I'M HEERRREEEE! OMG THAT TOOK FOREVER HUH!? consider this an early Christmas gift from me!
I DO NOT OWN BLUE EXORCIST IN ANY SHAPE OR FORM I ONLY OWN LAURA AND MAGOICHI!
"Izumo… we need to talk." Paku said walking to her friend.
"hmm what is it?" Izumo asked while she brushed her violet hair in the mirror getting ready for the day ahead of them.
"well…."
Laura watched in silence as her wounds burned away in record time. If what she was told was correct yukio was going to tell the others she wasn't badly injured and just needed rest for the night. Laura looked at her bandaged arm where the demon slashed her. She started to unwrap her bandaged wound to see it only looked like a cat scratch now. She sighed and looked outside it was pitch black with an ominous feel to it but she just thought she was paranoid and decided to go to her room.
It was odd the clock she passed said nine but no one was in sight. In fact there were no scents at all in the dorm. Laura felt like she was teleported to heavenly host elementary from corpse party. Laura made it to her room and opened the door to see blazing blue flames instead of her room. Instead of ignoring them like she always does since in her book they are normal she flinched in fear and back up shaking her head only to see they were still there.
"W-what the hell is this!?" Laura asked herself to see the purple stone mephisto had locked up in his office roll out of the flames and start to crack along with her bindings and she was soon engulfed in purple flames with her old torn black dress now fitted to her size appeared on her body while she felt searing pain in her head and let out a scream.
"Where are you?... WHERE ARE YOU!?" an unfamiliar voice roared from the flames while loud scratching was heard as Laura's eyes filled with tears of fear and she backed into the wall and started shivering not knowing what was going on while her newly returned wolf ears flattened against her head and longer fangs grew into place.
"ANSWER ME! I WANT TO KNOW!" the voice said as the flames seemed to be reaching for her as Laura tried to backed away more. She never feared blue flames and never will but it was the unfamiliarity of them she feared. They were untamed and wild as if they wanted to kill her, burn her, and destroy her very being of life. Laura soon went down to her knees and held her head in sheer terror, only to throw it back and let out a scream of fear when the flames grabbed her and started to chant something while strangling her.
"…ura…"
"Laur….a!"
"LAURA!" a voice said as Laura's eyes snapped open and she bolted up panting and shaking while looking around frantically until her eyes landed on Rin's worried face.
"…you ok? You sounded really scared in your sleep." Rin said as Laura slowly took in her surroundings, she was still in the infirmary and her arm was still bandaged she stayed silent thinking back to the nightmare and shook her head.
"I'm fine just a nightmare." Laura sighed and rubbed her palm against her eye still seeing those blue flames with her eyes shut. Magoichi limped over with a new cast around her right hind leg.
The familiar climbed onto the bed and snuggled up to Laura's side. Rin slightly smiled and reached out to pet magoichi only for her to growl at him making him stop his advance.
"I don't really like strangers petting me." Magoichi said as she scooted a bit away hiding slightly behind Laura.
"don't take it personally." Laura said as Rin's eyes locked on to her wounds.
"Why did you try to go at it alone?" Rin said as Laura tilted her head. "Fighting that thing when Izumo and paku could help you and magoichi…" Rin added with Laura smiled catching on.
"because I can handle myself." Laura stated making Rin shake his head.
"Not without getting injuries! Look at yourself, you may also be a half demon like me but you can still get badly injured. If anything let me handle it! I don't want you getting hurt!" Rin said in a confident tone as Laura blinked at this.
"Daaaaaawwwww someone has a crush~" Magoichi said in a teasing tone while Rin's face went red.
"W-what!? N-no! if anything I have a slight crush on Shiemi! I just don't want to lose my friend." Rin said as Laura felt heavy all of a sudden like when a bag of dirt is thrown on top of her.
"oh, you do?" Laura asked as Rin's blush went down a bit.
