DON'T YOU DARE SPEAK TO HER!
"They're not...ordinary humans. Yuri, how did this happen?" Aris questioned the man with a stony voice.
"I'm sorry, Dr. Aris. I had no idea. It's all my mistake."
"Yuri, I wouldn't have let this kind of mistake slide if it wasn't you." She said, and her cheerful demeanor soon came back as she clapped her hands. "Okay then~ Why don't you explain why you approached me? It doesn't look like you want to explain. Well, you both are definitely impressive for sneaking in like this and finding this place. I may get fooled, but it's not easy to fool Yuri. He's acknowledged by me and the organization."
Yuri adjusted his glasses. "Dr. Aris praising me so much even when I made a mistake. I'm so embarrassed."
"It's okay. Nobody's perfect." She stared intensely at the two suspiciously perfect characters "What brought you here? What do you want with me? You need to stop wasting time... I am getting quite annoyed."
Frankenstein smirked. "There seems to be a misunderstanding."
"Misunderstanding?"
Frankenstein pointed to Yuri. "I didn't approach anybody. He came to me." He stated.
Yuri gave an awkward laugh. "My~ My~ That did happen. It was almost a perfect plan. You made me sought you and kidnap you. You were so thorough, no wonder I was fooled."
Aris shrugged. "Apart from all this, it's hard to say you're here by coincidence. Don't you think?"
Luciel smiled and covered her mouth with her fingers. "I suppose you're right."
"Now, will you tell me who sent you here? Dr. Crombell? The way you use your power...you seem to be Crombell's work. One more thing...it would have been impossible for you to sneak in so perfectly if you don't know much about me or Yuri. But it's impossible for the outsiders to know about us. So I must have to believe that Dr. Crombell sent you here."
Luciel tilted her head. "You're quite the sharp one."
"Oh, am I correct? Well, I am sorry that someone else laid hands on your first." He voice started to drop a tone. "Even after all that, I can't say it's all that bad. This is actually an exciting matter. I'll dissect every inch of your bodies, and examine every part of it."
Suddenly the guard from before turned a deep shade of red and rose from the ground with the black slash marks still on its body. Luciel was generally surprised that it got back up after Frankenstein attack.
The guard raised his fist and slammed it down. Frankenstein and Luciel jumped in opposite directions as pieces of concrete flew up from the ground. Frankenstein black aura wrapped around its outstretched arm, but it didn't even react to the pain it was supposed to feel. The guard swung his whole body into his attack against him and was about to make contact with the man when Luciel's arm stretched out and grabbed ahold of her lover and yanked him out of range
Luciel and Frankenstein took a step back away from the guard to get a good look at the state he was in. His body was covered in scars from Frankenstein's attack, but he didn't even react at all. So he probably didn't feel pain.
Frankenstein pulled his arm back and slashed outwards, creating a mass of black energy heading right towards the berserk guard. The impact caused their vision to be blocked by the haze of dust, but the guard suddenly emerged from the fog with his fist raised up. Luciel's eye widened and she quickly held her arm out as the punch came flying at her, making contact with her hand. Her feet shattered the ground below her since the impact was so strong. It wasn't hard to hold him back but the power made her bones rattle a bit.
Aris stared at them with excitement in her eyes with all the wonders with what she will do to them once she gets her hands on them. "Crombell must have put a lot of work into you two. Look at that power. How's your opponent? Is he worth fighting? His lifespan is only a year, but don't you think it would be used to keep him as a guard he already used up all his energy fighting you. He won't even last a month. That is the sad part. I have to make a new one too often."
Luciel felt like her ears were on fire after hearing such a horrible thing. She ground her teeth and lifted her other hand, clenching it tightly into a fist and slamming it into the guard chest. She felt a cave-in under her fist which caused him to be sent flying into the wall.
Frankenstein swung his arm across and created a whip of black energy right towards Aris and Yuri. Dust filled the room, but once it cleared it was shown the second guard standing in the way with a large gash across its chest. You could see sparks flying and metal plates bending and bowing.
Luciel gasped sharply. "Robots?"
"Oh, my~ that's rude. You can't call them robots, like some pieces of metal. A compound of high technology. It's a bio-robots, combining humans and technology~" The two guards then started to sprout tentacles out from their chests. "I didn't expect these two to transform. If you would like, I can plant it inside you too."
