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Chapter 17—

R2—5

Organ music echoed around Gino as he stared at the knightmare in front of him. A drop of swear fell down the side of his face.

"It may be big but it doesn't look like it has much going for it…" he muttered to himself.

Just then a knightmare came up from the side and struck the odd knightmare in the side. Sparks flew but there wasn't much damage. The suit of armor swung at the other knightmare, knocking it away.

"Hmm… doesn't look like its so good in close range combat, so maybe I can get close enough and destroy it before it has time to react… Might as well give it a try," he said, starting to attack the opposing knightmare.

He got up close, and was about to swing, when the organ music suddenly changed, and the knightmare swung a huge sword that had a slight curve at the end. Gino barely got out of the way. He looked over to find his scythe cut clean through, and the arm of the Tristan cut part way through.

"Heh, guess it's a little faster than I thought… hmm?"

Something in the knightmare changed, the music almost completely stopped. When it started again, the song reminded him of 'Pop Goes the Weasel.' And then the other knightmares began to explode.

"What the..?"

Then an oddly familiar voice came over the com system.

"Well, it seems I have to go. Guess we'll just have to finish this little battle later, and maybe then you'll have your knightmare fixed." And then the knightmare turned, and took off at almost supersonic speed.

"What's up…with that knightmare…?"

Eve took off her uniform and changed into a tank top and a pair of comfy sweat-pants, throwing the uniform into the laundry basket in the corner of her room, before flopping down on her bed. There was a knock at the door. She sighed, and got up to open the door.

"Gino?" she said, surprised to see the blonde-haired-boy at her door.

"Hey, just thought I'd stop by," he said.

"Um, okay, that's nice, but…why?" she asked, stepping aside to let him in.

"I thought I'd treat you to dinner," he said smiling.

"Really? Well, um, I don't really have any clean clothes at the moment…"

"Well then I'll just go pick you up something and bring it here. What do you want?" His happy-go-lucky attitude made her smile.

"Sushi."

"Alrighty then, sushi it is," he said giving her a large sweeping bow that made her laugh. "I'll be back in a little bit." He closed the door behind him.

Eve went back to lay on her bed, and before she knew it, she'd dozed off. The opening of door woke her up, but she didn't move, or even open her eyes. Gino was back already. But she still felt like sleeping.

She heard him walk over to her bed, and then felt him sit down on the bed. What was he doing? Then she felt him move so that he was hovering over her. Seriously, what was he doing..?

"Gino…?" she muttered, flipping over to her back. When she opened her eyes, her breath caught in her throat as she stared straight into dark bloody-brown colored eyes, framed by curly, dirty-blonde hair.

He reached up and stroked her face. "You always did have such beautiful skin…"

"…Abe…"