With The Girls and Ichika
Location: Outside Grounds of Tachibana Clan
"Wait Sakura!"
Houki and the other's had been chasing the girl with waist-length pink hair for a long time now, Sakura Tachibana moved quicker than she or Houki had ever predicted, even Ichika Orimura was caught off by how quick the younger lady was. Although it did not stop them from chasing after her, considering her family was in battle, Houki knew why.
The Tachibana clan owned a beautiful castle not too far in front of them with multiple buildings in the many sakura trees that surrounded the large castle, cherry blossoms began to waver as the leaves fell to the ground slowly but surely due to the season they were entering. The trees covered most of the vision of Ichika and the girls being able to see into the sky.
Those said cherry blossom trees went for miles and miles on end as they covered any signs of life within the forest which Tachibana resided in, especially the higher-ups in the Tachibana clan.
However, the sounds of many people dying from unknown enemies were nothing to take for granted as they ran for their lives to catch up to the former heir to the Tachibana clan.
Ichika Orimura on the other hand brainstormed any idea's on who the attackers were.
"I never thought it would be so hard to run in this attire, although that isn't what is important at the moment!" Ichika pulled at his tie as they got closer to the territory, his suit became slightly sweaty from the running.
"You think running in that suit is horrible?! I'm running in a dress, ugh! goddamit! wait up Sakura!"
Madoka called out to Sakura Tachibana, who was further ahead, the Cherry blossom tree and the beautiful branches obscured the top half of the castle above, where the Tachibana clan's main building resided.
The forest crowding the castle had loads of magnificent cherry blossom trees, the leaves above fell every once in a while as noise from a distance was heard, the sound of screams and blades combining with each other was heard from a distance, it made Ichika Orimura slightly nervous as he spotted IS unit's attacking the side of the base.
"Look at this place! it's being ruined by those idiots attacking the Tachibana clan's home! they are everywhere!"
"No kidding, what are we even going to do!? someone needs to go after Sakura and make sure she is alright!"
"I think we need to be prepared to do battle with our IS'..."
Ichika spotted out of the corner of his eye a particular IS a system hurting a member of the Tachibana clan, his eyes constantly watching the IS unit as it freely overpowered the fighters in the Tachibana clan.
His eyes just about able to get a glimpse through a bush where an IS unit towered over the dead body of an unknown person wearing a green Yukata with soft brown hair, Ichika had no idea who the recently deceased man was, he had assumed that he was apart of the large Tachibana clan which his friend was apart of.
It took Houki Shinonono who was in the lead to turn around and come to a halt, her friends stopped in their pursuit as Sakura continued to get away from them.
"..."
"What are you doing Ichika?!"
Coming to a stop, Ichika stood still and watched the IS system for a few moment's, his eyes focused on it solely. The glowing eyes of the IS unit staring daggers at him as Ichika did not turn his head once, instead of remaining quiet for a few moments, much to their dismay.
Finally, Ichika turned around with a serious expression.
"Go ahead girls, I'll deal with this particular IS, she's hurting members of the Tachibana clan, she's mine." Ichika rolled up the sleeve of his blazer and allowed his IS bracelet to come out in clear vision.
"..."
"..."
"..."
"..."
The girls remained quiet as they also came to a standstill, staring at each other as Houki's hands began to tug at her dress, pulling it until it ripped and revealed a dark black IS a suit with a red outline on the bottom waist.
Her breasts bouncing in the process as she nodded for the other girls to do the same as her, a few moments later the girls nodded and pulled off their different dresses and revealed their own IS suits.
"What are you doing?! Sakura is getting away already! I'll be fine here."
Ichika nodded disapprovingly before gesturing his little sister and his friends to get a move on without him, the girls turned to each other for a few moments before looking back.
The girls began to look at each other and nodded at each other, realizing they must get a move on.
"Okay Ichika, be safe..."
"You better beat the hell out of that thing nii-san..."
The other ladies watched him, for a split few seconds, Ichika Orimura turned his attention to Aila Argyros, noticing her blandly looking at him before she inevitably turned away.
Ichika Orimura got a weird feeling in his stomach, putting it off and beginning to walk into the side of the forest filled with cherry blossom trees'.
"Help Sakura and her family out with this problem and then we can see what happens next."
Ichika nodded before walking off, the girls did the same, what Ichika Orimura and the girls did not know is that it was just the beginning.
"Sakura! wait up!"
Houki and the other girls turned their attention on the runaway girl who was very far ahead, Sakura Tachibana fought those in-front of her and around her as she slowly made way up the pathway.
With Aila, Rin, Houki, Madoka and Laura following her footsteps behind, however with many of the IS unit's appearing, there was a decision between the girls that had to be made as quick as possible.
"No use guys! some of you are going to have to do what Ichika did! if we all go after Sakura, who is going to protect her family!?"
"What should we do?!"
"Let me go after Sakura! Split up and go after these IS units!" Houki called out as the girls slowed down.
"Got it!"
"Be careful Houki! make sure Sakura doesn't do anything reckless!"
"Good luck!"
