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In the NOL garden.

Tsubaki walks in, in tears. 'sniff' "noel..." Her blade is dripping with blood. She kneels down, breaking down in tears. She throws her blade in disgust as she continues to break down. "noel...forgive me..."

"Hmph! Spare me. What foolishness..." Tsubaki hears an Old Man's voice. As soon as she raises her head...

'PULK!' "Ugh!" Tsubaki feels an extreme pain on her stomach. "Uh..H-Who..."

"Feel the pain of the one that you killed, and suffer a thousand times more." The Old Man takes his fist out of her stomach, then he shoves her off, causing her to stumble around. Then she feels another object went through her already penetrated stomach.

"Huah!" She then goes face to face with a girl with a one eyed visor, and armor that was purple. Tsubaki couldn't recognize the girl. The girl then shoved Tsubaki to another girl stabbing her with a sword. "Urgh!" Then she gets shoved to another sword, again, again, again and again. She was getting stabbed by multi colored Murakumos. Tsubaki kneels down in pain, trying to cover her wound that is too large to even cover. "W-Wh...Why..."

"You have no family Yayoi...and you never will..." She slowly raises her head to see a tall man with a dark evil aura. Tsubaki is afraid, but at the same time, tries to stand up to defy him. But then another girl comes in. She has a long blonde hair and blue eyes, and a scar on her stomach.

Tsubaki instantly recognizes the girl. "n-Noel?" The girl only stared at her. Then in an instant, she stabs her. "Uaaah!"

"NOOOOO!" Noel screamed as she looks around and see's that it was all but a dream. But it felt weird to be a dream. Who was that guy in it? And why would he hate Tsubaki? Also, why was she crying at the beginning?

Noel Stories II-Visions

Ah well, it was only a dream so I shouldn't let it go to my head. I take a shower, which after the Arakune incident, I now take 2 showers each day. And yet I still feel unclean. I leave my apartment and try to call Makoto. Usually when we talk it helps me forget about that gross day. I call her on the phone and she answers.

"Hello?"

"Hey Makoto."

"Oh hey Noellers. So how's your morning?"

"I've had a bad dream."

"Oh, so not good huh?"

"Well, its sort of fuzzy now and it doesn't make much sense. But anyways, how are you today?"

"Well you know, walking around, meeting new people, my kind of thing. By the way, I met with a new friend not so long ago, I have a feeling you already met her before."

Noel shows interest. "Who is she?"

Makoto smirks "I thought you liked surprises Noel."

Noel frowns. "I don't like surprises, you know that."

Makoto giggled. "Yeah, well your gonna like this one!"

Noel couldn't help but giggle herself. "You know how to make friends, huh Makoto?"

"Well you know, its a gift."

Noel remembers all the people Makoto befriended. But she couldn't help but flashback to a time when she first met Makoto. But at the same time, that was also the first time she first met Tsubaki. Tsubaki and her has been in a rocky friendship recently. After trying to arrest her, multiple times, and wounding her during the Cathedral incident, Tsubaki felt like a horrible friend to her. Whether its her fault, or Noel's fault for breaking the law, Tsubaki was more distant to Noel and even Makoto for a while. "Hey Makoto"

"Hm? Yeah Noel?"

Noel felt nervous to ask this to her friend. "How is...Tsubaki?"

Makoto blinked. "Tsubaki? Uh, she's fine. She's been walking around the city more often. Probably just to make sure no Arakune is still around."

Noel thinks about the image of Tsubaki walking around the town with a serious look on her face. "You think she doesn't trust me in the NOL anymore?"

Makoto gets annoyed for that question. "Noel, if someone should have been feeling guilty for all the stuff that happened last month, its Tsubaki! She hasn't been talking to us in four whole days. She must've took it as bad as you."

Noel thinks about how she feels. Guilt, shame. "I think I should go talk to her."

"Are you sure? Because you know, I can help back you up and..."

"No thanks. I feel like I need to do this alone." Noel feels even more nervous.

Makoto went silent for a second. "Ok. Good luck with that. So I guess I'll talk to you later."

"Yeah, bye." Noel hangs up and immediately thinks about what is she going to say.

Now that I think about it, this has been the weirdest year so far. And it only begun weeks ago. If that isn't a bad sign, I don't want to know what is. Well its not all bad. I've met Shadow and Meta, and they helped me a lot. And I even reunited with Makoto and Tsubaki. Even if I was against them, they still care for me. I sometimes wonder if that was the case with Tsubaki now.

Weeks ago, before the Arakune incident...

Noel and Makoto was sitting in a bench indoors, waiting outside a large door. Noel looked nervous, and so was Makoto. Then the door opened and Tsubaki comes out.

Makoto stand up. "Well?"

Tsubaki was silent for a second. "Noel is allowed to return to the NOL."

Makoto is shocked. "You Serious?! YES!" She hugs Noel, almost suffocating her. "Yesyesyesyesyesyes! Having Noel in the NOL for now would make things less harder. But hopefully I could keep it that way until that time..."

Noel tried to speak but was blocked by Makoto's chest. "Mhm! Mhhf!"

