Wahl
Sechs
Notes: This is dedicated to Love Shiggy, it's her birthday the 17 so I'm dedicating this to her. This chapter is going to be a lot like ep. 14, I'm going to try to put more emphasis on the relationship between Hell and Masafumi, but no promises.
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Masafumi's helicopter landed outside his privet mansion. After disembarking from it Schön headed for her room, clutching her face, Tot following her to see if she could help. Hell and Neu followed Masafumi to his lap, after he was safely there, Neu left for her room while Hell stayed behind, helping Masafumi on the task at hand.
" Hell, bring me the test results from the last experiment."
" Right here Masafumi," she said as walked over with a folder to his desk where Masafumi was pouring some chemicals into a graduated cylinder. " But don't you think you should get some rest? After the assassination attempted must have taken a lot out of you."
Masafumi frowned at her " Don't worry about me. I have to finish this before the devil comes for me! Now look!" he held the cylinder up to show Hell " Look at this, this is full of different DNA strains from the strongest creatures on the face of the earth, and ultra fine grains of silicone that root out the weaknesses of the DNA. This way I can make humans not only more powerful but invincible!" he put the glass down, " I shall destroy humanity, then replace it with a new race, one that combines the basics of nature and science!"
Hell looked at her lover with awe, " Please take me to this new world of yours. Take me with you!"
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Back at the Kitty, Weiß were recovering from the mission. Aya leaned against the wall nearest the stairs, his eyes closed and in deep thought. Yoji was also in deep thought, as he sat on the stairs Aya heard muttering to himself. On the couch Juri was cleaning up some of Ken's wounds.
" Damn it!" Ken screamed as Juri cleaned the cut across his back, " That hurts!"
" Oh, stop complaining," Juri told him, "It's not that bad, thanks to your jacket." She put some bandages on it and threw him his shirt. " There, all better." She said as she began to unbutton the front of her shirt.
Ken's face went red, " What...what are you doing?"
" I got hurt too see," she showing him the cut she got from Tot, "Can you help clean it? I can't clean as well with my left hand.
"Sure." Ken said, his blush disappearing.
" That was some mission though." Juri reflected
" It's not over yet," said Aya, " We still need to take out the target."
Juri sighed, "You're right," she said. She stiffened a little as Ken applied the rubbing alcohol, " But I wonder where that helicopter went...."
" Well there's nothing we can do about it now," Said Yoji getting up. " Let's just hope that Kritiker found something and will give it to us in the mourning." He went up the stairs and up to his room above the shop, followed by Aya, leaving Ken and Juri alone.
"Well...we might as well go to bed too," Juri said as Ken finished wrapping her arm. " Thanks, by the way." Pulling her shirt back on and walking up the stairs.
" Hey Juri."
" Yeah?"
" Once we're done with the mission, will you be staying with us, or will you go back to being a...whatever you were before you came to Weiß?"
Juri paused at this, " I don't know, whatever Kritiker wants me to do, I can't go back to being a police officer, so they might keep me here. But you never know, for the six years I've been with Kritiker I've been moved around a lot."
" Six years huh, that beats any of us here,"
"How long have you guys been in Kritiker?"
" Yoji and I three years, Aya two, but he's only been with us for a year." He sighed, " I still remember my first mission. I was seventeen and it was just Yoji and me. I had nightmares for three months afterwards, but after a year I started couching the local kids in soccer and it took my mind off the killing, and I was able to have a somewhat normal life again," he sighed. " Oh well, life's a bitch."
" Ain't it the truth," Juri said as she sat on the bottom step, "I was fourteen when I joined, my Niichan was part of a team like this one. Our parents were on a second honeymoon and I was staying with him, he was about Yoji's age at the time, he and his partner were going after a target when they thought I was asleep. I woke up in the middle of the night and they were gone, and since I was the dirty minded girl that I am, I thought they went to the local gay bar," she smiled softly, "I kept teasing him about he and Yutaka were lovers, and I loved how he got so embarrassed, and he would tease me about me not able to get a boyfriend 'cause I scared all the boys.
" But anyways, as I said I was waiting for them to come back home so I could yell at them for not telling me where they went, when they came back covered in blood and Niichan was badly hurt, I screamed and blacked out.
" I awoke the next day in a Kritiker hospital, Yutaka, Niichan's lover, was there and he explained everything, along with someone called Bangle. At first I was shocked, my brother, the one who wouldn't hurt a fly, the one who used to preach about saving all life, was a killer. Yutaka I could see, he had an air of power around him anyway, but Niichan was too gentle, too sweet . . . too loving. Bangle then explained to me the importance of what my brother and his lover did, that they killed only bad people who took pleasure in hurting and killing others. I don't know what happened but I just seemed to understand why Niichan did what he did, why he died doing what he did, he did it to protect the innocents of the world, to protect his family, to protect me. I was told I had to keep my mouth shut about this, but I said I wanted to help them, to protect the innocents. To carry on what my Niichan gave his life doing. I started out as a field agent, gathering data on would be targets, and here I am now six years later."
Ken gazed at her, " I started in Weiß," he began, " I was a soccer player, I dropped out high school to play in the J-league, but then someone drugged my water, and accused me of throwing the game because I had bet on the other team to win, they also accused me using illegal drugs. There was going to be a court hearing and everything. And it seemed only my best friend Kase was by my side. Then, while we were in a wear house we were attacked by Yakuza. Why? I don't know. Maybe they were the ones who framed me. Any way they took Kase away and lit the place on fire, leaving me to die. I was rescued by Kritiker and trained to be a field agent, taking out targets," he sighed. " I had it all, and one day someone thought I was in the way and took my life away."
Juri walked over to the brunette and placed a hand on his shoulder, " Come on, it's four in the mourning and we need some sleep." Ken nodded and went up with Juri.
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The next day as the early mourning sun blazed overhead, a fisher put away his cell phone. As he turned back to fishing a blade was placed to his back.
"How's the fish biting...way up here?" asked Hell.
"Who are you talking to Hell?" Tot asked as she popped out from behind a tree, "Oh, it's that sneaky fisher person!"
Schön snapped her whip, " You may die before you get the chance to answer that question fisher boy!"
Neu swooped down and grabbed him from behind.
" Stop!" rang Masafumi's voice.
" Papa why are you stopping us?" Tot whined.
" Because Tot we need to test out the new serum. Neu hold him."
" No," said the man, " Please don't hurt me!" Masafumi forced the solution down the man's throat ad stepped back as the man tried to make himself vomit.
" Have a taste of the wonderful fruits of science." Masafumi smiled as the man fell to the ground and grabbed his throat.
