AN: Hey everybody it is Edward the Pure here, bringing you another update for this story after such a long wait for this. It would have been up sooner but, as you know, writers block. You all know what it's like, at least I'd expect you would, since you probably deal with it at times yourself, no matter what it is you're writing. But that's just me rambling on about the nothingness that has to do with this. Let's see, we've done Storm, Sky, Sun, Thunder, and Rain, twice (although one with only something similar). If I'm remembering the colors correctly that means that I have two flames left, though 3 characters. If my math is right, which it rarely isn't, that means in total I have 9 OCs that I can think of off the top of my head. But, even though I said I would start off with the cloud guardian I may have to hold off on that. I'm having trouble contacting my friend who gave me the cloud guardian so instead we're going to look at another OC who has the cloud flame and is from a different family. Without further adu, I give you:
Chapter 1 Pt. 7
*Third POV*
Four people sat around a round, oak table. One of the people was the Cavallone Famiglia's Cloud Guardian, Khione Hyourin. She had shoulder-length snowy white hair that was styled messily and had bangs that partially covers her left eye, pale skin and quite a slender build, including the chest. She had on a black suit with long sleeves over a dark purple-grey dress shirt, a black tie, a black school skirt with black shorts underneath, and black high boots. Currently she was looking down and not even paying attention. There was no need for her to be there was there? All they were here for was to talk about some sort of sting that Varia just recently started working on. Since Varia was the Vongola's problem she didn't feel it necessary for her to be there. But her boss had ordered to be there so she complied.
"Now then, now that we're all here, let's get started," one of the people said. Khione didn't bother to look up to know who was speaking since the person was not someone she liked in the slightest. "As you know, Koyuki-shi and Mammon-san were both sent to the site to find out what they could." The man looked over to Khione, who was tapping her foot impatiently. "But as to why, 7 members of Vindice were killed last night." Khione's eyes widened and she looked at the person who spoke, her crimson eyes filled with curiosity. There was someone besides Vongola Decimo that could beat Vindice, and kill them?
*Khione POV*
"And that is all that we know concerning the attack on Vindice," a female voice said on a black phone, which was currently on speaker so that everyone gathered, all four of us, could hear. We were currently in a meeting room, a round table separating all of us from one another with the phone in the center. Among us I was the only who didn't care too much. Didn't sound like they knew much anyway. And one more thing, Vindice got what they deserved in my opinion, based on what I heard about from Dino-sama. They tried to kill all of the Arcobaleno just for some petty revenge against some guy in a checker patterned mask.
"OK, thank you for your report Koyuki-shi," one of the others said. I looked at the one who spoke and saw who it was. He was standing, the only one out of us all, and was leaning forward against the table. He had short, dark brown hair, tan skin and oak-colored eyes. He had on a blue button up shirt with the top two buttons open so people could see his white undershirt, black slacks and brown shoes. He also had a pair of glasses in his right hand, but I didn't know if he needed them or if they were just for show because I'd never seen him wear them before. "If you see anything else out of the ordinary let us know immediately. Continue investigating and make sure you don't miss anything."
"Yes sir Michael-san," the girl, Koyuki-san, said before the line cut off. The man just sighed and shook his head.
"That girl is a handful. I don't know what my cousin was thinking when he let her in." The other people stood up and prepared to leave. "Squallo-san, Levia-san, hold on a minute." The afore mentioned Varia members stopped and turned towards Michael-sama. "You both should head over as well. It'll be better if there are four people looking around as opposed to two, even if one of them if Koyuki-shi." They both nodded, despite the look of anger on their face. They weren't keen on Michael-sama being in charge for the moment but didn't dare defy him.
As soon as they left he sighed heavily and fell back in his chair. "Man that was close. I don't know how Xan-kun keeps these guys under control." I didn't even pay his words any mind as I just got up and walked away.
Maybe because of how strong he is, unlike you Michael Sawada, I thought as I left the room, not even looking back. I didn't care if he was the son of the Decimo, he didn't do anything at all. All he did was come to the meetings where he did nothing except pretend to be strong and order the Varia in place of Xanxus. What exactly was it that made Xanxus think that this guy was a good representative for him.
"Hold up just one second Khione-chan," I heard Michael say. I stopped and turned towards him, wondering what he wanted. "I need to talk to you about something."
"OK, what is it?" I asked calmly.
