Elfen Lied: Two Souls
Hardened Hearts
By: Marvin Burshik
Previously.
Leona Voraci, a diclonius girl of eighteen, had spent her life killing innocent families and eating their corpses. Her old guidance counselor Seymour Ingram had attempted to find her and help her, but instead she nearly killed him again. Later she finds that her older sister Wendy had been turned into a brainwashed slave by another diclonius named Yumiki. She finally began her reign of terror when she revealed her existence to the world by destroying Saigo Memorial Hospital in San Diego California. Her ire towards the human race, ever growing, has been turned towards another of her kind.
Amy Argyle, also a diclonius, hardly knows what she is and is already falling prey to her true nature. She had spent most of her life without any to care for her and had been raped by the first one who did. She eventually got a home with a woman named Melody who helped her continue her schooling. On her eighteenth birthday her life began to change drastically when she became friends with a hyper girl who was the daughter of internet shipping tycoon Ralph Lipscomb. The very next day at Zainab industries she was shot by an wannabe assassin. After she recovered the registrar of her school was murdered by Leona. The darkness that had been harbored within Amy for so long had reached its boiling point when she finally met Leona, the girl who killed her teacher mercilessly.
Chapter One: Intertwined
Friday
1:00 a.m.
"You have my face! How?" Amy asked as she fought back Leona's telekinetic limbs.
Leona rolled her eyes, "We're not twins. I can tell you that much. I'll also have you know, if you intend on killing me you'd better do it soon. I'm much stronger than you are and I could easily ignore your vectors and crush you directly. And if you let me live, I'll kill your best friend next, and after that your precious roommate. But I will never kill you, you are a silpelit, like me, and I don't go around killing those of my species."
"I won't let you hurt them!" She exclaimed as she pushed with all her might.
Leona released her grip on Amy's vectors and let her charge on past into a nearby wall.
"Really now, you don't blindly charge against me. That's stupid. Come again, and try harder!" Leona challenged, and lifted the corpse of the building manager up above her head, bare handed.
When albino girl stood back up she stared into Leona's face, "You're eyes they are colored translucent brown. Translucence is an interesting feature of your eyes."
"They're amber. And why the hell are you looking into my eyes? Damn it, stop that!"
Leona threw the body towards Amy and ran out of the building.
"I won't have you creeping me out like that! Come outside and fight me!"
Amy recalled the last thing Ralph told her before he tried to let her sleep, 'Diversion is your key to victory, use it well.'
"Is Leona really your name? I think it suits you. Your heart is full of deadly fire."
She stretched her neck out a bit, forcing snapping sounds to resonate from her, "Is Amy really your name? I think Amyotonia suits you better. Do you know what that means little girl?"
"No, I don't."
"Look it up, it'll be more insulting that way. Enough with this shit. Fight me!"
A gunshot fired from behind her, "Damn, I missed. Cough You know something madam, you have serious anger issues. Five hundred counts murder, probably more, and yet still you want her to fight you? She'd have to be insane to take you up on that offer."
Leona shot around and fired off one of her vectors at him.
Amy took this opportunity to reach into Leona's mind, paralyzing her, "You will not hurt anyone else Leona. Before I end your life do you have anything you wish to say?"
Detective Marshall stared blankly at both of them, unsure as to what was going on.
"Good girl Amy. reach inside of yourself and destroy the one who threatens your current lifestyle. If you don't..."
"Shut up! Shut up! Get out of my head!" Amy screamed as she let go of all control.
"I'm not in your head Amy, I'm in control. Choose. Kill me, or destroy al you know and help me reshape the world to appreciate us!" Leona demanded.
The detective scratched his head in confusion, unsure what to make of all of this. Why were they just standing there?
"We are both of the same species, we both look alike, is it not fate that we join together to recreate this world? I'll have my sister..." Leona was then interrupted as the detective used a small stunner and zapped her.
She sank to the ground unconscious.
He coughed again, "I'm sorry, but I couldn't just let you convince this girl to help you murder more innocents. Sheesh, I'm no idiot. I don't give a damn how powerful she may be, when she turns her back on anyone they could have done that just as easily or more violently. cough Damn cold, my wife is really going to kill me for this. Um, I guess I should ask you to help me with her. It seems that you have the ability to keep her at bay. Hunh."
'Just kill her and get it over with. It'll be a favor to him. Hell, it'll keep the fool alive a bit longer.'
"Just shut up!" She exclaimed still unable to get ahold of herself.
"Okay then, I understand. Bad day, after all you saw today, I can't really blame you for being a tad bit upset. Phew. I'll just call for assistance and they'll take her to a containment facility. Man, how am I going to explain this to the captain? A mere detective and a young girl stopped a known mass murderer. Damn, no one'll believe me. You just get on to bed and I'll take care of everything. You need a good night's rest." He sighed as he flipped his cell phone open.
