Akashic

"So… what do we do now?" Ashe asked as Arthur walked through the streets of Vale, not really caring where he was headed as after everything with Emerald he needed to think for a bit and not worry or think about the others.

"Depends, the next term is starting soon, and there shouldn't be much to worry about then as everything will start unravelling during the second semester" he began to explain, "My main problem will most definitely be Jacques, his butler, Cinder and Salem"

"Though, I think for now my biggest concern will be the butler and whoever Cinder sends to try and catch me"

"What about Torchwick and Neo? Think she'll send them? Or maybe Adam?" she suggested.

Taking a second to think Arthur replied, "I doubt she'd send Torchwick, he's a thief and a crook, not a kidnapper, or even strong enough to catch me, he's got the brains, so she might get him to try. Neo… she's a possibility, I don't know how her Illusions work or if Siri will even be able to see through them" he contemplated

"And Adam, he's a tricky one to predict, I don't think he would easily accept just trying to capture me, I'm not really a big figure, I may have a bit of fame but nothing that would get the White Fang to try anything to me"

"But he might still do it, because I do have a bit of fame, something like a warning, and if he learns where Blake is then the chances are much larger that he'll come out to do something, though he might still send people after me if he is tasked to do it"

"Out of all three, Neo is the most likely along with the White Fang, but there's also a possibility of there being someone else, someone I don't know, whose not in the story we know of"

Ashe sighed, "Well, we'll be back to Beacon in a few days, so we shouldn't need to worry about it too much, for now at least" she said as Arthur froze as he stepped around a corner, a feeling as if someone was watching him taking over.

Slowly looking around the relatively empty street Arthur couldn't see anyone who was staring so unceasingly at him and with such hostile intent, just as he shut his eyes to activate his soul seeing skill he felt a shiver run down his back as he quickly dodged to the side, coming just a hair breadth away from having a small dagger plunged into his back as it quickly lodged itself in the ground where he was standing.

Turning his head to see where it had come from Arthur, as he did the dagger pulled itself from the ground and flew towards the top of one of the buildings where he could see the figure of a person wearing a ninjas costume, one which had multiple stitches over the c.h.e.s.t resembling claw marks.

"Is she…" Ashe muttered, remembering the one 'ninja' that Arthur had torn the clothing of, and who looked to be particularly angered by having her clothing torn. Ashe began to laugh, "Wow, you met her once when she tried to kidnap you and she's already following you around"

"Not now Ashe…" he said as he watched the girl jump towards one of the buildings behind her, disappearing into the rooftops of Vale, "Let's add her to the list of problems, I have a feeling we're gonna be seeing a lot of each other" he muttered to himself and shook his head, turning around he continued to walk down the street.

It wasn't long before another interesting event happened for the day, as he continued to walk, it wasn't him who noticed it, but Ashe, "Um, Arthur…" she muttered as she floated next to him, now making use of Siri's illusions to keep herself hidden so as to not attract any prying eyes.

"Isn't that her?" she said, getting him to turn where her pages were open to, which was towards a small ice-cream parlour, nothing fancy, it was clean and white with ice-cream shaped decorations on the wall, and that was about the most interesting thing about it.

But what attracted his gaze wasn't the cute little ice-cream cone mascot statue that was standing outside, but the girl who was currently in front of the elderly, shop keep who handed her a cone of ice-cream with three scoops on it, the all to famous vanilla, chocolate and strawberry ice-cream mixture that made up the neapolitan.

"She's actually eating a neapolitan… does that count as cannibalism?" Ashe asked, sounding curious if it actually did.

Arthur didn't respond, instead just watching as the half pink, half brown hair girl began to pat her pockets looking for her wallet or just some spare Lien, but coming up empty as she continued to search for some Lien, the shopkeeper quickly beginning to gain a frown at her continued searching as he kept hold of the ice-cream, making sure it was out of her reach.

Sighing Ashe said, "Just do it, maybe getting on her good side will be a good thing in the future"

"You do realize she could easily just make her own money with an illusion right?" he retorted.

