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Raven's Flat

2:30 am

Michael was staring at his terminal, bored as hell, when a message popped up suddenly.

'Wonder what this is,' he thought to himself.

He opened up the box and read it. His eyes widened when he had finished. Immediately, he called the hunters and told them to come to the stn-j headquarters right away. Within 15 minutes, everyone had arrived looking rather sleepy.

"What is it Michael?" Amon asked, the only one seeming to be partially awake.

"I just received a message," Michael said.

"And why do we care Michael?" Amon asked.

"It's from Rainalia. She wants to meet Robin at the park in front of Harry's at 3," Michael explained.

"So am I going alone?" Robin asked.

"Well, it will look that way, but we'll all be close by. We can't let her slip through our fingers when she asks to meet up with us," Amon said, remembering the last time they had met the witch.

"All right then. I should leave now if I'm going to make it by 3," Robin said as she turned and left.

Park in front of Harry's

3 am

Robin was walking through the park looking for Rainalia when she heard a voice behind her.

"I didn't actually think you would show up alone. Very good, but very foolish at the same time," the voice said.

Robin turned around and saw Rainalia leaning against a tree.

"Why did you send for me Rainalia?" Robin asked.

"Because, you're the only hunter that doesn't use the orbo. You do know what orbo is made of, right?" Rainalia asked.

"You called me out here for a different reason than that," Robin said, her eyes narrowing.

"True. Ever hear of a witch called Auzzie?" Rainalia asked.

"No, why?"

"Because he's coming to Japan. And it won't be very pretty when he gets here. I called you here for two reasons. The first was to ask you to stop hunting Ghost and me. The other is to ask for the help of the stn-j in stopping Auzzie," Rainalia said, "Do we have a deal? Will you stop hunting us to help us kill Auzzie?"

"Thank you for the information, but we will not stop hunting you or Ghost. And speaking of Ghost, I hope you said goodbye to him," Amon said as he stepped out from behind Rainalia and prepared to shoot her.

"No, she didn't," Ghost said as he dropped out of the tree and used his momentum to knock the orbo gun out of Amon's hands.

"Well this time we have the advantage," Amon said as two orbo bullets flew into the tree right next to Ghost's head.

"Then it's time to get serious. Ice spike!" Ghost screamed as he slammed his hand into the ground.

Multiple paths of ice spiderwebbed across the ground from Ghost hand. As each one neared a hunter, a spear of ice shot up through the ground, missing the hunters by inches because the orbo tried to redirect the attack. Ghost shot up from his crouched position with his elbow flying backwards in an attempt to hit Amon in the stomach. The experienced hunter blocked it but was caught off guard by Ghost's spinning roundhouse kick from the opposite direction. Ghost's foot caught Amon in the side and he smiled as he heard the grunt of pain. He brought his leg back down to the ground and was about to strike again when he saw a column of fire fly right where he was about to go. He wheeled around and got ready to attack Robin when Amon slammed his fist into Ghost's side. Cringing in pain, Ghost let off shards of ice like shrapnel towards Robin before returning his attention to fighting Amon. The odds definitely were not in his favor, as two-on-ones generally aren't good. He then created a weapon of ice, sharp as a sword, but more deadly in the fact that the blade curved like that of a kris. He began to attack Amon with that. Hoping that he could force him to retreat without actually having to kill him. Amon ducked the blade and punched Ghost in the side again.

"Damn it to hell!" Ghost cried out as he brought his ice weapon slashing across Amon's face, cutting him across his left cheek.

He would have kept attacking but Robin interfered again and used to her craft to create a barrier of fire and Amon. Ghost rebounded away from the shield, and set his feet back in his fighting stance.

"Fine. It's been fun, but I'm sorry to have to end it now," Ghost said as his icy tool of death melted away and Ghost drew both of his daggers.

Using his craft, Ghost enchanted the weapons with an icy coldness that would transfer into the body of whomever was struck by the weapon. Wielding his daggers, Ghost felt reassurance flow thorugh him. He did not have to worry about losing to the hunters. Just Auzzie. If he lost to him, things would not be good for anybody. He crouched down once more and waited.

Rainalia wasn't having much more luck against the other two hunters. Although they couldn't actually hit her, the orbo kept Rainalia from getting too close. She dodged left as another orbo bullet streaked in front of her, then ducked as another went over head.

