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When she wasn't firing, Chello used the metal on her knuckles to punch through a few heads. Looking over her shoulder, she noticed Legault leaving. "Are you serious?" she hissed. "Guess he left us..." With a sigh, she turned back to her work. Lifting one abover her head, she threw it at a cluster of them, sending them all flying. When they hit the ground, shadows engulfed them, causing them to disappear.

Duama floors five more zombies and sighs. "No doubt about it. If this is the work of this horseman then I'm afraid...our little friend Aya's father is the horseman of Death.">_<

Legault ran slicing through the Zombies with his claws. He continued until he stopped at the middle of town. He stopped seeing the Berserker and Shade standing there looking at him. The berserker grumbled a bit and growled as the foman numeral one glew on the back of his hand, The Roman numeral three glew on the thight of Shade as the Roman numeral four would glow on the front of Legaults neck.

"you in the way" Legault stated to them.

"Your interferring" Shade replied in an equal cold tone.

The berserker took a step foreward and dissapeared in a blurr as LEgault would do the same stepping back. The earth woulderupt as they moved down their path showing where they were zig zagging before crashing into the nearest biulding. Shade merely smiled and turn to leave the two to play.

"Leaving so soon?" ^_^ Shade's eyes were wide as Duama was standing back to back with her. "Im afraid I cant let you leave quite yet, I've got some questions for you. Ms...."

((Just to Note, Shade is a Wolven Girl Duama. And Legault is actually The horsmen of Death))

Shade looked to the side for a moment as if she was lookign to Duama. Her Wolven ears perked up as she would move to speak but would be interrupted. She would crouch and force herself into the air before having The berserker crash out of another home and slamming LEgault in the exact spot where Shade and Duama stood.

Shade landed on a nearby roof sucking her teeth before shaking her head.

"could he be any more destructive" she says before sighing "we haven't even found the Gate yet"

((Got it))

"Hmm he can be a bit wild, but I suppose that's why they relate to one another. ^_^ Now Miss as I was saying...I dont think I could let a cute girl like you get mixed up in all this please walk away." he said his voice almost pleading with her. Duama once again seemed to escape the carnage unscathed.

((sorry it's been so long. I injured myself good this time.))

Shadow looked to four's panic stricken face and followed her gaze to Aya's bedside. The two walls her bed was against were apparantly warping, as if they were bending and shifting, and Aya was scrunched into a ball in the middle of her bed. Her small fists clenched as if she were in pain, and tears were streaming down her cheeks. Aya again cried out, still asleep, and her whole body convulsed. Gabriel ran to her side and touched her shoulder to wake her up. Her light eyes flashed open, and a wild look was all she could muster in her panic. Aya clenched his arm and tried calming her breathing, for she was hyperventilating. She took one deep breath and he leaned down to her level, straightening her out on her bed.

Four came up besides her and ran her fingers through Aya's hair, something her mother used to always do when she was scared.

"Something terrible is happening... I-" she gasped, "Gabriel! He-he..." She again began crying silently, her first burst of speaking in a long time apparantly was too much for her. But what was troubling her?

Gabriel looked down at her, he was worried for her. But he would not allow himself to show it. "It is alright you just need to relax, it will be fine, just relax then tell me what is happening." He said to her softly. He then looked at number four wondering what she was doing in Aya's room. Number four didn't notice she was to worried about Aya at the time to even look up.

Aya sat up and leaned against his chest, trembling. "chest-head...hurts." she mumbled against his shirt. when she spoke this the atmosphere in the room again changed, the lights dimming slightly, the temperature seemed to crawl upwards; she didn't seem affected, or to even notice, but her trembling grew stronger as if she were colder.

"mommy." Aya's chest shook with a silent sob and she hugged him, desperately needing contact. After a moment of silence, she pulled her head away slightly from Gabriel's t-shirt, just enough to be heard, and began to rock slightly. Images were flashing across her mind. Legault, dark figures swimming through her vision, blood red rooms, she could hear crying, screaming, feel the terror of innocent victims and pure hatred, and just as she opened her mouth to speak,her father's face flashed across her mind, an evil, vehement look on his face. His eyes were burning and he had the most twisted expression on his face that her insides flopped. This wasn't the father she knew and it scared her.

Aya abruptly pushed Gabriel away and curled up in a ball, shaking her head. This was something he was used to seeing when she was in a sorry state. She used to hide in her closet, curled up under a comforter her mother gave her when she was small. He was the only person who could coax her out so many years ago-besides her mother, but this was different, she hadn't done this in years, since she first stopped speaking several months after her mother dissappeared. Four gently called her name but Gabrielle stopped her. The room was now very, very hot, the light barely illuminating the features in the room. They were now sweating and number four shed her coat. Aya though, was still trembling, hiding her eyes, holding her head with her hands.

"Leave us." He told Number four. she gave him a concerend look but when he didnt responed she went out of the room and stood on the other side of the door. Gabriel bent down next to Aya's ear, "Hey, I have been thinking alot lately, and i have come to a conclusion." He began, "There are some things i need to do, by myself first, but after that i can fullfil the promise a made back then." He said this being the only time since she had last seen him so many years ago that he was talking in a gental voice. "We can leave this world behind, the two of us can go to a place where we will no longer be bothered, Just like i promesed." He was now on the verge of passing out from the heat but he had to keep going. "I will lay down my guns, and the two of us can live happily in a place where monsters no longer exsist." He was becoming light headed as he spoke. "but for that to happen i need you to relax, you need to calm down, and untill that happens i won't leave your side." He siad gently and witha loving tone. He was staying up by a mear fource of will.

