AN: Gome nasai for the lateness I've been soooo busy lately.
Night Lancer… Lost and forgotten… (Yeah still Lost. Help me please)
Chapter 2: Fallen Night. Two days later"What Kind of condition is he in?"
"He got shot up pretty bad but the good news is it's healing."
"That's good."
"Yippee, Yippee."
"Shh! Quiet you little brat or you'll wake him."
"Biida!" squeaked Skuld as she poked her tongue out at Urd.
"Why you little bitch!" yelled Urd.
"Keep it down," groaned Night Lancer as he slowly opened his eyes to see Urd and Skuld fighting again. "Some of us are trying to pass out over here ya know."
"Ah you're finally awake," replied Belldandy with a happy look on her face. "How are you feeling?"
"Well I've been better, no doubts there," groaned Night Lancer as he tried to sit up. "Ahh crap! What the fuck?"
"Oh yea, um, we kinda had to wrap your chest in bandages," said Skuld innocently.
"Why?" asked Night Lancer while fumbling around for a cigarette.
"Well you got shot up pretty bad," replied Urd. "What are you looking for?"
"A cigarette," answered Night Lancer.
"You smoke," asked Belldandy with a cross look on her face.
"Yeah occasionally," replied Night Lancer as he lit up a cigarette. "Ahh that's the way to ditch the pain."
"How old are you?" asked Belldandy, "You
look a bit young."
"If you really want to know, I'm eighteen," replied Night Lancer, with the
cigarette still in the corner of his mouth. "Got an ashtray."
"I'll check," replied Belldandy as she got up and left the room.
"So what the hell happened," asked Night Lancer.
"Well," replied Urd, trying to remember the incident two days ago. "After that fight you got into with that demon bounty hunter, you made my sister sick from the mess so she ran indoors. Then suddenly, you collapsed on to the ground and passed out with a puddle of blood forming under you. So I brought you indoors to inspect those wounds of yours. The problem is that we goddesses can't heal the arcane energy that was used, so you'll have to be in bed for a little while."
"No I won't." replied Night Lancer as he put on of his hands to his chest, closed his eyes and his hand emitted a low yellow glow for a few seconds. "Ahh that feels better."
"What was that?!" yelled a wide eyed Skuld. "No mortal can do anything like that."
"Well yeah, my slow minded little companion," replied Night Lancer cruelly, "You see I'm no normal stinking mort… oh fuck
THUMP!Skuld whacked Night Lancer across the head with her hammer knocking him out cold.
"Slow minded little companion. Hmmf," Said Skuld indignantly as Belldandy walked through the door to see Night Lancer lying on his back out cold with a huge lump on his head and Skuld standing opposite with her hammer raised.
"What happened here?" she asked suspiciously while inspecting the situation.
"Night Lancer called Skuld little," answered Urd.
"Well at least he's stopped smoking," replied Belldandy.
"Yeah but what are we going to do now?" asked Urd while looking from Skuld to the unconscious heap that was Night Lancer and back again. "I guess first of all I'm going to get a drink it's been a full three hours since my last bottle of sake," she said as she walked out of the room.
Then the suddenly in the background there was the sound of Keichii's motorbike pulling into the temple.
"Keichii's home!" yelled Belldandy as she ran out the door to greet her boy friend leaving Skuld to take care of the still unconscious Night Lancer.
Ten minuets later
"Ugg…, my fucking head." Groaned Night Lancer as he comes to and sat up to see Skuld kneeling in front of him. "What the fuck are you looking at?"
"Well, that's a bit mean," replied Skuld with a surprised look on her face.
"Well lets see, you hit me in the head with that fucking hammer, I have every right to be mean!" replied a really pissed Night Lancer.
Just then Urd, Belldandy and Keichii burst through the door.
"What's all the yelling for!?" yelled Urd as she came through the door to see a now wide awake and extremely pissed off Night Lancer and an also pretty pissed Skuld standing in the middle of the room about to kill each other.
"Ahh.., Night Lancer I see you're awake now," said Belldandy as Night Lancer walked over to grab his coat and Katana.
"Yeah, I'm up, but for a second I thought that I died and went ta hell when I woke up to see her face staring at me," replied Night Lancer as he pointed over his shoulder at Skuld, who just stuck her tongue out.
"Biida,"
"You stick that thing out at me once more, I'll cut it off," Said Night Lancer cruelly. Meanwhile Urd cracked up laughing. "What's so funny Urd?"
"It's just the way you shot down my sister like that," replied Urd, after she managed to subdue the laughs. "Crash and burn Skuld! Ha Ha Ha!"
Just then Skuld got up and stormed out of the room muttering something about being beaten by a pathetic mortal half breed.
"Ouch that's gotta hurt," said Night Lancer in a mocking voice. "Ok now where were we before I got a hammer in the head?'
"We were trying to find out why that demon was after you?" replied Urd in a serious tone. "What did he mean by the bounty on your head?"
