It was darkness, as usual, it's been a reoccurring event now. Her being consumed by darkness, by visions. She braced herself, readying herself for whatever would happen.

A blinding light followed the darkness, contrasting it, causing her eyes to squint at the next sight.

Maybe it wouldn't be that bad if she didn't struggle.

The light faded away to reveal a grand scene. An enormous room that appeared to be a ballroom, a rare sight nowadays. It had been filled with people, she knew who these were, people who were rich. Who could still afford to live lavishly despite the aragami outbreak.

It was sickening. How they flaunted their wealth, dismissing the fact that there were plenty who struggled to live. Struggled to find food.

Not that there was much that they could do about it.

The people were dressed in lavish gowns and suits and ties. Colors of black, blue, gold, violet, red. The color of blood.

Her eyes scanned the golden ballroom, velvet lined the grand stairs that led down to where the people mingled. She knew none of the faces.

Except for one that stood at the top of the stairs. A young dark blonde male with grey eyes. Clad in a suit and tie that fit a small child.

Julius.

Accompanying her was a man and a woman. The man was dressed in a navy blue suit that was lined with medals on the right chest. His resemblance had been uncanny to the young Julius. The only difference was that he had green eyes and a beard and moustache.

The woman on the other side had brown hair and the same grey eyes. The was clad in a grey gown that sparkled under the bright lights. Lined with jewels that made her look more ethereal.

Now she knew where Julius got his good looks.

The trio made their way down the crowd and had been greeted by the people that swarmed them. They gave smiles obviously had made them more likable by the people around them.

Young Julius getting the most attention, being fawned over by multiple adults that complimented the parents. Proud smiles appeared on their faces as they boasted about their child.

Although, she realized one thing. She couldn't hear anything. In annoyance, she stayed to watch, trying to understand and decipher everything that was happening.

Nothing eventful had been happening, she found everything boring but her eyes had been drilled to the young Julius. He barely reached his father's shoulders, but she knew that he was tall for his age. Lean and showed what he would look like as he grow older.

A couple had approached them, wide smiles on their faces that had been returned by the couple. Julius' father tenderly embraced the black haired man while his wife took the blonde woman's hand in her hand.

They exchange a few words, laughing and patting each other's backs as they conversed. Young Julius stared curiously at the two, she bet that he observed that the two conversed most with the two of them compared to the other guest. The black haired man then kneeled, placing a hand on Julius' shoulder before grinning. Julius nodded to whatever he had said, then quickly, the man fished something out of his pocket. She squinted, trying to see what it was, but the young boy had quickly hid it with a wide grin on his face.

The sudden jolt of the car had roused her from her sleep. This allowed a groan of displeasure to escape her lips as she attempted to sit straight.

"I'll drive next time." She announced, glaring at the brown haired man who had taken the wheel. In the passenger's seat, sat everyone's favorite casanova. He looked back at her and waved a peace sign in the air, eyes squinting as he smiled.

"Old Gil here never passed his driving lessons."

"I'd like to see you do better, Haru."

Despite the casual jokes that were thrown every once in awhile, the atmosphere inside the van remained tense. It couldn't be helped as multiple thoughts ran through their thoughts. Different from one another, but had been caused by a similar thing.

They were going to finally face it, and hopefully, defeat it. An aragami that took away a friend and a loved one, a captain, and a protegee. The Rufus Caligula.

Brynn wasn't supposed to be coming, but she was stubborn and insisted. Gil could never use his towering height and cold glares to silence her, no matter how much he tried to scare her, he knew that her decision would never change. She was stubborn, at times it was good, others… Not so.

"It's as important to me as it is to you," She glared at him, not flinching under the towering man's gaze. "I'm here for you."

She knew that she could help, that she couldn't leave the two alone with their emotions running wild. They needed someone who was stable. Well, sort of stable. At least she knew that she wouldn't do anything stupid. Or at least, try not to.

She also did it as her thanks to the eldest among them. He did play a big part to improve her relationship with the Captain. Fortunately, things seemed to have returned to normal.

The van came to a stop, favorably, more gentle. Brynn silently thanked Gil for allowing her to keep her lunch in her stomach. She prepared her equipment accordingly. Despite the limited information that they had, they had been informed that it would be weak against blaze and spark. It would also be fast, so she went for the Railknife and the Kurogane Blast gun loaded with bullets that Ciel had crafted for her.

