Hello everyone! I told you i will find a schedule and try to post more regularly...
Well I think I will post new chapters every second Friday. I think it goes perfect with my program and I think you will develop enough ideas until then on what is happening!
So here we go!
Sparks danced in the air as Mikado continued looking at Izaya. Izaya had pulled another knife from his jacket and was now battling that thing that looked like a Saika. He immediately took action when he heard Izaya's loud and clear voice and ran towards Kida as well as Saki. Both of them tried to get that knife out of the wall while Anri had pulled Saika out and was in front of them keeping a distance between them and the fight.
After she had heard Izaya, Saika got out immediately and her feet guided her away towards her friends. She needed to protect them, keep them away for the fight. That person with the katana didn't back down as well as Izaya. He looked different. He acted differently. Yet Anri wouldn't let her ground down for either. Both of them were dangerous.
That person, because it looked like a Saika yet it was not a Saika and also Izaya for being...well, Izaya. Yet Izaya was the one that saved Kida and Anri for being cut by that katana. He was the one that made them move and stop from being lost. They acted quickly and fastly after that. They needed Kida to get out of that knife before anything else happened.
Cuts and sparks were heard yet the speed was steady. Both didn't back down, didn't hold. Like they knew each other and they wanted to kill each other. By both auras that Anri felt, maybe that was true. Black auras were in front of her and yet she felt something else she didn't pinpoint.
Another cut was heard and that time that person moved back and Izaya followed to deliver another cut. Izaya must have cut them yet nothing stopped him from attacking again. But that person anticipated that attack and simply kicked.
Izaya fell back but before he touched the ground he threw the knife at them. That was what that person didn't wait and was hit by it making them lose their footing and fall back.
Yet Saki and Mikado hadn't managed to pull out that knife. Izaya must have thrown it with so much force. To protect Kida. Yet he didn't count for the matter on how to get it out.
Izaya and that person had stood up and continued their fight. Anri looked back at her friends. There was only one thing they could do now. They pulled out Kida from his jacket.
But not looking at Izaya's and that person's fight was a mistake for Anri. Izaya had managed to parry an attack from the slasher and threw the katana away from the holder's hands. Yet that direction was Anri's head.
Anri felt it coming but Saika didn't move.
Yet the pain came.
...
...
But not from her head but her leg. A knife had cut her first and she was falling down and for some millimeters, the katana didn't touch her head and it made contact with the wall that previously Kida was on. It impaled Kida's jacket. Anri jumped up and even though she felt pain, her instincts told her to move.
She looked behind her and at the second she did she saw that the slasher had caught Izaya by the head and moved him at the wall. A sound was heard and Anri smelled blood.
-xxx-
Several minutes before
Celty finally looked at the sky. Finally, she saw the sunset after this long day...of doing nothing and being bored. But not now. Not only she wasn't bored because she wasn't alone. Shizuo was with her. He was really quiet but that was normal when both of them met up.
Their conversations and meetings were short and the main thing in them was silence. But not awkward. It was pleasant. Even after all those things that Celty experienced with Shizuo, she always felt comfortable around Shizuo. That's why they had that habit of seeing things just walk by. Observing them.
Feeling like humans.
Still, even all the photos Celty had seen, Shizuo was still the same...except maybe the fights that had decreased. She hadn't seen any signs or vending machines thrown in the air and no one had gone to the hospital after all this...thing happening.
Celty still had her eyes on him because still, she was curious about him. But if all those things she read or saw on the dollars website were true, she would still have Shizuo as her friend. Well, she would be surprised even confused on his behavior or his real relationship with Izaya but still.
Shizuo was her true friend.
Someone that she could trust other than Shinra. And she would keep that relationship with him even after all theses. Shizuo had helped her see things that she couldn't see herself. And even though she had Shinra, Shizuo was different. A different outlook of things.
They were seen as the same.
And they were trying to act as what they always wanted to be.
Humans.
"You are quiet today." Shizuo threw Celty out of her thoughts and she started typing on her PDA.
[As well as you.]
Shizuo looked at it and laughed. He put the used cigarette on his mouth and breathed.
"That's true. I...They are some things going right now that I try to fix."
[Want to talk about it?] Celty showed her PDA at Shizuo and he looked up at the sunset.
After some silence he said. "Nah...I am ok. They...just all appeared together and until I settle them, I will be quite..." He stopped.
They watched the sunset. Celty let Shizuo finished his sentence. It was normal for him not to finish his sentences when his thoughts were too much. He tried to relax and try to find the perfect words to express himself. Or that or a sign would be thrown or a punch would be delivered.
