I am back! Finally! I have a lot of explanations to do, but that is underneath the chapter.
Enjoy!
Chapter 16
As they saw the roulette, and the names it has chosen, a lot were anticipating a fight between agents of Vendetta. They looked all over for the agent in Byakuran's side, but no one was preparing for battle with Blue Moon. That's when everything got suspicious. Then Byakuran whined all of a sudden.
"Oh dear…I forgot I sent her on a special assignment…" he informed.
The others were nothing less but surprised at the statement of the man. The Cervello on the other hand, were not moved by the man's declaration. The white devil never let anyone lose on purpose, especially on a crucial situation.
"What in the world? He's just going to forfeit just like that?" Gokudera said in complaint.
"There is nothing more he could do. His fighter is not around and the rules state that no one could be a substitute," Reborn explained, 'Although, I think he is planning on something...' he added as an afterthought.
The Cervello women looked at Byakuran, then to Tsuna before they spoke, "Very well then, since the fighter of the Millefiore is not around, the Vongola has won by default!" they announced, "Now then, the two bosses will transfer your flames in the roulette once again to determine the fourth fighters of the next game." They instructed.
As the two got face to face again, Tsuna said, "What are you up to?"
Byakuran looked at him with the same smiling expression, "I don't know what you're talking about,"
As they transferred their flames to the roulette, it spun very rapidly and went slower by the second. All were quite surprised to see the fighters. "The fourth battle will be Deathgazer of the Millefiore and White Lotus of the Vongola." They announced.
Tsuna and the rest looked at the lotus masked girl. White Lotus in turn, was smiling. "Now we'll set the score," she said.
"Will you be alright?" Ayako said who was lying down against the ground.
The brunette just smiled, "I've been waiting to fight my godfather since the day I became an assassin," she said as she stepped into the battlefield.
"Be careful," her parents bid. The brunette nodded as she went through the barrier. Tsuna prayed to the heavens to make her safe. All of the guardians kept a close watch on her.
White Lotus waited for her opponent to appear. She got what she expected when mist covered a certain area across her, and from it, appeared a purple fog that took a shape of a man in a purple cloak and hood, attached to his skull mask the way Anemone's does. In his hand, a large serrated scythe. "Ah, young lady, it's quite an opportunity to fight you this way,"
The girl in turn, smiled, "I feel the same way as you,"
The masked man then positioned himself with his scythe pointing at her, "But, even though you are my goddaughter, I cannot hold back on you like I did always,"
She then took out her uniform dagger, "I know," her small dagger was then covered by pure sky flames and also her A-class Sky ring, "That's why I came prepared,"
"Sky flames…" Gilbert muttered,
"Pure sky flames to be exact," Lambo corrected.
The cloaked man smirked, "You know you have to fight me with more than what you are holding," he stated.
"Call it a warm-up," she said as she lunged into the man. The man in turn changed his scythe into nothing and was replaced by two identical daggers and did the same and metal clashed with metal covered in Sky and Mist flames.
None of them seem to back down. From the teenage girl's face, she looked like she was in full concentration on what she was doing. She was being careful not to make the slightest wrong move or she will end up with lots of scratches in five seconds flat. She knew for a fact that the man was doing the same, what with being her teacher for the last six years of her life since becoming a rookie assassin.
"She really is going all out with him..." Red Rose stated.
Anemone agreed, "Hey, if you're fighting your trainer for six years you will do the same but with careful steps. Deathgazer is not your ordinary assassin..."
"What makes you say that?" Athena asked the masked boy.
"Not only is he good in assassination missions, he has also been in the battlefield in warfare. He is an all rounder, and that was the reason he was chosen as a Vendice agent. He is as fearsome as Death itself," Amaryllis informed.
Back in the battlefield, the two fighters had distanced themselves away from each other, but both still having their breaths. In their hands, their daggers were full of scratches. "Ready for round two?" the man asked.
White Lotus lit her ring and opened her fifth box using her Sky ring and out came a scythe emblazoned with Sky flames up to the hilt. "Shall we heat things up a bit?" she offered coyly.
