Chapter. 10

A week had passed since Alisa awakened and Lance's life fell into a pattern. He'd get up, complete his missions, then go see Alisa and tell her about the biggest kill he made that day. That afternoon he was telling his latest story to his Russian friend.

"How close did it get" asked Alisa.

"Pretty close it almost got me, that scorpion was tough but I grabbed it's tail and rode it to it's back and just kept stabbing away"

Alisa giggled at the thought "Well you sure had fun"

"Yeah if you don't enjoy what you do then what's the point" The two sat in silence for a minute till Lance spoke up "Do you think I talk too much"

Alisa shook her head "No, listening to you is the only thing to do around here"

"Ha, glad to entertain"

The door slide open and Sayuka entered "Hello you two I need to speak to Alisa"

The girl's mood darkened from a minute ago "Sayuka, I'm sorry"

Lance took her hand and held it up "Alisa you have nothing to be sorry about"

"It's okay I'm not mad at you I just what happened that day"

Alisa hung her head but Lance patted her hand "Don't worry I got this" he stood up and told Sakuya the story, the conspiracy, and about the black vajra.

"I see thank you Lance, and Alisa"

The two nodded "Anytime"

"Still what are you going to do"

"Though all my proof is locked in her head it's still given me some leads"

"Okay just don't do anything dangerous"

Lance rolled his eyes "We're gods eaters we do dangerous things on a regular basis"

Sakuya smiled and shook her head "Well, just don't get killed and tell us before you get in over your head"

"Yes mom" Lance smirked.

Sakuya huffed and left the sick bay, Lance phone rang, he dug it out of his hoodie and read a text. "You have to go" asked Alisa.

"Unfortunely, Kanon and Shun need my help with four kongous" Lance got up and headed out the door.

Two days later Lance and Kota were in the lobby returning from a mission. "Man the gboro-gboro would not go down" said Kota.

"I didn't think it would endurance like that but still it's fins are going to be valuable"

The elevator opened and Alisa walked up to them "Alisa it's good to see you up, so they finally let you out"

Lance smiled warmly yet Alisa just hung her head "As of today I've been resigned to the first unit, I look forward to working with you"

Lance exasperation changed to worry "Hey what's wrong I've never seen you this gloomy"

On the lower floor the three heard some mechanics talking "Did you hear about that new type girl"

"Yeah the little wretch who trapped Lindow with a new type vajra and left him for dead"

"By the way after all those airs she put on she still can't go into combat anymore I hear"

"Guess she was all bark and no bite"

Lance felt his anger rising he jumped over the edge and landed right in front of them causing the two mechanics to jump in shock of both surprise and by Lance's landing "Hey if you have something to say to my friend then say it to her face, otherwise stop talking behind her back like cowards"

"Mind you're own business kid"

The other mechanic pulled his friend away and whisper to him but Lance could still hear them "Watch it that's the other new type Lance Firestar"

The first mechanic panicked then looked to his friend "No way, the one man genocide"

The two quickly left and Lance returned to the upper floor. Alisa still unable to look at them turned away "Why don't you laugh too... go ahead"

Kota stepped closer "We're not going to laugh at you"

"Yeah and we don't kick thou's that are down we help them back up again" pointed Lance.

"Hey did you know that new type vajra that attacked Lindow, seems like the europe branch was able to spot them too, since we've been encountering more and more of these new types lately I've been thinking it may be a sigh of something-"

"KOTA" the boy looked to Lance who waved his hand over his neck, signaling him to stop.

Kota put his hands on Lance's shoulder and whispered "Sorry you take it from here" the boy in orange left the two new types alone.

Lance turned back to Alisa as she looked straight at him "Could you teach me the proper way to fight again" Lance just gave her a confused look "I, want to protect someone very dear to me this time of my own free will"

Lance then gave her his confident grin "Then grab you're god arc we start now"

In the ruined city Lance and Alisa were scanning the landscape and found a chi-you wandering around. Lance pate the girls shoulder for reassurance "Alright let's get started, you take the lead try to trip it's legs then go for it's wings"

"Where will you be"

"Right behind you, when it's down bite off it's figures to go burst mode" Alisa nodded to start the hunt. Acting in unison the new types rushed down the cliff and slashed through the chi-you's legs, the aragami crashed to the ground and then lost it's figures to the two hunger god arcs.

"Release the god arc" yelled Alisa.

"Behold the ultimate power" shouted Lance. The chi-you roared in pain as the two gods eaters carved it to pieces, when it was over Lance gave him partner a thumbs up. "Nicely done"

"Thank you but it felt like you were holding back"

"So you noticed"

"I've seen what you can do to a chi-you"

Lance smiled as he shook him head "Yeah I could've killed it on my own but how would that help you" the boy took the core and they were off.

A few hours later Lance and Alisa were in the sunken gird "Alright let's split up and find the targets, there's a kongou and a ghoro so if it's too much for you call me, got it" the two went they're separate ways circling the grid. Lance was founding nothing till he heard a roar, when he got here Alisa was fighting off the ghoro-ghoro. Lance wanted to help but know she had to get stronger on her own, lost in thought he didn't notice the second aragami till it was too late to dodge Lance raised his shield to block but was pushed aside. The new type got up then saw his god arc was missing yet a black vine was attracted to him armlet and it let to his weapon, watching the kongou turning toward Alisa. With no to get his god arc and stop the kongou Lance grabbed the vine and swung it pulling the god arc around and cut into the kongou's back. Lance pulled on the vine to retrieve his weapon kongou turned to him and roar, Lance throw his god arc at the aragami and pulled on the vine again dragging his prey to the ground before the god arc came back to him. An evil smile spared on Lance's face as an idea formed he dropped his god arc, grabbed the vine and swung it rapidly spinning the weapon at his side he then throw the weapon to strike then pulled it back to repeat. Using this new attack Lance could keep the aragami at a distance while slashing it with more force. The kongou shot a burst of air at the new type yet Lance pulled back his god arc and used the shield to block, Lance switched to gun mode and fired some spark bombs to finish the fight.

Alisa was hard pressed in her battle, she couldn't find an opening to go burst mode and she dodged being eaten twice. The ghoro sprayed water at the Russian, Alisa blocked the attack but when she lowered her shield the ghoro charged toward her with it's teeth bared, the girl pointed her sword at the aragami hoping to stop the monster before it ate her. But then suddenly the ghoro flipped on to it's side. Alisa looked over and saw Lance swinging the god arc by the vine, the ghoro started to raise up till Lance throw his god arc again jabbing it into it's head and pulled to slam it's head down. Lance and the ghoro repeated to over and over while Alisa slashed at it's underside and in a minute the aragami stopped moving.

"Hey Alisa you okay" asked Lance walking around the fallen monster.

The girl devoured the core and turned to him "Yes thank you, though that was an interesting strategy"

"You like it who would've thought the black vine thing was that strong"

"Could you show how to that"

"Sure, after I get all the bugs out of doing it so, a couple of day sound good"