Chapter 14 - War

Renneth and Blake transformed in front of Parker and team. Nemean started roaring, while Centaur started stomping.

"Gosh!" Madelyn grunted.

"Everyone! Prepare yourselves! Our forces are outside so only we have to deal with them." Parker ordered.

"I understood!" Aaron cried.

"Understood what?" Jacob asked.

"Giving us Ultimatum, or breaching us wasn't there only plan." Aaron replied. "There another objective is to backstab our forces and weaken them."

Everyone stood there in shock. Erik started glaring at them grinding his teeth.

"Aaron come with me, rest of you, take care of Nemean." Erik said transforming into Lycan.

"Erik!" Madelyn screamed, but by that time Erik transformed and Aaron grappled on Erik and they both left.

There is a difference in Lycan's and Centaur's height. Lycan is approximately fifteen meter tall while the Centaur was thirty. Still Erik charged towards it, more like charged towards its forelimbs. It hardly affected the Centaur.

"Erik! I have an idea!" Aaron screamed. "Charge me towards the Centaur's neck! ASAP!"

Lycan did the same. Aaron used his grapple gun mid-air and grappled Centaur's neck.

"Keep him engaged Erik!" Aaron screamed while planting his explosives.

On the other hand, Parker and team were facing the Nemean, who was not willing to go down soon.

"Luckily, Lionel gave us the prototype of S-Bomb Gun. This may come handy." Parker said.

"Quickly, give me it." Madelyn said.

"Uhm ok, I can give it to you, but what are you gonna do?" Parker asked confused.

"I have a plan." Madelyn said.

On the other side, Erik tried to attack Centaur, which of course didn't affect Centaur, but, it appeared he wasn't even trying to stop Aaron. After planting the explosives, Aaron signaled Erik that he is about to jump, which Centaur noticed.

The moment, Aaron jumped, Centaur grabbed him tightly. Aaron quickly pressed the button to trigger the explosives, and an explosion occurred on the neck of the Centaur. A black cloud of smoke formed near the Centaur's neck. A smile came in Aaron's face. However, he realised the grip hasn't gone lose yet. When the cloud vanished, Aaron and Lycan noticed Centaur smiling.

"Y-y-y-o-o-u t-h-o-o-u-g-h-t t-h-i-i-s o-o-l-d t-e-e-c-h-n-i-i-q-u-e c-a-a-n s-t-o-o-p m-e-e?" Centaur said and started laughing.

Lycan grunted.

Centaur suddenly crushed Aaron and threw him to the ground below. Aaron laid on the ground with eyes almost out of the socket and mouth wide opened. His bones probably broken and maybe dislocated. Lycan saw that and got angry, he howled and charged towards Centaur, trying to hit and bite every place possible, but Centaur defended himself pretty well.

On the other side, Parker, Naomi, Jacob, Selena, Ciaran attacked Nemean on his eyes and nose and jaws, to blind him.

"This is the chance! Madelyn!" Parker cried.

Nemean was blinded, due to which he shut his eyes tight, resulting, he opened his mouth, through which Madelyn shot a huge amount of S-Bombs in the Nemean's insides, which when exploded, exploded Nemean into pieces.

"Like Aaron said, if you can't hurt externally, hurt internally." Madleyn said with a proud smile while landing on the ground.

On the other side, Lycan tried to go for the face, but Centaur caught him and ripped his arm off. Centaur started crying in pain.

"L-e-e-t m-e-e t-e-e-l-l y-y-o-o-u t-h-i-i-s. T-h-e w-a-y o-n-c-e I-i a-a-m d-e-f-e-a-t-e-e-d, I-i c-a-n n-o-t b-e-e d-e-f-e-e-a-t-e-e-d a-g-a-i-i-n." Centaur said laughing while compressing Lycan's ripped arm, while the blood flow continued. Lycan started screaming on top of his voice.

Suddenly, another Werewolf jumped up and ate the ripped arm along with a portion of few fingers of the Centaur.

Lycan went silent. He looked down. Another Werewolf Tyrant was standing there. It was similar looking to that of Erik's, except it has completely white fur, was a bit more bulky and had a height of twenty meter.

Watching this Werewolf, Centaur got distracted. Seeing this as a chance, Lycan broke free and fell down. Lycan got up and stared at the Werewolf for a second. Then they both howled and started jumping and attacking the Centaur in sync, eating his flesh in the meanwhile. Centaur couldn't do anything and slowly he lost all his defence and fell on the ground. As soon as Centaur's unconscious body touched the ground, both Lycan and Werewolf started having a feast, and within few moments, only Centaur carcass was left.

After finishing the Centaur, the Werewolf fell on the ground, shrinking in size and finally turning into a human, who was none other than Aaron Prince. Lycan too transformed back to his normal form and went straight towards Aaron.

