Haji

Konella should be able to handle herself if it's just the one, maybe two at best. Her reaction to the danger was quicker than my own. Recalling just how desperate she looked when shouting at us to flee, her determination to prove the Red Shield they were wrong about her being a threat, I felt a pang in my chest. Though I have confidence in her capabilities to handle the chiropteran, if more were to overcome her, she will not be able to fight them off and would be reckless to defeat them if cornered.

"There, the door leads to the server room." David ushered us all through and took out a small device and began working on retrieving the data needed for the mission. Sensing we were no longer alone and facing a small horde of chiropterans coming down the hall, I prepared for the fight.

"Haji," Saya called my name with a fearful tone and looked like a cowering child. Disheartening seeing her this way rather than the warrior I know her to be, I grasped the case and grabbed out the katana.

"Saya, fight!" Handing her the sword she shook from touching it and could not bring herself to use it again after the last one. Unable to get her to fight, using my cello case as my weapon and shield and keeping the beasts at bay, I was aggravated. As frustrated as I am with Saya not awakening to her calling, I cannot abandon her either.

"Keep them at bay, I will find a way to shut the doors!" David yelled out while typing away at the computers. Saya remained huddled against the wall as she was ushered to get out of the way while David shot at several beasts to get them off me.

It's been a rather long time fighting off the chiropterans now and time was not on our side. Rather, in the time we have been fighting there has been no sign of the enemy letting up. I was getting weary when it occurred to me how many there were here and no sign of Konella's return.

[Konella?!] Reaching out in hope that she would respond, I feared she was critically injured or incapacitated. Gritting my teeth as the enemy didn't lighten up, David seemed to have achieved his goal hearing him exclaim.

"I got it," David shouted and began shooting the creatures off me once more. Not effective to say the least, he took Saya by the shoulders and was slowly having us both retreat to the room behind us as the security doors began to start closing. I heard Saya scream to being attacked and for a brief moment I saw something run past me and ram the creature away from her.

"Dad!"
Seeing it was George and leaving it up to them to get Saya away, I kicked the creatures into one another and got to the others in time when the doors shut and locked. Hearing more flooding into the room beyond the steel door, I worry of the outcome of this mission.

"George…"
The way he spoke his name was concerning until I looked at the man myself. His arm was already in the process of changing. They had got to him with the Delta-67 blood. A moment of silence passed as there was no cure once the fusion of blood took place. The blood was changing him, and the wound he suffered from before had torn, making the floor pool with his blood before slowly beginning to close itself as he started to transform into the monsters we just fought off. Taking Saya's hand and giving her words of encouragement, he seemed to have done something without her notice as a small amount of her blood trickled down his arm and entered his bloodstream. Words exchanged between them as father and daughter, encouraging her to accept her past no matter what it may be. She cried onto him as the blood continued to trickle down and his sanity as a human began to lose itself.

"Saya…stay strong…" his parting words to her as his blood crystalized him whole as a father rather than a monster. Listening to Saya's anguished cry as she held onto the small pieces of him that shattered in her hand, I watched with quiet grief as she lost another 'father' in her life.

Hearing the commotion outside the door, wondering how many were now gathered outside, it came to my attention of how we were to get out of this place if trapped. Before long David was trying to get a radio to connect with Lewis, but the interference was too strong and cut out continuously. A loud crash against the door startled us all when I could feel Konella just beyond the door!

"Guys?! Dammit where the hell are you?" Hearing Konella and also feeling her rapid heartbeat through our telepathy, I worried she was overdoing herself and was critically injured as I feared.

"Isn't that Konella," Saya looked hopeful it was her, but all I could sense the situation was fear and trepidation. The roars got louder and the amount of chiropterans I sensed was over 10—perhaps more!
[Haji can you hear me?]
[Are you hurt? We found Ge—]
[There's no time for that damn mission of theirs we need to get out of this building now!]