(P.S A new BLACK And a new MNBA Episode! Let's keep this momentum going!)
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BLACK 27
Previously from the last BLACK...
Noel Vermillion, one of the sweetest girls and the girl with the highest ars magus potential that the Academy has seen, is currently possessed by an ancient evil that is trying to escape the school with her as it's host! Makoto and her friends, not only wanting to lose their friend and let an evil run loose around the world, decide to fight it but in a strange turn of events, Makoto is especially hot blooded about this as she readies herself to attack her best friend to save her best friend...that sure doesn't sound like friend abuse.
And Now...the continuation of BLACK Rebellion.
The scenery was just very bizarre, what normally was the shades of grey that they were used to seeing around in the school was now various shades of purple. "Ummm...I am not the only one seeing this right?" Tsubaki questioned as she had to blink a few times as everyone else simply shook their heads. The scenery that they were seeing at that moment was the sight of Makoto facing off against Possessed Noel as she took a very strange pose. She was assuming a pose that none of them have ever seen as the possessed Noel did the same thing.
Makoto's pose was that of a contortionist at work, her body twisted a little as she had both of her hands raised and in fists while stepping her feet behind her back. Possessed Noel's pose was just over dramatic as she simply faced her back to Makoto's face while covering her face with her left hand as her right arm supported her elbow. Their bodies had over exaggerated muscles and were square for some reason as Allison simply looked at the sight in pure awe.
"W-Wow...it... It really feels like I am watching a real life JohnJohn's... This... it's just too amazing!" Allison exclaimed as Makoto finally raised her voice. "NOEL! I WILL SAVE YOU! BUT IN ORDER TO SAVE YOU I MUST HURT YOU...SO AS YOUR BEST FRIEND, PLEASE FORGIVE ME IF I DON'T HOLD BACK MY PUNCHES!" Makoto yelled as she finally returned to her normal shape and color as Noel did the same, retreating a little as Makoto began to throw her fists with power and ferocity.
" HAH! BRING IT ON!" Noel said with confidence as she began to swerve around the attacks that Makoto was delivering at that moment. She may have been physically weaker than her, but her agility was second to hers, allowing her to keep up as she threw a few punches of her own. The resulting punches were effective in their ability to stagger Makoto despite her weak strength, making Makoto walk back a little as she felt a little blood come out of her lips. 'Tch! This thing knows how to throw counters. They still hurt even if it's thrown by, Sorry for this comparison, a weakling like Noel! Sorry about the comment Noellie if you can hear my head'
'Right! Time to go into the next gear!' Makoto thought as she jumped back and began to pump her feet. "Come get me! I am right here!" Makoto taunted, gesturing with her fingers as Noel wasted no time to charge for her. Makoto was readying herself for a punch or even kick but Noel suddenly jumped out of nowhere, taking her sights off her for just that brief moment only to see her land right on her face, crashing her crotch on her face and using her knees to lock her head in place. Makoto felt the blood rush up her head as Noel made a forward twist and slammed Makoto's whole body to the ground, sitting on her face in the end.
Makoto quickly reacted by shoving Noel out of her head before shaking her head vigorously. She had a slight red tint as that action was not only embarrassing to experience...She swore she must have saw Noel's panties for the day. 'Oh calm down brain! Stop being such a pervert!' Makoto thought as she raised her hands to attack Noel once more. As she did this, everyone else was just watching like a couple of deer with headlights before snapping to their senses. "What are we doing everyone! We got to help Makoto!" Tsubaki quickly said before Mai stopped her by grabbing her shoulder.
"But how do we do that Tsubaki? We can risk harming Noel while we try to subdue what is inside her!" Mai said as Tsubaki made a visible "Tch." She knew of the risk she was going to do if they all did decide to attack her at once, but what if that simply injures her friend more than they need? "Then what should we do Mai? Wait here while Makoto handles it?" Tsubaki asked as before Mai could answer, someone else did that for her. "Unfortunately...if it comes to that, then maybe yes."
