Lion Heart: Vengeance of a God

by TalonAlpha3

When Ichika Orimura entered the IS Academy, he did not expect a second boy to arrive as well. However, this boy, in particular, was all but blind permanently and as to why he is here at the Academy aside from the fact that he is the second male to pilot the IS is all but a mystery. His name is Raiden Hataru, and he only seeks one thing: vengeance. (OC X Houki, Charlotte, Tatenashi)

1. Chapter 1: Prologue

CHAPTER 1 (Prologue)

Flames were all that could be seen. The smell of burning wood and the scent of smoke hung heavily in the air. And within the house laid the bodies of two people, a man and a woman both killed by a mysterious killer. The blood poured forth from the still bodies, so much that some of it was caught on fire by the flames of the burning house.

Not far away laid a young boy, holding his eyes in the palm of his hands, screaming as the blood poured forth from it. No longer had he had the ability to see for his eyes were slashed out to the point of permanent blindness. As the boy screamed on the floor holding the blood and pain, above him stood his would-be killer, a woman in some sort of mechanical suit with a blood soaked energy saber in her left hand. Her face could not be seen as it was merely covered in shadow, as was the rest of her body mostly.

"Let me ease your end, child." said the woman to the blind boy who was still holding his bloody slashed eyes. This was it. This was the end for him. Nothing but despair and death awaited the poor boy as he continued to hold his bloody eyes. Death was right above him and merely waited for it to come to him.

As she raised the weapon for a final strike against the kid, something caught her attention. Someone broke into the burning home with a loud noise. The killer turned to her right and saw another woman in the same machine as her, carrying what looked like a sword with energy produced from it. Her figure, just like the killer, was very hard to see as it too was covered mostly in shadow.

As the woman with the energy sword looked up, what she saw shook her to the core as she first saw the bodies of the man and the woman lying before she looked even further up and saw the other woman and the young blind boy. She looked closer to see that the boy was holding his eyes that were sliced out and coincidentally shook her with a flurry of emotions. Shock came first as did horror before anger settled in a matter of minutes. Feeling the emotion of rage linger within her, the woman charged forth to the other one and engaged her in combat with the mechanical suit on. Their fight became so intense that they literally flew all over the house before emerging outside in the backyard, continuing their fight in close combat.

As the two fought, the young blind boy, with his permanent blindness, curled up on the floor into a ball and waited agonizingly for death to approach. What felt like an eternity was merely a few seconds as he painfully waited for his end to come to him. A few minutes later, the boy was grabbed up by the woman with the energy sword and flown out of the burning house, before the entire thing crumbled and nothing remained but the burning wood and wild flames. It then began to rain as a storm approached the land, with heavy rainfall bearing down upon the fires, quenching them in the process.

The cool air filled the boys' lungs and the boy endlessly cried at his pain and suffering. He had been rescued but the last thing that he saw before he lost his sight were of his dead parents. He did not cry in tears of joy but of sorrow because of what he had lost that was most precious to him. The pain would never go away for it was a wound that would never heal physically nor psychologically, no matter what treatment would come.

The pilot that held the boy in her arms as she flew to safety looked at him with great pity and sorrow. She had seen what had happened and looked at the slashed eyes with her own. Filled with shock and sorrow, the woman held the boy into her arms and hugged him gently. Silently, she listened to the boy's cries and allowed his blood-soaked tears to fall on her, decorating parts of her face and her suit. She did not care as she knew that his situation needed medical attention and fast. In a race against time, she flew to a nearby hospital with the boy in her arms safely secured.

"I promise that I will never leave you." said the woman to the boy who was not even paying attention to her as he was caught in a web of grief. "I swear that I will protect you and give you a life more deserving than this." The boy remained silent before falling limp and cold, but not just from the cold rain.

The woman got the front door of the hospital, where doctors then emerged and saw to their horror. The woman deactivated her mechanical suit in a flash and collapsed to her knees, clutching the boy with tears flooding her eyes as she pleaded to the doctors,

"Please...save him!"