I do not own Elfen Lied, plain and simple.

Z.O.M.B.I.E (Stands For Nothing)

I stomp on the brakes, the screeching almost making me want to rip my ears off. Rain and snow pelts the wind shield, just screaming 'incoming hail storm about to kill you'. Chi kicks my seat, not really knowing he was doing so, Junco and Yuka passed out three days ago and Kota and Mayu were starting to worry that they died from a heart attack or something. Nana was in the front seat next to me, drawing in one of the coloring books to help you get a better concept of history in a better way Chi gave her. I jerk the gear into 'Park' and slump in my seat.

"We're home," I mumble, crawling out of the vehicle.

A gun shoves itself in my face, and I look up to see Mabel, cautious. She huffs and turns to Nana, raising a brow. "Which one of you is Lucy?" We point at each other. Kota glares at the both of us for willingly volunteering each other, and Mabel turns the gun to me. "I'll shoot you both if I have to."

I sigh. "Mabel, put the gun down. It's bad enough you smoked in the Manitou house Gad knows how many times."

"Gad? What the F*CK is that?" she blinks.

"I'm taking consideration for Jade, who was Christian," I remind.

She digs the gun into my forehead and Kota yanks it out of her hands. "What the F*CK are you doing? What did she do to-"

"Kota," I intervene. "This is Mabel, the special one."

She growls, "I'm the special one huh? Look at yourself, horny."

I roll my eyes. "Oh please, do you know how many times I've heard that before?"

Chi drags Yuka and Junco out, both still unconscious, and Mayu hops out behind Nana, staring at Mabel. "She looks like Junco's sister, except really older."

Mabel rolls her eyes. "That's because I was disowned. Mostly because of the spiky lollipop here…"

I snicker. "At least I don't kick puppies."

"That was once and you know it was because it had rabies!"

I muffle laughter. "That was whipped cream, stupid."

"It nearly bit me!" she cries in defense.

Nana smirks and silently trips Mabel from behind with a vector. I giggle (chuckling is a boy thing in my opinion) and walk forward, seeing the house the same way it was six-years-ago. I hear clashing and crashing and look at Chi, who looks at the house in fright. Mabel turns and raises a brow. "Mabel, was the house empty?"

She nods and I run forward. Nobody messes with my original home. I wretch both doors open and skid into the kitchen, gasping. The cupboard shuts with a slam, a scale falling onto the ground. The green scale makes me take a step forward, raising a brow. I let my vectors droop to my sides and I stiffen, walking for the cupboard and fighting the handle to open it. Either the handle or the person inside did NOT want me to open it. I sigh and release it, making the other person pull the door in and snap it in half. I gasp. The green ponytail, liquid jade eyes, the palest skin ever, an adult XL grass green blank T with drooping adult M jeans when she needed an adult S for both; Jade. She blushes at the wreck and stares at me, blinking.

"Uh…I thought Mabel was living here," she blinks, not understanding why I was in a house I haven't been in for six-years now.

I laugh and tackle her, forgetting she was in a cupboard and the cupboard crashes down on me, both of us laughing and releasing 'ouch's. We both get up, dusting off our bottoms, and she smiles when she realizes I'm wearing the sweater she got me. She hugs me and I hug her back. Then we realize another is hugging both of us and we look right to see Chi, hugging both of us. We look at each other and shrug, resuming hugging. We part, unable to fully because of Chi, and we smile at each other, turning at the sound of running. Jade grows wide eyed and starts scrambling to get into another cabinet, but Chi and I hold her back of her shirt, just blinking at her.

"Don't worry, the gun didn't fire!" Chi tries to comfort.

"OH JEEZ!" she squeals, now dragging us centimeter by centimeter forward.

"Now, Jade!" I grunt, taking two struggling steps back. "He's thirteen, what'd he know?"

"ALGEBRA!" she snaps.

I stare at Chi. "You just had to know Algebra, huh?" He nods and I roll my eyes, struggling to yank her back away from the cabinets. Someone shoots at us and I glare at Mabel, a smile on her face. "Chill, I'm just practicing."

I roll my eyes and now Chi and I are being dragged by inches. Nana appears with her vectors out for some reason and giving me an idea. I take my vectors and very gently yanking her back, managing to snap an arm out of her socket. "OW! VECTORS! OW!"

"Sorry!" I cringe, releasing her loosened arm and the arm popping back into place with a simple shrug.

"Ah, it's alright," she sighs. "I'd just like to live for more than a maximum of two seconds."

