The Rise of Yin and Yang

IV Destiny

At Bordaussie, Yang´s Pov:

Living together with the Million Family made us understand one thing, if nothing else.

You can be happy and live a normal life even as a Hybrid, all you have to do is to use your forces sometimes, away from public eyes, in secret, to get rid of the excess-force within us, which otherwise would break out uncontrolled.

However, it was important to always keep a certain percentage of force actively within us, to avoid Nono-fatigue, like it is called by Mr. Beluga, as Hybrid forces or H-Forces as we call them, are roughly of the same type as Nono-forces.

After nearly two weeks of living in Bordaussie in hiding, the media-storm had subsided, even after the Police came and asked about our whereabouts of if the Million family had seen us, even going as far as to search in the entire house.

Luckily to that time we weren´t present, at least not in the visible space of the Ranch...

In the end grass grew over the whole affair, so much that Lady Merveille deemed it the right time for the Transfer towards the White Whale, which stood shortly before it´s completion and would undergo its first virgin travel in one and a half year.

That we were to see the inside, before the public, was quite necessary, so that we knew the Airship as best as we can, in order to react to certain situations, but also to hide effectively, while simultaneously keeping our days as stress-free as possible, once the media was to come and roam the entire Place.

Also, it was in order for the People we would work and live with, to get to know us a little better, by now they only knew our files and a bit about our past, of course they did not get to know everything about us, but some of them surely must have heard about us from the newspaper.

I admit, back then I was a little afraid of meeting up with new people, I would have loved to live with the Million family for the rest of our lives, at least I had not to feel like a Guinea-pig or a prisoner.

It was a happy life which would await us with them, but especially because it was, was it better not to take that thought for granted.

Merveille Million had a family already, she maybe was willing to help us out for a while, but I doubt that she would have the nerve to adopt us and care for us like she did for Betakin and his sisters, if anything it was their family, we were just intruders into their life seeking for help…, at least so I felt.

The only solution which would not border in us hiding for the rest of our lives, was to join S.I.T.K.A. under a whole new identity.

To be honest, I was unsure if it was a good idea to let us being around normal people at all, well normal in comparison to a Hybrid at least.

Lady Merveille however explained, that the people of S.I.T.K.A. knew Betakin and his Sisters since they were little and so had enough time to investigate and to get to know almost all about Hybrid Forces.

They surely would take us as we are and help us deliberately.

It was a nice vision…, but honestly, I had my doubts about it.

Half a Year Later, on the White Whale:

However, half a year later, things looked quite different to me.

The Researchers at the facility weren´t long as reluctant as I had imagined them to be.

After all I could imagine something better than the prospect of having to work with someone as strange as we are, even knowing that we had already each killed somebody, even if unintentionally and only in self-defense.

If anything, some of them were totally excited to work with us, to learn more about our forces, to research about them and find out about the extent of them.

One of these Researchers was Prof. Aurelia Feravente, who was the main head of the E.R.F.N.T. of S.I.T.K.A, the Experimental Research Facility for New-Technologies, and the Second in command after General Million.

Additionally, she also was our outfitter, the one to design our combat suits, the E.H.C.A., Enhanced Hybrid Combat Armor, should they ever be needed.

Flexible, sturdy and able to withstand extreme conditions without as much as a scratch.

The combat suits were her entire pride, of course next to the weapons co-created by her and her Husband, Prof. Reginald Feravente, who was the Outfitter of Betakin and his sisters, back at Bordaussie, living the longest time of his life in the secret facility underneath the Ranch.

To be honest I almost lost my mind as we went there the first time, but it was a welcome surprise, especially while above us the police searched the entire ranch for any clues about us.

It was totally unexpected, suddenly the Entrance of the main house of the Ranch became an Elevator, which brought us down to a huge hall, separated in several parts by walls.

In one part you could see a Hangar with several Vehicles, designed for quick maneuvers and to survive every environment, they were bulletproof and plasma resistant and could even survive the bombardment with anti-tank-missiles.

Betakin was not joking as he called S.I.T.K.A. the Final Solution, the ones to call when all else fails, the final instance.

Seeing all that made my Childhood dreams come true, all the times I sat infront of the television, cheering on my favorite superheroes, all the Manga and Comics I bought, every Opening and ending and every catchphrase I learned by heart, it all finally got rewarded.

I almost cried upon the beauty of it all.