Call her arrogant, but she felt pretty confident that they would do well. They had to.

The trio hastily made their way out of the parked vehicle. The voice from the comms had roused them from their own thoughts.

"Target has been sighted by the scouts. Estimated arrival time is 60 seconds." It buzzed a bit as Hibari paused, "I certainly hope that you all are ready, this will be a long fight."

"As ready as we'll ever be." Brynn replied for the three of them, giving curt nods to her companions who had returned them. They watched over the carrier. She had been here just last week, all was quiet. Typical of the place.

It was the calm before the storm.

She switched to her blast gun, loading it with a bunch of OP. As limited by Fenrir, she only had 5 of the regular ones and 3 of the upgraded. She wished that she could have brought more.

"It would make fights a lot easier." She whispered to herself as she discarded the last syringe. Looking up, her companions had gone ahead.

It was time.

A loud roar had echoed throughout the area, awakening her; shaking off whatever grogginess she had from earlier. She ran as fast as she could, trying to catch up with the two. Her legs burned, but she knew that it could take more, the prolonged stays at the gym had guaranteed this.

They dodged the debris, jumping over the platforms that stood in their way. Brynn was the smallest among them, but it didn't mean that she couldn't catch up. She was the youngest, providing her with more energy.

A red dot had appeared on the eyepiece that had been provided for them. It was new to them, Brynn found it irritating at first, but she knew that it would help a lot. Easier to track the enemy.

Another roar made itself known, and before them, stood the aragami, reddish pink in color, pale blue eyes that scanned them, Brynn swore that it landed longer on Gil. As if it had recognized him. It's red scales glittered underneath the descending sun, then something foreign had caught Brynn's eye.

A God Arc. The blonde found the time to catch the pained looks in her companion's faces. She didn't need to be told who it belonged to. It belonged to Kate.

The dragon-like aragami's eyes then landed on her. She glared back, readying her gun as she aimed.

"Now!" She ordered, the two rushing from their own positions to strike the aragami, she pulled the trigger, releasing red and purple bullets at the aragami's face. In response, it roared and began to rush towards her.

She continued to spam bullets, a grin on her face as each bullet landed with splashes of yellow and red. She had to thank Ciel after this, treat her to some food or something. As it neared her, ready to swipe at her with it's two long and bladed arms, she rolled out of the way, aiming at the arms hoping that it would somehow break.

The blonde swiftly landed on both feet, crouched to lessen the impact. Of course, she couldn't feel the pain, but it didn't stop her from getting injured. Her assailant turned towards her, roaring in anger as it began to summon blue orbs. It was obviously aimed for her. Before she could react, it had been barrelling towards her.

"Move, damn it!" Before it could hit her, a purple blur had pushed her away. Both of them skidding, leaving tracks. But safe.

"Thanks, Gil." She thanked the taller one, who merely huffed before standing up, pulling her with him.

"Don't get too reckless now." He warned her, readying his spear as he ran towards the beast who had now been occupied with Haru. Brynn switched to her blade, not going to allow herself to be out done.

She ran as fast as her legs could carry her, aiming at the unguarded parts of the aragami. She jumped, slashing the arm blades and after a couple of hits, it had cracked, allowing a glow of blue to appear and a pained howl to escape from the Rufus Caligula.

"In your face, you bitch!" She cursed the creature, if it weren't for the situation that they were currently in, Gil would have rolled his eyes, while Haru would have chuckled nervously. Another swipe was aimed at her, but fortunately, she managed to dodge it. Sliding underneath the beast's underside while slicing through with her blade. Droplets of blood stained her cheeks as she did so.

Gil managed to break the other arm blade, Brynn cheered inwardly, switching to her gun, ready to let loose another barrage of bullets.

Somehow, the fight was tipping to their side.

"Rufus Caligula's health is fluctuating. Won't be long now, keep it up!"

She didn't need to be told twice. She aimed once again, this time at the head, her eyes widened upon realizing that she only had one shot left.