Makoto realizes what she is doing. "O-OH! Whoops, sorry Noel." She lets go. "But still! Your back!"

Noel then brings out her excitement. "I know right?! I thought I would never come back!"

Tsubaki smiled a bit. "Yeah. I'm so happy they accepted you back." She hugs Noel. 'sniffed'

Noel notices Tsubaki sniffing. "Tsubaki? Are you..."

Tsubaki immediately walks out and interrupts. "Ahem, 'cough' Its time for our first mission!"

Makoto and Noel tilts their head in confusion. "Already?"

"Yes. This is to prove yourself that you are truly trusted to the NOL." Tsubaki says with regret.

Makoto raises a brow. "Trusted? The NOL still doesn't trust her?"

Tsubaki replies. "I trust Noel, don't worry. But we have to convince them that your fully trusted."

Noel doesn't like the sound of that. "So what kind of mission is it?"

Tsubaki breathed in, then out. "You need to tell us where do the Shadow Knights live in."

Noel felt instantly uneasy upon hearing that. "Huh?"

Makoto feels almost as uneasy. "Uh...Tsubaki, I think its not a good idea to get Noel to do something like that."

Tsubaki shakes her head. "Its not my call. Noel, I know how much they mean to you. But the NOL won't just accept you after being accused for treason. Your pretty lucky that they even considered to bring you back."

Makoto almost on the verge of an argument. "Tsubaki I..."

"No, its ok Makoto. I'll tell you." Noel said silently.

Makoto and Tsubaki is surprised that she would give in that easily. "Noel?..."

Noel then added, "On one condition." They walk outside so no one could hear them. "Can we please not sneak attack them? If we are going to fight them, we should fight them head on."

Tsubaki gets suspicious. "Noel. If this is you trying to protect them..."

"They would prefer this way if they are going to go to jail! I know its a long shot, but you should trust me!" Noel showed how serious she was.

Makoto then goes behind Noel. "I trust her. Besides, we now know how they fight. This time we can show them a thing or two this time!"

Tsubaki thought of it, "Ok, we'll go with your plan. Just in case we failed, we won't tell anyone that you suggested this. Ok?"

Noel smiled. "Ok. Thanks Tsubaki!" Noel hugs Tsubaki.

Tsubaki never hugged Noel in such a long time. She couldn't help but blush. "N-Noel..."

Makoto smiled. This is what she wanted for a long time. "Ok, ok lets get the show on the road guys!"

"Right!" Noel shows happiness, but is actually thinking to herself, "I know Shadow and Meta will beat us. I know them too well. But I sure hope things turn out well for all of us in the end."

Present...

Nothing prepared me for what happened later. At least the trust problem was overlooked for awhile after the Arakune Incident. But I don't know if Tsubaki only cares for me because I just joined back. Then again, I could just ask her. I go to Orient Town to see Tsubaki assisting nearby construction workers.

"Is there anything I can do sir?" Tsubaki says to a worker.

"No thanks ma'am. We got this covered!" The worker smiled sincerely.

Tsubaki walks off until she see's a familiar face. "Uh!"

Noel stands there with a small smile. "Hey Tsubaki."

Tsubaki is a little surprised to see her. "Noel! What are you doing here?"

Noel tries her best to be as positive. "Well, I got cleared up not too long ago and I thought I could talk to you."

Tsubaki feels nervous. "Well, you could talk to Makoto."

Noel frown a little. "But I want to talk to you. I know that you've been avoiding me and Makoto ever since the attack days ago."

Tsubaki turned in shame. "I just...I didn't felt like you wanted to talk to me."

Noel gently grabs Tsubaki's shoulder. "Listen Tsubaki. We're still friends. We fought but, we're still here, together. And that matters, right?"

Tsubaki thought Noel is mad at her for all the crap she done to Noel. She fought her just when she almost got to her family, she forced her to lead her and Makoto to fight her former comrades. And lets not forget slashing at her back. But Noel almost seems to forget all of it. "Noel...I..."

Noel grabs Tsubaki's hand with both her hands which startles her. "Come on, you must be hungry." They both walk to the nearest restaurant, as Tsubaki feels uneasy, but glad she has a friend like Noel. If there is a time she could just forget her worries for a short amount of time and live happily with her friend, this is now the time.

They go through the less destructive part of the city and take a bite in a restaurant. They had a normal meal. But it felt very strange for Tsubaki. She never recalled ever eating with a friend for awhile. At least after her time at school at least. Tsubaki kept a straight face through and through, but couldn't that strange feeling inside. Something, pleasant. She had another feeling. She was worried that her superiors wouldn't approve of it. But Noel's smiling face kept her from thinking hard about it. Then they go to the park as they sit together on the bench. Tsubaki couldn't help but smile about this moment. Then she realizes that Noel hasn't stopped smiling ever since they met. She wonders if something is going on in Noel's mind.

Tsubaki hesitates a bit, then lets it out. "Noel?"

"Hm? Yes Tsubaki?"

Tsubaki looks on the ground. "I feel that something is troubling you. Can you tell me?"

