A/N Events are based on the anime and not the manga.
Warning: Chapter may include tons of typing errors and spelling mistakes, please point them out if you see any. Chapter also may fell a bit rushed.
This chapter was written because of a request I received on Strangers In Remnant so yeah...here you go.
A hammer was constantly smashed into a going.
"You've got some nerve, strolling up to the front gates!" A bandit yelled as he and his men pointed guns and knifes at the Jaegers.
Calmly, Seryu reached out her hand, "Coro, number five."
Coro suddenly became large and bit of Seryu's left metal arm. A very disturbing smile appeared on her face.
Confident in their numbers, the bandits charged at the Jaegers yelling, "Kill them!"
What used to be a metal arm was now a large green drill.
"Judgement of the Ten Kings: Enma's Spear of Justice!"
Seryu charged forward with her drill, chopping the enemy into pieces.
"Next!" Seryu yelled as Coro bit her arm again.
Her arm was now a large cannon and it was pointed right at the entrance of the bandit's base.
"Taizan's Cannon of Justice!"
She fired and the entrance door to the base was blown to pieces within seconds.
Stylish chuckled, "How do you like the weapons I created?" he struck a sparkling pose as he continued, "The hands of God, Perfector...They increase my speed and precision several hundreds times over. Truly the most stylish of all Imperial Relics!"
Emerging from smoke that Seryu created, Kurome drew out her sword.
Not even giving a chance for them to react, Kurome ran past them slicing them like they were insects.
Standing at the end of the hallway which was now filled with corpses, Kurome gently placed her sword back into it's sheath.
"After we're done, I'll put you back together and have some fun, my little dolls." She said with satisfied smile.
Out of a corner, a bandit pointed a gun right at Kurome.
But before he could pull the trigger, Wave swooped down and kicked him right in the face.
Kurome turned her head and looked at Wave who was now standing with his back towards her.
"Hey, no need to thank me." Wave said in the same tone a hero would, "We're a team, right?"
Kurome just blankly stared back, "I knew he was there."
"Seriously?"
Meanwhile, near the walls of the fortress, bandits were screaming as they were being burned alive. The strange thing was, no matter how much water the bandits poured on themselves, the fire wouldn't be extinguish.
"My Imperial Relic is a flamethrower." Bols stated, "The Purgatorial Invitation, Rubicante."
Is a soft voice, Bols said to himself, "This is just part of the job."
In the sky, multiple white feathers floated softly before firing themselves like sniper bullets.
Each one of them pierced a single bandit right through the head.
"What?" one of the bandits barely said who now had a hole in his forehead, the bandit looked up in the sky and the last thing he was Run flying in the night sky with wings, "An...angel?"
"The winged Relic, the Thousand-Mile Flight, Mastema." Run said introducing his weapon, "I won't let any of you escape."
Looking over the fortress that was not on engulfed in fire.
The Jaegers gathered together.
"I guess we got all of them. Great job team!" Wave said.
"Should we return to Lady Esdeath?" Bols asked his team.
"No..." Run said scouting the flaming fortress with his relic, "There's still two more."
The Jaegers then spotted the silhouette of two figures standing from distance.
Wave drew out his sword and called out to them, "We've killed all of your comrades, it'll be better for both of us if you two just surrounded and-"
Kurome drew her sword and sprinted at them.
"Kurome wait!"
But by the time Wave had finished speaking, Kurome had already sliced the throat of the first figure and chopped the second person in half.
Kurome then casually turned around and walked towards her team as she reached for her bag of snacks.
"What was that?" Wave asked.
"Our missions was to eliminate them wasn't it?" Kurome replied with a blank expression.
Seryu smiled, "Good call, those sinful criminals got what they deserved."
Wave was already worried about the mental health of some of his teammates, "yeah but still-"
"Everyone!" Bols exclaimed as he aimed his flamethrower.
Everyone's attention returned to the two figures.
to their complete shock, the two figures that Kurome had just attacked were still standing.
Even the person that Kurome had chopped in half, which now they could see was a boy wearing a hood, was still standing. With his entire upper body gone, his lower body from stomach to legs was still standing. No blood was visible on the boy's body.
Kurome looked at her sword and realised the blood on her sword wasn't red...it was magenta.
The second figure was a woman. Her throat which Kurome had sliced opened, slowly closed itself until her throat was good as new.
As for the boy, thousands and thousand of small, red and black micro cubes gathered together around the area where the boy's upper body used to be.
