This is a short chapter but it's also the beginning of the end. This story will end in 8 chapters and those will be large (some of them shorts). We are near the end, i want to know what do you think of it so far and also i want to thank you all for the support you all give me. It's been almost a year since i start writing fanfictions and this one in particular is one of the best i write so far.

Thank you all :D

Chapter 20: No Turning back

Hours later, after Murasaki escape with her God Arc, Hibari was still trying to search for her. Her Armlet was sending a signal, but she was too fast. Hibari finally finds her near Aegis, Tsubaki was trying to reach Lenka and the rest of the First Unit and Licca was taken to the Sick Bay by Gen. No one was answering. The giant earthquake must have something to do with that, they saw a giant Aragami flying to the sky. It was Nova.

"Where's Murasaki now?" Tsubaki asks

"I don't know how she did it, but got to the Island. She's trying to enter the facilities" Hibari explains. Tsubaki was talking through her earpiece, she was still trying to reach the First Unit. Still, no one was answering.

"Dammit. I can't contact with them. What now?"

"I can't believe what just happened" Said Kota. The First Unit saw how Shio, who should've dead, takes Nova to the moon. They fought the Director and won, but Nova was still active. They prepare for the inevitable, but it never occurred. Shio take control of it and take it with her, not before asking for a favor. She need to get rid of her body in order to leave. Soma was the one who had to devour her body in order for her to save them all. After the event, little spores fall from the sky, it was like snow.

"This is certainly a miracle" Said Lenka. "I still can't believe it either" He was happy, they succeeded. Alisa hug Lenka, his smile disappear and start to blush.

"I was so scared for a moment" She said. "I thought it was the end"

"Everything is all right now, Alisa. Take it easy"

"... We should get back now" Said Soma. "We have a lot to explain" Soma look at Sakaki. "Also, we have to say our goodbyes to someone" He was sad. He still hates his father for what he did, he could never forgive him for that. But even so, he tries to redeem himself. After he was defeated, he wanted him and the rest of the Unit to escape. "Are you alright, Doc?"

"Yes, i'll be fine. I just need a time alone, that's all" Sakaki look at Soma and smile. Lenka ends the hug between him and Alisa and heard interference on his earpiece.

"Do you hear it too?" He asks to the rest of the Unit. Soma and Alisa nodded. "Someone calling us. Hello? Is anybody there?" He speak through the earpiece, but there was only noise. "We should go back"

"At least everything went fine" Said Kota. "You don't know how scare i was and- What is that?" He yell. A loud noise come from the ceiling. "D-Did you hear it too? Tell me you did"

"Of course we did, Kota" Said Sakuya.

"LENKA! Do you hear me!?" Tsubaki yells through the earpiece. "Is anybody there? Answer me!"

"Yes! We are here! What happened?" Lenka asks.

"Listen to me very carefully, there's a-" "Watch out!" Tsubaki was interrupted by Kota. Everyone looks up and saw a giant God Arc's mouth in the ceiling. It stretches and bite the Aragami they've defeated. It takes the human like Aragami and swallow it whole, leaving the other body behind.

"This can't be..." Said Sakaki, he recognizes that mouth.

"Lenka, listen!" Tsubaki yells. "Murasaki is alive!"

"What?" Soma asks. The God Arc's mouth went back to the ceiling. Everyone looks up and saw Murasaki, smiling.

"Yes, and be extremely careful with her"

"Why?" He asks. Murasaki jumps from the ceiling and landed on the platform. Lenka looks at her eyes. Both were completely open, the right one was yellow and the left one was completely black. The Prototype was on her hands and connected to her Armlet. Lenka saw it moving, it was beating like a heart. The mouth didn't retreat. It was looking at them and growling.

"What is happening to her?" Alisa asks, but no one answers. "Murasaki, are you alright?"

"..." Murasaki didn't respond. "Are you talking to me...? Or are you talking to the other one?" She said with a sharp voice. They realized that something was wrong. Sakaki walks to her.

