Chapter 28 Emma's POV - A little over Nine months later
I grumble as I marched down to where the blood base was downstairs. I heard something I didn't like and I want answers.
Once I get down there I go to the CO of the place. "So would someone like to explain what I just found out was in this envelope?"
"W-well you see ma'am." She starts.
"I'm not gonna get that pissy since you at least gave me this. But I want to know why no one told me. That is my daughter that is missing after all." I tell them. Hopefully no ones fucked with Maya's file so I wasn't informed. I know just the bastard too.
"We believed someone told you already." She says trying to make an excuse.
I just rub my forehead. "Okay next time double check to make sure I'm notified in the future. Now how much dirt does blood have on the leader of Dogma?" I ask knowing Scrap would have as much as she could on that scumbag.
"Abit ma'am." She says.
"Good share it with Quantum I'm gonna pay him a visit." I chuckle evilly I'm gonna interrogate him. He did potentially mess with a one of Omega's guys after all.
She gulps. "Will do ma'am." She says quickly leaving the room.
At least she isn't a smuck. I glance at the rest as I leave for the portal room. "Quantum locate Mathew Silver."
"Alright give me a second. He is currently located at one of his personal properties."
"Alright just tell me when you know. I need to ask him nicely about something regarding Maya." I'm not happy at all with him.
"Sending the data to you now."
I glance at it. Hmm that little fuck is bold to live in Brave Lastation. Makes it all the easier for me.
I'll deal with Noire and Liz there if they have a problem with me ki- 'interrogating' one of their citizens.
Noire will be easier to deal with than Liz.. She'll actually fucking hurt. Well I can just tell them he did something to Scrap as an excuse.
I go up to the portal room for it to send me to the telestation there. Good thing he's more on the outskirts of the nation.
It didn't take long to get to his place but I was treating this more like a stealth up all things considered. But to him it won't last long. Not that he'll be coming back at all.
I stealthily made my way inside after disabling the alarm and motion detector in the room.
Everything was basic or substandard. Pathetic at least make it a challenge. Once I get to him he was in an office reading some reports. "So the pain in an ass bitch is gone for awhile now I can tear down everything she's built up so far."
I grin a sinister grin as I walked up and leaned against the door. "That'll be a little hard once I'm done with you."
He glared as he quickly turned to look at me. "You again freaking even worse than she was. At least I got both of those pains in a neck at once. Oh right that Maya kid was your's wasn't she. Don't worry I heard she died screaming."
I sneer before I rush forward picking him up by the neck and slamming him through his desk. "What is up with you fucking dumbasses pissing off beings you know can kill you instantly."
Then again from what I know he's a dumbass who is greedy to not let anyone surpass him. Though he made a dumb as attempt to attack me with a katana.
I just grab the blade before kicking him back. Causing him to loose his grip on the weapon I then use the weapon to stab it strait through his leg into the ground. "Didn't you learn from the first time I kicked your ass? You can't win against me."
"SHUT UP!" I roll my eyes at him as I take out Corruption and stab him in the gut letting it kill his body but not too fast. I then start pulling in his essence it'd be fun to have some time powers.
Well that's if they stick. Who knows if they would. "What is your last words to the world? Before I have you erased for your crimes?"
"My sister had her virginity stolen by her own fathe-" I kill him quickly before he could finish already sick of that. I know he has a daughter but his girlfriend bailed on him when she learned of the monster he really is.
I sigh. Guess I should make my leave now. I did what I came here for. Exiting the place quietly I make my way to the telestation masking my presence to help remain out of sight.
Arg dammit. I want to go there and help but they're in a locked down dimension. Though… I could break in with some help.. I just need to steal Croire and a traveler and a little bit of other help for that.. Though I'll be stuck there for a bit if I do that. But.. My dimension is slow as heck.
I sent a message to Croire to meet me in the Shadow dimension. At a known cafe on the fourth floor.
It'll be a good meeting spot for us to discuss this a little. Didn't take me that long to get there it was just a matter of waiting after that.
Though it didn't take long for Croire to show up. "I'll need a small favor." I say to her.
"Alright first what is it?" Croire asks looking at me suspiciously.
"I'll need your help with a few others to get into that dimension." I say knowing she'd know.
She sighs. "Fine but I'm expecting a good reward after this knowing how hard and risky this will be." Can't fault her there most would say I'm batshit crazy and walk out.
"What do you wish for?"
"I could think of a lot of things to be honest. I might request to impregnate you or have a nice long vacation to a tropical beach dimension with Histoire." One a blow to me and one to my walletish I can do the last one on the cheap now that I think of it.
"I'll be fine with almost everything besides knocking me up." I say.
"Alright vacation it is. Also Rex and Plutia are doing fine. Though your little me is also starting to walk and talk more matter of time before someone connects the dots." That was fun likely not for her. Damn almost forgot about her.. Eh I can deal with a littl-.. No that'll be annoying.
"I know. She's basically a carbon copy of myself. At least we didn't have her named Neptune. That would've been weird as shit."
"Yeah It was something like Lux or Lumosity right? Cute name for her. So what else do we need?" Croire asks propping her head up with her hand.
"Well I need to get both a Shadow Traveler and Weaver to get into that dimension."
"Shouldn't be hard to hire some from that guild a block away." Croire mentioned. Though it'd cost me a fair amount but it'd be the simplest option.
"True but I don't know if they'd be quiet over it and I'll need a higher tier Weaver at least."
Croire sighs. "There is one nicknamed the tailor. I looked through the file's at the base we have. Seems like she's pretty high level but is more modest. I'm sure she'll keep quiet if we tell her we are doing it for her boss that she admires."
"Sounds good. Call her over if she's able to."
"Alright might be easier for us to go to Ultra B where she's stationed.. It's really hard to miss the base there." Croire said sweat dropping.
I then get up. "That is reasonable since she's in an area connected to our place."
"Yeah in a fucking mountain." Croire mumbles under her breath.
"I take it you have a problem with mountains?" I ask.
"Big imposing hard to siege places. That also say I'm here don't fuck with me. A bit. Just annoys me Alex actually let her buy the entire 20 acre area that includes the mountain and a fair amount of the area around the base." Croire grumbles.
"How does it annoy you? You don't even live there." I ask as we walked to a telestation to get to the portal home.
"It just does okay." She grumbles. "Pompous brat." Well it's not Scrap's fault a mountain is a great defensive place.
"Even after all these years you're basically still the same Croire I rescued."
"Yeah I'm not one to change much." She says leaning on me.
"Only thing that really changed was you becoming an oversized pixie." I joke.
She grumbles. "At least I can lift a bag of sugar myself now."
"Yeah that time wasn't good when you pulled your back that badly. It was hard trying to massage that tiny body of yours."
"Yeah or dealing with me when I got horny." She pouts as we head home. I'll drop her off so she doesn't annoy the people at the other base.
"Hey just think there are many dimensions that had beings your size. Though that one time you messed up on a spell and turned yourself horny as hell. It was honestly weird to have you grinding against me."
"Yeah but it was fun. But now I'm bigger so it's not a problem. Now I'll make preparations here you get Tailor to help I'll be waiting." Yeah and I don't want to wait long to find Maya.
