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It begins to be pretty annoying writing the same thing over and over and over…. Anyone has any original ideas for a disclaimer?
Chapter 5: The Creatures Of The Night
"You can come out now" Alucard said in an amused voice, looking at the nearest group of trees.
A young man, with a long blond, formed in a braid, came out behind that trees- Edward Elric.
"I'm sorry," he said, blushing a bit "I just saw you guys going out, so I followed you, but then you met these people and I was kinnda… ammm…"
"It's ok," Katrina calmed him "just don't do that again I know that you have no appearing reason to trust us, but you have to understand that we simply don't have much time- thus, we aren't to keep secrets from each other"
Ed nodded in understanding and opened his mouth to ask the question he wanted to ask the two vampires at the first place- the question that made him follow them- but he closed the mouth in surprise, when all three of them heard a woman's scream, coming from the tree behind them.
"Let's go" said Alucard and changed his form, transpiring into a black cloud of oily shadows, which advanced rapidly at the direction of the scream.
Katrina and Ed ran after the Alucard-Shadow, making their way trough the spiky bushes.
"Aren't you going to change into a shadow as well?" Ed asked.
"I can't" was Katrina's simple answer.
The Full-Metal Alchemist wanted to ask more, but he just didn't get the opportunity. Behind a very large group of trees, they suddenly reached to a small area, cleaned from trees. At the middle of that area was standing Ryoko, her foot placed on the top of a creature that Ed had never seen before- it was human shaped, with long greasy hair, big yellow eyes and large pointed teeth.
Back to back to Ryoko, was standing Kousuke, blood running in a large stream from an opened wound on his left arm, while his right was holding a large emphasized wooden club. About two more dozens of the weird creatures were surrounding the couple.
Alucard-Shadow stopped floating and switched back to its' human shape. The large silver gun appeared in his hand, his smile wide and cruel. He looked with hatred at the creatures, thinking whom to shoot first.
The creatures growled in anger, annoyed by the disturbance. They split up into two groups; the first continued to attack the Blade Children, while the other started charging with loud roars on the two vampires and the alchemist.
"Alucard, I need a weapon" Katrina said in a cold voice, preparing for the impact.
The vampire smoothly pulled his black gun and threw it to the vampire lady, who caught it and aimed straight between the yellow eyes of the nearest creature, her finger pulls the trigger, her arm steady as iron. The silver bullet smashed the beast's head, exploding the disgusting body into gray dust, spreading in the cold night wind.
Alucard smirked at his fellow's nice shoot, and turned back to his own opponents. Meaningless to say, they didn't know what hit them- literally. The vampire swift the nearest dozen of beasts, shooting silver bullets, killing everything that was in a 5-meter radius from him, laughing insanely. 'God, I love this!' He thought happily.
But on the other side of the trees-free area, things weren't as good. Kousuke and Ryoko, in combined effort, were able to maintain their counter-attack, but it seemed that they won't be able to do sustain much longer. In fact, one of the beasts broke trough their little defending-space, stabbing his long sharp nails in Ryoko's back, causing the young woman to scream in pain for the second time in that evening.
The second Blade Child hit the creature with his club, putting in it all the strength he had. The beast fell unconsciously on the ground, taking its' nails from the girl's body, causing red blood to ran from it.
Ryoko cursed in a very creative way, trying to stand up. But she felt she is tired. "Damn…" she added, looking in Kousuke's green eyes, feeling his strong arms around arms around her, helping her to stabilize.
Ed, apparently, was the only one that saw the three creatures that were sneaking behind two of the Blade Children.
"Look out!" he shouted, moving rapidly towards them. He instinctively clapped his hands, hitting the dark ground, releasing his alchemistic power, causing a wide wall to grow behind Ryoko and Kousuke, defending them from the surprise attack on their backs.
That was Ed's turn to curse creatively. He was sure that his powers were gone in this world, that he'll get them back only when he'll be home. But this must've been a false conclusion- he used his power only a moment ago, as if he was back home.
"Kill first, ask questions later" he suddenly heard Katrina's voice next to him, followed by a direct shot at a random creature's chest.
The Full-Metal Alchemist decided that her advice was very useful. He bent on his knees, clapped again and attached his hands to the ground, causing deep holes to open in the area, swallowing and baring the remaining beasts. That quite speeded the end of the semi-battle.
Eventually, after a few more minuets, all five allies were standing in different spots around the trees-free area, tarring for other possible threats. After no such were found, they gathered in a small circle.
"We need to get her back to the castle," Alucard said, pointing Ryoko who was supported by Kousuke "Walter can help her"
"And we will go searching if there are anymore Braxes. If they'll attack the castle it won't be very pleasant" added Katrina, talking about herself and Alucard.
"Fine. But come back as quickly as you can." said Kousuke, touching Ryoko's chin, looking into her eyes. "Hang in there, we'll get you to the castle soon"
"Kousuke, you idiot…" she whispered "I can walk by myself…" she tried to argue with him, while it was obvious that she was seriously wounded and couldn't was a few meters on her own.
