These solo missions are hell on my body. That fucking warden loves seeing us AGE in cuffs. AGE. What a glorified acronym. Just because we are Adaptive God Eaters, hence said acronym, does not mean we should be treated like this. Then again, with how close we are to the Aragami compared to other God Eaters, I can't blame these people for being so scared. We even had to let our bodies go through the method of autophagy for preservation. These scientists. Why not say its this and this instead of giving it a confusing word. It makes it.... I need to focus on the mission. Crescent Soul is getting restless, meaning an Aragami, or a group of them, is nearby. Crescent lets me know how strong, or how many, the Aragami is and that's by the intensity of its 'song' , which also helps track it to some degree. The Ashlands are home to Aragami that would make Fenrir, Cradle and a few others lose their shit if they saw what they can do. These Aramagi have taken a method we've been using and turned it against us. Our arcs grant us, and themselves, a small boost in power when they eat a piece of the target, what we call Burst. Now the Aragami have taken this not and made it worse as their Burst no anly makes them stronger, it changes their fighting approach altogether, making them a headache. We AGE have had to find ways around this with little to no success. One AGE used the Arc to Burst, then ate some himself with little extra benefit. One AGE bit off some of a Burst Aragami and got stronger but his cells went haywire for a few moments. One other performed autophagy, self-eating, by refusing all food for some time, which did help but not enough. The Aragami may have us in a corner, but any beast in a corner will bare its teeth for protection.
Crescent was humming, signaling me of strong Aragami before it got loud as five high class Aragami came in out of nowhere. Assessing the foes, I dove at the Zeus to evade the attack as four other attacks killed it. Three others ate the cells and achieved Burst before looking at me. I flinch at their gaze and ran, faster than I knew I could. The more female formed and bird like beast were hot on my ass while I tried to outrun them. If I had Longinus or Pandora and Hades that would be different, but these were still fast Aragami, and one of them didn't have Burst. My life drew near it's end and I could almost feel it before a pulse filled my heart and, without thinking, I drove my foot into the ground and turned back. The blade transitioned into Ax mode as I swung the blade as hard as I could as the air was blasted toward them and charged with electricity. This gave me time to escape but not before the other two cut me off.
What followed next was confusing. Whatever I had awakened, the fight was making it more responsive as I was effectively dancing around their attacks, but the area was becoming more unhinged as it looked like water before we were falling. As we fell, I took the ax mode and split a Ra in half and took the core before my god arc did something strange, even for an arc. Every oracle cell in the Ra was absorbed by Crescent and it upgraded slightly as the blade looked repaired. The next was the Habakiri and its cells effectively cleaned the blade. The next was the Anubis and its cells seemingly repaired the actual blade. The final target was an off shoot of the Hannabal and its cells made the entire weapon look professionally forged. Looked where I could only assume was down, I was exiting this strange tunnel and ended up in a frozen area.
Before I could process where I was, a bolt of light nearly hit me and a womanly figure covered in black fur, wearing a fancy cape, gave me a predatory grin. "So you wish to cross fangs with me Aragami." She looked confused before her interest returned when I lifted Crescent above my head. "Then let's see who dominates the food chain." Her grin grew as we clashed. Whatever she was using had force but no bite as the best it was doing was pushing me. She was getting visibly angry before I felt a rush. Swinging Crescent, the air was charged with the Divine attribute as it knocked her off kilter. Jumping into the air, Crescent turned into the Ax mode, ready to lop the figures head off before I was falling again. The next time I hit the ground was in the middle of a fight with multiple figures that looked like the woman from earlier and some bug like creatures with a bigger one approaching me. "I don't know what is happening, but I'm getting sick of this." Crescent changed to Range mode, arming the ammo of the Assault Gun before I clicked the trigger, sending bullets sky ward and hitting many of the targets before the larger bug charged me. I brought the shield up just as her fist came down and she made contact before hearing screams of pain.
"Aren't you special." He grin became predatory, much like the other woman's. "You'll make a fine addition to my army." I switch to melee mode and slammed the blade down, creating a heavy uplift of wind before charging and falling yet again. I landed and heard a yell.
"Who dares?" Me and the voice made eye contact. "A straggler?" It looked confused. "No matter." It opened its mouth and breathed in as I flipped the shield out, thinking it would attack. "What?" I heard it again and nothing. "What is this? All things should have magic, so why can't I take yours?" Another skirmish for me ensued and, like last time, I was pulled out before I could deliver the finishing blow. The same thing repeated for a weird creature that snapped its fingers to do shit then a pair of brothers, I think, who were ripping trees out of the ground before I demolished the machine before getting transported to a world with a nightscape.
"Okay! Are we done yet?!" I scream at the sky.
"Who goes?" An aged, womanly voice called. What stepped out was yet another woman, only this one wore blue armor, has pitch black fur and teal eyes that resemble a calm feline. She looked me over and inspected me with a curious look. "You resemble a pony for the most part." Excuse me, what? "But you lack may of the features. No fur, no snout nor hooves. Your weapon is also strange, yet most interesting." She looked me over again. Finally a calm place. "What are you creature? Everything about you strikes me with interest, yet I know not why."
I looked her in the eye and stopped her. "Forgive the physical contact but I am having a beyond weird day." She looked done with me already. "First I'm looking for the target Aragami I'm supposed to engage and find myself fighting an Anubis, a Ra, a Habakiri, then a Hannabal and find myself free falling into Gods know what before landing here, where ever or when ever here is." As I spoke she became more curious. "My only theory is that the crashing powers from the Aragami and myself from our Oracle cells opened a rift in space-time, but never has a God Arc of any generation shown the ability to fully assimilate Oracle cells even to repair itself." She looked interest, yet lost as I talked aloud. "I could replicate the effect, but without knowing where I may fall next, it's like a roll of the dice." I stood there in thought. "I'll stay here for now." I look at her and she looked star struck. "Hello?"
"Come with me to the castle traveler of worlds, we have much to discuss." I wanted to outright say 'no' but who am I to refuse any lady of a request laid out in such a pleasant fashion. That begs the question. Should I find a way to the correct time-line, if there is one, or should I stay? Following the woman closely, I saw what state this world's timeline was in. Vegetation was still abundant, meaning the solar eclipse is artificial and moving to allow other places the light they need to grow crops. Whatever the cause or reason, the air felt musky before I looked up. I was so deep in thought, only following the woman's movements I didn't see where we were heading and the bed and her posture didn't help any. "Take the night as yours traveler and rut me." My reaction was obvious as she shook her hips before I was falling again. "WTB?!" She's mad now. Before long, I saw two girls and a boy, all of which were close to my age, falling with me before the weight shifted to a gentle descent as all three of us landed on a table.
The two girls stared at me before a pair of doors, fancy ones at that, opened, and behind them were five other girls. We all stared at each other before something hit me in the back, forcing me off the table. I look up and see the lavender girl with her horn glowing and a scared expression aimed at me. "Stay back!" I looked confused. "I don't know how you got here human, but you will not harm anyone." All of the other girls, and the boy, looked struck with fear before two others joined her, taking up a defensive stance as another bolt hit me. I stood back up and armed Crescent. "That's not possible." The girl said. That was a paralysis and sleep spell. You should be out cold." The others rushed me, fast. "AJ, Rainbow stop!" I brought the shield out as they struck it, barely moving me. I guess the energy blast has more bit than I thought, just no effect. What mattered now, however, was the fact that these girls were scared of me. I could fight them until their out of steam and then talk or just beat them down and end it.
Author's Note
First God Eater story on me and a strong start with a cliffhanger. Leave a comment please and I'll see you next chapter.