Last chapter was hectic, am i right? Things are getting pretty crazy. (of course that's my on fault, LOL)
Thank you to lotuswolf95 for sending in your OC's. They will be included after rapping up this mess. Please enjoy this turbulent chapter! (just so you know lotuswolf95, i changed the hair of one, sorry!)
She ran, her breath heaving. Another wave of pain sent her to the ground of the alleyway. She clutched herself tight as she fought against the urge to cry out. No, she couldn't afford to be found right now. She needed to get home before things got worse.
Emmie hauled her shaking body off the ground, the pain worsening inside of her. Her soul was fractured, though she couldn't see it she could feel. Oh yes, she could certainly feel it. Not only could she feel her soul was cracked, but she could feel what was slithering around inside that crack; reaching out into her system.
'NO! I will not let it take hold of me!' Emmie thought, forcing it to stay down again. She wasn't willing to let the black blood out. She continued on, making her way through the back streets of Death City. She was still wearing her clothes from yesterday, but had grabbed a hoodie from a nearby shop to conceal her white hair; her hair was a dead give away to who she was.
Finally exhaustion caught up with her, she wobbled and fell beside a dumpster.
'I guess one nap won't hurt...' Her slid shut and she gave into the need for rest. Her mind drifting off into memories and dreams.
Flash back!
Emmie was in her bed, the one she'd slept in when she was little. She heard her mommy and daddy shouting in the living room. They were fighting about something with their grown up friends.
"We need to tell her!" Nigus said forcefully. "She has a right to know!"
"No! I want her to live a normal life. She doesn't need to know about anything, we'll suppress it," Emmie's mom shouted back. "I don't want my kid growing up with that burden. No kid should have to hold knowledge like that."
"Maka, she'll find out eventually," Emmie opened the door a crack and saw her mommy hugging her daddy as he talked.
"I know Soul! But we can at least give her a chance at living a normal childhood. We can tell Esmeralda when she's ready."
"Maka, are you sure?" Tsubaki asked, her face was a picture of concern.
"Yes," Maka said, wiping tears from her face. "No one is to tell her, not until me and Soul say so."
They were all silent, except Patti, who was messing with the refrigerator.
"Then no one will speak of it again, you have my word Maka," Kidd promised. "We all want the best for her."
Liz nodded, and so did Blackstar. Nigus gave in and agreed to.
Emmie was leaning against the door frame. Were they talking about her? We're they mad about what she'd done to that boy last week? Suddenly, she lost grip on the slippery wooden floor; and went crashing down. She spilled out into the hallway, everyone went silent as she began picking herself off the floor, muttering excuses.
Her mom came over and scooped her up, putting a smile on her face.
"Did we wake you up Esmeralda?" Maka said, holding her daughter close.
"No, i woke up by myself mommy. Why is everyone so sad?" Emmie asked, her brown eyes peeking at her family through her mother blonde hair. "Are you all mad at me?"
"No, everything is fine," Maka replied. She squeezed Emmie closer. "You didn't do anything wrong."
Emmie raised her hand and beckoned her daddy to come and hug her too. He complied, hugging her just as tight as her mommy had. She played with her daddy's white hair, her own so much like it.
"You promise no one's mad at me?" Emmie asked again.
"No, no one is mad at you Emmie," Her fathers gruff voice whispered in her ear.
Emmie didn't get it, if no one upset, then why was mommy, Tsubaki, and Liz crying all crying?
Flash back end!
"Wow, the white demon has sunk to an all time low," A nasally voice woke Emmie from her dream/memory. She looked up and found she was surrounded by about twenty members of a local gang. The gang she'd beat up recently.
"Suppose you came to get revenge for those idiots, am i right?" Emmie asked, forcing herself to stand and meet him. Outside she showed a fierce glare, inside however, she was frightened. She was in no shape to fight right now, not with her injuries.
"Right, not even you can get away with beatin' our comrades!" The leader of the bunch shouted at her. He had a bandana that cast a shadow over his eyes, and coarse brown hair that stuck up around his head.
"Yeah!" The rest shout in union. They held assortments of weapons in their hands, everyone of them prepped and ready for a fight.
"Line up, it'll make it easier to punch you all out in an orderly fashion," Emmie taunted. She needed them mad, people make mistakes when they're mad in a fight. She needed them to make a lot if mistakes if she was going to make it out of this.
It worked, the leader turned red and shouted for the others to attack. They came at her from all sides. Emmie jumped and made a grab at the fire escape ladder above her. She held tight to the railing and kicked the attacking gang members away. She swung and jumped down behind them, picked herself up, and began running. She ran through the alleys, dodging trashcans and the attacks of the gang. She was so close! Just blocks from her apartment, if she could just keep this up she'd be fre-
A sudden vicious pain exploded from within her, knocked her breath away and she fell. She heaved, her stomach twisting inside. She turned and saw the gang had caught up with her.