The man rolled on the ground, screaming at the top of his lungs in pain. Soon spider-like legs were popping out of his back and as soon as it started, the transformation was over, a frog-spider like monster was standing where the man was. Its many tongues hung limply until one of its eyes noticed Tot looking scared, sensing the fear coming from the girl it lunged at her.
" I don't like scary monsters!" she screamed, " Go away!" she swung her spiked umbrella at it, stabbing it in a number of places. " Why won't it die? Someone help me!"
" Hell," Masafumi shot her a look.
Hell nodded, aimed the rocket launcher she brought, and fired. The creature didn't stand a chance. Before it knew what hit it, it was dead.
" Papa that was scary!" Tot sobbed into her 'father's' chest as he comforted the frightened girl. Hell gave him a questioning look as they made their way back to the mansion. "I guess the fail-safe gene doesn't work." He shrugged, " But the survival instincts and physical abilities are perfect!" He smiled as he sat down at his desk once they were back in his lab, " The time is near Hell, and soon I'll have the world I've always dreamed of!" Hell walked over to him and embraced him from behind.
" Oh Masafumi, I'm so happy for you, after all those years of your hard work, it's finally paying off!"
Masafumi smiled and faced Hell, "Yes, the devil won't come for me after all." He bent down to kiss her, and met her half way. Yes, he thought, things were going exactly the way he wanted them to.
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Schön was in her room, carefully pulling the bandage that Tot put on last off to see what the damage was, hoping that the damage caused by the little pretty boy wasn't too great. Slowly taking the bandage off, she looked into the mirror and screamed. The wound was deep and it would leave scar. Screaming at her reflection she picked up her stool and threw it at the mirror " That little asshole is going to pay!" she cried, " I don't care how I do it, but I will kill him!"
Neu sat in front of the mirror in her room, gazing at her cracked visor. " Yoji," she whispered, her mind flashed back to the fight last night, she remembered how he called out for her not to go, to stay with him. Did I make the right choice? she thought Should I have stayed with him, and forsake Masafumi? Her thoughts were disrupted by a scream and the sound of glass breaking. Getting up to go check what Schön was up to, existing swiftly to make sure her teammate wouldn't hurt herself.
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Tot was outside watching the cherry blossoms fall, " So pretty," she sighed " Tot wishes that she was as pretty." she lowered her voice to the pitch it was supposed to be, " I wish I was a pretty cherry tree, the only thing I would have to worry about was sunlight, water, minerals and not getting chopped down."
Suddenly the wind picked up and the umbrella she was holding was ripped out of her hand. " Oh," she whined, voice becoming high pitched again, " Tot's umbrella flew away." She chased after it. Then stopped to see a boy catch it effortlessly. Tot stared at him for a moment. " Who are you?"
" Nagi, Naoe Nagi." he said, handing her weapon back to her. " I work for Masafumi's father, and I'm keeping an eye on things."
" Oh, you don't need to, Schön, Hell, Neu and me can take care of Papa," she said confidently.
" I know, but who has an eye on the four of you?"
" What?" Tot looked at him, blinking " What do you mean?"
Nagi smiled a little " I'm here to make sure nothing happens to you. My boss, Crawford says that Schreient plays a major role in the future."
" Is that why you came to visit Tot?"
" Part of the reason, I also came here to see you, to talk to you."
" Why?"
" Because," Nagi began, blushing a little, " you are different, and I want to get to know you better." He lifted his hand and the cherry blossoms began to swirl around the two teens.
" Wow!" Tot squealed.
" Tot!" Hell's voice called out " Dinner!"
" Oh, dinner!" Tot turned to Nagi, " Do you want to have dinner?"
Nagi shook his head, " No, but thank you any ways."
" Tot!"
" Coming!"
Nagi watched her go, a slight smile on his lips.
" There you are Nagi-chan!" Schuldig's voice came from behind.
Turning around he saw Schuldig and Farfarello, " What do you want?" he snapped at them. " Shouldn't you two be watching Mamoru and Ouka?"
" Bard's got them both at the moment so Farf and I thought we would keep you company."
Nagi glared at the German, he really didn't feel like putting up with the redhead's taunts right now, " I'm handling the situation fine, now go away."
" You're in love," said the Irishman, causing both Nagi and Schuldig to stare at him.
" And if I am?" Nagi spat at him, waiting for Farfarello's reply, but the white haired man just shrugged.
Schuldig blinked his green eyes for a moment then smiled " Well, well our little boy's growing up." he affectionately ruffled the young brunette's hair. " We'll leave you alone for now." he turned to his partner, " Come on Farfie, lets go find something new to do." Farfie kicked him in the shin, hard. " Ow, what was that for?!"
" You said 'lets do something new', and I've never kicked you before." The Irish said innocently.
" Okay let's do something that doesn't involve hurting one another." with that the two Schwarz assassins were gone.
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Meanwhile At Takatori Reiji's office, Takatori was on the phone talking to one of his officers, " Good, I except you to take care of it then...Thank you." he hung up, then threw the phone across the room. " Damn that Masafumi!" he growled " Crawford!" he called but the man in front of him didn't respond, " CRAWFORD!" he bellowed.
" Uh....yes Mr. Takatori?"
" I want you to take care of Masafumi, now!" he seethed " He's going to ruin everything the rate he's going!"
Crawford smiled slightly, " Don't worry Mr. Takatori, everything will turn out fine in the end."
" Have you seen it?" Takatori asked, claming down slightly.
Crawford just smiled, " If you would excess me sir, I have some important business to take care off."
" Go ahead, if I need you I'll call."
" By the way how did dinner go last night?" Crawford asked as he was about to exist the room.
" Oh it went fine, Mamoru looked a little out of it though," he paused " Maybe he got into a fight with his girlfriend or something."
" Maybe," and with that Crawford left. He walked down the hall and then entered a stairwell. ' Schuldig,' he projected using the telepathic connection that Schuldig set up. ' Schuldig, are you there?'
' You called, oh fearless one?' The German's reply was almost instantly.
' Are you at Masafumi's place now?'
' Farfarello and I are just about to leave, why?'
' The ones that took out Hirofumi are going after Masafumi, I want you to play with them a little.'
Crawford could almost see Schuldig's smirk, ' Sounds fun, Farf and I were getting bored anyways,' a pause, ' How are things going with the twins?'
' Fine, but I just had a vision about them,' Crawford said slowly, ' Don't ask. I'll explain when you get back.'
' Right, meet you at about seven then.' And Schuldig ended the transmission to tell Farfarello what was going to happen next.
Crawford rubbed his temples, " Damn it," he whispered, " What the hell is wrong with my head?"
