Chapter SEVEN

"Go whenever you're ready." Yoru told Mikoto. "We'll follow you." Mikoto nodded.

"Don't order me around." Accelerator snapped, but he got into position. "Listen. I can only fight for fifteen minutes." He said.

Mikoto and Yoru nodded.

Mikoto peeked out from behind the menu board at the Black Jack. There were eleven of them all together. As far as Mikoto could see, they were all male. All of them were wearing the same dark grey clothes, but one was wearing a gold badge over his chest pocket, who Mikoto suspected to be the leader of the was talking to a man who looked like the manager of the cafe.

She then noticed the others had a number sewn onto their uniform.

She took a deep breath, then shot out from their hiding place. Quiet but sure footsteps behind her told her that Yoru and Accelerator were right behind her. Mikoto shoved past the Black Jack just as the leader held up a piece of paper. The leader gasped in surprise and dropped the paper.

Without thinking, Mikoto caught it. She shoved the door open and she ran out onto the streets.

"Wait, stop!" Yells were heard from behind them, but the three of them ignored it. Mikoto led the way into a busy street, hoping to loose their pursuers. She shoved through the crowd, apologizing randomly.

She squeezed out of the river of people, and glanced behind her. Yoru and Accelerator appeared from the crowd and Mikoto took off again. She sighed when she heard yells of anger and annoyance coming from behind her. The Black Jack were not far behind.

Mikoto pointed as the river came into view. "There." She yelled. She leaped off the pavement and landed on the sandy grass by the river. She moved closer to the river, then turned around. Yoru and Accelerator stepped in beside her. Mikoto scanned the area.

No one was there. Mikoto frowned. Had they managed to loose them? Beside her, Yoru growled.

Yoru reached towards her thighs. Strapped to her thighs were black material. Each strap was embedded with lots black studs. The studs seemed to be attached to the straps with Velcro, because Yoru easily pulled off a few. At her touch, the studs swirled with black mist, before transforming into metal spikes, similar to Kuroko's, only that Yoru's were black.

Mikoto turned to Yoru."Wha-" She was interrupted when Yoru threw a handful of needles at a shadow.

They stabbed into the ground, around the outline of the shadow.

Mikoto was about to ask Yoru what she was doing, when she froze. Just a shadow. There was nothing around it. Nothing that could have made the shadow. Unless the shadow belonged to something or someone invisible.

As if on cue, there was a scream, and the air around the shadow blurred, forming into the shape of a man. The man stood there frozen, one foot raised. His eyes darted around frantically.

"The needles I just threw are made of shadow." Yoru explained. "If I can pin down someone's shadow, I can freeze them in place."

The air around the man blurred again, and ten others appeared.

"Remember, they can't be affected with esper attacks. But it you hurt them with physical attacks. If you can mix the two together, you can give them the most damage." Yoru said.

The leader of the Black Jack group freed the guy trapped by the needles. "I am Heart Jack, serving under Heart King." He gestured at the ten others. "And they are the Heart Knights, one to ten." Heart Jack said. "By the Heart King's orders, we must capture you and bring you to him." Without warning, they came charging.

Mikoto dodged the first kick, and spinning around, dug her heels sharply into the guys shin. The guy growled, and sat up on one knee, but before Mikoto could finish him, another appeared behind her. She whipped around, a moment too slow, and the guy managed to catch her on the side of her face.

Mikoto leaped back a few feet, and spat. The air around her crackled with electricity, and she used it to pull herself forwards. She delivered a electric chasre kick to the side of someones head, knocking him out. She hurled at the second and the third, punching one and throwing him into the other.

She faced the last Heart Knight, who had the number ten sewn onto his uniform. "Heart Ten." Mikoto breathed.

Heart Ten snapped his fingers, and he began to lift off the ground. "My ability is Float Dial. I can control buoyancy." He growled.

Mikoto narrowed her eyes. If she remembered correctly, Awatsuki Maaya of the swim team had the same ability.

The Heart Knight shot a jet of water at her. At the last moment, the jet took form into a whip, and wrapped itself around Mikoto's wrist.

"You're such an idiot." Mikoto laughed. Before the Heart Knight could react, Mikoto released a jolt of electricity. In the next instant, the Heart Six's body jerked, before he slumped onto his knees.

"Electricity travels quickly though water." She said.

Accelerator grinned. Even the Black Jack seemed to know who he was. They seemed hesitant in approaching him.

"If you're not going to attack, I'll start!"

Accelerator shot forward, slamming his fist against one of the guys cheek, flinging him backwards. Two others moved to support him. Accelerator easily dodged a flying fist, and delivered a kick of his own. He grabbed the third guy by his arm and threw him into the river, where he landed with a satisfying SPLASH.

He quickly knocked out the other two and looked around to see that Mikoto had also finished her three. He turned to where Yoru was supposed to be. Two of the Black Jack lay unconscious, but Yoru and the other were no where to be seen.

There was a sharp sound of metal hitting metal, and Accelerator turned around to see two figures standing in the middle of swirling dust and sand.

Mikoto stood beside Accelerator, staring. As they watched, Yoru began to emit a eerie glow. Her arms began to glow, and when the light died down, Mikoto could see that her arms had transformed into a pair of big, black bladed swords.

The leader of Black Jack stood across her. He opened up his palms and fire balls appeared around him, floating. The leader swung his arms, and the fire balls flew towards Yoru.

Yoru easily blocked them with her swords, and changed them back to normal. Her fists lit up in black flames, and she flew at Heart Jack. Heart Jack met her blow with a fire swirling fist of his own.

The two leaped back. Yoru grinned. She formed a triangle with her fingers, and chanted something. At the exactly same moment, Heart Jack was sent flying. Gunha stood where he had been a second ago, fist raised in the air. Oracion was wrapped around his shoulders.

"See that? This is the power of GUTS!" He yelled. Oracion grasped some of his hair in his mouth, and gave it a sharp tug, making Gunha yelp. "Thats not nice!" He shouted. Yoru sighed and reached out her arm. Oracion hissed, then wrapped itself around her arm.

"Anyways, whats happening here?" Gunha asked.

Mikoto and Accelerator shared a glance. "Me and Yoru were walking around when we bumped into the third, then we were sorta ambushed by these guys." Accelerator growled.

They all whipped around when they heard violent coughing. Heart Jack stood there, eyes glowing red.

"No way." Gunha breathed.

I finally got this one finished.

The original chapter was so long I had to split it into two separate chapters

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