Claimer= Things made by me such as my character Miria belong to me.

Disclaimer= Things that werent made by me belong to their respective owners, namely Hoshino Katsura

Note= I was stumped when it came to where and what should happen when it came to the first mission, however the greatness that is music fixed that, the song that helped me think up the mission within this chapter and a couple of chapters after that is the song called Inner Universe by Origa composed by Yoko Kanno and the first opening to the anime Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex. Sorry if its jumpy and if anyone was kind of out of character since I am still getting use to such things. Anyway I hope you enjoy!


Chapter Eight

|+City on the Water+|

Miria stood in front of a full body mirror, observing the uniform she now donned. A sleeveless top that had tails of either side of her legs, she was also wearing pants, with black boots, and to elbow length black fingerless gloves. She put her hair up into a sort of bun but some of her hair was free so it was in a ponytail sort of style, then she turned around to look to Night who barked and wagged his tail happily as if excited that they were going on their first mission. Miria nodded in response to his excitement, "yeah but I think I'm a bit nervous, I just hope I don't mess up" she admitted.

Over the course of her training she has gotten use to the people and she has gotten to know her weapon inside and out at least as much as she could know. She can multi task when it comes to giving Night commands and fighting her own battle. So she felt pretty prepared when a Finder came up to her to inform her that she needed to see Chief Komui, when she arrived she saw that she wasn't the only one in the room. Choaji Han and Arystar Krory were there as well, it was time to go somewhere completely foreign and fight to vanquish the demons known as Akuma. The location was Venice and apparently a Finder team had spotted a few akuma roaming about, there have also been reports of strange monsters, so basically they would go to Venice destroy the Akuma and retrieve Innocence if there is any. Miria was given her uniform, and now here she stood getting ready for the trip.

With a shake of her head she nodded, "no need to be nervous. All I have to do is fight to the best of my ability, complete the mission without fail and come back" she told herself.

She looked to Night, "well lets go then".

Night barked and followed her out the door. Speaking of which I will get to see the Ark, I also need to remember that eight digit password I was given. She thought.

Soon she arrived, there waiting for her was Krory and Choaji whom greeted her, "hi Miria are you ready?" Chaoji asked in his usual friendly way. "I cant wait to see what Venice is like" Krory admitted with a child like grin. Miria was a bit excited as well but she just nodded and smiled a bit, seeings as she never showed over the top excitement or anything in extremes except when someone close to her was in danger, namely Night. However her friend wagged his tail furiously, he was ready.

Passwords were memorized and now the three were being led inside the Ark after it had been connected to the location they were going too. Once that had been done they had been led inside the Ark, Miria couldn't help but look in awe at it, it had been described as looking like a Mediterranean Town and indeed it did. She felt herself admire the architecture as she they were led to a door, which made her stop glancing around and pay attention. "Good luck" a scientist said with a smile.

The three said thanks and went through the door on the other side they stepped out of the gate and found themselves at a Church, there to greet them at their arrival was a Father and the Finder, notably the sky was still bright out however in a couple of hours the sun was go down to introduce the night. Most likely so they could be given enough time to attract the attention of any Akuma that were walking around in human guise and to be told more details about the sightings. Since they were doing something that required some seriousness even though they weren't fighting at the moment, Night was well behaved and wasn't bouncing around, however he did eyeball that golem that Miria had been given. Sadly it wouldn't play with him like Timcanpy.

"Wow what a magnificent city!" Krory exclaimed joyfully as they walked outside.

Miria looked at the huge canals, "its amazing that buildings and homes can be built right beside water" she remarked.

Krory nodded in child like agreement, "yeah".

Chaoji laughed as Krory continued to smile at the new sight, and Miria although not admitting it was excited to see something new. Again she had seen pictures of Venice however there was nothing like the real thing.

The Finder, Roland, cleared his throat. "I'll show you guys to where there have been the most sightings" he told them.

As they followed they asked questions which the Finder gladly answered. "How many sightings have there been?" Chaoji asked.

"Counting citizen reports, around or over 100. From the description a lot of them Level One but a few Level Two and perhaps more" he answered. "The area were walking in is one of the hot spots and has more sightings, the other one is across the bigger canal".

