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A/N: Alright! Here comes the introduction of a new character! This is gonna be an intense chapter, so I hope you guys will enjoy it.

Chapter 13

The Gunwoman

It was nighttime in Death City, the sky was black and purple blended perfectly well. The moon smiled wide revealing the blood smothered down it's teeth. It wasn't as bad as people from outside Death City would think of it. The evening was like any ordinary evening, the streets were quiet and land post were on to lighten the night. It was 8:00 pm, not a lot of people would be roaming at nighttime since their be danger lurking the dark allies, Kishin Eggs, Evil Humans, and full-fledged kishins.

It'd be dangerous for anyone to be outside at this point of time if they weren't careful. The only ones that were roaming down the streets, was a loving family of four, a mother, a father, and two adorable children, a son, and a daughter. They heading their way tours home, like a normal family scroll. "Mama?" asked the little girl in a chirpy tone. Looking tours her mother's direction, "Can we go to Death Land this weekend?" the boy looked at his little sister in disapproval.

"Mom, you know she's not old enough to go on the big rides, besides she'll eat too much cotton candy," the boy complained. Their mother smiled at her two children. "I think she's grown enough to go on the big rides, but you have to hold off on the sugar dear," the mother said to the little girl. "What do you think hun?" she asked her husband. He looked into his daughter's puppy dog eyes, how could he say no to a face like that? "Sure, we'll set plans for this weekend." he agreed "Hooray!" the little girl cheered. The boy just rolled his eyes, he know that when his little sis is excited she won't shut up for days.

The family continued their walk home, they passed by and alley, unaware of a pair of gleaming red eyes were spying on them from the darkness. "Need...souls..." It's deep and husky voice conveyed just how hungry it was for the human's tasty souls. It crawled slowly from it's shadows, revealing it's entire form. It had goat horns on it's head, it's body was very demonic and it's stood like a animal on it's four legs. Each hand had sharpen claws that can slice a human being up like salami.

It's mouth was the most horrific of them all, it contain a devilish smirk with fangs that could bite deep within the human skin. It's skin was wrapped in silk, it contained the three-red-eye-kishin symbol on it's face. It's tail has sharpen blade, kinda like scorpion style. "Hungry...for...your souls"

From perspective, four people stood by the rooftop, watching the whole thing from above.

"So that's the kishin," said the one who stood up. "According to the mission speculation, it keeps hidden in the darkest alleys at night, when it senses souls it reveals itself from the shadows, the more it eats the bigger it gets." She was a girl with blond wavy hair along with curls. Light dandelion yellow eye She wore a red victorian dress with a mini ruffled skirt, with long sleeves that had black frills on the outlines of the trimmed cuffs. The chest part contain a pink ribbon. Her socks weren't equivalent however, her left one was drooped down, while the right one was perfectly up tight. The design patterns were red and black stripes, Mary Jane shoes that were black with a red ribbon on the side, and a red beret with a gold decorative chain lock.

"Boy, this is gonna one hell of work for us." commented another girl. She had sapphire blue eyes, wore a loose white blouse with sleeves that drooped down the joints of her arms. The upper part of the blouse reveal her collarbone, and upper shoulders. It contained a decorative brown fabric on her chest. Brown thigh cropped shorts with frills on the outlines. She had a beige pork pie hat with a red ribbon around it, long brown over-the-heel lady boots. A pearl necklace with a pink flower on the side of the neck. Her hair was wavy and two-toned the upper part was beige while the lower part was snow white.

She complained with her arms crossed. The little one next to her meister wasn't complainant on the other hand. In fact she was excited about the whole situation. "Oh, sis lighten up. This will be fun!~" The little girl commented. She had the same color eyes as her older sister, she had a cute expression on her face. Her white hair was long and wavy went down to her behind, her bangs were straight and were just above her eyelashes. Her head had a cute white bow on top. The attire was a short victorian dress with long sleeves just like her meister, but whites and with a frilly skirt and punk frilled cuffs, also contain a pink attached link with white buttons. A bow on her chest in pink with yellow button in the center. Pink pantyhose that covered her legs tightly, and snow white classy with double ankle ribbons.

"M' Lady, are you sure you can take on that thing?" asked a older guy behind them. He was tall young man with pigeon blue trimmed hair, his bangs nicely swift up front but a bit ruffled. He had a victorian black suit, badges on the right side. Underneath was a white dress shirt with a folded collar, a blue bow tie on the tie center. His boots grey boots had folded blue cuffs. His mirror black glasses hidden his sliver eyes underneath, and a earpiece security on his left ear.

"What other choice do we have Richard?" asked the blond girl as she turn to her weapon partner. "We can't just stand by and watch this filthy thing harm those innocent citizens,"

"Then what are we waiting for?" her older female weapon partner spoke. "Let's take it down!"