After we were brought towards the White Whale, a similar view was shone to us and we met Prof. Aurelia for the first time, the same instantly introduced us to her daughter, Orphelia Feravente (13), a little genius and mighty friendly if I may say so…

Maybe a little of an Airhead at times, but she definitely had her heart on the right spot.

She helped us getting a remodeling of our current self, in my case not much had to be changed, my hair was cut, from shoulder length to quite short, styled in a wild manner, honestly, I liked the new look.

Also I had to somehow change my eye-color, which I did with contact lenses, from Blue to Auburn.

Orphelia commented how beautiful they had suddenly gotten, not that they hadn´t been before, so she said…., it made me blush deep red as she came close to my face, looking into them, which in return gave me a good look on her face.

She had heterochromia, 2 different eye colors, one grass-green and the other ocean-blue, which was beautiful as well.

She herself didn´t like it though, as some of her classmates mobbed her, with things like being the result of Inbreeding, if anything, they were just jealous of her genius and good notes, I saw that often in our old school.

If you are above average, people hate you for being better than them, if you fall below average, they tease and mob you for being inferior to them, it was good to stay in the middle, just like an untouched Balance.

Though our balance had already begun to tilt to one side, we had to keep a good watch not to tilt it too much.

People tended to view us as simple and that was something good, at least in our eyes…, but Orphelia had it rougher than us.

Orphelia was one who could not ignore the teasing and mobbing, and instead decided to act upon it and change herself to please her environment, that's why she hid her green eye with a contact-lens as well, which was quite a shame if I may say so.

Especially because it didn´t helped at all, the others still made fun of her, what a nasty bunch.

Yin teased me in telling her how I felt upon seeing her eyes, if that was my honest opinion, but I was reluctant…, I liked Orphelia, she was nice and friendly for sure…, but I was still not ready to get into a deeper relationship than being mere acquaintances.

After all the last ones I had called friends, began to speak nasty behind our backs and even went as far as to call us monsters on TV as they were interviewed, once we were hunted and off the grid.

It made me understand that no matter how a person act, you never know what they truly think about you, unless you manage to read their minds, just like Cetala was able to…, in a way I envied her ability.

While I managed to get along with my new look and my new identity called Yami Scale, Yin had the most to do during her remodeling, she not only got colored contact lenses as well, she also had to say goodbye to her long hair, which was cut of short much to her dismay, as she loved her long hair and kept it clean and flowing and glossy, often staying an hour in the bathroom to treat it.

She even started crying as the hairdresser appeared with the scissor, I literally had to restrain her for the same to be able to work, all the while I had to hear Yin´s cursing.

In the end, after her hair was cut, she instantly hid it underneath a hood, which she bought in one of the stores, calling herself too ugly to be shown to the world.

It lasted a week until she finally managed to calm down, she even refused to go to school this way, she totally envied Orphelia for still having her long hair, even if it was messily braided.

In a harsh contrast to that scene, her new Identity as Hikari Scale, was almost instantly accepted by her, maybe because it helped her to forget that Yin Libra was a murderer, at least in her eyes.

Upon visiting Claymore Academy, the school here on the White Whale, we got a whole bunch of new Classmates, all of them smart little professors-to-be who could get quite judgmental if I may say so, at the very least they did not hid their nasty characters but put them on full display.

That was perhaps better, than having a class full of people who hid what they truly thought about you, for the longest of times.

Our arrival as newbies who had moved due to interfamilial reasons, was simply accepted and deliberately ignored, in the end no one really cared about it, we were just there, two of many…, honestly I preferred it that way, at least no one asked any dumb questions.

Still I never had been in a classroom in which the fronts had been made so clear, everyone had their little group which they got along with and they all concurred with the rest of the class for tests, assignments and other stupid stuff, things from which I barely understood anything.

I was glad enough to somehow be able to follow what the teacher was teaching us.

The only one I could make out as a light in a room filled with black mist of idiocy, apart from Orphelia and Yin, the one who couldn´t care less about all that rivalry going on, was a Caninu-boy of my age, who looked outside the window with complete disinterest in anything the others said.

Orphelia introduced us to him, as apparently, he was her only friend in this class full of ferocious intellectual beasts.

The only one who never laughed about her or mobbed her, who took her just the way she was.