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The clock in the hallway ticked softly as Manx and Persia walked down the hallway it was occupying. The hour hand ticked onto the 12 as Manx opened the door.
Together they walked in to see a covered body.
" Is this it?" asked Persia.
" Yes," Manx said softly, and grabbed a corner of the sheet that covered the corpse, " Brace yourself," and she pulled of the cover, exposing the brunt form of the agent-turned-monster.
" My God..."
" This was one of the agents keeping an eye on Masafumi. Out of the three of them only one got back, the other one was captured, and presumed dead."
" I see," Persia clenched his fist, " Only death will stop him. I want Weiß on this immediately."
" Right."
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Weiß stood on the road that lead to Masafumi's mansion. All of them had a determined look on their faces.
" Let's go," said Aya and began to walk towards the mansion. The other three nodded and followed.
As they walked down the road they kept an eye and ear out for any bodyguards or snipers. Aya's ear twitched as there was a snap of a large branch. Turning his head slightly to see where the sound came from, a figure jumped out at them.
" Yiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyi!" came Farfarello's battle cry as he came flying at them, knifes drawn. He aimed for Aya's head but Aya managed to evade in time.
Farfarello looked up from where he landed and gazed at the redhead with his hawk-like eye, giving him a crooked smile, before taking a charging-leap at the swordsman.
Aya drew his sword out as the white haired assassin came charging after him. Yoji got out some of his wire and shot it at the Irishman who just jumped over it.
" Shit, he's fast," Yoji cursed as Farfarello came after him, swiping his knives at the blonde. Ken came up from behind and tried to get him from the back, but Farfarello swirled around milliseconds before Ken struck, and cut the brunette's arm in long, but shallow gash.
" Ah!" Ken cried out in frustration and pain and took another swipe at Farfarello, who danced out of the way. Aya raced forward and swung at him.
Farfarello did a back flip and landed on a nearby tree's lowest branch. He smiled down at the white hunters. " You're good," he said, " But you're not that good." His smiled broadened, " Mastermind, shall I finish them, or do you want to have some fun with them,"
" I think I will Berserk," came a nasal voice from behind Weiß. Aya turned around to see a tall man with flame colored hair, and a rather nasty smirk on his face, " Hello there Kittens," he said giving them and knowing look. " This will be fun."
' Hello there Aya, or Ran I should say,' a voice rang in Aya's head.
" What?" Aya eyes widened slightly in shock, if he didn't know better he would think the man was talking to him in his head, but that was just plain irrational.
" No it's not," Schuldig said, shrugging, " I never met anyone who could be blasted in a wall have someone talk in their head and still not believe in psychic powers, but hey, there has to be a first time for everything."
" You mean you're..." Juri began.
"Yes, you thought of the right answer pretty girl. Yes I am a telepath." The German smiled at her sweetly, " I am Mastermind of Schwarz," He pointed to Farfarello, who was now hanging upside down in the tree, grinning at the white hunters with an insane glee in his amber eye, " And that is Berserk, also of Schwarz."
" Schwarz?" Ken asked turning to Aya, " Didn't the kid who stop us from killing Hirofumi say he was a Schwarz too?"
" Ah, yes that was Prodigy, our youngest member," said Schuldig.
" Enough talk," Farfarello said, swinging on the branch so he could enough momentum to get back on it, and doing so. " Oracle told us to play with you, so that's were going to do." He leapt from the tree and started attacking Ken, who countered with his bugnuks and dived to the right, getting as far as possible from his teammates.
Schuldig pulled out his gun, " I'm afraid he's right, Oracle did tell us to keep you some company, this is going to very different from your encounter with Prodigy, this will be much more painful." He shot his gun and nipped Yoji in his shoulder, who threw some of his wire at him in retaliation, but Schuldig disappeared.
" Where'd he go?"
" Right here." Yoji turned around and saw the German right behind him. Turning slowly around Yoji saw him right before Schuldig hit him and he blacked out.
Aya charged at Schuldig as Juri went after Farfarello.
" Nice try," Schuldig smirked before doing the same thing he did to Yoji to him.
Farfarello had kicked Ken in the head rather hard, sending the boy sprawling a few feet away. Turning, Farfarello gave his attention to Juri. " Little lady," he smiled at her, " You know what's going to happen to you, so put the gun down, and it'll be over before you know it." he said then licked one of his knives.
" I'll take care of this kitty." Schuldig said and gave her a knife-hand strike to the neck.
" She was mine." Farfarello pouted.
" I know how you are with women Farfie, you'll would have her screaming for more before an hour was up," he smirked," I don't know how you do it, but you drive the ladies wild with whatever you do."
Farfarello shrugged, and started to drag Ken to the side of the road, as Schuldig did the same to Juri. Once all of Weiß had been moved out of the road Farf and Schuldig left.
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Juri awoke with a pounding headache, " What happened?" she ask weary as she rubbed her head, she saw Ken a few feet away waking up too.
" Shit, Berserk sure knows how to knock someone out," he said.
" So does Mastermind, he got Yoji and Aya too." Juri said as she walked over to him.
Ken glanced up at the blue haired girl, " Where are they?" he asked.
Juri looked around and saw Aya's hand sticking out of bush. The two of them walked together and saw That Schuldig had put Aya and Yoji in a very...odd position. Ken blushed violently and turned away, Juri started to giggle madly.
Aya awoke at Juri's giggling, and noticed something heavy on top of him. Opening his eyes he saw that Yoji was atop him, they were put into a very erotic position, moving Yoji's leg out his face and moving Yoji's head from where it was he got up and brushed himself off. He turned to glare at his teammates.
Juri's giggles died down with the glare, but were still there. Ken had busied himself with the task of getting Yoji up, trying to make his blush go down. Once Yoji was up the four continued down their set mission.
" I can't believe we're still alive after that," Juri said, " Why didn't they just kill us?"
" Berserk said it himself," Aya said from ahead, " They were only playing with us."
" Do they work for Masafumi?" Yoji asked.
" I don't think so, Prodigy, the little kid who blasted me and Aya into wall with telekinesis, was protecting Hirofumi. So maybe Reiji hired them to protect his family."
" That's probably it," Yoji said, " But were do you get psychic bodyguards?"
" Takatori probably has underworld connections," Aya said as they walked up to a cliff over looking the mansion where Masafumi was hiding. " Are we ready?"
The other three nodded.
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"Papa, is it done?" asked Tot.
"Only in theory, well only know when we test on our test subject. " he motioned to the Kritiker agent tied up in corner, fear evident in his eyes.
"Will it make my beauty last for ever?" Schön asked
"Of course Schön."