"Right," Lisa nodded. "Diane, Molly, transform!" She commanded her partners, raising her arms in preparation.

Right!" the sisters said. They materialize into a blue glowing light of formless glow of light swirling into their meister's hands. The masses spin around her wrists until they were released, revealing two long gold and red rifle guns. She held her weapons tight on the trigger area.

"Richard, Bazooka mode."

"Right malady," the guy bowed his head in respect before transforming. He materialize into grey mass of light, it swirled around her back forming a large missile figure, once the gleam decreased, it revealed as a sliver bazooka fire launcher, attached to the metal strap around her waist.

The family began to notice the menacing voice was, so deep and terrifying. Their blood rushed through the streams, and their heart beats were intensely fast. They turn to see who was the being behind the savage voice, to see a pair of viscous eye of the demonic creature. It's left hand raised up, showing off it's cat-like claws. Preparing to slice them up. Their pupils shrunk in great fear for what was coming to them. The moon in the sky above them smiled devilishly, as massive blood gushed from its mouth. The family scream and huddled together bracing themselves for the claw that was coming down at the them.

BANG!

A blue energy bullet shot right the palm of the kishin's hand. The family slowly opened their eyes to see why they weren't dead. Something ceased the monster's opportunity. It look at the smoking hole of its palm. Someone dare to harm a supreme kishin? A frustrated snarl escaped from it's mouth, revealing more of its sharp fangs.

"Up here."

Aries looked up towards the top of the building, giving the family the opportunity run of with their children. A gun-wield girl standing on the rooftop. She jumped from the tall building and landed safely on her feet, as she stood in front of him."Despicable creature Aries, your soul will be mine" she pointed one of her guns to the devilish kishin.

It smirked, showing more of it's sharpen teeth, while saliva ooze from it's mouth. "So the Academy's little rats come for me." Aries snarled at Lisa for a pity contentment. His eye glowed red in fierce, its long tongue slithered maniacally, wanting to show the little wrench what happens when a foolish human stands up against its, gives it the perfect time to devour another tasty human soul. "If your willing to take me down that badly, then I'd be more than happy to FEAST ON YOUR SOUL!" From that instance, Aries dashed towards the gunman meister with no hesitation.

"Here we go!" Lisa prepared herself by guarding herself with her rifles. Once Aries reached her, she jumped out the way before the claw could swipe her. The gunwoman aim one of her guns to the monster left eye and blast it. Aries let out a screech of agony as blood spilled from it's socket. It placed it demonic hand on it's wounded eye, wallowing in great pain. Lowering its head like it was suffering from a major migraine.

"Big mistake girly!" Frustrated from it's injury cause by the gun-wield meister, it dashed towards her. Aries right eye glowed red in fierce, it wasn't gonna allowed her to escape after that foolish move she pulled.

"Richard, jetpack mode!" Lisa commanded her bazooka weapon.

"Right m'lady!" Richard respond and instantly materialize into a glowing light of mass, he shapeshift into a rocket-powered jetpack, with straps around her waist. It activated itself as Lisa pushed her feet off the ground, shoring up the air before Aeris could slash her. "Impressive, but that won't be enough to get away," the kishin continued to swipe around Lisa, hoping it can at least give her a scratch. However, she kept dodging every attack that came to her. It was like Aries was a fly swatter and Lisa was the fly.

Aries couldn't stand anymore of this nonsense so he decided to make drastic measures. "I won't tolerate this foolishness!" Aries released it's silks of wraps and tangled her wrists and ankles, along with her torso, making it uncomfortable for her. It's like being tied up by thick pull strings. "No way out this time deary,"

Lisa tried in all her might to break free, but with every struggled the kishin tighten up his grip on, which hurt her joints. She groan in pain caused by the hard straps. Until she realized her fingers were still free.

Taking the time to slid her finger right on the trigger, and pressed it, releasing the blue aura pistol at Aries' face. Causing the abomination to lose its grip on her, and the gunwoman zoomed a distance away from him. Aries groan in great pain from the shot, but then it all turn into anger. That puny little girl thinks she can destroy him? How pathetic, but he knew who was the stronger one.

"I'm not gonna let get you get away after that pull," Aries said with a displeased tone in it's voice. "Prepare to die!" He scurried in fast pace at Lisa's direction. But she wasn't get caught by his filthy wrath again, she dodge it's attempt to shred her like thin paper. It was time to ends this, she quickly upwards above Aries so that he couldn't reach her. She held up her rifled in a preparation position. "Diane, Molly energize your soul wavelengths!"

