so here's the second chapter. Hope you enjoy!
Again, I don't own these character and the god eater franchise.
Chapter 2
Anagura…
The current haven of the Far East Branch. Located at the place where former Japan once stood, the land of the rising sun.
A place once filled with beautiful scenery, trees with pink petals that once danced and swayed by the wind. Buildings and cities brimming with technologies.
Now, what remains was a cooped up cell. Every house and halls was within a wall, enforced with bias factor, preventing Aragami's to breach the small city.
The place was the also called the Battle Front…
Where most Aragami's currently appears…
And so, the place was heavily armed by many god eaters.
Always on the lookout for any incoming Aragami's…
And always have their lives on the brink of death.
This is… really uncalled for.
Erina der Vogelweid, was currently on mission to hunt down a wandering Vajra at the abandoned subways.
I mean, I'm not complaining about their skills or anything really.
No, really. If they were hunting ogretails or any other small aragami, sure no problem!
If they were hunting a Sariel or Chiyou, sure, they could take it!
But to hunt down a freaking Vajra!? Now that is really really disturbing if the team consists some of the weirdest bunch of God Eaters of Anagura.
Why did I accept Kanon sempai' s offer, damn it!?
She was hesitant at first, the two of them forming a team on hunting down that damn lighting spewing cat. She was told that her senpai's would come along to this mission.
Well, technically, they are still my senpai's… but I was expecting the other senpai's, not these senpai's!
To be precise, Erina was expecting someone like Alisa, or Ciel-san, even though she was very, very strict sometimes. Heck, even captain Kota or the damn pervert, whose name she doesn't even wanna remember would be better.
Or maybe even 'him' Erina thought…
But Erina could only dream of it right now. Cause her teammates as of this moment were…
"PINCH! PINCH! I'M IN A PIIINCH!WAAAHHHH!"
A scream of a man with a giant hammer, whose voice has a tinge of noble blood could be heard.
As the young man with a noble blood screams, Erina heard another sound. A sound of explosion, coming deep within the subways.
Boom!
Another sound of explosion.
Boom!.
And another one…wait….Why was the sound getting stronger?!
BOOM!
" Wha-?!"
The wall besides her, suddenly shatters from an explosion. Zygote's flew out of the damage wall, some were dead, and some of them looks like they were running for their lives!
Amidst the fleering aragamis, a girl with a massive cannon was aiming at the running targets…
"…Erina-chan…?"
"…W-what?" Erina stuttered. She felt that it was also good time to flee for her life…
" OUT OF THE WAY!"
Without even thinking clearly, Erina's body instinctively jump away from where she was standing. And thanks to her fast reflex, she was barely be able to dodge that massive flaming bullet that came out of the girl's cannon.
The bullet hit's a Zygote Aragami at its back, blowing it away and its body explodes.
Erina saw this, cold sweat was now trailing from her forehead. If she was hit with that attack, it was her body that was going to explode.
' That's IT!'
The small girl swiftly turned her head to that freakin' LOOSE CANNON '.
"Kanon-san! Where THE HELL do you think you were aiming that THING?! If I hadn't dodge in time, I'd probably be dead by now!" she was literally fuming right now…
The cannon girl, whose name was 'Kanon', wasn't even listening to her, she was looking for her next target to shoot at…
Left, right, her head was scanning the place, and BAM! Her eyes lit up. She found the real target, The Vajra!
"There!"
She quickly pursued the giant lightning beast.
"I'm not done here! W-wait!..."
And there she goes. Erina gave up on that one and move on to her other teammate, lying on the floor.
"And you! Get up already! We need to follow Kanon-san and-huh?"
The hand of the injured young noble slowly rise, trembling.
"…A-all hail…Fenrir….all…hail…von straussburg…."
His hand finally drops and…
"….zzz*snore*zzzz…."
He was dead…Dead asleep…
"…"
Erina couldn't even begin to describe her situation. She was literally with the three weirdest bunch of….
Wait…three?
…
'Where's the other one?' she thought.
She looked around and saw them, two bunny ears protruding behind a beat-up wall. She slowly went to the direction of the bunny ears and saw one of the most ridiculous thing she'd seen at the moment.
It was the bunny costumed God eater, Kigurumi, eating what it looks like, a shaved ice…without taking its bunny helmet costume…
Oh god…what kind of messed up team is this?
Alisa Illinichina Amiela, a white vest veteran god Eater, was currently sitting alone at the HQ Lounge. She was drinking some fruit punch she ordered from the little cook-slash-bartender that was quite young to be managing this place.
Her name was Mutsumi.
