Pardon the late update. My laptop broke. Thankfully I was still able to retrieve my datas.
OK… The first chapter is about FemMC point of view, the second chapter about Soma, and so… we arrived at the third chapter! This time it'll be about both of them and finally there'll be actual romance here and there. My bad if Soma looks OOC, and I bet he will.
O yea, in case you didn't notice, I haven't even once put the FemMC's name… I don't know what name should I give her… Maybe I'll use the one from my GE game…
Please pardon my typo or grammar mistake. English is not my native language. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: Refer to the first chapter's disclaimer, again.
Cafetaria, Noon
Another nice day at the Den… The former leader of First Unit was back, missions were done without casualties, and today's dessert was the famous sweet flan! There was no way anyone would miss today's lunch, so is the entire troop of First Unit of Far East Fenrir branch. Everyone just finished their main course, chatting happily while waiting for the flan to be distributed.
"And, and, I blast its head with one shot and it went, like," Kota opened his hands high up in the air, like a kid, and yelled "…BOOM! I always know I'm awesome!"
Alisa sneered. "Hah! Someone awesome would never trip and roll down the rubbles after shooting like that."
"Hey! Don't tell them that! It was supposed to be perfect…"
After smiling a little to Kota and Alisa's friendly bickering, the First Unit leader stood up her chair and sat down on Lindow's right side. The group knew what this meant, it was the time for her daily, if not hourly, odd behavior of hugging Lindow's right arm. The atmosphere went heavy along with her mood, but Kota and Alisa could only bicker one another again to lighten up the mood while Lindow and Sakuya tried to console her, and Soma… just being Soma, though his eyes were kinda filled with worry every time this happened.
"Lindow, Sakuya, may I…" asked the First Unit captain with pleading eyes with a glint of guilt.
"Go ahead. I know you miss him." Lindow offered her his aragami arm. "It's okay, right, Sakuya?"
"Yes, it's okay," answered Sakuya, suppressing her look of worry and confuse to not disturb her fragile captain.
The brunette captain smiled with gratitude, just like every time they allow her to do so. "Thank you."
Without wasting any second, she carefully touched the magenta core of Lindow's arm, being as gentle as she could. Slowly, slowly, she embraced his arm, placing the pulsing core near her left ear. Her face would show the mixture of happiness, contentment, and endless sadness. Sometimes without the former captain willing to, Lindow's black arm would caress her cheek and she accepted it like it was natural. A big smile and feeling of relieve came over her and she let go of Lindow's arm.
The First Unit captain held up her head, face her predecessor, and with glassy eyes said "You're lucky to have him, Lindow. Take good care of him."
"You bet, rookie," Lindow said with his usual sloppy big brother look. A bit surprised with her different line, but relieved nonetheless. "And I bet he's happy to have someone like you to care for him."
There they go again… When Lindow and his successor stated talking about 'him', it was like they went to a different world full of fond memories yet sadness. The others were always wondering of this person they talked about, but not Soma. He perfectly knew who they were talking about, about this… Ren ghost. This Ren was Lindow's God Arc and his leader's beloved. Sure, Soma was thankful that Ren helped her smile through the darkest time and kept Lindow from turning into a full aragami, but if memories of him gonna make her mourn like this, than it would be better off without Ren in her memories.
Suddenly… Tlink!
Soma put down a plate of sweet flan in front of his leader and all eyes on the table were wide open in disbelieve.
"Shit. Forgot the spoon. Wait a sec." And away again with Soma.
After eyeing Soma and making sure he was quite far away from their table, Kota, being the bluntest and dumbest of all, said it first. "Are my eyes playing tricks on me? Please tell me I'm not the only one who saw that…"
The next one was Sakuya. "Soma? That Soma actually do something simple and nice for someone else?"
Curious of how he did it, Alisa looked to her back toward the amazing line for the sweet flan. "Oh my… For heaven's sake… Did he really get in that long line for the flan? When did he do that?"
"Well, well, finally that kid grow up a little!" said Lindow, like a proud father seeing his child finally learn how to pick up a chick, not bothering to lower his voice volume. "So rookie, how 'zit feel to be the first person Soma gave flan to?"