"W-well yeah, she's cute, sweet, and really nice you know? Maybe I have a chance with her despite me being a demon and the dilemma of her liking yukio." Rin said happily in a slight daydream while Magoichi face palmed with her front wrist. "D-don't tell her though. I'm only telling you this because you're my friend and I'm trusting you with this secret!" Rin suddenly said as Laura just smiled and gave him a thumbs up.
"No problem dude~" Laura said as Rin fist pumped with a big grin.
"Thanks Laura, anyway I'm going to get something to eat okay? i'll bring something back for you later!" Rin said waving while walking off.
"Magoichi…." Laura said a moment after rin closed the foor
"yeah?" Magoichi asked as she looked up at the aburn.
"Am I… not cute or nice?" Laura said as Magoichi flinched not knowing the answer to that.
Izumo sat there in her spot unmoving in sheer horror and shock while her best friends' words echoed in her head.
"Izumo I'm thinking of leaving the cram school."
"B-but Paku why? You know if there's a problem I'll be there for you."
"no, Izumo you can't be there for me forever. Besides I don't like how you make fun of the people in class who are trying to do their best… I'm sorry I've been meaning to tell you but I couldn't. That's also the thing- a real friend would have told you sooner and besides I saw Laura getting on to you about how you're treating miss moriyama. Plus I don't understand the classes very well and I… I can't see myself risking my life in battle and if Laura wasn't there one of us could have gotten seriously hurt like she was with that nasty looking slash down her arm, or worse. I'm sorry" Paku said before leaving the room.
Izumo didn't get it, why? Why would her friend want to leave her alone to learn at the cram school with all these people she doesn't like? She looked at her reflection and slowly started to brush her hair while on autopilot at the moment.
Laura felt around her neck bind feeling the slight dents from the demon trying to strangle her so she had to go to Mephisto and get it repaired ASAP. Laura sighed remembering she had to walk there due to no key so she got dressed and left the building. She didn't get far since when she hit the bridge she caught the scents of shiemi and rin close by and turned to the roof to see the two laughing and talking about something while hanging sheets. Laura sighed and stuffed her hands into her pockets and went on her way to Mephisto.
"I humbly appeal to thee oh goddess inari. Leave not my prayers to be unfulfilled!" Izumo said as she summoned her white fox familiars for training to get her mind off paku.
"I'll show them who's boss… now then…" Izumo said as she made a few signs with her hands while counting before finishing and giving her foxes the command to attack only… they didn't seem to move.
"w-what?" Izumo stuttered as the two foxes turned to her while growling.
"how dare you summon us with a heart in such weak state!" the one with black thin mustache snarled and leapt at izumo along with the other. "you are not worthy of us!"
Izumo panicked and quickly tore her paper in half making the two foxes disappear into thin air. Izumo stayed standing for a bit until she fell to her knees in shock.
'w-why is this happening to me!?'
"my that mid class demon nearly made a crack in it. Lucky for you I can repair this…" Mephisto said taking his gloves off and placing his clawed hands around Laura's neck. Soon she felt it reform into its original state making her sigh in relief since the odd shape made it kinda hard to breath.
"Thankfully I can repair it this time but everything has a limit. I can't do this every time it gets damaged you know. Soon you will have to have these old ones removed and replaced… that is if you don't want people to see your true form." Mephisto said while Laura got off the examination table and nodded.
"thanks Mepphy I understand." Laura said
"by the way… Sammy asked how you were doing…." Mephisto said in a serious tone as Laura's eyes sparkled. "r-really? Well I'm doing fine why?" Laura asked as Mephisto sighed.
"Well he hasn't seen you in a while and just wanted to know…. It strikes me odd he wants to know now after all this time. Tell me has anything strange happen to you recently?" Mephisto asked staring her in the eyes as Laura thought for a moment and her thoughts went right to the flash image of Sammy a few days ago and the nightmare.
"well…. Nothing comes to mind that I know of." Laura said feeling it was just a homesickness or something.
