Chapter ten: Back in business. Off on a new mission already?
"What about that one?" Matt suggests pointing to a higher up one.
Both Mello and Near look up to the one that their partner is pointing to.
It's a mission to go to a slightly far away city to investigate a series of killings suspected to be ok Kishin origin.
"Sure." Mello confirms and they let the one needed know that they'll be taking it.
They are handed what information is known about the mission and the one on the board has a small attachment to say that it is in progress. They head home to get ready to go with that.
A little later Halle is taking a walk then sees the three get on a motorcycle only to head off going somewhere.
"Back to going on missions already?" A voice speaks making Halle jump then turn to the voice. Spirit stands there watching the direction where the three went off in.
"Are they healed enough for it?" Halle questions turning to watch where they had gone off to.
"Probably." Spirit responds. "But it is an EAT students job to go out to do missions that are posted on the board. I suspect that they didn't pick something too difficult at this moment though."
Halle nods softly. "It's just a little strange to see." She admits. "Especially since they are so different where I come from. Mello and Near were rivals. Coming from an orphanage for the gifted. Being detectives to find a killer."
"Hm. I suppose there is a lot of change when the back stories change." Spirit turns to look to Halle. "So whats your name? You do look beautiful."
"Nice try." Halle walks away with that.
"Aw come on it's true you look so beautiful. Why don't we have a drink together?"
However Halle leaves not looking back at Spirit. She makes it to by a Café where she finds Ukita. She approaches him and he turns towards her. "Hey." She greets the other.
"Hey." Ukita greets back.
"Near, Mello and Matt went off on a mission." Halle informs him coming to stand next to him.
"They did?" Ukita asks watching her.
Halle nods. "Yup. Went off on a motorcycle."
"I see." Ukita turns away. "Well at least it's good to know that they have recovered well."
"Yeah." Halle agrees.
The two turn when they hear screams in which they rush over. They skid to a stop finding a some kind of hunched over humanoid figure with one hand as an ax and the other with long sharp claw like nails. They watch it slash another human only to eat the human soul.
"We need to tell someone." Halle gasps since neither of them knew if they are weapons or not. "Someone who can take this thing down."
The beast turns to look to them only to roar in rage and charge straight for them. It raises its axe up to be ready to strike.
Ukita and Halle hurry to get out of the way then turn ready to do what they can do to protect others.
The beast, that is obviously a Kishin, swings its axe hand towards Halle once making her dodge then doing it again.
Halle won't be able to dodge.
Not really thinking Ukita jumps in front of Halle to try to help shield her. His body begins to glow a grassy green color and he transforms into a bow landing on Halles lap. He is now a bow that has a soft area to hold onto as well to shoot arrows from, a generally straight part there until about halfway on either side that take a slightly sharp turn with a visible corner where the arch usually is, then halfway between that and the end it slightly turns upwards, at each end is a grew skull with the three sharp teeth are facing the brown wood the makes up the main part, and finally there is a dark grey string to pull back to make the arrow actually go with the ends attached to the head part of the skulls.
Halle grabs him then uses him to knock the axe away finding no damage done to Ukita. She hurries to create a gap between them only to stop and turn back. "Where are your arrows?" She hurriedly asks knowing that they need to do something.
"How am I supposed to know?!" Ukita questions slightly frustrated and confused. "I don't even fully understand any of this and how this works."
Halle looks worried as the kishin is charging for them again.
Elsewhere….
Matt is in charge of checking the map placed on Near's back while Near is resting his head on Mello's back.
"Do we turn up here Matt?" Mello inquires as he keeps his eyes on the road.
"No. The next left." Matt informs him in which Mello nods and keeps going straight.
Mello takes the turn then they head off leaving the city and traveling through the countryside.
Matt gives him directions as they travel until it gets super late.
They create a little campsite for the night. They have a fire going and each have a log to sit on.
Mello is using a fire poking stick to move some of the wood to try to keep the fire going.
Near is leaning back on the ground with the back of his shoulders resting against his log.
Matt is sitting on his log hunched over. His elbows on his knees and hands resting on his jaw.
Mello puts the stick down beside his log after finishing messing with the fire. "That should do for now."
"I wonder what kind of Kishin we could be hunting this time around." Matt speaks up watching the fire in thought. "Do you think that this one will look human or not?"
"It very well could look human. Sometimes you just never know." Near adds with a slight shrug. "Whatever comes out of this though I'm sure that we'll be able to handle it."
"It's us after all." Mello shares his agreement to what Near had said. He moves down to lay like Near. "We should get some rest. We still got a bit of a ways to go."
"True." Matt also lays back and the three all get a good night sleep before they head off out on the road again.
It takes them awhile though they finally reach their destination.
Mello slows their speed slightly cruising around as they glance around themselves to try to spot anything out of the ordinary.
"Maybe we should try speaking to the police first." Near suggests to the other two. "They could give us information on the deaths that we could go off of."
Mello nods his head in agreement and begins looking for a police station.
A figure watches them from darkness before turning running away.
AN:
I realize that I took the pictures down from my DA. I couldn't find them on my Tumblr. I will be posting the pictures somewhere and I'll let you know when they become posted. I apologize for the inconvenience it caused.
Hope that you are enjoying the story!
Mello.