Hello everyone!

First, I would like to apologize for not updating, nearly a year and a half now. And another, for not announcing my somewhat *cough* hiatus *cough*, my brain was running out of ideas (Plus School, after school-curriculum, etc. etc.). Plus since its been a while since I updated, my updates may be a bit rusty than my previous work, but I will hopefully be able to get back into the habit of writing my stories.

Second, this chapter is a bit shorter than the rest, since I 'had' been working on this chapter but after seeing how long its been since I updated, being lazy, and some 'effort' to fix some grammars and mistakes in this chapter, I decided to post it. I will be planning to be posting much longer chapters in my stories, the next time I update.

Thirdly, to all the people that enjoy my other stories, I will be updating those stories again...however, I will be updating only certain stories that you people will requesting. If you like me to continue updating a story, leave me a PM or just simply send it in your review, thank you for everyone who continue to still follow and enjoy the stories I made. The rest will be simply dumped or be put up for adoption should anyone like to continue them.

Well enough of my bantering, hope you enjoy the newest update of this story.

Chapter 4

The Homunculus

Normal POV

"Get back here!" Nyte shouted, pursuing the white-haired girl, continuing to jump from building from building.

"You can't catch Mari!" A cat doll appeared on her shoulder, and began shooting tips of its claws at him. The hunter quickly evaded and destroyed all the incoming poison tips that were shot towards him. "Grrr...blue-haired boy is starting to make Mari mad!" She pouted, a porcupine doll appeared on her other shoulder. Mari threw the doll at Nyte; evading it. A small crater then appeared, where he was last standing. The doll then returned back to Mari, before she continued to run off.

"Damn, this girl's persistent" Nyte continued to chase her. 'Hanaruna. You better be alright...' He thought, before he climbed on top of the roof, continuing his pursuit from there. That's when he lost track of her. "What the hell...? Where is she?" He felt something cut his arm, as he felt the poison entering his veins.. "Shit!" He cursed, looking behind him to see Mari.

"Yay! Mari finally hit blue-hair boy!" She cheered. Nyte covered and pressured his wound, with his other hand to prevent the poison from spreading even further.

"Tell me, why are you killing innocent people?!" He asked. He didn't know why a young girl, would be going around killing young womans in the middle of the night. She began to giggle.

"Mari is helping papa with his experiment! Papa said, that he needed blood from beautiful girls. The more cuter the girl is, the better.." She explained. "Papa is using it to make...what was it called again? homuails, homiuls, homniaolus?"

"A homunculus?!" Nyte corrected incredulously.

"Yeah! Papa wants to create a homunculus!" She exclaimed happily. It began piecing everything together. 'A homunculus, of course. No wonder only young female's were targets of murder. Since their blood contains the reproductive cells, which is a key recipe to creating a homunculus.' He thought. 'Shit the poison's spreading fast, I need to get rid of it fast.'

He glanced at the cut on his arm, reaching for his pocket knife and taking it out. He sliced his wrist, and begin to bleed while draining the poison out of his arm. Nyte began breathing heavily, as his wound sting painfully. Once again, wielding his double-edge scythe with his working arm. "Ready for round 2?" He replied. Mari looked at him rather annoyed.

"Blue-hair boy is starting to annoy Mari!" She threw the porcupine doll again at Nyte, but he simply dodged it, and slash the doll in half.

"Câlin! No!" Mari cried. She took another doll, this time a black bear with chainsaw arm. That charged at Nyte. "Monsieur Ours! Avenge Câlin!" As the bear was about to strike; ice began to cover Nyte's body all around. When it hit him, the ice began to spread towards it, and it soon froze the doll. Nyte smashed the frozen doll, shattering it. "Monsieur Ours! Nooo!" The petite girl cried once again. Nyte got into his battle stance once again, to prepare for another attack the girl was preparing. This time she went rushing at him filled with anger, flailing her case at him.

"Why won't blue-haired boy just died!?" She said in pure anger and angst. Her movement slowly became sloppy and her face was filled with fear. Nyte just simply looked at her with a neutral face, dodging all of her attempts of an attack. Before grabbing her wrist, and twisting it behind her.

"Its over..." He said, karate chopping the back of her neck. Knocking her into an incapacitated state, dropping face down, unconscious on the floor. Nyte gaved a breath of relief, before clutching his wounded arm.

