R&R
Chapter 6
As nightfall approached, a group could be seen preparing in front of a small house.
"You are coming?" Ravi asked incredulously when Jinx and Safu appeared.
"Of course, we can defend ourselves." Jinx replied in a calm voice.
As he said those words, Akira walked out of the house holding a belt with twin swords attached. Throwing it at Safu, she said, "Use those to protect yourself, let's go."
"Don't get lost Allen," she called over her shoulder as she walked forward.
The group trooped down the road now deserted from any signs of life. Turning on a small alleyway, Akira walked ahead of the group, alert.
"Don't bother me today. If you do I will kill you," she said harshly her voice echoing through the small alleyways. Small scuffling sounds could be heard moving away as she said that warning.
"Ah! They are coming!" Allen called out his eye giving him a warming.
A hoard of akuma quickly came their way scattering them. Quickly, multiple akumas were destroyed.
"Heehee!" one giggled as Akira slashed at it, her blood red sword glittering in the moonlight.
The akuma quickly blocked her sword with one of its own. Gasping, Akira quickly ducked as the akuma swung a large hammer over her head.
"It's so much fun!" the akuma laughed, "I can copy so many abilities!"
Snarling, Akira sent multiple attacks driving the akuma in a corner. Blocking the attacks with a sword, the akuma continued laughing until the blue sword that it was using suddenly vanished letting Akira slice off part of its arm.
"Gah! I am out of range!" it yelped.
Hearing this comment, Akira sent it flying down a side of the alleyway. Chasing it down there, she reverted back to her normal form.
As Akira chased the akuma, another one began laughing.
"Serves him right! She figured out his ability," it cackled
"Should we go help her?" Lenalee said in a worried tone.
"Nah, Akira probably has a better chance than any of us," Allen replied.
Meanwhile, Akira was fighting an interesting battle without her innocence. Gritting her teeth she was smashed into a wall by the akuma. Taking her sword the sliced? at its other arm cutting it off. Ducking from its legs they jumped upwards activating her first innocence slicing the akuma in half as it kicked her. Akira was impaled by a pole in her stomach as she hit the wall. Pushing herself off, She landed on the ground to prepare for the next attack as the akuma approached, her blood dripping down her leg. "Damn, I can't last too long like this," she thought tying her sash tightly around her wound.
The others were all fighting their own battles as well. A group of akuma separated from them and rushed to a different location.
"Where are they going?" Ravi called out to the rest of them.
"Probably to Akira. Don't worry" Jinx replied kicking one akuma in the direction of Ravi's hammer.
"Che," Kanda snapped as another group of akuma were destroyed.
"They are never ending!" Ravi complained taking some more of them out.
"There has to be a reason behind this," Jinx commented dodging multiple akuma hits.
Meanwhile Akira was busy herself in a different area. After consecutively destroying seven or eight akuma, she was very annoyed and tired. Why did all of them have to have stupid abilities, she thought in her head.
"Nee-chan?" A quiet voice came from behind Akira.
"Heehee! What do we have here?" one of the any akuma cackled at the small girl shooting a torrent of needles at her frightened figure.
Before the girl could do anything the needles had all been blocked by Akira. Most of them had fallen to the ground in small bits. Pulling the remaining ones out of the leg, Akira turned to face the girl.
"Its okay, just go to bed," she said in a comforting tone smiling . As the girl ran away Akira turned around transforming into her second innocence form, her leg dripping fresh blood.
Charging at the remaining akuma, she swept her leg around in a circle crushing all the nearby akuma. Reverting to her first form she closed her eyes concentrating.
"Lenalee!" Allen called out as she was kicked on the ground by an akuma. The number of the akuma were overwhelming. She gasped as one of the akuma charged towards her. As it was about to hit her, she seemed to vanish appearing on a rooftop with Jinx who was panting a cut in his left leg.
Before anybody else could do anything, he was pinned to a wall by an akuma. At that moment another couple akuma engaged Lenalee in battle stopping her from helping him.
"Eh? You are only a human," it said confusedly crushing him into the wall.
Safu could only stare in shock as she watched the only person whom had ever remotely cared about her being crushed. Why had she even come? It was not as if she could even fight in the slightest.
"Who are you?" a man's rough voice called out at a figure standing in the middle of a group of bodies strewn across the ground. Safu was on the ground behind the man quivering. She had found herself pinned to the wall by that man before her unexpected savior came. Gasping for air, she looked up.
"Hmpt, you are on my territory and you do not know who I am? Leave!" the other man scoffed.
"Why you-" the first man yelled while charging toward the other one.
The second smaller man quickly shot at the man hitting him directly at the knees causing him to fall down meters before him.
Looking down, the man smiled at Safu and helped her up. After doing so, he quickly walked away leaving her standing there.
She personally chased after him for a while. He was the first and only person to have smiled at her in that town. Eventually he let her stay at his house. As the days past he began to open up to her. She still did not know much about him., the man who had saved her. Now, she was about to watch him knew that he let her in because he felt sorry for her and it was just convenient at the time but she really found him special. He was her one and only friend.
"Hmm? Aren't you going to beg for mercy?" the akuma asked Jinx whom was still pinned to the wall.
"Hah, are you crazy? Of course not," he rasped, smirking at the akuma angering it more.
Safu couldn't take it anymore, he had saved her and now she was watching him die right in front of her. Gripping her swords she charged at the akuma only to be kicked away. As she crawled back up a tingling sensation began inside of her. The twin swords seemed to be apart of her now. Standing up, she threw one of the swords towards the akuma's head. It cut straight through the akuma's skull. It screamed at her as it clutched at its skull already beginning to disintegrate.
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Akira had her own problems at the time...
"What do we do? She is just standing there," one akuma hissed to the other.
"Who cares? Just surround her and kill her. Easy," it hissed back.
As the group of many akuma surrounded her, she opened her sharp violet eyes. Out of nowhere, at least a dozen blood red swords appeared around her.
"Swords dance, black sakura," She murmured as the swords shot away from her masked by black flower petals. In the next moment, a chain of explosions began around her wiping out dozens of akuma in one shot. Yelling in surprise, one of the akuma darted back to where the rest of them were.
Landing on the ground, Jinx kicked away an akuma whom had realized that Safu had the innocence.
"Protect the innocence!" Allen called as the group surrounded Safu.
"HELP!" a voice rang out from the side of the alley way in which Akira had gone down. An akuma came into view the its echoes faded into silence.
"The exorcist there... She is a demon. She wiped out everybody else at once!" Whirling around it charged back the direction it came with the rest of the akuma it.
"Leave these small fry for later" it called.
"...Well we know Akira is all right" Allen said in a weary tone as Ravi managed to destroy the rest of the akuma with a fire seal down the small alleyway burning them into a crisp.
"They are not very smart are they...?" Lenalee commented lightly.
"Nor are they very well organized either are they?" Ravi continued.
"Che, It doesn't matter" Kanda said coldly as he rejoined them. There was a feeling he couldn't shake off though. It seemed too easy.
"Let's go" Allen said. " Safu looks like she is about to faint," gesturing at the girl sitting on the ground trembling.
"Kanda, can you go get Akira?" Lenalee asked him being helped up by Allen and Ravi as Jinx picked up Safu.
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As Kanda approached Akira, She was looking away from him still very tense. Just as he stepped into the clearing she vanished, appearing in front of him her sword millimeters away from his ear, her eyes flashing. Freezing in shock, a yell of pain came from behind him. Suddenly she was gone again, now behind him, an akuma disintegrating at her feet. He hadn't sensed its presence at all.
"Get ready. They are coming" she said as large figures loomed upon them...