Tsubaki quickly turned her head around to see the person who said that. "What are you saying Alli..." Before she could finish her sentence, she saw the look of defeat that Allison Gunn was making at that moment. She wanted to help her best friend as much as everyone else did but knew damn well what was going to happen if they simply rushed everything. "Please... Let Makoto handle her... She must have a plan of sorts in that head of hers." Allison requested as Makoto was the one on the defensive side this time, dodging Noel's various attempts to land a hit on her. 'I have no idea what to do against Noel!' Makoto thought in a panic as Noel managed to land a few good hits right at her body.
"What's the matter Makoto? Cat got your tongue?" The possessed Noel said with a mocking tone as that struck something in her head. "Oh you just crossed that line!" Makoto said as she began to throw more and more punches carelessly, resulting in Noel giving her more and more counters right to her face and body, wearing down her stamina more and more. 'What am I doing!? Focus already Makoto!' She told herself as she began to throw some of her own counter punches right back at Makoto with the hopes that one of them will stop Noel's currently building momentum against her.
Unfortunately for her, when one of her punches was going to land, Noel used her ars magus to create mini barriers that simply parried those punches away, leaving her open to the butt of Noel's palm right at her chin. Makoto staggered greatly as she raised her arms to block what she expected to be the next barrage of attacks that will be coming her way. She waited for a moment as for some reason, everything had just stopped, Noel wasn't even attacking her at that moment. 'What...what is going on right now?' Makoto thought as she lowered her arms to see what was going on.
The moment she did that however, she felt the butt of what was a pistol grip whip right into her face, causing her to slide on the ground as she massaged her face. She then saw something that she hadn't expect to see, two white guns with a long rectangular shape and nearly resembled that of crosses as Noel spun the two revolvers in her hand. 'It's those two guns again! Oh fuck!' Makoto quickly acted as Noel began to blast of a couple of shots where Makoto was, surprising her greatly as she didn't even see the bullet trails that all guns should have when she sees them with her eyes.
"Most interesting...these guns are most interesting indeed!" Noel said as she pointed her guns right at Makoto and began to fire a volley of what resembled mini-portals exploding out of nowhere! She couldn't believe what she was seeing as her mind began to race quickly, what should she be doing at this moment right now? Makoto then felt a smooth ice block appear right in front of her to protect her from one such portal as she turned around to see another person wielding what appeared to be a much more conventional yet still bizarre weapon.
The sheath of the blade was an azure blue with a rather strange hilt, having what appeared to be 2 vent at the end of it's guard while it was generally oversized as Jin Kisaragi stood beside her with a cool aura around him. "Will you get yourself together Makoto Nanaya... you need to focus on the task at hand." Jin said as Makoto simply nodded while looking right at Noel once more. "And what about you Sempai? You here to offer me support?" Makoto asked as Jin simply held his sheath tighther before pointing right at Noel. "Yes...but you are the one who's going to make the moves, I will cover you from behind."
Makoto simply understood what that meant as she ran forward. Noel tried to fire at her but Jin created an ice wall that shielded her from Noel's sight. Each time Noel managed to get Makoto in her sights, Jin simply created an ice wall to obscure Noel's vision of her, ruining her chances to shoot down her best friend. Makoto then emerged from both sides and above one of these ice walls which made Noel shoot the two Makotos that were charging at her from the ground.
The moment she did so, the two Makotos vanished from the shot radius with the Makoto who was in the air soaring right for her best friend. "NOEL!" Makoto shouted, releasing one powerful thrust of a punch right at her friend. "LIGHTNING ARROW!" she continued as Noel was forced to block that attempt with both of her guns, the moment she did however, she felt the whole weight of Makoto's punch nearly drop her entire guard to the ground as Possessed Noel was pissed off at her innate weak strength.
Quickly sliding to the other side, she began to fire more and more volley of gunfire right at Makoto, most of which would have hit her if the others didn't form barriers to protect her at that moment. "Everyone. Thanks!" Makoto shouted as everyone else nodded at those words, they knew that they couldn't do much in their current states. All they can do is simply support her from the side as she decided to fight with all she had at that moment. Forming an ars seal of her own, she began to charge up for one of her strongest moves that she can use yet.
