LunarFallenStar: Hey guys! Here's the next chapter and so sorry for the late update... I planned to do it last week but I had a full schedule that I didn't know about. Anyhow, Thank you all for reading and for my kind reviewers! I really enjoy it when someone likes my story. Thank you for the reviews as well.
UniCryin: Thanks for the review and I know, the extra is sad. I just watched a video and I'm like all sad and stuff but then it got me thinking and then I wrote that... but do not worry! Ice Cream can help you heal all wounds... well, a few wounds... Glad you liked the chapter and I hope you like this one as well.
A Natsume Yuujinchou lover: Hey ANYL! Thanks for the review and I'm glad you liked the past few chapters! I'm glad your looking forward to the final battle against Millefiore and you're right, Squalo does appear soon! And I'm glad you liked Rage!Ed. I do highly apologize for how Squalo got little face time... and don't worry, Zakuro will be destroyed soon enough and your revenge for Squalo shall be commenced henceforth! And thank you very much, I'm glad you liked the extra. Good luck with those three compositions... though you're probably already finished with them...
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CrimsonLocket: Thanks for the review! Glad you liked the extra! And you are right, llamas are evil creatures, but I still find them highly adorable. I had so much fun at camp! We had a zipline over the lake except I'm really small for my age, so I started going backwards after I reached the end and I got stuck in the middle of the lake and they had to come out to get me... the bus trip wasn't so bad, on the way home, we stopped for lunch at burger king and McDonalds. All of my friends and I went to burger king and we got those cardboard crowns so I have a pic of all of us wearing burger king crowns on the bus on the way home.
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~Previously~
When the door slid closed, Tsuna shivered slightly, 'Just now... did I? No, I must just be imagining things...'
Ed snapped out of his anger-only mode when he felt the faint presence of mist-flames drifting into the room. His eyes narrowed dangerously and just to be safe, he moved closer to Yuni, just in case a surprise attack was under way.
Lambo wrestled out of Gokudera's grip and ran around frantically, "I wanna play, I wanna play!"
Ed sighed and looked around, looking for the smallest hint of the offensive mist flames he felt earlier. His gaze focused back on the cow child when he heard his name being called.
"Eddie! Eddie! Play with me!" Lambo whined childishly.
Ed held his arms up to refuse politely, not wanting to be rude to a kid at the moment, only to feel himself falling backwards as a black and white blur flew across his eyes.
The confused his Edward, before he could ask what was going on, felt a pain in the back of his head and felt black begin to dot his vision before he faded out of consciousness.
Everyone else gaped out at the scene. Apparently, little Lambo had jumped up into Ed with such force that caused the blonde alchemist to fall backwards, hit his head on the corner of the wooden table just behind him and be knocked unconscious. (A/N: The injury to his head will heal, but he'll stay unconscious, that's what I'm going for at least.)
Now that Ed was on the floor, quickly relocated to a spare couch, and Yuni was relatively unguarded, Lambo inched closer and sat by the sky Arcobaleno.
Chrome and Yuni shuddered slightly, "Sawada-san, the offensive presence is closer..."
Everyone bolted to action, sealing up the shop and barricading everything to protect Yuni.
As Lambo inched closer and closer to the nervous Giglio Nero Boss, Chrome's eyes snapped open, "Boss! The cow child!"
"Cow child? Lambo?" Tsuna inquired, "What about him?"
All eyes fell upon the young italian mafioso and gaped as mist flames slowly began to dissolve his form.
"LAMBO?" Tsuna yelled, "You?"
"Well, you see," A voice too deep to be Lambo's drawled, "Attacking from the outside and having you run away is awfully tiresome, so I chose a different tactic..."
Eyes widened as the image of Lambo completely disappeared and none other than Torikabuto took his place, holding the unsuspecting and shocked Yuni in his grip.
Torikabuto quickly flew through the sealed doors, breaking them down completely to make his escape.