"Sounds good." I say to her.
I then leave to go get Tailor. And she certainly was cute. Nice B cup but she was more on the petite side but she still had a nice butt and of course an adorable face. I can see why she was popular here aside from being a higher up in this place.
I land near her. "I take it you're Tailor?"
"Hmm? Yes that's me. Scrap's best friend and favorite Weaver. Need anything Captain Clockwork?" She asked.. It's understandable being part of Omega's faction they'd know who I am being an officer.
"Yes. I need your help with something. Off papers of course."
"Hmm is it for Scrap? If so I'll do it in exchange for a favor to cash in later." She said blushing. Aww cute she has a little crush on her boss.
"As long as the favor is within reasonable demand." I say to her answering for her.
"Understandable. So what do you need my help for?" She asked following me back the the portal/tele area.
"I need you to open a small hole in a dimension for me to get through."
"Huh that all? Shouldn't be too hard even if it's a really far one." She says as I type in for it to take me back to the gemstone base.
"That's good. It's in one of the recently locked down dimensions."
"You mean the one Scrap went to and hasn't come back from? I could do it but we might need to go to a mirroring dimension for that." Figures But at least the A version is accessible but how do we get there without going through the shadow dimension?
"I figured as much. We'll cross that boundary when we get there."
"Alright so we heading back to your place?" Tailor asks as we walk though. I'll just have Croire portal us over there.
"Currently yes." I answer.
She gave me a nod as we went to Croire who was making a garden full of plants from Hentai worlds.
I sigh. "This is what you requested this room for?"
"Yes is it wrong I want to grow some mischievous plants? Besides some of the lust Angels might enjoy them." Croire smirks as one of the plants tries to fondle my breasts.
I slap it away. "No it is not but if you want to try something like this I'd like to know."
"Sure I'll do it next time. Are we ready now?" Croire asks bring up her book and looking through it.
"Yes though for us to open up a space for me we'd have to go to a mirror dimension there."
"Yeah yeah I asked quantum for a low key god eater dimension for you. Found one not hard to get to." She said as she channeled some energy to make one of her kinds portals for us.
"Good good. That'll help a lot. I'd like for you both to get in and out without much trouble."
"Yeah figured if we are doing this it's best to not go full throttle. Well lets hop through already." Croire says pushing me through with her and Tailor following through soon after.
"Impatient much." I say as I land on the other side.
"Sorry but try to think of what could be happening to Maya with each second that goes by since Gemstone is soo slow. You get the point of a fast dimension." I grumble but Croire has a point.
"I know. But I'd rather us be prepared and not have anything fuck up. I rather get there then end up in a different dimension since we were trying to rush it." I say as Tailor pulled out a chair and sat down. Even then it'll take her a good hour for there to be a patch for me to go through.
What to do while I wait. Could play a game or something to pass the time. Maybe a pudding snack in between.
"Hey Croire want to play some poker? Without your magic tricks this time." I say taking out a deck and shuffling them.
"Sure why not. Maybe strip poker for fun? Or something more intense?" She suggest holding the most powerful vibrators on the market right now.
"Strip poker works just fine. I'd rather not waste any energy before going over. Want to join Tailor?" I ask creating a seat for myself and a table. There wasn't anything alive around us for miles.
"You want this to take longer?" She asks looking at us. "Not that I mind but this requires a lot of attention."
"How much more we talking?"
"15 minutes to half an hour tops." She comments meaning a fair bit longer if she had to take her concentration off her task.
"Guess it doesn't matter. If you want to join you can."
"Thanks Maybe some time later on." Tailor said as she kept up her work.
"So you ready Croire?"
"Yeah get ready to get buttnaked Emma!" She says cockily. This was going to be fun.
For the next hour we played. With Croire losing more than me.
Then when she lost no more I took a different prize by licking her cute pussy.
As Croire got close Tailor says. "Alright I'm done but it won't stay open long." Welp sorry Croire. Have to leave you hanging.
"Use the vibrator Croire see ya." I say as I dive through the opening hoping this all goes well.
I grunt as I crash into the ground. I quickly jump back up and look around. I'm almost in the same spot where we were sitting.
It was devoid of life as far as I could see well time to start searching.
I summon up my uniform and helmet. Something isn't right with the air in this location. The sides of my mask hissing as it started filtering the air.
I then bring up the environmental display showing a warning icon next to a tab saying Miasma detected low density, Highly dangerous. Well that's just great. If those two didn't have masks on when they got attacked.. Given they crashed it's likely they didn't have time to prepare before they were attacked though Scrap's Alchemy could by some time it wouldn't last long.
The area I was in looked like a city being war ravaged and abandoned for long time. Then I heard a howl and heard some heavy steps coming towards me. I catch out of the corner of my eye a fat monster stalking around holding a giant hammer. I could kill it but it might not be worth the effort of simply avoiding it. Yeah or just the easiest option blow it's head off.
I summon up a hand cannon with a mix of armor piercing and exploding rounds. One shot to the face should do the trick.
I shot it causing it to stumble back before turning into bright orange almost golden mist. Hopefully this didn't draw attention now I need to feel for Maya.
I march up to the top of the nearest hill. I then send out a decent pulse and using the helmet's signature to help. Along with using the helmet to boost my range. Using both helped me decently.
I felt her signature far from my current location but it felt off.. Like it was corrupted or changed somehow.
Hmm. Guess I'll find out when I get there. I then mask my presence as I started moving towards her location. It'll cause problems if I transform.
It wasn't that hard but then I spot something that made stop it was a young kid getting shoved to the ground already bleeding from their forehead. "I thought I told you brat don't come back until you filled that sake with blood beads. Cerberus already sent one of their dogs to collect." The brute points their finger at me as the girl meekly gathers herself. "Sorry sir I'll do better next time."
I just raise my hand and shake my finger at him not saying a word. I then walk up seeing how many others there was here. If there was only a few people. I can deal with them and cover it up.
So far it was just a few guards and kids in cages most preteens all with the same blank hopeless look on their faces.
"Tis not the problem." I say walking up to him. I'll keep one alive for answers. I then create a sword before slicing it clean through him before quickly chucking it into another sending them flying. I then pull out my hand cannon shooting the rest. Shooting the one I want alive in the leg.
When I got fatal hit on them they turned to golden dust interesting. The one I left alive tries regening it seems but only managed to stop the bleeding from the looks of it. I wonder if the rest have varying levels of regeneration.
"Now I have a few questions. And you shall answer them." I say walking over to her.
"Y-Yes ma'am what do you wish ti know." She asked fearfully.
"What is this place and what are these beads for? If you answer honestly I'll let you go."
"This place is the Gaol of the mist. And those are Blood beads we need them for the levy imposed by the provisional government. We also need them to survive or else we'd join the lost. They say it's so the blood beads could be distributed evenly but I call bull shit on that. More like they keep it for themselves." She said rolling into a sitting position more or less.
"Interesting. And what are these lost ones?" I ask.
"They are Revenants that succumbed to their thirst and frenzy becoming lost they can be killed but only for a time they will always come back death is beyond their reach. All of us Revenants must drink human blood to survive. I make sure all the kids get their blood bead rations even if the boss doesn't like it." She said looking away.
