Kito sat inside the armored transport boat. "Have you armored everything before I got back?" He said to Snow while he fixed the double bayonet to his rifle. Snow smiled. "Yep, I even got some guys to make the lobster drones. They're very effective aren't they?" She said, apparently overjoyed with results of her work. Kito frowned deepened. "Snow, I'm going to need your help capturing the hybrids on the ship as well as in the remaining kumos scattered around our home." He said finishing his work. Snow beamed. "Sure thing Brother!" She said and reeled from the battle.
Kito shook his head. You obviously don't know how grim this work will be. He thought. He looked up at his sister with his sad look. "What?" She demanded and only became more frustrated when her brother shook his head and sighed. He was worried for her. I'm going to destroy 'this' you Snow. And I'm afraid of what might happen because of it. He thought. He gave her a wry smile which she mistook for a sign of reassurance.
They arrived fifteen minutes after departure. Kito stood up and grabbed a grappling hook. "I'll lead the assault." He looked to Snow. "Watch my back will you?" It was more a command then a question but Snow nodded none the less.
Kito opened the hatch and climbed out onto the roof his rifle hanging across his back. He threw the hook with expert precision with a single twirler and watched as it latched onto the railing fifty feet above. He began his assent when he assured himself it was secure.
He climbed fast and stopped just before he made it eye level with the deck. He peeked over to see who was on top and noted the number of hybrids on the deck before he jumped high into the air. He gave them no chance to react. Instead he jammed to but of his rifle in the side of one's head and brought the butt of the rifle down behind them on the crown of another's who was directly behind him. He threw the rifle over his shoulders again and charged a group with only his hands and feet.
He punched one in the back of the head and kicked another in the forehead. He jumped into the air sometimes to get hit them in higher places or to strike at multiple opponents with a series of splits or round house kicks. He soon subdued the group and moved onto the next. He noted that some were already injured and tried avoiding confrontations with them. He didn't want to look back at his sister. He didn't want to watch her fight, he was afraid of what he may see.
But he had to and was relieved to see she was busying herself with tying restraints around their prisoners. He sighed and snapped his head towards healthier groups of opponents. It took five minutes to capture the first deck, which in that time their human counterparts arrived to see the devastation Kito himself had wreaked.
Kito nodded to them. "Have two guards the prisoners until we get transport, the rest, switch your clips to rubber heads and fallow me." He ordered and headed towards a flight of stairs. The first one wasn't intact so he began his search for a safe passage to the next level.
Kino watched from the top of the rig's wall. "So, he didn't ask her to come to help so she would actually help him?" She asked. Wren stood next to her and shook her head. "To break her, or at least see if she could handle fighting without hurting others. It's the best he could do." Kino frowned. "I don't like this." She said with a frown. "But he is trying to do the right thing." Wren walked closer to Kino's side.
"You're worried about him. Aren't you?" She asked rhetorically. Kino nodded. "About them both." She replied despite the question being rhetorical. Wren smiled. "Kito, I've made up my mind. I want him to be my husband when we come of age." She said with a sly smile. "WHAT?" Kino said after a moment's silence. Her eyes wide and mouth dropped open. Wren smiled and hugged Kino. "Twenty years from now, on this very spot, during a sun shower, I hope to marry him" She said and thus she left Kito in a state of shock.
Kino stood there for a moment then she turned to the horizon. "What is it with these vixens and sadistic humor?" She asked the air around her.
Kito stood on the third level surrounded. His party where back to back. Rifles loaded and bayonets menacing the spear & sword wielding hybrids. "Surrender humans and your deaths will be quick." Said a large reptilian like hybrid wielding a sword. "Funny, considering we are the ones with the guns." Kito herd his sister say, now realizing who he had his back against.
The leader apparently found this amusing. "We out number you!" The reptilian replied. Kito scoffed. "I fought worse odds. The best you can do is drop your weapons and surrender to us before anyone gets hurt." Kito said calmly. The reptilian laughed. "And why should we do that traitor?" He asked mockingly. Snow growled. "Because we will drop you, you moron!" She snarled. Kito shook his head. "Me and my impolite sister are from a race far older then you. Roughly the same age as the human race is." He said staring into the reptilian's eyes.
"Lies!" The reptile replied. "You lie!" Kito took a les human shape setting his gun down. His hands became claws, his fangs became for prominent in his mouth that was transforming into a fox's muzzle. "Why would I need to lie?" He asked and charged the reptilian weaving past the weapon and tackling the hybrid. The Reptilian only had time to let out a startled cry before he was knocked town onto the floor and unconscious. The rest of the hybrids backed away holding their spears shakily at the monster they now faced. A child broke their ranks charging him with a knife. A shot rang out and the child fell. Kito paused, too afraid to turn and see the rifle man.
He gathered his courage and turned to face his sister who held the gun limply with a shaking hands. "It was a kid…." She dropped the gun and collapsed on her knees. "It was a kid!" Kito gave her no chance to defend herself. He struck a blow to her head and pointed to her. "Take her back to the ship. Two of you remain. Tie her up with the rest of the prisoners. Search her for any weapons, even if you have to tear her clothes off, I don't care. She will not escape." He ordered. And so it was carried out.
Kito walked through out the the ship scouting for any hybrids his party may have missed. Many of the Chimera that were on the ship died during battle. Most of the Hybrid had died in the assault, others were injured and few made it out unharmed. The defenders would have bodies to bury. Kito came to a pool of water that the mutio would usually would be at. It was vacant. "Well. That's twice I've been here and I don't know-" He noticed movement in the pool, something hiding under the edge. Kito walked to the edge and crouched. He was in his half fox-form still so he could easily be mistaken as a hybrid at the moment.
He searched the pool left and right several times then paused at a particular spot. He repeated and saw nothing of interest. He sighed. "time to break the news to sister." He said turning his back. He took only ten paces when he herd something rise out of the water. He turned. A small mutio, a mutio child, was watching him with a curious look. Kito gave her a grin, or at least he though it was a 'her'. "Hello?" He said taking cautious and slow steps to the edge. When the mutio stayed steal he cocked his head and flicked his tail staying stalk still.
The mutio child examined him, and he her. She splashed at him and he corrected the angle of his head and sat down. The mutio dived under only to spring back up and spray water all over Kito. He smiled. The mutio copied his expression. He slipped into the water, and dove, allowing the water to wrap around him and become a flow. He darted here and there and then to the middle. The mutio watched and the copied him. When she reached the center she examined him more closely and let out a series of squeaks. He let a low hum in reply and then surfaced to take a breath before he began to search for a water way exit. He soon found it, though it was blocked by debris.
Kito took another breath of air and this time longer. He dove down to the blocked entrance and was, his hands against it. The mutio child watched as he did this and was amazed when the debris was shoved inward. Kito swam to the surface for another breath and dove again through the tunnel. He hummed lowly and turned to see if the mutio was fallowing him. He grinned and zoomed through the passage way until he met his next obstacle. Like before he moved it with the great force of his mind and he zoomed out into open water.
He looked back and saw the mutio cautiously fallow him. He smiled and head for the surface to take a breath. The mutio fallowed him looking around. The mutio wanted to play and for a time kito did. He didn't want her, as he had found out, to stay out. It was a bloody place to do anything. Kito lead her towards the tower and into the open gate of the rig. Kito sighed as he hulled himself out of the water. The mutio clung onto him like an infant. Kito smiled as she fell asleep into his arms. "Well, it seems I have a kid to take care of." He said watching her snooze.