A/N

A word of warning before you read this chapter; In my stories, I always write them so they're fast-paced. Because of this, you'll notice that stuff will happen WAY sooner than when it would have happened in the manga. This chapter is when this story starts to go MAJOR AU. You have been warned!

Chapter 4: A Trip to the ER

Lying in a hospital bed, bandaged up and strapped to a heart monitor was our hero, Kurayami Chaney. The heart monitor was steadily beebing, signifying he was still alive, albeit just barely. 'How the hell do I keep getting myself into this kind of shit?' He thought to himself as he slowly turned his head to see his Angeloid, Ikaros. She was sitting in a chair next to his hospital bed cradling a watermelon, a downcast expression on her face and stains on her cheeks from her earlier tears. 'Well... at least she's showing some emotion. I only wish it were the other kind... Dammit! Why couldn't I just settle for cup ramen!?'

-O-O-(Earlier That Day)-O-O-

Chaney frowned as he stared into his pantry. It was mostly empty, with the exception of a few thing. Those few things were two strawberry pocky packets, one large can of pineapple juice, and three cups of instant miso out of the kitchen and into his living room, he sat down in front of Ikaros, giving the pinkette a stern look. "Please, go on an errand."

"An errand, Master?" Ikaros said, tilting her head slightly to the side in confusion.

"Yes, an errand. Your eccentric behavior lately has been driving me crazy! To make you act like a normal human, I need you to go buy some ingrediants for dinner." Chaney said while pointing his finger at the pink-haired Angeloid.

"Yes, Master. Then, I am off." She stood up and spread her wings, attempting to fly out of the house. She would have succeeded, if not for the chain the dragged her back onto the gound.

"Oi, oi, do normal humans fly?" Chaney scolded while holding the chain that connected him to Ikaros from his sitting position.

"Yes." said the girl from the awkard position she landed about five feet away.

"Oh no they don't!"

"Yes."

-O-O-O-O-O-

We find Ikaros walking down the main market street of Sorami, a lively part of town filled with laughter and smells of varying delicious foods. She looked at the slip of paper in her left hand that her master, Chaney, wrote the ingrediants for curry down on. 'I need onions, potatos, carrots, meat, and curry powder for Master's dinner.' she thought to her self as she starting walking over to a nearby stand that sold vegitables. That is, until something big, round, and green caught her eye.

"Ah, welcome miss! What can do for... you...?" the man in charge of the stand started to say, but stopped after see what the strange pinkette was doing. She was currently seeted down in front of his watermelons, petting in affectionatly. "Uh, if you like it that much, I can give you a dicount on it?"

'What the hell is she doing?' Chaney deadpanned in his mind. He had been following her since she left, wanting to get an idea for how she could handle herself without him. 'She seems to be focused on that watermelon... I wonder why? Oh well, as long as she gets the correct amount of ingrediants for the curry, she should have enough yen to pay for it all.'

"Potatos," Ikaros grabbed a bag of potatos and put in the basket in her right hand, "carrots," she grabbed a large carrot and put it in the basket, "onions?" the next thing she grabbed was string jelly.

'EH!? How did she get string jelly from onions!? Wait, why does the vegitable stand even have string jelly?' Chaney would have pondered this further, but heard a strange noise. It was like a light chirping noise mixed with something that sounded like a whistle, coming from above. Looking up, he froze. Coming towards him was a huge beam of white energy. 'Shit!' He jumped out of the way just in time to not take a direct hit. The strange beam let out a large explosion, making him fly out of the alley he was hiding in and into the main street. The last thing he saw before passing out was the shocked face of Ikaros and the large slab of concrete. The last thing he felt, was the concrete connecting with the left side of his face, causing him to pass out and see nothing but black.

Ikaros started to run over to Chaney's body that was half covered by the concrete that landed on him. Right when she was about to lift it off of him, there was another explosion. Then another, and another, until the once calm market place looked like a battered war-zone. No... not a war-zone... a slaughter. People were screaming and running around, bodies, both wounded and dead, were laying about the continuing carnage, children were crying within their mothers' arms. This was the sight that greeted the distraught Angeloid as she watched, frozen in place beside her Masters' crushed form. As she was distracted, a blue blur shot at her and hit her, hard. She was sent flying into the air, but that wasn't the end of it. The blur shot out at her again and rocketed her towards the nearby forest.

As Ikaros stood, she heard a light thud on the ground in front of her. Looking up, she saw a young girl. But what was off about her? Oh yeah. She had clear sparkling wings. The girl was dressed in what looked like a cross between a white dress and a one piece swim suit. At the bottom of the outfit was two white straps that connected to black leggings that up to her mid-thigh. The leggings went under a pair of long white boots that went to the girl knees, each being white in color with black trim. Around the girls' shoulders was what looked to be a cape, the outside being white while the inside was a faded red color. Around her neck was a large and loose choker collar with three and a half chain links attached to it.

