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7th Period: A Can, Bullets, and a Friend.
The Cabin
"It's okay Train… Okay to forget me and move on…"
Train was sitting up on the rooftop, staring up at the night sky with a bottle of milk in his left hand. The Sweeper smiled as he turned his head over his shoulder to see a familiar hat.
"Figured you were up here." Sven said as he climbed up onto the roof. "What are you doing up here exactly?"
"Just thinking about the past." Train said solemnly before taking a sip of milk from his bottle. He then gestured for his partner to join him.
"I see…" the green haired man said, taking a seat next to Train before pulling out a cigarette and a lighter. He flicked the igniter and had the flame appear before lighting the cig and inhaled through it before blowing the smoke out through his mouth.
"So, how's your new job?" Train asked
" Not that bad, that Hidari Shotaro is obviously a rookie, but he definitely has potential." Sven said with a small smile while holding the cigarette with his lips. "The cases we get are actually mainly regarding lost pets."
Train chuckled for a moment before he finished the bottle of milk.
"Ahh, that was delicious!" he said in satisfaction before setting the empty bottle down getting up to his feet. The former assassin placed his hands into his pockets.
"Where are you going at this time?" Sven asked.
"Just a midnight stroll, " Train replied with a carefree grin.
"Alright, just don't get lost." his partner said before he waved him off.
Train leaped off of the roof and landed on the ground in a crouch before rising. He began walking away from the building, heading in the direction of Mahora.
The smoker exhaled another cloud of smoke before looking up at the night sky.
Hasegawa Chisame's dorm.
The hacker sighed as she stood in front of the bathroom mirror wearing a navy blue bunny girl outfit with a headband with white rabbit ears. She just recently finished doing a photo shoot as her alter ego, Chiu, and was getting ready to call it a night. She reached for the Tyranno Core Medal that was resting on the counter besides the sink. She closed her eyes and recalled the incident a week ago of how she obtained it.
One Week Ago.
Chisame grumbled as she was walking home from school , ranting to herself about the stupidity of her class's antics. The spectacled girl wasn't paying attention to her surroundings as she was trailed.
Following behind her was a flat chested girl with long flowing hair that was light violet and had long crimson ribbons raveled amongst it and tied up in a bow at the top, just above the ears. She was wearing a white sleeveless dress with a short skirt that was frilly around the openings for the arms and at the skirt. She was wearing short arm sleeves that almost goes from the wrist to the elbows with crimson ribbons tied in a bow, She also wore white stockings that went up to just above halfway of the shins with more ribbons tied around the top of them and black shoes. The petite girl's deep teal eyes focused upon Chisame, studying her before she approached her.
"Excuse me." she asked.
The hacker flinched slightly, stopping in place before turning her head over her shoulder to take a look.
"What do you want? I'm pretty busy right now." she said while glaring at the petite girl.
"I can see that, I was wondering if you can ask me where I am and the year." the girl inquired.
The hacker deadpanned upon hearing that. She looked at the girl with a face that was screaming "WTF?"
"Are you pulling my leg?" she asked dryly.
The girl only shook her head in response.
"You're in Mahora and it's 2003…" Chisame said in annoyance before taking a deep breath.
"Mahora? I see… it appears I'm in a different reality and time after all." the girl deduced while holding her chin with her right hand.
What's with this girl? Is she brain dead? EVERYONE should know the name to this place. And what is she saying about being in a different reality? THERE'S ONLY ONE! The hacker screamed inside of her head.
"Thank you… I must be off now." the girl said before she turned to her left and began running away.
Chisame walked off soon after, not bothering to say anything else before she noticed three streaks of light flying through the sky, heading towards her.
"Are those fireworks?" the hacker cried out as she turned around and ran as fast as she could, fleeing from the lights as they pursued her.
The girl began to panic slightly as she began looking for shelter. She came up to an alleyway and turned, running into it. She then pressed her back against the side of a dumpster while covering her ears, closing her eyes as hard as she could and held her breath as her heart was racing, anticipating the imminent explosion. However, she was knocked facedown to the ground as one of the lights punctured its way through the steel dumpster like it was tissue paper before entering Chisame's body through the back. The girl's glasses fell from her face and skidded across the pavement.
The remaining two lights circled above the fallen girl like vultures, before one darted down towards her. Chisame rolled onto her back in time before the Medal entered her body from where her heart was. The girl screamed in pain before the light of last one faded away, revealing a Tyranno Core Medal before it entered her body through the chest. She screamed once again as she grasped her chest in pain.
"It hurts… It hurts…" she whimpered weakly. Her mind then imagined the medal that she saw. " Someone… please get it out."
Chisame's eyesight became too blurred for her to even make out her surroundings before slipping unconscious.
She didn't know how long she was out, but upon waking up, she noticed a familiar violet haired girl who was examining a violet coin against the moonlight.
"How strange… I never seen anything like this before…" the girl said before turning her attention towards Chisame. "I see you're awake now."
The hacker groaned before sitting upright. Her head and chest were both throbbing in pain. She shook her head vigorous before looking around for her glasses. It took her a moment to locate them, and once she reached out and grasped them, she turned her attention towards the girl
"What happened?" she asked while inspecting the glasses the best she could for any signs of damage before putting them on her face.
"I saw those lights enter your body before you became unconscious." the petite girl replied flatly. "However soon after you passed out, this coin emerged from your chest, I've never seen anything give of such a dark aura."
Chisame snorted before getting up to her feet and dusted her clothes off the best she could.
"Those were just fireworks and I bet that you had that coin all this time." Chisame said. "As for that dumpster, the damage to it was caused by one of the fireworks falling inside it."
The violet haired girl frowned before she handed Chisame the coin, who reluctantly accepted it with a frown.
"I see you are one of those kinds of people who refuse to accept anything that's supernatural." she said calmly. "Even if it happens right before their eyes."
"Please, there's always a rational explanation for everything." Chisame said in annoyance. " Anyway, I don't have time to talk to you, I better get going."
With that, the hacker left the violet haired girl without saying anything else.
Present
Chisame rubbed her thumb against the rough edge of the medal, frowning when she couldn't feel a thing.
"What's wrong with me? " she asked herself while removing the rabbit ears slowly. "For the past week, I gradually can't taste things, feel anything, and the colors I'm seeing are all becoming dull and more of a gray color… It's like my senses are fading away…"
The hacker sighed before she walked out of the bathroom and began to get undressed. She changed into a teeshirt and a pair of panties before heading towards her bedroom.
"I better go to a doctor tomorrow if I get worse." she muttered before turning off the lights and crawled into bed.
Unbeknownst to her, looking into a window from the outside, floating in the air was a school of dozens of silver fish like Yummy with multiple finger like appendages that surrounded their mouth in a circle, behaving like teeth.
A meadow somewhere near Mahora
A monster who looked like a humanoid gorilla snorted in anger as it pounded its bulky chest with its muscular arms. Its grey human face was devoid of any eyes and the nose and mouth were sealed closed. It's black fur covered most of its body and the only piece of clothing it was wearing a black studded belt around its waist.
The Gorilla Yummy stared at its opponent, who screeched in defiance before flapping her large wings, the plumage of her entire body was of ruby red feathers that glistened to the sunlight. The phoenix like bird that was close to a petite woman's height took to the sky with ease, despite it having a large tail that was similar to a male peafowl's. Its legs were black with large condor like feet with golden talons. The red hawk head twisted and focused its attention towards the Yummy before opening the golden beak to unleash another screech.
The Yummy jumped up into the air and attempted to punch the majestic chimera who only flapped its wings once, creating and releasing a fireball at it in one move. The projectile exploded upon hitting the Yummy, sending it back to the ground as several Cell Medals exploded from it.
The bird screeched once more before her entire body was engulfed in fire before it all contoured around it like a second skin, illuminating the night sky. It then began flying upwards, gaining altitude before reaching three kilometers high before folding her wings against its body and began plummeting towards the earth.
"GIVE ME THOSE CORE MEDALS!" the Yummy demanded before once again leaping into the air, its arms raised, preparing itself to strike its opponent with all its strength.
The phoenix immediately did a backflip and opened her wings to stabilize itself while going feet first now before colliding with the Yummy, the feet thrusted forward as hard as possible to kick the Yummy. The fire that enveloped the chimera dissipated as it moved towards the Yummy from the feet as the talons sank deep into the body. The monster screamed in pain before exploding, causing a shower of Cell Medals to fall to the meadow below them.
The chimera flew out of the smoke unscathed before slowly descended towards the ground. It was once again engulfed in flames before turning into the body of a petite girl wearing ornate crimson armor that was out of place.