Alisa is quite fond of the little girl, being able to work at such a young age. Of course, her type of work, wasn't facing Aragami at the front lines. She was a great cook that can make delicious food and treats. Right now, she was just enjoying seeing the little girl do her best to serve her customers at the lounge.
The girl, Mutsumi, noticed that someone entered the lounge, and was heading straight for Alisa.
"Alisa."
Alisa turned her head and saw Soma.
"Hey Soma, what is it?" the teen greeted the young man.
"I have something to discuss with you." He said.
"Sure, just let me finish this drink that I ordered from Mutsumi. You should try it, it's delicious!" Alisa said, proud of the fruit punch she was holding.
"…Doc also wanted to see you. This is something concerning Cradle." Soma calmly told this to Alisa.
Alisa stops for a moment. She heard the word Cradle. It was a Unit made up by the Far East Branch, created to search and investigate inhabitable areas for new satellite homes.
The group consists most of the former members of the First unit, with the exception of Kota Fujiki, leader of the current First unit of Far East branch. The current leader of this unit was Lindow Amamiya, who was currently on a mission on searching for the Satellite homes.
Alisa looks at Soma. He was quite serious at the moment, she could tell. After working together with the guy for three years, she could already tell something wasn't right.
She stood from her seat and went outside, with Soma following behind her. They change their location, and heads toward Doctor Paylor's room.
As the two of them enter, the doctor was sitting in front of his computer, typing here and there. Alisa also noted that Kota was also there, sitting at the couch, and was unusually quite.
The doctor greeted both Soma and Alisa.
"Good afternoon miss Alisa. I'm glad you could join us."
"What's this about, doc? Something serious?" she asks the eccentric doctor.
"Maybe. But depending on the situation, it may turn for the worse, I suppose."
"What do you mean?" Alisa inquired. She was getting anxious. They said this is about Cradle…
Wait.
Is this about 'him'? Did something happen to…!
Alisa was a little frantic now. However, before she could finish what she was thinking, she heard the doctor continued…
" There's a rouge aragami roaming around the eastern part of the world. Meaning, that rouge aragami is near the far eastern branch." The doctor said.
A little relieved, Alisa sighs at the news that she heard.
' I thought something to 'him'' she thought.
The doctor, Kota and Soma saw Alisa's reaction, a smile crept to their faces. They knew what exactly what she was thinking. Its funny how she was so easy to read. But, the doctor thought it was better to tease the young girl some other time.
The doctor pressed something, and the computer screen flashed some still images. He turned the screen for the three god eaters to see.
"The far east branch isn't the only Fenrir base at the east. Several other branches located at former land of China, including Korea, Thailand and Taiwan was attacked by this aragami."
The picture depicted at the screen was quite obscured. There is a picture of the beast, but it's either blurred, due to fast movement, or the beast was behind some object, making it impossible to determine what type of aragami it is. It also didn't help that all these pictures was captured during the night.
The only thing that was clear was its multiple tails, glowing, and the eye that was captured in one of the images.
"And this…" the doc pressed, and a single photo appeared.
"this was the only colored image that the Korean branch was able to salvage during those attacks."
It was the head of the aragami. Pitch black figure, with glowing blood red eyes.
"W-what the hell's that?..."
Kota asks. For some reason, he was having goosebumps looking at the picture. Sure, he faced many strong and fierce aragami's before. Heck, he even came face to face with an aragami that could trigger the end of the world! He couldn't understand why a single picture could scare him.
"According to the reports of the survivors, the beast looks like a wolf,or a dog, or whatever resembles a K9, as it runs using all four of its limbs." Soma reads the papers in his hands. He continued giving them the information.
"Fast and flexible, if it was compared to other K9 like Aragami, for example the Marduk, its body was slimmer and the behavior was quite aggressive. It fight's like it could read the god eaters movement."
This information was quite alarming. Alisa and Kota were at the edge of their seat.
"So you mean to say it's-"
"Yeah. This bastard's quite a smart one." Some answers what Kota's was about to ask.
"An Intelligent Aragami…"Alisa mumbles in her breath.
"Yes quite crafty too, if I do say so myself." Doctor Sakaki told them.
"And from the gathered reports, every time it appears, it always destroys the Base's Power supply, weakening the base defences."
"wha!?.." both Alisa and Kota tensed at what they heard.
"And that's not the most shocking thing about this beast. According to one survivor, he heard it speaks." Doc Sakaki said.
This is what made both Alisa and Kota stiffened. A beast type aragami, actually speaks.
"Is this true? Was the information 100 % reliable?!" Alisa asks.
