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Kori's POV

"Y-You're looking for Kori?" Mahiru repeated what the stranger just said

I stumbled knocking over a chair as I tried to get a grip on myself. But that voice, it was a voice that had caused me much pain over the years, and now he had found me. He had found me and it was too late to run.

It didn't belong to my father though… It belonged to-

"If you'll kindly step aside miss." The stranger pushed Mahiru out of his way gruffly, knocking her into the wall. Mitsuru ran over to her worriedly along with Nozomu. Seeing that Mitsuru and Nozomu would take care of the princess Misoka and Akira watched the stranger sneer coldly at me.

"Hello Kori. Did you miss your old fried Blackwall?" (Eh another sucky name…ah well)

My eyes widened in fear as he advanced towards me. Blackwall, my fathers henchman, and his best friend. He was put in charge of making my life a complete nightmare when Daddy got tired of it. Not only was he cruel but he was scary, to look at and to be with. He was huge man with cruel red eyes. His greasy jet black hair matted around his head.

He smirked horribly showing off his rancid yellow teeth and lunged an arm at me, wrapping one of his gigantic hands around my neck. He picked me up as if I weighed nothing and brought my face right up to his and he whispered

"Did you really think you could get away brat?" Blackwall sneered as he tightened his grip around my neck. My hands clawed at his giant one, hopelessly trying to loosen the grip. He only smirked and gripped harder.

He spoke louder this time so the whole room could hear him, "Did you think you could run away from your own fate? Just as it was for all those other beasts at that dinky government base?"

I couldn't breath. His hand blocked my air passageway and I could see my eyes clouding over.

"S-Stop It! Your strangling her!!" I heard Mahiru shouting after she recovered.

Blackwall only smirked again, "Aw, that's so sweet, you actually care for this little vermin? Humans shouldn't be bothered with her trash but of course she probably didn't tell you she was a demon now did she?!" He laughed cruelly as he through me across the room.

I knocked into the wall painfully almost knocking me out, but I didn't have the chance too, Blackwall had yanked on my braid and once again picked me up. Akira and Misoka leaped at him to try and save me.

No! Stay away! He'll hurt you! I felt like screaming but I could only yelp in pain as Blackwall grabbed my arm and twisted it back.

"Come any closer and this arm will snap like a twig!" He cried and both Akira and Misoka halted reluctantly. Blackwall snarled, "So, you don't care she's a demon? You don't care if this whole household is cursed because of her presence?!" He twisted my arm even further and I felt the tears coming in pain. I bit my lip No! I wont cry! I wont give Blackwall or any other of those agents anymore of my tears,

Blackwall smirked, "Does it hurt runt? I bet it does, knowing that once I take you back to the government…you'll never see the light of day again."

He twisted my arm back around but jabbed his foot into my ribcage as he kicked me into a nearby table. I desperately tried to sit up, clutching my ribcage, I hacked up blood from the force of Blackwall's kick.

That got the rest moving, Nozomu tried to sweep kick Blackwall but he merely jumped over Nozomu's legs and kicked him off to the side. Mitsuru and Akira tried to grab his arms but he knocked them away like flies. Even Misoka couldn't land a punch on him as Blackwall continued to assault me.

I was trembling all over from fear and pain, Blackwall wasn't normally this strong, but when he has a target that he doesn't want to miss he becomes almost an unstoppable juggernaut. However that concentration would backfire at some point. This I realized as he again towered over me.

"And I bet it hurts even more…since the only reason your still alive…is because you're the last of those flippin birds, we wouldn't want to run out of our favorite medical supply now would we?"

He knelt down by me and lifted my braid to bring my face to meet his once again.

"You could have saved them you know.." He muttered, "You could have saved the rest of your kind, even your grandmother…but you couldn't…because your weak!" he cried before punching me again.

It wasn't the punch that made my tears fall, it was the fact that he was right. I could've saved the other phoenix's, including my grandmother, but I wasn't strong enough! I could only watch them die one by one by the greed of man. I was only saved because I'm the last one, the only phoenix left for them to abuse.

Normal POV

" we have to do something! He's gonna kill her!" Mahiru screamed. (they didn't hear the part about the government keeping her alive and such.)

Blackwall grabbed Kori by the scruff and raised her into the air. He drew back his arm to deliver one final punch. But it was never landed.

Just in the nick of time Akira had sprinted and grabbed the gigantic hand holding it in place just inches away from his face. Like it was said before, Blackwalls concentration would backfire at some point. Meaning he would be so concentrated on beating Kori to a pulp he wouldn't notice the others anymore.

Blackwall looked surprised for once in his life, "What?! Why did you-"

"You made Kori-chan cry." Akira muttered before landing one of his own super strong punches on Blackwall.

Blackwall went flying into the wall, crashing into it making the whole building rumble. He stared at them with a bewildered and furious expression as all four of the moonlight bandits (plus Mahiru) Stood around Kori, protecting her. Kori, still trembling and on the verge of unconsciousness stared up at them, they all faced Blackwall confidently. T-they're…saving me….. she thought to herself in disbelief

Blackwall scowled at them

"Your not welcome here sir…I'm afraid you'll have to leave." Misoka stated coldly.

Blackwall still stared at them. He was bigger than them for sure, but that punch by Akira had knocked the wind out of him. And if that kid could deliver a punch like that, who knows what the rest could do. No he would need to recover some where first and bring more troops with him later.

Blackwall stood up slowly as the moonlight bandits got in an even tighter circle around Kori.

"Alright brats." He growled, "Ill leave…for now, mark me this aint over yet."

And with that he ran out the door into the street.

Kori watched him run out and curled into a quivering ball, she choked on a few sobs that forced there way out as she broke down and cried. Blackwall's words echoed through her head and all physical pain was forgotten to be replaced by emotional pain

Mahiru knelt by Kori worriedly

"Kori…" She mumbled before pulling the small girl into a hug. Kori tensed at the embrace but couldn't find the strength to pull out of it, so she let Mahiru hug her as the rest of the moonlight bandits watched sympathetically.(Yes ,even Mitsuru.) The young girl clung to Mahiru against her better judgement and sobbed until she didn't have any tears left in her.

Well, that was my first fight scene ever. Sorry if it sucks and if it didn't make sense, I'm not a violent person so this type of chapter is a bit hard to do. Anyways the next chapter will be a little sappy but happier than this one.

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