As this was happening Number four could see the heat coming from under the door. as she was watching number one walked on by. "What is happening?" Number one asked he when she say the look on Four's face. "What is going on in that room?" Number one went to touch the door but it being all metal it was two hot to touch. The room was sealed and they were both trapped.

Gabriel wrapped his arms around Aya and he held her close even though he body heat was causing his to rise even more. He would not let her go even if he did pass out from the heat.

"Awe how sweet" she said moving her hands behind her back enlacing her fingers, "oh how i wish i could go back. oh how i wish i had a choice to live the life i once had but.. due to things you don't understand. That can't be. I'm edoing everything i can to at least have my life returned to me. "

Shade then looked at the ground to see the Berserker Drag legault through before tossing him up and using his sword like a bat to hit Legault through a series of more biuldings. Legault layed in the seconds story of one of the biuldings. It was a childs room and he crashed through the window, crib and into the closet. He couldn't move now. A beatingh from such a monster took its toll on him and knocked him out .. for now.

The beserker stood with cuts and wounds about his body now bleeding slightly before looking up to Shade for direction. Shade herself nodded to the berserker before turning her head slightly to Duama, "if you wish to stop me.. try.. if not i shall take my leave"

Chello grew bored after killing so many zombies and slunk into the shadows, appearing next to Legault. "Hey..." she nudged him lightly. "You ok?" Seeing he wasn't responding she sighed and looked up to the berserker. "I can't believe i'm doing this." She held a hand out to the side, watching as shadows danced in her hand, soon forming a black blade. She then charged the monster and with one strong swing of the sword, slashed off one of it's arms. Stopping infront of it, she braced herself. "Where do you think you're going?" She smirked knowing it couldn't answer and waited for it's next move.

Aya shied away when came towards her but she quickly let him hold her. He was being sincere, she knew this, but still feared something would keep him from returning. She shook her head desperately and began signing to him feebly, but he shook his head. "No, do one thing for me and speak." he whispered, clearly having trouble in the heat. Aya stared at him, taken aback, and shook her head frantically.

"My speaking is what causes this!" she cried frantically, "This is why i stopped in the first place!" she pushed at him, though she needed his contact, to hear him whisper the sweet promise she'd lived for her whole life. What if something happened to him? What was he going to do? She couldn't lose him, not after she lost her mom.

"Aya-" Gabriel mumbled, looking at her sternly, but his voice soft.

He's hurting, she realized quickly, I have to settle down.... Aya took a deep breath and leaned her head under the crook of his neck, dreaming up what it would be like when he did return, when he took her away to their own place where he wouldn't have to protect her all the time, where she wouldn't cause problems for people. She could see him happy and carefree, like when they were children. She wanted this more than ever.

Slowly the temperature crawled downward and her shivering stopped. It seemed Aya had fallen asleep in his arms, she lay motionless and her breathing was steady and strong, her crying had ceased. But after a moment, she looked up and gazed into his eyes, searching for... something. anything.

"Promise you'll be careful. Whatever it is has to be important... and dangerous." she stopped speaking for a moment, because she felt as if she would cry again, "I- i uh l- need you... but i'll do whatever you ask. You've always been here for me, I desperately want to be able to do the same for you, Gabriel."

Legault layed there as Chello nudged him. He couldn't move. He was knocked out for now... And then she left. She left a moment before the room door opened. A man looked out to see her leave and chop off the beserkers arm as he merely smiled.

"Seems like its time to cast away me weakest toy" the man said dawning a large trench coat with silver hair (Think Dante without the sword), " And you" The man said before turnign to look at legault "You still continue to clig to what humanity you have. Heh. Funny Very funny"

The man merely went to grab a chair and set infront of the closet facing toward Legault before sitting in it himself. He soon spark a cigarette and take a drag of it before blowing out a line of smoke. "Aya never liked me smoking. She said it was a bad habit of mine. You know whats funny.. She blamed my smoking the reason why she never kissed me. Heh, ... i already knew why" and with that he flicked the fire into the closet before it set a blaze. It seemed to change as well. The inside changed to that of hell as chains soon were coming into veiw wrapping about Legault, "And thanks for finding Hel''s gate too.. i know exactly where heaven's is now.. and i aim to take my daughter there with me. Congrats Legault.. you have served your purpose"

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Meanwhile.....

As Chello chopped of the Berserks arm it merely grunted looking at Chello. He felt the nudge but the pain was void to him. His body soon blurred from the position it was as the earth was erupting towards her on her right side. Soon the Berserker would try to come down at her from the sky with his sword.

Chello met his sword with hers, pushing back against it, the berserker matching her strength. She grunted and pushed harder. Taking a quick glance in Legault's direction, she hissed, pulling back the sword and swinging with all her might, sending the berserker back a few feet. What do I do? She thought, glancing nervously between the berserker and Legault.