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WARNING: This chapter contains some grotesque scenes…so be on your guard.

Chapter 3

Le Coeur sacré d'une âme innocente

(The sacred Heart of an Innocent Soul.)

Shion dreamt deeply that night, her thoughts drowning her in a pit of uncontrollable rising sorrow. She stood at the center of a city in shambles. Her emerald eyes locked on a slumped figure on the ground in the shadows before her. Rain poured in sheets upon her giving her shivers and chills. She hugged her arms to warm herself, eyes still locked on they dark figure.

A quick crack of thunder and bolt of lightning in the air flashed in her eyes as Shion took in a sharp intake of the freezing air. The lightning had shown to her strands of way too familiar clumps of bluish platinum hair. She ran towards the figure, horror danced in her eyes.

"Kos-Mos" she screamed. "Kos-Mos can you hear me?"

The figure was silent, her arms and legs twisted in positions to uncomfortable to think of. Her face was covered in soot and rubble; her hair was knotted and matted as it floated carelessly in puddles of water. Lying in a pile of gnosis guts nearby was her F-Scythe stained with reddish black blood that belonged to the aliens. Shion looked in complete horror at Kos-Mos' crumpled form. Worst of all, the androids' eyes were closed.

"Kos-Mos" Shion screamed louder than before as she knelt down to cradle the androids body. Tears stung her eyes as they fell onto the blue haired female. Shion had rarely cried. She cried when her parents died and when her fiancé Kevin had perished to save her from the first archetype Kos-Mos that had been a failure. Now she let the tears stream down her cheeks. Had she only cried when someone, or something in this case important to her died. "Kos-Mos open your eyes. Please Kos-Mos don't die…you can't die, you're not human…. you can't" she gasped.

As Shion hugged Kos-Mos to her chest she noticed deep red blood on the android, Her own wounds were bleeding heavily. She gasped. "Where did these come from?" More wounds appeared on her chest, arms, legs and face. Most of them were deep gnashes rather than cuts. Blood streamed from each of them staining her black overcoat and tan pants. Her own hair was knotted and filled with dried bloodstains.

Slowly Shion laid Kos-Mos' unconscious form on the ground and stood. She turned around and let out a painful scream. Before her as the violent thunder clashed above her head she saw her comrades all slumped on the ground. They were all dead…they had been mercilessly killed.

Ziggurat 8, more known as Ziggy, had been ripped to shreds. His arms and legs were sprawled in different places. His body was torn and ripped into metal pieces. His head…was nowhere to be found. Lying next to Ziggy's body parts was Jr. He was covered in mortal wounds that cut down to the bone. Blood poured from them and got washed away by the rain.

Her own brother Jin Uzuki who had not even been with the group, lie motionless on the ground covered in mud. His fingers were still curled around his favorite samurai sword. He too had his fair share of injuries. Next to Jin laid the two sisters Mary and Shelly. They too were motionless. Their skin was burned and their faces were covered in cuts. They lay in each other's arms holding hands.

Off into a dark corner was Gaignun Kukai. His usual black, clean, pressed uniform was ripped to pieces his chest had a large hole where blood spilled mercilessly from it. Shion, horrified by these grotesque sights covered her mouth and tried not to vomit. She turned her head to see that Allen had appeared motionless next to Kos-Mos. He had four shots to the chest and one to the leg.

This had done it. Shion fell to her knees and covered her ears. "Stop this!" fresh tears filled her eyes. "Why did this happen. Kos-Mos, Allen, Mary, Shelly, Gaignun, Jr, Jin and Ziggy, Why did this happen?"

As she cried harder than ever before a shadow emerged from a corner and fell over her defeated form. "Dear Angel what is the problem?" it asked.

Shion, afraid to turn around to see her friends murdered like that again had force her body to move. She turned slowly and met a pair of red eyes filled with sympathy. She gasped as she wiped the tears from her eyes. Her own boss, the head of Vector Industries looked down upon her with sympathy. Wilhelm offered her a hand. Hesitantly she took it and got to her feet, grateful that she couldn't see behind him at that grotesque sight.

"Dear Angel…please don't cry." Wilhelm coaxed her.

Shion sniffed and began to force back tears. "Sir…what are you doing here?"

He smiled. "I have come to rescue you"

She gasped. "Rescue me? From what? Who did this?" She questioned.

"Such a curious girl" Wilhelm replied softly. "No wonder I chose you for head of Vector First Division."

Shion didn't reply.

"Come" He whispered in her ear. "You have much to learn…"

She nodded as he began to walk into the shadows until he faded into darkness.

