Chapter 7

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Thought / dreams

'Telepathic voice'

[Voice from the past]

=Telephone=

Letter

"Dialogue"

Emphasis

A dangerous tone

Hao tensed when he felt the Angels aura approaching him. He looked around and saw the people and made up his mind, he couldn't stay here or he could endanger all of them, especially Yoh. He looked at Yoh to see that the boy was acting normally, so he figured that Yoh didn't feel the aura of the Angels. Maybe because he was busy talking with Manta, but he wouldn't complain about it.

"Yoh." He called out to the boy, Yoh looked at him and smiled questioningly. "I'm going out for a bit, need some fresh air." He lied with a smile.

Yoh blinked, having detected the lie in Hao's words, but he nodded anyway. Hao nodded back and ran to the entrance right away. He sighed and placed his right hand on his hip. He figured that the Demon had to hide himself for the time being, but he just hoped that he wouldn't get into a fight. Truthfully, he had felt the coming of the Angels and another being like Hao – his Sixth Sense was just that strong, but he just act like he didn't felt anything to see what Hao would do.

Yoh frowned when he felt a strong aura nearby. Hao is using his Power … don't tell me he is going to fight? He asked himself in worry before looking at Manta. "Stay here and keep this." He said as he handed a talisman to his friend, "In case something happened, this will protect you".

Manta nodded and accepted it, "I don't know what happened, but be careful, Yoh-kun." He said in worry. He was used with his friend going away by himself so suddenly, but he couldn't help but feeling worried about his friend's safety.

Yoh nodded and head out for the entrance as well.

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"Mary." Chuck called out suddenly, cutting off whatever Kanna was saying to his charge, "Something's coming. Don't stay in the open, hide somewhere you couldn't be seen".

"What's coming?" Mary asked in confusion, but she pulled Kanna to hide with her in the bushes nonetheless.

"I don't know." Chuck said as he pulled out his gun, ready to attack at any moment, "But whatever they are, they are bad news".

Mary's and Kanna's eyes widened at the answer.

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Hao get out of the building and unfolded his Wings, he had to be ready for any situation now. He looked up at the sky and spotted two White dots in the sky. He felt that Lyserg was heading his way as well, but his friend was still far away, so he figured that he had to fight by himself for the time being. He didn't know if he could fight against two Angels at the same time, he could only hope that he could do it now that he was in perfect condition.

He didn't have to wait long, because as soon as the Angels got within range, they shot him with many balls of Light Energy. He raised his hands and created a shield in front of himself, which protecting him from the attack and thus creating a dust smoke all around him. He quickly shot up to the air when he saw an edge of a sword heading his way, he turned around to see them and immediately shot his own Magic attack to the Angels.

He chanted a short spell and a Black Claymore appeared in his hand, he saw Venstar swinging his own sword and moved to block it. "Still a stubborn nuisance, Hao." Venstar growled and wrapping his sword with Light Energy.

Hao gasped and also wrapped his own sword with Dark Energy, the two forces clashed and they were thrown backwards. He gritted his teeth when he hit the ground, his Wings were aching like hell by the impact, and when he looked up, he saw Porf's sword right in front of his eyes.

"It seems that your struggle end now, Demon." Porf said with a wicked smirk as he held his sword above his head. Hao wanted to move away, but Porf held him down by planting his foot on Hao's stomach. "Die." Porf hissed before swinging his sword down in high speed.

Hao held his breath as he thought that he would die for sure now, but the attack never came, for Porf had been thrown aside. It was so fast that Hao was only seeing a blur of something bluish white in color had rammed onto Porf.

"I don't think that Two-on-One is a fair fight, don't you think so as well?" Hao's eyes widened as he looked at the speaker. Yoh was standing nearby with his left hand on his hip, while his right hand holding a small Leaf Shikigami, "Angels".

"Stay out of our way … " Venstar said as he landed near them, but trailed off after he looked at who exactly had interrupted their fight. "Hao is a Demon and we are going to kill him." He said instead, with a bit of sweat on his face.

"I can't let you do that." Yoh said simply, while Hao stood up and looked warily at the exchange, wondering why Venstar became cautious all of a sudden.

"Move aside, human, this is not your business." Porf growled as he stood up with a grunt of pain, feeling annoyed that he was being knocked away by a mere Shikigami. He was surprised that something that small could be so powerful, but he figured that it was because he was caught off guard.