She was certain that she siphoned enough OP from the Aragami. She gritted her teeth, steadying her arms that were somewhat affected by the numerous slashes she had to do earlier. It faced her, blue eyes meeting hers for what seemed to be the last time.

She pulled the trigger, the combination of red and purple travelled through the air, before exploding square in the Aragami's face. The bipedalled Aragami roared, blue dissipating from its hands, before it fell to the ground.

Brynn panted, despite how fit she thought that she was, the thing took a lot of effort to take down. But it was over.

"We… did it." Her eyes turned to where the voice came from, Gil had been in the same position as her, albeit, he appeared to be in better condition. Haru strayed a few feet away, eyes burning into the scaled aragami.

Before they could celebrated and speak more, as if fate had been playing with them, the Rufus Caligula began to get up, appearing to be stronger than earlier. Brynn couldn't contain her gasp, the moment that the broken bonds began to reform.

"What's happening?!" Came a surprised voice from the comms, they didn't have time to respond when the enraged aragami slashed Gil with its right arm. Sending him flying towards the wall, a large crash and a couple of rocks fell around him.

"Gil!" Brynn called out, eyes widening when she saw blood beginning to seep through his clothes, blood began to form at the side of his mouth as he coughed, clutching his injured area.

She didn't have time to rush to him, the Rufus Caligula then turned to her, roaring, as if saying that she was next. She readied her shield when it swiped at her too. Her God Arc had slipped from her hands upon impact, landing deadly near the edge of the carrier.

She was defenseless.

Her eye caught Gil trying to stand up, but falling to his knees as he clutched his stomach. Haru was a few feet away from her, switching to his gun as he aimed, spamming bullets at the aggravated aragami. Her eyes met the handle that was sticking out of the thing.

She didn't have time to think, as soon as it charged at her, ready to slash with both its blades, she jumped, as high as she could as she angled herself to kick the handle. The Rufus Caligula roared in pain, she knew that the God Arc dug into its insides. A look of triumph etched itself into her face, but it didn't last long, it turned to her once again, ready to crush her with its gigantic claws.

She readied herself, she was cornered and there was nowhere to run. Maybe she could slide underneath it before it reached her.

But it never came. Instead, an object of blinding speed pierced through the scaled beast. A blinding light consumed the aragami as it fell to the ground, landing in its own pool of blood.

'Was that…?' She understood what had happened, Gil awoke his Blood Art. The said male had fell to his knees once again, obviously in pain.

But they had succeeded.

She made her way towards her teammate after picking up her own God Arc, the male looked up at her, blood stained, but seemingly okay.

"You… idiot!" He screamed at her, causing her to flinch a bit.

Yup, he was definitely okay.

A sheepish grin appeared on her face as she gave him her hand to help him up, he accepted it, gripping the hand tightly as if his life depended on it.

"What were you thinking?" He asked again, towering over her, despite slouching to support himself. She rolled her eyes, knowing that he was talking about her kicking the God Arc and attempting to fight the thing defenseless.

"Uhm, surviving?" She fished a packed recovery ball from her pocket, cracked it open, then allowed the glowing ball to melt into his stomach. It had stopped the bleeding, and hopefully, closed up the wound. "Would you rather have me stand there and do nothing?" She asked him with a cocked eyebrow.

Gil sighed, both in relief and annoyance, he knew that there was no point in arguing with the headstrong girl.

"I'm glad that you're alright." He mustered to say, earning a quizzical look from the girl.

"Wow, that thing must have hit you really hard." She mockingly said in disbelief, earning a glare from the taller one.

"I can hit you harder."

"Not that it would hurt." She stuck her tongue out, before the could continue their bickering, Haru approached them. Shouldering his God Arc as his gloved hand held a pink and white one. She swore that his face appeared to be more peaceful.

"What about, you two continue your arguing when you get patched up and we get home?" He suggested, walking ahead of the two of them to where they had left their transportation. Brynn and Gil locked eyes one last time.

"That's a good idea."

Dearest Eos,

Aren't you curious? Just one bit? Why hadn't your OP been refilled right? Isn't that strange? Why don't you ask Doc Rachel for the answers? Wouldn't that silence everything in your head?

Nessa

She sighed, closing the email, debating whether or not she should delete it. Perhaps this time, maybe the damned brunette was right.