She was wearing a red headpiece that had what appeared as a perforated, crescent shaped visor that rested against her forehead with a red gem resting further up the golden band that went vertically across her head while her ears were covered by earmuff like coverings with white wings protruding from the back of them. Her top consisted of a bikini top like breastplate that was gave a generous view of her cleavage as well as two oval shaped crimson crystals that were a few shades darker than the armor located where the nipples were located, one for each breast. A choker that was hanging loose around her neck. Her left shoulder was covered by a pauldron while her right one was lacking one. Her front was covered by a white fabric that was secured by two belts, one that went all around and the other that was attached at the back. The cloth also wrapped around her crotch area and came up her rear, giving it a thong like appearance as it was held up by a belt in the back. Attached to the cloth was a small, red piece of metal was located her crotch with a third crimson crystal. Her arms were covered by crimson gauntlets that went up to the elbows, which were also covered . Finally she was wearing black rubber-like thigh high leggings that clung to her skin and was wearing crimson armored boots that went covered her shins while also came with knee guards. Protruding from each of the outer ankles was a white wing. Her dark teal hair went to her waist and was braided in a ponytail that the end was held with a crimson cylindrical fastener. Within her right hand was a set of three different red Core Medals.
The girl sighed in relief while falling to her knees as they gave way.
"Th-that was scary…" she said in an exhausted voice.
"I have to admit, that was quite a display there." a man said from behind the young girl.
The girl squeaked and jumped slightly before looking over her shoulder, her deep blue eyes looking at the stranger.
Takahata Takamichi was standing there casually with a lit cigarette in his mouth as smoke came from it. He smiled slightly as a gentle breeze blew in.
"Don't be afraid, I don't mean any harm." he said reassuringly while looking at the girl. "I am Takahata Takamichi. It's a pleasure to meet you."
The girl immediately gotten to her feet and bowed slightly. "I-I'm Mirim." she introduced herself.
"Can you tell me where I am?"
The Ala Rubra member nodded before he slowly approached the girl. "You're in a country called Japan, and you're nearby a place called Mahora. Judging by your outfit, you're from a different world."
Mirim blinked in confusion before she looked at the man.
"Different world?" she asked him.
Takahata nodded in acknowledgement before he held his hand out to the girl. "Are you able to stand? You look quite exhausted, Mirim-san."
The girl nodded before she carefully took the man's hand.
"Arigato." Mirim said before clinging onto his arm to keep herself from collapsing to the ground again.
Takahata smiled before taking out the cigarette and putting his foot on it to put it out. He then quickly removed his arm from her grip and scoopedthe girl up into his arms bridal style. Mirim blushed deeply in embarrassment but didn't give any resistance. Her body was too exhausted from the fight earlier.
"I apologize for doing this, but you obviously are more tired than you claimed to be. I'll take you to a place that others like yourself are staying at." the smoker explained before he began to walk in the direction of Mahora.
"O…Okay…" Mirim said before drifting off to sleep, her grip on the Core Medals easing slightly before they fell to the ground.
Takahata stopped and kneeled to pick them up with Mirim resting in one arm while the other was used to retrieve the Core Medals. He placed all three of them into his pocket before rising to his feet with the small girl in his arms before continuing on.
This girl looks like she isn't cut out for fighting, both physically and mentally, but why is she wearing what appears to be armor for a warrior, let alone fight that Yummy? The man thought to himself as he looked down at the sleeping Mirim. He sighed, remembering the events that happened twenty years ago.
I haven't seen that phoenix in over twenty years… what's going on here?
Library Island - Outside
"HEY!" Konoka cried out happily as she, the Library Exploration Club (consisting of Konoka, Nodoka, and Haruna) and the Baka Rangers arrived. All but Ku all were wearing their school uniforms and carrying backpacks. The foreign exchange student was wearing an outfit that a martial artist would wear.
"Good evening everyone. " Airi said while bowing slightly.
Tino and Cerate only waved in acknowledgement before the the black haired Gal Monster retreated inside. Asuna, Negi and Eve were all still inside the building.
"What's with the maid getup?" Haruna asked.
"I prefer wearing this kind of outfit." the wraith explained with a straight face.
The mangaka nodded but her face showed that she didn't really believe her.
"Where's Kira-kun?" Makie asked while looking around for said person.
"He's over there, Airi had to beat some sense into his thick skull." Cerate said dryly while pointing over to a tree which had Kira dangling from one of the branches, his body not moving one bit.
Inside Kira's head.
Kira smiled as he patted the head of a small boy, no older than four years old, who had black hair and greenish blue eyes . The boy, who was wearing a black tshirt and beige shorts looked up and smiled brightly. Standing next to them was a redheaded girl with with blue eyes. She was the same age as the young boy, wearing a white sundress.
Airi walked into view and the girl ran over towards her.
"MAMA!" she cried out happily as Airi kneeled to hug the girl.
Kira went up to the Wraith as she rose to her feet with their daughter in her arms.
"I missed you Airi." he said before kissing her on the lips lovingly.
Airi returned the kiss with the same amount of passion before pulling back with a smile.
"Same here." she said before leaning her head against Kira's shoulder.
The little girl then smiled before pulling a giant mallet out of nowhere and conked Kira on the top of his head.
Real world
Kira fell to the ground and landed on a rock head first.
"OWWW!" he cried out as he rolled around the ground, holding his head in his hands.
Cerate sighed as she leaned against the still shaking tree that she kicked to knock him down.
"About time for you to wake up Ero-baka." she said dryly.
Kira groaned and sat upright. He looked over at the Gal Monster in annoyance before he felt something in the back of his head telling him to give into his instincts. The homunculus ignored it before he got up to his feet. He looked over at Airi and a brief image of his dream flashed in his mind before he felt a growing desire to go over to the wraith and kiss her on the lips. Kira shook his head and suppressed the urge the best as possible.
"Come on, the others have arrived. " Cerate said before walking over towards the others.
"He not bright…" Ku said as she looked at Kira.
"This one also believes that he is not that smart in some areas." Kaede said while holding her chin.
"Maybe he's the sixth Baka Ranger like the prophecies foretold." Haruna joked while grinning. " He is Baka Green."
Kira tilted his head in confusion as he walked over towards the group.
"Baka Ranger?" he asked.
"That's what we call the five students who have the worst grades of the entire class." Konoka chirped while holding her index finger up.
"Let me guess.. Their colors are Red, Blue, Yellow, and Black." Kira quipped dryly.
"You've struck the nail right on the head." Haruna said with a smirk. "But you forgotten Pink."
The homunculus groaned while shaking his head once again.
"Whatever, let's just get moving before I decide to do something I'll regret."
"Hey, where's that plant girl?" Cerate asked immediately noticing the lack of one of the Gal Monsters.
"She went inside already." Tino replied weakly while pointing to the door.
"What's this about a plant girl?" Yue asked in slight interest.
"Just this girl that will be joining us. She's wearing a plant themed cosplay." Kira said from the top of his head.
Every one of the girls except for Makie, Airi, and the Gal Monsters all nodded in acknowledgement.
"What's Cosplay?" the pink haired girl asked,
"It means she's wearing a costume." Kira rephrased.
"OHH!" everyone who didn't get it said in synchronized realization.
Everyone else except Konoka all sweat dropped, however none of them said anything about the subject.
"Let's go over the map…" Yue said as she reached into her backpack and pulled out an old rolled up piece of paper.
Somewhere in Mahora.
Train sighed as he walked the empty streets, enjoying the evening breeze as it gently blew through his hair. He went to a vending machine that he learned that he could get milk from and pulled out several coins from his pants pocket. He looked at them, counting them up before putting two of them away and inserting the rest of them into the slot. After he pressed the button, the milk bottle fell to the tray that was at the bottom. He removed the lid and slowly raised the bottle to his lips. Before he could take a sip, his head immediately snapped to the left as gunshots echoed throughout the area.
"Gunfire… and it's close.." he said before running in the direction of the gunfire while chugging down the milk as fast as he could. He threw the empty bottle into a recycle bin without looking before drawing Hades, his Ornate black pistol. His eyes widen when he saw a fish like monster swim through the air above a building before going down, vanishing from view as several more gunshots rang through the sky.
Train frowned as he leaped onto the rooftop and looked down at the battle before him. However, his heart skipped a beat as his eyes widen in complete shock. His grip on the gun became nonexistent, allowing it to slip free and fall onto the rooftop next to his feet.
"It can't be…" he said weakly, he barely was able to even put the words together in his mind.
Down on the ground.
Chisame was crawling away for her life, not caring that her clothes were ripped and torn. The spectacled girl didn't understand why a school of flying fish monsters attacked her without warning. During her attempt to flee, they attacked her ruthlessly. Upon arriving where she currently was, the monsters were about to swarm her and apparently devour her if it wasn't for a young woman wearing a yukata coming to her aid.
The hacker's savior had brown hair that was short, stopping at the jaw line while her blue eyes focused on the school of Piranha Yummy.
"What are these things?" she asked no one in particular as she fired at Two more of the Yummy. The monsters flew backwards as silver coins came out of them when the bullets hit them.
The Yummy all regrouped into a ball before forming the shape of a giant version of one of them, with two of them glowing red for the eyes. The woman took a step back as she was momentarily stunned by the sight before her. The gigantic Pirahna Yummy opened its finger like mandibles before roaring.
"PUTOTYRANO HITSATSU!" The Medagabryu's chant replied before a blast of violet energy came from behind the yukata wearing girl and colliding with the yummy, forcing it backwards as it hissed in pain.
