Chapter. 3

For the next two days Ren looked over Lance's actions as he connected with his father. Needing to find the virus Ren went down to the maintenance bay to check on Lance's weapons. As he looked though the repair schedule Lance came down. "Hey Ren, how are my arcs?"

"So far so good hopefully the virus didn't come from them." Ren lightly pounded his fist on one of the god arc.

"Hey, carefully Tricia is very sensitive." Lance gently rubbed his god arc.

"You named your weapon?" Ren rises an eyebrow.

"God arcs are living weapons Ren. Talk to them and listen, someday they'll talk back." Lance pulled out his god arcs and gave them a light swing.

"Are you heading out?"

"Yup. Got a fallen ouroboros that needs to be put down."

"I'll go with you then." Ren grabbed his own god arcs and fallowed Lance outside. Lance snapped his arcs together and whistled for his griffin which landed before him. Lance jumped onto the kirito's back and looked to Ren. "You coming?"

Ren nods and jumps onto the griffin behind Lance and the Kirito took off into the sky. "Mother told me about the mount you had. This is amazing."

Lance looked over his shoulder. "Do Gods Eaters still tame ogretails?"

"Yes, it's one of the first things a new Gods Eater learns how to do."

"Glad to know not everything was lost." Lance guided Kirito to the forgotten carrier.

When the pair arrived they spotted the ouroboros eating a vajra. "You ready?" Kirito spun and dropped the two Gods Eater. Ren landed on his feet as Lance threw his left arc at the ouroboros' head and pulled himself towards it.

Lance planted his feet into the beast's eyes and stabbed his right arc through it's skull. "Time to die!" Lance pulled out his left arc and stabbed the aragami in the top of it's head to pull himself up. The ouroboros swung its head around but Lance didn't let go, when it stopped Lance pulled out his right arc and stabbed it into the top of the oruoboros' head. "Hey Ren, check this out!" Lance twisted his god arcs to the right and the ouroboros turned its head in the same direction.

Ren held up his gun arc and fired at the aragami's arms. The ouroboros stood up on its hind leg and Lance rocked his arcs back and forth to dig deeper into it head. The beast cried out in pain and slammed its hands into the ground. Ren dashed to the aragami and slashed it in the face then backed away to shoot it when he left a cut. Ren did this four times before the ouroboros started to get up.

"Stay down you!" Lance rapidly stabbed and slashed away at the top of the beast's head until it finally fell back down. Lance jumped off and stood beside Ren as they changed their arcs to gun mode to fire on it. The ouroboros pushed itself up and raised its arm to bring it back down on them.

"Get back!" Lance shoved Ren out of the way and leaped back as he pointed his left arc up. "Judgment!" Lance fired a sphere of light into the sky, when it rose above the clouds a beam of light shot down on the aragami. The fallen monster's body was scorched and fell to the ground. Lance walked to the body but Ren ran passed him and took the core.

Ren stared at his god arc as it's light flashed gold then turned green. "Damn, no good."

"What's not good?'

"I checked if this was the source of the virus."

"You're god arc can do that? I guess things improved in the future."

"It was necessary so we don't take back infected cores."

"So what do you do with infected cores?"

"Our god arcs destroy it."

"Makes sense. Come on we're done here." Lance called for Kirito as his phone went off. He hold one of his arcs with his tail to get his phone. "Hello? Just killed it. Yeah, he's with me. On our way." Lance hung up and turned to Ren. "We got another job to do when we get back." The two dual wielders climbed onto Kirtio's back and flew to the den.

Back at the den the first unit gathered in the lobby. "Hey, what do you think this meeting's about?" Kota asked Lance.

"Probably to hunt some strong aragami. Seriously K we're the best team in the den. I doubt they'd call us to fill in for kitchen staff." Ren cracked a smile as he watched from the sofa.

"You're all here." Tsubaki came up the stairs. "There's a new mission for you all. A nova has appeared on aegis island."

Lance nods as he crosses his arms. "Just like two years ago. You want this thing dead, right?"

Tsubaki nods. "You have you're orders, get to it."

"I'm going as well." Ren stood up from his seat. "This nova could be what I'm looking for."

Tsubaki glanced to Ren. "Have you faced a nova before?"

"No-"

"What was the strongest aragami you fought?"

"A fallen oruoboros."

Lance turned to Ren. "I did most of the work. What did you fight on your own?"

"A normal one?"

"You're staying."

"You can't do that!"

"And let you be killed? No."

"But what if-"

"What if a lot of things Ren. You told us what the signs were, so if I have any headaches then we'll know you were right."

"I'm going." Ren tightened his fist's until Lindow stood behind him and place his hand on Ren's shoulder. "You heard your leader. You need to stay put."

Ren shoved away Lindow's hand and turned towards him. "Father I have to do this!"

"Run off to your death?"

"Save the future!"

Lindow shook his head and signed. "Say you go and fight the nova. You'd just end up dying, you don't have experience to fight a nova."

"But I have to do something!"

"You did do something, you warned us about what's going to happen."

"I'm not listening to this." Ren spun away from Lindow to find Lance and the rest of the first unit was gone. "I understand how you feel but you need to relax. Sometimes you need to let events play out and wait for the right time to act." Ren looked down to the floor. "Hey chin up. We'll wait for Lance to get back and see how it goes."

"How do you know that he'll be fine?"

Lindow let out a hearty laugh. "Guess your mom didn't tell you, Lance is something of a miracle worker. Like how he saved me from becoming a hannibal. Sakuya ever tell you that story?"

"Yes she did."

"Then let me tell you about the part that was left out." Lindow placed his arm over Ren and lead him to the lift. On the way to aegis island the first unit took the maintenance tunnel to their mission site. Lance noticed a look of thought on Soma's face. "There something on your mind?"

"Nothing to talk about."

"All right." Lance was concerned for Soma but knew to wait for him to talk about it. They arrived on the island to find a nova hovering around as if looking for something.

"What's it doing?" Asked Kota.

Soma dashed ahead and attacked the nova head on. "Soma!" Shouted Alisa, she took a step and Lance chased after Soma. He throw his god arcs at the male nova and pulled it down on the female.

Soma fallowed with dropping his god arc on top of the male nova, crushing the female. Lance and Alisa switched their arcs to gun mode and opened fire with Kota.

The male nova fell under the constant fire of the first unit. Its body was pushed up as the female tried to get away, Soma moved in and crashed his arc into the nova's upper body, knocking it down. The gunners shot a few rounds to soften it when Soma moved in for the kill and cut it in half. Soma took the core and placed his weapon over his shoulder.

"That was simple enough." Commented Lance.

"Simple?! That was too easy!" Shouted Kota.

Alisa brushed her hair back as she examined the body. "To think we fought one of these to decide the fate of the world."

"Just means we're getting better." Lance placed his arm around Alisa's waist and pulled her close. "We keep this up and soon threats to the world will be no problem." Alisa leaned closer to Lance as they walked to the tunnel. Soma took anther look around then fallowed his team with Kota taking the lead.

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