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"This building is ours!" Nathaniel shouted.
Dragon's Claw cheered as they entered the tower. Nathaniel entered, found the nearest piece of furniture, and fell on top of it and sighed. He rubbed the now healing stump of an arm "ouch…"
Ariana looked at Nathaniel. She was really horrified and shocked at the fact that he was a kakuja. She never thought one would be that close to her or that she was now dating one.
Ross walked over to Nathaniel and knelt down to talk to him. "So now a few more know…"
"That's a good thing in my opinion…"
"Won't she be scared of you?"
"Sometimes I'm scared of myself… if she is I don't blame her."
Nathaniel got up and walked over to Ariana. "I guess you know my dark secret…"
"I guess…" Ariana looked away.
"What are your thoughts?" Nathaniel looked a bit worried.
"You're a kakuja." Ariana whispered with a slight shiver.
"I'm sorry you had to find out this way…" Nathaniel looked ashamed.
"It's kind of terrifying." Ariana whispered not knowing if Nathaniel heard or not.
Nathaniel heard the comment and felt like he had been pierced through the heart. "I'll give you some space then…" he walked out of the room.
Ariana remained silent. She still had no idea what to make of the situation. Nathaniel being a kakuja scared her but she didn't want to lose him. She was in a situation she never thought she'd be in or wanted to be.
She walked through the building. She figured she should look around her new home. It look comfortable and safer than their old base. Then she paused."Oh my gosh Nathaniel didn't have an arm! How did I not realize this?"
Nathaniel sat on a rock that had flown in during the fight, he eyed the hole in his jacket. He suddenly felt queasy and his back stung. He grabbed his sides and his kagune lurched out and destroyed parts of the room behind him as he screamed in agony. His kagune was noticeably less solid and uncontrollably swinging everywhere.
Okazi walked up and tapped Ariana's shoulder. "Hey, have you seen Nathaniel?"
"He's missing an arm." Ariana whispered.
"I know, I saw it happen. I want to know where he is."
"I have no idea."
There was a thud above them. Okazi looked towards Ariana
"I'm going to investigate that…."
"Ok then." Ariana,said as he left. "I have to find Nathaniel and make sure he's alright."
Okazi gritted his teeth nervously. "Oh ok… um… g-good luck…" he tried to keep cool but it looked suspicious either way. He tried to walk out before Ariana could stop him.
"Why don't I come with you." Ariana suggested walking towards him. "You might need an extra kagune for whatever that was."
Okazi turned around nervously. "Uh-No! We should split up a-and cover more ground!" He said in a bit of a panic.
"I'm pretty sure it's only in one location. No need to split up."
Okazi took a deep breath. "I don't know if you want to see..." he warned.
"See what?" Ariana asked knowing she was on to something.
Okazi started to back up a bit. "There's a different world for fledgling kakujas… but in the end there is great power promised…"
"I'm not a kakuja." Ariana pointed out misinterpreting what Okazi said.
Okazi shook his head. "Not you, but the rest of us captains might be…" he tried to approach the situation tenderly.
"I just want to make sure Nathaniel's okay!" Ariana started to cry out of fear.
"Okay… but it might scare you…" Okazi looked towards the staircase.
Nathaniel was lying in the wreckage on the floor in obvious pain, he couldn't move much because of how fatigued he felt, he was so tired he paused regenerating his arm.
"You look like hell." Okazi didn't look shocked, he just laid a duffle bag on the floor and moved some of the debris.
"I know, it'll probably be fine after tomorrow…" Nathaniel tried to roll over but couldn't because he was still to tired. Okazi helped him up and handed him some food.
"The agents we killed should last a month, we gathered our own dead as well…"
"How many did we lose?"
"About 23."
Nathaniel looked at the ground sullenly hearing the news as he ate.
Ariana stood in the doorway. What she saw in front of her looked horrible. She wanted to run and hug Nathaniel and tell he'll be alright. But something was stopping her. She seemed to be in a battle between her fear and love.
The following morning Nathaniel called Ariana for a talk alone.
"You're arm grew back." Ariana said not knowing what else to.
Nathaniel looked at Ariana with a bit of a shame in his eye. "You're probably the only one of us who isn't a kakuja… I don't want you to ever feel afraid of us, so I thought I could try to bring it up to try to help you get to know and become more comfortable towards us…"
"Nathaniel I'm not scared of you just of the form." Ariana explained trying not to hurt his feelings.
He looked towards the window and he started to generate his mask and his dragon wing and tail kakuja kagune and hugged her, Ariana returned his embrace but realized he was turning her away from the window.
She looked up and realized he was shielding her from a missile that was headed for the building.
Ariana gasped. "Don't-"
The missile collided with the building and exploded 10 feet behind Nathaniel. They were both blown away and when Ariana's eyes opened again she was lying on a wall. She looked at Nathaniel, he was severely injured and his other arm was blown off along with his legs, he was lying motionless still wearing the now damaged kakuja mask.
"Nathaniel!" She cried out running over to his motionless body with tears pouring down her face. Nathaniel didn't respond. Ariana cried harder as a helicopter approached. "Please you can't be dead. I loved you too much to fear you. I can't lose you."
Ariana collapsed over Nathaniel's body.
Nathaniel slowly opened his exposed eye, he gently held his bleeding hand against her face before the eye closed and his arm dropped to the floor
Ariana continued to cry. She touched the blood on her cheek worried she'd accidently laid down on one of his wounds.
