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The Remnants: Volume 3

~Previously~

Auro enters the bar; noticing that all of the lights within the building we're turned off. Even certain electrical pieces we're turned off, when they we're purposed to be on 24/7. Auro felt a sense of dread; something that he never felt since he first got back to Mistral. He then decided to try to go down to the basement.

As he opened the door, he slowly went down. Sure enough, he saw the flickering lights of the LCDs on, but with Nanto sitting, analyzing several files. Auro slowly walks; as Nanto says, "Auro." He then stops, and says. "Nanto. I need to express something to you." Nanto doesn't respond, as she keeps looking at the displays.

He then just talks, thinking that Nanto won't listen; "Last night, Uza and Mary Sangria we're at our complex. They both warned me if I stayed with Elena, dispair and suffering would come down to everyone I would know. And as they left..they left a letter, just for me."

Nanto stops.

She then turns, with her face filled with a pale and blank expression. Auro then says, "In it..they told me something, that I don't want to believe. Something that I think you've been hiding from me ever since I first saw you at Rao Do." Her face changes, with a look that she was going to lose something. She then says, "..I'm..I'm sorry Auro. I tried getting you to turn from the Remnant Program in a way..that I wish that I just told you before that day.."

Auros face then changes. Nanto sees it as anger and sadness combined to one co-existing piece. "I should of told you, that you and I are in essance, family. And I'm sorry for leaving you." Once she said that, Auros eyes widen. He realizes what she said; and that it was what the letter said.

Nanto then says; "Nineteen years ago..I was saved by Thomas St. Petersmith. He was a huntsman that was trying to get some food for his family. But on the day, he saw me barely limping; and breathing after an incident with four alpha Beowolfs. He saved me. Out of anyone that could of, he did. After that; his wife took me in and treated me as such. I wasn't able to walk for over a month.

"And when you left.." Auro asks, slowly. "When I left, I knew I wanted to have a child. And with multiple tests..it was very little of a chance. That is..until I meet someone..that I now regret. She gave me the ability to reproduce..and, here you are. Sixteen years after that birth; here we are, talking about it." She stands, "Auro; I am sorry for leaving you behind. But I knew that the best people to take care of you we're the Petersmiths. They would of allowed you to stay out of this..but, it seems that fate is a bitch in that regard anyways."

As Nanto finishes her saying, Auro says; "And in a question, why did you not come to me when I was older..you know..before the riot." as Nanto was about to say, Arietta came rushing down. Nanto quickly looked at Arietta as she said; "Arietta, whats wrong?" She gives off multiple points of sign language that makes Nanto move fastly when she finishes. Auro then says, "Whats wrong?" as he sees Nanto ready her weapon. Nanto rushes, as Auro stops her as she almost wraps up. "Nanto. As your son, I need to know. Considering the odds of you and I being of blood."

Nanto then says, "Arietta informed me that we're going to be attacked by White Fang."

Chapter XI: Light The Fire, of which you Burn.

Nanto rushes out to the building's second floor, glancing quickly at the dozens of White Fang soldiers starting to line up all around the building. She then hears, from above her; "Nanto." she turns, seeing a man in brown and red clothing. She then thinks, "hmm..Adam doesn't want to show himself." after that, Nanto laughs saying; "Oh god, out of anything; I never imagined that you would want to be his lapdog. Quite literally this time!"

He looks down, with a frustrated facial expression, as Arietta silently runs to a vantage point; away from the house. She jumps up to the vantage point, only a few houses away as she holds a long, but small box in height. Arietta opens the box, revealing a sniper rifle; with Arietta getting it set up. She then glances, seeing the endless amount of soldiers covering most of the exterior portion of the house.

During that, Nanto sees the individual as he speaks; "I have come here to bring you to Mr. Taurus at this moment, due to your unjustified acts against our forces; you are being ordered to face Adam." Nanto laughs again, saying; "And who exactly in the bright mind of the White Fang came up with this stupid as hell idea?!"

The individual stopped, as it all went quiet. Nanto then hears someone shouting "Screw this!" as some of the members start to walk away from the plot. Arietta notices, as she is surprised. During this, Nanto and the individual see most of the soldiers leaving as eventually; they leave, only leaving the three of them. Nanto says; "Whats wrong? Too upset with your bitter defeat?" as she finally sees him jumping down to the building's exterior portion on its second floor.