"I see… " Mephisto went silent then sighed. "why does Sammy want to know anyway? What is he to you? Or better yet what are you to him?" Mephisto asked as Laura blinked and opened her mouth.
"he's like my adoptive father you know? Well to be perfectly honest he's my godfather. He told me my mother asked him to be mine when she found out she was pregnant." Laura said before leaving for cram school since it was nearing that time of day. While Mephisto stayed behind while he eyes went wide in shock he knew Satan was looking after her but did amanojaku really appoint HIM as her child's god father?
"Weather father was lying or not. This should be interesting."
Laura wasn't paying attention at all during class she was still hung up on who the target was that the demon mentioned. She twirled her pen and looked up in boredom… to be honest she wasn't just thinking of that but also rin having a crush on shiemi.
'I should be happy for him right? Then why did my chest feel heavy since then?' Laura thought as the teacher called izumo to recite the passage the class was told to memorize. Laura half glanced over she did do it but she didn't remember it since her mind was full of other things at the moment.
"i…don't remember…." Izumo said after a few moments making Laura, Rin and pretty much everyone else in the room look her way in shock.
"my this is a surprise! well how about you mr suguro?" the lady asked as Laura's mind went back to the demon she was almost certain if she wasn't the target Rin could have been… but why? Is it cause of his own demonic blood? Or something else...
Laura sighed inwardly while Ryuji recited the passage perfectly. when he finished rin and shiemi started to applaud with laura following and the teacher saying how perfect that was. A moment later the teacher left the room while Ryuji was showered with praise from the class while Izumo just scoffed.
"Memorizing things like that is just showing off." she commented as Ryuji looked her way in slight confusion thinking he heard her wrong or something.
"what was that?" he asked as calm as possible.
"I said memorization… has absolutely nothing to do with academic ability!" Izumo stated with a blunt look on her face as if what she was saying was the most obvious thing in the world.
"heh, big talk coming from a girl who couldn't even memorize four lines." Ryuji said with a grin while Laura felt a storm brewing and wanted to avoid any conflict between her classmates. Mostly cause she doesn't want any pointless fights going on.
"come on now Izumo is one of the most talented students in this class she's just having a bad day like we all have from time to time…" Laura commented while rin and shiemi's eyes followed the other two as Laura smiled at the two of them only to see that what she just said was not a good move because that's when all hell broke loose.
Izumo bolted strait up from her seat and just started yelling. "It's not that I can't memorize them I choose not to! Who want to be an aria anyway?" hearing this Ryuji took on a look of confusion only for it to turn to rage when Izumo continued on. "They're completely defenseless while reciting and rely on the rest of the party to protect them! they're nothing more but a burden!"
"what the hell you know I want to be one and you dis me like that!?" Ryuji shouted as he got closer to the violet haired girl.
"I'm so scared~ what are you gonna beat me up now?" Izumo stated placing a hand on her hip as Laura stayed between them making sure nothing got physical since Izumo was taking this a little too far.
"you got some nerve making fun of people's dreams… hell from the first day of class I knew you sucked!" Ryuji snapped slamming his hand down onto the table making Rin yelp in surprise since it landed directly in front of him.
"dreams? Oh you mean that one about "defeating satan?" ha! I don't know about you but when I hear a joke like that I laugh~"
"yeah then how bout you? Let's have it why do you wanna be an exorcist!? Well!?" Ryuji snapped as Izumo seemed to go blank for a bit.
"Why… do I…?" Izumo's eyes went big as if remembering something horrifying then went back to her normal calm demeanor of sorts. "…I don't go around telling everyone why I do what I do. Because Im not out to get everyone's attention like you!"
Ryuji snapped and grabbed her by the collar like Laura did to him the other day while the class panicked a bit. Izumo acted fast and swung and open hand ready to slap him only for Rin to stand up at that moment to break it up only to receive a slap to the face.
