Disclaimer: Yeah listen we all know the truth but I'm just adding this to cover my self I DON'T OWN AMG!!!!!!
Chapter 3: Blades of Angel
"Shit," thought Night Lancer, as they saw him coming down the alleyway.
"Thought we would think you here," said one of the men holding a baseball bat.
"Took your sweet old time finding me," replied Night Lancer.
"What, you think we would let you get away after the stunt you pulled?" said another one of the men. "People don't make fools of the Yakuza and get away with it."
"Dahh come on all I did was blow up a processing plant, raid a drug warehouse, and kill about a dozen of your hench-men. Plus to top it all off, I did it all without getting a single scratch," Night Lancer said while lighting up a cigarette.
"Dahh screw you!" yelled one of the men holding a handgun. He raised his gun, took aim and fired. Night Lancer saw this dropped his cigarette, jumped out of the way and hid behind a dumpster, the bullets flying by him and ricocheting of the side of the dumpster and walls.
"Fuck," thought Night Lancer, "they're shooting at me. They're fuckin' shooting at me, that's it. Some people are going to get hurt."
"Dahh, what's the matter," said one of the men, "the Legendary Night Lancer lost his nerve?"
"Fuck you!" yelled Night lancer, while reaching into his coat for his guns, then realizing with horror that they weren't there.
"Hay," yelled a female voice from behind Night Lancer, "what do you think you are doing?"
"Who's there?" yelled one of the men.
"Your worst nightmare," replied the woman as she raised her hands and muttered a few words. The three men with the hand guns flew up in the air and collided, knocking them unconscious.
"Ouch, that had to hurt," said Night lancer as he peered around from the side of the dumpster.
"All right, that's it bitch, now it's your turn!" yelled one of the men as he gathered up his friends and ran at the woman.
"Not today it isn't!" yelled Night Lancer as he jumped over the dumpster and kicked one of the men in the head, knocking him out.
"What the hell was that?" said a man carrying a baseball bat, as he swung it at Night Lancer, who ducked and punched him in the gut.
"Nothing much, just me," replied Night Lancer as he kicked another man in the face, knocking him flying into the wall.
"Shit, this is nuts!" yelled on of the men as he turned around and ran.
"Hay wait for us!" yelled the rest of the men as they followed the first man down the alley.
"Ha, ha, that's it, run away!" yelled Night Lancer, "Ya bloody cowards!"
"Well that was easy enough," said the woman who was still standing in the dark part of the alleyway.
"Yea," replied Night Lancer as walked down the alley to find out who his rescuer was. As he walked down the alley he noticed that she was now leaning against the wall. As he approached her, he recognized some of the few facial features that he could see. It was none other than Urd.
"Hay ya," she said, as she waved at him.
"Hay," replied Night Lancer, 'what are you doing here?"
"What, no 'am I so glad to see you's,'" answered Urd, "I did just save your life, you know."
"I could have taken care of them by my self," said Night Lancer, while leaning up against the wall next to Urd, "but that's beside the point, why are you here?"
"Well," said Urd while getting off the wall, "I've got a few questions of my own for ya."
"What?" asked Night Lancer while lighting up a new cigarette.
"I wanna know about your past." Replied Urd, "like who are you and why you fight?"
"Well…" replied Night lancer as he blew out a large amount of smoke.
"Well…?" asked Urd with a puzzled look on her face.
"My past is better left forgotten," replied Night Lancer grimly. "And who am I… well… you already know the answer to that one."
"I do?" replied Urd with an even more puzzled look on her face.
"Yeah," he said as he walked down the alleyway, "I'm Night Lancer…"
"Hang on!" yelled Urd, still confused by his reply. "That's not what I meant."
But it was too late. Night Lancer had already gone around the corner.
"Well I tried, I guess there's nothing I can do about it if he doesn't wanna talk," she thought to her self. "Might as well head home. It's getting late,"
Several minutes later
Night Lancer had finally gotten back to his apartment.
"Finally," he thought to him self as he put his key into the lock and opened the door.
