Strike Witches
The
Winged Chronicles
Vengeance
After Griffin walks around a brick wall Barkhorn quickly walks towards Lynette and takes her from Yoshika who was having a little difficulty holding her in her arms and says "lets take her to the doctor" Yoshika nods and they walk into the base. When the doctor inspects Lynette he shakes his head and says "aside from being exhausted there's nothing wrong with her, no injuries that I could find" Barkhorn and Yoshika a little surprised say "anything we can do for her?" The doctor crosses his arms and says "I would leave her until she wakes up and then she can leave" both of them nod and walk out of the room.
A few hours later Lynette wakes up again staring at the roof not remembering how she got there, Lynette sits up and discovers she's in the medical ward, Lynette lifts her right hand in front of her remembering what just transpired just hours ago. Lynette opens and closes her metallic hand inspecting it. To her surprise only with a slight throbbing her arm was fine, Lynette sits on the side of the bed and thinks about her next action. With a few minuets pondering she gets up and heads out to the mess hall wondering everyone else is. As Lynette approaches the door she can hear Barkhorn yelling from around the corner, the closer she got the more she could understand what she was saying. As Lynette walks into the door she can finally clearly understand what Barkhorn was yelling "That Scum, How could He treat her like that!" "It's his fault shes in that condition in the first place" "I'm gona make him suffer, just like Lynette did" when Lynette is clearly visible in the room Barkhorn stops talking and stand up and briskly walks over to her and putting both her hands on her shoulders says "are you ok?" Lynette a little embarrassed looks down at the floor with a slight smile and says "i'm fine" as Barkhorn shocked lowers her arms confused says "how come?" Lynette confused and slightly scared stares her directly in her eyes and Lynette slightly tilts her head to the right.
Barkhorn slightly angered takes a step back with her left leg and says " you were brutally injured at were caused intense pain caused my Griffin." Lynette lowers here eye browns and replies " It was my choice" Shirley leans back on her chair with semi serious eyes and says "I'm with Barkhorn on this one" most of the girls nod and says words of agreement, Lynette turns to Yoshika who looks at her shakes her head and continues to make dinner plates. Lynette feeling beaten grabs a plate and sits down and the rest of the girls now change the conversation back to their normal routine. Lynette looks around the room noticing that only Mina, Sakamoto and Griffin are missing for dinner, and with that thought from around the corner the sound of metallic thumping and clicking as Griffin comes around the corner with a slight relaxed/serious look in his face, when Griffin walks into the room all the girls stop talking and they don't look his direction. Griffin feeling the grouped anger directing towards him walks is without hesitation expecting this kind of treatment grabs a plate and sits alone at his normal table by the window. Griffin starts to eat his meal with out saying a word or slight sign of remorse, after a few tense minuets without anyone saying a word the only sound of slicking forks and spoons on porcelain. Barkhorn the entire time barely doing anything but tapping her finger on the table and looking at her place stands up with both hands on the table and looking at wall ways "I can't eat in the presence of such a despicable person." the rest of the girls shocked just sit there not moving watching as Barkhorn stomps out,Griffin on the other hand nonreactive to Barkhorns outburst keeps eating the entire time the escapade took place. After Barkhorn left everyone else just sat there quietly and ate, after Griffin finished eating and walked out of the dining room the rest of the girls relaxed and started to finish up and slowly start talking again.
About half a hour later when everyone was doing their own thing and it was starting to get dark out a loud smash emitted from outside and echoed through out the base. Most of the girls ran out of their rooms expecting a Neuroi attack, gathering asking the same question as smash after smash echoed through the area. When the girls run towards the noise outside they find Barkhorn in front of a immense steel bar left over from the bases construction, slightly rusted Barkhorn smashes her fist into the steel bar and another smash echoed, the girls watch in fear as they see Barkhorn in absolute rage throwing punch after punch into this steel bar and with her immense magical strength is slowly beating this four foot solid steel bar into two pieces. Barkhorn falls to her knees drenched in sweat breathing heavily with the steel bar successfully broke in two gets back up and walks away like nothing has happened, mean while everyone else is hiding behind the wall too scared to say anything. Everyone heads to their respectable rooms and heads to bed. Mean while in front of Griffin's door shadows and flashes of light leak through the bottom.
The following morning everyone slowly enters the dining hall one after another, when everyone gets settled the breakfast starts like any other. Lynette looking around the room asks Yoshika who is setting next to her and asks "where 's Griffin" Yoshika sipping some Miso soup says "he's been in his room the entire night, i heard he came in and grabbed something during the night" as she continues to eat. Barkhorn seeming calm eats like nothing has happened, the only problem in Lynette's eyes was that she wasn't talking to anyone. Lynette shrugging it off thinking that she was just a little tired from her workout session outside finishes her meal and with Yoshika beside her they walk out of the dining hall. A few hours later Yoshika approaches Lynette and asks "what are your plans for the rest of the day?" Lynette crossing her left arm across her body and thinking rubs her forearm says "I need your help?" Yoshika ponders wondering what she could help her with and agrees.