Creating distance between her friends, Houki quickly turned her focus to the small bridge in-front of her, running across it and keeping her eye on her surroundings as she watched battles happen to the sides of her.
'Please don't do anything that could have repercussions Sakura...'
With the other girls turning their attention from Sakura onto the IS units destroying the territory of Tachibana, Madoka and the other ladies split up and began to do battle.
With Charlotte Dunois
Dunois Territory
A while after...
Charlotte Dunois did not hold back one bit.
The girl with blonde hair vigorously used every bit of her body to hurt those that opposed her as she fought many enemies that were sent by the [Phantom Task], on her own, the girl stormed the building that were owned by her family.
The building was owned specifically by her father as he used it as a resting place for himself in the downtime, however the attack on her father left her unable but to have any choice but to save her father.
Although Charlotte did not have a great relationship with her father, the French girl wanted to desperately to rescue her father from those who dare to try to ruin her family and everything her father had built.
By any means necessary.
Charlotte currently fought of many that opposed her as she searched her families building, on the walls were several paintings of those of her ancestors that were painted hundred's of years ago, the walls were wooden with doors being open and exposing Charlotte to other's who worked under her families name, fighting other enemies that had broken into the building.
The many enemies heading towards Charlotte wore a robe over their main attire, some had different weapons on them and many simply used their hands and fist to try to take out Charlotte Dunois in battle.
Charlotte picked up on the different colours of robes worn by the women that came towards her, some wore a darker colour with a blueish colour, some wore a grey cloak with a yellow cloak, Charlotte pinned it down as her enemies being from different statuses in the [Phantom Task].
Slaaaaaaaash! Slaaaaaaaaaaash!
Charlotte made no time to dodge an oncoming attack as she ducked, throwing the first attacker over her and quickly springing into action..
Charlotte dodged the blades heading towards her and quickly dismantled the second attacker and stole her sword off of her.
Using the hilt of the blade to knock the lady unconscious of whom she stole the blade off of, Charlotte allowed the third attacker to be on the offensive whilst the French girl waited patiently for her time to strike.
Instead allowing her attacker to use her energy whilst she defended.
The attacks were ruthless as the woman attacking Charlotte refused to give up her relentless assault on her, leaving with Charlotte to make a choice as she spotted a fourth woman heading her way.
"Guh!"
Timing her movements right, Charlotte quickly dodged an oncoming attack and forced to the ground to the ground where Charlotte held the advantage over the woman.
Throwing numerous amounts of punches as she attempted to knock the woman unconscious.
After a few seconds of her punches landing on the third attackers face, the woman slowly stopped holding her guard up as she fell into the river of dreams, her eyes rolling back in the process.
"Goddamit!"
Standing up, Charlotte gritted her teeth and noticed the fourth attacker charging her way.
Her eyes widened as she was tackled mercilessly to the ground.
Within seconds the roles were reversed once more, this time Charlotte was forced to defend herself as the woman tried to break Charlotte's guard.
Her punches hurt like hell for the girl but she refused to give up.
CRAAAAAACK!
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Charlotte caught the punch and twisted the fourth attackers hand, breaking her entire hand in the process, allowing Charlotte to use her legs to throw the woman off of her.
The fourth attacker held her hand as Charlotte threw her off.
Leaving Charlotte with a few bruises on the face and arms as she regained her composure, allowing herself to get up slowly as her opponent writhed in agony across from her.
'I swear to god... WHEN I FIND THE BASTARD THAT DARED TO TRY TO HURT MY FAMILY!'
A small bit of blood dripped from her lips as she walked closer towards the woman, watching her expression under the hood as she wore a pained expression.
"Fuck you bitch!"
Charlotte did not hold back as she used her boot to knock the fourth attacker out.
The fourth attacker's head rolled to the side as her legs straightened up, her whole body switched off as Charlotte knocked the hooded woman out, letting out a breath, Charlotte tried to keep herself relaxed as much as she could.
Charlotte's mind ran back to the start of this all.
Since coming to France to be one of the many faces as the IS academy, her family had been attacked on the night that she was supposed to be a ambassador for the academy she cares about so dearly.
The idea of someone hurting her family was something she could not ignore, especially her aunt and the many other's that showed clear care for her.
"..."
"haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"
Charlotte quickly moved out of the way as she heard the sound of another attacker coming towards her.
A sword in hand whilst she began to strike her weapon down on Charlotte, the French lady quickly grabbed the wrist of her enemy and dismantled her grip on her katana before throwing a sucker punch to her stomach.
The woman quickly dropped her katana and used her free hand to wrap her hand around Charlotte's throat.
Before the woman could start choking her, Charlotte placed her foot behind the attacker's leg and used all of the strength she could muster to push her attacker and trip her onto the ground.
Tumbling to the ground, Charlotte quickly threw multiple punches into the stomach of her attacker.
Winding her attacker in the process, holding nothing back as her messy blonde hair began to fall out of her bobble that held it up.
"..."
Watching the woman's eyes roll into the back of her head, Charlotte knew that she was out cold, her expression lifeless as she was knocked unconscious.
Standing up from her awkward position, Charlotte touched her bruised cheek, checking it for any issues.
