I

Gefahr

… Nana watched as it snowed outside, she had never seen such white stuff before in here entire life, nor had she experienced how cold it could get in what people called winter.

Almost six months had passed since that dreadful night at the tower, it had been a terrible night for her, her papa had confessed to her that Nana wasn't his real daughter, that he loved Mariko, that Nana was to go and live a happy life without him, didn't matter how much she had begged him, he had left with his true daughter Mariko in his arms and then the bombs went off killing them both, she had felt heartbroken, for papa and for Mariko who only at the very end of her life experienced happiness and love. She had watched as Lucy had left telling her to do what she could not, she had felt sorry for her as well, that she had never found that happiness as well in her life as she confronted them.

For a few days it seemed as she had died but then she made it back, though Lucy was no more, she had lost her other horn and now it seemed that only Nyu remained, she was in a terrible shape but luckily still alive, still the loss of both her horns had caused a severe loss of memory, she had barely recognized them. They had all been so happy to see her back alive though it pained them even more to see that their friend had lost so much.

The following months had been kind to them all, no further attempts had been made on her or Nyu, they were able to live in peace for such a long time, it had been good on all of them.

"Kouta-san hadn't spoken about what had happened that night, he looks at Nyu-san with a sad face as if he's missing something. Did something happen that night? But Kouta being Kouta is trying to protect this house with utmost care…

… Yuka-san has become like a mother to us all, caring and helping us as much as she can, she still loves Kouta though. Still she has done so much to help Nyu when she got back…

… Nozomi-san is a good friend of Yuka-san, she had first come as a guest to keep her study hidden from her father. She has spent some time here before but with her exams drawing near, she's staying here permanently. Her face has turned even paler because of a lack of sleep, it doesn't seem like she tries to hide her diaper issue anymore…

… Mayu-san is the same as usual she has a sad expression on her face at times, she's also still poor at dealing with guys, yet she's kind to Kouta-san…

… Nyu-san has changed most of all, she has learned many words again and seems like a different person, she has become more mature since her horns are gone, not once has she shifted personalities, it looks like Lucy is completely dead…

… Poor Nyu-san, I can't help but wonder, what if she knew that she has slain dozens of people in ways unimaginable." She sighed as she looked at her room. "I love this house, I want to always be here…but I know the truth.

I know this happiness can't last forever…papa once told me that if a man got ahold of Lucy-san he will be able to end humanity as it is now." She cried. "And if it happens that Lucy-san is caught by someone evil, I'd have to kill Nyu-san…

… Even if I don't want to ruin this happiness."

Chief Kakuzawa stood there in his office watching through the window. Pondering on the next course of action for his master plan, he had been tirelessly working these past six months to put every piece into its place, now it was almost ready.

"It's kind of rare for us to meet here." He heard as one of his operatives walked into his office. He didn't bother to look back as he already knew who it was.

"…So it is you. How's the preparations for the virus going?"

"Smoothly. Just reconsider the usage of rockets like those used in the previous operation, they attract too much unwanted attention." The man answered him. "Thanks to the hard work of Arakawa-san, the virus itself is developing as we speak, the new strain should be even better than the previous." A vicious smile appeared on his face. "This one also creates an even higher infection rate according to the tests."

Chief Kakuzawa smiled, finally matters were starting to progress back into order, the man was right though, a new form of spreading the next viral strain would be needed.

"The details for the delivery of the next strain are of no concern." Kakuzawa informed him, still the man had made a point, the rocket had proven to be a costly setback but one that would not hinder the completion of his master plan.

"Just…then will it really fall to us?"

"Naturally. You will understand once you have witnessed the silpelits power." Kakuzawa answered him. "Essentially it will be us who shall end up ruling the earth."

"Are you two done showing of?" Arakawa asked as she saw the two men standing there. "I'd rather not be called out to a place like this, it feels bad here, so what is it?"

"Has the virus production quota we set been achieved?"

"Hm? Ah yes we are almost there, just give it a couple of days, this new strain is proving to be a bit more difficult to produce in the quantities you ordered."

"See to it that there are no delays, furthermore you two, from now on I want you to resume the search and retrieval of Lucy by any means necessary."

"Ehh? Both Arakawa and the man asked, taken by surprise. They looked at each other.

"Arakawa return to the university and find that student you said was searching for Lucy."

She smiled, finally a chance for her to get off this island and back to her old place.

"No." The man stepped in. "There's no exceptional need for Arakawa-kun. Capturing Lucy doesn't make for a task that I can't complete alone."

"WHAT!?" She screamed out loud, both furious and shocked she looked at him.

