Heart of the Melting Blood
Legend of the Moonlight
Written and conceived by:
Lone Wolf NEO

Lone Wolf NEO does not own any of all the games or anime or manga featured in this story, but he owns the copyright to all his original ideas in this fiction. The author would really appreciate it if readers do not plagiaries everything inside this story without his knowledge.

Chronological Note: Heart of the Melting Blood: Legend of the Moonlight takes place scarcely half a year after the event in Heart of the Melting Blood RELOADED, and currently runs roughly in parallel with Guilty Gear: the World within and Without written and created by Sheo Darren. This time, the story will continue in a brand new arc, Destiny Arc, which takes place not long after the battle between the three knights of the Holy Orders in the Awe of She arc. The author will promise an ending to this tale of betrayal, trust and hope.

Author's note: songs mentioned in this chapter are Mizu to Akashi (Gundam SEED), Tears of Heaven and the ending theme of Fatal Fury OVA the author doesn't remember what.

Chapter 22
Three Hearts United

"Dizzy-chan, I'm going to buy something. Do you want anything to eat?"

"No… no, for now. I'm not hungry."

"Please, Dizzy-chan. I know you're worried about Alex-san, but don't force yourself like this. Look at you; what will he say when he sees you like this?"

"… I don't care of what happens to me… please, Hotaru-chan, leave me with him…"

"Sigh… I wish I could understand your feeling toward him. Whatever; I'll stay at the outside. Let me know if you need anything, ne?"

"Okay. Thanks, Hotaru-chan."

x-x

She was alone. The Gear woman was alone inside the room, and she sat next to Alex. The calm, sleeping face of the assassin knight was stared at, and she felt terribly lonely. Lonely in its fullest sense. The silence of night outside the hospital was the only thing that accompanied her uncertain heart. Even that still couldn't satisfy her need.

Hopelessly she took hold of his hand. And hopelessly she wished to see him awake. "Alex, don't die…" Dizzy whispered. "There are still… things I need to tell you…" Then slowly she put his hand over his chest and softly patted it. "Say, Alex. I remember the day you asked me to sing a lullaby. Would it be alright if…" To her surprise, the hand unconsciously clenched her palm, as if asking her to do it. She could only smile at the response and lightly rubbed it. "I… I don't know whether I can still sing… it's been a very long time since you taught me how. But… I'll try my best."

With that said she took her breath, and it started. With the voice of a pink-haired female Coordinator, and the heart of a certain goddess of the Present, she sang. Before long her voice was heard echoing through every corner of the hospital, and subsequently, and strangely, the night turned serene. Wind stopped blowing, crickets no longer chirped, water flow slowed down; it was as if the night itself fell to the pure voice of the heaven.

Mizu no naka ni yoru ga yureteru
Kanashii hodo shizuka ni tatazumu
Midorinasu kishibe…
Utsukushii yoake wo
Tada matte iraretara
Kirei na kokoro de…

Kurai umi to sora no mukou ni
Arasoi no nai basho ga aruno to
Osiete kureta no wa dare
Dare mo ga tadori tsukenai
Soretomo dareka no kokoro no naka ni…

x-x-x-x-x

"What is this strange feeling?" Sion pondered and put a hand over her throbbing heart. She looked around the room and suddenly something was evoked inside her mind; it was full moon, and Alex used to walk around in the middle of the night, with nothing to do but to follow his footsteps. And she, too, used to accompany him.

Slowly she approached the park fountain and gazed at the silver celestial object that hung over the horizon. She felt very lonely; so lonely that she thought it would be better if she could ask Shiki to be of accompany. Yet she couldn't; she realized how attached her heart to Alex was, and she knew it was impossible to let go of all memories she shared with the man she once called criminal.

x-x

"Want to know what I do whenever it's full moon, Sion?"

"Walk outside and do nothing but to admire the moon?"

"No, not that one. The other one. Try guessing it. If you got it correct, I'll treat you with ice-cream."

"Aw, please. You always ask me to guess. Why don't you tell me right away?"

"Alright, Sion. This is what I always do at this time."

"Okay, I'm listening."

"Ahem…okay, I'm done. How was it?"

"…you sing?"

"Yeah, that's it. What's wrong? Do you find it… weird?"

"No, Alex, but you have a lovely voice. I feel like…"

"Then why don't we sing along? That would be more fun to do."

x-x

She chuckled. "Alex, you silly." She took a deep breath, put a hand over her chest and began her hum. And like someone across the globe, her crystal-clear voice now echoed through the sky.

