Night One Hundred And Forty Eight
Age 1991
Streets Of Rose City...
Several people all in rich looking outfits watched several silver cars blasted down the streets. Within one of the cars seven people could be seen. Hero, Kitsune, Ken, Light, and Irene, from Squad Six, as well as North, and Eins, who was driving, from Squad One.
North hummed as he stared down at his scroll. "Several Baron level Bestia Macht have been spotted all over the city. We're all going to be breaking up into several groups and stop them from getting to the public..."
"Baron?" Ken asked with a raised eyebrow. "So they aren't human Bestia Macht then, since those guys are always Viscount."
"That's right." North hummed nodding his head. "They are thought to be normal Bestia Macht, the issue here though is a total of ten have been spotted... Rose city is one of the biggest cities around, and has some of the best walls, none of which are damaged... I can only assume they must have gone through the catacombs to get here. Only question is what would drag them all down to the catacombs?"
Hero felt his frown grow, as Kitsune, Irene, Light, and Ken all got ready for the mission that was to come. 'So they went through the catacombs... Could that be how that man was getting around so much?' He thought as the image of Bright came to his mind. 'I thought for sure he was someone in Squad One, and that still might be the case, but he's not any of the higher ups... Damn it... Could he be the one setting this up as a distraction?'
"We're close to arriving on scene everyone." Eins called out. He still had a casual grin on his face as the car began to slow down. "Everyone ready! It's likely we're going into the heart of a storm! They're just Baron's so it's not gonna be a big deal!" The car stopped in front of a large twist of turns, and streets, as well as several alleyways. Several people could be seen running from something, or somethings, that were further in the alleyways. The group quickly got out of their silver car as Eins clicked a button and the doors locked. "Alright North. We're taking charge."
"Okay? What's the plan?" Eins asked.
North hummed for a moment as if thinking. "Eins, Light, Irene, and Ken. You three from Squad Six are with me. I want to see you guys in action more. Especially you Ken. I really wanna see what a Seraphin can do! Hero, and Kitsune. I want you two here. If any get past us I'm counting on you guys to put it down before it has a chance to escape further into the city."
"Right." Hero, and Kitsune, both said nodding their heads.
"Good. Everyone understand. Than let's go." Eins announced. He turned jumping into the air and shifting his arm into that wooden form as a hard light whip came up and he wrapped it around some of the many buildings, using it to flip over the alleyway. North and Irene both used their ice powers shooting a large ice ramp from underneath everyone but Hero, and Kitsune as they were all launched into the air. Light flipped around landing in the alleyway with a cool landing, but Ken, who was still terrified of heights let out a loud yell as she fell to the ground and collapsed into the alleyway with a painful thud.
"Ow..." She groan.
"Uh... I think our intel might have been wrong..." North hissed out with wide eyes.
Everyone landed next to him and the downed Ken, as they looked up seeing the many Bestia Macht that were in the alleyways.
There were a lot more than ten. Nearly fifty of them at least. Most were Barons, and generic looking wolf monsters, or lion monsters, but a few were bigger ones, the Viscounts, either Barons that evolved into one, or a human turned Bestia Macht. Thankfully the bulk of the horde was made up of the weak Barons. Irene still felt a small gulp escape her as she and North stared down the mini horde. For a second her mind went back to all her siblings, Snow, Flake, and the others, and what happened, when they all fought a horde.
"Here they come!" Eins announced. "Let's take them down!"
"Right!" Everyone nodded.
North fired forward a large ice blade forming around his right arm, giving him an icy sword arm, that was actually attached to him, since he didn't have the fingers to actually hold onto a sword anymore. Ice armor also formed around him as he began to slash out with his blade and brute strength splitting several of the Bestia Macht in half with only a single swing from mighty blade of cold. He really was just a power house, his cold powers spreading out and infecting several of the ice monsters shattering them to glass.
Irene spun with both power, from her muscle honed body, and also elegance, using her powerful, slender legs, to deliver mighty kicks to several of the Bestia Macht's freezing them over and shattering several of them with ease, as her and North did some kind of beautiful, yet deadly dance around each other, sending out pretty looking sparkles as several of the Bestia Macht's exploded in an elegant display of power.
Irene raised her other hand out as some of her blood dropped out of her wound forming her 'red ice' mode which stayed in a blood like liquid state whipping around and actually burning through the horde, as if it was boiling.
"Heat?" North asked with a raised eyebrow as she whipped it around her arm like a flaming whip.
"I can control Red Ices temperature. It isn't just ice, but rather red temperature. Hot or cold, with this power I can do it all. Even lukewarm."
"Cool!" North said with stars in his eyes for a moment. "You've always been so cool and heroic big sis! A true symbol of justice. A superhero even. I can't use blood ice."
"It's Red Ice, actually and you can't?"
