Name: Yuri Suna

Codename: YURI SUNA

Hairstyle: 13, Red

Face: 18

Skin:1

Voice: 15

The Place Where Fire Meets Ice

Yuri opened his eyes to an uncomfortable heat. He looked up to see that he was no longer in his room, but in some charred landscape. The trees were burnt to the bark with embers still a lite on their branches. The earth was rough and cracked like char. Cinders and ash flew through the air and small patches of fire still burnt on the ground.

The heat was insufferable and the ground scorching, yet he did not burn. When he looked down he realized he was not totally himself. His skin was the color of ash and patterns of neon red lines flowed all around his body. He looked like a human version of his F-BS Launcher. His clothes weren't the same either, he didn't even have a shirt or shoes on. He wore baggy pants with a cloth draping around the waist, which started black and transcended into red flames. And when he looked into the glass, form into the inclining ground due to burning sand, he saw that his eyes were a neon red and his hair was literally burning flames.

He must be dreaming, none of this could possibly be real. But since this was his dream he would see where it goes. Looking forward, he decided to take the path leading up ahead. For a while he followed the path until it lead to a drastic change in landscape.

The land in front of him was covered in snow and the road was iced along with its trees. A cold wind blew as snow fell from the sky only on that side of the path. Something stopped him at that border, he felt like he couldn't cross it. What a strange dream this was were he couldn't move freely.

Just as he was thinking this a young woman appeared from behind the trees. She was just as strange as he was, but eerily beautiful. She had no shoes, but wore a sleeveless sapphire dress that strapped around the neck and was backless. Around her shoulders was a light blue see-through shawl. Her skin was a frostbite color and neon light blue lines flowed through her body. If he was being honest, she was like a F-FD Launcher. Her eyes were a neon light blue as well. And her hair... her hair was a long transparent white with snowflakes and frost coming from it. She was the definition of an Ice Queen, yet her face seemed so kind and curious. Slowly she approached him on the path and stopped at her ice border.

"Who are you?" She asked in a sweet gentle voice. "Are you Ifrit?"

"No. Are you Shiva?"

"I'm afraid not, but I asked 'who are you' first."

"I'm Yuri Suna."

"(Giggle) Yuri?" Her hair flowed like she was in water.

"You find something amusing about my name?"

"Your name means lily, I find it funny you're named after my favorite flower. I loved them so much I codenamed myself them back at my Den."

"Wait, you're a Gods Eater?"

"Yes, a New-Type in fact."

"So am I. But I just codenamed myself with my real name." Yuri replied. "What's your name?"

"Nami."

"Just Nami."

"I have no last name, I don't have any parents."

"Oh... I'm sorry."

"Don't be. Just because I don't have parents doesn't mean I don't have a family."

"Oh you're from an orphanage."

"In a way, yes and no."

"What do you mean? It's either one or the other."

"It's hard to explain, and I don't have the time nor the patience to do it now."

"What a drag, women are so confusing."

"At your age you should know that by now, come on let's be honest." She giggled. "In this day and age, last names are rare. Hold on to yours, cause it's precious."

"Hm, I intend to. It's one of the few things my father gave me before pushing up daisies. Now with just me and mom, it's all I have left." He said to her with a grin then got serious as he looked around. "Where am I?"

"You don't know where you are?"

"No, I don't."

"Neither do I."

"You made it sound like you did." Yuri sweat dropped. "I was hoping you knew. Boy, I sure am having a strange dream."

"Your dream? This is my dream."

"No, this is my dream."

"That can't be, I'm real."

"So am I."

"That can't be right. If what you're saying is true, then... that means-"

Yuri woke up, back into his room. His head hurt with a tingling sensation in the back of it and he was dizzy. Man, what a dream. He hoped he wouldn't be having any like that again. Getting ready he headed toward Soma's room, lucky for him Soma was just next door.

Soma was quick to answer the door when he knocked.

"Hey man, you ready for our mission today?" Yuri asked.

"Yeah." He said, closing the door behind him as he followed Yuri. "What happened to you, you look terrible."

"I had a strange dream... there was a girl in it."

"Was she cute?"

"Yeah, but I couldn't find myself being attracted to her. If I did, something about it would seem... narcissistic."

"Alright that's weird. Did she say anything?"