The girl turned around and her eyes widen at what she saw.
Chisame was smirking sadistically, her teeth elongated and slightly pointed as her eyes glowed an eerie violet. Her long, smooth pinkish-orange hair now violet and spiky, yet not sticking up right. Sprouted from her back was a long reptilian tail and a pair of violet Pteranodon wings from the base of her neck.
"I'm so fucking tired of these pests bothering me." she said before converting the Medagabryu into its axe form.
"What…What happened to you?" the woman asked the transformed hacker.
"Just an upgrade." Chisame said calmly before her body transformed into a human shaped mass of Cell medals before they began to transform into a different body. The Medals then solidified into a single body.
The transformed Chisame had a brown and black colored body that was shaped similar to her human form. The only thing she was wearing a violet cape that split into two ends and a leather studded belt that had a belt buckle with an circular spot in the center that was empty. Her head was shaped like a Triceratops' frill with the three horns at the top but where the eyes were was a violet visor and her mouth had an organic looking faceplate. She raised her hand that held the Medagabryu and swung it, causing a crescent projectile that was violet in color to fly towards the Yummy. The monster screeched before breathing fire at the projectile.
Only to have it slice through the flames and collide with the Yummy right in the face. The monster screeched in pain before flash freezing and falling to the ground. The transformed Chisame casually walked over towards the frozen monster before driving the blade of the Medagabryu into it, causing it to shatter and explode instantly, littering the area with Cell Medals.
"Pathetic." she said in disappointment before turning her attention towards the still stunned Yukata wearing woman.
"I should thank you for saving my host before I took over."
The girl snapped back to reality before smiling weakly.
"I-It's nothing, a Sweeper is supposed to help out people when they're in danger." she replied before putting her pistol away inside her Yukata.
The transformed Chisame raised the Medagabryu up to the woman's face, who didn't flinch once.
"You have an interesting desire, one that I would enjoy seeing in action again." she said before shouldering the weapon and briefly paused. " But another time, my host is waking up, and I don't want to bother fighting for control right now. Also, don't tell anyone about me or else I'll permanently take over."
With that, she dropped the Medagabryu, which entered the ground with a flash of violet light. Her body transformed into a silhouette of a human body before reverting back into Chisame's original body, with her clothes still in their ruined state. The hacker opened her eyes and held her head while groaning in pain.
"What happened to me?" she asked, looking around in confusion. "the last thing I remember was getting into bed. How did I wind up here?"
The woman smiled before going over towards the hacker.
"I don't know where to start myself." she admitted while smiling sheepishly.
At that moment, a man leaped off of the rooftop and landed besides the group.
"Train, is that you?" the woman asked when she recognized him.
"Saya…." Train said, his eyes watering a little bit as he looked at her. "It really is you…"
"Of course it's me!" the woman said in mild frustration. "What's with that outfit?"
Train didn't reply before hesitating to put a hand on her left shoulder.
"Train… you're starting to scare me…you're acting like you've seen someone that you thought was dead."
"You took the words right out of my mouth." Train admitted. " I can't believe you're standing right in front of me, even though you died two years ago…"
Saya was taken back upon hearing this. "Okay… what the hell is going on here?" she asked. "You're saying that I'm dead?"
"I don't know where to begin…" Train said before he smiled warmly. "At least it's great to see you again, my dear friend."
Saya blushed a little and fidgeted slightly in embarrassment before she as well smiled back.
"You've definitely changed, Train…" she admitted before closing the distance between herself and her friend before hugging him. The former Eraser hesitated a bit before he hugged her back.
Nearby, Chisame groaned and shook her head at the sight before crossing her arms in front of her chest and turning around, her back facing the duo.
"Okay… this is just getting too cheesy for me…" she muttered bitterly.
Elsewhere in Mahora.
BRS leaped up onto the rooftop of a nearby building as she looked around. Ever since she came home from her new job as a courier, she felt the presence of someone watching her every movement. The stoic girl closed her eyes and tried to focus on figuring out which direction that the presence originated from. Almost immediately, she ducked in time to avoid a bullet that was aimed for her left shoulder.
About fifty meters away, laying on her stomach as she looked through the scope of the still smoking sniper rifle, Mana, wearing her mercenary outfit that consisted of her tan jacket, skintight black tankini like outfit and chaps, gave a half-smile, impressed by her quarry's reflexes. She immediately rolled to her left as a hailstorm of glowing blue projectiles descended upon the spot where the mercenary was laying. She did a backflip as the projectiles started moving in her direction. However, the firing ceased as a stoic girl landed onto the rooftop, kneeling a little before aiming the Rock Cannon at Mana.
"What do you want?" she asked the dark skinned girl in a calm, yet serious tone.
"I know you have one of these." Mana explained with a straight face before reaching into one of her pockets to pull out the Cobra Medal. "I also am aware that mine is the same color as yours."
Black Rock Shooter focused her attention upon the Core Medal before barely tilting her head downwards, her eyes still focused on the orange coin. She reached into her shorts pocket and pulled out her Wani Medal before holding it up for Mana to see.
"You want this…" she deduced, her face not giving away any emotion.
Mana only nodded while pocketing the Cobra Medal before discarding her sniper rifle to the side in favor of a pair of Desert Eagles.
"Adeat…" BRS said softly before her black boots were replaced with the orange ones. She briefly closed her eyes before opening them, with the blue flame coming from her left eye.
Mana only smirked before she opened fired at her opponent, who raised the Rock Cannon at an angle to use as a shield as sparks flew upon the bullets ricocheting off it upon impact.
Mana smirked and aimed one of the handguns at the exposed legs, only for the shot to be deflected.
"I didn't know you had that as well." the mercenary quipped as she briefly ceased fire, her magazines already emptied.
Black Rock Shooter raised the Rock cannon in her left hand as the right hand was holding onto a black katana that had a silver lining across the top of the blade. The stoic girl began charging towards Mana, taking the offensive as she closed the distance between them. The Mercenary leaped back to keep some ground between them as she had to keep sidestepping to avoid the incoming fire.
Does that gun of hers ever run out of ammo? Something that fires twenty rounds a second should exhaust its supply quickly. Mana analized in her head as she kept avoiding the projectiles.
BRS then tossed her firearm at Mana, who leaped up to avoid being struck by it. However, the stoic girl leaped up as well and raised her sword above her head, preparing to swing. The Mercenary quickly ejected and replaced her empty magazines with new ones that appeared out of two small portals and fired at the pale girl's arm. BRS ignored the shots completely as they entered her flesh, blue blood spurting out of the gunshot wounds. She swung the Black Blade at her opponent, who only fired several shots to deflect the weapon. The pair then landed on the ground and stared at each other. The stoic girl briefly glanced at her injured arm but didn't seem to care.
"I see you're quite well versed in combat." Mana complimented.
"…Fighting is all that I've ever done my entire life…. until coming here…" the stoic girl admitted. "He told me there's more to life than just fighting… that I can live the way I want."
Mana smiled and nodded. "I can sympathize to a degree, but such thoughts are not for the battlefield." she said as she briefly reminisced on her time with her now deceased partner.
"I know…" BRS said in agreement before she held the Black Blade in both hands as the mercenary raised her guns. Her impassive blue eyes focused onto Mana's cold amber ones before she spoke again. "I will defeat you and take your Core Medal for Kira…"
Mana only gave a half-smirk in amusement.
"Let's see you try." she taunted.
The two combatants then charged at each other, each determined to defeat the other.
Library Island Basement Floor Three 1:00 AM
"I can't believe how big this place goes…" Airi said in awe as she walked across the top of one of the gigantic bookshelves.
The group have been walking for the past two hours. Before departing, Haruna and Nodoka volunteered to stay behind to behind as above ground contact while all the others were to go exploring inside.
Yue was taking the lead as she was looking at a map. Followed right behind her in order was Negi and Asuna, , then Konoka, following behind her was Cerate and Audrey, Eve, and the remaining three Baka Rangers. Taking the rear was Kira who had a trembling Tino clinging to one of his arms.
"Remember, this place is booby-trapped." Yue called out to the group.
"Don't remind me…" Kira said sarcastically as his face contorted into one of disgust while rubbing his rear with his free arm. For a while, Kira was the unfortunate soul who was used to activate any booby traps. He was fortunate enough to escape with his life or serious injury. So far, he had the following happen: A book avalanche falling down upon him on Basement floor one, then on the next floor, the trapdoor activating underneath his feet with Makie. She was able to save both herself and him with the use of her rhythmic gymnastics ribbon to grab onto the railing of an upper level, and finally the arrow that sunk about four centimeters into his left ass cheek just a few moments ago.
On a scale of One to Ten on how painful it was, the homunculus gave that a Six. He was thanking the gods like a madman, grateful that it didn't score a "bull's-eye" in his rectum. He knew Stella would've demanded to hear the exact details of how he reacted.
Basement Level 5
"WHY IS THERE A LAKE HERE?" Cerate cried out in disbelief as she waded through the waist deep lake. "IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE!"
