[Flint]look Alita i get that it's bad i brought him here but still he is resourceful right? and besides he will only be here for a certain amount of time, that's what he said anyway
with Flint and Alita talking in private inside of her office, they had seem to be discussing things about Haruta as he is technically a criminal to Fiore and is under lookout from the magic council, considering they work under the king themselves as mercenaries than this could be seen as betrayal.
[Alita]i know he is resourceful however there is still a slight problem he is worth a lot of money, and he is a walking calamity do you even understand or comprehend as to why he is a continent renowned criminal
[Flint]no not exactly....actually now that i think about it what did he do?
[Alita].....have you heard about the incident that happened in Iceberg kingdom?
[Flint]well i guess so but what about it?
knocking on the door they both quietened them selves opening the door it revealed a little girl holding Clouds hand with bright light blue hair along with blue bright eyes, however she seemed to have a bruise mark on her cheek from all the abuse she has been through from the surrounding neighbourhoods.
[???]h...hi
[Cloud]whats up, what're you two talking about?
[Alita]nothing you need to concern yourself with dear
looking at the both of them suspiciously he blew it off as just them doing something stupid
[Flint](ahem) anyway Ha-(cough) Cloud im glad your here we can now do the briefing of our mission, and also why did you bring the little girl?
[Cloud]well first of all.....
stepping away she stepped towards him doing it again as it repeated than disappearing from the room she started tearing up, however as he appeared she ran to him and hugged him stood behind him.
[Cloud]yeah that happened
[Alita](sigh) we can't exactly bring a child with us.....
[Cloud]i am aware of that
[Flint]than what exactly do we do
as he said that Cloud nudged towards Flint, looking at him he than turned outside indicating to throw her outside.
[Flint]you are one sick bastard
[Cloud]i was kidding.....
[Flint]really?
[Cloud]fine than i guess we need those 2 idiots.....
[Alita]no, no i know someone that can look after her, anyway whats your name little girl?
[???]...
not answering her they stood there in silence for a bit waiting for her to respond however after a few moments it seemed to be a bit too awkward, so thinking she didn't hear Flint asked again
[Flint]what's your name?
[???]...
[Cloud]hey um what's your name?
[???]it's Kayla
answering him right away both Alita and Flint were simultaneously confused and weirded out turning to Cloud shrugging his shoulders they all just carried on like it was nothing
[Alita]anyway like i was saying i know someone that can look after her so we should start discussing this mission in further length
[Cloud]you sure she won't just start crying?
[Flint]yeah the kid seems to have a thing for him
[Cloud]what the hell don't say it like that, it'll make me sound like a lolicon
[Flint/Alita]a what?
[Cloud]...never mind just carry on with whatever you were saying
getting the weird vibe out of the air both of the two just gave a look at each other shrugging it off Alita went on to discuss the mission they were put on which was the subjugation of the dark guild that Rose and Cloud had been caught by, after they finished discussing the mission they were to head out tomorrow so sending Kayla with Alita and Cloud.
they had ended up at what seemed to be a old run down church looking at it Alita seemed proud and happy well Cloud and Kayla seemed dumbfounded, looking at her Cloud was looking at her as if she were a complete idiot.
[Cloud]alright Kayla come with me i'll just get a nice apartment with a nice lady okay?
[Kayla]okay brother
[Cloud](BROTHER!?!!)ye.....yeah big bro will get you a nice pla-
[Alita]come on just give it a chance, the people here are really nice
after a while of thought they decided to just see what this crazy lady had in store for the both of them, knocking on the churches doors, after a few moments the doors opened revealing a pale man with a parted haircut style that was a hazel brown however what put Cloud on edge was his everlasting perched giant smile.
[Kayla]can we go please?
