Yuki: Okay, chapter 3 Sorry about the wait, school being a b-tch, but everyone needs an education. And I've been talking to my imaginary phychiatrist.

Warning: this chapter contains blood, gore, cussing, and mentions of nudity (mwahahahaha!)

FYI (again) This takes place a little while after the Elfen Lied series. Lucy got captured again... they decided not to kill her. They never let # 35 out. They also recaptured Nana.

"talking" "Diclonius with a helmet on" "Diclonius with helmet off while in the facility" (this helps to identify who's a Diclonius)

thinking "Screaming/yelling"

Chapter 3: Trust

Everyone ran out of the room in terror as security guards flooded Beta's containment unit. Alpha launched all of his vectors through them, as though they were paper dolls. Yugi was the last one out. He looked back to see Alpha looking in his direction, and continued on his way out.

"Lucy." Alpha said, "kill off the guards, then help Beta find Nana. I will find them."

"Hai, Alpha-sama." Lucy did as she was told while walking out of the room, blood splattering on her otherwise naked body. (A/N: O.O) Alpha, the only one who's vectors are visible, pulled himself up into the viewing window, now broken, blood staining his blue uniforms as they went.

Alpha looked around, as if looking for someone. They won't last long here... I have to find them.

The diclonius escaped the room.

Yugi, Anzu, Ryou, Jounochi, Honda, and Otogi ran as fast as they could down the hallway, guards with machine guns running the opposite way in order to stop the Diclonius from escaping Beta's holding chambers.

Suddenly Yugi stopped running and fell to his knees. He had heard something that didn't sound too good. He looked up and saw that a ventilation unit was going to fall down on top of him. Yugi covered his head, but it fell on his legs instead. He cried out, alerting his friends where he was before they turned the corner of the hallway.

"Yugi!" Jounouchi cried, running back for said teen, the others following him. Everyone stopped about 6 meters away from Yugi when they saw Alpha stand behind Yugi where he was trapped by the air shaft. Jounouchi tried to run to save his friend, but he was held back by the rest of his friends.

"Iie, Jounouchi!" Anzu cried, "It's too dangerous!"

Soldiers started to flood the hallway, in which Alpha was letting out his vectors threateningly slow. Yugi whimpered and closed his eyes as he prepared for death, but it never came. Alpha carefully lifted the ventilation shaft off of the small duelist with his vectors, so powerful that you could see where the light refracted to make them possible to be seen and still be transparent. Yugi couldn't move his legs, they hurt from the weight of the metal.

Alpha kneeled beside the frightened teen, carefully rolled him over so he would be on his back, and brought him into his arms, cradling him gently. Yugi opened his eyes in surprise. A supposed killer of mankind was cradling him? He looked up at his keeper (A/N: O.O) and could swear he saw to caring eyes looking down upon him.

A group of ten soldiers cocked their guns. Alpha looked up and Yugi felt the arms around him tighten with a strange sense of protectiveness. The ten men fired their guns.

"Yugi!" his friends cried as a barrage of bullets flew towards Yugi and the Diclonius holding him gently. Smoke accumulated blocking everyone's view of the two boys. Yugi opened his eyes, not knowing when he had closed them, but he gasped as everyone else did when the smoke cleared. The bullets were suspended in mid-air and by his close range, Yugi saw that it was the vectors that held them there. He was in such awe that he didn't hear Alpha's question.

"Do you trust me?"

"What?"

"Do you trust me?" The question was so strange to be heard from Alpha to Yugi.Yugi was nervous, would he be killed if he answered wrong? What could he answer, what would he answer? A familiar tune drove all other thoughts away (1). So familiar...

"I trust you." He looked to where another group of soldiers started to cock their guns while the ones without ammo moved his friends away. "Are you going to kill them?"

"You are against me killing them, but remember this. For my kind, it is kill or be killed." Alpha looked down, not knowing when he had lifted his head. "Do you trust me still?"

"Yes." It was then did the soldiers shoot at them again. Yugi ducked his head just in case. Alpha sent four of his vectors towards the soldiers, so quickly it almost seemed like they were slithering through the air. Yugi looked up in time to see the bullets stop again and to see the ten soldiers get their heads cut off, like the Grim Reaper had just visited them. Blood spewed from cut arteries, especially the aorta. The limbs of the now headless bodies were twisted and ripped off.

Yet... why didn't Yugi feel anything but trust towards the killer holding him close, so gently, and who was humming a tune to familiar to actually remember?

1: The tune is Lilium. Alpha is just humming it though.

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