"Kimi, we're having special guest over today to help you with your training~ she's a good friend of mine and since there's a lot of guests lately I need to work today so you'll be fighting her instead~" Theo had told her this morning over breakfast, but he didn't tell her who it was, which made her wonder….
"Oi Theo where are you?" a voice echoes down from upstairs
"Down in the basement~"
"Ok, we'll be right down" soon after foot steps could be heard, as two people walked into the basement, well I say walked, a man with long red hair, bright green eyes, red framed glasses, an butler outfit and a red coat came crashing down the stairs after obviously been pushed by the female walking behind him.
The female had shoulder length black hair, iced blue eyes, wear a long red dress with boots and a black coat, red rectangular framed glasses and carried a black and red scythe with a old fashion cross wrapped in a blood red rose at the start of the blade, as well as red chainsaw which she dropped on the male as she walked past him.
"So where's this Kimi….." she froze when she saw Ivory/ Kimi
"Ivory" the female glomped the unexpecting Ivory, successful knock her of her feet, giving her a rib cracking hug "where have you been, we all thought you was dead, they sent out a search party and everything!" Ebony stood up before offering a hand to Ivory.
It takes a moment to recognise the reaper but then it hits her like lightning,
"Ebony? It's been a while; well I've been here, since after my last assignment I was shot in the head with a bullet, I've only just recovered my memories, powers and appearance" says Ivory (Kimi) looking happy to see her old friend.
"Ivory, so that your real name~? Could be that you are the famous Ivory Summers, Ebony has told me so much about, huh Kimi~? interesting~" Theo chuckled as the name clicked itself into place
"Indeed that would be me, don't know about the legendary part, Oi Ebony what you told him about me?"
"Wait, you didn't tell him your real name? Naughty Ivory," smirked Ebony "and I didn't tell anything really bad, just how we've friends since our academy days and stuff like that"
"There was no need, when he rescued me he gave me a name, and I liked being called it so I decided I wouldn't tell him unless he asked" stated Ivory
"Aww is someone in love?" said Ebony in a patronising voice
"What if I am? What's wrong with that?" Ivory replied, blushing slightly but not really surprised by the question since Ebony always seem to be able to read her like a book.
"Nothing dear, just surprised that you opened up enough to let your self love someone" said Ebony dropping the mocking tone for a kinder one, "there's nothing wrong with that, I'm happy for you"
Ivory tightly hugs ebony "thank you old friend" she was glad to see her oldest and dearest friend again.
"So who is it that you've brought with you?" Ivory asked looking over at the twisted lump of a man slumped at the bottom of the stairs.
"Grell, of course" smiled Ebony, before shouting over to Grell, "yo Grell you going to get up today? Where someone over here that wants to talk to ya"
"Ok, ok, I'm getting up, shush" grumbled Grell, dropped the moment he saw Ivory "oh no not you!"
"What the matter dear Grell, haven't you missed me? That makes me sad and here I was thinking we were friends" says Ivory with a mockingly sad face.
Grell didn't not reply, he just walked over to stand by Ebony's side, obviously wondering why he was here.
"So Ebony how do you know Theo?" Ivory asked, she had been wondering about it since she recognised her.
"By chance really, I bumped into him when I was out on an assignment, and we just started talking, and he'd occasionally help me out with the difficult assignments" said ebony for adding "what happened to your hat Theo?"
"Ivory over there, in yesterday's training" Theo laughed pointing at Ivory
"Holy cow, Ivory you must have got really rusty, for if it was the usual you, you would have at least cut it into two, but I'm not really surprised since you love him you would have been holding back a lot." Ebony laughed little.
"Right, anyway Ivory you ready to go full out against me? It's the only way to regain your full power back!" Ebony changed her stance and readied her self "I think you pair best move to a reasonable distance"
The two men (well technically one man and a Grell) left the basement for Theo had work to be doing and Grell had been roped into helping him by Ebony.
"Yep sounds like fun" replied Ivory with a smile grabbing her scythe and following suit starting to twirl her scythe effortlessly in her hand waiting for Ebony to make the first move, she didn't have to wait long as ebony quickly lunged at Ivory swiping at Ivory's neck which Ivory dodged quickly countering with a swing across Ebony's chest which ebony blocked with her scythe.
"What's wrong with ya Ivory you're so slow and your movements are clumsy! Plus you're using your weakest hand!"
"One minute Ebony" Ivory said simply walking away from her, 'what am I doing, why can't I get it together, what happened to my determination?' she thought 'it's because your afraid of getting hurt again, you need to get over that fear and quickly' her mind hissed back at her. She crouched down head in her hands 'I'm so stupid, there's so many people I want to protect, and here I am acting like a coward, right that's it I've had enough of being afraid! I will protect them!' "1 will" she screamed aloud for getting up and running back at Ebony "get ready Ebony" she shouted as she pitched herself into the air swinging her scythe in a swipe that could have taking out Ebony's head but Ebony just about dodged it as it just caught some of her hair.
"That's better" said Ebony smiled at Ivory, dodging another death blow, this time a downwards swipe, blocked by ebony's scythe.
With her renewed determination her lessons returned to her as she eased back into her own style, her speed, strength, power, agility and stamina started to return as the pair of females exchanged blows. So much so within a matter of hours she was pushing Ebony limits and by the late afternoon was Ebony's equal.
The training continued until; ebony once again came lunging at Ivory who not only block with her scythe, she used the momentum to flip over Ebony kicking her in the back and disarming her, the kick sent her flying into the back walk, where Ivory was waiting to stop her so she didn't hit it at full speed taking most the damage, laying the now unconscious Ebony on the floor.
Ivory knew that Ebony's condition was due to exhaustion but she could help but feel a little guilty, even though she was asked to go all out Ebony was still her friend. Ivory picked up ebony before walking out of the basement so Ebony could be laid down on something softer then the rocky floor of the basement. She walked into the living room to find Theo waiting for her, although it must be said he did looked surprise when she first emerged carry Ebony
"Let me guess you thought it'll be the other way round? Oh my dear naïve Theo, and don't worry I didn't hurt her bad it mostly exhaustion that got to her, she's never really had high stamina." Ivory said smiling as she lay Ebony down on the coach putting a blanket round her.
"I didn't know what to expect, as you always seem to be full of surprises, which is not always a bad thing, but sometimes it frightens me slightly how much you are keeping secret" Theo said completely seriously, for the first time since she had met him, it was a little scary if Ivory was honest.
"It's not that I'm intentionally keeping important information secret, it just I haven't completely settled into my memories yet, they just seem to spark up when I see a certain person or thing" Ivory replied honestly "my memories are like a locked cabinet without keys, the information is every present but I can't look at it or touch it. This is way I'm trying so hard to regain my strength so that I can stop others being subjected to this feeling of uselessness, as many will not find the kindness I was given by you."
Theo just remained silent as though deep in thought, he simply looked at her as she wished he would say something to her, anything, anything at all would be better then this silence that surrounds them so she decided to just say one more thing.
"And I was telling the truth earlier, I didn't tell you my real name, since I liked the name you gave me and I thought telling you would lead you to think that I was just keeping it temporally until my real name reappeared." Ivory spoke sincerely "I'm going bed, watch over her for me please, night" she said before disappearing out of the room leaving Theo to his thoughts.
Theo regretted saying what he did, he was out of line, it was just the way she had spoken startled him slightly….