Noel then gets nervous but keeps her smile. "Oh! Uh...Something? Troubling me? Uh...Where?"

Tsubaki gets a little impatient. "I'm being serious Noel."

Noel gets nervous. "...Ok. Its...gonna sound weird, trust me. Um...this morning...I had..." Then they heard a woman yelling. "Huh?"

Tsubaki then stood up. "What was that?" Then Tsubaki see's a masked man who knocked out a woman with sleep gas. Then he grabbed her purse and runs off. "A thief!" Tsubaki runs off. Noel thinks about what she was going to say, but she shakes her head and follows. Tsubaki runs to catch the thief. "Stop! Get back here!" Tsubaki uses her snake sword to reach the thief, but he jumps up and avoids it and runs even faster. The thief was surprisingly fast. Noel catches up to Tsubaki. "Noel! You try to catch him! I'll check on the victim!"

Noel nods. "Right!" She runs faster and see's the running thief. "Stop right there!" She runs as fast as she can to catch up to the fast running thief. Noel can catch up more longer than Tsubaki, but she knows that one slip up can ruin everything. "I said stop!" But then she see's the thief stop. "Huh?!" She then past him and Noel tries to stop only to slide and almost bump into someone in the thief's way. 'sigh' "Huh?" She see's a man with a white uniform and black body suit under the white outfit. He has blue hair and a black mask, and a flowing blue scarf that is as long as a cape.

The thief stares at the mysterious man and acts a little nervous. He plans to run pass him, but the man then brings out his sword to the thief's throat. The thief then throws the wallet in the air and runs off. "Ah!" Noel catches the wallet. "Wait! Huh?" Noel then see's the thief is now frozen. "Wha?" She touches the frozen thief, then the block then immediately melted, dropping him. The thief is now exhausted. Noel brings out her bolverk gun. "I don't think so. Your under arrest." The thief would run off, but he somehow doesn't have the energy to do so, so he is now at the mercy of Noel.

Tsubaki runs in. "Noel! You caught him!"

Noel smiled. "Yeah!" She then looks around to see the mystery man, but he is gone. "Hm..."

Who was that man? And how did that thief got frozen? The only person I know who could do that to is Jin. It couldn't be him though. Tsubaki already checked on the victim and we were able to give back her wallet. I can never recall doing duties like this in a while. Helping personally like this...Being in the NOL or being a Shadow Knight, I always want to help out people as much as I can. If only it was this simple.

"Noel?" Tsubaki asks Noel as she is thinking.

"Huh?" Noel gets back in reality. "Oh! Sorry Tsubaki. You were saying?"

"You were going to say something to me?" Tsubaki asked. Noel then remembers the dream. She see's Tsubaki getting stabbed by her own Murakumo side. Noel gasps hard. "Noel?! Are you ok?!"

Noel breath's in and out. That was no ordinary memory, it just forcefully came to her head. It was more of a vision than a memory. "I...Tsubaki. I gotta go now! Thank you for a wonderful time!" She hugs Tsubaki in a second and rushes off.

Tsubaki just stands there worried for her friend. "Noel..."

I want to forget that memory. Its just a dream that I just randomly had due to worrying about Tsubaki! It shouldn't mean anything else! Forget! Forget! Forget! Ahhh!

Then she see's Tsubaki on the floor, blood coming out of her open wound. "no-noel..." Then it zooms out and shows Makoto dead. Then Jin dead. Millions of people dead. And the city burning.

No! Stop it! This is a nightmare! This is only a nightmare! I don't care if I'm not sleeping! This is just a nightmare! Please stop! NOOO!

"Uh..." Noel falls and lands on someone's arms. "Uh...Wha..." She see's the masked man that helped her earlier. "uh..." Noel rests as the man gently places her on the floor. The masked man stares at Noel. Then he brings out his scab and then his sword. He looks at Noel even more. Then he prepares to stab Noel in the chest. Then he notices someone coming. Then he brings his sword back to his scab and gently puts Noel in sitting position beside a wall. He then jumps out.

"Noel?" Makoto walks in. "Come on, wake up." She slightly shakes Noel.

"huh...?" Noel wakes up. "Makoto?...what happened...?

"You ask me? What are you doing here Noel?" Makoto asked.

"I...don't...I don't know...I don't feel so good..." Noel then gets helped back up.

Makoto then helps her walk to her apartment. "Don't worry Noel. I'll help you home."

Yeah...I need to calm down...and...zzz...

The masked man sits on top of the rooftop looking at Makoto carrying the sleeping Noel away. He looks down. And walks off with hints of sorrow.

A day later...

Ah...Just what I needed. A nice peaceful sleep. It felt like I didn't have any yesterday. But...I wonder if I overslept. Hm...What?! It's 3:30?!