Would you know my name, if I saw you in heaven?
Will it be the same, if I saw you in heaven?
I must be strong, and carry on
Cause I know I don't belong
Here in heaven…

Would you hold my hand, if I saw you in heaven?
Would you help me stand, if I saw you in heaven?
I'll find my way, through night and day
Cause I know I just can't stay
Here in heaven…

"Sion!" She turned around, and was subsequently tackled with such force she was thrown to the ground. "Sion! Where have you been? I was looking for you!"

"Sat…Satsuki? What's the matter?"

The pigtailed high school girl, roughly around her 17, was clinging onto her whilst Sion tried to stand up. "Don't make me worried, okay? I know you don't want Alex-kun getting hurt, but that doesn't mean you have to harm yourself!"

"What's wrong with you? I'm alright, you don't have to worry about me," she told her.

Satsuki frowned. "But Shiki-kun told me… that you and Alex-kun…" Then she quickly lifted her head, gazing at Sion with an eye full of curiosity. "Anyway, what are you doing in the middle of the night? You're not supposed to be here."

Sion smiled and gave Satsuki a soft pat on her shoulders. "I'm just walking around."

"But didn't you hear the news? They said a mad scientist escaped from prison and is going to terrorize all cities," Satsuki said. "Come, we should go back to Shiki-kun's house."

"Now, now, Satsuki, why don't we…"

Someone was eavesdropping. Sion pushed Satsuki away and quickly withdrew her weapon. "Who's there?" Nothing, and she shouted for the second time. Again, there was nothing, and she waited until she heard a rustling sound from nearby bushes. She locked and loaded the handgun, and held fire.

And she was surprised. "Lia?"

"Lower your weapon. I didn't come here with an intention to provoke hostilities between us," the miko girl spoke.

Sion did what she was told, though her hand was ready to pull out a whip. "What has brought you here this time? You must know that…"

"I must apology for interrupting your privacy, and I'm sorry for what I had done to you at the summer holiday," Lia spoke.

Satsuki blinked many times and looked back and forth between Sion and the maiden girl. "Hey, who are you anyway?" she shouted at Lia.

This time, Sion was touched. "Why are you suddenly being nice toward me, Lia? You slapped me, you insulted me, and you accused me of being a thief, so why?"

"I come with news regarding my brother Alex," said the miko girl. "My agents have informed me of where we can find him."

"We?" Sion interjected. "You're telling me that we both now have right to worry about him?"

She nodded. "And we believe we can find him if we can go to Paris, because he was last seen there. And if we aren't quick…" Lia frowned, clenching the lower cloth of her shrine maiden outfit. "If we're not quick, then brother will be under threat of the Dragoon Society."

"What's going on? What do you mean by…"

"I fear the worst has come, my ladies," along came Logan's voice as he walked out of another patch of bushes. "My apology for being an eavesdropper, but we don't have much time. Let's go."

"Where to?" Sion asked, even as the axe warrior walked away from the fountain and headed to a waiting heli-craft at the road junction.

"I'll explain on our way."

x-x-x-x-x

Dizzy stopped singing. She felt relaxed for the song was a calming effect for her heart, and she needed it. She turned to Alex, bent over his head, and placed a soft brush on his forehead. "This is the best I can do for being a company, Alex," she whispered. She felt his hand tightened over hers, and pulled it toward his face. She was startled, and was surprised even more when he brought her hand over her heart and put it there. "Were you… were you listening to me, Alex?" He said nothing, but from the unconscious hand gesture she knew he did.

She put his hand on the bed and walked away from the bed. "Please excuse me, Alex, but I'll be with you later. There's something I want to do outside first," she told him. She left the room and headed to the park, where she sat on a bench not far from the park fountain. She held her breath, sighed and continued the song.

Mizu no nagare wo shizumete
Kureru daichi wo uruosu shirabe
Ima wa doko nimo nakutemo
Kitto jibun de te ni ireruno
Itsumo, itsuka, kitto

Mizu no akashi wo kono te ni
Subete no honoo wo nomikonde nao
Hiroku yasashiku nagareru
Sono shizukesa ni tadoritsuku no
Itsumo, itsuka, kitto
Anata no te wo tori...

