A/N: Thanks for everyone who has followed/favourited the story so far! I hope all of you lot are enjoying my little venture. We are getting into seeing my new character into the story, hope you like them! They are a badass ;)

Drew Luczynski: Eh, Knor is not a man of words and not one to splutter out everything in one go, he has almost done it, but I'm sure you will be satisfied for it :)

Anywho! Let's get back to it.

Chapter 9: Kill the Trojan

Outer Town

"You sure this is a good idea Liver?" Nyau asked as he sat down on top of the carriage. The trio were on their way to one of the towns that Esdeath had reported from the Minister to be eradicated.

"Esdeath gets what she asks, remember that Nyau." Liver commented back and looked over at Daidara. "You ready to use that thing again? You had trouble last time out." Liver pointed at the Double-Bladed Broad Axe: Belvark that was on his back, Daidara pulled it off of his back and swung it in shallow swings in front of Liver, almost taking his head off in the process, the clanging of the axe on the side of the carriage was the only thing that was heard as Liver breathed in relief.

"Yes, this thing is a perfect fit for me Liver, you know me, I like something tough to try and use and this is the thing for me." Dai replied as Nyau stopped the carriage. Liver looked to his left and saw the town. Ripe and ready to be attacked.

"Nyau, wait here with Daidara for the Mayor's carriage to come back, I'll go deal with the people who are already there." He stated as he jumped out, the black-clothed man pushed his hair back into it's normal state and started to walk towards the town with a grin on his face.

Liver walked along the road until he reached the inside of the town, people were giving him odd looks in the first place as he sat himself down next to a fountain in the middle of the town. He kicked his legs up and made himself look very casual. But that was far from it, sinking his hand into his coat pocket, he picked out a ring that had a dragon head on it, slipping it onto his finger and feeling the energy take hold of him. He smiled as one o0f the townsfolk walked up to him.

"Excuse me Sir, are you here for a reason?" She asked the man with the grey hair. Liver just smiled again as they were all unaware of what was about to happen.

"Water Dragon Possession: Black Marine!" Liver shouted as his ring lit up a purple colour. The fountain behind him volunteered the water for his attacks, the pillar of water rose up and formed the shape of a whale in the air, screeching its appearance. Liver was laughing at the sight of all the people scared for their life by his power.

"Now then everyone, do me a favour and just die." Was all he said as his water being collapsed into the city.

Nyau and Daidara were getting slightly bored as they watched the onslaught of Liver in the short-distance from the town. "Why does he get the fun stuff and we have to sit here and wait for some lackey to get back?" Daidara complained as his hand fidgeted around the grip of his twin axe.

"Hush your yapping Dai, we have company." Nyau said as he pushed Dai's head with his foot to look where the carriage was. "See, not long now, go and get set up on the road. I'll 'distract' them for ya." Nyau said mischievously as he got his Teigu out of his case. He put Military Music Dream: Scream to his mouth and started playing the flute into the air, the tones rang true as the soother for any weak minded individual could bend to his will when he stopped playing it.

The enemy carriage rolled on past and the driver fell forward asleep, alerting the Mayor and his daughter that were inside of the carriage. The all got out to survey the surroundings that they were in, seeing the destruction that was in their town.

"Guards, formation." The Mayor said as he was surrounded by white clad armoured guards that he had 'borrowed' from the Capital to keep an eye on him. "Come on sweetie, we will be fine." The Mayor comforted his daughter, who was looking around at the fire and destroyed houses that now was their town.

In a sudden flash, ten of the guards were chopped in half across the belt as their bodies, severed in half, dropped to the floor, all the rest heard was a evil laugh as they looked to the source. Daidara was standing, blood adored his axe and now was dripping off of it. "Now that was too easy, come on you lot, you know you can go better than that." He shouted as the guards responded by opening fire on the black-clothed man, Daidara pulled his axes up and blocked the shots enough to make a counter attack. Throwing the blades back past the guards, charging the Mayor and tackling him, then the axe parts came back and pierced the backs of the remaining two guards as he crushed the Mayor under his own weight and broke his spine with one fell squeeze.

Nyau looked on from the top of the carriage and saw the little girl that was now laying there, all covered in her mentor's blood. Nyau walked up to the girl and pulled her off the floor. "Dai's had his fun, now for you to be my little play thing." He said as he led the girl away from the death zone. Nyau didn't get far before he was clobbered by a massive object. The object flew through the air and landed into the floor with a large bang.

Daidara looked around as he searched for the new player in the battle. "Come at me my enemy, I will rip you in half!" He said and then saw a brown figure come out of the snow and aerial kick him in the stomach. "Oof!" He said as he was sent flying towards the same place that Nyau had ended up.

The brown clad man walked calmly over to where his discarded weapon was and picked it up.

The weapon was dark brown in colour, about the same length of the man that held it, with a hammerhead on one end of it, glowing green with the rest of the handle having a core that also glowed green in the shadow. He spun it around and then held it in a neutral stance.

