Chapter: 5
She would lose here, just as long as everything went as planned then she would be defeated. Just three more and it would all end, he would be the victor and would stand at the top of the pile. Shiage lifted his hand and slowly brought it down.
"Would you just move your piece already? It's getting boring waiting for you."
He gave his companion a dry look. "You really are impatient you know that. Chess requires fineness, something you don't have apparently."
"Says you but i have loads of that fineness stuff!" The girl said with a huff.
Shiage snickered and moved his rook forward to take the girl's queen and putting it in position to take her king. "Right, i bet you do Lucy. By the way you're in check."
The girl pouted cutely and pulled her king back a space. "How are you so damn good at this game if you've never played before? It's like you know what i'm gonna do before i do." She leaned in close and squinted her eyes at her friend. "Are you psychic or something Zero? Cause there is no way that you are just this good."
Zero leaned back a little with a blush as he looked away from her too close for comfort face. "N-no i'm not, it's just me using strategy. Besides you're not exactly a pro at this game you know." He sighed in relief when she backed off. Lucy really had no concept of the word boundaries for whatever reason.
The pinkette frowned and crossed her arms as Zero trapped her king again with his bishop. "It's not my fault, i just got the damn game. I'll get better at it eventually." Lucy pulled her king to the right in an attempt to escape defeat.
"Now that i'm sure of. All you need is practice and after that i don't think anyone could stop you." He said as he gave her a friendly smile, just before he put his queen in a position to take her king effectively blocking all her moves. "I win by the way." Shiage finished with a large grin.
Something about Lucy just gave him this calming feeling that he could never properly explain no matter how hard he tried. The two became best friends faster than most would think possible shortly after meeting each other and practically never left the other's side unless called in for tests in Lucy's case.
From what he found out about the girl, she was basically given most anything she wanted on a silver platter by the scientists because they wanted to keep her as happy as possible for whatever reason. The girl also seemed to have a way with people if anyone actually let her get close to them, but the other test subjects always avoided her because of her horns or even just because she was the supposed all mighty number one-hundred.
Because of people's disposition to her horns, the girl had plenty of trouble in getting friends. However that only made their friendship something of a personal treasure to the girl, even if he did threaten to kill her right off the bat.
That wasn't to say that Zero didn't appreciate the whole situation, because secretly he was overjoyed that he finally had someone that he genuinely liked in the world again. He was still just a kid after all, so it was no surprise that he still had the want to be near people like that even after the betrayal of his father.
Still the girl had made quite an impression on him and even managed to get him to open up to her fairly easily. After that everything just kind of worked itself out. Even now Zero was nicer to the few people that he came into contact in the facility, sans the scientists of course. He even seemed happier despite his and everyone else's situation.
It also helped that his first friend in many years was a very cute girl that liked to be around him. But that is neither here nor there.
"Pst...pst...HEY SHIT HEAD!"
He winced at the voice of K in his head. 'Dammit what is it?! Why did you yell when you're in my head you ass!'
"I just wanted to tell you that you should make a move on that chick as soon as possible. She's just your type!"
Shiage sweatdropped as he could just feel the perversion dripping from K. 'You just want me to get with her so that you can see….see...s-' He wasn't able to finish that thought because soon after speaking his face turned beat red and his head erupted in steam.
"DAMN KID! Those were some awesome thoughts hehehehe, now try to imagine it on a rollercoaster!"
'Sh-shut up K!'
The pinkette took notice of her friend's situation but didn't think much of it, he'd been doing it a lot for over a week now and she had just chalked it up to one of his quirks. Although she was still trying to figure out what it meant. She had asked him a few times before but he refused to answer so it seemed like she would just have to find out on her own.
"So Zero, wanna play again?"
His blush faded away until it was only a light dusting on his cheeks and he nodded with a big smile. "Of course, which color do you want to be this time?"
"I'll be black this time, i wanna see if that's why you won last time." She said the a calculating look.
He sweatdropped, "Riiiiiight."
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Sora's eyes widened in alarm at the speed this fallen angel was capable of. Maybe it wasn't smart to make fun of the man like that. He just barely had enough time to bend backwards before the quad winged man clipped his chin. However even just being clipped as he was the teen was sent backwards a few feet.
He leaned back in the air so that he could grab the ground below him to stop his short trip backwards. Upon stopping he used his vectors to give him a small boost as he launched himself back at the man. Just before making contact he flared his own black bat wings and circled around as he delivered a haymaker to the back of the fallen angel's head.
The man stumbled forward slightly from the unexpected hit and spun around making his elbow slam into Sora's face. He wasn't done just yet however as he grabbed the teens shirt and slammed him into the ground hard. The pink eyed devil groaned in pain for a second before he whipped around from his position making his foe trip and forcing him to land on Sora's foot with his face, sending him backwards and allowing the teen to stand again.
The devil jumped back in an attempt to put some more distance between him and the angel, but was forced to evade as three dark blue light spears struck the ground he was standing on not a second earlier.
"Hehe not bad, i didn't think you'd be able to dodge that welp! But let's see how you do when i kick things up a notch!"