His name was Connor Triever (13) and he too was the son of a researcher here at the White Whale, Leonardo Triever, although the same was a rather unknown and overlooked figure in this huge place, almost insignificant, compared to all the great researchers gathered here.

However he worked close together with Professor Aurelia, that's one other reason why their Kids got along so well.

Connor was proud nevertheless about his father and loved him dearly.

He knew just enough not to fail his classes, but as he could not really speak with anyone of his classmates about any highly intellectual themes, he felt alone almost the entire time.

But especially because of that, he was the least to judge somebody just by the look of the same.

That's what made both Orphelia and Connor becoming friends over short or long.

That of course gave room for stupid rumors and speculations within the classroom and us hanging out with them, didn´t do any better to the whole situation.

"How do you manage not to snap by all this?" I once asked Connor as we sat together in the canteen during noon-break.

"By sucking it up and unleashing it in private, I play a lot of videogames to vent of a lot of steam after a hard school day." Connor stated as he lazily stabbed around in his food.

"I see, well to be honest that isn´t as different from how I have lived before…, whenever there was stress at school, I just went straight home and did something which had nothing to do with the same, to vent of steam and to take my mind of everything that happened, once I calmed down, I went back to study.

Well it´s all in the past now, nowadays all I can do is to ignore it as best as I can and just keep on going." I explained and he nodded.

Same as most people, did he never asked us why we transferred schools, not because he didn´t cared, like the other, but I think he did sensed that it was a quite sensible theme to us, so he never attempted to dig for the answers and I was quite thankful for it.

The official reason told to others, was that because of the death of our Mother, our father began to drink and became more and more violent, until he almost killed Yin in a fit of rage, before I slammed one of his alcohol bottles on his head, knocking him unconscious and that we then fled out of our home.

We ran way from Pharaoh and ended up in Bordaussie where we met Lady Million and Mr. Damiens, who adopted us and helped us restarting our life from anew, well part of it wasn´t really a lie, even if it went off differently.

We still often texted with our supposed-to-be adoptive siblings, to see what was going on in Bordaussie, we promised to help each other when it was required, this was the least we could do to pay back their kindness to us.

I admit, not only was it a strange feeling to live apart from our conspecifics, but also to live back in Pharaoh, even if we were in hiding, we were so close yet so far from our old home, from the house which mom and dad had lived in together with us…, I really wonder what Dad was doing right about now, with us gone.

A year later:

A Year after our escape from Pharaoh on that faithful day, we became quite acknowledged in using our Hybrid forces, they were long not as scary and strange as they had been in the beginning.

After learning to toning down their intensity, using them became a lot easier, almost like breathing.

Here in the trainings room we had not to hide ourselves, here we could be who we truly were, or better said, who we had become.

"Focus, Yang, you have to get this in your head, if not it will be fatal if ever a battle does arise." Yin stated, as she charged up her energy.

I had yet to learn how to generate a forcefield around me, like Yin could do it.

One thing the researchers here had found out was that my forces were rather for attacking an enemy, than blocking its attacks or even defending someone.

Yin´s on the other hand had a far easier time to use forcefields and shields for her benefit, even being able to trap enemies in her forcefields, restraining them for about an hour.

All I could do was to destroy and fight head-to-head with others, then again, I was way faster than her, I could accelerate my body and thought-process, in order to react to attacks directed to me and use a counterattack instantly.

Yin called it reckless behavior and suggested that I would take a try on generating shields, at least to defend myself.

We were able to create our own training program, it was rare that others decided for us, but we often did parkours, which they had build for us, or simulation battles with soldiers, in which one team played the villains and the others tried to rescue a bunch of hostages.

Of course, we toned our forces down in a matter fit for simple hand-to-hand combat, most of the time when I was on the Villain team, Yin created a Forcefield around the Hostages effectively pushing anyone else away, this way we could go all out without something happening to them, but that also mean that it was harder for us of the villain team to threat the rescuer team.

Vise versa, when I tried to rescue the hostages, Yin created a forcefield wile standing amongst the Hostages, her fake weapon aiming at the head of one, which made it almost impossible for us to act. Our only way was to render Yin unconscious to free the Hostages, which was easier said than done. I

lost so many times to her in these tests, that it was hard to count.

It was scary how good Yin could play a villain and a hero at the same time, we had always been average, but suddenly she managed to run ahead of me and leave me in the dust.

