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Chapter Seventy-Three

Enemies Return part 2

Lilly blinked a little, looking out toward the forest.

W…What was that? She thought.

As she gazed out toward the forest, in the kitchen, Asuka was seating at the table with a cup of tea in front of her. Misato was working at preparing breakfast, and Hikari was seating across the redhead both of her arms crossed.

"He just up and left last night," she said.

Asuka had told them what happened with Shinji. Lilly hadn`t been surprised to hear it, with Asuka being Rei`s mate, she had expected to hear about it sooner than later.

"You know, when I spoke to him about my suspicions," Hikari continued, "I never would have thought he`ll do…"

"What do you mean?" Asuka asked, looking up, "Did you have anything to do about what happened?"

Hikari looked at her.

"I simply talked to him about my suspicions," she said.

"Suspicions?" Asuka whispered.

"About yours and Rei`s relationship," Hikari said, "But to think you were…"

Asuka abruptly stood up, her eyes glaring straight at Hikari`s.

"You did this?"

Hikari frowned.

"Your feelings are the ones that betrayed you Asuka," she said, "You fell in love with that Vampire…you are the one who lied to everyone."

A silence fell into the room and everyone, beside Lilly, was staring at Asuka. The girl herself, stayed quiet as she tightened her fist…then Lilly suddenly yelled.

"Everyone, GET DOWN."

Barely after Lilly`s warning, something exploded the side of the house throwing everyone unto the ground. Bits of woods were falling down unto them as dust covered the area.

"What the hell was that?" Hikari yelled.

"Enemies," Lilly said, "And a whole lot of them."

"Is…Is this SEELE?"

"Hard to say," Lilly said, "But they are well armed…you guys better get your weapons, I`ll buy you some time."

She jumped outside and disappeared from sight.


Lilly landed on the ground, looking out toward the group of armored people. They had swords and some of them were holding other strange weapons which were glowing with light.

Where the hell do they come from? She though, Did SEELE…

"It`s a Vampire," one of the soldier yelled.

"Take her out," another said, "The Angel Tear is top priority."

A group of soldiers all charged toward her, and Lilly ran forward sending out a rounding kick taking out three of them at once. Then she spun around taking hold of one and sending him flying into an oncoming group. One attacked with a sword and Lilly disarmed him, took the blade and kicked him away.

"I can`t fight all of you without a weapon," Lilly said smirking.

Then she blinked, glancing down at the sword.

What the…what`s with this sword? This…energy?

Movements caught her eyes, and she look up seeing that they were attacking again. Lilly tightened her grip on the sword handle and give it a swing to push the enemy back…

Explosions followed her swords movements as the group was send flying backward causing Lilly to widen her eyes.

What the…? She thought, Did…Did I do this?

"Long range, take her out," a voice yelled.

Lilly looked toward the voice seeing that the strange weapons were lightning up before sending a blue blast flying straight toward her.

Shit, she thought.

The blasts hit all around her as she was send flying backward and landing upon the ground. Lilly groaned as she stood back up, looking back up toward the group of enemies.

Damn this things are powerful, she thought, If I was Human…

She tightens her grip on her sword.

I`ll have to take them out first, she thought.

She used her speed, aiming straight toward the ones with the strange weapons, and with a wild swing of her sword, explosions erupted all around them as the enemies fell dying around her.

Piece of cake, she thought.

She continued to doge and attack taking down enemies as blood flew around her. Then Lilly jumped in the air to dodge an enemy coming from behind. While in the air, another one aimed one of those strange weapons at her again and open fire.

I won`t be able to dodge in the air, she thought, seeing the blast coming at her.

She covered her face, to lessen the damage but before they could hit, an hexagonal shield appeared in front of her, saving her from the attack.

Huh?

"Lilly," Asuka yelled.

She was holding her Lance in one hand, the other aimed straight toward her. The two other Hunters were by her side, and armed with their weapons. Lilly did a back flip in the air landing beside them.

"You guys sure took your time," Lilly said.

"Well, we can`t move in super speed as you do," Hikari said, holding both of her colts.

Misato had her small automatic bow in her hand.

"So, who`s our new friends?" she asked.

"They`re after the Angel Tear," Lilly said, "I can guess who send them."

"Even so," Misato said, "How did SEELE get an Army from?"

Hikari frowned slightly.

"Maybe…we never truly faced them," Hikari said, "So far, we only faced Bardiel. We don't truly know anything about them…except they`re after the Angel Tear for whatever reason."

Her words ran true to the group as they watched the enemies gather in front of them, holding their weapons getting ready to attack.

"T…The Angel Tear," one yelled.

"Someone alerts the General," another yelled.

"Kill them and take the Angel Tear," a man yelled.

"Here they come," Misato said.

The group of enemies charged straight at them and Lilly thought.

Where is Rei when you need her?


Rei was huffing, holding her large blade in her hand. Around the destroyed part of the forest, three dead large creatures were sprawled around, all of them bleeding upon the forest ground.

Where does SEELE get these things? She thought.

Then Rei heard a noise from above causing her to glance toward the sky. Then her eyes widened in shock.

Impossible, she thought.

A large winged creature was flying there, the wings sending great gale of winds toward where Rei was. The vampire covered her face as the wind grew stronger the creature lowering itself near her.

"You have done well into taking them down," a voice said.

A man stood atop of the creatures head, both of his hand by his side. He had long hair and was wearing chest armor but both of his arms showed his muscles. His eyes were bright gold, his face devoid of emotions. He didn`t carry any weapons that Rei could see.

"You have quite a good control over that Angel Tear, Rei Ayanami," he said.

"Who the hell are you?" Rei asked.

"I am Sahaquiel," the man said, "Third General of SEELE, and I will be your executioner."

Rei sighed.

It`s just one thing after another, she thought.

"I don`t care who you are," she said, "You`re all enemies and I will take you all down."

Sahaquiel smirked, raising both of his hands. A light started to appear there, glowing brightly as something started to form there.

"Can you really? Then show me what you have…Bearer of the Angel Tear."

To be continued Volume 19

Sahaquiel faces off against Rei and the rest of the group face another...Where is Shinji?

Hope you have enjoyed this Volume...See you all in Volume 19 which will be filled with action...

Jacques0 out.

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