Trauma
Nozomi hopped down from the stairs oblivious to the conflict below. "The ambulance will arrive s-".
Bando smirked. "What is this, a drunken beach party? Just let me finish off Lucy and we can all be happy."
I look down at Lucy; I notice the bloodied mess of Kouta and of the two girls crying by their side. "Nozomi...Arakawa..."
"Yes Ben."
"Take Kouta and Nyu up there ion the main road. Let Yuka and Mayu follow."
"You can't fight this man...You are unarmed." Mayu cries.
"Relax Mayu...You forget I have something he doesn't." I caress the side of her face and brush her hair which comforts her. "You must stay away. I wouldn't want to see you guys hurt."
Mayu tries to shut her eyes to close off the flow of tears but they soon trickle down. "Okay Ben I trust you...PLEASE DON'T DIE!" She rushes over to give me a constricting hug. I don't recieve a feeling in my lower brain (If you know what I mean) but intead a much warmer feeling takes over inside my body. I finally feel beloved.
"I promise Mayu...and I'm sorry from before for hurting your feelings."
"I forgive you..." I pat her head as she sobs into my chest.
"Tch enough of this bullshit...all these emotions make me want to wretch." The Biono man waves his gun around in frustration."
"Now's the time to go..."
Nozomi and Yuka carry Kouta while Mayu and Arakawa carry the injured Lucy.
"Hey you can't take her away! She's the one I want to kill!" I silence him with a sweeping vector which cleanly cuts his fringe.
"Enough of your bullshit...now fight me...of course that is if you can take on a man."
"Ha-ha...I don't care what gender you are if you're my opponent I won't hold back." To my surprise he doesn't use his gun but instead charges over to try and tackle me. He misses as I duck to the side but it puts me off focus for a second.
Why isn't he using his gun?
Again he charges sluggishly at me. I could easily take him down with my vector but I don't wish to kill him – no matter how cold of a person he is. I wanted to leave that killer instinct back at the research facility that spawns such creatures.
"Come on! Fight me properly!" I say in frustration as I dodge another of his bull runs. I take one small sidestep wanting to conserve my energy until I fail to notice his true intention.
"AARRRGGHHH!!!! FUUUUUUUCCCKKK!!!!!" A searing pain roars from my side throughout my body. The last time I felt such a pain was...Oh no!
"Ha-ha I didn't want to waste my bullets on you but I remembered I saved on of those spiky balls from before. I just had to get within striking range to jab it right in. I hope there's some poison left though.
I gaze at the unforgiving wound. Half if the ball is embedded in my flesh just at the bottom end of my back. I try to pull it out but it makes even my hands tingle.
"Now that you're in pain you won't be able to use your vectors." He raises his gun and furiously pistol-whips me in the face so I'm temporarily knocked out. I can now only watch on agony at the action that takes place around me.
An eager Lucy runs back down from the stairs and is soon followed by Arakawa and Mayu. "No Lucy you mustn't fight with your injury."
"Her we are the main course!" Bando licks his lips in anticipation.
Mayu notices me lying on the cold sand. "Ben NO!!!" Her skirt flips up with her leaps and I get a glimpse of her panties but the pleasure of her underworld does not counter my pain. "Please hold on…" She is now rocking me like a baby."
I look up into her watery yet beautiful beady eyes. "You know you guys really remind me of Anime characters so much." I say weakly.
"Oh Ben you still try to make me laugh when your badly injured." She laughs a little and wipes some tears back.
"Lucy!" I try to get up but the pain keeps me pinned to the ground like invisible chains.
Lucy is now toe to toe against a crazed Bando much like when I first arrived. But now noone would interfere – at least noone dared to.
A puff of smoke erupts from the battle area. "He's using smoke grenades?" I say alarmed.
I hear Lucy cough and wheeze as her eyes sting from the gas cloud. Now a bright flash takes over. Bando's also using a flash grenade.
"Lucy!"
The shadow of Bando's raised arm is seen through the smoke screen. If only I could be of some help.
Suddenly a mysterious force throws Lucy to the side dodging the tungsten bullet. I turn back and see a smaller girl of Mayu's age with short pink hair wearing a black jacket and baseball cap.
"Nana-chan where the hell have you been?"
She pays no attention to me as she focuses her gaze on Lucy. But she's now looking at her with a deathly gaze. Nana produces her vectors and lunges at Lucy.
Wait why is she fighting her? Why would she save Lucy to know hurt her?
She sends a blinded Lucy hurtling through the air and slams her into the ground bashing her repeatedly. Nana looks like another person as her own instincts seem to take over.
"Nana what are you doing?" I say as Mayu and I watch on.
"I have to kill Lucy before she hurts others...I must satisfy Papa's wish."
Papa?
"That's it Nana. Now hurry up and finish her...remember what happened last time."