"Right!" The two guns weapons fueled up their soul wavelength along with Lisa's, combining their powers within their meister. She felt their energy flow within her body, forming a blue aura. She clasped her guns together and dove down at the mid section of Aries' noggin. "Spiral Blaster!" Lisa spun into a tornado form, shooting constantly at the kishin as blue energy bullets flew into the air. She land straight down on it's noggin in full blast, as a blue explosion cause the despicable being to designated in thin air, leaving behind a floating red soul.

Lisa landed safely and firmly on her feet, walk up to the Kishin Egg Soul. "Alright guys, our 30th Kishin Soul. Eat up." Her weapon partner materialize back in their human forms. The little girl was jumping for joy that they beat that monster successfully.

"Hooray! We won! England strikes back!" Molly cheered waving her hands in the air. Her older sister just crossed her arms as she narrowed her eyes at the hyperactive child.

"Molly, we're not even close to finish, we still got 69 souls left, god knows how long it'll take." Diane said in a stern tone of voice. As if she had enough crap to deal with today, she didn't look like the type of person to be bothered on a typical day.

"It's been only a month, I predict that we'll be done by...hopefully eight months," the young man inferred which made the beigh-haired girl groan in displeased.

"No need to rush it," said Lisa. "We'll have enough time to deal with more than one Kishin a day. In the meantime, why don't we savor this moment." The light blond one split the soul in three parts, then hand each of them to her weapon partners. They all gobbled up the the souls in one gulp.

"Mmmmm so yummy!" said Molly rubbing her stomach with both her hands.

"Not bad." said Diane wiping her mouth.

"Could of use a bit of salt." Richard said, cleaning his mouth with a napkin he kept in his pocket.

"Hopefully, you three saved room for dinner, cause we're having roast beef tonight~" Lisa said with a gleeful tone.

"Yay! Roast Beef! Roast Beef!" the little albino girl cheered while waving her hands.

"Good, I could go for some roasted meat right now." Diane said patting her stomach.

"I hope it'll be tender," the tall young man commented.

Lisa smiled at her partners, it made her happy to celebrate their accomplishment of receiving their 30th Kishin soul. "I better call Benjamin, and let him know him we're done with the mission." Lisa pull out her phone from her pocketbook and dialed Benjamin's number.

In ten minutes a London style limousine arrived right in front of them. It was white with a slim top and long enough to fit at least ten people inside. The little girl jumped in euphoria at soon as she saw their ride. "Hooray! He's here!"

Diane folded her arm and narrowed at the young man next to her. "Richard did you give Molly too much candy before we left?"

Richard raise a brow at the barrette girl, like he didn't do anything. "I thought you did, obviously she's way too hyper that she must of have something too sweet." The two followed their meister and the little albino girl who skipped along every step.

They got into the limo and made themselves comfortable in their seats, Lisa then demanded the driver. "Death City's Five Star Hotel please,"

"Yes Ms. BelleRose," The 50 year old driver look from the rear mirror and nodded. He pushed down on the pedal as he started the limousine and drove in a slow speed of motion. "How was the mission m'lady?" he asked the blond girl.

"Splendid," she replied in glee. "We've captured our 30th kishin soul."

Benjamin formed a grin on his face.

"That's fantastic m'lady," He complemented. "Your father will be so proud to hear that his little princess is succeeding in the DWMA."

Lisa smiled at Benjamin's words. There's nothing that can make her happier than making her father proud. Not in a selfish attempt, but for all of London. As president, her father was a busy man 24/7. She can imagine the hardship he been going through when she was a child. He fought a lot to keep his country protected. The only thing that can make Lisa happy is London being in good condition.

An idea popped in her head as she thought of something. "Speaking of which, may I speak with my father?"

Benjamin lowered his disbelief as if he was too devastated to tell the first daughter of London. "Sorry m'lady, I'm afraid he's unavailable."

Lisa form an unpleasant frown on her face. "What?" She spoke in a disapprove tone. "Why is that?"

"He still has a lot of task to complete since this morning he hasn't gotten any rest." the servant explained. He could tell that Lisa was disappointed to hear that. "I'm terribly sorry m'lady, it's his duty."

"It's alright, I understand." Lisa nodded her head. She understood how busy her father was, but it breaks her heart to hear him always struggling to keep London in good position.

The kishin were also responsible for this. Damn them. If it wasn't for those repulsive creatures, London wouldn't have to suffer through this catastrophe.

"Don't worry Lisa," Diane place her hand on her meister's shoulder. "I'm sure your dad will be able to talk with you when he's ready," The confident affirmation made the gunwoman meister feel better and got rid all her worries. Whenever she in a doubtful situation, her partners would remind her that there will always be hope.

"She's right m'lady," the blue hair gentleman spoke. "The president is often occupied with business, but he never forgets about his only daughter."

