"Ice Coffin!" Rom yelled, as ice sprung from her staff. Uzume felt the ground underneath her grow cold underneath her feet. The red haired girl quickly rolled out of her way as an spike of ice shoot up from the ground.
She grabbed her megaphone and raised it, preparing to fire a counter attack. She didn't want to hurt the girl, but like hell if she was going to roll over and let her kill her. She had a promise to keep to all of Rebirth. She wasn't prepared to let go of her dream, not until someone tore it out of her dying hands. However, she paused as she noticed that tears were coming out of Rom's eyes. Why would she be bothering with this stupid fight?
Uzume lowered her weapon. Rom had been more terrified that aggressive earlier and only seemed to calm down once Nepsy had appeared. She only went bacl to the offensive after Nepsy said she take her to the Goddess.
"Your kind has already put the people who live here through enough trouble already."
The red haired girl took a breath as Rom fired more attacks at her from her staff, ice flying everywhere. This was the result of whatever had happened previously. It had to have been.
The red haired girl screamed into the Dream Megaphone. Orange energy waves broke the icicles that got too close. She needed to get Rom to back down. The question was how the hell did you get a terrified girl to stop being scared?
She couldn't turn around and leave and dashing past Rom wouldn't be a good idea either. The red haired girl looked at the staff in Rom's hands. She was going to need to disarm her. If Uzume was weaponless, Rom might take it as a trick or take the easy kill and continue attacking. If Rom was weaponless, Uzume would have a chance to talk to her without getting attacked (she hoped) but then Rom might be even more scared.
She didn't see any other options. In between the attacks, Uzume started to walk forward.
"No… no… stay back! E Force Blizzard!" She stabbed her staff into the ground. Her eyes were growing more scared as Uzume got closer.
A circle appeared underneath Uzume. The very air around her turned cold as ice sprouted from the ground and started to freeze her. She'd need to break the ice before she'd turn into a human ice sculpture. Despite her shivering, she focused waiting for the right time. If she moved too soon, the megaphone's waves would just hurt her. Just as the ice began to solidify, she yelled into her weapon, shattering it while not damaging herself.
As Uzume fell to the ground, she shivered violently. The ice had just gotten up to her chest before she blasted it and now she was freaking freezing done to the bone. The red haired girl dropped her megaphone and looked up to see Rom still looking at her, shocked and now even more scared. If she wasn't careful, she would probably fire off another attack, "Damn it." She just had to be a nice person didn't she?
Despite herself, Uzume got up and walked closer to Rom.
The girl cowered away, "No… no… stay away!" She yelled, but now Uzume was in range. She grabbed Rom's staff before she could swing it again and threw it onto the ground rather easily. The small girl stared at the taller one with teary blue eyes. Despite having space to run, Uzume was the only thing in her eyes. She was absolutely petrified, "Please… don't kill me..." She trembled.
She closed her eyes, expecting the worst as Uzume moved.
"You freaking kid. You're quite the handful aren't ya?" She said softly. Her voice was sorta uneven from the shivering since she was so cold. Uzume felt Rom stiffen from being hugged, "Hey it's alright. Like I'm said, I'm not here to hurt ya." She sighed, "I've seen enough people get hurt. We don't need to add anymore on the list. I know you're scared and you probably won't believe me, but I'm telling you the truth. And besides, I'm pretty sure your friend over there would've already jumped in if she thought otherwise."
She felt Rom turned her head, and out of a personal curiosity, also looked at Nepsy. She had expected the lavender haired girl to be paying very close attention to the battle. Instead, the hoodie wearing girl seemed to relaxing on the base of a tree a few feet away. Had she even been paying attention for the past few minutes? Uzume looked at Rom, "Does she normally do that?"
"I'll keep you safe. I promise."
"Not all humans are bad. At least, I don't think they are. There's gotta be good ones out there. Otherwise, why would she still wait for one to show up?"
Rom stared at Uzume for a moment as if deciding on something and nodded slowly, "She's… pretty lazy… but she's really nice." She said. She paused for a few moments, looking down at the ground and then back up at Uzume, "You're… not like the others." She offered a small smile.
Uzume gave her a thumbs up and gave one back, "You bet I'm not. The name's Uzume Tennoboushi and I'm the coolest human you're ever going to meet." She said, giving her most classic intro. Had it not been for Histoire and Nepsy nearly scaring her to death, she would've properly introduced herself to them.
Rom looked back at Nepsy and then averted her attention back to Uzume, "Miss Noire is up ahead. She hates humans." Rom sighed, "Miss Neptune is the only one who can calm her down but..."
Uzume frowned as she noticed that the girl was now apparently snoozing away and just like that her easy street ticket was out. As she got back up, letting go of the small girl, she sighed, "I guess I'll just have to work something out." She walked over to her megaphone and grabbed it, "I suppose there's no way I could treat her like you right?"
"She'd kill you… if you tried to hug her," Rom nodded. The girl walked over, picking up her staff, and waved it. A soft green glow surrounded Uzume. Despite the cold and wet clothing, Uzume could feel herself warm up. In fact, it was like she had taken no damage at all. Rom looked at her, "If Miss Neptune is trusts you, then I will too."
Uzume smiled, "I'll see ya around, okay?" She said as she walked forward.
Hopefully this Noire wouldn't be so disagreeable. Though, as she looked behind her and saw Rom take a seat next to the sleeping lavender haired one, she also hoped that Nepsy would wake up soon to at least let them both into her house. That couldn't have been comfortable. As she passed the house, she noticed that Rom's drawing in the dirt was still there.
She seemed to have made a crude depiction of two other people. The only thing she could tell was that they wore large hats like Rom.
I wonder who they are. Uzume thought as she continued on her path.