Strike Witches
The Winged Chronicles
Revelation
Griffin shocked at Lynette's request walk's towards his desk and sits down at his desk, Griffin looking at the ground deep in thought lets out a sigh. After a few seconds Griffin looks at Lynette and says "why?" Lynette looks towards the ground, takes as step forward and staring straight in Griffin's eyes with determination Lynette says "I feel that I am not useful to the group as a currently am, I saw you get hurt and I couldn't do anything to help." Griffin now unsure what to do walks towards his desk and sits down and crosses his arms in deep thought. Griffin Looks at Lynette and says "if I train you it will not be easy" Lynette smiles with the possibility and nods her head. Griffin stands up and walks to the closet and says "very well, meet me in the court yard in two hour's" Lynette says "why not now" as griffin pulls out a large case from a crate and puts it on the deck. Lynette curious about what's inside walks a little closer as Griffin pulls out an identical Gatling gun out of the case, Griffin says "I need to rebuild my weapon since it was destroyed in the last fight." Griffin grabs some tools out of the desk and start's to take the gun apart. Lynette understanding starts to walk towards the door turns to Griffin and with a smile says "thanks" as Lynette walks out the door.
Two hours later Lynette enters the court yard with Yoshika tailing behind her and to their surprise they see Griffin standing there at ease with a gun in his holster and hands behind his back, waiting with a stand with a case on it. Lynette quickly hurries towards him and she stands right at him at attention. Griffin looks at his watch and starts to walk around her and says "I want you to make a normal shield for me" Lynette nods and holds her hands out and she makes a shield about five feet around the front of her. Griffin looks around it and says "ok, now where do you cast it?" Lynette confused ponders for a minute and replies "umm, the middle of my palm." Griffin nods and holding his chin with his hand says "I want you to reduce your magical power output of the shield my one fifth. Lynette concentrating closes her eyes and slowly the shield decreases in size, Griffin says "almost, don't lose your concentration" Lynette struggling after a minute finishes and she has a shield with the exact size of Griffin's. Griffin replies "good, now I want you to remove the shield and recast it with one hand, until you can activate it at that size at will". Lynette looks at him with disbelief as she is breathing heavily from the effort of just making one. Griffin says "you're tired? This shield uses less magic than a normal shield you should have magic to spare" as Griffin stands over her and says "again!" After three hours of Griffin's training Lynette is just barely able to stand with sweat rolling down her face and Yoshika standing at the side lines wanting to help but Griffin forbidding it. Lynette with a grunt holds out her right hand and she squints her eyes and she congers another shield and it's the same exact side as Griffin's, Griffin walks around the shield and says "good, the first step of the training is complete. Griffin stands in front of the shield and with all his force punches the shield. The shield shatters and Lynette with an "ahh!" falls to the ground and Griffin says "tomorrow we work on density" was Griffin wave to Yoshika to come and help Lynette up. Lynette nods her head as she is just barely able to keep herself up with Yoshika supporting her up with her body.
Griffin walks towards the stand with the case on it and open's it, he takes out a towel and a bottle of water out and closes the case. Griffin hands the towel to with the bottle of water to Lynette as Griffin walks away as Griffin says "I'm proud of you, you learned a lot faster than I did." Lynette smiles and almost falls over from the lack of energy as Yoshika yells "Lynette, hey wake up."Griffin walks into the compound and back into his room. Griffin opens a large case and looks at his new completed weapon and smiles, Griffin goes into his pocket and pulls out the shard of Neuroi core fragment and says "now for you" as he places it into a clear case on his desk and opens the other cloth covered item to revel another left hand just like the one his is using.
The morning arrives with little of any noise but Mio outside training and Yoshika in the kitchen making breakfast for everyone. Lynette stumbles into the dining hall and sit down at the large table in the centre of the room, Yoshika turns around with a smile and says "good morning Lyna-chan", a few minutes later the rest of the girls start to come it and sit down. Yoshika calls them over to pick up their food and the girls start to eat. The girls mostly talk about small talk with nothing about work in their conversations, the last to enter the hall is Griffin, as he enters the room the girls can hear the whining and mild clicking of his feet on the ground but unlike in the past none of the girls stop talking or look at him weirdly. Griffin just enters the room and the room and grabs something to eat and Yoshika just smiles and hands him a tray and Griffin sits at the same table near the back near the window alone. None of the girls feel obligated to keep personal things that they would normally talk about quiet while he is in the room; Griffin felt that he has been accepted as one of the group. After everyone is finished eating the girls are now just talking and killing time, Griffin finishes and walks towards Lynette and most of the girls face him, Griffin a little put back says facing Lynette in a calm/stern voice "Training in tem minutes" and Griffin walks out of the hall. Most of the girls confused at what Griffin said start poking fun at Lynette, Lucchini says "Ohhh, getting some alone time with the new guy? Heh hee." and Lynette blushes and looks towards the table as the rest of the girls start to laugh.