" At last," began Hell from the comfort of her lover's arms, " You did it Masafumi, your dream. You finally finished your dream."
" Yes-" he began but was cut of by a loud explosion, " What was that!" he shirked.
Schreient went into action, heading off into different directions to see who caused the explosion. Hell remained with her lover, and clamed him down.
" Takatori," came a growl from the doorway, causing Masafumi to shirk again.
" It's the devil! The devil's come to get me for my sins himself!"
Hell brought out her blades and charged at Aya.
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Yoji was standing on a window sill waiting for Neu to show up." Hey there beautiful," he called after her as she streaked past, causing her to stop and look up at him. " Take of that visor, it really doesn't suit you Asuka,"
" Yoji," she said softly " Leave, I don't want to hurt you."
" I can't do that Asuka, I have to stop Masafumi otherwise more innocents will be killed. Do you want that hanging other your head?"
Neu leapt up at him kicking him softly in the leg with just enough force to knock him of the window.
" Asuka!"
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"This is a pretty lavish hideout," Ken commented as Schön raced up the stairs to meet him.
" I'm going to pay you back for this scar that you gave me."
"Bring it on."
"With pleasure," she took out her whip and cracked it. Ken dodged, and she cracked it again, Ken dodged every time. "I see you've gotten better," she commented.
"Thanks, you're not doing to bad yourself," Ken said as he swiped at her.
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"So...we're going to fight again huh?" Tot asked Juri, "What's your name?"
"Tabby," said Juri giving the girl her codename.
"Tabby, that's cute," she twirled her umbrella, " Bye-bye, Tabby-san!" The spike appeared at the end and Tot charged Juri. Juri dodged and did a jump round kick to Tot's back, but missed.
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Outside three members of Schwarz watched. Schuldig and Farfarello both had to restrain Nagi from rushing in and helping his crush, but fortunately the prospect of an angry Crawford got him to settle down.
" Kid don't worry, Brad said that everything will be ok," Schuldig said to the Japanese boy.
Nagi glared at the German and the Irishman. " But Crawford also said that his visions were becoming less and less clear, what if he interrupted it wrong?" he demanded.
Schuldig frowned. The kid was being extremely emotional, something that was out of character for the boy. " Well...we go in and help, Crawford said that Schreient plays some part in the future, he doesn't know what though."
This seemed to clam the boy down. Sighing softly they returned to watching the battle.
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" I won't let put one finger on Masafumi!" Hell screamed like a banshee at Aya. Their battle had taken the two of them out side of Masafumi's lab and into the main hall.
Aya glared at her as he swung his sword at her again. There was another explosion. But the two battling opponents figured it was just caused by a bomb that Weiß planted that didn't go off. Then there was a much larger one that sent both Aya and Hell flying.
" Masafumi!" Hell cried out for her lover, desperately wishing that he wasn't caught in the explosion.
" Don't worry Hell, I'm right here." Aya turned to see Masafumi standing on the other side of the room, wearing a smirk.
" Takatori," Aya growled at him, trying to stand, but something had caught his leg.
The other members of Weiß and Schreient came racing towards them. "Ah," said Masafumi sounding amused. " The rest of the rats." For the first time Aya noticed that Masafumi was carrying a case, he stared, wondering what it was. " So know that I have all eight of you present I shall now tell you the results of the experiment," he paused, making sure all eyes were on him. " The fail safe mechanism didn't work, however, there was an unexpected side effect; once infused with the serum the user becomes obedient to the first person they see." He snapped his fingers and a large rhino-like monster walked up to Masafumi's side, " I have enough for four more, so I'm off to find more pets for me while the rest of you are to liquidated," he turned to the monster, " Kill the eight of them."
" Papa! You don't mean it do you, please say it's a joke!" Tot cried out, tears in her eyes, "Papa, you said you wouldn't be a bad man like my other Papa!"
" Masafumi!" Schön called out, " First you rescue us, make us your most loyal servants, and then you turn on us?! You little bastard!"
Neu and Hell had remained silent, Neu went over to Yoji and nodded to him, taking of her visor and throwing it to the floor.
" What's wrong Hell? Didn't see this coming did you?" Masafumi asked, a smile on his lips.
" Masafumi, I don't understand, I gave my heart and soul to you, I risked my life, I became a killer for you, and now you're throwing me away?" tears rolled down her checks like little streams of pain.
" Don't think I didn't know that you were just using to get power Hell," he snarled at her. " I know what you wanted, and it was power." He smiled again, " But yes, I am throwing you away." he turned to the monster. " Now GO!"
With an unearthly roar the creature charged forward as Masafumi made his escape.
" Takatori get back here!" Aya bellowed at the fleeing man.
Neu, Schön, Ken, Yoji, and Juri were now focusing on the monster while Tot cried in a corner, and Hell just sat and stared at the place where Masafumi was when he announced their executions. " Masafumi..." she whispered.
" Snap out of it!" Aya yelled at her, causing her to break out of her trance.
" Why!?" She screamed at him, " You don't know what's like to lose someone do you?"
" I do," Aya admitted, "I know what it's like to lose a loved one, but if you do nothing but brood about it you'll never have a chance at happiness again, now focus on staying alive so you can have that happiness," Hell looked at him and he nodded. She closed her eyes and nodded, tears were still streaming down her checks, but she had a determined look on her face.
" Right," she brought her blades again, " Tot, come on, we'll get you an even better papa next time."
Tot got up, she also looked determined, " Yes," she said.
Through the eight of them working together the monster was finished in no time. Quickly they left and watched as the place burnt down.
" So what's Schreient going to do now?" asked Juri.
" I don't know," answered Hell.
"I'm sure Kritiker well find something for you to do," said Ken, " After all you guys are really good fighters."
Hell smiled, " Maybe."
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Yes! It's done! The longest thing I ever typed is done! * Ahem* so how was that, I really enjoyed this chapter; it may have been a little rushed at the end but hey. Anyways spring sports have started, (yes I know it's winter, it's very winterish where I live right now, there's about a foot of snow) and since I have track and school it's going to be awhile before the next part's up, just warning you now you're in for a little wait. How'd you like Schreient being rejected by Masafumi? I always liked Schreient and I really didn't want them to end up dead in the long run. What happened to Masafumi? Not sure, but he'll show back up later.
Preview:
Yoji: Yes we got two months of rest and relaxation! No missions what so ever.
Juri: But who knows what awaits us when our vacation's other.
Yoji: Looks like Aya and Mamoru are getting pretty close, * wink*
Ken: I don't believe it, Kase?
Juri: Ken what's wrong.
Ken: An old face from the past returns to haunt us. Please look forward to the next chapter!
