Chrome Shelled Regios belongs to Shūsuke Amagi and Funimation Entertainment. This is more based on the television series than the novels and there will be some direct dialogue included from the show. Light SPOILERS for A Guided Encounter and The Night Before the Intermunicipal. First time writing an anime fanfiction so hope you will let me know how I did. Feedback encouraged and welcomed.
"That's Zuellni," Nina murmured as she floated above the moving city she had desperately been trying to get back to. In the distance, surrounding the city she could see the multiple Contaminoids being destroyed by the flashing of someone wielding a Deed. "Who is that?"
As the figure grew nearer to she could make put the familiar uniform that she and several other platoons wore in battle. And then, suddenly that figure was hurtling upwards towards her. Her eyes grew wider.
"It can't be."
Layfon sliced through several Contaminoids at once, but was moving too fast for his current injuries and exhaustion. He felt himself hit the ground, hard, and the impact was like a thousand blades hitting him from all sides. But he couldn't stop. The energy spirit Zuellni had been spotted and he needed to get to her, not just because their city needed the spirit to move, but because Zuellni may be the only one who could tell him where Nina was.
He tumbled, rolled to his feet and ignored the pain as he pushed forward, jumping high into the air to destroy another bug in his path, then released his gold Kei power and used it as a slingshot to propel himself upwards into the air towards Zuellni.
As he neared the strange glowing orb, he saw a figure that appeared larger than the tiny white energy spirit he had seen once before. He wiped at the green blood smearing his helmet, trying to clear his vision, and then he saw her. "Nina?"
"It can't be!" Nina gasped as the soldier hurled towards her at an alarming rate. "Layfon."
Layfon ripped off his Helmut and screamed for her. "Nina!"
Tears filled her eyes at the sound of his voice, the desperation and joy that mirrored hers. "Layfon!"
And then his arms were around her, she was solid and real and all the pain and worry and heartache he had felt the last few days disappeared. "Nina," he cried as she clung to him and extended his kei powers to support the glowing orb around them.
"Layfon!" she sobbed, thinking he was lost to her forever. She had never realized how strong his arms were, how wonderful he smelled and how heavenly his voice was to hear. To hear him cry for her that way, to see the unshed tears in his eyes. Oh, how could she not have known she felt this way?
Layfon closed his eyes, held her tightly, so tightly, afraid to let her go and she seemed to be having the same problem. "I...I..." He couldn't speak, couldn't express what finding her meant to him, so overwhelmed by his own feelings at seeing her, that the words could not come.
"Oh, Layfon." She was home. Layfon had found her and would bring her home. Layfon always won, always. He was so strong, so fierce and so protective of her. She loved him. Why had she not noticed that she loved him? "Thank you. Thank you, Layfon."
"Oh, Nina." His arms curled even tighter around her. "I was so...afraid. So..." Again words failed him and so he continued to hold her as his gold Kei carried them both over the Contaminoids beneath them and back to the safety of the city.
Nina pulled back to look at him, to look at that perfect face, and messy hair and those beautiful teal colored eyes. They were so close, inches apart really, and she wondered, no she wanted to kiss him. She badly wanted to kiss him.
Layfon stared into his Captain's beautiful face, memorizing every detail, then spotted the tear slipping down her cheek. He caught it with a gloved finger, watched her smile, and then her lips touched his. It felt natural, it felt right, and when it was over he knew that neither of them would say another word about it.
