Closer to the Edge.

I believe in nothing
Not the end and not the start
I believe in nothing
Not the earth and not the stars
I believe in nothing
Not the day or not the dark
I believe in nothing
But the beating of our hearts
I believe in nothing
100 suns until we part


Fuck.
This was annoying. As he walked into knee-deep water, he noticed that the church was completely empty. It wasn’t surprising. The flood had made the people flee. But, on the contrary, it had attracted the scientist’s attention, because the weather had been very strange. And even thus Canada was a rainy country, this time of year was not adequate to floods and heavy rain. Plus, the amount of water that had dropped here was unnatural compare to the time the storm had lasted. This was a detail that only the precise scientists would see. And them they had sent him here to search for the probable innocence that had caused this soft watered sea. Oh. He had not been sent alone !


***
“Ah, Kanda, Evangeline, here you are !”


Evangeline had been pretty excited to see the scientist. Was it that she was happy to go on a mission ? Hm. Kanda was totally unaware about her heart’s feeling, actually. He wouldn’t notice this sort of things if they weren’t clearly displayed in front of his nose. Well… nevertheless.

“Hmm ?”
“I have a mission for you.”


As Evangeline asked what the mission was about, Komui brought out a large map of Canada.

“I think you’re going to need your umbrellas, children.”

***


Indeed, he hadn’t come alone, but he had pretty much left Evangeline behind, he didn’t know when or where… Ah, splendid sound, this silence !

He walked toward some statues. Under a rose window ( rosace ), an angel was looking at a baby that had to be Jesus. Kanda walked among the marble people, looking for what looked like a small cube : innocence. But Mugen did not react, so he guessed it wasn’t here. But he had sense something in this church. Drops fell down from the roof, splashing onto the water that had invaded the church.

Screams. They came from outside.
Kanda ran out of the church, pushing with difficulty the big wooden doors that were pushed by the strength of the water. But he managed to get out. He realized that it had started to rain again. The level of water had began to rise again and some idiotic people had just realized that they weren’t safe enough. A dog that was staying close to it’s owner howled as powerful flows of water washed him away. The owner had barely had the time to grab on to a window edge, screaming wildly. His fingers were letting go. Tch. Grabbing unto the buttress ( contrefort ), he jumped to the wall to have a solid base to jump across the water and get near the man. Grabbing on to the back of his collar, Kanda caught him and manage to get him onto the roof. It would have to do right now, for the first scream he had heard belong to a child.

“Save my son, please !”


Guess he had been right. The man pointed towards the next house. Right. Let’s go.

Kanda jumped down, and crashed through a window. The glass broke in pieces. Kanda searched for the little kid. Calling. He got a choked answer. But walls separated him from the noise. Tch.

He was sexy. Really sexy.

Dark hair down his neck, a thin black shirt fitting him perfectly, his hands with pale fingers skimed through papers… Evangeline looked at him in a perfect contemplating silence : her face on a hand, a little smile on her thin mouth, and losted azure eyes on the beautiful man. She imagined for a while herself and him alone, in front a snowy lake in Russia… Then, a foolish guy who hadn’t any intelligence passed in front of the symbiotic exorcist and cut the visual contact. This idiot was called Kanda, the most awful rival on the planet Earth.

However, it was Miss Pavlichenko who felt stupid. She just admired her boss Komui Lee explain the mission as she asked. She blushed and recapitulated the aim in her head like a computer. Then, they lived toward Quebec.


***


Silence.

A pale and dead silence.

She was fond of that. Although she admired the sound of the wind, this innocence, this purity was awesome… The sky was just like the snow under their feet, threatening clouds as though it come a hurricane… Wonderful.

Kanda leaded the way, they didn’t talk together, like they respected the silence. Then, the two exorcists from the Congregation penetrated the Church reserching for a small cube named « innocence », one of the 103 in the world. As always, like a historian, she sketched the least of pillar or statue. She tried too, to explain to Yûbaka the story of the Church but it seemed don’t interested him. No matters, Evangeline left him in a alley and she took a corridor.

