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A few days had passed since the day Mike and Lucy finally came together, as she was welcomed with open arms with Strawberry jumping into her newest mom's arms which did make her cry with joy, even though she had a strong heart she couldn't help but let the tears fall as the girls surrounded their newest member of the family into a group hug as Mike joined as well, while Mise did make an off hand remark Mike nearly put him through the wall for being an idiot when he did ask why he did that, Mike could only say "For being an idiot." He spoke and Mise quickly accepted it but with a chuckle escaping from his lips seeing their family coming together, but Mike could see something more behind those eyes of his something that… he could tell was sorrow as did of Octavia's.
This made his heart drop some but kept his mouth shut, wanting to talk to them later about it when he was walking out of his class his beretta slung over his shoulder with a drum magazine he built himself, fingers intertwined with with Lucy's while they walked down the hall as Mike nuzzled her cheek lovingly making her giggle as she gave him a gentle elbow to the side "Come on lover button, let's get you to your mech trainin'." She spoke making Mike chuckle the two walking along.
You see ever since Kyo gave Lucy the mech weapons manual Lucy and Mike had been testing and trying out new kinds of weapons for his mech with new chassis and legs to get some more speed and armor behind it, this brought them much closer and Mike started to call Lucy his 'little grease monkey' since he found her cute with a little bit of oil smudges on her cheeks, which did result in her hitting him in the gut but they knew it was all in good fun.
While the two walked along, they felt as if someone was watching them that was until it was Mise who wrapped his arms around the two, nearly scaring them to death when he chuckled "Hey you two, heading to the viewing to see the mech practice going on?" He asked for the two quickly elbowed him in the gut, knocking him back a bit "O-Okay… I deserved that." He admitted with the two shaking their heads, wondering why they hung out with Mise but remembered he was family "To be exact, i'm going to practice and Lucy here has been helping me build the weapons and chassis. But we can guess you are going to view the practice?" He asked for Mise gave a nod with a smile formed.
"Yeah, we're all going to be viewing it and were routing for you Mike, give that guy some hell you hear?" He asked his little brother, giving him a bit of a pep talk before he walked out into battle for Mike was grateful for that soon walking off down the hall, Lucy in tow into the mech warehouse where Mike's latest mech was sitting far into the back, it was something a little different of Mike's own design being like a modified version of the Kabuto-00 mech body and legs, but being more sturdy and having a strong dome piece that was mixed of metal and glass painted an eerie black and red with a heatrifle arm and a sword in the other.
The mech was the two's pride and joy with all the sweat and blood they poured into the mech as Mike quickly slammed his helmet on, activating the heads up display and planted a quick kiss on Lucy's lips, soon climbing up the mech and crawled inside watching the dome close over head and started the mech, hearing the engines roar with a satisfied smirk Mike gave Lucy a thumbs up, telling her he will see her soon in which she nodded and quickly left letting Mike pilot the mech out into the arena spotting his opponent not far across the field itself.
The mech before him was a standard Golem-00 mech with darkened dome, the color scheme was a general brown and green style which did fit it stylishly with a split shot mech arm and tommy gun arm, Mike didn't find his odds very sutiple but thought something 'Two guns means more time reloading… and those split shots ain't easy to reload weapons…' He thought, smiling at this when the teacher blew his whistle releasing the two from their leashes and start their battle. The two soon charged at each other for the opponent began to fire off the tommy gun, firing in all kinds of directions trying to hit anywhere that would trick up or even knock Mike back just even a little, however Mike knew better and leveled his blade to shield himself from the oncoming fire leveling his heatrifle under the blade and opening fire, firing quick bursts at the mech's chassis.
The other mech quickly charged towards Mike continuing its suppressive fire onto Mike when the split shot turned towards an opening firing off two quick large shells at Mike's heat rifle damaging a good amount of it with the arm itself, looking like it was ready to fall apart but Mike quickly pushed the other mech back with his sword swiping fast slicing the tommy gun arm off watching the wires spark and fizzle from the blade connecting to the metal, making the mech step back a bit but leveled the split shot towards Mike and fired the last two shells in the box one planting it's pellets deep into the chassis, the other shattered his blade like it was just a piece of glass.
Mike nearly fell back with the fragments of the blade flying nearly everywhere many hitting his dome shield but he wasn't going to have any of this when the mech began to quickly reload their weapon watching the shells slowly fill back in again when Mike opened fire the last few rounds in his gun hitting the shells, making them detonate taking the weapon with them and a good chunk out of the mech's chassis of both sides knocking them backwards against the ground with a loud thump as dust bellowed from below the two.
