To the Outerworld
Author: Soul Teller
Rating: T may be M in Future currently unsure...
Summary: A follow-up to Tag, Miria and the others begin their attack on the Organization, they are offered help from an unlikely source.
A/N: Thanks for the reviews!

Chapter 9
The Demons

There was an eerie silence hanging in the air then Miria stood up and stared at Isley her eyes wide and filled with anger. "Awaken are you serious!?" Isley didn't move from his chair his eye's stared coolly back into her fierce ones. He then stood up very slowly and he closed his eye's when he opened them they were a golden slit Raki's eye's widened then he shut them.

"CLOSE YOUR EYE'S!" He shouted they all stared at him but Clare, Deneve and Helen didn't question his order as they shut they're eye's. Uma, Tabitha, Cynthia, and Miria stared at Raki then at Isley who was staring at them and then they saw it. He leaped forward one hand morphing into a black sword the other into a giant halberd he cut their heads and they fell rolling onto the floor. They all watched as he walked to each head and sliced them into pieces Miria was the last. She watched as he knelt his hand's returning to normal. He grasped her head and stared into it then it was over... Miria sat down sweat pouring down her face and looked at Tabitha, Uma and Cynthia who were staring blankly into the table. Cynthia was tearing up, Uma had her face in her hands and Tabitha was taking long shuddering breaths. Miria looked at Isley who hadn't moved an inch from his place. He sat down his eye's closed when he opened them they were their original color again. However Raki who had opened his eye's seemed furious. "Isley! There was no need for..."

"Raki! Know your place!" Isley snarled his eye's still on Miria. Raki stared at Isley then he gave a 'humph' and stood up turned and left. Helen who had opened her eye's watched as RaKi left then she looked at Deneve who had walked over to Tabitha.

"Are you all right?" Deneve asked. Tabitha turned her gaze to Deneve her eye's huge her pupils a dot in an ocean of white.

"S-So easily." Tabitha murmured. Deneve stood up anger flaring in her normally composed feature.

"What did you do to them!" Isley was silent then he turned his gaze to Deneve, Deneve stared back unafraid. "I will not ask again! What have you done to them!?" Isley smirked then he stood.

"Why don't you ask you're fearless leader?" Isley said, then he bowed. "If you'll excuse me I have something to take care of." And with that he walked out the door. Miria was staring at the place where Isley had been her eye's wide but not as wide as Tabitha.

"He... He... It's so easy... for him to kill us... and he could... I was a fool teaming up with such a monster..." Miria muttered Deneve stared at Miria worry in her features. Then she turned to Helen to be surprised to find her gone.

Helen was running down the halls as quick as she could, her breath was coming short. She heard the loud 'Crang' and the skidding of feet against dirt. She ran faster and came to the large double doors of the church which were spread open. She saw the two soldiers standing there leaning forward slightly as a fight was occurring outside. She skidded to a halt to see Raki fighting with Isley who was currently blocking a mad flurry of strikes from Raki's blade. Raki's face was gritted in mad fury as he continued to smash his sword against Isley's. "Why must you constantly play these games Isley!?" Raki shouted. Isley narrowed his eye's and smashed his sword against Raki's sending Raki flying back.

"I play no game Raki! You know as well as I do that those girls at their current levels are unable to fight with those monsters!" Isley shouted back. Raki growled then he charged forward only to leap back as Isley jumped up and came down thrusting his sword into the ground. Raki stood there as Isley stood up one hand on the hilt of the sword. "They have to awaken... either that or wait until they are strong enough to take down the Organization! And that could take years we simply do not have the time! I don't have the time! You know what they have Raki they have those demons searching for me! You and Priscillia might not of had any trouble dealing with those things but unfortunately I already nearly died because of them!" Raki stared at Isley his eye's disbelieving."

"You! But... that's impossible!" Isley shook his head.

"Remember my first lesson! Nothing is impossible!" Isley said and he pulled his sword forward sending a shower of earth and rocks at Raki who sliced the rocks reducing them to harmless projectiles. Isley vanished then reappeared behind Raki, his sword raised ready to strike. Raki whirled around and struck with his blade sending Isley's flying into the air. Isley watched as his blade spun high into the air and then it embedded itself into a wall far out of reach. Raki then held his sword at Isley's face, mere centimeters from Isley's nose. "Very good... you have progressed extremely far during your time with Priscillia." Raki still held his sword at Isley he was panting then he very hesitantly lowered his sword. "That does not mean that you actually won." Raki nodded.

"I know... but you made no attempt to get you're sword back, therefore... I did win." Isley 'hmphed' lowered his head and closed his eye's.

"As observant as ever Raki," Isley said then his eye's flashed open and he turned looking down a pathway heading toward the main gates. "They're here! I must leave! I shall meet you outside get the other's and get as far from here as possible! I will find you!" Isley said then he vanished. Raki stared at where Isley had been then sensing a gaze he turned to Helen. She was staring at him then she walked forward.

"What happened?" She asked, Raki walked to her.

"We must leave now! The demon's are here!" Raki said, Helen blinked confused.

"Demons?" She asked following Raki as he walked back inside the church.

"We call them that since they act much like the demon's of old." He explained, "They have a highly fast and powerful regenative capability and are extremely powerful last time we saw demons it took all three of us to eliminate even one of them let alone all of them." Helen was aghast.

"Not even that Priscillia chick could take'em? But she was handling us like we were playthings!" Raki scratched his nose.

"That was because she was using her full strength against us. She was at half of her full strength against the Demons." Helen gulped.

"Really...?" She asked, Raki didn't respond as he entered the dining room where the women sat their look of shock gone to replaced by a cold hardness.

"We must leave now!" Raki said Miria stood up and turned to him.

"Why what is wrong?" She asked.

"Demon's we must leave before they get into here! If they do we are finished! Isley already left to distract them but I do not know how long that will work." Miria stared at him then she turned to the others.

"Everyone let's go. If it's something that even Isley fears then we must not stay is that correct, Raki?" Raki nodded and rushed up to his room.

"Carry what you can but in the end only take what you need." He said pausing to say this then heading up to his room. Miria nodded and rolling up the scroll on the table and grabbing the pieces of partchment lying there and pocketing it.

"Outside in 3!" She said and with that she ran the Clare looked at the others and asked.

"Where's Galatea?" Uma shrugged, Cynthia shook her head, and Tabitha also shrugged. "I wanted to ask her something but more of that later." Clare mumbled and she headed to her room.

Outside by the gate

Isley looked as the Demon's approached his face showed an extreme dislike and loathing. He held his sword in his hand and looked at the demons. "To think that it requires all of my strength just to truly kill even one of you! I'm most ashamed..." He said the Demon's paused and sniffed the air, then they began to growl. Isley smirked, "Are you hungry? Then come and get me!" He snarled and he vanished, the Demon's fell as he sliced through them with a fury rarely seen. 'Hurry Raki! I can only last for so long...' Isley thought.

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