"...not myself." He finally said and put his finished cigarette in the small bag he had on his shirt.
[What do you mean?] Celty asked curiously because it was something that she didn't expect from Shizuo to say.
Shizuo looked at the PDA and put his hand behind his head. Scratching it. Trying yet again to explain himself. His awkward smile appeared. Celty was glad that at least she could still recognize the Shizuo she knew. Even after all those photos.
"Well, maybe not acting like before. Lately, Vorona said to me that I don't act like myself but I hold myself before every action or conversation. And to tell you the truth I haven't noticed that. But later when Tom told me not to get angry at someone..."
[?]
Shizuo smiled taking his sunglasses out and putting them in his suit.
"Well, apparently...haha...someone had thrown some water at my suit and the glass that the water was inside had broken. I don't know how but after it had broken it cut my bowtie. Tom said not to get angry and prayed not to do anything...I...I haven't noticed any of that."
[What DO YOU MEAN you haven't noticed?]
"I remember walking on that bar but the conversation that was happening in front of me wasn't...heard by me...for some reason. I only heard Tom-senpai saying my name and not to give a punch."
[So what did you do?] Celty asked and had unmounted Shooter and had walked towards Shizuo to sit beside him.
"I just looked at that person that had thrown the water and took the broken glass he was holding and threw it away. Then...I just walked away."
Celty jumped from where she sat and tapped furiously at her PDA while smokes from her helmet escaped. She basically threw her PDA at Shizuo's face.
[WHAT? SHIZUO, ARE YOU OK?]
Shizuo laughed at her and moved the PDA away from his face.
"Yes, I am. As I said everything had just...happened all at once and I don't act like myself. Maybe am I improving?" He suddenly asked himself and he looked once again at the sunset.
Celty did the same. It would disappear slowly making another day officially end. She hoped that she could still understand Shizuo but after what Shizuo said she was just confused. What was happening in the city?
Shizuo wasn't fighting or throwing anything. Izaya hadn't appeared at all and nothing had happened in the city for a long time. More yellow-worn people appeared and yet no one did anything. The dollars website had ended making that underground website thrive. And Izaya and Shizuo hadn't yet found it.
What's more?
What was Izaya to Shizuo?
The photos showed something deep. It was like a code that if you didn't know the way to solve it, it would be closed forever. Yet the image was there to taunt you. Confuse you. And the duo didn't help. Their actions until now were the usual. And yet they stopped when all that thing started. Celty jumped at the thought. Did they know about the website?
That's why they talked to each other? To how end them all? Someone had put their hand on Celty's shoulder and she jumped putting some distance for that person and her.
Shizuo looked at her surprised and then at his hand. He pulled it away and looked behind him.
"I am sorry...did ...did I hurt you?" Shizuo asked.
Hurt.
That tone made Celty despise herself and immediately started tapping at her PDA. She hated herself for thinking that Shizuo would hurt her. He was her friend. Why did she think that he would be an enemy? Why was she afraid? She wasn't thinking logically that's all. Shinra's birthday would come soon and the panic got her. That's all.
...
She walked towards Shizuo and showed it at him.
[No. You didn't hurt me. I was just surprised since I am also in my thoughts lately. I was thinking too right now and I had forgotten that we were talking before. Sorry if I surprised you.]
Celty was saying the truth. She was just surprised.
Shizuo looked at it and laughed again. It was Celty's time now to be surprised.
"Well, you surprised me too. To say to someone like me that you forgot that I was here...is laughable." Shizuo joked and started laughing and Celty did also.
To think that way was true. Shizuo was the kind of person not to come unnoticed by the public. Or her by the matter. By she was comfortable around him after all. She trusted him.
Then why was she thinking about all those things?
Celty looked again at the forgotten sunset and relaxed. It would disappear soon. But she would enjoy it nonetheless.
The sounds of taps made her lose her focus on the sunset and she looked towards where the sound was. It was Shizuo who was tapping something at his phone. But not the one that she saw earlier which he talked with Tom but a yellow one. The one that Kadota's gang said it was like a personal phone. And by the way, he looked at the phone and tapped it showed that he was not enjoying what he was writing.
Then he suddenly looked up at the sunset and stood up from the wall he had put his weight on. He started looking around confused and after that, he smelled the air.
Oh no.
Only one thing meant what Shizuo had done.
Izaya was here.
Shizuo looked behind him. Then suddenly he jumped the railing that Shooter was parked and started running. Celty, surprised by that change of emotions she followed Shizuo. She started running too whenever Shizuo went. But something stopped her.
