Chapter 5: Marionette appears Pt 3
"Masked Marionette…Let's go."
Amulet cloth-like arms darted towards the Akuma, the ends of the white energy becoming three sharp points. The Level Two avoided it as it jumped away as the energy spears impaled the area it was originally at.
"Too slow, too slow!" the Level Two cackled, as spat at the general direction of the girl. The pale blue-haired girl quickly side-stepped and watched as the spit hit the wall behind her, a little bit had hit her left arm. She widened her eyes as the wall dissolved right in front of her, and she quickly turned her attention to her arm when she remembered a little bit had touched her arm. She was relieved when she saw that her energy arm was not being dissolved, and concluded, Whatever that was, I guess it can't dissolve Innocence. The girl snapped her head to stare at the twisted bear-like Level Two, which was still laughing like a maniac.
"Dark Matter, Level Two. I have the ability to change the properties of my body fluids to suit any situation that I'm in," the Akuma said, all the while still laughing.
"May I ask just why are you still laughing?" Amulet asked a hint of irritation in her voice.
"Meh…It's nothing much, just that I can finally kill an Exorcist," the Level Two said, finally calming down from its fit of laughter. It then opened its wide mouth and blew, a jet of intense, orange flames shot out from it. The girl reacted on instinct and brought her cloth-like arms in front of her. The cloth-like energy expanded and blocked the flames from reaching its wielder. The flames were being diverted away to the sides.
Mila stopped running and looked over her shoulders, but didn't see any monsters. The green-haired girl sighed in relief, before tensing up again. The girl knew that if the monster wasn't following her, then it must be chasing her foster sister. Mila bit her lower lip, Amulet had reassured her she will be okay, but the green-haired girl had a bad feeling.
Making her decision, turned around and ran back towards the junction where she and her pale-haired sister separated.
Amulet gritted her teeth in frustration, because of her current predicament; she couldn't see what her enemy would do. Mustering her strength, she swung her arms away to her sides with as much strength as she could, and the flames that were too close to her were blown back. The girl put her arms back in front of her as soon as she saw another stream of orange flames heading towards her.
An idea suddenly snapped in her mind as she was still defending herself from the flames. She swung her right arm up and above her other outstretched arm. The white energy shot up and entered the flames, it sharpened at the furthest end into a spear-like shape, and moved against the flames. Unknown to Amulet, at the tip of the white spear, it began to fade until it could be seen through, like a ghost, half visible and half invisible. This only happened within a blink of an eye, as the tip of the spear became opaque again the next moment.
The Level Two Akuma had seen the white spear coming closer towards it, and it jumped up, stopping the torrent of flames as it closed its mouth. Amulet let her left arm fall limply to her side as her right arm came back to her and did the same. She eyed the Level Two after it landed, watching for any slight movements from the bear-like Akuma.
"Is that all you got, girl?" the Level Two said mockingly, then took a deep breath and spat again, this time a colorless substance came out. Amulet did not have time to move when the spittle landed on her foot, she raised an eyebrow at that and returned her focus to the Akuma in front of her. Her eyes widened as the Level Two blew again, this time a blue flame shot out and she tried to side-step but soon found out that the spittle that was on her foot had stuck her foot to the ground. The green-eyed girl then raised her cloth-like arms and defended herself again at the very last moment, part of her left leg being burnt in the process, and she was still able to feel the heat produce by the inferno. It was then that she realized how to defeat the Akuma, and she mentally slapped herself for not finding that out sooner.
Just like before, she swung her right arm over her left arm that was shielding her from the raging inferno. The girl forced her arm into the torrent of hot blue flames and forces the end of her arm to sharpen.
The Level Two bear-like Akuma had seen it already and jumped up right before the white energy spear impaled it. "Hahahaha…did you really think that the same trick would work twice," the bear-like Akuma sneered and before it could do anything else, a white cloth-like material wrapped itself tightly around the Level Two Akuma's mouth. The Akuma widened its eyes and only one thought crossed its mind as it glanced over to the pale blue-haired girl: When did she do that? The Level Two looked at the entire figure of the girl; her left arm was the one that was around its mouth. Then it saw that the left side of her nightgown, somewhere below her shoulders, was partially burnt and her right energy arm, which was now in the form of a white arm, was clutching her burnt side. It was then the Akuma realized what the girl had done, she had let herself be burnt so that she could seal him from using his ability.
"Good bye, Akuma," the girl said as she used her right arm to push her golden mask up so that her entire face was revealed, the mask now looking like a crown on the girl's forehead. Then, Amulet changed her right arm into a spear and, the next minute, the Level Two Akuma had been impaled by the spear and it exploded.
