Broken Glass (Joshua x reader)

Chapter 28

"Beat! Rhyme! Neku! Shiki! You all need to get back and behind an object or something!" I shouted and dove behind a toppled over vending machine where Joshua was crouched, his eyes intently examining the screen of his phone that illuminated his face. He typed away on it as I heard Nikolai's maniacal laughter rang throughout the air as I felt the pull of imagination as he drew it towards him. He absorbed it into his body and I ducked down close to Joshua as he scooted closer to me.

"I'm going to bring Neku and the others to Dead God's Pad, to keep them from getting more injured than they already have. Do you think you'd be able to keep Nikolai occupied before I come back?" Joshua asked. I nodded and he engulfed my frame in a hug as I raised my arms to hug him back. We quickly pulled away but I could feel that he did not want to let me go as his embrace was tight.

"I'll be alright Joshua. Take them when I tackle him to the ground," I said, wondering how I would accomplish that as he nodded his head. It made me smile to know that Joshua cared for the other's safety and getting them away from the heat of the battle. I held my wings close to my body as Nikolai released the imagination, causing it to spread out from around him like a shock wave. It came out as darkness and pushed back everything it touched, consuming some of the objects and turning them into ashes before it evaporated and vanished into thin air. The only objects that weren't affected were the ones surrounded by a white glow that radiated off of them and was spreading across the ground fighting off the darkness.

I jumped up and raised both of my hands as they began to glow. I focused the imagination inside of me and swiped my hands to both sides as the light rushed off of me in waves, directly hitting the darkness pooling off of Nikolai as it clashed against it, but effectively stopped it. I dashed to the side as Nikolai raised his hand and summoned spikes that shot out of his hand like bullets. Raising my own hand, light shot out of it towards Nikolai, to which he raised his hand as darkness formed a wall long enough to allow him to teleport away in another cloud of black mist. The light ate through the darkness and shot around the room looking for the presence of Nikolai.

Joshua's beams of light surrounded one area where Nikolai appeared in and Joshua clicked a button on his phone and a beam struck the center of the circle where Nikolai was, who let out a scream as I saw his mist appear in front of me as he materialized out of thin air. I lunged forward and tackled him to the ground as my wings flapped on my back to hold him down on the ground.

"What are you trying to accomplish? You can't just suck all the power away from me and the Angels have most likely already been alerted of your presence. They will be coming soon and I will make sure to attend your trial," I said as I pursed my lips together. Nikolai smirked, his eyes dangerously flashing red again as he leaned towards me. A piece of his hair fell behind his ear. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Joshua get up from where he was and move over to Neku and Shiki as he whispered something to them before shoving them out of the room, following after them, despite them not wanting to leave. I could sense the hesitance in their steps.

"Well, I want all the power I can get my hands on, starting with you and Shibuya. It'll be easier to take the power from you now that they all left. I won't say that I didn't place some Taboo Noise in that room ahead of time but it's too late to warn them," Nikolai said as he sung out the last part. I heard Shiki's shriek and I snapped my head up only to realize my mistake when Nikolai threw me off of him as he pushed me off with a wave of darkness. I cried out as I hit the wall and scurried over to the side as the shadows of the room reached out towards me. Flapping my wings, I flew above me and avoided the ball of darkness that struck the wall behind me, creating a crater as it blew up.

"How are you affecting the RG?! We're in the UG!" I said and glanced back towards the wall for a second before flying to the side and up and down, avoiding the bolts of darkness Nikolai sent my way. When the bolts stopped firing towards me, I darted down towards Nikolai, raising my hands in front of me as a beam of light shot out of them. Midway, it made contact with another beam created from imagination. Nikolai summoned his own beam of darkness and sent it at me, only to have it collide with the light. Both clashed against each other, one being light, while the other was darkness in contrast to it, and when they connected, they stayed in the air like that trying to push against each other and Nikolai and I both pushed against one another, pushing our beams of either light or darkness to hit the other.