Don't Run Away From Living!
Oc x Oc not really sure about this actually, so we'll have to see.
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Disclaimer: I do NOT own God eater burst nor do I own any of their characters aside from mine
This is an AU Fanfiction of the game God Eater Burst
This chapter has been beta'ed by h3AdS1aMM3r. Once again, thanks for the help
Changed the way the names are written.
Chapter 4: Messing with the Primate
Shin woke up remembering that Eric had died yesterday, he reminded himself of the promise he made to protect as many people as he could. After dealing with the usual morning activities, he checked his mail; he found that Hibari had sent him a mail about Kouta being concerned with his situation, advising Shin to go talk to Kouta to ease his worries.
Shin decided to heed the advice and made his way to his neighbor's room. Knocking on the door wondering whether Kouta was awake and more importantly why couldn't Kouta come and talk to him instead. Shaking his head, he heard Kouta's muffled voice from behind the door telling him it was alright to come in.
Upon entering the room, he found out it wasn't that much different from his, aside from being more untidy with the sink being full of unwashed utensils, plates and also the trash bags left on the floor in one side of the room. Hiding his disgust from the stench, Shin continued to observe the room. Shin saw Kouta sitting by the table drinking. Kouta then turned to face Shin and greeted him good morning which of course Shin did the same. Kouta then proceeded to say, "Hey, good work yesterday… Hey I heard… that your partner passed away."
Shin winced, "Way to be blunt there Kouta."
Kouta acted as if he hadn't said anything wrong and advised while also proclaiming "Mmm, I just don't think it would do any good… for both of us to be gloomy, in any case, don't worry! Let's be more confident. After all, we're invincible!"
Shin was then reminded by what Sakuya said and even though he knew that Kouta was just saying that to try and cheer him up, he retorted, "Hey! Being confident is all right, but it doesn't mean you can be reckless in thinking that you're invincible, after all we can still die."
Feeling sheepish, Kouta just said "Anyway, I just want to say, let's try to buck up! Also Rindow seems to be worried about you. He just went back to his room earlier from the cafeteria, so you should go see him as soon as possible."
"Alright, I'll go see him as soon as I finish grabbing my rations, otherwise I'm afraid they'd be finished by the time I leave Rindow's room if I were to go see him right now."
Kouta just gave Shin a nod and said "Good bye. Remember, cheer up! No point being gloomy."
"Heh, who said I was being gloomy! I was just reminded how easy our lives can be lost. If anything, I'm more determined to do better during missions, anyways I'll be going now, see ya around Kouta"
And with that, Shin left Kouta's room and headed down to the cafeteria for his rations. After quickly finishing the rations and thanking the staff for their hard work, Shin left the cafeteria and headed towards the elevator to reach the veteran section.
He immediately headed for the last door down the corridor, which he was told to be Rindow's room. Once again knocking and receiving the usual greeting of asking him to come in, Shin entered Rindow's room.
Shin saw Rindow standing by the window watching a virtual scene of a sunset, Shin approached Rindow and Rindow without facing away from the scenery, said "Never had a comrade die in front of you huh?"
"No, considering I've just been in this organization for a few days."
Rindow rubbed his head remembering that little fact "Right…well it never gets easy especially if you have your very first encounter of the death of a fallen comrade." Rindow then rubbed his chin in thought, "Come to think of it, we haven't really talked much, although I'm not really much for talking…is there something you want to ask me?"
Two things came into Shin's mind that he curiously wanted to ask Rindow at the moment, deciding to ask about them one by one, he said, "Sempai, is there anything you can tell me about Soma? I've been wondering why he was pretty cold during the mission I had with him."
"Soma is one of the top God Eaters in the Far East Branch but he is misunderstood most of the time due to him being very blunt. Though you cannot deny that he is a brat, nor can you find a kinder person than Soma is, Soma's worst fear is losing a comrade right before his eyes, so even if he doesn't show it, he obviously feels guilty about not being able to save Eric. This is why he normally keeps his distance away from others. So, I'm ordering you to make friends with him and prevent each other from ever dying. So you see… I don't want you to be too hard on him, got that?"
Shin had his face in an "oh" expression and shook away his shock while telling Rindow, "Understood. I'll do my best to earn his respect and trust, though we'll probably prevent each other from dying even without your orders "
"Ha-ha cheeky bastard, anyways are there any more questions you want to ask me?"
"Yeah… I was wondering if you could tell me more about Eric…"
Rindow looked as if he understood what Shin was going through right now but didn't comment on it, he instead told him what he wanted to know.
