Kemono Friends: Cerulean Crisis (Because you are my best friend!)

by aquariistrike

On a world where the Smartphone app "Kemono Friends: Cerulean Crisis" is the biggest hit with mobage players, a big event is going to be held on celebration of the huge and still growing user base. But 7 days before the big day, no one expects what is about to happen. The following story revolves around Kaban and her friends who have to solve the mysteries behind the game.

13. Chapter 13

Chapter 13: Extermination.

DATE: OCTOBER-XX-20XX

AGENT: AURON

NOTE Nº: 00001

Today my sister, another two agents and I have been assigned to a mission in the outsides of the city, on request of Miss Mirai, we are to keep all progress noted on this journal application she installed in our phones, since the information is sent directly at her, with the purpose to obtain data.

The JSDF is fast to welcome us; they have sheltered the place and formed a perimeter around the limits of the place we are going to. Once again, Mirai's connections don't fail to surprise me. Soon, we will reach a facility of the game corporation where Mirai said they were doing 'tests' of the game and was infected with a huge sprout of Alfa Ceruleans. The installations have been properly evacuated by the JSDF and put into quarantine for the moment we arrive. They made my sister fill some papers before opening the gates so we could get in.

END OF NOTE

"Are we there yet? It feels like you've been driving for HOURS!" A feminine voice complains from inside of Aurora's car. The automobile is climbing a long steep slope of a dirt road in the mountains, the force the engine uses trying to reach the peak echoes in the forest.

"I-I wasn't going to complain, but Jaguar is getting motion sick, s-so we'll like to know h-how much is left". Another voice stutters from the car, this one also from a girl.

"I'm so sorry, is taking a while because of the dirt road, but we are almost there!" Aurora turns her face inside of the car apologizing, then turns her sight back to the track, sighing, "I should have listened to the JSDF when they offered us one of their trucks to come here," the woman rubs her eyes and yawns.

NOTE Nº: 00002

Once we reach the location, our mission is to deploy the ZAP skill system Miss Mirai added to all our Friends, and use this skill to eradicate every single Alfa Cerulean in the place. The JSDF was unable to deal with these monsters; they said and I quote 'the creatures could absorb the impact of the shots and disintegrate the bullets inside of their bodies', and since they can't bomb the place or it will draw too much attention from the city making it really hard to cover it with the news, we have been commissioned with this job.

Oh… it seems we are finally here.

END OF NOTE

By the moment the car stops, the back doors open wide and a Friend of black fur jumps out of the car, panting and exhausted, she coughs while rubbing her stomach. She is followed by another Friend, Aurora's group and Auron and his Friends.

Aurora switched off the car and yawns loudly, the woman rests her forehead over the sterling wheel while groaning when Brown Bear pokes the window – HYAAH! – The woman screams surprised. She looks at the animal-girl with tired eyes and gets out of the car.

"Are you ok? You have been acting like that the entire morning is starting to worry me." Brown Bear tells the woman while frowning.

"Do I look ok to you…? Let's just get over this," The woman says softly palming her cheeks, "EVERYBODY ROUND UP!" Aurora yells gesturing with her hand.

Immediately, African Wild Dog and Golden Snub-nose Monkey appear in front of her, they're followed by Auron, Lion, Aurochs and Oryx, who quickly group and start chatting. The black-fur Friend takes a deep breath and goes back to the car pulling out a wheelchair and setting it up on the floor, next the Friend goes back in and comes out helping a woman to sit in the wheelchair, bringing her to the group.

Lastly the other Friend of long hair who was stretching up sighs and jumps back in the car, dragging by the neck a sleeping Friend and a human girl who was wearing the same black suit as the others, but with a pink puffer jacket and sunglasses, fast asleep.

"How are they still sleeping? I could swear she was whining just minutes ago." The girl in the wheelchair says.

"Silver Fox, please wake them up." Aurora tells her, groaning.

"I'm so sorry!" The friend hurries, bows and apologizes to the woman then she shakes and slaps the two girls. "Wake up! WAKE UP! We have a mission to do!" She shakes them strongly by the neck until the girls react, rubbing her cheeks from the slapping.

"Silver Fox why you hit me? I was having the coziest dream…" The blonde Friend whines.

"Because Silver Fox is a party pooper and doesn't know fun" The girl in the pink puffer says, rubbing her cheek.

"A-hem!" Aurora coughs, "Sorry to interrupt your chatter, but we have some business to do."

"Another party-pooper…" The girl in sunglasses says while shrugging, walking in the group.

"Seems we are ready now…" Aurora says, looking at the group, the woman goes back to the car, unzipping a black bag and dragging a notepad, switching it on."The place is totally infested of Alpha Ceruleans; Friends are commanded to never let their humans go by their own inside of the installation."

"YES SIR." The animal-girls sing in unison.

"We are to deploy the ZAP system and note combat information from it," Aurora continues, "Don't let any Cerulean escape from the place, and use all availed meanings to destroy them if possible."

"YES SIR." This time the whole groups answer to her.

The girl gives a loud, awful yawn in front of the group, making them give her some awkward giggles. "Today I will not join… as you can see I'm really tired… I'll put Auron in charge… is that ok for you?" Aurora says, looking at her brother, the boy doesn't answer, he's spacing out looking at the mountains, Lion looks at him worried. "Hey! Earth calling Auron!" The girl yells, the boy jumps startled and everybody laughs.

"Argh, never mind that, then…" She turns to the girl in the wheelchair, "Fuyumin, you're in charge of the mission, is that ok with you?" Aurora asks to the girl smiling.

"M-m-m-me!? It'll be an honor!" Fuyumi stutters with a raspy voice, her face quickly blushing.

"How nice of her to put you in charge, right, Fuyumi? Let's make her proud!" The black-fur Friend whispers to Fuyumi in the ear, giggling, Fuyumi nods with an intense expression. "A-all the way in, Jaguar!"

"Good, that is all, the outsides of the place are well protected by the JSDF, so take your time and check every place corner of the place properly; we can't leave any Alpha Ceruleans running around." The woman says getting back in the car and lifting the seat, quickly turning around to sleep.

"W-w-well, you heard her… I mean me! Let's get in now!" Fuyumi stutters as Jaguar pushes her chair from behind.

The others follow her walking slowly, Lion keeps looking at Auron worried. "Is everything okay?" She wonders.

"Yes… sorry I'm just a bit distracted that is all." He says, smiling and petting the cat-girl head.

"Aurora…?" Brown Bear whispers from the door of the car, "If you aren't coming… then what is going to happen to us?"

"Isn't it obvious?" Aurora mumbles without turning around, "Without my phone you can't ZAP or use your abilities, you're staying on standby with me." She says scratching her back, yawning.