Maybe that's why she insisted on teaching me in using forcefields for my benefit.

However, that was definitely easier said than done.

"Get up, geez, what have I told you, focus on me, look what I do and try to defend yourself appropriately to it.

Watch my movements, I mean you can do that, no one can beat you in hand-to-hand combat, not even I, so why can´t you react when I use my forces against you?" Yin asked me once during our training session.

"It´s not as easy as you make it look like Sis, if I try to focus my mind on generating a forcefield I am all open for attacks, I cannot attack and simultaneously try to generate a forcefield.

You can´t do that either!" I complained and she sighed in exhaustion, sitting down on the maltreated ground.

"I know that it is hard, I had a hard time learning this stuff myself, but as I said, if you run headfirst in every danger without so much as a protective spell around you, then you are doomed, the E.H.C.A. is not unfailable, even if it is strong and sturdy.

It won´t hold forever, you need to learn to repel damage, bullets and what do I know, if not your armor will be destroyed in no time, even as fast as you are, you cannot evade a multidirectional bombardment, as you have to focus on one direction per time to evade effectively, we have seen that.

If more than 4 people attack you, all you can do is to try and to break out of the ring and then beat them one by one…, but that won´t do if the attack consists of a bullet-storm." Yin explained and I sat myself down as well.

"As I said, you make it look so easy but it isn´t not at all, I know it in theory but my body just doesn´t listen to me when I try to generate energy…, maybe it is because I have Blank´s force, they aren´t Nero´s forces, the way I have seen it with Betakin and the others, has everybody of them different abilities as a Hybrid, only thanks to their Paladin training in addition they can more or less use the same forces.

Honestly, I doubt that we both could use each other´s forces, I mean you tell me to learn your forces…, how about we try it vise versa, how about you try to accelerate yourself for once, to evade close range attacks, like I do, I bet that, that ain´t gonna be easy for you either." I replied and she nodded sighing.

"Maybe you are right and our forces aren´t compatible with each other, at least by trying to learn them, however you also have to understand, that I cannot always be at your side, to shield you from attacks.

Especially when the battle will be drawn out on a larger area, like in a town…, if we want to effectively save people, we cannot always stay together at one spot, eventually we will have to spread our forces, to rescue people and defeat enemies.

In a larger team this makes even more sense." Yin replied and I nodded, she did have a point but what shall I do?

"Maybe we should try and learn Paladin abilities too, they surely will come in handy?" I asked her and she nodded.

"They would, however don´t I know how long it would take to learn as much as producing a shield with Nono, Alpharia admitted that it cost her nearly 4 years to generate a sturdy shield, and it was still not enough as it could only hold out for 10 minutes.

Nowadays she can hold it up longer but she also trained since she was 5 years old, 7 years long.

I am not sure if the peace we currently have, will hold on that long…, I cannot really tell..., but somehow…, I have a feeling that the danger is long not over.

Three Titano weapons have rampaged in less than 4 years, honestly, I doubt that this is a mere coincidence, I rather would believe that something bigger has been stirred awake and it slowly so slowly rises from its sleep." Yin stated as she stood up and walked over to the window of the training room, which showed the vast sky of the republic.

"I feel that a storm is coming, maybe not tomorrow but in near future..., and I can tell it is going to be a devastating one." Yin stated.

"Pfffff, hahhahaha, now that sound like straight out of a movie, my dear." We heard a voice behind us, as I heard the door sliding open.

"Prof. Aurelia, it´s nice to see you again, how was your trip to Bordaussie?" I asked as the young woman, walked in with a tablet of cups and drinks, while her daughter followed with some snacks, and as if that wasn´t enough someone else entered, someone I would have never thought to ever see in this part of the White Whale.

"So, this is where you guys train, looks nice I would say, it though could use a little renovation." I heard Connors voice saying as the same entered the training-room.

"Professor what the hell, why did you bring him here…, don´t tell me you told him everything?" I asked her in pure shock.

"Me, why should I have to tell him anything, he already knew it before, better said since the beginning, just like Orphelia." Prof. Aurelia replied confused, which in return got me confused.

"Wait what?" I asked in even greater shock.

"Oh didn´t I mention it, my Father works for S.I.T.K.A. as well, that's how Orphelia and I became such good friends in the first place, not just because we are classmates." Connor explained.