Notes: This is dedicated to Love Shiggy, it's her birthday the 17 so I'm dedicating this to her. This chapter is going to be a lot like ep. 14, I'm going to try to put more emphasis on the relationship between Hell and Masafumi, but no promises.
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Masafumi's helicopter landed outside his privet mansion. After disembarking from it Schön headed for her room, clutching her face, Tot following her to see if she could help. Hell and Neu followed Masafumi to his lap, after he was safely there, Neu left for her room while Hell stayed behind, helping Masafumi on the task at hand.
" Hell, bring me the test results from the last experiment."
" Right here Masafumi," she said as walked over with a folder to his desk where Masafumi was pouring some chemicals into a graduated cylinder. " But don't you think you should get some rest? After the assassination attempted must have taken a lot out of you."
Masafumi frowned at her " Don't worry about me. I have to finish this before the devil comes for me! Now look!" he held the cylinder up to show Hell " Look at this, this is full of different DNA strains from the strongest creatures on the face of the earth, and ultra fine grains of silicone that root out the weaknesses of the DNA. This way I can make humans not only more powerful but invincible!" he put the glass down, " I shall destroy humanity, then replace it with a new race, one that combines the basics of nature and science!"
Hell looked at her lover with awe, " Please take me to this new world of yours. Take me with you!"
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Back at the Kitty, Weiß were recovering from the mission. Aya leaned against the wall nearest the stairs, his eyes closed and in deep thought. Yoji was also in deep thought, as he sat on the stairs Aya heard muttering to himself. On the couch Juri was cleaning up some of Ken's wounds.
" Damn it!" Ken screamed as Juri cleaned the cut across his back, " That hurts!"
" Oh, stop complaining," Juri told him, "It's not that bad, thanks to your jacket." She put some bandages on it and threw him his shirt. " There, all better." She said as she began to unbutton the front of her shirt.
Ken's face went red, " What...what are you doing?"
" I got hurt too see," she showing him the cut she got from Tot, "Can you help clean it? I can't clean as well with my left hand.
"Sure." Ken said, his blush disappearing.
" That was some mission though." Juri reflected
" It's not over yet," said Aya, " We still need to take out the target."
Juri sighed, "You're right," she said. She stiffened a little as Ken applied the rubbing alcohol, " But I wonder where that helicopter went...."
" Well there's nothing we can do about it now," Said Yoji getting up. " Let's just hope that Kritiker found something and will give it to us in the mourning." He went up the stairs and up to his room above the shop, followed by Aya, leaving Ken and Juri alone.
"Well...we might as well go to bed too," Juri said as Ken finished wrapping her arm. " Thanks, by the way." Pulling her shirt back on and walking up the stairs.
" Hey Juri."
" Yeah?"
" Once we're done with the mission, will you be staying with us, or will you go back to being a...whatever you were before you came to Weiß?"
Juri paused at this, " I don't know, whatever Kritiker wants me to do, I can't go back to being a police officer, so they might keep me here. But you never know, for the six years I've been with Kritiker I've been moved around a lot."
" Six years huh, that beats any of us here,"
"How long have you guys been in Kritiker?"
" Yoji and I three years, Aya two, but he's only been with us for a year." He sighed, " I still remember my first mission. I was seventeen and it was just Yoji and me. I had nightmares for three months afterwards, but after a year I started couching the local kids in soccer and it took my mind off the killing, and I was able to have a somewhat normal life again," he sighed. " Oh well, life's a bitch."
" Ain't it the truth," Juri said as she sat on the bottom step, "I was fourteen when I joined, my Niichan was part of a team like this one. Our parents were on a second honeymoon and I was staying with him, he was about Yoji's age at the time, he and his partner were going after a target when they thought I was asleep. I woke up in the middle of the night and they were gone, and since I was the dirty minded girl that I am, I thought they went to the local gay bar," she smiled softly, "I kept teasing him about he and Yutaka were lovers, and I loved how he got so embarrassed, and he would tease me about me not able to get a boyfriend 'cause I scared all the boys.
" But anyways, as I said I was waiting for them to come back home so I could yell at them for not telling me where they went, when they came back covered in blood and Niichan was badly hurt, I screamed and blacked out.
" I awoke the next day in a Kritiker hospital, Yutaka, Niichan's lover, was there and he explained everything, along with someone called Bangle. At first I was shocked, my brother, the one who wouldn't hurt a fly, the one who used to preach about saving all life, was a killer. Yutaka I could see, he had an air of power around him anyway, but Niichan was too gentle, too sweet . . . too loving. Bangle then explained to me the importance of what my brother and his lover did, that they killed only bad people who took pleasure in hurting and killing others. I don't know what happened but I just seemed to understand why Niichan did what he did, why he died doing what he did, he did it to protect the innocents of the world, to protect his family, to protect me. I was told I had to keep my mouth shut about this, but I said I wanted to help them, to protect the innocents. To carry on what my Niichan gave his life doing. I started out as a field agent, gathering data on would be targets, and here I am now six years later."
Ken gazed at her, " I started in Weiß," he began, " I was a soccer player, I dropped out high school to play in the J-league, but then someone drugged my water, and accused me of throwing the game because I had bet on the other team to win, they also accused me using illegal drugs. There was going to be a court hearing and everything. And it seemed only my best friend Kase was by my side. Then, while we were in a wear house we were attacked by Yakuza. Why? I don't know. Maybe they were the ones who framed me. Any way they took Kase away and lit the place on fire, leaving me to die. I was rescued by Kritiker and trained to be a field agent, taking out targets," he sighed. " I had it all, and one day someone thought I was in the way and took my life away."
Juri walked over to the brunette and placed a hand on his shoulder, " Come on, it's four in the mourning and we need some sleep." Ken nodded and went up with Juri.
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The next day as the early mourning sun blazed overhead, a fisher put away his cell phone. As he turned back to fishing a blade was placed to his back.
"How's the fish biting...way up here?" asked Hell.
"Who are you talking to Hell?" Tot asked as she popped out from behind a tree, "Oh, it's that sneaky fisher person!"
Schön snapped her whip, " You may die before you get the chance to answer that question fisher boy!"
Neu swooped down and grabbed him from behind.
" Stop!" rang Masafumi's voice.
" Papa why are you stopping us?" Tot whined.
" Because Tot we need to test out the new serum. Neu hold him."
" No," said the man, " Please don't hurt me!" Masafumi forced the solution down the man's throat ad stepped back as the man tried to make himself vomit.
" Have a taste of the wonderful fruits of science." Masafumi smiled as the man fell to the ground and grabbed his throat.
