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Lucy was pinned against a tree, furious. She couldn't believe that Nana's vectors were longer then hers. And they were choking her.

Nana stood just out of Lucy's reach. "Don't worry. I won't kill you. But I will make you suffer in place of papa!"

Lucy responded by uprooting the tree that she was being pinned against and hurling it at Nana. Nana leapt out of the way. "What's with that strength?" Nana retaliated by hitting Lucy in the face with one of her vectors, not even bothering to turn around. Lucy hit the ground hard.

"Attacking me from behind when guard is down… that unexpectedly low even for you, Lucy."

Lucy stood up, wiping blood from her mouth. "All it takes is to move one artery in your brain, right Nana?" Nana looked worried all of a sudden.

Marco arrived at the forest just in time to watch the battle unfold. From a hidden spot in a tree 5 meters away, he hid his presence (1) so that the diclonius would not sense him, and waited for an opportunity to commence the plan. There was one slight problem though: he did not know which one was Lucy. "Whichever one wins must be Lucy!"

Mayu was walking up the hill with a dog, holding both of their lunches. "Where should we eat today Wanta? The hills? Well then, let's go to our usual spot…."

The battle had reached a standstill. Nana decided to try to reason with Lucy one last time. "Do you feel like going home with me now? With arms that short, you won't be able to beat me." 3 stone columns next to Nana rose into the air. Nana dodged just in time; the columns crashed down on where she was half a second ago. She looked where Lucy was, only to find that she had disappeared again. "She has more power at her disposal then I do. Guess I have to end this quickly." All of a sudden, Nana knew were Lucy was. She turned around and jumped to avoid the vectors that came from above. Nana was annoyed at this persistence that Lucy was showing. "What's with you doing the same thing over and over? And I was being so merciful!" Nana whined. She propelled herself into the air, only to have Lucy sending her crashing to the ground with her vectors. Nana realized that the only way to stop her was to pinch a nerve in her leg so that she would not be able to move. She felt bad doing it, but it had to be done.

Marco was watching, riveted now. He knew that the battle was about to end, one way or another. Then a human girl tried to stop the fight, giving Lucy the chance to win. She took it. He watched as she pulled off all the limbs of the smaller diclonius, and he decided that he should make his presence known.

As Lucy was about to deliver the death blow, she felt a presence close by. "What? But what…" She heard clapping, and looked up to see a short, scrawny guy in a tree applauding her. "Bravo. Well done. I thought you were Lucy, I had to make sure though." He leapt down from the tree, landing right behind Nana.

"Who are you?"

"My name is Marco. And before you ask what I want, I want you to come with me. My master wishes for your assistance in something."

"What master?" Lucy was puzzled. All the diclonius she created were all female, yet this guy was male. Now looking him over, she realized that he had no horns, and yet she could sense his presence. What was going on?

"You'll find out. Now are you coming or not?"

"No. But I will tell you what I will do. I will tell him exactly why he will never see you again." And with that she threw her vectors at him. But just as the vectors reached him, he turned transparent, and the vectors went through him. Withdrawing her vectors, Lucy scowled as he turned back to normal.

"I forgot to mention. I can change my body composition at will. You can't tear the arms off a gas, right?"

Lucy prepared to attack again, but just then, a bullet slammed into the wall right next to her.

"First shot missed. Damn it! Now she knows we are here!" Two snipers were posted quite a distance from the battle field, which was about to get more crowded. Soldiers surrounded the trio, with Kurama at the head. "Lucy, for this, I'll never forgive you." He turns to Marco. "Get out of here now. That girl is a serial killer and…" He stopped mid-sentence as Marco lunged toward one of the soldiers and with his bare hand, tore right through his body. The soldier died on the spot.

"The human body is such a fragile thing: It's made of over 70% water. An easy thing to tear through, don't you think?"

Lucy decided to finish off Nana during the commotion; one less enemy would make things easier. But before she could, Nana shot a vector into her brain, causing Lucy extreme pain. Furious, she willed for her vectors to kill Nana, but they would not come out.

"What did you do?!"

"Now's my chance!" Marco ran towards Lucy, trying to take her forcibly back with him. The soldiers opened fire on him though, and he was forced to transform into a gas to avoid them. Lucy took this chance and ran off, while Marco seemed to dissipate and eventually none of the gas was left.

"They got away!" on solider cried out.

Kurama held a bleeding Nana in his arms, thinking only about how stupid he was and this new turn of events that had set everything in motion.