Uh-oh, unlucky chapter 13.
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Chapter 13:
This was all very confusing. Amon thought to himself, in his temporary residence. He couldn't believe it. Only a few minutes before, as he stood to leave Robin's room for his own, she had said something that troubled him so. 'Remember what you promised?' She had asked.
Promised? Was she actually referring to the promise about her life? It seriously can't be so bad that she'd want to die. But what other promise had he made to her, Amon couldn't remember. He hit the wall. "Damn it Robin, why do you always make things so hard?"
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Laying his injured friend down, Cid addressed the group. "A witch attacked him this afternoon, I'm going to fill out a watch form for the witch, Shika would you go to the store for bandages?"
"No." Shika glared at the younger boy. "Why should I listen to you? You let our boss get hurt and your younger than me. Just because you're his BFF doesn't make you in charge. Yuki, you do it."
Yuki made a move to leave but Cid stopped him. "No stay there." He insisted. "Give me one reason why you can't go and do it, Shika."
"I'm working on that map of the city Hunter told me to do."
"I can go do it." Yuki offered.
"No, Shika is going to respect my authority as second in command." Cid growled.
"Since when were you second?" Shika scoffed.
"Really there's no need for fighting." Yuki's soft voice could barely be heard over their argument.
"Who goes everywhere with Hunter, who does hunts on his own, who was here from the beginning?"
"Second in command is known for standing guard while their leader is away."
"Then Yuki could easily be considered second with that logic!" Cid cried. "Why does it have to be you?"
"Because all he does is lay around and play with the little ones."
"Seriously, I'll just go get the bandages." Yuki said, trying to calm them down.
"It's not about the stupid bandages!" Then two shouted in unison. Cid broke off quietly. "Fine. I'll go do it and I'll fill out the watch form." He stormed out.
"Why do you fight with him like that?" Yuki scolded.
"I don't want that brat knowing that he's better than me." Shika laughed. "Having the boss knowing is bad enough."
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"Decision time, Amon." He had paced around the small room for hours, trying to figure out what to. The whole thing was so abrupt that the prospect of taking her life right now would be extremely rash. Truthfully, he couldn't picture life without her. Okay, so what he planned to do was a bit over-dramatic, but girls like dramatics right? Then again, Robin was never really the average girl…
Robin sat in one of the chairs reading a book. "Amon?" She looked up from her book as he entered the room.
"Robin, I think that you should wait a bit longer before you make a decision like that." Amon started. She stared up at him in confusion. "The thought of going through with that gives me…I can't describe it but I feel like it's something that I could never do."
Understanding shown in Robin's eyes. "Amon that's not-"
"It is true, even before I know that I wouldn't have been able to do it. That's probably why I hadn't." Amon leaned forward and lightly held the side of her face. "I think the reason why is because I love you." He kissed her.
Robin pushed him away. "No, Amon that wasn't what I was talking about!" Now it was Amon's turn to be confused. "I was referring to the promise you made yesterday, that at night you would stay up with me."
"Oh." Amon said awkwardly, blushing slightly in embarrassment. He took a step away from her. "Sorry about that then." He cleared his throat loudly.
"Amon?" Robin began hesitantly. "Did you mean what you said?"
"You can forget that." His voice raised an octave. He took another step back.
"I don't want to forget." Robin stood up from her chair, afraid that he would bolt out of there. "I-" She looked down and blushed. ""I feel the same way."
"I know. You're too obvious." Amon blandly stated.
"Then why did you tell me to forget it?" Robin asked after a long pause.
"Instinct."
"But if you knew, then why didn't you say anything?"
Amon sighed, this would take a long time to explain. He stayed silent milling it over in his mind until he decided that it could wait until later. No harm would come if he did, it wasn't as if they…yeah this would be good. "Why do you ask so many questions?" Robin stuttered as if she thought she actually had to answer. The reaction caused him to smile. "So are you going to let me finish what I started?" He re-closed the distance between them, but just as he went in for the kiss, the door flung open.
"I'm back early!" Dojima exclaimed. "And look who I brought!" Standing next to her was a stunned looking Juliano.
"I am going to leave this room and come back as if I didn't see anything." The old timer said. He turned and left.
"Dojima! I thought you said you were on a date!"
"I was, but then I got a call telling me to pick up your granddad!" Dojima explained.