"I concur, the moisture here would cause mold to grow on the books." Audrey said in agreement. "Although, I hope Airi-san and Master can keep warm."
Airi and Kira were holding each other, their teeth involuntarily chattering as their bodies trembled in the coldness of the lake's water.
"C-C-C-Co-C-Cold!" the homunculus said through his teeth.
Tino looked at the pair and blinked in confusion. She didn't understand why the pair was so cold in something that wasn't that bad.
Maybe it's because of what they are that they can't stand the cold… she thought to herself.
The trembling pair both sneezed in unison.
Almost on cue, Makie began whining about her panties getting soaked, much to everyone but Kira's annoyance.
Basement Level 6
"Let's take a break for about fifteen minutes." Yue suggested as she went to a nearby vending machine.
Kira looked at the Machine and deadpanned.
"How the hell did that get all the way down here?" he asked. "This place doesn't make sense… We're underneath a lake now that's inside a frigging library!"
"I never really stopped to think about that before myself." Yue admitted before she looked down and noticed a red and silver can that had an image of a hawk on it and underneath it written out in English letters "Taka"
"A Hawk Can?" Audrey asked in confusion as Baka Black picked up the can.
"It appears to be a can normally used for carbonated beverages…" Yue said while examining the can for any signs of tampering. "I prefer juice, but right now, I'll take what I can get."
"Wait, Ayase-san, that could belong to someone else!" Negi cried out as he held a hand out towards his student.
"If it belonged to someone, they shouldn't be down this far in the first place." Yue explained "At our current location, we're where even the University members of the Library Exploration Club are forbidden to enter."
Kira slumped his head and began sobbing.
"Great… I'm going to be so fired for breaking protocol…" the homunculus whimpered.
"You've thrown a chair out a third story window without hesitation and you're worried about getting fired over being in a banned area?" Cerate deadpanned before she jumped up into the air and dropkicked Kira in the back of the head, sending him flying in the direction of a bookcase. "BAKA!"
"TAKO TACO!" Kira cried unintelligibly while in midair, making some of the group deadpan instantly. He landed on the ground face first before bouncing off of it like a rubber ball and had his back hit into the book case a good two meters above ground. Upon impact, the bookcase began teetering back and forth before falling backwards, colliding with another one behind it and starting a literal domino effect.
"Oh fuck…" the Gal Monster grumbled as she watched the colossal bookcases topple over and clouds of dust rose into the air.
Yue sighed and pulled out a radio. She then placed it in front of her mouth before pressing a button on the side with her thumb to speak into it.
"This is Yue, Come in Paru, over." she said. She then moved the device up to her ear to listen.
"Paru here, over!" the mangaka chirped happily. "How's your situation?"
" Progression is going along fine, but Cerate-san had just toppled over some bookcases after kicking Masamune-san." Baka Black explained calmly before removing her thumb to pause for a moment. She then pressed the button again to resume. "She was able to make him bounce a good two meters from the floor, over."
Paru whimpered in disappointment. "Awww…. I wanted to see all that happen! Over." she whined.
Airi, Konoka, Negi, and Tino ran over towards Kira, who staggered out of a dust cloud, coughing as blood squirted like a fountain from the top of his head.
"MASTER!" Tino cried out in anxiety while looking at the spurting blood. "Are you okay?"
Kira smiled and petted the top of the black haired Gal Monster's head reassuringly.
"I'm just fine." he said before collapsing to the ground face first.
"KIRA!" Airi cried out as she sat on her legs next to him before turning him onto his back and resting his head on her lap. The Wraith then noticed that his body was starting to becoming transparent.
"Oh no…" she whispered as her eyes began to widen in fear. She turned her attention towards the Group.
"SENSEI, CERATE, TINO, AUDREY, EVE! COME HERE RIGHT NOW!" she cried out. "SOMETHING'S HAPPENING TO KIRA-KUN!"
The five the wraith called out hurried over double-time upon hearing what was going on. Konoka and the other Baka Rangers all looked at each other in confusion.
"Is something bad going on?" Makie asked.
"Masamune hurt maybe?" Ku questioned while watching the others surround the homunculus
Kaede tensed up a little while clutching a fist. She didn't get what was going on exactly, but it was definitely something serious.
"Come in, We have a situation." Yue said into the radio.
"Copy that!" Haruna said on the other end with Nodoka making sounds in the background , obviously freaking out .
"And Nodoka, Negi-Sensei's alright, It's Masamune-san who appears to be injured. Over." Yue added, who then heard a sigh of relief on the other end. She then set the can on the table and pulled the tab before she turned around to calm the now freaking out Makie and Konoka.
Over where Kira was.
"I'm sorry Master…" Cerate apologized as tears welled up in her eyes while she shook the unconscious Kira, who was becoming more transparent by the minute . "Please don't leave us!"
"What's going on here?" Audrey asked in a concerned tone.
"Master…" Tino whimpered as she grabbed one of the homunculus' hands.
Airi and Negi were trying their best to remain calm and tried to think about the cause of Kira's current condition. Airi however was the first to come up with something.
"Tino… remember what Kira said when Desiderare first appeared?" she asked the black haired Gal Monster.
"Y-Yes, I remember him saying something about being able to absorb energy…"
Airi nodded in approval. "I think he's a lot like myself than we thought… I have to drain others of their life force so that I can not only survive, but to sustain my physical form." she explained. "I think the same principle may just work."
"How do you usually do it?" Eve asked.
The wraith blushed deeply upon hearing the young girl's question. She turned her head away and pressed the tips of her index fingers against each other in front of her.
"U-Usually by kissing…" she replied somewhat timidly.
Negi blushed deeply upon hearing that before he began to flail his arms a bit.
"K-Kiss?" he said loud enough to get both Konoka and the Baka Rangers' undivided attention.
"Calm down, young man," Audrey chided before looking at the maid. "I think out of everyone here, you're the only one who can possibly save him."
Airi blushed deeply upon hearing that. "Why me?" she cried out.
"You know how to the process works first hand, you can theoretically be able to give your own life force to him if you do the process in reverse." the plant Gal Monster explained calmly.
Airi blushed even deeper upon hearing that. "I-I can do that…but…" her voice trailed off.
"But what?" Negi asked in confusion.
"I…I'll…become naked…" the wraith said timidly as she looked down at Kira. "My current attire is made out of my own life force."
"Who gives a damn about modesty right now?" Cerate seethed as she reached out and grasped Airi by the collar of her maid outfit. "It's either that or Master vanishing!"
Airi closed her eyes and took a deep breath before exhaling through her mouth. She then slowly opened her eyes, her face becoming serious as her cheeks were tinted in pain.
"Alright… I'll do it…" she said with a nod, "But please make sure that I can do it in private."
The Cabin
Sven sat outside as he pulled out another cigarette before lighting it. He inhaled through it before gradually blowing the smoke out of his body.
"Two hours… guess something came up." he muttered to himself. "Ever since coming here, it's never been a dull moment.
The smoker then noticed a figure coming his way. The approaching man was wearing a black tshirt with a green jacket over it and had a scowl on his face.
"Green Jacket and apparently has a short temper… I wonder if this is that Uva person I've heard about…" Sven thought to himself.
The Greeed looked over at the Sweeper and stopped walking. The pair looked at each other in silence for a moment before one of them spoke up.
" What the hell do you want?" he asked, his tone giving away his anger.
"Are you the one who is called Uva?" Sven asked.
Uva grinned a bit before walking over towards the Sweeper.
"What if I am?" he replied, all traces of his anger gone. "I take it you're with that Kira."
"Correct. What are you doing here, Uva?" the smoker said before pulling out the cigarette and shook the ash off of it before replacing it. "I heard you usually tend to stay within the heavily populated area."
"True, but I came here to deliver a message from an…associate of mine…" The Greeed explained although somewhat hesitant with the last part. "Is that moron here?"
"Which one? We have two that live here." Sven half-joked, referring to his partner and Kira.
"Kira. Tell him that he has to look for the book called the Necronomicon, as it holds some answers about what's going on about the Extraneus being here and himself." The Greeed said flatly.
"Extraneus?" the smoker asked, perplexed by the meaning of the word.
"That's what my...associate refers to people who came from another reality." Uva clarified in a bitter tone. He then turned around and began walking off. "I'm done here…"
Sven remained silent as he finished off his cigarette and extinguished the butt into an ashtray. He then pulled out another and lit it as he watched the Greeed walk off. Silence filled the air, except for the occasional exhale from the Sweeper as he waited for Train to return. A few minutes passed before he noticed his partner. However, he couldn't help but cock an eyebrow as he saw Train walking with not only a young woman wearing a Yukata, but him carrying a passed out girl who's outfit which had seen better days.
The smoker immediately smothered the cigarette into the ashtray before running over towards the trio.
"What happened to her?" he cried out.
"Long story, Sven." Train answered flatly, his face serious. "But we need to take Sleeping Beauty inside."
Sven nodded silently before heading towards the door.
"STELLA! WE HAVE A SITUATION!" the gentleman shouted as loud as he could.
