Chapter 9: The Subtle Knife
Wolflink93:Now I know it's been… a year… but well… really I have no excuse for not getting this chapter out. I sort of had writers blocks… Now it's gone thankfully after reviewing all of the previous chapters. So let Chapter 9 begin!
Hakumei: You ditched me!
Wolflink93: No I didn't I swear!
Hakumei: You're not off the hook pal! Just you wait… (walks off)
Wolflink93:… I'm scared…
Light woke up and took a look at his surroundings to find that he was in Lyra's room. He took a look at his watch to see that it was five o'clock in the morning.
Might as well get up and start making breakfast we don't have much time… Light thought getting out of bed, slowly, as not to wake Lyra, followed by Hakumei. Light then left the room and closed the door gently. He then proceeded to the kitchen with Hakumei, cat form, following him. Light looked in the refrigerator, then through the cabinets to see he had just what he needed to make what he was planning. Light then got out all the necessary ingredients and began to cook.
30 minutes later… In Lyra's room…
Lyra had awakened to a sweet aroma wafting into the room. She then looked over to see Light was already gone. Pan in cat form stretched, waiting for Lyra. She then got up and left the room and proceeded into the kitchen to see Light, putting plates full of a food on a wooden table. Light noticed her come in and smirked.
"I thought I would make breakfast considering all you know how to make are baked beans and scrambled eggs." Lyra scowled and retorted.
"Shut up." Soon after she said that Will had walked in to see that there was food on the table and proceeded to sit down and eat it, followed closely by Light and Lyra.
"What are these?" Lyra asked pointing to an oval shaped food.
"Those are pancakes they taste better if you put syrup on them." Light answered, passing the maple syrup to her, after he had poured some on his own. The rest of the breakfast was pretty quiet after that. When they were finished they piled the plates all in the sink to be washed later. Right now they needed to get the knife.
At Torre Degli Angeli…
Light, Lyra, and Will were standing outside the tower, prepared to enter. Of course they had to make sure there weren't any special surprises. Light started to scout out the building going down an alley and noticed a second story window.
"Hakumei can you check and see what's up there?" Light asked. Hakumei nodded, flew up, sparrow form, and looked inside. Hakumei then came back down to report. Lyra looked surprised. Light noticed this and decided to address it. "What?" He said calmly.
"Your daemon can go that far away from you?" She said awed. Light shrugged and decided to listen to Hakumei.
"There were some stairs and some swords hung on the wall. I also saw the man Lyra described. He seemed to be fighting some invisible force." Hakumei reported.
"Fighting a Specter?" Lyra guessed.
"I don't think so. Charles did say they were afraid of the knife." Light stated. "Though it's still possible." He added. I'll have to check with my angel eyes when we get a closer look. Light thought. Will then walked through the front followed by Light, and then Lyra. They walked through to hear the man Hakumei talked about give out a shout of anger.
"Sounds like a madman…" Light commented. The trio then proceeded up the flight of stairs. After a couple of floors they stopped to see a door, which Will opened a few inches to peak inside. Light gestured for Will to move out of the way so he could see. Light looked in to see what appeared to be a study of sorts, with book shelves lining the walls, with cobwebs here and there. Light then activated his angel eyes. There was no specter to be seen. The boy seemed to just be slashing wildly at the air. Light also noticed that there was a good amount of Dust forming around the knife.
What is it, Light? Hakumei thought to Light, who answered back what he just saw.
He seems insane…Hakumei thought. Light silently agreed. The trio then went up another floor with Lyra whispering.
"What's he doing?" Light and Will both described it for her. "Is he thin with curly hair?" Lyra asked. Light nodded
"We should probably look farther up before we speak to him." Light suggested, with Will and Lyra agreeing. Though as they got closer up they heard a groan which shocked the group.
"I thought there was only supposed to be one man?" Light whispered, unconsciously standing in front of Lyra protectively. Who happened to hold onto his hand. He blushed and let go of her hand, glad that it was to dark to see his red face.