"I'm coming in now." Juliano declared, re-entering the room. "Now let's get this over with, we can't have Robin like this for long."
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Screams filled the night air. It seemed to be carried on the breeze from the towering building of Raven's Flat to the colossal mess of the factory ruins.
Every member of Hunter's gang awoke at the sound to find their leader in hysterics. He was paralyzed in pain. They watched in horror as Hunter's face contorted and his muscles tightened in spasms.
Slowly, Hunter managed to sit himself up. He panted and gasped out. "We need…to st-stop them. The STN-J." Shakily he rose to his feet. "All of us, we need to stop them."
"Hunter, what's going on?" Cid asked.
"Can't explain." Hunter wobbled forward. "Save Robin, the girl with the green eyes." The group followed him out in confusion.
"Does this mean we can use our powers?" Tsubamaru asked.
"Only if you absolutely have to, that goes for you too, Sakura-Chan." Yuki answered.
"Yeah, you two stay in back with me." Shika said. "Remember, always stay behind me." The two kids nodded gravely.
Cid leaned close to Hunter. "Why are we doing this?" He whispered.
"I'm losing my connection with the girl, if we loose it we have no power and they will hunt us." He stumbled as he walked on. "This pain I feel is nothing compared to hers."
Yuki caught up to the two. "So what's the plan?"
"Capture Robin." Hunter snapped.
"No from a strategically point of view." Yuki explained.
"Shika! Have you come up with anything?" Cid asked, sensing their leader's stress.
"I didn't know I was supposed to." Shika complained.
Cid took a map out of his pocket. "I printed this off the other day, find us an emergency escape route."
"There's no time for that!" Hunter pointed, they had already reached Raven's Flat. "We go in get-!" He stumbled forward, clutching his chest. Cid and Yuki caught him before he fell.
"How about you stay here and we go get the girl." Yuki offered.
Hunter wanted to protest but it had taken all of his energy just to get where they were, his muscles by now had completely locked up and he could no longer move. "Go."
"Then Tsubamaru and Sakura will stay with you, their powers are of more use from long range, anyway." Shika said. Hunter agreed and Shika went to join Cid and Yuki. The three soon moved out of sight.
Hunter closed his eyes. "Why are you sleeping, Ni-San?" Sakura asked.
"I'm awake."
The little girl continued to ask questions until her brother silenced her. "Shh! He's thinking!"
I'm in trouble. Hunter thought, drifting to sleep.
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It was pure chaos. A bright light shown through the woods and the sound of eerie music rang in the trees. Something was coming.
Hunter glanced around to see the bright fire of Robin struggling against Seclusion.
The ghostly image of Robin held the real one back. She tried pulling away, towards the direction of the song.
"Come and aid me Hunter!" The image beckoned him forward, but he was frozen in place by the blinding light.
The light grew brighter and brighter and the music grew louder and louder. Hunter's body ached, but not in pain, it ached in longing for that light.
Soon a new presence entered the clearing. It was a man. Robin cried out to him. "Father Juliano!"
"Hunter stop that man!" The image shouted. But it was only an image, it couldn't touch him in this wondrous light.
Juliano turned to Hunter. "What will you do, son?" He spoke gravly and his eyes were full of compassion. Tears rolled down Hunter's cheeks. Juliano took a hold of the image's hands and lowered them away.
Robin leapt into his arms. "Thank you!" She cried.
Juliano smiled and lifted his granddaughter into his arms. He turned to head back into the woods. "Thank you, young Hunter."
"What about me?" Hunter cried. "Are you just going to leave me here?!"
"Would you let me if I came here to find you?"
The question struck him. Would he give up hunting witches to leave this place? Was it worth it? Was staying here worth it? "I don't know" Hunter admitted.
Juliano nodded and disappeared into the woods.
The last thing Hunter saw was the image fade into his own.
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'Cid, Yuki, Shika!' The voice of a young boy flashed through their minds. 'Ni-San ran away!'
"What?!"
'Please come back! Sakura is scared!'
"Damn that brat! He's supposed to be our leader!" Shika turned back. "Abort mission, let's go." Cid didn't even protest at Shika giving order. Hunter had ran away? What the heck?
So yeah some of that was really cheesy but get over it...not to be rude...uh, so yeah i'm going to go back and edit some of the chapters so...if randomly the chapter numbers lessen that's why. R&R