"Since you finished developing that sampling apparatus right? Rest assured that Lucy will be found." He smiled at her, jesting her.

"NOW LISTEN! I, TOO, HAVE CLUES THAT OTHER PEOPLE DON'T!" She yelled back at him, she was becoming irritated of him. "CAN'T YOU STOP UTTERING NEEDLESS STUFF!?"

Kakuzawa stepped in "Can't you stop taking jokes seriously!"

Taken back Arakawa just mumbled a few words "Ah…well…I."

"Oh well. I guess we'll do it like this then." The man smiled. "Arakawa-kun in the case you don't find Lucy before I do…how about I make you work for me as a pleasure slave."

"HUH!?"

"Your clothes should only cover the nipples, that would be good, the rest you can simply burn as you won't be needing them anyway."

"ARE YOU RETARDED!? WHAT DO YOU TAKE ME FOR!?" Now she was becoming furious, she swore she was going to make this guy swallow his own words.

"Well true, I can't seemingly expect you to have the guts to make such bets, nor any real clues.

"Fine you're on! But if I find Lucy before you, you'll chop off your own dick!"

The man laughed, he had her now. "Ah-ha ha ha… ah okay."

"Yuka! Change faster or we'll be late!" Kouta shouted as he stood ready to leave.

"I know!" She screamed as she kept struggling with the hook on her bra.

Nyu smiled as she looked at her fiddling, Nyu had already gotten herself ready.

"Nyu-chan, it's not fair! You're an early riser and have changed already."

"No… it was because it was my turn for duty this morning."

"I can't seem to fasten this darn hook." Yuka cursed as she still fiddled with the damn thing.

Then Nyu got sight of Yuka's breasts, she started to feel odd.

"Nyu-chan what's the matter?" Yuka had noticed the odd look in her eyes, she had seen that look before but it had been a long time ago.

"Ah! No!" Nyu remarked but she didn't knew, she wondered what was wrong with her but she felt a desperate urge to feel them. She tried to avert her gaze.

"EEK!" Yuka screamed in horror as Nyu's hand grabbed her breast. "N-Nyu-chan, what are you doing?"

"NYU NYUU!?" She cried. "I'M SORRY! I'M SORRY! IT'S NOT THAT!" Her other hand now grabbed the other breast. "IT WASN'T ME IT WAS MY HAND!"

"AAH…YAHH…AAH…don't…my panties." Yuka screamed as she couldn't take it anymore, she couldn't fight it. At the bottom of the stairs hearing the desperate struggle between them Kouta sighed "I'm not going to get in between them." He looked at his watch, they were so going to be late.

Nana watched as finally Yuka and Nyu came down the stairs though Nyu seemed to keep her head low and at the same time kept some distance from Yuka.

"See you later Nana-chan and take care of the house for us."

"Have a safe trip" She answered them as they left, now she was all alone in the house, Mayu had left earlier along with Nozomi. She felt so lonely being the only one left at the house, but she couldn't come with Kouta and the others, the university was boring, how she envied Nyu.

"They all study every day… it's so lonely watching the house alone." She whispered.

Mayu had left her some books to help her study but she didn't feel much for them at the moment, she knew she needed to do something but what could she do?

She sat down as she looked at the comfortable surroundings of her former office, it felt good to be away from the island, here she could enjoy some rest and private time.

"So nice. I haven't seen this lab in quite a while." She rested her feet on the desk and leaned back. "Back then I couldn't even think that I'd be helping out to destroy humankind, and now…" She started to think again over that night, the night that doctor Kakuzawa was killed and the student that had come to talk to him, she needed to find that student, he would be the key to finding Lucy and her victory over that arrogant perverted man.

"Well enough rest for now…I need to find that student and have a talk with him, good thing I kept his picture hidden from the chief." She smiled.

She got up again and walked to the desk of her former boss, it had been neatly cleaned and all of his belongings had long been removed, no doubt on the orders of chief Kakuzawa to make sure his son's work didn't fall into other hands.

"Luckily I know where doc concealed the more valuable items." She hoped that no one had found out, as she opened the lowest drawer and pushed out the fake floor she knew enough.

She looked at the stuff the professor had left her, these would all come in handy later.

"Looks like you kept the best for last." She laughed as she picked up the vials, no doubt this was the doc's anti-diclonius birth vaccine, it would be worth a fortune. "In my childhood I dreamed of becoming a great if not one of the greatest scientists, to be recorded among the greatest of people." She smiled as she could see it all before her. "But this isn't about the records of the greatest any longer, now it's about the bible." She laughed harder than before, when the time came it would be her and not chief Kakuzawa to become the next god of the new humanity.