Noel rushes off and gets her clean clothes on and rushes off outside. "I don't know how I get myself into these situations..." She walks out to check out the town. It turns out to be recovering smoothly now. She looks at the town and see's how its now almost back to its normal state. She smiles at the sight of the people repairing the town they lived in. Then she notices someone standing up top on a building. A cape flowing through the air. "Hey, isn't that..." The masked man, looking at the horizon. Noel couldn't help but walk there and say hi to him. She is unsure if she can. Then she decides. "Um...Hello!" The man then turns his head to see Noel below the building he stands on. She acts nervous now that he notices her. "Um...I would like to say thank you for assisting me yesterday." She bows. "If you are in need for something, I am in your debt."

The man just keeps on looking at her. "There's no need for that." As he looks away.

Noel heard his sincere yet determined voice. "So your a vigilante? If you don't mind me asking."

The man stays silent for a couple of seconds. "Yes. But you could say that I haven't started off as one."

Noel thinks for a second. "Oh, I get it. Your new. You must have became a vigilante recently after the Arakune incident. If I may say, you were amazing!"

The man looks at her. She gets nervous. "Thank you..." He jumps off and lands behind Noel. He walks off.

Noel then turns to see him going away. "W-Wait!" He stops. "If your not busy...you want to help me repair the rest of the city? It could really help the progress."

The man says nothing for seconds. He then turns and walks up to Noel. "Sure."

He walks to the part of town that is still in repairs while Noel clumsily follows.

Wow. I didn't think he'd say yes. I don't know for sure about him. And yet he seems nice. Maybe during the help out I might know more about him. We help out with the repairs of the rest of the city. He helps out some people who couldn't carry one big supporting angle. He's pretty caring, if not pretty ambiguous. He never takes off that mask. It is clear blue with black markings which looks like the half moon with small stars. And yet no eye lids. How can he see?

"Um...Can I...ask a question?" Noel asks the masked man.

The man turns and looks at her. "Sure, go ahead."

"Ok...When do you take off the mask?" He stares. "Uh! Not that I'm saying you should! I'm just curious because you seem to cover your face a lot and..."

The man just stayed quiet until he knows for sure she is done. "You wouldn't really understand. I am not proud of my own face. And my whole existence."

Noel is shocked to hear someone say that. "What makes you say that?!"

The man looks down. "For years, I have been living in the shadow of someone else. The more I did things like him the more I hated him. And the more I hated him, I hated myself even more. I dare not show my face to this world. For I am cursed to this face, this body. The only thing I have left is my mission."

Noel looks at him with sympathy. "Don't say such sad things. Sure things maybe dark and wrong at times. But you must remember that they will be a light in the tunnel if you hang on long enough. And if you let the darkness out of your heart, you can find peace somehow. I needed help for me to realize that."

The man looks at her in fascination and inspiration. "You really are the most purest girl I've met..." Noel couldn't help but blush a little. "a shame..."

Noel hears his whisper. "What?"

"Nothing." The man shows slight embarrassment. He feels lucky to be wearing a mask at this point. He stands up. "I must go now."

Noel stands up. "Wait! I didn't catch your name!" He continues to walk away. "...I...hope that we can meet again!"

The man heard her whisper. "I hope that we don't." Noel just stands there. Thinking about how his life must've been.

Was his life really that bad? I mean, I've realized that I'm a weapon made to kill, and it took a number on me for awhile. But even so...I sure hope I can help him somehow. Time past and I meet Tsubaki. We sit down at the park again. And I explained that I met with the masked man.

"So he has a troubled life?" Tsubaki explains.

Noel nods. "I really feel bad for him, and I don't even know his past."

Tsubaki then puts her finger to her chin. "Hm...For such heroic intentions, it makes me wonder why he would hide his face with that kind of reason"

Noel explains. "Because he feels like he is cursed by his own fate. Something really bad must've happened to him. You think we should both help him?"

Tsubaki ponders to herself. "Its tempting. But I'm not sure if we should wonder on with vigilante activities when we are still a part of the NOL."

"But we need to help him see that things are not so dark!" Noel says.

"But I'm worried for you Noel! The NOL still doesn't one hundred percent trust you. I need you to convince the NOL that you are well trusted. I can keep an eye on him. I'll try to see if I can get close to him enough so he can be a full ally. That way, we can know for sure his past." Tsubaki explains.

Noel thinks about it. "All right. I trust you." Tsubaki nods.

I am glad that I can trust Tsubaki now. It can make things more easier. Or maybe even more difficult. I don't know, but I am glad that we are finally on the same page. You know after all this time past, I wonder what Shadow and the others are up to?

Meanwhile...

Shadow is sitting on the couch, sharpening his weapon. He then sees Masha carrying her cape. "Hey Mash, whatcha doing?"

"I'm not liking the fabric Father given me."

Shadow nods. "Hm."

Masha walks to the trash and throws her cape, along with her equipment that holds the cape to the trash can. She walks passed Shadow and the couch. "I also want a hair cut."

"Hm." Shadow continues his sharpening.

Meanwhile, somewhere in the city...

Hazama is standing up top on a building, pondering. "Things have really gone to shit lately. That damn bitch of a doll refused to transform, and now I get up staged by an imitation of that dog. Looks like I'll have to think of a plan to turn things around." Then Hazama spots Noel walks through the street. "And I think I know how..." He gets his phone and dialed. "Relius, you there?"

