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Kazuha Aoi opened the door to her brother's bed room and looked at his sleeping form and smiled, the pills she had given him seemed to be working, it made her feel guilty to have tricked him I to taking sleeping pills but it was better this way.
She didn't want him getting upset about her going off to fight the single S class that was even now making its way toward the cost of japan. It was better this way she had told him that the pills would help with the headache's that he was always complaining of and it would, it also contained enough sleeping pills to keep him in bed for a day, if she stopped the Nova then he would wake up with her standing over him smiling and if they lost, well he wouldn't be alive to wake up. Not that they would loss for all the people behind her that needed to be saved she would fight and she would win.
She closed the door and leaving the house boarded the helicopter that was waiting in the houses front lawn. Inside were her limiter and a man in a white lab coat, he was holding a vile of clear liquid and as the helicopter took off he looked at her and said "this is the latest inhibitor, it should stabilize your Stigmata for about 24 hours, after that using your volt powers will lead to massive corrosion in your body, you understand, not matter what happens you have to come back for the next set of inhibitor treatments" She nodded took the vile and drank its contents.
It was dark by the time that the helicopter reached the docks that the nova was heading towards, Kazuha and her limiter dismounted from the helicopter, greeted their comrades in the elite numbers anti nova squad and then took up positions, limiters to the rear to give them the greatest protection and the Pandora in front of them waiting to fight, they would not have to wait long. - Kazuya Aoi waited for his sister to leave the house before he stood up and looked and the pills in his hand, it had been wrong to trick his sister, to create an illusionary image of him taking the pills, for a few moments he felt really bad about lying but then a fierce determination griped him.
She would be fighting and if he didn't do something she might die, he took a step forward and a voice spoke in his head.
"Do you want me to take over? I promise that I'll save her I assure you it will be ok if you just let me take over it will all be o-"Kazuya forced the voice out of his mind, the voice had always been their talking to him and offering him all sorts of things if he let it take over his body for a few moments but Kazuya was smart. He knew that it was dangerous to talk to strangers and so he never talked back to the voice he just forced it away like he had now.
Now were would his sister be going? Leaning back he opened his mind and felt his mind spread out like water in a bath, he felt it flow over people and around buildings until he found the one that he wanted, he found the mind of the pilot who was flying the helicopter that was carrying his sister, he looked in to the pilots mind and found what he wanted, he found were they were taking his sister, a deserted dock about 50 miles away. It would take too long for him to reach it on foot so he had to get there some other way, but how? And what could he do when he got their?
He knew a way to get their fast and a way to fight the nova but he really didn't want to, he really didn't want to it always hurt so much after but it was for his sister and for her he would do anything.
Focusing his mind he felt the strange feeling as his pajamas started to change. The soft cloth changed to hard black fabric and under that fabric steel plates were forming protecting his body, his hands were incased in black leather gloves his feet in black boots and his face was now covered by a black gas mask. He liked the mask because it meant that he didn't have to hid his eyes any more, the Gentle eyes that his sister loved so much were just a illusion in reality his eyes were the empty black eyes that now stared out from the mask.
"Time to go" he thought and with only a thought a small portal of black light formed in front of him and taking a deep breath was about to move through when the voice spoke.
"Let me have your body just for a bit just a bit give in to me give in let me have you." The voice was stronger now louder like it always was when he was using his powers but he ignored it and stepped in to the portal. -
Kazuha looked out across the water to where the nova should be, the fleet that had been sent to try and stop it had been slaughtered and inflicted no damage, the job of killing the dammed thing would fall to the Pandora.
A sound of moving water alerted her to the novas arrival. The thing was ascending out of the water. It was massive at least 10 story's tall, for a second she was panicked by the sheer size of it but then she felt the pleasant felling as her limiter activated the Ereinbar Set and she drew her volt weapon and was about to launch herself forward in to an attack when she heard a scream, looking around she saw that the nova wasn't attacking the Pandora it was attacking their Limiters, 3 were dead impaled by the things tentacle whips and the last limiter her limiter was running trying to put one of the containers that littered the dock in between him and the nova, he didn't make it one of the novas tentacles flashed down and caught him in the neck killing him instantly.
She felt hollow this couldn't be happening, like most Pandora she loved her limiter and had planned to marry him after they graduated from Genetics and now he was dead just like that, the thought made her angry and she tried to move but realized that she couldn't, with horror she knew what had happened, with no limiters to counteract the Novas freezing field it had expanded its field and had caught the Pandora in its freezing field. They were powerless and at its mercy.