Before she could unleash it though she suddenly realized that doing it here would be one stupid idea and stopped charging her move mid way. She then charged once more, puzzling the rest of her friends as Allison realized the reason why Makoto stopped her attack in the first place. "We're in the roof right now you guys...if Makoto throws that punch wrongly she may accidentally punch Noel off the roof in the process." Allison explained as everyone simply looked back at Makoto who had understood this well.
She wanted to save her friend, not get her killed trying to stop an ancient evil from escaping to the outside world. She couldn't risk releasing her Big Bang Smash and risk knocking her friend over the roof and to her death if she landed on the ground on her head. 'Even if I was fast enough to catch her...I just don't know if I can risk doing something like that!' Makoto thought as she began to land a few important strikes right on Noel's body, weakening her already fragile frame but it wasn't enough as Noel leapt a few steps back to dodge the rest of the attacks.
"Impressive...but tell me Makoto, why do I sense hesitation in those fists of yours? Do you actually fear injuring your friend more than necessary?" Possessed Noel questioned as Makoto tched at what Noel had just said. She nailed her worries right on the money and didn't know what she should say at that moment as well. She simply continued to throw punches, trying to divert her attempts to distract her mind, 'I won't let you trick my mind even if you use Noel's voice you evil!' Makoto tried to think as she attempted to sweep Possessed Noel off her feet but with the obvious response being to jump over the sweep and attempt to smash her foot on Makoto's face.
Makoto would have been stomped on if it wasn't for a timely save from Tsubaki and her barrier. "Thank you Tsubaki!" Makoto shouted as she quickly recovered and struck Noel once more in the belly, trying to knock herout at least. This only served to annoy her as she spun her guns and pointed them at Makoto's own stomach, sending a surge of explosive energy right into it and blasting her to a wall with a hole on her shirt.
Makoto briefly felt all of the air in her body escape as she struggled to regain her breath. Just what was she going to do to defeat this version of Noel? The others weren't intervening as if they knew that she wanted to do this...But she would love to have everyone else's help in... 'Is that what Sora would do though...' that sudden thought came moving through her head as she looked at possessed Noel at a moment.
Just why would she think about Sora at that exact moment? She felt confused as she got back to her feet and charged right for Noel once more. She raised her fists to throw more attacks but Noel this time wasn't going to play by her rules as she began to take advantage of the things Makoto couldn't take advantage of, range and ars magus as she began to summon various fire projectiles right for Makoto, forcing her to dodge left and right, slowing her momentum down as she continued to walk back.
Jin tried to box Noel in by creating a couple of ice boxes with a single opening that allowed Makoto to enter into it but she must have expected such attempts and used ars magus to blast herself into the air, giving her the chance to escape the boxes that Jin created no matter how tall he made them in the end. "Oh come on. I am not an animal that you can cage!" Possessed Noel taunted as Jin visibly tched a little. 'I guess I should be making my box tighter then.' Jin thought as he formed yet another box but this time decided to form a roof, preventing Noel from jumping out of his box in the end as Makoto charged for her once more. This time, This time! She has to be able to hit Noel...right!?
Alas that is not the case, Noel must have known of the trap that Jin was trying to set up at that moment because she began to build up the ars magus on her feet. The moment Makoto entered the box, Jin was going to raise it to trap them in but Noel managed to blast herself out of the box at the same moment Jin closed, trapping Makoto instead as Noel landed on her two feet with grace and ease. " HAH! CHILD'S PLAY!" Noel said, pointing her guns at Jin as he tched at that moment. He could bring the ice down but before he could do so, Noel began to apply pressure to him which prompted everyone except Jin to slowly panic. They weren't used to fighting Noel...in fact they have never seen Noel fight at all!
"Is this...what Noel could do if she was properly trained in combat?!" Allison muttered as she couldn't help but feel a chill crawl up her back as everyone decided that standing by the side wasn't going to help anyone. "W-We got to help out Jin Nii-san!" Tsubaki said as Chikacho acted before Tsubaki could even finish that sentence by shooting out her webbing to catch the barrel of Noel's gun and pull her off her course against Jin, crashing her to the ground as Marcus joined in on the assault.