"I'll go first." Will said. They then walked up and saw a door. Will slowly turned the handle quickly and stepped in, shielding his eyes from the light. Light and Lyra soon followed as they saw an aged man on top of a lead, with his arms tied behind him. Light and Will soon had him untied after telling the man that they wouldn't hurt him.
"Who are you? We thought there was only one person here." Light asked.
"Giacomo Paradisi." The old man muttered. "I am the bearer. The young man stole it from me. There are always people who takes risks like that for the sake of the knife. But this ones different he's going to kill me. I own the subtle knife on behalf of the guild. Where has he gone?" The man explained.
"He's downstairs. We came up past him. He didn't see us. He was waving it about in the air."
"Trying to cut through. He won't succeed. When he--" "Watch out" Lyra said. Everybody looked toward where she was staring to see the young man climbing up into the wooden shelter. No place to run or hide they were trapped, and Light knew it.
Dang it there must be something that I can use to fuse with Hakumei! Light thought, his eyes blue scanning the room, clutching the daemon orb in his coat pocket. He then looked down at Hakumei with realization on his face. Light then smirked as the young man whipped his head around, noticing the three children. He saw Pan turn into a bear to try to intimidate the young man, but noticed that the man didn't even flinch. Lemaster should have known you don't need an object to link with Dust since your daemon already is linked with it. Light thought brining out the orb, with Hakumei panther form already knowing what he we going to do. Everybody then looked at Light as he shined with a gold light. Everybody in the room was shocked at his new transformation (Except for the insane guy) as Light swung his new tail lazily. Light then noticed he didn't have a weapon. I see so if I want a weapon I have to link with something other than my daemon for the Dust. He then flexed his hand, as he now had claws. I at least have these to use. Light smirked.
Light then stepped forward away from everyone preparing to battle the insane man. The man then charged toward Light prepared to strike with a vertical slash. Light grinned, dodging to the left with ease as he left an after image. The man then countered by following up with a horizontal slash. Which Light backed away from with relative ease. As the man was about to prepare another strike Light immediately whacked the man's hand, making the knife fly out of his hand and hit the ground, sinking down until it stopped at the hilt. Will knowing what to do, went and grabbed the knife before the insane man could get it. As soon as the man was about to lunge at Will. Light grabbed the man by the face and held him up in the air with a smirk on his face. Light then chuckled as he finally got a reaction out of the man… fear… That's what Light saw and relished it. Light then threw the man against the wall. Watching as he hit the wall and slumped over, seemingly knocked out.
"That takes care of that." Light turned around walking away. The man then got off the floor quickly and lunged at Will, causing Will to fall down as the man landed on top of him trying to get the knife. Will kicked the man off of him as Light came over and kicked the man away, the man flew and shattered some glass and fell downward with Light looming over him with a smirk on his face. The man angered, turned and fled. Light then smelled the metallic sent of blood in the air. He immediately found where it was coming from. Missing from Will's left hand was his small finger and the one next to it. Light saw him sitting on the ground as Lyra went over and tried to bandage up the wound. Light curiously strolled over to the knife that was again lying in the ground and picked it up. As soon as he did, time seemed to stop again like it had when he obtained his Angel eyes.
"Why if it isn't Light." Shibai giggled, coming seemingly out of nowhere.
"What do you want?" Light said, not wanting to deal with this right now.
"Don't you want to know why I am here?" She said, smiling.
"Does it have something to do with this?" Light said, gesturing towards the knife.
"Oh, yes. I haven't explained to you what happens when you use a different item for the Dust you use when you draw out your daemon weapon. As you have noticed that you can't draw out the daemon weapon when you're just using Hakumei as the source. But when you happened to grab onto something that can gather Dust such as that knife your holding, when your in that form, you can turn it into your daemon weapon. But when you use a different source it adds on to the abilities the weapon acquires."
"Does the ability carry on if I use a different source or is it temporary only when I'm using that item as the source?" Light asked now curious.