Suddetly, a mass of water poured out the place where she was. So, the Crow jumped nimbly and left the corridor as it hadn’t any window. Then, she heared a noise seemed to be a scream. Therfore she leaped over statues to reach the roof. What she saw was beatiful.

Water. Ok… very strange water.

The dislocated clock looked at the place and saw the swordsman save a man who indicated him the position of… his son. The exorcist leaped over the water to reach his colleague but a tree collapsed. She lost time but she succed to jump near the man who was just saved. Strange man. Incredibly calm since Kanda left him. He looked at Evangeline and laughed. Then, he was transforming on an awful monster : an akuma. The Russian understood that her rival was in danger, in a trap !

She wanted to go with him but the akuma attacked her. Thanks to her agility, the level 3 didn’t touch her. Thus she activated her innocence and made her bones like her famous Armor. She accelerated her time and pierced the demon. Finally dead, Evangeline ran over roofs to reach her partner.

I'll have you know
That I've become
Indestructible
Determination that is incorruptible
From the other side, a terror to behold
Annihilation will be unavoidable



Je méprise trop ces gens pour me déplaire en leur compagnie.

Sky.
Gray Clouds.
Endless pours of rain.
Kanda heard the choked cry again. The kid was just on the other side of the pale wall. He hurried to the nearest door and broke it in pieces. He ended up in a corridor, and from there he reached the correct room. He hurried in, looking for the kid. But the noise had stopped. Instead, the door behind him closed and several akumas appeared from the water, and behind him. With a grunt, he prepared his sword. A trap ? Was the kid really there ? Well, he didn’t have to ask himself so many questions. He only had one priority : destroy the akumas. That was all. But the were numerous, and he was alone. Not that he needed help, no. Well, he didn’t think he did. But anyway.

The monster's voice was like stones rolling on each other.

"Die, die as you deserve."


Kanda smiled.

"I might deserve it, but I won't. Sorry to dissapoint you."


Without a moment’s hesitation, he jumped to the nearest wall, and pushed himself onto the opposite one, slaying an akuma on his flying path. While he jumped, his right index and middle finger raced on the length of his weapon : Mugen. The blade flashed with electricity and it’s blackness became a bright metallic grey. It was awoken. And with it, as he pushed himself off another wall, he slashed in front of him and with a crack, the air opened in two, and from the fin opening, monstrous insects came flying out, separating in different directions, crawling towards the akuma.

Then a laugh broke every other noise in the room. The laughter of a child. A very small child. It creeped Kanda, seending a cold shiver down his broad back. His eyes caught the movement at the very last second. Something broke one of the walls of the room. It looked like a child, but difformed and ugly. It smiled at Kanda, and laugh again. But then, in a fraction of a second, the hideous creature transformed itself, become a slick body, like a big beige snake. It filled the room, and soon Kanda was overwhelmed by it’s mass. It pushed him against a wall, but the exorcist held his weapon in front of him, and the cutting side cut open the slivery body. The creature shrieked, but held his place, so Kanda had to pushed, crawl himself away. As soon as he was free, the other akumas that were left attacked him and as the ground beneath his feet gave way, he fell with the big slivery creature, and they both fell in the swarming water.

Bubbles formed as the monster moved around.

Kanda pushed away the monster’s body, less heavy under water, and Mugen was like a stiff eel in the deep blue water. Let the fight begin.

But where the hell was Evangeline ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uKkU5FGP-s

An only goal : to find Kanda.

Evangeline looked arround her position and listen to any noise who could help her to find her companion. Then, a big crack made itself heard. The exorcist who was like a crow jumbed agily on several ruins and stoped running above a house. Suddetly, the roof collapsed and a giant akuma appeared. In a fraction of a seconde, she caught sight of the swordsman’s innocence : ghosts like insects. Indeed, a lot of demons were born under this roof and the house was just full filled of water. She jumped again on a other roof.