She stopped singing the song. "I wish Alex was here to listen…" she whispered and clasped her palms. She went to a deep prayer, murmured in slow voices, and bent on her knees.

She gasped. Someone was holding her hand, and she lifted her head to see who it was. "Sol? What are you doing here?"

The Guilty Gear, instead, lowered the clenched palms and sat beside her. "Don't worry about that kid, Dizzy," he said and sipped the Marlboro he was holding between his fingers.

"But Sol, what if he…" she said and frowned, "… didn't make it?"

Sol sighed and corrected his seat. He was about to give out the answer when a loud noise of an engine echoed around the vicinity. He looked upward and saw a dully painted heli-craft slowly approaching the ground and opened its cargo door, where several personnel dropped from inside it before the vehicle left in blinding speed. Both he and Dizzy watched at the group as they approached their place, and Sol lifted the Fireseal in defensive motion when Dizzy asked him to hold back.

"Let me talk with them. I think I know who they are." She approached the group with intention to negotiate with them. It turned that she didn't need to, as she immediately recognized one of them. "Sion?"

The owner of the name was equally surprised. "Dizzy? What are you doing here?"

"I should be asking that," Dizzy replied. "What are you doing here?"

Just then Lia stepped forward and approached the married woman. "We come here in fear of Alexander's safety. There's rumour that judges from the Dragoon Society will raid this place and execute him. Unless we act fast…"

"To make long story short," Logan interfered, "Alex will be killed tonight."

Dizzy gasped. "No…! That's impossible! How can…"

"Listen, whoever you are," Sol spoke and stepped forward, "I don't care of who you are or who's going to threaten him, but that kid isn't in a good shape. He's in hospital right now; visit him if you must."

"Who are you?" Lia demanded. "What do you know about my brother?"

"Me? Someone who owed that kid a lot of things," he told her and tossed the cigarette butt to the ground. "Listen. That kid needs our help. He's in a very critical situation right now."

"What are you trying to tell us?" Lia demanded.

Sol shrugged. "What do you expect from a man who had fought him and forced him to be taken to hospital? Reward or something?"

Hearing that the maiden girl burst in anger and withdrew her lance, pointing it at his face. "You hurt him! How dare you hurting him! What have you done to him?"

This was answered with a fist full of flames, and the girl stepped backward in intimidation. "Look, girl. I don't know what business you have with that kid, but I'm not in any mood for argument. So stop trying to blame me before I change my mind," he warned.

Lia fell to her knees. "But… but you said you fought him… you said you fought my brother!"

The Corrupted Flame snorted and put out the fire. "Yeah, that was me. I tell you what, girl. That kid broke his promise, and he looked for trouble with me by making her cry," and he pointed to Dizzy to emphasize his answer. "I almost got the chance to tell him not to continue his fight, but he's damn stubborn to listen to anything."

"How could you!" Lia cried and broke into tears. "How could you do such a thing? You have no right to hurt him!"

"Yeah, so what? After ten years in pain, agony, lost hope, despair and solitude, do you expect to see him accepting the fact that he's just dreaming? Do you?" The girl lifted her head and stared at him in eyes full of crystal-clear water. "Damn it. That kid gave me that kind of look, and now it's you. Don't tell me both of you are very stubborn."

"Sol, stop it," Dizzy pleaded. "You'll only make things even worse. Please, don't talk about him anymore."

Sol turned his attention to Dizzy. "And as for you, Dizzy, I have unpleasant news for you. Lone Wolf NEO phoned me and told me of your affair with that kid and their arrival," and he pointed to Lia and Sion. "I've done my part with that kid. It's up to you and them to finish what I left."

"What… what do you mean?" Sion asked.

"That kid," Sol spoke, opting not to address Alex with his name, "is on the verge of losing his life and everything. Unless the three of you agree to put your argument aside and help him, there's no chance for you to see him again."

"You mean… he's going to…?" Sion immediately rushed to the hospital before Sol could give her the answer. Logan was the next person to leave, followed by Satsuki, and the Corrupted Flame was left with Dizzy and Lia.

"What about you?"

"I think I'll let Sion look after him," Dizzy told him and knelt beside the maiden girl. "For now, I must accompany her until she feels comfortable."

Sol shrugged and headed toward the middle of the park. "Do whatever you want. I have nothing to do with that kid anymore."

