Weiss Kreuz Fan Fiction ❯ Oceans Apart ❯ What's a snipe? ( Chapter 4 )

Oceans Apart

Chapter Four

Seeing the total change of Crawford's expression, Ran frowned. "What's happening?"

In a very Oracle-y voice, he said one word. "Trouble."

Following after Crawford, Ran ran out into the living room to stop dead in his tracks. Standing in the middle of the room, looking about with hand on his hips stood a man fully clothed in black, the monochromatic color scheme only broken by the brown belt loosely strapped around his hips with a bag tied it.

Talking to no one in particular, Ran shifted into Abyssinian mode and watched with narrowed eyes as the man turned to face them, and was slightly startled by the eyes. They were the color of the Caribbean and slanted upwards at an almost unnatural angle.

Almost glaring at the intruder, Abyssinian shifted his right leg back, angling his body at the newcomer. Even without his sword, he can still pummel anyone stupid enough to get in the way of his fists.

Talking to no one in particular, the man was commenting about how nice the apartment was. Seeing the varying startled, stunned, deadly expressions on the faces of the occupants of the room, the man smiled. "Sorry about the rude interruption, but there is something of yours that I need. And you will give it to me, as you have no real choice in the matter."

Schuldig smirked, "Funny, every person who says that to us tends to wind up dead."

The man shrugged, turning his hands out and smiling, "Really? That's good, I'll have to remember it."

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Behind the strip of black cloth tied across his face - where does Janis come up with these outfits? - Rayne smiled out at the members of Schwarz… which were more than four… Dammit! Rayne frowned softly, why couldn't even a simple thing like this be easy? He just had to get four items from the four members of Schwarz. Totally basic in its simplicity, unless there are more than four people in the room… Rats. Now I'm going to actually have to think…

Feeling a slight brush at the frontal lobe of his brain, Rayne grinned, telepath. Following the "thread" from his mind to the source, Rayne found himself looking at the orange-haired man with the yellow bandana… the bandanna being one of the items on his list. Wow, he's making this a lot easier for me… Doesn't he know that the threads become a two-way street, if certain precautions are not implemented? Shifting his mind over to his Ocesion-mode, he sent his mind into the one of the telepath. Gathering all the information he needed, and then some, Rayne's grin widened, Nope.

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Totally unaware of what just happened in the last second and a half, Schuldig smirked, "Not many people smile in the face of death."

The "grinning idiot's" lips twitched, "Actually," emphasizing the word to show the speaker that he was wrong, he continued, "I'm grinning, not smiling, there's a difference. And I certainly do not see you as my demise… more like a nuisance that will easily be confronted and then corrected."

Schuldig spluttered at that one, "You come into our home to steal something of ours and then you insult us? When I'm done with you, you'll wish that you were dead!"

"Hmm, really?" Rayne asked, quirking a brow. If the Kritiker people were as fun as this, then the next two weeks shouldn't be as sucky…

"Raaaa! Pay attention to me when I'm threatening you!"

"Hmm?" Rayne raised both eyebrows, "Sorry about that…" and then bolted into action.

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All Ran, the Abyssinian of Kritiker could sense, was a rush of wind when the intruder darted by him. Faster than he had ever seen Schuldig run, this person gave a new meaning to the word fast. He couldn't even see the man's legs pumping with the run, more like a blur around the seeming-to-be stationary legs…

The black blur darted around Nagi, too fast for the kid to even think of using his powers. All Nagi did was blink after the man left his general vicinity, "N-nani?"

Seeing the confused look on his boyfriend's face, Omi took out his darts and threw them at the man, only to have him turn around and catch them all out of mid air.

Omi was speechless, but his target was not, "I think these belong to you…" and with a flick of his wrist, threw all five darts back at Omi. The action was so fast that by the time Omi's brain actually registered the fact that his weapons were flying back at his face, the cuffs of his pants were already pinned to the hard wood floor when Omi finally managed to yelp out.

Turning away from the Nagi who was now more concerned about his boyfriend than the intruder, Abyssinian watched as the man darted towards the next big threat, the psychopath.

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Watching the Farf - weird name - with narrowed eyes, Rayne found himself blinking to stop the effects of Farf's hypnotizing swinging of his arm. Good thing too, because the white-haired maniac then screamed and lunged at him. Throwing his body sideways, Rayne barely managed to avoid the knife from gutting him and instead receiving a shallow slice across his chest, ripping open his shirt.