"Yes Prof. Triever works together with me, but not only on the normal, public researches, but also on your weapons, gadgets and Mechas…, didn´t I mention that before?" The Professor asked unsure.

"No, you surely did not." I thought in annoyance.

"So you…, you knew it the whole time…, that we aren´t normal people but Hybrids instead?" I asked Connor.

"Yeah I did, Orphelia told me so after the first week, after we met, she told me about who you are and why you were here, I admit at first I was a little shocked but I decided to observe you and get myself an own picture of your character…, and well, I couldn´t say anything against you guys.

You were friendly, kind, reliable and compassionate, I really came to like both of you and I should have probably told you about my knowledge by that time, but I kind of figured that it was most likely quite a sensitive matter for the both of you, so in the end, I never mentioned it…, sorry about that." Connor replied and I sighed.

"Seriously how considerate can you be…?" I thought with a smile.

"Anyways, I am glad not to have to lie to you anymore." I stated and Connor nodded.

"Well it was to protect yourself and your sister, so I can forgive you for that, no harm has been done anyways.

And well…, do you think that we all, I mean, Orphelia, You and Yin… and I…, if we could become friends…, I know from Orphelia´s mom what happened with your last friends and I totally understand that you are reluctant to trust anyone anymore…, but believe me, Orphelia and I, we aren´t like that, we want to help you as best as we can.

Who knows, maybe someday Orphelia will be your Outfitter and I will be your guy in the Chair…, what do you think?" Connor asked and honestly, for the first time in my life, I was relieved to have gotten to know another person, so kind and friendly like my Sister and Mother.

"Anyways you two, I think it is time for a break, for afterwards I will be needing your assistance on something." Prof. Aurelia explained and I was curious, whenever she asked us to help her it was bound to become interesting.

"What did you get us this time, Professor?" I asked her.

"Oh that is still a secret, but you surely won´t be disappointed, you will get to see it soon enough, anyways I have still some things to prepare beforehand, meet me at the hangar in an hour, the four of you, okay, and you guys, take your Armors with you, you will definitely need them." She stated while smirking mysteriously, looking at the four of us with a mischievous look in her eyes.

If I had known what was to come an hour after our break and our chatting with our friends, I would have skipped eating snacks.

An Hour later:

"What in the world is that?" I asked in purest astonishment before the giant things, which I had here standing right infront of me and my Sister within the Hangar of the White Whale.

"May I Introduce to you, Pale Lancer and Dark Archer, some of the Mechas of the newest kind, designed and constructed by Lady Million and Cetala, solely for you.

They have been constructed after blueprints of the Tiamat, the Septentrion and some other plans, which I have no clue of.

One each of them has its own set of special properties and abilities.

As you know, upon close investigation, we have determined that Hybrid Forces have different types to them.

Yin for example is a distance-attacker, who attacks from a safe distance or incapacitate enemies with her shields while simultaneously defending herself, by closing herself in a shield as well.

Yang on the other hand is more of a close-combat-fighter, who searches the head to head confrontation with his enemies, to compensate for his lack of distance-attacks.

Betakin is an attacker, someone who puts most of his forces into attacking the enemy, keeping him away from those who need protection.

Alpharia, is the Defender, her forces are strong but as much as we know inferior to her brother´s and on the same level as Cetala´s, however she is more capable of defending and generating durable shields, be it for herself or others.

Cetala on the other hand, is more of a strategist, who watches from high above to coordinate the others, that however doesn´t mean that she is weak, no she can use both wide-range and close-combat-attacks.

Each of these forces and types are valuable assets to the H-Team, whenever the time comes that you will have to fight as one." Professor Aurelia explained as she began to work on some machines.

"Just let me do some adjustments…, there we go, now it should be perfect, how about you try them out." She asked and without further ado we made our way into the cockpits of both the Mechas.

Yin decided to mount Dark Archer, an armored metallic knight, whose greatest asset was his high physical defense against attacks and impacts, perfect for attacking others from a distance while standing on the Battlefield.

Meanwhile I chose Pale Lancer, a rather flexible Mecha with durable armor, who was a speed-type armor with an inbuilt jet system and an A.I. for evading multidirectional attacks but also for more accuracy, so that even with all that speed used, the attacks I dealt still hit.

"Amazing, this somehow looks so good on you guys." Connor explained as we suited up into our E.H.C.A.

