“Huh? AHHHH!!!” I looked up at the monstrosity that was diving towards me the bird features of the Avian looked blurry as it descended on me “Girl, use this!” a familiar voice yelled and threw something at me I closed my eyes and lifted what I grabbed in my hands and with a whooshing sound and a gurgling of blood I slowly opened my eyes to see the moonlight beast was impaled on a silver umbrella with gold frills along the edges, but more important was the person that just saved my life “Kanaria!” bruised and battered Kanaria waved her hand at me, her coat had been cut into a jacket it looked like she used the rest of the fabric to patch herself up “′sup Girl, nice to see you are mostly okay” she came closer to help me with the Avian “what is this thing?” I held the umbrella near her face, and she smiled, “One of the dumb knights had it. She was a bit more flamboyant and over the top, but I thought you might need a weapon that is not a stone or a stick.”
she shook the umbrella and all the blood and gore came right off like butter in a hot pan, then she returned the umbrella to me “This annoying but highly efficient thing is made with moonstone threads, its sturdier than a riot shield and if you twist the handle” I did like she told me and a silver stake pop form the top making it to resemble a rapier “but I haven't use something like this before” she made a sound with her mouth “minor details, have you use a baseball bat before?” I nodded, “You are halfway there, now…” She placed her hands on my shoulder and looked straight into my eyes. “Was that tan, tall, mysterious stranger your boyfriend?”
“WHAT!?! NO!” she smiled teasingly. “Come on, it′s okay to tell me he was cute for someone your age.” I blushed and hit her lightly with my fists. “You got it wrong, he tried to kill me!” “Oh come on, any good romance starts with a little bit of murder intent, oh, but don't let Yun find out, he will cut him. “ANYWAYS!” I yelled at her to change topics “The guys need us, and the Knights are acting strange” she cuffed and stopped her assumptions “Right, we can have a girl talk later, I know why the knights are acting this way” she lassoed one of the knights and dragged them to us, she looked at them for a moment and with no hesitation decapitated the Knight.
“Hey, why did you… huh?” the head fell to the ground but instead of gore and blood there was nothing, the head turned into a normal rusty helmet as the body separated into the rest of a suit of armor, “while I was fighting the Knights in my cage most of them didnt talk the ones that did give up the fight when I cut one of this in half” she kicked the armor to the side “once I was done there I gathered the information I was fearing” she informed me of her findings as we ran towhards the guys, on our way, we saw as Parker makeing quick work of the flock of Avians surrounding the Vallie, “acording to what the real Knights said, they have been on a declain lately, only taking the minimal amount of requests to keep their grade so I asked an annoying dog-” “you mean Soleil?” she nodded “normaly he has a line of Hunters killing for a colab but the knights have stoped you know how long has it been since the last request he had?” oh no… it cant be… “two years since the accident?” she nodded
“and that also coincidentally marked the last public appearance of the leader of the Knights, but more dubious is…” a mass of burned paper landed near us and holding what was left of the dragon head was a slightly burned and crispy Parker “that… was… amazing!” he said and quickly composed himself, his scarlet red face was a statement to his embarrassment for showing too much emotion “ah… am… I mean, cough, I did my job as expected, so where are we running?” “Like I was saying, apparently Lucas′ boss has been feeding him only lies to harness his anger and repulsion for a reason, and after you guys told me about M.S.S. I think I know why these dolls are moving by themself.” I need to make sure that I can link to him, which means I can do something.
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Through the barrage of punches, hits, and explosions, Anre and I were dancing through the battlefield. I didn't expect to be able to do this again, and weirdly enough, it felt nostalgic. I found myself smiling in the face of a fight; instead of remaining expressionless, I wonder what this is, this strange sensation. “Yun!” Anre extends his open hand. “Right!” He spins me around, my legs free to kick every Knight that is surrounding us to free up some space, “Now!” Anre charged his hammer to help me fly high toward Lucas. He deflected the incoming kick by using his sword as a shield, and finally, I was face-to-face with the son of the murderer of my children.
“What? No witty remarks? or sappy words,” he said as he divided his great sword. “You need to stop it, Lucas!” he roared and tried to impale me with his swords, but this time I didn't have doubts, I didn't have regrets, all I could feel was… “Huh? What did you-” two large crests for his arms to the back of his body, and one more forced him to kneel as I did the one thing a parent would do in this situation, SlAP! “Why… Why would you let something so horrible happen to kids?” he spit some blood, in all these years I had never hit a kid no matter how difficult it was, but this was the only way now, “because I am A Knight!” he cried and try to break free from his binds but it was to no avail, I kneeled and stood to his level “Is this what a real knight would do? letting innocent people die during a wild hunt? Blindly chasing after a man who has already lost everything?” He laughed, “That's what we are… all of us… Knights protect people from monsters like you!” I heard a horrific sound of bone being broken.
The sound interrupted my concentration; it was only a few seconds, but it was enough for him to break free. He held me by my collar with his remaining hand, and I did the same. “Lucas, please, you can still do the right thing, retreat your men, help us take down the Thunderbird.” He head bumped me. “Never… I will never aid you,” I returned the hit. “Why? Why are you condemning hundreds of kids to the same fate as you? You know firsthand the pain and hurt of losing what you love. “Of course, I know it! … I know it firsthand because YOU hurt me!” Crack!!!
I let go of his collar as I touched my back, but I didn't have any cracks. I quickly looked back at Anre, but he was also fine then, who… “You really thought I would stop fighting you? That I would lay down my swords and play 'Mirai house” with you? Don't make me laugh!” his chest started to fill with cracks as if his body was made of crystal. “Lucas, wait, don′t!” “How dear you…” He said as more cracks formed, the Thunderbird landed behind him, looking expectantly at what was happening. “How dear you taunt me with a shining future I can't achieve… how dear you pity me and treat me like children going through a temper tantrum!” I tried to hold his hand to break his rant, the wind picked up intensity, the Thunderbird turned into tar again and merged with Lucas's body “Lucas, don't listen to what that monster is telling you!!!” he slapped my hand away and stood up showing his body… no his heart covered in cracks that can not be mended, “do not…
touch me… vulture, I… am
a knight… the epitome of righteousness
and…
monsters Shoul… shouldn't
touch me…
right?”
