Can I Call you Friend? Ch. 2

"Kuro-chan!" Lavi called out before hitting a weak level one akuma like a baseball with his hammer to Krory.

"Homerun!" he grinned watching it fly.

"Hey! Stop it with the Kuro-chan thing!" Krory growled while slicing through the akuma.

"Aw...but its cute" Lavi laughed, holding up his hammer and commanding it to grow to an unrealistic size to shield himself from Akuma bullets that rained from the sky.

"That's my point!"

"Hey you two! Stop fooling around! Miranda can't hold on much longer!" Bookman called out in his usual grumpy voice, hiding under the hammer and bopping Lavi on the head for good measure.

Krory bit his lip and looked back at the building that was covered in a gold light, on the roof of this building Miranda sat there trying to focus on keeping the shield up as Allen tried to keep akuma away.

"Miss exorcist! Are you alright?"

Miranda was panting heavily and fell to her knees, careful to keep her balance on the pointed rooftop. She kept her shield around the town house where the residents of this tiny village were hiding from the akuma that relentlessly attacked them.

"I...I'm ok!" she called out with a fake smile.
Allen was standing on another building, and looked over at her. She looked back with pleading eyes, he nodded, understanding and looked foreword, his left eye sprung to life.
"There are more coming!" he reported," The others are doing fine but you can't last that long!"

Useless.

"We have to separate the Innocence from the villagers, its what they want!"

"NOOO!!!! You can't make me!!!" an old man screamed from the inside, apparently those inside overheard the plan and so did the elder that clung to the innocence, which was his family heirloom.

Miranda and Allen stared at the town house that suddenly turned into a mad house.
There were things crashing, people screaming, arguing and the old man crying for his treasure to not be taken away.

"Miiiissss exorciiist!!"

Miranda carefully leaned to the side to see a man hanging out of the window with a small box in his hands.

"Please take it away from us!" he said before throwing it to her.
Though it slipped out of her hands a couple of times she recomposed herself and held it to her chest closely.

"Phew" she let out a sigh of relief and deactivated her innocence.

"Quickly! Get out of here! We'll distract them!" Allen called out and joined Miranda on the roof.

They didn't need to be told twice, the townhouse doors flew open and a flood of people ran out and away from the battle.

"Let's go" he helped her onto his back and quickly jumped away from the ongoing attack of akuma. Just as expected, the group of enemies kept their attention on the two exorcists that held onto the innocence they were after.

Miranda clung to Allen and the box in her hand like her life depended on it, which it did.

One, akuma were trying to kill her and two, Komui would have her head if she came back with a third failed mission this week.

She gulped and held onto the box tighter.

Allen ran, jumped and turned sharply to get away from the on going attack of poisonous bullets, hoping to join with the others for more support.
He winced; he took a bad fall before and was beginning to feel it now. He jumped behind a building and stopped to take a short breather.
"Allen! Are you alright?" she cried out in panic.
It took him a moment to reply," G-go take the box to Lavi and the others.... I’ll..." he panted slightly," I'll cover you ok?"
Miranda slowly climbed off of him, trying not to cry, he was in pain and she was too weak to help.
He smiled weakly," I'm ok...rea-"
Not a moment too soon they were found, Allen used his large arm to block the bullets.
"GO HURRY!"

Miranda ran off as he took out a few enemies before they could follow her, but there were more. The poor girl ran like there was no tomorrow, ignoring the bullets that barely missed her by mere inches and kept her eyes fixed on the battle up ahead where Krory, Lavi and Bookman were there to help.
But her bad luck caught up with her, she screeched to a halt when a couple of akuma stood in her way from progressing.

She gulped and slowly backed away, keeping her eyes on them, fearing any sudden movement could only lead to her death. As she started to turn the other way she then realized that the akuma chasing her were still there. She paled.

'Not good, not good, not good, not good...'
She was now backed up against a wall adjacent to her original path, clutching the box tighter.

As they lined up in front of her like some kind of execution line of gunmen, she looked back to where her comrades were, Lavi, Bookman and Krory.

Oh yea...Krory...

'I don't want to die here...I finally found someone like me. I finally found my friend...'
Allen saw this but was currently being pinned down by a large mecha looking level two akuma.

'Crap!' he aimed his gun canon arm up at the level two and fired, but missed,

"Wow...you're not a good shot are you?" it mocked with a laugh, not knowing that Allen had just sent out a beacon to the others.
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Sure enough, they all saw the shot in the sky.

