A few updates in such a short span of time, I want to finish this as quickly as possible for two reasons.
I can start on something else I've been planning
You readers will be able to finish reading.
So anyway let's hurry up and start.
Oh, and I don't own -man.
We are not alone.
-Close encounters of the third kind
'So, I'll finally be reunited with master…' Allen lamented as he sat in a boat with Lenalee, Krory and Bookman while Lavi paddled them along, the group was moving up a river in China to a city where they would hopefully be able to meet with Allen's master, the exorcist General Cross.
'It makes me happy, but also sad.' He continued in a very depressed tone. No one answered him, and the group continued down the river slowly.
All of a sudden, Allen jerked his head up and inhaled sharply; he stood up and looked out over the side of the boat.
'What is it?' Lenalee asked.
'Just now, it felt like somebody was watching us.' Allen said.
'Maybe a panda?' He wondered.
'Allen…I bet you think there are pandas everywhere just because we're in China.'
'Eh?'
'There aren't.'
'Ah! There's even a panda here too!' Lavi shouted in an attempt to make a joke by pointing at Bookman. Bookman turned around and stared at him.
'Him too…' Lenalee said.
'Enough already.' Krory remarked irritably.
'Good for nothings.' Bookman said angrily.
They continued on for some distance, but Allen couldn't shake the feeling that someone was watching them; this made him quite twitchy and jumpy which irritated the rest of the group on the boat who began to make jokes at his expense.
'Hey! What was that?' Lavi shouted suddenly.
'What! Where?' Allen shouted and looked around, and then noticed everyone was giggling.
'Hey that wasn't funny!' Allen remarked annoyed.
'Yeah carrot head! Think up better jokes next time will ya?' A voice rang out of nowhere.
Everyone looked at each other with a confused expression,
'Who said that?' Krory asked.
'The riverbank numb-skulls!' The voice came a second time.
Everyone turned to look at the riverbank on their left, sure enough, sitting calmly and waving to them was the stranger, black coat, crows, absurdly long sword and all.
'You again…' Allen muttered
'Oi! Are you stalking us or something?' Lavi called out.
The stranger stood up and followed them along the riverbank as they floated and shrugged.
'Maybe, maybe not.' He answered.
Before anyone could answer him, *Bump!*, and the boat halted in the middle of the river.
'What was that?' Krory asked, Lavi went to the forward of the boat and checked the water.
'Ah…it looks like we got caught on something…' He said.
'Can't we just push it off?' Allen asked.
'No, it looks like we got jammed into a crevasse or something…I think someone is gonna have to get off the boat and try to push.'
'Need a hand?' The stranger asked from the bank.
Allen gave it a bit of thought before replying, 'Ah…thank you, if you could.'
The stranger grinned and waded out into the water, the exorcists watched as he walked deeper and deeper into the water until it was at his chest level.
He was midway to the boat when he just disappeared beneath the water faster than anyone on the boat could react.
'What the…?' Lavi said shocked by what had happened
Then, there appeared a bulge in the water just a distance away, the bulge grew incredibly fast and burst open, revealing a towering monstrosity. Its head looked like a giant octopus with a set of fearsome red eyes, its body was humanoid in shape, with arms and legs, and in one of its eight tentacles from its head it held the small figure of the stranger.
Everyone was so inexplicably stunned by the sight that no one could really react, only when the monster raised one of its fists did Allen recover his senses and activated his innocence to protect his comrades, the other exorcists followed suit on seeing this.
The stranger saw this happen, while he had been stunned by the initial assault, he forced his right arm out of the grip of the tentacle, grabbed his sword, and sent a massive downward slash with it, slicing one of the monster's tentacles clean off.
The monster roared an incredible roar from the pain, causing him to stop his attack midway and make a grab for the stranger, he was too slow though, before he could close his hand the stranger launched himself off of it, then a pair of chains shot out of the sleeves of his coat, one pair grabbled the bank of the river and the other wrapped tightly around the boat which the exorcists sat on, jolting them, he retracted both sets of chains simultaneously, pulling himself in midair towards the bank while yanking the boat away from the monster on to the bank.
