Cheered on by various kind reviewers (ILOVEYOUGUYS), here is the second chapter!
Uh...yeah, this isn't as good, but yeah! I hope you guys enjoy!
Also, a note, I honestly don't know much about England...but I researched a bit, and well, Liverpool seemed awesome so, here it is. It was mentioned in DGM too so...yeah. *shotforlameexcuse*
Disclaimer: I don't own DGM/Hetalia.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul. - David O. Mckay
Help us!
You can see us can't you? HELP US!
"…Get up already, damned Moyashi!"
"Allen! Allen! Please wake up!"
"C'mon Moyashi! That blast couldn't have done that much damage on you!"
"Here-! I'll wake him up!"
A stinging wave of pain washed over Allen as he jolted up, promptly whacking heads with Arthur. The English man bit back a string of curses as he winced, holding his head. Stammering an apology, Allen glanced around his surroundings, swiveling his gaze back and forth quickly.
His pentacle eye caught sight of two masses, two souls, no not even a soul. He narrowed his eyes. It must be a level four...
The train car had a huge hole, as if ripped aside by claws, and most of the passengers in this car were dead. The wind whipped past his face as he winced, holding an arm over his eyes.
"What happened?" he asked as Lenalee gave him a brief hug. "One Level three and one level four," she replied, as he nodded, those words confirming what he saw. She still held his shoulders tightly, as if he might disappear. "They blew up the train, looking for us."
Screams echoed through the air as Allen winced again, holding his hand over his left eye. "Then we should get out of here," he said, standing to his feet as Kanda snorted with contempt.
"We would have done that if you had woken up any earlier Moyashi," he grumbled as Allen fumed.
"BaKanda," he muttered as Kanda heard this and pulled out Mugen, a visible vein throbbing in his temple.
"Do you want to die?"
"You two, this is no time for fighting," Lenalee said, pushing the two apart. "Let's just get out of here okay?"
Arthur had poked his head outside while the two were bickering and it wasn't long before he realized that they would have to jump in order to even have a fair battlefield. It wasn't far from Liverpool anyway, they would just have to jump from that end bridge point, hopefully land on the grass and not the river edge and hopefully not on the stone near that river edge.
He could have sworn he was growing older even as he thought of this.
"We have to jump!" he yelled over the wind as the clawing grew closer. "It's the only way we can have a fair battle!"
"When do we jump?" Kanda shouted back as Arthur glanced out again. His eyes widened, the grass growing closer as they spoke. He braced himself against the train wall then turned his head, eyes narrowed.
"NOW!"
The other three jolted to their feet as Lenalee activated her dark boots to balance herself. The other two boys followed suit to soften their fall as Kanda jumped anyway, disregarding his safety.
It was as if they had timed everything almost perfectly. The Akuma had reached their car again and destroyed it while the five escaped and landed, thankfully, on the grass.
Allen found himself sprawled on the grass as the Akuma spun around wildly. "Where are they?!" The Level three yelled as the Level four cuffed it on the head.
"Idiot, they obviously jumped out. Dammit, I can't believe I didn't catch them when we destroyed that care the first time!" it said as Arthur pulled out a handgun stashed in his belt.
"Then let's find them! I'm itching for a fight!" The level three shrieked while the Level four glanced around, spotting Kanda and Arthur standing up in the grass.
"You get the guy with the sword, I'll get the bushy eyebrowed one!" it yelled as Arthur twitched madly, eyes narrowed.
"You know, now that I realize it, your eyebrows are pretty bushy-! Crap! Why the hell did you shoot at me?!"
"Don't insult my eyebrows!" Arthur snapped angrily as Lavi held up his hands in defense.
"Sorry!"
As the Level four grew closer, Arthur aimed briefly and shot rapidly, emptying his rounds. "Hah! You're only human! Your gun wouldn't hurt me!" it crowed as Arthur smirked, reloading his gun.
"I wouldn't bet on that."
There are some advantages of being a country, he thought with a widening smirk, watching as the Akuma hissed, holding its arm tightly, innocence sparks playing around wounds. One is the fact that I have more fighting experience than most people imagine and another is the fact that there was innocence integrated within my land and my people which enables me to be able to fight Akuma.
He paused mid-thought, cut off by the Akuma's shrill scream as Allen raced through the air, Crown Clown flashing in the air. With a loud yell, he slashed through the Level four as Lenalee arrived behind, kicking the Akuma with the full force of her Dark Boots.
Lavi spun his hammer, now enlarged before slamming it into the Level three. The Level three grabbed it, hand biting into the innocence that sparked wildly in its hand as Lavi smirked.
