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A/N: Big thanks for your reviews, Monotufu, Miwokgirl101 and tityuio. I'm always happy to hear any kind of feedback – this way I know someone really reads this story.

OC description:

Emerald: 10 year old Doll with medium 'shadow'; green eyes and really short brown hair; Asian

Ivory: 13 year old Contractor; manipulating plants; light brown eyes and normal long brown hair (like July's hair length); Asian; Emerald's older brother

Chapter 13

It had taken him two dealers to torture to finally get some useful information about the location of their supplies. Unluckily this was only a smaller storage, but with the help of this knowledge Kouno had been able to make a connection to a local import-export-corporation.

Since the kidnapping almost four days had passed by. Yin had been released from the hospital and was now together with Hei sitting in Section 9's surveillance van. Next to the couple sat Ivory, Emerald and Kouno, all five persons squished together on the backseat, while Mao sat on Saito's shoulder on the passenger seat. The earth beneath them shook somewhat for the second time that day, but it didn't hinder Misaki to steer the vehicle safely.

Yin had already confirmed that in the two story building a vast quantity of this black dust was stored in large boxes only to be re-packed in small quantities into little paper bags.

"Yin." Hei said and knew there weren't any more words needed. She knew what to do.

"Seven men on the first floor entrance and hall, armed, 15 on the second, three of them in the hallway, two armed, four in front of a large room on the left, last one south from the entrance, armed. The rest of the men are inside that room, not armed but knives and the black dust are within their reach. There are also six Dolls inside this large room. I can't see into the other rooms, no water." By now neither her specter nor she needed direct contact with water anymore, but for her observer spirit to materialize it was still necessary that water was within a two meter radius.

"Emerald, can you look into the other rooms on those floors?" Hei asked, not liking to go in there blind.

The boy nodded and placed his hand onto the shady back of the seat before him. "Three, two with guns. Second room on the right." He tried to imitate the other Doll – the way she had told her findings seemed to be the way the man called Hei liked it.

"Do you see my daughter?"

"Basement."

Hei looked at the boy and guessed that he wasn't a Doll for long or at least not trained how to scout out an area properly. "Is she alone in the basement?"

"No, there are two Dolls and one man."

"Is he armed?" Hei was glad that Yin had known how to do her job even back when they had first met. But then again, she had been already a Doll in ordinary to the Syndicate for almost a decade even back then.

"Yes."

Now it was Yin's turn to question the boy – this made the teenager Contractor look strangely at her. "Did those Dolls see you?"

"Yes."

"Did they tell the man about you?" The silver-haired woman stared into the space before herself the entire time, appearing to any bystander like spaced out.

"No." Emerald didn't add that those Dolls weren't even able to speak - they hadn't their minimal programming yet. No one has asked him for this piece of information.

"Hei, I want to come with you." Yin whispered and the Black Reaper nodded, squeezing her tighter to himself. Ivory looked for a split second startled at the female Doll – but then he got the emotions under wraps like any good Contractor did.

The building came into sight and Misaki stopped the car just around the corner to don't raise any suspicion. All left the vehicle except for the young boy, who needed a direct order to do so.

"You two better stay here in the car." Kouno ordered, but Hei pushed him to the side, while slipping out of his green jacket and fishing a black-green cloth from the back of his jeans, shaking it out to the tattered coat's full length.

"Li?" "This outfit…" Kouno and Saito shared a look.

Hei unbuttoned his white shirt and revealed his black skin-tight suit beneath with his gear belt. From a holster on his leg – beneath his black pants – he retrieved his two knives. "We go in from above. Give us three minutes, then use the commotion to attack them from the first floor."

Misaki gave the Contractor a hard stare, but eventually nodded. "Fine. But leave someone alive for later interrogation."

"Chief?!"

Ivory shook his head as he watched Yin wrap her arms around the other Contractor's torso. "You take that useless Doll with you? I won't have a look out for her. If she comes into my way and won't move, she's done for."

"Stupid, brat! You should not cross HER way." Mao spat while Hei adjusted his battered mask and shot his grappling hook unto the roof of the neighbored building and grasped Yin tightly, both vanishing into the space above.