As everyone else started to surround and fight against the possessed Noel, Makoto struggled against Jin's ice walls. She has never felt so cold before as she was poorly clothed for such a sudden change of weather as she struggled to keep herself warm with her short sleeve school shirt and jeans. "Oh god dammit! Let me go!" Makoto shouted as she attempted to punch the walls which resulted in her rubbing her fist in pain. She couldn't believe that she was trapped in this wall of ice right now, she should be out there trying to help her friend, not stuck in this cube of ice!
Makoto soon felt her determination burn brighter as she attempted to punch the wall of ice down once more only to meet the same result every time. It got to a point that she thought the wall of ice should have melted by now but much to her disappointment, the wall of ice was still very much frozen at this point. Makoto then slowly slid on the other ice wall, allowing her skin to touch the cooling embrace of the wall as she panted heavily. "Why are you hesitating so much Makoto?" A voice that sounded similar to Sora asked as Makoto couldn't help but feel freaked out by that.
'Great...this is starting to feel like something out of a JohnJohn's manga chapter! Why am I hearing voices all of a sudden!?' Makoto wondered as she had her head turning around left and right, trying to make sense of what she was listening to right now as the voice cleared it's throat. "Well...you look like you're in trouble and need to clear your head a little. So why not hear the person that currently influences your life right now." The voice continued as Makoto felt more and more confusion go into her head as she scratched her head more and more at the words it was saying at that moment.
"Look...you clearly are overthinking this right now, you should just get in there and start punching everything." The voice explained as Makoto scratched her head while still having a look of confusion before her eyes immediately sharpen. "B-But! If I do that...and hurt Noel..." Makoto immediately thought as she felt a spectral hand literally slap her head, spooking her out even more. "That's what I mean when you're overthinking about things Makoto. What do you think you were doing before you thought of using your Ars Magus against Noel hmmm?" The voice asked as Makoto froze a little, contemplating on the words that the voice had just told her.
When she actually taught about it, the attempted punches she made and the punches that landed on her best friend, she was already hurting her friend in the first place. "But still! I don't want to hurt her even more! And what if I accidentally punch her off the building!" Makoto argued as the logic in her brain tried to argue against the voice which simply made the voice sigh greatly. "If you do not hurt somebody...then you cannot help anybody." The voice said frankly as Makoto stopped arguing against the voice.
"If we keep on sugarcoating everything...we keep trying to protect the good by babysitting it. Then how do we protect the things that try to hurt it." The voice questioned as Makoto held her ears, making her panting hard in the process as she pressed her hands into her face. What was this voice trying to say dammit, what is the right thing for her to do at that moment! " Oi! What's with the vague cryptic shit huh voice that sounds like Sora!? OH GOD I SOUND LIKE I AM GOING INSANE!" Makoto shouted as she looked at her surroundings thinking that she has finally done it. She has finally learned what it meant to be crazy.
Voice: No you are not crazy...I merely speak the truth to you
Makoto: But you're still asking me to choose between saving my friend or hurting her or even risk killing her!
Voice: And what will you achieve if you hold back?
Makoto: H-Huh? Hold back?
Voice: If you do not give all of your emotions into your fist, then when are you going to do so? Later when your friend is long gone and being used by some fiend?
The voice...had a very good point now that she heard what is just said. If she kept standing by the wayside, not doing anything in the process, she won't be able to save Noel in the process. As soon as she had this motivation and thought, she began to manifest out her ars magus circles and began to slam the astral fists into the ice walls hard, cracking them greatly as Possessed Noel had been dodging and injuring the rest of the group, especially Jin Kisaragi who she had sensed had the most potentially harming weapon in his hands.
