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Chapter 12 - Fire of Unknown Origin.

Part 0: Beginning of the End.

Arc 2: Battle for Karitori Chiku.

(Sam and Isabel are sitting inside the restaurant as they wait for their food to be delivered to them.)

Sam: So... how's it going?

Isabel: Well I guess it's going fine, and with you?

Sam: Fine, I guess.

(Both of them are thinking "Crap, I screwed up.")

Sam: What's your favorite song?

Isabel: Country Roads and yours?

Sam: Don't Fear The Reaper, but I really love every Blue Oyster Cult song.

(On top of the clocktower, stands one of the cloaked men, overlooking the town, in the middle of an alley, is the other man, he starts drawing a pentagram onto the ground with crayons.)

A waiter: (He puts Sam and Isabel's meals on the table.) Here you, young love, always the most special.

Sam: T- thanks. (He looks out the street and sees people running down the street.) Huh, what's going on out there?

(Angelo walks into the restaurant and stands behind Sam and Isabel's table.)

Angelo: Mr. Reyes. I want to talk to you for a second.

Sam: Umm, Kane told me not to, but sure.

(Black dogs, with spikes growing out of their back, they have red eyes, red like you've never seen before. They have sharp rows of teeth, that don't even fit inside their mouths and protrude out the side, and a bite strong enough to break steel in half. They rampage through the streets, tearing apart everybody in their path.)

Angelo: Oh forget what Kane said, I just- (He hears the roar of an engine come rolling down the hell.) What's th-...

(Kane's car rams through the building at full speed, hitting Angelo and sending him flying. He puts a cassette tape inside the radio and starts blaring "Ace of Spades" by Motorhead as he gets out of the car, carrying an iron baseball bat and a pair of kunais in his coat pockets.)

Sam: WHAT!!!

Kane: Sam, do me a favor, take your lovey dovie and beat it!

(Sam takes Isabel's hand and they run out of the building together.)

Kane: Well... if it ain't the lazy fuck himself.

Angelo: (He starts standing up.) Oh hey, Kane.

(Kane immediately boots Angelo in the face and hits him with the baseball bat. As Kane goes to hit him while he's down, Angelo rolls away and jumps to his feet.)

Angelo: (He takes a bite out of a sandwich sitting on one of the tables.) Let's go then!

(Kane goes to hit Angelo over the head, but he blocks it and grabs the bat, pulling it down, causing Kane to lose his balance. Angelo grabs the back of Kane's head as he trips and slams it straight into a plate on one of the tables, Angelo drags Kane's face across the table and throws him towards the counter, Kane starts pulling out the pieces of glass in his face.)

Angelo: (He starts walking towards Kane.) Last words?

Kane: (He starts reaching into his pocket.) You just ruined my brother's date.

(Kane pulls out a kunai and stabs Angelo in the knee with it, Angelo screams as he gets stabbed with it, Kane kicks him away and gets to his feet. Kane grabs Angelo's shoulder and starts punching him relentlessly in the face, his grin growing wider with each subsequent punch. He yanks the kunai out of Angelo's knee and places it between his ring and middle finger and punches Angelo in the left eye with it, he grabs his right arm and stabs Angelo through the hand, Kane kicks Angelo away from him. The area around the stab wound is burning away and turning to dust.)

Angelo: (He holds onto his hand.) GAAHHHHH, WHAT-THE-FUCK?!

Kane: Pure Silver, it causes extreme pain to Reapers when they get in contact with it.

(Angelo looks around him and sees a knife that he throws straight into Kane's arm, causing him to drop the kunai. He takes this opportunity to try and run away from Kane, but Kane takes out the other kunai and hits Angelo straight in the back. As Kane walks to Angelo for the killing blow, he notices the hell hounds creeping towards him from the outside, and when he turns back to Angelo he sees him gone, but the back door is wide open.)

Kane: Motherfucker ran!!! (He stands ready to face the hell hounds.) Come on little puppies, get the snack!!!

(Three of the dogs are suddenly shot down, and as the fourth one lunges at Kane, none other than Able grabs it and keeps its jaws wide open. Carter walks right up to it and shoots it through the head with a browned steel revolver, it is his Elementa, ranged weaponry that he can summon in, it fires Magica rounds that can rip apart enemies if it reaches the third act of a symphony.)

Kane: *Panting* Of course, it's you two. (He falls to the ground as the effects of Sloth set in, whenever someone is in the presence of the sin of Sloth for an extended period of time, they become tired and worn out, even if they haven't done anything exhausting.) Thank hell.

Able: (He picks up Kane and puts him in the driver's seat.) You should go to the Training Camp. They'll need your help with this.

Carter: Able!

Able: (He looks down the street and sees the cloaked man walking through all the hell hounds.) You should go.

(Kane closes the door to the car and speeds away.)

Carter: That him?

Able: Hey One Winged Angel!!! (The man takes off his hood revealing his thin face, with dull gray eyes, and white hair that falls to his neck. He throws off his cloak, he is wearing a black leather double-breasted jacket over a white shirt, with white suit pants and black shoes, driving gloves, and the necklace of a pentagram. He has an incredibly thin build and stands at 6'5ft (198cm) tall.) Yep, that's him. t

Carter: (He just shoots at Asmodeus, but his shot gets deflected by a shining silver longsword, the cross guards are the heads of two wolves, and the grip is covered with black leather, and the pommel has a dark red crystal in the center of it.) Well, I'm out of ideas!