This spot was from what she heard called La Guidecca a place of palaces, gardens, and an industrial area. One of the palaces has been labeled a hot, after looking around they took a boat to the other side to investigate the other spot that has had sightings. Miria looked to Krory and Night, "stop moving around so much you guys or you'll flip the boat" she warned them. Night stopped and with a frown Krory nodded, "sorry".

Miria shook her head, "that's alright" she assured.

She then looked to Chaoji, "so how long have you been doing this?"

He smiled, "this is my forth mission more or less, I also went on one with General Teidoll he's the General that I was apprenticed too".

"Oh yes, he's the artist who states himself to be Kanda's father and also Marie's" she said as she remembered a few times she had seen him. Personally he seemed strange however at least he wasn't General Sokalo, who kind of gave Miria the creeps for his intense outlook on fighting. Well he had to be on death row for some reason.

Chaoji laughed, "I thought he was weird at first until I got to know him better, he's actually really kind and since I found that out I started looking forward to being his student".

"I see" she muttered.

The Finder looked to them when they got to the other side, "here we are" he announced.

They got off the boat and continued to follow the Finder.

"Hey Miria don't you like sketching?" Krory inquired.

Miria showed some surprise when he asked this, "I do…how did you know?"

"I heard you talking to Night in the library, you wondered if they had any art books" he told her with a grin. Chaoji looked to her, "I'm sure if you ask General Tiedoll he gladly give you some art books" he told her.

"Okay…I'll ask sometime" she said hesitantly. Tiedoll seemed like the talkative type, and at least Lavi could carry a one way conversation so she didn't really have to respond, even though there were times when she wanted to escape. When it came to the General she wasn't so sure.

Miria suddenly noticed that place they were in. "Where are we?" she asked.

"The Piazza San Marco, a very popular place here and another spot with akuma sightings" Roland informed them.

"Okay so two places with Akuma sighting, its likely there taking commands from a stronger Akuma once we find that one it should be easy to eliminate the rest. Should we split into two groups and guard both places at night since they appear the most at that time?" Miria inquired.

Krory nodded, "sounds like a good idea, me and Chaoji will stand guard at La Guidecca while you, Night and Roland stand guard here". Although child like when seeing new things Krory had his serious side when talking about a mission and planning things out. Chaoji agreed, "we'll have our golems handy so if you need back up we can come to your area".

With that they had their plan. The sun had not yet set so they decided to get something to eat and drink that way they had their full amount of energy and weren't going to run on empty any time soon, as they walked Miria heard Night make a whining sound, "what is it?" she asked.

Night looked in the direction of his worry. Miria looked to the spot and tilted her head when she saw a pair of shoes, squinting her eyes a little to get a better look she soon realized that those shoes were connected to a pair of pants letting her know that there was someone wearing the shoes and pants, she walked over to it seeing that it was a man. He was a bit dirty from laying in the street and all however he looked sort of well dressed as if he had gone off of work not long ago, but looking at him he seemed rather motionless. "A dead body?" she wondered. Krory and Chaoji looked at the discovery in shock, although seeing dead bodies wasn't that much of a sight with their profession and all but still finding one randomly lying around was still unexpected.

Carefully Roland examined the man soon sighing in relief, "don't worry he probably over worked himself and had fallen asleep here".

"Really?" Miria said quizzically.

"It happens to Reever and others a lot" the Finder said.

The man seemed to sense people looking at him, he started to groan before finally cracking his eyes open, "wha….what time is it…?" he got up and scratched his head tiredly.

"About an hour or two from night fall, are you alright?" Roland replied.

The man's half open eyes shot wide in shock, "really!? Aww…crap Jonathan must be worried sick over me by now!" he got up and brushed himself off before bowing his head a bit. "Sorry if I startled you, thank you for making sure I was alright, I probably would have slept here until the new morning came".

"Its no problem we're just happy your alright" Chaoji stated with a friendly grin.

"Just make sure not to fall asleep again on your way back home" Miria advised him.

The man bowed again, "thank you" then at a very good speed he ran off. She watched the man disappear in the distance and sighed, thankfully it didn't start out with finding a dead body laying around, she thought graciously. Then again with no debris in sight and the whole body still looking intact the likely hood of an akuma being a culprit would have been very low since human death toll was caused by falling debris during an akuma attack and of course direct attacks that cause the bodies to look nasty or turned into dust in the wind. With that small distraction settled they moved to a restaurant to prepare for the night.