"Yes, but the cute chibi ice-cream flavoured girl is 'struggling' to pay for her ice-cream, which is ironically the same flavour as her" and she really was 'chibi' standing nearly 40 centimetres smaller than Arthur.

"I don't even want to respond to that…" Arthur sighed, shaking his head at Ashe's choice of wording.

"What, I can't be the only one who wants to taste her" She thought aloud

"Stop using 'taste' when you talk about a living person, you sound like Hannibal" he chuckled.

"Ew, no, I don't like fava beans or chianti" she shivered in disgust, getting a snort from Arthur as she conveniently left out the liver part of the quote, Ashe giving him a wide smile and wink.

"Now hurry up and go pay for the ice-cream, and maybe get your own, make it cookies and cream, keep the colour scheme going, I will divorce you if you don't" she threatened.

"And how would you do that?" Arthur laughed, knowing full well that unless he died or agreed they were stuck together for awhile.

"I'll stop talking to you" she crossed her arms and nodded, not being believable at all.

"That a threat or a promise?" Arthur gave her a wink of his own, seeing that Neo was still looking for her money, while the ice-cream had been placed in a holder behind the glass pane to keep it chilled until she could find her wallet.

"Here, this should be enough right?" Arthur said placing a blue lien card on the counter, one for 50 lien, "I'll have a scoop of red velvet, cookies and cream and caramel" he said, "Now give the girl her ice-cream" he gave the old shop keep a small smile.

The shop keep as well as Neo gave him a small look, but the shop keep quickly took the lien card and handed the cone to Neo before getting the scoops Arthur asked for and handing it to him, taking it from the shop keep Arthur turned to Neo who was looking up at him with a small smile.

"Really should make sure you have some money before you try to buy something" he said to her as he tasted the strange mixture of caramel, cookies and cream and red velvet ice-cream, Neo response, or lack thereof was to just look at him with squinted eyes as she slowly took a lick from her own ice-cream.

And thus they engaged in a short duel as Arthur silently stared down at her while she stared up at him, their eyes locked in an intense game of no blinking, Arthur lost, he always looses, but he did get a chance to see what she looked like, even if it did dry his eyes out after a minute.

She was short as he already knew so short that she was shorter than Ruby, even in high-heels, her hair was long pink and brown hair one half pink the other brown, the pink having a few strands of white in it, really giving her that Neapolitan look. Her eyes were the same, one pink the other brown, the pink half having a few white streaks through it, which would swap colours whenever she blinked.

She wore a white tail jacket, the jacket part ending at the top of her belly while the tail fell over her h.i.p.s with a pink interior, the jacket also had a single button buttoned at the centre of her surprisingly large for her size c.h.e.s.t, at around a large B, maybe C cup. Which was accentuated as the jacket opened up on to, really revealing the top part of her c.h.e.s.t while still being modest enough that it wouldn't be considered revealing.

Under her jacket she also wore a brown corset which curved in the middle and bottom showing a small part of her h.i.p.s, the part that curved down entering under her pants which were also brown and long which had her boots pulled over them, these being long, knee high, high-heel white boots with numerous buttons running down the sides of them and had a black tip.

Lastly she wore numerous black pearl necklasses worn haphazardly around her neck, loosly flowing over her bust and shoulders, and black gloves finished off her outfit.

Neo seeing Arthur blinking to wet his eyes silently laughed in victory as her expression loosened to become less suspicious of him, turning around she made her way towards a table in the parlour, lightly swinging her umbrella until she unceremoniously 'plopped' down onto the bench, nodding her head to the side as she locked eyes with Arthur saying he could sit by her.

Quickly taking the seat across from her Arthur noticed that her eyes never once separated from his, even as she continued to eat her ice-cream she kept her eyes locked on his, their colours swapping every time she blinked, which was an interesting site to say the least.

An idea formed in Arthur's mind as a smile formed on his face, as he looked into Neo's eyes he quickly blinked, willing his eyes to swap their colours and invert them, something he had never done before, well, with his own thoughts as it normally happened whenever he was in a bad mood.