The bear-girl groans disappointed, slowly falling on the floor "No way… I thought we would finally do something more than surveillance today…" She pouts.

"But surveillance is just as much tiring as fighting Ceruleans Bear," Wild Dog tells her smiling, "I don't mind having today free! This place is huge, there's plenty of space to play around!" She says extending her arms.

"Wild Dog, you shouldn't risk your luck saying comments like that…" Golden Monkey tells her with a worried expression, "Because knowing Bear she would… look, is already happening." She points at the bear-girl who is stroking her chin, thinking carefully.

"Ugh… I know that expression." Wild Dog says scared.

The girl stays like that for another silent moment until she bumps her own hand. "I get it!" She says with a smile, "Let's use this time to train, Wild Dog say it herself, this place is big enough to train around!"

"To PLAY, to P-L-A-Y" Wild Dog yells stomping on the floor frustrated.

"You're talking to a workaholic…" Golden Monkey says with an awkward laugh.

"Can we? Aurora can we!?" Brown Bear asks the tired girl excited.

"Alright, just do it in a place where you can't wake me up." Aurora tells her waving her hand in goodbye.

"You heard her!" Bear turns to the girls, huffing. "Let's go to the forest! I'm going to make your bodies sweat a lot!"

NOTE Nº: 00003

The installation is bigger than our high school; it covers almost the size of a football stadium and is five floors tall. Even for all of us registering the building doesn't seem like an easy task, but for what Mirai told us, once we engage with the Ceruleans, the others will appear.

Our group is formed by four agents and nine Friends, with my sister as the leader. It was formerly made by the two of us, but the other two joined voluntarily. The first in doing it was Fuyumi, a college friend of my sister, she calls her 'Fuyumin', but Fuyumi doesn't let anyone else call her like that, her Friend is Black Jaguar. Fuyumi is a disabled girl of the age of my sister, she's very shy, but very reliable, it seems she joined because she admires my sister and is always trying to get recognition from her, I'm not sure if my sister is totally aware of this situation or not.

The second to voluntary was Chisaki Hagimura, or how she likes to be called: 'Charming Crystal' or just 'Crystal'. She's a pro-gamer and an Internet Idol sensation; her Friends are Red Fox and Silver Fox. Crystal is always complaining and whining, she never listens in our meetings and it doesn't seem she enjoys being here either. I'm really not sure why she volunteered for this job when is obvious she doesn't want to be here.

END OF NOTE

With a single slash of her claws, Jaguar breaks the padlock on the fence and Aurochs and Oryx open the gates while the cat-girl helps Fuyumi to get in. The group walks in slowly, quietly, they analyze the surroundings; the place is on a dead silence.

"Maybe they ran away." Crystal yawns loudly, fixing her glasses.

"That's not p-possible, the JSDF w-would have noticed." Fuyumi says looking at her.

The girl draws a comb from her jacket and starts brushing her hair. "Why don't say they ran away and go back home, that would save us time." She says.

"C-Crystal, w-we can't leave those things around here, they can h-hurt humans!" Fuyumi replies to her, annoyed, she turns to Auron next, "B-by the way… why is Aurora so tired?"

"Work… College, then work again, and now these missions and reunions… is amazing she hasn't collapsed yet." Auron answers automatically, looking away and spacing out, Lion pouts to him, angry.

"But Fuyumi," Silver Fox middles while fixing the clothes of her sleepy partner, "I can't smell a Cerulean anywhere here, maybe they did run away." The fox-girl says stroking Red Fox's hair.

"What… really!?" Fuyumi looks up to Jaguar, who scratches her nose and nods silently. "B-but that's not possible, if they r-ran away the JSDF should have t-told us instead of letting us in… what d-do we do now!?" She turns her face to Auron, "I can't g-go back and tell that to Aurora… I… I…" The girl stutters and trembles.

Everybody turns to Auron, who is one again spacing out, looking directly at Lion. The girl shakes and blushes until she flicks his nose. "Earth calling Auron, are you sure everything is okay?" she asks blushing.

The boy covers his nose and nods. "Yes... I'm just, erhm… thinking," the boy takes a pebble-stone from the ground and looks to Fuyumi, "They're here, we just haven't called their attention yet." Auron throws the stone inside of the place and the ground begins to shake.

"I can smell them now… a huge one is coming!" Jaguar yells while moving Fuyumi away from the fuss.

"So they w-were hiding in the underground!?" Fuyumi asks, holding on the chair.

The soil erupts in an explosion of dirt and dust; the Friends quickly react by protecting their kids from the explosion. The cloud starts to dissipate and the roar of a beast can be heard echoing in the mountains. A gorilla and a bear shaped Cerulean appear screaming and making a fuss, each one the size of a small house, they focus their sight on the Friends in front of them and quickly charge against the group.

"Quickly, everyone defense formation—. " Fuyumi cries, gesturing with her arms, but is interrupted by Aurochs and Oryx, who jumps in the air and smash the heads of the Ceruleans, pushing them back and making the creatures crash with the walls of the building.

"Hey! We are supposed to wait for orders before charging in this!" Lion says, waving at the girls while laughing.

"Let us take care of this Lady Lion!" Aurochs screams, clenching her fist, defiant.

"We won't let Lady Lion use her hands against unworthy foes again!" Oryx adds, drawing her spear and striking a battle pose.

"Ah, that couple of dumb heads." Lion groans scratching the back of her head, "Sorry Fuyumi, I know is not what you wanted, but let them take on these two." She gestures to her apologizing.

"F-fine, but do it fast, we need to g-get inside the place." Fuyumi nods to the cat-girl with a smile.

"So, you heard her!" Lion says, smacking Auron's back, "You have to give them a hand."

"R-right! Sorry" The boy stutters taking his phone out of his pocket, Lion holds in his free hand and slowly leans on his shoulder.

"Geez, is Aurora's brother fine?" Crystals asks while whining, "He's been acting really dumb all this morning."

"L-like you're one to talk," Fuyumi chuckles on sarcasm, "As f-far as I care he's the strongest of all, he's a-allowed to be a little distracted."

"Sounds more like you want to win his thrust so he talks good things about you with her sister," Crystals tells her with a grin, making Fuyumi stutter embarrassed and Jaguar to stand in the middle of them.

"Please don't get anymore close of Fuyumi, you're troubling her." The cat-girl shouts with a firm voice.

"S-sorry Jaguar," Silver Fox says while dragging Crystal away from the neck, "I take my eyes off her for a second and there she goes!" the girl throws a tantrum trying to release from her hands. "Why are you always looking for trouble!?" Silver Fox asks her, waving her tail furiously.

"Silver Fox… game, please." The somnolent Red Fox gestures to her partner.

