Well, I hope you don't mind me barging in on this archive unannounced. Oh, but where are my manners? Hello, mastesargent here, fledging writer with an expertise in novelizations. I was taking a stroll down anime lane when I took note that Elfen Lied would translate wonderfully into writing. To my delight, I only found one novelization, and that was of the manga!
So, here I am, writing my own take on Elfen Lied. I could drone on and on for pages, but I'll just get to the point.
I apologize in advance if I screw up majorly. I'm not the world's biggest otaku, if I could even be considered one.
Prologue
Flucht
An arm lay in a pool of its own blood, still warm, still twitching. Its former owner, a security guard, stood nearby, but his attention was not presently focused on his severed limb, but on the figure responsible for the parting. There, in front of him, was what he had been told was a young woman, though he couldn't tell if he tried. 'She' was strapped to an upright table, one across her legs, torso, and chest. Beneath that, a full body straightjacket. Covering 'her' head was a metal mask, leaving only enough open space for a tiny glimpse of hair. All of this was within a circular cage with a two meter radius, and now, so was the guard.
He'd gotten sloppy. He had dropped his cell phone into her cage, and when he reached in to retrieve it, something grabbed him, pulled him in, and sliced his arm like butter.
As he stared at his apparent attacker in disbelief, she suddenly turned her head towards him. His head exploded, sending blood and brain matter sailing about the room.
Lilium
Inside the facility's security room, every guard lay dead. Only one man remained alive, watching the camera feeds intently; in particular, the feed showing the guard's body crumpling to the floor.
Lilium
Inside the cell, the guard's shift mate looked on in horror as his late partner's key ring seemed to float up and towards the woman of its own accord.
"No!" he cried out, realizing what was happening. He snatched his revolver from its holster and unloaded. Outside, behind thick steel doors, six shots reverberated through the walls, and then, silence.
Unharmed, the floating keys unlocked the straps over the woman's body, sending her to the floor. The solid steel bars that surrounded her bent and contorted.
Lilium
Within the security room, the figure pressed a button, opening the cell's partitions.
Lilium
The security partitions opened, lighting up the dimly lit room. Around the remains of the cage, the headless bodies of the guards lay motionless. Beside the now lopsided table were the torn remains of the staightjacket.
The woman stood naked, save for the metal mask. In her hand, she held the head of the guard that attempted to shoot her. After examining it briefly, she dropped it. It hit the floor with a sickening squish.
She began to walk towards the opening door, the first step to freedom. As she did so, she began to sing. It was a song that filled her memory, that had been in the front of her mind since she had first heard it. Though she had never learned the lyrics, she remembered the tune perfectly. She recalled the title of the song as Lilium.
Lilium
Elsewhere in the facility, in a break room, three oblivious women were engaged in conversation.
"I don't envy you, Kisaragi. Being Chief Kurama's secretary must be murder!" said the first woman.
"Yeah?" asked Kisaragi, who was filling a cup of tea for her boss, Chief Kurama. "What makes you think that?"
"I can tell by the way he looks at me," replied the first woman. "That guy is scary."
"No, he's really nice, when you get to know him," defended Kisaragi. Her usually cheerful face took on a solemn look. "You know, anybody would look scary if… they had to put up with my mistakes." Her face returned to its cheerful self. "But today, I'm going to get it right!"
Lilium
Alarms had begun to sound throughout the facility. "This is an emergency alert!" called a voice over the intercom. "The underground research block will be sealed in sixty seconds. All staff, evacuate immediately. I repeat, this is an emergency alert. The underground research block will be sealed in sixty seconds. All staff, evacuate immediately."
Inside the armory, guards armed themselves with submachine guns, loaded them, and set their firing mode to automatic. Elsewhere, Kisaragi stumbled about, desperately trying to balance Kurama's cup of tea on a tray.
Lilium
Deeper inside the facility, a guard's head was violently ripped off, sending a fountain of blood into the air. The other three members of his squad backed away from the woman, who had apparently never touched their fallen comrade, but continued her slow advance, all the same.
"Stay calm," ordered the senior guard. "The manual says she can't hurt us from more than two meters away."
"Yeah, but didn't it say to keep objects away from her, too?" asked one of the junior guards.
As he was saying this, a pen pulled itself from the dead guard's pocket, momentarily hovered at the woman's eye level and shot itself into the center guard's forehead. Then, the junior guard's arms were ripped off, and moments later he was torn in half.
The senior officer, who watched this in horror, only had time to turn back to the woman before his head was severed by the same unseen force that took his squad mates.
At the top of a flight of stairs, several guards let loose a hail of bullets. They met the same gruesome end as their comrades, as one of their torsos went flying into the wall behind him, leaving a trail of blood. There was an explosion of blood, and then two legs came to rest near the torso. One guard attempted to run, only to be sliced in half after a few steps. The guard who lost his legs however, still lived, and he dragged himself to the top of the stairs. The woman, despite her slow, almost calm pace, caught up. Blood erupted into the air.
