From the Start
Chapter 14 - Hole in the Wall
"Speech"
'Thoughts'
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN THE GOD EATER FRANCHISE HOWEVER I DO OWN MY OC.
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Winter's POV
Continuing to sprint towards the breach was a difficult task. There was a continuous stampede of Ghetto residents heading in the opposite direction to me. After numerous attempts of moving in the opposite direction to the swarm, I decided that the only way that I will be able to get to the breach was to go over them. This can only be done by running along the poorly constructed slums. After making my way over to the side of a building, I was able to scramble on top of it. As I got up onto the slum, I could see that there were a lot of holes in the roofs of them.
"How do people even live in these conditions?" I murmur to myself as I carefully run across the roofs, evading any holes that I could fall into. However, my luck didn't continue as the roof of the slum I had just landed on caved in and I fell in with it. Luckily there was nobody occupying the slum, however, there were numerous plank of broken wood, probably from the roof, littered on the floor. Seeing these as potential weapons, I picked up as many of them as I can. Unfortunately, my limit was four; two in each hand. I emerged from the slum and continued towards the breach. There were a lot less people in the pathway now as most of them had been a part of the stampede from earlier. Unfortunately, these stragglers will be the first to die. As I headed towards the breach, I found much more salvageable materials. There were metal poles, glass, barbed wire, scissors, bricks and sellotape. Using my craftsmanship skills I was able to construct multiple weapons which included scissors sellotaped onto multiple metal poles and barbed wire on multiple planks of wood.
"Hopefully this will do until I come across Aragami materials." I say to myself and make my way to another slum. I climb onto the slum and stand to full height, being careful to spread my weight evenly so that I do not make the slum's roof collapse. I look around to get a better grasp of where the Aragami have went. I see that one Ogretail has split off from a larger group of 5 and head to that area. I sneak up to one of the slums that is near it. I use my brick and throw it behind the Ogretail which causes it to turn at the noise. I see this as a chance and sneak towards it an prepare my metal weapon all the while tiinking,
'Using my knowledge of where the core of an Ogretail is, if I can just hit it a few times with the scissors then I should be able to kill it.'
I hold my weapon tighter as I get within five metres of the Aragami before leaping into the air and onto its back. It feels me land on its back and thrashes but I use the metal pole to and pierce into the area that I calculated the core is. The area is slightly below its neck and I break it as I pierce into it with the scissors. I jump off its back as it crumples to the ground. I use the scissors to hack away at some of the limbs of the Aragami. I now have two Ogretail legs that I can use as weapons and, using the rest of the sellotape, stick the Ogretail's head to one of its legs.
"This actually feels quite light." I say to myself as I take a few practice swings with my make-shift God Arc. I hear a roar and notice that another Ogretail has stumbled upon me. It roars even louder to alert the others of my presence. However, as it roars, I lunge at the Ogretail and stab the metal pole with scissors attached into its mouth and luckily damage its core. It crumples to the ground and I hide behind it to hide myself from the other Aragami that had decided to look this way. Luck is on my side as the Aragami resume their activity and do not investigate why the Ogretail roared. I wait a few more seconds before standing up and removing the legs of the Ogretail I had just killed. Now I had four Ogretail legs, one of which has the head attached, as well as the tail, body and head of the second Ogretail all as one weapon. I proceed to the larger group of Ogretails.
Coming within a 50 metre radius of the Ogretail pack, I pick up a brick and throw it beside me. This attracts the attention of two of the Ogretails. They rush towards the sound. However, they both go in a different direction. One goes to my right and one to the left. I decide to take care of the one to the right so I move further towards it so that I can ambush it. It moves closer and I use the Ogretail leg with the head attached to hit it. The weapon makes a clean cut through one of the legs of the Ogretail and I use this to my advantage and slash at the core of the Ogretail.
"One down, four more to go." I say quietly as I turn around. Only to be met with the face of an Ogretail. Shocked, I jump backwards and out of cover which allows the other three Ogretails to see me. I immediately start running towards the Ogretail that shocked me and, with the two Ogretail weapons I crafted, slash at the Aragami. It dies after the two slashes but, with my back turned, two of the other three Ogretails decide to pounce. I notice this and only just manage to roll away from the pouncing Aragami that crash into each other I take this opportunity to slash at them and destroy them. Turning around, I notice that the remaining Ogretail sends a barrage of spikes towards me. I evade this and they hit the ground and shatter into numerous pieces.
'I can use them later.' I think to myself as I launch myself towards the Aragami, holding my two weapons in my hands. I slash at the Ogretail once I reach it but it springs back onto its tail. Anticipating the pounce, I wait. When it does pounce I swing my weapons at it and split it in two. Then I proceed to the spikes that the Ogretail shot at me and create spears.
