Looking for Meatbuns

Though she was terribly impressed by the power the Silver Knight just awoke to fight, Majamu's response was not what was expected: gathering all her rage and envy as a power of motivation she'd use against Hakumen, she used her reactors to blast off and try to land an attack in sync with Kageo's... by jumping right above the kaka, taking advantage of his spear jabs to try and land stabbing flaming attack from Rengoku, shouting out loud the name of the attack she hoped to land: "Goukayari! (Flame Spike)"
But in her overly offensive gesture, she had forgotten something: Rengoku didn't function in presence of powers such as Nox Nyctores, and even though her right arm was strong: the power of the attack would never reach that it could have if the flames actually showed up on her sword. Nevertheless she appeared to ignore that matter: all that was worth a thing was to hit Hakumen at all.

What do I have to do now...? was Noel's first thought after Ragna decided to leave the place. She was somehow tempted to go after him, but someone did certainly not decide that way.

Stick with Rachel, Ragna's not important now. Try to get her away. Uuuuuuuh... Noel was lost in her thoughts again, trying to plan her next move, one of the riskiest ones of her life.

She finally approached the vampire and her bulky guard slowly, and addressed her: "I want to..., she started with a trembling voice, but soon got a hold of herself, taking a bolder tone -no, I have to know more about me. Please... tell me." While she didn't expect the vampire to actually listen to her, the blonde Murakumo hoped she would, and somehow felt like she would be listened, she knew it for a reason she didn't know.

----------(From Sector Seven HQ)----------->
Tager finall landed near the battle's location. The wind had been disturbing his flight for quite a while, but now he saw the White Knight against his fellow agents Majamu and Kageo-kaka. Noel, Rachel and her companion nearby would not be much of a worry, Hakumen was a honorful individual and would not attack those who didn't decide to.
"Hakumen. Kokonoe ordered me to retrieve you. You know what this means, right?" He waited for a while and added: "There will be no holding back! Artificial Causality Weapon kicking in at 100%!"

Hakumen raised the flat of the Nox Nyctores, bringing the sword up with a skillful hand, the silver knight had blocked the oncoming slash. Realizing that the situation just grew much worse with the arrival of Tager. The leader of the six heroes would have to make this battle much quicker than was intended. After a quick assessment of his opponents, Hakumen came to the decision of removing the kaka from his range; with consideration of warding off the cyborg female nearest him as well, he chose his strike carefully.

"Zantetsu!" the sweep of his powerful blade, further enhanced by the full power of his present state would knowingly clear the Sector 7 Kaka from his path. He would corner him even with careful actions and defeat him first. Perhaps the Cyborg girl first, as she mentioned they were his opponents.

"!" At such a range the kaka had no choice but to move as much as he could, he brought the tip of Kagennotsuki up in time to catch the blade, by which he'd let the force shove him backwards; leaving the kaka falling backwards in the air after the silver knight's blade had come completely down. Just before landing some 7 feet back, he watched the horizontal sweep of the blade coming at him rather quickly. He had felt his body start to ache and once more blocked the powerful flat of the blade to catch the shaft of his spear; something that shot him backwards with great force.

While dropping backwards he charged Kagennotsuki with everything that had been surging through his body. He forced the seithr into the spear, channeling it carefully through the centerpoint of his spear...he ended the seithr resonance and held the now charged spear...he finally caught his ground and stood it firmly. He no longer had the power surging through his body, but the sweep of his spear for this next attack would not be something to laugh at. "This will be my best shot..." he knew that he had to be extremely careful, while he'd be able to fight still; he was weakened by the sudden channel-cut off from his own power sources. But he would recover and had artifice resonance if he wanted to engage in close range combat.

With ever-increasing discontent, Majamu watched as she and Kageo got shrugged off like they were paper to him. Though, she wasn't the one to get attacked: Hakumen was like all-out on Kageo. Not that she'd give her life for him, but that still was "unfair" of Hakumen to pick on Kageo separately. Intent on taking advantage of the situation to punish Hakumen directly, she dashed swiftly at his back, and prepared her next attack: a strong magnetic punch that would blow the Silver Knight upward, after what surely she - one of her fellows in case Hakumen would be ready for her - could try and attack again while he was still mid-air. If that sword can't do it, I have something else to make due for it... I will not fall on my back like when I faced Jin Kisaragi! Not like during that one NOL operation! Not like against Clover! I refuse to back down again!

Tager followed the moves of Hakumen and quickly analyzed the battle plans of his allies. It would clearly not be an easy one to win, with Hakumen's attacks being powerful enough at this point to break his fellows' guards in a matter of seconds, but a 3-on-1 couldn't be so bad. With his companions being much faster than him, he had to adapt to their offensive styles, so he moved some meters in front of Hakumen, just anchored his feet where they were and held his arms up at his side to cover as much space as possible, ready to grab Hakumen whenever he would fall near him for a Gigantic Tager Driver.

