"Lord Daray, we will arrive in fifteen minutes." said the Nav. Officer onboard the 'Hakai'. Daray looked like his father, tall, slender, and long gray hair of the Novak family. He was happy that he learned how to control the Angels three days ago when he studied the blood at the ruins of Tressor. Now he couldn't wait to unleash this army of gods against the Gekko family that were at the Tensha mountains for some unknown reason. That did not matter to him, as long as he got revenge for his father and killed the coralians once and for all.
Shinku was still crying but this time it was of happiness for finally being with his family he never grown up with. Knight had healed Renton's injuries and was working with Woz and Jobs from the Gekko, Tuil and Ferri from Armageddon on the repairs of the Gekko wing which was almost taken off in the previous fight earlier. Renton and Eureka were with Shinku along with Hope and Fecility comforting the eight-three giant of a family member they never know before. His face looked similar to Renton's but his hair was closer to Eureka's. His eyes were an entire matter on their own and so were his arms and wings which the group could not figure out. He stopped crying and told them his life he had lived and what it was like to grow up without them. The Group was terrified and saddened to hear his tale then Fecility went to place her hand on Shinku. When her hand touched his arm a bright blue light was generated at the point of contact. This made Fecility pull arm hand back but what surprised her more was the look on Shinku face when that happened. He was about to say something when he flipped his head to the right and into the sky to the South. he stood up and his wings started to glow a bright red and he started to growl. Renton asked what was wrong as he told Fecility to come over to them.
"Grandpa, take the family and hide somewhere safe. I can hear a NRA strike force heading this way and they have my Angels under their control." then Shinku whistled and Knight was by his side in an instant with his sword drawn and his Angelic wings glowing a bright white. Renton took Eureka and the rest to hide in a cave while the Armageddon crew sprinted to their ship. When the ramp opened the Gekko couldn't believe their eyes at what they were looking at. coming down the ramp was the red Nirvash, then a glowing, absolute white, Nirvash then lastly followed by what seemed to be an ocean blue colored Nirvash. The red one had spikes covering its body and blades on its wrists like TheEND had when it was with Anemone. The white one seemed to be covered in almost angelic armour and had a sword and shield with it in hand. The blue one seemed to have a body that looked like waves of the sea and and ribbon behind it that floated without touching the nirvash itself.
"EN," Shinku yelled from the foot of the sixty foot tall giant that stood next to him, "NRA forces are in route with the Angels in their tow and leash. Get ready for mayhem and to protect my family from the leaders of this force."
"Yes, Lord Shinku." EN said while bowing its head in respect. then a hatch started to open on its chest. The skin on the Nirvash seemed to peel away then a cockpit, with no seat in it, appeared and Shinku flow up to the hatch and stood in the center as the door closed, the white one did the same along with Knight. The blue one did not do this but instead headed for them and took a knee next to their hiding spot and folded its arms out like it was protecting them. The blue one then spoke to the Gekko family in a calm, feminine, voice.
"Hello 'Lord Fecility', I am Laxur, Guardian of Peace. I will protect you and your family with my life. This is the oath of a Guardian to their Lord."
"Wait, what do mean by Lord?" said Renton as he pulled Fecility closer to them.
"Just like what I said, Master Renton, your daughter is the next Lord of Peace and I'm her Guardian for life." replied Laxur as she lowered her head further. Then Laxur snapped her head to the direction of the incoming NRA fleet then slowly crept closer to the Gekko family as if bringing the shield closer in anticipation of an attack from that direction.
"Knight, take the left wing of KLFs, I'll take the right then we proceed to the-" then Shinku felt a presence like he had with his aunt earlier. He narrowed his senses to focus on what made the same sensation of a Lord
and found that the leader of this attack was the Lord of Death, but something didn't seem right about him.
"Actually Knight, you think you can take all 650 KLFs by yourself? I need to go confront the commander of this fleet." now that I sensed what was wrong with this Lord.
"Sure, you just owe me a Hi'larty beer after this one." Knight replied as he brought up Ruvisil's sword and shield up in anticipation of the fight that was coming. Why the man always wants to drink the most potent beer in the universes I'll never know. I nod my head in approval and race to the flagship of the enemy fleet which was a copy of the Giga that my family destroyed during the Second Summer of Love mission. The flagship is surrounded by three of my strongest Angels: Zeruel. Zeruel is referenced to the god of might and I was going to fight three of them before I can reach the flagship and confront this leader. The leading Angel folded its arms into barrel shapes in launched them out like spears. I avoided the strike and the other one when the spears became swords and tried to slash my right arm off. I grabbed one of the blade arms and pulled the Angel to me and away from the other two. The Angel screamed as I deployed one of my wrist blades and impaled the Core of the Angel, killing the Angel as its body disintegrated into blood and poured down to the ground. The other two shot their Angel lasers at me cracking my AT Field with it at half power. I launched my own laser attack completely wiping out one angel and grazing the other. I ran into the other with my shoulder and right into the bridge of the enemy flagship.
