DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN OWARI NO SERAPH.

Note: Advanced apologies for the OOC's.

This is in continuation of where Seraph: The Beginning ended. Yeah, kinda like part 2 or season 2 if you wanna call it that way.

Previously on Seraph:
Seraph: The Beginning introduced the main characters Yuichiro, Mikaela and Shinoa. Yuu reunited with his childhood friend Mika who was surprisingly a vampire. What he didn't know is that Mika had set up an ambush on Yuu's squad to get him back. Mika hired Crowley to get rid of Yuu's human friends. Mitsuba, Yoichi and Kimizuki made it back to Guren's checkpoint to ask for backup and rescue Yuu and Shinoa who got left behind. Yuu, Mika and Shinoa were able to got to know each other on their hiding. Unfortunately, Mika made the wrong call to proceed with the plan and Crowley takes Shinoa to Ferid while Mika later wakes up in an infirmary within the humans' territory with Yuu's persuasion of Guren to not kill him.

Mika and Yuu stay together at JIDA, temporarily merged with Narumi's squad under Guren. They plan to rescue Shinoa after they do their raid in Nagoya.

Mika develops feelings for Mitsuba who was admiring Yoichi. Mitsuba returned his feelings. Yuu on the other hand, accepted it with approval but later had nightmares of never seeing Shinoa again. Realizing he missed her more than anyone else did. Later at the end of their raid in Nagoya, Guren finds Shinoa and attempted to kill her for her own sake but Kureto stops him saying Shinoa holds valuable information.

Arriving back to base, Yuu and the others continue to talk about how their squad will finally be complete once Guren gives them the good news of the rescue mission. But Guren did not meet with them and instead secretly called Mika to meet with him. He revealed that he knew Mika's secret and got Mika pushed to a corner. In the end, Guren tells Mika about Shinoa's condition. Mika couldn't bring to say he was at fault, now that he built good memories with them. Mika proved to Guren that even with his short interaction with Shinoa, she will be someone he considers a family.

Guren says that he passed the test and will entrust Mika with his plan.

What is Guren's plan?

Crowley Eusford was nowhere seen. What happened to him?

What will Mika and Shinoa's fate be? What will Yuu do?

SERAPH: IN THE MIDDLE
One month ago. After Crowley took Shinoa with Mika as witness to the first time he's tasted her blood.

"I'm sorry but explain to me again why you took a human back to our base? Not to mention, this human is a soldier working for the army that we are up against?" Ferid asked when he arrived at his mansion seeing the unconscious soldier tied up and lying in his couch.

"I brought her with good reason."

"Well it better be darned convincing otherwise I'd have your head hanging in my doorstep." Ferid says and Crowley said nothing but offer him a drink. "I'm not thirsty."

"You need to distract yourself so the following things I will tell you is not going to be you ripping my head off." Crowley negotiated and Ferid takes the glass cup in his hand to drink.

The redheaded vampire watched closely of Ferid's reaction who finished the whole cup in one gulp. A satisfying grin plastered across his face after drinking the blood he prepared. "I take it this blood belongs to that soldier?"

"You bet it does."

Ferid scurried to the sleeping soldier, having a good look at her face. "Hmm... it appears that she's an important member of a family." he stated his assumptions. "One that means she's not the only one whose blood tastes like this. If we get them then we got something to feast with the other progenitors."

"Any ideas then?" Crowley asked with a shrug.

"With the many sub branches there are, I'm not sure which to bet on." Ferid said as he continued to scrutinize the girl with lustful eyes, until he eyed the bite mark on her neck and shoulder. "I see you made yourself busy in your time at Shinjuku."

"Mikaela asked me to help him get his precious Yuichiro back. Like you said, I agree to it." Crowley explained. "To enrage Yuu to hate vampires more and kill his friends. But I wasn't able to even touch one but this." he finished. "Everything was just about me going to kill them but the moment I tasted her, something was different."