"She isn't lying she was our only care taker." Said the girl who stayed on the ground staring at me blankly. Guess it's good someone was at least looking out for them. Still not sure I buy it given they could be emotionally damaged or something like that. But this dimension has no magic. So it's very unlikely they have any slave crests.. But there are other ways to control someone largely with an intimidating presence or controlling what they need to live.
"Alright. You answered my questions I needed currently. You are free to leave." I say to her. She can do as she wished. Well until she fucks up anyways.
She sighs taking out a needle and injecting herself causing herself to turn to golden dust. The kids or I should say thralls look at me as if I was their new leader.
Ugg. I'm going to have to watch over them while I'm here. "Alright I'd like your name and ages." I say as I went to open the cages. They each then said their name and ages then. "Now the question is. Do any of you need these.. Blood beads?"
They all nod well all three of them nod saying they were thirsty.. Guessing that's their way of saying yes. Got to keep my perverted mind out of this.
"Alright. So where are these beads retrieved normally?"
"Blood springs but more and more are drying up. They are getting harder to find. And with the levy inplace those we do get need to be saved for the levy." The eldest a teenage boy named Zach told me.
"Interesting. Bring me to one of these Blood springs." I say wanting to research it a little.
The kids nod and take me through a winding labyrinth of stuff before we crawled into a cavern where a stark white withered leafless tree stood its roots shriveled up. "This Blood spring was the most recent to dry up." Spoke Daisy the one I saw getting beat earlier.
So was the spring from the tree itself? I walk up to it looking around the surroundings.
"The tree produces the blood beads they normally are on the limbs like apples." Spoke the only other girl Rachel. I just nod as I feel that something below it is flowing bearly.. But then this spring is connected to a larger system..
But why is it called a spring when it's a tree? "Do you know how they dry up?" I ask. I know how many plants act differently from each other.
"We don't know.. You'd need to ask someone who steady's them. But most believe it's the miasma worsening that's causing them to dry up. Even they thirst." Daisy told me as she looked at the tree quizzically. All three of them had half masks on. I wonder how much it effects them.
"So it isn't a problem if I destroy this one then?" I'd like to get a few samples for later and to what is flowing down there.
"It's not flowing so no blood beads are coming. Don't know if that's good or bad to destroy it but it's your call ma'am." Spoke Zach he had a large hammer while Daisy had a rifle and Rachel a frankenstein looking sword.
I then swing the back of my hand into it, breaking part of the tree.
"Hmm this should be a good sample to analyze. But we still need to find you all some blood beads." I say to myself. I need to find Maya but it wouldn't hurt to baby sit some kids. After all, they know more about this world than I do. Just a little set back.
"Do you only survive off these blood beads?" I ask.
"Yes. It's pretty much the only thing we need to survive.. Without it we risk turning into the lost.. Normal food is often very hard to comeby." Rachel told me. So all they consume is blood.. I guess consuming regular food reminds them of being human.
"Normally yes it is hard to come by here I believe. I have some if you want it." I'll rip the rest of this little tree out after this.
They all looked at me with conflicted looks. Figures given what they've been through.
I then mess with my inventory behind me so they couldn't see. I then pull out one of the items I knew to be food. I then make it seem like I pulled it from a pocket.
"Here you go kids eat up." I'll likely be keeping them with me. It's good to have some company maybe I'll try to revitalize an area to live in once I get Nepgear.
"Alright just let me grab a few more for the rest of you."
Soon all of them were eating some rations I had on me.
"Don't eat it too fast or you'll choke." I say. I wonder how many I have on me.
It's most likely from my this mission sucks box. Still all of them were good kids. I wonder how their body's work I'll need to study them at some point.
I take a peak at my inventory and see I only have 20 more of the meals. Great didn't pack that many.
I'll be needing to rely on my pudding then. Since I can refill that with a text.
Well I don't even need that I can just close it for more to come. I turn and start digging at the tree to get underneath.
Eventually I said fuck it and make a drill/extractor to do the work for me. Of course I made it out of sight. But after awhile it popped out a few canisters filled with blood.
I pick it up. "So it's just canisters? Where did the blood for these come from?"
"I meet a Revenant once that said he was looking for the source. He said they all flow from one central point but locating it was difficult with more and more area being seal off by miasma." Rachel spoke giving me an insight on how bad this stuff was for her kind.
Hmm. "Alright." I say putting said canisters in my inventory. I'll try to find the heart later. Though I gave each of them one before hand since they told me they needed blood.
Hmm Perhaps it'd be better to make this area a base of sorts for my stay and build from there. I'll be here for a long time and this is in a good defendable spot with what those here aside from me need to survive.
"We'll make a base here. Though we'd need to go out and get supplies." I say. It would be easier if I was a Shadow Scorpion.
"Leave that to us we're good at scavenging old and useful stuff. Would you like us to go out and bring anything useful here?" Asked Daisy finally speaking up more.
"Yes. Preferably some beds or mats and some equipment if possible. And be carefull."
Zach nods. "We'll go where the lost are least dense and stay alert." Good to see the big brother is taking charge.
"Good. Now I have a few things to do myself. I'll meet you all here at sundown." I say to them. I can reshape this place at least to an extent before I leave.
Luckily they leave before I did so I made the entrance more manageable while giving us more room to work with. It was all around a better shaped layout for us to start with being a big cavern leading to an underground lake. It was good enough for me. I'll leave my tools lying around for later use though. Still need to go get Maya.
I then make my way out and start moving in the direction I sensed her last. I use the helmet to tell me about the energy signatures around me. I hear a deep boom from a distance. Oh yeah there are shadows here dealing with that 'problem' that was created.
Either they are going to leave me be or come asking for my help at some point to deal with the problem. Hopefully I'll have things situated her by then..Still unlikely as no one checked for Scrap so I'm likely not on the list.
Though once I got into the area Maya was in, someone dropped down trying to stab me with a halberd. "Aww you dodged. Shame I really wanted to see your lovely blood!" The voice sounded demented but sounded eirly similar to Maya's though she was wearing a full gas mask and a hood with a weird scarf.
This isn't good at all. "I'll give you a choice. Surrender peacefully or I'll beat it into you."
"Oh a fighter. It's been such a long time since I had a good playmate. Let's have some fun making eachother bleed!" She said vanishing and reappearing randomly going in for faints mixed with power blows. It wasn't the first time I fasted a dipshit like this.
I doubt much of her stuff could even pierce this suit. I wait letting her attacks hit me not scraping my suit. I then lash out when I saw an opportunity snatching her around the neck. I would've taken care of her sooner but I don't want to kill her. Even if I have to injure her a little to knock some sense into her.
She just laughs. "This was soo fun. Does the fun really need to end? So many more to kill and maim. After all don't we both live to see blood splatter everywhere?" She leans close to my face giving me a glimpse at the Lavender eyes underneath the tinted lenses.
"Just be a good girl and go to sleep." I say as I knock her out. I then chain her legs and arms together as I threw her over my shoulder.
I hope this isn't Maya. But for that I need to bring her somewhere where the air is cleansed of Mistle to remove that mask. Energy is a bit wonky here due to the Miasma. Either way a pure environment is what I need.