"That thought has crossed my mind," the man said taking out his scythe. "So you chose to use the weapon I gave you at ten?"
Himeno smirked, "What better way to fight your mentor by using what he had given you?" she said as they lunged back to crossfire mode. It was like watching a video game. No one seems to be laying low for some reason. They watched the two swings their scythes, until…
"Ahh!" the brunette cried as she stepped back to her opponent. She clutched her arm as she looked at it, blood seeping through her black sleeves. "Damn. I knew there was a dagger hidden at the scythe…" she cursed.
The man smirked as he came back to attack her again, "I thought I taught you how to sense what is hidden and what is not? Have you forgotten your lessons already?" he said, the dagger now seen attached on the scythe's stalk.
To avoid it, the young assassin jumped and returned her scythe in its box, and opened another one. This time, it was her second box, and out came a string of Lotus Blades coming to the older assassin. It encircled the man until all of it attacked him all at once. Staying still, the man's form suddenly dissolved into mist, making the blades hit each other and fell down the ground. The man emerged again, but this time, staring at the fallen blades. "You know very well that does not work on me," he then looked around for the girl. "Now where are you?" he wondered, "This no time for fun and games young lady,"
He then realized something amiss. For her to disappear, where did she go? There was only one answer. The man looked up to see the girl in the air, holding an orange sniper. On her back, three pairs of wings shaped like lotus petals. He heard the girl murmur, "You're mine," she said and pulled the trigger. Out came a stream of orange ray from the barrel and aimed at the man. He didn't have the time to dodge, instead, his eyes widened as he remembered something that made him curse, and he was blasted off to the battlefield's boundary.
The brunette, now descending using her wings, took her place opposite to her mentor's kneeling form as he slid down. The man, in turn, smiled. "I forgot. I wasn't the only trainer you have…" he stated. He then looked at the girl's arm, and saw a band glowing yellow, the wings glowing orange and so is the sniper she holds. The man then stood, "But I will not back off that easily, and you know that…"
White Lotus hid the two box weapons back, leaving the cloth to heal her deep wound. She then took out her blades back and the rally began once again.
"What trainers?" Gokudera wondered.
"Before an assassin is ported into a mission, the agent is therefore trained by various agents. The original weapons are introduced by Mistress Moon Raven, and then it is their choice if they want to seek different skills," Blue Moon explained.
Phoenix Dawn continued, "Once a student passes a trainer, he or she is bestowed a box weapon containing the modified replica of the trainer's signature weapon,"
"And the scythe you saw was from Deathgazer himself," Lightning Wolf explained. He then pointed to the three box weapons White Lotus let out, "The wings are from her mother, Blue Moon, the Lotus blades, from her father, Phoenix Dawn, the healing cloth, from Aurora, and the sniper, from our late agent, Landspinner," he explained. "But then there is more to come if given the chance,"
Tsuna watched the fight intently, having the urge to stop the fight every now and then. The moment the girl was wounded by the man, he stopped himself to scream her name. He really wasn't taking the fight to well. Not when her possible daughter could get killed.
Kyouya looked at the fidgeting man. Even though he had gone through watching fights, he was still the same herbivore that worries like a mother hen. "Sawada," he said calling his attention, "Remember, they will not bring her here if they didn't know that she will survive a serious fight," he stated.
Tsuna snapped out of it. "I know Hibari-san. But I can't help the feeling that things will go bad…"
At the Millefiore side, Byakuran was indeed enjoying the rally of the two agents, who are now wounding each other, their clothes becoming tattered. It was then when the once missing agent emerged. "Byakuran-sama," the woman called.
"Oh, Moondancer. You missed your fight so we had to forfeit," he explained, but then the woman could feel the anger inside the man. But she was better than showing her emotion.
"I apologize for that unfortunate event. But I believe this will make up my tardiness," she said and handed him a folder.
