June 15th.

Ring~

Ring~

Ring~

Ring~

"... so leave a message and I'll get back to you."

"Hey kid it's me, I'm calling to let you know that I've recieved a job... a big job, so if you don't hear from me in a few weeks... nevermind. Just take care of yourself and stay out of trouble. remember to keep up with your training and someday your surpass me. but till then stay out of my weapons room-"

"Dante you coming? we gotta hurry!"

"yeah i"m on my way! *sigh* sorry, but I got to go. so I guess this is goodbye... for now."

click.

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9:30pm

"damn it." says a young man who's running down a starwell, looking upset about something, as he hurriedly fixed his red coat. The young man looked to be around 16-18 but had white hair with a few strands of black brushed down to partially cover his eyes, he wore long, tan-colored jeans, black fingerless gloves, and military style boots. His coat has a buckle around the waist, and two brown, leather holsters on the back for the young mans two hand cannons which were colored silverish white and the other black. He doesn't wear anything under the coat, which allows people to see his bare well-toned chest and muscular physique. He was currently chasing his "target" which had managed to get away from him twice now and he wasn't going to let it get away a third time.

" 'This is an easy job' they said." Said the young man with a heavy frown present on his face as he pulled out the black handcannon and fired at the target, who managed to dodge some of the bullets but the fatigue from their earlier bout against the young man has slowed them down enough for the rest of the bullets to strike them.

Although the bullets didn't hit anything fatal, it still hurt a lot. as the bullets hit the figure fell and tumbled through the hallway as the young man finally caught up and as he caught up the figure was trying to get up, it was on it's knee's with it's hands on the ground. So as the young man caught up he reared his leg back and kicked the figures ribs sending it flying into the wall behind it, leaving a small pool of blood where it once was. Before it could get up a pistol was placed to the side of his head and as it turned its head it saw the young man with a smirk.

"Fun chase but your times up." the young man said as he was about to pull the trigger, but before he could a vioce rang out, "Stop!" it was a female. The female had a holy aura allowing them to see in the dark building. But it also allowed the young man to see her features she had violet eyes and long light brown chestnut hair with her hair down . She had a moderate size chest. It wasn't to big and it wasn't to small. the young lady looked to be around 15-17. She wore a white combat uniform that most young aspiring female paladins of the church wore. There was a blade strapped to her side, it had a holy aura to it. In summary she was a good looking young lady who worked for the church.

"What do you want Irina? Can't you see I have a job to finish?" said the young man who still had his gun pointed at the mysterious cloaked figure.

"I can see that you have a fugitive running from church." Irina shot back

"Irina I'm not letting you take this guy, I'm being paid to capture this guy and if I let you take him I'm missing out on a big paycheck. Which I need for... things." Said the young man as he looked to the side while saying things like it was something he didn't want to bring up around Irina.

"Their a fugitive of the church. If I dont bring them in it'll look bad on the church. So hand them over Arthur." Irina said as her hand edged toward her sword which was sheathed at her side.

The young man now revealed as Arthur looked at her edge toward her sword and sighed as he lifted his gun only to bring it down hard, onto the figures head knocking them unconcious. The smirk he had earlier now gone, being replaced by a thin line, not revealing if he was excited or upset with this development.

"Irina how many times do I need to fight you till you learn you can't beat me." said Arthur as he took out his other gun while spinning them, getting ready for the insuing fight.

Irina took out her blade Hauteclere, it had a golden hilt with a crystal embedded in it. the blade is of burnished steel. It was a good durable sword. it was also one of the few blades that changed the swords size and type depending on the users prefrence. but it can't be changed in battle, it'll change to the users preferred blade type and stay that way till a new user takes the blade and at that point it'll change to that users prefered blade type. The blade type Irina was using was a kinda of rapier with a flat semi-skinny blade and a round gaurd.

"Where's your blade Arthur?" Irina asked as she looked at the absence of a blade on her opponent. "The blade I was using broke earlier. So I'll be using these." Arthur asid as he twirled his two pistols then aimed them at Irina.

"Shame. I wanted to see how much better I got against you with a blade." she said

*swoosh* Irina dashed toward Arthur and a horizontal slash, *ting* only to be block and swung at with a gun holding hand. She leaned back to dodge it, and followed up with a kick to his side which landed but not to the effect she wanted. Next she went for a combination of swings, a diagonal leading into a horizontal, and finally the finish a lunge/piercing attack. *bang* Arthur moved his body to side of the blade and fired a shot from one of his guns, resulting in the blade being tilted far enough for to stick into the wall leaving Irina weaponless to the untrained eye, but Arthur knew better.

He knew his friend better than to think she was harmless if disarmed, in fact in his opinion he thought she was more dangerous disarmed and without a blade.

As the blade stuck into the wall Irina used the momentum to preform a spin kick which hit again much to her surprise but she didn't show it, and went into her next attack which was a little prayer she preformed while dodging a few attacks from Arthur, the prayer took her opponent slightly off balance, and she used the opening to grab her sword from the wall and did a spin attack, followed by- *bang* *bang* *bang* three shots that weren't aimed at her but her partner who finally caught up to Irina. And before Irina cound even attempt her next atteck she was kicked in the side by Arthur which sent her to the floor.

