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Nova bolted around the corner, careful not to lose her footing on the ground, slick with rain, she weaved skillfully though the overcrowded sidewalk. Just a few feet behind her were the men in blue, waving their batons and shouting “Stop her!” while pushing though the mass of people. Nova risked a glance behind her and saw that she was slowly gaining ahead of them. But just by taking her eyes off where she was going for one second she narrowly avoided a collision with another pedestrian, but she quickly used the wind to push him aside, sending him to the ground “sorry “ she muttered as she flew pass him. Her eyes flashed as Nova spotted a break between to street side shops to her left, a Side ally, she darted into it using the wind to propel her self to go even faster, she angled her palms down towards the cement floor, a cyclone of water quickly gathered from the puddles around her, she silently thanked God for the recent shower. Nova propelled her self up onto the rooftops and hopefully out of sight. She scrambled across the roof top and dropped in the center where she was sure no one on the ground could see her, she slammed her back against the side of a heating unit, sliding down to the floor of the roof. She sat there for a small while gasping for air. Nova hung her head, her hair rippling down over her face like a cascade of liquid gold, “what have I done to deserve this?” she said, looking up to the clouds “what?” she asked the open sky, her sapphire eyes tracing the silver rims of the storm clouds “what did I do?”

Slate was at his normal place in the Park. sitting on the bench looking at the area between his feet. Hearing the bustle in the city beside him of the police and sirens his head rose. He blinked to himself underneath the bandages and eye patch as he soon rose as began to walk away.

"I guess she's not visiting me today" Slate said before walking into the foilage of leaves behind his bench to only dissapear.

a guy on a roof top pulled out a sniper rifle and took aim on Nova. He then fired the gun, the bullit went wissing through the air. and right before it hit her, she heard a clinging sound and two bullets droped down on the roof causing her no harm. "What the hell" the guy with the sniper rifle said, "what stopped that shot?" He asked the open sky wondering what could have gone wrong. Just then he heard foot steps behind him. He turned around to see a guy in a long black trench coat holdng two guns one witha red cross and another with a white cross. This guy also had icy blue eyes that showed no emotion or remorse but have seen alot of death. "What the hell are you doing up here?" The man with the sniper asked

"You are not athorized to kill that girl." The man said as he pointed one of his guns at the guys head.

"Hey what are you doing?" The guy asked as he puleld out a pistol as he began to fire at this new man on the roof. The other guy in the trench coat began to swing his one arm around as he knocked the bullets out of the air with his gun, not leaving a singal mark on it. When he stopped his hand was at his chest and a tatoo could be seen. It was zero with some sort of cryptic writing around it. The guys eyes became wide. "You can't be..." he began but was then cut off.

"My name is Gabriel Stone, I am the zero number, the eraser. And that girl is my target and I can not allow you to kill her. For trying to take a numbers mark you are to suffer the ultimate price death." Gabriel began. "Prepare to be erased." Gabriel then vanished and the next thing the sniper knew Gabriel was right underneath him with his gun pointed up into his chin. Gabriel was looking straight a head and then fired. the bullet went right through this guys head and he was killed right away. Gabriel then stood up and tunred to look at Nova who was looking around for what she had just heard. Gabriel then pointed his guns at her taking aim. Then Nova looked up at him and seemed as if she was pearing into his ice cold eyes. Gabriel then lowerd his guns. "Your life is spared for now." He said mainly to himself. he then turned and walked away. he pulled out a phone and dialed a number. "She is still alive i did not feel it fit to kill her at this moment." He siad into the phone. "Right it will be soon though." He added as he closed the phone and then vanished from atop the building.

