Chapter 11

Thirty minutes earlier.

"Um, sensei." Aki said hesitating, while they were sneaking through the corridors off the factory "How we will separate them?"

"Don't worry." Oleg answered calmly, "This task is after me. Don't distract yourself, Rinko." he turned to purple haired huntress. "Watch where are they."

"Yes." She closed her eyes, and the opened them, they again became bright purple. "They are on the floor below. The most part of them are in a big room, I think it's some sort of work shop."

"No matter what that is." he replied, "Listen to me carefully now. You two will stay here and hide properly, while I'll take their attention and leave some of them to the roof."

"I think it's not a good idea sensei." Rinko replied.

"Yes, it's a suicide." Aki added.

"Don't worry; I was in scrapes more difficult. So there's no need to worry." he tried to compose themselves, but it was noticeable that it didn't help "By the way Akiyama I need you to lead me so don't relax." She nodded and then the man ran into the depth of the corridor. He found a way to the floor below and when he came of the downstairs. "Where now?" he asked in his communicator. "Straight." he heard a respond. He went straight but then he heard new command. "To the right." Oleg turned to the right and continued to walk silently. "That's the place." she said again. "Roger." he told to her student. 'So let's play with them for a little.' He took a rock and then threw it into the window. The window was broken and it was possible to hear how a big crowd started to move. Oleg quickly returned to the upstairs when he heard noises.

"You look there we'll go to the roof. It's the favorite place of Taimanin." said the person and then the crowd separated.

"Ito, Akiyama go to my floor. We'll deal with the group which will stay in the building."

"Roger." both of them said.

"Hey you!" the Russian hunter shouted when one group of demons separated from another for a pretty far distance. "Looking for something?"

The group laughed insanely. "Really one Taimanin?" one of demons said, "I think Taimanin are in lack of numbers if they sent you all alone."

Oleg kept silent, he didn't want to start the fight first, and however it didn't take long to several demons to rush at Oleg. One orc decided to attack him straight but Oleg dodged it with a jump while he was in the air he took his sword out of his sheath and then cut the back of the demon, but then quickly closed himself from werewolf's claws. He parried his attack and then he was forced to avoid attack of another demon with four hands. "Take him down guys." said the vampire who was standing in the middle of the corridor. But when he said they heard the exclamations from behind. "What the hell?" he said again. The vampire turned his head and saw how two other hunters were slicing demons the girl with purple hair and the boy with dark hair both were using katana. The young hunters worked perfectly. The demons could do nothing against such well-coordinated work.

"Good work out there." Oleg Semenovich praised them, while he was blocking another strick of some orc.

"The roof is almost clear." Archon said to the team. "You three go there and take care about them."

"And what about you?" Tiradex asked him roaring. "I and Etienne will take care about the other team."

"Fine." and then Tiradex Liza and the horse headed demon went left the room.

"Now we can go too." the man with clawed gloves said. And they left the room too.

"Hey, while I still remember." Etienne turned to his teammate. "Can you spare one hunter? I would like to have some experiments with him."

The man smirked at proposal of his friend, "Why should I do this?"

"Because, my friend you don't fight like me."

"You mean like a mad?" Archon chuckled.

"Instead of you I like to see all potential of my enemies." Etienne sighed, "That's why some of them don't survive."

"You forgot to tell that almost all of them don't survive." Archon admitted.

"Well in any case let's go. I want to know the power of Japanese hunters.

"Well I think it was the last one." Oleg Semenovich said killing the last demon.

"It was pretty hard, wasn't it Rinko-san?" Aki asked his companion.

"I wouldn't call this fight difficult." she started, "You still should work on your stamina, it's very important."

"Yes I know that, but still. I've never fought with such big number of demons."

"Don't worry everything happens for the first time." the teacher said to his student, "Being a student you have lots of things to study, and when you study them you become cleverer and stronger. You'll need this knowledge in the future."