The akuma was just like a snake, or a big worm. He was drowning when Evangeline looked at the bottom, at the begining of the water, and saw her team mate (coéquipier). Under the water. Huh. So funny. Miss Pavlichenko laughed with a sarcasm and slashed the wormy akuma. She was so terrifing that the other steped back. She knew that the kendoka could success to escape of the deep water but Evangeline wanted to make him in debt : as a result, she dived her leather-gloved hand into the darkness of the wave and caught Kanda’s hand. With strengh, the clock pulled him on a piece of ruin.

« Fortunately I ran past here… You owe your life to me, but I have to acknowledge your weakness my poor Yûbaka ! The best is that you was conned by a akuma ! Laughable ! Nevertheless, that’s not time to have a fight between us, I see your angry in your eyes… Now, we have to get rid of some creeps… So… Let’s fight ! »

Just as she stoped talking, the mass of dead loss akuma brought back together… What was the aim ? To create a giant, and really huge akuma. He looked like a strange human with a misshapen (déformé) body, with four arms, three scrawny legs and wearing a hopeless white mask. As small as ants, Kanda and Evangeline were ridiculous whereas the huge monster was imposing. Yet, the Clock was laughing. Laughing of pleasure. Because to fight was her nature, just like her companion who was certainly excited.

To begin the battle, Evangeline spreaded her black bones wings and flew toward the akuma’s head. Armed with her wings, her bones Armor, missed time manipulation. At this moment, the Russian accelerated her time and reached light speed.

The Dislocated Clock was awake.

The exorcist’s dark eyes looked around in the grey blue water. The snake like akuma was moving again, but it was too far for Kanda to reach. He stretch an arm to start swimming, like if he was reaching for the slivery beast, but just then, something took hold of his hand, and pulled him out of the water. Wait. What ? He spat out some water, and standing up, looked next to him to see Evangeline. He was about to yell, but just then she spoke, just as if she knew exactly when to talk before he started crying out. He waited for her to stop mumbling crap, even thus it was difficult. Too boring. Too meaningless. Too stupid. Couldn’t she say something less fucking stupid ? Ah good, she was done. He could finally tell the world how pissed he was. Good.

"Crap. Why did you do that ? I had him ! "


He punched her on her shoulder. She just couldn’t stop messing around. But when it came to a mission, she had better watch out, that fucking brat that called herself a girl. Oh, right, as if she was a girl ! She was more of a stupid, sticking, noisy, childish alien. Why did they always end up on missions together ? Maybe Komui chose to do so, because he knew she’d be alright with him as long as they didn’t loose each other. But didn’t he knew that Kanda could also seriously damage her ? He was just being mean with the gloomy teenager, making him walk around with such a pain in the ass.

"He probably stepped back because you are so freaking ugly."


He almost growled those words. Cause, yes, Kanda could growl. Just as Lavi had found out ; growling was one of Kanda’s inhuman reactions. Grr. And as he was busy talking and yelling on Evangeline, he didn’t quiet see all the Akumas joining into one unique body. As he turned around, they were all already gone and they had to face the gigantic beast. Eva’s laugh tingled in Kanda’s ears, and he found himself laughing too, a creepy and cruel laugh. How pathetic was this ? It was perfect, now instead of hunting Akumas one by one all day, they only had to take down this big one. And it was going to be easy. It was ridiculous. He had already killed some like this before. Yeah, he had. Of course he had.

Spoiler:


( Pardon j'en avais envie (a). )


Evangeline was off. He saw her dark angular wings spread from her back bones, and watch as she took off. But he only watched for a second. On the following second, he breathed in deeply. Mugen’s bright steel flashed as he jumped after his companion, helping himself with a rooftop. And so what if he couldn’t fly ? he could jump really high. So he reached Evangeline just before she accelerated her time movements. He used her powerful wings to push himself higher in the air, and as he stepped on them, he said a few words.

"Tch. Now look, because you couldn’t kill the snake, this beast is two inches taller than it could’ve been."