"Nah... I don't know what's up with all of our powers but instead I can just create some light with mine which is pretty cool to I guess. I can also mess with the color, but for the most part it's pretty lame... Yours is so much cooler."
Over with Light he jumped into the air flipping around as he raised his gun up and it entered its rapid fire mode the barrel changing to one that would spin and unleash a hail of bullets. And a hail of bullets, he did unleash, as the barrel began to spin at a fast speed and several golden beams of light exploded out of it at a fast speed ripping several of the Bestia Macht apart with ease and making them all roar out. Baron's didn't have the healing factors the others did, so he didn't need to focus on their heads, and instead could just rip them to pieces with his sheer gun fire.
And last in the center of the horde where the most was Eins and Ken could both be seen back to back. Ken held her black spikes out as if they were a large black spear, while Eins waved his left arm and created a Hard light Lance for him the wield, the two of them sending out barrages of pokes, with their deadly pointy weapons, which moved so fast they were leaving behind after image effects from their sheer speed.
"You know! Seraphins are pretty cool!" Eins called back to her as his lance blew off a chunk of an arm from one Bestia Macht.
"Not really..." Ken said shaking her head. "I have such high senses its actually a downside. I hear every ones hearts beating, and smell the blood pumping through their veins. Also I have to eat a lot of food to make up for the massive amount of energy I give up when I heal. That and the craving for human flesh, and this weird animalistic feeling of wanting to mate with people..." She sighed as her eye twitched. "If I give into that animalistic beast nature, I'd either go insane, like Viper, or turn into a full on Bestia Macht... I had a guy who helped manage that, but he's dead now."
"I see... Viper is also a Seraphin isn't she. Both of you were turned by Mr. Hyde?" Eins asked. "Though he likely doesn't fully remember you guys due to his memory issues. He's also a Seraphin to an extent, but he's also a Rebirth, and a God Slayer, so he's kind of the black sheep out of all the Generation Programs."
"Weird..." Ken said not really listening as she raised her hand up firing several beams of energy that blew more of the beast monsters apart.
"So when exactly did you guys become Seraphins?" Eins asked casually.
"What?"
"I just want to know when you became them." Eins shrugged. "I mean everyone else who has undergone the process failed right? I was just wondering what made you and her so special?"
Ken frowned as she spun her body ripping the head of one of the beasts off. "Well... It's kind of embarrassing to say..."
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah... Viper and I were really young when we were both turned and well... It has to do with a part of the brain the receives love signals I guess... limbic system, and amygdala or something like that. Fear and Love. A person has to have fear, of not just the moment at hand, but what they might also become... As well as an intense love for someone. Or at least what I assume is love. I had that feeling for Viper one of the first people I ever knew, as well as my father... Looking back on it, I hate both now, but during that time, I didn't know how a father should act, so I still loved him, and the loss that could happen if I failed."
"The loss?"
"Well... I was a kid when it all happened so my view, my love, and my fear, of the world is different now. I don't think any adult that man tries it on will work. Thinking back on it Mr. Hyde only did it to kids... All around the age I had been... Four to eight... I guess something about the way a kid works is just different. It was still only a 1% chance that it would work though. Out of over a thousand kids I was the only one to become a Seraphin. After I was one, Mr. Hyde study my brain and figured out a way to make the process 15% which allowed him to later make Viper, than he went on to boost it all the way to 75% allowing him to turn himself into a Seraphin. Thankfully most of his research was burned away and lost, and most of himself, was also lost during the Rebirth project so he seems to have forgotten everything he knew... It's still bad though because with just a kid Seraphin, he was able to go from 1 all the way to 15% and than later figured out how to get it to work with adults."
"I see..." Eins nodded as a frown crossed onto his face. "This isn't good than... Whoever this Bright guy is, he might have to break all his morals and target kids for the greater good... Not good at all. Any ideas who he is so far, so we can stop him? I assume you guys are all here because you assume it's someone from Squad One right?"
"I uh... Well..." Ken let out a small gulp realizing he totally saw through her. She decided to not say anything that would give anything else away as she stabbed a few more Bestia Macht.
"I see... So it's true than... Someone in Squad One is a traitor..." He hummed. "I understand why you guys came now. You didn't want to alert him, so you've been trying to play it as cool as you could right?"
"Y... Yeah..." Ken said wincing slightly. "Please don't tell anyone... We weren't suppose to let you guys know..."
Eins's grin grew larger as he formed a large axe out of his hard light. "You have my heroic word that I won't tell. If everything you said was true than this man must be taken out no matter what! I won't stand for it!"
"Right..." Ken said eying the man up and down for a moment as she frowned.
Eins gave her another grin as he turned away. "Anyways... I'm gonna go on ahead. I'm counting on you to take these remaining ones out."
"Right..." Ken nodded as a dark feeling went through her. "I think I messed up..." She whispered as she watched Eins go further on ahead...