A/N: Ciaossu! I somehow managed to find a solution to update here overseas.
So let's not waste time on some stupid author's note and just get on with the story.
Disclaimer: I don't own KHR. Simple as that.
The place was a mess.
Those were the simplest word to describe the current state of Xanxus's office.
The door and walls were destroyed and blackened. The remaining pieces of the walls of the 'Reverse Needle Sphere Form' newest version were scattered around the room, with needles still attached to the broken wall. Smokes was just clearing, the silhouettes of two people standing in the centre of the room can be made out.
*Cough*
*Cough*
"What... just... happened?" Settentrionale asked in between coughs, eyeing the scarred man somewhere also within the pile of broken walls as if he got the answer to the question.
Xanxus obviously ignored the other man and looked around the room, searching for clues to the disruption of their battle. Those crimson pupils of his landed on the pool of blue swimming in the air.
Alo? Xanxus's eyes widened when he finally saw the Rain-classed shark of a oh-so familiar person clearly through the blue flames of the Rain. His eyes followed the pool of blue flame as it returned to the Box in the hand of said familiar person, who is still on the ground.
"Heh," the silverette on the floor laughed. "f- fi- nally... was I... a-able... to... he- help... y- you... Argh!" the sentence ended with a painful groan as Squalo clenched his head and squeezed his silver eyes shut as his eyebrows twitched in the pain.
The Varia leader instinctively rushed to his guardian's side and held out his hand to reach for his face but stopped when he saw those pupils under the silver eyelashes open. Those eyes aren't the same silver that he recognises. Instead, they're a dull shade of grey.
"S-" Xanxus's word got cut off as a hand reached up to slap his away. He starred as his supposed-to-be guardian leapt off from the ground and stood beside the other raven in the room.
"Oya? It seems that little Sharky-chan has came back to consciousness for a little while..." the supposed-to-be 'Sharky-chan' said, making eye contact with the guy beside him. "nee? Onii-sama?"
Onii-sama?! Now why does that sounds familiar...?
"I just got approvement from the Ninth and onii-sama."
"Me- Meri- dionale?"
"Fufu, you found me out huh?" Meridionale, or at least who he, or maybe she, claimed to be, laughed. "Your little Sharky-chan seemed to have broken out of my possession for a minute or two to let out his Box Weapon. The tranquility of the Rain Flame is amazing isn't it? It actually slowed down the Cloud Hedgehog's Cloud Flame, leding to the walls falling apart."
Her explanation doesn't seem to have made its way inside Xanxus's brain, but one word did success in capturing his attention.
"Possession?"
"Fufu, if you have read the report from your Storm and Mist Guardians," Settentrionale explained. "you should know that one of my guardians holds the ability to possess and control others."
Lacrimare.
"Fufu, don't confuse my husband, Onii-sama." the silverette laughed at 'her' brother before turning back to the Varia boss. "You must be wondering, my dear, how does the power of another person landed in my hands." she laughed again seeing Xanxus listening to her explanation with no interest. "Fufu, I originally don't intend to tell you this early so that I could keep it a surprise, but since I got no choice now... Lacrimare holds the ability of possessing other people, while I holds the ability to use the skills of other people."
Seeing the widened eyes of her husband, Meridionale chuckled. "So I assume you realise now that how was I able to use all of your Sharky-chan's sword techniques."
"One more thing to note, my friend." the Fiancata Sky spoke. "Have you notice that the special abilities of my two guardians familiar?"
Familiar? Xanxus was sure that those techniques were nothing that has seen before, but he was sure that he had heard about them before, but where...?
"Fufu, you'll have all the time to remember it. But I do think that now is a good time to stop your thinking and look around you."
Xanxus shifted his glance to the door to see a mask-wearing guy wearing a hooded, black cloak. Before he could question the identity of the guy, he had already started to remove his mask, his hood falling off his head in the process and landing on his shoulders. Brown hair in a little shade of orange was shown before eyes of the same colour opened.
