I hope you like it. This is my first (and most likely last) Elfen lied fanfic.

Disclaimer: I own nothing but words and stupid ideas


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The world was cruel and cold, she was not denying that. They called her a monster, but then, so were they.

Not everything is as it seems.

These people, these demons, how dare they call her murderer? She was no different from them. They too seek to kill, to destroy. They are weak and call this weakness "self-control" even as they hide behind their pathetic guns. They are fools and played their foolish games with weapons designed to kill and called they it honorable and patriotic practice. They destroyed their own kind.

But so did she.

Her mind was clear, not blocked with this so called whim of empathy. These weaklings and their emotions only got in her way. She needed no consent to kill. She knew how to use her hands.

Why did they keep chasing her? Did they not realize it was their own lives they so recklessly threw away? The bodies piled up, but still they charged after her. Why? To rob a child from its cradle and claim to save the world through the bloodshed they reaped and they dare to call her a monster?

Look in the mirror.

What angel pierces with the devil's eyes and smears taint with his sin? What fool believes in hope and dies for a future he will not see, a pathetic, worthless, human dream?

And yet, she shares this dream, longs for a cause to move her so as to risk everything just for the chance to see her dearest wish fulfilled. So she waited. She let them torture her, test her, push her body to the limit. She waited for her chance at freedom. She wanted so much to see the sky and the sea and watch the birds fly over it. She wanted to fly with them and disappear into the horizon, and find him again. She wanted to see him again.

One night, it was cold, she remembered. They made a mistake. They pushed her too far, overestimating the strength of their barriers and technology and so called protection of bullets and words. It was all meaningless. She knew she could break though them all, and it was only a matter of time until she lost all desire to hold back.

It was on that night, when the new security guards came too close out of curiosity and the researchers forgot to restrain the barrier on the outer limits of her vectors, she decided to test her wings. She had forgotten what the ocean smelled like.

It was hard to walk at first, but she kept moving, one step at a time. She disregarded the sound of bullets. She refused to see the blood and wouldn't let it touch her skin. She had to be presentable after all. She saw the pain on their faces and heard their terrorized screams. The soldiers were young enough yet to be safe from the taint carried by their peers. They would be spared from hell. The noise grew louder, but she drowned it all out just as she had once drowned the little girl she had been.

One step at a time, one step at a time.

She didn't look back until the ocean opened up before her in its horrific majesty and the smell of salt licked her face, and then, it was only for a moment, and it was only to say goodbye.

She watched in slow motion as a bullet raced towards her head and felt the air stir as freedom fell around her. She was not afraid.

One step at a time, one step at a time,

And the world opened up before her.


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