Chapter 13

[Third Person]

As Hikan, Noire, and Uni stepped into the dungeon. Hikan knew something was wrong, the air around the area was different. There wasn't much else to say other then that.

The three continuously went down, some of the ground and pillars were already destroyed. Hikan and Noire, who was back in her normal form, led the way while Uni kept up behind them.

"This place is weird…" Hikan pointed out and looked around the area as they walked down some stairs, there wasn't much in this place, just pathways that led to dead ends or destroyed ground or more stairs. It had that lost cave feeling to it with the destroyed pillars.

"Of course it's weird, this is older then any of us you know." Noire mentioned and Uni kept checking behind them.

"It's cold in here…" she muttered and Hikan looked back at her.

"Want my jacket? It'll keep you warm." he teased and Uni's face went red.

"A-As if!" she yelled and Noire threw her arm in front of Hikan.

"Wait!" she said as she pointed in front of the group, five dark purple liquids formed on the stairs and something grew out, pale skinned creatures that had sharp teeth and nose. It had claws on its hands and feet as well as a spike on its head, acting as its hair. It mostly looked something like a goblin. "Monsters."

"Finally some action!" Hikan said ecstatic and summoned one of his swords. Noire drew her rapier as Uni summoned one of her weapons, it was a first to see from her: An M16 automatic Assault Rifle.

"Don't get too carried away." Noire said, but even she had a smirk on her face.

"I won't fall behind!" Uni shouted and the three of them charged their five opponents.

Hikan slashed at the creature with breathtaking speed, but the creature was able to jump over his slash and grabbed ahold of his arm, jumping over his head and landing on his shoulders. Hikan dropped to the ground and kicked his legs up, flinging the creature off before kipping himself up. He then summoned another sword and threw it like a boomerang, following the creature and slicing its head off as it evaporated shortly after.

Noire dodged three slices from the her creature and jumped over its last attack, which was just a double footed drop kick. The creature landed on its back as Noire stabbed down at it, but it rolled out of the way and jumped at Noire, she quickly placed her rapier in front of her and the creature ran into the blade, slicing itself in half and evaporating. Noire flipped her hair and smiled, clearly satisfied with herself.

Uni fired bullets at the nearest creature to her, it jumped on the walls and ran around her as she sprayed her barrage. Each of the bullets hitting behind the creatures feet as it ran. Once Uni hit the end of her magazine, the creature jumped towards her. Uni dropped her weapon and quickly ducked under it as it sailed over head. Reacting quickly, Uni placed her hand on her side, summoning a pistol and aiming it towards the creature. With a quick pull of the trigger, the bullet flew into the creatures skull. Making it evaporate before it hit the ground.

Hikan quickly avoided the remaining creatures attacks and threw his leg up under one of their chins, nailing it and sending up to the roof. Uni aimed her gun and fired three bullets that hit the creature, evaporating it. Noire sliced her rapier at the last creature, but it dodged each of her slashes and jumped towards Uni, caught off guard she couldn't move fast enough to dodge. But Hikan intercepted the creature and grabbed its throat. Jabbing his sword through its sternum. Killing it.

"Man… that was barely anything." Hikan complained as he threw his sword behind him, vanishing into the air.

"Those things never stood a chance with me here." Noire praised herself as Uni looked down at the ground and looked at Noire again. Hikan caught what she was getting at and smiled at her.

"Thanks Uni, that's was some amazing accuracy." he complimented and Uni glared at him.

"Whatever."

"Although Uni, You should be more careful." Noire said and smiled, "But Hikan's right, you are pretty good at shooting."

"T-Thanks Noire."

"I guess she still doesn't trust me. That's understandable though." Hikan thought as he looked ahead. "Come on, we still need to go further down. The monster was said to be at the bottom of the dungeon."

Afterwards, Hikan led the two Lastation sisters through the dungeon. Meeting more of those little creatures and eliminating them.

"Careful." he advised as he slowly crept across a fallen pillar, trying to keep his balance.

"Like I need you to tell me that." Noire scoffed and followed after him, Uni keeping close behind. The group made it to the other side and jumped down into a hole. Revealing more stairs.

