Rekindling the Spark

[Ruby Rose]

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"If you must know, little girl, this man is a criminal for assault and attempted assault on the Galactic Empire troops and watch guards! Now then, if you would please stop aiming that, thing at me, then I can carry on and arrest this man!"

one of the guys in the armour replied, irritated. Man, what was his problem?

"Gah! Oops...Sorry sir..."

I replied, my hand scratching the back of my head.

"Hmph!" the armored man grunted. I then spied the man slowly moving a knife toward the troop's arm.
"Look out!" I shouted, and his head snapped back to the man.
"Hey!" the man quickly jumped back, away from the two people.
"So long, suckers! Ever remembered that Omnilium heals? It may hurt a little, but it lets me get away!"

he boasted, wasting his time with small talk, before he began to run.

"Oh no you don't!" I called to him, aimed my sweet Crescent Rose, and fired. He dodged expertly. I fired some more rounds. Almost got him! It was now that the other two decided to show up.

I mean, seriously! What took them so long? I watched as Kanda dropped in with his black sword and engaged the criminal. This strange man - he was going up to fight a guy with a sword using a flimsy knife. What was his deal? But when Kanda taunted the man, I was astonished to watch the knife become a full-sized sword! Kanda himself wasn't too bad at dodging strikes either, as I watched him let the blade cut the air in front of him before counter-attacking, further missing the man that he missed Kanda. I attempted to assist by firing off more shots, but he still dodged them while attacking and dodging Kanda! It was like watching some kind of action movie, where everything's fast paced, but that one guy's world is moving slowly! If you've never seen a movie like that, then never mind!

This man actually ended up cutting Kanda's clothes, even with me pressing fire onto him. When my clip was finally out, I didn't bother summoning a new cartridge, as that would take way too long. Instead, I closed the gap between us and swung the scythe. The man still dodged the slash, even without seeing, and all I did was cut off some of his hair! This man had quite some skill, and a weapon like something you would find used by Hunters and Huntresses back in my world! He whipped out a second sword and proceeded to block my second blow while he pressed his attack onto Kanda.

Before long, I heard Mr. Layton shout, "Ruby, Kanda, get back!" and the two of us dashed to safety in the nick of time as two hats floated down to the ground in front of the man's feet. But what were hats going to do, you ask? KABOOM! The hats exploded, and when the dust that somehow was thrown up (we are in a place that's just white with no earth, after all!) cleared, the man was nowhere to be seen. Mission accomplished!

The guards thanked us, before I spoke up, "Well, we'd better head back now!" as my usual cheerful self. However, I noticed Kanda mentioning how quickly I got back to being cheerful, and how it was almost annoys me, and - well, you can probably tell I blew a fuse!

"Hey! I heard that!" I shouted at the man in the black clothing, and he seemed to almost yelp before jumping into his carriage and riding off with me in hot pursuit, playfully shouting, "There's no escape from me!"

And yes, for once I'll admit it, I'm childish.

I turned back to see Mr. Layton finally drive off. Why did he take his time? I guess that question will be answered later! But what had me flustered was his compliment to us, saying that Omni has a 'preference for extraordinary warriors'. To tell the truth, I actually blushed a bit!

"You think so?" I had my hands behind my back and was looking down at the pure white ground. You see, I barely ever get complimented, so that was quite a treat! Kanda seemed quite impatient, and actually voiced that. I went to reply back (or more like whinge back), "But... I wante-..." I began, but thought finishing it would be a pretty bad idea, "Fine go ahead," I said, basically crying on the inside.

Kanda drew that black sword and approached the gate. Payback time! As he was a bout to enter the gate, I dashed through before him, flashing a cheeky grin, and I could have sworn I heard him say "That damn kid," as I felt myself basically fall through space into a new area.

I forgot to make sure that Mr. Layton was coming!

Well, once Kanda makes his post, I'll put up a new thread in the Tangled Greens! This was a good run, and our characters have bonded quite well already!