14: blue eye'd angel.

Tak! Thwip!

Lisa swang from building to building, she had left old town an hour before.

It was now ten thirty.

She usually stayed out until twelve o clock, however, she was determined to find the man in black. So tonight she was willing to stay out as long as possible. Of course she rememberd what happened last time, she was nearly killed. And she got Jack killed too. She hated remembering that night, but...

The horror of it all was still freshly ingrained in her mind, after all it only happened a few days ago. One would think that Lisa would have gotten somone to come with her, like billy, or someone from another church uptown.

But, she was determined to find him and capture him by herself, this was personal for her after all... He was the only key to finding Nicolai, and Nicolai was the last person who saw him.

She knew of course the danger of the situation, and she knew better then to handle things like last time. So...

She made sure not to use her Arc-circuits at all in the past few days, plus she also made sure to grab more then just her dagger.

She landed on a building, she was in Chinatown. She had tracked the man in blacks string of murders over the past few days all the way here, she had access to police reports and there data base through a member who was working as a police officer who often gave info away to fellow hunters.

Usually when a case seemed more then just a run of the mill homicide.

Lisa lifted her wrist towards her face and pulled back her sleeve. She pressed a button on the fat end of her gauntlet, towards her forearm.

It bagan to let out a low hum as a light began to shine from the middle of it. And suddenly a holographic map of the city began to protect our of it.

That and the built in police radio bagan to

Let out chatter about things happening in the area, everything from people getting tickets to possible drug deals being spotted was being blasted through the radio.

Lisa crouched down and scanned the area for anything out of the ordinary.

"..."

It was a few minutes, but her scanners picked up on something.

!!!!

The the gauntlet had the ability to sense whenever something to do with magic or demonic activity was happening.

You see they go both hand in hand, demonic power and magic, sense magic itself is an ability given to humans by fallen angels.

They always give off an energy signature, almost like that of a heat signature...

Suddenly she heard a scream coming from an alley near the building she was standing on.

And so she leaped off the building and parkourd her way down to the alley, she grabbed her dagger as soon as she landed.

Especially after seeing just how strong the man in black was, she had cut down hoards of goblins and monsters with her dagger alone, and had defeated many sorcerer's as well, but the man in black was on another level.

That's why she made sure to bring as many tools as she could to even the odds.

She walked into the alley and called out.

"Hello?"

Suddenly another screem was heard.

"Help!"

She rushed to the end of the alley and saw a woman cornerd at the end of the alley, and there standing in front of her. Was the man in the black trench coat.

With no hesitation she raised her hand and charged her circuits in her arm, blue lighting crackled in the air around her.

!!!

A bolt shot out at the man, he was hit in the back and fell to the ground, she yelled at the woman. "Go now!"

The Lady gave a silent thank you then ran and passed the girl, when she was gone she approached the man in black carefully, and cautiously. She pulled out a pair of hand cuffs that were made of arc-metel and were doused with holy water and anointing oil, these cuffs were designed to keep a mage from using there magic.

She reached down to grab his hand, but before she could grab it, purble energy and a cloud of black energy shot out of his body and launched her into the side of the wall.

"Ack-!"

She hit the wall and slid down to the ground, she reinforced herself to make sure her body wasn't too damaged.

She got to her feet, and when she did she noticed the man in black had as well.

"So... We meet again." She sed.

The trench coated man gave no reply.

"Well... Good. I've been looking for you"

Lisa pulled out a pair of brass knuckles, putting them on her right hand, while keeping her dagger on the left. "Don't underestimate me, the only reason you nearly killed me last time was because I was unprepared. But this time... This time I'm read."

Blue lighting began to escape her body, her hands glowed orange.

Those brass knuckles were also made completely of arc-metel, that and with alchemic engineering they had the ability to generate and double Arc-energy whenever it was passed through it.

Giving the user double the amount of strength they'd have just from using arc-craft alone.

Lisa's ocean blue eyes glowed with intensity, her angelic face was filled with determination.

"Now... Your gonna tell me we're Nikolai is, one way or another, even if I have to beat it out of you." She spoke calmly, yet with authority.

"And it looks like I'm going to have to... So prepare yourself, my name is Lisa Elwood, daughter of Thomas Elwood. And as his heir it's my duty to finish what he started. Understand?"

The man in black didn't move or say anything for a few seconds, but then he gave a nod.

"Good. Let's begin-"

And with that, Lisa took on her stance she took in a deep breath. And so did the man in black.

There was a few seconds of nothing happening... Then-

Batoooooom!

Lisa and the man in black rushed at each other so fast the naked eye could not see it, they clashed, they exchanged blow for blow, hit for hit. Lisa was not holding back. She still had no intention to kill him. However she knew that it was not the same for him. So she needed to take him down fast.

