Azura

Hikari replied Misha "I'm alright, but you look like you took quite a beating.. Thanks for saving me, I might have died if it were for you." She smiled as she pulled herself off from the ground and got back down from the roof. Hikari grabbed her phone out of her pocket and noticed that the call was still on. She quickly said "Sorry for keeping you waiting, Zeke. I was kinda busy keeping myself alive I forgot about the call completely. Here's my location." Hikari pinged her exact coordinates to Zeke's phone. She walked over to Misha knowing that he seemed to know something about healing wounds with magic. "Do you think you can patch up this wound of mine?" Hikari asked as she sat down and untied the cloth that was wrapped around her wound on her leg.

As Misha was preparing a rather killer spell of his, he was doing something in the background that Misha couldn't see, or at least was too busy focusing on his gun-like spell to notice. Shrapnel split the steel construction parts that were stuck in the ground on the road that was placed down before Misha teleported up and created 12 needles per bar and shot them at Misha. 96 deadly spear-sized needles flew through the air at the speed of a Gatling gun that headed straight towards Misha and Hikari, who was immobile from her wound. "Watch out!" Hikari shouted with her dying breath before she used the last of her energy to throw herself behind cover, which happened to be some sort of vent. Shrapnel knew that he was in for a treat that was going to go straight through his head. A huge grin emerged from his face as he hopes that his last attack was a worthwhile one before the beam went straight through his head and back out, creating a hole through his face, blood spilling from his head as he fell backwards. A puddle of blood formed from the gaping hole between his eyes. The needles started landing nearby, one of them which landed on Shrapnel's chest which pierced his already-dead corpse like a marshmallow on a stick. Six of them were heading straight towards Misha and the others shot straight through the building.

Shrapnel quickly covered his eyes since he cluelessly assumed that the yellow beam was a flashbang due to his previous flash attack that was shot at him a few minutes ago. When he uncovered his eyes, he noticed that Misha was rather close to him, and before he could react to his blade attack, it struck down into his flesh. Before the blade went any deeper, he used his other hand and pushed his hand along with his blade away. He groaned in pain as he shot half of the metal pieces on his body towards him like a shotgun.

Hikari removed the knife and tied up her wound with her shirt to stop the bleeding. Her phone started to ring, so she crawled towards her cellphone that was lying on the floor a few steps away from her and answered the call. "H-Hey Zeke.. Where are you?" She said in a rather exhausted tone as if she was out of breath, feeling light-headed from blood loss. ---------- Shrapnel knew that his opponent was capable of putting a hole straight through him, but only within a close range based on his assumptions. He looked around and spotted a construction site, near the area where Kenji was hacking a crane. There was a frame for a skyscraper that was being built out of metal, which was rather convenient for an esper like him. He pointed his hand towards the top of the construction site and picked a few of the metal bars on the top and shot down downwards towards Misha, purposely missing him. "Did that wake you up from the fact that I won't be beaten by a magician like you that easily?" He shouted down at him from the building. There were eight steel bars that were struck into the solid ground are around 6 meters long.

Shrapnel knew that he wasn't going to walk away with just a few scratches if he took that hit from his attack, instead, he decided to be play a little bit more defensively until Misha runs out of energy or dies from blood loss. He double-jumped upwards by using the metal that was inside his shoes and stood on side of the building that Hikari was on which was only two floors high and had a flat roof. 'He wouldn't dare shoot anything towards me as long as I'm around this girl.' He thought as he glanced at her.

Shrapnel dodged the fiery blast directed at his legs but he was struck in the face with a punch. He didn't know what he could do as he watched Misha charging a rather deadly-looking blast in his other hand, that is until bullets were fired towards him, which gave him an idea. He concentrated with his mind and bent the direction of the bullets towards Misha's legs and arms within a second in hopes that it'll stop his shocking attack.

"I don't need someone like you to be lecturing me at a time like this.." He replied Kenji before hopping to his right to avoid the beam from hitting him before the metal melted. "Thanks for melting it, Magic Boy." Shrapnel said with a smirk before launching it into the air and divided it into fifty pieces of hot melting metal which shot down from the skies like falling arrows.

He spotted a metal object of some sort being tossed at him. "Who's side is he on..?" Shrapnel thought as he dismantled all the metal atoms and re-assembled it into a circular piece within a second as it flew through the air towards him. He placed it in front of him without using his hands, but his esper powers, aligned it with the beam, the piece of aluminum and his face as he controlled the metal piece with his right hand. Based on what he knows about aluminum, it has a melting point of around 660° degrees. He wasn't sure what sort of temperatures his beam was capable of, but the aluminum block that Shrapnel reshaped wasn't holding up well.

He took the hit as he was too blinded to see anything, and even though he could feel his shield being penetrated before he felt the impact of his fist colliding with his chest, there was nothing he could think of to stop him. Shrapnel got knocked backwards by quite bit. Blood started dripping out of his mouth but luckily his ribs didn't break. "Not bad.." He said before taking a deep breath and tossing the car that Kenji was controlling towards Misha.

The man knew something was wrong when Misha shot another beam similar to the previous one, but what he doesn't understand is why he came running towards him. He noticed an SUV charging straight at him. "How annoying.." He mumbled before he aimed his hand at the vehicle and stopped it right in it's tracks and forcibly tearing the four tires out of the car with his powers. The beam blew up straight in front of him and blinded him. He couldn't see anything, but he quickly controlled all of the metal pieces that were hanging around him and created a sphere of metal bits surrounding him. There were gaps in between each piece and it couldn't block anything other than a simply melee attack.

