My goodness... I'm horrible. COMPLETELY-utterly-overly horrible, if I may corrected...
I mean, I let you all waited...for weeks (or months)? ...My, what a shame of me... *walks to the corner and crawled up while circling the ground with my index finger*
Still, gotta say sorry than no, right? *looks to you all* ..Alright, I'm so so SO sorry for making you guys waiting. I got busy with... school stuff. (you guessed it) -_- ..But that's not the only reason... The other reason is, I feel 'down' back then... Geez, how I wished my English is better, like the one you guys had... *sigh*
OverLord Ayame, thanks a lot for being my beta. It means a lot to me, ya know? :')
Also, I feel sad that one of our fella, FullmetalFan870, decided to quit from the world of Fanfiction. Not that I blame him/her much for quit this awesome website, nor do I talked to him/her that much. It's just... unbelievable to hear this one. :'(
I also feel sorry that our fella, OverlordMao, had to put an end to his popular fic, "The Ultimate Disgaea Truth or Dare!". You're doing great all this time, buddy. Don't stop writing. I congratulate you for making a Disgaea fic with a LOT of favs, follows, and last but not least, to be featured on the popular website called Tv Tropes (how I wished my fic also featured there...''). You're awesome, alright. Keep writing! :)
...Okaay, what am I doing? Enough of my rants! Let's get the Chapter started! :D
Hello, everyone! I'm baaaaaaack~! (-OwO-)
I'm SOOOOOO sorry for the wait, buddies! (X_X)
...As always, before I continue to the story, I say a VERY BIG thank you to Tera Tyrant Shadic, Overlord Valkyrie, OverLord Ayame, OverlordHiroko, Mailumia, godzilla90fan, Yuu-chan, Riyuki Mio, UNKNOWN, FullmetalFan870, DiLost, HiddenPurplePower, Lunar Wave, Leila Andell, Shunto, Mage of Hope, Ishakaji, Kiwi and a Random Penguin, willfoxx, palad1n, and ninakietnaki for reviewing my story! 'Cause it really makes my day and encourages me to do the best of the BEST~! ^^-
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......Okay. enough for the chit-chat now. On the story~!
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The Curse of Blood
Chapter 29 : When She Knew Why...
The city is painfully quiet now. All the buildings, shops, houses, and everything there were out of business...
Just as she expected.
With a slight dread in her heart, Artina quietly watched her surroundings that near pitch black, only illuminated by the dim-lighted lamps that placed along the way.
The pink-haired Angel wondered what thing Fenrich wanted to discuss with her. It was unusual. First, he thanked her, THANKED her! After he told her he'll never show her gratitude, he show it! And now, he wanted to discuss something with her...
With HER, of all!
Gosh, what on Earth is going on here? He'll NEVER ever want to discu- No. TALK to her 'privately' like this! It's just not his style, for Netherwold's sake!
...But now... It's- Gosh, this is confusing!
They finally stopped. They're now at the end of the park, where a simple, wooden platform that was supported by piles was built there, out from the shore into the clear blue sea that seems darker due to the night sky.
Artina found it was weird to know a park had a beach in the end. But, hey, the people here in Human World are quite creative, ya know? ;)
The pink-haired Angel kept her head lowered since this was the first time she followed the Werewolf from behind, unsure of what to do or say. That, until she heard him sighed and, surprisingly, placing a hand on her left shoulder.
"Thief Angel," She heard him said "...look up."
Confused and curious, Artina slowly brought her head up. When she did, her azure eyes met an unexpected view there up at the night sky...
It was a view of a full-Moon. However, the Moon is kinda... different.
Instead of having the usual, bright white color (or having the red color of the Red Moon from the Netherworld), the full-Moon had a bright, sky blue color. She remembered she read that the Blue Moon here in the Human World were... not totally blue. But now here it is, a TOTALLY blue-colored Blue Moon...
"I-It's..." Artina muttered out "...It's blue. And... beautiful."
"Keep your eyes there," Fenrich said "...and see what happens when I do... this."
Fenrich let go his hand from Artina's left shoulder. Not long after that, the Angel's azure eyes noticed the total-blue color of the Moon slowly dissipate, and replaced with the color of the Blue Moon she known; not totally blue, only looked bluish at some parts.