Human Enhancement was one thing, but this was something that shouldn't be possible. Were they even still human? It's like nothing was left that was once part of them. They have been completely transformed into a robot.
Luciel's face turned a sickly pale shade. She gave a worried glance to Frankenstein before turning back to Aris when she started to talk again.
"You two must have been surprised. Don't worry too much. I won't make it too hard on yours. I can't scratch that beautiful face off. I'll make sure nothing happens to your face. Trust me, you have my word." She said in a gleeful tone that made Luciel sick to listen too.
"You really don't like listening to refusal, don't you." Luciel frowned.
Frankenstein smiled polity. "How many times do I have to refuse? I respectfully decline your offer.
Aris's voice had a bit of edge too it. You could literally hear the insanity. "Oh, you still have the nerve to speak. Shut that mouth of his, right now."
One of the robots moved in for an attacked and tried to stab them with the tentacles. Frankenstein and Luciel jumped away from the attack but the robot charged at them. He was fast but they were faster and managed to dodge the attack at the last moment. They found themselves trapped through with two on each side of them. They launched the tentacles at them from both side, and Frankenstein and Luciel had to choice but to jump up to avoid them. Frankenstein outstretches both his arms and attacked them with projectiles of dark energy that struck the guards down.
Aris smiled at them so the show wasn't over yet. "I hope you don't think this is over. If so, I'll be disappointed."
Luciel started at her as she spoke calmly. "Then..." Tentacles shot out of the dust cloud and began to fly towards Frankenstein and Luciel. "I hope you're ready to be disappointed."
Dark matter formed around her fingers that took the shape of claws. She held her hand up and swung around, creating a circular kinetic slash that attacked both Aris, Yuri and the two guards. Once everything settled, Luciel and Frankenstein remained in the same spot they once were, but Aris and Yuri were unharmed. Yuri somehow blocked her attack.
It wasn't like Yuri didn't feel pain. The impact did cause his hand to go numb and for a split second...he felt fear from that dark matter like substance. He thought it strange, for that form just now was like nothing he ever witnessed before. She wasn't human, judging by her red eyes, but she wasn't noble either.
Yuri glared at Luciel as the woman remained still. "You arrogant piece of..." The tip of his finger began to glow. He suddenly launched a beam of energy at them. Fast and straight.
Luciel was taken back by the speed and froze in her spot. She felt a tug on her arm as Frankenstein quickly pulled her behind him at the last possible moment just as they were attacked. The beam of energy shot through them and broke through the building walls and out to the city.
"Yuri, why did you attack them with so much force!" Aris cried out. "What if they died?"
"I'm sorry, Dr. Aris. But she attacked you twice as hard."
Frankenstein and Luciel appeared to be alright despite their clothes being a bit tattered. They haven't moved from their spot, yet the wall behind them was completely blown out.
Frankenstein glanced behind Luciel as she started out the hole in the wall. She had a shocked look in her eyes as her lips were pursed open slightly. His eyes slowly began to sharpen into an intense glare through when he noticed that the sleeves and fringe of her skit were shredded.
"I think you may have gone to easy on them," Aris said once she noticed that Frankenstein and Luciel were uninjured. "They appear to be okay. Not even a scratch on them." She began to talk to them as they remained quiet. "I'm sorry. You must have been startled, right? Even though you won't say it. I know you were really shocked. Yuri should have never stepped in. you've seen, I made sure he would be careful. Don't worry too much. You shouldn't lose any part of your body from Yuri's attack. Although we can reattach it, I still want to take good care of you too. I'll tell Yuri to go easy on. You heard me, Yuri?"
"Yes, Dr. Aris." Yuri nodded.
"Yuri, how was their power?"
"The impact on my hand was more then I anticipated." Yuri summed up when Luciel attacked him. "And the fact that he blocked my attack means he used even stronger. The power was similar to that of DA-5's Krantz."
"Wow, stronger than Krantz? He's not the best because I didn't use a familiar method to make him, but I did put a bit of effort in him. I don't like Crombell but he's someone who can definitely compete with me."
"Dr. Aris, if I may. I believe the girl's power is something quite different." Yuri then suddenly spoke up. "The dark energy she used to attack with is something quite unique."
"Hmm." Aris leaned on her arm and stared at Luciel's red eyes with wonder. "You're right, Yuri. When she attacked just now...don't you think that manner of attacking was similar...to a werewolf?"
Luciel's felt her breath suddenly came to a halt. She tried to keep her outer expression calm, but the fact that Aris said that made her shiver a little.