The micro cubes combined together and the boy's upper body reformed itself until he looked good as new.
It was like Kurome had never touched them.
The boy wore a black and red cloak with a hood that covered his face, the boy looked at the women. "So...what do you think?"
The woman wore a long-sleeved, white jacket that reached from her neck to her legs, her hood was open revealing her white hair was tied into twin-tails and she had magenta circular eyes. Her jacket was unzip revealing nothing but a white bikini along with white boots.
The woman thought about the boy's question, "Well...they're not bad. Although a bit disappointing, especially after you spoke so highly of them."
"Everyone, be careful, these guys are different from the others." Wave warned.
Bols and Kurome prepared for the worst.
Run could only find one explanation to why they weren't dead yet, "Organic Imperial Arms?!"
Dr Stylish pushed his glasses up, "Similar to Coro...there's two of them and they both seem to be human based. Quite stylish if I do say so myself."
"Who are you!?" Wave called, it was obvious by now that these two weren't with the bandits that they just eliminated.
"Oh we've just come to say hi." The boy said before looking at the person who was standing behind Wave, "Oh hey Seryu, nice to see you again."
Everyone turned to look at said person and it was then they notice the dark aura that Seryu was radiating. Unlike before, Seryu was extremely enraged.
"You...how dare you show your face to me again." Seryu clenched her fist glared at Jack while Coro grolwed, "Night Raid."
The Jaegers all showed their own shocked reaction to those two words. All of them were well aware of who Night Raid was but none of them expected to meet them on their first mission.
It was then they recognised the two. Ever since the incident with Seryu, their faces have been on wanted poster after all.
Jack tried really hard not to laugh.
Wave drew out his sword, "What business do you have here?"
"I just told you didn't I?" Jack said clearly amused, "You see I'm big fan of villains and just couldn't wait to meet you guys."
"Villains?" Wave repeated, "You must be mistaken, were The Jaegers. Defenders of the people and-"
He was cut off when Jack stared laughing historically. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Jack's laugh wasn't the nice type of laugh, it was the sadistic type and was enough to disturb most of the people who were there.
After Jack calmed down, he smiled evilly, "That's what I love about you guys, you claim to fight for justice but really you're all just making your people suffer even more."
Seryu's face grew darker, "Lies. You corrupted criminals speak nothing but lies! How dare you insult-"
"Justice?" Jack interrupted before chuckling, "You see that's why you'll always be my favourite Seryu. Your psychotic and unstable. You enjoy the death of others. You kill without giving them a chance to repent? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You call that justice?!"
Jack snickered, "Admit it Seryu. You're a ruthless villain just like me-"
"CORO!"
Coro grew extremely large and charged at Jack.
Jack raised his arm, thousands and thousands of red and black micro cubes combined together to form a giant flying fist. The giant fist threw itself at Coro knocking it across the field.
Kurome sprinted at Sing-love and swung her sword.
Sing-love causally took out her white blade and blocked.
Kurome swiftly delivered a series of attacks with her sword as Sing-love casually moved her head side to side dodging each attack.
What frustrated Kurome even further was that Sing-love didn't even seem to be trying.
During the heat of the moment, Kurome moved to the side and behind was Bols aiming his flamethrower at Sing-love.
"Sorry..." Bols said as he fired, engulfing Sing-love in flames, "but it's part of my job."
"Oh don't apologize."
Bols and Kurome both stare in shock as Sing-love emerged from the flames. The flames didn't hurt but it managed to tickle Sing-love which was saying something.
"B-but...how?" Bols asked.
"Fascinating," Sing-love grinned as she felt Bols' flames engulfed her. It was certainly no ordinary fire. A magenta flames ignited in her right eye, "you guys aren't that bad."
Without warning, Sing-love charged at Bols. Kurome interfered and their swords clashed with a CLANG!
"Grand Chariot!" Wave stabbed his sword into the ground and a transparent image of a danger beast appeared above Wave and a blue armour equipped itself to Wave.
"Coro! Number five!" Coro, who had just return, bite Seryu's arm off and replace it with giant drill.
"Grand Fall!"
"Enma's Spear of Justice!"
They both jumped in the air in front of Jack. Seryu aimed her drill while Wave sent a powerful drop kick.
Jack grinned as a translucent red rectangular shield appeared in front of him blocking both attacks.
They both push further with all their strength but to no prevail, Jack's shield didn't even crack.
Run flew upwards and aimed. Three sharps feathers were fired and all three of them pierced Jack through the head leaving a hole in his forehead, cheek and eye.