Soldiers from both sides were screaming orders as the CCG secondary squad advanced.
Okazi ran up and yelled to soldiers "All hands on deck!" He walked in and saw Ariana and Nathaniel "oh no…"
Ariana stood up. "I'm not losing him to the CCG."
Okazi nodded "we need everyone so you need to fight, Nathaniel will be fine for now, come on…"
"He better be or I'll be sure the CCG burn to the ground." Ariana deployed her ukaku and put on her mask.
"Use that, we'll need it." Okazi put on his mask as well and deployed ukaku blades.
Ariana jumped out of the window and used her Ukaku to fly down. Okazi followed as his ukaku became rigid and uneven. He also grew spines at the top of his neck. She landed smoothly ready to fight.
Okazi landed on a dove and stabbed them through the shoulders and immediately started fighting as a clawlike structure grew around his face as he gritted his teeth and growled.
Ariana didn't play any attention to that. Her sole focus was on protecting Nathaniel. A few CCG doves approached her. She readied her Ukaku and fired some spikes at them.
As she wiped out the first wave, another charged forward. In a blinding move. Arden spun in midair. She landed and it became apparent that there was a spike crest running up her back as they gathered in cluster over her head as a helmet.
Ariana nodded in thanks. She ran for a bit to recover some energy.
Arden didn't seem to understand her but beat the ground with her hands and yelled as she ran into the group of doves.
After some time Ariana shot at some more doves knocking them down. She wasn't going to let even one get close to Nathaniel.
"Midnight!" A familiar voice yelled.
He "Stephen." Ariana thought to herself.
He activated his Quinque and took an attack stance. "Where's the Viper?"
"That's for me to know and you to never find out."
He sighed and swung his scythe end at Ariana. Ariana quickly dodged it but didn't shoot at him. She needed him alive. He swung the tendril end to throw her toward the wall. Ariana took the blow but immediately got back up. She was going to die before letting Stephen get to him. He threw her threw her through the wall, in a fury.
"I want the Viper! I'll kill him!" He yelled in anger.
"If you think you're going to get your bloody hands even close to him you have another thing coming!"
A volley of shotgun shells flew at her. Stephen had activated his other Quinque.
An explosion rang out. When Ariana looked behind her she realized that it was in the spot Nathaniel should be.
"NOOOOOO!" Ariana cried. They killed him. They killed her love. She needed Stephen alive for now bit she wasn't going to show him any other mercy or any other CCG.
While she was distracted Stephen picked her up and threw her with his Quinque
She went through 3 walls at least. She rubbed her side and there was a painful crack. She probably broke a rib.
Ariana stood up despite the pain. It was very hard too but she had no choice, the CCG had to pay for Nathaniel.
Stephen walked through the hole in the wall ready to fight. Ariana through the pain got into fighting position.
Stephen primed the shotgun. "Just surrender."
"Never."
He fired at her leg. Ariana jumped but it still grazed her.
When she fell she realized they were fighting on top of a pile of corpses.
Stephen looked at the ground. "These ghouls we walk on are the best kind… dead…"
"No." Ariana said bluntly looking at the corpses. "The worst kind."
"These ghouls can't kill my comrades!" Stephen growled.
"I knew most of these." Ariana had a quieter tone. "Some really closely."
Something separated Stephen and Ariana, a ghoul. He had a dragon wing and and tail. But he had only two slits for the eyes, this kakuja wasn't Nathaniel.
"Viper!" Stephen screamed. The ghoul shook his head calmly. They then slammed Stephen back and they began to fight.
Ariana backed away. She stepped on an arm. She gasped it belonged to one of the Children of the Night. She couldn't mourn her fallen friend she had a battle to win.
Stephen seemed to be chipping away at the ghoul on pure rage and hate. Ariana shot a few spikes at him. Stephen used the scythe end to block and dodged a few while fighting.
Ariana needed to rest after that. Most of her energy had been drained from the crash.
It seemed like ever so slightly the ghouls were loosing the upper hand.
Ariana heard chomping on the other side of the pile. Weakly Ariana walked over to see what it was. A ghoul was there, he was obscured by his kagune, his hair stood on end as he feasted on the bodies. It was clear this wasn't a kagune, it was an artificial body manifesting. The form looked like a thin animal, then the head formed and its kagune formed, it had two massive wings and spikes down its back. It looked like a huge dragon. The giant dragon ghoul roared ferociously, it grew horns and looked toward the battle.
Ariana backed away a bit. She'll let the dragon do it's thing.
The dragon looked back at Ariana. It had three eyes. It looked a bit sad as it looked back. It then roared and dashed at the battle and started destroying helicopters and ground soldiers alike.
"Nathaniel." She whispered barely audible so only she could hear.
It was almost a miracle that this behemoth kakuja showed up as it turned the tide.
Over the rampage of the kakuja one of the doves screamed "What the hell is that!?"
Stephen realized he was going to end up like Michelle if this continued so he retreated with the group as the three eyed dragon roared at the retreating group.
Ariana fell to the floor. "Are they gone?"
The dragon deteriorated and Nathaniel only had a pair of jeans on, his shirt looked singed and torn. He walked the the other kakuja
"Nathaniel…?" The kakujas form started to disintegrate.
Nathaniel smiled. "Why hello… father…"
AN: Ender:More cliffhangers! Muahahahaha! And another 2000 word chapter! :3
Anime: Oh are we evil. Ender seems to have a plan going on but I don't even know. See you next chapter.
Ender:heh :3