- Central command "Goddam it scramble the 1st 2nd 3rd and 4th years get every single Pandora you can to attack that thing." Yelled a general, he was yelling at a woman who was looking at screens on the wall of the command center that were showing the battle in the docks.
"They are on the way general but I must insist that we don't use the 1st and 2nd years if we do will just get them slaughtered, and we need to understand why it attacked the limiters instead of the Pandora's, they've never been that intelligent before." She spoke calmly although it was extremely hard for her. She was Sister Margaret. the people who were dying were her students, she should be protecting them, not sitting here listening to the general shouting.
But someone else was shouting now. "What the hell was that?" Shouted someone. She looked up at the screen and gasped. - Kazuha felt the pressure of the novas freezing field lift, she looked up and gasped standing next to her was a figure in black, it was small and about the size of her brother. It stood looking directly at the nova one arm out stretched toward the nove which was frozen?
It stood stock still and even its tentacle whips were still frozen where they had been just about to stab down on Kazuha. Then the figure lifted its other arm toward the nova made a fist and clenched it.
She could hear the cracking as the novas body seemed to break apart its tentacles snapped off and fell in to the sea its chest plate exploded outwards exposing its core and as soon as the core was exposed the figure pulled back its clenched fist and then punched forward. The nova's core shattered and the thing toppled back in to the sea.
Kazuha stood and faced the figure so did her teammates they all wore looks of shock on their faces the figure had just destroyed a nova by its self, what were they supposed to do? What should they do? The thing had just saved their lives.
- Command center If the Pandora were confused it was nothing compared the reaction of the people the command center most just stood looking in shock. The general was the first to snap out of it, he looked at the small figure that was standing still as though waiting for something.
"Tell the Pandora to capture that thing now, I don't care how just tell them to do it." He shouted at the radio operators who scrambled to comply, the order was sent quickly and soon the screens showed the Pandora were closing in on the small figure.
- Docks Kazuya looked around at the Pandora the 4 of them had huddled together and were whispering together every now and then one of them would look up at him. "You ask it" said one of them to another "no you ask it" said a green haired one.
"Fine I will ask it" said Kazuha who approached him with her arms raised "hello thank you for saving us but I need you to come with me please."
Kazuya looked at her and in the deepest voice that he could manage asked "why?"
Kazuha looked back at the other Pandora for advice who shrugged their shoulders; she looked back at him and said "because a lot of people are very interested with you and what to have a word with you." She said this in the same sweet tone of voice that she used on her brother it seemed to work as the thing took a step forward but then it doubled back and clutched its skull.
In Kazuya mind the voice was speaking again "do you hear that they want to take you away probably to kill you to hurt you they want to hurt you or lock you up let me take over just for a little bit just a little bit and I promise that your sister won't be hurt by me.The voice was always stronger after he had used his powers it was hard for him to stay in control his head was also killing him. The pain always came after he used his powers and he wished that he had bought some painkillers.
"No" shouted Kazuya as he clutched at his skull "I won't let them take me I won't let them do it I won't let them hurt me"
"No one wants to hurt you we just need to ask you some questions are you ok with that we just need to ask you some questions."
Kazuya tried to run but his sister was using that voice again and he felt so sleepy, it was way past his bed time it wouldn't be so bad if he just let them take him he took a step forward razing his hands and saw something, thin lines of blue crystals were slowly spreading over his sisters face.
"Your face" he said with concern in his voice
She touched her face and suddenly screaming she fell to the ground.
The other Pandora and Kazuya rushed forward to try and help but she held up a hand trying to force them away "leave me its dangerous get away please." Her voice sounded different, deeper and she was in pain, he looked at the other Pandora who nodded they weren't leaving either. - Command center "What's happening?" shouted the general "what's wrong with her?"
"It would seem the inhibitor as not been a success" said a man in a with lab coat who was scribbling on a piece of paper. "Fascinating I must get a sample of her DNA before it happens."
"Before what happens" asked Sister Margaret in quiet voice.
"Well if the corrosion continues at this rate then she will become something like a nova" said the scientist, "should be interesting to watch ah have I said something" most of the people in the command center were looking at the scientist with looks of disgust on their faces.
"Look at the screen" said someone and for the second time Sister Margaret was shocked. - Docks Kazuya looked on in shock; his body felt heavy he couldn't move all he could do was watch as his sister attacks the other Pandora.
