Of Angels and Demons

Chapter 3 to Of Angels and Demons

Author Note: Hello again fellow Get Backer fans and welcome to chapter three. This is a pretty harmless chapter, I'm just retelling key points of the two Get Backers' past. What had caused themselves to distance themselves from everything and everyone around them and I also threw in the story of how the two infamous gorgeous recoverers met. Though I made up a bit of the fight scene, just cause its not really illaberated what went on there. :) Please review, still eager to hear what everyone thinks.

Warnings: violence


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“It’d be fate which would drive the Vessels of Light and Darkness


to cross paths. Time adding more pain; more blood – more loss – til the belief of hope was a faded glimmering fantasy.”

The attacks on Lower Town were worsening as the months passed, the grotesque deformed men making up the population of the middle level becoming embolden as they sought to destroy everything that came within their sight. Women, children, the elderly; no innocent was spared from their bloodied hands as they moved through the neighborhoods setting houses ablaze. It was in the thick of the hysteria that I realized what they were seeking. So I ran like I’d never run before, avoiding the monstrous men and the blazing fires as I searched for the one person that meant everything in the world to me. I didn’t know why, but they’d come for Ginji.

I learned from several people that were bold and brave enough to stand and fight that Ginji and his friends had been seen playing in the ruins in the center of the neighborhood when the attack began. My heart sank as others informed me that they’d seen Beltliner’s racing that direction.

Did they know where Ginji was? Had they found him? Would he be alive when I reached him? These and a dozen to hundred other questions and fearful thoughts rose to race through my mind as my fatherly instincts kicked into overdrive. I couldn’t allow anything to happen to the boy, the boy I loved as if he were really my own blood. I screamed his name every step I took, my throat cracking and tasting blood as I began to grow hoarse, but I still shouted, still screamed out to him, hoping, praying to God to hear his soft frightened voice above the craze of the attack.

I lost my breath at the last corner I turned, believed my heart to stop beating as I saw all the men surrounding my boy, closing in on my Ginji. He sat crouched over one of his fallen friends, completely helpless and they were charging and I wasn’t going to get there in time.

“Ginji!!”

Lightning split the sky brightening the dark alley we were within – no it was bursting out of Ginji. His scream was piercing through the blinding light that swept through the alley moments before it exploded entirely.

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‘Kill me …’

The world was shattering around him as he watched the man, no the brother, he loved withering on the floor in absolute pain. His large sapphires trembled as a hand was extended desperately toward him, widening in horror at the question that was asked, the plea that was choked through the suffocating throat. Unsteady steps carried him several inches backwards as the man pushed upright, his usually bright emerald eyes black as pitch boring through him; the look of one possessed. Tears began to fall down his cheeks, the sign of weakness he hated pushed aside by the screaming pleas of pain issuing from his ‘brother’s’ lips. He choked back a sob as he snapped his eyes closed, his trembling hand uncurling to spring forward suddenly. The thankful sigh that drifted past his ear forcing a hysteric cry from his trembling lips as blood sprayed out into the dark room.

‘Ban … don’t tell Himiko … keep her safe …’

He felt the life spill out of Yamato as quickly as the blood dripping from his hand, though he couldn’t see it, he was unable to tear his eyes away from the dying light of the emerald eyes staring lovingly at him. The tears that had been rushing from his eyes ceased along with the soft sobs and trembles as his whole feel numb. He was empty completely hollow. His bloody cursed hand rose slowly, his dull eyes staring hauntingly at it as a soft gasp came from the doorway where Himiko stood.

‘No …’

Large violet eyes trembled disbelieving as tears slipped down her cheeks at the sight of her dead brother. Slowly her head started to shift from side to side before her eyes snapped shut.

‘NO!’

‘It’d be years later that fate would deal a kind hand … a chance to start anew.’

“Border check.”

A soft breeze was blowing through the peaceful silence of the night as a youth with long chocolate hair raised bright brown eyes to the skies listening intently to the night’s music.

