AN: Hello, I guess I'm back again!
We're getting closer and closer to the end of Arc 6! Now it's Genau's turn in the spotlight.
My schedule is busy as a bee, what with work and trying to acquire concert tickets all over the place, but I did snag one for Sabaton, so YES!
Other than that, nothing too special going on, but providing more chapters for ya!
So sit back and Enjoy!
Arc Six: The One Day
Chapter 34: KILL
Everything happens in a relative motion, time constantly moves forward, unchallenged.
And within such rules, there is the fact, that the world's vastness results in so many actions, reactions and nullifying steps within a set moment. More or less, within a span of time, countless events can unfold; big, small, important, or meaningless. Regardless...they can happen simultaneously.
And one would be stunned, to see how in their home, their country, continent, or even their planet, that such a staggering amount of incidents can transpire. An hour, a minute, or even just a second, too many situations would be there to be seen, or unseen.
Thusly, no one would be surprised, how many happenings might occur, in just ONE DAY.
He was born to kill, and knew barely anything besides it.
Yet when he was inducted into the Red Lantern Corps., he was given an opportunity no Wolgarm has, or even since, been given.
The chance, to learn true emotions, besides rage and how to act for oneself.
The day was his, and he strolled about town. While one would find a white furred dog with a horn on its snout, wearing a red uniform and with a smile on it's fanged face, unusual; it wasn't for these civilians. Nor for the world forced into allowing his existence to be accepted.
For some reason or another, he was quite popular.
Children went to pet him.
Vendors offered him free samples.
Guards saluted him as he passed by.
Devout Church followers quickly bowed their heads to him.
Genau was considered royalty. Compared to his runt status amongst his own pack, being not only picked on for timidness, but mainly for his bright white fur, it was all still new to him. Even after all these crazy years. He recalled being born, he recalled the world changing around him, prey that once was a baby, became an adult, then had little ones of their own. It continued, on and on, for so long that the time he had been alive, was unknown. He did recall some events, such as barely surviving being exterminated by Fribal van Astrea. Maybe even further back, when he had a run in the White Whale, but escaped with an inch of his life. And the last thing he could remember, with his fuzzy memories, was a woman who looked exactly like Emilia, destroying a city in the horizon.
He now realized he did a lot of fleeing, but in the end, it kept him alive...and he would never run away again. Now he had the strength to fight back, to survive...to kill his enemies.
"It isssss a nice day."
Genau had his day off. Everytime he passed a food vendor, he was given the opportunity to eat a free sample. He gorged himself on so many snacks and treats, each of which was truly delectable. He did have some money on him, saved in a satchel construct he made for himself. He would buy, purchase and acquire all kinds of food. Meat, candies, breads, everything was up for him.
Finally, after eating the food equivalent of a meal for six, he laid himself down near a fountain. He licked his lips, as he fangs clanged together. His tail swatted a fly away and he wiggled his ears; all in all, acting like a dog.
Just then, he heard it. Sniffling, and quiet sobbing.
He got to his feet and stretched, honestly just like a regular canine, even against him being a Wolgarm.
He made his way through the crowd, sniffing the air and searching for the voice that was in distress. He kept moving, searching, making himself grumble as he felt he was getting closer. Now, he was finally at the source of distress. Sitting against a wall, while hugging her knees, was a little girl.
He went over and sniffed her up and down. When she raised her face, her teary eyes laid upon Genau.
"Eeeek!"
"The hell?!"
She backed away, even as the wall was there, completely terrified.
"Hey, hey, easssy there!"
"Uwah, wha-"
"-Don't you know who I am?"
The little girl glanced again, easily recognizing, who this was.
"G-Genau sama."
"Yeah who elsssse would it be?"
The girl finally stood up and trembled, less out of fear of him, but of her situation.
"Sssssso little one, I heard you crying, issss sssomething the matter?"
"I-I was with my momma, and-and, I lost her."
"Sssso you're losssst?"
"Ahuh."
"Hmmmm, you were hoping sssshe'd find you, issss that right?"
She began to cry again, and Genau felt bad about it. Thus he used a paw to pat her shoulder and nodded.
"Don't worry little one, I will help you."
"You will?"
"Ssssure, I ain't got nothing better to do."
He stepped closer to her as he looked her up and down.
Green bob style hair, light blue eyes, wearing a pink dress with a white ribbon attached.
Timid, but noting how cute she was, he expected she could be adorable if she was in better circumstances.
"Sssso, what'ssss your name?"
The little girl gulped her nervousness down, as she timidly answered.
"Plum. My name is Plum Risch."
"Plum? Wait, have you met Natssssuki Ssssubaru?"
"Yeah, I've met him before."
"Before huh?"
Genau knew about Plum, as Subaru explained his first loops here in Lugnica years ago, during a meeting. And it was Plum and Emilia that seemed to be the constant, as she was one of the first people he met during that time. It would stand to reason for him, that she had no knowledge of this, but even so…
"Okay Plum, let'sssss find your mother."
"O-Okay!"