After that, Charlotte wiped the bit of blood from her mouth and stood up straight, looking around and analysing each of her enemies state of being, noticing how they were out cold for the meantime.
Charlotte wondered how long they could be out for.
"..."
"Hmmm! where could she of gone!? goddamit! if I had known all of this would of happened I would of gotten back on that plane and gone to visit big brother instead!" A feminine voice complained from a distance, catching Charlotte Dunois' attention as she frantically looked around.
"Alys? is that you? what the hell are you doing here?"
Charlotte called out as she started walking forward, her eyebrows narrowed and her expression colder than her usual demeanour.
"Eh!? Charlotte is that you I hear?! ummm where are you!? I'm here with Ran!"
A voice replied back to her as Charlotte continued to walk forward, of course being careful of encountering other enemies, but her main priority for now was to find her friends.
"You two are here? I thought you would be out there helping the others..."
"Well when you run off from that stupid event like that and into this building with god knows what in here, of course, the other's are dealing with those IS units outside whilst we on the other hand..."
"She's correct~ you had us worried but we cannot blame you for running off when it's your..."
Alys stopped talking as the answer became obvious to Charlotte, Ran and Alys, the girl with pink hair found herself not finishing her sentence to avoid upsetting the French maiden.
"Thank you guys, it may not seem like it but I am really thankful that you and the other's are willing to help out my family and the company my family have built since existing." Charlotte thanked the two girls with a sincere tone lacing in her throat.
Popping her head around the corner, Charlotte deemed the hallways to her left and right were safe enough.
"No problem~"
"I'd do it again Charlotte-san, although you seem to care about this place more than you are letting us know." Ran replied to Charlotte with a curious tone.
"..."
"..."
Alys remained silent as she felt like they had stepped on a landmine.
"...Did I say something wrong?"
"No, it's just that years ago when I was a little girl, my mother and I planted a beautiful tree somewhere in the garden of this place, it's the only thing I have left to remember her by."
Silence reigned between the three girls for a few seconds, Alys and Ran finally understanding why their friend Charlotte Dunois was in such a rush to save the building they currently stood in, unbeknownst the two girls, the motivation to protect the home of the Dunois' began to surge throughout their body.
"If that is the case, we will happily help you in this battle Charlotte-san!"
"Hmmmm~ I agree with Ran, Charlotte!"
Her heart tugged as the feeling of gratefulness began to overwhelm her senses, almost making Charlotte cry in the process.
"You guys..."
Charlotte really wanted to give her friends hugs right about now, Although the French maiden knew she and the other's had to find her father and stop the war from getting out of hand.
But before that, Charlotte had to find where her friends were located as the building had tendencies to disorientate her hearing alongside many others.
Some would also describe it as a maze.
With Houki Shinonono
Location: Tachibana Clan Territory
The battle inside of the Tachibana clan's territory became something of importance to Houki Shinonono as she alongside many other's battled against their enemies.
Explosions loitered within the sky, creating a dust from the detonation between those who fought in battle.
One particular person who did not fight too far away from Houki and the other's was Ichika Orimura, the man she loved who seemingly did battle with his own enemy of course.
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
The pilot of the fourth generation of the IS unit [Fumetsu Akatsubaki], clashed against grounded unmanned IS as a whole.
Fighting back against the enemies with her many weapons that her IS had store in the locker, Houki made it look easy, dancing throughout the air without a true intention of allowing the enemies to get their shot on her.
The laser's that were being fired towards her were easily being dodged.
Their gauntlet weapon, known as [Razor Strahl] were being fired by multiple IS units, each working together in harmony like they were connected together mentally.
Of course Houki did not simply allow herself to be on the defensive, using [Fumetsu Akatsubaki], Houki's energy swords came into play as she slashed through the translucent gel that acted as their armour.
Her ability to deal with many enemies was absolute.
Many of Houki Shinonono's opponents quickly fell to the ground from the mere ferociousness behind each of her attacks, after her first hit every time, the power eventually became too much for the IS unit's to handle.
Engaging in multiple opponents in battle in the space of mere seconds, using her blades to slice them in half before turning her attention.
Many would describe Houki Shinonono as someone to be trifled with.
However with her [Fold-Out Armor] being deployed by the brown haired girl, Houki's speed and agility with her IS quickly increased.
Allowing the girl to become even more terrifying.
Houki quickly threw three different diagonal slashes on the body of the [Jackal] in-front of her, the unmanned IS tried to protect it's self however her blades were overpowering and quickly submitted it.
Using her ignition boost, Houki quickly dodged and weaved from the many IS unit's below her, not allowing them to grab a hold of her and sink their claws into her and [Fumetsu Akatsubaki].
Doing a full circle [Akatsubaki]'s foot blades quickly came out as she collided with her enemies, eliminating the first one quickly and using her energy sword to keep the rest at distance for the smallest window of time.
[Amatasuki] and [Karaware] quickly getting the job done as she intertwined, using one sword to destroy the shield before finishing off her opponent's with [Amatasuki].
Houki turned her attention to her next opponent, using her electrifying speed to breeze past it and slice through the armour entirely.