The Silver knight had been watching both of his closer opponents with a trained eye, whether or not the cyborg girl was unsure of whether he was sure of the attack's trajectory being easy to deflect should he have chosen it, was no longer the point here. In the fact that she had gone about her business, he allowed the blow to strike him up; as the momentum would work to his advantage. He took to the air, fully aware that his body had been charged with magnetism; this was when her struck. Using the increased strength of all of his attacks to strike back upon Majamu with his sweeping blade, by which at this range she wouldn't be avoiding so simply.

"Tsubaki!" the charged Ookami was already sweeping downward in her direction with great haste, closing the distance with the aim and putting her out of commission for the rest of this fight. The faceless sight of Hakumen had also taken advantage of the height; he watched carefully of the Red Devil of Sector Seven's motions, fully aware that he could be magnetized and that...was something he was already considering right now. While he hadn't discounted the Kaka below him, he felt that the activity he sensed from him would draw for a countering blow...either way he would react to the situation, no matter how it unfolded.

The kaka saw the move, the powerful attack in his sights,c ould he make it in time? He wasn't going to let another comrade fall...he whipped his spear up with all the force he could muster; he had no time to react in any other way...all of the charged force in his blade would likely cause a small blast...but at least it would disperse when clashing with the terrible strength of the legendary knight. "Tiger's sweeping tail!" Kagennotsuki's red and blur flair smashed into the sweeping blade and immediately resulted in a heavy explosion; something of a dispersing discharge that spread outward.

In such ways that Kageo could not rightly adjust to, with his body having slowly trying to regain the weakness it had suffered from overcharge; the kaka's footing was pour and the blast had sent him flying back off to the right, straight into the side of the alley's wall. The kaka's blow had been a good hit, it slowed Tsubaki's full force but had not stopped Hakumen's attack from going at Majamu's head; though slower she might have a better chance to respond to it. Kageo meanwhile started rising, while his body attempted repairs in the midst of battle; he wouldn't be of use for the next few minutes would he?

Watching as her magnetic pulsing fist actually managed to hit Hakumen, Majamu prepared to launch herself up to follow and try to strike him. However, the Silver Knight didn't really intend so. As she had prepared her next attack and her sword circled in the air for a downward-arcing swing... "Kinyou-GAAAAAH"¹ Hakumen's own sword was already crashing into her chest, sending her to the ground to slide a distance away.
Rolling back to recover from that terrific strike, Majamu thought a bit on how she could defeat Hakumen, but... There's no way in hell I can beat that much power... He's too damn strong. This is madness... Whatever, I can't just bow down, I got a mission to complete! As she thought up a way of catching up fast so Kageo wouldn't suffer too much, she focused her energy once again, clenched her fist and grumbled: "Fufukujuu...", before shouting out loud the end of the name of her attack, a fast forward charge with Rengoku held horizontally in front of her... "... Goukayaaaaa!"², her shout of rage lasted as she overdrove her reactors to charge towards Hakumen again for another go at this hopeless match.

Notes:
1. Interrupted during "Kinyouzan" = "Golden Star Slash"
2. "Fufukujuu Goukaya" = "Disobedience Strong Fire Arrow"

Tager was standing nearby, still waiting for a chance to get a hit on Hakumen. For now everything was moving too quickly for him to catch up, and in this kind of situation he didn't have much of a choice: he had to wait for the others to actually consider him in their plans. And for now they go on him all by themselves... Do they know I am the only one to stand a chance? He was looking at it all, Hakumen's power was more than what was expected... but it could be even stronger: for now, his 40% existence rate was still restraining him from being as powerful as he was 80 years ago.
Tager saw something he could use. Majamu was using from afar some kind of rushing attack while he was just behind. This was the perfect opportunity. He would use the momentum of her attack if she manages to drive Hakumen in to grab him and lift him off in the air for his famed and feared Genesic Emerald Tager Buster. Hopefully, this would get Hakumen down for enough time.