Popular spots are always full of life until night took over the skies. Venice was utterly black only leaving street lamps to be ones guide. After such a night had fallen Krory and Chaoji went back to La Guidecca leaving her, Night, and Roland at the Piazza San Marco. Both wished her luck and in turn she wished them both luck as well. Like I told myself back in my room before coming, its very straightforward, just destroy the akuma and the leader they might be taking commands from then come back to Order safe and sound and probably not that beaten up…hopefully. Though things can quickly change, I might be the one who runs into the Akuma who's been giving the other Akuma orders, also this place is pretty big. By now there might be other Level Two's around.

Her head held up to the moon she inhaled, her weapon that had been strapped to her side was now in her hand, the handle of the sickle like blade in one hand while the chain was in the other. Nearby was Night at the ready, the Finder stayed hidden off but ready to assist in anyway, near him was the golem that would keep the trio in contact with their two other comrades. Okay my uniform will attract them, we also wandered around a bit so any Akuma wearing human flesh know of us being here. She thought.

Night's ears twitched.

Something's up. Miria turned her eyes away from her friend and looked to the moon.

Absolute stillness and silence filled everything.

The light of the moon felt brighter.

Spheres started to obscure the light.

One last moment of silence before the sounds of battle tolled.

The black golem which was once silent announced the beginning of a battle else where.

Miria's eyes narrowed.

Any amount of uncertainty was flushed away as she rose her voice, giving a mighty command to begin.

"Night. Innocence. Activate!"

The blade and chain glowed on the kusari-gama.

Meanwhile Night howled as a light surrounded his body and he became a seven foot black monster that resembled a werewolf.

Running on all fours Night ran to Miria. When he was a couple feet from her she flipped into the air and landed on his back, with that she grabbed on to the scruff area as he made a mighty leap up into the air using all his leg strength. Now it was reversed, instead of being under the Level One Akuma they were now above them.

"Close Range, Melee!" she jumped off of Nights back and allowed Night to freely attack Akuma using a series of punches and kicks. He even grabbed a few and swung them around causing them to crash into their comrades.

Since they were only Level One Akuma Miria was only on Level One mode with her innocence, the technique was also called Melee, allowing her to cut through the Akuma like they were butter. In addition she was also able to control the length of the chain connected to the sickle, so she swung from Akuma to Akuma cutting them as she went by. She allowed herself to fall and slice through Akuma as she went down, Night punched through one as he caught her.

Though I am an equipment accommodator, killing them is like an instinct and its actually quite exhilarating. She thought as Night threw her at a group of Akuma, she grabbed the chain and swung the sickle around, slicing threw a bunch of them before Night grabbed her to get away from them so they could explode into bits. Night landed on the ground.

Miria looked up, "40 so far" she commented. "And more are coming".

"Come on Night". He howled in response before jumping up at the Akuma, Miria again jumped from his back and attacked as she fell then used the chain to swing from Akuma to Akuma.

Night kicked, punched and threw Akuma around like his chew toys back home.

Almost like a fireworks display. Miria noted since there were an awful a lot of explosions as she and Night sliced through Akuma.

After killing 20 or so more Night caught his master and landed on the ground again.

She glanced up to the sky, "easier then I thought it would be…however I have a strange feeling".

Night made a growling sound in response to what she said, her ears listened for the sounds of the golem, which indicated that Chaoji and Krory were still battling against Akuma on their side.

Suddenly her eyes caught something.

It disappeared.

Miria felt sweat on her brow, "crap…" she muttered. "Roland where ever you are at the moment I hope you have a sufficient hiding place" she said like a prayer.

Sadly things didn't go the way she hoped, but since she isn't alone she prayed that would relieve some difficulty.

The shadow rushed by once again before disappearing.

Silence engulfed the air.

Then she heard the dreadful voice.

"Exorcist…" it hissed.

Miria in the direction of the voice.

Her weapon at the ready combined with Night being at her side.

It may be dangerous, in spite of this she smirked.

"Hello Level Two".


Since I'm on a role hopefully the next chapter will come soon, I'm also developing a story for this places sister site so I'm multi-tasking. Also I do not live in Italy I live in America any names I misused and confused, I am sorry I did my best in terms of research and will do better next time.