"Ughh..."

Hazama hears Relius 's moans of pain. "What happened to you?"

"Lets just say I've seen better days..."

Hazama seemed confused. He then brushed it off. "Well, I need you now."

"For what?"

Hazama smiles. "You remember the Prime Field Unit 12 Mu?"

"Yes. What about Unit 12?"

"I think I have a plan to get rid of the unwanted guests." Hazama chuckled.

The Next Day...

Noel walks through the city. She looks at the people walking through happily. It now feels like the Arakune incident never happened. She breathes in the fresh air, and breathes out. Then she gets a call. "Hello?"

"Lieutenant Vermillion, someone is attempting to hack into the NOL data files. They are found in the roof of the cathedral. Most likely to get an easier reception."

Noel replies. "Ok, but why me? I'm supposed to be on guard duty on the city."

"I've been told that it is to make sure your truly trusted. So I recommend checking it out."

Noel then paused after hearing the trusting part. Then nods. "Understood." She hangs up.

I walk up to the top of the cathedral. And all I get was flashbacks on that day. The day where I faced Hazama and my Murakumo self. I'm still not sure why I joined back to the NOL. It was like some force inside me telling me to go back. And...

"Uaaah!"

AGH! My head! That was...No! I can't think about that now! I need to...to...Hey. Where's the hacker? All I see is that block thing. Something grabs Noel. "Agh! What?!"

"Wow that was easy. Makes me even more pissed off that I could have did this back than!" Hazama walks up to Noel with a frown in his face. Relius smirks with the irony of that statement. "But hey, what's the fun in that? Especially when I have you now."

Noel is being grabbed by Relius' mechanical hand. (Most likely repaired in a short amount of time.) "I don't know what your trying to do this time, but just like last time, it won't work!"

Hazama laughed. "HaHaHa! You dumb broad! You take us for idiots?! We know how close you are with those idiots that came to our business...So your going to do what you should have done before, bait them to us!"

Noel could feel the mechanical hand crushing her. "Agh...You won't get away this...Terumi! Ech!"

Relius thinks for a moment. "Hm...I think I got a better idea. Why not experiment with her until she has no choice to her to scream for help? I still have some curiosity about her."

Hazama chuckled. "I think you just read my mind Relius! Lets see how loud she can really scream!" They both get closer to Noel.

Oh no...I don't know what they plan to do. But knowing them enough, this is going to hurt a lot. I don't know if I can hold it. But I have to!

"Hm?" Then slashes almost hit both Hazama and Relius. They jump out of the way. Then the slashes hit the hands grabbing Noel and the machine lets Noel go.

"Ugh! W-What?" Noel looks around and see's a man standing in front of her. His scarf as long as a cape flaps over the awe inspired Noel. "It's you!"

Hazama gets even more annoyed. "What the hell is this?! Is this some kind of joke?! You honestly you impress us with that shit, junior?!" Hazama summons his snakes and attacks the mystery man. But he jumps and opens up his other sword in his left side of his belt. He dashes through Hazama and Relius, lands, and puts a very familiar sword back at it's scab and once it clicks, a huge ice pillar surrounds the two's area.

Relius and Hazama would have been frozen if it wasn't for Relius' mechanical hands, which is now frozen solid. 'sigh' "And I just fixed that."

Hazama gets angry by this development. "It's like every new shithead that shows up always finds a way to piss me off even more!"

Relius knows Hazama would do better if he unleashed his Blazblue, but considering how he lost another machine, he can't afford to lose anymore valuable resources. "I suggest we retreat for now."

"What?! I'm not gonna let some punk up stage me!"

"You remembered last time you underestimated some certain 'punk?'"

Hazama went silent. He can't risk another humiliating defeat from some nobody. He might as well plan things more efficiently. "Fine! But only because I have a reputation to up hold here!" They disappeared from the area.

"They're gone..." The masked man said silently.

Noel feels more safe now that he is now here. "You saved me...Uh! Um...Thank you..."

The masked man just looks down. "...please..."

"Huh?"

He begins to clench his fist harder. "...don't...make this...even more harder..."

Noel shows confusion. "What do you mean?"

"Those eyes..." The man grabbed his right sword and slashes at Noel.

She was fast enough to jump back far enough to miss it. However, her hat gets sliced in half. Noel lands as her hair drops into long hair. "Wh-What are you doing?!"

The man lets out his blade. "There's no use hiding it. I must kill you Noel Vermillion..."

...I...I couldn't believe...w-why...Why do so many people want to kill or hurt me?!

Noel brings out her bolverk, and yet still feels reluctant to fight. "I-I don't understand this! Why?!"

"You wouldn't believe me. And I believe it's for the best." He dashes back to kill Noel.

Noel flinched and blocks his sword with her guns. She jumps back to get away from him, only to see that he dashed straight at her. "EEP!" She places her foot at the blade and jumps over him and lands on the ground. He lands a few inches away from her.

"Hm...This is going to be tougher than I thought." He places the regular blade to the scab and places it over his belt. Then he picks the left one. It looks sky blue and very familiar. "I have no choice."