Shion raced into the darkness to find her boss but he had simply vanished. She didn't notice at all, though that the scene around her melted into something totally different. She now stood at the core of the Song of Nephillim, yet rain still poured over her head. A figure sat in the chair in the center of the room.

Shion walked closer hoping to find the person who had massacred her friends. Her boots clacked against the soaking wet floor and her body was now completely saturated with the chill of water, but she didn't care, she wanted to destroy who ever did this. She let her blood stained cream colored M.W.S. materialize on her arm as she approached the figure. It sparked every now and then flashing a bit of light in front of her.

She approached the chair and saw who sat upon it. A white haired man with deep purple eyes. The man known as Albedo. The U.R.T.V. that went crazy when he came into contact with U-Do. She let out a tiny scream. Upon the floor was yet another motion less body…this time it was chaos' he lay on his stomach, his face turned away from hers, blood poured from his back into a puddle on the floor.

Anger filled Shion's heart. She hated Albedo for what he did before to her friend Momo, now he had gone too far. She disregarded her own wounds on her arms and positioned her M.W.S. and braced herself for a fatal fight. "Albedo!" she screamed

He looked at her with interest. "Ahhh ma belle reine" he whispered soothingly.

Shion spat on the ground to show him how much she hated him.

He laughed loudly, letting his high-pitched voice ripple through the room around them. "How pathetic" he replied.

"Why?" she screamed. "Why would you do this?"

"That ma bell reine is none of your business" Albedo replied. "But I must say…it wasn't all me you know? I couldn't have done it without ma Peche you see…" Suddenly Momo appeared in Albedo's arms. Her skin was deathly white. A small trickle of blood came from her half opened mouth.

"What have you done?" Shion yelled trying to keep herself from going completely insane at the sight of her friend's mangled bodies.

"They were pawns you see" Albedo explained in a bored voice as he carelessly dropped Momo to the floor. "Pawns in a large game we play…. Called life. But you…Shion…you are special. Mizrahi put everything about you in the Y-Data. Without you…darkness wouldn't exist. You are perfect for me… that is why I spared you."

Shion took a step back. "Darkness?"

Albedo laughed hysterically. "You don't know do you?" when she didn't reply he laughed harder. "This is just wonderful…"

"STOP!" a young voice screamed.

Shion whipped her head around to see a red haired girl in a simple white dress. She had a cross that shimmered even in the darkest of shadows around her neck. She walked closer to Albedo. "You are not to be here…be gone."

Within an instant everything faded into darkness. Albedo was gone, so was Momo and chaos. She looked at Nephillim. "Whats going on?"

Nephillim frowned. "He is trying to fool with your mind."

Shion was silent as she thought it over.

"Don't let it get to you Shion" Nephillim whispered. "You have a sacred heart and an innocent soul. Though I must warn you…"

Shion looked at the girl with anxiety. The darkness around them faded to a familiar scene Shion had seen before. Kos-Mos was fighting against the consciousness known as U-Do!

"This will happen in the future…you already know that right?"

Shion nodded. "Kos-Mos will fight U-Do in order to save everyone."

Nephillim shook her head. "No Shion…Kos-Mos will fight U-Do because it is her duty."

"Duty?" she questioned. "What duty?"

"It will all come in good time" Nephillim assured her. "But Shion… remember this. If you don't figure out who you are soon…what you just witnessed will come true. Even God cannot deny that."

Shion gasped. "You mean if I don't find out my roll in life…Kos-Mos…Jin…Momo…Allen…will all die?"

Nephillim began to fade. "Shion its time for you to return to reality."

"Wait" she called. "Tell me more."

Nephillim disappeared into the shadows as the world around Shion faded. Before she knew what happened she was falling…

With a gasp Shion sat up in bed and pushed the blankets off her body. She was sweating vigorously. Her hair was damp with perspiration. She quickly looked down her nightshirt to see if there were wounds but found none. Quickly she forced herself out of her bed and ran into the bathroom in the girl's cabin of the Elsa and splashed cold water on her face. She trembled. Something was wrong she could feel it. As she grasped a towel and dried off her face the ship rumbled.

Emergency lights went on and red-warning signals flashed in the room. A computer voice kept repeating "EVEACUATE EVACUATE" She rushed out of the bathroom and into her own where she pulled off the nightgown and got dressed as quickly as she could.

As she left her room she met Momo in the hallway coming out of her own room.

"Whats happening?" the realian questioned.

Shion let out a sigh of relief. Momo was safe…it was a dream after all. "I don't know."

They quickly rushed to the bridge of the Elsa where the crew, Allen, Jr, chaos, and Ziggy waited as they looked ahead.

Shion gasped in horror as a large mass of abnormal shockwaves raced near them. "Gnosis!" she screamed.

Chapter 3 end

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