Author's note : Here is the promised chapter. I ask myself if this story is too depressing.. I know it is depressing, that's why I didn't write "humour" in the category. Sorry to write this story... somehow I really feel guilty. But I really like it.. uhm.. Whatever... In this chapter... ahh, why shall I spoil it to you? Go and read it yourself, and tell me abt ur opinion please.

Mireille thought it over and over. Kirika got a cancer. Then Soldats appeared to kidnap her. She came here after much stress and tears. And out of sudden she found out that she had a half-aunt replacing Altena as a High Priestess. In Soldats. Soldats who had killed her whole family. Through Kirika's hand. Now they are supposed to fight, to repeat the same ritual they had been going through last time.
No, Mireille said to herself, this is too much. I can'twork it out.

She had no idea, that about 200 miles from where she was, Kirika and Elena were in a big danger. The girls turned their backs to each other, ready to fight. Then the people showed up. As expected, all of them had weapons in their hands.
"What.. what is it all about?" Elena asked, her eyes full of fear.
It was no time for a discussion with those people, but Elena just didn't understand that. There was time, in which people killed or be killed without knowing why and how. And in such times, survival was the only thing people should care about.

Exactly as the people rushed to them, Kirika left her position beside Elena and started to fight. She needed to do any movement quickly and effectively, to prevent them from making any attack. She could hear Elena starting to fight too. A bit clumsy, but she was getting better with every hit. Kirika concentrated on her movements. She was sure that Elena could take care of herself.
But after many hits and attacks she had made, Kirika asked herself when the fight would settle down. More men came after the first ones fell. Kirika asked herself if this was another test for Noir. While her mind was divided into two, she didn't notice somebody behind her, who was about to blow her head with a handgun. She realized it in the last second, intending to kick the gun off his hand, but the man had already pulled the trigger.

The bullet was going to hit her. But she would be allright, because it wouldn't hit her heart. Like in slow motion Kirika saw something others came between the bullet and her. A body familiar to Kirika functioned as a shield for her and bore the whole consequences of the bullet. Elena's body experienced a short jolt as the bullet hit her in the chest, then it fell down beautifully backwards.
Kirika saw all that with horror in her eyes. If the men did look at her eyes at these moments, they could see a fire flackering there.

Mireille woke up with a bad premonition. She felt as if she heard Kirika screaming somewhere. But it must be only a dream. Kirika was somewhere out there, but they would meet soon. At that time... and Mireille suddenly remembered what Marie had said to her. Kirika Yuumura will do it. We know her inwardly and outwardly.

And she knew what she had to do next : go and find Marie. The referred person was not far from her. She found her after some minutes running around.
Marie looked at her worriedly as she entered the room she was in. She was asking herself how Mireille would handle with what she had told her yesterday. Would she accept it? Or...
"I need to know..." Mireille panted. "What are you going to do with Kirika? What exactly do you mean with, 'she will do it'? I don't see any reason why she would do it."
"Really sorry, Mireille, but I don't know anything about it. My only task is to convince you to take part in this deal. Kirika is their responsibility, not mine."

Mireille leaned on a pillar.
What if Kirika really screamed somewhere out there? Perhaps she wasn't dreaming at all.
"How is it? Will you agree to take part?" asked Marie.
Mireille stared at her rather angrily.
"I must. I will bring her back, no matter what happen. I am the only one who can do it. It has nothing to do with Soldats." She added full of hatred.

Mireille started her own special training. She didn't mean to defeat Kirika, but she needed more skill and power to return Kirika to her usual state. When they did make Kirika fighting against her, she would be ready. Mireille was not going to die before Kirika. Kirika needed her, and she would be there for her.
She loaded her gun, asking herself in silence when Kirika would arrive there. It had been 15 days since they parted from each other. She missed her. She really missed her.

Days came and went.
16 days...
Mireille sat on a broken pillar, looking at the sky with her gun in her hand. She promised herself, she would be strong for Kirika. Whatever happened, she would be strong enough to bring Kirika back.

17 days...
GraiPaul ordered people to take care of the many corpses on the training field, including Elena's body. A new girl appeared in the place and Kirika continued the training with her.

18 days...
Marie prayed in the same chapel Altena once prayed in. Her hands and whole body trembled.

19 days...
Kirika stood in the middle of the hall. She turned to GraiPaul quickly as he entered the room. Her eyes showed no mercy, but she didn't attack. GraiPaul made a short gesture with his hands to lead Kirika out of the hall. As Kirika walked past him, he noticed that Kirika wore the same cloth she wore as Elena died. It was all stained with blood. Most of it was Elena's. She sat beside the new girl, whose age was about Elena's. Shereplaced Elena's position as Kirika's partner. Both of them were sitting in the helicopter. None of them got their eyes bound. None of the men dared to approach Kirika, either. The helicopter set off, leaving the mysterious place and aimed to the Manor, where the big fight should be carried out.

20 days...
Mireille spotted Marie leaning to the window to watch her training. The woman looked much weaker and more exhausted with each day. She stopped her training and told her that she was now ready to talk.
As they finally faced each other, the atmosphere between them became tense again. But this time Mireille was much calmer.
"You have said... that we are relatives. Much or less." Began Mireille.
Marie nodded.
"You are my mother's half sister. Did you know that they kill my whole family? Soldats had killed them and yet you are here, as their High Priestess."
Mireille couldn't hide her hatred and disgust toward Soldats. Indirectly, toward her half-aunt. Marie kept calm, but she too, couldn't hide the disappointment of Mireille's opinion about Soldats.
"I knew it." She said at last.
"Your mother and I, Mireille, didn't know of each other before we met within Soldats. I was an illegitimate child of her father, and after her father died, my mother and I lived in sorrow. When I was 16 years old, my mother deceased and I was left alone. At that time, life is hard and merciless to a poor, young girl. Then Altena showed up and offered her help. So did I enter Soldats.
Then your mother and father entered Soldats. We became good friends. Accidentally we knew that we were half-sisters because of some happenings. It was a great feeling."
Marie took deep breath before continuing.
"Then you were born, Mireille. Altena directly chose you as a candidate for Noir. Of course Odette didn't agree---so she had a big argument with Altena. She insisted not going to give up her daughter that easily to Soldats. I didn't do anything. I didn't know what to. Altena was my life saviour. Without her, I was nothing. Odette was my sister... but I just knew her 9 years. I couldn't choose between two sides. So I didn't want to get involved. I just saw from far what happened.
I also knew that Altena sent Kirika Yuumura---First Plant---to kill her whole family but you. But I still didn't know what to do. That's why... as you two came here to kill Altena, I also didn't show up. I was hiding... from you.
Altena respected my decision... it was her last will that I replace her as the High Priestess. I owed her my life. Besides, Soldats had been my home for a long time. I just can't leave this place. I love this place."

Mireille didn't know what to say. Although she understood every word Marie said, she couldn't accept it. For her, Marie's relationship with Altena was nothing compared with blood. But at the same time she was asking herself, if she would sacrifice her family to maintain her relationship with Kirika? When she was on Marie's place...

Then a noisy sound rose up out of nowhere. It was coming nearer. After some minutes an object showed up from above. It was a helicopter. Mireille's mouth gaped open, she was wondering what the heck it was.
"They have come. Now you can see Kirika Yuumura, exactly what I have promised you three weeks ago. But beware," she now whispered. "She might not the Kirika you knew till now."