"I'm in the fucking living room, ya stupid old geezer!" the Gal Monster snapped in annoyance as she came into view. She was wearing her pink shorts and cloth top, but wasn't wearing her bone armor and jacket. "This better be important… I was busy reading a really good book."
"We have a girl that was a victim of a Yummy attack." Train explained as he came into the cabin and into the living room.
The room itself had oak flooring, a fireplace made out of red bricks that currently didn't have a fire going, and had two couches, each able to comfortably sit five, placed parallel with the ends of the fireplace hearth, facing each other At the other end of the room was a cabinet that had a large television inside it with three lounge chairs surrounding it with two side tables in between each of them.
"Yummy?" Saya asked in confusion as she came inside and closed the door behind her.
"They're monsters." Train explained as he carefully placed Chisame onto a couch.
"They're not alive from what I've been told. Now if you'll excuse me for a moment." Sven added before he went to a hall closet to get the sleeping hacker a blanket and a robe for whenever she awakes.
Train and Saya both looked at each other while Train slumped down onto the middle of the couch opposite of Chisame's and released a long sigh.
"Still can't convince yourself that I'm alive?" Saya quipped.
"As much as you are with the fact that you're supposed to be dead…" Train groaned before the female Sweeper's cheeks puffed up as she pouted.
"That's something you should never say to a woman…" she said while looking away as tears began to form in her eyes.
Train's own eyes widened in realization before he starting flailing his arms.
"I'm Sorry! I'm Sorry! Please don't cry!" the former assassin pleaded frantically.
"Get me some milk and I will. " she said.
Train sighed in relief before smiling. "Alright, deal." he said before getting up.
Leaning against the doorway, Stella watched the pair with an annoyed look.
"Fuck… can anything else happen tonight?" she droned while swaying her spiked tail carelessly. A few seconds went by before the front door swung open and then the Gal Monster felt her tail hit something soft, as the spikes impaled it. Stella turned her head and her face contorted into one of shock as she saw a stoic, yet obviously exhausted BRS standing there with the spikes embedded within her belly a good way. The expressionless girl only looked down and stared briefly at her stomach. She grabbed onto the tail before pulling the now blue coated spikes out of her without showing any signs of pain. She then released her grip on the tail and walked away as if nothing happened as the light blue blood dripped onto the ground from the gaping holes.
Stella only looked at the black haired girl in a stupor as he mouth hanged open.
Who… or what the fucking bloody hell is she? She thought inside her head.
A few moments passed before Sven screamed in shock upon bumping into the pale girl.
"WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO YOU?" he screamed.
"I am fine…" BRS reassured Sven before walking away.
"OH NO YOU'RE NOT!" the sweeper said before putting a hand on her shoulder.
"I have endured worse." the girl said as she looked at the man.
"I'm taking you to the emergency room." he said in a stern voice. " A gentlemen can't let a lady be walking around with injuries as serious like those."
"I'm not human." she said.
"That doesn't matter!" Sven stated before he carefully scooped up Black Rock Shooter and carried her into the bathroom to get some bandages. A few moments later, the man was sent flying out of the bathroom and into the opposite room and landed on the floor. The girl walked out of the bathroom, her stomach wounds already stopped bleeding and already smaller than what it was a few moments ago.
"I apologize." she said in a flat tone. "But I am perfectly fine."
Sven groaned as he sat upright, one hand up to adjust his fedora before he looked at the girl's stomach before he sighed.
"I should be the who apologizes, I was just very concerned about your wellbeing, yet I didn't put your wishes into consideration." he said humbly.
"It's alright." BRS said before she held her gloved right hand out to the man.
Sven nodded before he raised his own hand and accepted the gesture.
Outside, half a Kilometer away
Mirim yawned as she awoke from her slumber. The teal haired girl opened her eyes and looked around before blushing when she realized where she was.
"You had a nice nap?" Takahata asked.
"G-G-Gomen!" the girl apologized timidly as she started squirming.
The Ala Rubra member grinned before carefully set the girl down onto her feet. She teetered a little bit at first but was able to stand while grabbing the man's arm to use to support herself.
"Don't worry, we're almost there." he reassured her. "May I ask you a question?"
The girl nodded as she smiled. "Of course, Takahata-san." she replied happily.
"These red coins that you have, where did you find them, and how can you use them to turn into a phoenix?" Takahata asked while digging into his pocket to pull out the three Core Medals.
"I was given them by this strange man who wore a black cloak with gold, ivy like patterns on it." the girl explained before pausing for a moment to recall more details. "He said that I can use their full power because of the Hyper Vibration Crystals that my armor has can resonate with them…"
"Hyper Vibration Crystals?" Takahata asked.
Mirim blushed deeply as she nodded.
"Correct… from what I've heard, they're able to create a force field whenever someone attacks me… but… whenever it happens…I…" the girl explained before trailing off, her eyes fell to the ground while blushing deeper.
"What's wrong Mirim-san?" The older man asked in concern.
"Gomen… It's really embarrassing…" the girl squeaked while bowing towards the man apologetically while holding onto his arm with one of her own.
Takahata immediately was able to put two and two together based on the girl's statement. He kept a straight face so that the girl wouldn't feel humiliated.
"It's alright. I won't force you to continue if you're uncomfortable about it." he said before handing the girl the Core Medals. "Anyway, these are yours, correct?"
Mirim nodded and held a hand out to accept the coins from him.
"Arigato, Takahata-san." she thanked him while bowing once again.
Takahata nodded with a soft smile before he looked up at the rooftop.
Tatsumiya-san… what was she up to at this time? He thought as he watched the mercenary leap across the rooftop, her outfit ripped in different areas and her arms and her limbs were covered with scrapes and cuts. The teacher remained silent as he watched Mana disappear from view.
Kira's mind
The homunculus frowned as he floated once again in the white void.
"Okay. Why am I always ending up here whenever I am at death's door?" he asked dryly. "This is getting pretty old."
"Desiderare, this is your subconscious, remember? " a feminine voice chided.
"I know, it's just that some force just seems to enjoy sending me here…"the homunculus retorted.
"You've definitely changed, Dezzy." the voice said in an observing manner.
"More ways than one, first off, I'm not Desiderare, at least, not anymore. I'm a different person in my own body now." Kira explained breifly.
"I see. Well, you have some of Desiderare's memories, so I assumed you were him. But looking back on your more recent memories, I apparently was mistaken. My apologies." the voice explained.
"WOAH! WOAH! WOAH!" the homunculus cried out instantly while he held a hand up in front of him "Back up there! You can see my memories?"
"Of course, It's quite simple with a telepathic link." the voice said.
"Who are you really?" Kira asked. "And don't give me any cryptic shit!"
"Very Well, Kira-bozu, I am known as Mezool…" the voice explained. "I am a Greeed."
Kira's eyes widened in shock upon hearing it as one of Desiderare's memories flooded into his mind as he.
"What's wrong?" a female Greeed with a head that resembled an orca with a blue cape that ended with Octopus leg like adornments. Around her neck was a necklace of an eel with the head in the center of the loop and the tail pointing downwards. She raised a hand up and placed it onto Desiderare's shoulder as she looked at the homunculus in a concerned manner.
"Are you really going to follow Kazari's example?" he asked her in concern. "I am worried that something bad will happen to you and Gamel…"
Mezool moved her hand up to gently stroke Desiderare's cheek.
"It's the only way for us to regain our Core Medals that the King has stolen from us." she explained solemnly. "Ever since we Greeed each lost our tenth Core Medals, we developed the desire to become complete again, even though it's impossible now…"
Desiderare interrupted her with a hug. "I understand… just promise me that you'll look after Gamel for me. He will be lost without someone to be by his side." he said as tears started to well up in his eyes.
"Alright Desiderare, I will." Mezool said as she wrapped her arms around her fellow homunculus to return the hug.
"I'll handle our creators… You make sure that you all give that obsessive King true Hell.." Desiderare said with a smirk.
"I was planning on doing that in the first place." Mezool said before pulling away from the homunculus.
Kira was silent as the memory vanished.
"What happened to you exactly Mezool-chan?" he asked the disembodied voice.
"I was sealed away not long after that for over eight centuries. When I awoke when the seal broke, I fought against the second OOO, who was someone completely different from the King… After I gave into my desire and nature as a Greeed, OOO stopped me by destroying the Core Medal that contained my consciousness and 'killed' me as a result with the Medagabryu. However, I never expected a fragment of my mind to survive. " she replied in a calm, yet saddened tone.
"I never knew the Medagabryu can do such a thing…" Kira said in mild amazement.
"The Medagabryu is the embodiment of the power of the Purple Core Medals from Desiderare's memories. It can easily destroy a core medal with a single blow. " the voice elaborated. "But ever since it appeared here, its power seems to have been altered. It's much more dangerous…"
"Eh? How can something like that become more dangerous?" Kira asked.
Library Island
Airi blushed deeply as she carefully wrapped her arms around Kira's torso, underneath the shoulders before hoisting his upper half of the still fading body from the ground. She then dragged the homunculus behind a bookcase that was a few meters away from the group. Once alone, she carefully laid him down on his back and looked at Kira.