Amulet deactivated her Innocence and fell to her knees, clutching her burnt side and burnt leg. She turned her head to inspect her right foot, the one that was stuck to the ground, and realized that whatever that had glued her foot to the ground had just disappeared.
"Amu-chan!" Amulet snapped her head up at the familiar nickname, "Mila-chan!?"
The green-haired girl had been watching the entire battle from a safe distance, much to Amulet's relief. Mila was now looking at her foster sister's wounds, which was only the two burns she received, both were second-degree burns. Then to Mila's utter disbelieve, Amulet stood up.
"What are you doing Amulet!?" the other yelled in horror, "Your leg is injured! You shouldn't be standing up!"
"I have to help that long-haired guy," Amulet said, then looking into her sister's brown eyes with her green ones, and the other girl could see sadness in them, "Mila-chan, I've already made my decision, I'm sorry." With that, she ran off towards where she thought the Exorcist was fighting.
Kanda panted slightly as he glared at the pink Level Three in front of him. They had been fighting for a while, able to counter the others moves and kept ending in a stalemate. The swordsman had a large gash at his abdomen and it stained his clothes and Exorcist jacket, but he wasn't worried as he knew his curse would heal it.
The Level Three's ability was Dark Matter manipulation; Kanda had to use his Third Illusion to keep up with his opponent when the Akuma used Dark Matter to boost his speed and use his Second Illusion to counter the two Dark Matter claws the Level Three created using its ability. Kanda held both of his blue blades tightly and got into another fighting stance, ready for another round against the Akuma. The Level Three saw this and smirked, "You do know that no matter what you do, we're still gonna get the Innocence, right?" Kanda just 'che'd and both he and the Akuma disappeared, only to appear again in between the places they originally were, blue and purple energy were being given off from the two.
Both Exorcist and Akuma stayed in that position for a few short moments before jumping backwards. The long-haired man glared at the pink Akuma, he felt as if he was fighting with himself.
The pink Level Three Akuma then charged towards Kanda, its claws at spread opened intending to finish the fight. Kanda quickly side stepped to his right as the Akuma got in range and swung its claws at him. The samurai raised his twin blades of Mugen and brought them down on the Level Three once it was in front of him. Just before the blade sliced the pink Level Three, the Akuma grinned evilly, as if it had expected its opponent to dodge its attack, for a split second before it vanished and the blades of the swordsman cut through the air in front of him. A shadow loomed over the Japanese Exorcist and his eyes widened slightly.
"Die, Exorcist!" The Level Three cackled wickedly from behind the raven-haired man as it thrust its Dark Matter claws towards the Exorcist. Kanda chided himself for being so careless and knew he would not be able to dodge the incoming attacks, so he waited for the pain to come.
The claws had not even gone half way towards the Akuma when two white substance wrapped around it and restrained the claws from getting any closer to the long-haired Exorcist.
"What are you waiting for, Kanda?! Christmas?!"
The said man wasted no time to turn around to face the now restrained Level Three. Kanda swung his energy coated twin Mugen blades and slashed at the Akuma. The pink Level Three Akuma shrieked in agony before exploding. Kanda watched as the white substance darted back into an alley, and then a pale-blue-haired staggered out of the shadows of the alley, clutching her left side, with the green-haired girl supporting the other girl.
"How did you find him, Amu-chan?" Mila asked, still supporting her sister.
"Well, if you had been paying more attention around you, you would've seen the blue and purple flashes that appeared every few minutes or so," Amulet explained monotonously. Kanda just 'tch'ed and sheathed his Mugen back in its scabbard.
"You okay, Kanda?" the pale-haired girl asked, noticing the gash located at the samurai's abdomen once she got closer to him.
"Don't worry about me, brat, I heal fast," Kanda said, still not looking at the girls. Amulet sighed and shook her head at that.
"Mind if I ask you one more question?"
"You already are…"
"Very funny, but that's not what I meant."
"…Fine…"
"When do we leave?"
At that precise moment, the vampire-like man appeared, "Where're the Akumas? I could've sworn I sensed some of them nearby earlier." Kanda just uttered a 'che' while Amulet and Mila couldn't help but let out stifled giggles with their hand covering their mouths. Krory just looked very puzzled at the two girls' reaction, and was wondering what was so funny.
This was quite long, but maybe I could make the next chapter longer, not guaranteeing it though. Please review.
Oh and to Cross: Sorry but I'm not sure if I can do gore just yet, but I'll try my best in later chapters though.