What if Redux : "I'm not EVE!"
Summary: That what Teito said, but Ayanami, and some certain people and bishops knew better. Ayatei
Author: K.S.
Rating: PG / T
Genre: Humor / Romance
Characters: Teito/Tiashe, Mikage, Ayanami and the Black Hawks, Hakuren, Bastian, some non-important OCs
Warnings: UNBETA-ed, Grammatical Errors, Confusing structure, Out of Character-ness, some Original Characters, AP, Author's Utterly Biased Imagination (AUBI), Yaoi in shounen-ai form, genderswitch (Female!Teito), Sadistic!Teito, Military!Teito YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!
AN: This chapter is SHORT. way too SHORT. And I realize that. I've been busy and too caught up with my other projects. this chapter supposed not uploaded today, but next week. but since I won't have time (next week), I'll just post it today. so its SHORT. sorry for the inconvenience *bows*
Note: everyone (except: The royal family, Miroku, Mikage, Jio, and Bastian add Frau, Castor and Labrador as well as Lance in it) thought Teito is a guy. TONIKAKU~ I'll keep refers Teito with HER for the rest of this story goes on. DEAL? Deal!
Added Legends:
"whatever" –Zhyphon conversation (watch the anime when Frau in the jail scene and have conversation with Teito) TELEPATHICALLY-
Kapitel IX: (Slightly filler chapter) "I'm not ready to lose you"
War room, western border HQ 4F….
Teito jade green eyes stared at the soon to be war field icily. She knew and everyone in this room knew, that they couldn't stop it. They want the well-hidden Pandora Box, and the only way to get their hand on it, they had to do it with force. And as loyal people Barsburg Empire and descendants of Raggs Kingdom, they would do anything to protect their home, to protect the legacy of both nations Ancestors left. God trust them with it, and they shall prove it.
Her grim face almost scare the rest of them, thanks to Mikage who could draw another expression from the young Queen to warm the room. "Hey, Teito, have you heard from Ayanami-sama?"
Ok, not helping. Teito glared at him frostily, honestly, Mikage got himself frozen by the iciness. Teito gave him the cold shoulder too wasn't helping at all.
All of them sweat dropped by the scene.
"Ah…so cold…," Mikage muttered helplessly on Katsuragi's shoulder.
"Maa, maa," the older man smiled at him while patting his head firmly.
Teito ignored them, she took a small glance toward Hakuren. "So, you were saying that somewhere, in this…dryland, buried or perhaps sealed the sacred weapon of Eve?"
"Yes," Hakuren answered firmly.
"And our mission-"
"Your mission, sir, you saw the letter before," Hakuren cut her.
Teito grunted, "My mission is to find it and bring it back to the church?"
"It doesn't have to be the church, just retrieve it and back here. Defend this place until reinforcement come," he said easily, "At least that was what Jio-sama has me to tell you."
She grunted again, so un-lady like. She muttered slightly, "Why I feel like being used?"
Hakuren, who was the only one who heard her clearly, smirked. "You say something, Teito-kun?"
Teito scowled. "No, you're imagining things."
"I thought so," he deadpanned with a cheeky smile in tag.
The others eyed them suspiciously.
"Are we needed to know?" Hyuuga asked them.
"No/its none your business," thrown at Hyuuga at the same time by them, Hakuren and Teito.
Hyuuga just shrugged. "Anyway, so what we have to do now is waiting. And more waiting."
At that, Teito frown turned into small smile. "I don't think we have to wait that long, Major."
The Major of Staff raised his eyebrows elegantly. "And why is that?"
Hakuren, who was sat on the desk right behind Teito, stand up. He peered into the window behind her shoulder. He smiled too. "Now, because I can see that we have guests on our first watch point."
Meanwhile…
Lance groaned once again as Loki grinned behind his back. The blonde weird bishop scowled when he saw Loki hand him a small red box. "What is this?" Lance asked him.
"Not engagement ring, I assure you," he replied automatically, even though he really wanted to give him one. "It's a key; Chief of Heaven gave me days ago, right after I finish my business with Odin."
Lance sent him a half hearted glare at his partner's cheekiness. "A key, for what?"
"The 'BOX', of course, what else?"
Lance opened his mouth and closed it as fast, he frowned slightly as he opened the box. The key was pure silver with big, round garnet as it's single decoration. Silver keychain hung loosely. "Should I hand it to Vertrag?"
"You should. But better yet if you give it to Her Highness, Lady Eve," Loki said easily.
"And what should I say when she asked me about it?" Lance eyed him warily, he did not want to be the one who receive the end of her tantrum. "And Why."
The dark skinned Arch Angel Laughed loudly; he knew why Lance so worried. "Just tell her that 'its to find the Bascule'. And why it have to be you…its because I can't touch the damn key. I don't have Eve's power, the Light. I'm purely Darkness, my Lovely Ghost," he said, giving him his infamous flirtiest grin.
