Chapter. 4

The first unit returned to the den and reported to Paylor, Soma gave the core to the director who called for Ren.

Ren ran into the lab and took the core and put it in his god arc to find that the core was clean. "Damn it!" Ren punched the wall. "Where is it?!"

"Ren you need to calm down."

Ren spun around to Lance. "I will not calm down! I'm here to save the future because you destroyed it!"

Alisa slapped Ren across the face. "don't you dare blame Lance for something he didn't do! I get that you're angry but it won't help.

"Shut up! You don't what my world is like, the suffering, the despair, not knowing if you'll make it to the next day. So don't act like you know, don't you dare!"

This time Soma slapped Ren. "Then don't act like you're the only one who suffered!"

Ren rubbed the side of his face and stomped out of the lab. ren went to his room and laid out on his bed. Thoughts of home filled Ren's mind along with thoughts of his mother. A dark idea came to Ren, one that could fix all of his problems and save the future. The idea was quickly dismissed by his father's words. Ren signed and threw his arm over his eyes to fall asleep when there was a knock at his door.

"Who is it?!"

"It's me Ren."

"Mom?" Ren jumped up to his feet and threw open his door. "Hello mom."

"Hello Ren, are you okay? Lance said you stormed out."

Ren stepped aside and the two sat down on his couch. "It's just that... They all take this as a joke. The world I've seen isn't one for games."

"I understand that but you should know that this can't be rushed. Did you ever find a cure for the virus?"

Ren hung his head. "No, anyone infected has to be killed."

"I'm sorry, i didn't know."

"It's fine mom... Sorry I keep calling you that, I know you're not really my mother."

"Not yet, I don't mind really. It's something I'll need to get used to when your born in this time." Sakuya patted his stomach. "Thank you for helping to make this world a little better Ren.

"Thank you mom."

...

The a few hours later Lance was called to Paylor's lab. "You needed to see me?"

"Yes! This is of the highest level of important!"

"What is it?" Lance tilted his head.

"I found another one! Another singularity!"

"A what?!" Lance rushed around Paylor's computers to see. "Where?"

"It's in the city. You need to get to it post hast!"

"Is it Shio?"

Paylor sadly shook his head. "The reading is different. This is a whole new one."

"I'll bring it in, we don't need another end of the world running around." Lance ran out into the hall and used his powers to reach Alisa. "Aly we got a job, meet me in the maintenance bay!"

"What's going on?"

"We have another singularity!"

"What?!"

"Just get to the maintenance bay, we need to get it quick!"

"Okay I"m on my way!" The couple met up and grabbed their god arcs as they headed outside and Lance called for his griffin. "What do we do when we find the singularity?"

"We take it home and keep it from become a world eater."

"Do you think it'll be like Shio?"

"No one can replace Shio. Still, it's hope for humans and aragami to co-exist." The griffin land and the couple climbed on to take off in the sky. Kirito carried them to the city of mercy, Lance sensed the aragami below. His body locked as he felt something powerful. "I found it!"

Kirito dove to the ground, drawing the attention of a nearby brog camlann. Kirito landed and Lance leaped off. "There's a brog coming, i'll find the singularity, you take out that scorpion."

"Roger!" Alisa rode Kirito back into the air as lance ran to a pile of rubble near a hole in a building.

Alisa spotted the incoming aragami and command Kirito to take flight. The griffin flew over the brog's shield hand and past the tail which Alisa sliced off. Kirito flew around and sunk its claws into the aragami's back and pushed it down. Alisa changed her arc to gun mode and shot at it's head.

The brog began to get back up and Kirito took flight again, this time circling around it as Alisa shot at it, when she was out of ammo Kirito would dive bomb onto its back and Alisa would slash at it to regain her oracle cells. The attack was repeated until the beast when down for good.

Lance impaled his arcs into the ground and started digging. Lance lifted a large piece of concrete and threw it aside. Before him was a little girl who looked seven of age, her skin and hair were pale and had green eyes. She looked up to Lance with eyes filled with fear. "Hello." Lance slowly kneeled down with his hands out show he came in peace. "I"m here to take you somewhere safe. Do you understand me?"