The stranger landed on his feet easily, the boat landed a little more harshly, giving the exorcists a hard bump, they clambered out a little unsteadily an prepared to face their enemy, then Allen realized something.
'My eye... It's…not activated…?' He said with his right hand over his left eye and with a confused expression.
'That's because it isn't an akuma…' The stranger replied darkly.
'Then what is it?' Lenalee asked shakily, she had not had to face anything else besides akuma and suddenly there was a totally new threat facing them that wasn't what she was used too.
'Something dark…evil…straight from the pits of hell itself…' The stranger murmured quietly.
'…Then how do we fight it? We're not meant to deal with this kind of stuff!' Lavi said in a panicky voice.
'Does it really matter? What else can you do? Prepare yourselves…this will be the hardest fight you will have ever faced up to this point.' The stranger hissed as he got into a battle stance with his sword held high above his head, his left arm's index claw tracing the edge of the blade, and then everyone realized that his left arm was encased in a red claw gauntlet with gold colored joints.
But this didn't matter to the group all of them swallowed hard as the monster began advancing to them while roaring horribly, its tentacles waving and jumping about madly as it did so. It raised one of its fists high above its head and sent it crashing down towards the group of exorcists plus one.
Everyone jumped in all directions just before the massive fist came down, Lenalee grabbed Allen and took off, Lavi and bookman were snatched by Krory while the stranger leaped into the air, he grappled one of the monster's arms and swung himself up and over the monster's head, the monster was quick however, and swung his hand upwards to catch the stranger as he flipped over its head, the stranger was caught off guard and couldn't react, the monster plucked him from the air and tried to squeeze him while everyone looked in horror.
'Damn it!' Allen cursed as Lenalee held him in midair; he swung his gigantic claw forward with all his might, stretching and growing it until it slashed the monster. At the same time the stranger stabbed his sword with all his might into the monster's hand just before it closed around him.
The monster screamed and reeled from double blow by the exorcist and the stranger.
The stranger then raced up the arm of the monster, trying to get to its head before it could do anything, all of a sudden, a shadow loomed over him, as he looked up he jumped to the side just before the monster's other fist could come crashing down.
As he fell through the air, he was caught by Lenalee and the two landed on the opposite bank where the others had gathered.
'Damn! This thing is huge…!' Lavi remarked.
'But we can hurt it…! That's more important…' The stranger replied, he had been caught by surprise by how fast and intelligent the monster had been, and then he noticed that everyone was looking at him as the monster advanced on them.
'What…?' He asked.
'You know what that is, don't you…?' Bookman asked quietly, the stranger sort of nodded.
'Then how do we fight it?' He continued firmly.
The stranger looked at the faces of the exorcists before smirking and replying.
'All out attacks …take it from every direction… and it won't be able to respond quickly enough.' He said while grinning.
Everyone nodded an agreement; they then turned to face the monster that was once again coming at them with all haste.
As the thing rushed forward and raised its fist for another strike, the stranger yelled, 'take out its legs!'
Lavi and Krory responded, Krory used all his strength to propel himself forward and strike one of the monster's knees as hard as he could, at the same time, Lavi increased his hammer's size and length exponentially and slammed it as hard as he could into the other knee.
This combined effort stopped the monster in its tracks but did not manage to do much damage to it, the monster gave an annoyed growl and kicked his legs and stomped angrily. The two exorcists barely avoided the attack.
Meanwhile, Lenalee carried Allen up into the air and behind the monster before throwing him up, , Allen turned his claw into a large cannon and pelted the back of the monster's head with his weapon as he fell, the monster cried and lashed out with one of his arms, the stranger caught Allen in one of his chains and yanked him out of the way and back to the ground before the arm connected, he then grappled the top of the monster's arm as it was recovering and allowed the monster to launch him into the air with a pull of his arm, the stranger drew the chain back and sent a powerful downward cut as he landed, severing part of the monster's arm from its body and spewing dirty green blood all over the place.
The others took the initiative now; they raced forward and attempted to topple the towering monster by attacking his legs, Krory battered them repeatedly with powerful blows, Lenalee unleashed the most devastating kicks she could while Lavi slammed monster's legs again and again with his hammer and bookman turned them into pincushions, Allen himself enlarged his arm, grabbed one of the monster's legs and tried to bring down the monster.