On the battlefield, where other Ops soldiers were fighting, there was a huge collection of piled up human carcass, as well as huge explosive smoke clouds.

The Father stops in his path, looking around, thinking everyone is dead.

"F-o-o-l-i-i-s-h h-u-u-m-a-a-n-s!" Father said.

He turned around to direct his army of Tyrants to move ahead, but to his surprise, no Tyrant was there alive, and an army of Tyrants were approaching from far.

"H-o-o-w?" Father said, when suddenly, he felt something sticking on his back. He turned towards it to check, but by that time an explosion occurs, and Father drops his weapon. Suddenly, two shurikens gets stuck near his eyes and a black smoke occurs, blinding him temporarily. Suddenly, he feels something very sharp cut his legs and he falls down to the ground.

"Father. A fifteen meter S+ Ranked Tyrant. Code name, Minotaur. So we finally meet." a voice spoke.

Father transformed back to his human form. There lied a tall, broad man with a well-toned body, and with gray eyes, shaggy platinum blond hair, and a matching mustache that descended into his beard. The man felt his hands and legs being cut by a blade and started screaming in pain.

When the smoke vanished, Lionel appeared in front of the man.

"Lionel Ambrose, the descendant of Shirogane Clan." the man whispered to himself.

Flashback

"So is the army of Operation Squad so weak?" the man asked.

"Yes Father." Renneth replied.

"However, there is one man who can be a pain in the ass." Blake said.

"One man?" the man asked in astonishment.

"Yes." Renneth replied.

"He is Lionel Ambrose, a descendant of Shirogane ninja clan, said to be one of the strongest ninja clans ever existed. He can defeat many of our Tyrants alone." Blake said.

"He even killed Arachnoia." Renneth said.

"He was the one who killed her?" the man asked in shock.

"Yes." Renneth and Blake said in unison.

Present time

"Shi..Shirogane." the man said with struggle.

"You Tyrants have taken many human lives. But now, I shall end this for once and for all." Lionel said taking his sword out, in his heavy voice.

"Or how about we take you, and torture you to death, by taking out your finger nails, then fingers, then limbs, study every organ in your body and then kill you?" Lionel said with a serious expression and his heavy voice.

Suddenly, Lionel felt a Tyrant behind and jumped away with the help of his instincts. A three headed giant dog, called Cerberus arrived, and took the man in one of its mouths.

"You shall suffer Shirogane!" the man screamed while commanding the approaching Tyrant army to kill Lionel.

Lionel stood there watching the army approach him.

Erik on the other side sat there with Aaron in his arms.

"You'll be fine Aaron." Erik whispered.

Suddenly, Cerberus along with the man in its mouth arrived.

"Erik Spencer!" the man said.

"What do you want?" Erik said coming in his defence stance.

"You're a Tyrant Shifter as I got to know. Agent Lycan." the man replied.

"So what?" Erik asked.

"I'm the Father, but my human name goes with Zedd Moretti." the man said.

"You're the Father?" Erik asked in shock. "If you're here, what happened to others?"

"Dead." Zedd replied.

Erik went silent.

Suddenly, one of the heads of Cerberus started barking in a different direction. Zedd turned his head towards the same direction.

On top of a destroyed building, stood Lionel.

"Shirogane's still alive? Guess I underestimated him." Zedd grunted.

"So what I was saying Erik, you should join us. Join us and I shall make you my heir." Zedd said. "Do think about what I said, I'm in a hurry so I can't wait. See ya." the Cerberus, with Zedd jumped and vanished from the sight.

Lionel glided and arrived near Erik.

"What happened to Aaron?" Lionel asked.

"He suddenly turned into a Tyrant like me and we both defeated the Centaur." Erik replied.

"Defeated the Centaur?" Lionel asked.

"Yes. When you all left, Renneth and Blake transformed, but we fought them and stopped them." Erik said.

"I see." Lionel said.

"How did he become a Tyrant Shifter though?" Lionel asked.

"I guess when the Centaur ripped my arm off, some of my blood fell his mouth and he had some life in him, which may have led him to become a Tyrant?" Erik said.

"Quick. Lets take him back to the base, we need your help as well. We shall conduct experiments on him but that comes later, for now we need Aaron in a fine condition." Lionel said.

Parker and team arrives.

"What's going on Lionel? Where's everyone?" Parker asked.

"Dead." Lionel replied.

"What?" Parker asked.

"I'll tell about it on our way. We are short on time. Parker come with me towards General's office, (to Madelyn and Naomi) Madelyn and Naomi, as soon as Aaron becomes conscious, send him to the General's office. Its an urgent work. Lets leave quick." Lionel said.

"Emmett I shall do what you said. Its a promise." Lionel said to himself, while Madelyn again noticed the grief in Lionel's eyes, even though he was wearing his cowl.