Around nine minutes later Lynette comes hurrying over with a few of the gild wondering just what king of training Lynette is getting. Griffin again is standing at ease with his arms at his back and with a stand with a case on it. Lynette comes over and faces Griffin. Griffin says "good, cast me a shield" and Lynette raises her left hand and a perfect shield appears in front of her. A few of the girls "aww" in curiosity and interest, Griffin walks around Lynette and inspects the shield "Good" says Griffin "but" as Griffin heads for the front of the shield in front of Lynette and Griffin takes a step back and puts a half hearted punch into the shield. Lynette expecting this to happen doesn't even budge while the other girls are shocked at what griffin just did. Griffin more surprised than everyone says "very impressive, but let's see if it can width stand a real punch" as Griffin takes another step backwards and pulls his left arm back and throws his full force into the punch. With a loud blasting impact and a snap and metallic clicking sounds hitting the ground the girls at the sidelines look in horror seeing Lynette pushed back ten feet and Griffin with metal and smoke in front of him. The girls see Lynette's shield still active in front of her and Griffin with the impact destroyed his robotic left hand. Lynette scared at what she just did runs towards Griffin worried at what she just did. Lynette yells "are you all right Griffin", as she gets about five feet from him she hears Griffin's voice, faint at first then it got louder and stronger all she could hear was laughing. Confused Lynette stops and just stares at Griffin while Griffin walks towards her from amidst the smoke and says with a smile on his face "great, I was not expecting you to be able to withstand an impact with that for a while, we can skip today's original training and move forward." Shocked Lynette doesn't't say a word, a few seconds later Griffin raises his left hand and looks at it and says "well, it seems that the impact destroyed this hand" was Griffin smiles shrugs his shoulders and walks towards the case and pulls out a newer looking hand that is chrome plated. Griffin removes the old destroyed hand and inserts the new one. Griffin faces Lynette and says "all right, now it's time for you to learn to cast a shield in each hand" shocked at Griffin's next training plan Lynette just nod's her head.
Griffin stands in front of Lynette and explains the fundamentals of creating multiple shields, Griffin finishes his explanation and says "ok, now you try it" Lynette nod's and raises both hands and with a bit of struggling Lynette creates the first shield but the second seems to bet giving her a bit of difficulty but after a minuet of struggling a faint shape of a shield appears. Griffin inspects the shield and says "good now, make it stronger and tougher", Lynette with a determined face nods and she closes her eyes and concentrates. After a few hours of training Lynette is on the ground exhausted and breathing heavily the rest of the girls are still amazed what Griffin has been able to teach her and none the less it was Lynette who requested it. Griffin walks towards the stand and opens the case on it. Again he takes out a towel and a bottle of water. Griffin hands it to her and sits next to her and says "you did good today, tomorrow we will work on moving and the concept of more than one shield per hand, think of it as each finger is a casting area and all you need to do is move it from your palm to that desired position. Also the idea behind moving and rotating shields is that think of your finger is a ball and a ball can rotate." Lynette confused with all this information says in a tired voice "ok, I'll try my best" says Lynette. Griffin stands up and walks into the compound, the rest of the girls help and talk to Lynette about her current training among other things. (I'll let you fill in that spot)
A few hours later, Griffin and everyone else is relaxing doing their own thing until the horn for an enemy attack goes off. All the girls instantly react to the noise; they drop what they are doing and run towards the hangar. Lynette, Mina and Perrine were the first ones in the hangar; Griffin walks in with an unaware look on his face with to extremely large double Gatling guns on each hand. Lynette shocked at what Griffin is holing she approaches him and asks "why do you have two new weapons?" Griffin places both of the weapons on his table a replies "my last one got destroyed in the last battle, so I made new ones and for having two, I like having spares in time of need" as Griffin turns his back on her and he puts two ammo cartilages on the top and bottom of the gun forget Gatling Griffin thinks to himself "I finally got rid of that annoying ammo backpack." Griffin places one of his new weapons on the wall above his bench and the other he grabs and walks towards the strip pad and Griffin looks out towards the ocean and let out a large sigh, Griffin looks at his gun and flips a switch to single shot and points the gun at the sky at a thirty degree angle. Griffin fires the gun in the air, the impact of the gun on Griffin's body made him step back and his arm was contracted towards the edge of his body, on the ground gave a blast cloud near Griffin's feet and a loud blast sound came from the gun. All the girls turn in shock in seeing Griffin is the one who made the sound. Mina shocked thinks "I thought a cannon had gone off" as Griffin turns a knob and points the gun in the air again. The gun made another loud blast but it was reduced and Griffin's arm only moved slightly, Griffin did this about five times till the impact, sound and speed was to his liking, Griffin smiles and turns towards the girls who are in shock and says "ready?" Mina yells "move out," and the girls all fly out with Griffin watching, Griffin walks towards the direction they went and plaices his gun on his belt and with a rev and metallic click Griffin changed his legs and flies towards the girls and catches up without any effort.