However no blood was shed from Jack. Instead of blood, red and black micro cubes shot out from where Run had hit and onto the ground before disappearing.
Time seemed to freeze at that moment.
The grin that appeared on Jack's face few seconds later answered Run's question.
New tiny red and black cubes gathered together around the holes in Jack's face and he quickly recovered.
Jack started laughing like a maniac, "HAHAHA! Now were talking! As expected from people who serve the monster they call Honest!"
Getting too lost in the moment and completely forgetting his main objective, he clicked his fingers and seven red and black cannons appeared out of nowhere and started firing at Run, Seryu and Wave.
Run flew in all directions in the sky evading, Coro stood in front of Seryu protecting her while Wave crossed his arms as he let his armour do the blocking.
Meanwhile, Sing-love and Kurome were slashing it out. Kurome increased her speed until her arms with a blur but still Sing-love evenly matched up with her speed with her blade blocking each strike. Bols felt completely helpless as he watched their swords clashed at least ten times a second.
Dr Stylish observed both of them from a distance, "Hmm...both seem to be unkillable and have incredible power. Indeed this is a dangerous type of stylish."
Before Sing-love and Jack could go further, large spikes of ice sprouted from the ground out of nothing. Large spikes sprouted from beneath the feet of Jack and Sing-love but the ice didn't dare touch the Jaegers.
Moving two times faster than the speed of tornado winds, Sing-love disappeared and reappeared in a higher position before the spikes could impale her while Jack simply teleported.
While in the air, Sing-love looked up at the sky for a moment...
Seconds later Esdeath swooped down from the sky where Sing-love was looking at and swung her rapier.
Sing-love instantly reacted by blocking with her white blade but she had completely underestimated the impact that she would receive.
While in mid-air, Esdeath and Sing-love exchanged a series of rapid sword clashing with Esdeath slowly taking over. Sing-love knew Esdeath was strong just by looking at her but the fact that Esdeath was a human was enough fro Sing-love to let her guard down.
Seeing an opening, Esdeath reach out her left arm and pointed her palm at Sing-love.
Sing-love's entire body suddenly froze in ice except for her right eye that was still igniting a magenta flame.
Before she could react, Esdeath swung her rapier landing a couple of critical hits on her stomach, neck and joints before sending one last attack that sent Sing-love crashing into one of the building creating a loud boom when Sing-love made impact.
Esdeath landed back on the ground while the rest of the Jaegers stared in awe.
The smoke cleared and everyone saw no trace of Sing-love meaning she was probably buried in the debris of the building she crash into to.
But to their shock, a large piece of debris was slowly picked and thrown out of the way revealing Sing-love with absolutely no injuries.
Esdeath saw the last thing she expected to see: A grin.
"I have met many interesting people in the past," Sing-love began as she took another step forward, "but never before have I met a human like you..."
Sing-love's amusement was slowly turning into actual fun as she summoned her white scythe, "You have my full attention."
The flame is her right eye grew brighter and a firefly magenta aura was clearly visible gathering around her. Everyone felt the amount power gathered in her just by looking at her.
"Coro, number-"
Seryu was interrupted when Esdeath raised her hand like a stop sign telling her and the rest of the Jaegers to stand down.
Esdeath took a step forward, "I don't know who you are or what you are... However..."
The same grin that Sing-love wore appeared on Esdeath's face.
"I can tell that taking down a warrior like you will certainly be worth it."
An icy aura was clearly visible gathering around Esdeath as she craved for battle, "You've earn my respect."
The ground began vibrating as Sing-love and Esdeath stared at each other.
From a distance, like the rest, Tatsumi was staring in pure shock. Before Esdeath and Tatsumi were just watching the Jaegers take down a bandit fortress but that situation escalated very quickly when those two appeared. When the Jaegers fought them, Esdeath seemed oddly interested in the women when they watched before eventually interfering.
Things fell silent and without warning...
Esdeath and Sing-love charged at each other with all their strength.
Their weapons clashed with a boom but to their surprise, their weapons clashed with a force field instead of a weapon.
Just when they were about to clash, Jack intervened placing a dark red translucent dome between them.
"It seems...we have all gotten a little too carried away."
"Says the guy who was laughing like a maniac a couple of moment ago." Sing-love commented.
Esdeath jumped back and pointed her rapier at Jack, "Who are you and what business do you have with us."
"The names Jack." He said casually, "as for your second question, well...you'll find that out eventually."
