A Nᴇᴡ Iɴғᴇʀɴᴏ [A KHR 1x1]

[Junko 2,815]

Liz felt something crack her face as her body was hurled back from the impact. Her body skidded for a minute before she was rolling and came to a stop. She couldn't scream in pain or do anything. The pain was just throbbing too hard throughout her face , which started leading down into the other nerves of her body. A single salty tear drop rolled down her face and onto the ground, burning her cheek she just got punched in. 

Meanwhile 

"They what?!" But Hiro couldn't answer his question. Daisuke threw another attack at him and he turned to Junpei. The blonde tensed as Daisuke kicked his foot forward in the air, sending a massive shock wave through the air. Junpei scurried off his feet and ran. He dashed faster before he fell hard on his face from tripping over a rock that was laying around. He winced in pain as he opened his eyes and noticed some black substance was forming around his hand, as if it was attracted to him. Junpei felt the shock wave much closer now and he crouched up in a ball, shielding his head for the impact. Just then, a wall of iron sand raised up in front of Junpei, taking the blow of the shock wave. Junpei was still shivering before be raised his head up and looked around to see that it was gone. Iron sand started to form around his arm, just floating there in an endless cycle. "Is....is this my doing?" he said in awe

[Naegi 149]

 Hiro blinked at the wall of iron sand that Junpei created. "Whoa Junpei how are you doing that?" Daisuke's eye brow twitched abit annoyed by the fact his shockwave got blocked. "What the hell is this," Daisuke snarled, he pulled back both his fists this time and pushed them forward. Another shockwave came out however it was bigger and stronger than the last. When it hit the iron sand it slowly began to crack apart. However in doing so made the air pushing Hiro back weaker and it allowed him enough strength to slowly walk forward. When he was close to Daisuke who was still distracted by Junpei, he striked with his katana slicing Daisuke's side. The large shockwave still slowly destroying Junpei's iron wall, the enemy jumped away from Hiro holding his side. "Ugh, wait that didn't actually hurt that bad. Did you use the blunt side so I wouldn't get badly hurt?" The rain guardian looked down, "Just can't bring myself to make anyone bleed.

 

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"Oh god I didn't expect these spikes could do that much damage." Azumi mumbled as she wiped specks of blood off the spikes. "Are you done? Or do you want more, cause there's plently more where that came from." 

[Junko 2,815]

The iron sand finally collapsed to the ground after the shock wave made contact with it. Junpei  stood up and stared down at the iron sand still circulating around his arm. He looked up to see that he even shocked Daisuke with what he just did. "Hehe, it's my true brilliance of the one and only." he said sounding overly cocky. (Now what will happen if I...) Junpei stuck out his hand that the iron sand was floating around and there was a quick flash of green electricity before the sand moved sharply away from his hands and formed three big rods rushing at Daisuke. The recoil from sudden force of the iron sand knocked Junpei backwards and into the ground. He didn't care how numb his butt was feeling now, this was all so interesting that he couldn't comprehend it. 

Meanwhile

Liz laid there in silence for a moment before quickly sticking her spear towards Azumi, the tip of the sharp end just barely touching the middle of her throat. "Did you think...a tiny punch like that...was going to end me?" she said as she struggled back up to her feet. She removed her spear away from her throat before waving it hard in the air, clearing out the mist in the area around them, making a clear right. "If you insist, I'll take you head on."

[Naegi 149]

 Daisuke gritted his teeth as he created a shockwave underneath his feet pushing him upward in the air just in time to dodge the rods Junpei formed. "Brilliance my ass." Hiro stood there in amazement and admiration. "Amazing!" When Daisuke landed safely on the ground his eye brows twitched even more. "I was hoping to just play with you guys before killing you but I don't think playing around is an option anymore." He raised his foot and stomped hard on the ground. The earth began to shake as everything: trees, coffins, gravestones, and pieces of the ground rose from the dirt and was blasted up in the air. Even Hiro and Junpei was launched into the air, not only them, but people nearby like Liz and Azumi was lifted up too. Daisuke's eyes were dark as he whispered one word, "Disappear." Then the almost endless amount of objects brought up from the ground surrounded the two guardians and flew directly toward them. 'We can't dodge being in the air like this.' Hiro thought. 

 

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  Azumi grinned, "Now we're talking. Lets go." She dashed toward Liz. However her body suddenly felt lightweighted as she was pushed up in the air. "Oy, what's going on?!" The boxer turned to Liz only to see her too being carried up in the air. 

 

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Somewhere deeper in the graveyard was an abandoned church Alphonse mentioned. A man sitting on one of the benches also felt the shock but wasn't affected by it. "Hm, we have visitors it seems." 

Edited January 15, 2014 by The Basic Nerd

[Junko 2,815]

Junpei felt his body being flung into the air, as if he was weightless but only that he wasn't and he was going to crash to the ground if they didnt do something about it. He saw Daisuke mutter something and Junpei looked at him from above as if he was crazy. "What are you planning down th-" his question was soon answered when he saw the objects that were launched into the with him and Hiro rushing at the both of them. (Uhhh...block!?) Junpei quickly stuck out his hands and waited for some iron sand to come to him to protect himself and Hiro but nothing happened. He looked down at his hand, nervousness quickly starting to settle in. (Do..something!) he thought to himself angrily as he seemingly braced for impact by lifting his arms over his head. When he peeked out with one eye, green lightning was surrounding the two of them along with iron sand, acting as a barrier. "Now that's what I'm taking about!" he said as he pointed a finger at Daisuke. The lightning and iron sand went into his direction, zapping towards him. Junpei grinned before he realized that he and Hiro were both falling down. His eyes widened as he looked down. (shit...)

Meanwhile

Liz felt her body float into the air and she simply grimaced. (Is Daisuke really doing this shit now? Yet again, that could just mean that his opponents are tough..) Liz was used to this sort of thing happening so she propelled her body in the air and rushed herself towards Azumi. "Let's end this!" 