"Sol," the Gear woman called him. "I heard what you had told Justine and Athena about Alex." She was not looking at him, but from the calm intonation of the voice Sol was guessing that she had begun to accept the fact. "Thank you for making everything clear. I… now I understand the truth. Thank you, Sol."

"Huh, whatever…"

Dizzy turned her attention to the young girl. She was about to give her a couple of words when Lia sprung at her and pulled the Gear woman into a tight embrace. "I don't want to lose him! I don't want brother to die!"

"Why? Why don't you want to lose him?" Dizzy asked.

Helplessly Lia clung onto her, even as the Gear woman soothed her with a soft rub on her back. "Because I love him…"

Dizzy chuckled to hear the answer and cuddled the young girl. "That's so sweet of you. I didn't know Alex has a caring sister."

Lia buried herself in the woman's warm embrace further. "Please… don't tell me you like my brother. I… I'm the kind of person who doesn't want to see anyone trying to get close to him…"

"Aw, you're such a sweet girl," Dizzy said and softly kissed the girl's scalp. "You know what? Both of us seem to care of him very much. I'm sure Sion will say the same if she was here."

"Please, I don't want to hear anything about her…" Lia begged and clenched her hand on Dizzy's attire. "I… I don't want her or anyone… to love him…"

"Why not?"

"Because…" and here the young girl hid her flushed face beneath the clothes, "because I'm the only one who can do that to him…"

"Oh, dear," the Gear woman chuckled. "You sound like you have a brother complex. Alex's going to have problems taking care of his possessive little sister."

"I'm not…!" Lia squealed in denial and beat her several times. "I love him because I'm his sister! There's nothing wrong to a girl to love her brother! And who are you to talk about him?"

"Someone who admires him and adores his selflessness," replied the woman and pulled Lia into the tightest, warmest embrace she could muster. "It's a one-sided love, I know, but I don't regret it if he already has someone in his heart. I'll be more than grateful if I can see him being happy with the one he loves the most."

Lia stopped pounding her and began to rest in the woman's maternal arms. "Do you… think so?"

"Of course I do, because both of us love him, don't we?" she replied and hummed a lullaby into the girl's ears, cuddling her in the way a mother would do to her precious child. "What's your name?"

"Lia, Illiya Hahn."

"Pleased to meet you, Lia. My name is Dizzy," she introduced herself. "So, do you want to hear a story about Alex?"

"Please do. I… I want to listen to everything about him. Dizzy…"

She looked at the girl. "Yes, Lia?" To her surprise, Lia fell asleep and was dozing peacefully in her arms. She stared at her face for a long time before she giggled and kissed her forehead. "You're lucky to have Alex as your brother, Lia."

x-x

From faraway, although not far from the garden, Justine, Athena and Hotaru watched at the two young women. "Oh, no. Looks like Hotaru-chan has found a new rival," foxily Justine commented.

Hotaru snapped in embarrassment and demanded Justine to shut up. "What do you know about that girl!" she demanded.

"Aw, you're getting jealous already. Why?" Athena interjected. "I know! That girl is sleeping in Dizzy-chan's arms and she doesn't realize that you and Dizzy-chan are couples!" she added and waved her arms to the air. "Hotaru-chan, banzai! Dizzy-chan, banzai! Whoever that girl is, banzai!"

"Banzai! Banzai!" Justine cheered.

"Do not talk about shoujo-ai again!" along came the voice of the scandalized knight Ky. The three women looked at the fully bandaged and wheel-chaired Ky, and the way they were staring at him caused Ky to roar in anger and pointed Thunderseal at them. "Stop staring at me like that!"

"How long is Ky-chan supposed to be hospitalized?" Justine asked.

"About six months, I think," Athena suggested.

"Then why does he already leave the ICU?" Hotaru interjected.

Ky lost his temper and almost fired a Rising Force when a Piko-piko hammer smacked him flat on his head. The Scandalous One yelled in pain and fainted, while Faust excused himself and brought his patient back to the ward. "This patient needs to have his brain triple-checked, and I shall have that task accomplished," the doctor announced.

"…" Justine wasn't saying anything.

"……" so did Athena.

"………" as well as Hotaru.

"Okay, I think that should explain Ky-chan being out of character," Justine uttered.

Athena and Hotaru nodded. "Sort of."

x-x-x-x-x

"How is he, doctor?"

Faust just shook his head. "He hasn't woke up yet, Miss Sion. with I'm afraid it'd take a couple more weeks," the doctor said. "Although I've received list of donors, he will have to wait for another month before he's ready for transplant surgery."

