All characters, with the exception of my designed Protagonist and Kage and Shiro, and God Eaters Burst are not my own and belong to the Namco Bandai Games and D3 Publisher.

Chapter 4

The sad look in her eyes as she watched the Vajratails runoff, one carried away on the back of the other, caught me off guard. Acting all emotional over monsters without the capacity to feel anything is so idiotic it ticks me off. When she looked back at us I could see the heartbreak on her face and the tears in her eyes. Lindow and Sakuya were frozen by the pure display of emotions. My chest felt tight and hurt as I looked at her, and it angered me. This girl, this woman, would not make me feel guilty about doing my damn job.

The tightness in my chest eventually disappeared and my anger grew as her face turned from sadness to livid anger. And I bet my beer rations that most of it was directed at me. She was angry at me, what gave her that damn right. Relief came over me as she pulled her mask on so I wouldn't have to see her damn face and those fiery eyes. Then she let out a roar almost like that of an Aragami and as fierce as a Vajra. To think for a second she made us, even me, feel fear even for an instant.

Then she charged at us with a ferocity she didn't display before, striking blow after blow without giving us an inch or a chance to recover.

"Hey, if I didn't know any better I'd say she was holding back on us before. I'd even go so far as to say she was playing with us."

"You're right Lindow," replied Sakuya while dodging attacks. "I don't know what brought this on, it's like she's fighting as if her life depends on it."

"Perhaps she's angry at you for injuring her Vajratail." Lindow teased looking at me. I growled at him for a second before coming back to the situation at hand. This woman was handing us our ass.

Sakuya was struggling and the girl was bearing down on her. "Wait, please stop! We don't want to fight you anymore!" She tried to reason with her.

Her response back to Sakuya was a smack to move her gun out of the way and a hard upper cut to the stomach. Sakuya was down for the count gripping her middle.

"Sakuya!" Lindow called out running to her aid. We didn't know if she would finish Sakuya off while she was down. We had to move fast. But that didn't seem to be her intentions as soon as Lindow called out she turned on him. She was trying for a quick K.O. She attacked in circles around him like a wolf, attacking him and dodging his counters. This went on until he attacked and she dodged him with a dash behind him, coming down on the back of his head with a hard fist. Lindow was out cold.

Then she looked at me fuming, breathing hard with rage. Ah, so that's what she was doing, she was getting the other two out of the way so she could personally deal with me. She must have been really angry with me for hurting her Vajratail to go through all this trouble. But I won't go down as easy.

We kept exchanging blows with each other never giving the other an inch. She kept trying to get behind me but I kept blocking her all the way. She was a lot more viscous with me than the others; she was beginning to be a pain in the butt. Her anger was giving her energy while I was starting to get tired.

Our blades crossed as we met face to face or in this case face to mask. With a battle cry she gave a strong push with her spear knocking me off my feet. Before I could get back up she stabbed her spear down on the hoodie sleeve of the arm holding my God Arc while she straddled my middle and the other arm, thus trapping me and my other arm between her legs.

We were both out of breath, eyes never leaving each other. Looking up into the hollow eye sockets of her mask I couldn't help but noticed how beautiful she was at that moment. I was at her mercy and for some strange reason that excited me. She pulled out the knife strapped to her leg and looked at me hesitating. Then the fire came back to her.

She raised her blade above her head ready to strike down on me. So this is it, this is how I'm going to die. I expected better, but at least it'll be a beautiful ride. She cried out and brought the blade down; I refuse to close my eyes. I will stare death in the face and give him hell for all the bull he put my life through. The blade made contact… with the ground next to my face. She missed, why?

I felt something wet touch my face. Rain? Looking away from the knife and back up, her face was leaning over me. Her tears escaped from the eye-holes of her mask. With her leaning so close to me I could see the emotions in her eyes. They were filled with sadness, pain, and confusion. They practically screamed the question 'why.'

"Soma!" Sakuya called out shooting a tranquilizer into her arm. This caught her off guard; she leaned up looking in Sakuya's direction unable to stop the tranquilizer from hitting her arm. Pulling out the tranquilizer she looked at it like something she'd never seen before. Her body began to lean back and forth in a sway. As sleep took a hold of her, she fell forward on top of me. To make the situation worse, her chests landed right in my face.

I could feel my face heat up as I pushed her off me and got even hotter as Sakuya giggled at my previous predicament. I was spared when Lindow came to.

"Ugh, did anyone get the license plate of that freight train?" He said, getting up rubbing the back of his head as he was coming toward us. "Man she packs quite a punch."

Then he looked at me. "You alright Soma?"

"She had the chance to kill me but didn't take it."

"Perhaps she's kinder than we give her credit for," replied Sakuya. "So what do we do now?"

"We take her back to the Den as ordered. Soma what are you doing?"

"She might wake up at any moment after the tranquilizer wares off. Even in a daze I don't want to chance her possibly causing more trouble for us." I replied as I pulled rope out of one of my extra pockets to tie her up.

"Alright, but you'll have to carry her to the Chopper then."

"And why would I do that?" I practically growled at him.

"Because me and Sakuya are too injured to do it and cause I'm the leader."

"Damn bastard." This was abuse of authority.