She put her hoodie on, two adorable rabbit ears on top, a popular fashion design for children in Lugnica. Strange, as Genau would never understand something like that...then again, he couldn't wear any clothes, minus his Red Lantern Uniform, nor did he care.
Just as they were about to journey...a loud rumbling sound could be heard. Genau turned his head, to see a red faced Plum looking embarrassed, holding her stomach. Chuckling to himself, he glanced around and saw a vendor selling homemade fig bars.
"Welp, come along Plum, let'ssss get ussss ssssome ssssnacks."
"A-Are you sure? I don't want to imbibe-"
"-Don't ssssweat it, I was getting a little hungry asssss well."
He lead her over, amazing her at how generous he could be...only to be shocked, as she ate her four bars, and he ate his twenty six.
Marching through alleyways, hopping over small ponds, and walking up stairs; the two continued their massive journey of sorts, to find her mother. Only for Genau to contemplate something.
"Wait, I forgot."
"Huh?"
He skipped over and tilted his head at her.
"What'ssss your last name again?"
"Oh, maybe that will help?"
"Exactly! I can contact one of the Red Lanterns, and hopefully I can get directions for where you live."
She nodded hopefully, as she said her full name.
"Risch, remember?"
"Ooookay."
He had his ring shine, as he connected to a nearby Red Lantern, making a holographic construct of them.
"Oh hey there."
"Genau-sama, hello, can I help you?"
"Yeah, that'd be great Moussaka, if you don't mind?"
"Not at all."
Moussaka Tzatziki brushed his hair, as he nodded agreeingly.
"Hey, have you heard of the name, Rissssch?"
"Risch, are you looking for someone with that name?"
"Yeah, I found their kid, sssshe's losssst, and I am trying to get her home."
"Ah, I see! The name seems familiar, but...hmmmm."
"No good, huh?"
"N-No, let me ask my girlfriend."
The hologram looked away, mainly to ask his girlfriend, who was in the same area as him, wherever he was.
"Juel, can I ask you something? Ahuh, yeah, do you know anyone named Risch? Anyone with a kid, a little girl?"
The hologram looked back at Genau, asking non-verbally if this was the case. Genau nodded, giving him confirmation.
"Yeah Juel, a little girl. Oh, okay! Thank you!"
Moussaka gave a thumbs up as he got the necessary info.
"Yeah, the Risch Market Genau-sama! I recall visiting there several times, but I personally never saw the daughter, nor asked for the name of the vendor. It's northwest of where you are, head right and follow the first river and then turn right, it should be down that street. Big guy with green hair is her father."
"Okay! Thankssss!"
"No problem, have a great rest of your day."
"Exactly."
The hologram dissipated, as Genau wagged his tail and nodded at her. Plum was ecstatic as they found a way to get home, almost teary eyed.
Genau led the way….when he sniffed the air.
"Wait."
"Huh?"
He sniffed and sniffed, sniffing the ground, sniffing himself...then he sniffed a nearby avenue. It was just around the corner, just before the small stairs that led back into the crowded streets. Plum was anxious as she followed Genau.
Genau sniffed and sniffed, then found a large box.
"Here?"
"Um, Genau-san?"
Genau, stared at the box, before he squinted his scrutinizing eyes at it. He made a hand construct which opened the box top, then pushed it over, letting the contents out.
Plum was close behind him, thus got a good view of it. And she yelped in horror at what she saw, meanwhile Genau simply growled at the sight of it.
"Damn, so I wassss right."
Frowning, he declared his discovery.
"A corpsssse."
A dead body laid on the floor, a stranger who had been murdered.
GENAU: Revenge
"Fuck, sssso my nose wassssn't wrong."
"Gen-Genau sama."
Genau now remembered that Plum was still with him, so he had to hurry, and get her back home.
"Plum, let's-"
However, two people entered the avenue, and surprised him.
Wearing cloaks, with brown hair and blue eyes, it would obvious they were Vollachians. It wasn't unheard of in the times of other nationalities traveling to Lugnica, however, with their obvious dagger and metal gloves, with magic gems on the knuckles...they were not businessman by any means.
"The hell?! It's Genau!"
"Damn, I knew we should have dumped the traitors body earlier!"
They quickly rushed forward, only for Genau to zip between them, and used sider appendage constructs to stab them in the ribs. He bit one in the face, tearing out his flesh and eyes. He screamed in horror before a spider leg construct, stabbed him through the head.
Genau hurried to the merely injured one, snarling...before hearing Plum scream.
"Kyaaaa!"
"PLUM!"
A hooded man grabbed Plum and jumped back, holding a knife at her throat.
"Hold it Genau! One step closer, and-"
Genau zipped off the walls in the small avenue, before landing behind him, launching a spear construct through his mouth, which also detached his hand, saving Plum.
Plum whined as she landed hard on her back, Genau hurried over and licked her up and down. Appearing in front of Genau was a demi-human.
Yet another rare species, on the verge of extinction. A light blue skinned human with his face terrifying to most mortals.