In space, some new arrivals were heading straight for the battle. On the ship that came through the red portal could be read Pied Piper. The ship was colored blue and white, the latter being the main paint, and in the shape of a futuristic speed boat. The ship launched two LFOs, both a Nirvash from different universes. The first was in the Neo-Nirvash or Truth piloted by Ao Thurston and the other Nirvash was being piloted by Renton with Eureka in the seat with him, this one was called the spec-3 Nirvash. They arrived to see some KLFs fighting a giant mech that seemed to be protecting the remains of the old Gekko when they saw the other one and one that was painted differently.
Knight had taken out two-thirds of the KLF strike force but they still tried to best him and Ruvisil and destroy Shinku's family behind him. He was covered in blast marks and scratches from the attacks he wasn't able to block or the AT field couldn't block either. his sword was blood covered from the amount of KLFs he had slain and his shield was starting to turn red hot from firing the beam cannon in the middle of his shield. He was going to fire again when little crosses appeared and started to fire on the KLFs and two beams took out two KLFs as well. He looked up to see two Nirvashes and a white/blue ship come down from the sky and attack the NRA forces. A smile came to his face as he fired the beam one more time taking out another battleship that tried to get past the defense line he made.
On board the NRA flagship I walked out of my cockpit and on board the ship. I look at the angel as it starts to decompose and turn into just blood which was corrosive to all forms of life except Lords, watching as the blood melted the bodies on the bridge. I take my eyes away and towards the captain's chair, sitting there was a boy around the age of ten and a spitting image of his father.
"EN, go help Knight and the rest of my family with the rest of the NRA fleet." I say to my mech as I stare down this young Lord of Death. EN gives me a nod of approval and takes off into the fight with both wrist blades deployed. When he left I started a slow stride to the young man as he stood up and did the same, we stop feet from the other as I look down at the boy and he looked up at me.
"Well, who would guess I would come across one of the human devours myself. I don't know if I should be terrified or just shooting in the face with my automatic pistol." said the boy, while he reach for his pistol holstered at his belt.
"You could try, boy... but you may realise that won't work if you attempt it." i say as i take one more step to the boy. "And if you did fire that would mean that you and me, as Lords of the universes, would have no other choice but to fight to the death, and I know you are a not complete Lord to begin with and would not last long."
The boy grabs his pistol and puts three rounds into my skull. i fall to the ground and he thinks that I'm dead until i leap up and crush his hand holding the pistol, and the pistol as well. He screams in agony then gives me a glare of pure anger and pulls out a sword on the other side of his waist. The blade is short but reminds me of a katana, then i realise that it was the blade of a ninja. I had a smile come across my face as I generate my weapons from my room on the Armageddon. Both are swords that are six feet long, one red and the other blue. "So... this what you want then? Very well then allow me the satisfaction of a good fight at least, half-breed."
"We will see, filth, and when I'm done with you I will kill those of Gekkostate for my vengeance for my father." he says as he picks up a stance ready to fight. When he mentioned killing my family though he had fear come across his face knowing that he shouldn't have said those few words. What stood before him then was not Shinku of the Thurston family, but Shinku the Lord of War as I let out my beast side of myself and charged at him severely bending the metal plates for each step I took. Daray took a step back as I swung my red sword in his direction, when he looked back he thought to himself that he was lucky that he took a step back as he watched the ship be sliced in half and begin to fall to the ground. Then he tried to attack me as we both plummeted to the ground with the the ship.
"Knight, what was that pressure just now?" asked Ao now that they were by the cave after finishing off the rest of the NRA and regrouped with the Gekko and Moonlight hiding inside. The Rentons and Eurekas were talking to each other as Ao witnessed the enemy flagship cleaved in two and fall to the earth.
"Ao, stay behind me and you will get your answer when your son comes over with Daray Novack." said Knight as he watched the fighting between the two thanks to his special eyes. They were heading this way as Shinku was letting his rage out against Daray with no restraint. The rest of the family then walked up to Ao and watched has a grey and red dot head straight for them.
Shinku blocked yet another attempt at his head from Daray, while he pushed him away with one of his wings. Daray was cut up from blows he wasn't able to completely dodge or parry from Shinku, who was unscathed and still pressing hard on his attacks leaving no room for Daray to recover and slowly thereafter he was being thrown into the ground with the force of train hitting the ground, full of C-4, from orbit.