"Great… more stairs…" Hikan complained and took one step forward before something jumped out at him. "Wha?!"

He was shoved back to the wall and held in place as he held the arms of another creature. This one looked like a cyclops with its one eye. It had two fangs jutting from its bottom lip and its skin was purple. It had only a cloth around its waist hiding its decent parts and had a spike on its head as well. Its hands and feet were the only normal things about it.

"Hikan!" Noire yelled and rushed towards the monster.

"Noire wait!" Uni shouted and fired a bullet above Noire, another one of the monsters dropped down from the ceiling, holding its head and shaking around. Hikan gritted his teeth and push the monster back before swinging it back, holding it against the wall.

"I got this one, you two handle the other one!" he shouted and sidestepped quickly to avoid a punch from the monster, then Hikan led the beast down the stairs.

"He can be so annoying at times…" Noire muttered before turning back to their monster. "Let's get this over with Uni!"

"Right!"

The monster stood up and shook its head quickly then eyed the Lastation sisters. Uni struck first as she fired a barrage of bullets towards the monster, it dodged by falling to the ground and lying there until the bullets stopped, Noire jumped up and aimed her rapier down in a stab formation but the monster rolled out of the way and jumped to its feet. It quickly rushed Noire and threw a volley of fists towards her, but she dodged and jumped back to avoid the attacks. Uni ran behind the monster and fired at it, but it jumped into the air and turned towards her. It charged down at her going for a spinning dropkick, but Uni dodged and fired another bullet at the monster, hitting it in the side and made it drop to one knee. Noire came up to the side and swiped it. It slid across the ground and collided with the wall.

"Uni!" Noire called and Uni nodded.

"Right!"

Noire ran up to the monster and did a somersault kick, knocking the monster up into the air. Uni aimed and fired an entire mag into her opponent. The monster barely stood a chance. It fell back down and landed with a thud before vaporizing like the other monsters.

"Hmph, that wasn't anything special." Noire said and looked back at her sister. "You did great Uni."

"R-Really?" Uni said dumbstruck.

"Yeah, really." Noire complimented and looked towards the stairs, "Come on, let's see if Hikan's alright. With how he is he might need our help already."

"Y-Yeah. Okay!"

The two sisters walked down the stairs and heard fighting still going. Quickening their pace they arrived at the bottom and saw Hikan having a brawl with the monster. He was crouched down over the monster and continuously punching it in the face with fast punches.

The monster kicked him off and ran towards him, Hikan sidestepped and threw the monster towards the wall; colliding and stumbling back, Hikan kicked the monster in gut, dropping it to its knees, then he took a couple steps back and ran towards it, jumping into the air and slamming its foot on the monsters head, driving it to the floor. Snapping its neck in the process.

"Remember kids, don't try this at home, school, or anywhere else." Hikan stated and looked at the two sisters.

Noire was speechless as she stared at him with a dead look on her face. "...You're kidding…"

"What?"

"Is that how you always are with enemies?!" Noire yelled, causing Hikan to cringe.

"N-No. But I wanted to have some fun." Hikan insisted and Noire rushed right up towards him and got in his face.

"You could've been killed! What if that thing had friends with it or some other kind of weapon?! Huh?!"

"N-Noire, calm down. It's alright now. I understand." he said and held his hands up in front of him. "Clearly she's worried about me, but I shouldn't push myself. Even if this is the perfect time."

Uni watched from behind Noire and looked at Hikan furious, she quickly averted her gaze from his. Hikan facepalmed mentally as he turned around, "Anyway, now that those were taken care of, let's continue."

The three, once again, continued on their journey through the dungeon. This time meeting more of those enemies, both the goblin looking creatures and cyclopes.

"Those things won't stay down. How many more of those do you think will appear?" Hikan asked as he and the Lastation sisters arrived at a stone bridge.

"It doesn't matter, we'll take out as many as we need too." Noire said and started walking across the bridge, Uni following close behind. Hikan looked at the edges of the bridges and held his breath and looked towards the two sisters.