A light on the third floor lit up and someone came to the window.
The window opened up and Melody's head popped out, "Do you guy's know what time it is? I've got work in the morning, and I haven't had any sleep all night." Then her eyes opened up a bit wider when she saw Amy's white hair, "Amy? Is that you?"
The detective craned his head upwards and sighed yet again, "You know this child? The white-haired girl with horns?"
"That's her, what happened down there?"
"I'm afraid it isn't good news. But don't worry, I'll take care of everything. Your friend here has been of much help capturing a wanted murderer. She deserves much rest. Can you help with that?"
Melody groaned, "She lives here, of course I can help with that. I'll be right down. God, what could have happened in..."
Detective Marshall shook his head sadly and took off his jacket and covered the now asleep girl with it, "Everything will be better child. A shame you had to see all of this."
"Leave my family alone."
"She won't hurt anyone else child, I'll see to that. Goodnight."
"I want to take her off of your hands Detective Green. She's quite dangerous I know, but her kind is what I specialize in. Believe me when I tell you this, your facilities are far too primitive for her kind." An average height japanese woman assured the detective.
He scratched his neck unsure, "Well, uh, Miss uh, Arakawa, I know she's dangerous an all, but shouldn't we just have her put on trial or something? I mean she's murdered over five hundred people in just one night. And we didn't get her until about an hour ago, being sure to keep her under sedation the entire time. It was surprisingly easy to catch up with her. Though my decision to follow that albino child was a brilliant one nonetheless."
She sniffed her armpits for a bit and sighed, "I should take a bath soon, I reek. Look, once that monster does wake she'll kill everyone in this station. If you let me do my job I'll make sure that no one is hurt and contain her abilities. She won't escape with the technology the former Professor Kakuzawa developed."
"I don't know, I mean why should I trust you? As far as I know you just want to free her and let her kill more people. The last I checked we aren't authorized to release killers into the hands of strangers."
She nodded, and pulled out a walkie-talkie, "Bring her in. They want proof."
"Hey, I just want to know why you want her so badly. What are you going to do with her once you do get her?"
At that moment a two men carried in a young girl with pink hair and white horns, who was bound in some kind of chest armor and was barely awake.
His eyes widened in despair, "Dear God, how old is she? And why is she covered with bruises?"
Arakawa pushed her specs back up her nose and exhaled, "Number 47 is six. And while she is only six, she is quite dangerous. If it weren't for the Diclotech Plate we've encased her in all of us in this room would be dead. And nevermind the bruises, they are simply the consequence of her being a diclonius. This Diclotech Plate was the last piece of technology designed by Professor Kakuzawa before his unfortunate death at the hands of Lucy. He died before it was built, but if it were finished before his death then he'd still be alive today. It is this technology that we'll use to suspend your murderer's power at a constant rate."
"Oh. How saddening. Will that little girl ever have a chance of being a girl again?" He asked.
"She was born in the Diclonius Research Institute. She's never had a childhood. Don't feel sorry for her, she's a born monster."
A loud scream came from lockup, distracting the investigator.
"Aw hell, I don't like the sound of that. I'd better go check."
As he started walking towards the lockup a male police officer ran in there holding his now severed arm.
"I'm sorry Detective Green, but she woke up! And now she's escaped! I-I tried to stop her, b-but s-she…"
Arakawa cut him off, "It's okay, you couldn't have stopped her if you wanted to. You're lucky, you're still alive."
"I don't know about you miss, but I'm going after her. I can't let a woman like that roam the streets!" He exclaimed as he pulled out his gun and ran to the lockup.
"This is why we brought #47 with us. Men put the girl down and stop him. I don't want him getting himself killed. I'll handle the silpelit."
They nodded and dropped her onto the ground, chasing after Detective Marshall.
"Mitsuki, it is time for your exercise. Remember don't kill anyone, and you'll get a reward." She instructed as she shook the child awake.
#42 smiled and pushed herself to her feet, "How many can I use oneesan?"
"Out of your six? Two."
Melody couldn't sleep at all.
She couldn't get the image of their landlord's corpse out of her head. Nor could she get the idea of Amy having to see her teacher murdered out of her thoughts.
'Poor girl, if I had known about this earlier, I would have rushed over to the school. I hope she's alright. God, I don't care how she grew up, witnessing such an awful sight just is nightmarish.'
She rolled herself out of bed and went to the kitchen, hopefully to get her mind off of this matter with some snacks.
When she clicked on the light her heart nearly jumped out of her chest.
She found Amy trembling on the floor and curled up into a ball.