"I know, I know… geez, is like babysitting two little brats." The fox-girls say, pulling a portable game console from her pocket and giving it to Red Fox, wiping the dust of the explosion from her face. "You should also keep an eye over Crystal you know?" Silver Fox says pouting.

"Can't do, playing" Red Fox answers shortly, switching on the console.

The girls are interrupted by the sound of the fight – BLAM! CRASH! – The Ceruleans fly and fall on the ground as Aurochs and Oryx corner them against a wall. "Oryx!" Aurochs yells throwing her spear to the girl, who catches it and uses it with her own spear to keep the beasts encircled. Aurochs runs excited in the opposite direction and skids on the ground, panting, she looks to Auron, "Whenever you want!" The muscled girl yells, stroking her fists together.

"Here it goes! I'm casting Wild Charge and Double Blast at once!" The boy yells back to her while tapping on his phone.

"Alright, let's do it!" Her voice each time more excited as her body glows on the aura of Wild Charge. Aurochs starts running towards the creatures and jumps in the last step, flying in the sky, the fists of the animal-girl glow with a yellow flaming light, she grins at the Ceruleans as she falls over the gorilla, blowing its head with her right fist which explodes on a yellow flame and creates a cloud of smoke. "TAKE THAT!" She screams, landing in front of the disintegrating creature. Almost like dancing, she turns to the other beast, holding on the energy of her left fist. "EAT THIS!" She screams again, launching an uppercut right in the face of the Cerulean, crushing its head on a burst of light.

The shockwaves from the explosions shake dust all over the place, silence reigns on the scene until the two girls appear back in the group, smiling wide from their victory. They wave their spears clean and kneel in front of Lion, closing their eyes.

"The Ceruleans were crushed, Lady Lion!" Aurochs says to her in a firm, loud voice, almost like a soldier.

Lion blushes and scratches her cheek. "Y-you know, this was fine inside of the game, but here you don't really need to put that act" She tells them with an awkward laugh, making them stand, "And is super embarrassing if you do it in front of others…" Lion says looking at the others, who stare at the scene confused.

"Is that so… sorry to unfortunate you, Lady Lion," Oryx whispers, standing while looking down.

"We didn't mean to cause you so much trouble, Lady Lion," Aurochs adds in the same tone.

"Ah, geez, it wasn't my intention to get you upset… I know you have good intentions so…" Lion moves her eyes to Auron, asking for help.

He approaches to Aurochs and wipes the dust over her head; making the girl's cheek gently fluster. "What Lion tries to say is you don't need to be so respectful with her that way," he holds on her face and smiles, "But she's still your Lady Lion so don't worry! You're impressive yourself, Oryx, your muscles are not only for show."

"S-stop it you're going to make me blush!" The bull-girl stutters.

"And you!" Auron says, turning to Oryx with a funny pose, making her snort. "You are really good when it comes to use weapons; you also did a good job there dominating those Ceruleans for Aurochs." He pets her and the girl silently rubs her head against her hand in response.

Note Nº: 00004

Friends, as far as now we still don't know much about how they became real, but they laugh like us, they feel like us and they bleed like us. However, their physical abilities surpass human limits; their bodies too, aren't built the same way as we do, for them to be half animals, is normal. My group is formed by three Friends: Lion as the leader, Aurochs and Oryx. The three of them are top the strongest of Friends we have knowledge about, but if you ask me, I think my sister's Friends are the strongest.

Aurochs and Oryx are good partners; both venerate Lion and follow her as in indisputable leader. Besides that, they have shown to have their own individual personalities and a will to make their own decisions, always fighting over the food and training routines.

Aurochs is loud and cheerful, she likes to compete and is constantly looking for reasons to test her strength, so is hard to keep her at margin, one day she hugged me and I passed out. She must be feeling really pleased getting cut loose on this mission.

Oryx can be as much as loud, but I have noticed, she may suffer of a certain grade of depression. Whenever Aurochs wins her over something she stays depressed for a long time, without talking to anyone until she feels better, there was a couple of times where she skipped meals even. I have decided to put special care and attention to her of all three; she has a bad sense of humor so, is really easy to make her laugh. In addition, both of them have a hard time studying and learning; they're natural klutz, in that matter.

END OF NOTE

"All impressive and surprising, but…" Crystal says, walking to Auron's group, clapping her hands, "But you didn't use ZAP, did you? I thought that was our mission" The girl gestures with an angry face. "Must be nice being able to do whatever you want just because Aurora and Fuyumi let you to do so."

"You sure don't mind the tone of your words do you?" Lion groans at her.

"Ah, how scary! Do Lion takes care not only of Ceruleans but also your discussions?" Crystal asks with a sarcastic tone.

"You little—" Lion flusters rubbing on her fist when Auron stops her.

"You're right." The boy nods, looking directly at her. "It was my mistake and it won't happen again, as the brother of the leader I will behave in the way is expected for me to do," The boy tells her with a kind smile.

Crystal frowns, grinding her teeth; the girl turns around and walks back to the Fox girls, pouting loudly. The boy pats Lion on the shoulder. "You must never give that kind of people what they want."

"Thanks… " Lion whispers ashamed, then coughs and continues, holding back the boy's hand "At least the shakedown seems to have wake you up, we are counting with you today so stay focused!" The cat-girl says to him with a smile.

Auron spaces out and takes her hand off without looking at the girl, Lion stares at him with a troubled and embarrassed expression.

After the dust from the fight has completely cleared and everyone has calmed down, the kids and the Friends get inside of the building by the front door. At first glance, it looks like any other abandoned edification, empty stalls, broken windows, dirt all over the floor.

They pass from the entrance and walk inside a corridor; the windows in the left give view to the forest outside, the ones on the right side show an open space in the center of the building, almost as some little park, and a pile of rust on the very center of the yard. Getting close of the windows they have a better view, the pile of rust is made of burned office machines. Computers, fax phones, even some chairs and desks, all burned and melted in one place, ashes still spreading out on the floor because of the wind.

Deeper on the corridor, they find the marks where the burned machines were, the stains of time revealed their past positions. Empty office where the computers should be are now empty space, some burned papers fluttering on the floor by small wind currents.

"They d-destroyed all evidence of what they w-were doing here." Fuyumi whispers irritated.

"Whatever it was must have been important for them to take such an effort." Auron says to her with arms on his head.

"W-what do you mean?" She turns to the boy.

"The only reason they left this place was because of the Ceruleans right?" The boy says, gesturing with a hand, "It means that in the middle of the chaos, they still took their time to pick all archives, papers and computers and burned everything before leaving."

"But still, b-burning everything…" Fuyumi strokes her chin, "Maybe the information t-they were handling was already s-secured so they didn't bother saving it?" She asks to the kid.

"Most likely," Auron nods, "But they really made sure to destroy everything before the JSDF or us got to come here."

