Pinpoint Conviction
Chapter 25: Gurgling Split Trembling
Kaede collapsed, a sensation of terrible energy surging from the tip of her toes to the top of her head, nearly paralyzing from the effects of it. She grasped her bed, pulling on the sheet desperately until she pulled herself up, curled up into a small fetal position than twisted her body around. Her younger half-brother looked on in confusion and fear, tapping his sister's arm and wondering hopelessly what was wrong.
"Onee-tama! Onee-tama!"
"…Kuh…ahhh…haa…haaa…guh...!" He couldn't speak, it wasn't so much a physical pain or even a mental one, but it was hard to explain. Yes she felt physical and mental pain, but it was an almost an emotional pain, so severe that she felt she might break down at any moment. It was as if all the terrible things that had both happened to her and the terrible things she had done suddenly got together onto one spot, her very soul and then tried to crush it. Then almost as quickly as it appeared, the sensation disappeared, she found her consciousness returning, her breathing stabilized until she managed to pick herself back up and push herself over the edge of the bed, holding herself over her knees.
"…Are you alright, Onee-tama?" Routa questioned.
"...You….didn't feel that?" Kaede asked. Her little brother shook his head fervently.
He got up to the window, lifting himself up to his toes to look out it and called over to her. "Everyone's outside!" She checked and sure enough the entire Diclonius group and collected around the large circular area that formed the main center around the dormitories. She was certain this wasn't just some group meeting; they all must have felt that same sensation that she did. "…Let's go." She said, dressing and putting on a long black coat, pulling the hood over her head and leaving with her younger brother.
"Nana!" She could see the bright purple haired figure of the girl whose head quickly turned at the sound of her voice.
"Lucy-san?"
"Did you feel it as well?"
Nana nodded, confirming what Kaede had already knew. "We're still trying to figure out what's going on right now, we can't find Roy and of course nobody else knows what's going on. But there's something over there, we can feel it coming from…somewhere over there." The young Sipilet pointed over to the horizon as Kaede stepped over. She could feel two signatures, a strong one, almost overbearing and another one, weakening. At that moment her heart felt heavy, her friends had been sent to find Elrya. Along with the two signatures she could feel another one slightly away from the others. She already knew she couldn't sense Elrya which meant that the two signatures had to be Caren and Lilian. Which then meant that the weakened one was, again her heart felt heavy and she began to walk towards the low signature, stopping only when she heard Nana's voice.
"You can't go, you know that already. We have to wait here until…"
"…I don't have time to wait here! Nana, watch my brother, I have things I need to do!" Without giving any warning, the older woman's corporeal hands pressed into the ground and flew over the edge of the educational institution's walls, leave Nana to hurry after her and curse under her breath. "D-Damn Lucy-san! C-Can't you ever listen for once." She pouted before Routa's small hands gripped her black dress. Unsure of what to say to him, she placed her hand upon his head and pushed him closer.
"What do you think happened?" The young girl named Rika, the one who had befriended Elrya, soon walked up and asked Nana the question.
For the young black dressed Sipilet, she couldn't give an answer. The only thing Nana could do was try to keep order around so that the other girls didn't go off like Kaede and make a mess of things. Beside the Alphas, Anna too was trying to get things under control with both the staff who could only imagine why their classes suddenly emptied as well as dealing with the horned girl who she had at least some connection towards. She eyed her brother Routa as well, noticed that Kaede wasn't with her but decided that such a thing was not worth bothering about.
Of course confusion ran through the horned girls. They didn't have a clue of what was going on and many of them felt just like Kaede, just to leap over the wall's edges and see what was going on. "I have a bad feeling about this." Nana muttered.
Rika gazed at her. "…Yeah…" She muttered softly, turning her head to the horizon. "…So do I, it's like…it's like something really bad is about to happen. Something much worse than whatever happened to us in the facilities. I'm…I'm scared." Rika admitted, her bottom lip quivering as she spoke. "I'm scared that…we're not going to be here much longer."
"…You think we'll go back, to those places?" Nana asked.
She shook her head and continued. "No…that wouldn't be worse, I have this feeling in me, we different from everyone else. It took us so long for people to accept us and now, I think something really bad is about to happen soon and the thing is, I'm not sure if it's about that horrible sensation we felt."
