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Pinpoint Desire

Chapter 2: Lilian

"Keiko! Come on!" The girl named Keiko, young of only about twelve years of age heard her friend call out to her. Her breath, ragged from running so much joined the girl who called out to her.

"I'm here Kana!" She whispered, hiding behind the trash bag riddling the alleyway as they both kept their heads down. Kana, the same age as her had a black cap covering her head though honestly it had little usage now. The soldiers already knew about her and so now it was nothing more than a head piece. Keiko shivered as if a strong breeze had blown through and Kana gently held her, trying to keep her friend calm as they both heard the voices of Morotisan's men searching anxiously for them. One of their friends was already dead, shot down by the horrible men in their attempts to kill them.

Quiet, without a sound they waited and prayed that the men would leave.

"I'm scared…" Keiko whimpered. "I don't want to die."

"You're not going to die Keiko, I promise." Kana remarked. "We're going to get out of here and I bet the others are already thinking of a way to save us. I bet Kaede-sama and the others are going to help us just as we're thinking about it.

But nobody was going to help them. Their Queen would not come, not out of spite but just out of the sheer reason that luck was not on their side.

"Found you!" Called out from behind, Keiko screeched and lashed out with one of her hands, so pathetically that if she had paid attention she would've known they were too far away. The soldiers were not ones new to the power of Diclonius. This was not the past, where poor men were sent out to be butchered by the horned girls without any knowledge to fight against them. Oh no, such a shameful act had long been annihilated because now the hunters and become the hunted. Every single soldier under Director's Morotisan's rule was given specific knowledge on how to fight against the horned girls.

When Keiko tried to throw the empty cans that had popped out of the bags, the men dodged behind the wall, letting the cans bash uselessly against the wall. They knew how to handle this, distance, dealing with objects and there was one more thing on their side as well.

Kana and Keiko took separate paths, agreeing that it would be easier to get them off their trails. Keiko, her purple air fluttering as she ran as hard as she could was caught in the front by one of the armed men. Gun raised she instinctively raised her vectors and cried out for her friend. One bullet straight her chest, knocking her off her feet and spewing blood through the air. Another one into her gut, mid-way through flight it sent her backwards. One more went into her head, just below the eye, her jaw was broken out. The fourth bullet blew her brain out, splashing the wall with her crimson ooze. It was only then that she died, her body pathetically limp, eyes staring in opposite directions. Her vectors had blocked a single bullet, each one had pierced through and tore her body it ribbons.

The soldier kept his guard up, fired one more bullet for safe measure into the girls' head and then took his 50 caliber gun to meet up with the other men.

Distance…objects…ammo. The Diclonius now lived in a world where their hands, once wickedest of weapons, were now only seen as more of a nuisance. Like a poisonous snake ready to strike, deadly but able to be dealt with. No, the truth was that in the end they were merely children with knives that ran around without any clear idea of what to do. So every day, one of those young girls is found by the watching eye of the Director who five years ago enacted a single order.

To exterminate every last Diclonius from the world until at the end even the memory of them would be erased. There was no more hope for them and as Kana heard the sounds of the gunfire she too lost all of her hope. She ran only because her instincts told her to run, but deep down in the deepest recesses of her little heart, she had lost it all once more. Once more, only twice now when she was stuck in that cell with all the others, angry, pitiful and weak.

So weak, so very weak her heart beat unsteadily in her chest while she cried and cursed her life. They were not even animals, or dirt, or mere bacteria. They were something so ungodly disgusting that their entire life was measured as unforgivable. Every human they ran into, every last one would attack them on sight. Every human she saw she found she not only hated but had no choice but to hate, because that was the only thing humanity felt for them. In a war, between absolute disgust, only one was going to walk away.

Kana swerved around the edge of alleyway, moving only because her heart instinctively searched for life. She thought she saw a flutter of a coat in the corner of her eye, brown until cold hands wrapped themselves around her neck.

Kana's neck was snapped like a twig and dropped as if she were nothing more than useless bag of dirty trash. Starring upwards, there was a moment of life inching out of her eyes, her heartbeat slowing down as the cold blind eyes of Director Morotisan starred down at her.