"Long time no see, Alpha. It seems your cloaking skills are still perfect. It took me a lot of effort to find you." the girl said, her eyes hidden behind her blue hair. "Haha, I guess I should introduce myself first... before I destroy you." the girl finished her talking in a sing-song voice, seemingly mocking Ikaros. The girl shot forward, grabbing Ikaros' head and slamming it to the ground, making a somewhat large crater.

"'Long time no see.' Does this mean that we've met before?" Ikaros said through the girls' hand.

"I am an Electronic Warfare class Angeloid, type Beta. My name is... Nymph."

(The rest follows canon up to the point where Ikaros defeats Nymph)

'Master! I have to get back to him!' That was the only thought going through Ikaros' mind right now as she sped through the air at full speed back to the location where she last saw Chaney. She could only pray that he was still alive. 'How could I just leave Master like that... Master will be angry at me now...' She cast aside her glum thoughts as she arrived at the market area. She reverted back to her normal form and landed, changing back into the clothes Chaney had given her.

Ikaros ran through the carnage, passing the many sirens and rescue tea members that were helping survivors out of the rubble. When she came upon where she last saw her Master, he wasn't there. Just the large slab of concrete that had crushed him. She grabbed one of the nearby medics by the arm and said with a frantic and worried voice, "Excuse me, do you know where the person that was here went? I need to find him!"

"Y-yes miss of course. Follow me." the paramedic led Ikaros to one of the many ambulances and helped Ikaros into it.

Ikaros gasped as she saw Chaney laying there, unconcious, and looking broken. The whole left side of his face was covered in blood and a long gash went over his left eye. His shoulder looked to be out of its' socket and his collar bone was clearly broken. "We are about to depart miss, would you like to ride with us to the hospital?" She heard the paramedics' voice. She quickly nodded.

Right as the man was about to close the door, he heard a voice say, "Wait..." it sounded strained and painful. Looking over, he saw it was Chaney that had spoken. "Hey buddy... do me... a favor..?"

The paramedic quickly nodded as he went to Chaney's side. "What is it?"

"Could you... grab that water...melon... for me?" Chaney raised his good arm (or at least better than his other one) and pointed to a suprisingly unscathed watermelon that was in the street. The paramedic quickly ran over to it and picked it up. Running back, he placed it in Chaney's outstreched hand. "Here... Ikaros..." Chaney handed the watermelon to Ikaros before passing out with a small smile on his face. The last thing he heard was the shout of Ikaros calling out to him and the paramedic yelling for the truck to drive straight for the nearest ER.

-O-O-(Present Time)-O-O-

'Seriously! Why the hell couldn't I just choose the ramen, dammit!?' Chaney kept berating himself in his mind for his lousy choice of dinner. "Say Ikaros, you're really fond of that thing, aren't you?" Chaney said with a large smile across his face.

"Yes... it was a gift from Master..." Ikaros said as she pet the watermelon affectionately, her voice still slightly strained from crying.

"I only told the guy to get it because I saw you were drawn to it. You really are a strange one, aren't you?" Chaney chuckled lightly, ignoring the pain that was pulsating through his body with every movement. He grunted in pain as he struggled to sit up in his bed.

Ikaros saw Chaney struggling and was by his side in a second. She placed her soft hands on his back and pectorals, lifting him up gently so he could sit comfortably. "Master, are you alright?" Ikaros asked worriedly.

"Eheheh, yeah I'm fine. Thank you, Ikaros." Chaney replied while scratching the back of his head, a light smile on his face. "Man, not being able to see out of my left eye for a while is gonna be annoying. My aim is gonna plummet..." he mumbled the last part to himself, trying to keep Ikaros in the dark about his line of work. And what goes on in the bathroom. (A/N Come on, you know I had to say that last part. It was funny, dammit!)

Ikaros looked down to the floor, a sad expression coming across her face as she looked like she was about to cry. "I deeply apologize Master, It is because of me that you are hurt... I couldn't protect you when you needed me to.. I've failed you..."

"Ikaros, there's only one thing you failed at doing today." Chaney said, a shadow covering his eyes as he spoke. Ikaros looked up at him with tears threatening to fall. Just when she thought he was about to scold her and yell at her, he smilled brightly, a huge grin plastering itself onto his face. "And that was making some damn good curry like I know you would have. Bu~ut considering the circumstances, I think I can let it slide this time. As long as you promise to bring some to me tomorrow." Chaney started drooling slightly as stars replaced his eyes. "Ikaros' cooking..." he kept mumbling to himself as his hands rubbed together. Last time he had something Ikaros made for him, he was on cloud 9 and never wanted to come back down.

"Yes... my master.." Ikaros said in a very quiet voice, not really believing how Chaney could act this way considering what just transpired.

If Chaney were to stop his drooling and day dreaming and actually look over at the pinkette, he would notice something that would put a blush on any mans' face, regardless of who they were. Something so cute, the reaper himself would scream, 'Kawaii!'. Ikaros gave a small, but brief, smile.