“The south is clear,” a gruff voice responded bringing a soft smile to the intoxicatingly beautiful face.

“As is the eastern quarter,” the soft feminine voice of the brunette declared, soft delicate hands rising to push the loose bangs from his eyes.

“North?”

“Everything’s fine here,” a tall young man with disarrayed ebony hair responded as he lifted his arm to the diving hawk. Stroking its breast with gentle strokes as it fluttered its mighty wings before resting; he turned hazel eyes to the central portion of Lower Town. “Makubex, you ok?”

Sighing softly, his slender fingers rising to push aside his silver hair, the boy nodded as he turned to the blonde standing only a few feet away from him. “Yes … I didn’t solo tonight after all.”

“What?” The panic of the feminine and gruff voice quickly called through the walkies they were all using.

“Are you alright?” The brunette continued.

“Yes, yes,” the youngest sighed as he watched the blonde turn to smile at him, “the emperor found me.”

Hearing the sighs over the walkie, the blonde slowly turned his eyes to the sky to watch the faint dust of visible clouds rolling in the darkness, when an electrical current suddenly burst across his chest. Turning round, narrowed golden eyes staring toward the central of Lower Town, the blonde’s nose creased in frustration as thunder began to crackle overhead.

“Who gets the north?” The man with the hawk inquired to brighten his eyes as he suddenly sensed a dangerous aura seeping in through the cracks of the Limitless Fortress. In a fluid motion he spun around to stare across the ruined structures of Lower Town, his clear eyes wide as an uncharacteristic shiver crept through his spine.

“Did anyone feel that?” The feminine voice inquired, his beautiful eyes narrowed in thoughtful curiosity as the bells on his silken hair rang in the rising wind.

“Someone’s breached the border,” the gruff voice responded, his clear blue eyes narrowing as he hoisted a hand to his spiky hair. “I can’t tell from where.”

“You won't be able to,” Makubex stated as his hand flew over a small data pad he held, “there’s some force shrouding this person, I can’t get a reading on ‘em.”

“No need,” the blonde responded as electricity sparked up around his figure. “I’m dealing with this intruder myself … you all know what to do. The people are priority.”

“Raitei!” The brunette began to protest to stop, considering. “Be careful.”

There was no need to respond, he wasn’t the one that was going to die tonight.

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Pausing near the edge of a cliff overlooking the ruined structure of what people had identified as Lower Town, the slum district of the Limitless Fortress, a young brunette peered with indifferent eyes. A long sigh eased off his chest as thunder growled loudly overhead, the first soft strikes of rain dancing over his shoulders while others made musical chimes off the metal and glass and porcelain littered around his slender figure.

“So …” he breathed while lifting his hand to push his glasses up his nose, “this is it … the Limitless Fortress.”

Scoffing while closing his eyes, a snide grin passing over his lips as his hands disappeared into his pant pockets, the young man turned to start into the rural area. He hadn’t gone more than two to three yards before several dozen men came rushing out toward him, armed with anything from pitchforks, knifes, crowbars, rocks and wood.

You’ve got to be kidding me. He frowned. So this is how they want to work it … they don’t even know if I’m an enemy or not! Though I guess with the reputation of this place, it’s to be expected.

Dodging the first few thrusts were simple, he didn’t see a need to raise a hand til the knife was thrust toward his unguarded side. The young girl gasped as her wrist was snared, yelping as it was twisted suddenly to dislodge the weapon from her grip in the same second and grunting as she was thrown into a pile of paper and cardboard. He snapped his hand through the wood beams splintering them on contact when a crowbar struck his shoulder.

Slowly pulling the bar back to stare at its now triangular shape, the dirt faced boy slowly turned to the brunette as an annoyed growl escaped his lips.

“You better all get out of here before you can’t walk period!”

“The Lightning Emperor’s going to kill you!” A man shouted as he thrust the pitchfork toward the brunette.