A sarcastic smile on his face, he jumped, and surpassed Evangeline, pushing her down a little. ( Chacun son tour, héhé. ) Of course that wouldn’t really stop her. But heck what, they needed to take care of the mission. Now how would they take care of this monster ? Kanda had a good technique with Marie to take care of this kind of monsters. Both of them were good battle companions, they understood each other’s tactics. That was what happened after years of work together. Right now, it looked more like freestyle, but than again, Kanda had only offensive attacks, and he wasn’t about to change tactics.

Demoniac Stars.

The monster’s voice was light thunder.

Kanda was cool.

Why was he so classy ? Evangeline grumbled and frowned. Why was obviously him as the greatest role ? More over, when he pushed her to take his dash, the dislocated clock hadn’t speed anymore. She fell graciously on a roof and took a look to her companion. As always, the swordsman did great job and the giant akuma was already weakned. Maybe with a little sadness on her procelain face, she realized that her rival didn’t really need her with him. After all, he was oviously one of the best exorcists in the congregation. Evangeline hit herself with her palm and laughed. She hadn’t time for this chick’s problems. As she came out her thoughs the clock saw something strange with the horizon. Indeed when Pavlichenko took a particular look behind Kanda and the giant monster, she saw a giant black or grey cloud.

« Take care of him. »

Then the crow jumped on the big dead machine in order to have a better look on what was coming. She yelled. A pleasure yell. The thick cloud she just saw was in fact a mass of akumas ! The russian pointed to this for her partner.

« Look look look look look ! A bunch of fried just for you and me ! Seriously, I think we have to find the divine crystal before they do. As you want, I can leave this wonderful monster to your mugen and I go find the innocence. »

Evangeline took her chin between two fingers.

« Yeah, let’s do this… I’ll come back fast, don’t die stupid guy ! ♥ »

In fact, she wasn’t afraid at all to leave her companion to the battle because he was stronger than this craps. The female exorcist took a last look to his black hair and back before jumping.

Akumas were in mass : a lot of level trhee, some level four… At this rate a Noah would come so Evangeline had to find the Crystal to complete the mission. And she had to before the mass came near Kanda. With Time Master, her favourite ability, the russian lady can go faster than sound. She was already on the Church’s roof and took a look to the mass of water she was above. This strange phenomenon started here, so the Crystal was certainly under the ground, in the foundations of the Church. Take a bath Evangeline ! She moaned. Then the clock undressed a little and came into the water. She remembered this cold… like lakes in Russia. Evangeline sensed her members numbed, the current was too strong. A head above water, she take a deep breath. The dislocated clock activated her innocence and the black bones covered her pale members. She enter very fast the Church and destroy the ground to go deeper. Luckily she was very good at swim so she entered the foundations in few seconds. The water came down so she could take a new breath before dive again.

A deep world was under the Church. He was really cold.

She looked arround, a strange light illuminated deeps : obviously the Crystal. Evangeline swam fast thanks to the Time Master and go so deep that her eardrums hurt. The water was extremly cold, her lungs would implose. She had to find the innocence. An insurmountable pain came into her body, she almost spit the oxygen out. The water was strangely strong when the light intensified. Evangeline twisted to pierce the water.

Here he was.
The innocence. The Crystal. The divine.
Then blood.

Evangeline spited blood owing to organs under the pressure. Her vision was blurred and members as cold as corpse. Her arm reached to the crytal and she took him. The pain intensified, she was too deep. But when the clock took the innocence the water became stronger than before. The current tried to lay Evangeline down but she accelerated her movements to get out. No air, no vision, no strong, at 159 meters underground (le record du monde en apnée c’est 214 mètres de profondeur XD) = bad situation. She can’t die here. Tss. What would Kanda think about this ? Weekness ? Yeah. She can’t die here… Shame on her. The russian twisted again but the speed was too high and she spited a mass of blood.

Cold.
Cold.
Cold.

Was she out of the water ? Evangeline didn’t know and sanked into the unconscious, the Crystal in her right hand. She was a burden again.

Hurricanes and Butterflies.