"Lucy made me like this."
A smart looking man in a business suit and square glasses walks along the beach where nana previously came from.
"Papa you came to see me finish Lucy I'm so-" Nana's sentence is cut when her head separates from her body.
"ARGH!!!"
The Lucy I remember all too well has returned and her thirst for blood is greater than ever...
"NANA-CHAN!" Mayu runs over to Nana's dismembered body.
"Mayu no!" I jump up and grab her leg tripping her over and preventing her from entering Lucy's firing range.
"But Nyu killed Nana!"
The businessmen stammers and steps back before pulling out a small handgun. "You killed my Nana-chan; you will die a painful death."
"How does it feel Kurama...?" Lucy speaks in a low demonic tone. "...To lose all those you love."
"Tch you bitch!" he fires several rounds but they all deflect off Lucy's vector force field. I never tried doing that but will keep that in mind.
"Why did you have to interfere?" Bando returns and takes over the fight. He sends a tungsten bullet into Lucy's other arm, rendering them useless (not that that mattered with a Diclonius).
Lucy flew into the air and plummeted down on Bando stabbing the sand where the stood. He jumped back and tried to raise his gun. Lucy stepped side-by-side in an amazing demonstration of speed and agility. I could not keep up with her.
Bando started firing wildly. I could tell he was in trouble but I wasn't really sure who I wanted to win. Both were now cold disheartened killers according to my opinion at least.
"Please don't hurt each other." Mayu stepped up as if she was in a daze and rushed over to their position.
"Mayu-chan NO!"
Arakawa rushed over to grab her but was unfortunately caught in the middle of the fight. She managed to catch Mayu but took a tungsten bullet as a result. It came from the back and exited her chest. Mayu was now covered in the science lady's blood.
I leap over a few more steps till I'm by their side "You idiot you killed the saviour of mankind!" I snap at the Biono man but he's still engaged in Lucy.
"Hey...hey Ben..." Arakawa grabs my shirt and stains it too in her crimson fluid. "Please do one thing for me...before I die..."
"What is it Arakawa?" I brush away her blood soaked hair.
"Take my virginity." I try to laugh weakly at her odd request.
"Ha-ha...Come on now Arakawa the ambulance will be here soon...you won't die a virgin I promise...When you get all better we can set you up with a nice guy...." My voice is trembling. "I know you're a bit sexed up at times but you are an intelligent and capable scientist...you will be the savoir of mankind..."
Her eyes slowly close as her vital signs disappear.
"Come on now Arakawa what was all that about not dying a virgin?" I grow angry. "Come on snap out of it! Arakawa!? You...can't...we need you..." I fall into her chest as my tear seep into her wound. Humanity is doomed...My blood will only delay the inevitable...
"If you stay any longer more people will die..."
I would have been at my lowest moment there but again Mayu runs of to the moving conflict. I ignore the pain from the spiked ball and a newfound heroism takes over. I must stop Mayu from entering the conflict.
"Please stop the fighting..." She pleads to no avail.
"Huh?" Bando is distracted as one of his real limbs flies off from his arm. "AARRGGHH!!!"
"Mayu!" I tackle her again to the ground as Lucy's cold vectors breeze over us. I look into Lucy's eyes; they are shimmering as the face around her is blackened. She also adorns a wicked grin. This person is no longer Nyu or Lucy. Devastated by Kouta's words she must have lost all that mattered and now she has resorted to her full instincts.
"Lucy you must stop this slaughter!" She now tries to attack me but I cancel most of her vectors with my inverse phase vector.
Just then I hear a horn blow from the sea. It is the ship from before. They must have spotted Lucy and are trying to stop her themselves.
#Give yourself up Lucy so we don't have to use excessive force. #
To make the scale even higher several fighter planes glide over from the ship. If they use missile we will all perish, including Mayu, Yuka, Nozomi and Kouta.
"Lucy we need to work together or those guys will kill us all." She doesn't respond to my pleas so I shake her violently to hopefully snap her out of her instinctive phase. "I KNOW YOU CAN HEAR ME LUCY!!!"
Suddenly her face changes and appears that of Lucy. "Huh?"
"Lucy you're back..." I return to the dire situation. "Lucy we must stop these guys or they will literally blow up the whole of Kamakura town."
She notices the dozen flying jets and the battleship ahead. "Okay but can you give me boost into the air?"
"Yes." I grab her naked body with my vectors and throw her upwards. She spins in a midair dance as she takes down each jet one by one. One of them releases a missile but she amazingly stops it with her vectors. The explosion wraps around an aura on her body.
Meanwhile I notice three vector crafts coming over to the shore. I remembered how my similar wavelengths tampered with the devices before.