"W-WHAT DO WE DO?! I... I feel like we are running out of options!" Cajun said as she gasped for even more air as her hands shook greatly. Mai herself was to do the same thing that Makoto was doing before and failing in the process as she breathed heavily. "I honestly don't know what to do! Every time we keep trying to reach her she pushed me back!" Mai shouted as Tsubaki's hands finally dropped. "I don't have any ars magus that can beat her range or speed! And every time I try to do one she keeps forcing me to do a barrier instead." Tsubaki added as the worst culprit was Allison herself as she beat her fist to the cold ground in anger. Was this all she could offer her friend? What kind of friend is she in the first place that she can't even help her friend at their most vulnerable.
The possessed Noel simply yawned as she looked at the sky and noticed the fast approaching sun. "Oh no...since this is summer...the sun will be approaching us much sooner than I had expected." Possessed Noel muttered as Allison couldn't help but check her phone at that exact moment. What the thing possessing Noel didn't know is that beastkin have very sensitive hearing so when Marcus heard those words, he did the exact same thing that Allison was doing at that moment and looked at his phone. The words that were on them read something like this.
Last Known Date: 11th June 2016
Time: 3.55AM
The moment that Marcus saw this and saw the sun slowly rising, he knew what they should be doing at this moment. The same time he made this realization, Makoto finally broke off the ice prison that was holding her back as she was panting heavily from that strenuous exercise. "Ahhh. I see you got out of your ice prison Makoto...tell me, have you cooled down yet?" Possessed Noel asked as Makoto simply shook her head. Makoto took a couple of deep breaths as she closed her eyes and faced Noel. "Hey Noel...if You're in there...I am just going to say Sorry in advance for what I am going to do next." Makoto muttered as Noel simply looked at her puzzled at those words.
"BECAUSE THIS IS GOING TO HURT A LOT!" The moment she shouted those words, Makoto slammed her fists harder than normal as she charged right for Noel as Marcus took a deep breath and shouted out what he needed to say. "EVERYONE! WE HAVE TO KEEP NOEL HERE! IT MUST BE VULNERABLE IN THE SUN DESPITE BEING IN NOEL'S BODY!" Marcus shouted as Possessed Noel tched loudly. She didn't expect anybody to hear what she had just said as she began to plan her escape. She would have been able to if it wasn't for the fact that Makoto charged right for her and began to deliver a barrage of punches that was overwhelming in volume, even more than the barrage that she was throwing before.
'What...What is this pressure all of a sudden!?' Noel thought as Makoto had decided on her mind...to do something that she should have been doing at this moment. " I have decided to just stop thinking for now and just do it!" Makoto shouted as she began to manifest out her trademark Nanaya ars magus fists and began to deliver a barrage of punches right at Noel's guard. Even with the barrier, Noel couldn't help but feel the barrier continuously shake like crazy. She was actually struggling at this point and her brain wasn't thinking as fast as it should have been.
Makoto felt it in her heart, her fists were starting to burn up as she continued to punch Noel's barrier more and more which began to strain her arms greatly, making them bleed as she continued to lower her guard more and more until it got to the point that she should jump out of the way in order to make sure that she wasn't going to get hit at once. Before she could do that however, Makoto immediately curved one of her punches which made one of her ars magus fists perform a hook which sent her arms to the side in a painful manner.
Noel wanted to swear so bad at that moment, she has never felt so much pain in her arms before...in fact she hasn't felt pain in a long time. 'Dammit! I cannot lose!' Possessed Noel thought as she suddenly felt something struggle within her. 'S-Stop hurting...MY FRIENDS!' Noel shouted as Possessed Noel slowly felt the control she had amass slowly disappear. 'No...NO! You shall stay with me!' Possessed Noel shouted as Noel clenched her eyes tightly and continued to struggle greatly. She didn't want this, she didn't want to harm her friends at all.
Everyone then slowly noticed Noel lower her guard abeit with great force as Noel was clenching her teeth. "MAKOTO PLEASE! DON'T HOLD BACK!" Noel yelled as Makoto felt her common sense take over before she took a deep breath. "PLEASE! HIT ME AS HARD AS YOU CAN!" Noel begged as Makoto began to charge her ars magus again. Noel was asking for this and she had to oblige. Even as her friend...this was going to hurt like hell. "Please find it in your heart to forgive me...NOELLIE!" Makoto shouted as she charged her fist and pointed it upwards, making the seal appear underneath Noel's feet.
