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Chapter 10

Hundreds of miles away, a man paced a narrow platform overlooking a massive underground hangar, filled with hundreds of mako tanks. The dark aura enshrouding him swirled menacingly as he surveyed the fruit of his efforts.

The hangar was dark, save for the eerie acid green light projected by the mako. Every now and then, a grotesque figure, barely human, would twitch within its mako prison, causing the man's eyes to alight with glee. Don't worry, you'll have your share of blood soon, and we shall have our vengence on that crimson-caped menace...

Indeed, this spawning bay, as well as the many others, had become one of the two devotions of his soul for the past two years. He had placed the duty of overseeing the spawning project upon himself both for the love of his brother and for the love of the environment it presented. After all, darkness was his passion.

Footsteps, steady and deliberate, echoed through the cavernous hall. Nero the Sable stopped his pacing. In a heartbeat, he had already identified his visitor. An unseen smile crossed his lips as his beloved brother approached.

"Nero…" Weiss acknowledged.

"Brother, what a pleasant surprise." He answered.

"Are they ready yet?"

"Soon brother…" the mechanism he wore twitched, betraying his own impatience. "And then we shall have our revenge upon that wretched being. The new units will be far stronger than our previous troops."

The white-haired man nodded in satisfaction and turned to leave. Nero hesitated before asking, "How fares our leader?"

Weiss sighed, "Still obsessing over that girl we failed to obtain. But, he is confident that our plan will succeed and that…the girl would join us when the time comes."

"But, she is being trained by the enemy. How can he be certain that she would become our ally?"

"That, Nero, is something he wouldn't disclose, even to me. Although, it does bother me that even though he is hell bent on acquiring her, he hasn't made any attempt to do so since that hound failed its attempt. He has shown no other implications of being weak." He shrugged his shoulders and strode off, leaving Nero to puzzle over their leader's actions, or rather, his lack of actions.