Relatus massaged his shoulders, rubbing a large crick out of it and walking up the stone steps to his house, something he hadn't seen in about three weeks. They had been hospitalized since then, resting easily against their beds, Leila on the border of lashing out at everyone for being in such an "un-aristocratic" position. It would have been well over six months before they could leave but luckily Kaede had healed up enough to use her vectors and they had gotten out much earlier than was expected, something he was glad for.
Kaede. The person he knew as Lucy, more importantly the one he knew as the murderer of his little sister Ericka Greenfall. He had spent his entire life behind a mask, smiling at others with cold revenge setting in his heart. He had hated Kaede for so long and he even openly admitted his obsession with killing her, he admitted that because of his revenge to kill her was no better than what she was herself. It was pain, pure unrelenting pain of his heart to do something against such a cruel world. His sister, would never again see the pure blissful and wonderful thing was life and the only thing he could imagine was the cold heart, uncaring look of that girl who murdered her in that hotel. How times have truly changed and, looking upon the sky, the clouds rolling, he is now truly happy.
Arriving at his door, getting out his keys he comes to a surprising thing that door is unlocked. Did he forget to lock it, truth be told when he had left he was more occupied with putting a bullet through Kaede's head then locking the door. Still he thought he was responsible enough to at least lock his own door. Preparing himself, his left hand gave a twist his fingers moving delicately as long black chain slithered out, floating around his neck and shoulders before he opened up. Right before he was knocked straight out onto the ground, he noticed one very important thing. There were about five, fully nude Diclonius girls in his house, two of them in the kitchen, attempting to cook some food, one looking out the window at the other end, one reaching up to the cupboard, the doors opening on their own and the last one right at the door, and his assailant.
"Ah! Please don't take us away…I'll kill you I swear I will! P-Please…"
Groaning, and deciding to just lay on the ground, Relatus gazed up at the girl, the usual pinkish tint of hair and red eyes, her hair long and flowing down her back. She had to be about fifteen with a look that bordered on freaking out. The other Diclonius in the house had stopped too, looking up at him with fear and curiosity. "Hey, I know you." One of them piped in, a small one, 13 years old as she ran up to the door. "You're the guy who was with Eneva, Relatus I think."
"Correct, now I've got a question for you all. What are you doing in my house?"
They all looked at one another until Relatus finally understood the circumstances. Of course, where would the Diclonius go? Sighing deeply, brushed the dirt and grass of himself and tightened his chains, putting more out defensively around his body he walked back up. His entire house, now that he had gotten a better look was in a state of total disrepair. The girls had gotten into his food, apparently had the decency to use plates and forks but after that, it was rather incomplete. Dishes sprawled all around the room, pieces of papers lying in heaps and of course all the girls walking around stark naked without any concern whatsoever. "Would it have hurt any of you to wear some clothes, you girls aren't in the facility anymore."
They looked at him with blank, childish confused looks as if what he saying was beyond their thoughts or just plainly unimportant. The black haired man gave a sigh, covering his face to kind of hide his embarrassment. "Alright listen up girls, you all can't stay here."
"Why not?" An 18 year old Diclonius muttered coldly, perhaps the oldest one in the group.
"Because this is my house, you're trespassing."
"Tsk. What are you going to do about it human? AH!" Right at the end of her words she fell face first, breaking her nose on the floor as the black chain tripped her leg and then swung back around Relatus' hand. "Let's calm it down there little girl, you may be a Diclonius but compared to the Queen you aren't much of a threat to me. Now settle down, I'm not trying to hurt any of you."
Some glared at him, while others just gave him simplified looks as he again sighed and walked in, about to get water from his fridge and noticed that it was completely empty. "Made yourself quite at home didn't you? I'm out on a ship getting the shit kicked out of me by an insane cybernetic bastard and having stopped my hunt for the woman who killed my sister, even befriending her. I should seriously throw you all out."