Nana gazed over at her, clearly confused. "I don't get it, what do you mean?"
Rika shook her head, clearly disoriented. "I'm not sure, whatever we felt was dangerous, but I fear that, something…I'm sorry…" She shook her head, trying to get the thought out of her and apologized. "It's nothing, I'm overthinking things…" Nana wasn't so sure but didn't push her, more concerned now with group that felt it was time for them to escape head over to help Kaede. Nana was first to put her foot down, stepping in front of them with her arms raised. "You can't go out there, you know that."
"This isn't the time, we have to go and help her!"
"No!" Nana stated firmly. "You know the rules, we have to stay here, wait until Roy comes back and he'll explain things I'm sure. I won't let you all go, be patient and I'm sure will get some answers." Nana quickly tried to reason with the girls, her words unfortunately falling on deaf ears.
One of them, a long haired girl two years older than her came up to her, her hands brandished though only a scene of dominance, not threatening. "Stay out of the way Number Seven, I won't warn you again. You're not on my level…"
*BAM!*
It happened in an instant, Nana's eyes flashed her arm sprung forward the poor girl who was talking to her could only catch a glimpse of the flying fist before it smashed right into her face. The taste of blood ran through her mouth and nostrils before she landed hard on the cold ground, gasping and trying to get her thoughts together. By the time she was aware that Nana had indeed shot her own fist at her, the girl in the black dress was already standing over, foot on her chest with a small smile, her eyes dull and uninterested. Likewise Nana's vector had already pierced the girl's forehead, cutting off her abilities to use her vectors as he placed a finger under her lips and laughed. As if an entire change in personality had undergone the purple haired girl's mind.
The others who had seen it were without speech, it was so quick, Nana's arm was facing out and then, a direct hit. At such a range and without having any idea of what going to happen, it was no wonder the girl was knocked clear on her back.
"…Did you know…" Nana whispered, her voice adding a sense of dark reprise. "…That I'm not nearly as weak as you think I am. Then again the only time I've ever lost a fight was because of unfortunate circumstances, compared to me, you aren't on my level. Also I'm proud to be nice, I'm proud that I can control myself better than others, but right now I can't take too much of this crap. You pick on us all the time, and Nana really doesn't like it, now just sit there and shut up please."
Nana's smile widened, although her eyes still remained dull.
"…I'm in charge here along with the Alphas and you do as we say, there is no reason for you to go out there. Now please, relax and wait, you know you're only going to be causing problems for everyone if you go out there, you remember what happened last time. That goes for the rest of you…" She pointed out to the other girls, clicking her tongue happily and skipping around as if in a summer meadow.
She giggled, finger under her nose and starring at them as if daring them to make a move. This was the expectation of one who like Elrya had come to embrace, control and understand her inner self. This was the Voice of Nana, cool-headed, remarkably suave and with a personality that was both good and sinister. Her voice had always been one that had been suppressed for a very long time and Nana's ability to control her own emotions had also made it easier for her to understand her own voice.
Nana was innocent, a girl who did not have the sort of authority and prowess that her inner self did. In fact while most voice were biological selves in Diclonius mind, it may have been better to say that Nana' was split version of her very own personality. That dark, affirmative part of her that could not escape and thus had to be switched over to her voice. If anything was now well known that unless someone wanted their arms broken, nobody was going to question the purple haired Sipilet.
Nana had lost her arms and legs, she was constantly ridiculed by others and frankly, there was only so much the young girl could take. She dared them to oppose her, and she did it all with the most remote smile on her face. The inner voice allowed her main personality to come back, Nana mentally thanking herself and turned away to look over at the area where Kaede's signature was slowly getting weaker as she got further away. The only thing anyone could and would do, is wait.
Kaede screeched to a halt, her eyes traveling across four people. One was Aurelius who was just staring blankly at her, then at Garder who looked far worse than she had ever seen him, then at Onyara who was probably as surprised as everyone else though this time she was also happy that a person she needed was now here. But all of these people were nothing, because one Kaede saw Caren on the ground, bleeding and her body bent at a strange angle, she dropped her pretenses and raced towards her.