"That's it. I'm going. Lavi!"

"Roger! Now boarding!"

Like clockwork, Krory jumped onto the hammer and Lavi swung as hard as he could, rocketing the vampire exorcist into the fray.

As his flight was coming to an end, he saw Allen stuck with a level two and Miranda backed up against a wall with a line of akuma canons aimed straight at her. He knew he was too high up for neither of them to see him. Yet he still clearly heard her scream before being devoured in a shower of bullets.

"K-K-K-KRORY!!!!!!"
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"Miranda!" Krory swooped down and sliced through the group of akuma that were too busy firing at her.

Allen panicked and shot the level two right in the eyes to stun it for a moment. It stumbled enough for him to break free and quickly take out the remaining distracted akuma.
With the akuma gone, the firing stopped.

Miranda stood frozen for a moment, the impact of the blast caused her to back into the wall a few inches causing an indent. There were holes all over her body and soon she felt the poison creep around her wounds and into her. She finally let the box drop after so long of holding onto it and fell over like a limp rag doll.

The moment Krory landed on solid ground he ran over to her, he knelt by her side and held her in his arms carefully.

"M-Miranda! Wake up! Miranda!" he shook her gently.

Her breath was short and weak, her eyes loosing life and she stopped moving. Soon black stars began to appear on her neck and face.

Krory bit his lip and looked up to find Allen, help, anything. But he was busy fighting off the level two from before.

It still made him nervous, to bite one of his friends. But he didn't have a choice if he wanted to save her.

He whispered apologies as he reached in and moved the collar of her shirt to expose her throat; his fangs suddenly began to itch.

He finally leaned in and sunk his fangs into her throat; she let out a weak whimper in pain when he pierced through her skin. He wanted to pull away but found himself latched to her neck when he tasted fresh akuma poison blood in his mouth and it was good…really good.

Somehow it was different than the last time he did this to Lavi, whether he knew it or not, Krory became more possessive by holding her close while his other hand carefully held her head, tilting it enough to give him more access to her neck.

He purred and took in full gulps, the black stars on her skin slowly began to move towards the wound he created, he was literally sucking the poison away.

Allen and the level two froze in mid-fight and watched.

"...Whoa..." Allen went pale.

"And you exorcists call us monsters!"

“...” Allen looked up at the akuma and glared at it.

”HI BAN!”

Allen yelped and jumped back, away from the akuma he was conversing with that suddenly burst into a cyclone of flames.

“Hey Allen! Pay attention! I can’t save you all the time!” Lavi grinned, resting the giant hammer on his shoulder.

“Sorry but…I didn’t know Krory could do that” he pointed to the vampire exorcist who had had his fangs still in Miranda’s throat.

Lavi turned white and shuddered, he even turned around to look away,” Y-yes…he can do that…and I’m still traumatized”

“It’s a useful technique, and he saved your life” Bookman grumbled.

“THAT’S NOT THE POINT! HE FREAKING BIT ME!” Lavi screamed and pointed an accusing finger at the short man.

Lavi’s yelling brought Krory back into reality, he quickly let her go and wiped his mouth.

“M-Miranda?” he shook her gently again.

She groaned a bit before her eyes fluttered open,” Huh…K-Krory?”

“MIRANDA!” he hugged her tight in pure joy.

The others ran over to the two. Krory held her close and cried crocodile tears, it took Miranda a moment to realize what was going on but she smiled nervously as he rambled.

“OhGodIthoughtyoudiedandIwastoolateI’msogladyou’reokI’mreallysorryIbityou!”

Miranda blinked at the last comment.

“Wait…you what?” she looked up at him.

Krory froze up,” Um…”

“It’s ok! You see, he can take the akuma poison out of your body before it kills you. He did it to me before!” Lavi tried to cover up for Krory, but she had a blank expression on her face as she reached up and touched her throat, she could felt indents in her skin.

“…Krory…did you bite me?” she asked calmly and plainly, it scared him.

“Well…I…um…” he stammered,”y-yes…”

“And…you drank my blood?”

“I-I um…”

The three other males in the group wisely stayed out of this one.

“Krory…”

“Yes…” it was almost a whisper.

Moments of silence passed until she turned pure white and flopped over like a fish.

“DAH! Miranda!” Krory panicked held her and shook her.

“Did she just faint?” Allen peaked over his shoulder.

“Yea…I wish I could’ve done that too” Lavi crossed his arms and nodded.

“Miranda! Miranda! Wake up! I’m sorry!”