"Indeed, as if you were born to wear them, you look like true Super Rescue Rangers." Orphelia continued, both their eyes shining in anticipation.

Did I forgot to mention that the three of us had much in common, despite Orphelia being a little Genius.

"If you say so." We mumbled blushing, before we mounted the cockpits of our Mechas for a test-run.

To be honest, it was the first time in my life, where I ever got so close to such a machine at all, even though there were many Mechas in Pharaoh.

Still if I had known that piloting a Mecha was so hard, I rather would have seen to get a little training in a Simulator, I heard they have one here somewhere.

The tests we made on that day were valuable data which helped the Professor, Lady Million and their teams, to enhance our equipment, for when the time was right.

Who would have thought that this time came faster than we all had expected?

Another Year Later:

The call had finally come, after 2 years of having these forces already, they finally were to be put to good use.

The moment we entered the conference room of S.I.T.K.A, we were quite surprised to see Orphelia and Connor in the official Uniforms, in midst of a bunch of Professors, soldiers and other Special agents.

"Ah they are here, wonderful, Luckily the Claymore Academy had no school today or else we would have had to wait even longer." Professor Aurelia explained and we nodded.

As the Claymore Academy was located on the other end of the White Whale, it would indeed have last quite sometime to get through the entire ship once, after all the Airship was a little under a mile long and the lower levels of the S.I.T.K.A Facilities were like a maze of corridors.

"You guys know why you are here, don´t you?" The professor asked.

"Indeed, something happened, something which no one can handle anymore, no one but we perhaps?" Yin asked and they all nodded.

"And what happened is far bigger than we expected, we always though that there might just be a new attempt of Baion´s other creations, to do what their master tried, but even we did not count with a literal invasion of foreign enemies with high technology quite superior to ours, however that is the case.

It seems that we are at War, Ladies and Gentlemen…, the noon before today, we lost contact to the Golden Roar and the Royal Envy." The Professor stated and our chin crashed down, this news really had to be digested by us.

"Lady Million." I thought in terror upon hearing that.

"That in itself would have not been so bad, we could have deemed it as nothing but a simple communication-failure, so we thought…, at least if not in the night of the same day, foreign Airships attacked several Islands of our Republic.

Our regular forces were out there fighting against them and only a lucky strike of the weather and perhaps some other, yet unknown factor, helped all of our men to survive, despite being at a huge disadvantage technological-wise.

Because of that and Red Savarin´s help, the Islands could be saved and have been put on alert for an undetermined timespan.

As of now we still don´t quite know what their objective is, but what we know, is that they are ruthless in their doing.

Meanwhile, ever since the signals were lost, we kept trying to contact both Airships , without any success but until a few hours ago.

But then we got us a message from General Beluga, he told us about a new silent attack on Airedale and Basset and that most likely other islands were targeted as well.

Also did he told us the reason why we cannot locate nor contact either the Golden Roar or the Royal Envy, its because both are located in the Devil´s Throat, we were made aware of the possibility of it by the Jade Dragon Palace, but neither them nor us had any confirmation about this, before General Beluga reported it to us.

For the time being, Red Savarin and some new Helpers, under them also the Hybrids Rose and Carmine, who had vanished from our radar and went in hiding 14 years ago, have decided to engage the enemy head on, by attacking their main Base here in the Republic.

They have decided to pierce through the Storms of the Devil´s throat with a bright Scarlet-red Airship, packed with fully unknown Technology and abilities, at least it is definitely none of our Airships, so much we know.

Apparently it is a n Airship from a place called Shangri-La, a place refered in various histories and legends and said to have truly existed in olden times, it is even said that our Republic consists out of pieces of this mysterious place, anyways it is yet not truly confirmed by us, rather they truly come from there or if they are but another secret defense agency similiar to us.

In any event, it seems to me, that we weren´t the only ones preparing for such a drastic situation and yet they seem to be far better prepared for this than we are, makes me wonder if they knew about this potential attack all along or not, and if they just waited for the enemy to spread its forces out, in order to attack their HQ, it is one way to defeat an enemy, howeve ri would not really call it a good strategy, especial if you leave your allies vunerable to the enemies attack.

After all they are supposed to supporting us, as far as we can believe from General Beluga´s Report, but as i mentioned, their way of holding back informations is something i cannot tolerate, if we knew were about to be attacked we surely could have defended our people and islands far better than we actually did, i am sure that somewhere around her, lives are being lost and Battles are fought as we speak.