I can go back to base and set up a temp filtration system. Or I can set up a barrier in there to do the same thing.
Whichever is easiest for me to do with little effort is what I'm going to do regardless.. I wonder if they have something around here that does something similar?
I doubt it. Even if they did I don't think they'd have it anywhere near here.
I'll just drag her into one of these abandoned buildings and set up the barrier to get a look at what her face looks like. I know Maya's face shouldn't have changed at least not much.
I mean her energy and voice is similar but I still need to make sure. Sighing I toss her over my shoulder before heading into an abandoned apartment building and tossing her into a room as I went about setting up the barrier.
I take a deep breath as I created a rectangular barrier the size of the room. Making all the air leave the room creating a temporary vacuum. I then let the barrier start filtering the air into here. My mask hissing as the air came back in. This would be a great idea for the base while here.
Now it's time to check on my 'prisoner' while I'm at it. Carefully I remove her mask which was attached by a frame more secured to her face or jawline. Though my heart broke when I saw what lay beneath.. It was Maya. She looked to me in significantly worse shape than when I saw her last just couple surgical marks on her face but I'm sure there was more across her body.. Some bastard experimented on my little angel..
And I'll find out who. For now I'd like to attempt to calm her back to normalcy. I'd just carry her back to base but I don't think she'd be out long enough for it.
I gently touch her forehead but.. Normally I'd just alter or fix memories.. But most of the important ones are missing as if they were no longer a part of her anymore. The ones relating to combat and killing are the strongest memories she has but even those feel twisted by madness. She doesn't even have memories of me anymore.
That isn't good at all. I start doing some digging. They can't be gone. It's almost impossible to erase memories.
I feel a few of them but they are corrupted beyond my current ability to repair. In other parts it feels like an empty space but more so like where a puzzle piece would fit in.. I wonder if those parts crystalized and fell off not like it hasn't happened to some before. If she became one of those revenants it's possible the ones in my group might know something about this.
I did what I could before I stopped. I sadly can't do much. I'll most likely have to keep her like this for awhile. I wouldn't have much of a choice.
I put her mask back on I'll need to collect some to study how they work and their construction. But her's should do for the journey back though I'll need to make holding cells. But this begs the question if Maya is here where is Scrap? It's unlike her to just abandon Maya like this unless they were separated at some point.
Guess I'll have to find her later also. For now I'll create a room in the base to put Maya into with a barrier so only I could enter and leave the room. I'll be able to maintain both barriers for quite some time.
Hopefully by then Maya will be better. Given I still have time. I'm going to make this place more liveable along with some bonus stuff for other things so we are not bored and comfortable. When they get back I'll ask them if they ever experienced any memory issues.
I'll relook through her memories again when I'm done with that to see if I can find the person responsible for this.
Didn't take too long but the kid returned sooner than I thought with Zach carrying a van full of stuff with the other's carrying decent creates with them. Guess they found a good haul.
We can't bring it in all at once. I met them and started helping once I got both the barriers set up.
It took the better part of a few hours to get everything inside and sorted mostly. It was good enough for now. But from what I could tell they got a decent stock pile of stuff.
"Where'd you get all this?" I ask. I wonder what building they raided for this.
"Old military storehouse. More people are interested in blood beads than going through the effort for supplies. Well most are nomads anyways. This stuff would only really be of use to shelters and bases like ours." Rachel told me as we got the battery bank situated.
"Ah. Then that is good. Did you guys see anyone?" I ask as we came to a close on bringing things in. I reach up to my helmet to take it off.
"No not really we stuck to the back streets to avoid the lost. Recently this area was sealed off by miasma so not many revenants come around here. And most of the ones around here are hiding from fear of being turned to ash by the gangs around here." Zach told me. So there was more than that one group I crushed.
I take my helmet off. "Alright. As long as they don't bother us I don't see a problem with them currently. Later on is another matter."
They gave me a curious look but didn't comment. Though they looked at me quizzically for taking off my helmet. Guess now is a good time to ask them some questions.
I crack my neck. I'm not used to wearing a helmet much anymore. "Do any of you happen to know someone that likes to experiment on people?"
"Yeah you could say that about some of the people in the provisional government." Zach says before sighing. "Honestly it's most scholars nowadays aside from the crimson blade."
That doesn't narrow it down. "I was asking due to the one I have in that room as experimented on and changed and I wanted to find who was responsible." I say. Which reminds me she should be waking up soon.
Daisy hums. "I heard someone named Yakumo was experimented on a guy named Mido but no one else has ever heard of anyone named Mido before."
"Thanks for telling me that. I'll need to look into it."
Finding those people would be tough. But.. from that sound of them they'd be able to give me useful information more so than the kids who'd most likely only know gossip.
I can go and find someone later for that though. "So anyone want dinner?" I ask.
They shake their heads. "No we're good. One meal is good enough for us. We only need a blood bead every other month to survive."
"Even then with how much you guys are. You still need enough calories to last through the day."
"We've only lived off of blood beads so far. I doubt eating or not eating would change that. That's how most revenants eat. Food is seen more as a luxury." Rachel told me like it was a common thing.
"Hmm. Alright though I still expect you all to eat something at least once a day." I say to them.
"Yes ma'am." They said giving me a nod.
I sit down on one of the chairs they brought in and pulled out my pudding cup. "You all can go to sleep when you wish."
"Sleep?" Daisy asked, looking at me confused.
"I take it that's something that you don't do?"
"Yeah something engineered in while we don't need to sleep we still can rest." Hmm so they were made like this. I wonder if I can squeeze the intel out of the bastard when I see him.
"Alright. Then rest when needed before I go to sleep I'll use some of the equipment here to make a bath area." And a filtration system for it.
They nod the girls heading to their private sleeping spot and Zach just going to his own spot. I sigh as I get to work. This was going to be a long while in this place. Getting everything perfect and getting Maya back to normal or close to at least. Never asked about the whole memory thing.
I get down eating my pudding before getting up. Guess I'll get started then. With most of this being solid rock it'll hold decently.
The main thing would be making it more polished for the bath area. I'll check on Maya after I'm done working.
After a few hours working I finally get a rough portion done. It'll work for now and I'll polish it up in the morning. I then go to check on Maya who seems to be sitting calmly… or more of bored. When she notices me she grins as I took her mask of. "Oh! Are we going to play again!?"
"No. I have a few questions for you." I say to her. She won't be able to do much here.
"Oh like what? My eyes are not purple, they are more of a lavender. Haha! Nice try though." I face palm at that her attempts at jokes were worse than mine.
"What is your name, age, and occupation?" I ask creating a seat and sitting down.
"Name? Age? Occupation? Hmm All I know was I think I was a soldier maybe a mercenary. Though I've been called so many names it's hard to keep track of the real one. Maya, Slasher, Bastard, Oh Killer also fits. As for age most revenants don't even ask that dummy? We all tend to look older than we are." She says sticking her tongue out at me childishly.
I'm not liking this more and more. "Tell me. Who was the one to experiment on you?"
"Don't know don't care. The downer might have known who it was that experimented on us but I'm pretty sure I ashed her when I stabbed her and pushed her into a canyon. Though it's hard to tell where the heart is from the back. Eh she was no fun at all. Soo gloomy and soft spoken. She was a real bore fest. But it was fun seeing the shocked look on her face when I killed her. Haven't heard of or seen her since." I hope that wasn't Scrap.