The doctor shrugs. He told them that the survivor who heard the aragami was examined after the assault, and was found to be mentally unstable due to shock from the attack. Meaning it may be a hoax info coming from a delusional man.
The doctor became serious, looking at the three god eaters in front of him.
"Being part of the newly found branch of Fenrir, Cradle, the three of you are some of the best God eaters this branch could offer right now. And for that, I want you to be ready to be dispatch and subdue this new-type aragami!"
Alisa, Kota, and Soma smiles, proudly salutes at the Doctor-slash-Director of the Far East Branch, brimming with confidence.
"Yes Sir!" all three of them said loudly.
Licca Kusonoki
A young genius mechanic, expert in God Arc technology, loves her job. If someone asks her what she would choose, a life where she would live as a normal girl, dressed gorgeously and fashionably, and being courted by admirers, or cooped up in a lab, inventing and creating things to develop the God Arcs further, she'd choose the latter.
Licca chose this type of profession on her own volition.
Right now, she was tuning up on enhancing the three god arcs of the people she was currently waiting.
The owner of these God arcs she was currently working on came and greeted the young mechanic.
"Licca!"
"Alisa!"
Alisa, Kota, and Soma came to Licca.
"So I hear the three of you will be on a mission again. This is like, what, a year and a half, maybe, since all of you are in a single mission." The mechanic said to Alisa.
"Yeah it is. But…"
Licca noticed the solemn expression on the girl's face.
…oh right…
"Not all of us really." Kota finished what Licca realized.
"Of course, that 'idiot' isn't with us on this…" soma added
Licca knew they were a little sad, but a smile crept n her face.
"Come on guys. It's not like 'that' guy's dead, y'know. He's just on a mission."She said.
"A very long mission , you mean." alisa added.
' Is she still brooding over the fact that 'he' didn't inform her of his current mission at the time?' Licca thought.
"…sigh…" Alisa, Soma, and Licca heard Kota.
"Come on, guys! We shouldn't worry too much about him. We know how strong he is, and besides, the great Lindow Amamiya got his back on that mission!" Kota proudly says this to lift up their spirits and mood. Really now, they didn't need to be depressed because one of the former member of their first unit core group wasn't around. They need to be strong for this next mission they were about to embark.
"See! Just like Kota said, no need to be depressed!" the mechanic supported what Kota said.
"…you're right…I'm sure he's alright…" Alisa, now, a little relieved, smiles.
As the group, now ready and mood lifted, picks up their God arc and heads to the port to look for their transportation. Licca, on the other hand calls the three of them.
"Hey, guy's! you're not going to check your god arcs and see if there's any problem with them?" the mechanic asks.
All three looks at each other, and then, three heads turn to Licca's direction.
" What's there to check…"
"We already know that it was you who calibrated them…"
"And knowing that, we already know they will be in great condition."
Soma, Kota, and Alisa said, respectively.
…Geez…
… Those guys are no fun at all… Licca thought.
And the words they said to her…
'what's there to check, knowing you, their already in great condition.'
They were similar to what 'he' says before heading out to a mission.
"You guy's really do miss him, don't' you?" Licca said in a low voice.
As she saw the chopper where the three god eaters were riding, took off, Licca looks up the sky. She saw Kota and Alisa waving at her.
…you better return home soon, or these guys would lose their cool…
Hiro Kamui, current captain of the BLOOD unit of Fenrir, was sitting in his room, and right now, he was…bored.
Bored. He was really bored. For some reason, after their last mission yesterday, he was dragged into the medical bay for a check-up. The doctor said he just needed a few patch and rest for a bit, and his good to go.
However…
After he was about to check for a new missions, his vice captain came and dragged him to his room saying…
"Captain, no missions, rest first."
'she sounded like a robot' Hiro thought.
And so, he was cooped up in his room, or more like, he was locked up in his room, where his strict guardian was also there, reading some magazine on how to create god arc bullets…
These past few days, Ciel was a little over protective of her teammates, especially him. She reminded Hiro of his late mother, always over protective of his safety…
"…"
"…hm?"
Hiro didn't hear the sound of flipping pages of the magazine. When he checks, Ciel fell asleep while reading at his couch, her magazine at her lap.
"…"
He stood and went to her side.
"She must have been working herself out to sleep while sitting like that…"Hiro was about to transfer her to the bed so she could rest properly. But, he suddenly stops…
…wait… he thought…
'what if she suddenly wakes up, and misunderstood the situation!'
"…"
Hiro was sweating buckets now. He wants her to be comfortable, but, he doesn't want to face her wrath due to a understanding.