Bright purple eyes, like a snakes; jagged fangs, numbering more than a humans; and white birthmarks all over his face, making it look like tattoos. He then growled as three spikes protruded out of his knuckles.
His outfit was that of what one would consider like the ancient Maori of Polynesia.
Genau recognized him easily.
"Grrrrrrr, damn, a goddamn Jedlik Masa."
"That's right Red Lantern, you should know us well."
"Lookssss like my buddiessss did a sssshit job then! Lasssst I heard, we wiped you all out lassst year when you idiotssss were causing a sssskirmish in the borderssss of Vollachia and Kararagi."
"YOU DID!"
He grew far more angrier hearing that, letting Genau feel his unrelenting anger.
"You took our homes, then once we wished to reclaim our ancestral lands, you slaughtered my people!"
"We gave you a chance, a meanssss to give up and move ssssomewhere elssse! You threw away our good faith and got all your people dead!"
"A mere Wolgarm has no right to speak of where the home should lie!"
He pointed his claws at him...no, not at him, but Plum.
The other man, clouded in pitch black clothes, which fluttered around like a swirling mass of dark liquid, grabbed her. His eyes simmered, smokey blue radiance. Genau ran to them, but he began to sink into his own shadow.
"HEY!"
"We'll be taking this one, as collateral, deshi."
"SSSSSTOP!"
He covered her mouth, as her muffled screams were quieted as they both disappeared.
Genau used to tentacle constructs to smash the ground where they stood, but other than leaving the ground damaged, it was useless.
Genau growled horribly, turning his head to face the Jedik.
"YOU BASTARD!"
"How does it feel to lose grasp of an important person to you?"
"BRING THAT GIRL BACK!"
"No chance!"
He took a unique battle stance, trademark for those that were of his species.
"For I, Hau Kaha, shall end this existence of yours, feed you to the world's spirit and bring honor to my ancestors and my people!"
"DIE THEN."
Genau flew forward, just as Hau activated a Yang spell, dashing straight at him, surprising Genau with an uppercut. Genau was sent flying, the claws protruding out of Hau's knuckles helped in the impact. Hau then slashed at the air, sending projectile slices at him. The Red Lantern snarled as he used ace flying skills to maneuver past the attacks and back at Hau.
Hau landed a kick, which made Genau spin in the air. Genau fixed himself in the air and hurled napalm blood, Hau ducked under it and rapid slashed at Genau with knuckle claws. For his efforts, Hau was slammed away by a giant paw construct. Making a crater on the wall, he kicked off of it, and landed a successful high kick on Genau. Genau chuckled in response, he made spider appendage constructs which rapidly attacked him. Impressively, Hau matched their crazy speeds and used his claws to match the attacks, deflecting them.
Genau hurried back to ground level and barked loudly at Hau, before sweeping his tail at his feet, Hau humphed at his attempt and hopped into the air. Now, he saw that the spikes attached to his tail, extended thanks to constructs, and stabbed into his cheek, shoulder, ribs.
"KAH!"
Hau broke free, and smashed the constructs apart, before Genau drop kicked him in the face. Hau karate chopped him to the ground, and did a spinning attack, utilizing his knuckle claws as if he were a deadly spinning top.
Genau broke off the ground, and used a claw mark construct to hit him, but Hau used his natural protruding bone claws to cut them apart.
Hau then had his right leg sliced off.
"WHAT?!"
Genau...unnoticed, activated his first Revenga Art, then zipped back and sliced off his arm. Hau grumbled as he tried to lean on a wall. Genau gave no chance.
A hole appeared on his chest, a buckshot-like beam from Genau's ring made sure of that.
Genau dissipated any constructs he had, and moved forward, closer to him. Only to notice Hau spit something out. On closer inspection, he realized in a pissed off manner, that he spat out his tongue.
"YOU MOTHERFUCKER!"
He silenced himself, in order to not let Genau in on any useful info he could give. Hau smiled as blood poured out of his mouth, only for a beam to blast a hole between his eyes, leaving a nasty looking hole.
When his body slumped to the ground, Genau sniffed the floor and all around the area. He checked all over Hau's body, and bit a piece of his flesh off, chewing on it.
"Damn, I really can't stand raw meat, well, maybe if it was fish, but-"
He then looked down and found something.
"What is this?"
A badge of some kind. A hexagon, with many other smaller hexagons within it, all colored differently. With none, whatsoever, containing the color red.
He sniffed it, and noticed a particular smell on it. And so, he then left Hau's body there for someone else to find as he ran through alleys, busy streets, and kept up his pace. He might of noticed familiar faces all as he went through his path of mystery.
He could've seen Tivey and his siblings, Jolokia and Callaloo, Subaru with Emilia, or even Linnea congregating with civilians, but he was far too busy. He was dead set on handling this alone, proving not only his worth, but forgoing that old instinct of his, from his past life.
Making it to some larger storage buildings, ones used to house meats for market sales, large lumber and more, there was a building that housed a particular smell.