"W-Wha...?" The Angel said, a hint of surprise was there in her voice "...B-But how?"
"Werewolves could temporarily give a person the ability to view a full-Moon in their names' color by touching them." Fenrich began, as the Thief Angel quickly shifted her gaze from the Moon to the Werewolf beside her "...For example, here, they call the full-Moon in Early Spring as Pink Moon. Yet, it wasn't totally pink, but Werewolves could saw how pink the Moon is."
The Werewolf cleared his throat before he continued; "Just by touching a person, Werewolves could give the person that ability. But as you see, once I let go of my touch from you, you can't see what I see on this Moon."
Artina was left dumbstruck once she heard this. For a moment, she stared at the Werewolf in awe, until she finally nodded.
"That was an awesome ability of yours, Mr. Werewolf." The pink-haired Angel said "But... There must be something you'd like to tell me, right? I mean, you'll never explain all of that stuff to me if you're not up to something." She continued, a small smile formed on her mouth.
"Indeed." Fenrich answered simply, as he shifted his gaze to her; yellow meet blue "As much as I hate to say this, I have to. I'm sick of keeping this 'truth' all by myself."
She felt her heart skip a beat when she heard this. Another untold truth? So, that now-told 'partnership' of him and Mao wasn't all of his hidden truth?
Wow. This Werewolf in front of her was full of mystery, huh?
"I'm all ears, Mr. Werewolf." She said with a nod "...Say it out."
...
Meanwhile, not a far from where Artina and Fenrich... discussing, many pair of curious eyes peeped among the bushes behind them. That's right; the eyes' owners were none other than some of the Hades' crew that 'secretly' decided to follow the two discussing people from behind.
"Oh, gawd." Fuka squealed quietly "...I can feel my 'love sense' tingling like crazy~!"
"100% agree~!" Aya exclaimed quietly, 'hearts' dancing around her "This is absolutely better than watching those romance movies out there!"
"Uh... Guys? " Tera whispered quietly, a sweat-drop could be seen with her "...D-Don't you all remembered that stalking is bad?"
"Oh, hush it, Hirl." The Prinny Girl shushed "I mean, can't you even see how serious they are when they're talking?" She continued, her cinnamon eyes glimmering in delight.
"Well, the Werewolf said that he'll discuss about something with the Angel." The light brown haired teen muttered with a sigh "...So it's absolutely obvious if they will talk seriously, Fuka. And there's a no way that they'll talk about lo-"
"Why am I here in the first place, by the way?" Emizel blurted out, quietly of course "I mean, I'm not up to this."
"Because Big Sis told you so, Sir Emizel!" Desco said quietly "Besides, Big Sis said that watching this kind of situation is good for us later on~!"
"I... I don't understand..." Emizel muttered quietly, a sweat-drop could be seen with him.
...
Back to Fenrich and Artina, they stood in silence. Artina quietly stared to the Werewolf in front of her, wondering what he gonna say to her.
After a moment of waiting, he finally spoke up.
"I..." The Werewolf began "...To this day, I'm still wondering how you're... you're..."
"Yes...?"
Fenrich gritted his teeth before he turned his head away from the curious Angel. Silence came across the two. That, until Fenrich took a deep breath and let it out before he decided to speak again.
"To this day," The Werewolf began again "I'm still wondering how you... look a lot like my mother."
Upon hearing this, Artina's azure eyes widened, the look on her face changed to a shocked one. As she felt her heart skip a beat, she stared to the Werewolf in front of her in disbelief.
"...W-What?" The pink-haired Angel muttered, she seemed to speak it out slowly, probably due to her disbelief of the new fact about what the Werewolf told her "...H-How?"
"I... I dunno." Fenrich said, looking back to Artina "My mother... she had long silver-whitish hair like me, but she had a bright sky blue eyes, and she seems addicted with guns."
"Blue eyes? I thought Werewolves only had yellow eyes." Artina said "And to hear your mother was a gun-addicted woman was... surprising."
"Indeed." Fenrich said "I think she's the only Werewolf with blue eyes, and maybe... the only Werewolf who's addicted to guns. Now if you think about it, she's look a lot like you, isn't she?"
Managed to hold back her chuckle, she slowly nods. "...Y-Yeah."
After the discussion took place, once again, silence came across the two. But it's not last long when Artina closed her eyes and said; "Now I get it."