One of the Pandora went down screaming holding the stump of her arm; another tried to attack her from behind and lost a leg and the third one stumbled trying to doge his sisters' attacks as she fell his sister delivered a savage blow to the girls head with her foot that knocked the Pandora out cold.
Kazuya was shocked his sister had done this, he knew that Pandora could be savage fighters but he had always thought of Kazuha as a sweet and kind person not at all like the thing that was slowly walking toward him.
He tried to turn to run but found that he couldn't his sister was extending a freezing field toward him and he couldn't move, if the hadn't been so shocked he would have merely activated his own freezing field and frozen his sister but he too shocked to do anything not quite believing what he was seeing as his sister lifted her arm and stabbed down.
Fear griped him and he screamed "get away from me." As he shouted this a force picked his sister up and threw her backward she hit the ground with a sickening thump and she lay still.
He needed to find out why she was acting like this so he reached out to her unconscious mind, he entered her mind and found the source of the problem, her Stigmata he could feel them a corrupting influence that were spreading their poison through her body. He knew what he had to do.
Using his powers and as gently as he could he slowly started to pull the Stigmata out of her, at first it was easy as she was unconscious but after the first few were out she woke up and started to struggle and scream in pain and so he had to divide his power between keeping her frozen in place and finding the stigma and removing them, after he removed the last of them she stopped struggling and didn't move.
"You see what you've done you've hurt your sister this is all you ever do your monster it's your fault" "no I'm not a monster and I'm going to prove it to you" and he knelt down besides one of the Pandora who had lost her arm and focused all the energy that he could on the thought of her arm and of it growing back. - Yumi Kim was scared, the pain from her severed arm was almost overwhelming and the thing that had killed a nova and had stopped Kazuha was standing over her looking down at her, she felt the pain subside and looked at the stump of her arm and gasped, her arm was growing.Already she had a hand and soon it fingers started to take shape and eventually her arm looked like it always had.
She looked at the figure and saw that it was breathing hard and was shaking and she reached with her new arm to steady it but it flinched when she touched its gas mask and she withdrew her hand, he then knelt down by the Pandora that had lost a leg and the process repeated its self and after she stood on her new leg she too tried to touch the figure who again flinched and walked away.
Kazuya felt terrible, it had been the right thing to do to help those people but it had taken almost all the energy that he had and he was finding it hard to walk the voice was also screaming in his head for him to let it have control, but he still had to do something. He walked over to his sister and knelt beside her, removing his mask he held her face in his hand and looked at her she looked so peaceful now her eyes were shut and it looked like she was sleeping. Slowly her eyes opened.
"Sister it's me are you alr-" Slap Kazuya recoiled holding his cheek looking at his sister in shock, his sister looked at him anger on her face
"Why are you here you could have been killed, your so selfish always doing things that make me worry, why did you do something so stupid. You know sometimes I wish that I didn't have a brother I would have to worry less." She was about to continue her rant but stopped when she saw her brother make eye contact. Something was wrong with his eyes, his eyes were always so gentile and now they were black and cold.
"Fine if you don't want me I'll go." And to the astonishment of the Pandora a black portal sprang in to life in front of him "goodbye sister" and he stepped in to the portal.
Kazuya looked around at the hills that surrounded him, the portal had spat him out in a truly beautiful place, trees covered most of the hills birds sung and the only other sound was the rustling of leaves, it was the type of place where you might go for a team building exercise. But as beautiful as it was he had to face facts, he was scared angry tired and now his own sister had slapped him after he had saved her life he felt so alone nothing except him, and the voice. For the first time he was glad when the voice talked to him "I promise you that I'll never leave you let's find a place to sleep tonight we can't go back to the house."
- Kazuya got out of bed and looked at his reflection in the mirror. 3 years hadn't aged him much he was taller and his hair was a bit longer but other than that he still looked like his old self. Satisfied at his appearance he cast a look over what he had called home for the past 3 years. He had found the cave when he had first arrived and had decided that it was the best shelter that he could hope to find, its mouth was covered by a small water fall that gave him some privacy as well as drinking water.
Food had been the next issue he had discovered early on that he couldn't create food as the stain that using his powers put on his mind he just couldn't stand the strain of creating all that food. But as always the voice had been there and it had given him the idea. if he could create illusions then surely all he had to do was create an illusion to lure animals in and then kill them it gave him a bit of a varied diet but it was effective. Suddenly his stomach rumbled and he absentmindedly reached down and from the pocket of his trousers he pulled out some chicken and chewed it.