If it was she would've survived it. "Well you think that was a bore fest. You better get used to how your life is going to be." I say. She won't be able to do much since this barrier drains beings energy if they moved to fast or have an ill intent.
"Huh? Bumber. Will you at least play with me some times. I get lonely without decent company." I could try visiting her every now and then see if I can't jog her memory or see if something like memory fragments are lying around.
"Well it's not like I won't come and say hi but you won't be leaving this room for quite some time."
"Aww. It's so dull in here. Guess I could sleep in here." I'll give her a tether to the center of the room so she could move around and entertain herself to an extent. Saves me from hearing how sore and stiff her muscles would be afterwards.
Well I can take the chains off since I have this barrier up now. "If you act good I'll bring in more things. So for now only thing you can have in here is your bed and sink."
"Okay I'll be good then to earn more fun stuff. Are you leaving now?" She asked heading to her bed.
"Yes but let me take those chains off." I say getting up and walking over.
She turns to look at me once the chains where off she touched my face pulling my cheeks. "You feel familiar but I can't quite place it." At least it isn't malicious.
"That's because you're my daughter." I say to her looking her in the eyes.
"You're my mother?.." She looked like she was trying to remember really hard but couldn't come up with much.
"Yes I am. I came to get you after I found out what happened and we are currently unable to leave."
"See. It feels like your telling the truth but its hard to remember.. It's making my head hurt." She says looking tired. It might be good to rekindle with her by sleeping with her like I did when she was a kid.
Guess it couldn't hurt. Not like she could kill me. "Don't think of it too much but I won't lie to you." I say to her.
"Alright but the chest plate makes it hard to snuggle into your boobies. Boobies.. Good size but not as big as her's."
I make the armor disappeared and replaced it with a pair of shorts and a tee. "That's because mine aren't lumps of fat."
"Those weren't lumps of fat. More of mounds of heaven. Yours feel more like clay." Maya said as she snuggled into my breasts.
"That's because I worked out a lot when I grew up."
"Still nice and warm. I could still sleep comfortably on them." Maya gently began pulling me to the bed so she could lay on me.
I just lay there as she fell asleep. I sigh. I don't like how her memories are gone but I'll be sure to get them back or at least help her along the way.
~Next morning~
Everything was going well the kids fixing up the base. I set up a perimeter up with some basic stay the fuck away things. Heads on pikes and the sort before I went out patrolling when I heard a voice from that sounded just like Maya's. 'Boss we're surrounded what do we do!?' I send out a pulse coming back with something that felt like Maya's aura.. Weird..
Hmm she shouldn't be out of her room. It's impossible for her to leave it. I activate my suit to activate the low grade invisibility. If I don't move too fast I'll be fine.
I move in getting a better look at it. It seemed to be a blood red crystal pulsing and glowing.. I wonder if it contains part of Maya's memories.
I lean down and pick it up. What the fuck is this? I hold it up to my visor. And if this is part of her memories how the hell are they in this crystal?
It showed Maya's DNA was detected within it.. Along with the presence of a memory echo within. Though I'm glad I had gloves on in case it reacted violently with me.
I place it in my inventory before moving on. There wasn't many beings that were nearby much less know about where the new base was.
I then feel a strange aura one that felt like a copy of something. Incomplete. When I got close enough I saw it was a white haired girl walking in rags. She seemed lost to me as if searching for something. It was hard to tell much of her facial features with that gasmask of hers. "I must find my successor.." A being created for a singular task but could she really complete it?
I turn my cloak off. "And who will that be?" I question. Sitting down.
"I.. don't know.. I'm merely an attendant of the relics." That didn't tell me much.
"What relics?" I ask.
"The Queens relics. We were made to ease the suffering of her successors for all eternity so the Queen does not rise up again to threaten the world again. That is our duty." She said still looking tired.
"I doubt she is rising anytime soon so sit down and have a rest."
She looked to want to argue but sat down next to me laying her head on my shoulder. She looked kinda cute.
"Tell me about yourself." I say to her.
"My name is Laurel, like I said I'm an attendant of the relics. There is not much more to say beyond that." She says calmly almost with a soothing tone.
"Why do you need to find a successor if you don't mind me asking?"
"Because it is my duty, my calling to do so." Sounds more like someone made them with one task in mind.
"Ah. Would you like to come back with me? A few others and I were able to set up a base recently."
"I suppose a pace to rest would be better than endless wandering." Laurel lamented to me seeing reason.
"That's good. I was almost done with my patrol anyways."
"We can't rest like this a little longer?" Laurel asked snuggling closer… her breasts were softer than Noire's and those were pretty pillowy.
I sigh. "I guess it wouldn't hurt."
"Thank you." Hmm I wonder if she knows what the crystal thing I picked up is? Worth a try. Attendant of the relics sounds like a title that knows stuff.
I pull out the crystal and hold it out in front of us. "Do you happen to know what this is?"
"It's a blood vestige sometimes a revenant leaves a memory behind when they disperse. Given each time they die they lose a part of their memory big or small but they never notice it till much later. I can restore them. But if you wish to restore someone's memories they should be present for it." Soo I could use these to restore Maya's memories.. And find out who did this to her.
Hmm. I doubt she died then. If she died she wouldn't be here still. "Thanks for answering that." I say putting it away again. Then how did she lose her memories then?
I'll table that for now after doing some research if she's a shadow revenant she'd likely operate differently than the normal revenants around here. Still if they disperse like regular Revenants here it likely won't take them as long to comeback.
"Just tell me when you're satisfied so we can move on."
"Okay. Just a few more minutes." She says crawling into my lap..Great.
"You liking me that much huh?" I ask. I say before I hear some familiar clicking. I glance over and see a pair of pinpoint white eyes from the darkness of a building. Damn it. It must be one of the older ones if I can't sense it. It's pearl white smile shortly appears as it noticed me looking at it. It then disappeared shortly after.
Welp I'm screwed. Well hopefully they are too busy fighting to give a damn about me.
That is hopeful thinking. They'd know bout me now. I picked Laurel up and carry her to my base. I'll get her to restore that bit of Maya's memories.
It didn't take me long. Only a few minutes of jogging. Well sprinting for others maybe. But once there I took Laurel to Maya's room to get this whole memory thing dealt with.
I walk in after allowing Laurel to enter the room. I place Laurel down in a chair near the entrance. "How are you doing today Maya?"
"Fine bored but fine." She said getting up looking towards me.
I pull out the crystal and look at Laurel. "How do I place these memories back?"
She gently touched the crystal causing it to glow blue. "Don't worry it will be alright." The next thing I knew I was in a dark area alone was in a dark area standing on a light teal platform with a red glowing lantern not far away. Out of instinct I walked towards it hand heard voices as a scene started playing. "Ever since I met her when I was young I wanted to be just like her.. Maybe then I'd earn my mother's love again among the sea of faces. I had to stand out somehow. I though joining Big sis's mercenary unit would help me do that. But then things went south."