"I don't know what I'll do if you're gone… despite being an ero-baka… you didn't care who or what I was… You treated me as a friend… something that was almost impossible back at my home, only because of who I am, …" she said softly to the now ghost like homunculus before she smiled. "You're also the first male friend I ever had."
After she finished speaking she closed her eyes and placed her lips onto Kira's before she began to focus on gathering as much of the life force she could spare without endangering herself. She felt the energy flow out of her body through her mouth and into Kira's. The Wraith's French maid outfit began disappearing as Kira's body began returning to a solid form. Airi was now in her white bra that covered only the bottom half of her breasts and matching white panties. The wraith then felt something soft and moist slowly slide its way into her mouth and brushed itself against her tongue. Her eyes opened in shock as she felt Kira wrap his arms around her and pulling her on top of him. The wraith stopped the flow of life force into him as she squirmed in an attempt to break free, doing anything from pounding her fists against his sides, to digging her nails into his flesh. She then tried pulling her head back to break the kiss, but felt the Homunculus' arms tighten around her a bit more. At that moment, her underwear vanished completely, leaving a now tired, weakened, and naked wraith at the homunculus' mercy. Airi reluctantly accepted her fate and closed her eyes, trying her best to enjoy the moment
I should've saw this coming… but at least he's not forcing himself onto me completely… She thought to herself as she began moving her own tongue against Kira's invading one.
Just as the wraith began to enjoy herself, a loud shriek filled the building as a pissed off Cerate came to check on the pair. Airi opened her eyes and looked over at the blonde the best she could trying her hardest once again to break the kiss.
"You're just as bad as Master!" the Gal Monster seethed as she stomped over towards the two.
The wraith finally managed to break free of the kiss as she looked up at Cerate.
"It's not my fault, Cerate, Masamune-san just moved on his own…" airi trailed off before the pair looked down at the solidified homunculus, who was looking up at the pair with a nervous grin.
"Heh… Hi…" he said weakly.
Airi flushed deeply at this. "W-When did you awake?" she asked.
"When I heard you say that I was your friend." Kira admitted after a moment of hesitation. He then gave the wraith a small smile
Airi then realized that her clothes were missing and pulled away from Kira, using her arms to cover herself in an attempt to preserve her modesty. She looked down at the ground and fidgeted a bit in place.
Cerate however went over to Kira and grabbed him by the collar of his top and lifted him up.
"YOU PERVERT!" the Gal Monster cried out furiously before she threw him up into the air and waited for him to fall down towards her enough so that she could unleash a volley of rapid fire punches onto him. The continuous blows suspended the homunculus in the air as Cerate kept up the onslaught.
"YOU WOMANIZING, DECADENT, SELFISH BASTARD! " the blonde said, slowing the punches to a speed that one hit Kira for each syllable she spoke. After finishing she leaped up and pulled out her tail before slamming it into Kira's back a and sent him flying towards the others.
"KIRA!" Airi cried out as she watched the homunculus fly into the vending machine, only to bounce off of it and land face down onto the ground. She didn't dare move from her hiding spot due to her current state of attire.
"Masamune-san, are you okay?" Negi cried out in concern as he ran towards his aide with an equally worried Tino and Audrey behind him.
"I'mf fwime…" Kira said without moving from where he laid.
"If he was sent flying, he's back to normal…" Eve said bluntly as she recalled the many instances where either Stella or Cerate sent the homunculus flying for doing something perverted. "He must've done something ecchi…"
"Et tu, Eve?" Kira asked as he finally raised his head up from the ground and looked at the young blonde. "First Yami, and now you."
"I believe I can relate to her in that regard." the girl admitted before looking over at the table and noticed something unusual. "Ayase-san… did you leave that can you found on that table right there?" she then pointed to the spot.
"That's correct, but why are you asking…me…that?" Yue asked before she stared at the spot.
"Taka!" a robotic voice that was high pitched, but not chipmunk level, cried out. A small robotic red and silver hawk, about the size of a soft drink can, enough to easily land on the palm of an open hand, flapped its wings to remain airborn above where the can used to been.
"What is that thing?" Asuna asked while she gave the robotic bird a cautious glare.
"It appears to be some kind of automaton with the ability of flight." Audrey deduced. " based on the shape and color of the markings of the underside of its wings, I believe that it could actually be the very can Ayase found."
The bird flew over to Audrey and nodded its head in confirmation. The redheaded Gal Monster's eyes widened slightly in amazement. "Sugoi… you can understand me as well. You must be highly advanced in programming…."
The robot tilted its head slightly in confusion before crying "Taka!" once again.
"It's so cute!" Konoka chirped as she went up to the robot and introduced herself to it. "Hi there Taka-chan! I'm Konoka!"
"Taka!" the robotic hawk chirped back. It then went over to the cheerful girl's head and perched itself there with its wings sticking out.
"Looks like it likes you, Konoe-san." Kira said with an amused grin.
Negi was somewhat puzzled about the energy that the robot was giving off.
Weird… it's giving off a weird magical energy, It's like the one Masamune-san gives off whenever he uses those Core Medals to transform, but much weaker… the child teacher thought as he watched Konoka laughing happily as "Taka-chan" got off her head and flew around her in circles.
Airi and Cerate still stood away from the others.
"Cerate-san, I need your help." the wraith said in a respectful manner.
"Sure, what do you want?" the Gal Monster asked casually as she crossed her arms in front of her chest.
"I need to borrow some of your life force." the wraith said in a somewhat embarrassed tone, getting straight to the point.
Cerate's face paled upon hearing that.
"…Fuck….." she muttered before sighing. "Fine, but don't kill me."
"I won't need a lot, just enough to materialize my clothes again. You'll just be really tired for a while once I'm finished. " Airi explained in a reassuring tone as she smiled a little.
Cerate only nodded once as her cheeks changed into a shade of pink… "Let's get this over with…" she mumbled.
Airi nodded and closed the distance between them before putting her lips close to the Gal Monster's.
"I apologize for what I'm going to do." the wraith apologized. "I will make this quick."
Cerate only rolled her eyes and shrugged.
"Whatever." she said dryly. " Just go ahead and start."
"Itadakidamasu!" Airi said before planting her lips against Cerate's and started to drain her life force. Cerate's eyes widen in shock and her body tensed up but she forced herself to relax, trusting that the wraith knew what she was doing. She rapidly began to feel exhausted, like she ran for seven hours straight without a chance to stop and rest yet wasn't short on breath. About one minute passed before the wraith broke the kiss as her white undergarments slowly reappeared followed by her French maid outfit.
"Arigato, Cerate-san." she thanked the Gal Monster.
Cerate nodded weakly before she closed her eyes and collapsed to the ground. Airi momentarily was scared that she got carried away and took too much from the blonde. However, she was put to ease by the Gal Monster's snoring that came a few moments later.
Kira got to his feet and dusted the dust off his clothes the best he could before walking over towards the maid and smiled.
" I haven't said thanks yet for what you did." he said to her.
"That's correct, I guess there is a gentleman within you after all." Airi teased.
"I always was one, I'm just also many other things." Kira quipped with a sly smirk before it gave way to a heartfelt smile. "But anyway, thank you Airi for saving my life there… I really was in trouble there."
Airi blushed deeply as she fidgeted once again.
"L-Like I've said… you are my friend… and I didn't want to lose you." she admitted in a nervous tone.
Kira nodded and smiled. " I made up my mind." he declared as he casually placed a hand onto the wraith's shoulder.
"Eh?" Airi asked in a confused way as her eyes became black dots as she flinched slightly from the homunculus putting his hand onto her.
"If we can find a way to get everyone back home, I'm coming with you to your world." he explained. "That way, you won't be alone."
Airi blushed as she smiled before she closed the distance between them and hugged him.
"Arigato, Kira-kun." she said happily as the homunculus wrapped his own arms around her to return the gesture.
"It's nothing, Airi-chan…" he said. "Besides… I think I'm better off not returning to my own world."
The maid blinked in confusion as she pulled free from Kira's arms.
"Nani? What do you mean by that exactly?" she asked.
"I wish I knew… but I don't remember much about myself." Kira admitted bitterly. "The memories I do have are just fragments of Desiderare's from back when he was created, I still have about eight centuries of my life missing, that's if I had even existed for that long to begin with..."
Airi frowned and shook her head in disappointment.
"Don't try thinking about it right now. There's other things to focus on besides trying to recover your memories." she explained.
"Airi…" Kira said softly as he looked at the wraith.
The redhead smiled and turned around. "Come on Kira-kun. We better figure out a reason for how Cerate-san fell asleep." she said.
Kira chuckled before nodding in agreement.
" It's quite simple actually. Just tell them that her pummeling me just took a lot out of her. " he said.
Airi nodded before going over to the sleeping Cerate and attempted to awake her. Kira however closed his eyes as he recalled his conversation with Mezool within his subconscious.