"Please, doctor, isn't there anyway to…"

"Unless if miracle comes upon us. I'm sorry, but I'll try my best to save him."

Sion frowned. "It's alright, doctor. I… I understand," she spoke and stared at Alex. "Doctor, I'd like to be left alone with him. I… I want to look after him until he wakes up."

Faust nodded and walked toward the door. "Call me if you need anything, okay?" he reminded.

The doctor left the room. Sion watched at him for a while before sighed and turned to Alex. "I didn't expect to meet him like this…" she spoke and held his hands. "What happened to you, Alex? Who did this, and why?"

"Ne, what really happen to him? Why is he like this?" Satsuki asked.

"I don't know, Satsuki, but it must have something to do with what Logan said," she answered.

"About the judges? Didn't they fight with Alex-kun back there?" Sion didn't answer; she kept staring at Alex, ignoring Satsuki who got eager to know the answer. "Hey! What happened back there? I wasn't there because Shiki-kun told me to stay back, and I want to know who the judges are."

"It's… it's a long story," Sion said.

"Then make it short, please?" Satsuki pleaded.

Sion, instead, stood up and went to the door. "Satsuki, will you look after Alex for me? I want to walk at the outside for a while," she told her.

"Hey, what about the judges? Aren't you going to tell me?" she answered, and here Sion answered with a silence sign. Satsuki gasped in surprise and quickly covered her mouth. "I'm sorry! I didn't know this is hospital," she mumbled.

"Please, will you?" the alchemist pleaded.

"Err… okay, I will," she answered. "What's wrong with you? At least Alex-kun is alright."

"You don't know anything, Satsuki… you don't know."

She closed the door, remained still in front of it and became silence. She tried not to give in to her anger and clenched a very tight fist. "If anyone tries to kill him, they must step over my body first…!" She sighed, seemingly calmed down from her rage and headed to the hospital garden, wondering of what Dizzy and the maiden girl were doing.

"Hey, you're just in time," Logan greeted her.

"Logan, what is it?" she asked.

The axe warrior chuckled and pointed to a direction. "Look at them. Don't you think it's the loveliest scene ever?"

Sion watched at where Logan was pointing at, and was surprised. "That?"

"It's Lia's weakness," Logan said. "She can't resist the temptation of a mother's embrace, and I bet she needs it right now."

He was right. As Sion noticed, Lia was sleeping in Dizzy's arms, with the former singing lullaby to her ears, unaware that they were being watched. "Look at her," Logan added, "she can be very cold and heartless, but at time she's just a little girl. Nobody can apprehend her, and not even us judges can predict her behaviour."

"She's so harmless," Sion added.

"So harmless she is that you want to attack her right now," Logan spoke. "But face it. She's cruel, she's egoistic and she can be a merciless warrior, but she's a sweet girl. She just needs someone to understand her, just like Mrs. Dizzy."

She approached the two women and sat beside Dizzy. "Oh, hello Sion," Dizzy greeted, even as she kept patting Lia's scalp. "Is there anything you want from me?"

She shook her head. "No, I just want to sit with you, and with Lia," she told her.

"Oh, okay."

She turned her attention to Lia. "What do you think about her?"

"Oh? You mean Lia?" Dizzy replied. "She's lonely. She's a sweet girl and she's lovely, but she's lonely. She needs someone to look after."

"You don't know that she…"

"Alex? Oh, please, I already told her about him," the Gear woman chuckled. "I told her how lucky she is to have a caring brother like Alex. I also told her that both of us loved him, and…"

The alchemist gulped. "You… you love Alex, too?"

Dizzy turned back at her, and smiled so innocently Sion could not resist. "There's nothing wrong if I love him as an admirer, is it?"

She quickly shook her head in denial. "No, there's nothing wrong! But how long you've been… in love with him?"

"Longer than I can imagine," she answered and gazed at the starry night. "I met him when he lost everything from his heart. And before I knew it, I fell in love with him." Then she smiled and put a hand over her chest. "Want to know what did I think about him? He's strong, he's kind of strict and protective toward me, sometimes he doesn't like to talk much, but he's very kind. He even tells me of how he loves children and misses them. Oh, he even treats me with ice-cream a lot." She frowned afterwards and sighed. "It's… ironic to know that such a strong-willed knight has to endure years of sorrow… just because he couldn't protect his beloved ones anymore. I wonder if there's anything I can do for him…"

She gasped. Sion was holding her hand, and calmly holding her hand. "Looks like we share the same opinion toward him," she said and smiled.