"D-don't…you can't." The sound came from the youngest, a small little 7 year old girl, timidly standing in the corner with her hands together, her vectors, almost as small as herself with a range even less than a meter as they hung around her. "I don't want to go back, I can't go back." She cried, tears streaming down her little face. Relatus straightened his shirt and again gave a low sigh, passing his fingers through his hair. "I'm not going to send you back to the facility, it's gone, and you Diclonius are free to do whatever you want as long as it's legal. Hold on, let me see the phone."
"Phone?" One asked, looking at the wall where a massive hole was currently stationed. Narrowing his eyes, Relatus groaned into his hand and reached into his pocket, pulling out a minute cellphone and quickly dialing.
"Hello, Maple Inn residence. Oh Relatus…" Yuka's voice said as Lucy's head perked up from the couch, looking over at the kitchen where Yuka was at. "Sure, she's here, hold on a moment." The brown haired woman came back, holding the receiver and giving it to pink haired woman, before giving Kouta a small, yet oddly saddened smile that he returned. It was of course well known now that Kaede and Kouta loved each other very much and Yuka was still in the stage of trying to accept that. She had nothing against the Diclonius, not after she went out of her way to save them all and nearly died doing it as well. It was just…hard to accept that was all.
"Relatus?" Kaede mumbled, wondering of course why the man would want to call her at all. They were acquaintances but there wasn't really a need for him to call, not that she knew about. "Think you can tell some of your Diclonius friends to not barge into people's houses."
"Excuse me?"
"There's about five Diclonius in my house, they ate all my food, broke my home phone and one of them is crying on my floor thinking I'll take her back to the facility. You're the Queen, talk some sense into them. Hey now, watch it! It's alright I'm not going to hurt any of you. Hey! Hey! Put the knives down…whoa!" More commotion from the other line until at last Relatus' voice came back on. "Seriously, they won't listen to me."
"Well I'm kind of busy at the moment." Kaede muttered, feeling no need to get up. Either by reading the future, or just pure coincidence Relatus knew that Kaede wasn't busy. "No you aren't, you're probably sitting on the couch doing absolutely nothing, horned woman."
"Ha! Well if you're going be rude about I'll leave." The Queen said distastefully as Relatus quickly tried to get the situation back under control. "Hey! Hey! Hey! I just want some SHUT UP!"
Kaede was taken aback by this sudden and rude outburst and was just about to give Relatus a piece of her mind until she heard, which was hard to ignore anyways, the man's voice blaring at the other end of the line. "I am talking on the phone right now, would it hurt you to keep your damn little traps shut once in a while! You are trespassing in my house, on my property! Eating my food and drinking my beverages!"
"Overkill…" Kaede muttered as she heard a small child crying in the background.
"Come on…come on. I didn't mean to yell at you, come on…you better put that table down…I'm sorry. I didn't mean to yell at you, I'm sorry, don't cry."
Though she'd hardly admit, the pink haired Diclonius was having a swell time listening to the conversation. Kaede chuckled lightheartedly, waiting for Relatus to answer back, for however long that would be.
"Just, got any ideas that I can do? A place to send them?"
"Nope, good luck." And Kaede held the receiver out just enough to hear Relatus going into a stream of curses and rages that hardly be fitted him the first time she met him, just as she hung up.
Of course now the small little girl was crying her eyes out, scared out of her little mind and breaking the table and walls with her vectors. "Stop it, please stop it. I'm sorry I didn't mean to scare you, it's alright."
"Maybe you should be a little nicer…" One of the other older girls began before Relatus turned, glared, and pointed a finger at her. "Shut your goddamn mouth woman." This instantly shut her up in a heartbeat. "Ah, ok little girl, what's your name?" He asked as kindly as he could, again wrapping his chains around his throat, arms, legs and torso for some small protection. The small girl looked up at him, her red orbs still shaking from her tears before she said in an overly soft voice.
"N-Number 94…"
"No. Not that number, what is your name?" Relatus asked. She looked at him with a quizzical look, tilting her head to the side. "Number 94."She repeated again with the same confused innocent look. The black haired man looked at her and came to the obvious conclusion that the poor girl just didn't have a real name. She had obviously been in the facility for a long time, perhaps even at birth and never got to know a real name. What a position to be in really, but Relatus decided to make a little choice of his own. "Let's give you a name, would you like that?"