Upon hearing this, the Werewolf stared to the Angel questioningly "...Huh?"
"That's why you used 'Vanargandr' back before you fell 'sick'." The pink-haired Angel said, slowly opening her eyes "You imagine that I'm your mother, don't you?"
Upon hearing this, Fenrich flinched before he looked away from the Thief Angel, as he brought a clenched fist up over his mouth. "W-What makes you think I'm done that because of your similarities with my mother?"
"Isn't it obvious...?"
The Werewolf found himself growled when he heard this. "Tch, fine! Yeah, I'm using 'Sunphower' and 'Vanargandr' that time because I imagine you as my mother! There, happy?"
"..Maybe..."
A small fleck of surprise crossed through Fenrich's bright yellow orbs when he heard this, but he quickly shrugged. "Hmph, whatever you say, b*tch..."
"You used to call your mom with that word, Mr. Werewolf?"
"What the- Of course not! What makes you think I called my mom that, you b*tch?!"
"Gee, chill down. I'm just asking..."
After that, both of them just stay silent, and stared to the full-Moon above them as they felt the night breeze blew gently to them...
But it didn't last long.
Because suddenly, they could hear a sound of rushing air that came from their right side. Turned around, they found that not a far from them, a big, dark colored portal appeared out of nowhere as a group of demons hopped out from it. After all of the demons were out, the portal disappears.
"What in the world...?" Fenrich muttered, while Artina glared to the group of demons not a far from them.
"...'B Hunters', I believe?" The pink-haired Angel muttered out, as one of the demons, a red-eyed Female Samurai, stepped out of the crowd.
"Well well, this is surprising." The red-eyed Samurai said while placing a hand to her hip "...It's been a while, you demon-like Angel."
"You again?" Artina rose an eyebrow "Gee, you're not afraid of losing to me again, loser?"
"What the- How dare you!" The Samurai yelled angrily, an anime-like popping vein was there on her head "And I got name, duh! The name's Reipia!"
"Wait, Reipia? Isn't that a slang to a Japanese word of... Rapier?"
"Oh, hush! The author made me! At least I got a name to tell, not like the others behind me!"
"Yeah, yeah. Whatever..." Artina said while rolling her eyes "...So? What are you doing here, Reipia?"
"Well-!"
"It's not only you who got names, Reipia." A male voice came from somewhere within the group of demons, as a red-eyed Male Warrior and a red-eyed Archer stepped out of the crowd "We got some too, remember?"
"I know that, Ken!" Reipia said as she glared to the red-eyed Warrior, or Ken "When I said 'not like the others behind me', I don't mean you two were also the one!"
"N-Now now, please don't fight, Reipia, Ken." The red-eyed Archer said with a sweat-drop "W-We got a job to do, remem-"
"SHUT UP, YUMI!"
The red-eyed Archer, or Yumi, yelped when she heard her partners yelled to her. "G-Gee, chill down, you two. I'm just reminding, that's all..."
Upon seeing this, Fenrich and Artina couldn't help but sweat-dropped. "Don't tell me that they're the one we ever fought at the time we got our self in the Human World?"
Artina rolled her eyes when she heard this. "Hate to say, but it's them."
"Oh, great." The Werewolf growled as he gritted his teeth in annoyance "Tch, as much as I, or should I say 'we' if I count you in, wanna fight these guys, we can't; we're outnumbered."
"Exactly!" Reipia exclaimed suddenly, as Fenrich and Artina turned their heads to the now-smirkeing Female Samurai "We planned to finish our job fast, so we waited for this moment to come! So be prepared to lose now, you so-called heroes!"
"...Did she just mock us?" Artina grumbled, an anime-like popping vein could be seen on her head as she pulled her guns out into her hands "If yes, I will never, never, and NEVER forgive you!"
"Heh, are you sure?" The red-eyed Samurai said while chortled and pulled her long rapier out into her right hand "'Cause you're outnumbered right now."
Upon hearing this, Artina started to lose her confidence a bit, but it's not last long when she a VERY familiar voice came from her right side.
"Not if we join them!"
When everyone turned their heads to their right, a group of people started to hopped out of the bushes before they make themselves stan in front of Artina and Fenrich in a battle stance, a teenage girl with long brown two pigtails was standing right in front of the group while pointing her baseball bat to her front.