I was floating above the impact zone where I throw Daray into the ground. I noticed that we were by the cave I told Renton to hide with rest of my family. I noticed that my other family members finally arrived and that Knight was standing in front of all of them 'probably erecting a shield between them and the fight so they do not get injured' I mentally say to myself. I focus back to Daray as he crawls out of the hole, his left arm is twisted up and looks like there is rock stuck in his side. I lower my self to the ground next to him and he leaps away then runs at me trying to continue the fight. I parry his attack, drop my blue sword and grab his good arm and rip it off with it still holding on to the sword. He yells at the top of lungs before I punch him in the throat sending him into the hill nearby and demolishing it with his body from the force of the blow. I look over to my family, who are terrified to look at me in my 'Beast State' while Knight stood there looking at me motioning that Daray was coming at me again. I narrow my fingers and impale him through the stomach then whip him off my arm towards where his ship was now crashing just now. He was limping with his chin, trying to get away from me. I grab his collar and lift him off the ground and stand him up.
"So Daray Novak do you have any final words to say before you die?" I say to the dying boy standing in front of me. he looks at me then to my family and gives them all a death glare then with the last of his breath screams at them.
"I AM DARAY NOVAK, SON OF DEWEY NOVAK, AND NO WAY WILL I ACCEPT CORALIANS AND HUMANS WORKING TOGETHER!" he then launch a laser attack at them which is blocked by the shield I had known Knight put up earlier to protect them from something like this. After his failed attempt at a last jest of defiance he started to wobble and I could tell he lost all hope at finishing his father's work. I pull my blue sword towards me and with both blades in hand i cross them ready to take his head while he stood.
"Daray Novak, as the Lord of War I commend your soul to eternal rest and peace. For this you shall be striped of your life to live another more fulfilling life I hope. I am Shinku no Ikari Thurston and with this act I give you a another chance to live." with those final words I saw a smile come across the face of Knight as he nodded in agreement to my statement. I brought the swords together and slashed away taking Daray's head which burned away the instant it left his body which shortly followed leaving nothing but ash were a young man once stood. I sheathed both the blades and slowly walked to the group with my head lowered, so as to not show them the tear running down my I got up to them they were crying and Fecility ran up to me and hugged my leg as she cried I kneeled down and gave her a hug back and picked her up while she sobbed into my shoulder. I walked to the Rentons and Eurekas and gave the parents of Fecility their daughter then walked away with EN, Knight, and Ruvisil in tow as we walked to the ship to relax and rest from all the fighting.
A few days passed and we had just finished repairing the Moonlight and Gekko so they could fly again. They had not seen me the entire time as I was resting in my room with Daray's blade in my lap. I took his blade as a memento of him to remember, and to add to my other memories of all the Lords I have killed over my lifetime. I put the blade away after I finished my meditation and closed my twenty-fifth weapon locker, now full of weapons as well. I turned and heard a loud thump on my door and what sounded like yelling from a further distance. I jumped down and opened the door to see a grayish puff ball laying by my door. He looked at me and gave me a strange meow and jumped on my leg and gripped it tight. I knew what this little guy was, he was Gulliver, Anemone and Dominic's family pet, who for some reason weighed the same as a hippo from old Earth. I heard the voice again yell and could now hear what they were yelling for, they were yelling for Gulliver to come to them. Well better take the little guy back to his family, I pick the little guy up and put him on my shoulder so the little guy could get bird's eye view of anything he wanted to see. The little puff ball then decided to take a nap on my shoulder as I walked to the sound of the voice yelling.
I got to the maker of all the yelling shortly after starting my way to find them. They were two girls identical to one another roughly eight years old yelling for Gulliver to come out of hiding and come to them. I made a whistle noise and it scared the two thinking they were in trouble and froze where they stood. I walked up them and put a hand on their shoulders, lowered down and told them to keep it down a little then handed them a sleeping Gulliver. they were so happy to find Gulliver they told me that they had been searching for the little guy for half an hour. they both grabbed my hands and started to pull me to the hangar to exit the ship. I asked why they were dragging me with and they replied that the rest of the family wanted to see me since they wanted to know more about me. I let them pull me outside into a cold breeze from the mountains, they shivered from the cold while it didn't affect me in the least. I wrapped my wings around them to heat them up and to keep out the cold. they turned to me and both of them smiled as they said "Thanks nephew." They then both gave me a hug as we traveled to the Gekko to see the rest of the family.
The next chapter will hold many secrets for both the Eureka Seven family and for Shinku. I wonder what it could be mmm...