The Reaver laughed as he heard Krieg. "So you've got more than one assassin after her, huh? Well don't worry. She'll be safe in her realm. They won't be able to find it unless she has a link from there to the mortal world. She's not that dumb, is she?" He looked back to Shira and Ellise. "Alright, I suppose the slapping can always be done later. One healing tag for everything I know about "them". Fair trade right? You get what you want and I'm out of your hair faster." He then turned his attention to Vincent. "That was all fairly accurate. Remind me never to play Clue with you. But hey, like I said, as long as your mom's realm doesn't have any connections to the living world they won't be able to find it."
Shira looked at Vincent and nodded before pausing. "Machinist Order..." she muttered as she recalled some of the info she had gathered and pieced everything together. "Now there is that Ghost guy and them to worry about." She looked at Vincent "Go ahead but Emma is with Herald who is hostile to anyone trying to get into his territory. I don't think you will be able to get in since he most likely only allows himself and Emma to get into his territory." she said. She looked at Krieg "For him and the Order, stay on the down low for now." she said.
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━━━━━━━━━━━━ Ellise frowned "Yeah... how do we know you aren't going to run off?" she asked. She walked over and placed a tag on him but it didn't glow "It won't activate until I tell it to. So start talking." she told The Reaver with a serious expression. ━━━━━━━━━━━━
Vincent looked towards Shira, "I've met the two already and I've found out where they are staying, but it is as you say. The only ones that are allowed to enter are him and Emma." Vincent then looked over at the Reaver, then Ellise. "These two, however, are an exception, seeing as they give off the same smell as Herald and Emma. Brother, told me all about the alternates and how they are connected to one another." Vincent stared at the Reaver, "Judging by your injuries, you were in Herald's and was soundly defeated by him and Emma, along with some other person. If that is true, then that means you and Ellise are the only two that can enter without needing permission." Once again, Vincent had came to an accurate conclusion. "Hostile or not, I am going to find my sister." Whether he was worried about Mirai or just angry that she dragged the entire family into her troubles once more, was unknown. "Ellise, open up a portal to Herald's territory, no open up one right in front of your counterpart." he commanded. "Brother seems to place a lot of trust in Herald, hopefully, he will not do anything to cause yet another fight between them again." Vincent stated, rather sarcastically.
"Heh. You know me too well Ellise," The Reaver said as she put the blank spell tag on him. That had actually been exactly his plan. Maybe flip them a middle finger as he left. He nodded at Shira. "Yeah. Machinist Order. They exist in our world too." He back at Krieg. "They might have. Who knows? They're willing to hire people to do their dirty work if they don't feel like doing it themselves." He shifted his attention back to Ellise. "You know them. I think they're the only guys we've ever cooperated to fight against once or twice." He let out a small breath. "So yeah. They're here too." Finally he looked at Vincent when he heard his suggestion. "Nonono don't do that! Herald will assume I'm the one who let you in and come to finish the job!" He said quickly, holding his hands up. He paused for a moment before frowning. Suddenly he lunged forward and grabbed Ellise by the hand, pulling her on top of him. "Get down!" He yelled, putting his hand on the back of her head and pushed it down against him seconds before the door to the apartment suddenly exploded inwards, sending shards of wood in every direction. Two figures walked in seconds later.
The girl seemed serene, her expression blank as she surveyed the group of people before her. "There." She said in a simple, emotionless tone as she pointed at Vincent. The second form standing next to her was a lot more bizarre. It was a large, insectoid-like creature that seemed to be wearing some kind of metal armor. Either that or the creature itself was metal. It seemed to be in a constant state of spasm, its head quickly rolling and right as it continually shook. It made a faint rasping and clicking noise but uttered no understandable words. As soon as the girl pointed towards Vincent the bug creature with the giant scythe turned to face him. "Link Slicer. Eliminate the target." The creature responded immediately, lunging forward and swinging its scythe in a wide circle at a shockingly fast speed, attempting to slice Vincent in half with a single stroke.
