Chapter.2
The folllowing morning Damien awake to his alarm clock. "Time to begin." After he finished his morning routine Damien reported to the lobby.
"Gods Eater Genesis reporting for duty." He suluted Hibari.
The looked around confused. "Uh, you know you don't have to do that every time you meet someone right?"
"It's a sigh of respect and professionalism."
"Well around here we like to be a little more relaxed and you should too. Mistakes are made when you're tense all the time, and around here mistakes can end in death."
"Noted, is there anything for me?"
"Let's see." Hibari typed at her computer for information. "You have a training session with Lindow, might want to get comfortable cause it'll be a while."
"Now that's not nice, I try to be on time." Lindow stood on the stairs waving to them. "Heard your god arc's here, you ready rookie?"
"Yes sir." The two climbed up the stairs, to the lift, and down to the storage bay. Damien opened the case of his weapon, his god arc had the standard issue equipment, a short sword, bunker sheild, and assault gun.
"You all set? Then let's get a move on."
"What about your weapon sir?" Lindow held up his right hand, a red god arc grew out of it then receded. "Lead the way."
In the city of mercy the two Gods Eaters stood on a cliff watching the sunrise. "Sometimes when I look at this old city,I think it's getting worse. Then again with the sun like that you can't help but feel like hope isn't dead yet."
Lindow streched his arms the turned back to Damien. "Alright rookie I've got three orders for you. One, don't die, if you're number's up get out. Lastly hide, get behind the aragami and blast it. Wait was that four?"
"Yes sir."
"Bottom line is, come back alive is your top priority."
"Even at the cost of my comrades."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Lindow grabbed Damien's arm." Making sure you comrades come home safe is a top priority too."
"Then which is it? There comes a time when you will have discide who's life is more important, them or me." Damien pulled his arm back. "You can't save everyone, anyone who believes that is a damn fool."
Lindow rubbed the back of his head and sighed. "So tell me what you fight for."
"There's something here I have to kill."
"Revenge?"
"We've wasted too much time here, me need to begin the mission."
"Alright, we're going hunting for an ogretail. Something to get you started." Damien nodded and leaped off the cliff. "He seems calmer to Lance when he started, a little too serious though." Lindow lit a cigarette and fallowed after the new type.
Damien looked around the ruins till he found his foe, the ogretail just seemed to wander around till Damien stabbed it in the side.
The aragami growled and spun around, Damien ducked under the tail and continued to stab the beast. The ogretail swung its head around, striking Damien in the ribs and sent him cartwheeling away.
Damien stood up, switched to gun mode and opened fire with his spark bullets. After four shots the ogretail was knocked down, Damien switched back to his blade and engaged.
After a few stabs to the stomach the ogretail kicked Damien in the ribs, knocking him down in return for shooting it and to stand again.
Lindow watched the fight go on, the aragami roared and stomped on Damien. He drew his god arc from hos hand, sliced it in half. "You okay rookie?" He asked reach down to help him up.
"You assistance was unnecessary, I was prepared to shot that beast." Damien stood up, dusting himself off. "If that is all for today then I would like to return to base."
"Not yet we still have one more training session. You fought an ogretail, now you have to befriend one." Lindow whistled, then a fallen ogretail came run at them. Damien raised his weapon but Lindow put his hand on the gun barrel, lowering it.
The aragami stopped in front of them, Lindow patted its head. "This is Ruto, she's my aragami partner."
"I've heard of studies to tame ogretails." Damien reached out to pet the aragami till it snapped at him.
The new type swung his arc at it, Lindow deployed his shield to block the attack. "She's just playing with you rookie, you really need to lighten up. She does it to me too, it's only for fun."
"We do not have time for fun, we have work to do."
"Okay tough guy if that's how you want it." Lindow patted Ruto then stepped back. "Okay girl you know what to do." Ruto stood in front of Damien, staring him down. Without warning the ogretail lick Damien's face. "How does that feel?" Lindow chuckled as he spoke.
"What? What was that?" Damien's face was of both surprise and rage as he gripped his weapon.
Lindow tossed him a towel. "Ruto put a scent on you, so when you meet another ogretail it'll take the time to look at you instead of eating you."
Damien whipped to drool off his face. "And then what?"
"Walk up to one, put your hand on it and the rest will take care of itself."
A little more looking the two found another ogretail, Lindow nodded to Damien as he marched on. The aragami sniffed the air then turned to the new type, the beast looked I'm over, gauging him.
Damien hold up his hand, slowly pressing it on the aragami's nose. Nothing seemed to happen till a white vine grew out of the ogretail, it connected into Damien's armlet.
The new type grabbed the vine and tried to pull it out while he felt like something was crawling through his whole body. "Don't panic, just let it happen!" Shouted Lindow.
The white vine retracted from the armlet, the ogretail turned amd lowered itself. "Now what?"
"Climb up and ride." Lindow grabbed on to his mount's fur and pulled himself up. "Like that."
Damien copied the senior, it took a little longer but he was up. The white vine reappeared and reattached to Damien.. "Can you feel it?" Lindow rode up beside Damien on Ruto. "The ogretail is connected to you, you can feel what it feels. Even hear what it's thinking, so what's its name?"
"Noaki. This feels unsettling to be honest."
"You'll get uses to it, soon it'll seem like nothing. Now let's go for a ride!" Ruto took off in a run, Noaki right behind.
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An hour later Damien was taken to sickbay. "You were showing off to the rookie were you." The woman accused Lindow while looking over Damien's bruises.
"Not this time Sakuya, I told him to stop, but as you can see he didn't listen."
"How was I supposed to know! Ahh!"
Damien held his side as Sakuya laided him back down. "Don't get worked up, it'll hurt more if you do."
"Still though to be threw into a wall, reminds me when I started riding one of those things." Lindow grinned at the memory. "We'll set some time aside for riding lessons, along with your other training."
"You're free to go, just strain yourself." The two old types left the medbay, Damien put his shirt and jacket back on and left as well.
Wanting some air Damien rode the lift to the roof, he felt the wind blow on him while looking down on the otter getto. In the distance he saw something flying towards him, not knowing what it was he hid behind one of the large air vents.
It was a griffin that flew and landed on the roof, as it lowered its wings he saw a girl climb down. "Isn't that Alisa?" He remembered.
"Now we have all the necessary joints... I know that's why we got extra... It's taken almost two years so I believe we should be close... I don't know what they'll say... Of course I'm not leaving you alone to explain." Alisa opened the lift and rode it down.
"Was she on her phone?" Damien wondered.
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