Chapter .37

It was another day as Lance walked out into the hall opening the elevator he found his favorite Russian, "What's up gorgeous."

"Where you going?"

"To the wailing plains for some ogretail riding, you in." Alisa nodded then fallowed, they got to the lobby and found the rest of the team and Lance an idea, "Let's invite the team for this."

"Lance?"

"Yo Kota, Sakuya, Soma you all want to do something cool."

"Like what?" asked kota.

"Ogretail riding." the three looked at the leader in shock, "Come on it'll be fun, you'll like it trust me."

"We might get eaten." whispered Soma.

"The orgetails won't harm you as long as I'm there, they like me." Later that day Lance was on some rubble watching the twister till he heard some roaring, "You need to tighten your hold a bit." he yelled.

Going around the big circle a group of orgetails ran around with Alisa riding one of them, "There's nothing to hold on too!"

"The far, you hold on to the far!" Lance watched her for a bit then looked around and found Kota, "How you holding up brota!"

"HELP!" the boy cried in panic.

Lance smacked his leg he was laughing so hard, "Just stay on the aragami your doing fine. Sakuya how you holding up."

The woman was holding tight to the ogretail faring a little better then the others, "It's hard to stir!"

"I'll teach that later just learn to hanging on!" As he watched everyone else Soma was the one doing the best out of all of them, "There you go, Soma see if you can help out Kota stay on."

Everyone rode the beasts for whole day till Lance said it was time to go home, the group was tired a little sore but all an all they had fun they all slowly walked to their rooms while the leader stayed. The day was the last day of the first unit's week off and Lance wanted to do something else, he sat in the lobby some of the other gods eaters returned, "Yo Gina, Konon, Brendan, Karel how've you been crew."

Karel rubbed the bridge of his nose before speaking, "Bored mostly, all the aragami we hunt are dead before we even get there."

"You see anything out of the normal, like what do the body's look like."

"They look, I don't know mangled."

"They look like something tore it them to bits, very lovely." said Gina, everyone was a little uncomfortable around her blood lust.

"Let me see." Lance used his power to see into their minds and saw everything, the aragami didn't disappear they were being ripped apart by some beast that ate them as if they we're a midday snack, "Thanks."

"That felt, odd." said Karel rubbing his head.

The ours left and Lance stayed in the lobby thinking, the claw marks were not like the one's he's seen they were too big to be vajra, and too small to be ouroboro and the scorch marks mean fire. Think over and over going through the list of beasts in his mind he couldn't find one that used fire and had claws giving him the only answer possible, "We have a new foe."

The door opened and Lance stepped into Paylor's lab, the doctor had his eyes glued as the new type entered, "Yo doc I need to speak to you."

"Hello Lance what can-"

"I need you to see if there are any new aragami running around."

"Let me see." Paylor typed away at his computer looking over every bit of data he had while Lance sat on the sofa and started to read a book on the table, "I'm sorry there's nothing new with all the aragami gone."

"Someone or more likely something is out there killing them off and if it's this strong it'll come after us at some point and I'm not going in blind."

"I'll let you know if I find anything."

Lance stared down the doctor and Paylor could see the psychic power flowing through his gray eyes, "You do that." the way Lance said it was not a threat but along the lines of fact. The boy laid in his room lost in his thoughts, he started out as a the new guy then became the leader of a whole unit but this wasn't the end things were beginning to stir both outside in the world as well as inside him. Lance still thought about the girl in his mind, "Who is she?" he played the talks with her over and over, she said his walls were falling apart and soon his aragami half will over take him. It was late in the afternoon and hunger had set in Lance got up and started to make a roast, after ten minutes of mixing he felt Sakuya at the door, "It's open."

"Hey leader."

"It's Lance, nothing else."

"You still have a problem with that?"

"You know why."

The woman nodded and walked inside, "I have something for you I want you to have it."

Lance turned and saw the bag she was holding, "What's in it." the new type looked inside and pulled out long brown coat, Lindow's coat, "I can't have this."

"Take it Lindow said to give it to the next one to lead the 1st unit, I just couldn't bring myself to do it till now." Sakuya stood up and put her hands on the Lance arms, "Keep it even if you never wear it." as she walked out Lance held the coat, it had some weight to it and looking through the pockets he found a note. It was about the arc project, Johnanna plans, and everything Lance fought to stop, after reading the note he stuffed it back into the pocket and laid it on his bed then went back to his dinner.

While doing the dishes the new type stopped to look at his gray arm, the cover was gone and who knows how long he could hide it. Though he still didn't know why he had to hide it, Lance was the best gods eater there was, he's become a hero so why did he feel like where ever he went if people found out about what he really was they'd distance them self's from him. Lance turned off the water and shook off the feeling, Alisa was the first one he told about his past, his creation and what became of it was a relationship, she's someone he would fight, kill, and die for. Lance looked at Lindow's coat, he was a leader and this jacket's former owner would be proud of the man he has become.

Lance hung the coat on the wall above his couch to serve as a reminded that even heroes can die.

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