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Chapter 4: Marionette appears Pt 2

Amulet Vasp's eyes were closed, but she was still awake. She slowly opened her eyes. In her mind, she was thinking about everything that has happened, from one month ago to now. A month ago, when she found out her powers, she was pretty freaked out.

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Amulet and Mila strolled around town, chatting with each other, both was carrying a basket as they were shopping for groceries. Then they heard screaming, and people running in the opposite direction of the two girls. They looked up and saw a grey balloon-like monster hovering above them. They staggered backwards and fell on their rears, eyes glued to the creature.

The monster then focused a gun at them; Amulet closed her eyes, awaiting the pain. None came, however, but an explosion did occur. She cracked opened her eyes and saw the monster gone, its burning remains on the ground in from of them. Amulet then notices her arms, and screamed.

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Amulet chuckled slightly at remembering how she reacted when she saw her arms; she could also say the same thing about her foster sister. Then she remembered the townspeople starting to call her the Masked Marionette when she started to destroy the Akumas, because of a legend in the town.

The legend was that hundreds of years ago, when the town was under attack by demons, a stranger called Marionette appeared and destroyed the demons, and then he left. And because Amulet is also destroys the Akumas, it reminded the townspeople of the legend, hence they begun to call her Masked Marionette, and the girl smiled at that thought of being named after a legend. She didn't mind it, because there was something inside her that told her it was the right name to call her Innocence that.

Her smile changed back into a frown after that. She had always thought that when she stayed in town and destroyed the Akumas, she was doing them a favor. She never thought that by staying in Graz she would have caused those demons to come. The girl sighed heavily and turned to her side, closing her eyes. Her eyes flew open when she heard a single scream broke through the silent night.

Mila Riy lay on her bed, hands beneath her head, unable to sleep. The green-haired girl couldn't help but think about what the long-haired man said to her sister, 'the longer you stay here the more you're endangering this town…more you're endangering this town…endangering this town...' Those words echoed in her head constantly. She didn't want her home to continuously be invaded by the demons because of her sister, but she also didn't want her to leave.

The girl turned to her side and stared out the window at the full moon in the sky. She gazed at the white pearl in the sky for a few moments while sorting out her thoughts. After a few moments of gazing at the moon in the night sky, Mila was ready to sleep when a scream got her sitting upright on her bed.

Kanda Yuu stared at the ceiling from his bed, thinking about his lotus in an hourglass back at HQ. There was about eight petals left on the lotus, still quite a lot but he had a bad feeling about it. The samurai shrugged it off as nothing and turned his head so that he was looking at his trusty blade, Mugen, gleaming as it reflected the moonlight shining from outside.

The samurai returned his attention to the ceiling, thinking about how he can't die before finding a certain person. His thoughts suddenly drifted towards his curse once again. He was angry that his life had been bound to a lotus. He decided that he would kill the person who cursed him in the first place; if he was dead he would most certainly kill him again. His thoughts continuously wandered around in his head. Until a scream snapped him out of his thoughts. Kanda narrowed his eyes and jumped of his bed, putting on his Exorcist coat and grabbing Mugen, not bothering to even wake the vampire-like man up.

All three humans simultaneously met up the entrance of the house, but none bothered to ask anything yet, just nodded to each other and dashed off in the direction of the scream. Kanda was on guard and kept his hands on Mugen hilt in case of a sudden attack. The two female were not concerned by the fact that they were still in their nightgowns.

They shortly arrived at the scene. There was only one person, his body being covered in black pentacles, in front of a Level Three and a Level Two Akuma. The person cried for help but his body shattered in no time. Kanda wasted no time and unsheathed Mugen.

"Mugen, activate!" he called out, and then he looked over his shoulders, "Brat! You take care of the Level Two." and he begun the fight between him and the Level Three.

Amulet was about to activate Innocence when she remembered the man's words about her attracting the Akumas, and she decided to test if it was true. The pale blue-haired girl quickly turned around and grabbed Mila's arm, before running away. The Level Two saw this and begun to chase after them.

"Amu-chan! Why are you running? You can defeat this thing, right?" the green-haired girl shouted.

"I don't want you to get hurt in the cross fire," Amulet answered as they reached a junction, "You go straight ahead, and I'll go left... Don't worry, I'll be okay."

"You better be, if you die I'll kill you," the other girl said and she ran off the straight path as her foster sister went left.

Amulet looked behind her shoulder at the junction. She saw the twisted bear-like Akuma at the junction and it ran into the alley she was in. So he was right, the girl thought as she screeched to a halt when she ran into a dead end.

"Oh…thinking about giving up your Innocence, eh?" the Akuma's deep voice asked mockingly, stopping in its track, too. Amulet turned around and placed her hands her hands behind her back and gazed up to the star-filled sky. "Beautiful night, isn't it?" she commented and the Level Two raised an eyebrow.

"You know…" the girl started, "I've thought that I was helping this town by destroying you guys…" The Akuma, for some reason or another, continued listening.

"…But I guess I was wrong…" she continued again, still eyeing the night sky, "At first, when I heard the long-haired man say that you guys came here because of me, because I was in this town, I didn't believe him. But now I do…because of you."

"Me?" the Akuma finally spoke again, having an evil grin on its face.

"Yes, you…" the pale blue-haired girl said, "You could've chased my sister all the way because it was much easier to continue running straight than turning a corner, but you still turned into the alley because you knew the Innocence was with me, didn't you?"

"Of course I did," the Akuma smirked, moving closer to the girl very slowly, taking advantage of the moment.

"People have died because of you Akumas, and you Akumas came because of me, so I'm indirectly to blame for their deaths," at this point, Amulet was now looking at the twisted bear form of the Akuma with her green eyes, "And that is why its time for me to make up for those people who died because of me." And then, the two crosses on her shoulders shone white through the sleeves of her nightgown, making the Akuma regret not killing her earlier.

"…Let's go…" she said softly, closing her eyes and tilting her head upwards, and the crosses shone brighter. Then, from the crosses, white cloth began to wrap around her torso and upper back, like armor. A gold mask formed in front her face, coving the upper portion. There were two spike-like formations at both the sides, curving upwards and ending in an arrowhead. Another two was on the very top of the mask, curving towards the center and ending in the same way as the other two: an arrowhead.

The gold mask had complex markings etched onto the surface and had two holes in it to let the girl see. White energy flowed from the two crosses down her arms. Once it completely covered her arms, they turned into the cloth-like energy that wrapped around her body, flowing in the non-existent wind.

Amulet opened her green eyes after that, seeing through the eye holes of the mask, and got into a fighting stance.

"Masked Marionette…Let's go."

Okay, I was quite disappointed when I only received one review on the previous chapter (My thanks to glon morski). I mean, I need to know if you didn't like it or what can I do to make it better. I hope to get more reviews this time, anything but flames though. I think I've complained enough, now…I need some reviews, is this good or bad? What can I do to improve it? Anything you want to see?