Exhaling, his hands curling before one snapped up to catch the pitchfork, enraged sapphires lifted to glare through the man as he spun to crack the pole into his neck flipping him to his back rendering him unconscious. Casting the shattered wood aside while turning to hammer his elbow into the chest of a leaping man, the brunette grasped his shirt to hammer him into two or three guys on his left.

The remaining people stood frozen as they peered at those scattered at the brunette’s feet and surrounding, timidly watching the one they’d been attacking fearful to whatever he’d do next when the crackle of electricity could be heard approaching. Everyone’s eyes; save for the brunette, quickly whipped toward the sound of their savior, heavy hearts rising at the sight of the glowing blonde.

“This is Volts territory,” the blonde declared as his enraged eyes glared at the brunette centering the crowd. “You better beat it and fast.”

A soft breath eased through the brunette’s lips as he failed to notice the cause of the crowd’s distraction, til his bright sapphire eyes narrowed. Whipping his head around, his long chocolate strands framing his face thanks to the cursed rain, the brunette’s sapphires bore into the blonde. Just as enraged gold eyes held the brunette’s gaze as he curled his fists against his thighs, his nose creasing in growing rage.

“That is if you want to stay alive!”

What followed happened in the blur of a millisecond, the onlookers barely had time to move before the brunette and blonde collided, the air surrounding them seeming to hiss in pain and irritant fury. A sudden shift of his thinner body had the blonde falling to the ground, the brunette following to grasp hold of his neck and cut off a great deal of his oxygen to cut back the electricity that sparked forth to throw the brunette backwards into a ruined building collapsing it atop him.

Grasping his neck with a desperate inhale, grimacing at the pain of his crushed windpipe, the blonde turned dangerous eyes to the ruins that had created the intruder’s grave, electricity sparking around his slumped figure. Closing his eyes as he in took a calmer breath to freeze as he heard the shifting of the ruins, the blonde snapped his head and body upright to watch chunks of stone flare into the air as the brunette strode from the collapsed building.

“Didn’t think it was going to be that easy did you!?” He growled, white teeth snarling softly as he stooped. “Come on … Savior!” He mocked.

Snarling his nose, swarms of electricity sparkling against his palms, the blonde released a scream as he cast the balls of light toward the brunette. Turning his eyes after the brunette as he sped away from the strikes of lightning, calling several thousands more volts to his palms, the blonde ground his teeth together as the brunette snapped toward his side.

“Die!”

“Snake Bite!”

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Several hundred yards away, cringing at each vibration that signified the blows exchanged between their Emperor and the intruder, the animal tamer released a frustrated breath startling the hawk perched on his shoulder before he turned his eyes to the beauty beside him.

“How can you be so calm Kazu?”

“I have faith in our Emperor,” the angelic voice responded, bright brown eyes lowering with a smile, “I trust him … and I know he will come back to us. No one can defeat our Lightning Emperor.”

“Be careful what you say,” Masaki Kurusu ordered as he came through the ruined doorway that led to the catacombs hiding half Lower Town’s population. “This person, the invader, is unlike anything I’ve ever felt. He’s completely sealed within darkness that I can’t penetrate … our Emperor is possibly dealing with his ultimate foe. The reverse side of his light and kindness.”

“He will come out triumphant nonetheless,” Makubex, whom had been sitting above them watching the central quarter of Lower Town religiously, stated with a small smile, confidence beaming off his youthful features. “Kazuki is right … our Emperor has never failed and he won't today neither. He’ll be back, he’ll return to us before the night is high.”

Gasping as a blinding white light suddenly speared up from the center of Lower Town, Makubex’s bright eyes drained of color when a monstrous explosion ripped through the momentary silence. Remaining frozen as dust and debris blasted toward them, Makubex yelped softly as Masaki suddenly bounded in front of him to knock him flat, his larger body covering Makubex’s own frail figure.

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Dust disappeared within the light mist that lingered about the gaping hole left after the final blow that had collided between the brunette and the Lightning Emperor when sapphires slowly opened to peer down at the blonde standing within the center of the hole.