"Caren!"
The girl coughed, eyes open but unseeing as she whispered softly, "…Guh…K-Kaede? I told…Haa…Haa…I told you…n-not to call me that…"
"What happened here? What happened to you, d-damn!" It was like before, she couldn't save anyone. She couldn't save a single one of her friends. Memories started to fill her up, memories of those terrible times in that terrible orphanage, hearing the strangled cries of her puppy beating brutally smashed apart by the rock. It was always like this, her friends were always getting hurt and she was never able to help them. But now, she had to do something if only a little bit, she could not bear to think of what would happen if another one of her friends died.
She didn't know why, maybe it was the spur of the moment but Kaede's vectors began to peel through the wounds that Caren had received, closing them as the others watched with startling gazes.
"…Regeneration?" Onyara muttered. Indeed, the ability a Queen that Kaede possessed, though it was only good for smaller wounds and there was nothing she could do about the shattered spine once the pinked haired woman came across it. The wound itself was terrible and she knew that Caren was now paralyzed. The poor girl, this poor girl who had befriended her was now stuck like this forever.
"…S-Sorry, I wanted to…help but…heheheh, I guess I failed." Caren said.
Kaede hushed her, sweat pouring from her face until she had to stop her healing. Although Kaede could use her vectors normally to a large degree, healing others took too much out of her, if she continued the entropy would've gotten out of hand.
"What are you doing here, Kaede?" Garder said, the ire in his voice distinguishable. "Do you realize the danger you are in now? Do you lack even the most basic functions of listening?"
"Who cares, I'm lucky aren't I?" Onyara replied, opening her arms and letting her black veins traveling between her arm and fingers tip likes thin black wires. The Queen didn't bother to reason why such strange powers were being used, in fact she only had one thing to say and it wasn't even at Garder. "…Are you the one that hurt her?"
"...What if I did?"
"Did you!?" Kaede's voice was firm.
"…Of course, she was a spoiled little brat who wouldn't listen. She's lucky her spine isn't the only thing I broke, the foolish child."
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"…I see…" Kaede muttered, placing her right hand over her face, viewing the blackness of her palm and breathing heavily. "…You hurt her, you hurt my friend…" A gust of wind, small but incredibly dense was already building around her. Her thin bright pink hair whipped around her and half of her face was concealed, revealing only the gleam of a single retina that glared at the girl.
This was the last time was going to let her friend get her.
…And this girl would pay.
"…You simple woman, do you think you can…?"
And the world exploded. The pier , stone work, everything within a 10 meter radius erupted as if the ground had been bombed. Onyara staggered, attempting to catch her balance as what could only be described as pure destruction revolved around her. The small boats that were floating on the docks were broken apart, crushed and even lifted by the multiple appendages that floated around Kaede.
"…What?" Nobody and definitely not Onyara who voiced her shock could believe it.
But this was to be expected of the most powerful Diclonius in the world.
"…You hurt her, you hurt a very close friend of mine. I worked so hard to earn these friends, I worked so hard, and gave up so much so people like me. And you hurt her, don't worry Caren this will be over quickly. I'll make her pay for everything she did to you." Her voice speaks softly, barely above a whisper but it carries the hostility greater than anything she has ever carried before. For one of the first time in her life, she carries within her heart righteous hostility, aimed now at the girl. But Onyara's smile does not falter and why should it, even Kaede knows that she can't kill her yet. She saw it, she saw her regeneration work upon her as she stepped up to them. She has seen the wounds on Garder's body, a man she can grudgingly accepted to be stronger. After all, she has felt the fury of his blows against her body, she is not one to trifle with him.
Yet despite this, she faces the black haired Diclonius with determination, not a single hint of regret or expectation for defeat.
"…I need your help…" She thought to herself, speaking for the first time internally into her mind. She has suppressed it, she has forced it down to live a normal life, it was the person closest to her and the person she hated most, her very self. She concentrates, hand still upon her face she can almost sense a figure looking back at her, starring at her almost mockingly. She's expected this, it's been quite a while since she's seen it, since she's heard it and the only thing that surprises her is that it does not mock her like it had before. She knows she cannot defeat this woman, she knew the moment she saw her, no the moment she felt that horrible feeling which was only amplified after she saw her, Garder and Caren. Until then, such a thought had never once crossed her mind but there was one thing that school did teach her, and that was to trust herself and not throw it away. That was her mistake before, she had given up so easily and let herself be controlled by herself but not anymore. Elrya Alya, that girl lived in harmony with herself and so why couldn't she?