Noel notices the swords shape. "Huh? Isn't that-" Then he stabs the ground and ice pillars abruptly rise near Noel. "Wah!" Noel runs away from the ice pillars.

Ice?! That sword?! Is it really him?! Why is he attacking me?! What is going-Huh?! More of that dream?! No, no! I don't want to see this!

The man then dashes through and sliced all the pillars in half. Noel nearly blocked that huge slash. But then he dashed at her right. "Must...remember!" Then he slashed at Noel's shoulder.

"Agh! Huuuah!" Noel feels the deep cut. Then he slashed her other shoulder. "Naagh!" Then he slashed her thighs, and knees. He then puts the sword back at the scab. Once it clicked, the cuts all over Noel then freezed. Small ice pillars filled all over Noel's cuts as she falls down. "uh..." She lands on her face. She tries to look at the masked man, but her vision is blurry. All she can see is the dark image of a man bringing out his right sword and prepares to stab a fallen enemy. "why...pleasetellme...why..."

I can't die now...I need to know...I...need to know!

The man hesitates. He holds his samurai sword as he clenched it harder. "This needs to be...No! Why does it have to end like this?! I...she..." Then a red snake blade comes his way. "Huh?!" He dodges. But he didn't expect to see the attacker.

"Leave Noel alone!" Tsubaki furiously charges at the masked man. She slashes away, as this mystery attacker defends himself. Tsubaki then used her blade to turn to a whip like weapon and wrap itself to his sword and pull it away from him. The sword perfectly lands on the sword on its sharp end. She develops an aura of light and charges hard. "Huuuuuuuah!" The man braces himself. In an instant, he was able to jump away far enough to dodge Tsubaki's blade. However, his mask left his face. He cover's his face with his single hand. "Reveal yourself. If you call yourself a man!"

He only reveals his red eyes. The color doesn't strike Tsubaki as weird, but the shape of it. "Very well...This...is me..." He takes his hand off of his face and lets Tsubaki see in full display.

"Y-Your face...You look like..."

"Jin? Jin Kisaragi?" Yes...that was the point...of my birth." The man's appearance made Tsubaki gasp in disbelief.

"Jin? But...Who are you?"

The man slowly walks to his blade. "I am a person that is not from this timeline." He reaches to the blade and brings it back to his scab. "I was created by a man who hates existence itself. So he created two children, based on two brothers that are tied to destiny. He believes that he can destroy not just my world, but all worlds that has any involvement with the azure. That was my mission."

Tsubaki was even more confused. "I...don't follow. Did you say your world?"

"Yes. Back in my world, I was living in peace with my older brother. Then our house burned down. I could still remember the black flames. I was able to escape, but my brother was buried. I couldn't find any sign of him. But the same man who created us came to me and told me that he was dead. I wasn't able to see my dear brother again...That was when my creator gave me a mission to avenge his death, by killing anything that caused or allowed it. I didn't care what mission it was, I would do anything to avenge my brother. He gave me information to kill one man. That man was the Hero of Ikaruga. He told me that he represents everything wrong with this world. So he gave me enough upgrades to kill him. I came to his office while everyone was sleeping, I even turned the entire power off and my creator killed everyone else. I attacked him while he had his guard down. I am aware of his skills, so I took many opportunities to strike at him. And I must say, he was formidable. Despite all of that, I showed him no mercy. And when I see his eyes, they were cold and merciless. I couldn't help myself, but hate him. I don't know why, I just did. I killed him." Tsubaki gasps. "When I finally got rid of him, someone showed up"

"Have you realized what you have done?"

"Huh? How did you-"

"Great, now that he is dead, everything will...Wait, this isn't right."

"What?"

"This world is still in one piece. But how? I thought this world would restart...unless..." Then that girl looks at the killer. "You! Grab that sword!" She points at the sword that belonged to the fallen opponent.

"Huh? Why?"

"Do it, or else I will personally castrate you."

"Uh...Ok...like this?" He grabs Jin's Yukianesa and even opens up the sword for him.

"I...see..."

"What?"

The girl walks away. "It is decided. You must take his place."

"Why should I?"

"Because this world can't go on without Jin Kisaragi. And it seems your the closest thing we have."

"Why should I believe you?"

"Would you risk witnessing the entire world restarting?"

"What?"

"That's what your creator planned on testing out. You were nothing but his pawn in his quest to destroy existence. Why else would he send you to kill Jin, a very important piece to this puzzle?" He is at a lose for words. "You need to carry out the events that will happen later on." She leaves, expecting some protest, but he seems to be surprisingly calm. "One more thing." He raised his head to look at the mystery girl in black and red. "What is it that you most desire?"

This man hesitated. "I...All I want...is to live in peace...and make people happy. I want to help people. But how can I do it with such a twisted world? Maybe...maybe I can't find that out by following Father..."

"Good...I believe you can wield that sword with no trouble hopefully. Don't disappoint me hero." She disappears into the wind. The man was left behind, living in someone else's life.