"She said her name was Nami... She told me she was real. And strange enough, I believed her."

"Don't be ridiculous, Yuri."

"I'm serious, Soma. She felt like she had a consciousness and everything. But... if I touched her, something bad would happen."

"Enough with your wet dream, Yuri."

"I told you, it's not like that. (Sigh) Fine, whatever, I don't care. Let's just get this mission over with."

*** Sunken Grid ***

"How the hell do they expect us to run through the Sunken Grid and take the cores of scattered Cocoon Maidens in under three minutes?" Soma growled in complaint.

"We'll split up. You take the left, I'll take the right, we'll meet up on the other side."

"Fine."

"Let's see who takes out the most."

"Hmph, you're on." Soma grinned, challenged accepted.

They both exited Sector J and took out the one Cocoon Maiden waiting for them outside together. The Cocoon Maidens weren't separated too far apart so the next Cocoon Maidens were in the next Sectors.

"Good luck." Yuri said to Soma before splitting to the right. With the time given this was the best choice of strategy if they were to extract the Aragami cores.

Taking the first kill, Yuri moved on. He found the next one on the raised platform. It was hard getting to since it kept firing at him. But once he finished it Soma got done with his first Cocoon Maiden. Yuri jumped off the platform and ran to the next Cocoon Maiden at the two platforms in the corner of the Sunken Grid.

"No fair, you purposely went in the direction with the most Aragami." Soma accused on the communicator.

"I just got lucky, just accept that you're losing." Yuri grinned. But the grin disappeared when the Cocoon Maiden, sitting on the lower platform, shot out needles from its chest. It grazed his cheek and knock out his Mapping Tracker. The auto-repair would fix it in no time, but until then he was on his own. He knew the area well, but it still meant he had to track the Aragami down himself with the limited time running out. "What a drag."

Smashing down hard on the Cocoon Maiden, he defeated it and extracted the core. As Yuri ran over to the next corner of the area, where he saw a Cocoon Maiden on the platform, he saw on the communicator that Soma had defeated his second Cocoon Maiden.

The hardest thing about this wasn't the amount of Cocoon maidens itself, it was the amount of time given to them. It forced them to run around the Sunken Grid none stop. Now that task came a little heavy with Yuri due to the weight of his Forbidden Fireblade. By the time he reached the Cocoon Maiden on the platform they only had 43 seconds left.

From where he was, Yuri could see Soma fighting his Cocoon Maiden on the flat steel bars platform up ahead. Soma's problem was that his second Cocoon Maiden was too close to his third one. Which made it hard to kill one when you have to constantly dodge the other ones shots. By the time Yuri finished his Cocoon Maiden they only had 23 seconds left.

He jumped down and ran to Soma to help finish off the last one. By the time he reached Soma there was 14 seconds on the clock. Putting everything they had into it they took it down with 9 seconds to spare.

"(Huff) That was a tough one." Yuri stated.

"That still counted as mine," Soma said out of breath.

"Whatever, I still win."

"You just got the lucky pick."

"Call it what you want, a win is still a win." Yuri grinned at Soma. "That should be it for today, right? Let's head back now."

"Don't let your guard down."

*** God Arc Hangar ***

"That wasn't much of a good mission." Yuri said as he put up his God Arc. "I can't wait to go up against an Fallen Arda Nova or an Arda Nova again."

"Are you still trying to complete your Rejector and Evil One?" Soma said, shaking his head in disbelief.

"Yeah, I've completed a copy of everybody's God Arc in the First through the Third unit, except yours." Creating the same God Arc as his friends was just one of the past times he picked up now that he had created all of blaze type God Arcs the Den had to offer.

"Hmph, good luck with that. The Fallen Arda Nova parts you need are hell to find."

"How did you get them so easily?"

"I just got lucky." Soma grinned, throwing Yuri's words right back at him, earning a punch in the arm from Yuri.

"Oh, ha ha." Yuri shot back. "Well, I'm off to Dr. Sakaki's lab."

"Again? Didn't you go see him yesterday?"

"Yeah, but I still have a few more questions for him." Yuri said, giving Soma a wave as he left the Hangar. His words were partially true, but he was also going to report every change that happened to him that day. That was all part of the experiment. He had to report everything, even the dream.