"*Huff* Your a hard one to catch," The leader said out of breath. His gang circled around Emmie once again, there wasn't any way out this time.
"Alright boys, have at her!"
They cheered and began to kick Emmie, throw rocks, and beat her with metal poles. They jeered and laughed as she curled up, trying to protect herself.
'Let me help Emmie~' The black blood hissed from inside Emmie's mind. 'Your going to get us both killed at this rate~'
'Shut up! I don't need you! Go back! This all your fault any way!'
'Oh, but do you really want to die this way? At the hands of scum?' The Fake Emmie asked. 'Let me in and everything will get better again~'
A kick found it's way to Emmie's ribs, she heard an audible crack and she screamed in pain.
'Alright! Fine! Save us!' Emmie cried out to her fake duplicate. 'But I'll only let you in if you promise to go away after!'
'Sure, Sure~' The Fake Emmie chuckled. This was going to be fun. Emmie flinched as the black blood rushed into her system.
The leader of the attacking gang sneered as he watched the most feared fighter on the Death City streets cower in a ball as his loyal lackeys beat her to oblivion. He continued to award himself for this feat until he noticed something was wrong. He yelled for his lackeys to let up and went to inspect.
Black tears had begun to pour from The White Demon's closed eyes.
"What the he-" His sentence was cut short by the blades that exploded from the albino in front of him. The White Demon stood up, pure black blades scraping the asphalt. She sneered and looked him straight in the eye, her brown eyes now pitch black through and through.
"Hello, ready for a real fight?" Emmie cackled. She swung her bladed hand, slashing at the teen.
line break!
Jamie ran through the streets of Death City, searching desperately. After he and Nigus had discovered Emmie missing they'd called everyone they could and had begun the search. He'd been told to check her apartment, and Nigus, Tsubaki, Blair (who was off work at the moment), and Blackstar would search the rest of the city.
'Dammit, dammit, dammit!' Jamie cursed himself for leaving her alone. 'Why would leave in her condition? If she gets in a fight...'
He continued to race forward to Emmie's home, hoping to every god he could think of that she would be there.
line break
Emmie barely missed the teen's face as he ducked at the last second. He stumbled back, putting as much space between him and the girl as possible.
"Awww... why'd you run away~?" Emmie cooed. "It won't hurt that much, now if you'll just stand still..."
Their leader's scream woke the lackeys from their spell of fear and shock. They stumbled over each other to get out of the way of the reborn White Demon. Emmie grinned and the massacre began.
She sliced easily through skin of the closest ones, they fell like dominoes. So pitiful in her eyes. She loved it, the rush, the flow, such power unlocked by one simple agreement.
She laughed as another enemy was felled by her hands, everything was wonderful again! Why had she worried about this in the first place?
Blood spattered the walls and brick of the alley, the screams of the terrified gang echoed around her as she slashed and slashed. She smiled as she came upon the final member, his eyes were wide and fearful.
"Ah, what a wonderful expression," Emmie said. She reached out to the shaking teen and began dragging her scythe blade across his cheek. He flinched as blood began running down his face.
"Shush now," Emmie said. She deactivated one of her blade hands and used it to brush the hair from the teens face. "You'll be able to join your friends~"
line break!
Jamie was a few blocks from Emmie's place now, he was beginning to falter though. The stress his body had gone through yesterday had left him fairly weakened. But he couldn't stop just yet. He pushed onwards, ignoring the cramps in his sides.
He was so close when he heard screams of terror from the alley up ahead. He skidded to a halt and crept around the corner. He slowly peeked around and saw a scene out of "Texas chainsaw massacre". There was blood every where, bodies too. He quickly ran around to each one of the teens splayed about and check their pulses.
'Good, they're all alive,' He thought, relieved he hadn't found a murder scene. A whimpered yelp came from around the corner ahead of him. He got up and followed the sound, he came around the corner and found...
Emmie.
She was standing over a frightened male teen, blood dripping from her blades. She raised her blades and swung down.
"EMMIE! NO!" He shouted. He ran and grabbed her, twisting her around. "What on earth are you doing!?"
"Wha-? Jamie?" Emmie looked around confused. Her now brown eyes scanned her surroundings. "What was i doing...?"
She gasped when she caught sight of her blades, still slick with blood. She turned and saw the cowering teen. Stumbling back away, she went around the corner and saw a sight worse than any she'd come across. The gang that had attacked her laid in the alleyway, every last one. Slash marks covered each one, blood oozed onto the ground, staining Emmie's grey convers.
"No... i-i killed them..." She said breathlessly. Her blades evaporated and she clutched herself with shaking arms, ignoring the blood on them.
"You didn't kill anyone Emmie," Jamie said coming up behind her. "I checked all of them, they're all alive. What happened here?"
"I... they attacked me and... the black blood... it tempted me..." Emmie said in hoarse whisper. "How could i...?"
"Emmie..." Jamie said laying his hand gently on her back. She turned and scrambled away from him.