"I can't win this on my own, so I need your help…but I won't be controlled nor will I use you…" Kaede murmured inside her head. Such a truth, she has no chance against this opponent using her own abilities alone, she needs something else, needs the power to emit but a single attack and wipe the woman out.
"…Please, help me. I want the power to protect, the power to save, the power to make things for the better. I know what you want, the power of domination, the power to emit control the power to show everyone why you are the best. So I ask of you, let's combine them, and show this fool what it means to be a Queen."
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There was a time, during her days of hatred that figure offered a helping hand. Once she grasped that hand she gave herself up, killing without remorse as if it was a game until friends and family changed her way. She can't ignore herself, she can't let herself be over burdened by her very being. So a truce must be made, to see herself not as an opposite but as an equal.
"I have friends, family, I don't hate humans and you should've seen it now too. You were, no…I was wrong. I was wrong to treat everyone as if they were the cause of my problems. But it wasn't you, I failed to see you as myself and you used me. But I don't want to go down that path anymore, I understand now that I have to do this with you together. Please, I found a man that I love, I want to return to him even though he's human. I want to see Kouta, Yuka, Nozomi, Nana and Mayu again, because they're my family. I want to see Caren, Lilian and Elrya and smile with them. I want to see Routa and hear his happy voice. But I can't do that now without help, so please…I ask of you…I once again need your help.
And I need it for revenge again, so it should be easy right? But this time this revenge is not for me but for others, so please help me."
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"…Tsk…you have changed…"
She speaks back, the person inside her, the person that represented Kaede's voice. It's the same, it's after just like her, filled with derision and mocking, a blurred image of younger version of her stares at her. Her black eyes have changed, there is a hint of a soul in them, something that was not there before.
"…I have changed…"
Yes, they both went through things that they could never have thought possible.
So now it's time to grasp hands again, this time for the same cause but a different reason, and show Onyara the meaning of the term "most powerful Diclonius."
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And then it ends, the boat piece that were floating around drop, the wind regresses back to the pink haired woman as her vectors return to their origin and increase in power. Hack and slash, that's they ever do, it's been easy really. But she can no longer use her hands in such a manner against this opponent, fail now and it'll be over. This is her chance, the energy that erupted around now covers like a bright white blanket, her vectors are like waves that splash around her skin, giving her an angelic white glow. Eyes are now pitched black and yet the shine within that darkness.
She regenerates huh? Then she'll just have to make sure she can't regenerate.
"This is boring, are you waiting for something?" The woman asks scornfully.
"Yes…" Her voice is like an echo now.
And there something remarkable happened. A circular wall of such intrinsic design it would of made an artist envious. Lines of clear light traced themselves around the area of the circle which stood within six meters in diameter, glowing fervently as several circles emerged within it. Garder who could not see it, nevertheless was at a loss of words for himself, and though he kept his composure, even he was surprised. Aurelius, being bombarded by what he thought was impossibilities, was just as speechless though his ire at Onyara not having killed those who dare to look down him was also showing. But the woman, Onyara herself was starring in disbelief at what she saw.
"I'm going to mercilessly destroy you."
"DON'T YOU…!" Onyara began and then all was light. What short forth from the circle behind her was light vectors turned into arrows. Small but containing the compact power of the Queen of Diclonius, the ruptured through the woman without pause. Flesh was peeled off, her side split and splashed organs and blood to the floor, her lower face near the left side was blown off, her tongue dangling in the air just for a moment as spear of light blew it away. The right leg was torn off then as it floated in midair it was broken apart by the calf. Dozens of beams of lights, all compact vector burst through the woman's body who's defensive measures could not hope to match up to such overwhelming power.