This man, who has been called Jin for all of his life stands before Tsubaki and an unconscious Noel. "And that's what I did. I carried out Jin's life. It was hell. Everyone calling you a hero, despite the fact that I killed that person. I also feel more disgusted the more I discovered more of his life. It was such a twisted world. Living in fear other than peace. I was praised, but at the same time accused. I never asked for this. That was when...I met her..."

"Her?" The man shifts his attention to Noel. "You mean?"

The man nods. "Out of all the people that I have encountered, she was the only one I felt was a genuine friend." He turns around to see the sunset. "I can't describe it...but I felt a certain innocence inside of her. At first, I felt a certain hostility towards her for some reason. But I overcame them and we became closer than before. I don't know why, but we somehow felt a connection. Kindred spirits if I am bold to say." He stopped for a second. "...but...I never thought she would destroy my entire world..."

"What?" Tsubaki looks at Noel. "Destroy the world?...Tha-That's ridiculous! Noel? Destroy the world? That can't be the truth!"

The man then looks at Tsubaki. "I knew you wouldn't believe me. Ironic that you attempted to kill Noel yourself. If that wasn't the reason, then what was?"

"Tch!" Tsubaki gets back at her battle position. "You are still trespassing on NOL property, and attempted a murder! You will leave at once!"

The man shows no amusement to that response. "Tell me something Tsubaki Yayoi, what did the NOL did to keep peace, other than creating fear instead? You trust on your superiors, but how do you know they are using your blind eyes for a puppet? Don't deny it, I know they are using you. I was a puppet before, so don't you dare lie to me."

Tsubaki grits in anger. "Who do you think you are? You take the image of Jin and try to kill Noel? What makes you think your trying to deceive me so you can gain an advantage over me?"

The man called Jin in his world just stares at her. "At least I am more human than you. Humans has a right to choose their way. And yet you let someone control you like a puppet with no sight in reality."

"ENOUGH!" Tsubaki points her blade to her opponent. "Your coming with me!"

"I'll pass, thank you." He says in a sarcastic tone. He throws a smoke ball at Tsubaki's face.

"Ah! What are yo-?!" Tsubaki gets blinded by the smoke ball now sticking at her face. "AGH!" She gets it off her face. But the man gets behind her and slashed at her back. "AHH!" She kneels down. "Tch..." She attempts a split second stab, but he dodges the surprise attack and slashes at her arms in a split second. "NAAGH!" She falls on her face. "Grggggh!"

The man looks at the now defenseless Tsubaki. "Looks like you would fight for your friend at the end. It still doesn't excuse your treachery back at my world."

Tsubaki kneels down ready to fight, but still couldn't move her arms. She could feel her elbows in pain. All she can do is stare at him in anger. "Grrgh...You won't touch her..."

"Stop pretending that you care for her!" The man shouted. "I've seen what you did to her! And me..."

"What are you...talking about?"

The man just walks to her. "You not only try to kill Noel, you try to kill me! And why? As far as I remembered, didn't you have feelings for Jin? That's when I finally know your true colors. You are merely black and white like this twisted world."

Tsubaki gets even angrier. "You tried to kill Noel...and you dare say our friendship was fake?...ugh..."

"At least I actually know her pain! And it is painful for me to come to this decision. You simply treat it like its some mission! You have no humanity! And no one will miss you when you die! Just like me!" The man raises his sword to finish her off. Then a blast hits his hand. "Agh!" His blade drops as he looks at the source. "What?!"

"She...isn't that black and white...I know...I am her friend...And she cares for me!" Noel points her gun at the man. "And I care for her!" Noel, despite being seriously hurt, stands up to continue her fight.

"I would say you are wrong, but I am trying to kill you. So I'll just do it and then bury you so my creator won't find you again."

"I don't know what your talking about, but I will beat you!" Noel shoots first. As the man dodges. He grabs his sword.

"This is getting ridiculous. I have to finish this quickly. Sorry, but this could be painful." The man then brings his sword back at his scab. And then brings out the blue scab. The sword is now filled with icy fury. He positions himself for his attack, then dashes at Noel.

Noel jumps up and points both of her guns at him. "Bullet Storm!" She shoots a full barrage straight towards the imposter. Then Noel see's a giant ice pillar coming her way. "Whoa!" She nearly dodges. She lands and turns her guns to a giant machine gun and starts blasting. The imposter clenches his fingers hard and shoots multiple ice bullets. Noel keeps on shooting, while he keeps on creating ice bullets. However, it strains him the more he tries to compete with Noels machine gun and simply jumps out of the way.

Then Tsubaki rushes in to attack the imposter. "Ahhh!" She slashes at him, but he blocks.

The imposter jumps out of the way and charges his sword. "This ends here!" He then begins to slash out an icy slash that reaches Noel and Tsubaki's range.

"Look out!" Tsubaki then tackles Noel so they go under the slash. "Ugh!" She could feel her scars at her arms again.

Noel then see's the imposter does another slash but this time horizontally. "Tsubaki!" She then grabs Tsubaki and they both roll out of the way. They stop and Noel tries to help out Tsubaki up. "Tch! What are we going to do? He's as skilled as Jin!"

