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Chapter 10

As she appeared in her arena, Asia looked around at the sands and then turned to her opponent. "Hello, Atsuko." She smiled pleasantly. "Let's have a good time, hmm?" She bent forward slightly while putting her arms behind her back.

Atsuko frowned in worry. "Why do I have a bad feeling all of a sudden?" For some reason, Asia was acting like Bulleta when the crazy blonde wanted to act cute. "Still..." She rushed forward to punch at Asia's face, knowing that if the blonde summoned a Dragon, she'd have a pretty hard time without using her NK-SGD. 'And that's supposed to destroy Sacred Gears, Dragons aren't Sacred Gears, would it even work?'

Asia's eyes widened as Atsuko got super close and her punch connected with the blonde's head.

Atsuko's face went pale as her punch was so hard that Asia's head went flying off of her body in a spray of blood. "What the heck?!" She screamed as the body fell to the ground in a heap. "I didn't mean to punch her head off! How did that happen?!"

"That wasn't very nice." Asia's voice came from behind Atsuko, who spun around and saw a nearly transparent Asia behind her. "What did I do to deserve that?" She pouted, which would normally be weird enough, but the transparent Asia was holding her head in her arms.

"...You turned into a ghost?" Atsuko asked as she took a step back and looked around as the area seemed to get covered in a misty fog. "I didn't mean to knock your head off. I only meant to use enough force to knock you out."

"Well, you knocked my head out of here!" Asia exclaimed, a sad look on her face. "Now I'm a ghost and I'll never marry Issei or anything." She sniffled and pouted. "That was so mean! I thought we were friends!"

"I..." Atsuko took a step back and looked at Asia's ghost in worry. "I didn't... I didn't mean to..." She stammered and took a step back as she looked at the sad visage of Asia's Argento's ghost.

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Elsewhere...

Cologne jumped from tree to tree in the forest area as she sought cover from the barrage of magic spells that Rossweisse was firing at her. "So this is what a Valkyrie-turned-Devil is capable of, hmm?" She muttered to herself as the tree she was on was blasted by powerful beams of magic.

In the air, Rossweisse looked at the tree that she had blown up and hoped that she had hit Cologne.

Cologne popped her head out from under the fallen tree and gave Rossweisse an amused look. "Now, now, that tree didn't call you fat, why did you blow it up like that?"

Rossweisse felt her eye twitch. "I wasn't upset at the tree. I was just trying to blow you up." She knew that Cologne was really three hundred years old, but seeing her as an eighteen year old and giving her an amused look was kind of annoying.

"Really?" Cologne asked as the tree exploded around her. When the dust settled, the young woman was flexing her fingers and smiling. "I have to admit, it's interesting seeing such magic being thrown around. I'm surprised that you're going all out so early in the match though." She stretched her arms above her head and let out a small sound of satisfaction. "You have NO idea how nice it feels to stretch and not feel all your joints pop from simple movement."

"I can imagine." Rossweisse muttered as she hovered in the air. "Now then..." She held out her right hand and a magic sigil formed in front of it before firing lots of small, thin needle-like energy beams at Cologne, who did a hand-stand and flipped away as the attacks came crashing down where she had been a moment ago. "I can't really afford to take my time with you." Rossweisse said as she snapped the fingers on her left hand and dozens upon dozens of magic circles formed in the air around her. "No offense, but elders who are long-lived are far too tricky with their abilities." She snapped her fingers again and attacks of pure magic, wind, water, ice, electricity and fire all blasted down at Cologne, who looked up and smirked as she saw what was coming down at her.

"Well, thanks for making this easy then, girl." Cologne had a sweet smile on her face as she did a flip and landed in an open area. Sliding to a stop, she shifted so that her left leg was behind her while keeping her right leg in front of her while she balled her right hand into a fist. "Should be fun."

"What is she doing?" Rossweisse wondered as her adjusted her needle attack and fired it at where Cologne was standing while the elemental magic attacks came crashing down on Cologne.

For some reason, the air itself seemed to be twisting and moving around Cologne. The young-looking woman punched upwards with a vicious grin on her face.

"HIRYUU SHOTEN HA!"

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Elsewhere...

Kiba was thankful that he had ended up in some sort of quarry, which had lots of rocks, debris and other stuff he could hide behind. There was an explosion against the wall he was hiding behind, causing him to grimace as the wall shook. "Well, she's a problem, isn't she?" While he had seen Bulleta in action from time to time and had heard of her reputation, mostly through second-hand sources and from how Irina had mentioned that Bulleta was someone that no one in the Moonlight World wanted to deal with, he hadn't really experienced how scary she could be.

Until she had opened up by holding a freaking AK-47 and shot him, cutting some of his hair and even putting holes in his outfit. "Good thing those were just regular bullets." That didn't mean that those bullets didn't hurt!

Kiba's eyes widened and his pupils shrank as he heard a giggling from behind the wall. "Aww, don't you want to pway, mister?"

"Crap, crap, crap!" Kiba yelled as he quickly ran away from the wall, which exploded, sending debris everywhere and causing him to fly away.

"Golly gee..." Bulleta began as she appeared in a cloud of dust and smoke. "I just wanna pway..." She held her left finger up to her face while digging her right foot into the ground. "Don't you wanna pway wif me?"