Shirley says "what are we up against?" Mina replies "I don't know its size and flight patterns were erratic", Shirley says "so, you have no real clue what here heading into?" Mina nods her head and looks straight. Yoshika on the radio in her easy asks Mio "Sakamoto, you have any clue?" Mio on the radio says "I'll inform you if I have any information" Yoshika looks worried so Lynette flies over to her and says "don't worry I'm sure we will do fine." Griffin unresponsive to their worrying looks straight ahead, noticing a large grey cloud ahead that was not fully in his field of view just stares in front of the group and tries to figure out why a cloud would be dark when the rest of pure white. Then Griffin realizes what the dark cloud really is and no one else has figured out what's really up against them, knowing what to do and knowing that they will soon be overwhelmed Griffin breaks formation and raises above the group, about 30 meters. Griffin turn's his double Gatling gun to semiautomatic and to raises the blast rate to 90 percent; Griffin aims both barrels towards the clouds hoping to make a dent in their numbers and holds down the trigger. Griffin increases his thrusters output to compensate for the force the gun emits. Before this Lynette and Yoshika notice something's up and get worried, Griffin maneuvers into position in a few seconds. Griffin yells "enemy incoming!" as he pulls the trigger and the double barrels start to take off with a blast that could rival a tanks cannon. Many of the girls unknowing what's happening just watch blankly at Griffin and the black cloud that he's shooting at. Lynette trusting Griffin opens fire with Yoshika following along. Still not fully understanding what's happening they just watch expecting nothing to happen, to their surprise little flash marks start6 to appear from within the cloud. Shocked Mina yells "all open fire upon the cloud, all the girls comply and watch the sparks and flashes of light just light up the sky. Griffin firing about every two thirds of a second yells "evasive maneuvers" as Griffin stops firing and places his gun of his belt and rushes in front of the group and throw's up all ten of his shields to give the girls a chance to react to what's happening. A second later countless little energy blasts comes from all area's from in front of them. Shocked at Griffins response time the girls quickly throw up their shields and Griffin drops his and he dives to draw their fire. Ninety percent of the weapons fire followed Griffin as he dove towards the ocean, as Griffin neared the ocean with immense speed, a moment before he hit the ocean Griffin pulled yup and skimmed the ocean inches from the top, leaving the girls and heading for the cloud with full speed.
Griffin reached the cloud and discovered that the cloud wasn't a cloud at all; it was actually thousands of tiny Neuroi the side of a foot in all directions. Griffin grabs his gun and switches it to automatic fire. With a constant buzzing the gun fires with immense coverage, the Neuroi's size started to drop with Griffin evading most of the enemy fire. With the trigger constantly firing Griffin throws up five shields and blocks immense energy attacks from all directions, Griffin struggling to just dodge and block the enemies attack started to take its tole on him. Griffin's shields started to fade with the constant use, Griffin places his gun on his belt and Griffin throws his hands out in the directions of the enemies' attacks to help. Griffin's shields slowly diminishing from the use of his magic and was diminishing and Griffin was running out of time. Griffin started to make more decisive maneuvers to evade the fire, Griffin charges for the ocean to find cover. The Neuroi anticipated this and as Griffin reached the ocean twenty Neuroi rise from the ocean and Griffin stops and rushes to run over the ocean instead and the Neuroi was also there waiting. Griffin rises to dodge the attack and heads right into another group in waiting, Griffin stops a mile above the ocean and stops with the Neuroi starting to surround him in a circular motion.