' I almost got my ass kicked...' He thought, looking at his injury. 'I need to get this treated too...'. He then took out a disinfectant spray and a bandage, and began treating his arm. Disinfecting the wound first, before applying the bandage wrap around his pained arm. 'I honestly wonder why I even join the blizzards in the first place...' He sighed, and began to tied the arms of the younger of the two.

"Oi! Obsidia, you okay?!" Nyte turned his voice to where the voice was coming from, and saw both a boy with silver-hair and Mizuki approaching him. The hunter looked at the silver-haired boy closely before recognizing who he was.

"Hanaruna is that you?!" He looked at Night in shock, looking at his new appearance.

"I'll tell you later, more importantly..." Night took a glanced at the tied girl. "I see you managed to catch her, so the case is solved." He smiled, Nyte shook his head.

"Not quite, I found out that she was working for her 'papa'. Apparently, she's killing teenage girls and young women, for their blood and giving to him so that this guy can create a homunculus..." Hearing these words, Night expression changed to anger.

"A homunculus?! " He growled. Nyte simply nodded his head in response, Mizuki then spoke.

"Um, not be rude or anything, but what's a homunculus...?" She asked. Night spoke up.

"A homunculus is a man-made heart that amplifies the user's strength, stamina, and even their lifespans. It can also be use to possessed inanimate object to create powerful golems. It makes sense why only females are being targeted..." He paused. "I thought the homunculus stopped being created, after the Slayer Order, killed everyone who possessed or affixed themselves with it. Guess they were wrong..." Night added.

"But can't anyone create homunculus?" Mizuki replied.

"Yeah, but the first king of Hamel banned the practice and made it taboo, stating that it breaks the laws of mother nature and the fact that it requires a human beings own blood to create. Should a person break this law and create one. Their punishment is death." Night said the last part coldly. And glanced towards Nyte. "We better find this guy, otherwise more innocent lives will be lost." He said, sheathing his blade.

"Yeah, but how exactly?" Nyte asked.

"Perhaps she can help us." Night said, gesturing to Mari.

"Yeah, but what if she doesn't cooperate?" Mizuki added.

"Oh trust me, she'll talk." He smirked sadistically, before picking her up and carrying her back to the inn on his shoulder.

At the inn

The three of them waited for Mari to regain her consciousness before deciding to intero...er, question her. She slowly regained consciousness, and looked at the three as her vision started to clear up.

"Huh? Where exactly is Mari at?" She looked in confusion, before noticing the three, gasping. "What are the three of you doing here?!" She said, rather accusingly. Night gestured to her remaining dolls that were all tied up, she gasped once again. "Elizabeth! Everyone!" And began to struggle against her bindings.

"Don't bother those bindings are made out of pure mana, their quite difficult to break with just physical strength." Night walked over to her and sat down on the chair across from her. "So, you can make this easy and cooperate or..." He picked up the group of binded dolls, and grasp his blade on their neck. "You'll be leaving with some 'headless' friends" Night gave a sadistic smile. A hint of malicious aura began emanating around him.

"Is Night always like this?" Nyte had whispered to Mizuki. She shrugged.

"Not that I know of..." She replied. Several moments later, after Night threatened Mari that he would destroy her dolls, she finally gave in.

"Alright, black-hair boy wins! Mari will show Papa's workshop, just please don't hurt Elizabeth and friends..." Mari was on the verge of tears not wanting to imagine the horrors of what Night could do to her 'friends'.

"Good." Night's sadistic persona was soon replaced with his reserved and care-free one. While different thoughts ran through the other two's mind.

'Damn if Night was part of the Blizzards; he would probably be the head of the interrogation squad already...' Nyte thought, shaking a bit in fear.

'Is Night bipolar...?' Mizuki thought airheadly.

"Alright! Now that we know that she's cooperating with us..." Night paused, stretching while the group stared at him intently. Waiting for his answers. "Lets get some sleep..." He plopped on the bed, the two face-faulted at his response.

"Huh?! But shouldn't we be going right now?! What about the innocent lives that could be at stake." Nyte exclaimed, while Mizuki sweatdropped.

"I'm too tired to do anything else for the rest of the night. Besides since we caught the murderer..." Night paused, waiting for the two figure out.

"Oh...as long as she's within our captivity; she can't go on a murder-spree!" Mizuki answered.

"Bingo..." Night gave him a thumbs up, closing his eyes and drifting into a deep slumber. That's when Nyte spoke up.

"Um, there's only two beds..." Nyte replied. It was going to be a long night.