"Watch out!" he shouted and dashed towards the two sisters. They looked back, but it was too late to react. The bridge edges shattered and the bridge started to fall. Hikan reacted with his quick ability. He transformed and pushed Noire out of the way, but wasn't able to do the same for Uni. She started to drop down reaching her hand out. Hikan reacted quickly as he dashed down to her and caught her. Landing on the ground below.

"Hikan! Uni!" Noire called down and looked over the edge, Hikan looked up at her.

"We're fine!"

"Hold on, I'll come down-"

"No! Just keep going from there! We'll be fine!"

"Hikan…" Noire stopped herself. "Fine. But you better be alright! Both of you!"

"Wait Noire!" Uni called out, but it was too late. Noire had already continued on her way. "You…!"

Hikan put Uni down before she could punch him and quickly moved out of the way before she could anyway. "Uni!"

"How could you let her go by herself, we don't know what may be in here!"

"Uni calm down!" Hikan tried to calm her down, but it didn't look like that was close to happen.

"You're just like I thought you were! All you care about is yourself!" Uni shouted and then Hikan grabbed her arm.

"If that's true, then why did I save you two?" Hikan struck back, leaving Uni at a loss for words. "If I only cared for myself. Why do you think that I started to Council of Nations? Why do you think I drove the monster away from you two?"

"I… I…"

"I know that you didn't trust me, I understood. But when are you going to stop evading the truth!" Hikan yelled and let go of her arm and pulled her in for a hug. "Uni. I care deeply for all of you. Noire helped me save myself back then, and I intend to do the same for her one day. The same goes for you."

"..."

"I doubt that you thought you could get away with how you view things. I know what you wanted, all you want is to be seen by Noire. And I'm not going to take that away, I promise I won't."

"...Shut up…" Uni muttered and wrapped her arms around Hikan and stained his clothes in tears. Hikan held her and rubbed her head like she was his own child.

"Uni. If there is anything you need help with, ask me. I will find some way to help." Hikan continued, he smiled as he held Uni. She was finally opening up to him…

Hikan had reverted back to his normal form and Uni had calmed down a little bit. The two started making their way through the cavern.

"What… is this?" Hikan asked as he placed his hand on the wall. In the middle of the wall was a glowing image in the shape of a rectangle. Once Hikan took his hand off of it, the wall started to move.

"It's like a maze." Uni pointed out as the wall came down, revealing another pathway behind the wall with the same type at the bottom.

The two went into the pathway and Hikan did the same thing, only this time. This one slid to the left. Uni turned back, "Hikan! Look!" she shouted and Hikan looked back, the wall had shut behind them.

"It is like a maze…" Hikan muttered and turned back in front of him. "Well, let's see what we can do."

After many times of trial and error, Hikan and Uni had eventually made it to the other exit of the block puzzle. Hikan took a breath before stepping into an open room.

"There you two are!"

Hikan and Uni looked over to where they heard the voice and saw Noire running towards them. "I was getting worried. I waited for so long here!"

"Sorry, we were stuck in a maze of movable walls and floors…" Hikan apologized and Uni smirked.

"Well. HE was. I knew what I was doing." Uni said and Hikan looked over at her and sighed.

"...As much as I hate to admit it…" he muttered and Noire smiled at Uni.

"That's what I expect from my little sister." Noire complimented, "Good job Uni."

Uni glanced over at Hikan and caught him winking at her. "T-Thanks."

"Now, let's see where this leads." Hikan said as he walked towards another one of those blocks on the floor, he crouched down and put his hand down on the floor, immediately it reacted like the others and opened. But other walls opened too.

The goblin and cyclops creatures crept forth, as well as these weird slime things. They looked like some sort of gelatin. Some creatures were just heads, but they were made of glowing purple gas with its eyes and mouth jet black.

And coming down from the roof… was something they weren't expecting. It looked like an actual human, but it couldn't have been. The creature had a goatee and a hat that looked like a cone on his head. His eyes were hidden and he had a samurai robe on. On his side was a samurai's katana with his hand resting on the hilt. He had to be at least ten feet tall. Counting him and all the other monsters. It makes it three to thirty-five…

Uni, Noire, and Hikan put their backs together and summoned their weapons. Looking at all their opponents.