I wait till they are close enough and see the thick vectors plunge towards me. I impale the vector with my own. The craft vibrates excessively and explodes as organs litter the sea. The other two are at both my sides. I swipe at one of the devices cutting it clean in half before it vaporises. It is not now that I realise my instinct has suddenly taken over and now I'm a spectator to my own body's carnage.
Shit I wanted to stop these guys but not kill them? Now I can't stop.
Lucy has taken care of the jet fighter above and returns to the beach where we are facing one last vector craft. This time the small crew come out. It is the man in the cape from before and another older looking man in a cape. "I should've known not to trust a Diclonius."
But it's not me it's my instinct's fault...
The commander shoots and the bullet grazes me in the head. It is enough to send my right horn flying off.
"UWAHHH!!!"
I feel another equally damaging pain as the other bullet takes out my other horn. I soon feel my will return to my body as the instinct dies away. Perhaps I have been healed of the Diclonius curse.
Lucy leaps over and takes out the two men in capes by slicing them in half. Her instincts may have gone but Lucy still shows herself to be capable of unstoppable killing.
The cabin crew desperately try to use the vector canceller but she destroys the craft as well the crew with one clean slice.
"Damn you Lucy!" Kurama show up again and fires his inferior weapon towards Lucy. She looks as though she could kill once more.
"Hey where were we..." Bando shoots another tungsten bullet but it only catches her left thigh. She stumbles but is soon sure footed. She must be using her vectors to prop up her body like a puppet.
"You don't know when to stop do you?" Lucy turns her attention to Bando. Now that the distraction of the Navy and Air force were gone she could return to her initial fight. I only really wanted Lucy to stop these Jets as they would have destroyed everything but now she was left to her own devices to finish off the others. It seems it was now up to me...to kill Lucy...
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"Lucy!"
"Ben!?"
"Mayu?"
"Mayu!?"
SPLOOSH. In the heat of the Melee I had not realised until it was almost to late that Mayu had tried to bump into Bando but this time I was too far away to stop her and so it was Bando – not Mayu who was bifurcated by Lucy's vectors as he tried to save her.
"Bando-san no!!!" Mayu was grieving over Bando's shoulder as his upper half lay on the ground.
"Shit! This is bad...really bad..."
"You just wouldn't cease to get in the way Mayu." Lucy said coldly. I really wasn't sure if she was Lucy or her instinct now but I felt a breeze of despair brush against my body.
"And you Ben..." She said bluntly. "I thought I could use you for my benefit...but it seems now your horns are gone you are useless to me.
The next vectors were for me. It seemed I was her next threat and had to be silenced. Why wasn't I killed though? Some stupid girl got in the way – again.
"MAYUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Her fragile body landed into my arms as her blood curtained over her small frame. Her eyes still looked dazzling and she even smiled at me. "I wanted Nyu to stop fighting so that's why I was being such a bother...I'm sorry..."
"No Mayu I'm sorry." I say as I grit my teeth. A new pain erodes my insides as my heart slowly decays. Will I lose someone I truly love?
~The violence has to stop~
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Something must have happened to me because a white light seems to form an aura around me. I feel crystal horns grow around me as if I've been granted the gift of vectors one last time. I see them now. They're really thin and only have a small range. They snake into small pincers as they open up Mayu's torn shirt and reveal her wound. I watch on as the tiny vectors start piecing together the damaged fibres and tissue in her body. Slowly but surely the wounds are stitching up. I look to my side and see some more tiny vectors healing Arakawa. Finally behind me are vectors healing Kouta's gunshot wounds. Now this has to be a dream...
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…Because soon I wake up in a strange room the very next day. I recognise the faces of those at my bedside to be those of Yuka and Nozomi but on the other side is Mayu; I also see Kouta who is sitting down in a chair and Arakawa who seems to be waving a torch around my eyes now.
"Ah would you cut that out." I yell but I feel a sharp pain engulf my body from the neck down. For some reason I am in a hospital ward wrapped like a half-assed attempt at a mummy and all these people are around me.
Wait didn't Mayu, Kouta and Arakawa die?
"What's going on? Am I dreaming this?"
I felt a wet kiss on my cheek. Mayu wiped at her lips and smiled. "Does that answer your question?"
"But you died on the beach...you were in my arms...it's the last thing I remember.
"No Ben I didn't die on that beach...but I nearly did." She couldn't hold her sobs of anguish.
"But this all can't be real... I was in the middle of a major conflict and everyone was dying around me.
Yuka spoke softly. "The only reason Mayu, Kouta and Arakawa didn't die...was because you saved them..."
I'm still confused. How did I go from a bloody conflict on the beach to be here around Mayu, Kouta and Arakawa who all seem fit and healthy? The next chapter may be the last as the final conflict is pretty much over. I may even give my brother - who also happens to be a fanfic author - a brief cameo before I finish.