"Why didn't we bring Nana-chan along with us? Yuka asked as she kept thinking on how lonely it was right now at the Maple Inn for Nana. "It's too lonely for her to be watching the house alone without anybody else."

"When we had her come with us the last time she got pretty disappointed not to mention bored, besides Nana-chan doesn't look like a university student either."

"Well that's true but I would still feel better if she wasn't alone.' Yuka kept thinking about her. "Still we should try to help her as much as we can."

Kouta nodded, they would look for that once school was over.

"Now I wonder what I should do." Arakawa asked herself as she watched from the window, down below she could already see the masses of student gathering. "I had hoped to find a clue about that student." She sighed, her searches in the schools database had proven to be fruitless, no info about the student remained, she couldn't even find the picture she had of him, it didn't make sense to her.

"His face was kind off generic… what do I do? She hung on the balcony still looking at all the students below, maybe she would be lucky. "Now I am getting the feeling that I might never find her first." She sighed again, it was no use further looking at the masses.

"Anyway I may not be able to find him as fast as I had hoped so it's great that this came into my possession." Holding up one of the vials she wondered. "I do wish I had passed on that crazy bet." Closing the window and turning back she began to ask herself. "I wonder what pleasure slaves do." With those thoughts on her mind she walked down the stairs and towards the main hallway.

Kouta stretched as he took in the cold air again, he had just had a few lectures and already he was feeling exhausted.

"The third lecture is cancelled as usual isn't it Kouta?"

"Yeah, as usual it has."

"Kakuzawa-sensei still seems to be missing, everyone's enjoying the free slot in their schedules." Yuka continued. "But they told us that he had disappeared right after it happened."

Kouta didn't answer her, he knew the reason why professor Kakuzawa was still missing, he knew he was dead, he had seen the corpse, but why wasn't it disclosed? He had to think again about the assistant back then, the words she had said to him about the diclonius, if they ever were to find her they could all lose Nyu and Nana forever, he wouldn't let that happen.

"Kouta what's up, you're almost spacing?" Yuka asked as she met his stare "You should look ahead properly or you'll end up walking into someone or risk falling at the stairs."

He looked at her, she was right. "Uh yep, sorry Yuka, I just had something on my mind."

Kouta just hoped that they wouldn't run into that assistant anytime soon, at that thought they passed each other, they both noticed it, turning around their eyes locked and they both recognized the other the person staring back.

"You there wait a minute!" Arakawa shouted as she recognized the boy. "Hey, hey long time no see. How unexpected to meet you here oh my!"

This wasn't good, Kouta knew, they had to get rid of her and fast, turning to both Nyu and Yuka he whispered to them. "Both of you, just run, I'll distract her." Looking at the assistant he asked himself if this was going to work. "Onee-chan, onee-chan what big tits you've got, pretty big tits!" "HUH!? WHAT ARE YOU SAYING!?" Arakawa screamed in shock as she tried to cover herself for them.

Kouta and the girls just ran as fast as they could, Kouta's trick had bought them some precious seconds but would it be enough to get away.

"Ah!? That was cruel!" She shouted, now she was angry "Like hell I'll let you escape form me, not after what you just did, nor will I become a pleasure slave because of you!" She ran after them as fast as she could, she would not let them get away, she couldn't.

"Woah, she fast!" Kouta noticed as the assistant was gaining on them if they could just make it to the main entrance and then he saw Nyu slipping. "NYU!"

Arakawa placed her arm around the girl's neck, she got one of them and it was clear the other two weren't going to leave their companion alone. "What's up with running away? She smiled. "I just wanted to ask you a few questions, that is all."

"About what?"

"Maybe…just possibly… you know where the girl who has horns coming out of her head lives?" She asked still holding the girl. "I'd like you to tell me where she lives, that is all."

"Horned girls, we don't know what you are talking about" Yuka answered her.

"Kid you saw what that horned girl did to the professor, I might be mistaken but there's no way I'd let a horned girl get near me." She snapped back at them. "I don't have any intent on dying just yet."

Kouta kept watching, the assistant apparently didn't realize who she was holding.

"Anyway I'd like to discuss a few things with you, so will you join me in the lab below?"

"I don't think there is anything for us to discuss." Kouta answered her as he realized her intention, she would lock them up down below. "Because we don't know any horned girls… nor anything concerning them."

"Now listen, you won't get away with concealing stuff, we're easily able to crush your peaceful life in an instant, we are not the ones you want to cross." She told them. "In any case, horned girls aren't something you could possibly deal with. They're definitely too much for the likes of you." She kept talking. "Horned people and human beings can never coexist."