It was the large warehouse, which worked as a cold storage for the corpse of the White Whale. It has been there for study by mages and others that specialized in classifying Ma-Beast; only for further experiments and analyzing to be supervised exclusively by Ovidius.
Genau sniffed the air some more, and noticed the other smell, he sniffed the ground and found a manhole. He used his paws to playfully pat it, before using his rings power to levitate it off the ground and jump in, closing it behind him.
Traversing the nasty smelling tunnels, too dark for a normal person to see, he used the ring to create a source of light that helped him see in front.
The wet splashes he could hear were evident of his progress. Fuming mad that such people would kidnap a small child, he promised nothing but agonizing death for them.
Finally, after what seemed like half an hour, he came across a door on a wall, the same brick layout as the walls. He got on his hind legs and used his front paws to push, but it didn't budge. Wondering how to open it, he then remembered the badge. He sniffed around the door, and sure enough he found a small dent in the shape of a hexagon.
Getting off the door, he created a blood portal, reaching his head through it, he pulled back and had the badge in his mouth. Once again, he stood on his hind legs and put the badge on the spot, and the door made a clicking sound. Dissipating the Blood Portal, he made his way, pushing the door with his shoulder.
Right as he entered the lights of this room made his eyes widened, a simple room with a desk, bookcases and lamps, there was another door at the end of it...which opened.
"Oh, hey Hau did-"
As the woman with short green hair, a blue flower in her hair and purple eyes looked….started...and realized it wasn't Hau. She flustered, but reacted quickly and pulled out a wand, but Genau reacted faster. Clenching his fangs into her jaw with a masterful leap, blocking her airway, before doing a hard twist and snapping her neck.
Releasing his blood drenched fangs, he proceeded forward, making it through the door.
"Oh, wow."
Entering inside, he found a huge area, too big to be serious. He was high above, atop staircases that led down to a new floor level. Filled to the brim with boxes, people moving about to get stuff ready and large Ground Dragons pulling containers, he figured it was the same magic responsible for Beatrice's Library.
He saw that the staircases led downward to where they all were, but he leaped down and floated safely to the ground. A Ground Dragon saw him, and let out a roar. When the man surveying him, turned around...he screamed.
"RED LANTERN! RED LANTEEERRRRRNNNN!"
Everyone stopped what they were doing.
"THERE IS A-"
Genau roared out as he stomped his paws down, using his low level Earth Magic fire a rock spear through his entire face. Genau then hurried as more people appeared so he summoned-
"REVENGA ART 2! SSSSSLIPKNOT!"
Covered in his spike covered armor, he fired the attack launching them all over the place, killing countless people. One spear broke through a box and caused an explosion. With a section of this underground warehouse on fire, he knew that the kidnappers would've heard the commotion, noticing on the other side of the area, another staircase that led up, he ran forward, dodging magical attacks, even as a very tall man with the face of a baby used a Metia to fire countless beams, which rained down like a firework...Genau smiled evilly at them. He made a giant hammer construct and smashed one of the walls, breaking a piece of the dimensional boundaries of the room, remembering that this place was underground….beneath the city….under a water system, a sewer.
All of the water surged into the room all at once, making Genau fly into the air, while everyone else tried to run away. It was pointless, and everything was swallowed up by the waters, drowning and crushing everything in the way. Genau stared down at the helpless people begging the heavens to save them, crying out for their families and screaming for salvation.
Genau, responded.
"BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
He hollered and laughed as a swirl of madness emanated all around him.
But shaking his head from the ecstasy he made a beeline towards the other door, he opened it with ring's power and hurried up another staircase. He pushed up a wooden door...and sure enough, there was the shadowy man. Plum was chained to a chair, covered in tears...with a black eye and bloody nose, crying.
"PLUM!"
"Hic. Hic. Ge-Genau-sama...uwagghhh."
Genau snarled insanely at him, as the man's hollow voice spoke back.
"Are you agitated Red Lantern?"
"OF COURSSSSE! You made me run around all day on a fucking dumb chasssse, made me wasssste precioussss hourssss from my day off, and now I find you hit a little kid, the FUCK ISSSS WRONG WITH YOU?!"
"You are what's wrong, deshi."
Reaching into his liquidy cloak, he pulled out a hook sword.
"You and your kind have done irreparable damage to the order of the world."
"LOOKSSSS FINE TO ME!"
"All the death? The destruction? How dare you say that, deshi?"
"Assholessss like you don't desssserve to live!"
"...And my clan, my family, did they deserve to die?"
"HUH?"
The shadowy man pointed his sword at Genau.
"Did they?! My Enenra Clan, part of the Sultan's Guard and respected in Kararagi, are all gone. By your hands, deshi!"
"Ah I remember, when we tried to publicly hang the Ssssultan, you guyssss sprung up trying to rescue his ass."
"And in return to save our pride as a nation, you and your kind slaughtered us, hunted us down for an entire year."
"You brought it upon yourselvessss, all you had to do was ssssurrender!"