Meanwhile

It's been a while now since Claude has split up from Azumi, Hiro and Junpei. They were also still following Usami, who hasn't given it a rest for a while now. "Um, do you think that those other three will be okay?" he asked with a sign of worry in his voice. Alphonse nodded his head. "I'm not sure to be honest but all we can do is have hope that they'll meet up with us again soon." Claude gave a small smile and nodded his head. He was going to say something when he bumped right into Usami, who stopped walking. "Hey what's wro-" Usami lifted a hand up, signaling him to be quiet and pointed to a figure starting to appear in the distance. The figure came closer and closer to them until a blue haired male appeared. His hands looked abnormal, which ended up being steel gloves. The males eyes glided from person to person before he gave a sigh. "Man, I didn't think that Liz and Daisuke would be having trouble with brats like you guys..." he gave a small moan as the fingers of his gloves became sharper. He seemed uninterested to fight any of them. "Let's just make this quick, okay?" 

 

Aobe:

 

 

Name: Aobe Kazuhi

Age: 19

Appearance:

Weapon: two metal gloves that has sharp claws 

Ability: morph his weapons into any type of shape he wants

 

 

 

 

[Naegi 149]

 Daisuke wasn't fast enough to dodge the lightning this time as he yelled in pain as it hitted him directly. This was enough to end Daisuke's massive shockwave letting objects fall back to earth once again. Feeling gravity pull down on their bodies again, Hiro and Junpei also falled to the ground. Being an athlete, Hiro landed on his feet but wasn't sure about Junpei since a huge dead tree fell between them blocking his vision from the lightning guardian. At the end of the fallen tree the enemy was still in shock from that attack from Junpei. His body had traces of electricity and he was covered in scratches. "How can two weak guardians manage to injure me this much?" Daisuke said. The rain guardian smiled. "That's easy, Junpei is alot stronger now with his cool new abilites."

 

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 "Wait wait wait!" Azumi wasn't prepared to fight in the air, she never experienced it before. Before she could protest some more, her body suddenly felt heavy again and she landed on her feet back onto the ground. "Ok, now I'm ready." The sun guardian got into her battle stance. 

 

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 "I'm pretty sure they'll be fine. There not really normal after all." Takushi muttered. That's when another man approached them from the fog. 'Another one of Kaede's ally.' Takushi thought bitterly. He stepped out from the group, "I'll make it quick all right." However a hand stopped him from walking any further. It was Alphonse's.

[Junko 2,815]

Junpei landed in the tree that landed besides Hiro. He poked his head out and climbed out of the tree, rubbing his head before looking over at a defeated Daisuke. He blinked for a second, not believing that he actually took that guy down, before crossing his arms and puffing out his chest a little with a smirk plastered on his face. "Hmph, you should have never doubted our strength." Junpei was gone gloating and turned to Hiro. "I don't know about you but we should catch up with the others. Azumi might be with them by now as well." 

Meanwhile

Liz softly handed on the ground when the shock wave ended and threw mutiple attacks at Azumi before she could fully prepare herself. She came at her like a massive fighting barrage.

Meanwhile

Alphonse dropped his arm down and slip his hands into his pockets. Out came two long, dark blades. "Take Claude and Usami out of here. Leave this guy to me." The man, Aobe, raised his eyebrows in suspicion. Even Claude was a bit confused himself. He didn't think that Alphonse would be one willing to get in a fight. Usami tapped on his shoulder and gestured over to empty space. He didn't see anything but it took him a moment to realize that she was referring to that small ghostly figure that nobody but her can see. The remaining three nodded to Alphonse as they slipped away, Takushi and Claude trying to keep up with her. Aobe watched them leave before turning back to Aplohonse. "Huh? You think you can simply take me out?" he raised his claws and took a stance. "We'll just see about that." Alphonse said as he raised his weapons and the two of them rush at each other in full force.

[Naegi 149]

Hiro nodded. "Yea lets go." They were about to leave the defeated Daisuke when his voice caught their attention. "Do you have any idea what you Vongola did? What you did to our life?!" Hiro and Junpei turned around quite curious about what Daisuke is saying. 

 

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 Azumi blocked and dodged, she couldn't even counter attack due to these never ending wave of strikes. Somehow while she was blocking, she reached down into her memory and her boxing teacher's voice was heard in her head. "Azumi, you will encounter a boxer that will never stop attacking. all boxers do. Though it seems like there's no room for any counter attack, you must remember that while their attacking, they will leave plenty more openings for you to sneak through." 'Right, gotta look for an opening.' She moved her head to the left as a spear grazed her cheek. Then Azumi saw it. Liz's rib cage was unprotected. Before Liz could attack again, Azumi punched her right in the rib cage. The enemy winced and that left even more openings. Now it was the sun guardian doing the unendless stream of punches. "Don't underestimate me!" She yelled, putting all her remaning strength into this one last punch into her jaw. 

 

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 "Hey ghost girl, how much farther from Kaede?" Takushi asked impatiently. That's when they saw the church. The abandoned church was in no good shape. Most of its windows were shattered, the brick walls were dripping with moss, and the cross on the top of the roof was crooked. 

[Junko 2,815]

"Huh? What the hell are you talking about?" Junpei said crossing his arms. He stared down at Daisuke's limp body. Now that he thinks about it, they don't exactly know that much about the Vongola besides them being deemed the strongest mafia family. But, could they be a negative mafia family that can possibly cause world destruction. Junpei shook his head, denying the thought. (No. Reborn and that Sonya lady seemed too sincere to be lying to us about something like that.)  "Well? Explain yourself!"