"Eric was one of those rich kids. He could be bratty but he was a good guy who looked after his sis. When you become a God Eater, you're mostly fighting against the weight of that responsibility. In his own way, he fought as hard as he could."
"I see… thanks for telling me about him Rindow."
"Hey, it's no big deal. I'm glad I could be of assistance. Anyways, both you and Kouta still have a lot to learn technically. Survive a while and you'll do fine. I'm counting on you….. Just don't get killed. Got that?"
"Yes sir," Shin could not help but tease Rindow when he said that in a serious voice.
Rindow sighed and then showed a grin "Sheesh, I told you to do away with all that formalities. Anyway, get out of here. If I remember right, you and Kouta will be doing your first mission together later on."
Shin just gave Rindow a nod and a wave good bye while leaving the room. Shin decided that he would go see what he could do with the terminal in his room since he hadn't really finish looking through it the other day.
Shin then headed straight for the terminal, plugged in his armlet and accessed his account. He proceeded to the equipment page and noticed an option he didn't see the last time. It said 'Upgrade Equipment'. Being curious he decided to select it and found out that he could upgrade the weapon he was currently wielding by providing certain materials from different Aragami or materials.
Seeing that none of his current weapon's upgrades interest him, he decided to check for options he could select, he then found one saying Craft Equipment, he selected that option and saw a whole selection of available guns, swords, shields and other weaponry he could make by also providing the materials needed.
He searched his available options and found a cool demon like sword and he had enough items to craft the sword thus he decided to go for it. It turned out due to some machines that the facility had and with the right amount of materials, weapons could be made with ease, thus Shin was now checking out his newly equipped Tail sword: Sliver. After deciding to recheck the selections at a later date, Shin decided to head for the Main Lobby.
Heading for the counter in which Hibari was at, Shin asked her about a mission that was supposedly assigned to him and Kouta. He found out the mission was to kill an Aragami named Kongou.
Mission Name: Kongou Giant
Mission Client: Fenrir
Location: Tranquil Temple
Anticipated Mission time limit: 30 minutes
Mission info:
Rewards: Simian Armament, Simian Bone and 500 Fenrir Credits
Received report of one Kongou invasion to the Temple Ruins, currently home to three Ogretails. Quickly eliminate them all. Keep in mind, Kongou has low spark and blaze resistances, but has keen hearing.
After finding out that Kouta had already accepted the mission, Shin had no complaints thus told Hibari that he would be accepting it as well. After finishing the details for the mission, Shin went to the vendor beside the counter and bought a few health pills. He then went to the terminal to recheck all of his gear, just in case anything was wrong.
After reconfirming that his gear was all in good condition, he was about to go see Kouta about leaving for the mission, however he saw that Kouta was at the sofas near to the terminals of the main lobby and headed towards him. As Shin was approaching Kouta, he stood up and made his way over to Shin as well. As they were standing facing each other, Kouta suddenly asked, "Hey, um… are we heading out together this time?"
"Yeah, didn't Hibari tell you?"
"I must've missed it. Anyway, glad we both survived so far, that's all that matters in our line of work right?"
"Actually saving people and preventing Aragami from endangering or killing anyone is also a part of our work…"
Kouta seemed to ignore what Shin said and continued with a solemn face
"I don't know what my mom and sister would do if something happened to me, so I've got to watch out. Hey, by the way… you know Sakuya, don't you?"
Shin nodded at his partner's question, "Yeah, I went out on a mission with her yesterday just before the one with Soma."
Kouta then asked with some hand gestures "Are you two closes? She's really pretty, don't you think? Good-looking, friendly and strong…like an Amazon warrior. How hot is that?" he finished with a mild-perverted look on his face.
Shin, despite the awkwardness he felt, answered "We aren't really close. Though I bet there's something going on between Sakuya and Rindow. Though I would have to agree that she is pretty hot, maybe just not in the way you said it."
Kouta once again either ignored what Shin said or seemingly didn't care whatsoever cause he then followed up and meshed his fists together, "All right! I'm getting all pumped here! Let's see who can take out the most enemies during this mission!"
"Whoa, you sure about that? Wouldn't want to hurt your pride," Shin said with a serious face.
Kouta seemed to be undeterred "I'm gonna show that Sakuya how awesome I am!" and also very ignorant of what other people say…
Shin not bothering to tell him that whatever he would do, wouldn't possible be able to match up with whatever Rindow has with Sakuya, so Shin just gave Kouta and amused smile and shrugged.