He felt as if he would go on forever. All his strength had pushed him high, very high in the sky. His body had pierced the wind without encountering any resistance. And now, right now, at this very moment, he was at the highest point in the air he could reach. Next would only come the big plunge. The great fall. It sounded like life. For average people, at least. Indeed, they kept growing, living, going always higher. And then they went down. Some exorcist never came down. They were shoot in mid air, for some starry skies could prove themselves to be very dangerous. Kanda had an amazing ability. He could go down and jump again. Always higher. But the higher he went, the lower he fell. And one day the impact would be too great and he would move no more. One day. When ? He didn’t know. But he had been warned that the first signs were showing. And sometimes he felt as if he was sick. So fucking sick. That the symptoms were slowly coming out, only to tell him the day was coming. When ? No, he did not know. He would never know until it was happening.

But the hell did he care !

What was this small voice he could hear all the way down ? Slashing the massive akuma in front of him, he looked around. A small figure was watching the horizon. Evangeline had not joined him. Even thus he had missed the first words, he caught the last ones, and understood that the gigantic monster was his prey and his only. Well, that was just fine with him. Evangeline could do as she pleased, he was happy to have this creature for his own. He liked to finish the work with his own blade. He yelled a small responsive sound, forgetting it as quickly as he had thought it. His dark onyx eyes settled firmly on the hard and dark massive body that was facing him. Marie wasn’t here with him, Evangeline was gone, so now was a good time to take care of this guy on his own. The beast was not trapped in Marie’s cords and half of his attention was not captured by Evangeline. It was just him and him alone. A fight, one on one. Why did it pleased him so ? Probably because it only made him remember that this was his way of life. That he alone would fight against his strange memories, against the snarling dog faced death. And against the bitter despair that only love could forge in it’s blazing fires.

Love was so overrated.

The monster’s head shivered. It’s creepy voice echoed across the land, and a beam of bright purplish light formed on his brow, making the water underneath steam. By then, Kanda had landed on a high roof. The monster was above him again, and aiming him. But Kanda was fast, and he jumped to one of the akuma’s leg, and drove his innocence through it. As he moved, he heard a scream. The water had became ever more wild. The massive akuma was plashing in it. But more than this ; Kanda could tell there was even more water. It was so powerful, that houses were crumbling down. Cars were overwhelmed with their horses attached to it. Dogs were howling seconds before water was the only thing left in their mouths. Mothers were crying their hearts out as they couldn’t save their children and man were already left in silence as they understood that they had lost everything they had build during their entire lives. And they would never accept how this wave of monstrous water tore apart their very being. Never. Every thing would always be fucking soaked and stained. And lifeless corpses would have to be searched for, for months. And maybe some of them would be able to recognize their loved ones even then, only because they loved them so. Yes, love was overrated.
With an even more monstrous blow, Kanda, already on the akuma’s shoulder, slashed the beast’s head. This time the explosion was momentaneous, and he was projected very far. Next to the sound of the explosion, the sound of Kanda’s thin body falling in the water was nothing. As if he was only a small pebble that had been threw in a furious ocean. With a few strokes, he reached the nearest roof. He climbed onto it, and suddenly felt very lonely, for there was no scream. No nickering horse, no terrified bull. No breaking homes. The voice of the water was too great. As he stared into the swirling blue deeps, he thought he felt a sort of pulse. He was not sure, but his instinct told him so, and he believed. And then he was suddenly sure the innocence was not too far. Standing up on his lonely perch, he watched the dark mass of akuma approaching. They were far away. Remembering Evangeline’s words, he wondered if he should wait for her here, and wait for the akuma too. But wasn’t searching for the lost cube very important ? If both of them were looking, it would be faster, and then Evangeline would be forced to see that he was faster than her… A smile broke the teenager’s determined face. Aaah, yes, good idea !

He walked, he ran, he jumped, he flew.