Chiaro! Xanxus stared at the Fiancata Sun Guardian he recognized standing by the door before his blood-red pupils turned towards the cloud of indigo flame appearing at the other side of the room. As the flame dispersed, white hair in a little shade of purple can be seen, followed by the indigo suit the guy wore.
Caligine! The Mist Guardian of Fiancata whom Xanxus recognized stepped forward so he was standing beside his boss, the Fiancata Sun follows.
"Fufu, nice timing, you guys." Settentrionale grinned at his two guardians. "I believe you have already taken cared of the Varia guardians, no?"
"Yes we did, Boss." both nodded.
Xanxus wasn't all that surprised when he heard the news. Since the boss is in this mansion, there's no doubt his guardians will follow. The great boss of Varia wasn't frightened though. Not one bit. The words 'scared' and 'frightened' just weren't words that would appear in his dictionary. He's neither scared nor frightened when he faced either his old man of that Sawada brat, and he's definitely not going to be now.
And one more thing that he's sure of is he's not at total disadvantage. Only half of his opponent's guardians were present in the room. So that means...
"Boss!" Xanxus glanced at the door where he heard the voices. There, standing by the door, were Bel, Mammon and Fran. With the addition of two unconscious guys dragged into the room by Bel and Fran. The guy in Bel's hand is wearing the same black cloak as the other two Fiancata Guardian in the room, with his hood resting on his shoulders so that his firey red hair is visible. He is, without a doubt, Assalto. The Storm Guardian of Fiancata Famiglia. The other one in the hand of Fran's is wearing the same suit as the Fiancata Mist on the other side of the room, with the exception of its colour. Instead of indigo, it was green. His hair is blond and looks about the same age as Fran. The kid is probably the Fiancata Thunder Guardian, Baleno. Looking at the state of the two Fiancata Guardians, they most likely attacked the Varia Guardians like the others but didn't managed to succeed.
"Woah, there's more people here than you predicted, Bel-Senpai." Fran commented as he dropped the limbless body on the ground. "What should Me-tachi do?"
"Ushishi." the blond Cheshire laughed as he dumped the body in his hand on the ground too before arming himself with his knives. "The Prince says we get rid of them. Ushishishishishishi~"
"Ahahaha, who is going to get rid of who might not be certain, your highness." Caligine laughed as he pulled out a staff that looks like it belongs to a wizard and slammed it onto the floor. Hard. The office vanished slowly as another area replaced it. The area is the same one used against Lussuria. It has an endless bottom and nothing is inside except the Boss along with their perspective guardians. The place is dark without any source of light and you won't even be able to see your own hand if you place it in front of your very own face.
"Nani?!" Bel gasped before he got hit in the stomach, warning him that the battle has already began and he should not let his guards down. Without further delay, the self-proclaimed 'Prince' raised his leg and kicked his opponent, who happened to be Caligine, in the knee, earning him a painful yelp. His next move is throwing the knives in his hand towards the source of the sound, which hit their target since Bel smells blood in the air, even if it's just a little bit.
"Ushishi. Try harder next time if you want to get the Prince." Bel light up his Storm Varia Ring so the little light source helped him see the Fiancata Mist Guardian with blood spilling out from the corner of his mouth. Next thing to do is charging his Storm Box with the Storm-classed flame, his mink jumped out and towards his bleeding target. Just when Caligine was about to be burned into crisps, a gush of blue flame washed away the Storm mink, sending it flying across the area and putting out its flame.
Before Bel could question who did that, he already got his answer when a giant blue whale appeared in front of him, the light from the Rain-class flame of the whale helped him see better the person standing on it with folded arms.
"Lacrimare?!" Bel, as well as Fran, gasped in surprise at the sight of their dead victim from one month ago.
"How did you get yourself back from hell?" Bel pulled out another set of knives ready for attack any time.
"Hm, I haven't fulfilled my promise." the blue-haired guy replied. "Do you still remember, Prince the Ripper? That I said I'll see you guys again 'not-so-soon'?"