The crowd was staring on with awe, wondering what would happen next when the one mech that both arms were blown off of from slowly shifted it's weight picking itself up from the ground with what arms it had left, but Mike on the other hand couldn't get up as his one of his mech's legs was trashed to hell and back but could still move it's arms when it shifted one a little, doing something that no one could tell it was doing, but Lucy could see he was reloading his weapon with a new magazine getting ready to pull a last stand when the other mech slowly shuffled towards him, dirt and dust getting kicked up and blown across the arena.
Mike grunted in his mech slowly shifting his body weight in the chair he was in, making his mech move it's arm leveling it towards the other mech with his thumb over the trigger "Hasta luego…" Mike uttered pushing his thumb onto the button and opening fire upon the mech, pumping the chassis full of superheated lead nearly ripping through the chassis at close range like it was nothing but cheese paper. The crowd was stunned by this, shells littered the ground as the opposite mech fell backwards, nearly crashing into the soft earth as Mike gave a gentle sigh with a mental cheer.
'I won… Even if I didn't this was still a win for me and Lucy with the mech…' He admitted in his mind, opening the dome and crawling out dropping his helmet inside while the other student quickly crawled out from hers looking a bit banged up from the battle that had ensued as Mike walked towards her with his hand out. "Good match." He spoke for she gladly took his hand and shook it "Thanks, great match." She spoke with a gentle smile walking off being helped by her friends as Mike was tackled by two little ones making him chuckle happily, hugging his two daughters while his friends and girlfriends came down soon helping Mike up as Mise punched him in the arm "You did great out there man, you really pumped that guy full of lead!" He said placing a hand on Mike's shoulder as the girls nodded in response and congratulated him, while Mike just gave a chuckle.
"Thanks guys, I thought it was the end for me again this time." He chuckled slowly turning towards Lucy "Thanks again for the help with the heatrifle, Lucy. It really saved my ass there, my little grease monkey." He spoke the last part with her nickname quietly making her blush and slug him playfully in the arm, but gave him a kiss on the cheek "Glad to hear, how about we all gitty-up celebrate the victory with a large supper!" She told the group for they cheered as Mike spoke "I'm paying tonight, Mise don't even try to say otherwise cause you have a bad habit of doing so." Mike had said for Mise wasn't going to deny it, but nodded with a chuckle seeing that it was a moment to celebrate and wasn't going to infringe on it.
The group quickly piled out while the mechs were dragged back into the warehouse to be worked on again at a later date, but Mike couldn't shake the feeling that someone was watching them but tried his best to ignore it walking with his large family towards the diner not far from the school where they sat down in a large booth connected to a few tables where they ordered their food even Kyo invited their mom and older sister to join the celebration. As the group was eating their dinner, drinking and talking to each other while Kyo was watching over his two nieces Mike spotted Octavia moving her food around with her fork, not even really touching it as she seemed… disinterested in eating for this made Mike worry greatly for her when he tried to get her attention, she snapped out of her daze looking towards him.
"S-Sorry Mike… What do you need?" She asked as Mike turned himself towards her "Octavia… you looked like you had something on your mind, i'm really worried about you…" He spoke as a sigh escaped from her lips when she felt her gaze fall, water filling her eyes with some tears rolling down her cheeks "M-Mike… I-I found something out, I…" She weeped softly as Mike began to increasingly worry for her, pulling her into a hug "What is Octavia? You can tell me sis." He softly cooed to her, Octavia gently weeping into his shoulder "M-Mise and I, we've been trying to start a family for sometime now and… And… n-nothing." She whispered in a weak tone, sniffling when she began to cry hard into his shoulder "S-So, we went to the doctors to get some testing done…" Octavia continued, her tears becoming harder as Mise's heart throbbed with pain for his wife as he knew what she was going to say.
"B-but they all came back negative... I-I can't have kids!" She cried into his shoulder, soaking his hoodie in tears. Mike was taken back hearing her words, but held her tighter feeling sorrow growing in his heart for his older sister petting her head, running his fingers through her endless waves of dark hair trying to calm her down "Shh… shhh… it's okay sis, it's okay… i'm sure one day you can have kids, mark my words you will be able to one day." He cooed to her, trying to calm his second eldest sister down when she stifled her tears to a small sniffle.