"Oh, you should be in your room. But it's okay, you've had a really, really bad day. Um, I just came out here cause I couldn't sleep either. Amy?"
"I'm a monster. I'm horrible. I felt nothing when he was killed. And now, Leona is on the move again. I can tell. And there's another one now. I can't protect anyone. I didn't kill her when I had the chance. I also want to kill Mr. Pablo. I'm a monster I tell you."
Melody put her arm around her, "Aw, Amy. Don't feel too bad about that. I know there is nothing he can do to make up for what he did to you then, but I also know you Amy. Wanting to kill him from time to time is what makes you human, not a monster. Feeling no remorse over the death of Mr. Erlos isn't bad either, you didn't really know him. You shouldn't expect so much of yourself either, the very fact that you faced that bitch head on and survived is something in itself."
"We're the same. Other than color, we're the same. Only difference is I haven't killed anyone yet. Something keeps telling me to, and now I'm listening to it. All of my life I thought it was just something to keep me sane, but now it's growing, deepening, and more frightening than ever. I don't know if I can take it anymore. Why did she have to come here now? Why did she have to kill Mrs. Foranda? Why was I born with this demonic body?"
"Idiot."
Amy lifted her head slightly, "Brandy called me that too, before I was shot. She said I was a fool for believing that I'm a demon. But she was wrong, just a few hours ago her father told me the exact opposite, and he has dealt with hundreds of others like me. Go ahead call me an idiot, it doesn't change the truth."
"You're an idiot because you actually listen to your doubts. You're different from that butcher because you haven't let your 'demonic' side of you take control. Don't let your anger get the best of you, no matter how you were born. I don't care if there are now two murderers out there that have a similar build to yours, you aren't them. You're you, Amy Argyle, unselfish, kind, and quiet. That wretch who murderer so many isn't you, so give it up!" Melody chastised as she lay down on the floor with Amy.
"I'm so tired of all of this damn pain. And it's only getting worse."
"Just go to sleep, at the very least you'll be able to think better. Here, I'll even sleep next to you, to give you company. We both need the rest."
"But Leona is still out there." Amy silently whined.
"You won't stand a chance against anyone like her if you're tired. Just get some sleep. It'll only get worse without it. Worry about yourself for a change, just for tonight."
"Okay. But if anyone else dies because of me you'll be the first to know it."
She smiled, and then remembered the light was still on.
Melody got up, turned the light off, and laid back down beside her roommate.
"Sleep in peace Amy."
"Hi, lady! We finly meet! Ur, my namae is Mitsuki, and you?"
Leona turned around and saw a small girl pink haired girl wearing a white armor like plate over her chest.
"What the hell? You're the one they sent after me this time? A mere child?"
A sole vector rose up from behind the child, "Do you want to play? Your toys against one of mine?"
"Don't make me laugh. You don't stand a chance with that!"
Mitsuki walked closer, "Uh, what your name?"
"They call me Leona the Wretched One. Those who survive to tell the tale that is. I'm out of here. I'm not fighting a child."
A woman wearing a white lab coat came into sight, "#42, is that her?"
"Oneesan, she is person. But she won't play with me."
"You're a damn child, a child silpelit at that. I don't do that. I may kill human children, but you're one of my species."
The woman took a look at her clipboard and sighed, "#42 is no mere diclonius child. While she has only six vectors she is at her strongest when these are limited. If I had let her she'd do the same to you with one vector that you'd do with four on humans. Director Kakuzawa wants you alive, and I'm going to keep you alive. Go ahead Mitsuki, show her why oneesan holds you back."
Remembering her first encounter with the diclonius Yumiki Leona jumped back several feet, raising the distance between the two of them up to twenty feet.
The woman in the lab coat shook her head and looked back down to her clipboard.
Before Leona could react though she found herself coughing blood as the sole vector began clutching at her heart.
"Shit, that's a reach. gack What is it with you people and not finishing me off? The only one who actually tried left me for dead when she jabbed me with her lover's sword. She actually thought I was dead. God, this bites. A fucking child is my downfall."
"It isn't up to us, it is the Director's wish that you survive."
She fell to the ground, unconscious.
"Oh oneesan! Is she awight?"
Arakawa didn't dare step in close, but took a good look at Leona.
"She's breathing. That's all that matters. Mitsuki, I can't touch her myself, would you use your vectors to carry her?"
Someone covered in a dark cloak ran over to Leona, picked her up, and ran away, all before Mitsuki was able to get close enough.
"That was strange. Who in the world would have been following her?" Arakawa asked curiously.
"Does this mean we can't go back home oneesan?"
Arakawa sighed again, "Unfortunately yes. But at least we have a blood sample of her DNA. It is time we get some rest though Mitsuki. You'll get your reward soon enough."