Irina's partner was a blue haired young lady who had a strip of green in the front of her hair. She wore a black combat uniform and weilded a much bigger blade than Irina's. It had a half moon handle and a blade so big that Arthur thought it looked to big to be practical, but the lady was weilding it with only moderate effort. This was Xenovia Quartra the current weilder of Durandal. The blade of Roland. Arthur only knew this from information he gathered from clients. she was the same age as Irina.

"wow wow wow. You could've hurt someone with that thing." Arthur said his smirk returning, because now he could fight against someone he didn't have to hold back against.

"Xenovia! Why are you using Durandal? We both know you don't have full control over it." Asked Irina, who brought up a good point.

'I wasn't informed that Durandals weilder couldn't control it fully. If that goes out of control it'll destroy this entire block by my estimation. I might survive it but they won't, best to take care of this quickly.' Arthur thought, "So blue, why carry around such a... deadly blade when you know it could just as easily kill you if you lost control?" Asked Arthur as he walked around the girl while twirling his silver gun, he only got a 'tsk' as a response.

"No response, Ok, we'll do it your way, but just don't cry when I beat you at it, kid." Arthur mockily said, getting a hostile grunt as a response.

before they could start Arthur looked behind him to see how his target was doing and they were trying to get up with a hand on the wall, so Arthur shot them in the hand getting a held back scream as they fell to the floor cradling their hand. Arthur also used Magic to destroy the floor and take the fight to the floor below which happened to be a large open room perfect for a 2 v 1. As they landed the target hit the floor hard but was still alive. Xenovia and Irina landed on their feet and were talking about a plan of attack.

'Azazel you best be adding a bonus for defeating these church exorcists.' Arthur thought about the guy who's paying him to capture a rogue fallen angel.

As they were about to begin the door to the room they were in opened to reveal a decent height man with the same hair color as Irina, he was on the older side, but despite that he was still fit and could kick younger peoples ass if needed to, he dressed in typical Exorcist clothing, stepped into the room obvisously annoyed. He also had a cigarette in his mouth.

"Father what are you doing here?!" asked Irina. Who only got a grunt in response. "Nice to see you again old Man" Said Arthur with a smirk, although sounding disrespectful there was genuine delight in those words. "First of all don't call me that. second of all it's nice to see you too Arthur." he said taking a hit of his cigerate before putting it out with his foot. "Also I'm here to retrieve these two. So just take the fallen and go."

'huh, really. ok fine.' Arthur Thought as he put his guns back in their holster and picked up his target the fallen angel, who knew that they were beat and didn't resist. Arthur walked out the door but not before shooting Irina a wink, which only got a sigh from her father, a scowl from Xenovia who didn't like her friend being hit on, and a blush from Irina.

"But, sir why pull us out of the mission now when we were so close?" Asked Xenovia still peeved that Irina just got hit on. "Because your mother and I have another mission of greater importance for the two of you. but that can wait till tomorrow so go home and get some rest." replied Touji.

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As Arthur made his way back toward his house wondered what kinda mission Irina and her partner were being sent on that was so important that Irina's father had to come retrieve them mid-mission. But he decided that he has better things to think about; Like what's he going to do with the fallen angel on his shoulder who's going to be picked up by Azazel tomorrow. Normally he would've taken her to his shop and left her there, but this is a fallen angel and he knows that they like to bail other fallen angels who think like themselves out of trouble, and what that means is that if he left her alone more of her "flock" would come to retrieve her, and Arthur doesn't feel like chasing after her again. And by 'her' he means that the fallen angel is a female. she looked young maybe around her early to mid twenties but that's just apperance, her actual age could be a lot older. The fallen had black hair and purple eyes. she had on a dress shirt which was torn because of the fights she's been in and the guns wounds. she also had black pants which were the same as the shirt, ripped and torn form battle.

Arthur arrived at his home. It wasn't to big but it wasn't to small. It had four bedrooms, a basement, and a 2nd floor. Only two bedrooms were used, well really only one since Arthurs father stayed at his shop most of the time, and started coming home less and less as Arthur grew up. Arthur believed it was his father trusting him to look after himself since he wouldn't always be there to protect him, and Arthur respected that.

As Arthur stepped inside he turned on the light to see a hallway with a few pictures of him and father. Arthur looked almost identical to his father except for Arthurs couple strands of black hair you would think it was his father from the past. and Also Arthur wasn't as cocky and arrogant as his father but he did get his father's love for humanity.

Arthur set the Fallen down on a chair as he went to get something for them to eat. The fallen looked around confused as to why she's not dead, cause she thought that once she got captured by either party it would be the end of the road for her but to her surprise it didn't happen.

Instead all that happen was her being shot and brought back to a house with a handsome young man. Who if she could seduc- "Hey lady, I know what your thinking, and the answer is no, I won't sleep with you." "How did you know what i was thinking?" she asked. As Arthur came back to the table with a pizza box. "Cause I read your expression. Also your idea was good except that it wouldn't work on someone like me since your not my type." he said with a smirk as he sat down and opened the box to reveal a pizza with everything though he didn't care for the olives he still ate some, and even shared some with the fallen angel. "by the way, what's your name?" "My name is Raynare."

------FINISH--------

Yes I know this was delayed a lot. Yes I know the Raynare thing is obvious to some. But do I care? No, because I'm back baby. And ready to start writing this story. Also as the title says this is only part 1 of 4 of the first mission in this story. so the next chapter will pick up right where this one left off.

So. see you next time I update this. And...

"Remember the reality is an Illusion,
the universe is a hologram
BUY GOLD, BYE!!"