Nova had been ready to counter the bullets when they stopped in mid-air and dropped to the floor, she flinched, and then looked around for the person who helped her. She already knew where the sniper was but who stopped the bullets? Something out of the corner of her eyes caught her attention, there was another man in the roof with the sniper So that’s who must of stopped them. she thought. Nova just faced forward and watched them from the corner of her eye. Gun shots were heard, but the sound of the city drowned it out. But she jumped at the next shot, because it was much louder then the others. Screams rang out from the crowd below, reaction to the shot. She could picture them scrambling about below her “damn” she whispered then stood up. For the first time facing the strange man and his gun barrel, she was glaring really. “why couldn’t he just use a silencer like the rest of them” she said hotly as he lowered his gun “now I have to find a new hiding spot.” Nova was puzzeled why the man didn't try to shoot her but she was jolted from her train of thought when she heared the police below her shouting orders. Nova just went around them, jumping from building to building, using the wind to help her glide to the other side. She glanced at her watch “crud, I’m late.” She then turned and started for the park, she was to meet Crimson there, the only reason they were to meet at the park was because that’s where they could always find Slate.

Crimson was waiting for Nova in a tree. She swung her feet back and forth while listening to music. She's lateshe thought as she looked at the time on her phone. Crimson looked down at the bench where slate usaully is and he wasn't there. "well that's a bummer."

Out of mid air a nut hit her in the head.She looked to her right and saw a little squirrel with it's beady eyes. Crimson grabbed the nut and threw it back. " plop goes the squirrel,"she said as it flew back in a hole in a tree.

Gabriel walked along the street with his guns hidden in his coat pocket. He was to meat the comitee of numbers to decied what to do about this girl and why he hadn't killed her at that moment. He walked with his hands in his pocket as he walked he finaly came to a building that looked emaculate. he walked in and then into a big white room. there were 11 screens set up and then figures that were blacked out began to appear on each one. "Number Zero, why did you hesitate to kill your target." A voice rang out from one of the screens it was a deep masculin voice that seemd to comand respect. "You were given your number because of your abillity to kill without remorse, and the fact that you did not need a partner to help you carry out this mission." He continued.

"For give me Comander, it is not that i have become soft, i noticed this girl also seems to have abilities and she had spoted me so for me to have killed her it would have caused more of a comotion then she is worth." Gabriel retorted to the camandors response.

"Gabriel, if you feel that you need assitance to terminate this girl I can help you if need be." A girls voice cried out.

"Now, number four, number zero is perfectly able to handle this girl by himself. And if he can not or will not he knows what his fate will be." The comanders voice boomed once more.

"I will terminate this girl as soon as i am able to Comander, please allow me more time?" Gabriel asked as he bowed his head a bit.

"So be it, this meeting is over, your mission is to erase the target as soon as possibel no exception, you will check in with us in four days, if she is still alive then i will send out other numbers to deal with you and the girl." he threatend then clicked out as did the rest except for one screen that stade a bit longer after the others. this screen had the outline of a girl.

"Please be careful Gabriel and please finish this soon." She siad in a concerned voice then clicked out.

Gabriel nodded at the empty screens then walked out of the white room back into the main hallway. he then continued out of the building and back into the strets only to vanish into the crowed of people

"Sigh....Where is she??", Kyoji said as he walked slowly thru the park. "She was supposed to meet me here a half an hour ago...Something isn't right. She never is late." He kept walking until he met up with Crimson. "Hey Crim...say, where's Slate? Usually he's here...Oh well." He sat down under the tree. "So have you seen Nova? She was supposed to be here, but she late. I have a bad feeling about this." He lowered his head and began to worry. "Let's give her some more time."

Nova saw her friends out in the park, and smiled lightly, she jumped down from the roof, after looking around for any cops or potential assassins. The wind made it so that she would land silently behind them on Slates bench “late?” she asked, all traces of worry that had been evident early were now gone. Replaced with a carefree smile that she hoped looked genuine. “I am never late…you people are just too early.” She said in a matter of fact tone. “Speaking of late, where’s Slate? It’s just plain rude to keep people waiting.” She told them crossing her arms and looking around like she was looking for him, but she was really just scanning for any suspicious characters.

"wow nova..... you were late,"crimson said as she jumped down from the tree. "and slate disappeared."
She looked up at the pretty clouds in the sky. ....

(( im really tired and sry i cant really think right now so that's all im going to say.))