5 minutes and the rest of the Ogretails later, there are just three Vajras remaining. I climb on top of another slum and look around. I see a helicopter in the distance,
"That'll b my backup." I say quietly and continue to look around. I notice that a Vajra has cornered two civilians; a mother with a child in her arms. I immediately head in that direction. The Vajra roars right at the two people and using the Ogretail weapons, I hack at its teeth; causing most of them to drop out. It reels back in pain.
"You two should hide." I tell them,
"Thank you." The mother says back before running away. Th Vajra takes notice of me and roars again. This allows me to use two of my spears and blind it by stabbing them into its eyes. However, the roar alerts the two other Vajra and they both sprint towards me. I use their momentum against them by moving just as the two Vajra crash into each other allowing me to blind these two as well. The first Vajra that I had blinded swipes it claw towards me and I am forced to jump back. It hits the third Vajra that I blinded and the two of them start swiping at each other.
"This could actually work out." I say and turn towards the second Vajra. It roars and I see electricity starting to rise within a 50 metre radius. I start running to be outside of the electricity field. I only make it about 40 metres away from the Vajra when,
"Ah!" I scream in pain and am only just able to remain consciousness. Thee electricity hits the other two Vajra and they charge up their own electric attacks. Unable to move, I am forced to experience the pain or another two electric attacks. This time, I am unable to stay conscious and everything begins to turn black. Before everything does become black though, I hear a desperate shout,
"Winter!" It was a female's voice.
"Winter!" I hear a male's voice before everything turns black.
Buildings are on fire all around me and all I can hear is the pained screams of people that are close to me. In the first floor of the building I am in, there are countless flames. The smoke is rising and begins to choke everyone on the higher floors, including myself, my family and my friends.
"We're going to have to jump!" A 12 year old me shouts.
"Are you joking? We're on the fifth floor!" Is the response I am met with.
"Listen! If we try to get to a lower floor then the smoke and heat will become worse! We will die before we reach the first floor! If we jump now, we can still survive!"
"Nonsense! We will continue forwards!" The same man, my father, responds.
"Fine then! I'm going to jump out! I'll meet you on the outside!" I shout and jump out of the window. I hear them scream my name when I jump. I land with minor injuries, somehow, and look back at the window I jumped out of. Nobody is there. I walk towards the entrance to the first floor. Minutes later and they still have not come out.
"Where are they?" I say silently to myself, looking around and noticing that all the other buildings have collapsed. I then hear the foundations give way. I turn towards the sound and see the building collapse.
"There's no way anybody survived." I say, emotionless, "Everybody would have been crushed under the higher five floors and that is if they were still on the fifth floor." I turn away from the building and walk away. Everything then becomes white.
Remembering my fight with the Vajras, my eyes shoot wide open. Only to be met by a blindingly white wall. I her a giggle.
"You know, you shouldn't have done that." I turn my head to the right; where I heard the voice. I see Sakuya sitting there.
"I never thought I would see you sitting at my bedside." I state as I try to ease myself into a sitting position. I fail though and hear another giggle,
"Here, I'll help." Sakuya says as she grabs me from under my arms to pull me into a sitting position.
"So..." I begin, "What happened?" I ask Sakuya curiously.
"Well, we won." Sakuya started before I intercepted,
"Any casualties?"
"Thanks to your skills, there were none. I mean, apart from you." Is Sakuya's response and I give relieved sigh.
"You gave Kanon quite the scare though." She speaks again which draws my attention.
"She hardly ever left your side."
"Wait, how long have I been here?" I enquire.
"Three days. In fact, I only recently kicked her out of the infirmary so that she can go and eat something."
"She's been at my side?" I repeat confused, "Why?"
"Oh like you don't know." Sakuya responds sarcastically.
"I know she cares about me but I didn't know she cares that much"
"She does" She replies and an awkward silence begins.
"Winter, listen." Sakuya starts as she rubs her neck, "about the other day."
"Don't worry about it." I interrupt her, "I know how much he means to you." That leaves her speechless. "It's obvious that you care for him Sakuya."
"Thank you, Winter." She says. Seconds later a question pops into my head,
"Hey, what happened to Alisa?" Sakuya gets up and moves to the other side of the bed where she moves the sheet back from the bed on the left of mine.
"She's been here since you left her." Sakuya says sadly. Sakuya continues, turning to me,
"Hey you're going to be here for at least a week. Can you..."
"A week?" I shout.
"Well, yeah. You were hit with three electric attacks. That will take a while for your body to heal." Sakuya answers.
"Oh." Is my dejected response.
"Anyway, can you look out for her while you're in here?" Sakuya asks as she moves towards the door.
"Yeah sure."
"Great. Thanks" Sakuya responds before leaving the infirmary.