For some reason, Esdeath was glad to hear that, "Guess I'll have to force the answer out of you then."
"As much as I would love to see that, I think my partner and I have done enough for today. I wasn't kidding when I said we were here just to say hi."
"Wow, you really know when to spoil the fun huh?" Sing-love said sarcastically.
Wave pointed his sword at Jack, "If you think we're going to let you escape after what you just did then-"
"Escape?" Jack interrupted as the Sing-love and Jack began to glow, "oh no you have it wrong, we're just saying goodbye for now. Don't worry, we will meet again."
Esdeath summoned a pillar of ice but by then, a bright red light had already engulfed Jack and Sing-love and they were gone, not even a trace of them was left.
Tatsumi and the Jaegers were left there standing completely discombobulated.
The fire that was consuming the fortress around them was already starting to die down.
"Typical..."
All attention was drawn to Seryu now.
At first it started with a chuckle but it slowly turn into a laugh of madness.
"They ran...they ran...they knew they couldn't win so they ran like the cowards they are. Those two are just like the rest of them. Tainted by evil, they are just disgusting and heartless villains, they may have escaped today but justice will bring judgement!"
She laughed even louder with a insane smile as Tatsumi and Wave just watched.
Thanks to the sudden appearance of Jack and Sing-love, the two had completely forgotten:
Tatsumi remembered this girl was the one who almost killed her comrades.
While Wave remembered this girl was his teammate.
Meanwhile, high in the night sky, Jason was scouting the Night Raid waiting patiently for a particular person to start raiding the base.
As he waited, he started debating whether bringing Jack into this was good idea or not.
He never understood villains and their motives which is why he brought Jack but after seeing what he has done, Jason was beginning to question Jack's plan.
So far, all Jack has done is attract attention to himself for absolutely no reason. All of his actions have seen pointless so far.
Jason sighed as he knew things were going to get a lot more messy. But there was no turning back now.
His thoughts then drifted to a different question, "I wonder what Black's doing."
The Next Day
Back in the palace, Kurome was eating snacks at a table while Wave was enjoying the view from outside the window with a cup pf coffee.
The door flew open and Tatsumi entered.
"Hey!" Wave greeted, "How'd you sleep last night- Not well, huh?"
Tatsumi's eyes were wide open, red, veins were clearly visible around the perimeter of his eyes and overall...it looked like he didn't get a blink of sleep.
"I was so nervous I couldn't get a wink." Tatsumi explained, "She said she wouldn't do anything, but I woke up to find her hugging me like a body pillow."
Last night was extremely eventful for Tatsumi. After forgetting about their encounter with Jack, Tatsumi remembered his main objective and was able to sum up the courage to try convince Esdeath to switch sides but it didn't turn out the way he expected.
Wave looked at Kurome, "Isn't it a bit early for snacks Kurome?"
"Mind your own business." Kurome replied.
"You should eat more seafood. It's good for you."
"I'd rather not reek of fish like you."
"Huh? What?" Wave exclaimed before raising his armpit and asking Tatsumi, "Do I smell?"
Tatsumi kindly raised his hand and waved it, "Uh. not really...I think."
Kurome ate another biscuit which caught Tatsumi's attention for some reason.
"What is this?" Tatsumi thought as he looked at Kurome, "Her looks...And even her name, "Kurome"...They're giving me a some serious deja vu."
Kurome suddenly sensed Tatsumi's suspicious and glared at him.
Tatsumi's eyes widened as Kurome secured her bag of biscuits within her arms, "You can't have any."
"A-and her appetite!" Tatsumi exclaimed in his mind, "There's no mistake. She's just like Akame! They must have some relation!"
Kurome noticed that Tatsumi was still staring, "What?"
Tatsumi quickly thought of a excuse while also getting information, "Uh, no offense intended, but you look a lot like that girl, Akame, from the wanted posters."
"Oh, I was thinking the same thing." Wave added.
Turns out Tatsumi suspicions were correct. Kurome turned out to be Akame's sister. Tatsumi didn't know much about Akame's past, but according to the Kurome, she betrayed the kingdom and now she wants to be the one who kills Akame which seemed to be a bit twisted to both Tatsumi and Wave.
But before things could get more tense, the door opened and Esdeath walked in saying, "Tatsumi, we're heading to Mount Fake. We'll spend the next few days hunting."
"What's Mount Fake?" Tatsumi asked.
"Mount Fake is a Fake Mountain, of course." Esdeath said placing her cap on, "
"We're going to the outskirt?" Tatsumi thought, "The chances of escaping is very low but if one shows up, I'll take it."