Meanwhile

The last ten minutes has been a series of clashing blades. Aobe seemed to be fully amused while Alphonse seemed that he couldn't go on for much longer. He's been giving it his all at full force but he couldn't land any damage on the guy. Alphonse jumped back and held his side while breathing heavily. Aobe held his claws up. "What? The kid's all out of energy already?!" A twisted smile inched its way on to his face and Alphonse grimaced. "Don't tell me I can just kill you like this? You challenged me after all." Aobe dashed at Alphonse, who lifted up his two blades to block, and slashed him right at his side. Alphonse staggered backwards and touched where he was hit to feel blood oozing down at his side. His eyes widened a bit and looked at Aobe. Aobe simply grinned before he dashed at him again. Alphonse stood his ground and waited for him to get closer. Aobe was about to swing his claws down at Alphonse's chest but Alphonse ducked downward, rolled out of the way and slit Aobe's ankle, specifically the small joint that connected it to the foot. Aobe cried in pain as he fell forward towards the ground. Alphonse took a step backwards, ready to him to come back at him again. Aobe picked himself off the ground, his glasses broken on his face, and stood up. His ankle was red, as if blood was ready to burst out of out. "You really thought...a cheap trick like that could take me out." he growled before he lunged forward at Alphonse. Out of quick thinking, Alphonse stepped aside, the blades of Aobe's claws grazing his cheek, before thrusting his blades into Aobe's side. Aobe coughed out blood before Alphonse forced his blades out. He fell down to the ground, defeated and Alphonse winched in pain as the gashes from his side were still leaking out blood. He was about to walk away when he heard Aobe mutter something. "Just as I expected from someone of the Vongola family." Somehow, the guy was still smiling even when he's badly injured. "Just tell me this...why did you do what you did to us..." Alphonse stared at him, confused.

Meanwhile

Usami didn't bother to answer him. She was more focused concentrating not to lose sight of that small figure. The remaining three stepped inside of the abandoned church through a side entrance. The interior was a lot larger than what the outer appearance suggests. The ghostly shadow suddenly stopped in its tracks and Usami stopped walking, appearing confused. "You stopped again. Does that mean Kaede's here?" "I..I don't know. The small ghost stopped moving so...I think so." Usami inched closer to the small ghostly figure and knelt down next to it. She waited for a response from it, but got nothing. She felt a throbbing pain come to her head again, like earlier but much worse. Usami clutched her head in pain as the small ghost dissolved and disappeared. (Where did it go?!) she thought as she frantically looked around for it. Claude rushed to her side quickly before catching her body as she felt backwards. "H-hey! Are you alright?!" No response. Usami couldn't even see him now. Her vision was distorted, as if she was trapped in an endless void. Nothing but monstrous creatures and a distort setting was present through her eyes. Claude shook her shoulders, trying to snap her out of it but nothing. He sighed in frustration. He turned back towards Takushi. "Takushi, she isn't responding..." he said, sounding worried.

Meanwhile

Liz felt something something break in her rib cage as she felt Azumi land a direct blow there. She winched in pain and didn't even see the girl's fist aim for her face again. She couldn't move her body fast enough to get away. (I'm...done for.) That one thought floated around her head as she landed on the ground, not able to move her body even an inch. She snickered as some of her hair covered over her eyes. "You Vongola...are terrible. Simply trampling over everyone and everything." She tilted her head to the side, some of her hair sliding off her eyes, and she looked at Azumi. "You don't have any idea.....what you people did to us..."

[Naegi 149]

The boxer winced looking at Liz's beaten body. She beated plenty of people before but not this badly with those gloves. When Liz mentioned the Vongola, Azumi blinked. "The Vongola did something...terrible to you guys?" 

 

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"We used to be from a friendly Mafia Family ya know." Daisuke grabbed a fistful of his hair from the memories.including Kaede." "It was called Luciano Family...we were kids back then,  He coughed and stuttered before he continued. "Then right out of the blue...that damn Decimo send his army to attack our headquarters. As far as we know me, Liz, Aobe, and Kaede are the only survivors." His fists tightened. "After that day we were left to rot, we would've died if we haven't figured out our abilities." When Daisuke looked back up at Junpei and Hiro his eyes were covered in tears. "This is why we trained our asses off to kill all you Vongola off! First the future of Vongola would be wiped out, then we would target the current Vongola!" He pounded his other fist on the ground repeatedly. "Damn you! Kaede was the worst out of all of us! When he was escaping he lost an eye, he was just a kid back then!" "The Vongola...did something that horrible?" Hiro was shock, seeing Reborn and Sonya didn't strike him as odd and cruel. 'Is that what Claude is going to become?' 

 

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 Takushi looked down at Usami. "We should put her safely somewhere however..." He frowned. "If we just leave her out here then one of Kaede's ally will find her and hurt her. So I think it's better to bring her with us so we could at least protect her when we fight Kaede." Picking Usami up bridal style, he kicked open the double doors. The doors let out a creek as it slowly opened inwards as air rushed inside the building.

 They both walked in on high alert when a voice was heard. "Welcome Vongola, I've been waiting for you." A man with white hair covering his left eye and a matching white suit came out into the middle of the alter. "Allow me to introduce myself. I'm Kaede." Feeling the anger boiling inside Takushi yelled. "You're the bastered killing all the Vongola!" Ignoring the storm guardian's outburst, Kaede looked at Usami. "Ah it seems my little Usami did her job." Then right on cue, the little ghost the mist guardian was chasing all along appeared sitting on Kaede's shoudler. Seeing the ghost for the first time, the hot-head was confused. "She did her job?" The enemy smiled like they were regular buddies. "You see, I was the one behind the mist guardian's unique seeings. I was using her to track you down but in order to bring you here, I used this little guy to lure you here." Kaede shook his head. "I didn't tell them of course," Referring to Liz, Daisuke, and Aobe. "I thought it would be a good surprise present to have the future Vongola family come here at our doorstep." 

 

Name: Kaede Tamashiro 

Age: 18

Appearance: 

Weapon: Scythe 

Ability: Summon creatures from another dimension for aid. 

[Junko 2,815]

Liz grew silent before she spoke. "It was years ago. I was only a kid. My family was part of this mafia family called the Luciano family. It was just then that we were raided. Almost all of us were wiped out. I managed to escape somehow, but just barely. I met up with three others." She paused for a moment. "Including Kaede."

