//------------------------------// // A Place To Defend // Story: The Siren's Keeper // by Gamer Script //------------------------------// "Sonata, get the Hell out of my way. Now." Aria forced out through gritted teeth threateningly, her irritated glare plastered on her face and Code's blood dripping off her knife. "You attacked Cody... After what he's done for us..." Sonata said as she too clenched her teeth and rushed at Aria, the pigtailed girl raising her hand to smack Sonata. The hit easily connected and made her stumble back, holding her cheek. Aria grinned and walked forward, "You keep letting yourself get hurt for this stupid human. He's nothing compared to us. Mud, maybe even lower!" She said as she brandished the knife once more, Adagio keeping her place in front of Code as she rose the blade, only for Sonata to get in the way and slamming her palms into Aria's stomach. It must've been a heavy hit from the sound that escaped the knife weilding siren as she stumbled back and held her stomach in pain, looking up to see Sonata in a fighting stance. Her right arm risen with her fist clenched and her left stretched outward with her ring and pinky fingers curled in with her middle and index a bit less so. Adagio and Code watched in shock as he began to stand with some help from the floofy haired girl at his side, handing his phone over to her, "Call... Ambulance..." He forced out as she nodded and used one hand on his wound atop his own hand while the other held his phone. She waited hurriedly for someone to answer as she whispered hopefully, "Pick-up, pick-up, pick-up..." She begged to anyone who was listening before hearing the line answer on the other side. The dispatcher barely getting the greeting out before Adagio interrupted, "I need an ambulance immediately at my location!" She demanded hurriedly as Aria stood back up. She quickly took her chance to lead their injured host to his room, Aria giving chase, as she leaped over the couch with the knife risen before being tackled back over by Sonata. The two rolled across the room before Aria kicked Sonata off and into a wall with the momentum, making her shout and groan lying on the ground before forcing herself up unsteadily. Aria growled and let the two get away as she rushed towards Sonata with the knife only for her to get past and grab her wrist and drag her into her knee, making Aria gasp in pain before being flipped onto her back, Sonata pressing her knee to her empty handed wrist and taking Aria's knife hand in a wristlock, twisting her wrist roughly as she was then forced to drop it. In Code's room, Adagio was speaking to the dispatcher and giving her the needed information, "Y-Yes, get here quickly!" She said as she hung up and laid Code down on his bed, noticing the deep crimson upon her hands as she held his wound. She could hear the scuffle through the wall and finally heard a loud thud combined with Aria's pained scream. Aside from Aria's groans and growls of anger, the room seemed quiet and the fight seemed to be finished. She couldn't even partially register everything that'd just happened, it was all just too fast to keep up with mentally. She saw it all, no questions there, but the very concept of her sghtings sent her mind into spins. She grit her teeth and clenched her eyes shut as for the first time since they had been found, she cried. She clenched Code's hands tight over the wound and laid over him, letting out soft sobs, "What happened to us? What did we do to... To..." She couldn't continue that line of questioning, knowing and remembering exactly all the awful things they'd done. Remembering stealing the negative energy from those around them, forcing friends, family, lover's even to despise one another just so they could get a meal. They lived luxuriously through mind control and altered the world to their bidding through their songs. It wasn't that she couldn't question their right to this terrible situation, but more so that she didn't deserve to in her own mind. Before long she heard the front door open, the demanding voice of a police officer shouting at, presumably the two in the other room as Adagio called out, "In here! Quickly, please!" Within seconds she heard rushed footsteps moving to their direction as the door was quickly opened, showing paramedics behind it: a woman with light pink hair and alabaster white skin and a tan skinned male with glasses and brown hair. Seeing them, Adagio was filled with relief as they took her place at his side, removing his hands to assess the wound properly, "Alright, miss. Can you explain what happened here?" "I... We were coming home from a lovely day in the park with my sisters, and... I don't..." She stuttered, unable to even convince herself she knew what'd happened. "I can tell you..." Sonata said coming from behind a few officers, another hanging onto a handcuffed Aria with a dark glare in her eyes and her knife in an evidence baggy in an opposing one's hand, "We came home and Aria... She stabbed Cody for no reason..." She clenched her teeth and fists as her bangs fell over her eyes, "She just ran at him and... She..." "Oh shut up, Sona--" "No!!!" Sonata shouted as everyone in the room was taken aback by her sudden outburst, "You stabbed Cody! He could be dead and you stabbed him! He fed us, he gave us a home when we were alone and Dagi was sick! And you stabbed him!" She screamed as she punched Aria across her face as another officer grabbed and restrained her as she flailed and kicked at Aria, the officer trying to calm her down along with Adagio while Aria screamed at Sonata who was enraged and in tears. Among this chaos, a coughing could be heard by the three who had stopped and looked back over, all wide-eyed as they saw Code begin sitting up, the paramedics urging him to lay back down as he waved them away. He stepped staggeringly over to the girls as Adagio rushed over and put his arm over her shoulder and helped him get over to Sonata and Aria, bith of which were still restrained or handcuffed. He looked to the policemen and said in a pained, yet clear voice, "Let 'em go..." "We can't do that sir. We--" "I'm not pressing charges against Aria... Just let her go..." He said softly, all three of the sirens looking at him in shock, Aria most of all as the policemen looked at eachother bewildered and then shrugged, uncuffing her as she rubbed her wrists, both of which were bruised. The other officer holding Sonata back let her go as well as she ran over and hugged him tightly, sobbing into his chest as she snuggled into him, Adagio joining her in his embrace. Aria simply stood there, her eyes still wide in confusion as the officers walked away with the knife, the paramedics still on standby as they let them have their moment. They didn't know what was going on in the slightest, but one thing was certain. They must've meant a lot for something like this to slide.