"We met again eh, goosy-head?" The teenage girl said with a smirk, as Yumi quickly realized who she is .
"Y-You again!" The red-eyed Archer yelled while pointing her index finger to the teenage girl.
"Yeah, me again. Ya got problem with that?"
"M-Miss Fuka? E-Everyone?" Artina muttered out with her eyes widened "W-What are you guys doing here...?"
"Uh... Helping ya?" The teenage girl, or Fuka, said while glanced to the Angel behind her uneasily.
"...Don't you think that I'm easy to be fooled, Miss Fuka. Really."
"Geez, fine FINE! We're sorry for stalking ya both!" The Prinny Girl cried out as she pouted "...Now can we kick their butts?"
"Certainly." Artina said with a 'smile' "...I would love to."
"Yippie~!"
"...What's up with these guys, really?" Ken wondered as he raised an eyebrow "Ah, well. Nevermind that. Right now, we got a mission to do..."
The red-eyed Warrior then pulled his sword out, as the others also pulled out their weapons into their hands.
"Well, let's get the fight started, shall we?" Ken said with a smirk, as he pointed his sword to his front.
Fuka smirked when she saw this. "Well, of course! Why would I reject it, anyway? Better have fun before I woke up from my weirdest dream ever!"
"What the- You still think that this is all a dream, Fuka?!" Aya cried out before she folds her arms and huffed "Man! You gotta be kidding me!"
"Uh... Aya, I think we should hide and--" Tera began, but was cut off by the black-bluish haired teen.
"Shut it, Tera! I gotta discuss somethin' with this hard-headed girl!"
"But they gonna fight, remember?!"
"Uh... Well, then forget about the 'discuss'! Let's learn how to be like those video games heroes by watching them at close range!" The now-spirited teen said as she placed her hands to her hips, while the light brown haired teen felt her jaw dropped.
"What the- Are you crazy?!"
"No! I'm 100% normal!"
"Ugh... Why me?" Tera muttered while rolling her eyes, as she and Aya put themselves to a battle stance.
Seeing this, the red-eyed Male Warrior and the others chuckled before they smirked.
"Fufufu. What a courageous people you guys are..." The Male Warrior said "Well then. Let's get the 'party' started, shall we?"
The brown-haired Warrior then looked to the group of people in front of him with a serious look on his face.
"We're the 'B Hunters'! Our main task are to collect human bloods for our 'Milady'! ..But aside that, we're also doing any tasks our 'Milady' gave us!" The red-eyed Warrior said aloud "And what our 'Milady' gave us now is a task... to KILL ALL OF YOU!"
After said that, the red-eyed Male Warrior shouted "FINISH THEM..!" out loud before he and the others charged themselves to the group of people in front of them. Seeing this, the group looked to each other.
Nodded, they charged themselves forward, as the fight between them and the 'B Hunters' has begun...
(Dun dun duuun~!) Aaaaaaaand that's Chapter 29, everyone! Sorry for the long wait, once again... And sorry if this Chapter doesn't went out perfectly...
Now that this Chapter is posted, I gotta make Chapter 30... and I hope it turns well later.
Oh! For those who forgot...
In Japanese, Ken means Sword, Reipia means Rapier, and Yumi means Bow. (Source : Google Translate)
..And the facts above were ever posted at Chapter 20 of this fic~ ^^-
Once again, I say a very, very, and VERY special thanks to my beta buddy, "OverLord Ayame"! I can't do much without your help! So, THANK YOU~! :'D
..Well, enough for my chit-chat now. On the replies~! ^^-
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Lunar Wave : Yeah, I know. It's mediocre, isn't it? Even me could guess you would say that... X_X ..Still, thanks a lot for the review, Lunar Wave! I really, really, and REALLY appreciate it! ^^- ..Well, let's just hope this Chapter isn't mediocre, shall we? X_x ..Well, that's my replies for you. Have a good day and please wait for the next Chapter~! ^^-
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You know what they said; "Nobody's Perfect". So I beg your pardon if there's some errors and 'weird' sentences in this Chapter. Thank you to you all who've read, fav, follow, and review this story! :) ..Well, as always, next Chapter is in-progress. So stay tuned for more Chapters, everyone! Cheers~! ^^-
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