"Why a c-company that makes a p-phone game would take such an effort?" Fuyumi groans looking at the ceiling.

"It's obviously related to the fact these girls," He says, pointing at the Friends with a thumb, "And the Ceruleans being real, but now we will never find out."

A little giggle interrupts the conversation; Auron and Fuyumi turn back and watch Crystal trembling, trying her best to contain her laughs until she drops on laughing in front of everyone.

"W-what's wrong with you!? We are being s-serious here!" Fuyumi yells at her, the girls keeps on laughing, inhaling deeply, trying to get back her composure.

"Is exactly because you are being serious that I'm laughing here!" Crystal snorts, wiping her eyes behind her glasses, "It seems I owe you an apology, honestly…" Her tone changes along with her posture, the girl slowly bows to the kids as they watch her confused.

"Care to explain?" Auron asks.

"Eh? Isn't it obvious?" Crystal asks while laughing, "All this time I've been thinking that you blindly trusted Mirai, and that you were following orders from above without hesitation," the girl chuckles, taking off the sunglasses, "But it turns out you aren't just some 'slave cops', you are actually thinking this through." She smiles to the kids while shrugging.

"W-was that a c-compliment or she still i-insulting us?" Fuyumi nervously asks to Auron, the boy only shrugs.

A current of wind comes from the depths of the corridor on the ground floor, the Friends react in unison smelling the air and the kids, noticing this peculiar reaction, try to gaze in the darkness, but they can't see anything the animal girls perceive.

"The essence of a Friend, is dim, but for a moment I could smell it." Lions whispers to Auron, slowly moving to a combat pose.

"The wind just b-blow from there," Fuyumi points to the cat-girl, "That means the smell was left behind, if a Friend was still here, Ceruleans would be chasing her." Jaguar takes the Fuyumi and pushes her towards the direction of the smell without hesitation, "Let's continue, we may find some clues if we know where the essence comes from."

Note Nº: 00005

Black Jaguar seems to have a natural strength of the size of Aurochs, she's quiet most of the time, and it seems to have a strong communication with Fuyumi as they move or act together without the need of sharing a word. It also seems Black Jaguar is aware of how Fuyumi looks up at my sister and she supports Fuyumi's efforts from behind. Aside from her behavior on here, she still shows some traits from the game, most of the time, she's unaware of what is happening around her and trusts Fuyumi to guide her and explain things to her. She is also quite humble and honest; when she gets to fight she always stands out.

END ON NOTE

The more they walk, the darker it gets, currents of cold wind striking now and then, turning left, they continue until a huge hole of light appears from the shadows. The hole appears to be made on all floors, separating them in half, on the ground floor the hole continues for what it seems to be a basement in the building, the wind coming from under the place. Jaguar points out one of the borders of the hole, there's a burned paper stuck on a piece of metal, Silver Fox carefully goes for it and slowly removes it from the metal. They group on a circle analyzing it.

"This where the smell came from," Silver Fox says, sniffing it.

"Certainly," Lion tells, grabbing the paper from Silver Fox hands and holding it against the light "Is too burned up to tell what was written on here though."

"B-but if the paper is burnt and there's a Friend e-essence in it, it means a F-friend was here on the day the Ceruleans t-took the building." Fuyumi gestures with her hands, taking a deep breath, "She p-probably helped the people on here to d-delete the evidence."

"Perhaps it was Caracal?" Crystal asks while taking the paper from Lion's hands.

"I don't think Caracal is the type of Friend who can keep a secret" Auron tells to her, snorting.

"Maybe Caracal is not the only one working with them," Silver Fox says gesturing with her hand. Crystal quickly turns to her with an angry face, the fox-girl makes a startled noise and stops talking, the kids stare confused, but decide to don't pay much attention to it.

Before the kids and the animal-girls can keep with more theories, a sound coming from the hole in the basement immediately shuts them up – GROAAARGH – the ground slightly shakes; the howl of the beast is quickly followed by hundreds of other small howls inside the building that makes everyone feel cold blood on their bodies. The Friends react instantly by making a circle and putting the kids in the center. The howls gradually decrease until they completely stop, no Cerulean shows up, they all sigh in relief.

"Communication," Auron whispers, "Just now… they were communicating with each other." He looks at the other kids, worried.

"The five floors reacted at the noise of the bigger one," Crystal adds, putting her sunglasses back on and stretching, "Is just as they said, this place is infested, but is nothing we can't take care of, right?" She grins to Auron and Fuyumi.

"R-right!" Fuyumi answers automatically with a serious face, "I-if Aurora thinks we can do it… is b-because we can!" She blushes at the end of the sentence.

Crystals cracks her neck and pulls a pair of black-leather gloves from her jacket, she puts them on while grinning; Silver Fox looks at her extremely worried.

"Does she suddenly feel motivated?" Auron thinks, looking at the girl stretching.

"Let's race to see who beats more Ceruleans!" The girl finally says, with a defiant tone she slowly postures as an Olympic racer about to set off. "However…" Crystals set off, running towards the hole on the floor "… I'm taking the big one!" She jumps, straight into the hole, everyone stares with jaws dropped; Silver Fox looks like she's about to have a heart-attack. "Yahoo!" The voice of Crystal can be heard decreasing as she falls.

"AT LEAST SAY SOMETHING FIRST!" Silver Fox desperately runs to the hole, "What am I going to do if you get hurt!?" The animal girl turns back, stationary trotting, she bows apologizing to the group and jumps as she's going inside of a pool.

Everyone is silent, whether to laugh or be worried they can't choose, the group slowly turns to Red Fox, who has been playing with her console in silence all this time. The girl frowns and groans until she can't keep pretending. She switches the console off and saves it inside her clothes; Red Fox skip-walks to the hole. "Ah, what a pain, I was getting into a nice part too" she mumbles and stops at the edge of the hole, turning back to the kids, she lets her body slowly fall inside as she waves goodbye to the group, disappearing.

"F-fuyumi!" Auron stutters, pointing at the hole, "Are we just going to let her go alone there!?"

The boy is astonish once again as he watches Black Jaguar take Fuyumi away in the wheelchair, just to turn back running at full throttle. Before the boy can say a thing or even scream, Jaguar jumps at the edge of the hole, crossing to the other side of the floor and making the wheelchair drift when touching the ground as Fuyumi holds tight on it while grinning.

"I'm t-taking this level and floor above!" Fuyumi yells to Auron, waving with her hand from the other side, "I-I won't let her beat me in f-front of Aurora! I'm leaving the other f-floors to you!" The girl smiles as Jaguar makes a spin in the wheelchair as she's playing with a skateboard, disappearing in the darkness of the corridor.

