Chapter twelve: The fight. Will the trios first job be a success or failure?
Mello arrives and finds the victim so he begins looking around the area trying to determine where the other went. He uses the walls to hop up to the roof to get a better perspective. He glances around scanning the area however he doesn't see anything.
That's when a noise comes from behind them making Mello spin around. There is the suspect that had been described about to bring his weapon down upon them.
Mello reacts quickly bringing Matt up to help block the attack. He also makes sure to move Near away from the path of the attack. He doesn't want to risk injuring Near again while he is still technically healing. He however uses Near to shoot the enemy in the stomach.
The enemy is knocked down to a hunched over position.
Mello takes this opportunity to swing one leg around slamming the enemy in the back of the head with his heel. He presses the bottom of his foot against the enemy once the enemy is knocked down to the ground. He aims Matt at the other only to have to jump back when the axe is swung at his leg. He aims Matt again shooting at the other who gets up only to leap away. He keeps shooting Matt as the enemy keeps dodging.
The enemy swings the axe straight at Mello.
Mello tries to shoot it away but it doesn't help. He jumps up just at the last minute to dodge the attack. He lands on the axes handle this time aiming both Near and Matt at the enemy. "This ends here." He growls with narrowed eyes. "Your reign of terror is over."
The enemy laughs. "Oh I don't think so."
Mello shoots both Near and Matt at the enemy several times watching him jump side to side slightly on one foot to the other. "Ha! Dance Bitch!" He slightly laughs at the comical looking scene. He then notices a suspicious movement of the others hand going towards a back pocket. He tries to shoot it but this time the enemy jumps to another roof pulling out a hidden machete. He shoots again keeping the other from grabbing the axe.
The enemy runs around on the roof to dodge the bullets doing an almost zigzag pattern. He reaches back pulling out some ninja stars. He tosses them in the direction of Mello.
Mello shoots at them this time being able to knock them off of their thrown path. He glares at the enemy. He knows that they could do soul resonance but as his eyes are drawn to Near he becomes worried. He doesn't want to hurt his partner after all.
"Mello concentrate!" Near suddenly calls out making Mello's head to snap back up.
Mello has to jump backwards to dodge the thrown machete that digs into the axes handle where he had been standing.
The enemy leaps onto the roof being able to grab the axe then tear the machete off the handle. He now has one weapon in each hand. His ear to ear smirk can be heard in his voice when he speaks. "Now I've got the upper hand! Mwhahahaha!"
Mello clenches his teeth. "We have to do it."
"Mello?" Matt inquires slightly turning to look at the other from within his weapon form.
Near already has an idea of what Mello means. "We have to use soul resonance." He finishes the thought with his eyes turned to the direction Mello is in.
Mello nods his head in confirmation. "We do. If we just keep shooting this will take awhile. We might be able to defeat him faster if we use it… But… What if it hurts you Near?"
"I should be fine. We were only warned about you blocking with me right?" Near reminds him getting a nod from Mello. "Then we can do it."
Mello takes a step back as the enemy is walking closer as both raise their weapons.
"We have no time to lose." Matt agrees now facing the direction of the enemy.
Mello raises both arms out to the side holding them.
"LETS GO SOULRESONANCE!" They all shout in unison and begin the power up. Matt and Near change to their cannon forms in which Mello crouches to brace himself.
Mello brings the two cannons together as the enemy's charge picks up in speed as he is now sprinting towards the blonde. "Harmony cannon." He speaks almost softly then fires the beam from both cannons. Him doing this causes himself to be moved back a millimeter or two.
The beam that comes out starts as the two different beams from each weapon swirling around each other.
Once the beam is combined, a few centimeters from where it was fired, it is a beam that is mixed with grey and yellow so both colors show and the black electric line is still the same with both black outline pentagrams along with black outline crosses can be seen moving around in the beam. It is also double the size of the one of the original beams.
The attack hits the enemy who screams from the hit. The attack causes an explosion with some smoke made skulls appearing in the smoke though a lot of smoke in this world appears to have some smoke skulls in them.
"NO!" The enemy is vaporized and when everything settles with the smoke clearing there is quite a bit of the roof missing. The soul they were after lingers there floating in the air by the biggest chunk of roof missing.
"Guess we'll have to apologize for the destruction of property." Matt sighs softly at seeing this.
"I'm sure they'll at least be grateful that we took care of the killer." Mello mentions rising to his feet keeping the two in their cannon forms. He looks down at them both. "Hey. You guys ok?"
"I'm okay." Matt confirms.
"So am I." Near also confirms making Mello sigh in relief.
"That's good." Mello lets them turn back to their gun forms. "So we have one soul." He approaches it. "We'll get another one soon. To try to keep you both at the same level." He knows that it is beneficial if both weapons have the same number of souls. He knows that it keeps their power and such at the same level. He puts the soul into Near deciding that he'll get Matt another one next mission. "Okay. Let's report to the police station." He hurries off that way and lets the two transform to human once there.
After the explanation the chief bowed his head.
"Thank you. All of you. You have done us a great favor." The chief informs them with respect.
"Sorry about making some destruction in that part of the city." Near speaks though the chief waves it off.
"Don't worry about it. These kinds of things happen in fights. I'll worry about that." The chief grabs some a suitcase of money. "Here. Take this as a sign of our gratitude. It's the bounty that was on the killers head."
"Thank you." Mello moves forward picking it up.
"No need. Thank you." The chief smiles. "I am so glad that you three came to our rescue.
So after that the three of them leave to head back towards the DWMA.
Though before they leave they stop at a window of a closed shop.
Mello breathes on it then writes in the number slightly mumbling. "42-42-564 If you ever want to knock on deaths door." He then lowers his hand as it shows to be ringing.
The answer comes as the window glows only for Lord Death to appear.
"Ah the meister Mello and weapons Near and Matt!" Lord Death greets cheerfully as his face appears on the window. "Hows it going? How was your first mission being back in the field?"
"It went well." Mello informs Lord Death. "We completed the job so no more threat of that guy running around."
"Good. Good. What I always like to hear." Lord Death sounds pleased. "And all of you are looking to be doing well." He slightly bounces back once or twice. "So anyways I suppose you'll be on your way back here soon yeah?"
"That's right." Mello nods. "No reason to stay if our mission is complete."
"Yes yes. That is understandable. You three did a very excellent job on this mission. I can't wait to hear about what other victories you three will get now that you're back."
"Thank you Lord Death." Mello smiles. "We'll see you later."
"Yes you shall." Lord Death throws up peace signs. "See you three later!"
The call fades away as the window returns to normal.
So the three of them head off to go get the motorcycle.
"We can take a bit of a break then go on another mission." Mello suggests as he drives them off on the motorcycle. "So we can rest up and prepare for the next mission."
"That sounds good to me." Matt mentions while Near makes a noise of confirmation.
Near is holding the reward that they were giving pressing it between him and Matt's back.
They continue to head off to get back in reasonable time.