"Tch, maa whatever. Just like that shitty twin brother of mine, who has also returned from hell, you'll die in the hand's og the Prince. Again! Ushishishi!" Bel laughed at he sent his knives to the Rain-classed whale, knowing perfectly well that it'll be futile attacking its owner so might as well get rid of the Box Weapon first. With the injury, the whale wasn't able to stay floating and started to fall, leaving its owner to take care of the blond. Lacrimare pulled out his diamonds as well and sent them flying towards the Prince but was blocked by some blue tentacles. Unfortunately, the diamonds are still harder so they broke the tentacles, leaving pieces of thorn paper behind.
"Bel, I suggest you ask for some support or else you have no chance against this guy." Mammon's voice echoed in the once again dark place. "I assist you if you promise to pay me 10 thousand euro after this."
"Too bad, Arcobaleno. Your opponent will be me." Caligine's voice replied.
"Don't decide who my opponent will be by yourself." Mammon's little body turned one round and the next time he faced front, his face under the hood is already gone, cold winds starts blowing from under the hood and soon the room is back to normal again, except that everything is frozen. Walls, table, floor, ceiling,... everything.
"Mu. Seems like you have already given up control of your perception, how weak." the Mist Arcobaleno pulled out an indigo Box from under his cloak. "This should take care of you." his other hand pulled out a Ring, lighting it with the indigo flame of Mist before punching the Ring into the Box, sending the Mist starfishes around the Fiancata Mist. Unfortunately for Mammon, his opponent destroyed every single one of his starfishes that charged towards him by twirling his staff.
"Chiaro, like I was saying previously, I'll take care of the baby. You take care of the kid." Caligine commended to his comrade before setting his focus back to the former Mist Guardian of Varia.
"You got it." Chiaro gave him an assuring win before turning back to the teal-haired teen.
"Ano, Me is not a kid you know? Okay, so maybe some people , or maybe a lot of people, tend to mistake Me for a kid because of my height but seriously dude, Me is not o-" Fran's words were cut off when a monkey, covered with the yellow flame of Sun, charged towards him. On instinct, Fran pulled out his Bel-in-the-box Weapon as a shield from the attack.
"Ite! IteiteiteiteiteiteiteiteiteiteiteiteiteiteIteiteit eiteiteiteiteiteiteiteiteiteiteiteIteiteiteiteitei teiteiteiteiteiteiteiteite!"
"Froggy! What the heck are you doing?!" the sound of pain coming from the Box Weapon distracted Bel from his battle and threw a few knives into his junior's hat.
"Ite. Senpai, just when Me is using my Box Weapon to defend myself you have to come and attack Me from the other side, what's the point of Me's defending then?"
"It's to teach you to get a more proper Box Weapon than that cheekiness and ridiculous trash!"
"Senpai, you just called yourself a trash..."
*Stab Stab*
"A cheekiness and ridiculous trash..."
*Stab Stab*
"Senpai, in front."
"I got it," Bel replied as he ducked the flying jewels. "Froggy should pay attention to his own fight too."
"Yeah yeah..."Fran muttered before creating a new illusion. For a moment, the whole room seemed to be shaking as if there was an earthquake, the next thing you know is that some coloured snow came rushing into the room, almost flooding it.
"Froogy! Isn't it already freezing enough in here?!" Bel shouted as he tried getting the pink-coloured snow off his hair.
Wait! This smell... Bel put the finger that got covered with the snow into his mouth.
"This is ice-cream! What in the world, Froggy?!"
"Me is hungry..."
The Varia Storm as well as former Mist face-palmed at their junior's words.
"Urgh..." a soft whimper was heard under the pile of ice-cream snow before the snow somewhere near Fran suddenly turned red and started melting. A read head guy came into vision.
"I got woken up by the chilliness and noise." Assalto stated, adjusting his cloak.
"Well, you're here at a pretty good time." Settentrionale grinned. "Help them to take care of the business that you failed to finish."
"Yes, Boss." the right-hand-man nodded before pulling his xyston out, charging towards the nearest Varia, who happened to be Fran. But when the sharp metal made contact with the skin of the boy, his entire being started fading into the air, an obvious illusion.