The white haired man looked at the folder and opened it. Eyes widened with interest as he read on. For a while, he went quiet, then closed the folder. "You're forgiven," he said and the woman bowed and went back to the group of assassins.
Byakuran took out his communicator and called the man in the battlefield. "Deathgazer, she's the one we're looking for," he said and turned the device off.
Back in the battlefield, the man sighed. 'So she is the one…I will apologize to your parents later…' he thought. The girl was already tattered with bruises, and so did he. But he was given orders. And as the Vendetta and Vendice protocol states, a client's words should be considered as law.
"I will apologize for what I am about to do," he muttered to the girl. White Lotus, in turn, didn't fully understand what he meant by that. But she can feel that it will not be pretty.
Staying away from the brunette, he produced a dark fog encircling the field. White Lotus had no choice but to stay still. Once the man does this kind of attack, once you move, the unknown will attack you. Suddenly, she felt a little hazed out and seem to be sinking. By instinct, she kept her weapon. It was then when the fog cleared, and she saw herself being sucked under the ground. "What the hell is this?" she shouted frantically, trying to break free from the sucking vortex. Everyone was shocked to see the sudden attack.
"It is, young lady, something you have never seen me do; The Vortex of the Unknown. Only I will know what will happen to you once you are completely sucked in…" he said with a deadpanned voice.
"Dammit!" White Lotus shouted as she unclipped her belt full of box weapons and threw it out, "Anemone, catch!" she shouted. The belt miraculously passed the barrier. Only a living matter would be repelled or contained inside the dome barrier. She knows how the Cervello moves.
Anemone, in turn, looked at her in disbelief as he caught the belt, "Are you out of your mind?" he shouted.
White Lotus just smiled, "I'll be fine. As long as you have my boxes, things will be alright…"
Within the second, her adoptive parents screamed her name as they saw her being sucked in completely, and the ground solidified once more.
The Cervello women looked astounded at the event that occurred. A few seconds later, they made an announcement. "With the disappearance of White Lotus, we are to deduce that the winner of the fourth round is Deathgazer of the Millefiore." They stated.
The Vongola side was nowhere near happy about the news. But then, they were surprised when the Cervello said to the two bosses to come back to the roulette, Byakuran intervened, "Oh, a next match will not be necessary," he said in a sing-song voice.
As always, Gokudera was the one who blew up first, "What makes you say that bastard?" he demanded.
Byakuran's face turned serious, "Now that I have what I need to defeat the Vongola, I don't care about the next matches…"
"You fool!" Moon Raven shouted, "This is not in the agreement!"
"Who cares what you think?" Kikyo insulted.
"Don't use that tone on the Mistress!" Lightning Wolf said, about to attack, when Moon Raven stopped him.
"So what do you plan to do now?" the woman asked calmly.
Byakuran smiled, "Fine. Because I see someone in you, I will tell you, but not right now. I guess all I can say is that I have the one that will be the reason for your downfall…" he said as thick mists surrounded the pack, and disappeared.
"T-They're gone…" Red Rose said.
Anemone gritted his teeth, "And I bet they have White Lotus…"
Phoenix Dawn thought deeply. "The reason for the Vongola's downfall…" his eyes widened, "Could it be?" he said as he remembered he saw a glimpse of Moondancer. He then looked at Tsuna. "Vongola Decimo-sama, we need to get back to the base. I believe we already confirmed something of great importance," he stated. Tsuna reluctantly nodded.
Blue Moon knew, judging from her husband's face, that it was time to reveal what is to be revealed.
WAHH! I swear this chapter sucks! Sorry if I've been away for like…three months or so. I just finished my requirements for my clearance to enter third year. Like I said before, second year on my school is the epitome of hell! Just think of all the cramming we had to go through! And the exams, I don't even want to talk about it! (Failing marks galore)
Oh, and does any one of you reads Harry Potter Fanfics? In the Boys Love department? I think I will publish a teaser prologue for a new fic. Don't blame me. It's not my fault my aunt bought me Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows for my birthday. Though Harry has been a family favourite on movies ever since Sorcerer's Stone came out.