Lynette heads into the hangar with Yoshika following behind and and Lynette picks up a pistol and some ammunition and loading the gun says "i need to continue training, and i need your help since Griffin isn't around" Yoshika a little scared says "but, you don't need to hurt yourself like that" Lynette determined says "if I ever want to fly again I need to do this" Yoshika worried says "I don't want to but I can't let you do this alone" as she nods with caring spirit in her eyes. The two head towards the exact some spot and Lynette picking up the gun looks around and only seeing Yoshika takes a deep breath in and clears her mind. Lynette aims at the ocean and fires the gun. Instantly she feels the excruciating pain that she was expecting,Lynette falls to one knee with gun still in hand with her left hand grasping her right forearm takes a deep breath and a single tear falling from her eye musters the strength to get back up, Yoshika worried just stands there with her arms grasped at her chest and just watches. Lynette takes aim and again and takes another shot. During this a few girls hear the gun shots and head towards the windows to check what the gun shots were coming from, so did Griffin. This time Lynette feels the exact same pain again but she holds her ground, with another deep breath she fires again, and again. After the fifth shot Lynette falls to her knees and Yoshika seeing blood coming from her arm rushes over and starts to heal. A few of the girls head outside to the court yard to watch, Barkhorn is one of them with a look of confusion and annoyance Griffin at the other end of the court yard watches alone with his arms crossed. Lynette sits there gathering her strength and says "thanks" in a exasperated voice, Yoshika nods and concentrates at the job at hand, what Yoshika didn't say was that she herself was worried about her healing ability, she wasn't sure on how to heal her arm. Yoshika has only healed organic body parts not inorganic parts. Lynette gets up when Yoshika stops healing and continues firing, this routine continues for thirty minuets and during this time Yoshika and Lynette are both getting tried. Yoshika falling to the ground in a expired voice says "I can't go on anymore, i'm sorry Lynette" Lynette also tired says "its ok" as she gets back up to her feet and continues firing the gun.
Griffin noticing that Yoshika is on the ground exhausted start to walk towards Lynette to take over healing, Barkhorn seeing Griffin coming from the other side head towards Lynette at an angle to intersect him, Griffin instantly seeing Barkhorn walking in the same direction staring and walking at an angle towards him. When the two are about 30 feet from each other Barkhorn stops and faces him and Griffin does the same, Barkhorn yells "I still have a bone to pick with you" Griffin yelling back "I dont want to fight you". Barkhorn pulling up her sleeves says "but I do" , as Barkhorn tilts her chest towards Griffin and activates her magic and charges at him,Barkhorn yelling "Ahhhh!" Griffin a little surprised stands his ground as Barkhorn charges him, when Barkhorn get within four feet of Griffin she throws her right arm back and throws all her strength and throws a punch straight at his chest. Griffin without moving his arm twitches his fingers and as Barkhorn threw her punch hits shield after shield until her hand hit Griffin's chest like she was just a normal girl Griffin looks at her with an emotionless face and says "you can't win". Barkhorn annoyed instinctively grabs his shirt and arks her back and throws a right kick towards his face, again shields pop up to soften the blow and she again hits him with the strength of a girl. The entire time Griffin maintaining motionless, the rest of the girls now watching the conflict as well as Lynette and Yoshika. Barkhorn angry pushes of Griffin and does a back flip and charges him again and throws another punch and Griffin slows it down again, Barkhorn frustrated yells "fight back" and throws punch after punch and Griffin stops every single one without moving. During this the rest of the girls are amazed that Barkhorn the strongest witch can't even hurt Griffin, and how Griffin can stop Barkhorn witout even moving. Barkhorn now tried and starting to breath heavily falls to one knees and says "fight back!", Griffin says "no", Barkhorn angry yells "fight me seriously!"