Meanwhile

"You don't know? I'm quite in shock. The Vongola family wiped out Luicano Family, my family. Somehow I managed to avoid being killed along with Liz, Daisuke and Kaede but....he lost his eye in the madness." Alphonse raised an eyebrow. He slipped off his scarf and tied it around his waist to stop the bleed even though it won't work for long. "But...even so. Why attack us?" The calm, relaxed expression Aobe had once maintained immediately turned to anger. "What the hell do you mean?! You Vongola scum wipes out my friends and family and you dare to think that we shouldn't seek revenge?!" "I didn't say that. I meant us, as in us seven. We didn't attack and kill your family, Vongola Decimo and his family did. Claude is the new upcoming boss." Aobe grew silent, his teeth still clenched. "Besides....This whole mafia thing is new to me. Don't expect me to know how everything automatically works around here." He pointed a finger to Aobe's wound that he inflicted on him. "You're still bleeding." "Heh, smartass. Don't you think I know that?"

Meanwhile

Junpei hummed and nodded his head in reaction to this. He didn't know what to make up of it, but just stood there in silence. He looked over to Hiro. "Wanna ask Reborn and Cloud's sister about this. It seems a bit fishy if you ask me." he said as he stroked his chin.

Meanwhile

"So....you're the one...you're the one whose been messing with Usami's head?!" Claude paused, realizing what he was doing. (What am I doing?! I can't confront him. Reborn isn't here to shoot me with that hyper drive thing...) Claude took a step back. He was defenseless. Any high hopes that he had when he was roaming through this place suddenly disappeared. But he couldn't make a run for it now, at least it was too late. "J-just tell me this then...why did you want us here so badly?"

Meanwhile

"Reborn this is ridiculous. Why didn't you go with him earlier instead of following him around like this?!" Sonya hissed. Her and Reborn were in the shadows at the top of the abandoned church, sitting on top one of the pillars that held the roof together, and out of sight. "....I don't know." "Don't give me that shit!" "In all seriousness, we'll just wait. I'm surprised he even made it here without trying to run away. Perhaps he could be a lot more different from Tsuna than I thought." 

 

[Naegi 149]

"You...were raided, by the Vongola?" Azumi clenched her fists. "No, that has to be a lie! I'm not believing you whatever you say!" 

 

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 "...It is?" Hiro cocked his head. Could it actually be just a lie? He nodded to himself, that has to be the answer. "Yea we should but the problem is where are they now?" Daisuke grunted, "It's not a lie, it's the truth stupid." Then to Daisuke's surprise, the rain guardian put Daisuke's arm on his shoulder and helped him up. "Wha, the hell are you doing?" Hiro smiled sheepishly. "We should get you to a hospital, those injuries look nasty." 'This...kid is helping me?' 

 

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 Kaede chuckled, "Yes but I wasn't messing with her head. I was simply showing her my little creatures from other dimensions." He closed his eyes, "And as for why I wanted you here, well it's obvious isn't it?" Takushi got the hint and said, "To wipe us out." Kaede nodded, "Yes that is correct storm guardian, you Vongola should pay for the sins you've done." When he opened his eyes it was a dangerous glowing yellow. Before any of them could ask about the sins, Kaede summoned his scythe and spinned it before hitting the base on the floor with a thud. Suddenly the church started to shake as a huge snake 20 feet tall appeared out of thin air. "I bid you good-bye Young Vongola." The snake hissed and started slithering at high speed toward them. Takushi put Usami into Claude's arms as he took out both of his crossbows. "I'll hold it off until you get into dying will mode." And the storm guardian charged. The snake lashed foward opening his mouth but Takushi narrowly dodged it. "Eat some of this!" He shot a couple arrows but they weren't regular arrows, attached to them were bombs. The arrows exploded but it didn't seem to have any effect on the snake. 

[Junko 2,815]

Liz sighed in annoyance. "If you don't, then that's your problem." She turned her head away from Azumi. "Shouldn't you go off to help your friends or something? They're probably stuck dealing with Daisuke or Aobe by now." 

Meanwhile

Junpei narrowed his eyes. "W-wait! Why are you helping this guy?! He just tried to kill us along with the others!" (Damn is this Hiro guy an idiot or something?!) Junpei didn't really care if Daisuke was standing right there when he said had those outbursts. He crossed his arms in annoyance.

Meanwhile

The two stared at each other for what seemed like minutes before Alphonse sighed as he walked over to Aobe, winching in pain as he took each step. Aobe raised an eyebrow. "Hey. What are you..." he started before Alphonse sling his arm over his shoulder and slowly brought him to his feet. "I just tried to kill you. Why are you helping me?" Alphonse started walking down the path he saw Claude and the others take before he went to battle with Aobe.  He cocked his head to the side. "Of I didn't, my conscience would be bothering me for the next few months. Besides, you stink of blood right now." Aobe sighed. "Idiot..."

Meanwhile

Claude staggered a bit as Takushi dumped Usami into his arms. She wasn't necessary heavy, he was just too weak. Tsuna slightly grimaced as Takushi ran off to face Kaede. (But....I don't know how to...) He looked down at Usami to see that her eyes were slightly open.

Usami couldn't see anything but pain and misery. She tried her best to snap out of whatever she was placed into but she just couldn't. She couldn't feel her actually body anymore and felt as if her consciousness was drifting away slowly. (None of this is real...non of this is real..) she kept chanting to herself. She looked up to see that some of the monsters that were just surrounding were slowly fading away. She kept that one thought in her mind and watched as more of them went away. (Yes.. this is my mind...and I'm not going to let him mess with it any longer!) There was a white crack in the dimension she was floating in and the crack started stretching larger until the dimension itself broke.