An explosion rang out as I got closer along with the sound of gunfire. "Damn it! Maya watch your back!" I ear scrap yell as I saw a statue replication of the scene. "On it!" Maya then called out. This must be when they crashed.
"But no matter how many we killed they just kept coming and then I found out what it meant to fight for your life as before there was always a ray of hope or safety.. But that was gone as me and Scrap were slowly warn down. As we tried escaping them but they were drawn to our blood there was little escaping these monsters. Then he showed up as we were basically unable to even hold our weapons." A new path then formed of several larger losts holding them down as a man in weird self important clothing stood in front of them.
"Yes you two shall make fine specimens for my research but one of you is clearly the more valuable." He then moved to Scrap who growled at him before her face was slammed into the ground along with Maya's causing the scene to turn back then behind me I heard screaming as I saw Maya huddled in a cell.
"Big sis got the worst of the experiments. The guy I learned was named Mido was relentless in his experiments trying to make Scrap the pinnacle of his evolution stuff. I didn't really care all I knew was all of that shit hurt like hell. And I felt myself changing..but at my core I never cried so much wishing to see my mother again wanting this all to stop.. Though Scrap got us out of that place eventually she was suffering from the experiments. Eventually falling into a death like sleep within the cathedral we were resting in. In time I began craving blood venturing further and further out to quench my thirst. Eventually I found a tree to quench my thirst with fruit of blood. And where I would rest to finish my change."
The last scene was of Maya laying under a blood Spring before a gate opened behind it. Guess that's my way out.
I rub Maya's head. "I'll have to get going for abit." I say my anger getting the best of me. I walk out before either could do a thing. I don't care if the Shadows come at me after this. I walk out of the outpost. Time to find this person. I obliterate everything that came in my path as I moved forward.
Even if someone kills him I can still take his soul to my underworld. Now how to find him since I don't know his signature.. Though I can go by rough signature or pray Scrap is still in that Cathedral Maya put her in her memory should still be more fresh.
I use some of the shadow equipment to scan the areas as I quickly moved through them to find the area Maya was held in. I slayed anyone that tried to attack or stop me. While I sent some to the direction of the base with a few words before moving on.
It was hard to find the bastard but after finding the crash site it wasn't much more of following Maya's and Scraps old blood trails or what was left of them to an underground lab.
I didn't dare wait as I blasted through the blast doors of it's entrance. "Come out come out. Where ever you are." I say as the power in my voice carried it out.
I might as well be the fucking grim reaper at this point. I hear some screaming from further in from whoever he was experimenting on this time. That at least tells me where he or one of his lackies is.
Guess they didn't hear me. How frustrating. I cover up the hole in the door so no one can leave past me. "Let's play a game shall we?" I ask much louder.
I hear the noise from before quiet down and I can sense a twinge of fear from further in. Guess they want to play. "Ready or not here I come."
I grin as I walked through the place. Time to go and find them.
Some doors opened up flooding the room with lost. With my armor none of these were even a challenge. When I got there the guy seemed to have left, leaving a girl with a beret bound to a device. She looked exhausted.. But she can give me intel on the guy. Run run run I'll still find you.
"I'll be right back." I say to her most likely creeping her out more than I liked. He won't be able to run far.
I find him trying to leave through some underground passage. He was a big guy but not unlike anything I've faced before.
"Ah you think you can run after all you've done?"
"No. Just drawing us to a more favorable environment. Even then all my plans have contingencies in place." He said pulling out his large blade. It looked interesting. I'll take it for myself or give it to Maya as a gift. Once I'm done torturing him.
I grin. "That's if you make it that far." I say bolting forward ready to rip an arm or leg off.
I'm glad I put claws in as an upgrade. He blocked every other strike but it wasn't enough to save him from being shredded by me. Sad thing is I'm just that good.
As we closed up I quit playing with him as I grab his blade and throw it away. "Now it's been a few years but it won't hurt to try out my skills again." I say. Time to torture the life out of him.
I used a few spells to increase his sensitivity to pain as I tore into him tearing him apart. I'll make sure even in death his torment doesn't stop.
His screams echoed over the next few hours before he passed. Which I grabbed his soul and forced him into my underworld's dungeon.
I kept it for those who truly need to suffer in a hell. Now to get back to that cute looking girl.
I made sure to clean the blood of my uniform before walking back through the place where she was.
She looked a bit scared when she saw me. Can't blame her with what that guy does he basically ruins people's lives and uses them as pawns.
"Hey it's alright. Let me free you." I say softly letting getting her out of her restraints.
"Thanks." She says rubbing her wrists. Still looking a bit nervous.
"I can show you the way out if you wish. Though where did you live before this?"
"Honestly with that bastard he bought up orphanages and used them as his personal mercenary force. Enhanced soldiers for sale basically." She said rubbing her wrists.
"How about I show you the way to my base then. If you wouldn't mind."
"Any where is better than here. I just hope Yakumo is alright. Oh right my name is Emily." She said politely. Always the nice and cute ones fate screws over.
"Hello Emily. My name is Emma. Anyways let's get going after we raid this place."
"Yeah this place has a lot of valuable tech in it along with medical supplies." Emily says as she goes about the place. I'll let her help me pick out the valuable stuff.
"Sounds good. I'll give us an hour to take what we want before leaving."
"Alright. Not many know of this place so it's likely we can comeback to take what we can't get this trip." Makes sense. Better to be stalked up rather than under prepared.
"True though they'd notice the large hole in the front."
"Yeah but.. Yeah this place doesn't have the best reputation so they are likely to steer clear." Emily tells me as she unhooks some expensive looking equipment.
"Makes sense. Though there is always those few people that don't care."
"We can always place booby traps." She suggested a common stay out thing.
"Though I don't have the supplies on me to do that." I say truthfully.
"This place might have a few thing for that. I mean we could use some of the wiring to make an electric fence." True but I rather get what we need and go.
"Doubt the generator will last that long. Lets just grab what we need and leave."
She gives me a nod and we grap what we need and leave this place getting a rather good haul of stuff all things considered.
Though I still placed most in my inventory as I carried abit more than Emily. "You fine there?" I ask as we walked. I can just carry her if she's not good. Who knows how long she was in there.
"I'll manage. I'm carrying less than you after all." She says giving me a sheepish smile.
"It's fine if you're tired. How long were you there?" I don't even know if she's healed or not. I'll check when we get back.
"I don't know at least a decade. Most don't keep track of years now. And kinda hard when you're being experimented on." True.. So either way a long ass time.
"Let me carry you then. I doubt you have much energy." I didn't give her much time to argue. She seemed the nicer stubborn sort. But one that is too nice for their own good.
"Which reminds me. How is your mind so well?" I ask as I carried her.
"A little foggy.. Just need some rest and I should be good." I'll see if I can give her some tea with a mental clarity spell infused into it.
Or I can give out some of my breast milk. That may help somewhat. Though that'll have them asking questions. Doubt I saw a damn cow here yet.
I'll make up some powdered milk bullshit if I do that. I wonder if Maya is doing better after having part of her memory restored.
It took me a few hours to walk back to the base. Though the added weight didn't really slow me down at all.
I drop Emily and the stuff off in the main room. We somehow got some couches now. After that I go check on Maya who seemed to be writing on the wall with chalk doing some math stuff. Well that means part of her former self is back at least.