"What the hell was that…" Nyau said as he rubbed his head in pain, the warhammer had actually hit him in the chest, but the resultant energy made him crack his head to the ground. Shaking his head and looking around, he saw the brown character looking at him with a very neutral face. "You were not affected my my song were you?" He asked as he got back up, the character watched him stumble around and just stood there with his hammer poked into the floor now.

"What song exactly? I don't go well with bumbling idiots like yourself." He said back and watched Nyau react to it like he had just been insulted. Nyau looked around the man and saw Daidara getting his axe ready.

"W-well, I would take that as an insult, but unfortunately, I don't have time for an encore of it, do I Dai?" He said as Daidara swung his axe around his head, aiming for the neck of the man in the brown clothes.

Daidara was then shocked when the axe completely missed the man as he had spun around and ducked underneath it, kicking his legs out and connecting with the large man, sending him falling again. "Maybe you shouldn't be so cocky eh? Would be healthy for you." The man said as he jumped up and kicked out at the attack that Nyau just made, swinging his hammer around upwards and colliding with Nyau, sending the tiny man flying up into the air. When gravity started affecting him again, falling back down. The man spun around and baseball batted Nyau into the floor.

Once he had dealt with the little one, he focused on the bigger one that was now standing back up, red rage was in his eyes and he could see it clearly, waiting for the next attack. Daidara split the axe into two and threw them either side of the man in brown, skimming the hammer and intentionally missing. "Your aim needs a little work from what I can see." Daidara laughed as he watched the axes boomerang back.

"No, what needs work is you assumptive nature." Dai said, but was too late as the man had turned around and held his hammer outwards from his torso, catching both of the axes on the handle. The hammer started the shimmer. "KILMAREACH!" was all that came out of the man's mouth as he lifted above the earth below him, the axe heads spinning around his platform and landing within Daidara's hands again as he caught them with ease.

"Get down from there and fight me like a real warrior!" He shouted up to the man, who was looking back down at him.

"A real warrior knows when to give up his honour and fight dirty." He responded as he crashed the hammer into the platform that he had made, shattering it into pieces on the spot. Sending the platform spiraling out of control and down on top of Daidara. The rocks trapped him under it.

From the commotion, Liver had returned from the town as he saw Nyau laying on the floor, completely out of it, whereas Daidara was underneath some sort of earth. "What the hell happened here? I thought you two were suppose to take care of the Mayor!"

"We did Liver, but we were attacked by someone else. Another Teigu user!" Daidara shouted back as he struggled to get out from where he was, until Liver used his water power to soften the rocks and shatter them.

"Then how are you two or this new person not dead? You know what happens when two Teigu's fight, one of you has to die."

"I don't know! He just put this stuff on top of me and then bolted or something! He certainly ain't here now." Dai said back as he got himself up and recovered his axes. "Is Nyau ok?"

Liver looked over to the small man who was laying down, laughing like no tomorrow, on the floor next to a woman, who was skinned. "I think Nyau is going to be fine, he found something to do while he waited for me to get here instead of helping you out it seems. Now tell me, what did this person look like?"

"He was wearing all brown, short black hair and a little bit of stubble. He was wielding a giant warhammer that was brown and glowed green all over." Daidara answered as he caught his breath. "If you want to go after him, I demand that I am the one to kill him."

"Hmm, interesting, if we ever meet him again, I'll let you personally deal with him ok?" Liver replied as he patted Daidara on the shoulder. "Now, lets finished with our job before we get murdered by Esdeath." Liver picked up a pile of the posters that had Night Raid's insignia on, a smear campaign was only one way to get them to come out of hiding.

Capital

"You sure it is safe to be walking around he at the bright of day with so little people walking around?" Knor asked as he looked around nervously.

"Ahh! It's fine you worry bug, we didn't get spotted when we helped Mine deal with Sheele, plus, anyone who did see me or you was killed on the spot by Naut." Leone happily said back as she slapped him round the back of his head. Lubbock, who had come with them, sighed at their antics.

"I didn't come with you here to deal with the pair of you flirting all the time." He bluntly said as he carried on walking ahead of them.

"I ain't flirting!" Knor responded with a gruff tone.

"Uh-huh, tell that to your girlfriend." Lubbock quickly said back and made Leone blush at the comment. "Lubbock, shut your fat mouth or I will have to kick you in your bollocks to do it?" Leone thought as she was indeed thinking about Knor as well. "I wonder when he will realise that it's nothing I can do and he is kinda stuck in my mind now…" Her thoughts were subsequently stopped as she walked into the wall next to a book shop.

"Ouch… that was not where I expected that to be…" Was all she could say before Lubbock opened up the door to the bookstore. They all walked in and looked around while Lubbock locked the door behind him.

"Well, welcome to my old little store before I joined Night Raid, luckily I got to keep this open and running while I am with the team." He said as he picked up one of his books of the shelf and threw it at Knor. "Here, something for you."

Knor caught the book and looked down at it.

Legend of the City Dragon

"Wait, is this thing about me?!" Dragonaut blurted out and Knor dropped the book and held his hands to his mouth as that was not suppose to come out while anyone but Leone was around. "Hey!- Let megrl Spgrl"

"Shut it you, now is not the time, especially when others are around!" Knor thought to himself as a way of communicating with Dragonaut without his voice.