Usami immediate bolted up in a flash, stumbling out of Claude's hands. Her eyes appeared less foggy now. "A-are you okay?" Claude asked, shocked that she broke free from it so suddenly. Usami rubbed her forehead and nodded before looking over at Kaede and his snakes, appearing somewhat startled by them, before turning back to Claude. "Can you change into your dying will mode?" "...No.." his tone of voice showing sighs of disappointment. "Then..I'll go help Takushi." "Wait! You can't! What if you get hurt?!" She didn't say anything. Of course she knew she was possibly going to get hurt somehow but her gut feeling was telling her to help fight alongside them. She turned around and dashed to Takushi's side. Usami was unsure what to do. She remembered that she brought that whip and stretched it out in her hands before swinging it and latching it around of the snake's neck. 
 

[Naegi 149]

 "Gah! I totally forgot about them!" Azumi picked Liz up and started running to the direction the group had gone. "If you're wondering why I'm taking you with me is because I don't want you to escape." She pouted.

 

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 "Now now Junpei, we can't just leave an injured guy alone like this." Before Junpei could say anymore, Hiro saw Azumi holding Liz and was running at them in full speed. "Hiro and Junpei, it's you guys!" She digged her heels into the dirt to stop herself. Looking at the battered Daisuke, Azumi whistled. "Impressive, I bet Hiro did everything while you sat back." Hiro scratched his head, "Actually...Junpei here did all the work." Azumi's eyes widened as she almost dropped Liz on the ground. "What?!" 

 

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 Kaede raised an eyebrow. "Oh? Looks like Usami recovered rather quickly." The snake squirmed in the whip's latches and Takushi decided to follow her lead. Using arrows attached with strong wires, he shot straight at the snake as it was becoming more confined. "So what's that talk about paying for our sins?" Takushi laughed confidently. Kaede only sat on a wooden bench unamused. "Don't expect that snake to be strong, it's actually one of the weakest in my collection." The snake started to crack like it was made out of stone as it crumbled into the ground. Then two figures stood in its place. A woman covered in thorns and plants and a lion with wings. "The jungle dimension is lovely isn't it?" The lion gave out a roar before diving straight to Usami and the thorn woman commanded on the plants to attack Takushi. He rapidly shot the plants whenever they come up and moves away from them if they're too posionous. Seeing Claude just sitting there watching his guardians fight gave a twist in Kaede's stomach. 'Go attack that Young Vongola, but don't kill him. I need to stick my blade into his skull with my own hands.' Kaede ordered the thorn woman through a link between their brains. Going with his order, the woman rushed past Takushi leaving behind plants giving out poisionous gas that only spreaded in Takushi's area. Keeping his breath in, the storm guardian saw the woman running toward Claude. 'firetruck, she's going to attack Claude!' "The Young Vongola must be bleeding due to my master's wish!" She screeched as she swinged her arm as sharp thorns came straight at the Young Vongola. However when the thorns landed it wasn't Claude that it landed on. "Guh...you ok there?" Blood dripped from Takushi's stomach where the thorns were inside. His crossbows were lying on the floor where Takushi used to be but he dropped them in order to actually make it there to jump in front of Claude. Then coughing out blood he fell to one knee before collasping on the floor. 

[Junko 2,815]

Liz felt her body bobbing through the wind as Azumi dashed through the fog. She trying to reach her hand to the girl's shoulders in order to cling on but she was going too fast. (She shouldn't be going this fast, I'm almost twice her size. Just who the hell is this girl?!) When Azumi made it to a sudden stop, Liz's body jerked forward and her arms were slung over Azumi's shoulders. She moaned before glancing up to see that Daisuke was badly injured and being carried by Hiro. Her eyes quickly widened. (They managed....to beat Daisuke as well?!) 

Junpei looked over as Azumi and Liz came into view. He blinked when he heard Azumi's shocked reaction when she heard that he took Daisuke mostly by himself. He gave a smug grin as he stroked his chin. "Well well, still can't believe that I'm the stronger one in this relationship?" He gave a gesture towards Hiro. "I even have a witness that saw my all mighty strength!" It was still impressive how carefree Junpei could be about all of this. He was cackling when the smell of blood crossed the air. They all turned to see that Alphonse has returned with Aobe, both badly injured. "I told you...that I could...handle his guy.." Alphonse muttered before collapsing to the ground along with Aobe. Junpei rushed to his side before flipping his body body over to see that the scarf that Alphonse usually wears was wrapped around his side, soaked in blood. "Damn man....what did you guys do??" He looked over to see that Aobe had a bad wound on his side but was wrapped up with the jacket he was wearing. All Liz could do was stare in disbelief. (These kids actually took all three of us down...)

Meanwhile

Whatever confidence Usami had suddenly went away. Her legs started to tremble as the lion gave out a vicious roar. She shook her head. (No. Don't give in yet. I can do this.) Usami planted her feet firmly on the ground and readied her whip as the lion came at her. When it was a few feet away, she cracked her whip and landed a hard blow on the lion's head. A crack appeared on the lion's head but it somehow kept moving towards her. She was about to jump out of the way when the lion picked up speed faster and sunk its teeth into Usami's shoulder. She let out a cry in pain before the lion threw her body back, her limp body skidding onto the floor. She couldn't move, the pain was throbbing around her body too much. She slightly tilted her head to the side to see that blood was leaking out of where she was bit. Her eyes drifted to Claude. (Please..do your best Claude..) 

Claude's eyes widened as he saw both of his friends fallen right before him. "No....Takushi...Usami..." The scent of blood was too much for him to bear. He took a step backwards. The thorn woman was still standing a few feet near him and the lion that just took down Usami was nearby as well. (There's no way...there's no way I can beat this man...there's just no way....) 