The whole body of her opponent was quickly cut into two, falling to the ground and creating debris on the ground as the two pieces were lay separately on the ground as Houki turned her attention elsewhere.
Each of her attacks had intention to destroy by each hit.
It was as if Houki was overpowered compared to her enemies she faced, her experience, power and speed overwhelmed each [Jackal] as they struggled to get a hit onto Houki Shinonono.
'I'm coming Sakura, please please do not do anything reckless!'
Houki thought to herself as her sword sliced through the armour and the core of the [Jackal] in-front of her.
Using her [Ignition Boost] to thrust her forward as she used [Amatasuki] and [Karaware] to slice through the padded armour on the arm, before following it up with a sword strike to the head with [Karaware].
Disabling and destroying the chances of the IS unit retaliating against her with their claws.
Houki made no time to waste as she quickly changed her attention to another enemy, one that was sneaking up on her and jumped in the air to get more power on the way down to her.
However that did not stop Houki Shinonono from destroying the translucent black gel that protected it's body underneath.
Her energy sword quickly tore through the translucent gel and into the heart of the IS unit before the sword entered the other side and came out of her back.
The burning energy sword [Amatasuki] that Houki had in her left hand oozed with a dark purple aura whilst her [Karaware] held a lighter purple aura around her energy sword in her right hand.
Pulling [Amatasuki] out of the upper torso of the [Jackal], she backed up and allowed the IS unit fall to the ground.
Lifeless and devoid of anything with a true purpose.
Houki couldn't help wonder who created the IS units she was forced to fight to help her friend's clan, the younger sister to the genius Tabane Shinonono, Houki knew her older sister wouldn't create IS units to cause havoc on the Tachibana clan.
The girl with brown hair knew this was something planned by someone much sinister than she knew as of yet.
Houki watched everything she had destroyed for a few moments, realizing what she was truly capable of and how far she had come in her ability to pilot her IS into battles and destroy those who opposed her.
"I really have improved haven't I?"
For a few moments', Houki Shinonono's thoughts were swamped about herself, a small smile appearing on her face as she found herself realizing that she had grown exponentially in power since her first year within the walls of the IS academy.
Her hair up in a ponytail as the girl used the small window of time to switch out to her IS suit she used to pilot her IS.
Of course being the younger sister to the infamous Tabane Shinonono had it's perks, especially when the big sister was well known for creating items to be able to use in the smallest of scenarios
Or big scenario's of course.
FSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSH!
"[Damaged Sustained:]"
Houki secretly thanked her reflexes for getting her out of the sticky situation she almost got herself in just a few moments.
The shot from the [Jackal]'s behind her had scrapped the wings of Houki's IS as the second year student quickly wasted no time to point her energy swords at her opponents.
Her [Ignition Boost] thrusters activating as she charged forward.
[Amatasuki] and [Karaware] glowing as she became airborne, whizzing throughout the air as she dodged the laser's heading her way.
Seamlessly dodging every little attack as some [Jackal]'s lunged into the air and attempted to get their claws onto her and her IS [Fumetsu Akatsubaki], Houki on the other hand made no hassle of their attacks as she sliced through the claws.
Her eyes set on becoming closer to the ground as she waited to strike.
U-turning whilst dodging the following laser's aimed at her, Houki sword sliced through the thick armour of the first [Jackal], however with her blistering speed, Houki had already sliced through multiple enemies of hers.
Their lower body and their upper body sliced through in the middle.
The goo like texture flew out of their exposed remains and onto the ground as the bodies of the unmanned IS made no issue with falling to the ground.
Houki turned her attention elsewhere, dead set on continuing her work on the [Jackal]'s that dared to oppose her in battle, reason being to catch up to her kouhai, Sakura Tachibana.
The girl who was close to her family who's clan was currently being attacked.
Houki knew Sakura more than well enough to tell that the younger girl was more than capable of making a few mistakes she would later end up regretting due to her emotions running high at the time.
The last thing Houki wanted for her friend was for her to do something she would regret in the near future.
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
Houki threw her beaming blade straight into the unmanned IS in-front of her before throwing a kick to it's stomach and wedging the blade in deeper.
Once her opponent was down, Houki quickly ran straightforward in her IS armour and narrowly dodged a set of sharp claws to the face, instead, ducking and using her beam to slice through the stomach of her opponent.
Her knee's scrapped across the ground as her knee's tore through the rough texture of the grass below her, leaving nothing but dirt instead.
Houki quickly stood up and charged to her side, grabbing the arm of her next opponent as she held off her arm using the small space between her armpit, allowing Houki to elbow the IS unit in the face before performing a move that made it fall to the ground.
Landing on it's face before being met with the unfortunate end by Houki's blade.
Houki's energy sword pierced through the helmet of the [Jackal], leaving a hole in the middle of it's head.
Her [Amatasuki] energy sword being the one out of the two energy swords that were free from the grasp on the enemies helmet as Houki eventually pulled her [Karaware] out.
"Finally..."
Houki let out a breath, allowing herself to regain her composure to the best of her ability.