"I'm not letting you get away!" Tsuna yelled, chasing after the Millefiore member.
Everyone soon arrived outside the building and stared into the sky, mouths agape at what they saw, "The real Six Funeral Wreaths!"
"Sawada-san!" Yuni called in distress, "Uncle Reborn!"
"Looks like they planned this one well..." Reborn muttered, holding Leon who quickly transformed into a gun.
"It's time for you to face Blue Bell!" Blue Bell giggled, injecting rain flames into her box, "DIE!"
Attack after attack buffeted the group, filling the atmosphere with explosions and Yuni's pleas for everyone's safety. After the Millefiore's barrage was complete, a thick cloud of dust and debris rose up, clouding everyone's vision.
Kikyo smirked, "O-ho... Mission accomplished."
Everyone in the sky were taken aback when two balls of black fur laced with lightning flew up from the ground. The two foxes shot for Torikabuto, shocking the mist user and causing him to drop Yuni.
Yuni looked at the two foxes who leapt to her, slowing down her descent, "Bidget...?"
She felt strong arms catch her and hold her securely. She looked up slightly when a smooth voice met her ears, "Are you quite all right?... Princess."
"G- Gamma!" Yuni gasped in shock.
"Princess!" Another voice was heard, accompanied by a slightly deeper one, "We'll protect you!"
"Nosaru... Tazaru!" Yuni gasped once more.
The Millefiore glared in displeasure and hatred at the, supposedly dead, previous black spell members.
"What are you playing at Torikabuto?" Blue Bell growled, "Retrieve Yuni at once!"
Nosaru and Tazaru quickly sprang to action, going to attack Kikyo and Blue Bell, only to be blocked and sent flying through the air, yelling in pain.
"Nosaru! Tazaru!" Yuni shrieked in worry.
Gamma gritted his teeth in frustration, sending out his Nere Volpe to go attack, only to have Torikabuto deal with them in one simple strike.
Gamma clicked his tongue as Torikabuto began to make his advance upon him, wielding his two weapons that glinted evilly in the sunlight.
Torikabuto was almost upon them, but a blur of orange zipped by and Torikabuto was sent flying through the air.
"Where do you think you're looking?" A smooth voice inquired, "Your opponent..."
Everyone's eyes fell upon the figure of Vongola Decimo, now in Hyper Dying Will Mode with a growling Natsu on his shoulder. He opened his mouth and tightened his glove hand into a fist, a very threatening flame igniting, "...Is right here."
"His brow every furrowed... he wields his fists as though in prayer... that..." Yuni gasped, staring in awe at the one who vowed to protect her, "Is the Vongola Decimo."
Torikabuto stared impassively at the teenage mafia boss before him, slowly bringing up his hand and igniting his mare ring in an indigo flame. He flung open his robes to reveal a box weapon lodged into his chest. While the Vongola group stared in shock at the illusionist, he injected flames into the box, releasing a burst of energy that shielded him from the view of everyone else.
Everyone covered their faces to shield themselves from the onslaught of mist flames that burst through the still air. The flames dissipated, revealing a now insectified Torikabuto in all his moth glory.
Haru blanched, "Hahi! That's gross!"
"The end has come..." Torikabuto stated monotonously, voice never wavering as the world slowly began to spin and distort out of order.
"What! Our surroundings are starting to spin!"
"This illusion..." Tsuna muttered, "It's stronger than it was in choice!"
The group remaining all the ground floated around as they freaked out and became confused. However, in this mass hysteria, no one noticed as the unmoving form of Edward slowly disappeared in a swirl of mist flames, leaving no trace of him to be seen except for a small journal and box that had fallen out from his pocket.
Tsuna looked around, unable to find any trace of Torikabuto anywhere.
"To the right of the Sky Child!" A voice called out.
Tsuna flew forward, sticking at his elbow as if to hit something. However, as opposed to just air, he felt his elbow collide with something. More specifically, Torikabuto's unsuspecting face.