Two figures jumped down from the top of where the pillars were supporting the top interior of the abandoned church. Sonya landed on the back of the lion. "Such a violent little feline, aren't we?" She said before pulling out her shotgun and shooting the lion in the head before flipping of it. The shot didn't do much damage to the lion and Sonya frowned. Reborn landed firmly on his feet, with his hands in his pockets before pulling out his pistol. "R-Reborn...Sonya?!" The sight of his older sister with a gun like that scared him a bit. "This is probably a bit too fast since I haven't shot you with the dying will bullet a few more times..." Instead of shooting, he flung his pistol into the air and it started to change into a green ball of light with two eyes that resembled those of a chameleon . "Leon has a little something to give to you." Not quite understanding, Claude looked up to see that bright ball of light produce something and watched as it floated into his hands. Into his hands came two black pistols with 'XI' engraved in the sides of them. Claude almost dropped the guns as he stared at them in disbelief. "G-guns?!" " To defeat Kaede of course. Problem with that?" Claude couldn't respond. The green ball of light changed back into a gun and something else fell from the ball of light as Reborn caught both of them. His pistol and...a purple bullet. Reborn loaded the bullet into his gun and pointed it at Claude, who instinctively tried to block with his arms but was too slow. The bullet was shot out and hit Claude right at the center of his forehead. He staggered backwards before standing there in silence for a moment. A flame appeared to his forehead, stronger than the one before. He lifted his head up to see that his eyes has changed into a dark orange color. Sonya cocked her head to the side as she took a few steps back. (I think that our boss candidate has finally awakened.) 

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 Azumi pointed at Daisuke, "I'm pretty sure the guy you fought was really weak!" Daisuke glared at her. "Did you just call me weak?" His forehead turned red as he hobbled his way to Azumi dragging Hiro along. "Yes I did," The sun guardian said. "Then lets fight right then!" The blonde tried to get up but only fell back into Hiro's shoulder. "Daisuke, you're too weak to fight right now." Hiro chuckled. That's when Alphonse arrived carrying an injured man on his shoulder and they both collasped. "A-Al?! Heyyyy wakeeee uppp!!!" The boxer waved her hand in front of Alphonse's face. The rain guardian put his hand on Azumi's shoulder, "I don't think yelling is going to help Azumi." 

 

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 "Defeat me?" Kaede laughed. "I'm guessing you're the famous Hitman Reborn I've been hearing all about." The lion flew over to its master as the lion lowered its head and Kaede petted it despite there being a crack. "Then lets make this more suspenseful shall we?" He got up from his bench and the lion turned to stone and was reduced to rubble. Takushi was curled up in a ball as the thorns continued to rest in his stomach. His breathing was shallow and Takushi couldn't bring himself to open his eyes. The thorn woman also turned to stone and turned to rubble. "You see those thorns in your guardian's stomach yes?" Kaede turned to Usami, "And that nasty bite your mist guardian recieved from my creature?" His face grew dark, "Well the thorns are actually poisionous and my lion's teeth are also coated in poison." Kaede began to spin his scythe, "So they have...20 minutes before the poision spreads into their whole body and they meet their deaths." The white hair stuck the blade of the scythe into the ground. "Of course, if you defeat me then the poison will automatically disappear." He took his scythe back out. "Now show me your resolve Young Vongola!" The eye that was covered the whole time began to glow through his curtain of hair and a flame could be seen. 

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Liz lifted her head up from Azumi's shoulders and stumbled off the girl, grazing the spot where she was punched in the face twice. "Instead of bickering..." she said weakly as pointed a finger towards Alphonse and Aobe who both laid limp on the ground. "How about...we stop those two's bleeding wounds. The could die from blood loss if we don't do anything.." She wasn't in much condition to even stand but she didn't want Aobe to die. She couldn't stand to lose more people.

Meanwhile

Usami breathing became more rough she laid there on her back, blood still oozing out of her bad bite wound. She couldn't hear much of what Kaede said besides there being a time limit for Claude to defeat him. All she could assume that something bad will happen if he didn't hurry. Claude appeared to be shockingly calm through all of this all of a sudden. He had each hand carry a pistol, his finger resting on the trigger. Sonya growled towards Kaede and pointed her shotgun at him. When she was about to shoot, Claude gestured her to put her gun down. "I'll take care of him. Worry about tending to Takushi and Usami." Sonya looked towards Claude before looking back at Kaede and she sighed. "Heh, why should I be taking orders from you anyways? Just don't get yourself killed." Claude simply nodded and Reborn went to go pick up Usami while Sonya slung Takushi's arm around her neck and picking him up. The two of them took the injured out of the way while Claude simply stared towards Kaede. (20 minutes to defeat him...) He felt more confident now and took off at a quick dash towards the man. He raised one of his pistols and pulled the trigger. A stream of orange flames shot out and towards Kaede. 

Edited January 17, 2014 by Junko

[Naegi 149]

 Azumi, Daisuke, and Hiro looked at Liz surprised she spoke up. Daisuke's face fell when he noticed Aobe's blood leaking out. "She's right, you have to stop the bleeding." Azumi looked down at Alphone and Aobe. "Err, I don't really know how to though.." Hiro shook his head, "Me too, I never experienced something like this before." The blonde stomped his foot on the ground, "Then call the hospital!" He sounded desperate, he didn't care if they get put into jail as long as his companions were alive. Suddenly sirens can be heard from a far off distance and it seemed to be getting closer. "Is that an ambulence?" Hiro questioned. It didn't take long to prove Hiro was right as 7 ambulence trucks screeched into the entrance. On the side of the truck it read, "Vongola Hospital". "We're from Vongola! Reborn called us saying you have injured people." A paramedic said. Several more people poured in behind the paramedia carrying stretchers. "We have someone bleeding right here!" Daisuke gestured to Aobe. The paramedics nodded and took Aobe and Alponse into a stretcher and carried them into seperate ambulences. 

 

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 Kaede smiled, "Ku fu fu, your aura seems different than before." He easily dodged the bullet by moving his head as it zoomed past him. 'I could feel the bullet is hot, dying will flames the bullet must be covered in.' "Very impressive, you already know how to aim despite shooting a gun for the first time. But.." He dashed toward Claude and when he was in range he swung his scythe downward. "Range weapon's weakness is fighting up close!"