"Wave and Kurome, you'll be joining us." Esdeath added. "We'll hunt Danger Beast while keeping an eye out for enemies."
"Roger." Wave and Kurome both said at the same time.
"Kurome and I will take the east side until dusk. Wave and Tatsumi will scout the west scout. Come nightfall, we'll switch, and Tatsumi will be with me."
Tatsumi did not look forward to that and the smile on Esdeath only made Tatsumi more worried about what she was planning.
"That's all good and all but..." Wave began, his tone a bit worried now, "is it really okay not to tell anyone about our encounter last night?"
"There are already wanted poster of them all over the city so it wouldn't have made a difference. Speaking of which, If any of you do encounter them again in the future then avoid them at all cost. It pains me to says this but those two are way beyond your league." Esdeath ordered.
Kurome, Wave and Tatsumi tensed after that statement which Esdeath noticed. The fact that the Empire's strongest warrior was admitting these two were strong was enough to scare them.
"But how do you know?" Wave asked, "I mean...you've hardly met them and already you're acting like you know them. Especially that woman."
Esdeath had to think about that answer, "Who knows...I guess you could say I saw myself in that woman or...at least remnants of myself."
Tatsumi shivered at the thought. One Esdeath was difficult enough. It seemed Wave had the same thought since he also seemed a bit worried. Esdeath noticed this and smiled.
"Do not worry...no matter how strong they are, all who oppose me will be crush beneath my heel and will beg for my mercy. I am the Empire's strongest and that will never change."
Mount Fake
"I couldn't say this back at the palace, but you sure have it rough." Wave said as the pair walked across the mountain, "If you ever need to talk, I'll listen."
Tatsumi looked back a bit surprised. For someone who was working for the Emperor, Wave was really nice. "Thanks."
Tatsumi looked forward and his expression changed, "But I should be okay. I'm used to this kind of treatment."
Wave's eyes drifted to the side as he understood, "I kinda know what you mean. In fact, I feel like we're pretty similar."
"Similiar?" Tatsumi asked, "How so?"
"Huh?" Wave crossed his arms and thought, "Well, uh...How should I put this? I feel like we've dealt with the same kinds of problems. Or that we will in the future." Wave looked down on the floor as an image of Seryu, Bols, Kurome, Dr Stylish and Esdeath appeared in his mind.
"Uh, yeah I understand. I know just what you mean. Say no more." Tatsumi placed his right hand on his head and the other hand raised like a stop sign towards Wave as an image of Leone, Akame and Mine appeared in his mind.
"Anyways, since we're so similar, I'm sure we'll get along-"
Wave stopped when he saw the intense look on Tatsumi's face.
"Tatsumi?"
Tatsumi slowly drew out his sword.
"Huh?"
Tatsumi charged in Wave's direction.
This caught Wave by surprise until Tatsumi yelled, "Watch out!"
He had cut down the branch of a tree monster that was sneaking behind Wave.
The tree monster came out of it's camouflage and roared at Wave and Tatsumi.
"Thanks! I owe you one!" Wave said in gratitude.
"Don't mention it!" Tatsumi said before he suddenly thought, "Huh? I stepped in to defend him without thinking, but this is actually the perfect change to escape...no, Wave has an Imperial Arm. Even with the monster to distract him, I would never be able to outrun him."
Tree monsters began surrounding the pair.
"It never rains but it pours, huh?" Wave commented, "Too bad you guys aren't edible like sea beasts. We'll take care of this in no time!"
With that, Tatsumi and Wave run in two different directions to kill the monsters that were on their side of the field.
Moments later and the remains of the trees monster laid all over the ground.
"Oh. was that is?" Wave said without sweating a drop of water. "Looks like you're done over there too-"
Wave gasped as the share of monsters that Tatsumi was supposed to kill were not dead and were now looking at Wave.
Tatsumi was nowhere to be seen.
"Tatsu...mi?" Wave asked as the remaining tree monsters charged at Wave. "Eh?...EHHH?!"
Through the the trees of the forest, Tatsumi was being zooming across the forest but the strange thing was, Tatsumi wasn't the one who was doing the running.
It all happened in a blur for Tatsumi.
One moment he was killing trees and the next, he was suddenly grabbed by the collar and dragged across the forest at an incredible speed.
Tatsumi looked up and perked up almost instantly. "Aniki!"