Also taking in a few breaths as she let her mind run blank for a moment or so, her ears in tune with the other battles happening in the distance and around her at the same time.
Houki dared not to say a word, instead soaking in the air before opening her eyes and spotting the territory which was owned by the Tachibana clan, her eyes remembering Sakura Tachibana fearlessly running to help her family.
Her eyes remained one of the buildings that was on fire.
"Please do not do anything reckless, you could get yourself killed Sakura..."
With Emelia Moretti and Cecilia Alcott
Location: France, Dunois territory
With Charlotte quickly abandoning them from the party, the girls had no choice but to follow in pursuit of their friend as they worried about her well being, of course with her running across the entire city of Paris, did not help with fatigue.
Luckily the girls chasing after Charlotte were more than capable due to their training.
However! with Charlotte running in blind to her families household, Emelia and the other's were forced to do battle on their own as they discovered unmanned IS' attacking the many homes littered.
With their being loads of enemies to face, Cecilia and the other ladies split up and began to do battle!
That leads us up to today's predicament.
"Haaaaaahhhh!"
Emelia Moretti, the pilot of her IS unit [Principessa Sirena], lunged forward towards her enemy with every intention of Eliminating the threat that stood in her way and her friends way, the girl with long light brown hair used one of her many weapons in her arsenal.
That weapon was called [Ocean Divider], of course it also had another name for itself, its secondary name being the least used out of the two, [Divisore Dell'oceano]. A three headed trident that had spikes on the end that illuminated like a blue crystal, where as the middle spike was shaped as an arrow. Driving her weapon home, Emelia Moretti quickly eliminated the first unmanned IS unit that was standing in-front of her.
Her IS standing out amongst the several unmanned IS' heading towards her as she stood tall, her light blue and platinum armoured IS that was designed with an aquatic theme to it. To go alongside that, a light blue swimsuit like armour to add to her attire, alongside her IS of course. To add to the final piece, a gem in the middle.
Her enemies that lingered around her and her friends were rather unknown unmanned IS units that had a few odd physique, it was very 'skeletal scarecrow' like, the body of the unmanned IS was a gold colour, although the colour looked long lost out of it, instead looking like a pale gold colour instead. The head only consisted of one glowing blood red eye as it glared daggers into Emelia and the others, to put it simply, they hadn't fought anything like 'it' before.
What frustrated Emelia the most was the considerable amount of them that swarmed her and her friends, it was like a horde was attacking her and she was forced to defend herself alongside her friends, Emelia could only use the skills and power she had to her advantage to destroy the horde after horde of the unmanned IS' that approached them like a wave.
Emelia quickly stabbed her spear into the unmanned IS that stood in-front of her as she danced in battle within the air.
with a skeletal scarecrow type of physique, Emelia Moretti quickly made light work of the unmanned IS in-front of her as she used her three headed spear to drive her weapon into the core of the IS.
Having no time to rest, Emelia quickly pulled out her long spear and aimed it at another unmanned IS, the pale gold with copper armour.
Facing it straight on, the unmanned IS known as [Jackal] quickly summoned [Seeker Darts], those were known as small disk like weapons that were brought upon the unmanned IS unit and quickly dispatched towards its enemy, that being Emelia Moretti and her IS [Principessa Sirena].
Having limited time, Emelia quickly spun her spear in a circular motion to get rid of the [Seeker Darts] heading her way.
The small disks began to glow as they got closer and closer before Emelia was able to destroy multiple of them as they came one after another towards her, giving her no choice but to push forward from now on.
Nodding her head disapprovingly, Emelia began to get to work.
*STAB!* *STAB!* *STAB!* *STAB!*
'They are not exactly light work to take on, in numbers these guys will begin to give me a hard time...'
PSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHH!
The sound of a laser of some sort kept Emelia on her toes as she quickly evaded the oncoming attack from another unmanned [Jackal] IS.
Emelia checking her surroundings, Emelia noticed that the [Jackal] were gathering up in groups against her and her friends, Emelia knew things were about to get a lot more complicated with each individual having to deal with multiple unmanned [Jackal].
Dancing through the air like it was nothing, Emelia avoided multiple lasers from the unmanned IS as they continued to fire at her without stopping.
Quickly changing directions to catch the group of [Jackals] below her, Emelia quickly made most of the small window of time and used [Divisore Dell'oceano] as it changed to suit her current predicament.
The two far spears on the tip quickly folded in as Emelia aimed her spear at the unmanned IS'.
Shooting a light blue beam out of of the arrow at the end, multiple of these beams quickly came out one by one, dealing with many of the [Jackal]'s before Emelia narrowly avoided the laser beam as it skimmed her.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Multiple of the [Jackal]'s were completely taken out by Emelia's beam, leaving the [Jackal]'s left to regroup as more slowly replaced the ones that Emelia had taken out.
"How many of this thing are there?!"
Emelia let her annoyed state be known as she slowly closed the gap between her and the group of [Jackal]'s in front of her, being mere centre metres of the ground, she used her the heads of her spears to destroy the torso of the unmanned IS'
"Gross! what the hell is this stuff!?"