The Next Morning

The three of them had woken up an hour ago and had begin their search for the madman, who was creating a Homunculus. Following Mari, whom was tied in a magic binding and Night holding an extension of the magic binding; preventing her from running, who lead them to the underground sewer of Elder.

"Ugh, the sewer stinks..." Mizuki said, as she pinched her nose to avoid the stench of the sewer. "Mari, are you sure you're leading us to the right direction...? She asked; Mari just nodded her head in response before deciding to reply.

"You know...Mari's papa going to kill the three of you..." She stated, the youngest male of the group looked at her curiously.

"What do you mean...?" He asked. The petite girl just giggled and smiled mischievously while shaking her head in a rhythmic manner.

"Papa is a very powerful man, he's going to kill you all~" She said in a playful and musical tone. A tick mark appeared on Night's head while he was shaking in rage. Trying his best to refrain from smacking or killing the girl. But then, his rage soon turned into a dark and sadistic laugh.

"Huh? What does the black-haired boy find funny?" Mari asked, staring at Night, whom was laughing.

"Hahaha...sorry, but its what you said, about your so called 'father'. Tell me, why do you believe he's powerful...?" Night asked.

"Papa's powerful because he's smart, cool, and caring..." She responded, this only made Night laugh even more.

"Really?! Do you think thats why your papa is powerful...well guess what, ya brat? Your father merely relies on his intelligence and wits. You are simply the one that fights his battles for him...without you, he's just another weak pathetic excuse for a criminal, whose power hungry. After I'm done with him..." Night licked his lips and continued. "Oh...i'll enjoy eating his soul~" Night cried out in ecstasy as he stared at Mari, who seemed to be shaking in fear from the look in Night's face. His face was had a very wide smile, while he eyes seemed to change to a darker hue. You couldn't see a single essence of sanity left into the boy just by looking at his face. It was like seeing a different person. Both Nye and Mizuki looked in disbelief and fear as they saw the way that Night was acting.

"H-Hey Night, are you okay...?" Mizuki was the first to spoke up.

"...Yeah, I'm fine." His once dark and sadistic self had disappeared and reverted back to his former persona. Nyte stared at Night looking at him keenly trying to figure out what made him act just moments ago.

"Could he...have a demon inside him just like me?!" Nyte looked back at Night with caution; the strange transformation, dark persona, and the statement he recently made. All those were signs of demonic containment, that or he's a demon himself. He hoped that he it was the former not wanting to ends his new allies' life. Nyte shooked his head before catching up to the three. They continued to walk for a little while before Mari stopped and face towards the wall with a strange marking inscribed on it.

"Papa's lab is right through here!" She stepped in front of the markings and it began glowing before a flash of light appeared; blinding the group momentarily. Regaining their vision, they saw that the once marked wall was gone and in its place showed a stairways down to somewhere.

"Concealment magic...not a very good one but its sufficient." Night remarked, he went in first along with Mari who is still trapped by the magic bindings. Mizuki and Nyte followed after the two.

As we slowly walk descended down the staircase, the atmosphere got even more tense as I felt a chill on my back. I turned my head slightly to see both Nyte and Mizuki following me and Mari before turning my head to her. I couldn't help but give a look of sympathy and sadness at her, what kind of sick-twisted psychopath would convince a girl to kill people?! I clenched my teeth and growl quietly and paced myself more quickly.

"Here we are, Mari's home" She announced as she spins around in joy, hopping all over the place. The room was filled with puppets, dolls, and toy parts scattered all over place, books piled up on top of one another, and some glass tubes that had a mechanized-heart...a homunculus. It looked exactly what it was described in my uncle's journal; parts of scraps embedded inside the flesh, veins bulging all over the flesh, and a razor-sharp mouth with a pair of eyes on it. Homunculus weren't just man-made hearts that had incredible properties, their also monsters too; a grotesque beast. I unsheathed my blade and slashed the glass tube in half, shattering it and releasing the homunculus.

"Disgusting..." I scowled at it as it squirmed around the ground trying to find something to inhabited. I took one more glance before impaling it with my blade, blood splattering on the floor as it twitched a few times before it stopped moving.

I glanced at Nyte and Mizuki, "Obsidia, Mizuki, you two find the bastard thats started all these murders. I'm going to take Mari and destory all these 'abominations' before they can finish developing." They nodded their heads and went to search for the psycho as I continued to destroy the rest of the homunculus. Sounds of the glass shattering and shattering as I continued to exterminate all of these living hearts.