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Junpei and Liz looked in disbelief as an ambulance just came out of nowhere, as if answering to Daisuke's prayers. "They actually...have a medical squad..." "Just..what the hell!?" Two paramedics came to Liz, noticing her bruised face and body before taking her by the hand and leading her to one of the ambulances. She didn't want any help from anyone associated with the Vongola but seeing how battered Azumi got her, she was in no position to refuse their help. Junpei turned back to Hiro and Azumi as Aobe, Alphonse and Liz were being taken care of. "Well what about the other three? They still haven't come back yet." Junpei's voice went to a more dramatic effect. "Do you think they found Kaede are having a battle to the death in there?!" 

Meanwhile 

With an instant reflex, Claude raised both of his pistols in front of him a second before the blade of the scythe could make contact with his body. Claude dug his feet into the ground as he continued to block Kaede's scythe. Claude thrust his pistols downwards, finally getting away from Kaede's blade. Within a second, he found an opening at Kaede's stomach and landed a heavy blow there with his foot, launching Kaede's body into the air. Once he was far enough from him, Claude then jumped up into the air and pointed one of his pistols up at Kaede, and pulled the trigger, anther stream of flames blasting towards him.

"There you go~" Sonya wiped a bit of sweat from her forehead. She just got done tying up Usami's bite wound with some cloth she was carrying with her. Takushi also had some over his wound where he was hit with the thorns. The both of them were now unconscious. Sonya had attempted to get some of the thorns ot of his stomach but they were too lodged in badly that she couldn't pull at least one out without Takushi ready to scream in agony. "Heh, you could pass for a nurse one day Sonya." Reborn commented as he kept his eyes on the battle. The four of them were at back of the church sitting in one of those long chairs they keep in churches. "Shut it." she snickered. " Besides, how much time passed since they both went at it." "Ten minutes I believe." "Do you think Claude will make it in time?" Reborn was silent for a moment. He wasn't even sure himself. "We'll just have to see." 

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 Hiro frowned, "They probably are, should we go help them?" Suddenly a medic noticed the gash down Azumi's back Liz made eariler. "You're hurt, we should get that treated at the hospital." Azumi turned around to face the medic, "Oh it's nothing just a - HEY!" The medics already had her strapped to the stretcher as Azumi struggled. "I TOLD YOU I'M PERFECTLY FINE!" They didn't listen as Azumi was put into an ambulence car and it drove to the hospital. The rain guardian sweatdropped as Azumi disappeared from view. "That gash did look nasty.." 

 

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 Kaede winced as he was kicked into the air. 'What is going on? He's like a whole different person now.' When Claude fired, he held out his hand and a giant turtle appeared in front of him. When the flames reached the turtle, the attack was blocked by the turtle's shell. "Enough playing around, crush him!" The turtle then started to spin, faster and faster until it was spinning so fast it became a twister. Claude didn't have time to react as the turtle got a direct hit right into him crashed him to the ground. "How does it feel Young Vongola? All the pain you Vongola gave to me and my Mafia Family." His anger boiled as the turtle crushed on Claude even more. 

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Junpei watched with Hiro as Azumi, along with the others, were taken to the hospital. He turned back to see that Daisuki was still here with Hiro. "Hmph, why the hell didn't they take you away?" His comment appeared to anger Daisuke but he ignored him and looked at Hiro. "Do you plan to stand out here?" His eyes immediately began to gleam devilishly. "How about we go help out Cloud. With my strength, he's sure to win." Junpei took off down the path that he saw Alphonse and Aobe come back from. He turned back around, still jogging, and gestured for th both of them to hurry up. Although, he's still not sure how to control his new found abilities or how to even use it again.

Meanwhile 

Claude felt his entire body being pressed down into the ground harder by the turtle shell. He could feel the air being knocked out of him so quickly. Claude closed his eyes and began to focus. He didn't know exactly what he was doing but he was just focusing on something, anything to happen. The flames on his forehead began to grow bigger. With any movement that the small space allowed him, Claude struggled to pull the trigger on both his pistols. There was the click of the triggers and orange flames exploded from him and upward, like a pillar of fire, shooting the turtle through the roof and out of the church. The flames disappeared and the flames on Claude's forehead went back to his original size. The brunette staggered up to his feet, his body feeling numb all over. 

Sonya looked over to Reborn and he sighed. "I wonder how much longer he can hold out with that special bullet." "What are you talking about? This one that you shot him with is the same as the one from before, right?" "No. This one allows him to stay in hyper drive mode for longer period of time but...I think the power is straining his body. Besides he has five minutes left to finish this." Sonya frowned as she looked towards Claude.

"Tell me Kaede..." Claude started, finally coming to stand up straight. "Why do you hate the Vongola Family so much? What did they ever do to you? And..." Claude's grip on his pistols tightened, out of anger. "Why...Why did you have to hurt my friends?!" 

[Naegi 149]

((Oh I actually forgot to make the medic take Daisuke but oh well )) 

 

 "Cloud?" Daisuke questioned. Hiro grinned, "It's his way of saying Claude." Slinging the blonde's arm over the rain guardian's shoulder, they jogged slowly to catch up to Junpei. While they were getting near to the church, thoughts swimmed in Daisuke's head, 'Is Kaede alright? Also why do these idiot guardians care about us, they're the ones to destroyed our family.' Then the truth surfaced into his brain. 'Maybe the Vongola did actually never killed the Luciano Family but someone framed the Vongola to make the survivors, which is us think so?' He felt his body tense, 'If this is what it was, then we were trying to kill off innocent people.' "We...have to get there as fast as possible." Daisuke started to stutter foward. Hiro looked down his eyebrows raised. "What do you mean?" Feeling his patience running out, Daisuke weakly grabbed a part of Hiro's shirt as he growled. "Look, Kaede 100% believes Vongola is reponsible for this and will do anything to get rid of Decimo and your boss. If you don't want anyone to die, we have to get there now." 