Slate came back morphing out from the bushes zipping up his pants looking around seeing everyone was asking from him. "Hmm you were looking for me?" he asked before moving to his bench sitting back down on it as a small yellow bird would fly down chirping at his feet.

Nova nodded and looked to see that everyone was there, she sighed “I guess I’ll cut right to the chase” she said, putting on her poker face. “I wanted to discuss something with you guys” she told them, her eyes looking to each one of their faces then to the ground “I can’t tell you how thank-full I am of your believing me…and helping me figure this out. But I’ve realized that even hanging around any one of you will put you guys in danger. At the very least they would bring you in for questioning…” Nova focused on the little bird at Slates feet and took a deep breath, struggling to keep her voice even.” I guess what I’m trying to say is that I think its for the best if we don’t meet any more. I understand I’m taking a risk but I’ve done this before, I’m good at disappearing. I just don’t think I would be able to live with my self if any of you got hurt.” She fell silent after her ‘speech’ It felt like one of those long rants of a noble hero in a story book, but she felt far from a hero.

Slate was half listening to her. the bird at his feet wrapped its attention. it was looking up to him chirping peacefully before jumping up and landing on Slate's finger that he decided to hold out for it.

At the moment as Nova would say that they shouldn't meet anymore, slate would interrupt putting the bird in her face. "it think its trying to tell you something" , Slate statedas the bird chirpped to her and flew away as four other birds flew with it and were flying waya together away from a hawk that began chasing them.

Slate merely looked up at it raising a brow before leaning back inot his bench "animals are strange"

Gabriel walked the streets looking for a sign of Nova, he watched the police and people scramble around as they did the same. He walked and began to wonder what it was that allowed people to kill and to commit such hanase crimes. He himself new he was no different he had no remorse for those he killed nor did he ever question it, although this time before he shot, he looked into her eyes and it told him to find out the reason he was supposed to kill this time around. He vanished from the street and was on top of a building in no time. He moved faster then most humans can see. The only way to see him is if you slow him down or have the same speed power he does. He got to the roof of a building that over looked the entire city. He looked around and spotted a group of people in the park, the only reason this caught his attention is becasue of the glowing blond hair that was flowing in the wind. He pulled out his two guns and aimed them once more at his intended target. He looked down the barrel of the gun with the white cross on it. But he soon lowerd it. He looked at his guns and began to think once more. "What is it i was put on this earth to do?" he asked himself as he stared at the guns. He flipped his right hand over to look at the tatto, the symbol of all he had ever known. He soon figured he had to kill this girl no matter what the reason was. He soon took aim once more he fired his gun in his left hand the one with the white cross on it. The bullet flew through the air. Gabriel turned before the bullet hit its target. "Damn it." He said as the bullet missed by a few centimeters only taking of a strand or two of Nova's hair. Gabriel then walked out of sight. "I must find out the truth." Is the solution he came to. He then vanished from the building and began to walk to the park to see if he could try and have a civil conversation with her before he ended her life. He then began to laugh wildly at the stupidity of this idea. He was given wierd looks aa he laughed all the way to the park.

"They are strange aren't they?" A voice asks from the shadows as a flaming carcase of the bird slate was holding fell in front of Nova. "You are Nova. Am I correct? The serial killer on TV?" The voice asks.

((Shadow, her hairs Blond :p lol)) Nova jumped at the sound of gun fire “damn, get down!” she said quickly as her eyes connected with the tip of a black trench coat, and a few strands of her hair falling to the ground beside her, she took a deep breath and looked around to see if anyone was hurt. Her sapphire eyes then darted to the bullet hole in the ground “that was too close” she muttered to herself “I should have been paying attention” she then heard a unfamiliar voice from the shadows, then the sound of something dropping to the ground..it was burning. Nova didn’t have to look, she didn’t want to look, to know what it was. “Yes, My names Nova...and no I'm not the killer on the news.” she addressed the voice, her body tensing, ready for anything. Nova knew her friends could take care of themselves but she still didn’t like the fact that they were in danger because of her. “you have mistaken me for someone else” she told him trying to make her voice soft and under control. Nova then saw the unmistakable black trench coat..headed their way,"sh!t".