"Well, it goes like this," replied Night Lancer, 'because I'm a demon hunter I've killed several demons in my time. So many that I now have some sort of a bounty on my head. So now there's every single powerful demon after me… Oh yea, before I forget, that's not the only thing after me."
"What do you mean?" asked Belldandy with a look of surprise on her face.
"Well, you see, the way I've been making money to live is as a hired mercenary for the Tokyo gangs, mainly working against the Yakuza," replied Night Lancer as he crossed his arms and lent against the wall." And I've pissed them off a bit too much."
"Ahh great," answered Keichii sarcastically.
"But it's ok," replied Night Lancer coolly, "after the last time I dealt with them they ain't gonna be coming back after me in a hurry."
"Why's that?" asked Urd.
"Let's just say I went out with a big bang." Replied Night Lancer with a slight smile on his face. He then looked at the clock, "But anyway, it's about time I left and started off home."
"Hang on!" said Belldandy just as Night Lancer walked out the door.
"What?"
"Well I just finished cooking dinner," replied Belldandy. "I made a little extra hoping that you would stay awhile?"
"Hmm, come to think of it I am kinda hungry ehh…, why not?" answered Night Lancer as they all walked out the room to see Skuld in one of her usual bad moods.
"What's for dinner any ways?" asked Night Lancer. "It can't be much worse than what I've been living off lately."
"Why?" asked Keichii, "how bad can it be?"
"Well let's see. Of late my idea of a good meal has been cheap Chinese take out," replied Night Lancer unhappily.
"Well you're in for a treat tonight, answered Keichii, "Because Belldandy is an excellent cook."
"Oh please Keichii-san," replied Belldandy blushing slightly. She went off into the kitchen returning minutes later with a tray of rice, bowl, chopsticks and a mixed assortment of different Japanese food dishes.
"Holy SHIT!" yelled a wide eyed Night Lancer, upon seeing the tray of food. "I… I… I've never seen… anything like this before! So much food… Cant resist!" as he grabbed a pair of chopsticks and started loading up his bowl with food.
"Wow… I've never seen someone eat so much so fast," said a very surprised Keichii.
"It's like the poor guy's never eaten before in his life," replied Urd, "ha Belldandy."
"… yeah,' answered an extremely surprised Belldandy. Meanwhile Night Lancer readied him self for a fourth bowl of rice and pork.
Forty five minuted later.
"Úhhhh… wasted," groaned a now finally satisfied Night Lancer after twenty or so helpings of rice, sake, pork, beef and whatever else he could get his chopsticks and teeth into. "Ahh that feels better."
"Wow," stated an extremely surprised Urd. "I've never seen a single human eat so much, or even a divine for that matter."
"Yeah, well I never thought food could taste so good," replied Night Lancer who was now lying on his back. "Ouch, ow, ow, ow man I those things always poke into me when I stuff my self. He said as he put two ands into his trench coat and pulled out a pair of shining handguns and laid them on the table. "Man that feels better now."
"Wow! What are these? I've never seen anything like them before," gasped Keichii as he picked up the larger of the two guns and examined them closely.
"These are two of my most reliable companions, the one in your hands is a Desert Eagle 4.4 modified to fire explosive shells instead of hollow-tipped, and the smaller one is a Beretta 9mm modified to fire a three round burst of armour piercing shots with an extended clip." Stated Night Lancer as Skuld picked up the Beretta and inspected it closely. "Be careful it's…" BANG! BANG! BANG! "Loaded." He warned as Skuld accidentally squeezed the trigger and the gun let off a burst of fire, the recoil knocking her flat on her ass, the gun flying out of her hand and landing ont the ground with a thump. The three shots narrowly missed Night Lancer's head, one of which skimmed his cheek, cutting it slightly and a line of blood seeped out slowly. "Told ya, didn't I?"
"Owwch, that hurt," whined Skuld as she stood up rubbing her ass.
"Dumb-ass," replied Night Lancer cruelly. Mean while Urd cracked up laughing at the site of her sister falling flat on her ass.
"Hay Night Lancer! What's this?" yelled Keichii while pointing at an inscription on the side of the gun.
Read it and you'll find out," yelled Night Lancer.
"It reads 'Vengeance'," replied Keichii.
"Hay this one has 'Hope' engraved on the side of it," said Urd, while holding back Skuld.
"Hay I was looking at that, yelled Skuld while trying to tackle Urd to the ground.
"Well you can't be trusted with it," replied Urd meanly.
"Why not!" yelled Skuld, while attempting yet another tackle on her sister.
"Because you're a little brat and next time you might hit something important, like one of my sake bottles," replied Urd teasingly.
"Hay! What about me? I'm the one who almost got the bullet in the skull," yelled Night Lancer, "You saying that I'm not important?"
"Yeap," replied Urd.
"Oh that's it, you're screwed!" replied Night Lancer, while reaching back for his Katana.
"I don't think so," yelled Urd as she threw a lightning bolt at Night Lancer hitting him in the chest. It exploded on impact.
"Dahh fuck!" yelled Night Lancer as the lightning bolt hit him, "hay you mind? I'm still tender there."
