Ambition of the Illuminous: Lands of War

Episode 3: With Heart and Passion

Chapter 3: Physical Presence

"Not another one..." The slightly tall Newman female teenager opens the letter and scanned it quickly. Her face went from bored to confused as she read the sender of the letter. He of all people would never send a mail to her; he was friends with his sister, not her.

"Why on earth would he ask for my help, I thought he wasn't around anymore?" She sat down on her bed to examine the letter even more.

"Why would he ask for the details of Project 'Aria'?" She looked in bewilderment before starting her reply.

-Guardians Colony: Eugenic's Room-

The room was hazy, the light was dim and he couldn't see very well. It was like his optical system has been off for a few days straight. His eyes focused then unfocused getting use to the lighting but failed to optimise so he just shut them again. He tried to sit up but the stiffness of his body didn't allow the flexibility to move so his lied back down on the pillow hoping for help to come...

After laying still and allow his systems to reboot and load his movement settings for about an hour, his body function began to come back to him. He turned over and tapped the information orb wondering where he is.

'Eugenic Hurtz, current class; Protranser.' The orb recited. He sighed heavily and flopped back on the bed. Right at that time, the airlocks from the door gave way and a CAST female walked through the door. The CAST female sighed at the first sight of Rayo on her bed. It seems that he was asleep, just like he has been for the past three days...

"Still not active yet Ray?" She asked to no one. She looked on at him assuming that he was still inactive state that the he was in since he his body gave in at his now destroyed cottage. She looked at him softly, face heavy with concern. She walked over to what seemed to be his prone body, lying there. She sat on the edge of the bed and took Ray's head into her hands.

"When are you going to wake up?" She asked. She stroked his face silently causing Ray's body to tremble ever so slightly, but not enough to make Eugenic notice. She then placed his head back on the bed and began to sit up. But not believing what she was seeing, Rayo seemed to be turning over on to his side. Eugenic stared in amazement as he casually changed how he was sleeping while muttering a few words of frustration in the process. Eugy ecstatically jumped up and down in happiness with this sudden development. Even though he was on the bed, she leaped at him, almost crushing his frame underneath her.

"Ow! Watch the body work!" Rayo screamed as Eugy caught him in a death like hug in surprise.

"I can't believe you're up Senpai!" She cried as her hug got more powerful. She squeezed down so hard; Rayo felt the air leaving him at almost the same intensity as one of Sierra's attacks.

"Alright! Let me breathe!" Rayo called out as he struggled for air. Almost straight away, Eugy let him go. As Rayo began to sit up, his body didn't comply the way he would want to and took extra time to sit up. All the loose body locks inside him were being lifted one by one as he stretched out the limbs of his body. One thing that caught his attention was sight of his left arm again. He flexed it suggestively to see if it was in working order. The arm responded with precision as he began to move it up and down, then left and right. He smiled at the person who had the hassle of putting him together like that.

"It's nice to see you have your arm back. It was worrying to us..." Rayo nodded at her concern. He looked under the covers to see that he was just int the swimwear shorts. He laughed to himself wondering how ruined his Formal wear was.

"Well, do I have anything to wear now since everything was back at the cottage?" Eugy smiled and nodded.

"Well, there is a brand new Formal wear waiting for you on the table..." Rayo smiled at that, he thought his one will cost an arm and a leg to replace, literally. Eugy then leaned in. "I would advise you to leave it off though..." A rush of synthetic blood went to Rayo's face. Their faces were inches apart before Eugy's PM system went off. She sighed as she pulled away and got up to answer it. Rayo let out the breath of air he was holding and flopped back on to the bed. Eugy came back a couple seconds later looking slightly dejected, Rayo giving back a puzzled look spurred her to speak up...

"I need to go confirm my registration for the next operations so I'll guess see you later while you rest up here..." She walked to the door before turning around again. "Later Senpai."

Finally able to get his new formal wear on, he felt comfortable in something that he was used to. He felt safe, calm and able to free his mind. But again that was short lived like everything else in this system. To his surprise, the air locks on Eugy's main door unlocked as he heard light gentle footsteps walk across the ceramic wooden floor.

"Rayo! You in here?" A feminine voice called from the shop entrance. Rayo's head jerked up as he seemed amazed on how she got in.

"Back already Eugy?" Rayo called back getting up. There was a small hint of nervousness within him as he got to the door. He got as far as the other side of the cushion seats of his room before Eugenic walked in, but something took him off guard. She was dressed in a light blue and white CAS-miko set that showed of her cleavage and her upper body. Some sort of seduction spell was put on the other CAST's mind as he tried to take in what is going. Eugy scanned Rayo's face for some sort of reply, but none seemed to be given. Rayo snapped out of his small daze to examine the situation. After blankly looking at her for a few seconds, he brushed the overcoat of the formal wear from between his legs and tilted his head. Eugy only smiled.

"What's wrong Senpai, got nothing to say?" Eugy was mocking him and he knew it. But yet should he go for the bait. This is the other side of Eugy he sensed earlier...

"No, I don't actually." Eugy giggled lightly took a few steps closer to him, in turn, Rayo also backed away slightly. The distance game was getting to his head and he knew it.

"See anything you like?" She was mocking him again even though it was a legitimate was of seducing him right out of his clothes. She again took a few more steps towards him and forced him back a little until he hit the wall. Their eyes stayed locked until she totally closed the distance.

"Eugy..." Rayo whispered breathlessly. Eugy smiled inside knowing she had him where she wanted him.