At the end of the hallway, a group of four guards unloaded at the woman's advance. None of their bullets fared better that the groups before, and they quickly ran out of ammunition. As they stopped to reload, three were killed almost instantly. The fourth was knocked against a wall, shortly before his head slid off.
The elevator the guards died for ascended, and the doors slid apart, revealing the woman sitting in the back, arms around her legs. The guards outside of the elevator filled the area around her with lead, clouding the air with smoke and dust. When the haze cleared, the back wall of the elevator was riddled with bullet holes. The woman, however, was unscathed, and all of the bullets that would have hit their marks hovered in midair a meter in front of her, before falling uselessly to the ground.
The guards, stunned at what they had seen, did nothing as the woman stood herself up and resumed her slow march. Coming to their senses, they unloaded the remainder of their magazines, but to no avail. One, two, three guards were horribly decapitated or ripped in half, and one ran for the sealed steel door at the end of the hallway. He threw himself uselessly against the door, then ran for the lever on the wall, but tripped. Backing away from the woman's advance, he soon found himself in the corner. The woman approached him, and knelt beside him, arms around her legs. The guard felt something tighten around him, and his end was marked by a sickening crunch.
On the wall above them, a bloody handprint appeared, worked its way down to the lever, and pulled. The door opened.
There, standing between her and the exit, stood a serious looking, bespectacled man. This was Chief Kurama, the man in charge of the facility. On either side of him was a compliment of at least fifteen guards. Both parties simply stood there, staring each other down.
It was then that Kisaragi stumbled in, tripping over herself and falling directly in front of the woman, contents of her tray spilling everywhere.
"Kisaragi!" Kurama called out, trying to warn her.
"Chief Kurama, I'm really sorry!" cried Kisaragi, not noticing the nude woman behind her. "I messed up again!"
"Kisaragi, run!"
"Hey," asked Kisaragi, noticing the armed guards. "What's going on?"
"Run away, go!" the Chief called out, but too late. Kisaragi turned and noticed the woman behind her.
"No, Lucy, don't do it!" shouted the Chief, to the woman this time. He tried to reach Kisaragi, but the guards held him back.
Kisaragi's head was pulled right off of her shoulders, still wearing the confused expression that it had worn in its last moments.
"OPEN FIRE!" screamed Kurama. The guards did so, but Kisaragi's body hovered in front of Lucy, taking every bullet. Lucy then hurled a pen straight through the head of the guard directly next to Kurama. The guards stopped their assault.
"Hurry, shoot her!" ordered Kurama.
"We're out of bullets," one of the guards replied. Kurama gritted his teeth in frustration.
Lucy returned to her slow march.
"I'll take this bitch!" exclaimed one of the guards, charging Lucy.
"Watch out!" warned Kurama, but he was again too late. A hole appeared in the guard's chest, and his still beating heart landed on one of his comrades.
Lucy continued her march, killing all of the guards that didn't flee, but altogether ignoring Kurama. He could only watch as she walked on past him, but what felt like a hand pressed itself against the back of his suit, leaving a bloody handprint.
"She's on her way to the emergency exit!" said Kurama through his radio. "Bring the partition down and keep her locked in!"
Lilium
As Lucy walked on to the exit, a steel door lowered in place behind her. The figure in the security room pressed another button. As she was using he abilities to attempt to bash in the door, the external partition opened, and she felt fresh air for the first time in years. Beyond, there was a sheer cliff, and beyond that, the ocean.
Lilium
"The outer partition has been opened!?" exclaimed Kurama, who received word through his radio. "That can't be right!" The voice on the other side began to protest. "Don't give me excuses!" the Chief cut off. "Just send a sharpshooter!"
In an office overlooking the emergency exit, a guard stared down the barrel of his sniper rifle. After a moment of searching, he found his target, who was walking intently towards the cliff.
"Make this bullet count," said Chief Kurama, who was standing next to him. "She isn't going to give you a second shot."
"This is a .50 caliber antitank rifle," replied the sniper cooly. "Strong as her vectors are, there's no way she can stop a round from this rifle."
"The back of her head," Kurama ordered.
"Copy."
The sniper took aim, squeezed the trigger, but at the last moment, Lucy turned her head.
BANG!
The rifle went off, and the bullet made contact, but instead of her head exploding, the metal mask came apart, revealing a mane of pink hair, and even stranger, a pair of ear-like horns protruding from her skull. The bullet itself merely grazed her, knocking her unconscious.
"God, damn it, she's still alive!" said Kurama in surprise. But there was nothing he could do, as Lucy was sent off of the edge of the cliff, and into the ocean below.
She was gone.
Alright, so there's the first seven and a half minutes of the anime… and it took me about three hours to transcribe it directly from the screen. Anyhow, I'll leave you guys with this prologue. One more thing before I go. If you know where I can find some detailed plot summaries of each episode, or even the scripts, that would go a long way in helping me. If you guys know anything, just leave them in your reviews.
I'll release my next chapter… eventually.