Die Dämon-Rückkehr

Kaneda stood propped up against a massive Oak tree deep inside the forest outside of the small town of Gakimakio, waiting for the arrival of Roan. As soon as he had felt Roan's presence at the edge of the forest, he quickly retreated into the woods and found the perfect clearing for him to fight his new enemy. "No need for me to hide these anymore" he said, removing his hat from his head and puting it back into his coat pocket.

Akiso stayed back in the group of S.A.T. members and Roan, recalling her meeting with the director just as she was preparing to board the helicopter and embark on her current mission. "But sir, if Mariko and Ramial failed what makes you think that Roan will succeed?" she had asked him as she stood at the door leading to the helipad.

"Those two Diclonious were nothing compared to this creature" he sneered as he watched several S.A.T. members load Roan into the craft. "He is a new breed, a silipet that has been genetically altered, making him even stronger than them and our targets" he continued looking towards the helicopter.

"Sir, what exactly are we dealing with here?" Akiso asked, thinking about how powerful Ramial was and trying to imagine a more powerful monster than him.

"Roan is very special. He has over 30 vectors with an incredible reach of 18 meters, making him extremely powerful. The only downside to him, however, is the fact that he can only use 15 of his vectors for attacking, the others can only be used for defense. We made him like this so that we could have a way to stop him if he ever betrayed us" Kakuzawa said his voice showing no signs of fear or any other emotion other than disdain for Roan.

What if he does turn on us? How could we stop him? Akiso thought as Roan led them through the forest towards Kaneda.

Suddenly Roan halted and looked to his right, then dropped to the ground as several large trees uprooted and then were flung at him. Several of the S.A.T. soldiers readied their rifles only to be torn to shreds in a matter of seconds by several vectors, and an occasional tree limb. Akiso quickly fell to the ground and took cover from the onslaught.

"Watch it!" Roan's voice cut through the air as a large tree trunk went flying towards Akiso. The young woman just sat there and watched the large object as it came closer and closer until, just before it hit her one of Roan's vectors caught the stump and flung it back in the direction it had came from.

"Hmm... I see you're quite different from the others. You actually protected a human's life when there was no reward in it for you. Who are you?" Kaneda's voice rang throughout the forest , as the attack ended and Roan helped Akiso to her feet.

"The name's Roan, and I don't like it when innocent people die, I only let those who deserve to die, die." Roan said, his voice as cold, and emotionless as ever.

"Hmm...there's another reason isn't there?" Kaneda said, slowly approaching Roan. "It seems like you were human at one point, and then became a Diclonious" he continued, stopping just outside of Roan's vector range. The two Diclonii were very similar in stature with Roan standing only an inch or so taller than Kaneda, but instead of dark brown hair, Roan had light blonde hair and blood red eys.

"So you can sense that can you? Yes you're right, I used to be a human carrier of the virus until they decided to make the virus active and turn me into this" he said, showing some disdain in his voice.

"I see...look Roan, I don't really want to fight you, I've had enough of fighting in my life. Just leave me alone" Kaneda said, turning away from Roan and Akiso. He was about to dissapear into the forest when a large tree came hurtling past him, causing him to duck for cover and roll out of the way of several other objects that Roan was flinging at him.

"I'm sorry Kaneda, I didn't want to fight either but I have to, it's my orders" Roan said, as he continued to throw large trees at Kaneda.

"Well then, it can't be helped then can it? Goodbye Roan" Kaneda said, deflecting several large trees that Roan had slung at him and then charging towards his opponent. Trees turned to splinters as Kaneda's vectors tore through them, and then became visable with power as he neared Roan.

"Think you can get close enough to fight hand-to-hand? Well think again" Roan said as he flung his vectors at Kaneda, only to have the young diclonious block 8 of them with his own and sidestep the extra ones. Roan stood shocked as Kaneda suddenly stood right in his face, and had his vectors coming in fast.