"No! D-don't touch me!" She stuttered. "It's just like all those years ago! I hurt more people! How could i forget? I lost control again; and now there's no hope! I have black blood inside me! Madness!"
Jamie tried again to calm her down. "Emmie, stop. It's fine, we'll just call Nigus and the others and we'll get these guys to a hospital."
Emmie didn't say anything, she just stood there hugging her arms to her body.
Jamie grabbed her arms and looked her straight in the eye.
"Listen, you did nothing wrong. These guys probably deserved what they got, and i can see their souls; most of them are well on their way to being Kishins," Jamie's blue eyes were inches from Emmie's. He loosened his grip when he saw how broken her gaze was. "Promise you won't stupid things anymore, 'kay?"
"But i have..." Emmie trailed off, breaking their eye contact. "What if this happens again? What if i do it to you?"
"I won't let that happen. I should have notice sooner. This entire thing is my fault," Jamie said. "I'm the meister, I'm the one who should be taking care of my weapon."
"You couldn't have known, you only just learned-"
"It doesn't matter!" Jamie shouted. "I won't let you take all the blame."
He made a split second decision and pulled Emmie into a hug.
"What...?" Emmie gasped as her partner held her close.
"We'll figure this out, together." Jamie squeezed Emmie tighter. Emmie gave in, finally letting her tears flow freely. She hugged him back, sobbing all the while. Her tears washed away the remainder of the black trails on her face.
'She's so small now that i think about it. Fragile...' Jamie thought. They broke apart, Emmie wiped her tears away and Jamie pulled out his cell phone and called Nigus.
"We should probably get these guys to a hospital now, they might bleed to death at this rate," Jamie said as the phone connected. "Nigus, i found her, we're a few blocks from her apartment. No, she's fine, but these other guys... you'll need to call some of your hospital buddies."
He hung up, Nigus had said that she'd contact Blackstar and Tsubaki; as well as some medical help for the twenty some teens that were passed out.
"They said they were on their way," Jamie said walking over to Emmie who was crouching on the ground. She was rolling the teens to the side so that the Ambulances could get at them.
"That's good," Emmie said in an absent minded tone.
"What's wrong? Besides the obvious."
"Well, i just don't get why no one told me, told us. Maybe we could have avoided this whole thing."
"Yeah, but that would have meant you'd have shunned people. Hidden yourself away in fear of exposing yourself," Jamie said as he sat down on the ground beside her. "Your mom and dad probably wanted to give you a normal childhood. Or at least a semblance of one."
"Heh, yeah and how well did that work out?" Emmie smiled wryly. Her eyes tired and sad. "All i did was get into fight after fight in those years. Maybe it would have been better if I'd locked myself away a long time ago."
"No it wouldn't have," Jamie placed his hand on Emmie's shoulder. "If you had locked yourself away, i wouldn't have been able to meet you and we'd never have become partners."
Emmie stared at him. Then quirked an eyebrow. "Don't try to be smooth, it's weird."
Jamie laughed. "I guess it does sound weird, but it is true just so you know. I'm happy to be your partner."
"Thanks, I'm happy to be your partner too," Emmie said, brushing her hair away; smiling.
From a nearby snake, their stalker watch the two.
"What do think? Can you take care of them?" The snake man hissed to the young witch beside him.
"Yes, it won't be too hard," She replied curtly. A small bat fluttered on her arm. "Where do want me to meet them?"
"In New York. But you'll have to wait until they move up a level, they cannot fight just yet."
The pink and black cloaked witch nodded. She faded into the shadows whispering a reply.
"Yes, Venom."
line break!
Hidden up top a building nearby, yet another set of eyes watched. Bright eyes calculating, observing the meister and weapon.
He pulled a cell phone from his pocket dialled, his commander.
"Yes, the B-blood was suppressed. She fought it back, there won't be any need to remove her," The teen spoke into the phone. "I believe it's time to move them up a level, their power is to much for the NOT class now. Yes, please do the necessary paper work, they need to be moved by tomorrow."
He clicked the phone shut and shoved it back into his pocket.
A flash came from his two weapons.
"Are you sure it's okay to move them up? You saw how dangerous they are D.K." Said the sniper rifle from his back. The reflection showed a pretty brown haired girl.
"Yeah, is it really fine for them to get EAT training?" Asked the revolver on his side. The reflection was of a short black haired girl. Both of the weapons looked about 15-16.
The boy frowned. "No, i don't know, but this is the best decision at the moment."
They disappeared in a flash of black and white as Nigus and the others arrived.
Only Blackstar noticed, but dismissed it. Thinking it was nothing.
Whoa, looooooooong chapter. Crazy too. I didn't realize how fun it is to make a main character kinda evil/crazy. (explains why bleach, naruto, and a bunch of other series did it.) Thank you all for your comments and reviews! It motivates me to keep going! :3
Anyone guessing at who the new guy is? Or what the villain is after? Leave your guesses in the comments!