She looks at him, as she says; "Look, I know you are trying to deal with this personally; but you know you can be better than Adam. Especially considering his more 'radical' ways of working. So please, trust me for once as I know you've had issues." Arietta looks, as she aims. Nanto says; "Please, Mangian." Mangian looks back at Nanto, as she is sincere. He then says; "If only I could tell the truth."

Nanto walks, before Mangian vastly pierces her with a red-glowing dagger; named Sorrowful Flames. Mangian says; "Sorry Sori, but I had to." He then gets shot in his right shoulder as he lets go of the blade; as he says, "...You have your own cloaked ally." He turns, noticing the area where Arietta is as she realizes that she blew her cover. She then tries to run before being kicked to the ground from a girl in black and white.

Nanto then hears; "Hello darling.." as she knows its Adam Taurus behind her. Adam says; "Well done, Assistant Pastonbol." as he looks right at Mangian with the mask on. Mangian says; "What about Belladonna?" just as he says that; Adam and Mangian noticing the body of Arietta flying over to the building. Not too long, the woman in black jumps in saying "Nice plan Paston."

Mangian asks "Is she alive?" to which; Blake says "Yes, she is." as Adam turns to her. Blake stops, as Adam says "Find the prodigal individual.." as Blake falls down to the ground floor. Nanto crawls herself up, with both Mangian and Adam noticing it with Nanto saying "Why do you care about my son?" Adam kicks Nanto as she faces the ceiling. Adam says back "Its because I want to eliminate everything you stand for. And in that, I have to destroy what you love most. From your friends to family, everything will go down on a pyre."

During that, Blake inspects all throughout the bar, trying to find Auro as he is nowhere to be found. She then finds the way down to the basement and pry's it right open. She then goes down, seeing the bag Auro had wide open with nothing in there. She also sees the gauntlets that Auro use were on the ground.

While she looks; above is the figure of Auro, hiding in the shadows away from Blake. He then sees the opportunity and drop kicks Blake when she didn't notice in a brand new combat outfit. Blake notices that Auro was wearing a new combat vest, yellow and dark red. And he had a new weapon; custom made from himself as it was a brand new set of gauntlets. And those gauntlets as he turned to his fighting stance, a blade rose from each one with fire on each blade. So when he grew into his fighting stance, Blake and Auro began to fight as he and Blake fought close to each other.

Blake also used her semblance, to a varying decree of success, but Auro learned quick as the place started to burn by Auro's new weapon going to new extreme powers. And in so, Auro runs to the rooftops with Blake pursuing him. And as the place starts to burn, Adam and Mangian notice as they decide to leave Nanto; which was mostly crippled and Arietta as she was knocked out to die in the flames as they evade.

Soon after they leave, the fire starts to wake Arietta up as she quickly notices Nanto. She rushes to her, before noticing the flames starting to take its toll to the infastructure as Nanto looks. Nanto says, "Arietta; leave." as Arietta looks at Nanto. She nods in a negative way, as Nanto yells "Arietta, Please-" before Arietta punches Nanto in the face. She then grabs Nanto and takes her to the vantage point she originally was at.

Nanto lies with blood being lost as Arietta had to use her semblance. And for the first time, Arietta speaks; as she presses her hands on the part where the blade was as her eyes; silver glows to a bright white color. And during that, Arietta chants "For the ones to seek, heal this being from her pain and suffering. Please help her feel better, to live another day. Please let her have the ones she love to see her as what she could be..please."

Arietta stops, as she takes away her hands from Nanto as Arietta starts to see a light; shining onto the point where she was hit as it vanishes after two minutes. Nanto then wakes, noticing Arietta crouched next to her. Nanto is confused, but she realizes that she feels much better from after the fight as she asks Arietta with her eyes back to what she was; "..ar...Arietta? What the hell is this?" Arietta says, "Its going to be something that I need to explain at a later time. But I'm glad that I can speak now without you being freaked of something.."

Meanwhile, Auro and Blake fight as Auro then feels an agonizing pain. He screams as Blake isn't sure what to do. But before she could attack him again, a huge blast of heat blew Blake away from a rooftop to the ground; as Auro is fogged within a large flame. Everyone in the area notices as eventually, the flame catches the attention of the authorities.

