Sage's Apprentice -DGM fanfic- CH 34

Kanda slashed through akuma after akuma with his deadly Mugen. *”I was sure there weren’t anymore akuma...These bastards just keep coming up from behind the trees!”* Kanda quickly dodged some bullets coming from who-knows-where before stabbing and slashing again. He kept his eyes on Miranda, who did her best to shield herself behind her damaged Time Record whilst fighting off the pain in her hand. Every time Kanda heard a rustle from behind the trees, he’d quickly swing Mugen in it’s direction without pause for thought.

“WAAAHHH! Chill! It’s me, Yuu!” a familiar voice came from behind the trees where Kanda had just slashed.

Kanda immediately ceased his attack. “Lavi?”

The redhead peeked his head out from the brush. “Geez, Yuu! Have some mercy for your comrades!” He chuckled, a little shaken up at nearly being shredded apart.

“Where the hell have YOU been?!” Kanda demanded, “And DON’T call me that, baka Usagi!”

Lavi helped fend off akuma with his hammer as he spoke, “Silverton found us in a cave somewhere at the bottom of a hill. There’s a woman named Emeillia in town. She’s the one causing all the disappearances!”

Kanda scowled at having not figured it out first. “Is innocence involved? How does she do it? And where is Silverton?”

Lavi ignored Kanda’s first two questions. He looked back into the trees. “I-I could’ve sworn she was right behind me...I thought she grabbed onto my hammer when it extended!”

“Dumbass! Go back and find her!”

Suddenly, another quake shook the ground beneath their feet. This quake was massive enough to even knock the skilled Samurai to his knees.

“What the hell?!” Kanda growled, trying to get balance.

Miranda crawled over to the tow struggling men. “Time Record!” Suddenly, the shaking seemed to stop and they all leapt to their feet. However, they could still see that the world around them continued to violently quake. They simply couldn’t feel it.

“Phew...thanks Mira- What happened?!” Lavi exclaimed as he caught sight of her crippled hand.

Before she could answer, water splashed up on the shore from the lake. The three exorcists quickly directed their attention to the lake, where the water bobbed up and down unnaturally; as if there was some sort of magnetic pull lifting it and dropping it.

Kanda instantly thought back to when he saw Emeillia standing in the middle of the lake. Then he remembered how the water had protected him and Miranda from the akuma. *”Could Emeillia somehow be causing this?”*

~ ~ ~ Silverton ~ ~ ~

Silverton struggled and stumbled as she ran back into the cave. The quakes were gradually getting worse and worse by the minute and more and more water leaked into the cave. She frantically followed the voice...

“Help me, please!” it called.

“Where the hell are you?!” Silverton began to panic. She felt as though the air around her was rapidly condensing. The sound of the voice increased her desperation. Stones were crashing down around her. She had to find this person quick and get her ass out of there.

“I’m back here, Lady!”

The voice was very close. She darted around until her eyes met the face of a young boy, still chained to the wall. The water around him had risen especially high; up to his chest.

Silverton trudged through the water as fast as she could over to the young boy. She quickly snapped apart his shackles with her innocence.

“Thank you, miss...” the boy cried to her as he climbed into her open arms for protection.

If I can’t be happy...

Silverton shielded the boy from falling rocks as she tried her best to lead him out from the cave. He cried out as one last thundering quake shook the earth. Silverton’s heart dropped as she watched the cave’s entrance collapse.

NO ONE CAN!!!

A large crack formed along the ceiling. Water rapidly spilled in around them. Finally, Silverton figured out why there was water in the cave.

~ ~ ~ Kanda ~ ~ ~

“We need to go find Lys!” Miranda cried out, worried about her friend’s well-being.

Lavi cursed himself for having left behind the new exorcist. *"I hope she didn’t go back in that cave...”* he thought.

There was another quake. This quake, however, felt very different from the others. The ground seemed to completely shift beneath the exorcists’ feet. At the same time, the oddly bobbing lake water began calming itself.

“Lavi,” Kanda began, “Is Emeillia causing these quakes?”

The redhead shrugged. “I honestly don’t know. If I had to guess, I’d say so.”

They heard a splash in the middle of the lake. The exorcists all turned around, expecting it to be Emeillia. However, they found something else entirely.

Popping out from under the murky water was an odd looking metal platform, standing up like a pillar. Atop the pillar was a young boy, gasping for breath.

Without a second thought, Lavi extended his hammer out over the lake to the metal pillar. He picked up the young boy in his arms and brought him back on land. “You okay, kid? Where’d you come from?”

The boy was drenched in water from head to toe. He wiped his eyes and looked around. “W-Where is she...?”

“Who? Emeillia?” Miranda questioned.

“The lady...the one with shiny hair!” the boy exclaimed. “She...saved me!”

“Shiny hair?” Kanda pondered for a moment. “Silverton? Did her hair look silver?”

The boy nodded.

Kanda and Lavi both looked back at the metal pillar in the middle of the lake; just in time to watch it retract back into the water. They both realized it: The pillar was made of silver.

~ ~ ~ Silverton ~ ~ ~

*moments ago*
Water spilled into the cave rapidly, smothering any air around her and the boy in her arms as the entire cave collapsed. Every question Silverton previously has about where the water was coming from had finally been answered...

The cave was directly beneath the lake.

Silverton’s heart raced as she held onto the child. She hadn’t gotten a breath on time, and she knew it was too late. All she could think about was getting the boy to safety.

*”Everett!”*

Thinking fast, Silverton held the boy towards the surface, which seemed so far away. She used her innocence and sent the boy upwards by creating a pillar of silver with him on op of it. She’d only hoped the boy made it safely above the water.

*present*
Silverton lay at the bottom of the lake, struggling to move. She’d always been afraid of drowning, and she knew there would be no way of getting herself out of this one. Her bones are her innocence. Her bones are made up of innocence-induced silver. Silver is more dense than water. Therefore, Silverton sinks when in water. She physically couldn’t swim her way to safety.

She felt her life utterly slipping away. She began counting down the seconds she had left as she stared up at the surface.

1...
2...
3...

She could faintly make out the glowing of the moon through the ripples. It looked so calm up there; so peaceful and inviting as it glowed alone in the night sky.

7...
8...
9...

She could hear her own heartbeat pounding in her ears.

“What’s your problem?” a voice rang loud and clear through the water. “This is what you deserve. He’s mine. If I can’t be happy, no one can.”

*”Emeillia..?”*

Silverton began crying. Her tears mixed in with the water around her. She choked on what little air she had left in her lungs before finally letting it out. *”I’m dying...”*

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45...
46...

She felt liquid spilling into her lungs. *”I’m dying...”*

51...
52...

The corners of her vision slowly began fading to black. Just before she blacked out, she noticed a dark silhouette above her, seemingly growing closer and closer as it engulfed the moonlight behind it.

She opened her mouth and used the last of her breath to whisper the silhouette’s name into tiny jiggling bubbles that rose above her...

“Yuu...Kan...da...”