A/N: We now continue our little adventure, that has taken a turn for the worse side, but it might be better at the end of this chapter. A/N
Chapter 9: kill the despair
"SOCHI!" Leone cried out in despair, "don't you dare leave me alone like that now. We were just getting started knowing each other, fore real this time, you can't just leave me now!"
"Wait, he is not dead yet, else I shouldn't be able to move, there is still time." Pops shouted out, gaining everyone's attention, before continuing "Leone, please place Sochi on the ground, and move away, and whatever happens, DON'T COME OVER HERE BEFORE I SAY SO! I'm going to use our trump, but I don't know how his body is going to react to it, either we both die, or he lives and I die, or we both lives."
Hurriedly nodding, Leone placed the now unconscious Sochi on the ground and backed away, before turning around, she whispered to Bulat "if I am about to interrupt, use all you got to stop me, got it?" Giving a quick nod, Bulat confirmed that he would stop her.
Turning around, she froze instantly. The scene that was playing out in front of her was too much for her, but she was unable to turn away. Right in front of her, Pops was seemingly digging out her own core, before carefully placing it in the mouth of Sochi. As she used the last of her energy to push it down his throat, Pops collapsed, and her body, now separated from her core, turned to smoke.
Sochi's legs suddenly stopped bleeding, and to everyone's surprise, began to regenerate. As soon as his feet had finished regenerating, he got up on his legs. Just when all seemly was going to be alright, black fur began appearing all over him, and his ears grew longer and more pointy, and after a few moments, a voice could be heard saying, no growling, "fusion complete."
This was not the voice of neither Sochi nor Pops, no this was the voice of a beast that had been sleeping for long, but finally awoken. Turning his head halfway around, the gentle face of Sochi was gone, replaced by what appeared to be a wolf. Even his eyes was different, the ever so gentle eyes, now was a crimson red, shining with bloodlust.
Without saying anything he turned back to face the other Teigu user, which now had recovered from shock of colliding with her Teigu, after it was kicked by Pops. Reading the situation well, she issued an order to retreat, however, her voice was drowned when the new Sochi lead out a blood freezing howl, before charging at her.
There were not any sort of battle, at least not to begin with. She only managed to jump to the side in the last second, before Sochi made a giant hole where she was just seconds ago. However, she did not jump far enough, as Sochi hurriedly raised his feet, and skillfully placed a circle kick in the center of her chest, sending her flying into the dock.
After the water had settled down, they all turned to face her Teigu, but to everyone's surprise it was frozen solid, in its small form, indicating it no longer had a controller.
As everything calmed down, Leone was able to get a good look at the new Sochi. His body was around the same size, however it was covered by fur, and its head was more like a wolf, or maybe a dog. He still walked on his legs, but his arms made it seem like he could run much faster on all four. Jumping down from the roof, he elegantly landed on his legs, but quickly got down on all four.
The new Sochi hesitate a bit, before taking a deep breath and explaining "I am sorry it had to come to this, but here is how it is, I currently house both the minds of Sochi and Pops, but I am neither of them. I am a fusion of their beings, and the outcome of using their trump. I am neither a Teigu, a human nor an animal, but more like a combination of all the things."
Around this point, Leone's mind seemed to reach the conclusion that she did not want to get: the Sochi she loved was probably never going to come back, and she was going to raise their child alone. At this point, she was ready to break down, but she held herself together for now. Until she was alone, she must hold it together.
Lucky Najenda came to the rescue, "we will discuss this further when we get back to base, for now, let's finish the job." Surprisingly the boat was almost filled with slaves, all very happy to be released. However, the best catch was another Teigu, and the ever-overexcited Lubbock hurriedly tried it. The name appeared to be infinite uses: Cross Tail, it used strings attached to special glows, which made the user able to make all manner of marvelous things with it.
Nevertheless, that was all they could use, except from a pair of rings that Leone found, and placed in her pocket. On the off chance that the old Sochi came back, she would use them as wedding rings. They made one last check in the cargo area, but did not find any more slaves, so everyone left the boat.
Before Najenda jumped down from the boat, she set fire to the hay that was in the cargo area. As the fire began to spread, Sochi heard something, or someone, cry for help. Without thinking, he turned 180 degrees, and ran back to the ship.
Jumping onto the deck, he now clearly could hear the voice of a girl, but to his surprise, it was not coming from below the deck, but for the captain's cabin.
The door in to the captain's cabin was already in flames, but that did not bother him. He hurriedly broke it down, and entered the room. What he saw surprised him. Backed up in a corner was a girl, with long pink hair. She did not appear to be one of the slaves, but rather someone that snuck onboard the ship, most likely to travel as a blind passage or to steal some valuables from the ship's captain.
Whatever the case, she was going to die if she stayed where she was, so Sochi graphed her and ran out on the deck again, but before he managed to get off the ship, the fire finally reached the gunpowder storage, and the ship disappeared in a giant ball of fire.
A/N: Ok, this is another cliffhanger, but I promise the next chapter will not take as long. This is all fore now, Slie out! A/N
