with this too?" She gasped quietly once before the world went black.