"We do not surrender Red Lantern! And now thanks to you, I witnessed as these brainwashed pleons cheered on the executions of my people, my son and daughters taken from me, deshi!"
"I ssssympathize that you lossst loved onessss, but hurting that little girl ain't gonna do anything!"
"I tried to make this little one see the truth of your evil, but she doesn't understand, NO ONE IN LUGNICA DOES, DESHI All of them have the wool over their eyes, and only we can save them!"
"We?"
"We...WE OF THE, EXOGENESIS! Traveling in the wind, spreading about until the world is reborn and freed from the vile, disgusting, blood drenched grasps of the Red Lantern Corps, deshi!"
"Hmph."
"And I, Myrkur Áhorfandi, second to the late Grandmaster will send your soul to a darkness it cannot return from, deshi! I promise it, upon my family and loved ones!"
He readied a battle stance, prepared to engage in combat, right when Genau spat hot blood on the floor.
"...Go to hell, with the resssst of your clan."
Both now enraged, charged violently at each other.
Myrkur used sickle to good use, parrying several constructs, even at close range, he kicked Genau in the face and locked around his neck, tossing him to a wall. He then reached into his liquidy cloak and launched several chains, which chained him up. Myrkur slashed and elbowed Genau...who looked down as he was uppercutted...SMILING.
A bear trap construct clamped onto Myrkur's leg. He grunted as Genau broke apart the chains and had a claw mark construct slash across his chest. Genau then tail whipped him across the face, just for the cloak of Myrkur to slam Genau across the wooden floor. Myrkur freed himself from the construct, and landed a powerful kick on Genau's neck.
He did grunt, but had spider appendage constructs try and and stab at him. Myrkur had his eyes shine, making Genau's vision go insane, with swirls and hallucinations.
He stopped attacking and stood still. Not even reacting to Myrkur slicing and attacking him with now two sickles, and chain whips, small explosives, all the while Plum screamed in horror.
"This is divine retribution! You monsters are the shit of this world, deshi! Wolgarm? Red Lantern?! YOU DO NOT BELONG HERE! DESHI!"
Blood covering his body, Genau's suit could not even be seen, he was simply a red figure.
Genau heard the phrase...do not belong...he thought hard about it.
And in the dark void, Myrkur with only his eyes within it, and Genau's eyes still widened in confusion...a thought snapped in his head.
"I belong...I do belong...becausssse…"
HIS TEETH SMILED REPULSIVELY, THE ONLY OTHER LIGHT IN THAT DARKNESS.
"I BELONG, BECAUSSSSE I KILL!"
Broken free of the hallucination, he had his tail stab him in the side, spinning around with a streak of light left by his eyes.
"KILL!"
Genau hurled his napalm blood at his cloak, destroying it.
"KILL TO EAT!"
He had a beam blast one of his hook swords apart, pieces of them stabbing Myrkur in his face.
"KILL TO SSSSURVIVE!"
Hooked Genau's flesh and slammed him onto the floor, breaking part of it apart, before Genau smiled in disgusting ecstasy.
"KILL TO FIGHT!"
Genau had his ring fire a disc construct which cut off both of his hands.
"GUAHHHH!"
"KILL TO FEEL AND ABSORB!"
He jumped onto him, pushing him to the ground as his eyes shined like radiant dying suns, still with a smile of prideful acceptance.
When Myrkur had his eyes, begin it again...Genau had two nail constructs stab them out.
"MRUAHHHHHH!"
"KILL TO HEAR, TASTE, UNDERSTAND, FIGHT, SLEEP! EVERYTHING! EVERYTHIIIIINNNNG! I KILL, TO BE APART OF THE RED LANTERN CORPS!"
He then made a blindfold construct to wrap around Plum's eyes, just so she wouldn't see it. See what he did next. Genau tackled him to the ground before he had hook constructs stab through his hands and feet, keeping trapped on that floor.
Genau had six pincer arm constructs, like a mad mutation of a scorpion and spider. They pinched and stabbed at Myrkur, before they finally got hold, especially around his head. He could hear the crunching and tearing as Genau floated up higher and drooled at him.
Myrkur whispered to himself, muttered and prayed...saying the unheard of names of his family...which Genau didn't give a damn about.
The pincers proceeded to rip the front half of his head off, along with the torso. When he finally ripped the skin away, the front of the opponent's skull and their ribcage was still attached to the skin, leaving their organs exposed. Genau tossed it away like an unwanted slab of meat. He landed in the other half that laid there, he basked in the blood and organs stomping and crushing it all.
"GRRROOOOOAAARRRR!"
Stepping away from the bloody heap, he bit free Plum from her restraints.
"G-Genau-sama?"
"Yeah, it'sss me."
"Are you okay?"
"Don't worry about me, let'ssss get you out of here."
Genau had his ring lift her off the ground and out of the door, where he flew through the sewer system and back up onto the streets. Some locals screamed when they saw the blood covered Genau, but he ignored it.
Letting Plum down and removing the blindfold construct, she was finally able to rub her eyes. And to see Genau in the state he was in.