Note Nº: 00006

Ceruleans or Alfa Ceruleans, creatures that come from the phone game just like our Friends. They have no clear purpose to me other than being the enemy; however, they have clear differences from the ones in the game. Alfa Ceruleans here copy the shape of animals rather than the bizarre forms they took inside of the game. They aren't as colorful as their counterparts either, they also don't have core rocks, but they disappear in the same way when you crushed their cores in the game when you crush their heads here.

It also seems they're more intelligent than the others, they're capable of build structures, coordinate attacks and communicate through signals such as screeching. Today we are fighting Alfa Ceruleans who seem to be hiding to attack us by surprise, they must be confident of their knowledge about the building, which just reaffirms that we know nothing about these Ceruleans.

END OF NOTE

Lion breaks on laughter while Aurochs and Oryx look at Auron massage his head and slowly groans to the point of screaming, "The point of going here together was to take them on as a group!" He yells, making Lion laugh even harder.

"What should we do now?" Oryx asks, holding on Auron sleeve.

"Well, they said it was a race," Lion answer for him, holding in her stomach, still laughing, "Let's just take them on, right?" She says, smiling to Auron.

The boy takes a deep breath and smiles back to her. "Right!" he answers cheerfully, turning to Oryx and slowly petting her head until he makes her giggle. "Let's find a way to the third floor and then we'll decide what to do."

And so, every group separates from each other, Auron's group goes back in the corridor, and after inspecting some empty rooms and storages they find a door inside of an office that lead them to emergency stairs. Still with no signs of Ceruleans, they climb up to the third floor as told. Oryx comes out from the emergency door first, carefully observing the office before letting Auron and the rest to walk inside. The office and the outside of the floor shares the same similarities of the first floor, empty and full of dirt, some burned papers here and there, signs where computers and other machines were and probably now rest on the pile of burned rust.

"They're still hiding uh?" Lion mumbles, sniffing in the air. "What can we do to make them come out? Stepping inside the places where they can send a surprise attack doesn't seem like a smart idea," the cat-girl asks turning to Auron.

"Well…" The boy takes his phone and starts tapping on it, suddenly, Aurochs and Oryx jump startled, as they start shining on Wild Charge's aura. "Crystal went and made us compete for her own, but what if we also have a little race?" He says, smiling to the girls.

"Alright!" Aurochs jumps excited, "Let's do it Oryx! I bet I can take down more Ceruleans than you before Wild Charge runs out!" She points at the girl with a grin.

"Hey, wait a minute" Lion tells them worried but she's ignored.

"Bring it on! I won't let you win this time; I'm going to match the score!" Oryx brings out her spear and runs away in a hall.

"Wait! I'm telling you to wait!" Lion screams as Aurochs runs in the opposite direction and disappears. "Hey… you!" The girl turns to Auron and pulls his cheek all the way in frustration, "What's the big idea? Now we can't do the howl combo!"

"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts!" Auron screams until Lion releases him, "There's a good explanation for this…" The boy mumbles, while stroking his cheek.

"I hope is a good reason, you just let my little trouble makers run wild as they please," She pouts, looking away.

"But look, now we are alone" Auron tells her, gesturing with a hand. "When was the last time we were completely alone?"

"Eh? Well…" Lion looks down, ashamed. "Certainly, the four of us are always hanging out together… even in the house we don't have enough time for the two of us…" Each word makes her face turns red a bit more.

"That's why I thought we could use this little time… I have… something to tell you," the boy mumbles embarrassed, the girl quickly turns to him impressed at his words.

Note Nº: 00007

If Aurochs is strong and Oryx is agile, then Lion would be powerful. I guess you can say that I have an especial favoritism for Lion, after all I…

…

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"Ah, that was a good landing!" Crystals yells out loud, with Silver Fox under her butt, panting and mumbling.

The basement is a complete structure made of steel, infested with mold every corner. As far as the light from the upper floor can reach in the hole; revealing some tenebrous aspects of the place. Bed frames without mattress, a rusty and dismantled assembly line next to what looked like a construction workshop. Tiny stairs leading to an upper level, with a bunch of broken screens and a platform where thick cables hang up from the ceiling like a serving station; finally in one corner, a huge cabin with broken windows is protruding from one of the walls, gazing upon the basement.

"Never ever… do that again… I'm begging you" Silver Fox coughs, her face is a mess, she seems to be about to pass out.

"What are you saying? You made a nice catch!" Crystal palms her head softly, standing up, "Good job, good job" She sings to the animal-girl who fights to regain her composure.

"Crystal, why did you jump all of a sudden? I had to pause my game," Red Fox asks her, slowly sliding between pieces of destroyed floor.

"Sorry!" She smiles to the fox-girl, "But if we had stayed a bit longer with them, we probably had gone together to every floor hunting Ceruleans," Crystals shrugs and snorts, checking on her jacket until she pulls out a video camera and gives it to Red Fox. "And we couldn't be able to do this with them around."

"E-eh? Are we really doing this? Aurora said you shouldn't record our missions… this is supposed to be a secret." Silver Fox tells her with a voice full of pain, stroking her back as she walks to the girls.

Crystals gives her a short, sarcastic laugh, gesturing Red Fox with a finger for her to start the camera. "Who gives a fuck what Aurora says, I won't lose the opportunity of a scoop like this." The girl brings her comb again and quickly brushes her and Silver Fox's hair, fixing on her glasses as the animal-girl wipes the dust from her skirt. "Ready?" Crystal asks to the girl.

"Not like I have any other option, do I?" Silver Fox sighs and shrugs.

"That's the spirit! Do it just like we practiced" The girl laughs and puts on a glowing, pink lipstick on her lips. "You give us the signal Red Fox!" She waves to the Friend holding the camera.

"Ok, we'll begin at my count right?" Red Fox carefully takes a few steps back and turns on the camera, pointing at the girls. "Ready… 3… 2… 1… Cue"

"GOOD MORNING MY PRETTY FOLLOWERS, IT'S ME, CHAAAARMING CRYSTAL!" The girl screams like she has never done before, completely throwing away her personality and entering on a totally different character, every movement of her body is full of suggestive expressions combined with fake smiles and sudden winks. "And today as always, supporting me from the rear…" She stops and giggles, making Silver Fox angry, "We have your favorite Friend girl! I now y'all have been waiting for her lol! The unique and beautiful, Silver Fox!"

"HELLO EVERYBODY, WELCOME TO THE CHARMING CHANNEL!" Silver Fox screams imitating Crystal to every last pose, "Today's episode is going to be great, hope you follow us until the end of the video," the girl slowly shrugs and puts puppy eyes in front of the camera;"Pre-tty-please?"

"Ok, cut it there Red Fox" Crystal gestures to her, taking a deep breath, "Nice finishing touch Silver Fox; that was a good opening."

"I feel disgusting," Silver Fox says, sticking out her tongue with a grossed out face, "Why do we have to please the ugly men in your audience like this?"

