Chapter. 19

Rain pored hard in the wailing plains. Kota, Soma, Raven, and Ren arrived by riding on Eve's back to area. Once they arrived the Gods Eaters climbed off the aragami, Raven patted her partner. "Thank you for the ride." The aragami gave Raven a gentle nudge with its head.

Soma's phone rang as the den contacted him. "First unit, an oracle response just showed up near your position. Brace for combat."

"Aragaaamiii! Come out and fiiiiight us!" Kota cried out to lure in the beast.

Ren rolled his eyes at the act. "Kota, aragami are not animals. You might as well be shouting for it to come eat you."

Eve let out a low growl. "Steady there." Raven rubbed Eve's head to calm her.

"Hey over there!" The Gods Eaters stood ready to fight. "Sorry! Sorry, I, uh, thought I saw that Shio girl thing. Let's go investigate!"

"You realize we have a mission and objectives, right Kota?" Asked Soma.

"Whatever spoilsport! You can't rain on this parade!"

"Kota wait!" Raven chased after Kota with Eve at her side.

Ren and Soma sighed and fallowed after them. As they searched the area Soma spotted Shio standing on a ledge looking down on them. "Hold." Everyone stopped and saw what he found.

Shio hopped down and walked towards them. It stood before Soma and reached out to hold his cheek and the world around them shifted to white, showing them images of her with everyone in the den. When they stopped Shio vanished and the world returned to normal.

"What the hell was that!?" Kota fell back from the shock.

"Their memories. Memories of the people she knew." Said Raven.

"How can an aragami have memories? They're just beasts-" Eve roared at Ren who then pointed his old type god arc at her.

"Stop!" Raven stood between Eve and Ren. "Lower your weapons!"

"No way! Not till you control your beast!" Eve Roared again. "See? It's not a creature of thought!"

"Oh crap! We'll figure it out later guys. Party's here." In sky a fallen nova descended down and landed before the Gods Eaters.

"Everyone, battle formation!" Raven readied her scythe as Eve stood behind her.

Ren fired his sniper arc at the nova, aiming for the female body. Kota followed Ren by shooting the same body while Raven and Soma circled around the nova's right side.

Raven sliced at the nova's male body to create an opening where Soma slammed his god arc. Blood poured out of the nova, it swung its body around as the female floated up and light gathered into the core of the male. The nova's male core fired a stream of purple orbs, Raven backflipped over most of the orbs. When she landed Raven swung her scythe to catch an orb and hurled it back at the nova.

As the male body staggered the long strands of hair on the female hovered straight up and lined up along with the nova's arms and shined a purple tinted white, forming into a sword. The male body grabbed a hold of its female counterpart and swung it at Soma.

Soma Held up his shield but was thrown back from the blast and crashed into the base of the twister. "Soma!" Raven threw a flash grenade at the fallen nova and ran to Soma. "Soma, how badly are you hurt?" Raven dropped her arc to check Soma's wounds as Eve struke the nova and roared as it fallowed up by launching ice spears.

"Forget me, kill that thing!" Soma tried to stand but held his sides as he slid back down.

"Shut up!" Raven pulled him forward to find blood socked through his jacket. "You've got a cracked rib or two. Wait just one moment and I'll heal you."

"There's no time! Kota and Ren aren't enough to get the aragami. You need to support them."

"But I can't just leave you to die!" Eve growled and looked up to the sky. "What-"

A beam of light descended from the sky and crashed into the ground. vanishing as quickly as it appeared. In it's wake a young woman rose to her feet. Woman had long black hair with silver streaks and bright purple eyes She wore a white short sleeve shirt under a tan vest, a black skirt, and grey thigh-high socks with black shoes. In her right hand was a light blue scythe god arc and a white serrated buster god arc in her left. As she stood up a long prithvi mata tail waved behind her.

Soma looked at the woman and noticed her buster arc. "Is that mine?" Soma looked to his side and found his god arc was still there.