"Rin!" Laura gasped as she slightly stood up while Rin growled then snapped. "IF YOU'RE GONNA FIGHT GO OUTSIDE!"
"Calm down!" Everyone turned to Yukio's who's eyebrows were twitching. "enough with the fighting already…"
Laura groaned in slight pain as the demon rock on her lap got even heavier by the second.
She sat next to shiemi and Ryuji while she listened to yukio scolding them about how this was everyone's fault and the real reason on this whole bootcamp thing. Laura listened as best she could trying to tune out the slowly increasing pain that was on her lap the way Yukio was explaining the basic procedure on how exorcists fight reminded Laura of a wolf pack on how they never go hunting alone unless they are loners. Laura stayed silent along with everyone else as Yukio's words sunk in while he checked his watch.
"…ok I have to leave on a mission and won't be back for about three hours. Due to yesterday's attack I have to take extra precautions so I'll lock all the entrances and i'll be placing a powerful demon warding charm on the building." Yukio stated
"you're locking us in? then how are we supposed to get out of here if we need to?" Ryuji asked as Laura nodded in agreement.
"You're not going anywhere! I'll only be gone for three hours so try to get along until then okay?" Yukio said before shutting the door so fast Laura jumped at the loud soud. Laura whined as she couldn't imagine the rock sitting on her for three more hours.
"anyway we're stuck like this due to a certain someone…" Ryuji started as Laura tuned the two out and side glanced at shiemi who looked depressed.
'why does rin like her? Do men find blondes that appealing?... whats wrong with me today?" Laura thought only to be interrupted with Rin yelling at Izumo and Ryuji to stop fighting with him in the middle again. Laura sighed annoyed at the bickering along the pain in her lap and only one problem could be fixed so she just took both her hands and just pushed the rock demon off her lap letting it roll away from her casually as everyone's eyes followed it until it stopped.
"Hey! You can't just do that!" Ryuji snapped as Laura shrugged.
"I don't see why not? I'm still staying put right? Come on guys can you really stay like that for three more hours?" Laura said as everyone groaned at the thought of it and followed suit at pushing the rocks off their laps.
"now if we just stay put we won't get in trouble… I hope." Laura said
"Yeah the only problem now is that my legs are asleep…" Ryuji commented before the lights went out completely leaving everything completely dark.
"the lights!?" someone shouted as everyone got up only to topple on one another. Laura gasped as she fell over and felt someone grabbing her small breasts making her face flare up.
"Okay who's groping my breasts?" Laura said as calmly as possible when she felt the unknown persons hand tense and quickly move.
"Sorry it was an accident!" Ryuji's voice said as a light flashed on making everyone cover their eyes and turn to Shima's phone that produced the light as everyone got a good look around adjusting to the new lighting.
"you gotta be kidding did he turn the lights off on the way out?" Ryuji commented glancing about.
"don't think so… Is it a black out?" Izumo added as everyone's eyes went to the windows.
"uh-uh I can see lights on outside… I'm going ahead to check the corridors." Shima stated while getting up and make his way to the door.
"don't go and do something stupid" Laura commented wondering where Magoichi was at the moment she could sure use that familiars night vision right about now.
"hehehe don't worry I love stuff like this it's almost like a real life test of courage!" Shima said opening the door as everyone tensed to see the ghoul from yesterday. Shima glanced before shutting the door and rubbed his eyes.
"that's odd… am I seeing things?"
"IT'S REAL! IT'S THE REAL DEAL!" everyone shouted just before the ghoul's arm shot out through the door making shima dart back to the group everyone watched in horror as the demon broke down the door and stalked into the room Laura glared her green eyes at the demon while her pupils became slits.
"it's the ghoul from yesterday!" Izumo stated loudly
'how did I not smell it!? Unless… it masked its scent!" Laura tsked and cracked her knuckles only to stop halfway as the stitched up side started to struggle to get open making Laura shudder at how disturbing it looked until it bursted open spewing a black liquid of sorts all over everyone.