"Keh. I feel seriously insulted at this moment."
An unusual sound left the vampire lady's mouth. Although Rachel stood by in a passive distance and therefore provoked being ignored, she didn't seem to be very pleased with the situation. Ragna left all of a sudden, the others were still fighting like there was no tomorrow... in the end even Tager jumped into the unusual brawl!
"That Schrödinger's cat sure is testing my patience here."
Now that the Red Devil was here, Rachel didn't feel like doing nothing. Noel stumbling towards her blabbering was not enough of a distraction. The red-eyed woman knew what the fuss was all about.
"Oh, I understand you well, Miss Vermillion. But I am afraid now is not the time to talk. I am unable to concentrate with all that noise around!"
When Rachel raised her voice to declare her doubt, she also made the wind her servant. The wind suddenly turned into a raging storm, striking right into the middle of the combat zone. Everything in midair or not with their feed on the ground was sure to be hit harder by the sudden blast as the ones who were touching the ground. Of course the humungous Tager wouldn't be affected all too well leading to a minor slow down. The light Majamu was another case. With her feet off the ground she was sent flying right into another direction unable to punch the Silver Knight. On the other hand Hakumen was send straight towards the vampire lady and her bulky servant (later surely had his hands full aiding Noel from flying away). With Tager's action stopped even the magnetism wouldn't be that much of a problem now.
"Well well, that way is more convenient to talk, is it not?"
Acting all high and mighty, that was what Rachel could do best.

The events went quite out of control around, much to Tsutomu's disappointment and to Rachel's evident discontent. The bodyguard had a wary eye on Noel, he had seen little ladies able to do much, like Rachel herself, so he wouldn't let a girl have his guard dropped. Though there was not much to worry about, as Rachel casually passed her by.
Somehow Tsutomu knew that his lady was going to take action, and prepared for it, casually addressing Noel: "Hold on to me, girl, Lady Rachel is gonna be serious, and the troublemakers out there are not going to like it." He grabbed Noel's wrist to prevent her being blown away, and walked against her lady's wind himself, seeing that she was bringing Hakumen towards her, he would isolate him from the Sector Seven agents and school whatever fool would try to get past him.

As always, Noel was not listened to. She had been brushed off like a kid that was asking her mom for a toy. Rachel's tone was somewhat more comprehensive than the last time, and the blonde girl knew her inner questions would have a more exact answer soon, Kokonoe having been so blunt with it, everything was still difficult to believe for her.
Suddenly, her wrist had been grabbed, she heard some warning words from Rachel's bodyguard, and the wind started blowing her feet off the ground violently. She was dragged again out of her will. When the wind stopped blowing, she would clumsily get her feet holding her back up. Trying to break free from Tsutomu would be useless anyway, and he didn't seem to want her any bad.

The Silver knight found himself suddenly pulled from the battle scene where he had been, suddenly yanked towards the vampire woman by a furious wind, he was heavily surprised by what was dragging him towards them. He had not been sure of what he could do about this sudden tug, he adjusted his stance as best he could, being caught off guard left him with poor footing. "Tch!" he kept his cool and observed carefully what was going on before him; what had Rachel wanted now? He remained on guard, aiming to watch everyone that was still well within his vision.

Kageo was at the mercy of the wind, fortunately for him he was pressed to the wall and as the wind blew his body downward, he thrust his claws and dug into the wall violently, holding Kagennotsuki within his fangs while he held onto the wall to prevent from moving. He couldn't see or sense anything while his body was recovering from the discharge, he was at least able to move again and wanted to help..but he couldn't move just yet as he found. His body was already preparing to make his next move; which was to gain height and find out what was going on.

As the wind curiously threw her fast attack off-balance and reduced the speed she overdrove her leg reactors for to zilch, she reacted by planted her sword in the ground before the wind could grow strong enough to wave her around like a rag doll. Sure, thanks to those mechanical appendages, Majamu had quite a respectable body mass, those gales were not ones to scoff at.
Since the gales drew the Silver Knight to the person apparently provoking the wind, the female agent kept low to the ground before launching herself at Hakumen again to retry her attack. Though, she had so much less momentum it was like just asking to get parried and countered. Blinded by the growing rage, she just didn't notice yet, instead forcing forward and going all-out like she always did.

Tager was ready for his plan to come into execution, but gales starting popping out of nowhere. While Tager himself wasn't even thrown off-balance, staying on the ground thanks to his 550 kilograms, the other agents were not quite as heavy as he was... even Hakumen had been moved like a toothpick, and Rachel's aid was now in the way, and the vampire was acting high, apparently requiring a talk.
Then came Kokonoe's words: Do whatever you have to do, but I want Hakumen in my lab in the end of this., and he looked at the recovering agents, but Majamu had been foolish enough to have another go at Hakumen. Tager's massive left hand would come in her way. "Wait! We don't have to use violence for now... We are not brutes. I will talk to him... you two, stay out of this."
Respecting his words and Rachel's desires, he took one heavy step towards the no-more-bystander, her companion, and the Hero. I hope it doesn't end up as bad...

"Foolish..." was his response to the return of the cyborg samurai, though he found the Red Devil's hand moving to bar her path. He was still prepared to counter her attack, he would punish her insolent rise from the first strike he'd given her. He refused to sully his blade with the foolish Sector 7 this day, that was for another time should they choose to become his enemy. He knew that Rachel desired his attention, well she'd had it; as he landed promptly once the wind had died down. Catching himself was simple, he kept both Rachel, her bodyguard, Noel Vermillion in his glance...not forgetting that he'd had the Red Devil, a cyborg girl, and something of a downed kaka still present. His attentiveness was high...he was prepared to react without holding much back; but he kept Ookami in a resting position before him.