And there was the Church. If Evangeline had any sense, she would have looked here. The roof was smashed, and he could just barely see another big hole on the ground of the saint building. He stared at the dark hole, as if his companion would come out of the darkness in a moment. But long seconds went by and there was no sign of her. Tch. He didn’t have much choice. He was about to jump, but then he saw Evangeline’s uniform cloak on a stable piece of roof. Judging the temperature of the water, and how he had barely just managed to dry after his first bath, he thought it was a good idea. He would need to warm up afterwards, wouldn’t he ? He had never tested his abilities of regeneration from frost damage, but he did know that cold water wasn’t very nice. He took off his own cloak, and even abandoned his shirt on Evangeline’s pile. And with an urge of panic, he dived in.

He could only be happy he was strong and precise, cause he was a terrible swimmer… His movements doubled in rapidity. Millions of tiny bubbles formed behind him. Why was there so much water down there ? Since when had the innocence been sleeping here ? What had awoken it ? Kanda’s dark eyes were really careful as he watched everything around him. And suddenly a light shone in them. It came from far away, but it was there indeed, shining like a little star. A small smile broke on Kanda’s face. But it faded. Where was Evangeline ? He pushed down, but his lungs were already suffocating. He continued downward. How long until his conscious blocked ? He kept on going. His heard began to thump wildly. He forced himself to be calm, slow his movements, and go into a lethargic state to make his air last longer. He would need to glide in the water. But fuck, it wasn’t fast enough ! With rage, he continued splashing in the water, trying to swim, trying to dominate this water. Fuck. He would win ! Fuck ! Some stupid wet splashy fucking water wouldn’t best him ! Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

“Fuck !”

Ohoh. He said it out loud. A hand flew to his throat. Water had filled his mouth already. He had no air. Nothing. He could now feel the pressure around him. Bakuhakuzan. Blue electric energy gathered on Mugen, and Kanda slashed the water around him, sending the ray of energy downward. He couldn’t keep it up. No air. No fucking air. He was miserable at swimming. Again, a ray of blue light. And again. The water seemed to be even wilder. The light was still to far away, he would never be able to go so deep. Not without any air. But. But. Evangeline. Again, electric light attacked the water. As if it were alive, it reacted and threw itself at Kanda, making him go down. Again he used his power. The blue light was blurry now. Everything was blurry. But the light was there. Coming nearer to get him. Coming nearer and giving him the crystal. He could see it, little bits of it. Little bits of it shining behind Evangeline’s fingers.

* You said you’d be back fast. *

His hand in front of him, reaching for her, he forced his legs to push. Suddently his gaze went blank. Blue energy sizzled around him, and as it reached his hair, it became purple. A light, greyish purple. On his naked torso, the black striped of his tattoo reached distant points on his pale skin. Growing. And he was barely aware of what was happening. His arm closed on Evangeline, pulling her body against his. With a wild cry that the water reduced into mumbling bubbles, Mugen exploded with energy and seven rays of pure light pierced every bit of darkness around them. He directed them downward and the energy, smacking the unnatural water, pushed them up. Up again. Always higher. Maybe they would never stop…

Cold. The contact of the air was even colder than the water. The shock seemed enough to wake him up from his destructive state. Kanda blinked. All the madness that had gathered in him seemed to be overwhelmed by the feeling he had now. His lungs seemed to explode as the air infiltrated them. He gasped, spitting water. Evangeline was against him. He thought he felt her heartbeat, faint. Still holding Mugen, still holding her, he freed one of his hands to grasp the foundations of the building and climb onto the first dry space. Still gasping for air, he picked up his companion in his arms. Mugen shivered with small spasms of energy before the blue light died away. Kanda’s body still shivered too. He could feel the drain in every portion of his body. He almost fell when he sat down. He was still feeling strange and didn’t let go of Evangeline. Everything was still blurry, but he laid his head on top of her heart. He could hear it. The light pulsed again. But not the bluish light that had come from Mugen, no. A white, even purer light, that came from Evangeline’s hand. He breathed in deeply. The colour of his hair seemed to fade away, ever so slowly. He got up again, still holding Evangeline, and went to find their cloths. He laid Evangeline down, and retrieved her cloak. Holding the hood between his teeth, he ripped the cloth. Without waiting, he opened Eva’s fist and enveloped the innocence in the dark fabric. The light died away. He picked Eva up again enveloped her in her cloak. He made sure her head was on the side. Blood was on her lips, making them cherry red. Blinking, breathing, returning to his former state, he picked up his own coat and enveloped her with it too. He laid her head sideways on his knees. Truthfully, he didn’t really know what to do. He could only destroy, not save living being.