"Fire Seal, Configuration of Ash!" he roared as the stamp formed on the Akuma's hand, literally blasting the head with flames. The Akuma shrieked, backing off only to be stabbed from behind by Kanda who had his Double Illusion Blades activated.
"We haven't fought for so long that we can't take care of you," Lavi commented dryly, shaking his head as he retracted his hammer. "After all, a Level four is nothing compared to you."
"Shut up Lavi and fight!" Kanda yelled over the din of battle as Lavi nodded, slamming his hammer once more on the Akuma's head.
After the invasion of Headquarters and being moved nearer to London, Lavi found himself being pitted more and more against Level four. It was as the first Level Four had said, that there were more powerful than just a Level four.
Thankfully, it hadn't come true to that extent, but it was true that the exorcists were battling mainly Level three and four these days. It came to the point where a Level three almost felt like a level two, level two was a walk in the park, and a level one wasn't even worth mentioning.
Lavi raced forward as Allen lifted Crown Clown again. Sending an energy arc its way, it struck the Level four in the back, throwing it backwards to meet Arthur's rapid gunfire.
The Level four lifted its now machine gun weaponry, screaming. "Damn you exorcists!"
Kanda swept in, his eyes narrowed while activating his Sangenshiki. "Bakuhakuzan!" he yelled, slashing through the Akuma's arm. It was a nick, considering that the Akuma had managed to shoot Kanda in the arm but spread through the Akuma and blew off its arm neatly.
"Everyone move!" Lenalee yelled as she spun, flying through the air. Allen stabbed down with Crown Clown, mimicking the move that destroyed the first level four then she crashed down, the full force of her Dark Boots behind her.
"DAMN YOU EXORCISTS!" it shrieked one more time before glaring at Arthur. "And YOU-! How DARE-!"
Arthur, without pausing, shot it in the forehead, his eyes narrowed.
Finally, the five were able to relax as Kanda ignored all protests of resting and healed his wound, glaring at all who tried to protest about that. It was then Lavi decided to ask a question to Arthur who had put away his pistol, now looking for the church that Allen said would be on the next turn.
"Hey, Caterpillar," he called as Arthur twitched madly, glaring at him.
"Ignore that," Allen called, noticing the English man's rage. "He gives nicknames to everyone."
"Yes, I realize that," Arthur grounded out, reigning in his temper. "But could he not tease my eyebrows?"
"Well I call Moyashi, Moyashi because he is a bean sprout and you're Caterpillar because of your eyebrows! It makes sense!" While Allen whacked him in between the shoulders, Lavi shook his head, berating himself inwardly for going off topic. "Anyway, about what that Akuma said…" he started as Arthur stared at him, no emotion flickering through his eyes.
"If you think I am in correlation with the Earl, please reconsider those thoughts," he finally said, noticing the others waiting for his answer. "I want nothing more then to see him finally disposed of." He tightened his fists, staring at them. "I have too much on the line to want to work with him."
Flashes of his colonies that…depended upon him, others such as Kiku, even Alfred flashed through his head as he gritted his teeth unconsciously.
This war could not be lost.
Lavi glanced at him before laughing awkwardly, breaking the silence. "Hey, Caterpillar! You don't need to be so serious!" he called while storing the information in his mental bookshelf for pondering on later.
"Would you KINDLY stop calling me Caterpillar already?"
"You two, the church is right here!" Lenalee called, waving towards the tiny church near the town side. "Allen went ahead to start the ark!"
As the two arrived where the Priest was waiting with Allen, the boy waved the four over. "The gate's set up, all we have to do is go over."
Arthur looked suspicious as he looked over the boy's shoulder. "This…thing can?"
He had heard of the Ark, Kiku had told him once, of a black cube that had once floated above the ruins of Edo. That didn't mean that he wanted to go in such a thing.
"Yeah, we use this to travel around the world." Allen frowned, shaking his head. "Though, there isn't one in Japan."
Arthur smiled wryly at that, shaking his head. "Of course, that would be too easy wouldn't it?"
Stepping through the ark, Arthur felt a tingling along his spine as he instinctively took a deep breath, eyes shut.
Hearing a bit of laughter, he opened his eyes slightly to see Lenalee giggling. "We're here already," she said as he blinked then flushed red from embarrassment.
"R-Right."
To his surprise, they WERE there. He could feel it and could feel that he wasn't in England anymore.
"Well, that was quick," he said with wide eyes as Allen nodded.
"I'm still amazed at how quickly I travel in the ark."
Kanda glanced at Arthur with annoyance. "Where are we going?"
Arthur managed to regain some composure, nodding. "Right, this way. We're going to New York."
He hoped that Alfred wouldn't make a big fuss.
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