"BIG BANG..." As soon as she shouted that, Possessed Noel tried to form a barrier underneath her feet as the sun was rapidly approaching. Despite her best efforts though, the sun managed to beat her to the punch as she felt the stiffness approach her arms. "UPPERCUT!" As soon as she shouted that one word, the massive astral fist usually reserved for her more iconic smash emerged from the ground and smashed right through the weakened Possessed Noel's barrier and smash it's fist right into Noel's chin.
As soon as the fist landed, Possessed Noel struggled against the power of the fist as she actually tried to push back. Alas...in the end, the fist won as Possessed Noel felt herself get ejected out of her body as Noel flew into the air. As they did, Possessed Noel got exposed into the bright bathing sunlight as everyone could hear a shriek in the air before it completely vanish. As soon as that was done, Noel began to freefall in the air as Makoto saw that Noel was nowhere near the roof...and that her landing spot was going to be the ground floor!
"NOEL!" Makoto yelled as she ran fast and jumped on the railing. Using the railing, she jumped off said rail as she soared in the air, trying to catch Noel as she just zoomed right past her. 'C-Come on Makoto! Reach!' Makoto thought as she tried to use her normal hands to catch her, flailing them in the process as Makoto realized she wasn't going to reach her in time. 'I...I can't make it!' Makoto thought as a voice echoed in her head as she saw her ars magus appear right below Noel and as if it was guiding her, Makoto began to extend her hands as wide as possible, attempting to make her ars seal as big as she can possibly make it, feeling the strain pop up into her veins as she stretched her arms some more.
'Reach...Reach...REACH!' Makoto then slammed her hands, causing a massive astral fist to emerge with it's hand open as they landed on the palm of said astral hand as Noel and Makoto simply bounced on the gigantic hand as it slowly disappeared, leaving Makoto able to catch Noel as the hand disappeared and they landed hard on the ground. Makoto panted heavily as she checked on her friend with great worry. "Noel. Noellie! Wake up!" Makoto begged as she shook her friend gently and slapped her in the face with the same power. She didn't know if Noel was alive or dead at this point and that terrified her. Was following her instincts really the best call at the heat of the moment.
Just as Makoto was going to stop, she hears Noel start to moan as she took a look at her with concerned eyes as she held her gently in her arms. "Noel! You're alright!" Makoto exclaimed as she hugged Noel tightly. Noel could only moan greatly as she looked at Makoto with a sore look spreading through her face. "O...OWW Makoto...You hit me...way too hard with that punch...My face...feels so stiff." Noel complained as Makoto simply continued to hug her before collapsing beside her, panting even harder as Makoto and Noel locked eyes with each other before Makoto scratched her head.
"Hehehe...Looks like I saved you this time. I guess that's makes me special in a way." Makoto said as they both could hear the voices of their friends coming closer. Makoto and Noel felt the strain of that battle take a toll on their consciousness as Makoto and Noel finally fainted as they both had a smile which the sun lit their happy smiling faces while the others came rushing for them. For now at least...the bizarre part was finally over...
Or is it?... as it turns morning...in a snowing winter wonderland of the 10th Hierarchical City...Akitsu-Otsu...
TO BE CONTINUED...
GREETINGS LOST SHEEP OF FANFICTION! I HOPE YOU ARE ALL DOING WELL! I wish I can say the same to myself but unfortunately...I feel a bit ill at the moment. Never the less, I will not let some sickness slow me down as I work hard to give you all the content to the story that everyone is invested in. I hope to recover as fast as possible so I can continue writing as much as I like...that said though, the time has come for me to get rest before I collapse from exhaustion.
WHAT'S NEXT FOR MANA!? IS SHE READY FOR ANYTHING AFTER THAT INTENSE BATTLE!? WHY DID THE NARRATOR MENTION AKITSU-OTSU?! WHO KNOWS AND WHO CARES! THE IMPORTANT QUESTION IS WHETHER OR NOT THIS STORY CAN BECOME ANY WEIRDER!? That...I will answer in the chapters to come. So read on if you dare!...