Under his armour, Bulat grinned, "Hey Tatsumi. Nice to see you too."
After finishing off the remaining monster with no swear, Wave continued scouting the mounting and called out,
"Tatsumi! Where'd you go?"
Wave suddenly gasped as he thought, "Don't tell me he ran away!"
Horror and anxiety instantly filled up from within Wave as an image of Eseath with horns appeared in his mind,
"This is bad!" Wave cried out, "I get how you feel, but I can't let you do that!"
"I DON'T WANT TO DIE EITHER, YOU KNOW?!"
Wave calmed down and looked at his sword.
"Guess I have no choice."
Wave stabbed his sword into the ground and a blue monster appeared behind Wave as he yelled.
"GRAND CHARIOT!"
"This should be enough." Tatsumi told Bulat. "There's no way he could come this far."
They were at a section of the forest where a flowing waterfall lead to a river.
Bulat punched Tatsumi on the head.
"OW! What was that for!"
"Never let your guard down when you're in unknown territory." Bulat scolded but it was obvious to say that Bulat was glad to see him again.
"Yeah Yeah, I know. How did you know I was here?" Tatsumi asked.
"I followed you. Everyone else watched you from a distance. Speaking which, we should meet Akame soon." Bulat explained.
Tatsumi sighed in relief, "Thank goodness. That armour sure is useful most of them time huh?"
Bulat summoned his spear and pointed it at Tatsumi to show off, "I know right, thanks to this armour I've-"
He didn't finish his sentence... Bulat sensed something and jumped backwards just before a man in blue armour dived in from the sky and kicked the rock wall between Tatsumi and Bulat, separating them.
Tatsumi tripped and fell over thanks to the sudden impact. He coughed as the impact had created a lot of smoke. "Wh-what?"
"Are you okay Tatsumi?" A voice said, it wasn't Bulat's voice though.
Tatsumi looked up as the smoke cleared, a man with blue armour who was standing in front of him while looking at Bulat.
"Glad you're okay. Looks like I got here just in time." Wave said before bringing his attention to the Incursio wielder, "Hey, you. Looks like I stumbled upon a big catch. I know that Relic. It's Incursio."
Wave pointed at Bulat who was casually calm.
"The prototype for my Grand Chariot. And more importantly...I know its wearer belongs to Night Raid!" Wave declared.
Tatsumi froze in place, "An armour-type Relic like Aniki's...wait a minute." He suddenly got flashbacks of last night, "Wave?"
This was quite the predicament they were in. Wave still thinks Bulat and Tatsumi are not comrades, but one wrong move can easily change that.
"Impressive," Bulat hummed in agreement, "I've actually read about that Relic, never knew I was going to see it in person though...especially as my enemy."
Tatsumi was amazed at how Bulat could be so calm, "Are they actually going to fight? But don't we need to get out of here? We can't risk Esdeath finding us."
Tatsumi had a feeling that Bulat was thinking the same thing.
Wave had his own worried thoughts as he looked at Bulat, "He looks tough. They say my Relic is an improved version of Incursio, but I mustn't take this lightly."
There was silence as the two armoured warriors faced each other.
Bulat suddenly turned around and casually walked away, "Well, I'll be going then, cya!"
"huh? ...OI!"
Wave jumped and landed on top of a large rock in front of Bulat, "I won't let you escape."
Under his armour, Bulat wore a calm smile, "I figured."
"Accept your fate, and face me!" Wave jumped down and charged at Bulat sending a series of punches.
Bulat jumped back and casually moved side to side dodging each punch, "Your name is Wave right? You seem like a nice guy. Tell me...what's your reason for joining Esdeath's army?"
Wave concluded that Bulat has been following hence why Bulat knows his name and replied, "To erased the world of people like you..."
Wave delievered one last powerful punch but Bulat simply moved to the side causing Wave to hit the rock wall instead of him.
"Night Raid!" Wave said finishing his sentence.
"I see." Bulat said in a quiet tone.
"I've read up on you." Wave continued, "You indiscriminately kill from the shadows. Evildoers like you directly threatened the capital's safety and peace. On top of that, I hear you're conspiring with the rebel army. I can't allow you to remain in this world."
Tatsumi clenched his fist as his eyes widened in anger, "You're wrong," is what Tatsumi was about to say before Bulat spoke,
"So that's what they tell you huh?"
Tatsumi looked up and for a split second, he could've sworn he saw Bulat... smiling at him. Almost like telepathy, Bulat's past words echoed through his mind.
"Being pumped won't keep you alive!"