Tsubaki, despite being in pain, tries to keep calm. "Maybe...But we need to keep our distance. We should shoot at him with everything we got."

Noel nods. She starts shooting while Tsubaki grabs her shield and shoots off big spheres of light from its eye on the top of the shield.

Now that I think about it, I still find it disturbing that she is still ising Izayoi. I might need to talk to her about his later, but now is not the time! We give him everything we got! There's a lot of smoke and debris. There's no doubt he will strike. And he does! He comes in fast! I tripped backwards! That really saved me because he could have gave me a very ugly cut in my face. Tsubaki came in for the kill! But he slashes at her hip! Tsubaki! I can't mess up this moment. I shoot at his face. Headshot!

"Agh!" The imposter covers his damaged face. "Noel! You!"

"You should've saw this coming! Now hands where I can see them!" Noel shouts in anger.

The imposter grits his teeth in pain. "You...You don't understand...You want to be responsible of destroying everything you loved? You respected? I'm trying save you from the pain!"

"I know what you mean. Trust me, I already know about my...other self. But I can't accept myself as a monster because of it. I know they are some people out there to exploit it. But don't think I'll go down easily!" Noel responds with determination.

"Those eyes...its the same as..."

"Major...Thank you for those kind words..."

The imposter then looks down. With a tear rolling down. He runs out of the building.

"Wait!" Noel yells. But he is already gone. "..."

"He's gone Noel." Tsubaki grabs Noel's shoulder.

"Agh!" She accidently touched Noel's wound.

"Wha? Whaaa!" Both Tsubaki and Noel trip on each other. "Ugghhh..."

Noel is on top of Tsubaki. "Owwwwww..."

"Sorrrryyy..." Tsubaki could feel her arms and her ribs in pain.

"Uhhh...Hm...Hmhmhm!"

Tsubaki notices Noel chuckling. "What are you laughing about Noel?..."

"HehHehHeh...I mean look at us, we are in pain Tsubaki...agh...And yet..."

"Huh?"

"...It's better than fighting you..."

Tsubaki then feels something inside. Something that could have caused her to break down in tears. But instead, "Hm...Heh...HmHmHmHm!" Although tears flow her face, she still couldn't help but laugh at the situation. This pain, is basically nothing to them now that they remembered that they went through worse. (Although the position they are in now is still painful.) Some NOL guards come in to see the two and help them to the hospital. Both of them would have suffered major frost bites on their limbs if not treated.

Makoto runs inside the room. "Guys! Are you alright?! Who did this to you?!"

Noel couldn't help but giggle. "We're fine Makoto. Just a little beat up."

"The man got away, but we were able to get the best of him."

Makoto sighs in relief. "I'm just glad you guys are alright."

Noel see's Tsubaki and Makoto and thinks,

Wow...Its been a long time since we talked together like this.

Then Noel see's Tsubaki and Makoto during their times in school. In her point of view, it seems nothing has changed. She smiles brightly that she made the right choice for coming back to them. Speaking of which, she decides to talk to an old friend the next day. "And that's about it!"

"Well, looks like someone was in one hell of an adventure." Shadow puts his hood on while talking to Noel while they are on a alleyway.

Noel blushes. "Well...I wouldn't call it that."

Shadow smirks although his hood and the darkness of the alley covers it. "Come now, it feels like they're something going on. A new evil Jin comes in from another dimension?"

"He is not evil though!" Noel protests. "He looks pretty desperate."

"Still he tried to kill you, my former Shadow Knight comrade. And that won't do. The fact that he looks like Jin will make things easier too."

"Listen Shadow." Noel places her and on Shadow's shoulder. "I can take care of things. If he tries to kill me again, I'll take care of it. Trust me."

Shadow couldn't help but smile on Noel's determination. "Well alright. At least you finally got along with Tsubaki. Looks like things will get easier for us now."

"I'm not sure that automatically means she will get along with you though."

Shadow shrugs. "She can't hate me that much. We just have to have faith on what comes next. Well, I need to go now. I got a group to lead. You just do what you do." Shadow two finger salutes Noel and wall jumps his way to the rooftop.

Noel looks up inspired. "Hopefully things will get easier from here." She walks out with even more confidence. Without her noticing, the Jin imposter looks at her on the rooftops. As he looks in shame. He stands up and jumps away, trying to find what he needs to do now.

"Him...He must be stopped..."

"Jin...You must cleanse this world of it's sins, and avenge your brother. My son."

"You need to be stopped, Father."

Noel Stories II-End

Again, sorry for the long delay. I've been busy with a lot of stuff. But I was able to get this done, right?

Makoto: It's fine Mr. Author! You seemed to work hard on lots of things recently.

Masha: I'm not so sure about that. It seems that the Author caught a case of laziness recently.

...Sorry.

Makoto: Hey, don't get harsh on him!

Masha: Forgive me. I guess he could've done better jobs on our designs. But he seems to be improving on my image.

Makoto: W-Were you bragging?

Masha: I was only 45% bragging...Calculations don't lie...

Well...Next time is Meta's Story. Be sure to stay tuned!