[Cloud]of course we can (even i would have nightmares of that face)
grabbing Alita they left the scene before Alita could refute, after a while Cloud had found a nice apartment in a nice area of town, leaving Alita with Kayla after much difficulty he left of to pay someone to look after her, taking half an hour of being turned down because of his suspicious look someone had finally taken up the position, a young girl who look the age of at least 16.
arriving back he and Alita had finally left towards their main building, grabbing Rose and Batu along with Flint and a few third rates, they all started gearing up and getting ready for combat, sheathing his Katana and playing with his throwing knives, knocking on his door was Flint telling him it was time to go.
2 days later
with 27 men stationed in the surrounding forest currently observing a large ruin like structure that held more than over 50 men, so counting on these numbers from Cloud, Alita started giving orders with Rose and Batu covering and were on distraction with 8 members so a 10 man squad all up well Cloud was on infiltration with 5 members, Alita takes point with another 7 in rescue and return along with Flint who held 5 for planting bombs to turn this ruin into bits.
getting there orders Batu and Rose left towards the storage room ordering all of there members to await an ambushed attack, leaving towards various storage units and setting a fire to them, they started alerting the guards, with Flint he was currently awaiting the distraction, and after few moments, he quickly left the scene taking out any guards on the way, and started reaching various areas and placing many bombs to deal with the enemies.
Rose and Batu were currently being chased by a total of 15 men, leading them to the ambush point after a few moments of running they were all caught in a fierce battle with Rose and Batu winning.
back on Clouds side he was currently with 5 members hiding each member in the shadows and leading them to many troops and hitting them one by one, everything was currently going clean and smooth.
[Cloud]alright you two are to take careful measures here, the guards have been alerted and i feel 4 presences coming this way, take them if you can, however if not run got it?
[Member1]got it
[Member2]leave it to us
nodding he left however feeling the job too high for these third rates he decided to throw his knives back killing 2 and injuring a another left only 1 more, thanking him they finished the job and decided to go forward to start fires.
Alita was as of now rescuing the injured men as a lot of reinforcements had arrived and they had started an all out battle, as of now it seemed that Alita side and the dark guild were on even ground.
well Cloud quickly made his way to the heavy presence he felt, it was like a surge of pure power.
[Cloud](what kind of monstrosity is this)
rushing through the corridors, he made his way with heavy and quick bursts of kicks, each sending him further, after a bit of dashing through he found himself at what seemed to be a chamber that looked like it was built for a titan, looking around he wondered why he felt so nervous and so tense, with sweat drops running down his forehead he unsheathed his katana, closing his eyes he sensed around.
after a few very brief moments of sensing he felt it the presence and it's location.....above him, looking up he was greeted with a giant spider like creature with a dark hard rock material all over it's body.
[Cloud]This, shouldn't be...shouldn't be physically possible
afraid of this 8 legged arachnid the beast launched a ton load of poisonous liquid towards the floor appearing far from there he was perched on to the wall staring back at the creature as all it's eyes stared back at him, recording every possible movement and watching every action he could make, disappearing the spider lost him, sending out a large quantity of poisonous gas to try and seek him it out, unfortunately it had no effect since Cloud seemed to be inside of the shadows.
taking advantage of this he quickly threw his throwing knives however giving of no real damage they ricocheted of off the beast, watching this Cloud cloaked himself in magic letting off a large burst, still not quite effective only leaving burn marks he knew he would only be wasting magic energy, wondering what to do he kept dodging thankfully the creature was very slow, so he could use that to his advantage however he also knew that he doesn't have an infinite amount of stamina.
thinking for a few brief moments he came on to something using all the shadows of the room to his play he forced all the density of the area that the spider was in and started forcing all the black energy down, trying to crush it, it started to roar out at him in pain, he was also losing fare a amount of energy, not able to keep it up he quickly stopped before completely losing everything.
after a while of dodging again Cloud was becoming quite tired not able to do anything of change the situation he felt like he should use his remaining energy and escape about to do that he started engulfing himself in the shadows till.
(BOOM) came crashing in with smoke and chains, it seemed to have been 2 figures, looking over to who it was the smoke started to clear revealing Alita and Flint.
[Alita]what a hideous monstrosity
[Flint]WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!?!!