"And you had to tell me." Ferid concluded.

The seventh progenitor got up on his feet, tapping a finger on his chin, his smile never wavered as he hummed a tune familiar to the redheaded vampire. Crowley said nothing but observed Ferid to his antics whenever he's amused to the point that he wants to amuse himself some more which is why he will always make matters more complicated than it is.

"If we introduce her to the rest of the progenitors, they'd love it. And perhaps support us when we propose to do a raid and capture the rest of her family." he began.

"Yes but we have no leads yet." Crowley reminded him.

"Oh that's simple. We ask, she talks. If not, we put her in my chambers until she speaks." he said simply with a shrug. But he wasn't satisfied with how easy everything is. Crowley knew Ferid long enough to know that having fun was all that matters to him. "Maybe the Queen is interested to help us."

"How so?"

"Little Mikaela is away and he can't live without her unless he finally gave in to drink human blood." Ferid stated. "All we have to do is let her taste this unusually good blood and she'll be on board with this. Unless of course she's going to keep something from us and refuse to help." he continued to mutter. "But then again, good blood is not enough motive to convince the progenitors to risk lives."

He sat down in a chair opposite of where Shinoa was while Crowley was standing, staring at him do his thing.

Crowley eyed the unconscious soldier for a moment to think. "They'll just suck the life out of her." he says.

"Exactly. They wouldn't care less what happens to her, which is why we should convince them that keeping her alive is worth our time." Ferid says. "Her blood is not enough leverage though... that's why I want to involve her family, assuming she does belong to one."

"And the trouble of going through all this will benefit us how?" Crowley asked him and Ferid just smirked.

"We get to have fun. The same excitement I felt when I played with young Mikaela and Yuichiro years ago." was his reply.

[December 20 - Present day - 13:00]

Mika was outside the apartment, leaning in one of the pillars outside, hitting the back of his head softly on the concrete wall behind him. Troubled. A day has passed since Guren had asked for his help with his plan and Guren not telling Yuu and the others anything. Mika had to lie not knowing anything until the time was right. It troubled him to have lied again.

Lying seems to be something I do a lot to the people I love...

"I guess it would've been better if you actually don't love them then." he heard a voice say beside him. "That way, you don't have to lie to them."

He turned beside him to see Shinoa with the same attire she wore a month ago when they first met. He was surprised to see her, he wanted to panic, he was afraid of what she might say and do. She knows the truth. And if it wasn't Crowley that will tell Yuu the truth, then she will.

"What's wrong? Afraid that I may suddenly remembering everything and tell Yuu what you did?" she asked with a smirk.

"You're not real." he muttered, anxiety crawling all over him.

"Maybe. But you were thinking about me a lot that I couldn't help but exist right now." she says and Mika felt as if he would just have a heart attack.

"Get the hell away from me!"

He swung his arm towards the Shinoa that he can see, seeing that his arm crashed at the wall. His fist felt the pain of landing there without hesitation. And it was mentally killing Mika that he's been seeing hallucinations of her ever since that day.

"Mika?"

Mika quickly pulled his fist back and turned to Yuu with a smile when he heard him speak. "What's up, Yuu?" he asked casually.

"Nothing. Just wanna know why you're having a round with that wall." Yuu teased to ask his concern for him and decided to sit beside Mika. "What's going on? You've been alone again. Like we're back to square one."

"I've just been to a lot of thinking." he said vaguely.

"And?"

"I think about the kids back then... Akane.. and the rest.." he begins to say. He didn't want to lie so he brought something up that he'd frequently think about. "How they could've been now if they were alive."

"They would've stood by our side vampire or human, won't matter. We'll still be family." Yuu assured his friend, hoping that it'd help him calm down.

"Thanks Yuu." Mika said with a smile. A smile to cover up the fact that he's keeping something again and that he's bothered by it.