"Oh, oh no! Genau-sama, you're hurt."
"Relax, mosssst of this blood issssn't even mine."
"Are you-"
"-I'm more worried about you little one."
He licked her face, making the little girl relax enough, so she could let her little sobs escape.
The day was indeed hectic for her, tiring and scary for her. But her day was coming to an end, as the sun was beginning to set.
The owner of this little shop, comforted his weeping wife, who was loudly blaming herself for losing Plum, their cherished daughter, had to wait. He walked her outside...just in time, to see Plum and Genau walking towards them. His wife ran with all her might and caught Plum into a beautifully strong hiug.
"Plum!"
"Momma!"
"Oh Plum, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry!"
"It's okay mommy."
But she took a good look at her daughter, and noticed her black eye.
"What is this?! Baby, what happened to you?!"
Kadomon made it over and also saw the black eye, growing furious.
"Did someone do that to you?!"
"Ye-Yeah, some bad guys they took me away and started hitting me, I was so scared."
"No-No, where are they? How did you escape?"
"Yeah, I was really scared, but-"
She then motioned her head to get the attention back to him.
"Genau-sama, he rescued me!"
Both parents, due to the the distraction of finding her, now saw Genau was there, completely covered in blood.
"Y-You saved her, Genau-sama?"
"Yeah, ssssome creepssss took her and attacked me, I handled it though, assss you can tell."
Noticing how much blood he was covered in, it was accurate to say the least.
Raksha Risch, the mother of this little girl, handed Plum to him, as she got on her knees and did a respectful bow to him.
"Thank you! Thank you so much! I hope to repay you one day!"
Kadomon set his daughter down and did a bow as well.
"Thank you for bringing my daughter back, if there is anything we can do, please just name it."
"Okay, keep her ssssafe, and everything will be even."
Stupefied, they didn't want to accept such a response, but a quick grin from Genau reassured them.
"I had nothing better to do today, sssso think of it, assss a freebie."
Genau wagged his tail, as the couple stood back up.
"Well, if there issss nothing elsssse, the day issss coming to an end. Really, I'm just going home to relax for a bit."
"A-Alright, but if you ever need anything, my husband and I, will surely provide for you."
"I'll keep that in mind."
Plum hurried over and smiled at him.
And then hugged him around his neck, surprising everyone.
"Thank you."
"You are welcome little one."
"Will I see you again?"
"Ssssure assss the sssssun risessss, or something like that."
Giggling from his awkward statement, she released him, and hugged her sides.
"Alright, bye th-"
KRAKOOM!
Behind them, on the other side of a building, maybe two blocks away, an explosion shook the ground.
"Damn, can't catch a break!"
He snarled as he hopped into the air.
"All of you, back to your home and closssse it sssshut, don't come out for anything!"
"Yes sir!"
Plum also nodded and ran inside with her family. Genau flew towards the sight of the explosion, only to witness more explosions, occurring in various points and spots around the capital.
Genau roared at the sight, but soon a audio message was received...it was Subaru.
"Everyone! This is Natsuki Subaru, all Red Lanterns are to defend the Capital! We are under a terrorist attack, all men and women are to confront these assholes and kill most, but leave some alive for information! Good luck!"
He looked over and saw many red streaks flying through the air, to individual noises of combat. He glanced to his left, he could see Moussaka doing fly by shootings.
Looking to his right, he could see Linnea summoning a scythe construct as she fought them off alongside several other Red Lanterns. Beams fired down, causing nearby enemies to implode. It was Poco, the giant black spider, who used his ring well and rained death onto marked targets.
Genau then heard a noise, twitching his big ears and turned around quickly. The mansion had smoke coming out of it, so he hurried over, as it began to rain.
The water helped to clean him off, blood dripping from his furious demeanor.
Genau flew through the window, using spear constructs to stab down on three peoples heads. Genau roared as he saw the hall he was in, completely on fire, he could see people running around on the other side. So he walked, simply walked through the flames and encountered more intruders. One of them tried to fire a windblade, but Genau rugshed past it and used a warhammer construct to smash his head into puddy. He spun around and had antler constructs stab through a man's face, before a double bladed sword construct sliced the other in half.
Breaking through the wall, it was an odd woman, or say, creature. What a time, yet another rare, almost extinct demi-human.
This time, an insectoid, a female one at that.
All she wore was panties, and bra, with her purely green skin showing off. Large bee wings, her face had enhancing golden eyes, but her mouth was like that of a praying mantis, with two long antennae, with a somewhat long tendril like hair. Claws instead of hands, and legs of that grasshopper.
She was creepy to say the least. Getting to her feet and rapidly walking on the wall, she snarled as Wilhelm also walked out of the hole in the wall.
"Brother Wilhelm!"
"Genau, thank goodness, go check on the others as I deal with this one!"
"Got it!"
"Stay safe!"
"EXACTLY!"
Genau flew off as Wilhelm drew his sword and had his ring glow.