She quickly hid behind a wall and put her back on it. She was sure now that she had lost Shizuo but her feet didn't let her move. And that reason was...
Yellow.
People that wore yellow scarves were in front of her suddenly after Shizuo had walked past that road she didn't follow. Like they had appeared on purpose to stop her for following Shizuo. But it wasn't the color that made her stop. But the feeling of knowing.
The feeling that she knew those guys. And that feeling was true. Because those in front of her were the gang that had stopped her horse. Had immobilized it. She blanked and didn't move.
Her horse sent her positive thoughts so she could move away but that wasn't enough for her.
They had stopped Shooter. They were dangerous. They could stop her. They had the means to do it.
They could kill her.
She started to panic. She finally felt something that she didn't fell for a long time. She was scared.
Celty was afraid of dying.
Not now. She had someone that she loved. She was now somewhere where she belonged, had fun. Be herself.
Be human.
The scythe that had appeared at her hands was unnoticed by her. The way she had lifted up and changed the blade so it could now kill someone, was also unnoticed. However, she noticed that Scooter screamed at her. She blocked everything. They were dangerous. They would kill her. She would lose everything.
Shinra.
She moved away from the wall and turned slowly at them but she was still covered by the wall. Their laughs made her sick. Lost. Angry.
They were dangerous.
She would end them.
Celty steady walked away from the wall and lifted the scythe into the air. Only one slash and she would be free. Safe and sound. Shinra would be also.
Celty knew that even without her head she smirked and let the scythe down.
"You are not a monster Celty!"
Shinra?
"Just because they think you are doesn't mean that you are!"
What...
"Everyone doesn't see how beautiful you are. How kind you are. How perfect to be my wife!"
...I am...
"Even though you are dullahan you are more humane than everyone. That's why I know that I can trust you. That's why I love you!"
...doing!?
Celty felt herself cry and the scythe disappeared from her hands and someone pulled her back. Away from the eyes of the Yellow Scarves. Celty looked behind her and saw Scooter. It had transformed into its horse self and had pulled her back with some lines of darkness that it had created.
It felt sadness but also happiness. Celty turned and hugged it. She knew that she was crying. What was she about to do?!
She would kill the people in front of her. She would become a monster. That's why Scooter touched her with their shadows and showed her what made them both happy.
Shinra.
But why she would do that? Why? Was she truly a monster? Without an emotion?
"No." Her horse sent her.
She looked at it and it looked down. She followed where Scooter looked and saw a blob of darkness. It was different than her shadows. It didn't emit any smoke and the way it moved without a tempo made Celty sick. It was familiar. She had felt that aura before.
It was deadly.
Celty suddenly understood. That blob had touched her and had polluted her mind and thoughts. It had made her think that way. To kill. It was dangerous. And if she touched it again, it would do the same thing again.
So the only option was to run away from it. But the blob suddenly stretched like it was dying and disappeared. Celty looked at the scene in front of her. It had just disappeared. Like that.
Celty let out a sigh and fell back at the wall. Her horse put its head (neck) at her and she petted. She heard someone talking. Probably the yellow scarves but right now she felt tired.
She wanted to sleep. She wanted to go to Shinra and hug him. After all, it was him that saved her. She juggled. It was him that made her human. Not what she looked but what she felt. Her thoughts though were interrupted by a body flying from the road that Celty was about to enter.
She stood up immediately and looked inside. Shizuo was inside and was talking. At first, she thought that he was talking at the yellow scarves that had pulled out weapons ready to strike but after she carefully observed him, he was talking at his phone. The phone, he had previous out. But she couldn't understand what he was saying because the scarves spoke too and in their language.
Not only she could not listen to their conversations but also didn't understand what Shizuo was saying on the phone. But what struck her as weird was that there was only one voice she heard and was talking in a language she didn't understand and the one she saw talking was Shizuo. Maybe he was so back that she didn't listen to him?
Suddenly, he closed his phone and while he put it inside his suit, he picked up a vending machine. He looked at the yellow scarves and he opened his mouth.
So it was true. Celty couldn't listen. Because right now he was moving his mouth and she didn't hear anything. The scarves speak too or so she thought when one of them move in front after Shizuo was done talking and showed his knife. Shizuo smiled. But his kind of smile. He then threw the vending machine at the sky.
Why?
Ah, a distraction. Because while all of the scarves observed the vending machine, Shizuo moved.