"You're right," Yuri said. He glanced over to the guards and gasped slightly as they slowly began to wither away with that black substance coating their body. "Dr. Aris."
Aris looked over and once her eyes landed on the guards. "It's like a parasite." Aris' eyes began to sparkle as she darted her head back to Luciel. "Oh, how marvelous!"
Luciel was taken back by her reaction and instinctively took a step back and bumped into Frankenstein.
"This is great," Aris said. "I'll finally get to see Crombell's face twitching in humiliation. I have to have her." She breathed heavy and started at Luciel like she was a prize behind a glass window. "I have to get a closer look. I just have to!"
Insanity was something Luciel was very sensitive too. She's always been able to pick up on it and no matter how mad of a person she comes across in her lifetime, they have always been able to make her shiver.
Frankenstein swiftly wrapped a tight arm around Luciel as she shivered at Aris's insanity. He spoke in this low growling tone that was seething with anger. His eyes were demented. "Don't you dare...speak to her with that filthy mouth!" That creepy energy radiated off him as he held Luciel close like a protective and rabid animal.
Aris could feel the air getting colder and colder the longer she stares at him. "This power...what's going on?"
"I-I don't know..." Yuri was lost for words as well.
"And this creepy feeling..."
Frankenstein gave a twisted smirk. "Shut up. Your ramblings about dissecting my lover and your existences make me angry. An existence that I will erase." He launched something up into the sky.
Two projectiles hovered above Yuri and Ari's head. She left out a scream as the impact filled the room smoke but Yuri was able to block and protect Aris from the attack with a shield of energy.
"Doctor, are you okay?" Yuri asked as Aris slowly got up from the ground.
"Yes...but who are they...was he hiding his power?" Aris questioned.
"I guess so."
Frankenstein spoke in a rude tone. "That was some good blocking. I haven't seen anyone like you in a long time."
Yuri was visibly angry. "Hah~ Nice blocking...? How dare you be so...arrogant!" He launched another energy blast from before...but Frankenstein lifted his hand and easily blocked the attack. "Just like that...?"
Frankenstein attacked them once again with a bolt of dark energy. Yuri was barely able to hold the shield up.
They were speechless on why the power gap between them just suddenly gotten bigger and they don't know why.
Yuri and Aris suddenly noticed at least 25 black projectiles hovering above their heads in an instant.
"What are you waiting for?" Frankenstein smirked. "You're not done yet, are you?"
The impact rumbled their eardrums but the air dropped to freezing once Aris revealed herself in a pink and blue nano suit that had just blocked the projectiles.
"This became rather annoying. I didn't want to step in." She said with a devilish smirk.
"I'm sorry, Dr. Aris." Yuri apologized.
Aris lifted her hand as light and a whirring noise came from her palms. "Yuri, stay back. You just get in my way."
Bolts of energy came shooting out from her palms and pierced right through the building and began to curve and bent like a whip till the top part of the building was cut right in half.
Luciel's hand dripped with that black shadow like substance that absorbed the impact of her attack. She lowered her hand and she tilted her head at the sight of the nano suit. "That was quite a surprise."
Aris smiled and held the back of her hand to her face, the whips of energy dangling at her feet. "Don't you think? You should know with your powers. Beautiful women should hide at least a few thorns. You should be honored. Only a few people have seen me in this suit."
Luciel responded with a dry smile. "Oh yes...Because I should be surprised to see a nano suit."
Aris's eyes twitched at Luciel's sarcasm. "You little... People like you mock me!?" She whipped her hand down and slammed the energy to the ground, causing Frankenstein and Luciel to dodge. The energy began to spin around. "Why are you just dodging my attacks? I know you're not arrogant just because you can dodge my attacks. Where did your spirit go? Why are you just dodging! Show me that attack again!"
Frankenstein stood before her. "Fine. If the lady insists..." He held his hand up and summoned more projectiles above Aris's head.
"Yeah, now we're talking," Aris said gleefully. "Now I can start fighting for real." She pulled her arms back. "I'll prove to you that your power is...nothing!" she began to spin the whips in a circular motion like a twister and knocked the projectiles out. "See that? You have to try a bit harder to fight me."
Frankenstein was very much enjoying himself by the style of his sadistic grin. "I guess you're right. Let's see how long you will last." He summoned even only more projectiles this time above her head.