"Clearly we're outnumbered." Hikan started.

"But not out-matched." Noire finished and looked back at Hikan, "This is one of those times when…"

"A CPU goes all out." Hikan continued. "Uni. Provide support."

"A-Alright."

Hikan and Noire nodded as they both closed their eyes. Fire erupted around Hikan as Noire was enveloped in light.

When both died down, there stood Black Heart and Red Heart.

"Let's end this quickly." Hikan stated and the two of them dashed towards their opponents. Uni sat back and watched as her sister and Hikan easily swept the field. She was awestruck by what she saw. She already knew what Noire was capable of first glance, but this was the first time she's seen Hikan in battle. The way he switched from opponent to opponent without breaking a sweat and not letting them even try to get a shot on him. The enemies were quick, but he was faster. He slashed and cleaved through all of his opponents.

"He's… amazing…" Uni thought to herself as she witnessed the battle. It was at that moment when she felt absolute guilt. What she said about him back when Noire went missing… she thought he never took anything seriously, but now here he was. Taking out anything that stood in their way.

It didn't take long for those monsters to be defeated. Uni looked ahead of her and saw the samurai staring a hole in her. She couldn't move. The samurai reached for his sword and grabbed the hilt, he pulled his blade a little bit before vanishing from sight. Everything happened so fast after that…

Uni blinked and saw a different sight. Both Hikan and Noire were right in front of her, grinding both of their blades against the samurais. They pushed the samurai back and spun their blades around as they sliced again, the samurai blocked and jumped back.

Hikan looked back at Uni, "You alright Uni?" he asked and she gulped before nodding.

"Yeah…"

Hikan looked back and glared at the samurai. "How dare you try a surprise attack on her." he said and gritted his teeth, "You won't leave alive!"

With that said, both him and Noire dashed towards the samurai and started their brawl. Both of them slashed at the samurai , but he blocked as quick as Hikan flew over there, then did a slash of his own. Noire dodged to the right as Hikan parried the blow and swiped up. Then he flew over the samurai's head and swiped down, but the samurai ducked and swiped quickly at Noire with three quick slashes. Noire blocked each of them and jumped up, swiping up towards the samurai's head, knocking off his hat. Revealing his long black hair and his glowing red eye.

Noire was stunned at the sight as the samurai quickly dashed at her and swiped, Noire quickly back flipped to avoid the slash, but wasn't able to avoid the kick. Knocking back towards the wall with a powerful force.

Hikan looked over at her and shouted, "Noire!" then focused on the samurai.

The samurai didn't waste time, he jumped into the air and came down towards Hikan, who put his sword up to react. Both of them locked their blades together and pushed towards each other.

Uni looked at Noire and switched her gaze at Hikan, he was trying his best to push it back. But he was losing ground. Hikan may have been fast, but he didn't have super strength, Uni clenched her fists and summoned one of her assault rifles. She aimed it at the back of the samurai's head and fired. The samurai stumbled as Hikan pushed it back and jumped into the air, slicing across its head and drop kicking it to the ground.

The samurai disappeared into black goop as Hikan landed back on the ground. He looked over at Uni and nodded with a smile, "Thanks Uni."

"Don't worry about it." she said and looked where Noire had went, Noire quickly flew towards them.

"We need to hurry, the monster is just down here." Noire said and pointed at the floor that Hikan had opened.

Hikan then nodded and looked at Uni, "Let's go."

"Right."

The three descended down into the pits. They looked around the area, around them were walls in a circular formation. Broken pillars were scattered everywhere. What surprised them was the carcass lying on the floor. "Is that…?"

"No way… that's a… Jabberwock" Noire said surprised.

Lying on the ground was a creature with half of a lions body and another half of a dragons, it had two extra claws on its neck and had one wing, but the other was nowhere to be seen. And sitting on its head was someone they weren't expecting.

"Y-Yukiko?" Hikan called out, but she shook her head and jumped down.

"Hikan… I remember." she started and walked towards them, "My name… my real name is Kotomi."

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