-xxx-
Anri felt someone picking her up and then making her walk. She finally opened her eyes and tasted blood in her lips. Mikado held her hand and guided her away from where she was previously. She looked behind and the only thing she managed to see was that Izaya was down in front of the wall, probably unconscious and the slasher was over him.
Ready to move the katana down and deliver the final blow.
She needed to help him. She felt worried. She felt that something bad had happened to him. She knew deep down that he wasn't unconscious...he was...d...e...a...
She shook her head. Not now! She didn't need to think that way. Even though Izaya had done what he had done, he had saved them. So while she was dragged by Mikado she put her hand up like Sayaka had done and focused her energy towards the slasher.
"Stop." She sent the demand like she always sent to her children.
Yet nothing happened. She felt only...
Malice!
-xxx-
"NO! Stop thinking that when a character is doing something evil is necessary a villain. They are villains that know when to be evil and when the line of doing something that is just monstrous, stop."
"Yet here I see the opposite, you otaku idiot!"
"Who you are saying otaku idiot, you withdrew hentai!"
At that moment, both adults moved out of the van and started to hit each other.
"At least they are fighting outside."
"Well, after the punch you gave to both of them after their previous fight, I would also fight outside."
Kadota and Togusa started laughing and watched as Walker and Erika started hitting each other. Both of them screamed their attacks like they were in a fighting anime. At least something was happening to keep the boredom away. After all the photos and seeing no fight between the duo or anything thrown to the sky, the city had gone quiet.
Well, not quite. Those yellow scarves (that in reality they weren't but acted like that gang) were still increasing in numbers and yet Kida didn't know anything about them. He knew that Kida had still the scarves open but Kadota agreed with him on one thing. Those yellow scarves...he hadn't seen them before too. They were new to his eyes.
And the language they were talking made Kadota all more curious of them and also worried. Who were they? What did they want?
And why everything started after the photos? It must be no consequence.
The fighting between the duo, the new yellow scarves, the new dollars website, the new slasher. Even Shizuo was calmer than before. Hell, even Izaya wasn't playing or planning anything.
Kadota moved his hat slightly down deep at though. Was that maybe new arrivals here? If so why didn't Izaya made new plans with them?
Kadota slightly grimaced. Was that a plan of a person (that admin of the new dollars website) stronger than Izaya?
Was that all their doing? Or was that just also another consequence?
The sound of something hitting the ground, shook Kadota out of his thoughts. He turned towards where he thought that thing had landed and saw a vending machine near the van.
"Ah, Shizu-Shizu is finally back! But...where is Iza-Iza?" Erika asked and let Walker fall from the headlock she had done on him and looked around.
"...y...you are right? Where is Izaya-san? I thought that maybe it was a fight?" Walker breathed hard.
"Is it a fight?" Togusa asked.
"What do you mean?" Kadota asked him shocked while Erika kicked Walker again to assert dominance.
"I don't know. I feel like there is not a fighting happening but a duel." He simply said and look at the fight between Erika and Walker.
Kadota simply looked at him. He...really felt that what Togusa said was REALLY wrong. Something bad would happen right now. And that it was the truth. Because while Walker had finally managed to moved Erika back, a line of darkness moved and landed in front of Kadota...and pulled him away.
After he had landed and his friends helped him stood up he saw that a body had impacted to the ground he previously stood. Kadota looked towards the direction the body had come and saw another body flew and landed somewhere behind him.
The lines of darkness left his body and Celty showed herself in front of everyone. She left Scooter and walked towards Kadota.
[Kadota! Are you ok?] She had typed and Kadota put his hand behind his head smiling.
"Yes, Celty I am ok. But I don't think the people that come here flying are." He commented
Celty nodded and typed.
[Shizuo saw some of those yellow scarves and started to attack them. Something must have happened. But it is getting serious!]
Kadota read Celty's message and nodded. Erika tried to find Shizuo but couldn't see him. He should have been here near the bodies that were coming that way? Was he that back? She listened to his cries and the punches but he didn't see him.
"Where is Shizuo?" Erika asked curiously.
[He is somewhere. He was in an alley but after the fight started he moved and now moves around so I don't know. Somewhere close from the bodies to come here.]
Erika nodded.
"How about we move away from the direction of the bodies or probably away from the fight. Seeing all this I think that Shizuo accidentally can hit us." Kadota announced and all agreed.
[Still...where we can go?]
The van gang eyed each other. That was a good question. When Shizuo got really angry which he was now, any wreckage would land anywhere. So where? Probably away from this street. The fight was coming closer and the street was one of the no places.