Lia moaned, stirred in Dizzy's arms and opened her eyes. "Umm… did I fall asleep?"

Dizzy giggled and brushed soft lips upon her forehead. "Yes, dear. You did."

She rubbed her sleepy eyes and glanced at Sion. "Sion, I… I'm sorry."

Sion was astounded. "What? What are you sorry of?"

"It seems…" and she turned away from her, "that I'm not the only one who loves brother Alex… I was foolish enough to ignore the truth."

"What's wrong, dear?" Dizzy asked.

Lia turned back at her. "I heard what you said about brother Alex…" she sobbed and started crying. "I even heard of how he treats you with ice-cream… that's unfair! I want to have ice-cream, too…"

Dizzy chuckled and patted her scalp. "Then why don't we wait until Alex recovers? Then we can ask him to buy ice-cream for the three of us."

The maiden girl looked back and forth between the Gear woman and the female alchemist. "Us?"

Sion nodded and put an assuring hand upon hers. "Yes, us. And if Alex doesn't want to treat us, we can beat them together. Is that alright?"

This time, the mistress of the Dragoon Society broke into a blissful, if not sober, cry and she hurled herself at Sion. "Oh, Sion, I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! I promise I will not be selfish toward you or anyone else! I promise!" she cried. "Will you forgive me, Sion? Will you?"

"That will have to wait, Mistress Lia!" A loud explosion, as well as a frightening quake, shook across the area and shattered everything standing on their path. The three women jumped off their feet in surprise and watched at where the explosion came. Before they could figure out what was going on, a pair of mechanical limbs appeared from nowhere and seized Sion and Lia. Dizzy's quick reflexes gave her time to escape, and she jumped away from the interference.

"Who or what are you?" Dizzy shouted. It was answered by the crawling sound, and she was horrified to see a giant mechanical spider appearing from beneath the dusts, with limbs sprouting from its body.

"Mrs. Dizzy!" Logan rushed into the scene and headed toward her, but the spider saw it coming and snagged his body. He was brought above the mechanical crawler, next to Sion and Lia who were wrapped by limbs. "Damn it! I knew this would happen! Release us, Getter!"

"Hah! I, the great Doctor Getter, shall not listen to anyone!" the operator of the crawler shouted as he appeared on a platform prodding from the crawler's armoured back. "I think nobody conveys you of what Commander Valentino ordered to us back at our base."

"Dr. Getter! Why are you betraying us?" Lia shouted and cried in pain as the limb tightened its wrap around her body. "Release me! I order you to release me, Dr. Getter!"

Doctor Getter laughed and corrected his eyepiece. "I'm very sorry, my lady, but this comes directly from your uncle. He has foreseen this event in advance, so he sends me to capture you and your friends. Oh, this is not a betrayal. I'm still the great judge of the Dragoon Society."

"I said release me! I'm your mistress, Dr. Getter!" Lia screamed, and again cried in pain when the mechanical limb squeezed her body. "Let me go! Dr. Getter, let me go! Dizzy, help me!"

Just then, Satsuki and Sol arrived at the scene, along with Justine, Athena, Rock and Hotaru. "Hey! That's the mad scientist the late-night news has been talking about!" Satsuki shouted and pointed at him.

Doctor Getter screamed in anger and stomped on the crawler's back. "Fool! Nobody has ever called me mad scientist! I, Doctor Lens Getter, am the greatest and the most popular scientist in the world! Nobody ever underestimates my talent!"

"Hey, four-eyed baldies!" Justine shouted. "Let go off them right now! You don't know who you're dealing with!"

"You insult me! You dare insulting me!" Doctor Getter screamed and pointed at the group. "Metal Widow, get them!"

The mechanical spider roared and fired mechanical limbs at the group, trying to capture them in one go. Sol, Rock and Satsuki nimbly evaded the attacks, while Justine, Athena and Hotaru cried out in distress when the flexible arms tried to catch them.

"This is more like tentacles attack!" Athena yelled and fired a Psycho Ball at an oncoming limb.

"Tentacles! Eww, don't mention those things right now!" Justine replied.

"KYAA! Rock-chan, help!" Hotaru cried when a tentacle seized her body.

