Monica's POV

"Adam?" I repeated, tilting my head in confusion.

Dusk nodded her head rapidly, backing away a little bit. "We need to get away from him.."

"Dusk is right, that guy doesn't look all that friendly." Hebi hissed towards the guy named 'adam'.

Adam almost immediately turned towards us and smirked, lunging viciously at us. Kuri got out his katana and stood in front of me, Hebi and dusk, blocking the attack.

The male named 'Adam' chuckled darkly, kicking Kurisutaru in the abdomen and shoving him to the side.

Kurisutaru began to cough up blood, struggling to obtain air. "Kurisutaru!" I yelled..

Dusk whimpered, her ears drooping as she slowly backed away. Hebi jumped in front of me & dusk, hissing at Adam. "Leave them alone, they didn't do anything!"

Adam merely growled, grabbing Hebi by the neck and lifting him up off of the ground. Hebi hissed and clawed at adam's hand but to no avail.

"Stop it! Don't hurt him!" I yelled, my voice cracking with every word that came out of my mouth.

Dusk held me back, preventing me from helping Hebi. Adam squeezed hebi's neck before throwing Hebi to the ground, letting Hebi cough violently.

Adam walked past me and straight towards dusk. He grabbed her wrist, as dusk began to try and squirm out of his iron grip.

"Hello dusk..it's nice to see you again.." Adam cooed.

Dusk stopped struggling and scoffed. "I would say the same to you, but I can't."

A growl erupted from adam's mouth. "Anyway, where is Blake?"

"Why would I tell you!? She doesn't want to see you!!" Dusk snapped.

"You will tell me where she is, or else.." Adam threatened, grabbing a hand full of dusk's shirt and pulling her towards him.

At that moment, I leaped onto adam's back without thinking. Resulting in Adam dropping dusk..however..he soon grabbed my hair and threw me off of him. I screamed. I face-planted into the ground while my mouth was open, coughing out particles of dust and dirt.

I sat up, only to feel a sharp pain in my back. I screamed and quickly snapped my head behind me, to see Adam with his sword covered in blood. I quivered in fear, seeing a smirk of triumph on adam's face.

"Hmph. Now, where is Blake?" Adam questioned, turning to where dusk was or where she was supposed to be- but wasn't.

I smiled and sighed in relief. 'At least he won't hurt dusk.' I thought to myself, closing my eyes.

Adam growled, slowly walking away from my vulnerable form..

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Ring!

Ring!

I slowly opened my eyes, feeling a vibration in my (dress) pocket. I sighed slowly getting the scroll from out of my dress pocket, and answering it.

"H-hello??" I questioned weakly.

"Little fox? Where are you? Are you hurt- are you okay??" A voice spammed me with questions, from the other side of the phone.

"B-big b-brother??" I shakily stood up, but not before wincing at how much pain I felt from my back.

"Little fox where are you? Father and I are coming to get you!" Ben yelled through the phone, the tone of worry in his voice.

"O-okay.." I nodded. "I'll try and look out for father's air craft.." I said, immediately hanging up the call.

I looked over towards Hebi and Kurisutaru, to see that they were still unconscious. I ran over to Kurisutaru, trying not to think about the pain too much- and sat him up in my arms. "Kurisutaru, a-are y-you okay?" My voice broke once again.

After 10 seconds, Kurisutaru opened his eyes and slowly looked towards me. I smiled weakly being glad that he wasn't fatally injured. "A-are y-you okay?"

He nodded, tilting his head. "Yes..I am alright lady Monica. But why do you keep stuttering?"

"N-no reason.." I looked away, not wanting him to freak out about the massive slash mark across my back.

"Lady Monica." Kurisutaru said in a stern voice. "Tell me."

After 5 seconds, I sighed in defeat. "There's no point in trying to hide it, you're going to see it sooner or later.." I let Kurisutaru support his own weight, while I slowly turned around to show him the massive slash on my back.

Kurisutaru gasped and started to hyperventilate. "Oh no! Sir nightmare is going to kill me!"

I was surprised for a moment, but then I smiled sadly. I cupped kuri's cheek with my hand, still smiling. "Don't worry, it wasn't your fault."

"But I failed to protect you.." Kurisutaru sighed.

"I already told you, it wasn't your fault." I whispered. "Ill try to hide the scar as best as I Can, but It may not work."

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After 6 minutes of waiting, fighting off some Grimm and basically trying to survive, father's craft landed in front of us.

Kurisutaru gasped and whispered, "he's here.."

I put my hand on his shoulder. "It's okay, don't worry.." Kurisutaru nodded in response, as the craft door opened to reveal Ben and father.

Both of us boarded the air craft, leaving Hebi behind- well I was going to carry him along with us but when we turned back to where his figure laid, his body was nowhere to be seen....

Anyway, Ben was currently hugging me. "Are you hurt? Are you doing okay? Do you need medical attention or anything?" Ben spammed me with questions for the second time.

I sighed. "No big brother, I'm fine." I lied. "We're not hurt.."

Ben groaned in annoyance, probably because I said 'we're' instead of 'I'.

"Whatever, just go and sit down.." Ben demanded, looking away.

Kurisutaru nodded and reluctantly went to and sat down, while I shuffled towards a seat, still facing the direction of Ben, Kurisutaru and father.

Father raised a brow at me. "Why are you shuffling towards the seat, Monica? why don't you walk normally?"

"N-no r-reason!" I squeaked.

Ben narrowed his eyes towards me, walking over to me and putting his hand on my back, pushing me towards the seat. However, he immediately noticed that his hand was covered in a curved line of blood, and my back was slashed.

'Dammit!' I mentally beat myself up.

Ben gasped. "Little fox, were you trying to hide this from me? Who did this to you!?-" he cut himself off by glaring at Kurisutaru.

Kurisutaru flinched at the heated glare that he received from Ben, so he looked away.

"Did you do this?" Ben growled.

"N-no, I-it wasn't my fault! I-" Kurisutaru was cut off short by Ben. "So you didn't bother to protect her!?"

"No big brother, it's not like that!" I cut in, trying to defend Kurisutaru.

"N-no, I-I tried to protect her but-...." Kurisutaru cut himself off, looking away.

"But what!? You were too weak to protect her?" Ben mocked.

"N-n-no, I-" Kurisutaru was cut off again by an unfamiliar voice.

"-so you didn't or couldn't protect her because, you were hurt trying to protect her- but you obviously failed.." a male with bull horns cut in.

"Amazing..it's like you were there with us.." I whispered to myself. 'Wait, where did he even come from??' I asked myself- in my head.

"wait, who are you?" Kurisutaru questioned, keeping his gaze on the male with bull horns.

"Hello, my name is Akuma....Akuma Hyakuya, and I am sir nightmare's servant.." the male with bull horns, named 'Akuma' bowed.

(The picture below is of Akuma hyakuya)

(I couldn't be bothered to take an actual picture from my phone because it's 9:55pm right now, so I just screen shot it from my art book)

"Daddy!! You never told me that you had a servant!!" I fumed.

Father chuckled, getting out of his chair and walking next to Akuma. "Sorry, I was going to tell you but I guess it slipped my mind.."

Kurisutaru was then pushed into the wall of the aircraft, in a split second. "We're still not done here! What if my little sister died because YOU couldn't protect her!?"

Kurisutaru whimpered. "I-I-I'm sorry...."