"Gotcha Roan" Kaneda said murderously as he stood in front of Roan with his vectors preparing to tear through the older diclonious. A quick smile from Roan caught Kaneda by suprise, as well as a vector punch to the chin that launched him into a tree several meters away. One of his horns, covered with blood, landed near his limp body, as several trees began to fall upon him.

"I don't think so" Roan said as he stood up and began to relax while several remaining S.A.T. teams began to move in on Kaneda. "Wait! Get down!" Roan yelled, but too late as the trees that laid on top of Kaneda were flung off, and the rest of the S.A.T. units were wiped out. Standing up in the aftermath of the quick counter-attack, there stood Kaneda, the bloody stump of bone that had been his horn sticking out from beneath his once black hair, now turned blood-red. His eyes were no longer a icy blue, but rather now they were a swirling maelstorm of blue and red, as a new horn began to reform where his old one had been. He no longer held the same calm, composed face, in its place there was a crazed look of anger and pain.

"Now you've asked for it" Kaneda's cold, merciless voice echoed throughout the forest, and his vectors began to clear the forest in a rage-controlled rampage. Roan quickly raised his vectors to defend against Kaneda's but only to see them get ripped apart by Kaneda's. Pain tore through Roan's body as he could feel his vectors get torn apart, and then have Kaneda appear right in his face before he could reassmble them.

"Better hope this kills you!" Kaneda yelled before his vectors sent Roan flying into a cluster of trees.

Akiso looked on completely terrified by what she saw, and remembered her discussion with the director earlier.

"Listen Akiso, your mission is to capture both Kaneda and Lucy, but I must warn you he has many names around the world but none more appropriate than the German's name for him 'Des Damon' or The Demon. He earned this name because of his uncontrollable anger. If he is to become angered than you are to kill him and not even attempt to capture him." The director's words still held in her mind as she watched Roan get thrown around the forest by what appeared to be over sixteen vectors, where Kaneda had only eight before.

"Roan, you are to kill Kaneda do not attempt to capture him, you must kill him, understand?" Akiso yelled at Roan as he managed to get to his feet and stumble out of the way of Kaneda's next attack.

"I understand" Roan replied, blocking another attack with his vectors and trying to launch a counter-attack. He was bleeding from several major cuts on his body, and his vectors began to slowly dissapear. "Shit! I'm losing too much energy. I can't fight him heads up" Roan managed to gasp out as he dodged out of the way of Kaneda's vectors once again.

"Well it's been fun and all, but now you must die Roan" Kaneda said, narrowing his eyes and preparing to charge in and finish the battle. Roan regained his feet and brought his vectors up again, but knew that there was no wayhe could hold his own against Kaneda any longer, and watched the much more powerful diclonious charge towards him. Deftly breaking through Roan's defense, Kaneda brought his vectors up to attack, but had his charge stalled by several of Roan's vectors to his chest and head.

"Gotcha kid" Roan gasped, trying to catch his breath while holding Kaneda in the air with his vectors. The only thing that was keeping Kaneda from being ripped apart was Roan's weakened state, and Kaneda's much stronger Vectors protecting his vital points, and holding Roan's vectors back.

"Shit!" was all Kaneda could get out of his mouth before Roan's other 15 vectors crashed into his chest and head, sending him flying through several large trees and coming to a rest underneath a pile of atleast eight.

Roan dropped down to his knee completely exhausted from fighting Kaneda, and weakening more and more as he continued to lose blood from his many injuries.

"He's gone...I can't feel his presence anymore" Roan said in between breaths, holding his chest in pain as Aksio and several medical S.A.T. members rushed to his side.

"We're gonna have to get him back to base. He's in need of medical attention now" Lt. Ryan of the S.A.T.'s 101st infantry unit told Akiso as he finished checking Roan's condition.

"Understood, Everyone pack it up, We're leaving!" Akiso roared to the remaining S.A.T. units, as they headed towards Kaneda's location, causing them to quickly retreat and head back towards the helicopter. Roan says it's over, so I'm leaving you here without checking Kaneda Akiso thought to herself as Ryan closed the copters door and they headed back to the base.