His apartment was a small one–room bit (literally it only had one room) which only consisted of the bedroom-kitchen-living room, with nothing more then a roll out futon for a bed. The benches were littered with fast food containers and two minuet noodle pots, the sink was over flowing with dirty dishes and there was about three ashtrays scattered around all of which were overflowing with cigarette buts. This was really the apartment from hell.
"Ahh, home again," Night Lancer said to him self as he breathed in the air of his apartment (which tasted like Singapore noodles and cigarette smoke) and yawned heavily. "Looks like sleep time I guess." So he walked over to his futon and collapsed on to it and fell asleep. (Still fully clothed mind you)
At the same time back at the temple compound
Urd was just getting back. By this time the sun had completely set and the temple building was completely dark and quiet inside, apart from the occasional snoring sound coming from Belldandy, Skuld and Urd's bedroom, most likely Skuld. As she walked through the door, Urd could see the silhouette of a person sneaking down the hall.
As she snuck up behind this person she noticed it was Belldandy.
"Quite sneaky tonight, aren't we," Urd said, the scare causing Belldandy to jump.
"Ohh… Um… Err… Hello big sister I see you're back again," stammered Belldandy, still in a stat of shock and trying desperately to change the subject.
"Belldandy what are you doing out of bed at this hour?" asked Urd with a slight grin on her face.
"I was… Umm… Well I was… Err…," Belldandy stuttered only to be cut off by Urd.
"You weren't planning to sneak into Keichii bedroom were you?" Urd cut in, the statement making Belldandy blush slightly. "Because if you were, you'll be needing one of my love potions. Try 'Supper Wammo No 16,' that should do the trick."
"Urd," Belldandy replied, slightly annoyed but also now blushing bright red. "I'm not going to do anything like that while I'm there."
"He, He, I know," answered Urd smiling, "you just go enjoy your self, I'll take care of the young'un for you."
"Thank you big sis," Belldandy answered happily as she snuck into Keichii's room.
"Wow, haven't seen her this happy in a while," thought Urd as she got changed into her PJ's and went to bed next to Skuld.
The next morning
"Dahh hell," Night Lancer said to himself as he woke up, "man am I hungry."
Night Lancer sat up in his futon and surveyed his apartment for food, only to find nothing.
"Damn," he thought to him self, "looks like I'm eating at Belldandy's this morning."
So he got up and walked out of his apartment, locked the door behind him and started off towards the temple compound. This time he got there without any trouble.
But upon arrival at the temple compound he noticed a rather unusual sight, Urd was standing out the front with a rather large lump on her head.
"Owch, that had to hurt," said Night Lancer while inspecting Urd's head. What the hell happened here?"
"Mt Skuld erupted," replied Urd sadly, "and all hell broke loose."
"Shit," remarked Night Lancer while looking around, "so what does that mean in English?'
"Well, the story goes like this," said Urd while trying to remember what happened.
Twenty or so minutes ago
It was early in the morning and Skuld had woken up before everybody else.
"Good morning everybody," said Skuld as she sat up, yawned, looked around and noticed that Belldandy wasn't in her usual spot. "Hmm looks like big sister is already up."
"Big sister where are you!" she sang out as she walked down the hallway, but was unable to find her.
"Hmmm," thought Skuld, "this is weird. Maybe she's serving Keichii breakfast," as she headed for Keichii's room. She opened the door and nearly fainted at the sight which lay before her. Belldandy was fast asleep next to Keichii who was also asleep with his arm draped over her. Skuld looked at Keichii, then at Belldandy and then back at Keichii and yelled at the top of her voice "PERVERT!!" The sound of her voice waking up everybody in the household.
"Shit," said Keichii with-out even realizing he'd said it, after noticing the situation.
Belldandy rolled over to see her little sister who didn't know whether to faint of kill Keichii.
"Good morning," said Belldandy happily trying to lighten the mood.
"G… Go… Good… Morning?!" yelled Skuld, in a state of extreme shock and about to have a nervous breakdown, "Is that all you can say?!"
"Hay, what's all the shouting about here?" said Urd as she came down the hallway. "Ohh I see looks like the plan didn't work."
"Plan, what plan!" yelled Skuld still showing no sighs of calming down. "Don't tell me that you had a part in this profanity too big sister."
"Oops, I didn't just say that out loud," replied Urd nervously, "did I?"