She gave a nod. "Alright…how about…you can leave you know?" He said to the other Diclonius who stood around them. "Excuse me, but…" One began before Relatus quickly cut her off. "Excuse nothing, just because you were kicked around in a facility for years doesn't give you the right to barge into this house."
"Then where can we go?"
"Hm. Good point." Relatus said, he couldn't just send them out into the streets. "Alright listen up I've got an idea. Hold on, I'll be back in about an hour." Walking around the corner and down a short flight of stairs to his garage he gave another well-earned sigh. "Where is my car?" Relatus mumbled, looking at the blank spot in the dusty room. "That bit huge thing, we tore it up and threw it out. It was in the way." One said nonchalantly. It had to be a test of his patience right there that he didn't attack them.
"Fine then." He growled, his chains circling around menacingly.
"Yo Relatus you in there?" Thoughts suddenly cut short, the young man perked his head at the sound of a familiar voice. Stepping out of the garage, he saw Eneva at the door. The young woman wore a small cerulean jacket over simple green shirt and skirt, a floral pattern around it with small blue shoes. Her hair rushed down her back in waves of Silver and, he was quite surprised by it too, she wore a thin pair of silver spectacles on her face.
"I didn't know you wore glasses." He answered back.
"Tsk, nice way to say hello, Relatus." She chided shaking her head disappointedly. "Sorry Eneva, I've had a bit of a rough time."
"Most men I know would feel rather glad to have beautiful girls walking around in the nude." She spoke with a mischievous little smirk, eyes narrowing.
"It kind of loses meaning when my house has been all but destroyed."
"Awww." Eneva mockingly cried, putting her face in a false pout and looking up at him with sad eyes. "Here, I'll take my clothes off too." Relatus nearly choked as Eneva began pulling up her shirt, stopped and then laughed at his predicament. "Hahahaha! You know, you're a lot more fun when you aren't being all miserable and trying to kill Kaede."
"I suppose that amuses you?" He answered, wiping the sweat off of his forehead.
"Yep!" Ye said with a wide smile. "Besides, I saw your face, how embarrassing." She said, again mockingly lifting her shirt up and forcing Relatus to cover his eyes and raise a hand. "Just stop Eneva please…" Again she laughed, put her shirt back down. "Don't worry Relatus, Kaede gave me a call a few minutes ago." She said, flicking a small cell phone in her hands, wherever she might have gotten than legally. "Well I'm actually working at a string of hotels that specializes in housing Diclonius."
"You have a job already? You got only three days before me."
"Hah! It was easy." Eneva replied with another light hearted chuckle. "Of course…" The man replied simply. "So what about the glasses, have you always needed them and just never got the chance because you were in the facility?"
"Hm? No, unfortunately Jaegar apparently beat something out of me and now my vision has dimmed because of it. It's fine with these glasses but, damn it's kind of annoying. I don't think it makes me look pretty." She said.
"You look fine to me." Relatus answered with the genuine respect.
"Fine enough to see this?" She asked, again raising her shirt and forcing Relatus again to cover his eyes hastily. "Hahaha! I don't know what you're getting so worked up about Relatus. I mean you used to work at the facility, seeing nude girls shouldn't make you feel so uneasy."
"It's a lot different when ones getting undressed sensually like you did. You kind of ignore it in the facility." Relatus spat back and then fell over as Eneva abandoned all pretenses and completely removed her shirt, revealing her bare breasts much to Relatus' chagrin. In mock curiosity, she looked at herself before smiling. "I still don't see what the big deal is, I mean here…"
"What are you…WHOA!" Relatus, having just gotten back up feel back again as Eneva took off her skirt and shoes, standing fresh as the day she was born while the black haired man felt it safer to just look up at the ceiling. Something which didn't last long either as Eneva stood over him, of course giving him a splendid view and forcing him to turn his head. "Awww, are you alright Relatus?" She asked in a happy, childish voice. "Oh I'm having so much fun right now. You should really cheer up a little bit, put a smile on that face, let loose for a little bit!" She cried out. "It's rather hard for me to let loose with you laying down nude next to me." He uttered still looking away.