"Because that ugly men pay our bills, you dummy," Crystal tells to her while checking on the camera, "Uh, yes, this is nice, the way you lift your skirt with your tail and almost let them see your underwear, you have surpassed me, Silver Fox."

"I'M JUST DOING AS YOU TOLD ME." Silver Fox screams fully embarrassed while Red Fox gives her a thumbs up.

As the girls discuss over the video, the ground slowly shakes with the roar of a beast, Crystal smiles wide, signaling Red Fox to keep recording. "Is coming… this video is going to be great!"

Note Nº: 00008

I don't know much about Red Fox and Silver Fox, the first is always sleeping or playing, lost in her own world, giving nothing of conversation material. Silver Fox is a total opposite, she's really nice and talkative, but Crystal is always dragging her along so she doesn't talk enough with us. They aren't much different from how they act in the game; I just haven't seen them fight yet.

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"Are you sure it was a good idea to run by our own?" Black Jaguar asks to Fuyumi, as she pedals on the chair traveling the corridors, "I'm sure there's going to be more chances to get Aurora to notice you."

"S-sorry Jaguar… I l-let Crystal get over my n-nerves," the girl looks down as she's pushed along, "I a-always do this… making y-you go along with w-whatever I want."

"Don't sweat it!" Jaguar says, giggling and taking a sudden turn to the left, making both girls gasp impressed, "That was a nice turn!" The cat-girl says still surprised.

"Y-yeah it fell nice!" Fuyumi adds a bit flustered.

"Uhm… what were we talking again?" Jaguar asks, looking down at Fuyumi, stroking her cheek.

"S-seriously?" Fuyumi looks up to her, worried.

Sniffing on the air, Jaguar makes a sudden stop and gets off the chair. "A Cerulean is coming," she stands in front of Fuyumi as the girl draws her phone. Slowly, from one of the doors in the corridor a group of three wolf-shaped Ceruleans come out, growling and menacing.

"Just t-three uh… y-you're underestimating my Jaguar!" Fuyumi points at them with a forced smile; then quickly presses on her phone.

A spark of yellow light emanates from Jaguar's right hand; the cat-girl waves the light around until it slowly forms a spear of light. The weapon sparkles almost as if a electric current is flowing inside of it.

"So t-that is ZAP," Fuyumi looks at it, gasping impressed, "It really looks exactly like what Caracal uses all the time."

"It feels heavy and weird… how do I use this?" Jaguar asks, worried, she takes a step back as the wolf come closer.

"I r-remember Caracal just t-throw it against the Ceruleans…" The girl also worries moving her chair back a little.

One of the Ceruleans quickly walks in front of the rest and jumps at Jaguar, both girls scream scared, Jaguar takes the spear with both hands by reflex and swings it against the Cerulean – SWOON – the body of the wolf is instantly cut in half. The creature drops dead in the floor and disintegrates in the air. Both Fuyumi and Jaguar gasps impressed and smile to each other.

"T-that's the way, just use it like a b-baseball bat!" Fuyumi points at the beasts while grinning

"I don't understand at all but…!" Jaguar says, quickly running to the closest wolf and ripping its head off on a swing, "I'm going to strike a home run!"

Note Nº: 00009

ZAP stands for Zapper Action Projectile, is confusing and sounds dumb, so we just call it ZAP. Is the weapon Caracal used on the train station and in the abandoned construction to take down the Alfa Ceruleans. Before going here, Mirai installed that skill in our phones for our Friends to use it against these creatures, it seems to be effective with giant types of Ceruleans, but we haven't found an Alfa Cerulean yet we can't take down with normal combat skills.

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"You said you wanted to tell me something… but it has been 10 minutes since that and you haven't opened your mouth." Lion tells to Auron, pissed off, they have been walking around for a while without sharing a word and is getting on Lion's nerves.

"Is just… what I have to say is… complicated." Auron tells her, scratching his head.

A tenebrous growling stalk from the corner of the hall they pass by, Auron quickly takes his phone, but Lion grabs him by the neck and hides with him behind a wall. "Oh no, you won't make me fight at this moment."

"B-but the Ceruleans," Auron coughs holding in her hand as she chokes him.

"You say it yourself, we haven't had time to be alone, I won't let you use this phone until you speak it up." Lion groans to him, releasing the boy and taking his phone.

Auron looks away frustrated, the shadows of the Ceruleans passing by near of them creates an awkward silence until they disappear in the other side of the hall. Lion turns to him again with a serious face, the boy gestures to her and apologizes, then takes a deep breath and begins to talk.

"The thing is… do you really want to be dating me?" Auron shouts with a frustrated expression.

"Ah!?" Lion yells, confused and angry.

"Lion… you see, this is a huge world, is so much different from where you were," He holds in her left hand slowly, "There's so much you haven't seen and learn yet, and the month you have spent in this world you have, only do as Aurora and I say," the boy gives her a sad smile, "I think you should forget about 'us', take Aurochs and Oryx and run away to live by your own."

Lion looks at him silently for a couple of minutes, takes both of his hands and smiles, giving him a head-butt.

"So all the time you spent thinking and spacing out was just for that trash!?" She screams at him, holding tight in his hands.

"What do you mean with 'trash', I'm being serious here…" Auron stutters, unable to rub the hit on his head.

"And in all that thinking you didn't wonder how I felt?" she gives him another head-butt. "Do you really think I or Aurochs or Oryx haven't realized all of that yet!?" Her face closer to him, with a mix of sad and angry, "I know, I know all of that, I know how everything is different now, I don't need you to space out for days to notice that!"

"Lion… " He tries to speak, but Lion's face immediately shuts him up.

"I don't need you to tell me all of that," the aggression of her tone gradually lows, "Do you remember how easy I came to help you when the incident in the school happened?" Lion snaps her fingers, "That fast, I started existing on a blink, so what does say I can't disappear from this world at the same speed?"

The eyes of the boys open wide and he slowly flusters, he didn't consider that possibility.

"Who says that tomorrow or the next day I won't disappear?" Lion continues, with a sad expression, playing with the boy's fingers. "We already thought all of that, going out by our own in this world… scare us… scares us a lot" She looks up to him with sobbing eyes, "But being with you, has made us feel secure, every day you wake up and go to school, it feels so weird when you aren't around… I want to be with you, if I had to know about the world and travel around the world I want it to be with you."

Tears silently falling from her face; Auron tries to talk, but she gives him another head-butt.

"I want you to be more honest with us, especially with me!" She screams, "Did you stop to think how I felt when I tried holding hands with you and you released me!?" She trembles, wiping her tears, "If only… you were more honest."

