Chapter 8 Note: modifications were made from the preview. It's still similar though.
Walking down the forest initially felt relaxing, especially to just enjoy the green scenery, however I was now scared, paranoid. I couldn't throw the image of the masked girl out of my mind. I took a few deep breaths, which caught the attention of the others. "Noelle," Emma said, tilting her head to one side, "Is there something wrong? Is the masked girl bothering you?"
"She..." I paused, looking away anxiously.
"Stop thinking about her for once in your god-damn life! We're gonna end up beatin' her up anyways!" Akuma chimed in, rolling his eyes in an exasperated manner. Angel smiled slightly and nodded rather vigorously.
"Well, it's not just her. I'm bothered by the fact that she hesitated, she spared me. I mean, isn't that a little strange...she attacked everyone here except me..." By habit, I twirled a lock of my blonde hair around my fingers.
I then shook my head, shaking myself out of my thoughts. Abruptly, Akuma ran behind me, unsheathed his sword and swung it at an incredible speed. I heard a not-so-painful (in fact, it was the exact opposite) laugh. "哦？你在这里有什么猛烈的男孩，诺伊尔. (Oh? What a violent boy you've got here, Noelle.)"
"你怎么知道她的名字? (How do you know her name?)" Rin bluntly inquired, glaring fiercely at the masked girl.
"啊! 我很害怕! 不! (Ah! I'm so scared! Not!)" She laughed like a lunatic as she charged for Rin. She summoned her sickles and had the blade at Rin's neck in less than a second. She's so fast...what's with this girl anyways? Why is she wearing a mask...?
"Oh no you f*cking don't!" Akuma screamed. I could feel anger boil up in him as he lifted up his sword and prepared to slash it downwards, however, the masked girl was agile and she slashed her sickle across his chest. Akuma gritted his teeth and clutched his chest.
"Akuma!" Angel screamed and sprinted towards him to see if he was okay... ...clearly, though, he was not because he started groaning in pain even whilst gritting his teeth.
I widened my eyes, "Angel, don't! You'll get hurt as well!" I screamed.
The masked girl paused and looked at my direction before she sprinted towards me, however before she could reach me, Rin grabbed the girl's long dress. "Don't you dare lay a finger on that girl."
She yanked herself out of Rin's grip and jogged to the middle.
After pausing for a while, I shouted, "Why can't you just state your name!? Why can't you just speak?" She raised her sickle and spun with it outstretched in front of her, creating a ring of water. The ring then expanded, hitting everybody.
Once everybody lost consciousness due to the impact/blood loss, she turned to me and I fearfully took a step back. I summoned my scythe and gripped it tightly. The masked girl, in an instant, was right in front of me. Due to surprise, I dropped my scythe and she lifted her mask just enough so that her mouth was revealed.
She spoke in a sweet-ish tone: "你不需要你的薄弱朋友，你为什么不跟我走？难道你想帮我宰了 (You don't need your weak friends, why don't you come with me? Do you wanna help me slaughter them?)"
I understood what she said, and she started giggling maniacally. I mustered up all my courage and said, "No...I-I-I won't help you sl-slaughter th-them..."
The girl frowned then her hands wrapped around my neck. She then whispered sickly sweet in my ear:
"然后，你最好死了，我可爱的小同父异母的妹妹 (Then you're better off dead, my cute little half-sister.)"
Since she was strangling me, I couldn't speak and I struggled in her grip as she laughed. She abruptly stopped laughing and I opened my eyes and looked down and saw a blade stabbed through her stomach. Blood was dripping down. I heard a voice behind the masked girl, "You're a pretty troublesome girl, aren't you." The masked girl dropped me and walked forward, so the blade was no longer dug into her skin and then she too fell to the ground, eventually losing consciousness due to blood loss.
I struggled to speak, however I managed to croak out, "Wh-Who...are you...?"
"That's the second time." I heard a familiar voice in my ear. Looking up, I saw Auren looking down at me with his obsidian irises. He then turned toward the boy whom stabbed the masked girl, "That boy's Toutetsu."
"Toute...tsu?" I repeated. It sounded weird on my tongue, but I managed to speak it good enough. Toutetsu had spiky black hair tied in a high ponytail and he wore green, red and golden armor that covered his whole entire boy except his face. He wore a red scarf, with the ends ripped. He had green and red marks which complemented his light skin tone and his eyes. In his hands were twin swords/katanas.
Toutetsu smiled slightly and nodded before disappearing.
"Well, if it's the second time you saved me..." I murmured, "...then could you come with us...? Is that okay?"
Auren seemed surprised for just a second. He didn't reply, however looked at me with an unreadable and hard expression as I felt my vision blur... ...and then everything turned black. One other thought, however, still lingered in my mind:
That insane girl... ...is my half-sister...?
A.N.: I'm so sorry for the shorter chapter, but I didn't want to keep you guys waiting too long. Anyhow, I did run out of electricity because of a huge storm and so I couldn't do any updates that day... ...it was sad. Anyhow, I'm finally done, and by the way... ...
It seems that people like my random updates...so I guess I'll keep it up with the random updates! So, it seems people are also giving an average score to the bloody mask girl...mostly 3's, a little bit of 4's and 2's, but no 1's or 5's. I guess it's a good thing, I didn't intend for her to be too bada*s from the start anyways :lol:.
xXCodeXx's comment about her (I found it amusing :D): I'm giving that lady a bloody 2 because she stabbed Angel! But that would be cruel just for stabbing Angel so I give the lady a 3.
Also! I'm not even on the hundred lv. for Brave Frontier yet all of you guys are...y'all are on like the 130-180 range. Some of you may already know this, but I quitted-ish Brave Frontier.
Some of you may ask: 'well why do you write Brave Frontier stories then?'
Answer: I've no intention of quitting Brave Frontier fully. I love the character artwork and various personalities given in the characters, so I keep writing stories about them, keep up on the updates, stuff like that...so I didn't completely quit...sure I quite playing the game but I'll never...NEVER quit writing stories!
So FrozenHydra said he was talkin' to his friends and came up with an idea to make the masked girl reveal herself, that's coming a few chapters later...however if you do have any ideas, I've got my contact information in the previous chapter (the rambles, Author's Note and Preview to the Next Chapter!)
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