"Looks like you are somewhat back to normal." I say.
"Um yeah.. Most of my faculties are getting back in order. I'm exercising my mind to get it ironed out again. That's one of the things they taught me in Blood. If you feel your mind going off tangent indulge a hobby or something you know that requires a amount of mental focus and keep at it. Your mind will eventually iron itself out with enough repetition." Well that's a decent way to at least keep yourself from going crazy.
"That's good you're somewhat normal. Didn't have to knock as much sense into you as I thought."
"Yeah though drinking your breast milk will help accelerate the process. Um have you found Scrap yet?" Right given my breast milk helps with that. But I'll have to tell her know on the Scrap part.
"No I have not since I haven't went to look for her." I say.
"Oh I see." She looked down at that.
"If you want I can go and look for her later on this week after we have things settled here."
"Alright still I don't know if finding her will be easy. Last I saw of her she was paranoid something was following us. Um can I have some milk please?" Maya asked politely.
"It's still many many years too early for her to be able to hide from me and sure you can. Now have you noticed anything following you when you were with her?"
"Yeah something that looked like two cyan dots before they vanished. I couldn't sense a thing but it did feel like something was watching us." Maya said before she began sucking on my breasts.
Hmm. So Zoey may have done her own thing. Unless it was an older Lilly with an extremely rare change of eye color.
I'll need to look into that just to be careful. But I wonder if Scrap has any changes like Maya had.
She most likely have. "How are you doing Maya?" I fell her still sucking. Forgot she could drink about as much as I can. Then again her stomach might actually be empty.
I just rub her hair as she drank. "Just drink as much as you need. Oh yeah how are you doing about the pudding situation?"
She made a hand gesture saying so so. Guess her crazy self kept up with it. Just incase I'll have her eat some now.
I pull out my pudding cup. "After you're done drinking eat some of this."
She soon pulled off burping in the process. "Okay mom."
"It's good to see you back to your old self. Dealing with that brief faze of yours was a little weird." I say smirking at her joking.
"You're telling me. I hate remembering that I was a crazy Psycho. At least you didn't try to bone me.. That would have been weird. Still I miss Scrap. When I last saw her well my none psycho self. It looked like she was struggling to keep her emotions to feel.. Something at least." That doesn't sound good. Anyways pudding time.
I hand her the pudding cup. "I already have one of you two screw it would be weird as hell to bone you since you're my daughter. But like I said I'll go and find her later on when we are situated here."
"Yeah and me and Scrap hate incest." Maya says as she starts eating the cum.
"Sadly you both will be interacting with a bunch of people that do it." I say.
"Don't remind me of that. That's why she wants to move to a dimension that fits her out look better. I might join her there since it sounds nice more calm than here." Maya said as she got half way done with the pudding cup.
"And that's fine as long as you come for the holidays."
"I'll try but the time difference might be a bit of a bitch given Gemstone is a slow dimension. How did you even get past the lockdown." Of course she'd know that.
I placed my fingers to my lips. "That's my secret. Though depending on the dimension you pick would depend on the time difference."
"I know last I heard it was a forty yearish one. Not too fast not too slow." She commented as she finished the cup off. "Soo do I have to stay in here?"
"Ah so roughly Ultra time. And since you're mainly back to normal no you don't."
"Thanks I might have gone stir crazy stuck in there. Um do you mind if we go out on patrol together some time? I can show you the um skills I picked up." I guess this couldn't hurt. Some mother daughter time while we are here.
"Sure I don't mind. Just have to put you in the rotation. Unless you want to wait till tomorrow?"
"Oh I'm fine either way as long as I get to spend time with you mom." Maya said as her face was still near my breasts.
"Well we'd be able to spend a lot here together due to I don't think we can get out of here till the lock down is up."
"I know. But there is also another issue Scrap's kids went missing here soon after our mission started. They should have been safe at the far east branch when this all went down. But with the red mist we are practically trapped in this jail. Well I am at least not sure about you or Scrap." Yeah since we both have ways around that shit.
"Don't worry we'll go and find them also. Even if the continent of beings are after me."
"That might not be necessary we just need to make it to a Fenrir out post they should have been tracked by the system in place. But Scrap is one of the few ones in this dimension that can access that system normally other than high ranking shadows." That last part makes sense given the role shadows play here.
"Reasonable but I just said that to show my dedication. Now let me get the barrier down so you can leave the room."
"Thanks mom. For everything. Really this means a lot to me." Maya says looking away. Yeah if I remember right her memory thing made it sound like she was worried about just being another number of my many kids.
I give her a hug as I put down the barrier in the room. "Don't forget. I am still proud of what you've done."
"Thanks at least me and Scrap held out pretty well.. Also.. Did you kill the guy who sabotaged our chopper?" Maya asked guessing her and Scrap already had a feeling that guy did something.
"If it was that Milo or was it Mido? But anyways yes yes I did. No one gets away with harming any of you."
"I think it was Mathew that had someone sabotage the chopper but still it's nice to know you still care mom." Maya stretched as she looked to walk out. "Also is it normal for shadows to have a bit of photosensitivity?"
"Certain ones can have it yes. And I'll always care. Even if it's in my own way." I answer.
"Thanks. I've just noticed it when I was still crazy hence covering up. It didn't hurt but I could feel slight sensation that was a bit unpleasant." Ah most be a more vamp thing. They can walk out in the day but they are more sensitive to UV light.
"Well sadly you'll have to stick with it till we leave here. I doubt there's any sunblock here."
"Yeah I know.. It sucks though it's more annoying than anything else. So we heading out now or later?" May asked as she got her gear together.
"Well you can leave the room whenever but if you want to go out the base I guess we can do a little stroll before nightfall."
"Thanks mom. It'll be fun to do some traveling with you." She says with a grin before strolling out leading me to follow her out. She seems to still have more energy than before.
"Everything is fun when I'm involved." I joke.
"Better not be in a perverted way mom." Maya calls out as she exits the base. I'm lucky I'm still faster than her but.. She's still faster than she was before. Guess the upgrade she got has it's perks after all.
"I meant it every way possible." I say grinning.
"MOM! Really?" She says looking a bit grossed out. As she climbs up a building to look out from it's top as a vantage point. I wonder what her new upgrade can do.
"Says the one sucking my breast even though she's no longer a toddler." I say as I climb up after her.
"Not my fault it's so good. But yeah this is just another part of the great collapse that happened a few decades back in this world. In a single night everything was forever changed. And to think Scrap lived in this broken world for a couple years." Maya said her voice a somber tone.
"At least she had the power to overcome it. Not many even have that to survive many places. It just shows how powerful being's wills are."
"So she has a strong will then? Even in the face of an uncertain future the will to press on. I mostly looked up to her for her tech skills. I just.. Never really saw what she needed to go through to get the skills she has now." That's understandable she's lived a mostly sheltered life till recently.
I ruffle her hair up. "One day you'll get to her level. I know you will. May even surpass me."
"Hopefully but you know the same is true for her. She never stops learning and training. Which just means I need to train just as hard if not more than here. I think the term is no life it." … No just no she still has a good girlfriend to take care of. There's more effective training then there's punishing yourself.