Emelia quickly spun her spear around as she stood on the ground, using close range combat to her advantage as she quickly dismantled and destroyed as many as she could in mere seconds.
A translucent black gel fell onto her armour for a few moments from the [Jackal] before disappearing.
Ramming her spear into the core of the unmanned [Jackal] in-front of her, Emelia quickly pushed forward as she used the IS to block multiple shots from other [Jackal]'s.
STAB!
Backing up slightly, Emelia watched as the two [Jackal] collapsed to the ground in-front of her.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Before Emelia could react, the girl was sent tumbling to the ground a distance away from her original spot due to one of the beams coming from the many [Jackal]'s to her right.
Using her spear to stop the any further damage from occurring, the girl with brown hair gritted her teeth.
Out of the corner of her eye, Emelia spotted the group of [Jackal]'s approaching ever so closer with high intensity movement, the girl forced herself up quickly whilst gripping her spear tight once more.
A deadly beam shot past Emelia and into the group of the [Jackal]'s coming towards her, a bright explosion in-front of Emelia occurred, forcing the girl to have to cover her eyes slightly.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Moment's went by, Emelia slowly began to open her eyes to see the unmanned IS in-front of her were completely obliterated by the powerful beam sent by someone.
Turning around the pilot of [Silent Blue Tears] stood by watching with a smirk as Cecilia knew she had helped Emelia out.
"Thank you!"
"No need to thank me, we need to deal with the rest of these already! you close them down and I'll cover you, Emelia-san!"
Without needing to say anymore, Emelia quickly flew into the air as she saw a oncoming group of [Jackal] approaching her and Cecilia, Emelia smirked slightly as she lowered herself as she prepared herself to stab through the copper plating.
The translucent gel that landed on her earlier acting a defence for the group of [Jackal]'s almost.
Everything being covered by the gel except the mouth and one of it's eyes, the eye glowing bright blood red in each of the unmanned IS as it fought battle.
Emelia quickly swept the first of many [Jackal] off of its silver feet which were shaped like bladed claws.
"They keep coming! How many of them are there?!" Cecilia Alcott shouted.
Continuously firing, Cecilia an explosion sent many of the unmanned IS' in front of her flying backwards.
Alongside her comrades, Cecilia Alcott deployed all eight of her [BITS] as they began mounting themselves on the end of her [Starlight ], making the barrel considerably larger on her rifle, the end of her barrel began glowing immensely as the British girl grinned viciously.
"I believe you have decided to mess with the wrong people, may I say?"
Cecilia giggled before a deadly beam shot out and pierced through the armour of the unmanned IS in front of her and the ones that several that followed behind.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
A very bright blue explosion exploded the many unknown unmanned IS that lingered closer towards her before soon erupting into the air above her.
"Well I hope you got the message not to mess with me and my friends." Cecilia waited for the smoke in front of her to clear.
Cecilia made sure to avoid hitting Emelia as she waited for her friend to emerge from the smoke unscathed. A few moments later her younger friend did exactly what she predicted and flew out without any true damage to her and her IS system.
PSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHH!
Cecilia let out a sigh of relief as she watched the pilot of [Principessa Sirena] fly out of the clouded smoke crowding her vision from the deceased unmanned IS.
Emelia Moretti wore a slight smile on her face as she made her way to Cecilia, the two ladies thinking that they had destroyed the rest of the [Jackal]'s.
Landing onto the ground next to her friend, Cecilia turned to the younger girl with a smile resting on her face.
"Say Emelia-san have you improved recently?"
"You can say that Cecilia..."
The girl with light brown hair let out a breath as she regained her composure, the feeling of defeating multiple unmanned IS' had left her with quite a feeling of giddiness within herself.
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG!
The debris of the wall a few metre's to the side of them exploded as smoke clouded throughout the surroundings of Cecilia and Emelia.
Emelia and Cecilia quickly backed up and created distance in case of enemy.
A black silhouette walked through the now destroyed wall as the bulkier figure walked closer towards the two IS pilots
"Another one!?"
"These guys keep on coming! where are they coming from!?"
Similar to the [Jackal] they fought moments ago, the unmanned IS in-front of the two was a similar figure but significantly more bulkier than the [Jackal]'s the two had fought previously.
On the back of the unmanned IS was a dark grey thruster pack that is in a spherical shape that is merged into the upper back.
Without any more time to react, the Emelia and Cecilia quickly readied themselves as they flew into the air, intending to create more distance as more [Jackal]'s began to crowd around the more armoured version, drawing their weapons and beginning to fire at the two ladies without any intention to stop.
It began to dawn on Emelia Moretti that the fight they were fighting was just beginning.
Rushing whilst Cecilia sniped from a distance, the girl launched herself in the air as she created distance between her and the [Jackal]'s below her, occupying their attention and getting them to aim at her.
In a synchronised pattern, the [Jackal]'s alongside the alpha of the pack began turning their sights to her.
Giving Cecilia Alcott free reign to pick off the lesser ones first.
Dancing through the air like it was nothing, Emelia narrowly avoided the lasers being fired from her at the ground as she watched Cecilia destroy them one by one.
FSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSH!
