I'm back~ with new updates and edited (finally) on prologue for grammar mistakes~ XD (hopefully I did a good job this time [on prologue], since I had lost contact for both of my beta readers ... must be due to evil schools fault =S)
Anyone missed the story about what happen next? (I know, I'm not that miss-able…hahaha XD"" )

aira2889-san: haha.../pat don't worry, I somewhat overcome it for now...
XDDDD it's fine~ I didn't know Lily was the bitch in other fics thus my writing is…fresh? *pondering on the word*
Yep, it is. =D And about the swimwear…. They become even more disturbing when you play songs like "Nostalogic", "What? Ahh, yes" and "Cat Food". My sis complained that she almost got nose bleed because I play those songs in Kaito swimwear in front of her (on purpose to 'bully' her, she doesn't need to know that. XP). Maybe too sexy and attractive for her own good? =P

Storm: Who knows? Maybe Len can be one if he wants to?
Well… Let's just said Len had someone taught him using a bow, but he refused/in denial that the person who taught him had gone until recently, that Len somewhat decided he had to pick up his bow again if he really needs to help….but I can tell you is in later part he blames Gakupo for not buying any sword in the first place….
(Now thinking about it, I shall edited the part where Len first choose bow as his next weapon… just a add in, nothing much will be change ;) )
XD" *pat* Maybe you can buy it when the price drops? Or when the PS3 version was out?
Hopefully so… now trying to see if I had forgotten to add anything in the past chapters, so updates will be extra slow again…. /swt

Ahem, anyway enjoy the new chapter of this week~ XD


Chapter 28

Staring back at the black hair mage, Kaito tossed the package to Len, who caught it in a hurry in his wooden cage.

"Len, continued the plan. Oliver, help Len to get out of here. I shall deal him alone." Kaito ordered them, while drawing out his sword and faced his ex-teacher.

"Wait a minute BaKaito, what do you mean by you deal him alone! I will take care of that old man so you should just…."

"Oliver. Do what you have told. He is mine." Kaito replied calmly, looking at Tonio who had an amused expression at their conversation. "And no one should interfere."

"Hoho, so the young boy wants to grow out of his teacher wings. So be it." Reaching his mage staff, decorated with 6 colored crystals: red, blue, cerulean, yellow, brown and black, he continued, "You will be coming back with me if you lose."

"And I won't." Kaito spat, charging towards him.

~.~.~.~

"There, done. Hai~ that's a worst job I would ever get from those damn pigs." Lily sighed, after sending the final blow on the Lizard monster. Turning back and faced Cul, who was adjusting her gloves and prepare for the next battle where Sonika and others were at.

"We have to move now Lily, I think Sonika and See are going to die soon if we don't hurry." She said, turning her back at the toasted monster. But she could only walk a few steps before kneeling on the ground, too tired to move. The monster was tough, that even combining both Lily and her strength it still took a lot from them.

"Cul!" Rushing to her side, Lily helped her to stand. "I think you should rest a bit. You had used too much energy just now."

"Damn it… I really hate myself for being weak now…" Cul said, looking at the battle took place not far from here. "Even the kids we should help had come and help us instead…. How pathetic…"

"Well, they are good kids, and they will do fine. You just rest a bit before come and help out again." Lily remarked, and helped her friend to move towards where Rin was, as she was the only healer in the group.

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What the hell happen to Len? She had seen the first packaging Kaito talked about had shot to the designed place going unnoticed by the enemies, which right now all the minors had being taken care of, and now Sonika faced off one of the ten so called elites, with Gumi trying her hardest to defeat another one. Gakupo had proved that he was really strong, that he had taken down two of the ten, and now facing the fifth member of the group. Something the mage Knight said must had ticked off Gakupo somehow, that using his strongest wind attack, he blow the Knight out and away the battlefield. Left three more to go…. She thought, seeing SeeU had been up and went to help Sonika.

Gumi was really brilliant. Even though she looked like a weak girl, she proven to be strong, too. With her skill using the rod, she spin it to make a make-shift shield to block the wind attack sent by the opponent, and proceed to knock the back of his head hard and retarding him unconscious. "Four down, four on engaging, and two more standing waiting to defeat or be defeated." Rin concluded.

Suddenly, an arrow shot out from her back, flying towards the gate and struck at the gate, with a white package hanging. "Finally, now the last phrase of the plan: Run after the lightning signal." Talking to no one, Rin stood up from the ground and out of the little earth broader she had made for hiding, grabbing her healer staff along the way - she was tired of waiting.