And then after only a total of five seconds, Kaede had to stop. Her body exploded outwards from the sheer pain as she buckled under her weight, reaching out to stop her fall while gasping. "Haa…Haa…Haa…" Heavy breaths permeated the silence, her right arm was heavy as if a weight had been put it on it, even the skin was waxy and sickening to look at it. Pulling back her vectors Kaede understood that if she had kept that up even a moment longer, her body would've melted under the strict entropy. But it was worth it in the end, to make the woman who tortured her friend pay.
There on the ground, Onyara was but a shell of her former self. Her lower jaw was missing, everything from the waist down was gone, her left breast was burst, her neck was torn up, her right arm dangling form sinews and her left arm sliced off from the elbow. Organs trailed out of the open wound that was her open gut while blood, spittle and intestinal juices gargled from the area where her mouth would've been. It was over in those five seconds and the battle had been decided.
…"Gurah…Orahag…gihihgh….!" Onyara tried to speak, an impossible task without her tongue.
"Shut it you, just die already." Kaede growled angrily. In terms of skills, Onyara was way past Kaede's level it was why she had to use such power. She could not hope to beat Onyara in a fair fight, she had to get her at a point where she unguarded and attack relentlessly before she could counter. It was all but a bet, to attack when Onyara's guard was at its lowest, to attack before the woman could attack and to hope her power was enough obliterate any defenses that the woman might have. Now what lay meters away from her was a bloody carcass, spitting up the last pints of life she had in her.
"YOU BITCH! HOW CAN YOU LOSE! GET UP AND KILL THEM! THEY DARE TO MOCK ME AND YOU...!" Aurelius roared, kicking the pitiful pile of meat and then pointing over at Kaede and Garder. Garder at this point wasn't even interested in him anymore, he was a nuisance and Kaede thought the same thing too. It was like listening the ramblings of Kakuzawa again and the less she had to hear of that the better.
"I AM THE MESSIAH! PRAISE ME! PRAISE MY HOLY NAME! PRAISE YOUR GREAT LORD AND PROSTRATE YOURSELF! OOOOH! OOOOOH!"
"...Garder, I can't really do much right now, that last attack took everything I had. Can you shut this bastard up for me?" Kaede stated firmly.
Garder raised his hand, his legs bending to that he could lunge. It would take less two seconds to reach him and then rip out his heart, he had done it countless times against opponents much more dangerous than this pile of filth. But Garder would not be killing him, neither would Kaede, but the fate of Aurelius Denotos had now been decided. Kaede was taken aback when Onyara's broken hand gripped Aurelius leg and pulled him down. Losing his balancing he smashed against the ground as the corpse crawled her way over to him, looking like some something from a horror movie. To even be able to move in her condition was astounding and Aurelius was at a loss again for words.
"Kuh! Wh-What are you doing!?Get off of me you freak!"
"Orogoh…gigahahagah…" She spluttered her juices and vomit on his face and then pressed her faced against his own. Maybe it was a like a kiss, if such a thing could be so wretched and Kaede's stomach lurched at what she saw. A kiss is what it might've been had Onyara still had her lower mouth, instead she had to smother her upper jaw across his face and then.
"OOOOAAAGURAH!"
Anything Aurelius wanted to say was cut off as bile filled in his throat. No, that was incorrect Onyara was vomited down his throat, filling him with her own essence and at the same time retrieving the essence back. She mixed herself within his body, spitting up her innards and gastric juices and then sucking them back up like some freak spider. Through it all the vomit choked him, the insides of his body were twisted as the black lines of veins were already peeling from his skin. She needed it, the warmth, drifting back into her body, she needed to have it all and she took it all without pause.
*K-Krack!*
The sound was almost as horrible as what had happened. Aurelius was split, his ribcage was opened up and spread out like a blooming flower, flowing crimson everywhere. The veins shook around him as the woman ate and grafted into his final memories nothing short of despair.
"ahhh…ahhh…gugah…g…gah…" The words were unintelligible but his thoughts screamed.
"HURTS! HURTS! HURTS! STOP IT! IT HURTS! IT HURTS! GOD STOP IT RIGHT NOW! AHHH! AHHHH! AHHHH! HURTS! HELP ME! HELP ME! HELP! FUCKING HELP ME! AHHH! AHHHH!