She slowly lifted her head from his shoulder to look into Mike's eyes with large, hopeful eyes "R-Really?" She sniffled for he gave a gentle nod "Of course, sis. I think everyone deserves a chance to start a family, and a mother should always have the right to carry a child for they would always be carrying the child with love in their heart." Mike smiled, planting a soft kiss upon her forehead "Now isn't the time to feel sorrow sis, I want you to look around and tell me what you see, okay?" He asked in which Octavia nodded slowly looking around to see everyone who had smiles of welcoming warmth.
"I-I see our friends and my husband…" She spoke as Mike kept his smile "They're our family sis, the people you can always rely on and that shall always be by your side no matter what." He spoke for they gave a nod, giving different voices of truth to his words for this made Octavia sniffle a little with a weak, yet small warm smile form while she wipped her tears away "T-Thank you…" She softly spoke for Mike chuckled "It's what's families for sis, now I think Mise wants you by his side. He misses his wife sis." He spoke for she nodded and moved over to Mise, who planted a loving kiss upon her lips and took her hand in his, interlocking their fingers together with Octavia laying her head upon his shoulder when Anera turned towards her youngest son.
"That was really sweet of you, Mike." She spoke while he gave a shrug "What? I only told the truth, every word of it. In a way were all family here, even if their families are back on their planet we took them in so it makes them as much as family to us as we are to them." Mike admitted with a smile forming while Anera couldn't help but giggle, gently kissing his head and nuzzling it lovingly "I know… and it makes me proud sweetie." She admitted continuing to nuzzle him with a purr as Mike nuzzled back, purring softly like a kitten with his mother for more family bonds were strengthened that day.
The very next day…
The group was sitting around in the dining hall, munching on their breakfast as Mise was marveling over Mike's newest addition to his submachine gun with a whistle "Damn… this is really well made Mike, how many bullets can this hold?" He asked looking over the drum magazine with Mike smiling happily "It can hold up to around seventy rounds, designed it myself with the help of the teacher." He smiled which Mise gave a nod, handing him back the weapon "Now that is impressive, it's crude but very well made. Just be careful though, damn things are bulky and can be heavy as hell."
Mise admitted, with his own experience behind carrying such ammo magazines as Mike did know what he meant wondering how soldiers carry the damn things, but he just put the weapon into his bracelet with most of his gear was already inside it except his belt that had his rapier that he carried proudly when the bell rang loudly indicating classes were starting again. The group soon split up and went into their own classes, Mike sitting back in his history class board out of his mind as history was never his forte in a way but did find it interesting, just sketching in his notepad till someone cleared their throat next to him to find that it was Vlana trying to keep his attention in the class but it had already shifted towards her with a gentle smile "Hey Vlana, haven't seen you here in awhile. How have you been?" He whispered to her in which she sighed feeling that she won't be able to get Mike back to focusing in the class, but still felt happy to see a friend again.
"I'm doing quite well, just returned from my training courses to become a teacher and will be doing my testing soon. They even said I could be the first ever student to be the youngest teacher in the academy, since I jumped a few classes." She whispered back with a smile on her face as Mike could only feel happy for her "Well that's great! I'm glad to hear that you're doing well and that I wish you very much good luck with your tests and future job at the school." He praised her in a quiet tone, patting her shoulder which made her blush brightly being praised thanking Mike again with the two going back to their own work, and by work Mike was just going back to sketching in his notepad being board out of his mind waiting for his next class.
Class did finally pass after a slow pace, but it slowly sped up when he talked to Vlana happy seeing that she was back again being she was one of his first friends here besides the girls as she was also the same one that helped him with his problems with the Apex as did Yana, but he was saddened that he had to leave her but they said a quick goodbye and went their separate ways wishing each other goodluck in their day.
The halls buzzed with activity nearly students bumping into each other as the doors opened multiple times, filling the halls with a chilling breeze freezing many to their core but continued on with their day Mike quickly pushing his way into his classroom, shivering vastly but felt the warmth of the classroom he began to slowly warm up that was till he felt multiple bodies collide with his, to find that it was a group hug by some of the the girls except for Silver, Wave, Angel and Moon giggled seeing the scene before them, being that it was only Izzy, Remaie and Nula who were hugging him.