"Hey Kouta, since you're so eager, I accept your challenge. Shall we head out for this mission?"
Kouta gave a quick nod and bounded for The Den Gate and after a few minutes of preparation, They both left the branch and headed for the Tranquil Temple. While they were airborne, Shin went through his memory about the location known as the Tranquil Temple.
The Tranquil Temple
A secret village where people of faith reside in peace. The temple, once the center of village life, has been half-destroyed by Aragami, and the interior is filled with snow. The sound of the freezing wind blowing across the lands might very well be the tragic cries of those who lost their lives to the Aragami… The dull light of the moon assuages the grief of those wandering souls.
Shin and Kouta landed on top of some kind of tall house, they faced and each other and then Shin said
"Hey considering that we know next to nothing about each other, aside from our full names and that you have a little sister, how about we tell more about each other.
"Sure, and to start things off, I'll go firs: My full name is Fujiki Kouta , Code name KOUTA, my family and I live near to The Den. My living family are my little sis and my mom, I joined Fenrir in order to provide for my family, a place where they can live peacefully not needing to worry about any threats. My God Arc is an Assault gunner type which means I specialized in Shot-type bullets,"
Shin couldn't help but admire Kouta's reasons for joining Fenrir. Seeing that Kouta had finished, Shin began his own re-introduction.
" Once agan, my full name Is Asakura Shin , Codenamed Genesis. I have no living family members and I don't like talking about what happened to them. I joined Fenrir in order to protect everyone I can. I used to live quite the distance away from The Den. I have not bothered to return to that house due to it being a temporary house seeing that I don't really have one of my own. God Arc type is New-type, variable Long sword/Sniper, I'm more or less an all-rounder."
Shin finished with a sigh, and opened his eyes because he closed them during his introduction, and saw that Kouta had a look as if saying that he understood.
"Well that was interesting. Don't worry, I won't be asking you about your family considering you didn't questions about my dad. Anyways, it's nice to meet you again, partner!"
Both were now smiling due to knowing more about each other. Satisfied that they knew each other's strengths, they decided to start the mission, giving each other a good lucky pat on the back, they both hefted up their god arcs and jumped down from the building.
Shin decided to try out a new item that he got from the Vendor, an item that supposedly causes a sort of GPS system that works to track Aragami. As soon as he used the item, he saw that there were three targets quite close to each other with two of them practically next to each and the last one quite a distance away, yet near enough to go to each other in just a few minutes.
He informed Kouta on the location of the Aragami, and they both headed east and up the stairs. As they neared the top of the flight of stairs they were climbing, Shin told Kouta in a soft voice to walk more quietly. He proceeded on to check on the Aragami and he saw that the three targets were Ogretails, two of them were on the left and one of them was by the lake on the right seemingly feasting on something.
He reminded Kouta of their so-called competition but also told him to be cautious and that a competition isn't worth dying for. Kouta acknowledged Shin's advice and prepared themselves to engage in combat. Deciding that a single Ogretail was a target much more advantageous to kill, they both rushed right at it, which did not seem to alert the other two of their location nor that they were currently rushing towards a member of their pack.
As the Ogretail came into range, Shin went for a sliding slash across it which made it turn towards them, greeting them with a barrage of bullets right at their face. Stunned by the sudden pain, it became dazed, making it an easy target for both Shin and Kouta.
Shin decided to enable the predator form of his god arc and devoured a piece of the Ogretail, the same feeling when he first used burst mode came rushing through his veins. He followed through, plunging his sword once again through the Ogretail.
Normally, Shin would continue with the mission instead of wasting time, but he wanted to try something new. Switching his god arc into gun form, he aimed it at Kouta.
"Hey what are you pointing…?"
Kouta never got to finish his exclamation as Shin aimed and fired bullet, straight Kouta! Before Kouta could protest, he felt is body envelope in a light but powerful aura.
"Whoa! I feel…more powerful!"
"It's a link burst," Shin called over the cries of the Ogretail, "it sends you into burst mode, increasing your natural human body capabilities and reflexes. It also gives you an 'Aragami Bullet' which allows you to fire a concentrated blast of the Aragami's energy."
"But be careful, it only lasts for awhile. Firing the Aragami bullet will send you out of burst mode immediately!"
Amazed with the new found feeling of being in burst mode, Kouta instantly forgot about the complaint he was about to make concerning shooting your comrades even if it was not lethal.
Nodding toward each other, the boys quickly formed a plan.
