Sage's Apprentice -DGM fanfic- CH 21

Silverton pulled the blade of Mugen with her hand in an attempt to rip it from Kanda’s grasp, which wasn’t likely to happen. Kanda twirled, still gripping the handle, and turned the blade sideways, forcing the girl’s hand to release it. Once he was free, he backed away, still prepared to defend himself.

Tiedoll was thinking about ending the spar right then and there, but seeing as how Kanda had finally gotten her to activate her innocence, he chose to let it continue.

Silverton, with her silver hair and nails in a fully activated innocence, stood firmly. Suddenly, two large silver blades formed out of her arms. She dashed at her black haired opponent, her arm blades cutting through the air. Kanda dodged her attack and at the same time, swung his sword at her. The two of them repeatedly swung and dodged by twirling around one another. To everyone else, it seemed so effortless. They spiraled around one another in the center of the room with blades drawn, their long hair twirling with every step they took. They both moved so gracefully and aggressively at the same time as they knocked each other’s blades away before attacking again. They were both sweating and breathing heavily as they spun around and around. It almost looked like the two of them were in an elegant dance, despite their real struggle to keep balance.

Out of nowhere, a voice sounded in the room. “Enough!”

Silverton and Kanda both instantly froze in place at the sound of the General’s loud voice. Their feet were tangled from the spinning, but standing firmly. Silverton’s back was barely pressed against Kanda’s chest as she looked up at him and he looked down at her. Their eyes were in a lock and had been that way the entire time they fought. Both of them were expressionless and faintly panting. However, they each had their blades to one another’s throats at the same time.

“It’s a draw.” Tiedoll announced.

Kanda lowered his blade and Silverton did the same. They stepped away from one another, partially out of respect, and partially because the position they’d been in seemed a bit awkward.

Silverton deactivated her innocence and let her hair fade back to its natural brown color. She looked down at her hand, the one that she’d used to clutch the sword with both just now and a week ago. She was a bit relieved, since she wasn’t entirely sure if the blade would cut her with her innocence activated. Luckily, it hadn’t.

“What the hell was that?” Daisya’s obnoxious voice sounded. He raced over to her and grabbed the hand she’d been looking at and observed it closely. “What the-? Why the-? How the-?”

“That was very intriguing. You’re innocence is remarkable, my dear girl! I’m shocked it was able to protect you from being hurt by Kanda’s innocence.” General Tiedoll praised her.

She yanked her hand away from Daisya and crossed her arms. “Pardon me? Aren’t you the one who said my innocence was ‘unstable’?”

“Oh my, I didn’t mean to offend you when I said that! I hope you’ll forgive me. I certainly don’t want to get on your bad side like Lenalee did, am I right?” the elderly man said as he glanced over at his shoulder at Lenalee, who’d seemed to have disappeared at some point along with Komui.

Reever and Johnny walked up to Silverton and studied her arms and hair. Reever asked, “You’re a parasite type, alright. But where the heck is the innocence located on your body?”

Johnny, who’d been rubbing her arm weirdly, said, “There isn’t any wound or scar or…any indication of that huge blade ever being here on her arm!”

“If you back the hell off me, I can explain.” She demanded.

Daisya, Reever, and Johnny all did as they were told and gave her some space.

She sighed and sloppily walked over and took a seat beside Bookman and Lavi. “The blade you saw came from my bones. My bones are made of innocence-induced silver. I’m able to extract a silver blade from my bones on any part of my body that I please. And no, this will in no way damage my skin.”

Everyone surrounded her, totally fascinated. Even Kanda was a bit surprised. “Your bones?” Reever said, “Wow, I’m not entirely sure the chief will have a way to operate on YOUR innocence. I don’t think someone like Komui can safely bring a knife that far beneath human skin.” He and Johnny chuckled.

“Knife?” Silverton questioned, “What makes you think something like that can break my skin? So far, the only blade that’s ever cut me while I’ve had this innocence in me was Kanda’s sword, and even so, it’ll only break my skin when my innocence in inactive.”