"Yes sensei!" Aki said.

"Sakura, do you hear me?" Oleg said in his communicator. "What's your current situation?"

"We're still pretty busy." he heard her voice.

"Fine, we will be soon." he said to her through his device.

"Roger."

They were about to go to the roof when they suddenly heard a voice.

"Are you going somewhere?" they saw a man in a white robe. He had glasses on his eyes his face was aristocratic, and his hair were ashy. On his ride side of his belt was a sword which lied in a sheath. Instead of the hunters he hadn't got a special uniform. He had a white shirt under the robe and gray trousers with the same gray shoes. It was possible to see a complacent smile on his face. "Who we have here?" he made a question, however it seemed that he asked himself. "A boy, a girl and a…" he stopped for a while, "Are you kidding me? Tereshkov, is it you?" he asked the Russian teacher. "Long time no see. How have you been?"

The two young hunters watched at their teacher with misunderstanding. The only thing which said Oleg was, "Etienne Richar.", but it seemed like he said it between his teeth. He squeezed the hilt of his sword with a strong grip. Rinko and Aki noticed that and understood that it wasn't a friend so they didn't relax. "What are you doing here?"

"Nothing special my precious instance of tortures." he referred. "It's been quite a lot since we last meet. I hope you didn't forget the pleasure I gave you." he said with theatrical smile.

"Crazy scum." the only thing he spat out.

"Oh you call names." Richar laughed, "By the way how this girl lives, the one with red hair? I liked her cries and moan more than others."

Oleg couldn't bear his chat anymore and rushed at the man with the white robe. He took the hilt of his sword and was going to cut Etienne's head. However he couldn't do it because his opponent closed his neck with his sword. "Don't even dare to speak about her!" he shouted.

"Or what?" the man in the robe pushed Oleg trying to cut him, but the Russian hunter was able to avoid his attack.

"Sensei! Let us aid you!" Rinko said loudly.

"No! He is mine!" she only heard an irritated answer, but still it was possible to here slight notes of anger in his voice. "Don't interfere!"

'Does he know this man?' Rinko thought, 'It seems that they hadn't only met before, but know each other quite personally.'

Their fight was pretty fast, both of them were good fencers and none of them didn't want to give up, or even to leave him wide open. Etienne was as fast as Oleg, or maybe faster, because it was noticeable that he was dodging a bit lame.

"I admit. You became stronger boy. But still you're no match for me." he put his hand under the robe and through something sparkling at Oleg. Oleg blocked it and three needles fall down onto the floor. "Hm, sharp eyes."

"I'm not that weak kid you used to know, Richar!" the man was about to attack the man with glasses, when all of them heard another steps.

"I think these, dolts won't do something reckless." the hooded man said to himself. "While they will play with our guests, I'll try to find a source of the congestion of those demons." he closed his eyes and focused. The wind entered into the room thorough crushed windows. The wind surrounded the man and then he opened his eyes. 'I see the seal is under us, in the basement.' He thought and then quickly rushed there leaving the room, running through corridors. 'I hope that these demons won't fail. I have no doubt in Etienne and Archon, even Tardis is good in battles, but Tiradex.' he stopped thinking for a while. 'He came to the ladder and rushed downstairs. 'However with Etienne's additional member I think they will do everything perfectly.'

When he reached the basement of the building, he held his finger by one supporting beam of many others. 'Well it's somewhere here.' He started to walk around the basement, trying to find any clues. 'Find that what you don't know and there where you don't know.' he smirked at his own thought. Then he heard a strange sound, 'What the…?' he didn't understand where was the noise, so he decided to follow it. Suddenly he found some sort of a big circle, but it wasn't an ordinary circle. It had many strange letters. And also it had some sort of triangle in the circle. Then he put his fingers onto his temple and said.

"Guys, I've found it. Now buy me some time that I'll be able to destroy it."

"How many time do you need?" he heard Archon's voice.