Are the powers of the Medagabryu and the Purple Core Medals really that powerful? If they really are… I don't know what to do… I have to be more careful though with them… Mezool… why are you telling me these things? I don't know how long I've gone by the name of Masamune Kira… I know Desiderare was created somewhere in Europe… but my family name obviously is Japanese… Did something happen to him that gave birth to my existence? Also, why is that Greeed even inside my subconscious in the first place? One thing is for sure, there's something going on here, and I'm going to find out what it is.
In front of the Girls Dormitory
Asuka grumbled as she sat on the stairs to the entrance of the Girl's dorm. The Second Child was barely getting by since she first arrived over a week ago. She was disgusted with herself upon the fact that she had to resort to go through the garbage for any left over food. However, during that time, she learned a few things. First off, she was not only back in time, but in a world where Second Impact never even occurred.
Also, she learned about the doppelgangers of herself who appeared out of nowhere that one night. She figured that it was through the green coin with the stag beetle on it that allowed her to do such a feat after she unintentionally cloned herself. However, she learned that she could only do it when next to that giant tree. If she was no more than ten meters away from it, she couldn't do it.
"Gott… what's going on here… first off I wind up in a world where not only Second Impact never happened, but I frigging went back in time!" she ranted to herself. "And I can even clone myself… what's with this world? Did Third Impact happen and this is the result? Really not what I expected though…"
"Excuse me, miss, but may I ask you a quick question." a man asked from the German girl's left. The redhead turned her head to see a man wearing a suit with his hands in his pockets.
"Make it quick, I got things to do." the Eva pilot snapped in annoyance but immediately regretted her behavior when she took a better look at the man.
Mein Gott… he reminds me of Kaji… she thought as a slight blush appeared on her face. She then noticed a small girl who was wearing bizarre crimson armor with wings on her ankles and head that made her look like a cosplayer that had no shame in wearing an outfit that showed so much skin in public.
"I'll get straight to the point then." Takahata said "This will sound strange, but are you really from another world?"
Asuka froze in place momentarily as her eyes widened.
"Wait… did you actually listened to what I said?" she asked weakly.
Wunderbar… now he thinks that I'm a fucking nutcase…
Takahata nodded. "Yes, it was unintentional, but you were speaking pretty loud." he admitted.
Asuka blushed even more before lowering her head towards the ground, having her hair cover her face in an effort to conceal the blush.
"Mirim-san here also came from another world." the teacher explained. "So if you believe that I think you're insane, then there's a misunderstanding here."
Asuka frowned as she raised her head, focusing her attention at the man.
"Who are you?" she asked him.
"Takahata Takamichi." the older man introduced himself. "and may I ask who you are?"
Asuka smirked as she ran a hand through her hair while giving the pair a proud and highly confident look on her face.
"I am the great Asuka Langly Soryu. Savior of mankind and pilot of Evangelion Unit 02." she boasted while the smirk grew a bit.
The older man nodded before he smiled. "I have no idea what an Evangelion is, but perhaps you can explain to me how a young woman like yourself wound up here." he said.
Asuka stood there and thought for a moment before nodding. "Very well, I suppose I can tell you about what I do." she replied before walking over towards the pair.
World Tree
Creed smiled in a friendly manner as he stood on one of the many tree branches while looking at the robed Incursio Votum who levitated next to him. Leaning against the trunk of the tree beneath them was a human Uva, who was glaring at Melona as she was massaging his shoulders.
"So.. You're saying that we are in a world that's corrupted and it needs to be fixed. But you don't have the power to do it by yourself." Creed summarized what he was told by the cloaked man.
"That is indeed correct. I ask for your aid as you have powers that can cleanse this world of the corrupted. I can only summon, teleport others, read on someone's past in great detail and look into the far future of this world. And what I see is only absolute ruin." Votum explained in a humble tone. "I know that in your world, you wish to do something similar to this."
Creed closed his eyes and nodded. "You are correct, I wish to cleanse my world of a criminal organization that controls a third of the entire world's economy and have members within high positions in governments." he explained.
"As I've read from your book, anyway, are you interested in helping me in my cause?" the cloaked man asked.
"I'm afraid I'll have to decline." the madman politely refused before he turned and got ready to leap. "I do not see why I should waste my time being here in the first place."
"Train Heartnet is here." Votum immediately said.
Creed immediately froze and turned his undivided attention to the man.
"Are you speaking the truth? If you are lying to me, I will cut you where you stand, or float in this case." he threatened in a calm, relaxed manner as he drew his sword handle.
The cloaked man waved a hand and a holographic screen appeared showing a clip of Train firing upon the Centipede Yummy alongside Black Rock Shooter. Creed silently watched the footage before tears started to form in his eyes.
"Train really is here… " he softly whispered in elation.
"Creed Diskenth, aid me and I'll do whatever I can to help convince Train to join your noble cause back in your world." Votum promised as he held a hand out.
Creed nodded before taking the cloaked man's robe and shook it.
"I accept your proposition, my dear comrade." he said without a second thought. "Let me know whenever I'm needed, and I'll lend you my sword."
Votum smiled underneath his hood as he nodded as well.
"For a better future for two worlds, my comrade." he added.
"For a better future." the swordsman repeated with a smile.
Down at the ground, Uva growled in annoyance as Melona began poking him with her right index finger.
"Come on, Uva-kun… I'm bored!" the slime-girl whined. "Play with me!"
I don't understand why he recruited her as well… she's just a major pest… The Greeed thought to himself. He immediately shifted into his Greeed form and grabbed Melona's wrist. He then turned and forced her against the tree as he gripped both her arms and held them above her head.
"Oh my.. Aren't you the bold one?" the slime teased in a sultry tone.
Uva remained silent before green electricity surged from his hands into the slime's body as she was shocked.
"KYAAA!" she screeched before she converted into her ooze form and fell the ground to escape. She moved away before solidifying into her humanoid form, glaring at the Greeed in anger.
"You meanie!" she said furiously.
"Shut the fuck up, slime." Uva ordered as he raised a hand up in front of him as electricity surged through it. "Unless you enjoy being electrocuted."
Melona turned her right arm into a blade and held it in front of her.
"You have forgotten who I am, you lowly homunculus." she said.
"heh, no I haven't you're nothing but a monster who is to obey me." Uva taunted.
"I AM NOT A MONSTER!" Melona screeched furiously before she charged at the Greeed. Uva chuckled before holding his hand out and sent bolts of green electricity at the slime girl. Melona began convulsing involuntarily as the electricity surged throughout her entire body.
"ENOUGH YOU TWO!" Votum shouted before he held out a Cell medal in one hand and a light gray book in the other as the quarreling pair stopped what they were doing and looked up. " You are partnered together because I see potential with you both, plus I don't want Diskenth-dono be stuck with a childish person who will only hinder him. " Votum explained bluntly.
"I'm not childish!" Melona said in annoyance before pouting a bit.
"I'm over eight hundred years old!" Uva screamed furiously.
"Uva, you got quite a temper, and are somewhat obsessive when it comes to your Core Medals. Melona, you immediately lose your cool upon being called that name, plus you see yourself above anyone else in every way." Votum stated calmly, causing the pair to fall silent right away. Uva released his grip on the slime-girl's arms and stepped away from her.
Votum watched in silence.
I need more people… Other than Creed, the other two are too rambunctious … especially Melona… even though she's been under contract with me for the past twenty years, she's been doing a lot of things on her own whim… like helping out the Thousand Master during that war… Also, Uva will be easily distracted from his duties by the very thought of someone having his Core Medals. he thought to himself. If I didn't threaten him, he would've gone after Desiderare when Creed appeared.
He turned his attention towards Uva and Melona.
"Uva, Melona, I have a mission for you both." he called out to the pair. "I want you to head to the place called Library Island to get a specific book for me. It is instrumental for my plans and therefore must be obtained at any cost."
The pair looked at each other for a moment in silence before looking up.
"What's in it for us?" Melona asked.
Votum opened up the book he still clutched and read it briefly.
"It says here that there's several Core Medals there, including one of Uva's. Airi is there as well." he stated before closing the book.
Uva nodded while crossing his arms in front of his chest while Melona smiled.
"WE'RE ON IT!" the slime girl shouted enthusiastically before grabbing the Greeed's arm and dragged him against his will as she ran away.
"HEY! LEMME GO YOU BITCH!" Uva screeched as he struggled to break free.
Votum sighed and shook his head before turning his attention towards Creed.
"I swear… Melona makes me feel like I am her babysitter…" he droned.
Creed chuckled softly before putting away the sword handle.
"We must deal with things that can be a nuisance despite them being quite helpful." he said.
"I must agree. Despite being such a headache, Melona has proven her worth enough for me to keep her in my services." the cloaked man said before opening the grey book again to an area with only blank pages and gently placed the Cell Medal face down in the middle. The pages of the book began emaninating a faint blue glow before the silver coin sunk into it like it was in quicksand. The glow faded slowly before archaic text appeared on the book's pages.
"Now, let's see what the future holds for us five years from now." he said before reading from the book's pages.
A few moments passed before Incursio Votum immediately dropped the book in shock. His body began trembling in fear as what he just learned reverberated loudly inside his head.