"There's always a limit people reach. I may get to mine soon. Just don't dedicate your life to training when you don't need to. You need to be able to enjoy life along side it."
"Not you too. Scrap threatened me once with throwing me in a special sim to get me to relax. I think it was something catgirl maids." I'd actually love that.
"I'm surprised she knows to take breaks with how she acts. But yes you need to relax once in awhile. You have the rest of eternity to train."
"Right still I find it weird I have claws now among other added features." And that's what I want to know about.
"So I take it you got them from your recent change?"
"Yeah I got claws among other added features. Though I believe the main difference between us is our blood codes. It's different according to each revenant. Though I've gained some of other's by drinking their blood. I have to switch between the sets sometimes as they affect my stats. Some are better for different situations. Still my blood veils appear as tattoos till I activate them." She took off her glove to show me her hand. It had a rippling pattern on the main part of her hand that extended with ripples into her fingers with light purple markings. I guess it's the color of her energy.
"Interesting. That would be useful for certain scenarios." I say as I looked at her hand.
"Yeah useful for climbing or stealth kills. They do a lot of damage. But I can also drain someones blood with them. I've been told a blood veil is a revenant fangs. In addition I know I have the other three types. But those tattoos.. Are on my back." So the claws were the easiest to show me without undressing.
"While your fangs is meant to help you both sets of mine are just meant for show." I say giving a toothy grin. I've actually bit my tongue with them a few times on accident.
"Oh I see. So mine are more useful than yours. I think Scrap had retractable fangs in her mouth. Still aside from the claws I have a tail. Two bitey things and some spike sword stuff." Interesting I'll need to study them in action some time.
"How's the tail treating you? I heard its quite weird for awhile."
It quickly appeared going in a raised position like a scorpions stinger. "It retracts into me like the rest so not too bad but still strange. Scrap loves it though. She used it without glancing to impale a lost. It has a good range to it."
"That's good but you still have to watch out since you're still not used to having it. And it'll change your combat strategy alongside it."
"Yeah I know. But it gives me more options. The claws were the easiest to get used to." Maya told me as she left her tail out for a little.
"I can tell." I say. I'm not going to question where that tail is stored. Too many damn questions.
"So you want to go fight some lost now or keep looking for stuff." Maya said ready to go.
"Hmm. You know what. I'll leave that up to you. We have a few hours to burn." I say patting her on the back.
"Yeah I'm not fully used to my body but it'll be nice to stretch my legs. Want to see who can kill more?" She challenged lightly. Well a bit of competition is always fun.
"I'd love to. Now how serious you want me to act?" I ask letting her set the difficulty.
"For fun a good answer?" She asked before jumping down luckily this building wasn't that high. She was likely going to pounce on something from above.
"Meh I guess it could be." I say jumping down also.
There was decent group of them walking around unsuspecting. For us to kill. I wonder what I gain from killing them?
Then again I've killed quite a few while looking for Maya guess I'll pay more attention this time to see if I gain anything.
I felt myself git a bit stronger though I also noticed my regen was getting better as well. It's like killing these things more so just strengthened my whole being more or less. Interesting. Though it wasn't much it was noticeable.
"How you doing over there cupcake?" I ask as I took another one down.
"They aren't that hard but these are the more springy bastards." She said as she cut another down with her sword.
"Just try to keep that pace up then." I say jumping for another one.
"You got it grim reaper." Maya joked as we kept cutting through them.
We went at it for awhile longer till I noticed the sun going down. I whistle. "Time to wrap it up."
Maya pouts as she kills the last few. "Aww but this was soo fun. Well there is always next time."
"Yep but if we keep this up we'll run out sometime."
"True.. most come back anyways. Well lets go home then mom." Maya says as she lets her sword vanish.
"Let's go then. Oh yeah what's your god arc human form. Don't think I've seen it yet."
"Oh yes she's a futa if I remember right we fuck regularly. I'm glad we were using protection we didn't want a baby too soon. She felt soo good when she creampied me. It felt even better to be double penetrated by both my girls. One in my ass the other in my vagina." She drools at that. Oh she's getting kinky now.
"And you get onto me for being lewd." I say to her.
"Difference I'm only lewd with my girls in private and only my girls. I don't lewd others." Maya pouts still being adorable.
"True. Though most mothers dont want to hear how you love fucking your weapon and girlfriend."
Maya blushed bright red. "Um um.." She was trying to come up with a comeback to that.
I chuckle. "Though I'm not most. Anyways lets go back to the base."
"R-right lets go." She says running off to the base with a heavy blush.
"Good thing you decided to not fuck your weapon while you slept with me last night." I joke to get a rise out of her.
"Please.. Can we drop this.." She says looking almost ready to faint if I continued.
I just grin. "I guess I can for now."
"You're the worst sometimes mom." Maya said pouting. She can't stop being adorable.
I pull her in a one armed hug. "I can be much worse if you want me to."
"Please don't. Now I'm missing Scrap's serious no bullshit attitude now." Maya sighs. I know they were close but it sounds like Scrap didn't let her get away with much.
"Fine fine. I'll let it be for a little while. Maybe I'll start it back up tomorrow or by the end of the week. Who knows."
Maya sighs. "I hope I don't get that bad when I have kids." Yeah And I think she's the youngest looking Nepgear being 15.
"Hey now." I say with a fake shocked expression. "No need to redline me like that."
"Sure..Though I wonder are you able to sense Scrap from here or do you have a range cap?" It would be easier but this Miasma messes with me rader. It's so thick in some areas I can't sense anything from those places.
Though I may have to be near them or in them for it to work. Both are a hindrance. "It depends. Some areas have interference and it depends on how big of a pulse I send out. The problem with sending out a big one it may kill someone here."
"Oh I see. And I'm guessing we can't make a machine that can boost your reception. With how big this area is it could take years to find her." Yeah that's going to make things harder.
"Not with the speed I have. Like I said I'll go and find her after we get situated here. I'll go abit away before sending out a decent pulse. Even if she's in one of those mist I'll get a signal."
"Right. Sorry I just worry about her a lot even if she's more capable than me.." Maya frowns as she fumbles with her hands.
"Hey its fine. It's always fine to worry about your friends and family. Scrap being both for you." I say as we neared the base.
"Yeah she is. Anyways I'll go to bed and rest some if you don't mind." Maya says as she jogs ahead. She still has that crush on her.
I just chuckle as I followed her. I scanned the area to make sure no one followed us.
Luckily I sensed no one so we were good but for how long? I'm likely to get into serious shit for this stunt.
I'll deal with the repercussions when they come. I came here knowing the risk I was doing.
I yawn as we head in. How long was the lock down for anyways? Shit I didn't know but it can't be that long with the big guns maybe a decade and some years? I'll know when I find Scrap.
Though that's for another day. I go in and greet everyone I then go into one of the spare rooms I made and create a bed for myself as I plopped down.
That was a long day ish but worth it. I still need a challenge maybe. When I get things situated maybe. Till then I still have to make this place more liveable and defendable from the government bastards.
Though for them they'd need to get through the one entrance. Good luck trying.
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Writer: Project Omega
Co-writer: Alternet RedSkys