Watching afar, Gakupo also noted the arrow that shot out. Quickly taking down the meddlesome enemy he was engaging, he looked at the forest entrance, expecting the three to be out in any moment. Suddenly, there was a sword aiming on his neck and a spear on his head, which he quickly ducked down to avoid. Seemed like the last few Knights had decided to join forces to defeat him, which makes him wondered how that King of Terra had chose his so-called 'personal elite guards'. Too weak for his taste, that is the first thing that crossed his mind. Even Len could do better than them….

However, what was most unexpected was, all the opponents they had been engaging stopped their movements and looked…. frightened. Holding their neck in a way that something was chocking them, before they fall to the ground, with bodies started to decay and become dusts floating.

"What the…." Following the direction of the dust, it was found that it became some sort of energy to the burned copse of a gigantic monster, whose scales started to grow back and stood up from the ground. Roaring loudly and deafening with the ground shook so hard that it felt like an earthquake had hit the area.

"WHAT KIND OF MONSTER IS THIS! ?" The samurai exclaimed, after dodging a sudden wave of attack cause by the monster.

Roots grew and blinding the monster, Gumi tried not to show her fear at it. No monster in her understanding should be able to retrieve back to live after dead, and by looking at the eyes of that giant lizard, it had holes in the place where the eyes should be. Did it turn into a zombie? But how?

"Light Barrier!" Rin cried, creating a barrier and block the sudden attack at Gumi. Giving a thumb up, she tried to focus on her new enemy, with Lily now rushing to her side after dropping her friend with Rin.

"Gakupo! Don't engage the enemy! Gumi, help me to tie down this monster!" Lily shouted, with her ring shone brighter than ever.

"What's wrong, Lily? Don't want to play with me again?" A sweet, ringing sound echo in the air, and suddenly, a young teenage girl materialized out in the air, and sitting on the head of the monster. Wearing black mini tight skirt and a black sleeveless top, together with an oversize purple hat decorated with skulls and pumpkins on her long, reddish-orange hair.

Surveying the surroundings with her bright, reddish eyes, she smiled amusingly. "Ho ho, childrens…. That's interesting… who are they? Standing before me."

Floating down to the ground she smirked at the group, who had their weapons and spells readied. "Oh my…. I see a few more old faces besides those children… Hmm~ what should I do now~ It looks fun~"

Dancing and twirling around, singing some weird tunes, which made Rin turned to Lily and asked, while healing Cul, "Lily, who was that crazy woman over there?"

Stopped her dance suddenly, the red head turn to Rin, smiling manically at her. "Oh no. Tsk tsk young lady, I'm not crazy. I'm just…."

Holding her witch-looking hat and took down to give a manly bow, she introduced herself. "I'm the one and unique, Demon who rule over the power of darkness elements, one of the demon general Miki-sama~ Yoroshiku~"

"And~ I like you girl. What's your name?" Smirking at Rin, she asked, while taming the beast beside her.

"…why should I tell the likes of you?" Rin retorted, griping her staff tightly. The way those knights had died and disappeared were abnormal, so before she understand why, she had no intention to tell her anything worth knowing. Plus, that person was a demon, giving her more reasons of why she wanted to withhold her identity.

What had held Len and the two guys so long….. Rin thought, as she watched Miki laughed high and loud, hand over her forehead.

"Hahaha…. That's funny… I think I like you little girl. Ok, then I shall call you…. The White Ribbon Rabbit! Or WR rabbit(1) for short…" Snapping her finger, she grinned widely, looking at the Lily.

"I have a great idea, Lily-chan~ I can pretend I can't stop you and let all of you go…. I can even stop those persuaders for you! But…."

With a flick of her hand, the lizard stood up, gnawing at them.

"You have to defeat this child here~ Don't worry, even if you have late comer friends they can also joined in and help~"

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The sound of metal crashing occasionally, and some spells name being called and throwing around, Len had almost completely forgotten he had to get out fast to continue the escape plan. Plus, he too saw the bizarre scene that had unfolded at where Rin was. A supposed dead monster was retrieved back to life using the souls of the soldiers and the Knights, turning them into dusts.

But over here the result wasn't out, yet. Every time when Tonio was using a long incarnations for a strong spells, Kaito will be intercepting and break his concentration, while blocking the weak spells using his sword. So far Kaito had yet to do any spells. Hearing a shout over at the checkpoint entrance, he saw Rin and others had started their fight, too. Now he was unsure which was more interesting and in dire for help.

"Kitten, stop spacing out and help too!" Oliver called out, effectively drawn Len's attention.

"Right, sorry. But I do I help?" He asked, looking at Oliver through his cage.