“Stay with me, stupid.”

Shivering, he lifted his head up, and for the first time realized that the cloud of monsters was almost upon them.

“Stay with me.”

His fingers closed upon Mugen’s hilt.

Altruism and Pride.


His body was lying flat on the floor. On his own blood. An impressive mass of blood. She looked arround, just dark. Just black. Just fear. She felt the terror reach to her heart. She ran until the body on the dank ground, she felt on her knees and put her pales hands on him. She didn’t know what to do. Was he dead ? Oh yeah he was, in terrible sorrows. She tried to reconize him but the dark long hair was on the face. Dark long hair. What ? Now, she yelled. That was Kanda. Kanda was dead. Dead. When she took her blue eyes off her companion’s face, she realized that she drived deeply her nails in his chest. The blood was everywhere. Now it was on her too, on her hands, on her legs, on her face. She yelled again and puted out her fingers of Kanda’s chest. Did she kill him ? Was it her fault ? What have she done ? She started scratch her arms, then her face. The skin was falling down, she saw her black bones, she saw her heart explode.

Evangeline opened her eyes with a big scream.

The exorcist didn’t know where she was, she tried to look arround and felt something under her head. Warm. She felt good now. An incredible sensation of well-being.The crow looked just above and saw Kanda. He was here, totally alive. A smile on her face, the dislocated clock closed her eyes.

Huh. Wait a second. Why was she on Kanda’s knees ?

Then, Evangeline remembered. Under the water, searching for the divine Crystal… The innocence !! And lost consciousness… Yeah, obviously, Yûbaka saved her. Tss. Soooo nice ! SHAME ON HER ! Evangeline would have revenge… She blushed a while, she was ashamed… and relieved too. Althought she was a burden again, Kanda still saved her. Maybe the swordsman was a little attached to her.

« Well done pretty boy, I hope you’ve not give the kiss of life to me… »

Irony again. Definitly the best weapon of the Clock. The russian woman sat up and saw that she had a lot of clothes on her. Evangeline took off Kanda’s cloak and hold tight it before return it. She ajusted her own cloak and looked to the mass of akumas in the sky.

« Huh, that’s seems good… They are all dead between the two of us. Are you okay for fight ? »

The clock stood up too fast as she fell down. She certainly lost a lot of blood due to the water’s pressure few minutes before. Evangeline moaned and asked herself if she could fight. Owh. Of course she could fight ! That was her reason for living ! She stood up again and activated her pure inoocence. Black bones she saw in her nightmare.

« Let’s go, they are waiting for us. »

The russian took a run up then she told to Kanda without even turning over.

« Thank you Yû. »

Without a nickname, she certainly was indebted to him.

Together and Far Away.


She screamed. How dare she !

“Hey !”

His eyes were wide open, startled, and he had lifted his head up in a backward movement. But he settled down, a watchful gaze skyward and a cold stare below. He sucked in all the air he could as he saw her close her eyes and, with a sulking face, looked away. He didn’t move although he heard her voice, a few seconds later.

“Tch. As if I would do such a disgusting thing.”

When she sat up, the teenager got back on his feet. With a lazy hand, he took his cloak back and attached it in his back. He would’ve threw it away, but Komui had already told him to stop loosing his clothes. Or else he wouldn’t get a new one. Ha. What a joke. He didn’t really need it but, what the heck, throwing it away wasn’t the best idea either, although he didn’t know if it was safer with him or on the roof. With the back of his hand, he dusted his tunic and looked at the approaching monsters again.