"what the hell is this stuff?" Rin asked as Laura saw everyone going into a panic as she held in her gags from the sulfur stench as she got ready for another round with this demon.
"CALM DOWN! If we panic we won't be able to fend it off!" Laura snapped. "now get your act together and focus!" Laura snapped as it had a little effect at making them calm down a bit but they were still unsure on what to do but the demon seemed to have other plans then just wait as it came into the room.
"nii I need some una-una!" Shiemi said as the little green demon cheered and started to look like it was struggling only to have giant thick sharp branches burst from it making a giant wooden wall of brambles soon to be followed with a pained howl from the demon. The others stood in awe at how shiemi was able to do this.
Laura smiled and sighed in relief since she knew this would hold up for the mean time so they can calm down some more for now. But that thought was cut short when everyone except herself and rin started to cough and seemingly grow weak fast.
"h-hey what's wrong with you all?" Rin asked as Laura looked down at her previously white shirt to see the black liquid the demon sprayed on them all earlier.
"the liquid the demon sprayed us with earlier… are you two not affected?" Izumo asked as Rin and Laura locked eyes knowing full well why it wasn't effecting them.
Laura listened as the demons clawed and torn through the brambles. she knew that these demons were more active in the dark…
'whoever turned off these lights must be their master… I can turn on the lights and track their master down if I'm able too maybe even draw them off if I'm-' Laura's thoughts were cut off when she noticed rin heading into an opening in the brambles.
"hey rin what are you doing!?" Ryuji snapped as Rin glanced over his shoulder.
"I'm going to draw them away. If I can get both of them to follow me the rest of you run for it. If I can't I'll do what I can to find help or get some lighting in here." Rin said as Laura grabbed his ankle.
"?" Rin raised an eyebrow as Laura looked at him with a serious look.
"…right behind ya." Laura said with a grin as Rin grinned in return as he continued on into the brambles with Laura right behind rim.
"are you two crazy!?" Izumo said as the others started to protest as well only to be ignored by the two.
"rin listen the demon from last night said that they had a target. So I'm not sure if they'll follow us if the target is one of the others." Laura murmured as Rin put two and two together and nodded in understandment as they exited to the other side where Rin and Laura were noticed right off by the two demons.
"it's me you assholes are after right!?" Rin growled at them making Laura blinked about to say something only to notice one of the demons make a move and dive one way as rin dove the other when one of the ghouls lunged for them and they ran out into the hallway as the same ghoul that lunged skidded out of the room after them.
"only one followed us rin… look I have no idea why you think they are after you but we gotta find a way to turn on the lights!" Laura said as Rin seemed to get an idea.
"this way!" Rin said turning a corner with Laura and the demon following. The two ran down the corridors with Laura pulling something down to be in the demons way every now and then until they got down to the basement to where the electricity flip switch panel thing was. Laura quickly blocked the door holding it shut as rin went over to turn on the lights seeing that they were all flipped off. Laura soon felt the door being ripped of the hinges and backed up ready for a fight only to see something that looked like a tentacle swoop over her and latch itself to rin's leg and threw him a good few feet into the air as Laura gasped and ran over to the ledge to see Rin was ok and sighed in relief but Laura noticed to soon the swinging arm that sent her flying and slammed against the floor and skidded a bit against the floor. She shook it off and shakily stood up closing one eye due to the pain from skidding on hard concrete.
"damn it Don't mess with us!" Rin growled and let his flames show as he drew his sword Laura got ready as well bearing her fangs let out her sharp black claws only for both to freeze when a voice echoed through the nearly empty basement.
"that's it. that's what I wanted to see. Those brilliant blue flames of yours." Rin and Laura turned to Igor neuhaus who was emerging from the shadows.
"aren't you our… wait were you the one that set these ghouls on us!?" Rin shouted as Igor just smirked.