"Chief, that's BK-201!" Saito exclaimed, but her expression told him that this information was not new. "You knew?"

Misaki saw the shock on the faces of her two long-time subordinates. "Since the Tokyo Explosion. He is not our enemy." Her gaze turned to the young Contractor. "Ivory you'll stay in the back and don't do something reckless! Everyone take your flashlights, he might fry the entire electronics in the building." She took the offered semi-automatic machinegun from Kouno.

"What?! I should stay back!" The boy shouted agitated, but was ignored by his boss.

"Should I call back-up?"

Mao had jumped into the pocket of Misaki's coat, his head poking forth, while all five made their way towards the building stealthily. The brunette shook her head. "No, Saito. We are BK-201's back-up."

They waited in the shadows of a large maple tree for the Black Reaper to start the assault. Suddenly the eerie silence was broken by gunshots. The first salvo was soon followed by a second and a third.

"Chief, this doesn't sound good." Kouno said just as a man was thrown through a window from the second floor and landed on the hard concrete next to his partner while lightening flared in the building and screams of agony were to be heard.

Ivory stared gaping. "What the hell?!"

Misaki turned her flashlight on. "It's enough commotion. We should go in." She carefully approached the entrance, her team right behind her. Saito opened the door and immediately took cover next to a shelf while Kouno and Misaki fired at the first two men they saw. Some of the guards had apparently left for the second floor, but one came back down the stairs, his finger at the trigger. But before he could shoot at Kouno, a grass blade slung itself first around his leg, then his torso and eventually around his neck, squeezing and cutting into his flesh. The man let go of his gun and his hands tried to tear the plant from his neck as he struggled for air– in vain.

A shiver ran up Kouno's spine as he watched the red glowing eyes of the teenager Contractor. The sound of a shot pulled Kouno from his frozen state. The last guard left had fired at his chief, but she dodged behind a crate in time, giving Saito the chance to shoot him in the shoulder and Kouno used this moment to disarray him. After enchaining the bleeding guy to a metal shelf, he followed the others up the staircase.

On the second floor the fight was still in full swing. Misaki looked carefully around a corner, only to see that the way was clear: the entire corridor was paved with corpses. She stepped over the bodies and approached the fighting noise, leading her to a large room. In front of it stood a man wrapped in a blue glow. His nose was dirty with dark powder as his arm was broken by an invisible power.

Ivory watched as the silver-haired Doll stood next to a tall man, whose bones were crushed one after one till he crumbled to a lifeless heap to the floor. The young woman then turned on her heel and walked into the room, where Hei was electrocuting the last guard – his wire tightly slung around the man's neck.

Kouno shared a fearsome gaze with Saito as both took in the countless bodies surrounding the legendary Black Reaper. Most were as usual without any wounds, but two or three had deep cuts from the man's knives and were lying in puddles of their own blood. When BK-201 approached them, a bad feeling enveloped the two former policemen – the mask being even creepier on a closer sight.

Hei's gaze travelled over the bodies of his victims. He couldn't get off the feeling that he knew one of the men from somewhere – but this didn't matter at the moment. "How many do you have?" He asked while catching his breath.

"Only three." Misaki muttered, still astonished about the man's power – no wonder that they never caught him.

"Then, there should only be the one in the basement be left." His masked gaze turned to the six motionless Dolls standing in a corner – Yin had told them to stay there out of the line of fire. "You stay here." With those words, he walked past Section 9, Yin like always on his heels – a few droplets of blood splattered across her face that were obviously not hers, but didn't bother her either.

Ivory stared wide-eyed at the Observer Spirit before him, while the real Yin left the room. "This is the Doll's specter?" He had thought the entire time that this had been the Doll herself.

Saito and Kouno, who didn't see the specter, were baffled by the expression of the young Contractor. "What's wrong with it?"

The boy couldn't take his eyes of the human looking Observer Spirit. "It's not supposed to look like this." He watched the ghost lift its arm and place its index-finger in a hush-gesture onto its lips, before vanishing.

"We should also get down." Misaki said and hurried after the Black Reaper.

A/N: Like? Hate? The action has started, I hope you aren't too disappointed.