Deciding that splitting up and fighting each Ogretail would be best, Shin chose the right one and Kouta shot at the left As Shin was slashing launching continuous impulse edges whenever he could, Kouta dashed around, sending barrages of bullets toward the Ogretail which collapsed soon after. Thinking it to be dead, Kouta turned around and saw that Shin was looking at his direction when Shin's eyes widened and he rushed towards Kouta, wondering why he had abandoned his target.
"Hey Kouta! Watch out behind you!"
Kouta didn't notice the Ogretail that was about to take a huge chomp of himself until Shin shouted at him. Although Kouta's reflexes were fast enough to turn around, he knew he would not be able to pull the trigger fast enough. He knew he was going to die and at that very moment he found out that the words 'when you are about to experience death, you will view your entire life for the last time' were true as he saw flashbacks about when he played with his little sister Nozomi at the park.
What happened next Kouta did not expect.
Bracing himself, he felt a pair of hands knock him to the side. Shin, now in range, rammed his god arc through the jaws of the Ogretail, killing it instantaneously.
Kouta could not believe his luck. When he saw that he didn't die, he turned around to face Shin, "I…uh…I don't know what to say. Thanks a million, man."
"Don't sweat it," Shin grinned and helped Kouta up.
"No really, if you hadn't…Shin, move!"
Kouta quickly pushed Shin out of the way and fire a blaze bullet right in the last and unsuspecting Ogretails mouth, which made it howl in agony, deciding to end its misery, Kouta aimed his God Arc at the Ogretail and dealt the finishing shot.
Heaving his god arc over his shoulders, Kouta gave a small thumbs up to the new type, "Good thing I paid you back early."
"Guess I'll return the thanks, partner."
Both of them burst into laughter, seeing as both of them had saved each other from near death experiences.
Finally calming down from their previous situation, Kouta wondered where was the so-called Kongou that they were supposed to kill which he decided to joke around a bit "Hey, maybe the Kongou ran away? Wouldn't that be a joy?"
"Hey, don't jinx it. Knowing fate, it would probably appear any time now since you had to say it like that."
"Oh come off it, what? You think the Kongou would somehow just crash right at this place we're standin…"
Kouta trailed off when he saw that a shadow was overcastting them and was pushed to the side by Shin just in time for the Kongou to crash land. Deciding to thank Shin later, Kouta and Shin turned towards the Kongou and saw it was one hell of an ugly Aragami. It had a very wide mouth with a flat face that looked disfigured, and it also had pipe-like objects on the back of its head till its back.
All in all it looked to be exactly like an overgrown gorilla. As they were observing the Kongou, they saw that the Kongou took a very deep breath and saw that some air was coming through it's pipes.
"Hey," Kouta began, readying himself, "no way a gorilla can shoot, right?"
"You might want to rethink that…"
Without warning, the Kongou let out an immense air blast. The two rookies reacted on time, dodging to prevent themselves from getting hit.
"I'll provide distraction, watch yourself, Shin."
Kouta broke away from Shin and began running in circles and firing bullets at the Aragami. It took merely a few shots to send the Kongou flying into rage. He began sprinting towards the Kongou and broke into a slide right under it, which made it fire its air blast a little too late.
"Shin!" Kouta called out, "NOW!"
"Alright, here goes!"
Seeing that the Kongou was distracted, Shin dashed on to the Kongou's back and proceeded to impulse edge the pipes.
However, at that very moment, the Kongou practically sucked in air from all parts of its body and released it in one proximity blast all around its body. Shin, unable to dodge, took direct impact and was launched away.
Seeing that he was dazed due to experiencing that attack, Kouta quickly threw a stun grenade and rushed towards Shin and brought him behind a building to let him recover.
"Thanks for the assistance," Shin expressed gratefulness as he shook his head and stood up, "sorry for being careless."
"Hey no problem, you would've done the same time for me."
As the Kongou desperately tried to seek out the two rookies, Shin's mind began to formulate a plan.
"Kouta," Shin suddenly called his partner closer, "I got a plan, but listen up…"
As Shin quickly ran through his new battle plans, Kouta's smile started to expand, "I think I'm liking this plan."
They went out of their hiding spot and re-engaged the Kongou, with Shin acting as the distraction this time aiming for the face of the Kongou while dodging its swipes. Kouta, on the other hand, was behind the Kongou, planting a snare trap that would paralyze the Kongou long enough to hopefully kill it. Finished with setting the trap, Kouta signaled the still slashing Shin to bring the Kongou towards the trap while he headed to a more strategic spot for shooting at it.