At least clothes weren't a problem it seemed that he could just mold his pajamas in to any form he wanted and un like his other powers it didn't seem to cause any significant problems. Which was why he was currently wearing the same clothes that he had worn at the dock 3 years ago same bots same mask same trousers. His stomach rumbled again and this time when he reached in to his pocket he felt nothing.
He swore under his breath and turned to go outside to get some more food.
As he turned he looked over the interior of the cave his eyes took in everything that he had which wasn't much. A bed if you could call it that made of leaves in the corner and covered with a blanket that he had stolen from a washing line. A small fold up table and chair set up facing the entrance to the cave a few bottles of alcohol and a pack of cigarettes resting on the table, the mirror that he had been using was propped up by a wall and finally next to the bed a stack of newspapers.
Some were old others more recent all of them had something in common they all had information on his sister as he passed the table he saw the first paper that he had collected. A large title read "lone Pandora saves city" a large picture of his sister in a hospital bed was directly underneath the tile. The papers that he acquired were the only way for him to track the situation of his sister. The voice had often said that it was stupid for him to worry about her when she obviously didn't care about him but no matter how much he hated her for how she had treated him he also loved her deeply.
He thought about his sister and the life show was leading now, apparently the military had decided to lie and make her out as the hero of the incursion as the other alternative was to say that a 11 year old had killed a nova with what seemed like magic powers. So the military had made up a story about how she had used a massively powerful attack that had destroyed all her Stigma and of course the public had loved the idea. Then they had given her various titles of importance such as a knighthood from the English royal family and the Vatican had even made her a saint, finally they gave her a teaching position at West genetics. The public had gradually lost interest in her and the amount of times that she was in the news greatly diminished.
He emerged in to the night and for the first time wandered what had woken him and then he heard voices.
"So how much further is it?" "Don't know ask one of the second years"
"No way there scary."
"My feet have got a blister."
"lucky limiters being sent home already"
"Why do we have to do this any way it's not like this hike will help us fight nova"
He looked around for the source of the noise and finally found it, a line of about 30 girls with back packs on their shoulders were slowly walking up a nearby hill, he wasn't that worried though they seemed to be too bothered with complaining to notice him and in any case they were walking away from him so it didn't mater but just to be sure he hid himself behind a couple of trees for them to leave.
"Marin I don't think that the first years can take much more of this I think we should rest for a bit."
"Fine lets head back to the water fall and get a drink then they can catch a few moments sleep".
"give a guy a break" muttered Kazuya.
The girls on the hill were even now heading back to the waterfall, some set up tents others started to cook food over fires and others simply chatted. the girls had cut him off from his home, he was tempted to talk to them but something was worrying him then he realized it the cloths they were wearing they were Pandora, after everything that had happed he just didn't want to deal with genetics. He thought about his options, he could make an illusion and scurry back in to the cave but as the voice said "it's not like watching a bunch of teen age girls sleep is a bad thing" so he settled himself down to wait.
As he was watching so intently he was the first to notice the flash of light from the other side of the hill and the first to see the single S class nova slowly glide over the hill. It stopped at the crest of the hill and it seemed as though it was looking down on the Pandora with contempt. Pandora were noticing it shouts filled night air, Pandora emerged from their tents saw the nova and shouted as well it only stopped when a voice filled the air.
"quiet all of you 4th years are already on the way all we have to do is prevent the nova from moving so this is what we're going to do were going to spread out around the base of that hill the nova's on but we are not, I repeat not going to attack it. Is that clear? Good."
He watched as the Pandora slowly spread out around the hill and because he was interested he reached out with his mind and searched their thoughts.
"Why the hell can't we fight it it's our job"
"Dammed 2nd years acting like they now best they've never fought the Nova what do they know"
Most of the 1st years were thinking along these lines and all it needed was something to provoke them and most of them would throw themselves at the nova.
The nova seemed to know this it would move toward the Pandora and then stop only a few feet from them and then move back to the top of the hill, after it did this about half a dozen times the inevitable happened one of the 1st year Pandora launched herself at the nova her volt weapons drawn ready to strike when the nova's tentacle whips struck she fell screaming.
The other 1st years seeing the death of one of their own all launched themselves in to the attack the 2nd years seeing no other option joined in for, a second it seemed that the Nova was doomed 29 Pandora were about to attack it when it almost effortlessly extended a freezing field freezing every single Pandora. Its whips struck some Pandora were killed others mimed. He wanted to ignore this and go back to sleep but the screams of the Pandora were too much for him to ignore and so cursing the world In general he opened a portal and stepped in side
The portal spat him out on the edge of the nova's freezing field.