"Are you my daughter? Or someone else?" Sakaki stands right in front of her. He looks at the tentacle connected to the Armlet, it was also another that was tightened to her arm. "Who are you?" Murasaki smile.

"Your daughter's nightmares... And your creation" Murasaki raises the God Arc. The mouth retreat and transform again into a scythe. She was about to cut him in half. Lenka pushes the doctor aside and stop the attack with his God Arc. "You!" She yells. She throws her God Arc away, grab Lenka by the collar and smash him to the ground. "Do you remember me?" She smile

"I wish i don't" He said and punch her in the face. Murasaki didn't seem hurt at all. "What do you want?"

"... I want to Live" She said and throw Lenka to the Unit. He landed on top of Kota. Sakuya shoots at her, Murasaki raises her hand and tentacles come out of the Prototype. The God Arc jump at her hand and the tentacles tied themselves at her arm. She uses the shield and protect herself from the bullets. All that in less than a second. Soma appear behind her and was about to hit her, but she turns around and stop the blade with her bare hand.

"You are not Murasaki... What did you do to her!?" He yells and his voice echoed the entire place. Murasaki smile and respond with a question.

"Where the food ends up when you eat it?" She asks. "You want her back? Then cut me in half and you'll see her again" She pushes him away and kick him in the abdomen, so strong that send him flying to the other side of the platform. "This body..." Murasaki looks down at her hands. "It's too fragile, don't you think? It's time for me, to reshape it"

"What do you mean?" Lenka asks. "You won't get out of here so easily"

"Are you sure?" She asks. Murasaki takes her God Arc and rip it apart. No one was expecting that at all, Murasaki grabs the core from the God Arc and take it out. The Prototype falls apart after that. She looks right at the core in her hand, it was a mix of yellow, red and black.

"Say Goodbye to the last reminder of Murasaki Sakaki" She said and eat the core.

"No!" Sakaki scream. She swallows the core and everything stopped for an instant. Murasaki falls to the ground and cough blood, black blood. She then proceeds to take out her Armlet with her hands, She start to scream because of the intense pain. She ends up taking out the skin from her hand and arm in the process. Everyone watch in horror how Murasaki was taking out her skin. The Armlet comes off and the Aragami infection didn't wait to show up. "What have you done!?" Sakaki yells.

"Freedom again" She said, run to the border of the platform and jump. Everyone went after her, but she wasn't anywhere to be found. Lenka and the rest of the group couldn't believe what just happened to Murasaki, this was on another level. He calls Tsubaki.

"Tsubaki... Murasaki, she-"

"I saw it" She said. "I saw it through the cameras of Aegis... Come back for now. You all need to rest... and to answer the questions for HQ. I have to do the same too" She ends the call. Lenka sigh and went to Soma who was still on the floor from the other side of the platform. He got to him and speak to him.

"Soma... We need to go"

"... Leave me alone"

"But-"

"I told you to leave me alone, dammit!" He yells and look at him. Soma was crying. "J-Just leave me alone, Utsugi" Lenka stood there for minutes and wait for him to speak again. He told the others to come back without them. Sakuya takes them all back to the Den while he stays behind with Soma. Once they were alone, Soma speak again. "I lost her twice... I'm so sorry, Saki"

"... Saki?" Lenka asks. Soma didn't want to say it, but let it out.

"At one point i used to call her Saki... She liked it, and i like it too. But one day she was yelling at me and told me to stop calling her like that. It was the day she fights with her father and leave the Den for years. Looks like she forget about it when she come back to the Den, or maybe she didn't mention it because that day she told me that she hate me. She come back and act like nothing happen"

"She didn't want to lose your friendship" Said Lenka.

"That doesn't matter anymore... She's gone"

"Are you giving up?"

"In stating the facts, Utsugi. An Aragami infection is worse than being eaten by an Aragami... You turn into one" Soma look down. "There's no turning back for that"

I'll come back next month, i have finals in the next weeks so i have to focus on that for now. See you later