Thought you healed your self" asked Urd.
"Yeah I did, but not completely," replied Night Lancer. "I only have limited abilities, so it doesn't heal completely. I can heal my self to a certain extent."
"Oh," replied Urd, "So what's the extent that you can heal your self?"
"Not very well," answered Night Lancer, "Only limited injuries, no sickness and no broken bones."
"Ohh well," replied Skuld while grabbing Night Lancer's larger handgun and inspecting it closely.
"Hay, hay be careful with that!" yelled Night Lancer after seeing Skuld pick up his handgun. "You hit someone with a shell from that there'll be hole the size of a basketball in them."
"Eww, that's gross," replied Skuld, now slightly green in the face after imagining the scene of a person with a basketball-sized hole in their chest. She threw the gun down on the table, which set it off, and sent a bullet straight for Belldandy's chest. It hit her, went straight through her chest and hit the wall behind her. It exploded on impact, sending bits and pieces of wood in all direction, one of which hit Keichii on the forehead, knocking him unconscious.
"Ouch, that's gotta hurt." Said Night Lancer while standing up to dust the wood fragments off his coat, and pointing at the motionless heap that was Keichii. He sat down again.
"Oh god, Keichii-san!" shrieked Belldandy, "Will he be OK?"
"Yeah he'll be fine," replied Urd while inspecting the rather large lump on Keichii's head.
Suddenly Night Lancer realised where the shot had gone.
"Hang on a second!" yelled Night Lancer after noticing the small hole in Belldandy's where the bullet had passed through. "What the fucks going on here? That shot should had of blown a massive hole in you, but instead it went through you without even leaving a scratch?"
"Yeah well what more do you expect from a pathetic three dimensional mortal weapon?" replied Skuld.
"Three dimensional?" asked Night Lancer with an expression on his face as if to say 'what the fuck are you going on about!'
"I take it you don't know anything about the ten dimensional factor?" replied Belldandy, while levitating the still unconscious Keichii down the hall to his room. "Skuld would you please explain to Night Lancer about the ten dimensions."
"But elder sister we're not supposed to tell mortals about the ten dimensional factor," answered Skuld.
"Hay this guy saved our lives, I think we can trust him," replied Urd, as she walked out of the room, leaving Skuld to talk with Night Lancer.
"OK mortal boy, listen up because I'm only gong to explain this once," said Skuld in a lecturing tone of voice. "As you may think tis world exists in three different dimensions, point, linear and special. This is the realm of existence of you mortals ant your creations. Bot you see we goddesses have then dimensions of existence. Thus we can move through ten different dimensions, three dimensional objects can't harm us. Ok understand?"
"Yeah I think so," replied Night Lancer while scratching his head. "So you're saying that my guns can't harm you."
"Yeah,," answered Skuld, "You catch on fairly quick."
"But what about my Katana?" replied Night Lancer.
"Ahh, that's one of the few exceptions," replied Skuld.
"yoyr sword seems to have some very powerfull arcane magic to itt," said Urd, who had just come into the room.
"Oh, OK, now I'm beginning to understand." Said Night Lancer, "But the only problem is what kind of energy is being used?"
"Umm, well, there's the problem," replied Urd. "I'll need to borrow you're sword for a while to run a few tests."
Well I don't see any reasons why not," replied Night Lancer, while passing Urd his Katana.
"Thanks," said Urd, "It shouldn't take to long ta run those tests. You should have it back by tomorrow,"
"All right, but if anything happens to my sword I'll shove it up your ass, side ways," said Night lancer, while looking at the clock. "Well I'd better get going, see ya, Ohh yea before I forget, tell Belldandy that she's a great cook."
He walked over to the table to pick up he hand guns, but stopped for a second and then looked at Skuld and said, "Hang on a second, Skuld, you reckon you could build equipment that would exist in all ten dimensions?"
"Yeah easily," replied Skuld, "why?"
"You reckon you could put together some ten dimensional ammo for my hand guns?" asked Night Lancer.
"Yea, I could," answered Skuld, "but give me one good reason why?"
Because firstly they would come in handy, and secondly I'll stop calling you kid, kid," said Night Lancer.
"Maybe," replied Skuld, just as Urd leant over and whispered something into Night Lancer's ear, who nodded slightly.
"There's a ten litre tub of vanilla ice cream in it for you," said Night Lancer temptingly.
"OK!" said Skuld, jumping around happily. "But you better keep your promise!"
"Ha, you know me," said Night Lancer, while walking out the door. "See ya!"
"Yeah, see ya," said Urd while waving.
The sun was low in the sky as Night Lancer walked home. He lived in a flat in the central city so he took many small alley ways home as short cuts. While walking down one of these he came across a group of about a dozen tough looking men, a few carrying guns and the rest carrying an assortment of baseball bats, polls and golf clubs. Night Lancer recognised them as members of the Yakuza, one of the most infamous gangs in Japan and the last people Night Lancer wanted to run into.
"Shit," thought Night Lancer, as they noticed him walking down the allyway…
To be continued.