"That god arc, is..." Raven reached for her god arc and saw it was the same as the one the woman was holding.

The woman looked over the battlefield and rushed for the nova. The aragami floated up as it charged a beam attack. The nova fired the beam and the woman rolled to the right and held out her scythe which glowed a light green.

"That can't be..." Raven looked down at her own scythe then back to the woman.

The newcomer ran towards the nova with her buster sword on her shoulder and leaped at the beast, striking it's female body with a vertical slam. The woman spun around and reversed her grip on her scythe to plunge the blade into the male body.

The aragami flew back as it howled in pain but there wasn't any visible injures. The woman ran for Soma and Raven as she switched her scythe grip to normal.

Eve stood between them and the woman, baring her teeth. The woman stopped and glared at the aragami, after a moment the aragami calmed and stepped aside. The woman ran to Soma and swung her scythe, thrusting the blade into Soma's chest.

Raven stepped back in shock then looked down at her own scythe, it was the exact same as the woman's. The woman pulled the scythe out of Soma and spun around to fight the fallen nova.

Soma patted his chest to find there was no wound and all the pain he felt was gone. "What was..."

"Come on." Raven helped Soma up to his feet. "She's given us a second wind, we need to made the most of it."

Ren switched his new type arc to sword mode and slid under the nova's sword, once it was past him Ren held up his old type arc and shot the male body in its core. As it stopped for a moment Kota Shot the nova's hand, forcing it to release the female body.

Once it was free the female lowered to the ground and walked on its four spider legs at Ren with the male following it. Ren ran backwards as he aimed his sniper arc, before he fired the woman ran in front of him attacked the nova head on.

She leaped over the nova and spun forward to stabbed the female with the head of her scythe and slammed her buster sword into the male body. As the male crashed into the ground Soma struke the nova with his arc, Raven followed by stabbing her scythe into the male core and cut it open.

The woman pulled on her scythe and forced the female nova to stand upright. Ren and Kota fired nonstop on the exposed nova even as it's body was falling apart. The woman planted her feet on the nova's back and kicked off to pull her scythe out and slice the nova in half with her buster sword.

The nova crashed into the mud, it reached out with its hand and Ren shot at it one more time to end it's life before it was eaten by Eve. With the danger over Kota walked up to the new warrior. "Wow! Are you from the future too!"

"What did Lance do this time?" Asked Ren.

Raven and Soma stood around the woman. "Where did you get those arcs?" Asked Soma.

The woman nervously glanced to all the Gods Eaters around her. "I... uh..."

"What time did you come from?" Asked Ren.

"I... I, uh, mm..." The woman kept backing away as everyone probed her with questions.

"That's enough!" Raven stepped up and stood between the woman and the other Gods Eaters. "You're all scaring her! Just back up and give her some space, then maybe we can get you your answers. Sound good?" The other glanced to each other then nod to Raven. "Good, now then." Raven spins around to face the woman. "Can we please have your name?"

The woman hung her head as she held her god arcs low, and her tail wrapped around her leg. "It's Nifa."

"Nifa. That's a pretty name. Are you also from the future?"

"Yes."

"Okay. What did you come back in time to do?"

"I..." Nifa raised her head to see everyone looking at her then quickly lowered her gaze. "I'm sorry!"

"It's okay." Raven slowly raised her hand and gentle reached out to hold Nifa's shoulder. Eve walked over to Nifa and sniffed her, Nifa smiled and plunged her scythe into the dirt to petted Eve on her nose. The aragami purred and licked Nifa. "Wow. Eve really likes you."

"Oh, thank you." Nifa pulled her hand back and held her gaze away from everyone.

"Come on, no need to be shy. Let's get back to the den-"

Soma's phone rang once more. The old type answered, listened for a moment then hung up. "That'll have to wait. We got another dreadnought aragami to go after right now!"

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