Lance scowled at 'lovely' comment but dropped it immediately. "We are close; by the way, do you think little Hakuren told them about his status yet?"
"I'm brave enough to bet that he, is, told them already about that. What's the matter?"
The blonde bishop shrugged. "Nothing, just curious."
"Do you think that he can manage to purify them?" Loki asked him again.
"Well, he's young, and quiet powerful even though he's not in his prime, yet, at least. He's barely 18 anyway," he tried to explain, "I have my faith in him, if you ask me."
Loki smiled knowingly, "He was under Castor, yes?"
Lance nodded. "Something's up?"
"Nah, I wonder if he have the same power as Vertrag…."
"Not likely, every new reincarnation of Ghost has their unique powers. It depends on their personality actually," he said, "And before you ask, I don't know, yet, what is his power."
The Scandinavian God of mischief nodded in understanding. "I realize that. Valkyries also have the same rule in reincarnation."
"The differences between Valkyries and Ghosts are they're female while we are female. We are under both Lady Eve's and Verloren's jurisdictions. And our power consist of both Light and Dark, while Valkyries purely Light. Even though some of them has darker power…," Lance said as Loki nodded. "And not all of them are a looker," he snickered.
Loki smacked his head playfully, "Don't let them hear you, or the Silver one might burn you, Lance."
"Not likely, Ghosts ARE stronger than Valkyries."
"By the way, wanna hang out later? I'll even treat you."
"It's not a date, is it?" he watched him warily.
Loki almost said yes, but after he saw the look from Lance, he sighed in defeat. "No, of course not," he said smiling all the way, 'yet.'
Lance gave him a nod before back to the task at hand, finding the western HQ. "Hey, Loki," he called as he saw black blurs from the northern side.
"Yeah?"
"Is that…"
Loki followed Lance's eyes, his eyes widened when he saw what the black blurs were. "Oh my God," he said slowly.
"Shit, they're not humans…, it's overkill, man….they sends Fallen Angels…."
Western HQ, First point's gate….
Everyone in the vicinity, except Teito and Hakuren, jaw dropped. Right before their eyes were thousands of Fallen Angels and their little minions, the blasted demi-kors.
"There's no way in Hell we can eliminate all of them," Hyuuga said swiftly, still trying to ease his beating heart. "That is overkill; do you think we can manage?"
Teito gave him a shrug as he titled her head slightly. "Wonder what should we do with this kind of situations…any idea?"
"And people call you the best strategist," Hyuuga retorted, but he immediately shut up as Teito sent him a glare of pain trademark, "Sorry, pretend that I never say that." He coughed slightly, "Anyway, what should we do now?"
Konatsu bit his lips. "I think we can just attack them from here?"
"That won't do," Hakuren cut him, "They're, freaking, fallen angels. That explain everything."
"But we can eliminate the demi kors, yes?" Mikage chipped right from where he stand; beside Katsuragi.
"If you have the necessary power, or blood, or life essence aka pieces of soul, then yes you, humans, can destroy them," Hakuren answered him.
"Geh, what's that supposed to mean?"
The Queen sighed, "What he mean, Mikage, human like you, couldn't defeat demi-kors that easily. It's almost the same like non-warsfeil calling wars or kors. Something must be given in equivalent. You want demi-kors gone, you need to give up either your blood, life essence of pieces of YOUR soul, or the necessary power; in this term, the Light based power or power that ruled under Eve's jurisdiction. That include the Elemental power except darkness," she explained to them in two breaths. "However, the Elemental powers are limited in each person and most of it isn't their dominant power. Once the Elemental powers of yours depleted, it couldn't be recharged. Eventually, you'll be dead man," she took a deep breath, "That is why; the military trained only the darkness part and the bishop the light part. None of them trained you people with elemental power. Because its not worth the sacrifice."
"But if we don't use it, this country will fall," Kuroyuri responded calmly, "I'm willing to put aside my darkness and use the elemental part, Teito-kaasama," he said softly.
"You can't Kuroyuri-kun," she said firmly, "Even though you can use the elemental and you can use the power of soul, you forgot one thing."
"And what is that?"
"All of you, and I mean the Black Hawk members in Ayanami-sama's team, have half souls. And that suicide. I won't allow it," she said softly, trace of soft smile could be seen before it's gone in a second.
Katsuragi butt in, "We're ready to protect this country with all means, your Majesty," he said softly at her.
"Yes, trust us, Teito-san. We, as proud Barsburg Empire Soldier and guardian of Raggs Kingdom, will protect this country. Trust us, Tiashe-sama," Haruse said softly.
Mikage looked so hopeful that Teito would let them fight. He sent a look at Hakuren in order to help him to convince Teito. Hakuren shook his head slightly as he smiled sadly at him.
Teito sighed slightly. "I understand that you people are ready to give your lives in order to protect this country. But…"
"But?"
"I'm not ready to lose you all."
TBC