Auron stares bowled over, he scratches his head, frustrated, looking at the cat-girl who sobs on the ground. Taking a deep breath and with a decisive look in his eye, he hugs Lion tight by the neck, burying his face in her hair, the girl shocked and surprised, mumbles confused words which are quickly drowned on her own laugh.

"What—are you doing all of a sudden? That tickles, geez!" She laughs loudly and flusters, giving him soft palms on his back.

"You told me to be more honest… That's something I've been dying to do for a long time…" He sniffs on her hair and buries his face again, "I love your hair, is so soft and puffy."

"I-is that so…?" Lion blushes even more, feeling his breath on his neck, "It… it kind of feels nice."

"I love you, Lion." Auron, whispers into her ear, "I don't want you to go away, I also want to be with you, I just had doubts and thought letting you go was the right decision." He slowly brushes her hair with the tip of his fingers.

"Uhm… I love you too," She whispers back, wrapping him in her arms, "I just want you to stop thinking so much about it ok? If you ever have doubts again, share them with me."

"Lady Lion…? What are you doing to Auron, is he ok?" Oryx asks, she and Aurochs have been observing the two of them from a broken window. Lion immediately pushes the boy away, making him crash his back against a wall.

"N-nothing!" She stutters, red as hell, "A-anyway, what are you girls doing here, did Wild Charge wear off already?"

"U-uhm," Aurochs nods; looking at Auron standing up and rubbing his back, "So we thought of looking for him to cast it again… what you were doing here?" She wonders confused.

"No-thing, I'm telling you!" Lion forces her tone, trying to get rid of the question, she stands up and takes Auron by his hand, he smiles to her and holds her tight, they walk to the girls together.

"So? How was it?" Auron asks to the girls, checking on his phone.

"I took 10 of them!" Aurochs says while grinning, "Hurry up so I can take down more!"

"Auron! I only take 8 of them, I'm so close!" Oryx pouts and holds Aurochs by the neck to shut her up, "So hurry up and give me Wild Charge to me first, I can't let her win here!"

"Thaf chefting!" Aurochs mumbles as she chokes.

"Where are the Ceruleans left on this floor?" Auron asks to the girls, they signal to their right almost immediately and keep on fighting. "What do say? Want to give it a try?" He turns to Lion and smiles.

"Of course, take me in!" She gives him thumbs up.

"Eh!? That won't do, Lady Lion!" The girls pout in unison at the cat-girl.

"We are fighting so you don't have to!" Aurochs yells.

"You don't need to dirty your hands with such unworthy foes!" Oryx adds, trying to get in front of Aurochs.

"For how I see it you two have got enough of your portion of fun," Auron interrupts him as he and Lion walk in the direction the girls pointed out. "Now is time for Lion to have some fun too."

"There you have it!" Lion tells them with a funny tone, purring on Auron's arm as they walk, the girls stare at them confused and a bit embarrassed.

"So something did really happen, right?" Aurochs whispers to Oryx.

"Looks like it" Oryx whispers back.

The couple turns in the corridor and Lion slowly releases Auron's hand to take the lead, stretching and smiling, the girl prepares herself as the boy presses in the phone and her body shines on Wild Charge. The girl extends her arms all the way, taking a long, deep breath before releasing the biggest howl – ROOOARR – the floor trembles and the broken windows vibrates at her voice. Coming from the doors, the holes and the windows, a pack of wolf-shaped Ceruleans slowly walk to the cat-girl while growling.

"Let's start with Red Claws!" Lion screams, standing on all fours, the girl jumps at them before the boy can answer, he just presses on his phone as fast as possible. In a burst of red light, Lion nails grow sharp and long, about to 10cm, vivid red. The girl lands her claws on one of the wolves and slashes it off, landing on the floor, she looks to the other two near of her, she runs and climbs on the wall, chopping them in pieces on two swings.

"Lady Lion is the best!" The girls cheer from behind as the cat-girl waves at them, the pack of wolves grow in number behind her when she's not looking. Auron points her and she turns back, jumping startled.

"Geez, are you all so excited to get your ass kicked?" Lion says while laughing and clenching her fist, "Auron! Yellow Claws!" She screams, crossing arms on an "x" formation. Auron taps on his phone and Lion claws, change of color once again, this time glowing in yellow light and growing even longer, with a delicate but electrifying appearance, Lion swings her arms and the claws detach instantly, being shot against the wolves, the claws divide themselves on tiny segments of glowing pieces of light, slashing and chopping the wolves like a rain of blades, making them disappear.

In the bottom of the hall, one of the wolves still remains; the creature slowly takes steps backs and makes a sudden turn trying to run away. "Auron!" Lion screams changing positions again, this time she poses as she's about to throw a baseball.

"Blue Claw! You don't need to tell me twice!" The boy laughs as he presses on the phone. The yellow color of the claws fades away and the claw on the index finger of her left hand starts smoking on a blue flame.

Lion focuses on the runaway Cerulean and, pretending to launch a baseball, her claw explodes on a blue light and a tiny projectile flies off her hand. In the moment the wolf turns and tries to run in the other hall, the blue missile touches the wall in the corner, instantly making the whole hall explode in blue flames, burning the Cerulean to crisp.

Note Nº: 00010

If Aurochs is strong and Oryx is agile, then Lion would be powerful. I guess you can say that I have an especial favoritism for Lion, after all I…

… I love her.

END OF NOTE

"That's the spirit! Just hit it as hard as you can!" Crystal cheers and claps as Silver Fox bounce from wall to wall, glowing on Wild Charge aura, striking with her claws a giant and weird, bird-shaped Cerulean.

"What's wrong with this thing!? It's too though!" Silver Fox complains exhausted, the girl jumps and lands near the girls who are recording her. "Red Fox, give me a hand! I can't do this by my own!" She extends her hand, sweating and panting, waiting for her friend's aid. Red Fox nods to her, but in the moment she takes a step in, Crystal blocks her with her arm.

"No, no, that won't do!" Crystal moves her finger in negation, "If she can't do it by herself just boost her abilities!" The girl points at her phone, that Red Fox holds.

"Tch" Silver Fox mumble as she jumps again to avoid getting hit by the bird; the monster has been walking on all fours all this time with its wings. Red Fox looks at her partner troubled, unable to help her.

"Listen Red Fox, this is teamwork of three, I'm the host and you manage the video and skills and Silver Fox battles!" Crystal tells her while waving her finger in her face. "But I have to admit this thing is certainly tough, she has been hitting it for a while and it doesn't seem to absorb damage" Crystal thinks, doubting on her decision.

"I… Uhm… But Silver Fox…!" Red Fox stutters, watching her partner suffer.

"If you are so worried for her then cast ZAP! I wanted this to last a bit more, but let's finish it already!" Crystal tell to the fox-girl and she nods and smiles, pointing at Crystal with the camera. "Alright everybody, I know you must be bored by now, so let's give this a spectacular ending!" The girl cheerfully yells to the camera as she signals Red Fox with her fingers.

