This chapter is dedicated to my buddy pyron55 who has stuck with me since I first started this story and has been as much a help to me as I have to him. You're my boy pyron! Anyway, I liked the chapter a lot so I just changed my grammatical and canonical mistakes as well as how things played out between the teams.

Emerald Forest Chaos

Knives moved slowly through the foliage, sniffing the air; he could already hear gunfire in the distance, as the scent of the gunpowder filed his nostrils. He moved slowly with his hands on his weapons while the others moved casually behind him. Only Deverou seemed on edge, what with Weiss being unaccounted for, so Deverou had decided to pair with Caradin and Luxus paired with Knives since they had already made an alliance. Knives wasn't too pleased about being stuck with teammates but he kept moving. Johann skipped pleasantly beside him humming to himself as he wandered in and out of Knives' peripheral vision, a bright smile on his face with all the carnage going on. He could hear roars and clashing going on all around him. Luxus held up his hand and they stopped he slipped the jacket off his shoulders and put it on, "From here on out we'll meet heavy opposition. I can help spot out a few booby traps, but the main problem will be the beasts of the forest. This is their home and they know how to hunt their prey here; we will have difficulty so I want you all to stay aware."

Deverou drew his chain-scythe while Caradin opened his coffin and pulled out the claymore resting it on his shoulder. He lifted the coffin back up with one hand and proceeded slowly, while Knives kept his hands on his swords as they proceeded with caution. They had not gone for more than ten minutes when a loud crash occurred and a man charged by with a large axe chasing after a Beowolf, "HOT BUTTERY CORNDOGS! That bastard is owed a thrashing!" He said as he chased it down and slammed his axe into its head with a sickening splat as the axe buried itself into the beasts skull. "Another kill my lovely Sasha, and more on the way." He said eyeing the group.

Deverou made ready to fight, and Caradin set down his coffin with a loud thud. Another man in a black trench coat with a blue skull on the back walked up, "I apologize for my friend, he loses himself in the battle it seems." He said as he smacked the guy over the head.

"When you lose yourself to the dance on madness you're less than human, get it together asshat." Knives said, loosening up a bit as he remained tense mentally.

Johann laughed as he skipped over to the new man, "Oh if only they could see what you saw, so what does that make you the king of the sub-humans?" As he did this he leaned on the mad axe-wielder's head and started to play on his head like a bongo.

Knives looked away, but Luxus noticed this. Another deafening roar occurred, this time the ground shook and trees were felled. "What in the hell?" Caradin started before the action began.

Two people burst out of the trees, one was a boy in a trench-coat with flames and the other was a girl in a tunic and a skirt-short combo. The girl laughed madly as if enjoying herself way too much and the boy had an angry grimace on his face. "Come on guys we're all part of the game now!" A King Taijitu, burst through the trees behind them, and they all took off running. "It's a foot race, keep up, keep up!" The girl screamed happily.

Luxus took off bolting and kept squinting at the girl, as if trying to remember her from somewhere. He fell behind the group and got a look at her butt and screamed, "Sweet cheeks!" Finally remembering where he'd seen her before.

She turned around her face a mask of horror upon seeing him, "YOU!" and jumped back and kicked him in the shin. Knives grabbed him as he fell and put him back on his feet.

"Now is really not the time to flirt." Knives said as they continued to run through the forest.

"But just look at that ass!" He exclaimed pointing.

The boy with the flamed trench-coat turned around, "Dude that's my sister!"

"Oh, right, well then what are we doing running for our lives? Fuck that." He stopped dead in his tracks and turned around to face the King Taijitu. He reached into his coat's holster and drew a large red steel revolver, "Roulette Custom; Red King. Smile for me goodness." He rested the gun on his left arm and got in a kneeling position. He looked at it and the others stopped to watch him, he squinted with one eye open and pulled the trigger. The kick was incredible as the bullet's firing sent a shockwave with its flight path, and Luxus' arm recoiled only slightly as he grimaced in pain. The bullet struck the King Taijitu in the head and it exploded. They celebrated at their victory, before the King Taijitu's second head rose and two others slithered up to join their comrade. Knives wanted to jump in but feared exposing his abilities, he felt the hair on the back of his neck tingle as he turned to see the boy with the axe holding a cannon that was charging lightning at its barrel through a focusing node.

