A/N: Hello Guys ;)

Sorry for the rather late update, I somewhat got no inspirations to write this Chapter :(

And because of that, I think this Chapter isn´t as good as the others...

*Sigh* Well, but I hope you like it nonetheless :)

(And, to be honest, I´m somewhat disappointed that I only got 1 review for the second chapter... But I´m grateful for this review, it cheered me up :) So, a great "Thank

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Her elbows were resting on top of the desk; her hands were folded, supporting her chin.

Needless to say that she was deep in thoughts.

The things Deneve had told her just wouldn't make sense.

´Three bodies of men, all of them had lost their heads. After something had eaten their guts, it had made them a grave and buried them? That just doesn't add up!´.

Leaning back in her chair she began to look at the ceiling.

´I´ve never heard of something like this. It wasn´t a Yoma, that´s for sure. An Awakened Being? That´s possible, but why?´.

No matter how much she thought about it she couldn't find any advantages for an Awakened Being to burry their meals.

´And it couldn't have been a human either. A human would have needed to long to dig out three holes of that size´.

She sighed and stood up to go for a walk.

´I hope the Hunting Squad of Paula isn't going to run into whatever did that´.

~*~

After searching for almost two hours straight, the Hunting Squad had found the Awakened Being. Well, more like the Awakened One had found the Hunter Squad.

"What do we have here, eh? Four Claymores and on top of that; beautiful are they too! What a lucky day". The manically laugher that followed gave the warriors the chills.

"Be careful. According to the information we have about him he's a strong opponent".

Reaching for their swords, Paula narrowed her eyes. "Don't underestimate us!".

Transforming into his awakened form, the man began the fight.

~*~

Moving at supernatural speed trough the forest the shape of the cloaked figure turned into a black shadow.

´Damn, I didn't sense it because of the meditation. This Awakened Being is a tough guy, I met him once but it seems he's not interested in killing others of his kind´.

She concentrated her sensing ability on the Organizations warriors.

´One strong Yoki, two ordinary Yokis and one Yoki that´s slightly weaker than the others´.

Clare herself was suppressing her Yoriki completely. She didn't want them to freak out if they notice that she was no Claymore.

The long-haired woman stopped on a big branch and watched the fight before her.

´So they already started´.

Blood splattered onto the ground as one of the monsters long fingers pierced the abdomen of the weaker warrior.

"Julia, attack him from above I will get his legs. Bertha, go and help Anna. After that you two will attack him from the side".

Nodding her heads in agreement the warriors did what they had to do.

´She's a good leader, but teamwork alone will not defeat this opponent´.

The Awakened Being looked like an octopus. His upper half looked human, besides the weird colour it had and the two arms that were growing out of each of his shoulders. His lower half had lots of tentacles that were as flexible and strong as his fingers.

"It's no use! You can't block all my attacks and attack for yourself at the same time!".

"We will see. Now, Julia!".

She jumped high into the air, dodging the attacks of the monster while cutting of a few of his fingers. Paula herself managed to cut of a few of his "legs" and the other two aimed for his weak spot; his chest.

"You´re done for", cried one of the warriors, but Clare couldn't locate the owner of the voice in this blur of limbs and bodies.

Smirking silently to himself, the Yoma let out a heavy sigh.

"You´re no fun".

Everything seemed to happen at once; the warriors' bodies being pierced, the blood soaking the ground beneath the monsters form and his cry of agony.

"What the hell happened?!".

With a loud thud his tentacles were lying on the ground and pure confusion was written all over his face.

Standing in the middle of red and purple blood, Clare removed the hood of her cloak.

"I just can't sit around and watch this warriors die by your hands", looking directly into her eyes now, the Awakened Being backed away a few inches.

"W-what did you do? What the hell are you? A damn monster?!".

With a swift motion of her right arm, two of the monsters arms were lying on the ground, too.

Crying out in pain he attacked Clare with his remaining two arms. "You fucking cut my arms and legs off! You'll pay for this!".

Jumping away and landing a few feet away from him again, she lifted her arm again.

Paula could just stare in disbelief as the Awakened Being was cut into half by the unknown person in front of her.

´What's that? She killed him without any effort at all! Sure, he was surprised at the sudden attack, but still, that was just…".

Pulling the tentacle out of her stomach she coughed out blood, pulling the unknown persons attention towards her.

She looked directly into a pair of emerald green eyes.

´Wait, green? ´.

Reaching for her sword again, she took position in front of her injured companions, who were still lying on the ground. She didn't know if they were conscious or not.

"Stay the hell away from them! I don't know why you killed that Awakened One, but I don't let you kill them too".

´Always the same reaction´, thought Clare bitter and began to walk away.

