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Darkness surrounds me, cold, dark, and all penetrating. I look about to try and make out my surroundings but my eyes could make out nothing.
The ground below me felt a little like concrete but I couldn't quite perceive it. As if my sense of touch was numbed.
Out of the darkness I see two familiar blue orbs pierce the shadowy curtain.
It was Ciel, crying bloody tears and wearing a noose around her neck.
Her cold hands forcefully grasped my shoulders and pulled herself face to face with me.
"He's coming," she rasped.
I jerk awake as if forcefully shook.
I am in my room.
"About time you woke up," I hear a hoarse voice.
I turn my head to see Logos.
"Logos, are you ok?" I ask.
"Oh, I am fine," she said, rubbing her red eyes.
It was obvious she was crying.
"Logos, how did I end up in my room?" I ask.
"I-I saw Cpt. Dynami deposit you in this room...after...a-after" she breaks down into tears.
I edge closer to Logos to try and comfort her.
I was met with a slap to the face.
"H-how dare you!" she growls, then continues to sob.
She continues to sob for a solid minute, whilst I recover from a blow that rivaled that of something Harpuia would have dished out.
She breaks the silence, "Keno...I'm sorry I shouldn't have slapped you I-"
"DON'T HIT ME AGAIN I COULDN'T HELP I WAS UNCONSCIOUS!" I scream flailing my arms in fear of another blow.
"SHE WHAT!" she exclaimed jumping to her feet.
"Wait wait wait," I started but she didn't seem to hear.
"Oh, she is sooooooooo going to get it!" Logos says storming out of the room.
"Logos wait, you shouldn't-" my objections fell on deaf ears.
She bursts out of the Barracks doors, "CAPTAIN DYNAMI!"
Cpt. Dynami rushed to the sound of the angry voice calling her, "problem Logos?"
"What did you do to Keno?" she asked in a low menacing voice.
"I kissed him, but I think I might have gotten a bit carried away," she replied nonchalantly.
"C-Carried away!?" Logos exclaimed.
"What do you mean by carried away?" I ask incredulous.
"You were there, I accidentally knocked you out," she replied.
Logos was still fuming despite the explanation.
"Whats the matter?" Cpt. Dynami asks.
"Wait, were you and Keno-" Cpt. Dynami starts unaware of the landmine she is stepping on.
"Bitch you want to go!?" Logos asks.
"I thought you would ask," says Cpt. Dyanami, removing her gun belt.
Logos rushes Cpt. Dynami at a blinding speed with a roundhouse kick. Dynami didn't react in time and was sent flying.
Cpt. Dynami landed on her feet and wiped some blood from her mouth.
"Not bad *huff puff* my turn," she said with an evil smile. She did an imitation of my rebel yell and came at Logos with a punch slightly more slowly than what she is capable of.
Logos did a high kick at empty air, her determined expression replaced with shock.
"Behind you!" said Cpt. Dynami before back handing her.
Logos quickly twisted around to avoid losing balance.
"Is that all?" mocks Cpt. Dyanami.
"I'll scratch your eyeballs out! raaaawr" Logos lunges at the Captain.
"Should I stop them?" I ask myself. I begin to ponder the spectacle before me. My superior officer, and best friend, are having a cat-fight...over me...awesome...
Wait...isn't there something more important I should be doing right now?
I hear a loud rumble and the ground shook.
Then silence.
The silence was broken by the sound of an air-raid siren.
Vector, Wedge, Biggs, and Harpuia run towards us.
"Whats going on?" asks Cpt. Dynami whilst she retrieves her gun belt.
"The base is being bombed," says Vector.
"Neo Arcadian?" Logos asks.
"It is quite possible Zero has found me somehow," Harpuia replies.
"The bomber is about to make another run we got to get underground now!" says Wedge wary of the skies.
Vector motions for us to follow him to a nondescript manhole cover. I hear a rumbling, this time much louder and the ground quaking even more fiercely.
"Get in get in!" he yells.
The lot of us climb down a long ladder into an old dried out sewer system. I nearly lose my lunch at the stench of a thousand years of decay assail my nose.
"It is far down enough that we should be safe waiting here," Wedge informs us.
"No, this is just the beginning, they were luring us down here," Harpuia chimed in.
"Why the hell didn't you tell us sooner?!" demanded Cpt. Dynami.
I hear another rumble above.
Harpuia motions upward, "That's why."
I begin to ask what do we do next, but my words are interrupted by the sound of gunfire.
"Fool you warned them of our presence!" I hear a cold voice echo.
"Run," says Harpuia.
The whole group begins to flee down the hall, except Harpuia.
I turn back, "Harpuia, what are you doing? Run!"
"No, there is no escaping him without a diversion, plus he might be just after me," he replies.
"But you didn't finish my training, you have to come with us!" I tried to reason with my mentor.
Harpuia flashes a feint smile, "The last thing I can tell you is that we never stop learning. I am sorry I was unable to teach all I could teach, I shall carry that regret to the grave. Here take this saber, it shall be proof that my legacy continues through you, may it be your ally in the trials to come."
He tosses one of his sabers to me.
"Thank you, master," I reply, humbled.
"Thank me by living to fight another day," he replies before disappearing into the darkness of the sewers, never to be seen again.
I look behind me and realize the group had fled without knowledge of my absence.
I quickly begin to book it to catch up with them.
I run through the darkness and the stench in the desperate hope of escaping my potential pursuers and catching up with my friends.
All the while the sound of bombardment has yet to stop, and that little voice at the back of my head is telling me the ceiling could cave in on me at any minute.
My breathing becomes labored as a minute of running passes. I am forced to stop and catch my breath, despite those nagging fears.
"Keno!" I hear a voice call.
I see Logos rush towards me out of the darkness.
"Where is everyone else?" I ask.
"When we discovered you and Harpuia missing I volunteered to go back and look for you," she replied panting.
"Don't bother about searching for Harpuia, he decided to stay behind to hold them off," I decide to avoid beating around the bush, it is better that way.
"Harpuia is..." she starts.
"Dead most likely" I reply.
"Keno," she says.
"Yes?" I ask.
She forces herself to speak, "That voice from the other team we heard...I think it was...Zero."
On Zero the sewer behind us decides to cave in with a loud crash.
We are cut off from out allies, and trapped in with our enemies.
"I think we are screwed," I say to Logos.
"Indeed you are," a chilling voice replies.
I am blinded by the sudden flash of flashlights.
"Put your hands in the air and get on the ground!" another voice barks.
We have no choice but to comply.
A silhouette appears out from behind the lights held by the soldiers, a very familiar one.
It was Zero.