"Oh? Well then what if I did this?"
And again, much to his own chagrin Eneva started nudging up closer to him. "What in the hell woman!" He roared pushing himself up, red in the face and listening to the overwhelming laughter of the silver haired woman. The other Diclonius apparently were paying no attention to this and in fact weren't even in the same room now, with the exception of the small Diclonius child who held a finger to her mouth. Deciding, much to Relatus' glee, to get her clothes back on. "Ah that was so much fun. Don't worry Relatus I'll bring the Diclonius to the hotels, it'll be a good way to give them a home. Hope you liked the show."
"Shut it…" He mumbled, earning another laugh from the Eneva. He was dimly aware of Eneva talking to the other Diclonius before at last, thank goodness too, they left. "Finally….peace and quiet in my own…excuse me?" He muttered, turning around to see that same little seven year old girl looking at him with a quizzical look of curiosity. "Why didn't you go with Eneva?" He asked, she shook her head and wrapped her little arms around his legs. "Hey now, I don't know what you're trying to get at." Relatus mumbled walking away. He saw that little Diclonius child walking up to him, tottering off after him in what was quite an adorable spectacle. For who knows how many times Relatus sighed into his hand and continued on his way, letting the small girl follow him.
"Doesn't this seem like a bit much?" Sensa said, raising her eyebrows at what she could only assume to be was a fortress covering a single room. Cameras in every single direction pointed at every conceivable direction. On the walls small holes with miniature bullets currently in place though right now in the off position. At the very top, three circular vents ready to spill in a poisonous gas at the moment that something went wrong. This of course was the first room, a gate, there were three more of these gates with the exact same defense measures. "You've gone out of your way haven't you?"
"Of course." A small man in a white coat said. "I must address the need to be extremely careful when going in there and try not get too close. It, by all means should be safe but…considering what's in there I'd be on red alert."
"Tsk, don't worry about me." She said, stepping in. Coroana Sensa was a woman in her late twenties, her unnatural green hair pulled back in a strict ponytail and with a pair of piercing brown eyes. She wore a thin green coat, the shoulders etched in unknown symbols along with a viciously strict black pants shirt. At last when the final gate opened, she took the key, unlocked the dirt and entered into a room of pure whiteness. A blank state of a room, absolutely nothing with the exception of the padded chair at the very end of the room and the figure currently sitting in it, his arms brought back, head tightened against the back of the chair with wires sticking in his neck, back arms and torso. She narrowed her eyes, closing the door behind her while the figure raised his head almost lazily, and offered her a small smile.
"Ah, a guests, I don't get many of those here." Hector said calmly, his erratic golden eyes staring into her own brown ones. Scoffing she walked around, his eyes trailing her with unnatural glee as he gave a short chuckle. "These straps have really massaged those aching muscles in my lower back and this white room, such a splendid thing won't you agree? It's like a blank canvas ready to be drawn upon with such beautiful ideas. A shame I don't have a paintbrush but hey, with a little thought anything is possible I guess."
"Hector Havenfield." She said coldly, disliking almost every single thing about him the moment she saw him.
"Aye, that's me. Who are you?"
"That is of no concern to you."
"A shame, I thought it would be nice to know you. It'll be rather rude of me if I keep calling you 'that woman' after all. But, I guess I won't push you. Are you having a good time? I'm having a wonderful time."
"You're currently locked up, strapped and unmoving in an asylum. What's to enjoy?"
"Oh?" Hector said as if he could hardly understand what she was saying. "Are you blind? There's so much in this world that you just don't appreciate, look around you. The air, the room, the blissful feeling of nostalgia. A month ago something absolute splendid happened, on that ship, sinking into the refreshingly cold seas. So ask me again, with that face of yours that there is nothing to enjoy."
Glaring at him, she decided that she had enough. "Forget it, I have no reason to talk with an insane inmate."