Puff...I catched my breath, taking a second to relax before I continued destroying the last remaining homunculus, with one more breath, I plunged my blade onto the lost heart; hearing it squirm and bleed to death.

"Thats the last one..." I breathed before looking towards Mari who just vacantly stared at the recently dead homunculus. I sighed before stoically staring at her.

"Oi...can I ask you something?"

"Hm...?"

"Why help this 'papa' of yours? Surely you know that what he's making you do is wrong and unjust." She simply smiled sadly and stared at the ground.

"Before Mari met papa...Mari was all alone." I stared at her incredulously. "Mari had no one...she used to live in the street to fend for herself. No one had even decided to help her, she was left to die..."

"Please sir...spare some change for poor Mari!"

"Buzz off kid!"

"Anybody, excuse me, hello...?"

"Mommy! Why's is that girl only wearing a rag...?"

"Don't look at her..."

All around her Mari saw the people looking at her with estranged expressions hanging on their faces. Wherever Mari went she would always be scoffed at, none of them wanted to associate with her, even as she begged and cried, all they did was ignored her and chased her away. Poor Mari had no one to help her, no one to pity her, no one to love...she was all alone. On a certain night, Mari was laying down in an alleyway, dirty, bruised, and food-deprived. Barely any strength, her vision began to blur as she slowly closed her eyes. Ready to embrace death.

"Oh my...what do we have here?" Mari reopened her eyes and saw a man that looked like he was in his 20's with grey-hair messy sleek hair, wearing a lab coat over his casual-work attire which consist of a open-neck collared and black slacks, wearing black dress shoes.

"Please...help...Ma...ri..." She moaned, unable to speak because of her coarse throat. The man simply smile warmly before picking her up. As she slowly lost conscious of her surroundings.

"Sleep...don't worry I'll always be with you. You'll never be alone ever again." We're the last words she had heard before drifting into a slumber. As the man carry her back to his 'home'.

"If it wasn't for papa, Mari wouldn't have survived...that's why Mari is willing to help papa." She said with hints of determination in her eyes. I stared down at the ground; hair shadowing my eyes. This girl...Mari had suffered even worse than I have. She lived in the street; possibly abandoned at a young age while I was fortunate to be left with my Uncle when my mother had left me. I had someone to comfort and protect me when I was younger, she didn't have anyone and had to fend for herself every night. I stood there silent; not saying anything for a few moments before looking back at her giving her an expression of sympathy and pity. Having a brief moment of silence between them.

"I see...sorry for being a jerk, Mari."

"Mari forgives Night..." She shrugged and smiled nonchalantly; giving a small smile in response.

"Thanks..."

"AIEEEEEEE!" Mari and I turned to the direction of the sound of Mizuki screeching. My instinct acted as I headed towards the sound of Mizuki's voice; Mari soon following me after.

'Mizuki...Obsidia...what the hell is going on...?" I thought hoping that certain royal 'blunette' wouldn't get hurt...or worse.

And thats it for this chapter, now before I go, I decided to add something the end of each chapter called Rebirth the Elrios: The Uncut Edition; in which I take a part from the story and decide to tune it up a bit...well I hope you enjoy.

Rebirth of Elrios: The Uncut Edition 01

"Vale! Vale! Please wake up!" Tears began to flow down my face. Slowly his eyes open, and I felt relieved.

"Night..." He was trying hard to speak.

"Please don't speak. It'll only make it worse." I said, and he began to smile.

"Night, there's something...I have to tell you..." Night looked at him incredulously, still pained at seeing the man who raised like a son.

"That I've been the son you never had, due to the fact that your a forty-nine year old crippled man that's single and unmarried." Night bluntly remarked; expecting him to get angry at him like he always do, instead he smiled before speaking once more.

"Just shut up and listen..." Vale paused, taking a deep breath before speaking to the 15-year old Oriental boy.

"Where...the hell...is the GROCERIESSSSSSSSSS!" His voice slowly transition into anger as his eyes went wide as a plate, continuing to scream for a few long seconds, before he died, eyes closed.

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"AWWWW SHIT!" Night yelled, remembering that he left the 'groceries' back at velder. The two man who had just murdered, Night's surrogates father, simply stared at the dead man; wondering what the hell just happened in these past few seconds.

And that's a wrap on the Uncut Edition, what do you guys think...? Do you want to see more of the uncut edition, if so, let me know; possibly PM me for ideas, for both the story and the 'Uncut' short stories.

Hope you enjoyed this update and I'll see you guys next time. Peace!