"Why is that?"

"Because horned people are born killers, anyone who gets near them is killed without exception."

Kouta and Yuka laughed as hard as they could, clearly the assistant had lost her mind.

"What bullshit!" Kouta yelled.

WHAT BULLSHIT!? I'M BEING SERIOUS HERE!" Arakawa yelled at them.

"If that were, you would have died long ago."

"Huh? How about clarifying your point to me?" she took a look at the girl she was holding, she was crying, there was something beneath her hair, as she brushed them aside she saw a small horn, a horn!

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRGH! Arakawa screamed as loud as she could, she had just realized who it was she had held all this time, she had to get away.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" She begged. "I…I beg of you don't kill me! I don't want to die while I'm still a virgin!" As everything remained quiet and no blow landed on her she dared to open her eyes, only to be confronted by an empty hallway. "Hey? They ran away?"

Yuka stood outside regaining her breath, she had never run as fast as she had just now.

"I guess this far should be okay, at least we seem to have lost her." Kouta gasped as he was really exhausted now.

"Who was she?" Yuka looked at him, who was that woman and what did she mean, what had happened to professor Kakuzawa.

"Uh… well a former assistant of Kakuzwawa-sensei, it seems she knows about Nyu and Nana, it's most likely she really wants to take both Nyu and Nana someplace far away."

Nyu stood there crying, she didn't believe what the woman had said, she wasn't a killer "I… did no such thing as killing people!" She cried.

"We know you would never do that." Yuka comforted her, placing her arm around Nyu.

"Anyhow Nyu-chan, you're better off watching the house with Nana-chan for some time, at least until we can figure this out." With that they left the school, there was no point in going back inside.

Leaving the school they were watched from the shadows.

"My lord, it would appear that an operative from the DRI has transferred to the university at your location, her designation is Arakawa, I advise for immediate action"

"Noted Dogo, but it is already too late for that, they seem to have made contact with her, they are currently leaving the school premises."

"Shall I deploy a tracker for you my lord?"

"No need for that, there is only place they can go too and we know of its location."

"My lord, the second operative has just landed near Yuigahama beach."

"Then it seems the game resumes once more." Now the pieces would be moving once more.

"Understood my lord."

The unknown man watched the sea and then looked back into the residential area, it was as good as a place to start his search, the container on his back was a bit on the heavy side but it would be worth it if it provided him with the catch. "Well now…where's Lucy?" He held up the small control unit, looking at its display he noted he already had a lead. "This radar does work pretty well now."

He smiled, this might be even easier than he had planned, how he would enjoy his victory and reap the rewards. "I didn't believe I could find your trail this fast Lucy, funny how you didn't go too far from the landing site, your biggest mistake.'

He touched the weapon concealed underneath his jacket. "Capturing you will be an easy matter, still I'd better take care to not be killed by you."

"Nana-san I'm home." Mayu cheered as she entered yet she heard her friend cry, looking for her she found Nana all cuddled up crying in a corner. "Nana-san what's the matter?"

"Mayu… what do I do…Nana… is nothing but a freeloader like this."

"Do you think so?" Mayu looked at her friend, smiling at her "I understand."

"MAYU I LOVE YOU!" Nana screamed with delighted as she hugged Mayu "As I thought Mayu, you're my best friend! You're always calm and collected." She didn't let go. "Mayu I'm happy that I met you and everyone here. Until now things were harsh for me."

"I know how you feel Nana-san, until I met Kouta-san and Yuka-san I was alone with only Wanta at my side." She got free as she looked her best friend in the eyes. "We should care the most about the place that we belong to."

Everything went black for Nana, she was alone. "What's this… Mayu where are you?"

"It hurts… it hurts too much.." She heard. "Run…now." She turned around and saw it, a hideous thing crawling towards her. "Run…run."

"What's wrong? Are you wounded? She asked, she was scared, what was it? "It hurts…it hurts…please….kill me…kill me…now… please kill me now."

"NANA-SAN! Mayu screamed at her friend. "What's the matter? You went silent all of a sudden."

Nana looked back at her, she didn't know, what had just happened to her, outside they both could hear the front gate opening.

"Ah it seems like Kouta-san and the others have come back." Mayu got up to greet them.

Nana heard the faint whisper "Run…now." And she realized what it was.

"MAYU DON'T! YOUR WRONG!" She screamed but it was already too late, the door opened and the man stepped inside, looking at them with a vicious smile.

Author's notes: The first chapter finished and I do hope you all enjoyed it. Please read and review, feedback and criticism are always welcome.