"...I will ask your reason for drawing me here, if only to know what you wish to speak of. His tone was calm and even his posture had released a slight tension; he was ready to cut down those foolish Sector 7 Agents who still wished to get in his way. But it became obvious that Rachel had a serious intention of speaking with him; otherwise she'd not have taken action.

"Ah, I am surprised about this observation. Unfortunately some people do not seem to better their manners. Rejoice, Silver Knight. I rescued your life, again. And this is how you appreciate it?"
The wind didn't cool of just yet. It was in wavering motion and tended to blow into the direction of Tager and his companions.
"Maybe I just send you back then. You do not seem to want me around you nor have a little chit-chat. On the other hand I have to insist, that I am not giving you away that easily. For now I just want to hear what all this ruckus is about."
As for the next moment, there was already a table set in place as well as Nago being abused as a comfortable cushion to sit upon. Rachel intertwined her fingers as to give a patient gesture away as she was sitting at the table, using it as a support for her small body. Even though she leaned on her elbows, it was a marvelous and elegant pose she expressed.
"I do not care about any order, so go right away. First comes, first serves!"
With an inviting rise of the corners of her mouth she waited for Hakumen, Kokonoe or whoever wanted to give some details away.

(Skip both Tsutomu and Noel. Tsutomu's just holding Noel and standing between Haku and the Sector 7 agents, and Noel confuses herself again with her conflicting thoughts.)

--------(cf: Area 28)-------->

As he made his path towards the side of his noble mistress, the old butler saw himself confronted with some complications. The density of NOL guards around town seemed to have increased. It just confirmed the given information about the current situation. Unfortunately Valkenhayn still had to slow down if he wanted to make sure not to be seen. As of finally, he came into closer distance to the prescence of the current head of the Alucard family. The familiar prescence of Hakumen was also nearby as well as several others. Closing in he finally managed to reach the alley everybody was confronting each other. Junesa followed him all the way, which made the amount of Rachel-sided individuals even bigger in this place.
"I see many faces of Sector 7 around... I am sorry to ask of this, but is there a problem, Lady Rachel?"
Concerned with the current situation Valkenhayn didn't lose time to confront his mistress in an inferior attitude.
"Do not worry, Valkenhayn. Everything is fine for now. We just came together to have a little debate. That is all. I do not see a reason to be extraordinarily alarmed."
"Is that so. Can I elate you with a freshly brewed cup of tea then?"
"Go on. I would like some sweet pastry as well. Do not forget to ask everyone else before you take off!"
"Certainly, madam!"
Valkenhayn didn't lose any more of the precious time of his mistress and went around asking who was in for some refreshments. Both sides, of course.

(~~~~> from Area 28)

While nowhere near as fast as the legendary Valkenhayn R. Hellsing, Junesa did manage to keep pace despite being somewhat behind him. While she'd heard her lady speaking, she meekly stood back somewhere nearby. She had been too humbled by Lady Rachel's words to make so much as a peep. But all of the noise from the group beyond Tsutomu had made things clear for her. With him on guard and the Red Devil of Sector 7 in sight, she this meant that she'd come upon the point of a problem. She said nothing but had stood at the ready, planning to strike should she be ordered to do anything.

Hakumen said nothing at first to the result of Rachel's response, he was not one to admit that he had been saved; even if she had at this point. But he was thankful for the brief reprieve, even if it let him simply assess his foes. He was prepared to finish the fight and walk away the victor, but it seemed that Rachel was seeking to be informed; he would make the explanation brief...but to the point, her minor help had earned that much.

"The reasoning for this pointless scuffle is Sector 7's wish for my capture. I came seeking Terumi, he may have escaped again; but this was of no issue until their interference. I will not be used as a tool for that Grimalkin, I will make my own destiny...it appears even the Red Devil has come to attempt my capture. Thusly this is their present state, interfering with fate's decree of Terumi's end." he gave what he felt he owed her for that help.

Tager was standing still where he was, handling the diplomatic issues with Hakumen with his usual calm attitude: "Hakumen, Sector Seven does not want you as a tool. Kokonoe needs your help, no matter how her words look to you. As for Yûki Terumi's end, I would be far too happy to let you end his life. We at Sector Seven only want your help. In return, Kokonoe has the means to help you recover your former power slightly faster. I cannot promise much, but I hope you understand our position." With his tirade spoken, it was up to Hakumen to decide whether he'd pay Kokonoe a visit or not.