"Well, tell me what is in the book when we are done with this then, I would like to know what you people know about me, after all, I use to be hiding underneath this war torn hell hole." Dragonaut responded and let Knor have his voice box back.

"Er…" Was all that came out of Lubbock's mouth as he saw Knor flinch and drop the book. Leone was also looking shifty as she had heard the spat. "Moving on…" Knor and Leone sighed in relief as Lubbock was not going to question any farther. He pulled on a cord that looked like it was attached to a complicated pulley system, but all it did was activate something.

The bookcase that he was standing in front of unlatched itself from something and then was pushed forward by Lubbock. "Come on, down here you two." Leone followed with Knor in tow. Knor knew that this was the little base that Lubbock has for any missions that they needed a few more days in the Capital. Good place to lie low for a few weeks if shit hits the fan so to speak.

"Welcome to the little hideout then Knor, Leone has been accustomed to this already, so it's really only you that needs to know where this is and what it is used for," Lubbock said as he went on to explain to Knor the reasons for this house's use and when it would be available.

"Well, that should be all of it, but main rule of this is that you cannot be spotted coming in and out of here by the authorities, or the usefulness of this is expired, got it?" Lubbock said with a string hanging from the ceiling.

"Yep, seems like a good and simple idea for us." Knor said as he sat down on the sofa that was in the firelit room. Leone was acting all like a cat and laying down in front of the fire. "Well, aren't you just a cute thing." He said, playing along and patted her head as he sat back down and chugged back a glass of water.

"So, now that you are here, who are you after exactly?"

"Esdeath." Leone blurted out instantly. Knor froze again, ironically.

"Oh, well, you have fun with that, I'm staying the hell away from her." Lubbock replied as he was about to walk off.

"Aww, I thought with your appreciation of me you would like that ice queen." Leone jokening suggested.

"Ha, you're really funny Leone, I'm out of here." Lubbock scampered off and out of the shop.

"Well, that's one way to get him out of our hair."

"Can we now look at that book?!"

"No, I said after we are done with Esdeath!"

"Fine."

"It's like looking after a child, christ." Knor mumbled as Leone chuckled at his misfortune.

"I never had another being talk to me when I had this belt you know, your Teigu is a very odd one to have it's own personality."

"Yeah, tell me that when you have a voice in your head battling to read a damn book." Knor responded as he picked up the book and placed it on the table in the middle of the room. "I think we should get going and see if we can find her?"

"Sure, we'll get on the rooftops, be easier to track someone from up there." Leone said as she hopped up off the floor and pushed Knor up the steps out of the basement.

Capital Rooftops

Leone and Knor had been wondering around on the rooftops for around 2 hours before they even found a shred of evidence that Esdeath was even in the Capital in the form of her black aura creeping around a corner. They had to dodge all the complaints from residents seeing them on the rooftops, but it was nothing a stern look or some gold couldn't fix.

Knor hopped up to a tiled roof and steadied himself, before he was pushed down onto his belly by Leone, who was also on her stomach. "What the hell was that for?" Knor voiced his complaint as Leone put a finger to her mouth in symbol to shut the hell up. Knor took the advice and then followed her finger in the direction to where there was a woman in a white Uniform sitting down on a bench, eating something that could be described as an ice cream, completely oblivious to the fact that she was being stalked by two of the Night Raid members.

Leone could feel the urge to go and get her straight away, but her insides were also tingling as she could feel the evil aura around her that couldn't be rivaled at all. She used her own will to stop her from jumping down and going after the woman right there and then. The same could not be said for Knor though. She looked over to the man next to her and saw his body start convulsing.

His eyes landed on the woman in the white uniform with the icy coloured hair, he instantly recognised her as Esdeath from his memories and knew what kind of person that she was and nothing to be messed with. But as he thought about her, his eyes went back to the concave formation from a couple of weeks ago, before his arms started acting out of his own will. "Wha? Leone! Help!" he whispered loudly before he almost stood up there and then.

"She is the one that took my home away from me! I must kill her!" Dragonaut said through Knor, before he could stand up, Leone tackled him down through the roof and held onto him as tight as she could so he couldn't escape.

"Naut! Now is not the time to get angry! We can't go after her yet!" She told Knor to try and get him to come back to his senses.

"Why can I not? She is right there, ready to be pounced on!" Dragonaut argued as he tried to wriggle his way out of the trap that Leone had him in, his strength was becoming a match for Leone.

Leone activated Lionel and her strength was amplified, holding onto the man and his demonic beast within him. "Because it is most likely a trap she has set for us! If you waltz in there and get you and Knor killed on the spot. Do you want that?"

"I have no use for this body if it is not willing to fight" Dragonaut respond as his strength also increased, he popped out of the arm hold that Leone had had him in. "If you will not let me deal with this, then I will do it myself." He said as he started walking towards where Esdeath had been.

"Stop, PLEASE!" Was Knor's voice from inside his body.