Aris began to spin once again. The whips spun around her and knocked the black energy out of the way before they could hit. She flinched and looked down at her nano suit and noticed that there was a crack in her arm. She didn't understand what was going on and how he was able to gather so much power in such a short amount of time. Was he holding back on purpose?
"Well~ Well~ Very well done," Frankenstein said.
Aris felt a chill run up her spine. She cranked her head up and saw double the projectiles hovering above her head. It riddled the sky like a dark haze and made the air heavy.
"Even stronger this time...no way," Aris said dishearteningly. "How does he release such immense power in a short period of time...? You are the subjects? Crombell really created you?" She felt all kind of life drain from her being. "If Crombell created masterpieces like you, the organization and I must have known." She never felt this kind of fear before. "Who are you?"
"You are babbling again. You have nothing to show me anymore?"
It was child's play to him. He was toying with her just for his own enjoyment and now when he's bored...he'll toss her aside.
Raizel, M-21, and Takeo were just now arriving on the scene and saw the state the building was it, and at the heart of it was Frankenstein and Luciel. The lady looked up and spotted them, smiling and waving them over. Honestly, they didn't know why they came. They were the last people to need help.
"Guess we didn't need to come," M-21 said.
Takeo then noticed something. He saw Frankenstein holding a trembling Aris up by her face. "Huh?"
Frankenstein's face darkened. "I haven't had this much fun in a long time. But I can't forgive you for what you said about my lover...and right in front of me too" His handsome face twisted darkly. "You should never have said that." He whispered chilling words to the woman.
Takeo would feel his body clenching up. He opened his mouth, eyes wide with madness and screamed out a distressed "Stop!"
Luciel's eye widens and she quickly moved into action. She wrapped her arms around Frankenstein and pulled him away just when Takeo fired a shot to separate him from Aris. He jumped down between them like he was protecting this crazy woman.
Frankenstein pulled on Luciel's arms to free himself but held on because of her trembling. "Takeo, what are you doing?" He demanded.
"What are you doing to my little sister?"
That caught Frankenstein and Luciel off guard for the worst-case scenario that they never thought was possible took place between them.
"Sister?" Luciel spoke in disbelief.
"Brother?" Aris spoke in a trembling voice.
"Taira," Takeo said urgently.
"Is it really you? I heard you were dead."
"I'm not dead. The Union was just misinformed."
"How could that..."
"I had my reasons. I'll explain later."
"But why are you were, how did you get out?" Aris questioned him.
Luciel felt deeper aim in her sickly sweet voice. She had always been very sensitive to emotions and could easily pick up on even someone's evil intentions. She didn't trust this woman that Takeo claimed her to me. She knew something as wrong with the way her stomach was twisting.
"Did you run away from the Union. I head you were dead so I came here to find any trace of you." Aris said.
Takeo smiled softly at her. "I see. Sorry to make you worry."
"Takeo," Luciel spoke with worry and urgency in her voice. "Please...is Aris really your sister?"
Takeo looked Luciel dead in her red eyes she knew that he had no idea what she was talking about. "What? My sister is Aris? That lunatic and my sister can't be the same person."
"That's strange." Frankenstein crossed his arms. "The woman you're calling you sister is Dr. Aris."
Takeo froze. "What...do you mean?"
Frankenstein gave him a hard stare. "We're the ones who are confused. You are insisting that your sister and Aris are two different people, but the person you are calling your sister is Aris."
Takeo felt all the hot blood wash away as he immediately denied it. "What?"
"I'm not Airs!" The woman herself claimed. "She's the one who did this to us! No way! Why would you think that way?" She protested.
Takeo tried to console her. "Taira, calm down. There must be a misunderstanding." He looked back to Frankenstein and Luciel. "Hey, I don't know why you think that..."
"Misunderstanding? I was with her for two days till Luciel came and got me. We both heard her call herself 'Aris' the whole time." Frankenstein explained calmly.
Takeo felt a grim of self-doubt when Aris spoke up. "Takeo, why are you looking at me like that? You don't believe me?" She played with him like a child's doll and Takeo fell right into it. "You saw them trying to kill me! And you still believe them?"
Luciel felt her heart shaking with these woman's cunning lies infesting Takeo's head. She stretched out her fingers at her side as they took the shape of black claws. She had to end this right not or things will get worse and god knows what will happen to Takeo.