"…"
Ciel slowly opens her eyes. Where was she? What was she doing? Questions quickly filled her head.
" …hm?"
Wait… if she remembers correctly, she was at Hiro's room, making sure he didn't take any missions for at least a day for a full recovery. She wanted to be sure that he was at full strength if he was to take another one.
She scans the room. She was indeed at Hiro's room. That means, she fell asleep at-
"zzz…"
She found her captain sitting and sleeping beside her at the couch. She also found out that they were covered with a single blanket, with his head swaying slowly, from left to right…
Odd… she thought. Why was her captain sleeping beside her? He was supposed to be resting at his bed right now.
…
…
For some reason, Ciel found herself comfortable looking at her captains sleeping face.
*Pipipi!*...
A sound of a phone surprised the two god eater, with Hiro suddenly waking up from his slumber.
The ringing phone was Ciel's.
"Yes?"
She answers the call. It was Hibari.
"Ah sorry for disturbing you Ciel, but The BLOOD unit is requested to be dispatched to fend off some aragami's near the east part of the base." The operator told Ciel.
" The defense team is currently fighting a horde of ogre tails at the west block. Please inform your captain. I can't contact Hiro-kun, for some reason."
"Alright, I'll inform the captain immediately" Ciel told Hibari.
She turned her head at her captain, informing him about what the operator told her.
"Good news captain, looks like you won't be held in here any longer." Ciel said, using her poker stern face mask.
The Blood unit arrived at the scene, noticing the rampaging aragamis, particularly, the large one.
Quadriga.
A large-type aragami. While Aragamis commonly took the form of beasts, this particular aragami resembles a large, mobile tank. Covered in hard shell, its body was almost impenetrable. But it also has its own weaknesses. It was slow compared to the other aragami. And it also has to open a large hatch in front of its body to shoot its powerful missiles, exposing the flesh of its body where there is no armor to protect it.
"Blood 1, this is HQ, can you hear me?" the operator said at the other side of the intercom.
"This is Blood 1, we've arrive at the location, HQ, how many confirmed aragamis are in here?" Hiro replied to HQ.
They needed to confirm the total amount of aragamis that was wrecking havoc. The group scanned the place. Cocoon Maidens, Zygotes, the Quadriga in front of them.
The operator was continuously tapping at her keyboard, analyzing and scanning the place to see how many aragamis were in there. After checking, the operator once again called the Blood captain.
"HQ to Blood 1, I've confirmed what type of aragamis are currently at your location, and there numbers. 6 Cocoon maidens, 3 fallen Zygotes, and the single Quadriga in front of you."
"Alright, copy that Hq."
Hiro faces his team.
"You heard Hibari. First, we'll take care of separating them, and fight them accordingly. Ciel-san, I want you to take care and snipe the immobile Cocoon maidens." He gave Ciel her orders.
"Roger captain." Ciel immediately works at the task she was given, changing her blade into Gun form, and looks for place where she could snipe all the targets.
Next, Hiro turns to Gilbert and Nana.
"Gil, your target will be the zygotes. I want you to distract them away from the Quadriga, so me and Nana can fight it without any disturbances. Both you and Ciel will give fire assistance after finishing your targets."
"Got it."
"Aye aye captain~!"
As the three of them took off, Gilbert took the attention of flying aragamis and led them somewhere else.
While he was successful at luring the Zygote's, he also lured the giant aragami.
"Nana, use it now!"
"You got it boss~!" Nana focused her mind. Then, it happened. A sudden power rushed in her head, like door has been opened.
Crimson aura swirls around her. The Quadriga that was following Gilbert stops, and the aragami felt another presence. It turns around and its eyes landed on the pink girl. The giant suddenly charge at her.
"Yeah, I did it!" Nana shouts in excitement.
What she did was use her 'Power of Blood'. It was a power unique to the BLOOD unit. Each of them has an ability that unique only to themselves. Nana has the power to 'Attract' the aragamis attention onto herself. After many weeks of practice and concentration, with the help of Dr Paylor Sakaki and Dr Leah Claudius, she was able to control the magnitude of her power. She could attract only a single specific target, and if she concentrated more, she could attract the aragamis within a 5 to 7 kilometer radius.
"Good work, Nana. Now, time to end this thing!" The captain told her.
The monster was suddenly engulf in a tower of flame. After the flame vanished, it fired missiles at the two god eater using the cannon's at its back.
Both of them evade the attack, with Hiro changing his God arc into its gunform.
"Nana, I'll distract it for a bit, you concentrate at a single point and crush it using your hammer." The captain told the pink girl.