Shira looked at Krieg "That would make sense I suppose. I would prefer one group than two." she said. She looked at The Reaver "Crap... then Mirai is in deep trouble... Texas supposedly works for the Order..." she said before she felt a wavelength and grabbed Vincent, pulling him behind the couch the same time The Reaver shouted. The door exploded open and she saw two figures "Dang it..." she muttered before standing up. She saw the one being attack then and quickly grabbed Vincent again, yanking him back away from the attack, she barely avoided it as well.
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━━━━━━━━━━━━ Ellise blinked as Shira and The Reaver talked about the Order "Then that means they are sending someone here who deal especially with Witches..." she muttered, she knew a bit of info about The Machinist Order though she never came face to face with them. Some of her friends in the past had told stories about them. She looked at Vincent "Uh sure... but I have a good relationship with---" she was yanked onto The Reaver then and was about to push away when she heard an explosion and saw debris flying everywhere. She felt her ears ring from the explosion before turning her head and seeing the two figures. "Wow they are fast..." she muttered under her breath. ━━━━━━━━━━━━
Before he could respond to the Reaver, Vincent would hear him shout and seconds later, the door to the apartment exploded, causing splintered wood to come flying off towards everyone. For some reason, Vincent did not seem shocked or surprised, with his hands in his pockets, he erected a black barrier around him, stopping the fragments from reaching him. Still standing, Vincent looked towards the area where the door once stood and saw two figures standing there. One was a little girl and the other looked as if it was some sort of metal creature. Watching as she pointed at him, Vincent already knew what was happening. "So, you came to me, which means you know of my existence as well." he muttered. "Either way, this saves me a lot of time and trouble looking for you." Vincent stated just as the metal creature came lunging at him, swinging its scythe towards him. Reacting quickly, Vincent summoned one of his father's swords and held it horizontally, but Shira would intervene and moved him out of the way of the creature's attack. Looking towards her, Vincent seemed upset that she did so, "Get away from here." he told her, he knew that Shira would put herself in danger and he did not want to feel responsible if she died.
The Reaver grimaced as he saw the two new figures come in. It was a Machinist Team. They were serious about killing Vincent. "Ellise, activate the healing tag," he told her. "Now. Like, right now. Please." He had let go of the back of her head but was still holding her on him with the other hand as he kept his eyes on the two Machinists. "Listen to him Shinigami," the girl was saying in her emotionless tone. "Lord Death is still too powerful. We're not here for you. Yet." She looked over at the Link Slicer. "You hear that? Don't hurt her." The Link Slicer opened its mouth and chittered some kind of reply though only the girl seemed to be able to understand it. Gooey saliva began to flow from the Link Slicer's jaws as it advanced towards Vincent again. It took two steps forward and then suddenly exploded in a blast of purple smoke. It's wavelength appeared suddenly behind Vincent as it brought down its scythe to try and slice him straight down the back.
Shira frowned at Vincent and shook her head "I'll let you fight but I will be backup if something goes wrong." she told him as she backed away.
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━━━━━━━━━━━━ Ellise frowned as she stared at the two figures from the Order. She heard The Reaver then and looked at him, she blushed for a split second as she realized she was still on him. "Right!" she managed to say before touching the tag which activated and began healing The Reaver. She got up then and looked at Vincent and the two beings as they began fighting. ━━━━━━━━━━━━
Facing the duo, Vincent had a serious look in his eyes, there were a few questions that he wanted to ask the girl, but before he could even say a word, the metal creature would explode into a cloud of smoke and seconds later, appear behind the boy, once again, aiming to kill him with its scythe. This time, however, Vincent was more prepared, having already figured that the duo was designed to handle witches and warlocks such as himself, he knew that his magic would be weak against the creatures, which is why he was using his father's ability to summon both holy and demonic swords. Summoning a second sword in his hand, Vincent turned to face the creature, holding up the swords in an 'X' formation. This would block the scythe, "Shira, in all honesty, you aren't fit to back me up. I would prefer the two alternates, as their powers would be more suitable in this situation. You should find a way to locate brother and mother and make sure they are alright."