Both the nova and the Pandora noticed him some of the Pandora scrammed for him to leave others begged him to help, the nova on the other hand attacked with its tentacle whips he didn't have time deploy a freezing field and so he tried to doge, he threw himself to the left and felt pain as one of the nova's whips smashed in to his side, the armor under his clothes stopped it from penetrating but the force was enough to wind him. He fell to his knees and tried to get up but the pain was too much he looked up at the nova as its whips were about to strike and in desperation he flailed with his arms like someone using invisible swords, to everyone surprise massive cut marks appeared in the nova, one of its arms fell off the other hung half severed. Its whips recoiled for a second and that was all he needed his right arm shot out and the nova froze.
He got to his feet and looked at the nova anger filled him, this place had been so peaceful so nice before the nova had come and now it was full of blood and screams, he clenched his left fist he was going to enjoy this.
He extended his other arm and like he had 3 years before he crushed the nova its chest plat explode outwards again but this time he didn't kill it quickly this time a just kept crushing slowly, the nova strained against his freezing trying escape to stop the pain?Did they feel pain? Finally the nova's core just couldn't take the pressure and it exploded.
The nova collapsed to the floor and Kazuya turned around and looked at the Pandora, 10 were dead all the rest had major wounds. He stood over one of the girls she was cut badly and seemed to close to death. He knelt down to her
"who are you?" she asked
He said nothing but instead placed both his hands on her shoulder.
"Answer me do you know who I am, I am Ganessa Roland, I don't need your help."
"shut up" his voice startled her in to complying and she stopped talking. He reached out and started to heal her
When it was finished he stood up feeling light headed moved over to the next Pandora he did the same again.
After the 5th time he healed someone he tasted blood in his mouth.
After the 10th time the voice shouted at him to stop that it wasn't his job that he as killing himself.
After he helped the 15th Pandora his legs gave out from under him and he found that the was having trouble breathing, the Pandora that he had helped rushed around him asking if he was ok he just asked them to bring the wounded Pandora to him.
He healed 3 more Pandora before he couldn't take it anymore.
"I'm sorry I can't do it any more please can one of you go back to the water fall theirs a cave behind it could one of you go to the cave and bring back the stuff that's on the table."
Some of the others ran off whilst he just rested on his back he suddenly felt that he was going to be sick and quickly ripped the mask that he was wearing off he vomited and felt a hand on his shoulder he looked round and saw Ganessa Roland standing behind him with a look of confusion on her face.
"sorry we brought back all that we found on the table but it was just alcohol and cigarettes, what else was there"
"Nothing" he said as he took a bottle from one of the girls hands and opened it taking a swig he felt the alcohol burn his throat but it seemed to give him energy slowly he stood up and took a pack of cigarettes from one of the girls he opened the packet and took one out he looked at the cigarette and it burst in to flame, he placed in it in his mouth. It seemed to calm him a little bit and for the first time that night he smiled.
"What's wrong with his eyes?" muttered someone.
"Ho right the eyes" he waved his hand in front his eyes and they changed from dead black to lively blue. "Better?" the girls too stunned to answer just stood there.
"Alright who's next?"
Most of the others that he looked over were easy enough to help cuts broken bones and so on but the last one was the hardest. One of the second years was kneeling over the wounded girl and crying. "Marin, Marin please just hang in there please oh god don't die, help her."
He knelt down next to the girl she had cuts all over her body her spine was severed and what was worst was the fact that she was coughing up blood, that meant that she had blood in her lungs . He extended his powers and started to heel her, he reconnected her spine he drained her lungs of the blood that was filling them up and slowly knitted together her skin. It was difficult, by the end he felt worse than ever, he couldn't see from one of his eyes and the other was blurry, he collapsed down on the grass.
He faded in and out of being unconscious, once when he opened his eyes he was on his back and helicopters were circling him.
He closed his eyes again and the next time he opened them he was inside one of the helicopters with Ganessa Roland and some of the other Pandora that he had helped standing over him looking down with concern.
He felt too tired to move so he just closed his eyes and listened to the girls talk amongst themselves.
"How could he do that to a nova?" "Who is he?" "Handsome except for the eyes of course" "What are you doing? Escape kill them do something." Screamed the voice but he just didn't care anymore. He closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep. - And I think that I will leave it there for now, please feel free to review and comment.