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Chapter 2: I'm a Mess

It is daytime in Hamel's castle. Chung is fixing various parts of his cannon while Eve is watching him carefully as he does so. The Code Empress starts to imagine the Tactical Trooper without his shirt, how he would glisten with sweat, how his muscles would flex so slightly at any gesture.

"Can you hand me the screwdriver?" asked Chung who does not seem to be focused right now on Eve and her daydreaming. She soon snaps out of it and hands him the requested tool.

"Since we are together I am curious. Why have you not yet had intercourse with me?" Eve asked earning a gawk from Chung who nearly dropped his cannon on his foot.

"W..well I just wanted to treasure you before anything, such as sex, occurs." Chung stated hesitantly.

Eve looked at Chung and her wonton face seemed to have a small smile. Chung noticed the slight change in her face and grabbed her hands.

"Y… YOU SMILED!?" Chung said with pure delight, "I thought you cut off your emotion circuit? Or was that a lie so no one would know how you acted?"

Eve looked at the Tactical Trooper then removed her hands from his to deliver a slap that could be heard throughout the castle. Chung lay on the floor holding his cheek and pouting.

"Didn't have to slap me your majesty." He said tartly. Eve bent down to him and kissed his other cheek.

"You did not have to instigate the slap my king." She said with a slight mocking undertone. He smiled and pulled Eve close to him in a loving embrace. "I love you too." He said happily.

~Meanwhile~

Ara was sitting on top of a tree admiring the calm of the outdoors and everyone's pets playing with each other. She thought about the other night, how Add was with her, how he tasted of plums, how he kissed her hair. She nearly fell out of the tree she was sitting on due to the overload of emotions running within her. Ara decided she should go off to do a dungeon to take her mind off of everything.

As she walked around the town, getting her potions and such for the dungeon, she runs into Raven. The Veteran Commander was looking as handsome as ever, except there was a problem, Rena was not with him. Which to Ara is very odd, since those two have great battle dynamics.

"Raven! Hello!" Ara shouted to get the others attention. He seemed to be pulled out of his thoughts as he saw Ara and smiled. He soon headed to the Yama Raja.

"Hey Ara, where are you going?" he asked hoping she wouldn't say to a dungeon or to fight monsters.

And with a curse of bad luck, Ara smiles her signature smile. "To a dungeon! I have to train and plus I have too much on my mind anyways. So that should clear up any confusion I have. Besides where's Rena?" she asked as she looked up at the Veteran Commander.

"We are having a breakup at the moment it seems. But do not worry, just leave it at that. Want some company?" he looked down at her, noticing that their heights aren't that different, he would be taller by a few inches.

"Sure!" she smiled brightly and started walking with Raven to the outskirts of town where the dungeons were located.

"Are you okay Ara?" Raven hated to ask, but Ara seemed too distracted, even for her, she nearly fell into a ditch if it wasn't for Raven who snapped her out of her thoughts.

"Yeah. I just got too amped up for the dungeon is all." She looked to the side, not wanting to make contact with Raven's knowing eyes.

Raven didn't push the topic further and the two entered the Halls of Water.

"Ara… this is where you got badly injured a few nights ago. Please tell me why we are here?" Raven said it in an almost demanding tone, which caught Ara off guard.

"I just wanted.. to clear my mind by killing some of the spawns that my brother has following him. Can we just leave it? I am not after Ran." The Yama Raja said. Her pure honey eyes, which Raven thought were beautiful on the Yama Raja, turned into a dull and wicked orange. Raven noticed how Ara did not call her brother Aren but just Ran. Raven was about to comment when a Fallen Red knight appeared. The knight seemed to be a Rune Slayer type.

The Fallen Rune Slayer charged at Raven while he was distracted, but was disappointed when a spear seemed to block his target.

"Raven. Stop dwelling on the past and get your head in gear!" Ara shouted as she started twirling the spear around, delivering accurate and precise hits on the Fallen Rune Slayer.