Mike soon hugged back while feeling his body temperature slowly returning as they quickly helped him up to his feet with the teachers giving instructions, most of the students were getting antsy to use the virtual room for the teachers thought it would be best to use targets this time and many did agree for this would be a form of testing today, students being called in to face against virtual targets of their own design to fight against. This did interest many, some raising eyebrows at what they would fight and why they would be doing testing today but quickly shrugged it off wanting to get their feet wet again in the virtual room which they did while others were allowed to practice against the students but not to harm anyone, a simple rule that they followed to the t.
Students were called in by alphabetical order, one of the first students get called in was Angel who looked the most worried to go in being not having much combat experience like the rest but the group reassured her and watched her walk into the room, the group decided to hang back for now, watching the door while some of them were practicing a little in a few sparring matches when after about close to ten minutes Angel walked out with a few other students when they quickly walked to her she gave a gentle smile. "I got a B- on my test." She smiled feeling relieved that she passed her test which did make the group smile and Mike took her hands in his, planting a loving kiss upon her lips "Congratulations Angel, we knew you could do it." He said to her, for this made her blush a little brightly but couldn't help but smile thanking the group for believing in her.
After more students were taken in Izzy was the next to walk in with a group of other students, but quickly snagged Mike and kissed him deeply and lovingly with a giggle "Be back soon Mr. Snuggles!" She cheered happily, walking inside later walking back out after about less time, close to five minutes with a happy grin "I got an A! I smashed the system!" Izzy cheered happily for the group couldn't help but share a laugh seeing Izzy happy. Up next was Mike and Moon with other students walking into the room, walking students enter the room fighting different kinds of enemies that they had created, ones that could fight back with ferocity in their blood many seemed to struggle in their fights for Mike could see in their eyes they wouldn't last long in real combat that would be to the death.
He didn't blame them at all, feeling sorrow for them when the teacher then called him up next placing the wired helmet onto his head "Just think of any kind of enemy Mike, something that you would be the most comfortable fighting and the environment itself." He explained, Mike nodding in understanding letting his mind wonder to something that he would never see in combat while Shiro was looking through the system "Fascinating… he uploaded multiple files just from one thought process…" He murmured changing some files around and labeling them when Mike spoke "I choose file number one, environment number seven." He said taking the helmet off, putting his belt into his bracelet and slipping his gloves on tightening them tightly around his hands.
The teacher gave a nod typing in the information while Mike walked to the door waiting for it to open, which it did slowly letting Mike in and closed quickly behind him when he walked to the second one while the environment soon finished rendering letting Mike out into a familiar looking parking lot when he heard a familiar voice "Well looky here, the bastard came for his daily beating." The voice range when Mike felt his mind and heart coming to a slow halt when he spoke "I did… Butch…" He spoke, slowly turning towards the familiar group of bullies "I may have made amends with you all… but it don't mean anything until I beat the living hell out of you and get it all out of my system…"
Mike spoke, cracking his knuckles while the group could only laugh as Mike slowly dug his footing into the ground soon taking off towards them with a swift punch to the gut knocking one back, nearly stumbling which stifled their laughter as Mike retracted his fist. They quickly gotten their wits back as one launched his fist fast at Mike, giving in quick jabs towards him being that Mike did remember the student was a boxer and another was an MMA fighter as Mike was having trouble dodging the jabs but found an opening delivering a quickly flurry of jabs to his solar plexus and stomach, following up with an elbow to the jaw knocking the opponent to the ground groaning in pain when Mike got kicked in the head by a roundhouse kick, knocking him backwards.
Mike quickly gained his footing again and shook his head while relocating his jaw but nearly didn't have enough time to block the jabs and hook that followed after word but was caught off guard by the uppercut, feeling his teeth clench tightly in pain but Mike felt his anger grow slamming his head against the student's nose, nearly shattering it on impact when Mike grabbed the man's head and slammed it into his knee launching him backwards.
As the others saw this going on Butch sent another at him, but Mike saw an opportunity that he felt was would be the best when he grabbed the man's arm when he launched his attack flipping him around and slammed the man into the other's only leaving Butch last, feeling his anger rise he charged towards Mike side checking him hard into the school's sign grabbing his head and slamming it into the sign over and over again. Blood was trailing against the sign, dripping from Mike's face nearly covered in blood when Butch was going to slam it against the sign again but Mike quickly smashed his foot into Butch's knee making him scream in pain as Mike slammed his side into him knocking him back and picking up a large rock and smashing it against the side of his head knocking him unconscious.