"Stop with the cute act!" Kiba yelled as he pointed a sword at her. "You're too old for that. Plus no one who's using military-grade weapons acts like that!"

Bulleta pouted and lowered her hand while ducking her head, causing her hood to cast a shadow over her face. "Okay then..." She said in a low tone of voice. "Since you don't want the cute me..." She raised her head and a savage grin came to her face as her eyes seemed to glow. "I'll give you the crazy me!"

"When are you not crazy?" Kiba yelled as he jumped out of the way of a thrown apple, which exploded and sent him flying.

"HA HA HA HA!" Bulleta laughed while grinning before reaching into the picnic basket that was hanging off of her left arm, revealing a large, metal tube. "YOU DON'T KNOW CRAZY!" She grabbed the end of it and flipped up the lid before pulling on the tube, lengthening it to its full size.

"Why the HECK DO YOU HAVE A ROCKET LAUNCHER?!" Kiba yelled as Bulleta pulled the trigger and launched a powerful blast at him, forcing him to quickly dodge before he was blown up again. "HOW DID YOU GET IT TO FIT IN THERE?!"

Bulleta just blinked a few times. "...Doesn't everyone carry a rocket launcher on them? What if you have to kill a freaking alien super weapon that wants to kill off humanity?" She asked and shrugged as she pointed it at him and fired another shot, which, sadly for Bulleta, missed as Kiba's speed kept him ahead of the blast and shrapnel. 'Hmm, only one more shot.' The blonde grinned as an idea came to her and she moved her hips to the side before snapping them back to hit her basket and cause one of her apples to fly up. Grabbing it, she took a bite out of it and threw it at Kiba, who had to jump as it exploded. "Got you!" She laughed and aimed at Kiba, who suddenly extended his wings and flew off. "Oh dammit, I forgot Devils can fly."

Kiba landed on a wall and panted as he looked at Bulleta, who was giving him a smile. "Okay, she deserves her reputation then if she's carrying that stuff around." It wasn't even the fact that she had guns that was scary. It was the fact that she was so eager to use them, had no problem pulling out bigger ones and did it with such glee on her face. Part of him wanted to compare her to that rogue executioner, Freed, who had taken immense pleasure in torturing and tormenting people before killing them.

The only difference between the two that Kiba could see was that Bulleta wasn't trying to kill him, just cripple, main and injure him. "Much less brutal." He said sarcastically.

"Well, no," Kiba whispered to himself as he flew over a large wall and landed on the ground. "There's one other difference." Bulleta was at least somewhat pleasant when she wasn't trying to kill and hurt people. Freed was nothing but unpleasant as far as Kiba knew.

The wall he was hiding behind exploded, causing him to grimace and cover his face as dust and debris was kicked up. Seeing Bulleta standing there, grinning at him, he grimaced. "Alright, I apologize." Bulleta tilted her head in confusion. "I thought your rep as one of the scariest things in the world was over-blown. You're like the Juggernaut."

Bulleta laughed. "That's right! I'm B.B. Hood, bitch! What are you going to do about it?!"

"Well..." Kiba smiled as several large white pillars formed around him. "How about my Glory Drag Trooper?" He asked as the lights shifted and changed into Dragon-like armors.

Bulleta tilted her head and frowned in confusion. "You can do that?" She estimated that there were at least twenty armors in front of her. She quickly revised this number upwards as she realized that there were more every few seconds.

"A gift from my friends." Kiba answered her as he pointed the sword in his hands at Bulleta. "So, care to surrender?"

"Hmm... Those are made of metal, right?" Bulleta looked at them and her eyes started to sparkle. "Think of all the ammo I could make out of their remains!"

"Sorry to burst your bubble, but that won't happen." Kiba proclaimed as he swung his arm to the side. "If they're broken or I lose, they'll disappear."

"Aww..." Bulleta pouted as she realized that she couldn't melt them down into spare ammo. "Too bad." She shrugged and narrowed her eyes in thought. 'I don't have unlimited ammo, if I burn it up here, I won't have enough for later rounds.' Sure, she had some close range options, but they were far more limited than her ammo. "Oh well..."

As more and more of those Glory Drag Troopers appeared, Kiba smiled at her. "You can always surrender. I'll have a small army here."

Bulleta suddenly gave him a cute smile. "Golly gee, mister. You have an army?"

"Yes, I have an army." Kiba said slowly as he tried to figure out where she was going with that question. Plus the way she was smiling made him nervous.

"Cool! I have a mech!" Bulleta slammed her hand on the wrist-watch on her right wrist, causing her riding mech to appear.

Kiba stared as he looked at her in the cockpit. "...I completely forgot you had that."

"Most people forget I have this." Bulleta grinned at him as everything inside started to glow and the mech took a step forward. "IT'S SMASHING TIME! YEE HAW!" Part of her realized that this was why people thought she was from Texas, but that was fine with Bulleta. She always enjoyed American Old West movies after all.

Kiba had a determined look on his face as he crouched and dashed away while his Glory Drag Troopers engaged with Bulleta. "This might be difficult."

'Then again,' Kiba mused as Bulleta started firing bullets at the troopers, many of which scattered, but others were caught in the attack, 'maybe she'll get over-confident?' If that was the case, he could use that against her.

He just needed an opening.

End Chapter 10

Poor Asia. That's all I have for today.