Griffin shakes his head and says "this is pointless " and starts to walk away and heads towards Lynette, Barkhorn now over the edge reaches into her coat and pulls out a gun and points it at Griffin. The rest of the girls gasp seeing this. Griffin hearing a faint noise stops, Barkhorn yells "I want you to fight me seriously" as she pulls the trigger. As the gun goes off all the girls hear another screech as Griffin disappears right in front of Barkhorn. Barkhon shocked says "where did he go" as she scans in front of her. Erica yells "Trude! behind you" as Barkhorn turns and sees Griffin standing behind her with his wings out staring at her with eyes of killing intent. Barkhorn like a bolt stands up, before Barkhorn could even get a hand up Griffin instantly had his arm around her throat. Griffin raises Barkhorn off her feet and holder her in the air, only holding her up he wasn't closing her wind pipe only holding her up from her jaw bone. Barkhorn scared grabs his wrist trying to get him to let go as she kicks him with all her might and Barkhorn hits a shield but it instantly stops and she breaks a few toes on her left foot from the impact. Griffin brings her face towards his and says "now i'm serious" as he pulls her body towards his and with his strength throws her in a straight motion outward. Barkhorn flies ten feet into the air before she hits the ground, Barkhorn grabs the slate with her right hand and flips back into the air and lands on her feet. As soon as she landed another screech and Griffin is right in front of her again. Griffin throws his left arm in front of her face and in a cold voice says "this is me being serious" as his mechanical hand splits in half right down the middle finger and again down the index and ring finger, the four pieces start to spin as a red crystal comes out from the centre. Barkhorn now scared within an instant throws her arms in front of her face as the fingers shoot electricity into the crystal and a red beam of energy shoots right at Barkhorn's face. Barkhorn with a second before the beam its her face gets launched backwards with smoke surrounding the area and Barkhorn flying backwards and screaming from shock. Barkhorn flying in the air another screech sounds as Griffin is in front of Barkhorn as she is heading towards him. Griffin moves to the side as she flies past him, when her chest is in front of him Griffin raises his arm and in a single action hit Barkhorn straight in the stomach. Barkhorn landing on her back the impact sends her two inches into the slate and debre heads into all directions Barkhorn lets out a faint "GAH!" sound as her head tilts back from the pain, trying to get up Griffin standing above her, Barkhorn tries to get up and Griffin slams onto Barkhorns right arm breaking her radius bone, Barkhorn screams from the pain as a loud snapping sound echo's through out the area. Many of the girls cringe from the sound alone, pointing his left hand and the mysterious weapon at her Griffin stands there letting Barkhorn feel the pain as she tries to get his foot off her arm. Barkhorn terrified closes her eyes as Griffin with no sign of remorse charges up his weapon and fires. Everyone shocked at Griffin lack of remorse just stands there as Erica yells "Trude!" as she starts to charge at Griffin, when Erica reaches Griffin she throws a punch at Griffin and he disappears with another screech and appears behind her, Erica shocked tries to elbow his as he grabs her arm and says "my fight isn't with you" as Griffin looks at the smoke starts to clear as Erica expecting the worse sees a mini shield in front of her face and Barkhorn just laying there not believing what just transpired. Griffin knowing where the shield came from turns towards Lynette who has her hand facing them with tears in her eyes says "stop this!" As Griffin transforms his hand back to normal and letting Erica go walks towards Lynette. Lynette a little scared just stands there waiting for Griffin to make a move, when Griffin reaches Lynette raises his right hand towards her and Lynette not sure what to do stands there waiting for Griffin to act. Griffin gently grabs Lynette's right wrist and says "i'll take over for Yoskika" as the rest of the girls stand here wondering what just transpired seeing this man single handily almost killed Barkhorn is being to gentle with Lynette. As Griffin starts to heal her forearm and talking to Yoshika pointing at Lynette's wrist from the distance not showing any signs of what just happened.
Barkhorn gets up with Erica's help and takes her to the medial ward, as the rest of the girls are not sure what to make of the situation. Lynette continues to train till it gets dark and they head in for dinner. The meal fell on silent ears as no one knew what to say or do about Griffin. After twenty minuets transpire as Barkhorn enters the dining hall with a cast on one arm and a cast on the other foot and the faint impression of bandages behind her shirt, everyone basicly sits there in shock seeing first hand what Griffin can do when he goes all out. Griffin seeing Erica and Barkhorn enter he gets up from his table and heads towards there direction. Seeing this Shirley among other girls start to get ready to move if Griffin starts to hint of attacking Barkhorn again. Barkhorn staring at Griffin with eyes of hate stands her ground looking directly at his eyes, Griffin looking at her sighs and squats and slowly grabs her right arm. Everyone shocked stares wondering what his is doing. Griffin with his left hand holding the cast makes a green ball in his right palm and after a few seconds pushes it into the cast. After a long minuet Griffin snaps the cast with his left hand and the rest of the girls stand up thinking that he just broke her other bone lets Barkhorn pull her arm back and recognize that her radius bone isn't broke anymore stares at Griffin with a face of disbelief. Griffin now having his left hand out near her foot Barkhorn lifts her foot and Griffin does the same process again and he snaps the cast off. Barkhorn puts some pressure on her foot an finds that her toes are healed. Griffin stands up and heads back towards his chair and sits back down and continues to eat his meal. And again the girls are left standing in shock and awe at his actions.
For the following week Griffin, Lynette and Yoshika worked together in preparing Lynette to reenter battle. After the the end of the second week Griffin takes out his double Gatling gun out and hands it to Lynette, the weight of the gun causes her to tilt to one side and almost fall over, Lynette steadies her as she takes the gun and aims at the the ocean and fired the gun. Lynette not being used to such a powerful weapon is whisked off her feet and flies in the air for a few feet and lands on her behind in shock of what just happened. Griffin and Yoshika standing there not moving. Griffin with her usual emotionless expression and Yoshika with a face of concern Lynette gets up, pats off the dust and fires again. This time being able to hold her ground, Griffin nods his head and says "your ready." The three head out towards the hangar as Lynette for the first time in almost a month puts on her striker pack and flies out of the hangar with Yoshika by her side and Griffin watching from below.