"Yeah, you did," answered Keichii who was now sitting up in his futon. "And by the way what was that plan?"
"Well since both of you are still clothed I guess I could tell you," said Urd. "I was trying to convince Belldandy to use one of my love potions, just to speed things up a little. But I guess it didn't play out as I expected," as she looked over to Skuld who was about to explode.
"Y… Y… You… You PERVERTED FOOL!!" she yelled even louder then before, this time using her lettering tattooing ability to try and paste the words across Urd's face, but instead missing and plastering them all down the hall. Along the inside of Keichii's room and , one of them hit Keichii in the face, and spelt PERVERT in bright pink, bold letters. Seeing her first attack fail, Skuld proceeded to grab her hammer and whack Urd in the head with it, leaving a rather large lump.
"Umm, Urd I think you should leave before you get your self hurt any more," said Belldandy politely.
"I think you're right, replied Urd, "I'm outa here."
She walked out of the temple building…
"Well anyway that's the story," stated Urd.
"Great," replied Night Lancer who at this point had started smoking a cigarette.
"You know those things are going to kill you," said Urd with a look of dissatisfaction on her face.
"Shut up," replied Night Lancer. "If there things don't kill me those fucking demons will."
"Ha," answered Urd, "you're a weird guy Night Lancer."
"Yeah I…," said Night Lancer only to be cut off by a yell from inside the temple building, as Keichii ran out wearing nothing but a pair of boxer shorts, followed closely by Skuld who was swinging her hammer wildly in a effort to hit him. The sight made Night Lancer jaw drop open, his cigarette fell out and landed on the ground. "Well there's a sight I could have of done without."
"Yea," replied a completely astonished Urd. Meanwhile, in the background, Skuld can be heard trying to kill Keichii with her hammer.
"Looks like I may need to help in this one," said Night Lancer while walking over to try and gain control of the situation.
"Hey… Night Lancer… a little help?" asked Keichii while dodging numerous hammer swings.
"Yeah sure," said Night Lancer as caught Skuld's hammer in mid-swing. "Now Skuld, calm down, I mean come on, it's not like they were having sex or anything."
"Now you've gone and done it," replied Keichii with a scared look on his face, and pointed to Skuld who had now turned her rage towards Night Lancer.
"Shit," thought Night Lancer as Skuld raised her hammer and swung it at Night Lancer. He moved out of the way just in time.
"Skuld, calm down, damn it!" he yelled while dodging swings.
"No, you pervert," replied Skuld.
"Urd, do me a favor and grab my sword please!" Night Lancer yelled. Urd indoors and returned minutes later with his sword, just in time to see Night Lancer cop a hammer swing in the face, knocking him flying into on of the walls surrounding the compound with enough force to make a decent hole.
"Night Lancer, you ok over there?" asked Urd as Night Lancer sat up and dusted him self off.
"Yeah fine," he replied, as Urd threw him his katana. "All right Skuld, I'll give you one more chance to calm down and put that hammer away, or I'll turn it into chopsticks, ok?"
"No!" yelled Skuld as she raised her hammer ready to strike, and charged him.
"Bloody hell," said Night Lancer who raised his still sheathed katana and blocked the hammer with absolute ease.
"What!!" screamed Skuld upon seeing Night Lancer's relaxed face. "There's no way! This hammer can break through anything, even Spiran weapons."
"Well obviously this blade is more than just normal weapon," replied Night Lancer as he pushed Skuld's hammer out of the way. "Now are we going to stop, or will I to have to hurt you?"
"No, you're the one who is going to be hurt," answered Skuld who swung at Night Lancer again, and again, and again, each swing being blocked by Night Lancer who's precision was only rivaled by his ease.
"No, it couldn't be…," said Urd whilst she rushed indoors.
"All right Skuld, if you aren't gonna calm down I'll have to end this!" yelled Night Lancer as he jumped back and drew his katana, "Now this is your last chance, stop this NOW!"
"NO!!" replied Skuld whose rage had now driven her to a point of insanity. "You must be pretty pathetic, begging me to stop."
"Skuld, stop this now!" screamed Belldandy who was now standing at the entrance to the temple building, her face red and puffed up. She had been crying heavily.