"I'm sure of that" the red-haired young man answered to her seriously. He pointed to Ed to lead the way, noticing that the two vampires were already gone.
"Kousuke, you idiot!" Rio yelled at him "What the hall have you done to her! Why were you following Alucard and Katrina at the first place!"
Eyes and Walter took Ryoko quickly to the next room, promising that she'll be all right. That left the worried Rio with Kousuke, Ed and the two Japanese hunters. And of course that the Blade girl wasn't going miss an opportunity to whip Kousuke. But the worst part was that he knew that she was right.
"Rio, I'm sure that Ryoko will be just fine. It wasn't nobody's fault, but those Braxes creatures" surprisingly, Ed was the one who came to Kousuke's aid.
"So Moriac did find a way to activate the portal…" Amon said, "For how long have been summoning this creatures?"
All three of the young men turned around, looking at the male hunter. They weren't sure just how much did they know, but it seemed as if they knew plenty.
"Long enough" Kousuke answered.
"Amon, may I speak with you? Privately?" Robin asked politely her partner. "Excuse us" she said to the rest, while actually dragging Amon to the hallway behind one of the doors.
He growled in annoyance. "What?"
In this point, one must mention the quite and polite character of the female hunter. She never cursed, always had a small generous smile and she almost never ever was angry.
"Just for how long are you going to continue playing these stupid games, Amon?" she asked in a loud and very cold voice, making her partner turn his look and focus his silver sharp eyes in her green ones.
If that was meant to scare Robin, then it was a very wrong move. The cold look only made her even madder, and she was determined as never before to cease his emotionless actions towards her. She cares for him, why can't the bastard see that?
"I'm not kidding on this one, Amon." She said, looking at him with a very angry look (trying at the same time not to puke, for her courage was just about to leave her). "Either you'll tell me all you know, hove you know it and why- or I'm going back to Japan, and you'll never catch Moriac"
Needless to say, that was her first ultimate. Ever.
The tall and dark man looked at her with obvious surprise, his head cocked, as he was reanalyzing the situation. He could almost see the fire sparks in his partner's eyes, and for some reason that made him smile a little bit. It was a small, well-hidden, insider smile- but never the less; it definitely was smile.
"Fine, Robin, if you put it in this way, I guess I have no choice but to tell you." That wasn't completely true, of course- Amon always had a second choice (and usually a third and a forth, if he would have decided to use his heavy gun), but this time he let Robin to fell victorious. It made him feel warm, for some undetected reason.
"Before we left Japan, I had a little chat with Nagira, about this mission," Amon explained in his formal monotone voice, as if he was reporting to one of his superiors "I asked him to use his sources, in order to find some information that HQ have… forgotten… to deliver us. He and Michael combined forces and came up with some interesting things"
"And HQ didn't know about it?"
"They knew. They always know. But I guess they thought that the information we've discovered isn't defined as 'security breach'. If they'd thought differently, all three of us wouldn't have been breathing." His voice was as calm as if he was talking about nothing more than the weather. "And that is the reason I kept this information from you" he added in the same cold voice, making Robin feel most shameful for yelling at him. He didn't really deserve it- he was just trying to protect her. As usual.
"So what did the three of you find out?"
"Many things, but basically we've found out that Moriac didn't only attack STN-A, but also many different branches of our organization around the world, just like that vampire said. We tried to figure out why he does that, but it was too difficult to understand that. The only hint we have is that he not only attack and slaughters every thing that is in his way, but it appears that he also kidnaps people. People who seem to have no connection to each other, what so ever. The only thing that is common for all of them, is that they were targeted by him, kidnapped and brought to here, to Transylvania, a place where- due to Nagira- is located an ancient portal, which leads to unknown places"
"So our real objective isn't to hunt Moriac. It's to free the captives"
"And then to kill Moriac" Amon added in a small dark voice.
A small silence was is the hallway, when both of them were settled deep in their thoughts.
"Thank you, Amon," eventually said Robin in s small voice, looking gently in his colorless eyes "thank you for trusting me. It means a lot to me"
A list of load swears from the second room, directed to Kousuke, made them return to the room.
ME: Ah, man that was so kitschy! I wanna hit myself!
-Hitting-
Aw… that hurts….
Never mind me, please, I'm just being evil and loveless as usual. Frankly, I liked writing it… awww, Kousuke Ryoko are so cute! And Amon Robin are so stupid! I mean, why can't people just confess about the way they feel, and instead they choose suffering? We're all so lame, seriously…
Yeah, and I know that Robin is WAY out of her character…. Promise to retrieve her back to the quite and cute girl she was. I was in a bit crazy mood when I wrote this (xams and all…), so she was actually me braking things (just kidding…!)
Anyway, as always, I hope you liked it, and are going to review now…:) see ya all next time!
Hiyonokat33: Wow, this is like the best comment ever! Thanks a lot! What did you think about this chapi?
mocha1618 : Yes, Rio and Kousuke are so funny, and they are also very easy and fun to write about:) Hope you liked this chapter.