"Oh, it's my business alright." Yoh replied simply as he walked closer to Hao, before placing a hand on Hao's right shoulder, "I had taken him under my Wings, so by you attacking him, you make this my business as well".

"You are siding with a Demon." Porf narrowed his eyes, "Then you are our Enemy as well".

"You are the one who make yourself my Enemies the second you attacked someone under my Protection." Yoh said calmly as he looked at Porf straight in the eyes, "Two-on-One is not fair, how about we turn it into a One-on-One instead?".

"Fine! I will take you on!" Porf exclaimed as he charged at Yoh.

"Yoh!" Hao wanted to help the boy, but then gasped when Yoh could block Porf's sword easily. It wasn't normal that a human boy could do something like that.

"Focus on your own fight, Hao." Yoh said calmly without looking, "The other one is coming for you, you know?".

Hao gasped again and turned around in time to block the attack. "You …" He growled angrily as he glared at Venstar.

"The boy is right, focus on your own fight, Hao." Venstar said with a smirk, "That boy is a famous one, you know? Don't bother worrying about his safety." I'm the one who should be worrying about my Partner's safety here. He thought in worry.

Porf was still new in the Rank, and that was why he didn't know about Yoh – a human boy with the same face as Hao, who was strong enough to catch the Arc Angel's attention. He just hope that Porf was clever enough than to act rashly and get himself killed.

Hao flew up to the air and shot Venstar with a Dark Energy ball. "Why would you attack my Kind?" Hao asked when Venstar managed to avoid his attack and was clashing his sword against Hao's again, "We are not dangerous beings".

"Dangerous or not, every Dark beings have to be eliminated." Venstar answered coldly, "It's an order from the Arc Angel".

"So it's doesn't matter if we won't harm the humans, huh?" Hao asked in anger as his eyes turned to slit and glowed with Black light, a pair of horns grew from his head, and his Wings was growing thorn at the joint, "I thought we can talk, but it seems there's no way around that".

"Indeed." Venstar agreed as his sword glowing with white light as well, along with his Wings.

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"What in the world?!" Porf yelled when Yoh could block all his attack with ease, "How come a mere human like you could fight an Angel like me?!".

"I'm guessing you are new in the Rank then?" Yoh asked calmly before commanding his Shikigami to charge at the bald Angel. He was absently wondering how the Angel could fly in the sky – without his friends getting blinded by the light being reflected by his head, he meant.

"How in the Heaven do you know that?!" Porf yelled as he flew up to avoid the Shikigami, "The same attack won't work twice! Now, answer me!".

"Oh, really?" Yoh asked with a raised eyebrow and flicked his hand. Porf was then thrown aside as something hit him at his side.

Porf stopped his fall and looked at Yoh in surprise before looking around, and his eyes widened when he saw two more of the Leaf Shikigamis. He growled at Yoh, "You are an Onmyouji, huh?" He asked in anger.

"I am." Yoh answered calmly, he wasn't even using his sword yet. "I'm surprised that you only figured it out now. Venstar already figured it out right after I attacked you the first time".

A vein mark appeared on Porf's bald head, "Well, let's see how your Shikigami can win against me, huh?" He said as he created many ball of Light around him, "Prepare to die, you who have chosen to take side with Demons".

Yoh remained calm when those Light balls being shot at him.

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"Yoh-sama!" Mary gasped from her hiding place when the balls of Light hit Yoh, causing everything to be covered in smoke. She held Chuck tightly in worry and nearly went rushing out of her hiding place, but fortunately, Kanna was quick enough to stop her. "Let Mary go." Mary said to Kanna with worry coloring her voice, "Mary need to help Yoh-sama!".

"What can you do?" Kanna asked sternly, "You are not Matilda, there's nothing you can do".

Mary's eyes widened and she looked hurt hearing that, because it was the truth – she didn't have any Power to help. "But …" She whispered, "Mary don't want to lose Yoh-sama like she lost Macchi. Yoh-sama is already like a Big Brother to Mary".

Unknown to her, Macchi heard it and bit her lower lip in regret that she caused the one she love as her Sister such a pain.

"It's alright." Chuck reassured Mary, "That kind of attack won't work on Yoh-Sire".

They looked up and – indeed – when the smoke had cleared, they could see that Yoh was standing calmly with his hand held out, a Talisman was floating in front of him and was glowing slightly with golden light.