Aurelius' mind was ripped apart and devoured along with the rest of his body. As she chewed on him, the veins wrapped around, her wounds regenerated and she took him into her. The last thing she ate was his now dead mind and finally stood up. Naked but all wounds having vanished, her body fully restored she licked the lips that held blood and smiled over at Kaede.
"…"
Nothing could be said, only shock, surprise, horror could be done. This was the end, she had given everything she had in that one attack and it had failed. Even if she could use her powers now, it wouldn't matter, the monster wouldn't fall for the same thing again. Onyara rubbed her face, the caressed her body practically sexually to the point where she was even gripping herself between her legs.
"…Oooooh…" She moaned, squeezing herself as the red blood slipped from her lips. There can be no denying it, Onyara Kiriashu has been reborn again, her wounds which should've killed her have vanished and the only thing left of Aurelius Denotos is something that cannot be called human anymore. His form is nothing more than a rotted corpse that has been split open. The ribs forced to open, he lays on his back like an open flower, split down the middle open and his organs gone except a few piece. His face his also split, a third of his brain devoured by the woman and the only eye staring blankly to the side.
But he is alive. The man had had hi form turned into mush but despite his brain nearly gone, he is still conscious. Not only that but he is completely aware, not even the gift of insanity has allow itself to reach him. He doesn't know why he' there, he doesn't know what's happened, he doesn't comprehend those things, but his ragged broken mind is still screaming.
"HELP! HEPL! HELP ME! FUCK! FUCK THIS! WHERE AM I? WHERE THE FUCK AM I!? HELP ME! GET oooo OFF OF ME! GET oooo OFF OF ME! WHERE IS oooo WHERE THE…!"
He is blind, and he cries to be released from this tormenting agony. His memories are gone, but he has his mind and he isn't allowed to go insane. Why can't he die? Why is his body still alive after being tormented so much?
"You look so pitiful…" Onyara muttered to the carcass, walking over to him as the others starred at her in disbelief. "I needed you…" She whispered, tracing her finger over his face. "I needed your help, thanks without you I couldn't return my body, my regeneration has limits. But don't worry I still need you, so I can't let you die."
"…P-P-Please…"
"Sorry, you can't die yet, you're the messiah of the world, you have to live forever right, hehehehe…"
"K-Kill…m-me…"
"…Sorry, but I can't…here, this is what you wanted right, little man…" And she laid herself like a lover on the bleeding open flower of a man. She moved her hips up and down and licked up his consciousness. The veins picked around his body, absorbing them into her form. In no essential reality, she raped his corpse not only physically, but mentally as her veins transferred his broken consciousness into her.
But he did not die, she took his mind, memories and experience and ate them whole. What was left was only the body forever to rot away. Aurelius Denotos however lived permanently in her, his voice never reaching, and from that point onward, the only response from him that would never be heard was…
"…I want to die…I want to die…I want to die…I want to die…I want to die…"
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"Wh-What…are you?" Kaede after witnessing the massacre questioned sanity itself.
Rising up, he threw her hair behind her and began to walk towards Kaede who backed away with every step that Onyara took.
"How lucky am I? I didn't thank you would come to me, oh…now I can return back to Lagusa, she'll be so happy to see me."
"Who…?" Garder asked, stepping in front of Kaede and pushing her back and taking his stance.
Onyara tensed up, despite the fact that her body was healed she was still tired and though she could take on Kaede as long as she was weakened, Garder was another story.
"So you want to know? Filth! You dare speak to the goddess like that and expect me to answer your silly questions? Foolish man, prostrate yourself to me and…oh, hehehehe…" She shook her head and laughed. "I apologize, his consciousness is still having a little effect on me, I didn't mean to be rude there. You want to know though?
Listen well, there exists two of us. There exists myself and then there exists my sister Lagusa. We were twins born in the womb of our mothers we could connect with one another. Diclonius twins, the half and the other half you refer to as the voice, that was me. But we were different and we loved each other, wanted each other and had each other. Although we lived separately at times, our bonds could not be broken."
She laughed and continued.
"…I want…to fuck everyone! I want to fuck the world so much! I want to cradle them between my legs and release myself upon everything. I want to fuck it hard over and over again until I've orgasm everywhere. But you don't know what I'm talking about? I want to change the world into those like me, those who are pure like me and my sister. I will impregnate myself and then I will deliver myself to my sister.