Before even thinking what to say to Lindow, the brunette girl was surprised by a spoon in front of her, handed by Soma personally. Tonelessly he said "Here. Eat."
With everyone's eyes on her, and a weird feeling of having to eat right there and now, the leader groggily accepted the spoon, picked up the flan, aaaand… hap. There went a bite of flan. As she continued to chew the flan, a smile started to form on her face, and turned into a mellifluous little laugh. Fortunately she didn't forget to swallow it beforehand.
"Haha… Ahahaha. Ahahahaha. Th-the flan's… somehow, haha, sweeter now."
As if her words were a cue, other members of First Unit started to sneer, which somehow became a giggle, and turned into a fit of laughter that filled entire cafeteria. Of course all of the members did that, except Soma. The platinum blonde only observed his leader's pleasant laugh as he filled himself with the contentment of making her cheerful once more.
Forgotten Carrier, Afternoon
The First Unit mission this time was to eradicate a Quadriga on the Forgotten Carrier. For this mission, a four-man team was formed, consisted of the unit's leader, Soma, Kota, and Alisa. While Soma and Alisa busy distracting the tank aragami, Kota hid in a perfect spot above and between rusty carriers, having a good aim on its head, and the female buster-blader aimed for its front armor.
"Soma, it's getting closer to Kota, lure it to your place! Kota, shift your position a bit to your right! Alisa, cover Kota!" ordered the leader, her official khaki battle uniform's cape swept around to left and right along with her ponytail brown hair.
On her cue, Soma jumped and lightly hit the Quadriga's head, earning its attention, and tricked it to heading south and souther as Soma took it away from Kota. Kota too, swiftly got up from his sniping mode and ran a bit to his right, lying on his stomach once he found another good hiding spot. As Kota still getting ready to aim its head, Alisa diligently blocked all Quadriga's stray bullets that may get to Kota. And the leader? Dumbly caught one of the stray bullets. Luckily she switched her buster blade to shield in the nick of time. If she was 0.1 second late, she would have to kiss goodbye to her dear life.
"Dammit!" Soma saw her down with smoke dancing around her so no guessing whether she made it or not. "Alisa! Kota!"
"I'm on it!" The Russian girl ran toward her leader, ready to give a link-aid or some recovery pills.
"Got it!" Kota got out of his hiding place and help Soma to distract the aragami from the girls. "How is she, Alisa?"
Alisa checked on her superior through the smoke, seeing a silhouette of a barely standing girl. "Leader! Are you okay?"
"Ugh… That was really careless of me…" whined the brunette. "Well, other than my left foot, my pride hurts so much it needs to hide from the world."
"God! You have me worried there, leader!" Alisa sighed, relieved, and gave her a recovery pill.
After swallowing the pill, her oracle cells began its magic on healing her, and the First unit leader now stood again on her feet. "My bad everyone! I'm okay, so let's continue with formation A with Soma and Kota as the main attackers!"
On her word, they all began the formation anew, this time more carefully. After a few more minutes of attacking and distracting without mistake, the Quadriga fell on the ground, but still moving, writhing in pain.
"A little bit more everyone! Now!" yelled the leader with vigor. She then switched her omni gun to devour form, and devour Quadriga's hind legs. With the Quadriga's oracle cells, her God Arc processed it into three grenade bullet, which she aimed and fired at her comrades, giving them each a link burst. "Don't mess up!"
With three God Eaters in burst mode and a powerful unit leader attacking it, the Quadriga didn't even last a minute until its most oracle cells stopped working.
"Mission cleared. Good job everyone," praise the leader in relieved tone.
"Oh, leader, should we extract the core?" asked Alisa.
Well, their current mission was only to eradicate the aragami, not extracting the core, but yea, there was no harm in bringing home a little bit extra income right? "Why not? Go ahead, Alisa."
And so Alisa readied her God Arc, and devoured the Quadriga's dead body, searching for its core. Seeing that the process might take some time, the leader jumped over a few carriers, looking for a good spot to lie around. And she found it, just a few inches to the sea and was quite high too, but it was perfect. You could see the sun set from there, which was around 20 minutes to go now.
"Hey, where're you going?" asked Kota to the girl, confused. "Alisa's gonna finish anytime now."