"Of course!" Yuu said with a grin. "Just please don't sulk. I'd be okay if you were with Mitsuba but never take all these things like you're alone in this."

Mika never even want to consider giving Mitsuba the same burden he's carrying but for Yuu's sake, he continued his fake smile and nodded. "Of course. I'll take to her about some things and you'll be in the loop. I promise."

"Just not when you... you know?"

"Yeah. I think I'd keep that between me and her." Mika said with a chuckle.

"Alright. I'll see you at dinner then." Yuu said and patted his friend in the back before walking away.

I'm sorry Yuu.

"You know, if you can lie to him straight in the face about this then you can lie to him about anything else." he heard his imaginary Shinoa say. "Just as you lied to me to lead me away from Yuu before handing me over in a silver platter to your accomplice, Crowley Eusford."

Mika held his anger in and left. If he were to make a scene then it would make Yuu suspicious.

He'd ignore this illusion just as he does everyday.

In Guren's apartment, Guren had just got out of the shower when he heard a disturbing and ongoing knock from the door. He knew well to dress first before opening the door to see a troubled Mika who entered his room the moment he opened the door.

"Oh please make yourself at home." he said sarcastically before closing the door.

"We have to tell them." Mika spills the beans.

"I didn't ask but you telling me about it means the guilt is eating you alive." Guren stated and walked towards his bed to have a sit.

"I would've taken it but the fact that I see her everywhere I go, telling me things, it's just hard to get it out of my head." Mika told him the truth. How much it has bothered him as time passed. Even if he keeps telling himself everything will be alright.

Guren nodded, understanding his situation a bit. "If we tell them, tell me what good comes out of it?"

"The guilt stops eating me." Mika says but quickly supplemented something else. "And so Yuu wouldn't have to worry."

"So that the guilt will stop eating you." Guren repeats. "That's the main problem here."

Mika didn't deny it knowing it was true. He sat down the chair and tried to breathe as calmly as he could. Hoping not to see anymore of his hallucinations. "I don't know what to do. I just want it to stop."

"If we tell them, Yuu will be enraged and he'll rebel against us and will fight Kureto even if he knows he doesn't have a chance. We're doing this because we don't want him to do something he'd regret." Guren tried to help Mika's case. "And until you're ready to talk to her, we cannot proceed with the plan."

The vampire lost his ability to hear for a moment. He blocked everything out to think. He was in a panic. But his body remained calm. His mind was frantic.

I.. I can't... it's just..

I keep telling myself I wanted to meet her but not like this. I...

For Yuu, maybe...

Should I even...?

"Hey little Mikaela, you alright?" Guren asked, snapping him out of his trance. "If you're not ready, you're not ready. I'm not forcing you to."

"But the longer I delay it, the longer I suffer from this." he said. "I might as well deal with this."

"You sure?"

"Count on me. I'll do your dirty work for you."

[November 18 - 19:00]

"...you don't cry for help, you don't scream, you don't give me the face I want you to make." Crowley muttered as he washed his hands. "And that just means that you want to have fun with me?"

"The way you translated my silence is very wrong." Shinoa rebutted.

She was tied in a chair with her hands behind her back. If she were to be tortured, she's ready for it. It's one thing she's trained for. And Crowley's way to make it easy for her helps her case. The least she can do is play his game.

"And how do you expect me to take it as?" Crowley says, now drying his hands with a hand towel. "Because the way I see it, if you speak, they take you away from me. If you don't, you get to stay with me."

"If I speak, I'd be dead. If I don't, they'll say you failed and I'd be handed over to another progenitor." Shinoa corrected and Crowley chuckled at her.

She was an annoyingly feisty, cocky little soldier.

"The only reason you have such confidence is because I make things easy for you." he threatened. "So the least you can do is watch your mouth when you speak to me."

"Then don't make things easy for me and see which of us has the right to receive respect." she challenged.

And the two glared at each other with deadly eyes.