The alpha of the pack used its dark grey thruster pack on its back to thrust up into the air, aiming directly for Emelia.
Equipping her trident once more, the girl prepared herself physically and mentally for a battle in the air as Cecilia took out the regular [Jackal]'s below her.
CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACHING!
Quickly dodging the [Jackal Alpha]'s attack with its claw, Emelia knocked the unmanned IS to the side.
Not allowing the IS any time to get closer towards her.
Instead using her long trident to keep it at bay whenever the Automated IS tried to attack her and close the distance.
Using her accelerated speed the girl with brown hair quickly used her IS to stab into the inner core and damage the translucent black gel that protected its system.
The girl found it hard to break down the strong armour that the [Jackal Alpha] was protected by.
Retaliating back, the [Jackal Alpha] attempted to use its claws and feet to kick back from Emelia and her IS, creating distance and space for the automated IS to attack the girl once more.
FSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSH!
Launching it's whole body towards Emelia and her IS, with it's claws aiming for her face, the girl quickly dodged and stabbed into the side of [Jackal Alpha], hurting it slightly and destroying a significant armour piece and leaving it's side exposed.
Spinning her trident around, Emelia created enough speed behind her trident spinning to launch her weapon towards the unmanned IS.
Her light blue trident landing in the left arm in the [Jackal Alpha] as it came clean off, leaving the automated IS only able to use it's right arm.
Her knee aiming for the core of [Jackal Alpha], Emelia launched herself with full force as she wanted to get her spear back and finish off the stronger automated IS as Cecilia finished the others.
[Damage Sustained:]
Backing off Emelia used her thrusters to move past the unmanned IS and went for the trident to finish the job.
Her eyes wondering back as she noticed the automated IS beginning to follow her as she went for her weapon.
Her one hand on the trident, Emelia pulled it closer to her as she quickly turned around as she fell towards the ground with quick speed.
Without thinking too much on it Emelia quickly fired a light blue beam from her trident as it glowed brightly, causing the [Jackal Alpha] to be blinded by the light,
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
With Sakura Tachibana
Location: Hall of Tachibana Clan
Sakura Tachibana currently stampeded throughout the main quarters of the Tachibana clan, the attack that had begun whilst her and her friends were at an event had made her leave so abruptly with her friends on her tail, although she had felt about her reasonings for leaving, she knew her friends were already understanding people so she wasn't surprised to see them taking part in her and her families battle.
A part of Sakura felt proud and happy to have the friends she did have fighting by her side.
Although Sakura wanted to thank her friends sincerely for helping her and her family out in this crisis, she knew she had to fight through those enemies that had managed to get into the compounds of the building.
Fear was struck in her heart about the possibility of her family being hurt by the enemies that had 'surprised' everyone.
Sakura stormed through the large corridors of her families main headquarters as she heard the sound of fellow comrades fighting inside of the building and outside of the building.
Although the girl with pink hair wasn't on the greatest terms with her family, she still cared about them a lot.
Sakura still wore her dress from the party she attended with Ichika and her friends, the attack being so sudden had caught Sakura Tachibana and the other's off guard, causing her to have to spring into action straight away.
With it being night in all, most of the lamps placed around the Tachibana clan's buildings were switched on, giving them a perfect view of everything around, inside the buildings were candles that were lit on the wooden walls, it allowed Sakura to see what was in-front of her and around her in case of an attack.
Sakura had always been taught to use her surroundings to fight those who oppose her
Apart from hearing a few muffled screams, Sakura noticed the lifeless building that was filled with light was almost too silent for her liking, it was something that the girl with pink hair was not used to.
'I really hope they managed to get away, I wouldn't wish it upon anyone being ambushed like this, please I hope you are fine mom, little sister...'
Sakura secretly prayed in her mind for the safety of her mother and sister, although her rough history with her family with her being exiled in all, Sakura wanted the best for her family.
The girl with pink hair still cared deeply about those she was related to.
Sakura still wore the dress from the party that she was attending before the attack was launched on her family, with Ichika and her friends still chasing her minutes ago, Sakura found herself unable to change with the consistent attacks happening in the compound.
With her friends helping her deal with the attack occurring outside, it gave Sakura the opportunity to go inside her families most prestigious building that held some of the heritage of the Tachibana clan in the same building.
"There she is! get her!"
Hearing the voice of people behind her, Sakura Tachibana turned around to see who was behind her.
Her expression quickly changed as she noticed the outfits of those who sprang at her, forcing the girl to jump back and create distance between her and her oncoming attackers.
Combat armour that largely resembled military equipment, a robe to go over that with the women's face's being obscured because of the hood.
The first attacker sprang forward with a flying kick, forcing Sakura to have to fight unexpectedly.
Grabbing the thigh of the woman, Sakura used her speed and strength to throw the woman into the wall as she dodged punches from the second and third attackers.
Upper cutting the fourth attacker and using her legs to take the attacker's legs off of the ground.
With having to deal with more attacker's Sakura quickly stood up and threw a sucker punch to the stomach of the fifth attacker and grabbed his wrist.
Using her strength she pushed the fifth attacker into the second and third.