Slapping his face, Oliver tried hard not to yelled at Len, "Come on, you either use water magic and create a barrier while I try blasted the cage off with my fire attacks, or you can used you own fire attacks and break open the cage."

"Hmm… Ok, I try." Len said, concentrating his power on his hands. Slowly, a ball of fire was created.

"Fire ball!" He cried, fired out the ball of red flame. However the fire died out upon touching the cage.

"Huh? I failed again?" Len couldn't help but wondered aloud. Afterall it had been a long time since he last failed of casting a spell properly. But that wasn't the true case. Even Oliver attacked using Fire and Lightning, the wooden cage was unbroken and unharmed. It seems like the cage was adsorbing the powers away whenever they attack to attempt breaking it.

"Don't waste your time, kids. You won't be able to break the cage that easily." Tonio remarked, before dodging an attack aimed at his chest. "And Kyle, if you intend to keep on playing, you will lose your friend again. I knew you have great magic talent, so why don't you show your teacher what you had learnt this past six years?"

Stopping his attack suddenly and stepped back to infront of where Oliver and Len was, Kaito sheathed his sword. "Len, was the final package send out?" He asked, without turning back to look at them.

"Yup, it had sent to the assigned area." Nodding at Len's replied, Kaito held up both of his hands.

"Oliver, Len. Time yourself to send attacks at the cage at the same time. It should be done the trick. I'm finishing here soon."

Facing his opponent, who was standing there and wondered at his stance. "So…. Are you giving up now?" Tonio asked, cautiously. So far Kaito's melee attacks had been effective to stop him from using his magic attacks, and now he had kept away his sword.

"Nope, why does everyone thinks I'm going to give up? I only give up if everything is truly lost." He said, closing his blue eyes for a moment before opening them again, with his eyes turning to a darker hue. "You had been bugging me since I had started studying magic under you to show you my dark magic attack, so I only just return you the courtesy you should have."

Slowly, his hands started glowed softy, and spreading out around his body. The aura wasn't black, like Lucifer had used to attack the twins, and it wasn't anything near violet. No, it was the darkest hue of beautiful shade of blue that Oliver and Len could only gawked before starting their own attacks. If anything, it's best to get Len out of confinement before worrying others. After all, if you can't help yourself, how do you intend to truly help others? At least, that's what Len thought.

Griping hard on the only fire stone he had, Len concentrated his fire spells, with Oliver doing the countdown. Kaito was starting his chant softy, barely to be heard by anyone.

"Fire burning bright….." "Darker than the darkest night, deeper than the deepest abyss…."
"Listen to my command, and burn down the obstruct in front of me…" "Power of darkness, ruler of the night, grant me the strength… to destroy everything that stops our path!"
"FLAME THROWER!" "ECLIPSE!"

Completed their spells almost at the same time, Len and Oliver blast away the cage with double fire attacks, while Kaito sending his dark spell magic at Tonio, which he unable to block it fast. After the dust from the impact had gone, with Len stood up from the ground coughing of the dust around him after been thrown out due to the strong impact too, the trio saw a shocking matter.

Dripping with bluish-black blood and a pair of bat wings spread out, Tonio held his face with his scaly claw hand, laughing uncontrollably.

"SPLENDID! THAT'S MARVELOUS! I already knew you must be strong since Nox had blessed you… but to be this strong is just out of my expectations! Kyle, I officially declare you are worthy enough to be graduated from me! However…."

Suddenly, roots shot out from the ground and blinded Kaito, Oliver and once again, Len, from moving.

"I, as one of the Demon General of the Wood, can't let you off so easily, since you also proved to be more than worthy to be a new container of our Lord Lucifer."


And…. I ended at Tonio's true identity… tell me, how many of you were surprise? (To tell the truth, even my friend who read that chapter was surprised too =P And Kaito in my mind is complaining that I'm cracking his mental too XD")

Speaking of Kaito, let me leak a little about what his ability is about….

For a person who is able to read/feel or seeing the magic flow, it was just something uncommon, as all kinds of ability are just either uncommon or rare. But for a person who was able to use the flow he felt around him, it was consider a rare gift-and that's what Kaito was. At first, he thought it's just a common reaction until he met a wind user in Igins, who told him he was weirder than those having similar ability as he is. And, that's the only time he knows he was a lot more special than usual. Now he was going to train another type of energy flow element after mastered the wind element.

And that's all folks~ See you in next update~ XD

Ops, almost forgot:

(1) Reference from Pandora Hearts, where the Black (or blood? kinda forgot =P) eye Rabbit, it's shortened version is B-Rabbit. So WR Rabbit was thought out of the blue when i write this...