"NO!!" answered Skuld as she swung her hammer at Night Lancer who yet again dodged it with ease.
"Sorry Bell, I'm going to have to end this my way," said Night Lancer. He swung his katana at Skuld, who raised her hammer just in time to block it, the force of the impact shattering the metal shaft of the hammer into a million pieces. Night Lancer's sword kept going until he stopped it at the side of her neck, and drew it back slowly, a small cut forming where the sword had been. The shock made Skuld faint. "Sorry it had to come to that."
He stuck his katana in the ground where he was standing, bent down, picked her up and carried her over to where Belldandy was standing.
"Will she be ok?" asked Keichii as he waked over and stood next to Belldandy.
"Yea she'll be fine," answered Night Lancer as he put her in-front of Belldandy. "She's just fainted, take her to her room and she'll we fine in about ten or so minutes."
"Alright," said Belldandy and she levitated Skuld down the hall. "Umm Keichii-san, I think you should get dressed or something."
"Yeah I guess so," replied Keichii and he walked indoors.
"Well this morning has been eventful," thought Night Lancer as he walked over and grabbed his sword and walked back indoors.
"I've got it!" yelled Urd as she ran out of her room with a book under her arm, knocking Night Lancer over.
"Shit Urd, what's got you so happy?" asked Night Lancer as he got back up off the ground.
"I just found out a load of info about your sword," replied Urd while raising the book in front of her. "If you would be so kind as to follow me, I'll show you."
Ok, why not," answered Night Lancer as they walked down the hall and into the tea room. They walked in, to Belldandy and Keichii (who were now fully clothed) sitting at the table talking quietly.
"Ok, now what's this all about?" asked Night Lancer while leaning up against the wall.
"Pass me your sword," replied Urd while opening the book.
"Ok," said night lancer while swinging his katana off his shoulder and passed it to Urd.
"Now if I'm correct...," replied Urd as she tried to draw Night lancer's sword, but was unable to do so. "Ahh just as I thought."
"What?" asked Night Lancer while Urd passed him back his katana, "Is it jammed or somthin'." As he drew his sword with absolute ease.
"Hmm just as I thought," stated Urd who now had her face covered by the book. "That's no normal sword you've got there my friend, it's pre-arcane."
"Urd, you're not saying that it is one of the three are you," replied a half surprised Belldandy, "because that's nearly impossible, not even Kami-sama knows of there location."
"Nearly doesn't count little sis," stated Urd. "Anyway as I was saying this is one of the three legendary swords, these outdate even us three Norns. They are very powerful weapons made to be wielded by only one person each, and only one, there names where, Knifes Edge: a extremely large broad sword, Freedoms Blade: a two handed long sword of extreme beauty, and Angel Fire: A katana imbued with the powers of a chaos angel of the light. These weapons are neither good nor are they evil. But there powers do rival even present day Yggdrasil weapons. The one you have in your hands is the most powerful of them, Angel Fire."
"Wow," answered an extremely surprised Night Lancer.
"Yeah, it's by sheer luck that you came across that sword," replied Urd, "Of course now you'll have to learn how to wield it properly. There's a test I wouldn't mind you doing that might help."
"Yeah why not," answered Night Lancer, "What do you need me ta do?"
"Well first follow me out doors," said Urd as she walked out followed by Keichii, Belldandy and Night Lancer.
"Ok, now what?" asked Night Lancer.
"Close your eyes," instructed Urd, "Ok now Keichii, Belldandy it's advisable that you stand back. Now Night Lancer concentrate all of your energy into the blade of your sword."
"How do you do that?" quizzed Night Lancer with a puzzled expression on his face.
"Ok you know hay you heal yourself, right," answered Urd, "Do the same but instead concentrate the raw energy down the blade of your sword."
"Ok, here goes nothin'," replied Night Lancer with a lack of confidence in his voice as he closed his eyes and his face turned to concentration, after about thirty or so seconds his sword slowly started to glow, at first it was barely visible but then began to strengthen until the whole blade glowed a deep crimson red, then suddenly Night Lancer collapsed to the ground.
"Damn I thought that might happen," thought Urd as Keichii and Belldandy rushed over to help Night Lancer.
To be continued.