"Me is over here." the Fiancata Storm looked up to see the frog-hat boy sitting on top of a very tall ice-cream hill, almost touching the ceiling. Sticking his tongue out childishly, he singsanged "Come and get M- woah!" he exclaimed as he backed his head from the incoming diamonds, which led to him falling off the top of the ice-cream hill.
"Ite." Fran rubbed his side in pain before hurriedly lean back before a pillar of fire burst from his original position.
"Hey, aren't you suppose to be fighting Mammon-san?" the frog questioned the purple-haired guy at the other side of the room battling Mammon.
"I'm not the one responsible for it!" Caligine shouted back before hitting one of Mammon's illusioned clones.
"That is my work." Fran turned back to see the Fiancata Sun with his monkey on his shoulder. "The 1st path of Hell grands me power to create illusions."
"The path of Hell?"
"The name sounds familiar doesn't it, kid?" Chiaro smirked at the teen, but knowing that he had captured the attention of the other Varias as well. "It's one of your master's power, am I right? Well, I might tell you this now. Each one of us Guardians of the Fiancata Famiglia holds one path of Rokudo Mukuro's Six Paths of Reincarnation, so don't be too surprised later on if you witness any of such skills from us." he shot a glance at the Fiancata Rain who is in battle with Bel. "That guy over there, whom I might add that you once killed, possessed the 6th path of Heavens. That's the reason why he was able to possess your captain." he pointed his thumb at Squalo, who is Meridionale. "Our Boss's sister holds the 2nd path of Hungry Ghosts. That's why she was able to use the skills of both our and your Rain Guardian." he smiled back at Fran. "Does everything make more sense now, kid?"
Fran, who was as startled as the others, nodded a little, not knowing how to respond to that.
Mammon-san, this may get pretty bad for us.
Mu, I know. But we still have to take them down, it's a relief that at least we got one of them knocked out already, or else our situation will be worse.
How are we suppose to defeat them, we're obviously out numbered. And seeing the Boss is already handicapped, our chances are pretty low.
I could use my teleportation to get us out of here, but that doesn't means that we'll have a chance in defeating them the next time we come face to face.
Telepath with Senpai and Boss...
Their conversation ended like that as both Mist Guardians were forced to disconnect out of their thoughts by their opponents' attacks. Mammon having trouble with the illusioned snakes and Fran not knowing how to deal with the Sun monkey.
"Me guessed that I have no choice..." the youngest Varia muttered as he pulled out his 666 Hell Ring out from one of his pockets, quickly put it on his right index finger and lighting it up before injecting the flame into the Box. When he held it out at his opponent, several missiles coated with Mist Flame came bursting out of the Box, charging towards Chiaro's direction. The karate expert manged to duck almost every one of them but the missiles just keep coming in large numbers. Soon he got his side injured, then his left arm, then his right knee, and finally got hit in the stomach and sent flying across the room, crashing into one of the ice pillar.
"Urgh... that was pretty tough... as expected from the Hell Ring..." he sat up against the remaining of the pillar, clutching to his wounded stomach. "But... it'll take more than just that to take me down." his stomach started glowing with the yellow flame of the Sun, Fran gasped when he saw the blood disappearing and all his cuts healed.
"Amazing, isn't it?" Chiaro smirked as he stood up. "My Sun attribute activation is one of the most powerful ones in Southern Italy. It's all thanks to it that he got saved from hell." he glanced at Lacrimare.
Fran jumped back when his opponent delivered a kick towards him
Mammon-san, luck isn't really on our side now. As long as they have this guy on their side, all their injury will be healed within a second while we don't have Luss on our side...
Yeah... the situation is pretty bad...
How did Boss and Senpai said?
They agreed with me that it'll be even worse than now if we retreat, especially since they could get that Sun Guardian to heal them like you said, while we're going to heal our Sun Guardian...
No matter how you look at the situation, it's our disadvantage...
Fran, prepare yourself for whatever's ahead of you. Don't let anything surprise you...
A/N: Okay, it's short, it's crappy, whatever you have to say just spill it, I'm prepared for it! *Raise arms in a defensive manner*
Sorry that this took so long... family business...
I can't believe my holiday is just going to end like that... This is just too soon... I'm not ready for school yet!
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