"I am ssssurprised to see one of your kind around. Assss I thought you were all but gone."
"You. CLICK. Would know, wouldn't you? CLICK."
The insectoid hissed at him as, pouncing towards Wilhelm.
Genau hurried through the halls, watching as Attero had barbwire constructs wrap around the man he was fighting...the lion smiled gleefully as he made the barb wires pull on opposite sides, tearing the man into shreds. The victorious beast then began to feast on him.
He turned down the main hall and saw Gyra rush past a whip attack and caught the woman on her leg with his whip construct, pulling her forward, into a headbutt. Her nose twisted and teeth broke off, right as Gyra made a large bowie knife construct, striking below her jaw, completely going through her jaw and up her head.
He saw someone dash at him at high speed, so he retracted his whip constructs and did a quick spin, actually capturing his foot, tripping him. Gyras jumped on top of him and headbutted him, before doing it again and again. He then took the whip constructs, wrapped it around his neck, and choked him to death. The handsome young man had his face stomped in for good measure.
"I have heard the core, the heart of this world, and you were judged to be guilty."
And so he walked away.
"I hope you burn in hell, scum."
Genau kept his pace as he hopped over some rubble and then through a hole in the wall, just as he made it Ram's room. The door slowly opened, and she skipped on out.
"Ah, Genau, it's you."
"Thank damn, you're alright Ram!"
Her necklace glew a bit, the one which housed Rem's soul.
"Genau-kun, do you know if Subaru-kun is alright?"
"Not ssssure Ssssister Rem, but I intend to find out!"
But as both of them were about to race off, they were encountered by a large samurai, one at least nine feet tall.
"Genau, go on, I can at least handle this."
"But-"
"-This big brute will rue the day he interrupted Ram-sama's beauty nap. Go!"
Genau nodded and jumped out the window as Ram ran forward.
He flew fast as the sky was darkening, evident of the night coming.
He slammed through a window, roaring as he saw Subaru...was locked in combat with a quite recognizable assailant.
"ALDEBARAN!"
"Fuck, it's him!"
He backflipped away, while Genau landed next to Subaru.
"Genau, deal with him! I have to help Emilia!"
"Exactly, leave it to me!"
He hopped over to the wall and prepared to engage against Al, as the helmeted man...showed off his new metallic looking black arm.
He grunted as the arm opened up, making it into various coils with superheated ends. He allowed them to go wild, as Genau did his best to dodge them all, the resulting fighting completely destroying the walls of the hall they were in.
His day was like any other, one filled with life and death. He couldn't have it any other way.
Genau roared loudly as he flew forward, battling Aldebaran in the madness that the night was bringing closer to its end.
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Grimm Fauzen sat on a bed, hearing the massive commotion going on in the city around them.
It did indeed made him sad to know that people were dying because of his group, something that he was involved in led to all this. He had hoped to save Wilhelm, maybe a few family friends.
Yet he felt their brainwashing by the Red Lanterns, was too extreme and unable to be quelled.
His wife Carol, sat next to him on the bed of the hotel they were staying at, a preplanned safe zone for people positive to their cause. Their granddaughters had dozed off on a nearby couch, tired from the day's events. Carol held his hand and nodded whilst smooching his cheek.
"It is sad, but we've done everything that's best for Lugnica, for the world."
"A truly regrettable situation, but hopefully this will be the spark that ends their-"
Grimm sadly looked up and saw Felt and Petra clinging to the ceiling, eyes beaming red.
He shot up from the bed, before something blasted apart his shoulder, he fell to the ground and his wife grabbed him.
"Grimm, what is-!"
Before her granddaughters could jump out of the couch, Petra and Felt landed between all of them. Felt sighed as blood floated out of her mouth.
"Hey guys."
"Felt-chan?! Why are you-"
"-Everyone had an uneasy feeling after y'all left the mansion, so we had to tail you."
"YOU FOLLOWED US ALL THE WAY HERE?"
"...Um, no. We only followed after Attero had someone stalk you."
"HUH?!"
From Grimm's wound, a red streak of light, which was followed by a buzzing sound emerged. It shot over to Felt, as she held out a finger, letting it rest on her finger.
Carol's eyes widened to both a shocked and angered level.
"YOU. HAVE TO. BE KIDDING!"
"Nope, this little guy is just the best!"
On Felt's finger was an adorable bumblebee...wearing a Red Lantern uniform. Felt giggled as she began using a finger to carefully pet it.
"What a cutie right? This little guy is Walthamstow, he's our littlest Red Lantern! Ah, but our second smallest is a brown rat, what was her name again Petra?"
"Hmmm, Bulldozer, I think?"
"Yeah, Bulldozer, on a count she always causes a tooon of destruction in her missions! But she kinda doesn't like her name, so we call her BDZ, for short. Ahaha, She's a little grump, but she gets the job done."
"Quit it with the small talk!"
Taken aback, Felt actually flinched, while Petra and Walthamstow got pissed. Carol fumed with anger as this girl, this candidate who was a person she had come to care for as a family member, had betrayed them fully.