The girl stared back at Lance. The dual wielder slowly reached into his coat to take out a core. "Hungry?" Lance held out the core to her.

The girl looked at the core then back to Lance. "hungry?" She spoke in a soft tone.

"That's right, hunger. You want it?" Lance gave the core to the girl, she held the core close and took a bite into it. Lance took off his coat and dragged it over the girl. "Aly I got her!"

ALisa rode Kirito to Lance, spotting the girl in his arms. "That's the singularity?"

"Yeah, let's get her back." Lance picked up his weapons with his tail and climbed into Kirito's back behind Alisa who commanded Kirito to take flight. The girl clung to Lance as they flow through the air, Lance placed his hand on the girl's head and his armlets lit up, beginning a resonation.

"I will be whole again."

Lance pulled his hand away from the girl and to his forehead. The girl looked back up to Lance, the Gods Eater read the girl's mind to see she was scared. Lance rubbed her hair and felt her calm down. Alisa glanced over her shoulder. "You okay back there?"

"Yeah, we're good." Lance shook his head clear and watched the land pass under him.

..

When they returned to the den Paylor was waiting for them on the roof. Kirito landed and everyone got off. Paylor stood before lance and saw the with her face buried in Lance's chest. "Amazing! The odds of finding another singularity were slim at best!"

"Well here she is. Let's get her inside and into some clothes." Lance took the lead to Paylor's lab as Alisa called Sakuya to meet them. The females took the singularity into another room to get measurements for clothes.

Lindow and Ren arrived to see the singularity, one look at it and Ren spun to Paylor. "This thing needs to be destroyed, it's the source of the virus I know it!"

Lindow grabbed onto Ren's shoulder. "Son you're over reacting."

"I'm not overreacting! Mother said nothing about this aragami so it has to be it!"

"Now you're jumping at ghosts. You're just getting impatience."

"I came here for a mission, not to play father."

"Even if that means killing an innocent?"

"She's an aragami, a monster in human form."

"That's not quite true." Pointed Paylor. "Aragami won't eat others of their type. This child won't hurt anyone as she doesn't see us humans as food."

"I don't buy that. We're at war with the aragami, now you're telling me we can be friends with them?"

It's worked with to ogretail."

"We're not friends with them, we tame them. As in control them."

The door slid open and Lance entered. "Did I miss something?"

Ren shoved lindow aside and stood in front of Lance. "That thing you brought back needs to be destroyed!"

"I'm not killing a child Ren."

"That 'child' is an aragami! A monster that wants to destroy humanity!"

"Ren I get where you're coming from but you need to look at it differently. Aragami aren't monsters, they're animals working off of instinct. This girl is proof they can grow to higher thinking."

Ren held out his arms. "And that's good? If aragami start thinking they'll start planning, then they really will destroy us all."

"No. If we show them peace we can make a bond. Human's and aragami can co-exist."

"That's impossible. Peace will only happen when only one side remains."

"That's what I thought too." ren noticed Alisa, Sakuya, and the girl now stood in the lab's main room. The girl wore a yellow dress with laces on the sleeves. The girl jumped at Lance and held him tight.

"She really likes you Lance." Sakuya wore a big grin.

"So did you two come up with a name for her?" Asked Lance, to which the females shook their heads.

"You're the one who found her Lance."

Lance rolled his eyes. "Okay fine, let's see..." The new type looked down at the girl in his arms. She looked up to Lance then hid her face again. "How about, Torri."

"I think that sounds sweet. " Alisa kneeled down to the girl. "Little Torri." Alisa laid her hand on Torri's head. The girl liked at Alisa, she smelled her then latched onto Alisa.

"Looks like you two have a little one of your own now." Said Lindow.

"I don't know how to raise a kid!" Shouted Lance.

"And you think we do?"

Lance and Alisa slumped as the older couple poked fun at them, the new types looked to each other then to Torri then finally the to the floor.

No one noticed Ren walked out of the lab and stomp into the hall.

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