It worked somehow, the monster, staggered and howling mad from the pain of his lost arm, was caught off balance by the combined assault and was brought tumbling down with a massive 'boom' sounding as it crashed into the river an drew up a large wave on the shore.
The stranger grinned at this and jumped upwards as high as he could just as the monster started falling to earth. He flipped his body in midair and dove straight down towards the monster's neck as it fell; the monster seemed to bounce upwards a bit from the landing right before the stranger delivered the final slash which cleanly and completely decapitated the monster. The stranger staggered out of the water and onto the riverbank just as everyone witnessed something amazing, the monster's body, which lay still and barren, began to glow and hum ominously, the glow and the hum got gradually brighter and louder, finally ending with an incredible explosion of light that blinded everyone and sent a shockwave through the air, throwing everyone onto the ground.
When everyone had recovered and looked back at the river, the monster's body and head had disappeared completely, the only indication of a battle having taken place was the large crater on the opposing side of the river bank.
'Whoa…' Lavi panted, although the battle seemed to take an eternity, he knew that it likely lasted only slightly more than a dozen minutes.
'Yeah, that was intense…' Allen agreed.
'…What was that all about? What was it? What-' Lenalee was cut off by the stranger raising his hand and motioning for her to stop.
'It…was here for me…not you, you just happened to be in the way…That's why it targeted me first, it was probably sent to hunt me down and eliminate me or whatever.' He said.
'It wasn't an akuma, I'm not overly sure what it was, but I have a feeling as to where it came from, and it's not a pretty thought mind you…' He continued and trailed off.
'So then…What was it?' Allen echoed Lenalee's words.
'It was a pet, sent by his master who was likely a demon, and I'm not talking about the akuma that you face, not those demons, I'm talking about those things that you see in paintings, those horrendous looking, multi-headed things with sharp teeth surrounded by flames and torturing the damned souls of hell…yeah those demons.' Came the reply.
This revelation left the group speechless; they had not thought before that such things could actually exist.
'Although come to think of it, if such things like the Earl, Noah, innocence and dark matter exist…why shouldn't demons?' Lavi thought to himself.
'So…what happens now?' Allen questioned.
'You don't mention this, not a word of it to anybody; you won't speak of it except between yourselves, and you better as hell won't write it down anywhere…although considering who two of you are…' He trailed off again while staring at bookman and Lavi.
'One last thing, you will go about and carry out your original mission, and try not to think to hard about what you have just witnessed.' The stranger ended before he picked up his sword, sheathed on his back and prepared to move away.
'But…who are you? You're not normal right? Why don't you come join us at the order? You fight the earl as well don't you?' Allen asked, trying to be friendly.
The stranger turned around and gave him an odd look before saying,
'Allen Walker, this war is not just a war between the innocence and the earl, it is a war that encompasses the highest planes of existence…and the darkest pits of suffering, it is a war that has been around since the day in the garden of Eden when Adam and Eve betrayed God by eating the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and introduced sin into humanity, your fight is only one part of this war…a war…for the fate of the human race itself…' The stranger said grimly as he walked off, leaving the group of exorcists in stunned silence.
'…What did he mean by…our fight is only one part of this war…?' Lavi said quietly.
'…We can only hope…that he isn't implying what I think he's implying…' Bookman said dourly, Allen gave him an odd look, but just as questions began to roll off his mouth he shut it just as quickly, something told him that now wasn't quite the time to start questioning as they returned to their original course, the stranger's words weighing heavily on their minds the whole time.
Well that's done that I suppose, oh and I've realized that I'm actually not that different from most other Fanfic writers since I still go to bed at night wondering if there are any reviews or views of this piece of writing.
I'm trying my best to learn how to write fight scenes but it seems that it will be a rather steep learning curve; I'm really going to need to improve soon.
One more thing, how was the fight scene, I sorta just imagined it in my head and then described what happened. I hope it was ok though…
With that said however, reviews are still unnecessary, thanks for it if you do however.
Sorry but I won't list you if you do review, but you have my thanks nonetheless.