Chapter .26

The fallowing morning Lance awake on his bed, yawning and rubbing his eyes he noticed some tears attached to his hand, "Must have cried myself to sleep, guess I needed that." the boy got up and felt his body go numb again. He looked in his mirror and saw he changed back into his aragami form, Lance focused on trying to keep his human form. After a few minutes the color had returned but his eyes still remained red, "This is going to one of those days isn't it." Lance grabbed his sunglasses with reflective lenses and put them on along with his white scout coat and black slacks then was out the door. Stepping into the lobby the new type saw Kota and thought to say hello till Kota said it first.

"Yo Lance how you feeling?"

"Awesome as always Brota."

Kota watched Lance's movements and he showed nothing, did his past not bother him as everyone thought or was he just a really good actor. "So what's with the glasses?"

"You like them? Just thought I'd wear them." The alarm went off filling the room with it's noise.

"Is it another aragami attack?"

"It's because the aragami are changing that the armor wall can't keep up." announced Hibari.

"So if we get the cores from the new types of aragami we can keep them out easier."

"Then what are we waiting for we got stuff to smash!" Lance lead the charge grabbing Gina and Karel as he ran. On the forgotten carrier
Gina, Karel, and Kota fallowed the new type as he spotted a fallen quadriga, "Gunners ready!" the three nodded, Lance pointed his fire katana at the beast and his team opened fire, Gina's lasers hit the monster's head while Karel and Kota were more focused on breaking the armor covering it's missile case.

Lance reached into his backpack and pulled out what appeared to be a lump of clay then rushed toward the quadriga, the beast opened it's chest armor and fired a missile at the gunners while Lance rolled under the attack and stuck the clay on the exposed missile case, "This is going to be great." he backed off from the aragami and ran back to the team.

"Lance what hap-"

"RUN!" he yelled diving behind some rubble everyone turned to the quadriga, the beast exploded into several pieces and with such focus that the others were blown back a good several feet.

Karel was the first back on his feet after the explosion, "What was that?" he asked Lance as he got up from the rubble.

"C4 baby! Mixed with quadriga missile parts and well, you all saw what happened."

"Where did you get C4?" asked Gina.

"I made it."

Where did you get the materials TO make it?"

"Friends."

"What friends?"

"Friends."

Gina stopped with questions as Lance wouldn't give the information, but then Kota spoke up, "That's great and all but what about the core we came to get?"

A few feet away form them the main body of the quadriga fell from the sky and crashed to the ground, "That answer your question?" Lance swung his god arc and devoured the core.

Later that day in the Tranquil Temple Gina, Karel, and Kota once again fallowed Lance for another hunt, this time a Gboro-Gboro and a Fallen Kongou. The former was easily sighted but the latter was no where to be found, "This thermal wear is hard to move in." whined Kota.

"Get uses to it because I'm not letting you die of hypothermia out here."

"Hypothe what?"

Lance facepalmed, "Are you slow on purpose, let's just finish up here, gurr."

"Huh, you okay Lance?"

"I'm fine. Just go on without me I need to do something first."

"Okay."

While everyone left to fight Lance stopped to hide, he noticed his skin was turning pale again and tried to will it away but this time he couldn't change back, acting fast Lance grabbed a shot from his pack and stuck it into his arm, after a minute his skin stopped turning white and changed back to normal, "This is bad." Lance jumped from his hiding spot and ran to aid his friends.

"Where's our leader?" said Karel reloading his god arc, the ghoro bared it's teeth while it rushed in to eat the gods eater. Fling into the fight Lance jumped over Karel and into the ghoro's jaws and slashed his way through the back of it's head.

Lance stomped on it's tail causing the aragami to cry out in pain, "Feed him people." everyone fired they're different types of bullets and every shot went down it's throat. Lance took out a cloth for his pocket and wiped the blood and saliva form his face, "That's one now we wait." the group hid behind a ruined watch tower and waited for the Kongou, they didn't wait long before the aragami came by to eat remains of they're last kill, "Open fire!" the four of them rose up from hiding and blasted at the kongou.

After a few hits the beast turned back and ran, "It's getting away." warned Gina.

"Not for long." Lance raised his fingers to his lips and blew a loud whistling sound, a moment later an ogretail came charging at them form behind, "Leave it be." Lance jumped up and landed on the ogretail's back and rode after his prey.

"Is he?"

"Yeah he's riding it." Karel and Gina looked to Kota in awe.

Meanwhile the kongou throw a punch but fell to the ground as Lance's mount sidestepped the attack then bit off the kongou's hand while Lance's god arc bit off the side of it's face to go burst mode, "I've fought worse things then you on the way to real problems." the new type shot needles at the beast as it struggled to run with one hand missing, when it fell the ogretail started biting it's legs while Lance stabbed it's back, "You hungry Takaya? Then let's eat" Lance devoured the core while his pet when on to eat the rest, Lance's head was pounding again like the first time he change, "So by going burst mode speeds up the transformation process, I need to keep that in mind."

"Hey Lance!" the leader looked over to see his team catch up to him, "You got it already?" asked Kota

"Yeah thanks to Takaya here."

"You named it?" asked the other two.

"No, he told me his name after we connected, I'll explain on the way home." Back at the den Lance and Kota waved good bye to Karel and Gina and then were greeted by Tatsumi and Brendan, "What's guys, you get the aragami problem taken care of?"

"Yeah, some people got hurt but thankfully no one died."

"Where was most of the damage?"

"In sector 26B I think."

Kota jumped in panic, "26B you sure?" the boy ran off to the elevator and disappeared as the doors closed.

"That's right, his family's in 26B."

"I'll check on him, thanks guys." Lance waved good bye to them and waited for the elevator to take him to the rookie section, entering Kota's room Lance couldn't help but notice how messy it was with bags a pawn bags of who knows what, "You okay bro, you left in big hurry."

"My family's okay, I don't know what I'd do if something happened to them."

"Isn't that why you became a gods eater?"

"Yeah, I want to protect them, I want to protect everyone."

"Shot for the stars Kota that's what I say about it."

"Thanks Lance."

"Anytime Brota."

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