Griffin knowing that he has been beaten stops rising and hovers in the middle of the circle of Neurio and waits for their next attack, mean while the girls has their hands full facing ten percent of what Griffin left behind sees Griffin in the middle of a cloud of Neuroi Lynette yells "Griffin!", as they all see the cloud charge up and see the entire cloud turn red and the centre implode with energy with Griffin in the centre of it. Mina and Lynette charge towards Griffin hoping that there could be something they could do to help Griffin, waiting for the attack everyone sees them charging their attack and start to fire, Griffin yells "you think that's all I got!" as Griffin throws up his hands in opposite directions of himself and ten shields come out and cover his sides. The blasts hit him with a constant beam of energy as the Neuroi in front and behind him start to fire. Griffin raises his hand in front of himself and smirks, thinking to himself "I wish I didn't have to show this" as Griffin yells on top of his lungs and yells "ahhhhh." With a burst of energy two more shields appear in front and behind Griffin with a large snap, cracking sound and a splat.
The energy hits Griffin from all angles, Mina and Lynette charge full speed firing everything they got hoping that Griffin somehow survived the attack, the instant the attacks hit they heard a something close to a voice yelling. Then to their amazement after the smoke cleared in the centre of the Neurio cloud was a bright blue sphere, Lynette knew who it was but Mina couldn't tell if Griffin was alright Mina felt an immense amount of magical power coming from the centre of the cloud and she didn't know what was causing it Mina thought "this can't be Griffin he doesn't have this much magical energy". Then to their horror they see one of the shields drop from Griffins side and see a mass of dripping blood. Lynette concerned rushes into the cloud not thinking, Mina yells "Lynette No, it's too dangerous" as the Neuroi sense Lynette's presence, one entire wall turned and started to charge to attack. Lynette shocked and frozen to place just hovered there watching not knowing what to do, Mina yells "Lynette, Run" as the energy attack was shot at her. Lynette cringed, closed her eyes and yelped from fear, the attack impacted and Lynette disappeared in the spread of the attack. When the smokes cleared to Mina's amazement Lynette was still there encased in a bubble of shields, Mina looks around and see's Griffin hovering breathing heavily in the centre of the cloud facing them with both of his hands facing her and with a smile on his face knowing that he made it in time. During this the rest of the girls were fighting the remaining Neuroi as Erica takes the final shot and all the Neuroi stop, shake a little and all the Neoroi in the area explode into millions of pieces.
With all the pieces falling and glistening like glitter in the air Mina approaches Lynette to see if she's alright, Lynette tells Mina she is unharmed and they both fly towards Griffin who is just hovering there with a look of anguish in his face, as they approach Mina can tell something's wrong. When they get about five feet from Griffin Lynette stops and rises her hands towards her face in horror as Mina turns to Lynette wondering what's wrong, that's when Mina understood what scared Lynette so much. Griffin had his body at a slight angle and Mina saw two bone spikes coming out if Griffins back with a large amount of blood, the mess of blood, tendons, what was once muscle made Lynette beak into tears. Griffin looks towards them with a confined look and the wings twitch and snap and move slightly. The horror that Mina saw stopped her right in her tracks, the figure on Griffin's back were almost like the shape of wings, Mina though "that's impossible how can he have wings the rest of us have ears and a tail, he can't have wings."Then Mina saw the proof that she didn't't want to see, all covered in blood was a single crimson feather near the base of Griffins back. Mina even herself was turned back from the sight as she slowly approached Griffin and said "so, this is what you have been hiding from us, huh?" Griffin taken completely off guard by Mina's response turned to his side to her and said "I'm not ready" as Griffin arced his back and dropped head first towards the ocean and with a sudden blast Griffin flew away.
Lynette still in shock didn't't say a word, the rest of girls shocked to see Lynette in that condition approached Mina and yelled "What happened?" Mina just turned with a single tear in her eye and said "Griffin defended Lynette and went." Barkhorn yelled "where?" Mina turned towards the ocean in the direction Griffin want and said "I don't know, he'll come back when he is ready, Yoshika help Lynette, everyone else return to base were done here."
(Writers note)- My apologies for the lateness of this chapter I needed a lot time to think to write and to create exactly what I wanted to show.
I'm just wondering if anyone is reading this far, a simple comment would help confirm that someone is reading it
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Red