Another shot rings and she makes another run for it, but I dig my heels into the floor. "Okay, settle down Rudolph!"

She rolls her eyes and calms down, clutching the counter now next to her for support with her right and her left clutching the left side of her head. "Jeez, in these tense times, I can't focus the slightest."

"Why would these be tense times?" Nana wonders.

At that, Jade smiles like it were some joke. "Haven't you noticed Sapphire?"

"That blue kid," I mutter.

She nods. "The pink one they call Opal, but her name's Savior."

Kota crosses his arms. "How do you know?"

Jade laughs, "I'm the Queen, dear! I know every power, the amount, even if one is in the process of creation."

Mabel rolls her eyes. "Like that helped when they came…"

There's a slight silence, and I start to panic. "What? What happened? Did they do something to Mom and Dad?"

Mabel grits her teeth and slams her gun on the table, making it fire. "Don't call them that! You were never their kid!"

"Hey!" Mayu defends. "Just because you're disowned doesn't mean you can lash at Lucy!"

Mabel scoffs and sits down next to her gun. Junco and Yuka are positioned on the chairs lazily by Nana, and they start to drift awake. I look back at Jade. "So, they're creating more?"

She bows her head. "They're desperate to see how I offspring, but after that attack…they thought I was dead, so they wanted to preserve me for further tests they were able to put. I woke up one day in a light ball, and a whole bunch of needles were in me. Remember what they said about having only one other? Remember how that was made out of a sample of my blood? Well, what happened was they took all those needles and made little replicas of Gem Blossoms, but the thing is, they're not the same."

I raise a brow. "Keep going…"

"I discovered that they didn't solve why I am who I am, so they were missing a few things. The point is, I'm the stronger, and since it's my blood they're using, I have a connection to each one. So far, out of the test videos I snuck out of there, the experimental Gem Blossoms can not get along, which is why they have Savior. Savior was the second one, Savior was the first test tube baby, and what happened was that my blood was a lot better then, a lot younger. So, she's like the princess, to put it at a close."

Mayu clutches her dog tight, Nana standing. "How tough are they?" Nana asks.

"Tougher than one Diclonius," I sigh. "The original," I gesture at Jade, "is stronger than probably ten combined."

"Isn't that how many Diclonius there are?" Mayu raises a brow.

"Probably," I mutter. "Other Diclonius have made their marks, so I can't be certain."

Jade smiles slightly and pulls out a print of sorts. I take it up in my hands and open it to a cell, not the prison cell, but the living organism cell. Arrows are drawn extruding from it, writing scrawled above each one. On the left is a list of ingredients they used, half of which I never heard of, and on the right is a list of the possibly strongest, one being some chick named Diamond.

"What do you know about Diamond?" I ask Jade.

Her arm pulses and she closes her eyes, obviously looking her up. Once she opens her eyes, she faces me. "She's in progress. They're taking a long time with her, because she was supposed to be the third."

It's very clear they have more than that. "How many can you take at once?"

She smiles. "A lot, but I wasn't here when they came…they let out some unfinished ones, one being Sapphire a couple of weeks ago. They just went through the house just probably looking for me, but Mom and Dad…they protect their children."

I frown. So they're dead. "Are they all loose?"

She nods. "One died three or four days ago," she informs.

That fits the date of the explosion… "Do you know where?"

"On some beach when some dumb guy threw a grenade. Apparently, her 'Blossom' was in the shape of a raccoon, so…"

I raise a brow. "Blossom being the sparkling thing on your arm, I believe?"

She nods once more. "Gem is what we look like; we always turn out colors of some gem that have the same color eyes and hair. Blossom refers to the animal on the right platform, which we are able to morph into half of. I only morphed a quarter that day…" we both shiver. "So, as long as nobody looks like the Resurrection Stone from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, we should be safe."

That's when the window shatters with a rock. I wince as it bangs into one of my horns and Jade looks at them, seeing them cropped short and uneven like glass fragments cemented together into Sedimentary rocks. She winces as if it was her who had to go through the twenty-six pounding vectors that went faster than a cheetah and the glowing wave of bullets that made them think I was dead, but I was lucky apparently. She takes a loaf of bread from the cabinet above her and hands me a slice, the bread feeling soft in my hands. I take a bit and it's softer between my jaws. Now I realize that driving three days without food can make a girl ravenous. I stare at the gapping hole the rock created and lift the rock in mention off the ground. I'm not surprised to find blood, but a picture of me in the orphanage? That's new. I take another chomp out of the bread and squint at it, trying to find any significance to it. One is the boy in the bottom right corner was one of those jerk offs who I killed before I ran the F*CK out. Another would be the fact that the other two boys were right next to him. I face the window once more and tilt my head to the side. Something's up. I chomp the bread to nearly finish it and pocket the rock.