The girl presses on the phone and Silver Fox's right hand begins to shine on electricity. "Finally!" She yells as the current slowly takes form in her hand, she waves it between her fingers as it grows, then takes it with two hands when it forms the spear. Silver Fox runs and slides under the left wing of the creature, making a somersault, she positions behind the Cerulean and throws the spear with all her strength.

"HERE IT COMES! SILVER FOX SPECIAL ATTACK!" Crystal screams, extending both arms as the girl throws the energy beam on the back of the bird. The three are already smiling, feeling victorious, but the spear breaks in half when hits the back of the monster, only pushing it down on the ground. "Wtf, that's not fair!" Crystal pouts as she and Red Fox run to pick up Silver Fox, who trembles exhausted, holding on her knees.

"I'm sorry Crystal… I'm on my limit…" The fox-girl pants and shakes.

Red Fox looks at Crystal, angry and pouting, but before she can complain to her, Crystal takes Silver Fox arm by the arm and helps the girl to walk away. "I'm sorry; I put you in danger out there for nothing…" Crystal whispers to the girl as she carries her, "Red Fox, hurry up! We have to re-group, we can't do this alone!"

The creature stands up confused, shaking its head, the girls stop in their tracks trying to don't call their attention. The Cerulean growls silently before releasing a huge howl, shaking the whole building and making pieces of the ceiling fall. The howl is followed again by hundreds of other howls and screeches, with the sound of a stomping, Alfa Ceruleans of all sizes and forms run from all floors like a flood and fall over the bird Cerulean, the dough of beasts melt and combine together with the bird, increasing its size and volume at a worrisome speed.

From the upper floors all the kids feel is a constant shaking resembling an earthquake, from the yard of burned machines, a giant peak burst from the floor, slowly forcing its way out of the ground, a blue, prehistoric bird with multiple vicious eyes on its head waves its wings and howls, breaking all windows on the place and creating waves of dust, that make everyone hide behind the walls. The beast keeps fluttering its wings until starts floating over the ground, slowly storming with the wind it produced, the Ceruleans sets off in the sky trying to run away.

"The hell… was that…" Red Fox whines as Crystal tries to pull her out of the hole.

"A pterodactyl… I think" Crystals whispers worried, looking at the best fly on the sky, "Crap, is getting away, we need to move!"

In a question of minutes, the kids and the Friends group together in the entrance.

"D-did that pterodactyl came out f-from the basement!?" Fuyumi asks, to Crystal, pointing out at the sky.

The girl nods ashamed, "Y-yes… but it was smaller when we fought against it… I'm sorry, things got out of my hands!" Crystal bows, in front of the group, everyone stares surprised.

"I don't think anyone here will blame you for this," Auron says with a gentle tone, "However, is really taking its time to run away, is flying in circles…" The boy says looking up at the sky.

"I-is because it t-too heavy" Fuyumi tells him, gesturing with a finger, "It m-must be trying to gain a-altitude before l-leaving."

"How do we take it down?" Silver Fox asks while Red Fox puts a band-aid on her forehead. "I ZAP it and it just broke in half."

"In half you say!?" Fuyumi asks, surprised, without stuttering.

"That means we just need more power!" Auron says, extending his hand and looking to Lion, "I'm counting with you on this, my lion king!" He tells her smiling and blushing.

Lion reacts in surprise, blushing and answering the kid's gesture by giving him a hi-five with a grin. "And I'm counting with you, my lion King!"

The girl sets off running inside of the building as the boy draws his phone, the kids and the Friends look at the scene once again confused.

"D-did the atmosphere b-between them changed?" Fuyumi asks to Aurochs and Oryx, who just frown and nod to the girl.

As Auron taps on his phone, the cat-girl glows on Wild Charge aura, running and increasing her speed on the corridors, using the holes to jump from one floor to the other. Her right hand sparkles in yellow light, while her left hand finger shines with a red light. "So that's the plan uh?" Lion mumbles as she jumps to the fifth floor and draws the electric spear. "May as well try it!" The girl runs even faster, using the hole from the fifth floor to jump outside in the roof, she scratches the surface of the spear with her red claws, making it change from yellow to red and increase its size.

"It worked!" She screams to the ground floor, the girl looks up at the sky as she runs, aiming to the Ceruleans, she jumps and spins, throwing the spear with all her strength. The ZAP is sent like a projectile, piercing the left wing of the creature and creating a hole in it. The beast screeches in pain and collapses in the air, but manages to avoid the floor and tries to fly away from the building.

"Is n-not enough Auron, i-is going to escape!" Fuyumi yells to the boy, shaking and sobbing, "If Aurora sees it… IF AURORA SEES IT!"

"Calm down woman of little faith, we are just getting started!" Auron smiles to her pressing on his phone.

In the roof, Lion takes a deep breath, as she scratches another spear with her yellow claws, making it buzz loudly on electricity. The girls toys with it as she aims to the beast once again, Lion shoots the spear and it divides in the middle of the air, falling over the Ceruleans and piercing holes in the beast's body. The creature screeches in agony as it begins to fall on the ground.

"THE CAMP OF THE JSDF IS THERE, AURON" Fuyumi screams and panics, crying loudly.

"I know, I know!" Auron says to her, hiding his own worries, "Just one more!"

The roof explodes in a burst of light, shining and buzzing, a huge, ten meters; blue spear comes out from the cloud of dust, emanating blue flames from the tip as Lion waves it on her hand and aims. "EAT THIS AND DIE, CERULEAN!" The cat-girl screams as she runs and throws the spear. The missile takes power by itself and propels in the air, the flame growing stronger, creating a monstrous sound. It reaches the beast on a minute and it goes through its body like a knife cutting butter, the pterodactyl explodes and disintegrates like a balloon, Fuyumi passes out on the chair from the surprise.

Note Nº: 00011

The ZAP turned out to be quite useful. We fought an Alfa Cerulean with a hard skin composition, at first, the spear didn't make it, but it can be boosted with other Friends skills, making huge improvements on damage, this may be the ultimate Cerulean counter-measure.

The mission took us almost three hours in total, but we secured the area and eliminated all Alfa Ceruleans that infested the building. There were no casualties, Silver Fox got some scratches and Fuyumi passed out at the end of the mission.

When we were coming back, Crystal gave Aurora a SD memory and confessed to record our mission at our back despite my sister's previous warning about not doing it. Lucky for her Aurora isn't someone who gets mad easily, she quickly forgave her and gave the memory to Brown Bear so she could destroy it.

Everyone is emotionally and physically exhausted, most of them are sleeping on the car, Lion is resting over my lap… the three of them have won their snickers.

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