Wave was taken back a little by Bulat's choice of words.
"If you put it like that I guess we do sound like the bad guys," Bulat began with a calm tone, "while most of what you said is true, there's one thing you need to consider...you guys may be defenders of the capital,"
With his right hand, Bulat punched the place where his heart was, "But we defend the people! Now..."
Bulat got into a battle stance and challenged Wave, "Come at me!"
"Looks like you're finally getting serious! Night Raid!" Wave charged at Bulat and once again delivered a series of punches but to his disappointment, the incursio user was still dodging his attacks.
"This won't be much of a battle if you don't fight!"
"You're right, it's won't." Bulat suddenly jumped upwards high into the sky.
"I won't let you escape!" Wave jumped higher to a point where he was above Bulat.
"GRAND FALL!"
Wave delivered a powerful drop kick but just when he was about to hit, Bulat vanished.
"EH?! What did he go?" Wave thought as he turned around still in mid-air.
Wave gasped when he saw that Bulat was right above him, "His fast."
Before Wave could react, Bulat delivered a powerful drop kicked sending Wave crashing down on the river causing large amounts of water to splash everywhere.
Tatsumi stared in awe, "S-sugoi!"
However Wave wasn't finished, he slowly emerged from the water with his body is a bit of pain, "Ouch, A direct hit. Luckily he kicked me into the river. At least his getting serious now-"
Wave stopped when he looked around: The Incursio user was nowhere to be seen.
"Where'd he go?" Wave looked around until his eyes met with Tatsumi, "Tatsumi! Did you see where he went?!"
"Ah, umm- ah, h-he went that way." Tatsumi stuttered as he pointed down the river.
Tatsumi cursed his acting at that moment but it seemed Wave brought it.
"He rode the current and saw away?" Wave concluded. He looked back at Tatsumi, "Tatsumi! Stay there! I'll come back for you!"
Wave started sprinting down the river, "Using the river to escape won't work against a man of the sea!"
Tatsumi sighed in relief as soon as Wave was out of sight. He looked to his left, "His gone. Looks like he doesn't have the same invisibility power you do."
Bulat turned off his invisible power and gave Tatsumi a thumbs up, "yeah, it appears so."
"And now we can finally return and tell-"
Tatsumi didn't finish his sentence as a danger beast in the shape of a tiger with horns and three red eyes, revealed itself from the trees and jumped at Tatsumi.
He screamed but before the danger beast could get to him, it was chopped in half.
"A-Akame?"
"Tatsumi, Bulat, are you alright?" Akame asked.
"Were fine. Don't worry about it." Bulat replied.
"Why are you here?" Tatsumi asked.
"We've been watching you from a distance." Akame explained, "although Bulat volunteered to watch from a closer distance."
"I see," Tatsumi said as he suddenly remembered the battle against the Three Beast, "Aren't you still injured Aniki?"
"I told you already, these wounds aren't fatal," Bulat assured, "it'll take a lot more than this to stop me."
Tatsumi seemed a bit guilty about something, "All that just for me...I'm sorry. You had to come to my rescue again." He referred to the moment when Akame and Tatsumi fought Zank. He felt sorry for the fact that his team had to go through all that just to save someone who didn't even have their own Imperial Arm yet.
He hated how useless he-
Tatsumi was suddenly karate chopped on the head.
At first Tatsumi thought it was Bulat but soon found out it was Akame because Bulat's punch came in soon afterwards.
Tatsumi clutched his head in pain before looking up at Akame. To his surprise, Akame was smiling genuinely.
"We'll always come to save you. After all, we're comrades." Akame said.
"She's right Tatsumi. There's a difference between pulling your comrades down and relying on them. You can't survive if you can't learn that difference." Bulat added.
Tatsumi looked at them for a moment, his eyes began to water but he quickly closed his eyes, "Thanks."
"What for?" Akame asked.
"I just felt so relived to see your faces." Tatsumi replied.
Bulat and Akame smiled at Tatsumi's comment.
Akame stood up and offered her hand to her comrade, "Welcome back, Tatsumi."
"Yeah, Glad to be back." Tatsumi said as he slowly reached for her hand.
But before their hands could join. Lubbock appeared out of nowhere saying "BAM!", grabbed both of their hands and started sprinting in a direction, "We should get outta here first, right? Come on, this way!"
Akame had a blank expression on while being dragged away while Tatsumi was fully taken by surprise with Bulat following behind them.