"I was wondering if you'd do me a favor." Outwardly I appeared to be calm, while on the inside I felt like I was a volcano that was ready to erupt. How dare he ask me for a favor! Why couldn't he just ask someone else? He surely knew how much I hated him. He may not be the smartest guy but I was pretty sure even he could tell that I didn't like him.
"Why me? Why not just ask one of the other guardians?"
"Because you're the only guardian who is old enough for the job." That peaked my interest. Just what would he have in mind that only I was old enough for? Well there was the Storm guardian who was 3 years older than me, but I doubt he wanted him to do the job.
"Let me guess, it has something to do with that son of yours?" He simply scoffed at that. I knit my brow in frustration at him. He was basically mocking me; at least that's how I took that scoff of his.
"No, not my son. He can take care of himself." He looked at the ceiling and sighed a bit. "It's my daughter I'm worried about." He looked like he was about to continue but an explosion outside the Cavallone base stopped him from continuing on with that thought.
"What the hell was that?" I asked, not surprised when I didn't get an answer.
I turned to Michael but he was gone. Where did that idiot go? Another explosion caught my attention and I decided I didn't care where he went. I had to make sure that whoever it was that was attacking us wouldn't get to Dino-sama.
I got outside and saw that there were three people here. And of course I was the only guardian here at the time, everyone else was spread across the world trying to track down enemies of the Cavallone Famiglia. I tried to get a look at the three people but two of them disappeared before I could get a good look at them. The only one that was left was a male about my height with short, neat, grayish black hair, slightly tanned skin, 1 green eye and 1 bronze eye, and he had a slight muscular build. He had on a long sleeved black shirt that he had tucked into a pair of jeans, brown belt and black shoes. I don't quite understand why, but he had an air around him that just made me feel intimidated, even though he didn't look to intimidating.
"So you're the only one here then?" he asked almost mechanically it seemed. "Such a disappointment, I was hoping at least two of your fellow guardians would show up."
"Well I'm the one you get alright? Deal with it." I took up a fighting stance and got ready to fight back. I didn't know what he'd try to pull but I didn't like the idea that he would harm Dino-sama in anyway.
He looked at me curiously but shook his head quickly after. "And here I thought you were smarter than this. Guess I was wrong." The area underneath him began to crack and erode as fire formed around his left hand. "Not like it'll make much difference anyway if you're dead or not." I tensed up for whatever he was going to throw at me, but there was something off about this. I hadn't looked at what color the flame was, but when I did my discomfort only grew.
Wait, that isn't a normal flame, I thought as he pointed his palm directly at me. It feels like a dying will flame, but that color. I wasn't able to complete my thought as a pulse of those flames was shot at me. I attempted to dodge but it nicked my leg. Despite that my entire leg started screaming at me. It wasn't the worst I'd ever felt so I didn't scream myself or anything, but it did leave me confused. It had only nicked me, and yet my entire leg was in pain. I looked down and saw that there was a stream of blood coming from where it had hit me, a large amount. How could-
"That little nick caused so much damage?" My eyes widened and I looked at the attacker, staring at me almost amusingly. How did he know what I was thinking? "That's what you're wondering right?" He tapped his left temple like he was pointing to something. "This left eye of mine is something special. I can see what you're thinking and what you're planning on doing." He pointed his left hand, still covered in flames, at me and clenched his fist, extinguishing the flames. "These flames are nothing a human could ever comprehend fully. But I suppose your inferior intelligence can comprehend this much. These flames, dyed black, are known as the Moon Flames." That name sounded familiar, but I couldn't remember for the life of me why. He opened his hand and the flames relit, engulfing his entire hand. "It is also known as the flames of corruption, after its property." He sent another pulse at me, but I successfully dodged this one. It seemed he had a limit on how long he could use the flames or how many shots he could use in a specific time period.
If I take advantage of that I should be able to get him. Figuring this out I thought of a plan to get a lethal blow in on him. I reached into my pocket for my flame box, but it wasn't in there. I hadn't expected an attack and hadn't put Ren in my pocket. That would make things a bit difficult, but I did have my other box to use.
He extinguished his flames and I knew that was my one opening. I pulled out my flame box and quickly input my flame, purple in color. He looked at me curiously as three kunai appeared from inside the box, covered in cloud flames. I grabbed them all in my right hand and grabbed a few shuriken from my suit jacket in my left hand, covering them in cloud flames as well. If I remembered correctly, last time it took about a minute to relight his flames, with about 30 seconds to use that attack of his. There should be enough time for me to get close enough to deal a lethal blow.