Facing the Farf full on again, he waited for the next attack, and didn't have to wait long. The Farf lunged as Rayne placed his hands outwards, gripping the needle-like knife in both hands, Rayne easily flipped up and over the Farf, ripping the weapon out of his hands and landing behind him. And to add insult to injury, Rayne whipped out a sidekick to send the psycho-assassin stumbling into the violet eyed man.

Ignoring the cries of outrage from the white and red haired men, Rayne sped towards the telepath and snatched off his yellow bandanna before he even realized what was happening. Tucking both the knife and circle of yellow cloth into the bad tied to the belt circling his waist, Rayne stopped in front of the leader of Schwarz, the Oracle.

Smiling at him, Rayne said softly, "Betcha didn't see this happening…" And pulled the glasses from his face. "Thank you…" and Rayne turned to run, when he stood still and frowned back at the Oracle… Something about him was soo familiar… but what was it? Thinking, Rayne realized what it was. Those eyes, he has seen those eyes before, but where…?

Ripping himself from the memories that were trying to engulf him and sabotage his little scavenger hunt, Rayne barely managed to make it out of the apartment before the occupants were able to recover from his whirlwind and run after him.

Darting out into the hall, Rayne could hear their mumbles of what just happened, he can be so fast that at times it greatly confuses the mind, even psion ones. Stopping in front of the elevator he paused, elevator or stairs? With either one, the telekinetic can and will pose problems… Meh. May as well let Schwarz run down thirty plus flights of stairs…

Hitting the down arrow, the elevator pinged open just as the assassins sorted themselves out enough to run after him. Stepping into it, Rayne hit the door close button, and then pushed the button for the ground floor.

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Running down the hall after the little brat who made a fool of them, Schuldig stopped at the elevator and began cursing in German. Fuming, he stomped around until Crawford placed a hand on Schuldig's shoulder.

"There's only one was for him to go, down."

Looking from Crawford to the elevator, Schuldig smirked. "We'll meet him on the ground floor, and when the elevator doors open…" And Schuldig began laughing evilly.

Omi looked at Nagi, "Does he always get like this?"

Nagi sighed and shook his head, "Only around the full moon…"

Looking at the crazy telepath who was laughing over all the ways he was going to torture the "Brat who dared to make a fool of the mighty Schwarz", Ran turned his head towards Crawford. "Stairs?"

"This way."

Following after Crawford, they began running down the stairs. Puffing slightly and eyes crossing from effort, Schuldig whined out after the twentieth floor, "This is taking to long!"

Grabbing the railing in one hand, Schuldig vaulted over it and began falling down the stairwell. "Yo, Nagi!"

Shaking his head and rolling his eyes, Nagi lifted them all with his telekinesis and floated them down the stairwell and as well stopped Schuldig from splattering across the bottom floor.

Once on solid footing again, the group followed Schuldig as he ran to the elevators. Practically shaking in anticipation, Schuldig watched the floor numbers light up as the elevator continued its descent.

"Four… three… two… I'm going to turn his mind to mush! I'm gonna kill…"

The light for the ground floor lit up, and the doors slowly opened to reveal the empty elevator.

"… him? Where'd he go?" Wide-eyed with confusion, Schuldig turned to Crawford, "Are there Talents for becoming invisible? Or teleporting?"

Crawford just looked at him. Walking forward to inspect the elevator, he mused aloud, "Maybe he climbed up through the emergency hatch…"

Nagi, Omi and Farf crowded around the elevator trying to see where the person disappeared to, each offering up his own explanations. Turning to Farf, Schu had to ask, "Why would God make him disappear?"

Ignoring the Psycho's explanation, Ran frowned at the situation. There is always an explanation, and for the most part a logical one… For all they knew, this person who was dumb enough to confront Schwarz in their own home was smart enough to get off on a different floor and find another way down…

Hearing a tapping sound, Ran and the rest of the assassins occupying the lobby of the apartment looked around for the source of the sound. Turning around, they all saw Rayne rapping on the glass windows with his knuckles.

Grinning when he saw all their eyes on him, the little thief waved at them smiling. Amused at this turn of events, Ran watched the thief's antics. Why go to all the trouble to get away to just draw Schwarz's attention back to himself?