"Maybe on the main road? I haven't seen Shizuo fighting there. Not even with Izaya...well only once.." Togusa said.
"That's because he wants to avoid as many glazes towards him. But yes a great idea." Kadota commented and everyone started to enter the van.
Celty had gone to Scooter but suddenly...she saw the Raira kids coming towards them. Afraid.
All of the adults went towards them. The kids breathed heavily and Anri gasped with pain and fell down when she had stopped walking. Celty went towards her and understood why. She was hurt at the leg. A slash. But...how...
She was Saika.
So a slash on a Saika? When they had got the breath back, they started to aid Anri's injury. Unknown to Celty, Walker and Erika had brought a first-aid kit and treated Anri's cut while the kids helped in their own way.
"What happened!?" Erika shouted afraid at Anri when she saw the slash.
Anri, however, caught her breath and was unable to answer. But Kida could.
"The slasher... they found us and tried to..."
"To kill us." Saki said.
"What?" Kadota asked startled.
"We...s-saw Izaya and then a katana was nearly inside Kida's head." Mikado answered.
"What that bastard tried to do!?" Erika shouted angry surprising everyone with her harsh tone.
"N-no wait...Izaya was..."
Erika caught at the Mikado's shoulders and shook him.
"What!? Observing you? The mastermind behind it!? I swear I will kill him."
Everyone was shaken by Erika's tone and behavior but by the way, that story was going everyone would be angry. And if it was someone that you valued as a friend, of course, you would be ready to strike.
"No..." Anri's voice appeared making everyone pause.
Erika let Mikado and crouched in front if Anri. Anri's head was down looking at her now bandaged injury which Walker had just finished.
"What is it?"
"He...save us." The words were loud holding a meaning.
"What?" Togusa finally destroyed the silence between them.
"He saved me. He took me away from the katana's direction and fought the slasher while we tried to leave." Kida simply said.
"But while he fought them the katana flew at the air after a strike...and..." Mikado continued.
"...it would land at Anri's head. But Izaya threw a knife at Anri making her fall down and by some meters, the katana missed Anri's head." Saki finished.
Everyone stared shocked. Izaya...helped...or saved the kids? Why? He was always by the sidelines watching the plans he had made unfold in front of him. Then why he saved the kids and fought that slasher. Wasn't it that slasher part of his plans?
"But while they came to pick me up and run away... I managed to see Izaya..."
Anri had whispered and she then lifted her head up looking at everyone. Her eyes were teared up and she shivered.
Clearly afraid.
"The slasher had caught Izaya by the head and hit him at the wall. Izaya had just stopped moving and had fallen down and the slasher was ready to deliver the last..." She whispered but didn't finish.
Then she finally stood up and wiped her eyes and with enough energy she said.
"Save Izaya." She had addressed Celty.
Celty looked at her. She was clearly at shook. She wanted to see if Izaya was alive. He had...saved them and had taken the fall. Why!?
"Please..." Celty heard someone whispered but couldn't pinpoint who it was.
Then Kida looked at her too. But he was more worried than Anri. He was afraid.
"Please..." He simply said and that simple word made her move.
She went to her horse and before she was ready to go, Erika went in front of her.
"I want to come too. Clearly, I was wrong for Izaya. So I want to...thank him, that bastard. When we find him..." She said.
Celty knew that meaning. Erika didn't believe her words. Yet she let them out. Why? To give courage to the kids.
Celty nodded and Erika hopped at Scooter's back and let the shadows touched her head making a helmet appear. After the kids told them where Izaya was, they left. The others watched as they disappeared and then felt a vibration.
Shit! Shizuo was still fighting!
Kadota ordered the kids to enter the van and told Togusa to run.
-xxx-
Celty felt herself getting worried by the second. The closer they get, the more worried she became. Izaya could be dead. If that katana had cut him, then he was finished. Yet the kids believed that he was ok. He was not dead.
Erika felt the same as Celty. Her words previously were empty. Their only purpose was to give courage to the others. Still, she wanted to see Izaya. Alive. He was a bastard. He was the best villain she had ever seen with her eyes. Yet his personality and ways made Erika sick.
Yet why was she worried?
Was it because the photos showed a more humane Izaya? Or the fact that Izaya acted weird?
Saving the kids? He usually let them fight and he just laughed over them.
Why?
Was that slasher truly more dangerous than Izaya himself?
Erika caught herself wishing that Izaya was ok.
-xxx-
Of course.
Of course, they wouldn't make it...
Izaya...
Izaya... was...
Oh no...