"Hey Shin! The trap's all set up and ready to go! Lure it over here!"
Nodding, Shin dashed towards the trap, stopping right in front of it and facing the Kongou while deploying his shield. The Kongou, seeing that its prey was quite the distance away from him, decided to forego rushing towards the prey. Instead, it curled up and began rolling its way like a bowling bowl towards Shin. Shin not showing fear at all, gazed at the rolling Aragami that was quickly approaching him with determination. As the Kongou was about to reach Shin's area, Shin quickly jumped away,
"Got you!"
As Kongou couldn't stop due to its momentum, it crashed right into the trap which paralyzed it. Seeing his chance, Shin quickly rushed at it and used the predator again and devoured it, thus recharging his burst mode.
"Kouta!" Shin yelled, "hit it!"
Promptly responding to him, Kouta gave his trigger one hard tug, sending the previously earned condensed air blast straight to the Kongou. This sent the Kongou staggering.
Changing his god arc into Gun mode again, Shin shot the newly acquired Aragami bullets to Kouta which re-enabled his Link-Burst and giving him a new condensed Aragami bullet. Kouta, deciding against immediate fire, opted to save and used his normal bullets instead. Shin doubled up and aimed all of his slashes straight at the Kongou's face, giving it large gashes at insane speeds.
Just before the Kongou managed to get rid of the feeling of being paralyzed, Shin gave its one final Impulse edge which managed to break it, causing Kongou to reel back in pain once more. Seeing their chance, they both re-doubled their efforts with the offense.
Shin decided once again, to try something new he learned the other day. He continued to slash at random parts of the Kongou's body but on his third slash, he pressed the trigger that released the predator mode for a quick bit which enabled burst mode only for a little while, also giving him one Aragami bullet instead of the three he would've gotten if he fully unleashed the predator. Shin then shouted to Kouta saying, "Hey Kouta on the count of three we both release our Aragami bullets right at the Kongou. Sound good?"
"Gotcha, taking aim!"
Shin switched his God Arc to Gun form and backpedaled a distance away from the Kongou who was searching for its prey, no doubt still dazed from the two rookie's previous assault. It turned to face Shin and Kouta, who smirked and cried out.
"THREE!"
Of course, the Kongou's world exploded in pain as it was implanted right into the wall of a building that surprisingly didn't fall even with the damage dealt to it. Receiving fatal injuries, the Kongou decided to flee for the moment and try to recover its health by jumping towards the roofs of the buildings and headed for the next floor of the temple. Shin and Kouta, seeing that the Kongou was limping when it climbed up the building, knew that it was in critical health thus rushed after it intending to end its life before it could regroup.
When they finished climbing up the flight of stairs, they saw it eating some concrete behind a building.
"It's probably weak from all our bashing," Shin whispered.
"Then let's finish it off."
Creeping silently behind the Aragami, the duo leapt forth and surprised the Kongou with a barrage of continuous attacks. Seeing that its meal was disturbed, the Kongou turned towards the two humans just in time to get to get its shoulder bitten by the predator of Shin's God Arc.
Entering burst mode, Shin used his enhanced abilities and leapt into the air, raising his god arc, "CHEW ON THIS!"
Giving the gorilla-like Aragami one clean swipe, the Kongou's head was effectively hacked of as Shin swung his god arc.
"Dude!" Kouta cheered, "that was wicke-whoa!"
Only now noticing all the pains and aches in their body, Shin and Kouta slumped against the walls of the building. Both youth's felt their bodies sticky and painful from their intense battle.
"Hey," Kouta asked through his pants, "so who won the competition?"
"I guess I won," Shin declared, "considering I managed to get the Kongou with one Ogretail kill and another with as a draw with you, though it was a close match though."
"Ah well, I'll get more chances in the future, don't think this'll be the last time, I'll challenge you once more."
With that they both headed for the waiting area for the helicopter. After waiting for an hour or two, they boarded the Heli and made their way home.
After reporting the success of the mission to Tsubaki, they thanked each other and Shin told Kouta they both did great during the mission, after the dismissal from Tsubaki, they both went back to their rooms to sleep the rest of the day away.
As Shin was about to fall into the realm of unconsciousness, Shin wondered what would happen tomorrow.
And that's for chapter 4, although not really necessary, i'd like it if you guys were to review and tell me what you like or hate about the fic at the moment, at least that way i know what i'm doing right or wrong ~ so I shall hope for reviews even if they may never come ( confidence issues + i have lousy english skills)