'Damn it, I can't get in close enough,' she thought to herself.

She continued dodging bullets while trying to formulate another plan of attack. She ducked behind a tree and began drawing a symbol on the ground. When she finished, the ring glowed brightly then faded away. This caught Robin's attention and distracted her from the fight between Amon and Ghost. Her eyes widened as she realized what just happened.

'The Spectre's Circle!' she though to herself, ' that means...'

The rest of her thoughts got cut off by the blinding flash of light followed by the high pitched screams of those long dead. It caused everyone to stop what they were doing and cover their ears and close their eyes. When it was over, Ghost and Rainalia had disappeared once more.

"Damn, they got away," Amon said as the blood ran down his cheek.

"Amon, you're hurt," Robin said as she ran up to him and began inspecting the cut.

"I'll be fine," Amon replied, wincing slightly as Robin touched his cheek, "Besides, we need to return to the base and report to Michael. He might be able to find something about this Auzzie person that Rainalia mentioned."

"Right," Robin said as Sakaki and Karasuma walked over to them.

"Would somebody mind telling me what just happened? What was that birght flash?" Sakaki asked.

"That was the Spectre's Circle. It's a dark craft, rarely used by even the most powerful of witches. When used, it takes the grief and pain of the creator and makes it into what you just saw. The more grief they have, the stronger the effect. We got off lucky that what happened was all. Usually that attack is used as a last resort to kill you and your opponents," Robin said, frowning.

"So she wanted us dead?" Karasuma asked.

"No. I don't believe either one wanted to kill us. Ghost seemed to be holding back when he fought me," Amon said as he showed the two his cut.

"That looks pretty bad Amon. You should see somebody about that," Sakaki said.

"Not right now. At the moment, we need to go back to headquarters," Amon said as he turned and left.

The other hunters followed him.

The same place Ghost and Rainalia were before. If you have any ideas about what I could call it, leave me a note in your review.

"I told you that was a bad idea," Ghost said once he and Rainalia had returned from the park.

"It was still worth it. Auzzie is a lot stronger than you give him credit for," Rainalia said.

"We almost got pumped full of orbo by those hunters. You might not have noticed, but that tree I was next to was blue by the time the fight was over. Those hunters are a lot stronger than either one of us figured. And another thing, why did you use the Spectre's Circle? The last time you did that, I barely kept you from dying, but because of that I lost part of my humanity. I barely feel happiness or joy. Do you know what it's like to be like this? Life is pretty damn bland without those emotions," Ghost said, reminding Rainalia of her past incident with The Circle.

"I'm sorry," she said, as her head drooped and her mood sank.

Ghost walked over and put his arms around her.

"Look, don't ever do that again. You know that no matter what I would do whatever I could to save you," Ghost said softly, "Even if it cost me everything I have."

"In know, ghost, I know," Rainalia said as she closed her eyes and fell into his embrace.

"Look, Rayna, you need to sleep. Go to bed now," Ghost said, the softness in his voice completely different from what he felt inside.

"I'll be fine," Rainalia said as she removed herself from his arms and sat down on the couch.

Ghost walked over and sat dwon next to her. He put an arm around her shoulders and she leaned her head on his shoulder. He returned the gesture by placing his head on top of hers and closing his eyes.

"Goodnight Rayna," he said as he prepared to fall asleep in that position again.

"Night Ghost. I'll see you again when we wake up," Rainalia said.

"I'll see you in my dreams," Ghost replied.

Within minutes, the two were sound asleep.

Seems like a good place to stop. Has anybody here ever used Bit Torrent to download something? I have literally been downloading something for over 24 hours and it's still not done. It still has another 30 to go. Then again, 25 episodes of Gundam Seed probably does take a long time to download. As always, R&R&F. Oh yeah, and my beta has gone MIA for about 2 days. Actually, I have a general idea of where she is and when she'll be back, but I've always wanted to say that one of my friends is MIA. Well, technically she's MWSTBE (Missing While Supposed To Be Editing) but that's too many letters. Later people.

The storyline also splits here. to see the original storyline, go to the next chapter. if you want to see the new stuff, go to chapter 9.

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