"Yes Senpai..." She whispered back. She placed both hands on his face and pulled his head down to meet his lips. As the soft synthetic skin met each other for the first time Eugy moaned into his mouth. It has been too long since she felt anything like this before, and it was overdue that she needed something like this. She didn't hesitate to slip her tongue into his mouth and began to gently caress his with hers.

Eugy used her own momentum and strength to flip them round to have Rayo press her against the wall. Rayo hands slowly down her body, the slow torturous feel felt like static lighting and brought a deep moan from Eugy's mouth. He lifted her up slightly as he gently kissed down her neck; the gasp from her mouth was more than enough to tell Rayo he was doing this right. Feeling more confident about what he was doing, he thrust his thigh between her legs so he pinned her up. Whatever brushed her feeling between her legs made her arch her back and grind into him.

"Senpai..." Eugy breathed as she slowly began to grind and kiss him as the heat between them grew. Her synthetic senses heightened as the feeling of the two bodies became warmer and lust filled. She felt herself get ready for acceptance for one of her closest friends. Maybe this means that they are not friends anymore, maybe their closer than that now. But deep inside each other's head, that was the furthest thing from their mind.

"Ahh..." Eugy moaned out loudly as Rayo's lips travelled down her body like thick flowing lava down a steep volcano. As his face reached at the point of their clearage, his lustful desires were blocked off by the clothing she dawned for this occasion. Rayo frowned inside at this new barrier he has to go through to get what he and Eugy wanted. Eugy smiled at his predicament and casually reached behind her dress and was about to unclip it before she heard her door's air locks unfasten and release. She knew she forgot something and now both her and Rayo was about to pay the price for it.

"Who is it?" Rayo whispered quickly. Eugy's reply was caught in her throat for a while before she spat it out.

"Sen..." She croaked.

"Shit..." Due to Rayo's position he wasn't able to turn around and defend himself, not like that mattered with Sen anyway.

"Well well, what do we have here?" Rayo slowly lowered Eugy so she was on her feet, looked at her than nodded.

"Sorry about that Sen..." Eugy apologised. Her voice trailed into silence mid sentence.

"No matter, I need to speak to Rayokarna..." Sen commanded. Eugy nodded waiting for her to start. Her waiting was cut short as Sen's eyes went towards her again, with a little more hostility. "Alone..." She commanded again causing Eugenic to jump slightly then bolted out of the room. Sen Then turned her attention to the young male CAST in front of her, he facial expression turn from emotionless to serious as she addressed him.

"Formal meeting, on your knees..." She commanded swiftly. Rayo complied with no hesitation.

"Yes Scejntynahl-Senpai." Rayo said kneeling down. Sen met his height by sitting down on her knees also. She scanned him before she cleared her throat to speak.

"After all of the trouble Sierra has put me through, if she comes out of this one alive, I'm gonna snap he arm in two for a little reminder of what she has done..." Rayo nodded silently. "If that doesn't go to plan, it will be yours instead after all the stunts you pulled. I thought I taught you better than that!"

"Yes Senpai." Sen shook her head for the moment.

"But whatever you did back there may have given us our only hope in beating your best friend. I am grateful for the sacrifice you were willing to give and that is true Guardians material." Sen's lips form a very small smile which would be difficult to read by another person.

"Thank you Senpai." Sen took out something from behind her and offered her hand to him.

"You earned this; I hope it makes life easier..." Rayo looked what was in her hand and smiled. Softly he took the device in her hand and slotted it just under his neck.

"Thanks for getting my transformer back. I thought I'll never see it again." Sen ruffled his low cut hair and brought his forehead to meet hers.

"Don't mention it. Just use it this time." Before getting up, she planted a small kiss on his head. As she got to her feet she nodded signalling for him to rise. "Stay out of trouble ok?"

"I will Senpai and thank you." Sen gave off a small laugh while walking off.

"Just remember your arm when this is over." As she got to the door she saw and anxious waiting Eugy next to it. "Remember, lock the door this time." Sen said before walking off...

-Several Days Later. Operation: Firefly Swarm-

"Alright, most of them are already in there. We need to back them up and make sure they are able to get through the mansion halls that lead to the underground passage to Howzer's Mansion." Rayo said to the man on the back of his hover bike.

"Ok, but are you officially back yet?" The man shouted back to him through the noise of the engine.

"No, but I'm doing them a favour by turning up." He sped towards the mansion at full speed. As soon as he stopped up near the Mansion, him and the man quickly jumped off and ran into the giant house.

-Inside: Grand Hallway-

"We need back up on this side, there is more of them then we thought" Red said dodging another incoming shotgun blast. Backtracking slightly so that Scarlet can give her easy covering fire to shake off who ever that was on her tail.

"As you can see our team is split." Scarlet snarled as she sniped another Illuminous CAST in the head with her Blackbull.

"Where is Rayo when you need him...?" Ryn said quietly as she parried another attack and lashed out with her Crea Doubles. Unfortunately Ryn was caught off guard by an oncoming attack from behind. Just as the attack was about to be delivered, several shots form out of view nailed the CAST and rendered him inactive.

"Who did that?" Red called out. Blitza looked at her and shrugged.

"It wasn't me..." Blitza replied.

"Me neither..." Said Scarlet.

Just as Red was about to charge the line of CASTs in front of her instantly produced bullet holes and fell to the ground. Everyone looked around in disbelief to what was going on until...

...A man with long hair jumped from the balcony above them armed with a pair of heavily modified pair of GRM Twin Handguns flew into the crowd of enemies. All of the surrounding enemies were down in no time flat. The rest of the party looked astonished to who it was. Until the name scrolled up the in battle display unit...

'Hand of Thornz has joined the party...'

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