He wore large brown coat, something out of an early noir movie, the kind of one you might have seen a detective wearing. His glasses, useless but as part of his attire as anything else, was perched on the end of his nose which he lightly pushed up with a casual motion. Beneath his fluttering brown coat was two kinds of weapons. Small hand held grenades that he appeared to be accustomed two mostly on his right side and on his left a black .50 caliber pistol. Much like his glasses, these somehow appeared to be only attire for the sake of having something. Because each Diclonius that Garder met could be killed with only his bare hands. The ability to hear vectors, decades of military experience and lack of morality for the horned girls made him the perfect killing machine.

"I heard the gunshot, have you killed her?" Garder asked in his gravelly voice as he heard the footsteps come behind him.

"Yes sir, she's been killed."

Five years he had given the order to kill all Diclonius and spoken to the leaders of the free world about this. He had tried, truly honestly tried to see the difference between them and humans. But five years ago that hope was destroyed. His promise he had made to Jessica Alya was annihilated completely when he had pulled the trigger and blew out the brain of the girl he had promised Jessica he would protect.

It was time to head back home. Back to place where he could belong, or rather to say the only place he had any other connection towards. He left the men to do their business, he himself had never intended to be here. This was business and it so happened that he was there when the Diclonius were spotted. Garder arrived at the location of his personal helicopter where he calmly leaned against the backseat and crossed his arms, bowing his head and closing his eyes.

The winds kicked up as the machine rose into the air, leaving Japan and heading back to Europe. It passed over the great country of Japan, where the war against Diclonius was still going strong.

Sometime much later, he was awakened by the pilot. He had slept through the whole way, his dreams filled with the past and the reason he was fighting. The helicopter landed just outside the outskirt of semi-large building white as the facility walls themselves and standing about three stories. It was large as any building would be but that wasn't what made it special. The entire place was constructed on the remnants of a citadel that had had it still stood, would have made the little building seem like a flea in comparison. Years ago there was a strong rate of nuclear fallout that had long since vanished. The grass grew over the firm ground, beneath it, bodies that had been laid to rest from several wars.

The cruiser sailed the open waters at a steady pace, the shipmates working diligently. About a quarter of a kilometer away, a similar cruiser was sailing by in the opposite direction, heading back to the S.S. Diclonius to deliver supplies. There was a young woman on board, her long hair reaching down to her hips. The sun glinted across her tan body, her figure trained and firm, she had the look of a young girl who while not excessively training her body, looked like she could run a good few laps without stopping. She appeared to be in her early 20s, around the same age as Kaede and wore a thin black coat and jeans along with a black commissioner's cap over her head which put a broad shadow over her face.

The hat also hid her horns, not that anyone else didn't know about it and it was more of a way to recognize her as the Captain of the ship itself as everyone else wore white caps instead. She perched herself at the front, walking around the edges and keeping eyes on the aircrafts that were situated around her. As the Captain of the largest Pro-Diclonius cruiser, it was imperative that kept everything in line.

The young girl was Captain Lilian R. Cents, the commander of the "Horn's Fleet" close friend of Kaede and Caren and daughter of the King of Deceit, Vladimir Cents. Five years of fighting, five years of trying to protect a good cause. But she was fighting two battles right now. The battle against Garder and the battle against her own father who still remained at large and his whereabouts unknown.

"Captain Cents, we have contact with enemy forces 10 knots away, they're heading this way."

Hearing that she thought about it and made the command with a smirk. "The dumbasses are on our territory now. Let's go meet up with them and show em' why they don't fuck with us."

"Your words are as pleasant as ever Captain Cents." One of the men responded with a smile. "You heard the Captain, all hands on deck, weapons ready." Out on the horizon, a large cruiser just like there's was arriving, pitch black its turrets were already at hand. Five years she had controlled this vessel, there was no way Lilian was going to lose this fight.

The purpose was to keep trouble away from the S.S. Diclonius and the fleet's job was to protect it. The two cruisers began a dance of death, circling one another before opening fire. But Lilian had something the others didn't and that was about a good 25 horned girls that stood at the end of the ship, their vectors wrapping around and making a makeshift shield. The weapons of a cruiser were far too powerful to be blocked by even some of the stronger vectors. But if a whole bunch of girls got together, even they could stop the heavy rounds that rain down on them. The problem this had was that the girls could only hold this position for about five minutes until their entropy failure kicked in. Do it any longer and they would begin the melt, the poor point that even Diclonius have limits to their bodies.