"Wait here," I order, walking to the door and letting the previous chomp digest before even thinking of taking another.

Once I chomp the bread out of existence, lick my chops and wipe my fingers on my arms, I walk over to the outside of the window, looking around to see nobody. That's odd. I look back inside to see Jade's platform continuing to pulsate. I walk around the wall a bit, peering in corners and inside crates, finding nobody. Strange as it is, I can only assume the bricks ran off just trying to be funny. I shrug and turn my back, a rock smashing into my head. I swirl around and hear taunting laughter. It sounds familiar…I creep over next to an alley and peer in gradually.

"Hello?"

No answer. I shrug and turn, only to end up with someone tackling me from behind. Something is injected into my neck and I struggle, my senses dimming. Somehow, Jade and nobody else in the house didn't notice. My first thought is that this is a dream, but there's one catch; it hurts too much. I thrash, but the weight is like…two thirteen year old boys? I turn my head to gasp; I'm dreaming, if I'm not, then Jade was right about that Resurrection Stone bologna, because the three boys from the orphanage are right in front of my eyes. I kick and scream, but nobody seems to hear. What the F*CK is going on? The leader, a name I chose to forget years ago, kneels in front of my face, then I notice something; Jade is looking at me from the corner of her eye. I don't think she's supposed to be able to see me, hear me, or even sense me. I glare at him and spit in his eye, only making him cackle.

"What do you want?" I demand.

He places his hands on either side of his head and pushes up; his head lifts off. He sets it in front of me and I glare as it smiles maniacally. "You did this, remember freak?"

A rock slams into his skull, making him topple over. I turn to see Nana and Jade, Jade with an arm full of rocks, heavy and dense. Nana just has her vectors and a few butcher knives. The window is shut, but even then I can see Mabel aiming her gun at the boys. I feel my fingers turn icy, my spine go stiff. I stare as the leader's body lifts up his head and plops it back on.

"Stay out of this, Jane," the boy demands. "I have business."

I raise a brow. Jade growls and clutches another rock, this time eyeing to throw it somewhere it's bound to hurt. "Just because they made that, doesn't mean you have to be nice with me, Z.O.M.B.I.E."

"Does that actually stand for something?" I raise a curious brow.

"Yeah…" she sighs.

Zombie

Omnipotent

Mega

B*TCHY

Incredulous

Evacuation plan delta."

I blink. "So basically it doesn't stand for anything."

"That's right," she rolls her eyes.

I jerk my head up and hit a boy square in the nose. "Hey, had to ask."

I jerk my leg up to smack a boy in the stomach, letting him loosen his grip and me to push up and jerk the other one off. The leader frowns as I made my recovery and I jerk the needle out, the wound healing due to my sudden adrenaline. I raise the needle like a psycho would a knife and charge, knocking off his head and jabbing it in his spine. The head hops onto the stump and hops at me. I try to pull out a vector, but they're stuck, so I smash it with the bottom of my shoe. It's that plain and simple right? Whoever said yes is wrong. Something breaks in the house, dragging my attention to the window, once closed with the screen but now open. I run in through the window and suddenly get pushed through the wall I blink and stand up, picking glass out of my back. I wince as I pick out a deep one and look up to that little girl who was my 'friend'. Of course she was the one who told about the dog and got it killed.

"I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS!" she screams. "I THOUGHT YOU LIKED ME!"

I roll my eyes. "Oh please…her? If they're going to resurrect someone, why not resurrect my parents or Mariko?"

Jade rolls her eyes, knowing perfectly well Mariko from tests in the lab. The experiment was to see who could fight better; a twenty-six vector Diclonius, or the Queen of Gem Blossoms. Jade was winning until that B*TCH sort of cheated and killed a guard to release the door and started pushing her into crowded territory. Since the facility is SO perfect, they say that time never existed, and that Mariko didn't kill fifteen guards just to get three blows at Jade.

