"Hello, Lloyd. How delightfully charming."
"What about me????" Glenn yelled.
"How did he find out about this place?" Terra gasped.
"Dario, I got questions of my own for you." Lloyd said.
"Dear, dear. You still haven't figured it out?"
A wolf suddenly pounced from behind, knocking him to the ground, but Dario aimed a powerful front kick that caused Ray to whine and fell off him. Angered, Lance and Hornet threw their projectiles (Lance brought out his guns, Hornet's are her ninja weapons) towards him, only to be blocked by Revarie, who took them all, then the projectiles were slowly pushed out as he regenerates.
"Vampire." Lance muttered. Hornet nodded in silence, staring with pure disgust.
Revarie suddenly appeared right in front of him and grabbed his face and tossed him. Hornet went to catch him as he came flying. Terra ran over to them, looking scared. So is Jake. Blaze cursed under his breath.
"Oh, V.V...." A voice called out.
V.V. felt cold. She recognize that voice anywhere. As she turned around, long flaming red hair bound her tightly.
"Remember me?" The boy asked.
"Guy?" She gasped.
"So you do remember. I'm so FLATTERED." Guy's face suddenly twisted and his hair tightened her. "Aren't you glad to see me after all this years?"
"You think?" V.V. struggled furiously. "How could I forget that crazy look in your face during the war?"
"Gee, V. I don't know whether to take that as a compliment or not." Guy's hair squeezed her more tightly. She shrieked and gasped for air.
"Who the hell is that guy?" Glenn said. "How can he do the stuff our V.V. can do?"
"Why don't we leave those two alone?" Revarie suddenly appeared right before him and gave him three fast jabs. Glenn found himself being thrown backwards. Before he could even get back up onto his feet, the vampire had him pinned onto a wall and tried to choke him.
Lloyd tried to run to him but found his way blocked by Allen.
"Sorry, but you're not getting past me." Allen's eyes glowed a bright red and Lloyd felt himself being thrown aside, but he managed to stood his ground by stabbing his sword onto the ground.
"Big mistake." Mind's Shadow said, stretching itself to the sword's shadow, trying to hold Lloyd's shadow.
Damn, Lloyd thought.
V.V. changed her hands into blades and sliced Guy's hair, freeing herself. Guy cursed as his hair was cut off to waist-length. As he prepared to grew it out long to turn it into a weapon, V.V. did a cartwheel, kick off into the air and landed a hard powerful flying side kick. At the same time, Blaze hurled out a fireball and said, "That is for Raymond, ya freak."
Guy shielded himself with his hair, which turned into two huge wings and wrapped it around him.
"Rats. Almost had him." Blaze scowled, running to Allen.
"Get out of here, fool!" Mind's Shadow shouted at Allen as Blaze came running towards them. "I can't stand fire!"
Allen released Lloyd and ran off. As Lloyd managed to move, he heard Mind's Shadow calling out, "Next time you won't be lucky!!!"
"You alright?" Blaze asked.
Lloyd nodded.
"Don't get me wrong." Blaze said. "I just hate those guys and I want to avenge Raymond, Lance and Hornet."
"Got it. So we're in the same boat?"
Temporarily. So, it's a truce?" Blaze held out his free hand. The other one is still holding a fireball.
"Truce." Lloyd nodded.
Blaze then turned to Jake and Francis. "You two, go somewhere safe. You'll only get in the way."
"I'm not useless..." Francis said.
"Just go, Francis." Lloyd urged. "You seriously don't want to get caught in this mess."
Francis shook his head and grabbing a protesting Jake, ran for cover.
Blaze then hurled the fireball and said to Revarie, "Yo, Dracula."
Revarie glared at him, Glenn stared at him as well.
"I heard vamps can't stand fire, so why don't you prove the theory to me?" He grinned and held out the fireball.
Revarie roared and charged towards Blaze, who shot the fireball straight at him but was countered by a sudden rainfall, drenching Revarie in water.
"What the-"
"Sorry, Blaze." A voice said.
"Mizutsuchi?"
He turned around to see Reo pointing a gun at his head.
Blaze gulped. "You can't be serious..." He said in a voice barely louder than a whisper.
Reo looked expressionless as he was about to pull the trigger. Only to have it melted in his hands. He turned around to see Terra, hands stretched out in front of her.
Reo felt a bit of anger boiling inside of him, but felt a little bit smug. Because the gun was never his real weapon. He carries a few guns and knives hidden in his clothes, but the real thing, he never bring it out unless he needed to.
He twisted himself around and aimed a roundhouse kick straight at Terra's back. Terra gasped for breath and slumped onto the floor.
"As long as I don't touch your palms, then I won't get turned into nothing." He said softly.
"Curse you!!!" Blaze hurled out a huge fireball towards him. Water surrounded Reo like a swirling vortex and doused Blaze with a huge rapid waterfall, extinguishing his fiery abilities.
"Don't make me kill you, Pyro." Reo said coolly.
"To hell with you. You lousy biased scumbag creep." Blaze yelled.
As Terra pulled herself together, Revarie twisted her arm behind her and sniffed her scent. This is what he likes to do before he feeds on his victims.
"Ah...At least you smell much more delicious than the one in blue."
The one in blue? Terra glanced around to see the girl with blue hair and the guy in red hair attacking each other with their hair, which both turned into huge scythes. Their clothes were already torn in some parts. The girl called V.V. has her gown had the gown part torn off into a sort of mini skirt and the sleeves were ripped. The one called Guy has his sleeves ripped off and a slightly ripped sweater.
"Bloody hell. And here I was thinking that you were no longer capable of fighting."
Guy said.
"What a shame to disappoint you." V.V. rammed him hard against a stack of boxes, which rained down on him like an avalanche.