But I'm being confusing aren't I? I'll simply explain it. I want to birth a world of true voices and then lust the world with them. I want to fuck hard you know!" She said biting her lip and making the same sickening motion between her legs.
"…But I can't do that alone, you see I'm the only one who can collect the essence of others and my sister is the only one that can give birth to them. Oh she's no Queen but her body is only capable of this.
This has been our dream ever since were in the womb.
"I want to…"
"I see…" Garder interrupted her. "To think that someone more out of their mind than Cents exists in this world. Do not speak more woman, you are clearly insane as well as your messed up sister. The only thing I will thank you for is ridding me of that man Aurelius, it saves me the trouble. But to me, your voice is irritating beyond belief.
I will end you, like have ended so many others and I will be done with it."
Onyara stopped smiling. "You still say that? Even after you've seen my power, even though you can't win, you still say such things?"
"Of course, Kaede…stay back. You aren't supposed to be here anyways and now you're a liability. I will…" But the handling that would be done could not come. The worst of luck happened as Garder's body ruptured and he fell to his knees, giving only a loud groan.
"Garder!?" Kaede yelled. Even Onyara was surprised as she couldn't understand what was going on.
"Kuh…damn…" Garder thought, straining his muscles and shaking uncontrollably. "…Time's up already…" Garder's ability was known as 'Synchronized Reflexive Simulation' an ability that transferred a chemical from his coin into his body, allow for inhuman abilities. But he has exhausted that supply now and has forced his body into a state that he normally can't handle. It is a combination of the overuse of his power without realizing it and his very old frame.
The horror sinks in, their last defense has now broken.
"Damn…I've overused my powers, that's never happened before." Indeed, he's never tried to force himself to use his powers for longer periods of times and now it's struck him harshly. He releases his body back to normal, aching but at least able to move he stands up and but does nothing. He can't fight this woman without using his powers and he can't use his power right now. She realizes this after a second and giggle manically.
"I win…hehehhe…I win…I win…come here Lucy…"
"Don't call me that…!" Kaede hissed, hating to be called that. There was only one person that she didn't mind calling her that and that was Nana and that was mostly because she was used to her calling her 'Lucy' same with Kurama. But this woman, she didn't have the right to call her anything nor would she come over to her.
But there was little else they could do. Garder cursed himself for allowing the fight to be prolonged as such. Kaede didn't have the energy to use such a devastating amount of power and he would have to wait for his body to relax before he could start using Synchronized Reflexive Simulation again. Really, this was the first time that he had over abused his powers. He should've killed her while he had the chance, attacked her head when she was feeding and taken it off. That might have stopped her from returning to her original self.
Garder moved his body, preparing for the fight as the woman laughed at him.
"Why try? You can't win…can't win…can't win…" She mocked.
"I don't know what's about to happen, but do not let her touch you Kaede." Garder ordered.
Kaede stood her ground, her body tensing up.
"…Nothing you can do, oh I can't wait, oooh, yes it's going to feel so good. I want to…"
KARA-BAM!
Where did it come from, she couldn't see it, only that something had struck her right in the head. The force was enough to send her flying, landing harshly on the ground, she spat up a globule of blood from hitting the ground so hard. "Guh! Wh-What the hell is it now!?" She growled, raising her head to punish the one who would dare attack the goddess.
"Shaa…" She hissed angrily, rising up to face the people who had come. Miriana, hesitantly holding the tranquillizer gun in her hand was next to Lilian who's vectors were out, dangerous waving around, her killing intent was aimed at Onyara. To the right of them was Roy, glaring at the messed up woman with his bullets floating ominously around him, clearly disgusted at the thought of this woman doing anything to Kaede.
Lastly, Elrya stepped up, the eyes coldly starring at her and thus the group had arrived.
Onyara was now surrounded.
Author's Notes: And there we have it, the end of chapter 25 as well as the end of Aurelius. As you can tell, Onyara is completely messed up in the head and with the way this chapter went I'm going to have to change the rating from T to M now. So what will happen next on "Pinpoint Conviction?"