"Sorry but you cannot win!"
Sakura grabbed the wrist of the sixth attacker and twisted the wrist.
"GAAAAAH!"
Throwing multiple punches into the woman's face, she used her body strength to throw the woman over her shoulder's and onto the ground without any mercy, instantly changing her focus onto the next attacker without any breaks in-between.
The next opponent threw a kick towards Sakura's head.
With the little window of time the girl had, Sakura ducked to dodge the attack, Instead firing back with her own moves as she stomped on the knee of her enemy.
A ferocious kick towards the head was the end of Sakura's opponent.
Leaving nothing but the remaining opponents she had dealt with slightly prior to taking out the rest.
Sakura charged forward as the three remaining foes in-front of her did the same with their weapons, two of the women carried swords whilst the other remaining woman had no weapon's on her personnel.
The sword of the first attacker attempted to stab Sakura in the chest.
Sakura quickly grabbed the hilt with insane speed before using the back of the hilt to knock the air out of the woman's stomach.
Turning around with the sword still in hand, Sakura used her distance to throw a kick towards the second attacker's stomach, causing her to drop her sword and hold her stomach in agony.
With the third remaining attacker on her, Sakura quickly turned as she used the first attacker a human shield.
Blocking every hit that was supposed to be for Sakura.
The third attacker quickly stopped her attack as she looked for another opening, however Sakura quickly pushed the second attacker into the third.
Causing them to collide with each other.
Sakura quickly threw a spinning kick that sent two of three remaining enemies down onto the ground.
Her attention was quickly drawn by the last attacker that she had winded previously, dodging the attempt at stabbing her and elbowing the enemy in the process, causing the last one to fall to the ground.
Three out of three were now unconscious.
Leaving Sakura to stand above those who dared to attack her, the girl wore a blank expression on her face as she did not feel an ounce of regret, her mind only wishing she had beaten them more senselessly.
The girl with waist length pink hair allowed herself to regain her composure for a few moment's, thinking to herself as she let everything that had happened sink in whilst it had happened.
Her only thought was to continue to push on and attack those who were trying to hurt her family and her clan, for once Sakura Tachibana felt the gnawing feeling of not wanting to hold back, a feeling that the [Phantom Task] was up to this started to creep up into her mind.
Looking ahead towards the direction she was heading previously, Sakura couldn't help but wonder how many foes she was going to face.
"No matter what! I will fight!"
Sakura spurred herself on to fight more opponents as she nodded vigorously before walking ahead.
The sound of heels can be heard as Sakura walked forward with her motivation to protect her family growing, her confidence growing also.
Sakura spurred herself on to fight more at no cost, the girl with waist length pink hair quickly rushed forward as the confidence and motivation to help her clan out oozed out from her body.
CAAAAAAAAAAAACHING!
Sakura quickly dodged the shuriken coming from her side, the first year student saw the metallic weapon from the corner of her eye.
Her body instantly jumping into fighting mode as she dodged an oncoming attack from a woman with golden blonde hair and a robe covering her entire body and the hood covering her face.
Sakura Tachibana did not care in the slightest for the woman's identity as she was forced to dodge multiple kicks towards her face.
Parrying each shot towards her, Sakura and the older woman moved at quick pace as they moved throughout the hallway, getting further down as Sakura Tachibana was forced to back up each time.
From the mere movements Sakura saw, the girl knew she was fighting someone well trained in martial arts.
The woman through a roundhouse kick which Sakura was able to dodge quickly, instead, retaliating with her own sucker punch to the woman's stomach.
Her punch rounded up Sakura wanted to deal as much damage as she could as her hit collided.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Cough! Cough! Cough!
Sakura's punch was just enough to send the woman flying through the wall behind her, leaving her to fall on the broken wooden debris and leave Sakura to follow her trail.
Wiping her mouth, blood appeared on the woman's gloves, analysing it before she began to grit her teeth.
Sakura walked closer, analysing the woman as her hood was down, or she thought her enemy was an older woman, however the pink haired girl was surprised to find out that it was not the case.
Recognising the bleach blonde hair of the girl that stood in-front of her, Sakura recognised her in an instant.
"..."
"..."
The woman with the robe looked up towards Sakura Tachibana with distain as a spec of blood dripped from the side of her mouth, her look of distain slowly turning into anger in the matter of seconds.
Something that Sakura had recognised in herself and other's before.
"No..."
"My identity has been revealed huh...? goddamit..."
Her diamond like blue eyes sparkled in the dark as the two stared each other in the darkness of the hallway.
Sakura Tachibana knew that the battles she was going to face was far from done, after all there was so much to come, including saving her clan and family from those who attacked them.
Sakura could only hope for her to be strong as she thought she was.
The sound of battles happening in her clan's territory reigned everywhere as multiple fires built up in the many building's surrounding the one she was in, the one she assumed her mother and sister was in.
Knowing her friends were also her with her, she secretly thanked her friends for their involvement in her battles.
Sakura Tachibana could only look in shock as the identity of her enemy that dared to attack her in the home of her clan's was someone she had seen around and knew about.
Sakura could only step back as she stared the girl down.