Mike was left panting, tossing the bloody stone to the side when he leaned against the sign with a smile forming upon his lips 'I finally won… even if they ain't real… I finally won…' He admitted with the environment slowly fading away while he stood up feeling the pain slowly fading away when he touched his face, finding that the blood was completely gone that just made him shrug walking out of the virtual room much to the worry of Moon while he gave her a smile soon pulling her into a deep, passionate loving kiss which surprised Moon but gladly kissed Mike back before the two slowly separated.
"Good luck Mooney." He cooed to her giving her a loving nuzzle, making her blush brightly quickly walking into the virtual room for Mike to watch on, smiling happily watching her fight against the opponents she had chosen watching as if it was a beautiful dance and the beat of her music was playing was deep in her mind, and the spotlight was on her on a large stage that only Mike could see was beautiful. Time came and went with class as each class came and went leading to that of lunch as Mike was talking to the group, minus some of the group which did confuse a good amount of them "I'm telling you guys, it was like a ballet or something it was just… beautiful." Mike sighed in awe remembering Moon's performance, getting an A on her test while the group nodded some giggling while others snickered just a little but Octavia spoke.
"Well that's good to hear but… Where is Moon?" She asked with the others nodding "Actually, where the hell is everyone? They ain't normally missing like this, one or two for sure but seven this isn't right." Kyo voiced with the group nodding when Mise began to think, his chin cupped in his hand lost in thought. "Hmmm… this is quite strange, and highly odd. I don't like this at all… not one bit." Mise admitted getting up while Mike did also starting to worry "You're right man, come on let's go see where they are." He had said walking out of the dining hall as Mise turned to Octavia and the rest "Octy, you, Kyo, and the rest of the girls get Starry and Strawberry at school and hold out with Anera until we find the others, something isn't right and something tells me it's not safe right now." Mise said gravely and a bit reluctantly almost as if he was trying to mentally deny his gut instinct following Mike out of dining hall.
The two quickly made it out of the halls and into the dorms, looking through the multiple dorms they adorned Mike closing Silver's door as Mise walked out of Remaie's stuffing a bag into his coat pocket while Mike gave him a glare "Really man? The girls are missing and raid Remaie's stash? I bought her that stuff man!" He yelled at him as Mise gave a shrug, knowing he was right but still wanted the stuff "Two things, 1, I'll pay you back, and 2, I got some shit in my house back in Canterlot that will knock this shit out of the water, so quit whining and let's keep looking." Mise argued while Mike facepalmed, mentally kicking himself for not slugging him sooner when he spoke "I know that… but that stuff I found to be her favorite strain… I bought it out of love…"
He sighed walking down the hall while Mise watched this, with a sigh escaping his lips he followed him mentally kicking himself and would need to get more for the two, tossing the bag back into her dorm and shutting the door. The two walked to the final door, the door lead to the girls and Mike's apartment when he sighed "This is the final place that they would be… if they ain't here then I have no idea…" Mike spoke, feeling sorrow in his tone with Mise nodding and placing his hand upon his shoulder "We'll find them man, don't worry. Come on, let's go to the headmasters, maybe they'll let us use the intercom system to call them or whatever."
Mise suggested trying to keep Mike's moral up and he gave a nod, opening the door to find the apartment empty, void of any life when Mike slumped further in his footing walking inside "They're not here man… They're gone…" Mike slowly trekked, the sorrow growing deeper and deeper in his soul and his heart as Mise watched him slowly walk towards the window tears slowly forming in his eyes when he placed his forehead against the cold glass pane.
Mise walked towards his younger brother, feeling a pit of guilt inside gently patting his shoulder trying to get his attention "Mike, I know I'm not the most serious person when I should be but now's the few times I'm going to be, regardless of where the girls, in danger or otherwise, sitting here and crying isn't going to help find them. I know it hurts to worry like this, but if we fair any chance we have to keep moving, the more ground we cover in least amount of time, the better hope we have of tracking them down." Mise said in a serious tone, one which was out of character compared to his usual self, Mike gave a nod wiping his tears away "Yeah… Yeah! You're right man, we're going to find them and nothing is going to stop us!" Mike declared for this made Mise smile widely seeing the fire growing in Mike's heart again "Now we're cooking with gasoline, let's get the girls back and kick any and all ass that stands in our way!"
Mise said clenching his fist in determination. Mike gave a big chuckle and nodded, but something caught his eye from outside when he turned to find someone standing out there standing amongst the snow "What the…? Dude, someone is outside… maybe they seen the girls." He said starting to run out the front door when Mise spoke up while he left, following him down the halls "Do you really think so? Cause I didn't see anything man." He spouted while Mike shook his head "I seen this figure before man… I've seen that duster before…" Mike called back vaulting down the stairs, Mise struggling to keep up but tried his damndest to do so when the two rushed out into the courtyard to find that the figure was gone, vanished with the wind blowing around them.