"Eh? No reason, which is absolute bullshit." His words are harsh, cruel and in a sense of what Hector Havenfiled is, completely normal, which only makes it even more frightening. "You have a reason for seeing me, even it's just to see what I am. You always have a reason, every single reason to ever have is given even if that reason is as simple as a pin dropping on the ground. You are just like the others, you just don't appreciate the goodness in everything."
"Forget it…" Sensa mumbled walking away.
"I do have one little question though." Hector asked, still smiling that same dark, demented and incomprehensible smile. "Where is Kaede?"
"Hm? You mean the Diclonius Queen Lucy Lefenair?"
"No, though that was her name a while ago. She's Kaede Lefenair."
"She's where you think she should be, since you're the one who caused her all the trouble and had the Diclonius released out into the open. Why would you want to know anyways?"
"Because she is absolutely wonderful…and I wish to kill her." He replied darkly.
Sensa tapped her foot impatiently as the elevator took her down, the open windows revealing the streaming water, a few fish swimming past her. She arrived down into the very core of the basement, away from Kamakura City and stepping into a dimly lit room where three people stood around.
"Ah, back already eh Mistress Coroana, took you quite a fucking long time." The rude outburst came from a thin man propped against a white couch, a small wine in his hand. He wore a thick black jacket that opened up to reveal his silver vest. Thick brown khakis, the right leg ripped in the front as his straggly dirty blonde hair covering one of his dark magenta eyes. "I mean fuck! Where'd all these damn bitches come from anyways? Seriously and this vector shit, invisible arms that can do absolutely everything. Makes my life seem like a goddamn bore! Ah, thank god for these." He uttered, spinning in the air three black orbs without wire or rope. A small object attached to his wrist glowing, the only possible answer to what he was doing.
"Do you really have act like that Sedral?" The voice came from a small woman in a what might as well have been the most normal of any of the outfits the others were wearing. A simple white shirt with blue jeans, her black hair cut short except for a single bang that ran down the very front of her forehead.
"Well fuck me for living." The man named Sedral cursed, kicking back again and taking another swig of wine, emptying it in one swoop. "Fuck! I love this wine so much! Seriously, whatever bastard made this shit should have a fucking statue erected of him, or her, or whatever the fuck!"
"Hey, put this away will you?" Sedral said, throwing the glass to the last person in the room, the glass landing lazily at their feet. "The fuck? Can't you catch?"
The figure was entire obscured in a blackish red coat, the hood pulled over their head to revealing only the starring whites of something beyond that cloak. The body stood there, motionless and always silent, the only discernable sound of life was the slow breathing that came from it.
"Eh, fuck it. So Mistress, what's the down low on this shit? Still going after that bitch Lucy, or Kaede, or whatever the fuck they're calling her now a day. I say we just go after her and kill her sorry bitch ass now. Seriously, we know where she lives, just give the order and I'll break a shitty little neck! The little bitch has really done a lot with this world ever since she and her friends beat Hector on that fucking ship! Fuck that must've been quite a fight! Fuck this is some good wine! Fuck I'm bored out of my fucking mind!"
"Well maybe you should get something done instead of being so lazy." The short haired woman said coolly.
"Eh what do you know Elendora, ah!" Stretching his arms, Sedral turned around, kicking back against the couch with his arms behind his head. "Just give the orders Mistress, and I'll fucking kill those bitches. That old bastard Kakuzawa did all he could to try and replace humans with Diclonius and that shit failed. So now it's our turn right? To get rid of these little bitches and their so called Queen and have the fucking human race on top. Fucking bitch ass Diclonius! Hahahahahaha!"
"Kaede…"
"Hm?" Something had finally drawn their attention to the cloaked figure. "Did you say something Shade?" Sensa asked. They had come to just naming him 'Shade' which was well enough since he was just a shadow of a figure that they knew nothing about. He almost seemed to be completely oblivious to them and only seemed to take orders from Sensa. Hell they didn't even know what his face looked like.
"I am…now…come…"
"You alright there man?" Sedral asked, raising an eyebrow. "Don't go into a fucking seizure or something."
"…There…wind…I can't…what is…"
And then he went silent, his voice not even a whisper. Waving farewell, Sensa went back up the elevator, her plans going into the first stage of action.