“I’m always ready.”

But from the corner of his dark, black eyes, he saw Evangeline fall. She had just almost died, hadn’t she ? It was weird for him to think that they were both experiments from the same longing scientists. They were both second generation exorcists, although he thought he was alone. Yet there she was, and her powers were even more self destructive then his. Her powers, at their highest point, also made her lose control. And as he fought about it, wasn’t it her who suffered the most ? Wasn’t it her which was the most human and the most suffering, between them both ? She had the most emotions, and yet she had the most self destructive powers. And her healing abilities had a limit just like his. Yet he still felt alone. Cause her world was so very far from his. Her world was galaxies away from his lonesome black hole. From his spinning comet. Yes, she was the worst, as he fought about it. He was not to blame. He was not to be anything. He was not even to be thought about. And that suited him perfectly. He couldn’t ask for more. He was simply there for the urgent instant. And one day he would be gone. Knowing others would fall too. Knowing Evangeline would also be gone. And yet she would leave from so far away.

Away.
It was he who was away. Always away.

He felt her move without having to look at her. But when he grabbed her wrist in his steel like grip, he turned his head and his black eyes shot right into her blue ones.

“But be sure you are, for you might just be a burden if you aren’t.”
Mugen whipped the cool air as he moved away, letting her go. Why he did that ? Tch. He didn’t really know. He probably didn’t have to do it at all. That she would fight or not didn’t really matter to him right now. She had the innocence, moreover, hidden in the clothe, in her hand. As long as she kept it safe, it was ok.

He jumped in the air and traced a line with his innocence, that was sizzling with blue energy again. A stripe of this destructive energy threw itself at the mass of akumas and the closest ones disappeared in clouds of gray smoke.

There were good. Both of them. Very good.

There were two very talented exorcists and fighters. A mass like it wasn’t terrible at all… More over Earl’s creatures were low level : Kanda and Evangeline lived many worst situations ! Nevertheless, she felt down again due to the cold water where she was drowned into. Kanda grabbed her again and looked at her blue eyes. There were so close, Evangeline wanted to hit him so much !

Wait ! What did he say ? THE Clock wansn’t ready for a battle ? Never !

The Russian woman stood up and looked a last time to the mass. How many akumas ? Several hundred. No too bad, they just each had a hundred. She put the divine Crystal deep in her clothes and glanced at the swordsman. Then, she jumped high and covered her body with the Innocence’s Armor. Here they were ! The fight could start !

Without a gaze behind, the Dislocated Clock met the monsters. And that was a real recovery ! Simply to fight ! Like she could do, Evangeline madly laughed and began to destroy the most akumas she could. Terrible. Awful. Disgusting. The slaughter was dreadful and so beautiful too. Kanda slashed a range of machinal créatures while Evangeline did the same. In the middle of the decreasing mass, there were two more monsters : the two exorcists, doing what they made for ! While the two companions were killing a half-hundred akumas, the other part tried to go away… But they didn’t have any luck : Kanda slashed again and again, Evangeline made a hole in their hearts.

Soon, there where no more monster in the sky, just several courageous akumas –exactly two- on the houses’s roofs : two level four. The swordsman took one of them while the Clock took her own. Two great battles began, Kanda used mugen as well as always in order to kill the level four in five minutes. Evangeline used her bones needles to keep her opponent down then she pierce him with her sharp hand : five minutes and ten seconds. Yû Kanda won again.

- Your akuma was weakest than mine ! Cheater ! That’s not fair.

That was a lie of course, she knew it but how funny it’s to see Kanda mad. Evangeline laughed of her dishonesty and took the innocence of her jacket. Her eyes drowned down in it, it was so beautiful ! So peaceful, so clean, so quiet. All this blood for this purity. Evangeline smiled and flinged her arms round Kanda’s shoulders.

- So that’s it for today Yûbaka… The trip is long to return to the Congregation. So bad, I have to bear you again. Tss.

Kanda muffled and together, took the way to go home.