Bookman asked, “But why is that?”

“Why can Kanda’s sword only pierce your skin when your innocence is inactive?” Tiedoll said.

“And why can’t a normal knife cut you at all?” Lavi added.

Silverton stood up from her seat and put her hands in her pockets. “There’s a reason why I didn’t want to activate my innocence, and that reason was because I knew I’d get all you fucktards asking me questions. ‘Why this? Why that?’” she mocked, “I’m leaving. You people are pissing me off again.” She started walking away.

General Tiedoll placed his hand on her shoulder. “No, please, stay here. We won’t try to pry answers from you if you don’t want.”

Silverton turned and looked at the shoulder his hand was on. “Pardon me? Aren’t you the one who said you didn’t want to get on my bad side?”

Kanda smirked at her smart mouth. *”Heh, maybe she is a bit like me in some ways.”*

General Tiedoll released her shoulder and she continued walking out of the room.




The brown haired girl was walking towards the meditation room. She felt the need to relax after all the sparring. However, before she could get there, she heard a familiar voice call out to her from down the hallway. “Wait, Silverton! Hold on a second!”

A few minutes later and Silverton had joined the person in their room. Silverton sat on the bed with her legs crossed. “What’s up, Miranda?”

Miranda sat on her bed with her legs crossed as well and faced her. “I’m so jealous of you…”

Silverton looked at her with confused eyes. “Jealous? Of me? Why?”

Miranda sighed. “You’re even newer to the order than I am and you can already actually put up a fight…my innocence has been turned into a weapon already and even so I still can’t use it to destroy akuma…”

“So what? I’m sure you’re innocence is still really unique and amazing. What does it do?” Silverton asked.

“Me?” She lifted her head at her. “Oh, my innocence can control time.”

Silverton looked at her, a bit shocked. *”Holy crap, and here I was thinking she reminds me a lot of my friend Riche, but this? That can NOT be a coincidence!”*

Miranda blushed a little. “Your innocence isn’t the only thing that makes me jealous of you…”

“Then what else?”

“Well…the way you are with Kanda…”

Silverton nearly gagged on her own spit. “Y-You have a thing for Kanda?!”

“NO!” Miranda protested. “I’ll admit there’s someone…I’m attracted to…but it’s not Kanda! I meant because the two of you were so close to each other…and the way you fought seemed so…romantic…”

Silverton burst out in a genuine fit of laughter. “Haha! Don’t be ridiculous, we were about to freaking kill each other! You call that romantic? So, who’s this guy you like?”

“Don’t tell me you didn’t notice the position the two of you were in!”

“Well sure, I noticed it was a little awkward, but I mean, if I had feelings for him and I was that close to him, I’d probably have fainted right then and there! Don’t get the wrong idea, he and I are close, but not THAT close. By the way, I can’t help but notice that you completely avoided my question. I asked who it was you liked.”

Miranda twiddled her fingers shyly. “Okay but…please don’t tell anyone, alright?”

“Alright, shoot.”

Miranda leaned in and whispered in Silverton’s ear.

“PPFFFT HAHAHA!” Silverton promised herself she wouldn’t laugh, but that was too much. “CHIEF KOMUI??!! You can’t be serious!”

Miranda tried to cover her loud friend’s mouth. “Shh! Silverton, what if someone hears you?!”

The girl wiped a small tear from her eye. “Aw, that is RICH! Sorry for laughing…it’s just so funny!” She straightened herself out. “By the way, you can call me Lys from now on. That’s my first name. ‘Silverton’ is too formal of a name to be called by a friend.” She extended a hand out to her. “You told me a secret, so now I’m telling you one, got it?” She winked at her.

Miranda smiled softly and shook her hand. “Alright then, Liz. I won’t tell anyone if you won’t tell anyone.”

“Deal.” She replied. “But I’m going to start calling you Amanda if you start calling me Liz  instead of Lys. It’s got an ‘S’ sound, not a ‘Z’, okay?”

“Sorry, Lys.”

“Don’t mention it, Amanda.”