Takeo felt a chill down his spine and he quickly rose to his feet and pulled out his gun, pointing it right at Luciel. Frankenstein was having none of that though and Immediately pulled her behind him.
Takeo gazed at Luciel with sorrowful eyes as she peeked at him around Frankenstein's side. "I'm sorry, but I can't forgive anyone who tries to kill my sister. Something must be wrong. My sister can't be Dr. Aris."
Frankenstein kept his gaze calm but held Luciel in place behind him. "You think I did all this myself. Or even Luciel."
"What?"
"Can your sister actually fight as she did?"
That was a fact that Takeo could not ignore. He knew deep in his memories that Taira was always weak and bedridden. She could not have power like she did.
Luciel stepped out from behind Frankenstein and slowly began to walk over to Takeo.
"Luciel." Frankenstein grabbed her arms to stop her. He wouldn't put it off Takeo to not actually harm her right now.
"Shh. I'm fine." Luciel assured him and pulled his arm away as she approached Takeo cautiously. "I know you confused but please believe me. This is not my intentions."
Aris pleated with Takeo as Luciel took one more step towards him. "No! Please, brother. I was used as an experiment too. I accepted to be used to go and find you!" She grabbed the back of his coat.
Luciel held her hands up. "That's impossible. Someone with a weak body can not go through such harsh experiments. It only means death." She placed her hand on his gun and gently pulled it away. "Think about it. Aris, the woman who created DA-5 came out here to investigate your death's. I'm not lying to you...please, Takeo."
Takeo was completely frozen stiff by this woman's ruby gaze. Her soft words and worries eyes clouded his way of thinking and his memoirs he had with his sister, but he couldn't bring himself to think that Luciel was a liar. He didn't know if he was talking to a devil or to a woman who was urgently worried about his own well being.
Without warning though he felt a sharp pain pierce his back as blood dripped from his mouth. Veins appeared around his face as he cracked his head over his shoulder and saw that Aris as pierced him with her hand.
Luciel's eyes widen with horror. "No!" She grabbed a hold of his coat and ripped him away from the woman. They both stumbled to the ground in their hurry. "What have you done?!" She was completely pale and didn't know whether to check up on Takeo or take out Aris.
Aris laughed with her face twisted into a sneer. "I just absorbed his energy. The final experiment of DA-5 was for me to absorb Kranz's energy once he absorbed all yours."
Luciel looked up at her with eyes of disgust. "You are...you..." She couldn't even bring her words out into a proper sentence. She knew it. It was all just a play. Aris had used Takeo just for the fun of it, just because she could.
Aris then suddenly held up the pill that Frankenstein made for Takeo and Tao. She must have grabbed it somehow. "You guys probably thought only DA-5 could take D. But there's one person here and that person is me!"
Aris's demented eyes stared at Luciel like she was a prize waiting to be won. "When I absorb his energy then take D then I can easily grab you and get out of here. I can finally...finally have you all to myself!" She crunched down on the pill as power began to radiate off her like a strong gust of wind from a distant storm. "I can already feel the power flowing in my body! With this much power I...can..." Her words began to fade away though as a strange sensation came over her. "And this is...a premium organic...well-being...strawberry..." With her last words, she collapsed to the ground, all the energy zapped from her body.
Everyone stood in silence and only looked on in confusion at what just happened or...if that really just happened.
Luciel had an extremely puzzled look on her face as she opened her mouth and closed it to form the right words for her question. "Um...am I missing something?"
Author's Note:
Honestly, this chapter was hard to clean up and edit. When I first wrote, it was in a time of my life where I had no intentions of ever posting my stories online so I just left a lot of mistakes as it was until now.
Firstly, dust. A whole lot of dust was used In this chapter, and nothing wrong with that, but only so many times you can use the same sentence.
Secondly, fight scenes. I love writing fight scenes (Still don't know if I'm good at it or not but whatever) and doing my own thing with my own character, but I don't know, I found this particular fight hard to place into words. I didn't want to make a jump cut because that's boring and people talk between fights, so... I just tried to edit as best as I could and I'm still on the fence about it. Well, Whatever. It's fine, I guess... I think.
Sorry if you find mistakes because I know you will. Still, enjoy the chapter. Now, ON WITH MY IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!
Beautiful Words is coming to an end! I got 2 more chapters to edit and post so be expecting that. I don't have much to say right now, so in the final chapter, I will be announcing the name second installment of the Chimera Stories and the posting plans for it.