Soon, the authorities start trying ways to stop the burning; with all options not working. The authorities then catches the attention of the army, as they eventually tried taking bigger motives. But as those motives worked, the fire relinquishes, revealing nothing left. And in that, the authorities searched the entire district, but couldn't find anything related to it; so they called the search off.

Nanto and Arietta aren't sure to do anything, until Auro walks to them. They see lines of burning flames; almost like it was etched in as a tattoo as he says "We have to get the living shit out of this city." Nanto asked, "..Son? What happened to your..everything?" as he isn't sure what she meant. He thought about it, and then said "Oh, my new get-up? I knew that something was up, so I had something I had hid from everyone. And its something that I had made when I was about..11? So it isn't that long."

Arietta's jaw is open, shocked as she says "How the hell can you do that at that young age?!" As Auro faintly laughs, "Only if you weren't wanting to be a farmboy and more as a mechanic.." He then picks up Nanto as he says to her; "Mother, you ok?" as Nanto states "I am fine..but follow me." as Auro, Arietta and Nanto go to the garage. Nanto opens it back up, seeing the Phantom from the Ro Dao incident.

Auro says "So this is the motorcycle that Margro apparently tried to drive to get Nao the hell away from you..remind me, why the hell are you two against eachother?" Nanto walks to the Phantom as she says "Its something that I've personally had to deal with for a long while..its also something that doesn't need to be talked about." She then flips a switch, as another motorcycle pops right from below the three of them.

Nanto says, "Arietta; have Auro ride that with you as I go on the Phantom." Arietta says; "Yes ma'am." As she gets on. "Auro, you sit in the passenger seat." Auro sits; as he grabs onto his seat as the motorcycles start to take off. And as so, they start to make their way out of the city, via tunnels and passageways all the way to the borders. Soon after that, they found a way to exit; and in so, eventually reached the cottage a few hours later.

When they land into the main driveway with the three noticing Nao. And as soon as the motorcycles stop, one of the individuals on it gets off and stands. Nao says, "Well hello again..Nanto." He then sees Nanto take off her helmet as he notices the taking off of Auros helmet as hes confused. Auro says, "Nao? What the hell...what the hell happened to you?" as Auro and Nanto notices the prosthetic arm.

Nao's face is stale and blank as he says; "...lets just say I got the wrath of your previous clientele." He then says to Auro, "Where is Elena, and Margro?" Auro looks at Nanto, and says as he looks away from Nao; "They took Elena, and Margro's being dealt with by the government to improve on her social behavior." Nao stops, not knowing what to say; but only tells Nanto, "Nanto, hold down the fort." Nao runs, as Nanto looks towards him as he evades through the fog.

Nanto, Arietta, and Auro all look at each other. And in so, they all collectively ask at the same time "What the hell is up with him..?" as they start to come in. A while afterthat, Nao returned with Elena in his arms as he and Nanto treated her; making sure she was fine to when she eventually woke up a few hours later.

~After Auro Explaining~

Auro and Elena stand on the balcony, as he says; "I have grown to finally have something new..something, I never had. Power in a way; but it felt chaotic." Elena stares to the woods, as she says "..Something occurred to me, when I originally started use my..gift..it gave off a chaotic, feeling. Almost untamed in a certain way. Perhaps its related?" Auro looks at her. "What do you mean, by 'gift'?"

Elena looks at Auro; saying, Your semblance is based off of the use of fire, and mine is based off the use of earthly materials like dirt, rock, and other materials like that. Perhaps we all relate in some form to a way the world works?" Auro stops, as he thinks about it. And before he tries to say anything; he stops himself and looks to the woods.

"..Ele, what do you think is happening to Margro?" Elena turns, "Why do you ask that?" A moment of silence went. Auro then says, "Maybe the key lies to Margro? Because If she has similar abilites; we can connect it all together.." as the morning goes on with Nao listening in secret.

Nao thinks to himself, as Crimson asks in his mind; "Master, do you want to open an record of every member's semblan-" as Nao nods negatively. Nao thinks to crimson; "No, something isn't right. Its almost like we need to know more before we start something like that."

"Because hopefully," he leans with a bottle of water in his hand; "Margro can be the answer to this."

~To be Continued in Chapter XII – The Slave of the winter gust?~