"Yes, I deduced neither of you would show you're true nature to the others so I had to lure you both away; Laura Brooks Daughter of Amanojaku and you…" Igor paused as his eye went over to glared down at Rin as he finished his sentence. "Rin okumura… Son of satan!" rin flinched and turned to Laura who eyes were huge with shock as she slowly lost her battle posture and looked at him with fear.
"w-what?" Laura silently asked as she looked over to Rin.
"L-laura! I-it's not… well… uhhh… i-I mean-" Rin stuttered trying to find a way to tell the truth to his friend as she was staring him down.
"a-are you who he says? Is it true? Your father… is satan?" Laura said looking at him her green eyes begging for the truth as Rin's blue ones darted away unable to meet her gaze before hanging his head.
"… it's true…" Laura froze as she took a step back before running out of the basement. "Laura! Wait!" Rin said reaching out in a futile attempt to stop her fleeing form.
"heh it shouldn't surprise you. If you never heard your father and Laura's mother were arch enemies they were at each other throats constantly it's a surprise neither died in their fights. Why would their kids be friends?" Igor explained as Rin clenched his sharp teeth and glared holding back tears threatening to spill. "BASTARD!" he roared and leapt into the air and stabbed his ghoul that leapt to meet rin in midair.
"I'll never forgive you!" Rin snapped as the beast roared in pain and burned away.
"heh, I see now…" Igor said to himself as he slipped into the shadows only to bump into a smaller warm object not far from the light.
"w-what?"
"you think I would really leave my friend behind just cause of his heritage?" a voice said as Igors eye widened and was about to strike when a ton of weight was thrown onto him as he was tackled back into the light and felt a sharp pain between his neck and shoulder.
rin's blue eyes widened as he turned on the lights to see Laura had Igor pinned and was violently clawing his back as she shook her head violently as Igor screamed and thrashed trying to get the wolf half demon off him. Laura snarled at the attempts and she started yanking back trying to open igor up making him scream louder as Rin ran towards the two.
"Laura stop! You're going to kill him! LAURA!" Rin's voice startled laura as she opened her jaw long enough for igor to get loose and throw her off before fleeingr. Laura's clothing was bloody along with her hands and face she seemed dazed.
"r-rin?" Laura asked as he ran over and froze to see her messy state but took a deep breath and slowly approached as she looked at the bloody mess she made.
"W-what happened? I bit into Igor and then everything went blank…" Laura said as Rin said nothing before dropping his flaming sword and hugged her tightly not caring blood also got onto her shirt.
"Y-you didn't really leave me…" Rin said as Laura shook her head.
"I'm sorry, I saw my chance to get the jump on him at that moment… I didn't mean to hurt you." Laura said making Rin's embrace tighter. "W-why don't you go back to the others? I gotta clean myself and this mess up." Laura said making rin let go and nod with a smile and leave the basement while Laura watched and panted in pleasure while the scent and taste of blood settled in to her taste buds and its scent filled her nostrils. She took a shaky breath and grinned widely with some more of Igor's blood dribbling down her chin only to be caught with her tongue it tasted delectable and only one thing popped into her mind while she swallowed it and licked herself and the floor clean of the blood.
"I want…. more…"
Next thing Laura knew was that she was slowly walking down the corridor her eyes in slits while following the scent of her wounded prey that escaped earlier the blood was fresh and it was nearby.
"I wouldn't if I were you my dear!" A voice echoed she barely remembered as she growled and bared her fangs. "oh don't flatter yourself in your current state you aren't able to take me on." The voice said as Laura snarled and bristled not heeding the warning of the closing in demon only to find herself flying down the corridor and slamming into the end making her groan in pain and shaking her head getting her bearings since that whacked brought her back a bit.
"had a good taste of human blood have we? I guess it's better to have you taken away for a bit before you attack your fellow students and take their blood instead." The voice said as Laura just looked at the familiar king of time with a blank stare before blacking out.
Thanks for the patience and i hope this chapter was worth it please leave a reveiw and such!