I threw my kunai and my shuriken at him, multiplying them using my flame as they flew at him. I created so many of them that they'd hide me from his sight. I ran around so that I could sneak up behind him. He didn't seem to be too concerned as they drew closer, but rather he looked amused at it. As they drew closer, black fire surrounded his body like a cocoon. As soon as the kunai and shuriken touched him, they burst into black flames and disappeared. Because of the sheer number that there was I don't think he could see behind them. But those black flames were a problem; I don't think he had a limit after all. He was probably just tricking me to try to get me into a close quarters attack. Unfortunately, his plan worked obviously, but I don't think he was expecting me to come from behind.
Without even moving a pulse of those black flames fired at the kunai and shuriken and decimated them all. He must have thought that he had gotten me since he extinguished the flames. I knew that this was definitely going to be a surprise to him.
As soon as I was within a few feet a prepared my right hand for my attack. I threw an open palm punch directly in the middle of his back and put all my force behind it. I couldn't see his reaction, but I could tell that that he felt the hit because his back tensed up. He arched a bit and took a few steps forward. He turned around, slight surprise on his face and a thin trail of blood coming from his mouth. My eyes widened when I saw that the blood was black, probably a side effect from that black flame maybe? He licked his lips and chuckled a bit, the blood still slowing a bit.
"That was very tricky of you, sneaking behind me like that," he said as I heard a cracking sound come from beneath me, but paid it no mind at the time. "But that wasn't too smart after seeing that I could erode the stone beneath me just by standing on it." The floor broke and I fell down a hole. I didn't know what was down there, but I'm sure that it was probably something from before the Cavallone family mansion's time.
I was able to land on my feet, but I had broken my left leg when I landed, confused at that. I looked up and saw that the fall was a much larger one than I thought it was. The hole above looked much smaller than it had when I fell down it originally. A shadow appeared above me but I couldn't tell what it was. I limped out of the way in case the shadow was some sort of object that was thrown down here to hurt me.
Instead it was the guy who was attacking earlier. But he had black wings on his back, which I found odd. Maybe he had something to do with Millefiore* family? According to Dino, the future Byakuran of the Millefiore family could create wings out of sky flame; you can follow my logic from here. I doubted that he had something to do with them, but it was an idea that needed more consideration. He landed softly, folding his wings when he touched down, and didn't even look my way as he looked at the other side of the cave.
"So you are here after all," he muttered to himself. I tried to get up to attack but pain was spreading through my body and I was beginning to feel light headed. "You stay put as I get what I'm here for." He put his hand on the wall and it shattered immediately. Behind it was a ball of flaming sphere. It was the same color of as the storm flame, but it was at the same time it felt like it was alive somehow.
I turned my attention back to the man, wishing I could see his face. "The most powerful force of southern energy, I can't believe that this is where you are. Guess Fiore's geography has changed much more than I thought it had," he said loudly enough for me to hear. What the heck was he talking about? What was this 'Fiore' he was talking about? While I was thinking he touched his hand to the sphere and the flames seemed to react to him, but not in a good way. The flames became less calming and more aggressive, becoming fiercer with each passing second. "Enryou, it's time for you to return to the darkness." The ball of flames roared with life and for a second I thought I saw a phoenix. He simply put his hand on the sphere and it extinguished completely.
He exhaled and turned around, and there was something different about him. I can't describe what it was that I was feeling, but the best way would I could describe it would to say that I wouldn't be surprised if my life ended there and now. I wish I was feeling intimidated with how scared I was. I'd never felt so afraid in my life, and I'd been in some scary situations. He had a calm face, traces of the trail of black blood still on his face. "Well, since that's all I came for guess this is it." He wiped off what was left of the blood with the back of his right hand and smirked a bit. "I'll let you live for now, since killing you wouldn't accomplish anything." The black wings unfolded and they had somehow grown a few feet more.
I narrowed my eyes and leered at him. "Hold on just one minute," I said slightly quietly, not knowing whether he'd hear me or not. He flapped his wings and lifted off, slowly rising with each flap of his wings. He seemed to hear me since he looked at me with little concern in his eyes. "Just who the heck are you anyway?" He shook his head and scoffed.
"There's no point in you knowing, but no danger either." He didn't stop his ascent and simply kept rising. "Very well then, I'll appease your curiosity." As soon as he spoke I became even more light headed than when he landed and my vision darkened for just a second. Why this was I'm not sure, since I shouldn't be losing consciousness from exhaustion. "The name is," his voice cut off as my vision became completely black.