"H-He's gone…" Mike panted surveying the area around them while Mise walked past him "This doesn't make anysense… how can someone vanish without a single trace? I learned how to do this in a different manor, just ask my ex." He spoke with a chuckle trying to lighten the mood, even just a little but Mike wasn't having it for his mind was going into overdrive.
While Mike continued to look around Mise was hanging back a little wondering what was even going on, as if this all felt… familiar to him, like he's seen this all before "Mike! I know what's going on! The girls have been kid-Gah!" He screeched when Mike quickly turned towards his eldest brother time began to slow down, finding Mise having a blade of a sword protruding from his chest with blood splattering the snow on the ground, showering it in crimson Mise gripping the blade in his hands slowly falling to his side, lying upon the cold, cold snow. Mike felt his heart pounding in his chest when his gaze fell upon the person that was behind Mise, garbed in black like their face covered with a second blade, much shorter being a dagger clutched in their fingers "Why… Why did you do this?!"
He shouted towards the figure when it chuckled a sickening chuckle "To send a message little one… To show how the mightiest can fall before anyone…" The assassin spoke for Mike didn't want to hear this, summoning from his bracelet his belt and ripping the blade from the back gripping the handle nearly enough to bend the metal like it was just clay. The figure gave a chuckle watching Mike put the belt back into his bracelet, watching his eyes change into his Floran eyes looking deep into his dark crimson orbs feeling a smirk forming under his wrappings 'That's the kind of power we wanted to see… The boss will be very much pleased seeing this power…'
The assassin thought waiting for Mike's first strike gripping the dagger tightly as Mike soon charged at the assassin, stabbing forward while they quickly dogged and blocked the blade with their own punching Mike hard in the stomach and knocking him back as he quickly caught his footing and flipped his blade upside down trying to slash the assassin's body while he dodged each attack delivering a hard haymaker to his jaw following up with a swift upper kick knocking Mike into the snow.
"You're footing is horrible and your attacks are at best lackluster… you need to dig deep inside to find that passionate fire… I want you to burn in the hellish fire that soul of your's can create." The assassin taunted, lacing Mike with bait for he scrambled to his feet kicking snow everywhere charging fast towards the assassin side checking into them only gaining a grin former "That's it! I want a challenge from you!" He spouted knocking Mike back with his palm and flipping backwards in a jump snagging something from his leg when he threw two throwing knives one hitting the wall, the other Mike knocked out of the air charging at the figure with much force behind each step when he dug deep down, both in his soul and into the ground when he pushed himself from the ground leaping high into the air and lunging at the figure slamming his blade down hard into the ground catching some of his cloth wrappings.
'Now this is getting interesting… a new attribute is slowly showing… perfect…' He kept his grin blocking each attack Mike was delivering, watching him gain speed with each flurry of attack when Mike grabbed the figure's cloak "W-What?!" He screamed out when Mike wrenched his arm back and slammed his fist hard into the figure's face, sending them tumbling across the snow and into one of the trees groaning. Mike was panting and felt beyond exhausted at this point, but kept his demeanor and walked towards the figure picking them up with one hand "N-Now… who the fuck are you…?"
He asked ripping the figure's wrappings off their face to reveal… it was a face spray painted upon a flour sack with a speaker in the front as he threw it to the side a voice came from behind him making him turn to find the figure was standing before him, finding that a little more was revealed to show a masculine but thin physic but most still covered in black cloth wrappings except for a long crimson red scarf, blowing franticly in the wind.
Mike growled out in anger as the figure slowly raised it's hand, flexing his fingers in a fashion of goodbye when it was enveloped in smoke blowing away with the wind as Mike crashed to his knees, sitting next to his older brother panting in exhaustion he felt his anger boiling the flour sack resting silent and Mise's raspy breaths could only be heard over the howls of the wind. However unknown to them the figure watched on all fours from the roof far from them, watching on with it's scarf blowing rapidly in the wind.
*Alright so, this is yes a short chapter but is a prelude to the next one which will be uploaded shortly. We thought it would be best to cut it off here to lead into the next one, which will be up soon. Anyway hope you all enjoyed the chapter and we shall see you all in the next one!*