"You three go back first. I'll hang around here just a bit longer." She sat on the edge of the carriers, facing the sea and setting sun.
"You sure? Well, if you say so." Kota picked up his God Arc and started to walk towards the jeep that brought them here. "C'mon guys. I wanna watch Bugarally when I get back."
Alisa, finished extracting the core, also positioned her God Arc over her right shoulder and started to catch up to Kota. "Don't get back too late now, leader! Who knows if any aragamis are going to come or not."
Silently, she heard their steps fade away, getting farther away. Well, time to enjoy solitude and savor the beauty of yellowish red sunset, burned Aegis island, the vast sea, and…
"Hey."
…some company?
"Soma?" She looked up to find Soma looking down to her. "I thought you went back already"
"No, I didn't." The boy positioned himself and sat on her right side. His white buster blade put away behind them.
"You're accompanying me? Oh my, aren't you thoughtful?" the leader joked a little but no, what Soma saw wasn't her sincere smiling face. It was just her… formally friendly face, just the mask she wore to not make her friends or anybody worry. "Oh yeah, I never really thanked you for the flan, didn't I? Well, maybe a little late, but thank you for the flan, Soma."
"Don't mention it."
And they went back to enjoying the view. The girl has always loved sunset since she first saw it in picture, but she never really got the chance to enjoy it, not with those aragamis around. That was why this time where there were no aragamis around should be used to its fullest. Soma didn't really enjoy sightseeing like this but well, a change of pace wasn't bad either. Besides, he really felt the obligation to look after his dumb leader while she enjoying herself, even more in the times when she was fragile because of that damn ghost.
"Y-you-," stuttered Soma. It really wasn't like Soma when he stuttered but… What was he going to say again? Was it 'You're alright?' or 'You look pretty today?'? Because when he saw her eyes, it sparkled through the diming sunlight, it took his breath away. Was she really this pretty all this time?
"Yes? What's wrong Soma?"
"Nothing." He lowered his blue hoodie low enough to hide his face in it. "You look okay today."
She giggled a little. "Okay? What was that supposed to mean?"
After her giggle piped down, silence came between them. It wasn't awkward or unpleasant, both of them just enjoyed the sea's melody and each other's company.
Without any warning or a word beforehand, the brunette girl leaned to Soma's left shoulder. He jolted a little, not accustomed to human touch, let alone of opposite gender, the girl he cared for.
"May I, Soma?" asked the girl as she lazily looked up to him, straight to his eyes past his hoodie.
"You should've asked before you do it," Soma answered, but not brushing her away so she took it as Soma's version of 'yes' of some sort and continue to comfort herself while looking at the half setting sun. "You're eyes…"
"My eyes?"
"They're gold."
She was surprised. It wasn't like Soma to initiate a meaningless conversation like this, or notice someone's eyes color at that. But it wasn't like he had any evil intention behind it so she just responded normally.
"They're not gold. Just hazelnut brown. Maybe it's because the sun they look like that." She brushed away Soma's hoodie a little, trying to notice something on his face. "And yours as blue as ever."
Suddenly she shifted her head a little, and getting closer and closer to Soma's neck. The platinum blonde boy actually didn't mind her previous position, but this one somehow made his heart beat faster. He could only hope she didn't hear it or maybe he could calm down by looking at the sun.
"It's not comfy…" pouted her and she dropped herself onto Soma's left lap, making herself comfortable again without Soma's consent. After feeling comfortable on his lap, she smiled and without looking away from him she said "Hehe, it's comfy now. I'm gonna rest a bit, okay? That Quadriga's last attack was really something."
Soma didn't answer, just looking at her as she drifted into the dream world. About a minute later or so, she was deep asleep, her chest rose ever so slightly and went down again. The gentle sea breeze once or twice would mess her hair, which Soma would carefully tidy them back, trying to be as quiet as he could to not wake up his leader.
"Night, Riitsu."
Like hell I'm gonna give you to some ghost
WAAA MY BAD! I kinda like ManaXsavior's fanfic so I trying to make it like one of her fic. Sorry I forgot what the fic is, but thank you very much ManaXsavior… Your fics are really awesome. You guys should try reading it if you really ship FemMCXSoma