"What do you intend to do to us!?"
"If you give up, nothing. We'll just take you in-"
"-So we can be tortured for information, by Ovidius Loman?!"
"No, just let me handle it."
Carol stood up and had yelled at her, spit frothing and eyes sharpening.
"How can you handle anything!? Those animals are just seeking out another excuse to have some of us proud people of this world, of this life, and of these legacies killed off!"
"Nobody wants that."
"Look at what you all did during the World War!"
"You're not changing anything by attacking your own country."
"We're opening everyone's eyes, to the truth that these Red Lanterns are not infaliable or invincible!"
"Not likely…"
"HUH?!"
Felt smiled, timidly, slowly growing more sad. So it was up to Petra to inform them.
"What do you think those noises just now was?"
"Your Red Lanterns fighting off our rebellion!"
"No...listen closely, doesn't it sound closer?"
Petra used her ring to open the door.
Now they could hear it, and one of the granddaughters rushed to the open door, looking down the hall.
And could see it.
Countless of their members were being killed in the halls by other Red Lanterns, one was even kicked through a door, and had a dagger construct stabbed through his head.
Petra grinned.
"Your idiotic plot is coming to an end."
"We have backup on the way!"
"Oh...and where are they?"
And her scorning words, reached in the back of her mind...she gave a look to her other granddaughter and she hurried to the window...seeing the Red Lanterns completing mop up operations.
"Grandmother, th-there is no back up!"
"WHAT?!"
"None of our friends are out there!"
Impossible.
Carol knew that their reinforcements were all housed up in a underground base, closed off in a dimensional void, it's own space to be undetected. All their extra weapons, soldiers and more, ready to be deployed while using the sewer systems as routes into the city.
So why had they not come? Where were they?
What had happened this day?
Carol seethed in panic, as Felt offered up her hand.
"Please, Carol-san. I'm trying my best to give you and the others a chance out of this situation."
"Tsk."
"Subaru-nii chan has ordered anyone associated with you idiots to be killed or captured, but everyone is so pissed they're just killing them. So please, for all those good times we had at the Astrea Estate, for the happy days we had...please, come with us."
"..."
"I DON'T WANT THEM TO KILL YOU."
Carol took a moment, looking to her injured husband, then to her two grandchildren. Then to a concerned Felt, to Walthamstow who buzzed angrily, then to a disassociated stare from Petra.
The mother, the worker, the person who lived a long and crazy life; smiled at the girl she had come to know.
"I can't."
"Car-"
Yanking out a small throwing knife, her head was blasted open by Petra, Grimm raised himself, only for Walthamstow to fly over at top speed to rocket his little body through his eye like a speeding bullet.
Petra noticed the little girl at the door lunged at her with a karate style kick, so she had specialty leg constructs kick at hyper speed, cutting her in half. Her foot wheel landed, spinning her around and fired a buckshot beam at the child by the window, blowing a hole in her stomach. Felt stood there, completely stunned, a tear falling down her cheek.
Hobbling over she held …. in her arms.
"I didn't want it to end up, like this."
The dying girl, looked up at Felt, and grabbed her cheek violently, her eyes watering from all the pain she was enduring.
"You…"
"Go ahead, say whatever you want."
The light began fading in her eyes.
"...hate...you…"
Her hand fell limp, and Felt was cradling a dead body. Petra walked over, with Walthamstow resting on her shoulder.
"Felt."
"Did we have to go this far?"
"You tell me."
"...I guess, to protect the place me and Rom jii called home, it was."
"Then there's your answer."
Felt licked a tear off of herself as she hugged the dead body tightly.
The room was silent, as not even the sound of the massacre going on in the hotel, could reach into this divided area of death.
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Within the flames, Crusch got to her feet, spitting blood onto the ground. Crusch grabbed the sword that was by her feet, it had a green blade and gold hilt, with specks of blood already on it.
Across from her, her opponent got back into a quite traditional Okinawan style karate stance.
"I am still surprised you're this eager to fight."
"...Well, I wouldn't want my shishou lessons to be a waste, would I?"
Emilia smiled as blood dripped out of her nose. Crusch got her sword stance prepared, as Emilia inched forward, flames flickering around them.
But when a piece of wood broke off the wall, they both rushed.
Amber eyes flaring.
Amethyst eyes blazing.
Both leaving a trail of ominous light streams behind them. Both ladies, once merely rivals, found themselves in a match of glorious combat, of stupendous violence, a battle of death.
And both wanted nothing more, than to do one thing to one other.
Kill.
TO BE CONTINUED...
AN:
Refrences:
- Myrkur = Danish Black Metal Project
- Walthamstow = "East 17 (Boy Band)" Album of Same Name
- Bulldozer (BDZ) = "TWICE (K-POP) " Album of Same Name
So yup, the smallest Red Lantern in the team is a cute lil' bumblebee, while their largest is a giant sandworm.
And with that, we head to the next chapter!
NExt time? Ch.35 "Arch Enemy", so long y'all!