(Onboard the Death Star, Yuuki blinked many times when she saw the uncanny scene. "Okay, at least the villain has arrived, but why tentacle attacks? ADV gives me a freak," she demanded.

"You know, Miss Yuki, sometimes it takes more than being a bad people to do the bad thing," Lone Wolf NEO reminded.

The commander of the Death Star turned at the author. "Just what the hell are you doing here? Don't tell me, you're running away from Hibiki and Mriya."

Lone Wolf NEO coughed. "As always, Miss Yuuki. As always." He, then, gazed at the empty void of the space and sighed. "Looks like it's time."

Yuuki looked outside the cockpit windows and nodded, correcting her eyeglasses as she did. "Yes, it is.")

Doctor Getter let Metal Widow do his work and turned his attention to Dizzy. "Well, well, well, looks like my creations are very eager to have their supper tonight." She was intimidated by the threat and stepped backward, but a miniature robotic spider appeared behind her and seized her. "Look, milady, I don't mean to harm you. So why don't you join me and return to the headquarters? I'm very sure Commander Valentino will be very pleased to meet his guest."

"With you?" Dizzy cried and tried to flee from the entangling mechanical tentacles that wrapped around her body. "Never! I will never follow you!"

Doctor Getter grinned and corrected his eyepiece. "Then what if I capture Alexander Hahn and bring him to our base?" She was startled and glared at him, disapproving of the act he was going to execute. "I expected that kind of reaction. So will you politely tell me of his whereabouts?"

"To hell with that."

Suddenly bright light shone the hospital garden, followed by a thunderclap that struck on Dizzy. The Gear woman was released from the tight hold of the robot's limbs and slowly floated above the ground, enveloped by faint electric orb. Doctor Getter was horror-struck and commanded hundreds of mini-robotic spiders to attack her. "Don't let her do whatever she's going to do!"

"Mezamete."

The orb glowed brightly, almost blinding everyone within its vicinity. Dizzy shivered and moaned, even as streams of electric energy channelled into and later through her body. The orb's glow intensified until it could not hold it any longer. Then it broke out with the roar of a thunder so loud it shattered even the toughest Plexiglas.

"Mezamete, Dizzy. Awaken and claim what is truly yours…"

The golden orb of lightning energy that materialized around her like a protective shell annihilated the nearest tentacles, and deflected all threats aimed at it. The robotic horde reared back and fired barrages of rockets at it, yet it didn't bulge nor was scratched. Within, the blue-haired half-Gear woman recited the final words to effect her transformation.

"Awaken, Dizzy. Awaken NOW."

With a thunderclap of magical energy, the orb expanded and then broke apart.

Battle robes of the Holy Order clung to her slim body, its white folds of cloth bordered by metallic gold trim. Twin yellow ribbons decorated her long blue hair, holding them captive into her two ponytails. Upon her waist hung a silver belt buckle, and upon that buckle was one engraved word: INNOCENCE.

The mark of the mysterious power that is The Will and the Word.

She was no longer just Dizzy.

She was her.

She was--

"Divine Lightning Messiah," a mysterious voice echoed through the chaotic air, pronouncing her name as it did. "It is time, my child. Go forth and spread your wings across the land. Punish those who dare casting sins upon this earth, and protect those you love and care very much."

"Yes, Holy Mother."

Effortlessly she stepped on the ground and stood firm on her feet. Within her arms, the Thunderseal sword was embraced close to her body as she chanted in ancient, unknown language. Later, she opened her lids and revealed a pair of ruby eyes burning with the passion of a warrior. A human warrior.

"Innocence."

With that spoken a gigantic thunderbolt blasted through the sky and struck the robotic spider herds, incinerating them in one shot. Doctor Getter, the proud and arrogant scientist of the Dragoon Society, was appalled by the unexpected event happening before his eyes and shivered in anger. "Infidel! How dare you destroying my creations! I, the great Doctor Lens Getter, must kill you!"

Dizzy turned her attention to the judge. She pulled the Thunderseal out of where it was plunged, and pointed it to Doctor Getter's face. "Release them," ordered the knight of lightning.

"What if I don't?" Doctor Getter insisted.

She tightened her hand on the hilt of the sword. "Then face your judgment day."

Whoa-oh! Oh Angel!

Come greet the dawn, it's a brand new day!

Whoa-oh! Oh Angel!

Let burn the passion that fires your soul!