"Boom!" He cried as it fired a condensed lightning ball into the first King Taijitu and it shook violently before falling to the ground dead. The girl took her hammer and went at a break neck pace towards the second snake, smashing the hammer at the point the two snakes connected. It thrashed, it's two heads rising high into the air where the boys in trench coats took a head each. One propelled himself forward with a katana that had thrusters on it, and the other slicing cleanly through the neck with his glittering crystalline scythe. Deverou lashed one head with his scythe, holding it steady as Caradin charged with his blade.

"Solaris Edge!" He cried as the blade heated up to the point that the edges of the sword were white hot, he cleaved through the Taijitu's neck like butter, "How's that for awesome!?"

Everyone was letting loose and showing off their talents, it was time he joined the fray. Knives drew his kilij across his wrists and drew The Ripper. "Dance of Blood: Jack the Ripper's Infamous Massacre Party!" He said as he ran in, the blood wrapped around Jack and The Ripper to extend the reach of the blades. He jumped into the air and spun, letting the bloody slicers rend the remaining Taijitu's body asunder. As it fell he drew the blood back into his body and charged up to its head and drove The Ripper through its skull. He panted heavily as he had never tried the technique before and the sudden anemia had made him exhausted. He turned around to see the faces of shock and fear cascaded over their faces. The boy with the flames looked almost like he pitied Knives. He threw up his hood that fell off in the assault and sheathed his blades as he began to walk off. Caradin stood in his path, "Let me pass." Knives said angrily.

"You're hurt; we don't let teammates walk off in a sorry state. Besides, you can barely stand." Caradin said as he

It was true; Knives had barely noticed it but that strain and all that blood had left him shaky. He felt the dark room calling and he immediately snapped himself out of it, he would not let Johann run free in the forest. He looked up at Caradin who simply set his hands on Knives' wrists and began using his semblance, the cuts fading on Knives wrists, and the scars began to fade as well; tears of blood running from Caradin's eyes as he wiped them away. Deverou went to check on Luxus and the others sat by and watched. "My arm isn't broken, but if I'd used a full cylinder it would have been. Red King is a high powered anti-armor pistol sporting a .62 caliber slug; it's a custom made gun and the rounds are the same. I use it lightly because using bullets can almost literally do damage to me as well as my target."

"Fine, just don't kill yourself just yet oh fearless leader." Knives taunted.

The others chuckled as well. The kid with the flames approached him, "Thanks for the directions to the training field earlier, if it wasn't for you I wouldn't have made it."

Knives looked at him oddly, "You did ask me for directions; got a name?"

"Pyron, this is my big sister Newt, that guy with the axe is Carlos, and the guy in the other trench-coat is David, we've decided since it's possible to have four man teams it would make the most sense to pair up now we're still working on a name though."

"How about Chaos? You seem to cause enough of it." Deverou said glaring at Pyron as if he knew him from somewhere.

"Deverou Tenebrous, I should have guessed Weiss would have brought her lap-dog along for the ride." He said angrily getting in his face.

Newt glared at Deverou as well, while Caradin stood from helping Knives and turned to face them. A cold intent of murder was strewn across his face and they backed away behind Newt who stood her ground. "If you have a problem, settle it. We don't have time to waste on fighting, just accept the name and move on."

Newt stared him down and then tried to kick him in the shin, Caradin took his foot away and swept his leg under hers tripping her. She fell on her back and looked up at him in surprise; Luxus limped over and helped her up with his good hand. He had buttoned up his jacket and was resting his arm in it like a makeshift sling, she accepted the gesture and he helped her up. "Chaos huh?" Carlos said, "I like it!"

"You would." David said with a smile.

"Well are we going to sit on our asses all day, we have temples to explore!" Carlos yelled.

"By the way, I didn't catch your names." Pyron said.

"I'm Luxus Rayfor. This is Knives, Caradin Cross, and I know you're acquainted with Deverou. We've come together to form team CARD, still working on the anagram but I've decided the name to be CARD!"

"Why?" Deverou asked.

"Because," Knives replied, "We're a handful of Aces."

So not too much changed, but I intend the characters to be different in the later chapters rather than continuously bitch at each other so that they can grow and develop to the point I want them to be at in Season 2.