The Reaver breathed a sigh of relief as he felt the healing power of Ellise's tags wash over him. "Man, now I know why you use these," he said as he slowly sat up. His immense power wasn't yet fully recovered but his wounds were healed. When he heard Vincent he held up his hands. "Woah, don't drag me into this. It's not my problem. ....unless there's something in it for me I mean." The Link Slicer pushed harder on Vincent's swords before leaning forward and in between the X of his blades so that they were face to face. The creature let out a shaky hiss before it opened its mouth and a stream of gooey fluid shot from deep within its throat. To a being like Vincent the liquid would burn like lava and cause serious damage. As this was taking place the girl folded her hands behind her back and walked past the two fighters, stopping to place herself between Shira and them. "No. You will not. You will not be participating in this fight," she told her blankly.
Hearing the Reaver, Vincent smiled, Hm, who figured that you would be the cowardly type. I guess you and Herald are different. To think, his counterpart would run away from a fight." As he said this, Vincent looked towards the creature and watched as it moved its head towards him. Opening it's mouth, the creature shout out a strength gooey substance. Not knowing what it was or whether or not it was deadly, Vincent didn't wait there to find out. Releasing his blades, Vincent jumped back, avoiding most of the substance, however a small amount still managed to land on his right left hand. The moment it made contact with him, Vincent felt excruciating pain. It felt as if his hand had been dipped in a bucket full of lava. The was so painful, that Vincent could no longer hold his second sword. Falling to one knee, Vincent looked up at the creature, clearly he was no match for it, but that would not stop him. However, if a small amount of it did that, he didn't want to know how painful it would be if all of it had reached him. With his left hand still usable, Vincent clenched his sword tighter and ran towards the creature, aiming to slash its neck.
Krieg looks at Shira "Only possible explanation." He saw an attack happen and stands up looking at the attacker. He looks at both the attacker and says "You wanna know fear? Ill show you fear and ill slice your eyelids off so you can watch the end! Excuse me for a second." He started to create bombs in his hands "Strip the flesh! Salt the wound!"
Shira frowned slightly at both Vincent and the girl "Well fine then... open a portal..." she said. She saw Krieg spring into action then "Dang it so much for this place staying in one piece..." she muttered under her breath.
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━━━━━━━━━━━━ Ellise shrugged when she heard The Reaver while eyeing the two people. ━━━━━━━━━━━━
The girl looked over at Shira when she heard her ask for a portal. "Done," she said simply, reaching into her dress and seemingly pressing some kind of button. There was a crackle of electricity in the air before a portal slowly opened up in front of Shira. She looked back at Krieg when he got up and seemed to issue a challenge. "If I were you I'd take a hint from the guy in the cloak and stay out of this. You'll only get yourself hurt." Meanwhile, the creature was still in combat with Vincent. When Vincent ran towards the creature and slashed at its neck, the sword hit dead on. The Link Slicer didn't even attempt to move. For a second nothing happened. Then there was a slight *c***k* and a hairline crack appeared in the armor. That was the extent of the damage. However, the girl quickly looked over at Vincent when she heard the crack, her eyes widening slightly. "Hm. These hybrids are a lot stronger than I thought. I suppose Saint Clara was right....Oh well. If you add two abominations together you simply get a bigger one." Meanwhile, The Reaver had folded his hands behind his head and lay back on the couch. "Hey man, don't complain at me because I don't want to jump into your fight. I'll tell you what: if you pay me I'll help out. Your brother paid me $900 bucks to help him, but I understand if you're not near as strong as him and can't manage to get that. I'll keep it at 100. If that's the best you can do. Can't expect you to match your brother." While he was saying this, the Link Slicer was gearing up for another assault. It flipped the scythe into one hand and attempted to backhand Vincent with its free hand before aiming a quick one-handed slice of the scythe straight towards Vincent's chest.
