Ch 18: Monster

The massive fist hit Celia hard in her entire body as she was sent spiraling through the air. Her vectors shot out, grabbing the ground before she could hit the wet wall behind her. Another hand grabbed her, holding her entire body so that only her head was in view. She plunged her vectors into it, but she might as well have stuck a pin needle in. Her vectors were too short and weak to be of any use.

"What's wrong Queen Celia. You called me a human, destroy me!" Torino laughed, chucking the girl through the air and having another fist pummel her into the ground form behind. His dark booming laugh echoed through the caverns. "Understand this Queen Celia, this is what you have chosen. This could have all been avoided."

"You…fucking…bastard." She panted, throwing out her vectors to stop the massive hand that had come flying at her. It worked, for as long as Torino decided it would. He casually pushed his arm forward, pushing the vectors back. She slice open the skin, the blood spewing but the wound was so mild it didn't matter to Torino. His arm was brought back, a fist forming and threw it at Celia. Acting quickly, her vectors kicked of off the ground, only to be smacked by another hand. Pounded, and smashed, Celia was more or less the ball in a pinball machine. She staggered on her feet, her body bloody but still unbroken, for however long that would last.

"Still fighting huh? Understand this Queen Celia I have gained omnipotent powers. You're thinking of going to the right, using the shadows of that area to hide from me."

She gasped. "H…how?"

"My sister, Anna was born to tell the future. I know every move you will ever make, you are like an open book." His fist came out, and Celia dodged, only to have another hand grab her and bring it to one of Torino's eyes.

"Look well at me now, Celia. I am a god, a being who is to rule this world. Can you believe that? Before I would have detested the thought of doing such an act, but I see my father was right. We, the Kakuzawa family have earned our right to be gods. The foolish human race, who dared to mock us and give us our surname will be punished. I will make a new world alone, a world not of humans or Diclonius…but of gods. A world that I will rule forevermore!"

"There's too many Lucy! We can't fight them all!" Nana yelled to her friend. Lucy nodded in agreement, she kicked off the ground as did Nana and flew through the air, their vectors lending them flight. Too bad for them that the Diclonius they were fighting were no amateurs when it came to flight.

"Damn!" Lucy cursed, looking behind her. "Nana, get going, I'll take care of them."

Nana was all too eager to agree. She left, as Lucy turned to her opponents dropping down onto the roof of a building below. The other Diclonius came after her, throwing their vectors at her. "You've got some nerve attacking your Queen like that?" Lucy said.

"How dare you call yourself Queen, Lucy Elfenliar." A male siplitet said. "Celia is our queen."

"What?" Lucy said, visibly startled.

After running nearly half a mile nonstop, Kouta had to rest. He looked around and the bloodshed that was going around him was just as bad. The police and Special Defense Team were firing chaotically at the Diclonius, felling many of them. Likewise the Diclonius ripped and tore apart both guards and civilians. He turned his head, the thought bringing terrible memories. Memories of his father being killed, of his sister Kanae being butchered.

Could he bear to run away as his friend and wife fought?

Celia was now drenched in blood, she had collapsed on her knees and glaring hatefully at that swollen head who laughed viciously at her. Her vectors grew, producing a small whirlwind around her. She could taste blood in mouth, this guy would pay dearly!

"Don't you get it Queen Celia, I know you now. Even if I couldn't understand every move you make, my power alone far surpasses you. Now be a good girl, bow before me and perhaps I'll show you mercy."

"Why you stupid, idiotic human! You know, you're really starting to piss me the fuck off right now!"

Celia was well in agreement with The Voice. She told Torino exactly what the Voice had said.

"Really?" Torino asked disappointedly. "I see I haven't beaten you senseless enough." A hand grabbed her again, squeezing. She felt the gasp of air leave her body and then he pulled her down with him. She spluttered, holding her breath as beast as she could as Torino brought her under the mixture of all the dead Diclonius. She saw his many eyes looking reproachfully at her.

"Shall I let you drown here, oh Queen of the Diclonius? A fitting death wouldn't you say, to die pathetically as that?" He squeezed his hand, causing Celia to involuntarily gasp and lose some of her air. He squeezed again, her mind was fading…fading…

*CRASH!*

She gathered her air, and as much as her consciousness as she could as she chucked out of the water and back onto land. The Voice was screaming every derogatory term it could muster, and Celia herself struggled to get back onto her feet. She stopped cold as a looming shadow overtook her. She looked up to Torino emerging from waters depths, a freak of nature in every way. His head was attached to what might have been his spinal chord, though mutated beyond recognition. His ten arms were attached to the base of his neck, and the spinal chord ended in a long thick tail like attribute. He looked like the cross between a squid and a human, but further mutated. His entire body, from head to tail was at least 130 meters long as he slid up from the waters and crawled on to land.

His bulbous head lowered down, so that the lowest eye on his head faced directly in front of Celia's own face. She threw a vector in his eye which caused him to pull back. That was the most it did however. He returned his gaze back at her, laughing now.

"I grow tired of this charade…allow me to end it forever." Torino forebodingly spoke.