Chapter 14 – Emerald Sustrai
Lubbock grits his teeth, he quickly uses his thread to collapse part of the building to distract there foes. A large dust cloud is created from the rubble as Mercury and Emerald back away from falling rocks.
"Come on Akame, we have to get away from here and find Leone." He says to his friend as he tries to escape with Akame while they enemies lie in the smoke. However, erupting from the dust was a Kusarigama that wrapped around Lubbock's stomach. He is pulled into the smoke as Akame tries to get him back. She is instead met by Mercury who kicked her in the stomach sending her into the street. The green hair Night Raid member lands on the other street across from her ally. The two are separated from the other with their new enemies offering a difficult challenge.
Mercury walks towards Akame, the red eyed assassin tries holding her weapon as proper she can to not show weakness. He then rans to her and kicks Murasame out Akame's hands. She looks at his leg to see that she did cut his pant leg, but it was hiding a metal leg.
"How are you still alive?" Akame says enraged at the ineffectiveness of her imperial arm. Mercury replies, "Your old friends told me about the sword that can kill in one cut. Lucky for me if you cut my leg, you do not draw blood." Akame looks to see her weapon on the ground and takes a defensive position.
"Now let me show you how a real assassin kills their target." Mercury says as he rushes Akame, kicking her in the side of the head. She blocks most of the impact but is pushed to the ground by the force of impact. The red eyed assassin gets up quickly and tries close quarters combat, but all her attacks are countered by Mercury. He kicks her again in the stomach, pushing Akame back and having her coughs up a little blood. She looks back at the gray haired assassin and breaths heavily.
"This is bad, I used all my energy dealing with Grimm and that robot Girl. This guy is not a pushover either, I hope Lubbock is faring better," Akame thinks to herself as she stares back at Mercury, "or at least can get away safely."
One the other street, Lubbock tries to focus and tries to locate his enemy. Emerald emerges from the smoke, walking over to Lubbock with her guns pointed at him. Lubbock quickly forms a spear out of his thread and weapon at his opponent. The spear goes through Emerald as she continues to walk forward. Lubbock could not understand what he saw. When suddenly, her feels breathing on his neck. He realizes where is enemy really was as she shields his neck with thread. The mint haired thief still strike Lubbock across the right side of his abdomen. Blood flows down the side of his body as he now sees the real enemy. She stands before him still, smiling. Lubbock moves back as he smiles back at Emerald.
"Not bad reflexes, but I you guessed wrong at where I was aiming." Emerald says as she smiles. Lubbock laughs a bit as he uses some of his threat to stich up the wound.
"You are pretty deadly, are you seeing that guy currently trying to kill my friend." Lubbock tries to see if flattery will get him anywhere. Emerald giggle a bit as she replies, "Both of you are not my type." She them creates an illusion to make Lubbock see five Emeralds. All charge at him with their weapons aimed at different body parts of Lubbock. He tries block his most vital organs, but Emerald takes advantage of this as she slashes over his right abdomen again. She stands next to Lubbock as he cries in pain as the blade cuts deeper this time.
"Still guessed wronged, I did not expect it to be this easy to take care of Night Raid. That blue haired chick said you were a deadly group off assassins but I do not see what the big deal was." The mint haired theft says with a smile as she tries to remove her weapon, but has a look of confusion as she cannot pull out her weapon.
"You should have taken her warning seriously." Lubbock says in a low tone of voice as he looks at Emerald with a smile, "Because I did guess right that time." The thread he used to sew up his injury had covered Emerald's weapon. The thread quickly tightened around her hand, cutting into it.
"Cannot foul me twice with that trick, not I know I have the real you." Lubbock says as he then uses his tread to surround Emerald and bind her in his trap. She tries to evade the attack and cut the thread with her other weapon, but does not react quickly enough. The mint haired theft is the in a position of tied and quartered from the tread and the nearby buildings. Her aura sparks against the thread, until breaking from the tension. Lubbock strengthens his grip as the blood drips from Emerald body.
"Please do not kill me." Emerald says scared at the reality of what might happen next. Lubbock looks over at her as he walk away, "Sorry, you are not my type either." He then lifts his arm as the tread cuts deep into Emerald's body. All he hear is the screams and the sound of blood hitting the ground, until the screaming stopped.
Lubbock goes to the ad of his friend on the other street. He sees Akame beaten from the result of her weekend condition. The gray haired assassin walks over to try and finish the job, when he is interrupted by Lubbock, talking in a bold tone as he hold his right side, "Hey you, I would not want to do that if I were you. I killed your friend and if you lay one more hand on mine. I will kill you too."
Mercury turns to face Lubbock and sees that the man is barely able to stand, "Emerald's dead? Oh well, I guess that means I get the credit for killing you both now. It think I will instead start with you." He then runs over Lubbock and kicks in his wound on his right abdomen. Lubbock falls to the ground in pain.
Akame rushes to her weapon to ad her friend. However, the gray haired assassin heard the foes footsteps and shots a blast of wind dust from the bottom of his boot at her weapon, sending it out of her reach. The red eyed assassin then rushes Mercury to try a last stand. He fires a few more shots that connect with Akame and push her back. Mercury smiles at the ease in his mission until his boot on his leg is being dented by thread. He looks down at Lubbock, weakly smiling and laughs at what he did to his enemy's leg and Mercuries enraged expression.
"Do you have any idea how much these boots cost!?" The gray haired assassin says in a rage stopes on Lubbock's gut. He then steps over Lubbock neck and fires at close range. Blood fills his mouth as he coughs it up on Mercury's boot. "Now you got blood on it! Idiot!" Mercury says in a rage again as Akame looks in horror of Lubbock not moving. Mercury then walks over to finish off Akame, who grits her teeth as tears appear under her eyes, when he notices a military airship coming into sight.
"Great, the search team for that robot girl. Guess that means they can finish my job for me." The gray haired assassin says then runs away in the distance, using his blast form his weaponized boots to scale the buildings to escape.
Akame runs picks up her weapon and friend. She takes Lubbock away from the airship across the streets, trying to avoid the Grimm that have been attracted from the commotion.
She takes him to a destroyed restaurant building half a mile away. Lubbock slowly starts to lose conciseness as Akame tries to keep him awake.
"Lubbock, you have to stay alive. We have to meet up with the other and tell them about what happened here," Akame says as she sees the color in his eyes fade. "Come on, do not die on me."
Lubbock uses the last of his strength, not to try and talk, but reaches into his pocket to give Akame something, but his life escaped him before he give it to her. The red eyed assassin tries hold back her tears from pouring as she looks in Lubbock's hand. She cannot hold back anymore as she see it is the energy bar he was saving for himself from yesterday. She opens the wrapper and eats the energy bar while crying.
Akame walks out the restaurant with determination. Look at the search light from wear she ran from, know there is no going back there. She looks instead towards Vale not knowing where her team was in the kingdom, but she knew she could not stay outside anymore. Akame runs through the city streets as Grimm appear around her. However, they do not approach as they see the red in her eyes, knowing that she would not let any enemy stop her.