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With his phone call done then teen was about to head down the street towards Zelretch's 'house' when he heard a female voice and turned to see a blonde little girl running towards him with tears in her eyes.
Looking behind the girl Issei's eyes widened as he saw a group of thugs chasing after her armed with bats, chains and other typical delinquent weapons.
Upon reaching Issei the girl hid behind him as the teen turned to face the horde of thugs that begin surrounding him, "you know this brat?" snarled one of them.
Before Issei could respond, his vision blurred and he felt a headache wrack his head as strange images began appearing in his mind.
The girl wearing a green dress smiled as she offered an apple to the malnourished child in front of her and her companion.
Her ears catlike ears and tail twitching as she encouraged the child to take the food, "go on little one, take it."
"But I don't have anything to pay you with," replied the child, sadly.
The huntress just laughed, "Thou shalt not worry little one, it's free."
The child just looked at the cautiously, causing the girl's companion to sigh tiredly, "Archer we don't have time for this, we need to leave before the enemy Servants find us."
The green girl just glared at her companion, "hast thou no heart Rider? Tis but a child seeking sustenance."
The man just gave another sigh, "I'm aware of that Archer but I'm just saying that our time could be spent more productively."
Archer ignored her companion and instead turned back to the child as she knelt down and placed the apple on the ground before calmly stepping away from it.
The child glanced between her and the apple before he slowly approached the food and grabbed it off the ground, making sure to keep them both in his gaze as the child slowly backed away.
Once far enough away the child took a bite of the apple and his eyes widened before he looked back at her with tears in his eyes, "thank you!"
The girl waved as the child left, watching as the child smiled happily before running off down the deserted streets, "a child's life is a precious thing Rider. As heroes, is it not our duty to protect them?"
"Archer?" frowned her companion in concern as he gripped her arm.
The girl didn't respond as she just looked up at the sun setting in the sky, her mind drifting away as memories of abandonment, loneliness and isolation in the woods began returning to her.
Eventually the girl snapped out of her thoughts as her companion continued giving her a worried expression.
"Archer, are you sure you're alright?" he questioned with a frown in his face.
Atalanta just turned to her companion with a fierce expression, "no child shall be abandoned or be taken advantage of Rider…as I was."
Blinking as the strange scene faded from his mind Issei frowned as he stood protectively in front of the girl. "And if I do?" replied Issei with an almost catlike growl.
"Then you'll suffer along with her," replied the same delinquent.
"Don't let them hurt me Onii-chan!" cried the girl fearfully.
"You punks really are something, picking on a child like that," growled Issei, whom was surprised as he felt a reaction from both the Lancer and, oddly enough, the Archer cards.
"She attacked us! Two of our friends are injured because of her! If you know what's good for you then you'll get out of our way," roared another thug.
That very statement was so absurd that it took a minute for Issei's brain to comprehend it, "you expect me to believe that a little girl attacked and injured two of you?" he scoffed.
"It's true! She just summoned a spear from nowhere with a flash of light then attacked us!" argued the first one.
"A spear?" repeated Issei before his eyes widened in recognition as he dived away from the girl and brought a hand to his cardholder, only to find it missing.
"Looking for this?" taunted the girl as she held his cardholder in one hand and a spear in the other with a triumphant smirk on her face.
"Give those to me now," ordered the teen.
"Now why would I do that?" laughed the girl as she threw her spear at him, forcing Issei to dive to the ground as it went soaring over his head.
"Come on guys let's teach this brat a lesson," snarled the apparent leader of the thugs as the delinquents charged.
"No stop!" cried the teen, but he was too late as the humans surrounded the Fallen Angel, whom merely just scoffed before her wings emerged from behind her as she preceded to cut all their weapons clean in two.
"You humans have served your purpose now either leave or die, the only one who needs to die tonight is that boy," ordered the Fallen Angel.
"You think we'll run after you hurt our friends?!" shouted the leader in anger only to cry out in pain as a spear pierced his stomach.
"I suppose it was too much to hope for intelligence from a bunch of humans," sighed the girl, condescendingly.
"Boss!" cried the group as one of them rushed over to their downed leader, throughout it all Issei just grinded his teeth in frustration.
"Damn it," growled the teen as he tried to rush towards his cardholder, only to fail as he tiredly dodged another of the girl's spears.
How was he supposed to fight exhausted and without using his Class cards?
"Most Sacred Gears are actually relatively easy to awaken if you're determined enough.
It's all about your mental state, the best method is to picture the strongest thing you can imagine and usually they are awoken."
As Rias' words echoed in his head, Issei frowned and once again glanced down at his fist, "Rias you better have been telling the truth, my life is going to depend on it."
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