"Yes, it carries on. Now you can open windows to different worlds if you want to." She said. Light's eyes widened.
"This knife allows people to travel to different worlds?" Light questioned, shocked.
"Why yes but you can find out how to use it and such from the old man." The angel said, smirking. "Now I must be leaving. You be a good boy now." She giggled. Light scowled at the comment. She then disappeared followed by the world returning to normal. Light then looked down at the knife. This knife must hold a lot of power if it can help someone travel to different worlds… Light was brought out of his thoughts by Lyra.
"Come on, Light! I need your help getting Will down th—" Lyra was stopped. When Light had suddenly lifted Will on his shoulder, with a blink of an eye, he was already down stairs, where the old man was now at. Shocked, Lyra slowly descended the stairs. She walked in to see Giacomo give Will some sort of drink, which Will would have dropped had Light not caught it. Lyra looked over toward Light.
"Why do you have animal ears and a tail?" Lyra asked Light.
"I have become one with my daemon and have gained tremendous power." He answered.
"How did you do that?" Light was suddenly enveloped in the same gold light and was now back to normal, with Hakumei sitting in his lap, ferret form. He then lifted up the daemons orb.
"I did it with this… The daemon orb." As they were talking Giacomo had Will's left hand bandaged. Light saw Pan gesturing to something outside the window. Lyra walked over to it, followed by Light. Tulio seemed to be trying to fend off something, but they didn't know what. Light then activated his Angel Eyes. The Specter looked like just that, a specter, a ghostly looking thing. It seemed to force something out of the boy but Light wasn't sure what it was. After the horrifying sight, the girl and the boy that was trying to save him, looked over toward Light and Lyra, made a death threat, and ran away. Light looked over at Lyra to see she had a guilty look on her face.
"Don't beat yourself up about it. The man was clearly insane. Probably would have ended up killing himself anyways." Light said. Lyra seemed to calm down but not by much. Light then turned towards the old man. "Giacomo, can you tell us how we can get to different worlds with the knife." Giacomo's eyes widened.
"How do you know about the knife?" He asked Light.
"I can use that power every time I fuse with Hakumei. It would be pretty useful if I knew how to use it." Light then went on to explain how he had gained the power.
"I see very interesting. Well, you will have to learn about it later from Will. For now just watch and pay attention." Giacomo then went on to show Will how to open a window to another world and how to close it. Light seemed to have a good grasp on how you were supposed to do it. He would have to try it out later. Giacomo then went on to tell Will about the rules of the guild. "First, never open without closing. Second, never let anyone use the knife, with the exception of Light. Third, never use it for a base purpose. Fourth, keep it a secret. If there were any other rules I have forgotten them. If I had it is because they didn't matter. Now go. I know of some poisonous drugs around here and I will not let the Specters come in and kill me." Giacomo explained. Lyra went on to argue but was stopped by Light putting a hand on her shoulder, and shaking his head. The trio then left and were now walking along the streets.
"What are we going to do now?" Lyra asked.
"Were going to get the my Alethia Note and your alethiometer back and I know just how were going to do it." Light said, smirking.
To be continued…
Wolflink93: That's that. Now please read and review.
Light: You ditched us!
Wolflink93: I didn't ditch you… I came up with a couple of chapters for How Do You Like Them Apples!
Light:… Oh… okay… (Walks off)
Lemaster: You ditched us your own OCs.
Hakumei: Yeah!
Wolflink93: (Backs away slowly only to fall over a cliff. Saving myself by hanging on to the edge)I'm sorry!
Lemaster: And your gonna stay there until you come up with the next chapter! (Walks off)
Wolflink93: How am I going to be able to write when I'm dangling off a cliff?
Hakumei: You'll figure something out. (Walks off)
Wolflink93: Please read and review. (sighs) I would also like to thank Faded Feathers and Selyne. For adding my story to their C2s and to everyone else who reviewed. Also if anyone happens to be a Kingdom Hearts fan check out my story Kingdom Hearts: Stranded.