The gun unleashes a barrage of bullets, the aragami changes its target to the one firing at it.
Nana runs behind the aragami. But before she attacks, she shouts at her captain.
"But, captain, where should I strike?" the pink girl asks Hiro.
"Anywhere is fine! As long as you destroy the armor!" Hiro replies at the question, while he continuously fired at the giant.
The Quadriga countered his shots by firring multiple missile.
"If you say so~!" Nana suddenly leaps, blood red aura covers her hammer. And as the aura shines bright red, she delivers a powerful blow at the back of the aragami, destroying its turrets and cannons.
With the cannon at its back gone, the aragami was enraged. Its muscle behind its hard shell contracts, and the hatch in front of the body opens, revealing its main cannon.
It fires at the direction of Nana, clearly pissed at what she's done to its cannon. Even if the missile was quite big, its speed was much quicker than the missile at its back. Nana could barely be able to jump out in time, opens her shield to protect herself. The missile hit's her shield, and the impact blows her away and stumbles at her back.
Hiro reverted to his god arc to its blade-form, rushes forward and stabs the beast where the opened hatch is located. The beast roars in pain.
Ciel and Gilbert were finished at their task, and changes their target to the Quadriga. They opened fired at the pained aragami, overwhelming it with their continuous shot's.
Hiro concentrates and blood red aura engulfs his entire body. He pushes hid blade forward, and forces it to be sliced in half.
"HaaaAAAHHH!"
He screams at the top of his lungs, accompanied by the roar of the beast. His blade finally made it through, and the beast fell with no amount of strength left in its body. With the downed aragami, their mission was now over.
Alisa, Kota, and Soma arrived at their destination. They were to be dispatch and help defend the remaining Fenrir base located somewhere near the boarders of China. But, what they saw couldn't be called a base at its state right now. The place totally trashed, with some God eaters fending for their lives as multiple aragami continuously break in the place.
"What the hell?..."
"The report said was caused by a single aragami…but this is..."
The headquarters here isn't being assaulted by the aragami that they saw in the report. No, assault wasn't the right word, it was being raided, by different types of aragamis.
"No need stand by and chat, let's move out!" Soma ordered the other two. Alisa and Kota, nods in agreement, and quickly rushed and helps the kill the rampaging aragamis.
Alisa saw a swarm of Cocoon Maidens firing at a single God eater that was defending the fleeing doctors and researchers.
Alisa rushed to the scene, her god arc in blade form.
One, two, three, with a single slash, the cocoon maidens was sliced in half. She felt her god arc was lighter than before. She also noticed the scratches at the edge of her blade was gone. It was like her god arc was completely healed and looked brand new.
Leave it to Licca, alright… Alisa mused to herself. The young mechanic really outdid herself now.
With the remaining Cocoons felt her presence. The aragami change their target, and focused on firing to Alisa.
Alisa dodges the beams and hides behind wall. She changed her god arc into its gun-form, and runs out of her hiding place. She quickly aims her gun and rapidly fires multiple shots at the aragami. With precision, she gave the remaining aragami's multiple holes to their bodies.
With the Maidens out of the picture, she quickly went to the God eater that was fighting alone a minute ago.
"Are you alright? Here, take this." She gave the boy some healing drugs to help him with his injuries.
"t-thank you, miss…" the young god eater said to Alisa.
Alisa smiles and pats the boy at his shoulder.
"It's alright, just make sure you've get out of here and call for help. Protect as many civilians as possible." She told the boy. The young god eater nods and started to head to the direction of researchers who fled.
"oh wait!" Alisa called out.
"Don't die, understand?" she told the boy. It wasn't a request, but an order. An order she was very familiar with.
The boy nods and salutes at the female god eater.
Minutes after saving the young god eater, Alisa search the place for survivors, fighting and killing aragami's along the way. And then she heard a scream.
"WAAAHHH!"
She heard a scream of a woman. Alisa quickly rushed to the direction of the scream, and saw a woman was slowly being approached by an ogre tail. But this ogre tail looks different. Its body was covered by blue feathers.
Alisa quickly strikes the beast with her god arc. The beast, quickly noticed another presence jumps out and dodges Alisa's strike. It faced the female God Eater, growling and fiercely gazing at her.
"So, quick on your feet, huh?" Alisa took a stance ready to fight the feathered ogre tail.
~end~
so that's the end of chapter 2.
before I forget to inform you, I'll be making some slight changes to some things in this story. for example, I"ll change how they learn Blood arts. in the game, blood arts for other characters are learned through Character episodes.
so i hope you wouldn't mind some minor changes.
so till next time~!