Strike Witches
The Winged Chronicles
Attack
Its been two days, Yoshika still unconscious the girls all come wondering why she did this to her self. Griffin each day has been making the final corrections and modifications to her mechanical limbs. Lynette everyday watches Yoshika hopeful that she will wake up. On the third day in the afternoon Yoshika with a mild grunt opens her eyes and observes the same ceiling she has done before. With her entire body feeling like its been set on fire Yoshika tries to move her left arm. With her left arm above the covers and rubbing her eyes Yoshika tries to lift her right arm. With a sharp pain coming from her shoulder Yoshoka cringes and barely lifts her mechanical arm an inch. The same happens with both her legs, Yoshika with great effort lifts herself up from the bed and sits up with a pillow holding her up. Yoshika using her left arm grabs her right mechanical arm and holds it in front of her and admires the craftsmen ship that went into it. Yoshika attempting to move her fingers on her right hand with a few seconds of frustration a few fingers twitch. Twenty minuets later Yoshika a little clumsily is able to move her hand and wrist with no real difficulties. Yoshika looking around wonders where everyone is pulls the covers towards her to expose her feet. Yoshika with the same determination is able to learn how to move her toes and ankles on both of her new mechanical feet. Feeling Confident Yoshika tries to left her legs up, the pain is dis-concerning as Yoshika continues to move her legs trying to beat out the pain. When the pain doesn't stop Yoshika able to move her right leg works on the left. With the same pain coming from it she takes the pain knowing the reward is far greater than the pain.
A hour has passed and no one as entered Yoshika's room yet, worries Yoshika slowly swings her legs over the edge of the bed and let her new found legs hang over the bed. Yoshika scared of what might happen when she touches the ground she tries to hold herself up on the bed taking the pain from her right shoulder, Yoshika with sweat falling from her face she touches her ground with her new feet. Yoshika exhausting herself out just holding herself up lets herself go and puts her full weight on her legs. With a sharp excruciating pain Yoshika screams from the pain and falls to the ground, with a thud Yoshika hits the ground and a loud metallic clank as her right arm hits the floor. Seconds later a doctor runs in with a nurse attempting to help Yoshika up back into the bed.
When Yoshika is gently placed into the bed Yoshika notices blood spots on the floor where she landed and on her bed sheets where whats left of her legs fused with her new metallic casing. Yoshika shocked quickly decides to heal it her self remembering what Griffin taught her with Lynettes fore arm. Yoshika calms her mind and with some difficulty she leans forward and hovers both her palms above the casing and her legs and as she has done countless times she activates her magic like she always has . But nothing happens, confused and a little scared Yoshika tires even harder. After a few seconds she remembers that her familiar died from the attack. With a tear Yoshika stops trying to activate her magic and just remains there motionless. The doctor watching her asks "i'll call Griffin to help with this" Yoshika looking down nods as a tear drop falls off her face and lands on her right arm.
Yoshika thinking back finds a new source of determination swings her legs over the bed again and holding her hands over her legs tries to activate her magic again. Over and over Yoshika tries to try to use her magic, sweat and tears coming from her face Yoshika upset says "why, i'm a witch, I can use magic" with a sense of self preservation mentally searches inside herself looking for anything. Yoshika not wanting to give up she keeps looking and tries again to activate her magic. Yoshika feeling something different inside her feels some kind of circuit. Desperate for anything Yoshika puts all her magical will into it. In doing so a sharp pain emerges from Yoshika's back. The doctor already left and went to get Griffin, upon Griffin's arrival Yoshika feeling a sharp pain from her back cringes from the pain but doesn't stop. Griffin not sure whats happening, only seeing Yoshika in pain and blood coming out from her legs and her hands above them. Griffin having an idea of whats happening says "Don't Yoshika, your not ready for that yet! You need to learn how to create a proper channel." Yoshika not caring continues to channel magical energy through this object in her. With Lynette and a few other girls coming in due to come commotion only see Yoshika in pain and Griffin standing there yelling at her as two spike start to emerge from her shirt back with blood coming out of them. Yoshika withstanding this tremendous about of pain continues to let this thing emerge from her back. Soon the back of her shirt rips in the back, two blood covered metallic spikes emerge from her back and fan out to make out some sort of winged like object. The girls watch in horror seeing this and look and knowing that those are the same type of wings Griffin has, one of the girls in horror says "Griffin, what have you done?" A immense green light shines from Yoshika's hands and after a few seconds the blood stops and Yoshika turns to the group smiles and falls over to her right side of the bed.
