Chapter. 9

Lance gently pet the aragami as he looked to Raven. This is awesome! How did you tame this?" The prithvi mata roared at Lance. "Sorry."

"It's a..." Raven struggled to find the right words. "It's a long, very long story."

Lance past his glance between the girl and aragami. "If you don't want to talk about then that's fine. So, what can we do for you?"

"I'm the medic of the hunter unit. I was sent see why you're no joining."

"I didn't say I wasn't, we just have a something going on right now."

"If it's an aragami I'd like to help."

"Aly can you fill her in?"

"Sure Lan." Alisa took Raven aside to talk to her.

Lance and Torri lead the prithvi mata to a peace place not far away from the den. "So what do you think of her father?"

"I'm not sure, she seems to share some of the abilities that I do."

"Abilities?"

"Like talking to aragami, and having a familiar. If that's true then she might have a blood art, maybe some healing power if she's a medic. Then what of the other members of the hunters, how many are there? Do they also have blood art?"

"Can't you ask her?"

"I will." Lance stopped and gently grabbed Torri's shoulder. "You said the hunters fought the nova, right? Do you remember anything about them?"

"I never saw them fight it, I only heard about it. Some time later. Sorry father."

"It's fine Torri, we'll figure it out together." Lance and Torri lead the prithvi mata to a cliff near the outer wall. "You stay here, okay?" The aragami nods and lays down. "Good, see you in a bit."

When the two returned to the den wall Alisa was wrapping up her story. "We good?" Asked Lance.

Raven nods. "Yes, but I need to ask. Torri was it, why did you can Lance 'Father'?"

"See, that's..."

"She's from the future."

"Lan!" Shouted Alisa.

"What? She'll find out sooner or later."

"The future?"

"We have a-" raven took a hold of Lance's hand. "What's-" their armlets lit up as they resonated. Lance saw more images flash by but were too fast to see anything. Lance pulled his hand back and held his head.

"A nova, Gods Eaters from the future. It all sounds so surreal."

"How did you do that?"

"We of the hunter unit have figured out many things about our gifts, What you can do, several of us can do as well."

"So you're all like, advance Gods eaters?" Asked Torri.

"No, well maybe, we just pooled our experiences and knowledge to grow."

"Fascinating." Said Alisa.

Lance's phone rang. "Hello Paylor... On it." Lance hung up the phone. "Time to head back, They know where it is."

...

Everyone gathered in Paylor's office for a meeting. Raven introduced herself to the first unit. "Hello fellow Gods Eater, I hope we can all get along and eliminate this threat humanity is facing."

Lindow was the first to speak. "So you're from this fabled hunter unit then?"

"Yes. Please, call me Raven."

"Now then." Paylor started. "We've located the nova to the snow temple. We need you all to find it and destroy it."

Lance struke his fists together. "Alright, time to save the world again."

Torri stood in front of Lance to stop him. "No father! If you go you'll die!"

"Torri I can't just sit this fight out."

"Please Father, don't go."

"I can sense where it is, we need that."

"Oh for-" Ren had enough and stood up. "We all go, you two go somewhere out of the way to find it then we fight it. Done."

Everyone looked around to each other, thinking about Ren's plan.

Alisa shrugged her shoulders. "I'm in favor of the plan."

"Me too." Said Torri.

"Well Lance?" Asked Lindow.

"If it'll give everyone piece of mind, I'll sit this one out."

"Thank you father."

"But! I will be watching."

"You can count on us Lance! We got you." Said Kota.

"Thank you Kota. Everyone, get your arcs and orgetails ready. Torri you'll ride with me on my griffin."

"Yes father!"

Lance held his hand out to everyone. "Let's go gut this beast." The Gods Eaters each placed their hand on top of Lance's. Ren hung back watching.

...

On the roof of the den Lance was grooming Kirito with Torri, when the door opened, revealing Raven.

"Lance, do you have minute?"

"Yeah, Torri you got this?" The singularity nods. Lance steps away to join raven by the edge. "What's up?"

"I need to talk to you about something important. Something inside you."

"Inside... You mean my aragami?"

"Yes. It's a hannibal, isn't it?"

"Caligula."

Raven quickly turns to Lance. "What?! How-"

"It's almost got out a few times. It's how I got this." Lance waves his tail. "is this something to be censored about?"

"Not if you can keep it under control."

"Is this a problem in the hunter unit?" Raven just looked away to the horizon. "Not really making me feel good about this Raven."

"Please don't judge us harshly."

"It'll be fine, he'll like it once he sees it." Out of nowhere Raven's familiar appeared. "Hello Lance."

"Hello snow."

The familiar raised her hand to her lips and giggled. "So you can see me."

"Of course. Tricia, Magnus, come meet Snow."

As commanded Lance's familiars appeared beside him. Tricia bowed as Magnus held out his hand. "Hello there little lady."

Snow shook his hand. "Two familiar. How long have you both been with your Eater?"

"Over two years now."

"I see." Snow took a moment to think. "So then Lance, do you have blood art?"

"Two. In fact, Raven, what's you're blood art? Some kind of healing?"

"Well no. It's an attack. What about you?"

"Same, both of mine are attacks."

"Hey you two." Snow points to the other familiars. "Is blood art all you have?"

The silence was making Lance feel concerned. "What do you mean 'all you have'. Is there more power?"

"Oh yes. You're aragami is a caligula so it should be easy."

"What?"

"Well if you don't know then you're either not ready for it or are too weak."

"What is she talking about?" Lance's phone rang, he checked the ID to see it was Alisa. "Hey Aly, we good? Cool." Lance hung up and turned to Raven. "We're ready to move. Where we get back you and Snow are going to tell me what this power is."

"Yes Lance." Raven runs to the lift door.

Lance turns to Torri and kirito. "We're moving out."

"Yes father. What were you two talking about?"

"Not sure but I'll find out." Lance climbed onto his griffin and held his hand to Torri. "Ready?"

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