Chapter 5 - Fight!
~ Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts ~
Mao Tse-Tung
Now this, Analicia had not expected.
The room was large with a beige tiled floor and walls made up of gray stone carved into bricks. In the center of the ceiling hung an old-fashioned candelabra with lit candles that (somehow) managed to light up the entire room. It was what was on the walls that caused Analicia to feel a bit disturbed, though. There were rows upon rows of weapons hanging from them. Just at first glance she could see maces, scythes, axes, a curled whip made of leather, broadswords and short swords, katanas, daggers, bombs and even a gun or two.
'Why do they have so many weapons?' Analicia wondered.
"Hey!"
Analicia snapped out of her trance and stared across the room at Jasdevi. The two twins stood on the other side of the large room, each holding a golden gun with a black handle.
"You coming? Hii-hii~!" Jasdero shouted, pointing his gun at her.
"Or are ya scared?" Debitto continued, leering at her over his own gun.
Analicia smirked. "Not even a little."
"Hey, wait!" Road shouted, glaring at the twin's guns, "Ana-chan doesn't have a weapon!"
"Oh, that's ok I-" she started to say modestly when Tyki interrupted her.
"It's alright, Analicia," Tyki said, leaning against the wall and pulling out one of his cigarettes, "We all have a weapon of some sort, both magical and physical."
"They're right, my dear!" the Earl said, being his usual over-zealous self. Gesturing to the walls he said, "Choose anything you see!"
Analicia looked at each weapon individually. She hadn't really fought that much herself before, especially not with any of these weapons. She barely even understood how to hold most of them!
However, Analicia had learned long ago that she didn't really need to think when she fought. There was another part of her that just…instinctively knew what to do. She was starting to wonder if that had something to do with the whole Noah thing (which she still needed to ask them about). She often found that her own mind could actually simply relax while the other part of her took over.
And she'd never lost once.
Thus, when she got the feeling about a certain weapon…no matter how odd, she went with it…
"So…I can choose anything here, right?" she asked nervously.
"Of course!" the Earl said with enthusiasm.
"Then, ummm…" she took a deep breath, figuring she might as well get it over with as quick as she could, "May I fight with Lero?"
Ok, now, if a tornado had suddenly appeared in the middle of the room, none of the Noah, except maybe Analicia who was staring at her stunned family in confusion, would have noticed, or even flinched for that matter. Most of them were honestly wondering if they'd heard her correctly. Wisely and Cyril gave her looks that clearly questioned her sanity. Tyki's cigarette fell from his gaping mouth. Lulu bell raised an eyebrow, but otherwise said nothing. Road looked from Analicia to the Earl and back again, wondering if the Earl would actually let her fight with his preferred weapon. The Earl still seemed to be processing her request. Lero, who had been floating behind the Earl, was speechless. No one had ever actually asked the Earl if they coulduse him in a fight. And the twins…
Laughter suddenly erupted from the other side of the room. Analicia saw that the twins were positively dying of laughter, having to hold each other up to keep themselves from falling over.
"Hii-hii~! Lero! Lero! Hii-hii~!"
"Oh, please Earl!" Debitto mockingly begged, trying to stifle his laughter, "Don't let her fight with Lero! Whatever will we do~!"
The two started laughing even more, both of them now rolling around on the floor.
The Earl ignored them both, though, and asked, "Why do you want to fight with Lero, dear?"
Analicia blinked once in surprise, not really sure of that answer herself. "I don't know…There's just something that tells me I should. I can't really explain it."
Although several of the Noah were now starting to question her sanity, the Earl only grinned wider. "Of course you may fight with Lero, my dear!"
Analicia grinned gratefully and curtsied. "Thank you so much Earl!" she then turned to Lero, "Is that alright with you Lero? You don't mind fighting with me, do you?"
Lero's eyes widened at her question. Not only had no one ever asked for the Earl's permission to fight with him…no one had ever asked him if he wanted to fight!
"Oh, yes mistress Ana-lero! I'd love to-lero! It'd be an honor-lero!" the golem said, allowing the girl to grasp the umbrella's handle.
"Thank you, Lero!" she murmured smiling at the overjoyed umbrella.
Analicia walked over and faced the twins, her back to one of the far walls, her family against the wall to her left, and the twins across from her.
"Whenever you're ready!" she said to the twins. She held Lero by her side in her right hand.
The other Noahs showed varying levels of interest. Road was bouncing on the balls of her feet. Cyril kept twisting a handkerchief in his hands, worried for the cute girl's safety. Wisely levitated casually by Tyki, who was smoking a new cigarette, looking curiously at the newest Noah.
"Who do you think'll win?" he asked quietly in the dead silence, not taking his eyes off the girl.
"Ana-chan will, of course!" Road said as if the answer was obvious.
"I agree," Lulu Bell murmured with a small nod.
"Really?" Tyki asked, surprised that the normally silent Lulu would answer, "She is new to all of this and, while the twins aren't the best fighters, they have been practicing longer then her. What makes you so sure she'll win?"