The man rolled on the ground, screaming at the top of his lungs in pain. Soon spider-like legs were popping out of his back and as soon as it started, the transformation was over, a frog-spider like monster was standing where the man was. Its many tongues hung limply until one of its eyes noticed Tot looking scared, sensing the fear coming from the girl it lunged at her.
" I don't like scary monsters!" she screamed, " Go away!" she swung her spiked umbrella at it, stabbing it in a number of places. " Why won't it die? Someone help me!"
" Hell," Masafumi shot her a look.
Hell nodded, aimed the rocket launcher she brought, and fired. The creature didn't stand a chance. Before it knew what hit it, it was dead.
" Papa that was scary!" Tot sobbed into her 'father's' chest as he comforted the frightened girl. Hell gave him a questioning look as they made their way back to the mansion. "I guess the fail-safe gene doesn't work." He shrugged, " But the survival instincts and physical abilities are perfect!" He smiled as he sat down at his desk once they were back in his lab, " The time is near Hell, and soon I'll have the world I've always dreamed of!" Hell walked over to him and embraced him from behind.
" Oh Masafumi, I'm so happy for you, after all those years of your hard work, it's finally paying off!"
Masafumi smiled and faced Hell, "Yes, the devil won't come for me after all." He bent down to kiss her, and met her half way. Yes, he thought, things were going exactly the way he wanted them to.
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Schön was in her room, carefully pulling the bandage that Tot put on last off to see what the damage was, hoping that the damage caused by the little pretty boy wasn't too great. Slowly taking the bandage off, she looked into the mirror and screamed. The wound was deep and it would leave scar. Screaming at her reflection she picked up her stool and threw it at the mirror " That little asshole is going to pay!" she cried, " I don't care how I do it, but I will kill him!"
Neu sat in front of the mirror in her room, gazing at her cracked visor. " Yoji," she whispered, her mind flashed back to the fight last night, she remembered how he called out for her not to go, to stay with him. Did I make the right choice? she thought Should I have stayed with him, and forsake Masafumi? Her thoughts were disrupted by a scream and the sound of glass breaking. Getting up to go check what Schön was up to, existing swiftly to make sure her teammate wouldn't hurt herself.
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Tot was outside watching the cherry blossoms fall, " So pretty," she sighed " Tot wishes that she was as pretty." she lowered her voice to the pitch it was supposed to be, " I wish I was a pretty cherry tree, the only thing I would have to worry about was sunlight, water, minerals and not getting chopped down."
Suddenly the wind picked up and the umbrella she was holding was ripped out of her hand. " Oh," she whined, voice becoming high pitched again, " Tot's umbrella flew away." She chased after it. Then stopped to see a boy catch it effortlessly. Tot stared at him for a moment. " Who are you?"
" Nagi, Naoe Nagi." he said, handing her weapon back to her. " I work for Masafumi's father, and I'm keeping an eye on things."
" Oh, you don't need to, Schön, Hell, Neu and me can take care of Papa," she said confidently.
" I know, but who has an eye on the four of you?"
" What?" Tot looked at him, blinking " What do you mean?"
Nagi smiled a little " I'm here to make sure nothing happens to you. My boss, Crawford says that Schreient plays a major role in the future."
" Is that why you came to visit Tot?"
" Part of the reason, I also came here to see you, to talk to you."
" Why?"
" Because," Nagi began, blushing a little, " you are different, and I want to get to know you better." He lifted his hand and the cherry blossoms began to swirl around the two teens.
" Wow!" Tot squealed.
" Tot!" Hell's voice called out " Dinner!"
" Oh, dinner!" Tot turned to Nagi, " Do you want to have dinner?"
Nagi shook his head, " No, but thank you any ways."
" Tot!"
" Coming!"
Nagi watched her go, a slight smile on his lips.
" There you are Nagi-chan!" Schuldig's voice came from behind.
Turning around he saw Schuldig and Farfarello, " What do you want?" he snapped at them. " Shouldn't you two be watching Mamoru and Ouka?"
" Bard's got them both at the moment so Farf and I thought we would keep you company."
Nagi glared at the German, he really didn't feel like putting up with the redhead's taunts right now, " I'm handling the situation fine, now go away."
" You're in love," said the Irishman, causing both Nagi and Schuldig to stare at him.
" And if I am?" Nagi spat at him, waiting for Farfarello's reply, but the white haired man just shrugged.
Schuldig blinked his green eyes for a moment then smiled " Well, well our little boy's growing up." he affectionately ruffled the young brunette's hair. " We'll leave you alone for now." he turned to his partner, " Come on Farfie, lets go find something new to do." Farfie kicked him in the shin, hard. " Ow, what was that for?!"
" You said 'lets do something new', and I've never kicked you before." The Irish said innocently.
" Okay let's do something that doesn't involve hurting one another." with that the two Schwarz assassins were gone.
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Meanwhile At Takatori Reiji's office, Takatori was on the phone talking to one of his officers, " Good, I except you to take care of it then...Thank you." he hung up, then threw the phone across the room. " Damn that Masafumi!" he growled " Crawford!" he called but the man in front of him didn't respond, " CRAWFORD!" he bellowed.
" Uh....yes Mr. Takatori?"
" I want you to take care of Masafumi, now!" he seethed " He's going to ruin everything the rate he's going!"
Crawford smiled slightly, " Don't worry Mr. Takatori, everything will turn out fine in the end."
" Have you seen it?" Takatori asked, claming down slightly.
Crawford just smiled, " If you would excess me sir, I have some important business to take care off."
" Go ahead, if I need you I'll call."
" By the way how did dinner go last night?" Crawford asked as he was about to exist the room.
" Oh it went fine, Mamoru looked a little out of it though," he paused " Maybe he got into a fight with his girlfriend or something."
" Maybe," and with that Crawford left. He walked down the hall and then entered a stairwell. ' Schuldig,' he projected using the telepathic connection that Schuldig set up. ' Schuldig, are you there?'
' You called, oh fearless one?' The German's reply was almost instantly.
' Are you at Masafumi's place now?'
' Farfarello and I are just about to leave, why?'
' The ones that took out Hirofumi are going after Masafumi, I want you to play with them a little.'
Crawford could almost see Schuldig's smirk, ' Sounds fun, Farf and I were getting bored anyways,' a pause, ' How are things going with the twins?'
' Fine, but I just had a vision about them,' Crawford said slowly, ' Don't ask. I'll explain when you get back.'
' Right, meet you at about seven then.' And Schuldig ended the transmission to tell Farfarello what was going to happen next.
Crawford rubbed his temples, " Damn it," he whispered, " What the hell is wrong with my head?"