The enemy ship blasted them with its full might, the rain of fire being deflected away by the vector shields crafted by the girls. Grinning broadly, her smile changed to confusion as the enemy ship moved forward.

This was strange to Lilian. This wouldn't be the first time she had fought cruisers like these. The plan was usually the same, the enemy would fire a few shots and force the girls to use up their energy with the shield, then once the girl's entropy reached its limit, they would move in and fire down on them. The only issue was that that for them, Lilian took them down first.

The reason for this was obvious then. They had discovered a way to bypass the vector defenses and there was only one thing that could do that. At the end of the enemy ship, like a massive bacteria was a metallic object that was constantly generating an invisible spectrum that surrounded the ship and traveled about 20 meters away from either side. This force, harmless had but one effect. The moment it collided with the vector force of the young Diclonius, it was instantly dispelled, the shield dissipating on impact.

"My vectors!" One girl cried out in shock, her sentiments shared by the others.

"Kuh!" Lilian ground her teeth. "So they're using one of those." Sure enough she realized it when she was the metallic beast. An Anti-Vector Craft once crafted by the use of the secondary research facility known as Saseba was now under Garder's direct orders. To make matters worse, the Vector Craft on the other end of the ship had begun to move, massive corporeal hands emerged from its slots rising as it began to walk towards the edge of the ship.

Bending its ghostly limbs, the thing bounded into the air and soared like some twisted spider leaping after its prey. Lilian used her vectors to keep herself balance as the vector craft landed on their cruiser, crushing jets along its way.

"Fire at the ship, I'll take care of this." Lilian cried out. Her team listened with adamant ears and obeyed, returning to firing back at the cruiser while she herself took business with the Vector Craft. Standing about 15 meters away from one another, Captain Lilian Cents was in a tight squeeze. The Vector Craft would prevent her from using her vectors against it. A long time ago, this would've been very problematic.

But just as the humans had learned to fight against the Diclonius, so did the Diclonius learn to fight against the humans. Raising one its gigantic hands, Lilian sprinted to the side, running alongside as her vectors emerged around her. 10, 20, 50…by then sweat poured from her body. She had learned to utilize more vectors and increase their length since 5 years ago, but this was her limit. They formed not into hands but into two wing shaped objects, something she had learned from her old friend Elrya a few years back.

Soaring through the air, she dipped and ducked around the hand, the corporeal fingers trying to catch a nosy fly while the girl gallantly avoided them. As she soared above she found herself facing the window where she could see several shadowy figures inside.

"You picked the wrong fight fools, let me show you what I can do. You think because that I can't use my vectors against you that you've won, don't make me laugh!" She roared, soaring to the ground at break neck speeds. Her landing was horribly rough, as she used all 50 of her vectors to simultaneously slam them on the ground with tremendous force. The issuing shockwave rattled the ship and the Vector Craft lost its balance, tipping over and landing on its side.

In a state of panic, the crew inside had lost control and this gave Lilian another moment of ample time to attack. Her vectors might not reach it, but that didn't mean one of those broken jets wouldn't and with 50 vectors, even she could lift up one of those ton beasts.

"Aaaarrrgh!" Sweat and screams, Lilian chucked the aerial craft into the air where it flew at the dismantled metal creature and broke right through the window. In the instant it did, the entire thing burst into flames, its anti-vector capabilities turned off and allowing Lilian to finally chuck the whole thing off the ship with much effort. It was still a large heavy thing and she wasn't like Kaede who was regarded as having the most powerful vectors.

With the main danger out of the way, the cherry blonde haired girl took a step back and spread her butterfly like wings out while she faced the enemy ship, most of it set ablaze. She concentrated, a single white orb in the front of her chest that rattled endlessly.

Diclonius had to learn many things in this war. Sometimes just having hands itself wasn't enough, sometimes they needed wings or shields. At points they had to work together to survive.

A vector was simply controlling the molecules created by the effects of the pineal gland in their brain. This meant that with concentration and effort, she could do something like that. Like a beam of corporeal light, a thin line blasted out from the center of the white orb floating in front of Lilian's chest. The waves were split and the beam crashed into the side of the enemy boat where it tore through to the other end. With that, she raised it and split the entire thing in two.

The pieces drowned into the murky depths below.