Able: I'm not.

(In his right hand, out of flames emerges a large black greatsword, sharp on both sides, for most, it would be near impossible to wield, but for Able, it's as easy as lifting a feather. Throughout the blade is the engraving of a tree, the branches twisting and turning until they come to a sharp end, in the center of the tree is the engraving of a cross with golden gems on the points of the cross, that glow as Able holds the sword. The pommel is a demonic hand that looks like the talons of an eagle. And the grip is wrapped in a white cloth.)

Able: You ready?

Carter: Born.

Able: Let's dance!

(Able rushes towards Asmodeus, chopping up the hell hounds that run at him as he runs down the street, he grabs the head of one of the hounds and looks prepared to leap up in the air, he lightly jumps up, but throws the head in the air instead, diverting Asmodeus's attention as he looks at it. "Think fast!!!" Able delivers a superman punch straight to Asmodeus's face, turning him around. They engage in a flurry of their blades, sparks flying everywhere as they clash. Asmodeus is shot in the back by Carter, he sees him and kicks Able away, he starts walking towards Carter, MENACINGLY.)

Carter: I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I am so sorry!!!

(Able throws Excalibur at Asmodeus, grazing his head and cutting off a few of his hairs.)

Able: (He opens his arms wide open.) Forgetting about someone?

Asmodeus: (He turns to Able.) I'll wipe that shit grin off your face.

Able: *Shock* HE SPEAKS!!! Please tell me you recorded his first words!

(Asmodeus turns back to Carter, to see a gun pointed straight at his face. "Oh, I'm always rolling" He knocks the gun away just as Carter pulls the trigger and stabs him in the stomach. Able rushes him and swipes at him from every angle, just as Asmodeus prepares to deflect one of his attacks, Able throws the sword into his other hand and lands a blow on his shoulder. Asmodeus jumps back to look at his wound.)

Able: (Standing next to Carter) Ya alright?

Carter: (Holding onto the stab wound.) I've had worse, go, I'll join you in a minute.

(In the Reaper Training Camp, all the Reapers and Hunters are rallied together.)

Anderson: Is that everyone?

Suzuki: (Looking at a notepad.) We're missing the two Pendragons, Vekter, Reyes, and Adachi.

(The car arrives at the Hunting Grounds and stumbles out of the driver's seat of the car. Peter and Gabriela rush to help him.)

Gabriela: Are you alright?

Kane: Tired as shit, cut and bruised here and there, but further, I'm fine.

Anderson: (He walks up to Kane, with Jericho.) And where were you?

Kane: I gave Angelo a proper ass whooping, the attack's already started, my brother and Carter are dealing with some of the hell hounds, Sam and Isabel.... god I hope they're safe. There's gotta be easily a 100 or more of those hounds.

Anderson: I see, Haves, Trustein, take him to his resting quarters.

Kane: Oh nonono, I'm coming with, I can still stand.

Anderson: That's a request, you already did your part, the rest of us will take it from here. Aragoto!!!

Aragoto: (He jumps to his feet and does a salute.) Yes, general!!!

Anderson: Take Jericho and go into town, deal with some of them in the meantime, Suzuki, separate the hunters and Reapers into two teams. Team one is clearing out the town, while Team two is helping with getting everyone out of town, you should go with the 2nd team, you might have to deal with the Dusk Walker. And since Team Two will be underequipped, at least compared to Team One, no member is allowed to go alone into the town.

Suzuki: Yes.

Jericho: (She looks at Anderson as he walks past her.) And what about you?

Anderson: I need to make a phone call.

Aragoto: (He has his hands behind his head.) Let's go, Jericho, whoever kills the most hounds is paying the other's tab.

Jericho: Like hell I am!

Suzuki: Alright, if I say your name move to the right, you are on team one. (They all move to the right as he says their names.) Peter Trustein, Kelly Dine, Frederic Blaine, Valentina Taylor, Theobald Cobb, Eddie Cadwell, Mia Skeldon (He lists off more of the Reapers and Hunters.) And finally... Origami Zitalia. As for team two, Louis Martin, Gabriela Haves, Erik Marina... (He lists off their names, I'm a bit lazy to come up with so many \_-_-_/ ) You will be handed weapons soon.

Reaper: (He starts breaking down in laughter.) We're all going to die!!! Aren't we?!!!

Suzuki: ...maybe... I will ensure to the most of my power that all of you will stay alive, trust me.

(Meanwhile inside one of the buildings, Sam pushes one of the cupboards in front of the door, while Isabel covers the windows with the furniture in the house. They both sit down on the ground next to each other.)

Sam: *Panting* That should hold them if they find us. (He takes a deep breath.) Some first date.

Isabel: Yeah. (Sam starts silently laughing until he can't control it.) What's happening?!

Sam: (He rubs his eyes.) This reminds me of this one time Able, another girl and I were playing in the field while Kane, who was supposed to be looking over us, fell asleep.

Isabel: Well what happened?

Sam: It's a bit of a long story.

Isabel: (She takes a bottle of soda out of the fridge that she used to board up the window.) Well, we're probably going to be here for a while, so why the hell not?

Sam: (He takes two glasses out of the cupboard.) Why the hell not?

(Isabel pours in the soda and they toast the drink.)

Chapter 12: End.

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Next Destination: "Dance"