“What’re you doing standing there lightning boy … you still want to go at it?” He teased lightly while bring a lighter to the cigarette balanced between his lips. Taking a deep drag while the metal snapped closed, he slowly glanced about the area, “You put on a real show just now didn’t ya … this isn’t just a battlefield this is the place where you live … pull your punches a little why don’t ya.”

“I can’t …”

“Huh,” he pondered as he turned his attention back to the blonde.

“It’s because when I become the Lightning Emperor, my mind goes blank …” he stated, his uneasy mind going carefully through his thoughts, “and then after everything is finally over, that’s when I start to notice what I’ve done. My power will never run out, as long as I’m here …” he ground out, his fists curling in frustration, “in the Limitless Fortress. And I’ll just keep losing my real self more and more … and one day, the time will come when I completely transform into the Lightning Emperor.” The brunette watched him slowly lift his hand to stare at the soft palm. “Lightning Emperor … and leader of the Volts … it’s my job to protect everyone … I want to protect everyone so much …” He snarled while hanging his head. “But I can’t.”

Suddenly he spun, frustration plastered across his face as he turned desperate chocolate orbs on the brunette.

Blowing a soft breath clear, the brunette sighed while he sealed his eyes. “If its eating you up inside that much why don’t you just leave?”

Brightening his eyes with a gasp, the Lightning Emperor stared disbelievingly at the brunette as he went on.

“You can just leave this place.”

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Rushing down the long streets, his long hair catching the wind as he searched in and out of shops and alleys, Kazuki released a heavy breath as he paused beside the animal tamer.

“I can’t find him anywhere … no one’s seen him!”

“None of my animals can locate him either!” He growled, his clear eyes narrowing dangerously as he turned toward the enormous crater, watching Masaki emerge from its edge.

“He’s not down there,” he sighed while lifting his hand to his ear, “Makubex any luck locating him?”

“Negative, I can’t get anything off his link and there’s nothing on the monitors.”

“He couldn’t have just disappeared!”

“Shido please,” Kazuki scolded.

“That damn snake must have kidnapped him, we have to rescue him!”

“No one kidnapped, Ginji,” Masaki frowned, his eyes thoughtful while he lifted them to the sky. “He left.”

“What!?” Shido and Kazuki gasped, “Why?”

“He’d never leave, he was kidnapped!” Shido growled.

“Would you give that a rest, no one could kidnap the Lightning Emperor!”

Is this the trial she was referring to … but how will I be able to watch him if he’s not here? Should I follow him from the Limitless Fortress? Should we all follow him? He sighed while turning toward the two. I wish you were here Teshimine … you’d know what to do … Ginji would’ve stayed for you.

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The lights of the city shimmered across Ginji’s golden skin and hair like a halo to an angel. A soft exhale passed down his lips as he flexed his fingers, continuing to stare at his palms as the brunette smoked several inches away from him. “You know what I want …” he began, breaking the silence with his calm seductive voice, “this time, I want to use this power of mine to actually help someone … instead of just to hurt them.” Ginji sighed softly while pushing back from the railing to peer at the brunette leaning against the rail. “Wouldn’t it be fun if we could do that together?”

“Huh …” the brunette puzzled, turning to see the entrancing stare Ginji had hooked on him, to lift a smug grin, “it might be interesting I suppose.”

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Author's Note: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, God I love Get Backers! I'm in love with Ban and Ginji so much, they're just the cutest!!!! Ok, so I'm basically through the reintroduction part that unfortunately needs to begin a story. I promise the stories only going to pick up from here. There's going to be blood, betrayal, major *#*# going down. The next chapter's going to center around Himiko Kudo, our loved and hated Lady Poison. She plays a major part in the first arc of the story, so thats why I decided to make the whole chapter about her. So let me know what you think, please review and give me any ideas you have that could make the fic more interesting, whether it be battle scenes, comedic moments or things based around the lemons, review!! Thanks til next time.