Sora cursed as a group of thirty spears formed above his foe's hand and were sent at the teen like bullets from a minigun. It took an immense amount of effort on his part but the teen was dodging every last one of the spears of death, and only suffering some minor cuts to his person. Sure they still burned like all hell because of their nature but he was managing. Just as he managed to dodge the very last one, he was met with a fist to the face which he deftly evaded by bending backwards and kicking the other man in the chin sending him into the air as Sora flipped back into an upright position.
The man stopped his ascension early and glared down at the vector user as if trying to will him to burst into flames. Sadly that little scenario did not happen so instead he opted to make another spear, which he used as a makeshift sword by trying to cut his foe in half.
By this time Sora was fed up with playing around and sent out one of his vectors, the invisible arm-like entity grabbed the fallen angel by the ankle and brought him closer to it's owner. In a flurry of motion he was pounding on the larger man from all sides in an attempt to end the fight quickly. This was not going as he originally thought it would, who would have thought that the group occupying the church would have a higher ranking member with them. Let alone that said member was the one he just so happened to piss off.
His time seemed to run out as the fallen angel pulled his head back and with perfect timing he headbutted the teen, making his vector loose it's grip and allowing his foe to escape.
The man turned his head to the side and spit some blood onto the ground. "I don't know how the hell you did that or even what you did, but i won't let you do it again." He grinned, "That said, this has actually got my blood pumping for the first time in ages. What's your name devil?"
"Sora, yours?"
"Hikitori."
Sora nodded his head in recognition before darting forward, within seconds he was on the man ready to take his head off with a right hook. The fallen angel was ready to catch the incoming fist but was confused when his devil counterpart went right past him. That was until he felt three different burst of pain erupt from his torso, he was then launched off his feet and into a knife hand that went through his right shoulder as well as one of his wings.
Hikitori grunted in pain with some blood dribbling down his chin, he was confused. How did that even happen, he was sure that Sora had missed his mark so why was he hit anyway? Putting those thoughts on the backburner he swung forwards and slammed his knee into the teens chest forcing him back a few steps. Acting quickly Hikitori created another light spear and lunged at the devil using his wings as a booster.
Sora's eyes widened in surprise and he reached out to smack away the offending death wielding hand. The spear flew off to the side and went through a nearby tree as it's master continued his charge. At full speed Hikitori rammed into the devil and both of them rocketed off into a different part of the woods that surrounded the church.
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Internally Rias frowned, yes everything was going as planned but they didn't get the one specific fallen angel they wanted to trap. She and Akeno had managed to draw out two of the four fallen angels from their lair leaving Raynar and the four winged one that attacked Issei shortly after he was reincarnated unaccounted for. That was a very bad thing because while she trusted the other members of her peerage, right now she, Akeno, and Sora were the only ones strong enough to fight the man. Not to mention the fact that she had absolutely no idea where the estranged teen had vanished to.
Deciding that she had waited long enough she moved from her hiding place and into plain view of the fallen angels. "Akeno now!"
"Right President!" Akeno clapped her hands together as a magic circle appeared under the clearing that they were situated in and a lightning barrier started to form. However just before it finished solidifying two figures shot through an opening and landed on the ground in a mosh pit of body parts.
Slowly one of the figures stood up and cracked his neck before glaring at the other figure. "Damn that actually hurt i'll give you that much, but i've won this battle."
"Hehe i was sure i broke something with that last one, you're stronger than you look Sora. Sorry to burst your bubble but this fight is mine!" The other figure called out as he stood up with his feathery wings spread out widely.
"I don't know what you're talking about.." The teen blinked when he registered the other presences around him and turned towards the ones he actually knew. "King? Himejima? What the hell are you two doing here, and why are there two fallen angels here with you?" He asked with a frown.
Rias for her part just stood there with wide unblinking eyes at the sight before her. "I-i could ask the same thing to you Sora. Why are you fighting the most powerful fallen angel here?"
"What i do in my down time is my own business."
"Right..."
Hikitori on the other hand grew a tick mark on his forehead as his patience got shorter and shorter. "Hey weren't we just fighting a minute ago? I don't want to interrupt your little reunion but i have an ass to kick and i don't really feel like waiting!"
Sora's eyes turned back to their regular cold look and stared at the brunette, with absolutely no emotion in his voice he spoke. "Our fight is already over, didn't you hear me just now i said i already won. I'm just waiting for it to kick in."
"What are you talki-" At that moment blood erupted from Hikitori's mouth in a waterfall-like effect. He clenched his chest in pain and fell to his knees, with short jerky motions the fallen angel tried to look up into his devil counterpart's eyes. "W-when di-d you…"
The teen let a cold smirk work it's way onto his face. "From the very first punch that connected with you. Ever since then i've been manipulating your blood vessels and arteries, it was only a matter of time until all that blood built up from the blockages." For a moment he seemed to look disappointed as he continued. "I had hopped for something a little messier to be honest, *sigh* all that hard work and i didn't even get to see you explode like i thought you would. Oh well at least i know now."
"You w-erent even t-taking me ser-iously?!"
"If i did then you would have been dead the moment you stepped out of that door."
Hikitori looked like he was going to retort when blood started leaking from the corners of his eyes and he fell over dead.
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If i remember right then the original author's note here said something about Donaseek being replaced by Hikitori...or was it something else? Eh cant remember.
Review or pm with concerns, comments, advice, or whatever.
Ja-ne!