"Lubbock, thanks for coming." Tatsumi said in gratitude as they had reached a safer location.
"Yeah, well...It was kinda my fault for suggesting the tournament in the first place." Lubbock replied with his arms behind his head, before jokingly saying. "Although I wouldn't have mind that actually. One less boy just means more girls for me."
"That's harsh." Tatsumi commented.
Akame then whispered into Tatsumi's ear, "Despite what he says, he was pretty worried about you."
That made Tatsumi smile, "Yeah, I know."
"I think it was great a experience for Tatsumi," Bulat added, "fighting warriors from across the world can improve one's skill dramatically especially in adapting."
"Yeah exactly!" Lubbock agreed, "lets just make sure Tatsumi doesn't get kidnapped by the scariest woman on the planet again."
Everyone laughed as they made their way back to their hideout, all four of them had smiles on the faces as Tatsumi thought,
"Night Raid...This is where I truly belong."
Wave panted for breath.
He had searched the river and every inch of the forest.
"I guess he got away." Wave said to himself in disappointment.
Wave suddenly stop as he remembered what the Night Raid Member said to him.
(FLASHBACK)
"you guys may be defenders of the capital, But we defend the people!"
(FLASHBACK ENDS)
"Have something to tell me?"
Wave froze as he felt a dark presence behind him. He turned around and saw Esdeath radiating a dark aura. Kurome was casually standing behind her with a blank expression.
"Wave...where's Tatsumi?"
After being too focused on something else, Wave had completely forgotten about Tatsumi. "Umm, ah- he, ah, ran off."
"And you let him?"
"Let me explain! I run into a Night Raid member using the Incursio armour! He managed to escape though but I kept searching-"
Esdeath aura grew darker, "you let a Night Raid member get away?"
Wave froze with his eyes wide open.
After a moment of silence, Wave said the one and only thing he could say.
"I am deeply sorry."
Night Raid's Hideout
"And? How strong were they individually?" Mine asked.
"The individual Jaegers are each about as strong as we are." Tatsumi explained the best he could. "However...Esdeath's on an entirely different level. Honestly, even with Aniki, I doubt we would win if we challenged her head on."
"Esdeath is indeed powerful." Akame said, "But she has a weakness."
"What is it?" Leone asked.
"The fact that she's alive. She has a heart and a pulse. That..."
Tatsumi, Leone, Mine, Lubbock, Bulat and Sheele paid close attention as Akame raised the sheath for her sword.
"is all I need to kill her. Even if she's the empire's strongest!"
Everyone didn't say anything for no words were needed. It was clear that they all trusted Akame that those words were not silence was broken when Tatsumi spoke again.
"That...reminds me."
All attention was brought back to Tatsumi.
"There's someone else we might need to worry about." Tatsumi said.
Sitting on a wheelchair, Sheele titled her head, "Who?"
"You know those two people who saved Mine and Sheele?"
Mine instantly stood up straight and asked, "You saw them?"
"No, but I think I saw the other two that Lubbock talked about." Tatsumi explained, "On the night I saw the Jaegers in action. The two of them showed up and fought them. I could tell they were powerful because it looked like they were just playing with the Jaegers. Eventually Esdeath interfered and then, one of them introduced themselves as Jack before they suddenly disappeared. The most scariest thing was...even Esdeath herself admitted that they were powerful and I agree. You could tell the amount of power they had just by looking at them. One of them even had a personality similar to Esdeath's."
Lubbock and Leone shivered, the thought of having two Esdeaths scared them.
"I wasn't able to get much information about them but...I might be wrong but...whoever these people are...they might be just as strong as Esdeath, maybe even stronger."
He chuckled, "You made a commendable effort to cover your tracks, but my enhance soldiers can pick up the faintest of scents."
The man walked across the forest with three other individuals: One had a long, large nose; another had huge ears and the last one had eyes.
"I knew he was suspicious the moment I laid eyes on him. He adapted far too quickly for a simple blacksmith."
Dr Stylish clicked his fingers as he pointed at a hideout, 'Bingo! You better believe I just found Night Raid's hideout."
A/N End of Chapter 4. Thanks for reading. Not much to say other than, if I got any of the character's personality wrong, then please tell me and i'll try make it right in the next chapter.
Thanks you to all who reviewed, followed and favourited this story. Really appreciate it.
Sorry for the massive delay. Writing multiple stories at once can be really tiring but I'm okay don't worry. Going to continue Strangers In Remnant now so yeah...bye.
This chapter was finished on 17/09/2017.