"I'll tell you when everything will be done."

"Roger." he heard voices of his teammates.

"Now, what Walter told me to do?" he tried to remember something, "Ah, yes." he put his hands on the seal which was emitted a red light, and started to say something out loud.

"You've been quite long Etienne. What made you so long anyway?" the man in black and purple suit left the shadows behind the robed man. He had two clawed gloves. His had brownish hair dark green eyes with rough features of face, also it was possible to see scars on his face.

"No way. Even you are here?" Oleg's voice trembled a bit, but it was not clear was it because of fear or anger.

"Look who the bird had brought. I didn't know you're here Oleg Tereshkov." Archon said coming to his comrade.

"Why are you here?" Oleg said between his teeth again, but this time was different.

"I think you know the answer, by the way how my dear sister is? Do you have contacts with her?"

"Don't even dare to speak about her!" the Russian teacher shouted.

"Oh, I just asked how my little sister is doing. Nothing more, as her brother I must know it." He said playfully.

"You lost your right to proclaim yourself as her brother Anatoly. Now you're just a mere traitor who must be illuminated."

"Loud words from the one who was never able to beat me." Anatoly smirked at Oleg's statement.

"Rinko, Aki." he called his students by their names, "You must get out of here as fast as you can. These two are no match for you."

"What?" Aki asked.

"Sensei, we won't leave you here alone against these two." Rinko referred.

"It's an order!" he risen his voice.

"Sensei." Aki started. "Order or not, but we won't leave you here!"

"After all you have lots of things to teach us." Rinko added.

"It's not a joke!" he said loudly again, "You won't be able to defeat these two!"

"But to leave you to die here, is not accepted too." Aki said more seriously.

The man sighed irritated and said. "If you wish so then take the one with the robe. He is not as powerful as the one with claws. But beware he isn't look like an ordinary man…" he couldn't finish his sentence as he was forced to block the glove of Archon with his sword. 'As fast as always.' Oleg thought. He pushed the man with gloves and rushed at him.

"So children, do you want to try me?" Etienne said, preparing his sword.

"Aki I'll fight him you'll be protecting my back if it will be necessary." Rinko said.

"Rinko-san it's stupid to fight him alone. Oleg-sensei is a teacher after all so he is good at combat, but for us it would be better to fight together."

"Alright then." she smiled that her teammate wasn't agree with her idea and agreed with his plan.

Both of them ran at their opponent with glasses. They gave well-coordinated strike, but Etienne was parried all of them with his sword he was fighting with one hand while his other one was behind his back. 'Damn he is pretty fast.' Rinko thought. 'We must change our strategy, if we want to get him.'

Then she closed her eyes and then she appeared behind the man and was about chop his arm off.

"Not bad girl." he closed with his sword, "But I'm not so stupid." and then quickly hit her with a leg into her stomach making her to tremble and sit on her knee. Aki was quick enough to push Rinko from the man and block the sword of Etienne.

While two students were fighting the man with glasses, Oleg was fighting Archon. Instead of the fight where were three fighters, the fight of these two was more dynamic. Their fight was likewise two tornados which met each other. Oleg perfectly parried and dodged all lunges of his opponent's gloves. However he wasn't as fast as his enemy, so he was trying to save his energy not trying to attack him. 'Damn if only Sakura was here with her squad, then we wouldn't have so much trouble with these two.' suddenly he heard something from the communicator on his right arm. "Oleg we need your help." it was Sakura's voice. "We can't! We were ambushed too!" when he heard he noticed that Archon's glove was close to Oleg's face he tried to step back, but his glove reached his mask.

"Yes, I admit you became a bit stronger, but still you're no match for me." he smirked looking at his damage he made to Oleg.

'Damn! I was too careless. It seems that it's pointless to wait for their squad's aid.' he took off his helmet and threw it onto the floor.

"By the way why don't you use your abilities?" Anatoly asked his rival with some interest.