*************
The clock in the hallway ticked softly as Manx and Persia walked down the hallway it was occupying. The hour hand ticked onto the 12 as Manx opened the door.
Together they walked in to see a covered body.
" Is this it?" asked Persia.
" Yes," Manx said softly, and grabbed a corner of the sheet that covered the corpse, " Brace yourself," and she pulled of the cover, exposing the brunt form of the agent-turned-monster.
" My God..."
" This was one of the agents keeping an eye on Masafumi. Out of the three of them only one got back, the other one was captured, and presumed dead."
" I see," Persia clenched his fist, " Only death will stop him. I want Weiß on this immediately."
" Right."
***********
Weiß stood on the road that lead to Masafumi's mansion. All of them had a determined look on their faces.
" Let's go," said Aya and began to walk towards the mansion. The other three nodded and followed.
As they walked down the road they kept an eye and ear out for any bodyguards or snipers. Aya's ear twitched as there was a snap of a large branch. Turning his head slightly to see where the sound came from, a figure jumped out at them.
" Yiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyi!" came Farfarello's battle cry as he came flying at them, knifes drawn. He aimed for Aya's head but Aya managed to evade in time.
Farfarello looked up from where he landed and gazed at the redhead with his hawk-like eye, giving him a crooked smile, before taking a charging-leap at the swordsman.
Aya drew his sword out as the white haired assassin came charging after him. Yoji got out some of his wire and shot it at the Irishman who just jumped over it.
" Shit, he's fast," Yoji cursed as Farfarello came after him, swiping his knives at the blonde. Ken came up from behind and tried to get him from the back, but Farfarello swirled around milliseconds before Ken struck, and cut the brunette's arm in long, but shallow gash.
" Ah!" Ken cried out in frustration and pain and took another swipe at Farfarello, who danced out of the way. Aya raced forward and swung at him.
Farfarello did a back flip and landed on a nearby tree's lowest branch. He smiled down at the white hunters. " You're good," he said, " But you're not that good." His smiled broadened, " Mastermind, shall I finish them, or do you want to have some fun with them,"
" I think I will Berserk," came a nasal voice from behind Weiß. Aya turned around to see a tall man with flame colored hair, and a rather nasty smirk on his face, " Hello there Kittens," he said giving them and knowing look. " This will be fun."
' Hello there Aya, or Ran I should say,' a voice rang in Aya's head.
" What?" Aya eyes widened slightly in shock, if he didn't know better he would think the man was talking to him in his head, but that was just plain irrational.
" No it's not," Schuldig said, shrugging, " I never met anyone who could be blasted in a wall have someone talk in their head and still not believe in psychic powers, but hey, there has to be a first time for everything."
" You mean you're..." Juri began.
"Yes, you thought of the right answer pretty girl. Yes I am a telepath." The German smiled at her sweetly, " I am Mastermind of Schwarz," He pointed to Farfarello, who was now hanging upside down in the tree, grinning at the white hunters with an insane glee in his amber eye, " And that is Berserk, also of Schwarz."
" Schwarz?" Ken asked turning to Aya, " Didn't the kid who stop us from killing Hirofumi say he was a Schwarz too?"
" Ah, yes that was Prodigy, our youngest member," said Schuldig.
" Enough talk," Farfarello said, swinging on the branch so he could enough momentum to get back on it, and doing so. " Oracle told us to play with you, so that's were going to do." He leapt from the tree and started attacking Ken, who countered with his bugnuks and dived to the right, getting as far as possible from his teammates.
Schuldig pulled out his gun, " I'm afraid he's right, Oracle did tell us to keep you some company, this is going to very different from your encounter with Prodigy, this will be much more painful." He shot his gun and nipped Yoji in his shoulder, who threw some of his wire at him in retaliation, but Schuldig disappeared.
" Where'd he go?"
" Right here." Yoji turned around and saw the German right behind him. Turning slowly around Yoji saw him right before Schuldig hit him and he blacked out.
Aya charged at Schuldig as Juri went after Farfarello.
" Nice try," Schuldig smirked before doing the same thing he did to Yoji to him.
Farfarello had kicked Ken in the head rather hard, sending the boy sprawling a few feet away. Turning, Farfarello gave his attention to Juri. " Little lady," he smiled at her, " You know what's going to happen to you, so put the gun down, and it'll be over before you know it." he said then licked one of his knives.
" I'll take care of this kitty." Schuldig said and gave her a knife-hand strike to the neck.
" She was mine." Farfarello pouted.
" I know how you are with women Farfie, you'll would have her screaming for more before an hour was up," he smirked," I don't know how you do it, but you drive the ladies wild with whatever you do."
Farfarello shrugged, and started to drag Ken to the side of the road, as Schuldig did the same to Juri. Once all of Weiß had been moved out of the road Farf and Schuldig left.
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Juri awoke with a pounding headache, " What happened?" she ask weary as she rubbed her head, she saw Ken a few feet away waking up too.
" Shit, Berserk sure knows how to knock someone out," he said.
" So does Mastermind, he got Yoji and Aya too." Juri said as she walked over to him.
Ken glanced up at the blue haired girl, " Where are they?" he asked.
Juri looked around and saw Aya's hand sticking out of bush. The two of them walked together and saw That Schuldig had put Aya and Yoji in a very...odd position. Ken blushed violently and turned away, Juri started to giggle madly.
Aya awoke at Juri's giggling, and noticed something heavy on top of him. Opening his eyes he saw that Yoji was atop him, they were put into a very erotic position, moving Yoji's leg out his face and moving Yoji's head from where it was he got up and brushed himself off. He turned to glare at his teammates.
Juri's giggles died down with the glare, but were still there. Ken had busied himself with the task of getting Yoji up, trying to make his blush go down. Once Yoji was up the four continued down their set mission.
" I can't believe we're still alive after that," Juri said, " Why didn't they just kill us?"
" Berserk said it himself," Aya said from ahead, " They were only playing with us."
" Do they work for Masafumi?" Yoji asked.
" I don't think so, Prodigy, the little kid who blasted me and Aya into wall with telekinesis, was protecting Hirofumi. So maybe Reiji hired them to protect his family."
" That's probably it," Yoji said, " But were do you get psychic bodyguards?"
" Takatori probably has underworld connections," Aya said as they walked up to a cliff over looking the mansion where Masafumi was hiding. " Are we ready?"
The other three nodded.
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"Papa, is it done?" asked Tot.
"Only in theory, well only know when we test on our test subject. " he motioned to the Kritiker agent tied up in corner, fear evident in his eyes.
"Will it make my beauty last for ever?" Schön asked
"Of course Schön."