Raven looked at Ara and tried to hide his happiness at her moving on. "Alright Yama Raja." He said and began to swing his sword at the Fallen Rune Slayer. Although to Ara his style might seem slightly barbaric, it fit Raven's calm side; it was the piece that Ara knew would fit his life. After all he is a Veteran Commander.

After the two defeated the single Fallen Rune Slayer, Ara expected more to appear but was disappointed when it seemed that the dungeon was empty.

"What's going on, normally there are multiples of these spawning." The Yama Raja said as she looked around.

Raven hated to admit it but she was right. It was far too quiet, but he didn't want to suggest it was her brother that could possibly be up to something. He suggested the two go back to Hamel's Castle to let the others know. Ara agreed and the pair walked to the exit. Little did they know what was truly happening deeper within the Halls of Water.

~At the Castle~

"Sorry for dragging you along Raven, I hope you can fix things with Rena!" she said with a smile. It was vacant, meaningless, lack lustered, thought Raven. The Veteran Commander did something the Yama Raja didn't expect; he hugged her. It wasn't a two second buddy hug, but a real hug, showing he cares. Aras eyes widened a bit due to the shock and hugged him back. After all he was always like an older brother to her. If she lost Ran, she would probably be okay because of Raven and Add. Add would probably say to her, "You going to keep crying or are you going to get stronger?" The embrace was not long as Raven had to go, but she felt like people actually needed her. Just like the other night with Add.

The Yama Raja smiled with a little bit more feeling into it and headed to her room to bathe. As she started to take off her armor and outfit she looked at her stomach where the punch was delivered and winced as it still had hurt. She turned on the water, not caring if it was too cold for her displeasure; she sat in the tub and waited till the water filled. As soon as it came above her breasts she turned it off and laid in it. She began to sing

"Ooh I'm a mess right now

Inside out

Searching for a sweet surrender

But this is not the end."

She paused as she thought she heard something, and then resumed.

"I can't work it out

How?

Going through the motions

Going through us"

Flick. The noise that made her stop at first made her stop again. It sounded like a switch being flipped. Ara thought that was odd. Her guard was fully up but she continued to sing.

"And though I've known it for the longest time

And all my hope

All my words are all over written on the signs

But you're my road walking me home

Home, home, home, home"

No sounds were made and she eased her guard and enjoyed the now warm water. Her song was a performance for the empty and large bathroom.

"See the flames inside my eyes

It burns so bright I wanna feel your love

Oh oh easy baby maybe I'm a light

Before tonight I wanna fall in love—"

Before she could sing the next verse Add was clapping while sitting on his Dynamos. "Great now he's probably going to tell me to stop singing. Wait, I am naked and he's in here….!" She thought and then shrieked with a blush.

"Add! Get out! "Ara exclaimed and then stood up fully exposing herself and seeming to forget that she was naked in the first place.

Add looked at his girlfriend being embarrassed at him seeing her naked. The moment she stood up was a different story for Add though. The moment his goddess stood up, he could see her perfect breasts, the way her hair entangled her body when it was wet, and that awful bruise her brother gave. He would have to teach him a lesson for bruising his goddess.

Ara tried to figure out why he was just looking at her blankly and immediately became self-conscious. "W… Why are you looking at me like that? I know my body isn't perfect but that doesn't mean you should look at it like that!" she began to speak shyly.

Add got off his Dynamos while she was on her rant and picked her up out of the tub, not minding he would get wet in the process.

"Ara…" he said with a husky tone which seemed to make Ara's face turn cherry red. She never heard him speak like that and looked at him. "Remember I will take all your codes from you. You are mine Ara Haan. When I am done with you, all you will think about is me." He said and then placed her on top of the sink. "You will think about me, and only me, no one else. That voice of yours will be moaning my name over and over." He said more lustfully and began to kiss her neck. Ara mewled at the weird sensation.

"A..Add… t..that feels weird!" she said with a vigorous cherry face. Add stopped and blushed as he didn't have any self-control.

"Sorry. You just looked too captivating. I had to mark you." He said as he backed away and jumped on his Nasods. "I will go to my room… sorry." He said almost sadly and left.

Ara sat on the sink wet and confused.

"What did he mean by 'mark you'?" she thought outloud.