They were right, her father would always be aware of her even when he's not around.

Sure she tried to call him, email him, and send him a letter but he barely reply to any of them. But he'd still have her in mind, no matter what assignments he was doing. Much to the first daughter of London, it made her feel more comfortable to think of her and her father as a family.

She decided to shook off the subject and talk about more important. "Anyway, we need to focus on tomorrow's mission." she stated with a firm tone, as she regain her stern expression.

"Lord Death is gonna assigned us with a much difficult task, we must be prepared for it."

"C'mon Lisa," Diane said in annoyance. "We just finish getting rid of a Kishin, let's not talk about anymore missions. Once we finish dinner, I'm gonna take a nice warm bubble bath." She laid back on her leather seat folding her arms.

Molly on the other hand just made giggle face at her older sister. "Oh, sis don't be a party pooper, you know we had a blast beating the crap out of that kishin!~"

"Perhaps it's best not to talk about it for while, after all what we should be concern of is the competition." Richard reminded the girls. Lisa perked her head in realization, she forgot about that. She wasn't the only gun wielding meister in the academy. That boy, the headmaster's son...

"There's no need to worry about that Richard," Lisa expression changed into a calm posture. "His skills aren't as advanced as mine, I've gone through more experience than him." Of course she's been in training for a long time. Being in her father gunman army since she was thirteen has made more independent. It's been a long journey for her as a member of a large gun military.

Diane narrowed her eyes as she overheard Richard and Lisa's conversation. "Please tell me your not talking about that stripe boy," her voice was annoyed in tone once again. "That idiot doesn't even stand a chance against Lisa, she's more well thought out and focus, unlike him who can't stop thinking about symmetry."

True, Lisa was more well balanced than Lord Death's son, but she wasn't fooled like most people. Kid is a calm person when he's not reminded of his weakness, he was intelligent and sophisticated. It be hard to see that within him cause of his OCD tantrum, but Lisa knew from his posture and behavior that he was a gentleman, but not when he in his melodramatic state. "Not entirely," she began. "He may be a simpleton, but he's not a complete brain-dead person. I've herd of his achievements he's made."

"That's true," Richard nodded. "Due to his past missions, he became more and more enlighten each time. Though unlike most students, he seems to have more knowledge of the academy. Not just its purpose, but it's secrets."

Lisa raised her eyebrow in interest, this was certainly something enthralling. She never knew that the striped boy was more knowledgeable than she thought. "Is that so..."

"Can't say for sure m'lady," Richard shook his head in irresolute while putting up his hands in surrender."That's what they say, the freshmen are gathering as much details as they can, they notice things aren't always as they seem in the DWMA."

The bazooka weapon made a good point to the young female gunman, she heard rumors about it. Some true, some not so much. She remembered her father informed her that the academy takes combat very seriously, as well as souls. Since they are the living source of a being. He warned her about the kishins, of how they grow stronger with more souls to devour. Their soul purpose is to gobble up innocent human souls.

But what she wanted to know was, what causes humans to hunger other human souls? Was it lust for power? To become stronger? To be superior? All those questions wander around Lisa's mind. She barely knew about these creatures until her father inform her about it them. Once they emerge in England, they been reports of murder and missing children. Her heart ached in pain, from those dreadful thoughts.

The memory of her father lowering his head in shame, as if he failed his country, his people. All the men, women, and children scared to come out of their homes because of those disgusting creatures. He sent dozen of his army to eliminate them, but most of them ended up dead. To think that not even a army of men was enough to defeat those monsters. London was in serious ciaos. That's when her father apprised her about the DWMA it was a school where students are trained in combat to fight against the Kishins as well as witches.

Her father advise her to attend the academy if she gain enough strength to face off all the Kishin. Despite the fact she's been training for a long time, it's still wasn't enough for her. She needs to continues on getting more experience, for London's sake.

"It's my duty to protect my country, no one else will protect it besides my father. But even he can't handle all those abominations along with a army of men. I've traveled all this way to this city just so I can get more knowledge of these creatures. Everyone back home is worried, afraid to come out of their homes. The sad faces on the children was too much to bare. By the time I get all 99 Kishin souls and a witch soul, enough will I have the power to destroy them all? Either way, I refuse to give up on my people. I'm next in line for becoming president, I can't let them down. They're all relying on me now, I'm their only hope."

Lisa turn to the side window and watch the road flowing by as the limo continued to driven.

A/N: Happy News Everyone! I know it's been awhile since my last update, but to be honest I haven't been motivated into finishing my chapters for the story. But now that it's a new year, there's gonna be changes for now on. So don't worry I'm gonna get back into doing what I do best, and that's doing fanfics!