But to use such power had taken too much out of her and Lilian collapsed to her knees, forcing herself to catch her breath. Her sides felt like they were on fire, her eyes watered and her limbs felt like jelly. She had to relax now, force the entropy back and return back to her regular self.

"Calm yourself…"

I know that, Meginola." Lilian replied to her own internal voice. Better said than done because the ship was once again rocked by a huge explosion that shook it dreadfully. It hadn't come from anywhere around them, there had only been one ship and that was currently sinking into the ocean.

That could only mean one thing.

"Damn!" Lilian cursed. "They're attacking us from underneath. Submarines!" So the attack above the waters had only be a diversion while the enemies below attacked them when their defenses were down. "Girls, we need to protect the bottom of the ship now!" she called out to her fellow Diclonius who instantly obeyed, heading down to cast a protect shield near the base of the ship.

As Lilian joined them, she was glad to see that the damage done was minimal. But there priority was to destroy the submarines.

"How many are there?"

"About three Captain Cents, they're facing north, south and east of us."

The submarine on the east began to move, circling back around, it fired off a set of torpedoes that exploded against the invisible shield that crafted itself around the underside bulk of the ship. The ones north and south followed suit, circling around and attacking in the hopes of finding a weak spot in their defenses.

Lilian stood her ground and gave another order. "Fire!" The cruiser wasn't just adept at fighting other ships, they could also fight the enemies under the water as well. Several pockets opened up, five missiles shooting into the water where they spread out and went for the enemy ships. With each explosion, Lilian's ship rocked and then remained silent.

"How do you like that dumbasses? I'm not nearly as weak as you think I am. Good job everyone!" Lilian replied to her fellow team who cheered her own exasperatedly. As for her, she went to her chair and collapsed, trying to catch her breath. They had won and it had been rather quick but still, to keep this up even she wasn't sure how much longer they would last.

Characters

Kaede "Lucy" Synth: The main heroine of Desires, the Queen of Diclonius who once hated humans with a passion, now strives to make a world where both her kind and humanity can exist. She has a strong and voracious personality and while ultimately good, doesn't mean she'll take crap from anyone still. She is regarded as the strongest Diclonius.

Lucy: Kaede's biological voice that once commanded her to kill all humans. Living together with humanity and seeing them in a new light, her voice has softened up to humanity but must still be watched over carefully as she is still biologically urged to kill humans if the effect becomes too strong.

Routa: Kaede's younger half-brother, son of her mother and Director Kakuzawa. Routa is usually a joyful spirit who often plays around the S.S. Diclonius. However, his personality takes a complete 180 if the device on his forehead is removed.

Kanae Synth: The daughter of Kaede and Roy, named after Kouta's sister as a sign of respect. She is a joyful and cheerful child, often holding a small stuffed rabbit that again is a reminder of the person she was named after.

Carliniyana Sandersas: The daughter of Elrya Alya and Yin Sandersas. Since the deaths of her parents, she has been raised by Kaede. Much like her mother, Carlin is often active and even shares much of her appearance from her mother. She is great friends with Kanae.

Bando: The Ex-SAT soldier who once fought Kaede in the past and had his limbs and eyes broken as a resort. He fights for the Pro-Diclonius group and is currently searching for Onyara and Lagusa to exterminate them. Though his attitude is rough and arrogant, his heart is in the right place. This doesn't mean he likes Kaede anymore now than he did before though.

Carentorzulan Zeruda: A young Turkish diclonius and younger sister of Orlana Zeruda. She is a young woman with great intelligence and the ability to cast illusions thanks to her sister's specialized item called "The Clockstopper" earning her the nickname, The Witch of Ilusions. Most of her team and friends call her Caren for short despite the fact that she hates having her name shortened like that.

Alara: Caren's biological voice.

Garder. F Morotisan: The main antagonist of Desires. He is an old war veteran who has enacted war upon the Diclonius race, hoping to completely exterminate them in what he believes is the only way to stop humanity's down fall. Though physically blind, he has amazing hearing, specifically able to hear vectors themselves and his military training has made him a force to be reckoned with. The people who can fight him one on one, are few and far between.

Lilian R. Cents: The daughter of the incorrigible King of Deceit, Vladimir Cents. Lilian, now around 22-23 years of age is the captain of the Diclonius naval fleet, doing all she can to protect the waters against anti-Diclonius forces and protecting the S.S. Diclonius.

Meginola: Lilian's biological voice