The thief pointed at himself, and posed, flashing the V for Victory sign. Then pointing to the members of Schwarz and the two members of Weiss, the thief pulled down on both sides of his mouth. Crossing his eye, he stuck his tongue out at them and started wagging it.

Lips twitching in amusement, Ran turned to Schuldig when his heard his exclamation of fury. Schuldig was being held back by Nagi's telekinesis, and was yelling and screaming his revenge and all the things that he was going to do to that brat.

Looking at Crawford and then Omi, he nodded his head. Omi nodded in response, and Crawford smirked. Counting to three in his head, on three they all went after the thief.

Seeing the two men and one kid run towards him, Rayne laughed softly. "Idiots."

Letting himself out of the main doors, he closed them as his pursuers reached the first set of doors. Closing the outside doors, Rayne placed a black bead from his belt onto the seam of the two glass doors. Pressing it in with his thumb, the bead cracked and was pressed in between the two doors, and then spread up and down, sealing the two doors together.

Turning his back to the doors, Rayne began humming as he hopped down the steps of the building. And when he heard the banging and pounding on the doors, Rayne's smile widened. Turning around to watch Berserker of Schwarz pound himself against the doors, trying to break the glass, Rayne smirked at them. Brining his fingers up to his lips, he blew them a kiss and turned around, and walked away waving over his shoulder.

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That same night, the members of Schwarz and Weiss were milling about in the basement of the Koneko no Sumu-Ie. The sounds of high heels clacking down the metal steps alerted them to Manx's arrival. Glancing at Schwarz with a slight frown marring her features, she walked past them towards Weiss and handed a card to Omi.

Holding the card up, Omi looked at it and asked, "What is this?"

Looking at the youngest member of Weiss, she replied, "That is a business card."

Floating the card to himself with his telekinesis, Nagi read it. "Relic Hunter?"

Ignoring the Prodigy of Schwarz, Manx turned towards the members of Weiss. "You will be working with this Relic Hunter on your next mission."

Omi frowned thoughtfully and then looked up at Manx. "Why would be need a Relic Hunter?"

"Because on this next mission you will need to stop an evil organization from destroying the world." Manx replied, shooting a look at Schwarz.

Schuldig rolled his eyes at her, "We weren't trying to destroy the world, but to people like you it just looked that way."

"Hn. Why do we need his help?" All eyes turned to Aya.

"Because you need him to recover the artifact before the organization does."

"Why don't you just destroy the organization? Deny the dark beasts their tomorrows…"

Manx frowned at Schuldig. "Unfortunately, we cannot do that."

Schuldig smirked, "Why not?"

Manx huffed and rolled her eyes in annoyance, "Because we do not know who they are…"

Schuldig laughed, "So, how're you going to stop an organization when you don't even know who they are?"

Before Manx could do bodily damage to Schuldig, Omi diverted her attention, "Manx-san, how are we supposed to stop the target when we don't know who it is?"

Smiling at the youngest Weiss member, she began her tale. "Not too long ago, several of our agents discovered the pieces of a broken tablet, written in an unknown language. When the pieces were brought together, the tablet fused into one whole piece and a strange light surrounded it; and the tablet was translated."

"Wow. Which language was it translated into?"

Manx looked to Siberian, "All of them."

A surprised look flittered across Ken's face, "How is that possible?"

Manx shook her head, "I do not know. All I do know is that World's End will be brought about, unless it is stopped by s Shining Light who is not entirely human, but not entirely not."

Schuldig raised his eyebrows, "Ohhhh! A prophecy! Gotta love how cryptic it is… Maybe that Shining Light is a flashlight!"

"Schuldig." Crawford said in a warning tone.

"Oh, come on Brad! This is ridiculous!"

"A ridiculous threat is still a threat."

Schuldig looked down at Nagi. Rolling his eyes, "Oh, sure. Side with your boyfriend."

Man looked confused, "Prodigy is involved with Oracle."

Schuldig's lips twitched in amusement, but before he could say anything Omi shot him a glare. "Manx, do you have any other information that you can give us?"

"Yes, but I would rather explain it only once. You will get the rest of the tomorrow when you meet with the Relic Hunter. Everything will be presented then."

That being said, Manx nodded her head at the members of Weiss and left.

After a few moments of silence, Schuldig said to nobody in particular. "This sounds like a snipe hunt to me."

Looking at Schuldig, Omi just had to ask. "What's a snipe?"