"Hey wait! I have a few questions. Are you an Awakened Being? What are you doing here? Why-". As her gaze crossed that from Clare, she immediately stopped talking.

"I will not answer any of your questions. Besides, you should take care of your comrades, they got hit pretty badly". She turned around and made a gesture towards the limb bodies of the remaining warriors.

Paula caught a glimpse of a metallic-glittering symbol on the unknown person's cloak.

´A symbol? Wait, it is shaped like…a trident?´.

"So she's a former Claymore", she mumbled to herself and looked like deep in thoughts.

Hearing the last statement, Clare hurried to get away from there.

"A-ah, wait!". But it was already too late.

´I really should report this to Miria-sama when we get back´.

As her friends began to wake up again she helped them and told them, that they would return to the Organizations headquarters for now.

~*~

Clare almost regretted that she ran away like that as she stood in front of a really, really pissed Galatea.

"If you ever do that again, I'll make sure that you'll go through a lot of pain. Do you want that the Organization finds out about you? No, let me answer this: sure you want that! Because you still think that Miria is searching for you!".

That hit a nerve.

Gripping her throat firmly with one hand and her hands with her other one Clare pinned Galatea onto the floor. Deep golden eyes were piercing her sightless ones and the teeth of the brown-haired woman were turning into sharp fangs.

"Who do you think you are, speaking about Miria in such a manner? Maybe I should teach you how to speak properly about her".

Her now claw-like nails were digging into Galateas flesh, leaving small cuts and blood slowly dripping down her neck.

Overwhelmed by the sudden action the former number 3 could do nothing but trying to cool Clare down with her special ability.

Reducing the 15% she was using at the moment to zero in a split of a second did its job.

She let go of her throat and Galatea began immediately taking deep breaths and coughing violently at the same time, while Clare was lying onto the wooden floor, gripping her head as if being in pain.

´Damn, that was way to close, she nearly killed me. I really should be more careful with what I'm saying. Thanks to the training I was able to snap her out of it…´.

A loud scream snapped her out of her thoughts and she was terrified to sense Clare leaking Yoki again.

"Suppress it! You have to fight!", she cried, but as she tried to grab Clares hand, she slapped it away and began to stumble out of the house.

Galatea could do nothing for her but praying for her to be able to win over her demonic side.

~*~

She couldn't remember how she ended up in the forest of Rabona, but that didn't matter at the moment.

Her skin felt as being on fire and she could clearly feel her body transform into her Awakened Form, as the demonic side of her heart began to take over.

~*~

Paula waited patiently for the Claymore to finish wrapping the bandages around her wounded stomach to share her information with Miria.

The other three of the squad were already taken care of and were now sleeping in the medical station of the Organizations headquarters.

"I'm finished Paula-san, you can go now".

"Thank you, Martha-san" she said politely before heading towards the boss´ office.

Standing before the wooden door she knocked twice and a "Come in" sounded from inside the room.

Paula stepped inside, closed the door and took a look at the other persons in the room.

"Ah, Paula! It's nice to see you again. How has live been- Ouch! Damn Deneve, the heck was that for?", snapped Helene and rubbed her head in pain.

"For being stupid again. I think what she want to say is more important than telling the story of her life".

"Geez, you´re always so mean to me…".

Sighing heavily, Miria cleared her throat to get everyone's attention.

"So, what do you want?".

"Uhm, we successful finished our mission, the Awakened Being was killed. B-but there's something I want to tell you, Miria-sama".

Raising her eyebrow, she made a gesture for her to go on.

"I'm not sure why, but another Awakened One killed the one we were supposed to get rid of. I don't know if this is important, but I saw a symbol on the female person's cloak".

Stiffening in her seat Miria glanced at her long-time friends, who were unsurprisingly as shocked as she herself.

Helene grabbed Paula by the collar and the look on her face was dead serious.

"I will only ask one time, so listen carefully. How was the symbol shaped like?".

"L-like a trident, Helene-sama".

As she let go of her all of a sudden Paula fell onto the ground with a thud.

"That´s impossible", mumbled Helene and Deneve pulled her into a tight embrace while shooting a worried glance into Mirias direction.

Said warrior was starring at no one and nothing in particular, only saying one word that held so many emotions that it wasn´t clear if they were happy or sad ones.

"Clare".


See?

This Chapter sucks~

But since there was no action in the former ones, I tried to make this one more interesting...and failed.

But I hope you enjoyed it

And I always wanted so write "Fucking" in one of my fanfictions, so sorry for the cursing XD

Next Chapter: Explanations

Miria, Helene and Deneve are going to search for the mysterious person. Is it really Clare? And what role is Galatea playing in all this mess?

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