Author's note: Today's my birthday! Whoo! And to Noki. Thanx for helping me with this story.
Chapter IV: Stained Soul part IV
The two of them stood out in the hallway. Trying to decide where to go next. Noki stretched slightly and placed her hands on her hips. Eiji didn't want to say it aloud, but he secretly thought that Noki was incredibly attractive. However, he figured that that he should put such urges and desires on the back burner. He did, after all, have a task at hand.
"Okay. How about the two of us split up for now?" Noki suggested.
"That's fine with me." Eiji replied. "Meet back here?"
Noki nodded.
"Okay. Cool." Eiji said. And then they parted ways.
Noki went down the hall. She peeked around as she pointed her gun at a door. A slight shuffling noise could be heard behind it. She smirked and swiftly kicked the door off of its hinges. It flew into the wall, killing the two wraiths that were behind it. "Humph." She said to herself. "These things don't seem too tough now…" as she went into the next room.
She stopped when she heard a familiar clown laugh. She took a hold of Ivory and yanked it from its holster, aiming where she heard the laugh come from. "Okay, clown." She began. "Step out or I start firing. And it won't be warning shots like last time." There was no response. She waited and growled. "1.…..2.……3" She counted before firing off about twenty rounds from each gun. She knew that if Jester was in there, his only options were to move or be shot.
But alas, still nothing. She sighed and replaced Ebony and Ivory in their holsters. She then drew the bastard sword upon her back and swung it forward, cutting the door down in case a wraith waited for her. She watched the door fall forward as she peered into the room.
Jester's infernal voice resounded in the distance. "Hello there, devil girl. So GLAD you could make it!" And in classic comic fashion he came tumbling out and leapt up to his feet with the same annoying "TA-DAAAA!"
Noki put her sword up and drew Ivory, pointing it to Jester's nose. "Okay." She said. "I'm here. Now give me some directions to where I go before a bullet replaces that brain of yours."
"Why devil girl, I thought we were friends." Jester replied. He then made as sad a face as his clowny visage would allow. "If you must know, I can tell you, for a price."
Noki kicked Jester to the ground and put her gun to his head. "And my price is you tell me or die." She threatened, a low growl passing her lips. "Now, is this information so important that you'll risk your life?"
Jester chuckled, despite being in pain. "There is one place you might be interested in." He said. "It's on the third floor." After having said that he hopped up. "Well, call me mint jelly, cuz I'm on the lam!" He then broke in a super fast run, exiting the room.
Noki stared in bewilderment at first, then she scowled a bit. "Third floor. Thanks." She said. She put her gun within the holster and began to head toward the stairs knowing that was the direction that Eiji had gone in. She wondered if she would meet up with him while she was up there.