Chapter. 3

Back in his room Lance got to work on his bullets. The cluster bomb idea was still nowhere near done but thanks to Sakuya's advice he was definitely making progress, until he got an email. "Another mission? I just did that other one like..." Lance checked his clock and realized the time. "Four hours ago? Okay that makes scene." He saved his work, shut down the terminal and left.

Arriving at the sunken grid Lance felt like he didn't belong there. The whole area was made of pipes and constitution parts; nothing was natural as far as he could tell.

Most of the other Gods Eater preferred to come here rather then the wailing plains, but Lance wasn't your normal gods eater. He found two people in the big metal zone; one was a guy has dark blue jacket with his hood on and had a large Buster Blade resting on his shoulder.

The other was a guy wearing a red vest with sunglasses and was wielding a Blast Gun, Both heavy hitters by the look of them.

Noticing the new types arrival, the guy in red ran over towards Lance while waving his free hand. "Hey, are you the rookie we've been hearing so much about?" He asked then continued brushing his hair.

"My name's Lance Firestar, remember it and we'll get along fine."

"I'm Eric, Eric der Vogelweid. I suggest you take your instructions from me, and learn to battle gloriously for humankind."

"Gloriously? There's nothing glorious about what we do here."

Then the one in blue suddenly shouted, "Eric, above you!" and Lance looked to see an Ogretail dropping down from the sky.

Lance instantly jumped back in reaction, used his free hand to land onto the ground and jumped back on his feet.

Eric however, wasn't that lucky. He was smashed against the ground and the Ogretail looked at him.

"Don't just stand there!" The one in blue shouted while killing the Ogretail with single strike of his buster sword. "Welcome to this god awful workplace." He greeted. "I'm Soma. Not that you need to remember that."

"He just died right in front of us, how can you be so calm about this?"

"Sorry to break it to you, but this kind of thing happens on a daily basis here." After that comment Soma jabbing his sword at the younger gods eater. "What kind of place did YOU think it was gonna be?"

Lance stepped up and jabbed his sword as well "Is that a threat or a challenge?"

"Just kidding…" Soma then turned around, shouldering his Buster Blade again. "Time's up. Let's go, rookie. If you don't want to die, just stay out of my way as much as possible…"

Lance hated being called that and was about to comment when a pair of ogretails and cocoon maidens where in sight. Soma charged towards the ogretails while Lance shot two fire rain bullets and took out one the maidens.

Soma finished off the first ogretail and turned in time to Lance hack away at the second one. The pair devoured the cores then charged for the last one, Lance hit it with a few ice shots to soften it up for Soma to end it's life.

It had been three hours since Lance got back to the den and he was getting ready for his next outing. After reading the mission file Lance changed his equipment to long sword, assault gun, tower shield, and used most of his materials to upgrade it all to level two.

It didn't take long, as he had just arrived by elevator and was greeted my Kota. "Hey, umm… are we heading out together this time?"

"Looks like it, just try to keep the ogretails off me and that kongou will fall by my blade." Lance answered.

"Yeah, I'm glad we both survived! That's all that matters in our line of work right? I don't know what my mom and sister would do if something happened to me, so I've got to watch out." Kota said with a dim look on his face.

Lance's mind turned to his mother, the only family he had and fought back tears remembering her death. "Hey by the way... you know Sakuya, don't you?"

The question had pulled Lance back the reality. "Yeah I went on a mission with her once… why?"

"So the two of you are close?"

"Yeah I'd say we're friends"

"She's really pretty, don't you think? Good-looking, friendly, and strong… Like an Amazon Warrior, how hot is that?" Kota said as he enthusiastically moved his hands to prove his point.

"Dude she's six years older then you, I wouldn't have a chance with her and I've got three years on you"

"Alright, I'm all pumped up here!" Kota said, pumping his fists. "Let's see who can take out the most enemies during this mission I'm gonna show that Sakuya how awesome I am!"

Lance let out a loud sigh to get Kota's attention back. "Though I'm not one to crush the dreams of others, unless you focus your going to die out there, if not get me killed. And I swear to God if I die because of you I with haunt you forever, and that's a promise." Though Lance had smiled after the statement Kota knew he was serious.

In the snow covered Tranquil Temple Lance watched as snow fell from the sky with no end of it in sight. Lance took in a deep breath and let it out slowly. "I love the cold air, it makes you feel more alive doesn't."

"If you s-s-say so"

Lance took a moment to examine his friend and both they're attire. Lance wore his black battle jacket and red battle pants hoping the dark colors would help cut down on friendly fire. Kota on the other hand had on a half open shirt and big baggy shorts, clothes better suited for the beach not the mountains.

"If you know we were going somewhere cold you should have put on something warmer!" Scolded Lance.

"I didn't think-"

"There's your answer you didn't think, well anyway it doesn't matter once the aragami find us you're adrenalines gonna be pumping so fast you won't have time to know it's cold, now then let's begin." Lance and Kota jumped from the ruined watchtower and split up.

Around some corners Lance found his first victim, an ogretail. Catching it off guard the new type set his god arc to predator mode and bit off the aragami's leg, changing it back to sword mode Lance felt his body grow twice as strong as before.

"LET'S REV IT UP!" He shouted.

Charged with newfound power Lance cleaved his target to pieces in seconds then extracted its core. "This power is incredible. I should do that more often." Just then with his heightened scenes Lance rolled side ways and dove behind some rubble while at the same time the kongou broke though a wall.

Lance looked up to see it eating the remains of the ogretail. "Damn it I didn't kill that thing so you could have a mid day snack." The new type said to himself. He switched to his assault gun and fired one of his homemade spark rain shots in to the sky.

Before the kongou knew what happened several spark bullets rained down on it's back, the monster roared in anger then curled into a ball and rolled toward Lance. Luckily the rubble acted as a ramp sending it into the air as it slammed into a stone wall, while it was stunned Lance fired another shot into the sky causing more spark shots to hammer down on the aragami, not only to break the pipes on it's back but also denying it's right to stand.

Lance changed his god arc to sword mode and slashed away. Ten minutes later Kota fallowed Lance's to find his partner. "Hey Lance I got two ogreta-" Kota stopped mid thought at what he saw.

Lance was sitting on a dead kongou his right foot was on the handle of his god arc, which was lounged in the aragami's head, Lance saw Kota and waved to his friend. "What took you so long, come on let's get out of here I'm getting hungry." Lance grabbed his weapon and jumped from his fallen foe.

Going home fallowed by a speechless Kota.

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