 

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 Kaede cocked his head as he landed on the ground on his feet. "So you don't know? The Vongola Decimo Family was the one who took out almost every single member of a peaceful mafia family called Luciano Family." He dashed up to Claude and swung his blade down only for Claude to dodge it. "But you know what's worst?" He held out his hand and a small stoned creature came out. It was cute if it wasn't so deadly. The creature opened it's mouth and a huge laser beam shot straight at Claude the church was rumbling from the impact. Anymore damage to the church would sent it collasping on top of their heads. "I was suppose to be the next boss for my family but you Vongola mocked me! They let me live but stabbed my eye out and left me there lying in the dirt!" Kaede's body became covered in a dark ugly black aura, "This is why you must pay for your sins! You and all of Vongola!" 

 

Tiny creature Kaede summoned: http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs12/i/2006/284/b/9/Scratcher_by_Beloved_Creature.jpg

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Junpei didn't bother to listen to Daisuke's pointless rambling and was about to tell them to pick up the pace when something big smashed in front of him, causing him to stop mid step and stutter backward. The huge object resembled a turtle of some sort. Junpei turned back to the other two with a shaky finger pointing at the turtle, his face now pale. "I-I think Cloud is nearby..."

Meanwhile

The beam was too fast for Claude to dodge and got a hit to the stomach, shooting him backwards and slamming him into the wall. He cringed as he moved off the huge dent he made into the wall from the impact, debris falling on his head. He looked up to see that the church's structure was beginning to crumble. It's wasn't going to last any longer at this rate. This battle needed to end soon.  He looked to see that the small creature Kaede summoned was going to fire another laser in his direction. Right when it was fire, Claude fired another shot from one of his pistols, countering the laser. They were evenly matched and a bead  of sweat started to trickle down the side of Claude's face. He turned to Reborn and Sonya, still holding the small creature's laser off. "Take Takushi and Usami and get out of here!" Sonya stood up, about to protest when she saw some desperation in his eyes. She looked up and saw what he was referring to. They were going to get crushed if they didn't get out of there. Sonya nodded and picked up Takushi. She signaled to Reborn for them to move out and within a quick minute, they were gone and out the door. Claude sighed in relief before turning his attention back the small creature and Kaede, raising the flame power in his stream of flames, pushing the laser back until his flames reached the creature and knocked it backwards. "Sure what happened to you was terrible but how can you be so sure that the Vongola did it, not to mention me and my friends?! They could have been framed for all we know. Did you ever stop to take that  into consideration? I still don't understand the whole deal with Vongola but..getting us all involved into something like this, even almost killing my friends..." Claude grip on his pistols tightened as he raised one of them and pointed it at Kaede. "That makes you no better than the people that did this to you!" Claude kicked off at a dash, and towards Kaede, his pistols emitting flames. Claude pulled the trigger, firing a stronger shot at Kaede. He was going to knock some sense into this guy, even if they would both end up being crushed under this structure. 

[Naegi 149]

 The giant turtle tried to move but with its shell faced on the ground it was impossible. "It's a turtle!" Hiro exclaimed as he touched the shell. Daisuke looked at it with widen eyes. "That's Kaede's turtle, one of his summonings." He explained. No sooner after he said that, the turtle turned to stone and fell apart. "If Kaede's turtle, one of his strongest shield landed here, then your boss and mine must be going all out." "And we must be pretty close." The rain guardian grinned as he picked up the pace. 

 

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 The small creature flew through the window with a squeal of pain before crumbling to dust. Shocked that Claude was able to overcome the beam, made Kaede not fast enough to block the beam of fire as it hit him squarely in the chest. He was thrown back and landed on the ground. "Don't talk like you understand!" Kaede stuttered as he slowly got up, the spot where the fire hit him tore open a part of his suit. "You only got 1 minute before your friends die, and I'll put you in your grave next to them!" With a roar, he charged at Claude not seeming to mind the state of the collasping church. 

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The three of them finally made their way to an entrance of the abandoned church. The building was rumbling loudly and through the entrance, out came Sonya, Reborn with Usami and Takushi in their arms. Sonya raised an eyebrow at the other three. "What are you....never mind. Just don't go in there." she said, gesturing back to the church. "Claude is settling things with Kaede." She looked over to Reborn. "How much time?" She felt Takushi moan a bit in pain and saw Usami stir in Reborn's arms. Reborn looked a bit worried himself as he spoke. "A little under a minute." Sonya muttered under her breath. "Wait a second. What are you two going on about? There's a time limit?" Junpei said, confused. Sonya looked up and explained the situation to Junpei, Hiro and Daisuke. When she was done, Junpei wave his arms in the air. "What am I doing out here then?! I have to finish things up in there!" Sonya gave him a death stare and he staggered backward, in fright. "You can't. Like I said before, Claude is settling things in there." Reborn looked back at the church. "All we can really do now is have faith in him."
Meanwhile
"One minute..." Claude muttered before dashing towards Kaede. The two clashed, Kaede's blade grinding hard against both of Claude's pistols. Claude gritted his teeth as he engulfed his pistols in flames. Kaede's dark aura was enveloping his blade as well. They were evenly matched, both of them holding their ground. "No I understand fully..." Claude said as the flames around his pistols grew stronger. "I told you..killing us wont solve anything! You need to move forward!" Kaede's body was suddenly blasted backwards. The impact finally pushed the structure to its limit and heavier chunks of debris began to fall from the ceiling. The flames on Claude's forehead and pistol faded away and his face appeared weary and worn. "I.....did...it" he said as his body fell to the ground with a thud.
Meanwhile
From the outside, it took a few minutes before the church completely collapsed. Dust was scattered about in a huge dust cloud. It caused coughing among the group and Sonya looked around for the brunette's body. With her hands full, she looked over to Junpei and he nodded. "CLOOUUUDDDD!" he shouted with his hands cupped over his mouth. No response. Junpei grunted in annoyance as he started climbing the amount of debris and went to work searching for any signs of his body

Edited January 19, 2014 by Junko