I'm not sure how much time passed from then to when I woke up, but the scenery changed severely from the damp cave to the make-shift hospital room in the mansion. The room wasn't too bright, but I could tell that there wasn't anyone else in the room. I sat up and I felt a little stiff. I heard the door open and looked over to see that it was Michael-sama. His face was fairly calm, but there was an underlying feeling of dread in the air as he closed the door.
"So what do you know of that man you fought?" He asked as I nodded, not really knowing how else to respond. "That man is why I'm asking for your help."
I looked at him questionably. "You know who that is?" He nodded and I slightly grew a little angry. "If you had known why weren't over there to take care of him?" He shrugged his shoulders, which only increased my hidden rage.
"Just because you know your opponent, doesn't mean you can do anything against them." I was a bit confused by what he meant, but I did understand a bit. But why would he worry about him? What could he possibly have to do with that daughter of his? "And besides, even Vongola Decimo and Xan-kun would have a difficult time fighting him, and that's if the two of them decided to work together, now that he's gotten some of his former power back," he said softly. I looked at him confused but simply let that comment slide.
I closed my eyes and went deep into thought. If that guy was going to be showing his face again, I definitely wanted to give him some payback and an extra helping of revenge as well. I've only felt that powerless once in my life, and I don't want to feel that way ever again. He was most definitely going to pay for that. "Then why are you still asking me to go even though you know that I'm no match at all?" He seemed to smirk at that.
"Because you were able to outsmart him and deal a lethal blow, something I've never seen anyone else do," he said with a bit of confidence in his voice. I shook my head. That was before he got that power-up, according to Michael-sama. I thought to myself as I opened my eyes. But if he is stronger, than it'll be even more of an insult when I beat him. I smirked, thinking optimistically.
"Alright, I think I'll accept your request." He was about to thank me but I cut him off. "But only because it'll give me a chance to see that man again and get some payback." He just sighed and nodded.
"Alright fine," he said as he stood up and walked over to the door. "There will be a plane ready to take you to Tokyo that'll come in tomorrow. It'll land in the back." I nodded and he opened the door, ready to leave the room, stopping in the door way. "And Khio," I looked at him confused, since he was calling me by the name I preferred, for the first time, "thank you." And with that he left the room.
I just scoffed at him. I wasn't going for him, it was just a happen-stance that the man who beat me so badly was the one I had to keep his daughter safe from. I put my left hand over my left eye and felt it hurt a bit. "So it really does hurt from time to time after all," I said aloud. I just sighed at the pain in my eye. "Guess you really will remind me of my greatest moment of weakness for a while after all." I removed my hand from my eye and felt some tears start to fall from it, tears of frustration. It was kind of poetic when you think of it; my tears started flowing from my left eye first, the eye which light had been removed from so long ago.
I shook those thoughts out of my head as I lay back down, thinking about that man one last time. Next time you won't get away. I slowly closed my eyes and rest a bit longer. And when I'm all done, you'll wish you were dead.
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AN: And there we go, hopefully that was good. Now allow me to put something into perspective for you in case it ever felt like it was disjointed; I tried my best to make it flow easily, but I've been working on this since January 15th. I've also been working on outlines for 3 other stories and I also have been dealing with college stuff. I've been working on this every now and then but couldn't find too much time to do so. I also have a bit of writers block at the moment so this will most definitely not be the best work. But that's me complaining, which no one here likes so how about we talk about the OC for a bit? No, then how about this; the creator of this OC is 18. I thank her for giving me Khio to use for this story because this gave me something good for the story to use. I do plan on using her as much, if not slightly less, than the Vongola Guardian OCs because I can get in contact easier with Gale than I can the creator of the Vongola Cloud Guardian.
Also, you guys probably noticed the man who was there seemed familiar. He's going to be showing up a bit more in this so no, he wasn't just some random guy, but he'd not the main antagonist in this story.
And I do apologize if Khio was OOC, but I'm not sure if I did her justice or not. But I hope that I did a good job nonetheless.
And with that all done, I'm going to cut this off here. I'll update this as soon as either I can get in contact with the Vongola Cloud Guardian OC's creator and because I'm having so much trouble with it at the moment, I'm not sure when that'll be, or I just decide to say I'm done and do with the OC as I see fit. And so, I hope you guys have a good amount of time from now until then. So, you know the drill of reading and reviewing. I hope you enjoyed this pathetic piece of work of mine and I wish you all a great day. Until next time, ciaossu.