Pow! Pow! Pow!

Cathud!

Clang! Clang! Shang!

The pair kicked and punched and deflect each others blows, Lisa perried away his slashes with his blade.

"Ha!" Lisa's hand glowed brightly as she powered up her brass knuckles.

Then with one hit she sent him flying, he fell to the ground. Tumbling until he came to a stop. "Urk-!"

He quickly got up, the man in black gritted his teeth underneath his mask. He was getting vary agitated. "..."

He rushed back at her, pointing his blade directly at her chest, she dudged out of the way and kicked him right in the gut.

"!!!"

He turned back to her and let out a primal yell, like a farrel beast. And lunged at her.

"Sha'moch!" He yelled, black energy seaped from his body, and then a silhouette like a shadow appeared behind him.

"Sha'moch! Sha'moch! Sha'moch!"

More appeared as he continued to say it over and over, he reached for Lisa's hand and picked her up and slammed her into the ground. He was gonna stab her but she leaped out of the way.

Lisa's eye's widened as she saw what the man in black had done. He had made shadow doubles of himself.

There were at least five of them, maybe six.

"Damn it!..." She whispered.

She griped her blade tightly. The man in black crossed his arms and took a step back, as if to watch a show. Lisa clicked her tongue.

"I've taken on worse.... This is just gonna be a distraction from the real fight." She reassured herself.

"No matter... I'll just have to take them out fast, Let's go!"

She dashed forward with all her might.

!!!!

She stabbed the first in the chest with no problem whatever, then she turned her attention to the next.

And the next, and the next.

Within no time she was able to cut them each down with ease. 'guess he must be bad at using shadow magic.'

Lisa thought to herself.

The man in black was completely caught off guard, he thought that this girl was just some beginner hunter. But no...

She was practically dancing around his shadow doubles. He was impressed.

She cut down the last one, all of there body's dissolved into nothingness.

She glared at the man in black, and pointed at him. "It's you and me!"

She declared. "You, and me."

The man in black gave a nod, she had now earned his respect. "I agree." He spoke to her the first time.

"Hmm... So your taking me seriously now huh?"

"Indeed. I do not speak to opponents who I find are not worthy, you however have earned become someone worth honoring in my eyes... You are strong, I expect no less from the daughter of Thomas Elwood."

She smiled a bit. "Why thank you. Though your a dirty murderer... I don't want your respect." Her face became stoic once more.

"I kill for a purpose."

"What? Power?"

"No... My master and I are trying to save this world from the God you surve."

Lisa's eyes narrowed.

"The God I surve created this world, it's your gods who corrupted humanity, made them evil. are God loved us through are evil and humbled himself and became human and let us kill him so we can be forgiven."

"I know of your 'gospel' slave of yahway-"

He sed in an almost disgusted tone.

"Your brainwashed, he wants to control you. He wants you to be his slave."

"Id rather be a slave to God then a slave to sin and Satan, because Satan is cruel. Though he's convinced you he's not."

"I do not surve Satan! Neither does my master!" He exclaimed.

"We surve the gods of old! And even if they were created by your God as you claim, they still deserve to be worshiped!"

"And why is that? What has the pagan gods done for humanity? Rape them? Curse them, turn them into deer and let there own dogs rip them apart? Giving people madness for saying another god is more attractive then them?... Meanwhile are God is constantly forgiving the world of its sin and keeps the universe in balance."

The man in black became irritated,

"Enough talk girl." He snarled.

"Let's finish this."

"Yeah. I agree."

The man in black began to chant, calling opon the forces from beyond.

Lisa charged her circuits at full power, her core was shooting as much arc-energy throughout her whole body as possible.

"Haaaa!!!!!"

"Hyaaaaa!!!!"

Lisa's entire body was covered in blue energy. The man in black in purple.

One thing was certain, this would be the end of the fight.

They clashed.

!!!!!!

...

...

...

The Victor rose, the one who lost fell.

"Your... A lot stronger then you look."

Sed the man in black.

"It's not me, it was the favor of the Lord opon me." Lisa sed as she stood above him.

"I see... "

She grabbed her cuffs.

"Now, your coming with me."

"No..."

Suddenly his whole body became enveloped in black smoke. "Wha-!?"

And with that, he was gone.

"!"

Lisa stood there for a moment.

"Damn it!"

She had lost him again...

"You gotta be-"

But she noticed something, something laying on the ground. Something that could help her find him and his master.

It was a piece of cloth from his coat, she must have cut it off during there fight.

She ran over and picked it up.

She looked at it for a moment and gripped it tightly. 'Soon daddy, soon I'll find him and find out what really happened to you.'

She put it in her pocket and leaped to the top of the building, then swang her way through the rest of the city. Continuing her patrol for the night.