Lulu Bell smirked. Nodding to the girl she said, "Have you taken a closer look at her lately? Haven't you noticed that she seems to be a little…different since she agreed to this fight? Not quite herself?"
Tyki looked back over to Analicia, taking her body language in carefully. Although she held Lero casually at her side, her shoulders were squared and her feet were planted firmly spread on the ground. While her eyes stared straight ahead at the twins, the rest of her face remained passive. She looked completely absorbed in the upcoming fight.
She also looked like she'd done this before.
"Ok," Tyki conceded, blowing out a puff of smoke, "I see your point."
Wisely's mouth turned up in a devious smirk. Looking over to the twins he said, "Show time."
The twins smiled evilly, pointed their guns at Analicia and shouted, "Loading…Blue bullet!"
And, with that command, the twins fired. The small blue bullets flew through the air to Analicia, going as fast as any other bullet, making it almost impossible to see.
A second before the bullet was about to hit, Analicia moved her head a centimeter to the left.
The bullet flew by her head, the wind caused by it making her black locks twist and turn, and hit the wall behind her. As it hit, several sharp spikes of ice sprouted from the spot, spreading slowly after and freezing parts of the wall around it. A few small wisps of white mist came from it as the cold ice hit the warm air, making a hissing sound as it did.
However, Analicia remained completely unharmed. She smirked at the twins blunder.
The two growled and began to fire rapidly. Shouts of "Blue bomb! Blue bomb! Blue bomb!" rang throughout the room as the two continuously fired at the smirking female. Analicia kept dodging every last bullet, barely moving more than an inch or two as she did so. The wall and several spots on the floor were now covered in ice. As the seconds flew by, more mist began to form around the girl, to the point where none of the others could actually see her form anymore. The twins, however, kept firing.
The rest of the Noahs were also becoming rather disruptive. The Earl and Cyril were both being held back, the Earl by Road and Lulu Bell and Cyril by his brother. Both of them were yelling at the twins to stop, threatening them and calling out to Analicia in fear. Road was telling the Earl over and over again that Ana-chan would be fine and not to worry. Lulu Bell was calmly stating that he shouldn't interfere in their fight. Tyki, on the other hand, was profusely cursing his brother, trying every method he knew to keep his brother calm, including threatening to rip his vocal chords out with his own hands. Wisely was calmly levitating next to the group, watching the mist that Analicia had disappeared into. With his mind-reading abilities, he knew better then all of them what exactly was happening and thus felt no reason to panic.
Finally, the twins seemed to have run out of steam. They shouted one more tired, "Blue bomb!' and fired into the white mist. The two breathed heavily as they heard the bullet striking something. They continued to breathe hard as they stared into the unfading white mist. The hissing sound now filled the room as even the Earl and Cyril had stopped fighting, desperate to see through the mist.
After a second, Jasdero asked, "Did we win, hii~?"
Debitto scoffed, throwing his arms over his head, gun in hand. He yawned loudly and said, "Of course we did! How could we possibly lose to-"
Debitto froze mid-sentence as Lero came flying out of the mist. The poor umbrella seemed to have been thrown straight out of it, stopping his own flight near the ceiling.
A large, malicious grin spread across the pumpkin's face as he looked at the twins. "You two are in for it now-lero!"
The two stared nervously back at the mist, aiming their guns near the center of it. They really weren't sure what to expect.
"If you two were smart," Wisely shouted from the sidelines, "You'd give up now!"
"No way!" the two shouted stubbornly. They were both shaking, guns banging into each other with every other wrong jerk. Now the two were definitely scared.
Suddenly, out of the mist leaped…
Chapter 5 - End
Aaaaw~...didn't I just pick the best place to stop? ;)
Heh-heh...don't worry I'll post the next chpater...eventually (don't I always?).
Ok, the editing system for this site is weird and I have no idea how to work it...nor do i have the time to figure it out...so let me just go over a few errors/chagnes I've seen.
First, some of you may have read in the last chapter that Analicia had pale hands...this is a HUGE mistake on my part. Analicia has been, since the time we first met her, in her Noah form. Thus, her skin has been the same shade of gray this whole time. I have no idea how I mixed that up...maybe I was thinking of Erin from my Evny FMA story (she's as pale as a ghost). Yeah, that's probably it...
Second, some of you may have noticed that I now use Debitto instead of Devit, like I'd used to begin with. Alright, let's start with the fact that Debitto has about...five or so different translations of his name...however, I find that Debitto is the easiest for me to remember (don't ask why, it just is) so I'm going to stick with that for now.
Lastly, you may also have noticed taht, since I'm using Debitto, the combined version of Jasdero's and Debitto's names (Jasdevi) doesn't really add up. Yes, I know that, technically, it should now become Jasdebi, or something like that, but, once again, I find myself typing Jasdevi so often, that I can't really stay on track with it, so please just go with it.
Anyway, thanks to all of you reviewers and readers. I hope you all continue to do so.
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