Neo's eyes widened as a smirk formed on her face when she saw his eyes suddenly turn black after he blinked, taking this as a challenge she rapidly blinked two times, each time her eyes changing colour, Arthur doing the same, but instead blinking three times within a second changing their colours each time, it was actually surprisingly easy, but if he could see them himself he would notice they weren't fully black, instead becoming lightly speckled with black spots that seemed to fade away into the sclera creating small grey rings around the speckles.

They both continued this game of who could blink/change their eye colours fastest for nearly five minutes straight, once again ending in Arthur's loss as he gave up when she started turning her eyes red, purple, green blue and every other colour under the sun, and then some.

"Okay, you win, you win, I've only got that" he waved his hand in surrender, both their ice-creams having mostly disappeared leaving only a scoop of caramel for him and chocolate for her, Neo gave a small fist pump as he expression turned to one of victory.

Which quickly changed a.s.s her scroll began to let out a small bell chime jingle, pulling it out she opened it up and saw she had gotten a message, quickly reading through it she closed her scroll and once again locked eyes with Arthur's, somehow conveying her thoughts without words.

"Gotta go?" he asked, Neo not responding or nodding as she continued looking into his eyes, "Well, before you go, want to tell me your name?"

Neo smilled and swapped her eyes between white, brown a pink and the pointed to her ice-cream cone, "Ice-cream that is white, pink and brown, Neapolitan? Your names Neapolitan?" she locked eyes with him.

"Not Neapolitan?" she didn't respond, just blinked with a smirk on her face, "Neo? Neo Politan?" seeing he got the message she smiled and stood up, "Well, Neo, it was a p.l.e.a.s.u.r.e meeting you"

Neo walked next to him, taking another lick from what was left of her ice-cream, as she passed him she quickly pushed her umbrella under his hand that held the ice-cream cone, pushing the cone into his nose, leaving a small part of it on the tip of his nose and a small, caramel coloured moustache.

"Oh you little-" he quickly turned to her, a false anger expression on his face that quickly turned to one of surprise as Neo leaned down, her eyes wide open as she quickly licked the ice-cream off his nose, leaving Arthur with his own eyes wide.

Giving him a wink Arthur saw her eye turn pure white with multiple black speckles in it, mimicing what she had seen from him, not even giving him enough time to say anything as her entire body shattered like glass, the shards fading into the air, leaving where Neo had been standing empty, as if she had never been there.

Behind him Arthur could hear the shop-keep say, "Where'd the Lien go?" while scratching the top of his head in confusion, he hadn't taken anything out, and yet it was all gone, and no one had robbed him yet.

"I'm really starting to feel like I've got some charm ability" Arthur muttered to himself as he wiped his caramel moustache off with his thumb and licked it off, tasting a little bit of chocolate and vanilla along with it, "I don't have like some hidden ability do I?" he asked her.

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"You look happy" Roman noted as Neo walked into the warehouse where their hideout was located, Neo locking her eyes with him, "Oh, you skim some schmuck?", she rolled her eyes, "Oh, tricked someone into getting you something" he realized as Neo also pulled out numerous lien cards from her pocket between her fingers, mostly blue and white cards.

"Good girl, always go for the register when they never expect it" he chuckled as Neo smirked, "I know its obvious…" he said, Neo's smirk persisting, "That was one time, long ago" he said trying to refute her silence.

"Fine, twice" he sighed as Neo pumped her fist, "Anyways, crazy in red wants us, or well you, to catch someone and bring them to her, apparently she can't do it herself" Roman said, moving the subject forward and dug under in his coat, pulling out a small piece of paper and throwing it towards her, it spinning with enough force that it remained in the air.

Neo easily catching it between two fingers, and flipping it over to see who she was to look for, "Arthur Fielder, 'The Angel of Vale'" Roman's coice mocking the title, "Hmm?" he said noticing Neo, continued silence as she stared at the photo, "You meet him before?" she looked up to him, "Oh, nice one, he's the one you skimmed off of, makes your job easier then"

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Alternate Chapter names: [Ashe does not discriminate] [Hannibal Amaya, just no fava beans or chianti] [Ice-cream flavoured]

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