"Down! Further Down!" The same voice, which belonged to Chrome, called out.
"Chrome-san!"
"Chrome's mist owl has transformed," Reborn informed, "It's the same Vongola the first generation mist guardian used in his time. He was known as an incredible phantom, daemon spade's magic lens! It's rumored that during the time of the first mist guardian, all who were gazed upon by those lenses were found floating lifeless in the ocean the next day."
Everyone's gazes focused back upon the sky, where the battle was still raging. Everyone was relieved when the illusions melted away by the heat of Tsuna's intense flames.
"Let me help you, Torikabuto," Kikyo said, beginning to head to the mist user, "Even if you could win one on one, they've outnumbered you."
"This is the way of the Vongola," A voice spoke up, causing Kikyo to freeze in place as many beams of condensed sun flames shot through the air.
"The Vongola's strength has nothing to do with numbers," Reborn said, aiming his gun at the millefiore member.
"That's right," Ryohei said, rising into the sky, "When my comrades are in need of help, the fire in my fighting ring burns to the extreme!"
"Boo~!" Blue Bell said, puffing out her cheeks before flinging open her robe, exposing her carnage box.
"Don't be hasty!" Kikyo chided, grabbing on to the small girl, "It would be easy to exterminate them all. However, in order to make sure that Yuni-sama is captured safely, we need more power. As long as we restructure ourselves, everything will be easily done. Take a look there."
Blue Bell slowly shifted her gaze over to where Tsuna and Torikabuto were fighting, her eyes widening slightly. She looked over just in time to see Torikabuto being consumed in the flames of X-Burner.
When the flames dissipated slightly, Kikyo and Blue Bell flew over, catching the falling mist user easily. The few people that were there were confused when they saw the retreating group catch something that was falling out of the sky, a trail of mist flames falling behind it, as they flew out of sight. Reborn eyed them as they left but briefly wondered what the golden blur in their arms was.
When the Millefiore was out of sight, everyone relaxed slightly, beginning to regroup by the demolished shop. They all looked at each other, beginning to discuss where they should go next. After conversing for a while, Tsuna stood up, "I'll go check on Edward-sensei and see if I can wake him up..."
Tsuna got up and walked to where the blonde alchemist should be located. A few moments of silence passed before a deafening shriek met their ears, "HIIEEEE!"
"Sawada-san!" Yuni called, getting up and looking at where the teenager had disappeared too.
Tsuna walked back into the rooming holding a journal and a small box, eyes wide with shock.
"Dame-Tsuna, what's wrong?" Reborn asked urgently.
"I only found these when I went to check on him," Tsuna murmured softly, before speaking up, "Edward-sensei's gone!"
"What?" Everyone yelled incredulously.
At a Hotel in Japan
Byakuran reclined on a sofa, a thermometer hanging loosely from his mouth, "So, Daisy and Torikabuto were both done in. Not to mention we overlooked the appearance of Gamma and co. from black spell as well and relatively the Vongola boxes. Not to mention we lost Yuni-chan..."
The three real funeral wreaths that kneeled before Byakuran gritted their teeth, nodding slightly in agreement.
"However, Byakuran-sama, we did accomplish one task though..." Kikyo spoke up, dropping an object to the ground with a thud.
Byakuran looked down, eyes falling on an unconscious Edward Elric, whose arms and legs were tied.
"But, Byakuran-sama," Zakuro asked, "Why did you want us to capture this brat?" He was still bitter about almost getting his ass handed to him by said blonde alchemist.
Byakuran smiled, "Fullmetal-kun here is a good friend from the past... from a different world... I plan to use his power to our advantage in this upcoming final battle. It's clear that desperate times call for desperate measures."
LunarFallenStar0o0: And this chapter is finished~! Hoped you liked this chapter! Please R&R! Until the next update! Bye-bi~!