"No… that's impossible…" he said weakly.
"What's the matter?" Creed asked in curiosity.
" One of the the Extraneus that will oppose us will gain powers akin to one of THEM…" Votum seethed, the venom dripping from the last word in absolute hatred.
"Them?" Creed said as he blinked in confusion.
"As I've informed you, there's real witches and wizards in this reality, but there's also a different kind of them that exist outside of our reality. These ones have powers akin to gods, maybe even superior to them in some areas… They never grow old, and they can do impossible things like create miracles at will, literally dictate fate, traverse between different realities, and even reset a small period of time repeatedly for their own enjoyment." the cloaked man explained in a bitter tone before he clenched his fists. "Should one of the Extraneus become one of these Witches and Sorcerers, this entire world will become nothing more than their playground."
His fist tightened up to the point where his fingernails broke through the skin of his palms and blood began oozing out.
"I will not allow that happen no matter what… Even if I have to personally absorb Desiderare and Kira…"
As he spoke, a tarot like card fell out of his sleeve and floated down towards the ground slowly face down. Incursio Votum sighed as he looked at the card.
"Maybe I should let him deal with this for now…" he pondered. "I can't let the Tearer awaken."
Next Time: What's this about a Tearer? What the hell is that? Anyway, Kira and the other members of the expedition reach their destination, but things get worse when Melona and Uva, appear, who're also after the magical book. Desiderare attacks Evangeline and Chachamaru with the intention of obtaining Eva's Ptera Medal. Saya, Stella, Train, Black Rock Shooter and Sven are forced to fend off against a Yummy by themselves. The violet haired girl appears and speaks with Mina and Sextum. Incursio Votum himself fights against the entity that resides within Chisame. All of this chaos going on and I won't be able to see any of it!
8th Period: Conflict, Discussion, and the Tearer.
Final Thoughts (Special Edition)
Blazorna: Okay, after thinking about what's going on for about the past few weeks, I will be continuing this story here. I just have been laying low for a while because of those rumors going on.
For those wondering what I'm talking about, it's about the site crackdown that is said to been going on. The rumors are saying that this site is going after authors who post M rated stories that have lemons and either banning them or removing the offending stories because the content would be classed too mature for the M rating. However, there's two main problems they face.
1. Lack of manpower.
They can't really have the entire staff search through all the M rated stories one by one and pull out the ones that break the rules. The site needs maintenance and be constantly upgraded.
2. There's too many stories to go through.
Seriously, there's thousands of M rated stories that are deemed the "MA" rating, which doesn't exist on this site. Also, they're amongst the other thousands of M rated fanfics that DO follow the rules.
However, there could be a grain of truth amongst the rumors.
For example The website isn't doing the crackdown, but either someone with a lot of free time or a group of people from the outside are ratting us out because they feel that the website is becoming corrupted by our "filth." Don't forget, the stories can be reported by readers, even anonymous ones.
Keep in mind that there's a chance that this is some kind of troll attempt, or sick practical joke on the website itself.
Also, the site itself could be keeping a more careful eye on NEW M rated stories.
Regardless of them being true or false, these rumors have already left its mark amongst the authors… Some of us are either feeling afraid or betrayed by the website. Some of us are rallying together to send in petitions demanding that the website gives us the MA Rating that doesn't exist, while others are planning on leaving to other fanfic sites that will allow us to post stories without any restrictions.
I can confirm that the site staff IS DEAD serious about enforcing their rules and should you be caught or reported, that you have to delete your offending stories or else get banned. This happened to one of the authors of a story that I'm following. Thankfully he's still on, but he had to delete one of his own stories.
I myself have decided to stay. The website encourages us to unleash our imagination, yet they'll punish those who go above and beyond. Imagine R rated (or the equivalent rating for Mature audiences) Horror movies without gore and serious violence, and what do you get? Just a movie filled with chase scenes that'll become boring after a while.
Well, that's what the site wants for M rated horror stories if I'm not mistaken. And they really don't want lemons to exist at all.
Come on… Seriously? If the site wanted to be family friendly in the first place, why did they include the M rating to begin with?
I could keep going on, but I'm stopping right there.
Anyway, on another note, Tearer rhymes with "terror" for those wondering. The word "Tearer" is used in the title of the theme song for OOO PuToTyra Combo, "Power to Tearer" (Which I don't own). It's a pretty great song too, as (for me at least) it really gets my blood pumping. It's the kind of song you'll hear during a fight. I can't really put what genre the song is in, but my guess is it would be Rock. Listen to it if you are able to, but just to let you know, it's in Japanese.
That's all for now.
I silently walked into the audience chamber, looking straight towards the throne that his majesty was sitting in. Paying absolutely no attention to the crowd of nobles that murmured amongst themselves, obviously about me, I kept moving forward before getting onto one knee and lowering my head in submission and humility once at the front of the throne.
"I am at your service, your majesty." I said in an autonomous voice as I stared at the ground.
"You and the others have outdone yourselves, Gara." the king praised the alchemist who stood beside his throne, smirking as he looked at me. "He is the first step towards my goal!"
"Are you sure about this?' the alchemist to the right asked me in concern.
I nodded. " I will not disobey my orders." I acknowledged before closing my eyes. " I'm ready."
He nodded before taking a blank silver coin before he threw it into my body. I winced in pain as I felt the unstable energy from the Medal resonating within my head as I winced. The cloaked man then pulled out a peafowl feather and plunged it into my heart. I didn't flinch as the feather was pulled into my body. I began feeling the energy starting to fade away. I then saw my chest begin to illuminate before both the silver coin and the feather simultaneously emerged from it and fell to the ground. The coin shattered into countless fragments upon landing onto the ground before dissolving into dust.
"Another failure…" the alchemist said disappointedly. " But we have made considerable progress… The Peafowl, or as called in my homeland, the Kujaku, is definitely one of them."
"YOU DARE DEFY ME?" His majesty cried out furiously as he slashed one of the enemy soldiers with the long yellow Tora Claws that were folded out instantly. The tips tore through the armor like it was cloth and silenced the man forever. I only stood there stoically, watching the scene unfold before me.
"Hey, is something on your mind?" Kazari asked me while casually wrapping his right arm around my shoulders and looked at me.
"It's Ankh… I don't trust him… He sucks up to his Majesty's every command." I said to the feline based Greeed, frowning as I thought about the avian one. "Yet behind his back he speaks nothing but ill things about him. He's definitely up to something…"
" Most likely. You know how the Greeed are like. We crave something, and will do just about anything to make it a reality. But no matter how much we strive to fulfill it, we just can't." he explained before chuckling a bit. "Just like yourself, we're incarnations of desire. We can't help what we are."
I smiled a bit and nodded in agreement. I then turned my head and my eyes widened as I saw Gamel chase after a horse drawn carriage. The passengers in there were staring at him in fear as he held his arms out in an attempt to grab the carriage.
"GAMEL! YOU CAN'T EAT THAT!" I cried out desperately before leaving the now laughing Kazari to pursue the bulky Greeed.
"All humanity cares about is fulfilling their selfish desires… destroying the land, killing each other over petty things like material goods, Not once giving a single thought to what the consequences are to their very actions…" Master Gara said in disgust before he turned his attention towards me. "As such, I must put my plan into motion…"
"Master Gara… You have gone too far…" I said while tightening my fists. " I can't allow you to proceed with it …"
"Why not? His Majesty was a prime example of what happens when Desire rules all." Gara said as he glared at me.
"I agree, The King betrayed us because of his goals, but I know that there are others who are not like him." I gritted my teeth as tears began swelling up in my eyes, blurring my eyesight slightly as they came to mind. " They showed me there was more to life than just following your desire…" I paused to wipe the tears away before I gave the alchemist a glare that showed my steeled resolve. "And for their sake, I'll do whatever it takes to stop you. Even if it means becoming a Demon of Desire as a result."
Gara only laughed before he turned into his inhumanoid form.
"Then show me your determination!" he declared before charging towards me.
My very existence led to the creation of OOO.
The O-Medals…
Their power can bring absolute prosperity or absolute ruin.
I was the catalyst for their creation…
Gara…
The alchemist who became disgusted by humanity's desires.
He was my creator…
The King…
The man who would sacrifice anything to become a living god.
I was the first step in making his goal a reality.
Ankh…
The first Greeed to be created.
His actions were what caused the chain of events.
Kazari…
The Second Greeed who persuaded all the others except one to go against their creators…
He was the one who I trusted more than anyone else…
Uva…
The third Greeed to be created…
The one that annoyed me because of his temper.
Gamel…
The childish Greeed who was the fourth to be created.
I saw him as the little brother that I always wanted…
Mezool…
The only Female Greeed who kept the peace between the six of us homunculi.
She was the parent I never had…
I am a homunculus, one who came before the Greeed but is also created by desire.
I am the sole witness of a forgotten time in history.
This is the story about the origins of the Original Multi-King, the rise of a kingdom, and its ruin.
I am known as Desiderare…
Incursio Votum Origins: Soul of Desire
coming soon
