CHAPTER 10: The Band of Seven
"Kyokotsu is useless."
"He's weak, nonetheless."
"What should we do now?"
"Let's continue our new plans then. We shouldn't waste the third chance to live we had."
As time went by, Zero and the others and gotten quite attached to their companions. Leviathan had Kagome do her daily fencing lessons, in which Inuyasha often bailed out. After a few days of training with Aile and Zero, Ciel finally mastered all the weapons she had, ranging from the ZE Buster to the latest Recoil Rod technique. Amar Ma'aruf and Chris had already mastered the weapons earlier.
Amar-kun had received a mysterious message in his cellphone earlier that day. It asked him to come at an alley this midnight. He hesitated a little before he came with a backpack full of bullets and ammo.
Amar walked to the alley, as it was not too far from his café. Upon arriving there, he had an uneasy feeling.
"Anyone there?"
There's no answer.
"Hello?"
Still, he kept calling for another time before he turned around to walk away.
Suddenly, he could hear some swishing coming right after his tracks. Amar turned around, making a wall run. After that, he kicked himself off the wall to land on the ground. As soon as he got to the ground, Amar-kun took out his shotgun, strapped with a flashlight.
"What the hell was that?"
Then, two familiar figures that attacked Amar Ma'aruf at the shrine appeared.
"The Chosen One for Biometal FE. So you'd come."
A-01's radio started to make some voices.
"Nasir here. What's going on down there?"
"Maintain radio silence!" Amar seethed. "Can't you guys see I'm busy right now?"
"…"
Pandora stared at A-01 and she quietly froze the ground Amar-kun was stepping on. He however noticed this and Amar quickly made his move.
"ROCK ON!"
With a flash of bright light, Amar turned himself into Model FE and he shot the ground with his knuckle busters to melt the ice. Prometheus then threw his scythe once again, but Model FE raised himself to the air with a 'rocket jump'.
He landed safely on the ground quite farther than the two Reploids.
"No need for introductions. I knew who the heck the two of you were. Prometheus and Pandora, right?" He said.
"That's right." Pandora replied.
"You must know this from that God of Destruction's copy, didn't you?" Prometheus said. "I think that he should have told you about what were we looking for."
How the heck that he knew I had the Fois Gem? Amar thought. The two of them were really dangerous, but right now I had to play hide and seek with them.
"Well then, you had to beat me to get it."
A-01 charged his knuckle busters and fired a Meteor Rain shot to the air. Then, small rocks rained on both Prometheus and Pandora. The white witch-like Reploid covered herself and her partner Prometheus with a force field, not knowing that Model FE had exchanged the busters with his standard grenade launcher.
"Eat this!"
There was a loud thumping noise before an explosion ensued. Pandora had dropped the field for a while to allow Prometheus to attack once again, only to hear the same thumping noise – a grenade coming for their way once again!
"You're not fooling me with that trick again!" Prometheus yelled as he slashed the grenade. It didn't go off but then again, another one came, this time it exploded right behind him.
"Got you now."
"You little-!"
Pandora had frozen Model FE's feet to the knee as Prometheus dashed towards Fefnir's incarnation with his scythe held angrily. Model FE was scratched with Prometheus' attack, but it was not quite over yet.
"Dual Crush – Warriors Revive!"
The second voice came and attacked both Prometheus and Pandora with illusions of warriors. When the bright light was cleared, two familiar figures came in front of A-01.
"You're okay, A-kun?"
"One half of it is yes, while the other half is no."
Prometheus grinned. "So we meet again, God of Destruction's incarnations."
"Skip calling Zero this God of Destruction stuff and get lost!"
"I don't think that would be necessary." Pandora said calmly.
"And why's that, white witch?" Chris asked.
This is where Prometheus grinned. "We had sent 7 seekers of the Fois Gem to get them for us, of which one of them you had killed." He said.
"That's Kyokotsu." Nasir echoed from the radio. "He's one of the Shichinintai. Koga killed him before to get the shards, but even with the scanner, I can't find a shard or anything equivalent."
Feeling that it is safe to de-transform to his human state, Model FE changed back to A-01. Still, he had the same uneasy feeling when he first arrived at the alley.
"Jakotsu, you're next."
Surprised, Nasir gave a quick alarm.
"Watch out! He's attacking the three of you with-!"
"Ahead of you." Chris said, as he transformed into Model ZE, shielding the attack attempt with his Shield Boomerang.
As Jakotsu's sneaky whip machete - Kusanagi - bounced off the shield, Prometheus grinned.
"I can't deny your skills and abilities, though all of you had been much of a problem. We revived those who you call Shichinintai to find the Gems for us." Prometheus said. "Have fun searching!"
Prometheus, Pandora and Jakotsu disappeared at that announcement. A-01 seethed slightly.
"Damn that cocky Prometheus!"
"Great. Looks like we have to beef up the search by now."
"God knows where those gems were!" Chris yelled.
A-01 shot a look at the vampire hunter. "Shut up, Chris. It's the middle of the night. Don't wake someone with that voice of yours."
"Yeah, right."
"If it's late, we'd better go and get some rest. I can't afford of going to school really late." Amar Ma'aruf said.
"Me too."
With that, both Amar and Chris walked away, back to their home.
A/N: After a while, I have finally completed this chapter. I had to tell all of you readers this: it's going to take a while to finish up the next chapter, so please be patient. Read on and review! TQ.
Oh yeah, by time you read this, I had been asked to put this fanfiction on . It was quite obvious that they liked it until one of the moderators (or adminstrator, I can't quite remember.) emailed me. It was sure fun on , but I liked 's management. I'm kind of new in fanfictions on forum postings.