The girl screams and the earth quakes, perfectly explaining that this is not really the girl from six-years-ago. I jump as the earth lifts up to a ripple under my feet, hitting the remaining boys. Jade closes her eyes and crouches down, obviously in pain. I freeze, and so does everything around me. Frost coats my lungs and I realize how hot they were. I take a deep breath and the lungs defrost, cooling within my body temperature and everything resumes. I land with my vectors and kick through the hole in the wall, also kicking her full in the lower jaw. She stumbles as her jaw hangs low. She clutches it in a mid-swing and lodges it back in place, her head turning a complete 360 like you'd see in zombie movies.

"Gross," I comment.

"At least I'm not horny," she snaps.

I face Mabel, gaping and holding out my hand towards the girl. "See? Didn't I tell you?"

The girl somehow pushes me back and I slam into the wall, hard. I wince and rub my head, trying to keep Nyuu out of the fight she has NO chance whatsoever of winning (unless she magically grew an F*CKING backbone). Jade is just standing there, staring at the girl. The girl turns to her and twists her head upside down, smiling.

"Hey, sis," the girl cackles.

Jade snarls at the girl, "My sister died years ago, B*TCH."

The girls head is loped off by something I can't see and I turn my head painfully to see Jade with her sand wood fan, open and clutched in her hand firmly. The room feels a bit colder, but I choose to ignore it. Mabel clenches her chest as if she's about to have a heart attack, Chi confused and Junco solemn. I furrow my brows and stand, a bit wobbly. Kota supports me until I can straighten without nearly collapsing and face Jade.

"Is there something you're not telling me?" I ask, a bit uneasy.

Jade frowns, something she's done a lot as a kid. She sits down and clutches the fan tightly, biting her lip for a second. "…Years ago, around the time I was born, we had a younger sister."

Mabel sighs. "She was only a month younger than Jade here, yet, two years before you came Lucy, something was…wrong…just wrong…she wouldn't come out of her room, we'd hear two separate voices and every time Jade and I would peek under the door, we'd only see her in there, reading or coloring. We started to think we were insane, which is why I started smoking…"

"To ease any tension," I mutter.

Jade nods silently, "Which is why you never saw me complain, Lu. All I did was cringe away because, well, she's nasty when tense. Anyways, so, one day, Junco went in without knocking and…"

Chi covers his ears, obviously knowing where this was going. Junco gulps and slips out a little box, handing it to me. I gingerly accept it and gradually peek in, dropping it and slamming my back against the wall. "SICK!"

Jade shrugs, "Junco told Mabel, who told me, which I took care of her plain and simple."

I raise a brow. "Huh? Impossible…she was in the orphanage…"

She nods. "I know. I took care of her by telling Dad, who used to be a psychiatrist. When he heard, he told me to tell her some lie that we were going on vacation or some mumbo jumbo, but…"

"You told her the truth?" Mayu squeaks.

Jade shakes her head. "She knew. It does still freak me out, but what I did was just stand there, but she refused to pack. She wanted to stay, she wanted me to go, because I'm…you know…"

Mabel clears her throat. "I came in and started screaming at her to go, telling her that we knew what she did, but she wouldn't go. Things started shaking, and I thought is was her, but it was Jade getting angry."

I blink at Jade. "When do you get angry?"

"Rarely," she states. "But she was just so spoiled and sick. I wanted her gone so she didn't hurt anyone just because she ran out of…that…that's why I was always so cautious around those boys, so careful, because I didn't want to lash out like I did then. I made the whole floor collapse, and believe it or not, but Mabel…"

Mabel rolls up her sleeve and digs her thumb nail into her skin, or what looks like skin. She peels it off to show some metal gears and contractions that move her hand. Apparently it was bad. "Banged up my entire platform, she did. Our 'sis' just had a few cuts, but…that's when Jade got really angry, making her…what was it…breathe fire?"

Almost everyone gasps, excluding me. "Not surprising," I shrug.

Jade smiles at me, "I guess you can tell by now?"

I nod. "Whatever animal or creature Gem Blossoms have for Blossoms makes them sort of half of that." I gesture to her. "She can grow claws, like the jade dragon on her platform, and the fangs are just a result of growing carnivore teeth." She smiles and I roll my eyes. "Scratch that, grown carnivore teeth."

Mabel grunts and resumes the story. "Anyways, she dodged, but that was Jade's intention, because she slammed into the washer and Jade opened the door and shoved her leg in, turning it on."

Mayu and Nana wince and my leg starts to hurt. One word for you: ouch. "She deserved it," I snap. Oh…and that thing in the box? That thing was colored puppy intestines.