We also have gotten reports from several field-agents, which deem it as highly possible, that these attack weren´t just occurring in our Republic, but also in the Kingdom of Prairie and the Nippon Archipelago further east, and that some of these attacks and assaults over there are yet ongoing, also shall some escapees from both Regions have meanwhile arrived in the Republic, most likely seeking for safety, if we were to find them, we should help them as best as we can so much is clear.

However, we should not forget, that here in our Republic some Islands are still being attacked as well.

Approximately half an hour ago we got a report from our Branch at Bordaussie, about an Invasion on the island from many foreign Airships, significantly more than on other islands, and that the Million children have meanwhile engaged in battle, to save the inhabitants of the Islands.

As far as their report has told us, have they resorted to first get anyone in the save shelter, before engaging the enemy in combat, but as i said earlier, have we no information if the enemy just wants to conquer the republic or if they are planning something entirely different.

if you ask my personal opinion, I must agree with you, Agent Hikari, your thought from a little while ago, tht the waking of three Titano Machinae in less than 10 years has been no coincidence, something is about to wake up and considering the brutal power of these Titano Machinae it is highly possible that the Enemy is after them.

Lady Million and I hypothesized that there might be more of such weapons hidden within the Republic, maybe slumbering in ancient ruins, deep caves, underneath the ground we stand upon, or so on, if this is true then whatever they hope to find here, it will be disastrous if they manage to claim it as their own.

Agent Yami, Agent Hikari, your mission will be the assistance of the friendly forces at Bordaussie, you will be accompanied by another two Agents and the Operation will be led by General Beluga, who will soon arrive at your side.

Our Main force will make its way over there as well, but as you know aren´t we as fast as we want to be.

We can only make it there in approximately 5 hours, but with a Special High-speed Aircraft you guys will most likely make it in 2 hours, that gives you and the others 3 hours in which you have to fight against the enemy on your own, before we arrive to engage in battle as well.

We have already send out several other teams to engage other situations, which have occurred on various other islands across the Republic, so you won´t get any more backup for those 3 hours, understood, you have to cooperate with the local team, try to safe as many civilians as you can and keep the enemy from fulfilling their objective, whatever this might be.

Adittionally, the Jade dragon Palace has notified us that as soon as their preparations are done, they will send out more teams so that we can focus on another mission, to go and assist the crews of the olden Roar and the Royal envy in their possible combat against the enemy´s forces.

As this situation requires our best and most potential agents, we cannot renounce of counting on your assistance, even if you are technically seen not adult yet, have you understood this." Prof. Aurelia explained and we Saluted.

"Ma´am, Yes, Ma´am!" We stated aloud with confidence but also with worry in our hearts, of course it was sure that this was nothing easily decided, we knew that someday this situation would come, we all knew that.

"Connor and Orphelia will come with you and coordinate your actions together with the team of my Husband, Professor Reginald.

They are not to engage in battle but to support you from a safe distance, so make sure you follow their instructions, as far as possible for you, do not hesitate to make own suggestions as well…, as the Support is not on the Battlefield, they cannot always grasp the situation as it truly is.

Any further details will be told to you on the flight, you will meet the other Members of your Team in the Hangar, they have already been briefed as far as you now have been, so they are as smart about the situation as you, anyways, make sure you get along with them, after all, each of you needs to protect your partners back." The Professor continued and once again we saluted, alongside Connor and Orphelia who stepped at our side.

"This is everything, get to the Hangars asap, dismissed!" We were told and with these words our very first mission began.

After 2 years of intensive training, of our physical condition and in strategies and survival tests, we finally were allowed to put these new abilities we had to the test.

"I just hope everything goes well, I don´t want to die already, i´m still too young for that…, I haven´t even had a girlfriend yet." I thought as we made our way towards the Hangars of the White Whale.

2 Hours later, I wished I would have had one before….

To be Continued…

A/N: And another Chapter of Yin and Yang´s story is over, I hope you have liked it…, I wouldn´t really know as I haven´t yet go any review to it, I have unfortunately no idea if you all appreciate these stories at all or if you couldn´t care less for them, either way I am going to keep on writing them, even if it is but for my self-satisfaction.

Anyways as always, read, review and if possible, recommend these side-stories and the main story.

Yours truly, the Storyteller and his books.