Revarie moved in closer, fangs bared.
Oh no you don't, Terra thought, making a bubble of acid and trying to blast it on Revarie's hands. It worked. He gave a howl of rage and leap backwards, cradling his hands which was splashed with acid. But being a vampire, his hands starts to recover, but he is still able to feel the pain of the corrosive substance.
Damn that girl, he thought savagely. She's acidic.
Blaze and Reo are blasting each other with their abilities but neither of them are backing down even though the two of them are already half exhausted. It seems to be a battle to the limit.
"Ready to give up yet, Watersprout?" Blaze panted, his whole body is sweating and his eyes showed exhaustion.
Reo didn't answer. He too, is already exhausted. But neither one is going to break off until the match is decided.
Suddenly, a deck of cards and kunais landed beneath Reo's feet and exploded, making him jump as far as he could from the explosion. That was a mistake, since out of nowhere, sickles with blades attached on chains, shurikens, katanas, senbon needles and spears rained out of the sky. Hornet had sprouted hornet wings and was hovering in the air, her wings flapping fast but hardly making any sound. Two blank scrolls fell onto the ground.
Reo was fortunate, but a sickle managed to stab his right arm and senbon meedles scratched his left cheek, making a thin line of blood oozed out.
Damn, Reo thought. The Archery Duo still haven't lost their touch.
"Hey, Minamio, up here."
Reo looked up just in time to see a pair of sneakers kicking him in the face. He was thrown off his feet and crashed on top of a crate, which collapsed underneath him.
"Score!" Glenn reached out to give Hornet a high five, but she just stared at him as though he's a moron and landed gracefully beside Lance and ignored him.
Harsh, Glenn thought, putting his hand down.
Lloyd had managed to pull himself out of the battle and was climbing up a very rusty old ladder to reach the roof top to get to Dario, who was enjoying the fight below. After reaching halfway up, someone suddenly swooped down and tried to yanked him off the ladder. He doesn't even need to turn around to know who is trying to make him fall to his death.
"Go to hell!" Lloyd took out a bottle of what look like pure water in a delicate crystal bottle and threw it towards Revarie, who howled in pain as the water splashed onto him. Lloyd didn't pause to listen but yanked himself free and kept on scaling up the ladder. As he took a glance behind him, he saw the vampire's chest covered in horrible burnt marks where the holy water had splashed onto him.
Ever since he found out that Glenn is a descendant of Revarie, thus making him part vampire, he had been taking precaution and going to the local church to purchase some holy water and gold crosses of Jesus Christ to protect himself from Revarie.
Now holy water and crosses is permanently part of his supernatural slaying equipment.
If only Father Christopher and his church knew, Lloyd thought as he reached the top of the roof.
"Dario..." Loyd yelled.
Dario turned to him and gave a look of surprise, but quickly covered it with a smile. "Oh, you managed to reach up here."
"You creep." Lloyd held out his blade but Dario didn't unsheath his rapier. Instead, he said, "Why don't we settle this with hand to hand combat?"
Lloyd stared at him for a moment and sheath back his blade. "You're going to regret this."
"Au contraire, I think it is you who is going to regret this." Dario's hand suddenly glowed and firey energy balls blasted Lloyd. There maybe many but the damage is minor.
"What the heck was that?" Lloyd gasped, a memory flashing back to him. Back at that time when the Siren tried to pounce on them to drag them back into the water, Dario had blasted her back into the water with an explosive blast.
Colud that be-
"Was that...magic?" It finally clicked into him.
"It sure took you long enough to figure it out." Dario said, holding up a book that looks small enough to be a pocketbook. It's bound in faded dark leather and had a five pointed star pentagram on the cover stamped in gold. There is also an elegent writing in gold in the front. The Book of Spells.
"Everyone know there is no such thing as magic." Lloyd said, eying the book.
"Don't be too sure." Dario said. "As long as there is mana, then magic can exist."
"Mana?"
"Life, chakra, chi, energy force. Call it whatever you want." Dario then grabbed his hair and tossed him off the building, only to be caught by V.V.
"Ooof." V.V. grunted. "I could never get used to this." She put him down and rubbed her aching shoulders.
"Run!!!" Lloyd grabbed V.V. and pulled her away just as fiery energy balls blasted down where they were standing minutes ago. Have they been there a minute later they might have been burned to death.
"They got away..." Dario muttered to himself. He then glanced at a clocktower. It's already 5 a.m.
"It had been a great pleasure meeting you guys again, but I must really get going."
Revarie swooped up and Dario jumped onto his back, but not before picking up Reo, who was injured, Allen, who seems uninjured and a very furious Guy.
"What do you mean it's time to go back?" Guy demanded. "I haven't had my fun with V.V. yet."
"You'll get your chance next time." Dario said. "But right now, I have to get back."
Guy gave him a furious glare and said to V.V. before departing. "This isn't over yet, V.V. We'll meet again someday soon."
Glenn gazed at Revarie's departing figure. "Really now, who the heck is that red-haired kid?"
Lloyd turned to Blaze, who seems fine, except for some bruises and a deep gash on his cheek. "You alright?"
"Guess so." Blaze answered sullenly. "Just who the heck are those people?? Why the heck is Mizutsuchi with them?"
"How the heck should we know?" Lloyd muttered.
At that moment, Francis and Jake came out of hiding. "Hey, guys. Is everything over?"
Francis asked cheerfully.
Everyone just gazed at him sullenly.
"What?" Francis said defensively.
Jake plucked his sleeve and dragged him away silently, leaving the others with things to ponder.
V.V. looked aggressive for the first time. She would've looked cute in her sleeveless mini skirt dress except she had a look of hatred, making her look like a Goddess of Vengeance.
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