Chapter 7
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Building a barrier for his face Vash's hands quickly moved up in Julia's way. "Julia stop!" His voice got high pitched and he pushed her face backward enough before just holding his hands up in front of his torso waving them back and forth. "I...I...I!! IEEEEEEE!!" Vash jumped into action grabbing the bandages Julia had used to disguise herself and tied her to the bed in a matter of minutes so she would stop. She began to start saying something so... he tied that shut too. As he was finished he heard screaming outside and moved to the window. Like water being poured into a cup his face filled with seriousness. A panic, people were running through the streets screaming, and he saw Milli fly over a building and land hard on the ground into the screaming people. Jumping into action he landed down next to her and found her in a bloody mess with glass sticking out of her. He thought she'd be near death but Milli stood up and began to pick glass out of herself.
Her face contorted with annoyance and anger. "That man."
"Who? What man? The big guy? Are you okay?" Vash cringed as she pulled glass out of herself and she nodded. "Where is he?"
"He killed a man Vash, the leader of the circus he cut his head off in front of everyone."
Vash's seriousness all came rushing back into him. "Where is he?"
"He's near the church."
At that, Vash was off.
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Panic was in the streets, Silva and Milli's battle happened in only a couple of minutes and Silva left the building. He was hoping he could catch that man but he was walking too slowly on his crutch. In seconds he found himself in the panic that was his threat with the head of the Mr. Radmyr, screaming and lots of blurred moving objects that could be best described as people. The pain was terrible but he hurried into an alley and away from the screams. He didn't hear anyone following him immediately; in a matter of minutes he heard someone else enter the alley behind him. He turned and faced a new blur, a bright red one. He raised his scythe and held the blade out. "Enough of this! I have no time for you anymore! Leave me or I will kill you once and for all!"
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The monster stood before Vash and as the words came out its mouth Vash decided he agreed with it. He saw what bloody mess he left with Milli, he heard about Mr. Radmyr, he saw the chaos and it pushed him passed his restraints. Leaving Julia with Milli Vash bore a look on his face that was almost monstrous but not like Silva's. It was anger, the peace within him could not hold back the anger he felt for what Silva was doing. Like a storm Vash flew through the alley and like a storm his gun brought lightning to Silva's body. When Silva brought his weapon up to retaliate Vash pushed through calculations with blinding speed just like if the storm were to push open a book and send its pages turning only to fire the weapon Silva tried to murder Vash with off its course just enough to slip in to close for Silva to slice Vash with it. Then to pound down like the pounding of heavens that thunder would Vash's boot came slamming into Silva's Ankle. Silva's face contorted with pain and so did his body and one more splash of thunder as his weapon hit the ground seconds before Vash pushed him do the ground with his gun. Silva began to try to fight back put Vash cracked down hard on Silva's broken ankle pushing the bone far out of place and he seemed to be almost entirely sapped of energy, his arms falling losing over Vash grabbing at his coat desperately.
"Please." Silva groaned, his face filled with agony. "I must…" Vash didn't respond he just kept pressing against Silva's broken bones and kept his face inches from Silva's to see if he was conceding yet. "She's here! She's here you don't understand! No! I must get the map!"
Silva stopped talking and slowly stopped moving. He wasn't dead but he was not conscious. Vash found his anger calming down and he stood up when he was sure Silva would not fight back anymore. Suddenly he realized the whole alley had spectators, the birds that followed Silva. And among the spectators were two different kinds of birds, crows, and a brown bird that was of similar size. One of the brown birds flew down and landed on Silva, Vash only watched having his gun ready. It walked along the front of Silva's torso and shoved its break into one of the bullet holes. Contorting it's body it began to move it's whole head in.. This was the strangest thing Vash had ever seen and the Bird's movements were uncanny. He stood in awe and after a moment it stopped. All at once it's head burst back out and in its beak was a small necklace. The necklace was a long silver chain, beautiful as it reflected the light that came into the alley. What the chain held was a large silver grasshopper; actually it wasn't quite a grasshopper. The grasshopper was only on its hind legs and instead of having three sections like it would have the sections of it resembled more of a human. Standing up like a human, arching back like a human would if it were to yell, and but it had many features just like a grasshopper like how many legs it had and antenna and mouth. It was some kind of art of some kind of grasshopper demon; Vash only got seconds to look at it before the bird flew away. He could have shot it but he didn't. Something felt like it wouldn't matter if he did. He looked back to Silva whose body was changing. Silva seemed to be getting shorter, his face becoming not as long, and his limbs seemed to shorten also. Along with that it seemed like he lost a lot of his muscle which made what was left of his skin pull at his bones. In a matter of seconds he looked like a skeleton in his clothing. His skin melted off his bones and began to drip to the earth below him or the clothing under him and when it hit the ground it bubbled and boiled and in seconds vaporized and was gone. Silva was nothing left but bones and in a flurry of feathers so were the birds. Thanks to the birds flying away and Silva turning into vapor Vash was alone in the alley.
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The bird traveled hard, and fast, taking the time of two days. It traveled until it found the old tower that the old man was in. Landing on the windowsill the bird dropped the necklace on the floor and the old man awoke from it's chair. It was daybreak, he stood up leaning heavily on his cane and made steps over to the bird. "What is the message now? Where has Alejandro traveled?" He didn't seem to notice the necklace, but went over to the bird bringing a frail hand to the back of the bird to pet it. The bird stared at the old man and said nothing. "Come now, speak to me, tell me where he is." The old man's face contorted into anger, pushing his skin thin and his face became mysterious. His teeth were that of a sharks and his eyes spoke nightmares to the bird. "Damn you bird! What has he done to you!" The old man smacked the bird out the window and the bird flew away. The old man took steps to the window yelling at it as it flew away and his foot inched out barely knocking into something silver laying on the floor. "What's this?" The man spat and leaned down slowly and picked up the necklace and his face, still looking monstrous, now became devious and happy all at the same time. "Alejandro...... the Necklace of Ocrima the Grasshopper? You can live without this...." The old man laughed a deep evil laugh pulling his body backwards so his whole body shuddered. He flipped his torso back into place quickly and laughed into the necklace his face pressing against it. "You have lost the necklace!!!" He boomed. "And it's still warm with your trapped soul! You fool!" He cackled and coughed and began to prance around the room with grace. "So now I do not have to worry about Alejandro ever convincing anyone of my presence! I can get my map! My map...." He old man came to a sudden stop and got very quiet staring off distantly as if seeing something he was talking to but nothing was there. "My map... I am old....." The old man reached up to his won face and felt it, as if making sure he was right. "I must... Two days..." The old man ran the necklace across his palm. "Two days away...... why there's only one city that close..... the map is there. I can finally lose my mortality once again!" As if a giddy child just getting accepted to prom he hopped on one foot across back to the windowsill and began to whistle into the air. "My birds! You must all come back! Alejandro is dead do not look for him! I can lose my mortality and go back to searching for the key to the prison and let out my brothers!" He cackled again and moved back to his chair. "But first I must try to re-awaken some of my power... and rest."
Hey I know took forever! Knew chapter! Sorry if you liked Silva :( But don't worry! Many possibilities still awake! Tell me what you thought of this chapter! =D