The man who calls himself Shrapnel decided to stay silent and tries to figure out what to do with him. "Why exactly are you fighting me? Is that girl anything special to you? You'll get yourself killed trying to save her.." He said teasingly before tossing two make-shift metal bars both ways, left and right, and shot it straight at Misha with the force and speed of a tank shell.

He took an aluminum block from his belt, tossed it in the air and shot it straight at his beam in hopes to counter his attack, which theoretically speaking should stop it right in it's tracks, even though he doesn't know what Misha shot out of his hands. "Let me ask you a simple question.. Do you have any idea what my powers are?" He said before tossing a handful of metal balls towards Misha and caused them to rupture, shooting out sharp pieces of metal that are hard to see or dodge.

The man glared at him with eagle-like eyes but decided to laugh it off. "Hehehe.. Aren't you a funny guy?" He said sarcastically with a grin on his face. "Telling you my real name wouldn't be a smart move, so you can call me Shrapnel for now, but that doesn't matter since you'll be dead in minutes.." He said as he carefully and quietly lifted Misha's sword with his powers from the grass field as he was talking and shot it towards his chest.

The man dodged the beam that Misha fired when he saw light reflecting from the shot. He shifted himself sideways, dragging himself to the right by controlling the metal and pushing him aside. He looked back and said "Trying to blast me into pieces before introducing yourself? How rude.." with a smirk look on his face.

"I'm not quite sure.. He could be back any se-" She was rudely interrupted when the cloaked man in his matte black Ford Mustang drove straight at her. Hikari propelled herself backwards and up, landing on the opposite building that was two floors high, avoiding from getting hit by his car. He got out and revealed himself as he ripped his cloak off. He was somewhat buff, with tons of metal pieces hanging from him, ranging from kitchen knives to magnets and shrapnel. He aimed his hands at Hikari and launched all sorts of metal objects at her, but was countered by Hikari's tornado aura which sent everything around her flying, but it wasn't enough when she realized an immense amount of pain when a knife penetrated her shield and went straight into her leg. "F-Fuck!" She shouted in pain as she laid down on the rooftop.

Hikari was breathing pretty heavily when she said "T-There.. Someone chasing me.. W-Where are you?" She started to calm down as she stood still at the front entrance of the apartment building. The security ran out and asked if she was fine and she replied "Y-Yeah.." as her heart pounded loudly.

She froze up inside the lift when she saw the door open with a stranger at the door and what appears to be someone who delivers pizza. Hikari sighed and assumed it was Misha's doing, but before she could walk out of the lift, the doors looked like they were being pulled by someone. Before Hikari could call for help, the lift was forcibly dragged all the way down back to the parking lot. When the doors opened, the man who was in the car watching her before stood right in front of her. "Your father knew a lot about the God's Hand, so I would assume you do too.. Tell me, and I'll let you live. If you don't, I'll crush you." The man said. He looked like he's in his 20's with a cloak covering almost every bit of him except his eyes and arms. Hikari didn't say a word and started planning her escape as quick as possible. "Staying silent won't help you for long.." The man gripped her by the neck with brute force, choking her with his strength. Hikari tried to focus while being strangled and shot a focused beam of wind towards the man from the back. Before he could react, he was knocked down. As he fell, Hikari kicked him in the face, pushing him backwards. She ran out of the lift since she assumed that his esper powers were based on metal so she started running as quick as possible out of the parking lot and out. He got back up with a bleeding nose and shouted "You don't think you can get away that easily, do you?!" He started lifting and tossing the cars in the parking lot towards her, but Hikari countered his attacks by pushing them back and slicing the cars apart with her powers. When Hikari got out, she ran as fast as she could towards the front of the apartment and realized that Misha's car wasn't parked in front of the apartment. "Where did Misha go?" She asked herself before looking back and noticed that he doesn't seem to be chasing her anymore. Hikari let out a huge sigh of relief. The cloaked man got back into his car and drove off with a bleeding nose as he slammed his steering wheel with anger and drove towards the opposite exit. Just when he was about to get out, metal bars shot from the bottom up, blocking his escape route. "How tedious.." He mumbled before he snapped the bars apart and drove straight out and headed towards a path that led him straight out of Novarius. Cops arrived when the security called for them, but it was too late. The entire parking lot was closed down for investigation and the lift for the parking lot was blocked off as well to prevent any accidents from happening. Hikari took out her phone and called Misha's number to see where they went.

Hikari took the lift and bolted back up to the apartment floor with her black backpack containing clothing, a few daggers, bandages, painkillers, and a silenced MP443 pistol with two magazines loaded with pistols. When the lift doors opened, she saw that Lily and someone else at the door.

She managed to circle around the building after taking her time slowly walking back. Hikari took out her car keys when she approached her car, unlocking the doors when she got there. She recalled that there was an entrance to the carpark when she walked over. "I guess that's it.." she told herself as she got in and started up the car and did a U-turn and turned a left and another left straight into the carpark. Hikari drove down and saw it was so much more impressive than she thought. She located the car slot for the apartment they renovated and parked in her car head in. As she got out of her car, she noticed that there was someone who sat quietly in his car, staring at her subtly. Without a second glance, she quickly grabbed her bag from the trunk of her car, closed it, locked the car and hurried to the lift which leads directly back to the apartment.

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Hikari wondered if she spoke to softly for Misha to hear her question. She walked over to the balcony and opened the door and before doing a crazy stunt that could get her killed, she said "I'll be back in a bit.." before backflipping off the fence and dived down. Before half way, she started to drag herself back up with her powers and as she reached the very bottom, she was hovering above ground. Hikari looked left and right before landing on the floor and realized that she was at the back of the building. She started heading back to the front of the apartment from the right side.

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