Griffin shocked instantly runs over to Yoshika as the blood covered wings retract inside her, Griffin grabbing a towel off the end of the bed pushes it on Yoshikas back and instantly channels healing magic into the two wounds and with a sense of panic says "Get an IV of blood on her, she's lost a lot of blood." The girls watch in horror not knowing what to do, just stand there till a nurse asks them to leave. The girls stand outside not knowing what just transpired, Mina briskly walking towards the room sees the group and discovers what happened. Mina contemplating tells the group to leave the hallway and "go get to the hangar, there's been some weird readings south of here, but the object keeps getting closer but when we try to confirm it, it just disappears." The girls all reluctantly head towards the hangar and get ready for launch. When all the girls were ready they left in the last known location of the object, Griffin stayed behind. When the girls got about ten minuets away Mina gets a call on her radio with the operator yelling "Its here, the object is at the bast" Mina Shocked turns and sees smoke coming from the base.
Griffin now with Yoshika stable is checking Yoshika's vitals as the siren for an Neuroi attack goes off. Griffin shocked heads towards the door and checks to see if anyone know whats going on. Griffin finding someone running past and asks "whats going on?" the person says "a Neuroi as been spotted in the area" Shocked Griffin starts to head out the door to get armed as the window behind him in Yoshika's room shatters with an explosion. Griffin turns to see the Neuroi right in front of him, Griffin staring at the Neuroi and says "you again" in a angered voice., the doctor and nurse run out of the room as Griffin walks in. The Neuroi is the same Neuroi that is shaped like Yoshika, Griffin turning towards the Neuroi and says "you almost killed Yoshika" as he charges the Neuroi with fist ready. The Neuroi raises its right hand, a slight second charge of red energy in its hand and it shoots a red beam of energy at Griffin. Griffin unable to dodge it tries to put up a shield, with a loud impact as one of the nurses sees Griffin fly out of the room and slam against the back wall in front of the door. With an impact crater Griffin falls to ground with his back to the wall and blood running down his left side of his face unconscious. Yoshika terrified stares at the Neuroi as it hovers there unable to move due to the pain in her limbs and the inability to move here limbs properly.
The Neuroi with a slight shriek faces Yoshika and stares at her for a second and slowly hovers forward. Yoshika with tears in her eyes accepts the fact that she is going to die, when the Neuroi reaches her bed Yoshika closes her eyes and says in a scared distorted voice "Mother, Lynette." A few seconds pass and Yoshika opens her eyes and sees the Neuroi hovering there, Yoshika looks at the Neuroi as the Neuroi opens its chest and shows its core confused Yoshika says "what do you want?" The Neuroi slowly grows fingers on its right hand and slowly reaches for its core. Yoshika not sure what to do just watches unable to do anything. The Neuroi grasps its core and pulls it out, The pulsating core glow's in the Neuroi's hand and it moves it in front of Yoshika. Yoshika scared looks at the core and says "what do you want with this?" The Neuroi takes the core and places it on her chest, Yoshika trying to grab the core and push it away but unable feels more pressure on her chest and with a sharp extreme pain Yoshika screams out as slowly the Neuroi pushes the core into Yoshika's chest. With Yoshika screaming, red/black lightning exploding from her chest the Neuroi ignoring her screams of pain keeps pushing the core in her. Unable to move from the pain Yoshika's entire body is paralysed from the pain, her body convulsing from the stress. Outside the girls a rushing back towards the base as fast as they can hear Yoshika's screaming, Lynette yells in a distressed voice "that's Yoshika's voice" Mina fearing the worst yells "hurry!" As the girls reach Yoshika's room they see the smoke coming from the window, when they get close to the room from the outside they see a red Neuroi beam come from inside the room shoot through the wall towards the ocean.
Inside the room Yoshika screaming the Neuroi finishes forcing the core into her and Yoshika faints from the stress. The Neuroi faces the door sees Griffin with is left arm stretched out facing it and Griffin transforms his hand and with a red crystal coming from his hand a red charge starts to form and in a second Griffin shoots a red beam of energy at the Neuroi's head. The girls enter the room as the Neuroi's body starts to shatter as the girls enter through the hole in the wall. Mina enters seeing the doctor and Yoshika's mother and grandmother trying to help Yoshika, unable to see whats wrong with her only blood on the floor and sheets Mina starts to head towards the door and finds Griffin on the leaning back on the floor with blood over his face and chest leaning his head back. Griffin seeing Mina and unable to get up as the nurse holds him down and starts to wrap some bandages around his head, Griffin in a beat up voice says "is Yoshika ok?" Mina shaking her head says "I font know Yoshika's family is with her right now." Griffin in a sad voice says "i'm sorry, i couldn't react and help faster" as Griffin lays back on the floor and the nurse walks away. The nurse heads down the hall into a unmarked room and grabbing a phone pushes some numbers and starts talking to someone on the other line. After with the doctor and with the help of Yoshika's family they were able to stabilize her, Griffin in Mina's office informs her in what happened as well as the nurse who was there.