" At last," began Hell from the comfort of her lover's arms, " You did it Masafumi, your dream. You finally finished your dream."
" Yes-" he began but was cut of by a loud explosion, " What was that!" he shirked.
Schreient went into action, heading off into different directions to see who caused the explosion. Hell remained with her lover, and clamed him down.
" Takatori," came a growl from the doorway, causing Masafumi to shirk again.
" It's the devil! The devil's come to get me for my sins himself!"
Hell brought out her blades and charged at Aya.
*****
Yoji was standing on a window sill waiting for Neu to show up." Hey there beautiful," he called after her as she streaked past, causing her to stop and look up at him. " Take of that visor, it really doesn't suit you Asuka,"
" Yoji," she said softly " Leave, I don't want to hurt you."
" I can't do that Asuka, I have to stop Masafumi otherwise more innocents will be killed. Do you want that hanging other your head?"
Neu leapt up at him kicking him softly in the leg with just enough force to knock him of the window.
" Asuka!"
****
"This is a pretty lavish hideout," Ken commented as Schön raced up the stairs to meet him.
" I'm going to pay you back for this scar that you gave me."
"Bring it on."
"With pleasure," she took out her whip and cracked it. Ken dodged, and she cracked it again, Ken dodged every time. "I see you've gotten better," she commented.
"Thanks, you're not doing to bad yourself," Ken said as he swiped at her.
*****
"So...we're going to fight again huh?" Tot asked Juri, "What's your name?"
"Tabby," said Juri giving the girl her codename.
"Tabby, that's cute," she twirled her umbrella, " Bye-bye, Tabby-san!" The spike appeared at the end and Tot charged Juri. Juri dodged and did a jump round kick to Tot's back, but missed.
*********
Outside three members of Schwarz watched. Schuldig and Farfarello both had to restrain Nagi from rushing in and helping his crush, but fortunately the prospect of an angry Crawford got him to settle down.
" Kid don't worry, Brad said that everything will be ok," Schuldig said to the Japanese boy.
Nagi glared at the German and the Irishman. " But Crawford also said that his visions were becoming less and less clear, what if he interrupted it wrong?" he demanded.
Schuldig frowned. The kid was being extremely emotional, something that was out of character for the boy. " Well...we go in and help, Crawford said that Schreient plays some part in the future, he doesn't know what though."
This seemed to clam the boy down. Sighing softly they returned to watching the battle.
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" I won't let put one finger on Masafumi!" Hell screamed like a banshee at Aya. Their battle had taken the two of them out side of Masafumi's lab and into the main hall.
Aya glared at her as he swung his sword at her again. There was another explosion. But the two battling opponents figured it was just caused by a bomb that Weiß planted that didn't go off. Then there was a much larger one that sent both Aya and Hell flying.
" Masafumi!" Hell cried out for her lover, desperately wishing that he wasn't caught in the explosion.
" Don't worry Hell, I'm right here." Aya turned to see Masafumi standing on the other side of the room, wearing a smirk.
" Takatori," Aya growled at him, trying to stand, but something had caught his leg.
The other members of Weiß and Schreient came racing towards them. "Ah," said Masafumi sounding amused. " The rest of the rats." For the first time Aya noticed that Masafumi was carrying a case, he stared, wondering what it was. " So know that I have all eight of you present I shall now tell you the results of the experiment," he paused, making sure all eyes were on him. " The fail safe mechanism didn't work, however, there was an unexpected side effect; once infused with the serum the user becomes obedient to the first person they see." He snapped his fingers and a large rhino-like monster walked up to Masafumi's side, " I have enough for four more, so I'm off to find more pets for me while the rest of you are to liquidated," he turned to the monster, " Kill the eight of them."
" Papa! You don't mean it do you, please say it's a joke!" Tot cried out, tears in her eyes, "Papa, you said you wouldn't be a bad man like my other Papa!"
" Masafumi!" Schön called out, " First you rescue us, make us your most loyal servants, and then you turn on us?! You little bastard!"
Neu and Hell had remained silent, Neu went over to Yoji and nodded to him, taking of her visor and throwing it to the floor.
" What's wrong Hell? Didn't see this coming did you?" Masafumi asked, a smile on his lips.
" Masafumi, I don't understand, I gave my heart and soul to you, I risked my life, I became a killer for you, and now you're throwing me away?" tears rolled down her checks like little streams of pain.
" Don't think I didn't know that you were just using to get power Hell," he snarled at her. " I know what you wanted, and it was power." He smiled again, " But yes, I am throwing you away." he turned to the monster. " Now GO!"
With an unearthly roar the creature charged forward as Masafumi made his escape.
" Takatori get back here!" Aya bellowed at the fleeing man.
Neu, Schön, Ken, Yoji, and Juri were now focusing on the monster while Tot cried in a corner, and Hell just sat and stared at the place where Masafumi was when he announced their executions. " Masafumi..." she whispered.
" Snap out of it!" Aya yelled at her, causing her to break out of her trance.
" Why!?" She screamed at him, " You don't know what's like to lose someone do you?"
" I do," Aya admitted, "I know what it's like to lose a loved one, but if you do nothing but brood about it you'll never have a chance at happiness again, now focus on staying alive so you can have that happiness," Hell looked at him and he nodded. She closed her eyes and nodded, tears were still streaming down her checks, but she had a determined look on her face.
" Right," she brought her blades again, " Tot, come on, we'll get you an even better papa next time."
Tot got up, she also looked determined, " Yes," she said.
Through the eight of them working together the monster was finished in no time. Quickly they left and watched as the place burnt down.
" So what's Schreient going to do now?" asked Juri.
" I don't know," answered Hell.
"I'm sure Kritiker well find something for you to do," said Ken, " After all you guys are really good fighters."
Hell smiled, " Maybe."
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Yes! It's done! The longest thing I ever typed is done! * Ahem* so how was that, I really enjoyed this chapter; it may have been a little rushed at the end but hey. Anyways spring sports have started, (yes I know it's winter, it's very winterish where I live right now, there's about a foot of snow) and since I have track and school it's going to be awhile before the next part's up, just warning you now you're in for a little wait. How'd you like Schreient being rejected by Masafumi? I always liked Schreient and I really didn't want them to end up dead in the long run. What happened to Masafumi? Not sure, but he'll show back up later.
Preview:
Yoji: Yes we got two months of rest and relaxation! No missions what so ever.
Juri: But who knows what awaits us when our vacation's other.
Yoji: Looks like Aya and Mamoru are getting pretty close, * wink*
Ken: I don't believe it, Kase?
Juri: Ken what's wrong.
Ken: An old face from the past returns to haunt us. Please look forward to the next chapter!