"Impossible." Porf gasped in shock.

"It's not impossible." Yoh replied calmly as the small Shikigamis returned to his side, before they reverted back into leaves, he then took them and put them into his pocket. He looked up at Porf as he slowly rising from the ground, and floating in the air across from the Angel. Flying was not a hard thing to do for an Onmyouji of his level, so he figured that it would be the best fighting against the Angel in air, "Attack, Tsubaki".

Porf darted sideways to avoid the Bird Shikigami and tried to attack it, but the bird could easily avoid the Angel's attack. The fight continued with Porf being the one losing, and he really couldn't believe that he was losing to a human.

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Unnoticed by them – aside for Hao and those who were watching the fight – another Angel was approaching Yoh from behind and was ready to attack. "Yoh!" Hao gasped out in horror and flew as fast as he could to protect Yoh, but then Venstar blocked his way, "Get out of my way!" He yelled as he swung his sword with all his strength, Venstar grunted as he blocked it. Hao growled before he saw something in the reflection from Venstar's eyes, something was coming from his back!

He half turned his head around when he felt a very familiar aura. "Homing Pendulum!" A familiar voice yelled as an attack was launched. The one behind him managed to block the attack, but the other Angel was thrown backwards in the process. "Don't worry, Hao! I've got your back!".

"Way to go, Cebin." Venstar said sarcastically as he darted backwards from Hao.

"Shut up, Venstar." Cebin answered with a growl and glared at the newcomer, "Another Demon, huh?".

"You outnumbered us before, and that was why we had to flee." The green haired Demon said seriously, albeit a little out of breath after flying as fast as he could. "But there's no way we will lose in a One-on-One Battle!" He announced determinedly as he took a battle stance, with his Pendulum weapon in hand.

Hao sighed in relief. "Lyserg." He said before looking at Yoh's direction, while still keeping Venstar in mind. He blinked when he saw Mary rushing out from the bush.

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Mary set a determined face and ran forward, ignoring Kanna's cry for her to get back. "Chuck!" She yelled as she stopped just a bit of a distance from them, "Fire!" She aimed her doll at the other Angel.

"Magnum Craft!" Chuck yelled as he shot a fire bullet to the Angel, who blocked it with his sword successfully. The Angel might manage to block the attack, but that was enough to get his presence known.

"Another one, huh?" Yoh asked as he looked at what was Mary aimed Chuck at.

"Denbath!" Porf called out in surprise.

"What a nuisance." Denbath said and sent an attack at Mary.

"Mary!" Yoh gasped in horror.

"Big mistake, brat!" Porf exclaimed as he attacked Yoh, who saw him and blocked the attack with his Talisman wrapped sword.

"Che." Yoh gritted his teeth and jumped backwards, taking a moment to take a look at Mary. Relieved of what he saw, he focused back to his own opponent.

Meanwhile, Mary had closed her eyes tightly when she saw the attack, but she didn't feel any pain even though she heard the explosion. "Really …" Her eyes snapped open and she looked up in shock when she heard the voice, "You shouldn't act so rashly, Marion".

Mary's eyes watered as she looked at her savior. "Macchi." She said with watery voice as she gazed at her best friend longingly.

Standing in front of Mary was a transparent figure of Macchi – who had decided that it was a right time to show herself to Mary – with her hands being raised in front of her, and were surrounded by many small Orange colored orbs of light.

From her place, Kanna sighed in relief that Mary was alright. Although, she was amazed that she could see Macchi's Spirit as well, but she was glad about it – she was Macchi's friend as well, after all.

Macchi lowered her hands as she turned to Mary with a smile. "I have been by your side all this time, Mary." She said softly, "Always have, and always will".

"I missed you." Mary said with longing, tears flowing uncontrollably from her eyes.

"I know, and we will talk later." Macchi said seriously while moving her hands in front of her again, before her eyes began glowing. "With the Magic bestowed upon me through my Blood Heritage, I call upon Formidable Defense to protect those whom I hold dear." She chanted and a dome shaped barrier appeared around her and Mary, "Don't get out of this Barrier, Mary".

"Okay." Mary said as she wiped her tears and smiled at her friend.

Macchi nodded in satisfaction, before turning around to glare at the other Angel, "No one touches My Dear Marion." She hissed as she floated out of the Barrier, "I will be your opponent, Angel!".

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