"The same thing is to you." Oleg retorted trying to catch his breath, but at the same time he tried not to show it.

"Well, you know that for me is it is important to focus, but your telekinesis is another thing."

"Then I think you don't deserve to have such honor." Oleg smirked.

"Really?" he looked with curiosity at his opponent. Then he looked at three people who were fighting. "How do you think, will this kids be a good addition to our organization?" he change a theme.

"I won't let this happen!" then Oleg attacked him again.

"Rinko let me strike him first." Aki said to the purple hair huntress. "And then you'll try to find a moment to strike him when he is opened." the girl nodded and then the boy rushed at his opponent.

Aki crossed his katana with Etienne's sword. "You know boy. This purple haired chick is fighting better, why you didn't let her fight me? In my opinion, it's good for weaker to be a little help for the stronger one."

"I didn't ask your opinion." the boy parried and tried to hit his with his katana.

This time Aki was attacking Etienne angrier trying to break his sword or break through it. Suddenly Etienne aimed a blow for an attack, but he overdid his swing up. "Rinko now!" he heard a shout of the boy.

"What?!" the robed man didn't understand how behind him appeared the same purple hair girl who was sitting in expectation. 'Curse! I overdid my swing up! Then there's no other choice to me' he smirked and accepted her hit. So she cut his arm off.

"Yes!" Aki exclaimed. "We did it!"

Rinko jumped to Aki and said, "Yes it was difficult, but still we gave him a serious damage."

"A little remark. You just cut my arm off nothing special." he got up and smirked.

"What!" the both students didn't understood. "After his loss of arm he is able to stand?"

"Even demons haven't got such great vitality!" Rinko was in a daze too.

"As your teacher told you I'm quite peculiar." It was strange for both students to see a human without his limb and who have no blood at the same time. He put his intact hand under his robe and several needles out of it. He rushed at the boy and the girl and threw the needles at the boy. The boy dodged the needles, but then he saw a man in glasses who was appeared in front of the boy. He kicked him into his side, when Rinko was going to hit him again he let two tentacles out of his hand and then they winded around her head and trough her at the boy who was trying to get up. When they got up they noticed that the man was standing by his cut arm. He picked it up and attached it to his shoulder. He was attaching it again and again. Suddenly his fingers started to twitch. And after a while he was able to move with his all arm.

"Are you even a human?" Aki asked Etienne.

"Just spoiled my favorite robe." he remarked that no it had no sleeve and even his shirt lost its sleeve. "Well." he started to came closer to them. "What should I do to you first?" he wanted to pick his sword up, but it slipped from his hand. "What?"

Oleg grabbed the sword and through at Etienne after he avoided Archon's claws.

'If we continue like this we will definitely lose.' he thought

"Rinko take Aki and both teleport out of here!"

"What?" she didn't understand.

"Do as I say! There's no chance to you to fight him. I'll try to handle them for several minutes." He stopped for a while, but then added "I think it will be enough to you to regroup with the other team."

"Sensei. We won't…" Aki wasn't able to finish as he was interrupted by Oleg.

"It's an order! There's no need to you to die here."

"Sorry sensei, but if we decided to fight, we won't backtrack." Aki said.

"Yes being protectors of the peace we won't flee in front of the enemy no matter it is. Nor demon nor human." Rinko stated.

"Look at them." Etienne laughed, "So bold and stupid kids."

"Yes, I can't believe that I was like them once ago." Anatoly admitted. 'I must admit that Japanese hunters quite formidable rivals. It's interesting to see the power of their strongest hunter Asagi Igawa.' He though. 'And Oleg, is the same as always. Always cares for others instead of himself.' When they were about to strike again they heard a strange whistling. They saw something gleaming was flying from the corridor. Both of them have jumped off and saw like spear was pierced into the floor where they were standing.

"It's been a while. Brother." all of them heard a female form the side where the spear flew.