We get a little more fighting and the last main character for the good guy’s team is introduced. And go figure it’s a cat girl. The story is called the anime story for a reason. That and there are mecks, you have to have those as well.
Chapter 5: The Life of a Girl, Her Ghost and Her Alarm Clock + Infested
The man looked at the blond haired, energetic, bunny ear wearing girl. “Well since this looks like it’s actually going to be a real fight I suppose I should introduce myself. My name is….” He didn’t even have time to finish his sentence before Ryo was on him. She crossed the distance between them in a flash and pressed her hand against his chest. The damage she dealt did not come from the connection of flesh to flesh like normal, but from Ryo’s new found power. Energy shot threw the strange man’s body and he was thrown backwards from the shock. He didn’t have far to fly, just a few feet behind him was a brick wall and just like Ryo had before him, he went threw it with a crash. When the dust cleared from the destroyed wall the man was already standing and looking at Ryo, his eyes slowly shifting to a light green color as something seemed to creep into them from the sides. He yelled at Ryo. “Sytro! I was going to say my name was Sytro before you so rudely interr…” Again he was cut off as Ryo’s foot, charged with spiritual energy, drove right at his head in flying spin kick.
This time Sytro was not caught off guard, lifting his left arm he caught Ryo’s foot in mid flight the instant before it could connect. The energy from her foot dispersed into Sytro’s hand as Ryo’s kick was stopped. The flash of spirit power shot across Sytro’s hand and forearm and as it passed it peeled away skin and flesh. Green and red blood sprayed from the hand and arm as the energy ripped through it. without so much as flinching Sytro griped Ryo’s foot, lifted it and the rest of her body over his head and threw her down the street, where after about forty feet she slammed sideways into a lamp post and bent it nearly to the ground as it wrapped around her body. A moment later the lamp post was flying down the street at Sytro who promptly shrugged his shoulders and said “You have got to be kidding me.” He moved his left arm back and with his injured hand formed a fist and punched into the center of the airborne post. From the front you could see three strange green spikes puncture threw the metal of the post which was then tossed aside like trash. With the lamp post out of the way Ryo could see Sytro’s hand and the three large spikes that formed from the top and bottom of his wrist. The arm and hand where already partially healed and the skin and flesh where reforming fast.
Breathing heavily Ryo wiped sweat from her forehead. She was already feeling tired. She looked at the man in front of her as his arm healed before her eyes and a voice sounded in her head. “I’m sorry Onee-chan but we’re all out of power. Since we just merged we haven’t had time to really sync, and we’re just not that powerful yet.” Ryo closed her eyes for a moment to talk to May “It’s OK; you’ve done what you can. If it weren’t for you I would be dead already. And why are you calling me ‘big sister’?” Just then May yelled at Ryo “Don’t close your eyes!” Ryo shot her eyes open just in time to see five strange lines coming from Sytro straight at her. She tried to move out of the way but her body would not respond in time. The five long thin tendrils extending from Sytro’s right arm snatched Ryo up in the air and held her there. Ryo, already out of energy, hung in the air with a fleshy tendril around each ankle, wrist, and around her throat. She felt them squeeze her harder as the three spikes on Sytro’s other hand slowly moved outward on the end of three new extensions. The three new tendril-spikes slowly crept across the distance towards Ryo.
Sytro took a couple of steps forward as he said “you know, if you weren’t feeling well you should have run, I mean, generally speaking yo……. ” the steps had been made and the spikes had reached within a couple of inches of Ryo, she was staring at one as it moved slowly towards her eye. But Sytro was cut off again, and this time literally! There was a sudden streak across the tendrils and green blood sprayed everywhere. Ryo, now freed from the sliced appendages fell to the ground gasping for air. The now severed limbs of Sytro dropped to the sidewalk flapping around like dying fish. The culprit of this sudden ambush was standing a couple of feet in front of Ryo. She stood about a head shorter then Ryo would, had she been standing, and her red hair fell loosely just short of her shoulders. Her long and furry ears twitched slightly as they stood up on her head. Her tail was shot straight out and the orange fur covering it stood up on end. Her gold slit eyes were locked hard on the man in front of her. She lifted a single arm covered with fur from the elbow down and pointed a single partially clawed finger at Sytro and announced with an anger filled voice “How dare you try to tactical rape my Ojo-sama!” It was about this time that Ryo realized the strange cat-like girl was not wearing a single piece of clothing on her entire body.
For a moment it seemed like the angry cat girl was the only one present that understood the situation. The attached half’s of Sytro’s “tentacles” quickly retracted back to his body, leaking blood all along the way. Once they where back safely inside him he took a good look at the new opponent. After a moment he got a look of recognition on his face and said “Ah, now it makes sense. Once you start throwing around that kind of magic this sort of thing happens. Damn Mi….” Sytro was stopped as something slammed into his shoulders. The cat girl had used his moment of self dialog to rush forward and leap in front of him. Once in the air she grabbed each of his shoulders with a hand and flipped over his head. Using the momentum of the flip to her advantage the girl lifted the man off his feet as she landed behind him back to back and launched him over her own head. Sytro flew several feet in the air before finely crashing into a hanging store sign which was knocked clean off its hinges and the two of them landed on the ground with a thud, store sigh on top. Much like the lamp post before it, the sign came soaring down the side walk at the naked cat girl who pulled one of her clawed hands back and slashed the sign into several pieces that crashed to the ground uselessly behind her. Sytro standing again looked at the two girls “I was going to tell you something important but since you keep inter….” Sytro stopped talking again as out of nowhere a hole appeared in his chest and the wall beside him was splattered by his green and red blood. A small hole could be seen in the wall at the center of the blood splatter, and in the hole was a small metallic object.
Sytro’s chest wound had already started healing as he looked up to where the shot must have come from. On top of a roof he could see a girl with long blue hair and a green body suit holding a large rifle in one hand and a long high-tech looking sword in the other. The sword she lifted above her head and promptly threw downward across the street till it stuck into the wall in front of Ryo with a clinging sound and wobbled back and forth. Grabbing the sword and yanking it from the wall Ryo moved down the side walk to take up a position to attack Sytro with the new weapon. Having rested a little she had regained some of her energy and was ready to help out at least a little. The cat girl had not been idol during this time ether. Moving around Sytro she had taken up position on his other side, effectively surrounding him against the wall. Looking at his current situation Sytro fell back against the wall behind him and put his hand to his forehead while shouting “You have got to be kidding me!” Standing back up straight he looked over at his now three opponents “well I don’t think this situations really favors me anymore, so I should probably go ahead and take my leave now.” With that a pair of green leathery wings shot out of the man’s back and he flapped them slightly for a moment before addressing the party once again. “Hey but don’t worry I’m not leaving you all alone, here’s something for you to play with.” As he finished his sentence two large objects could be seen on the horizon of the building above him. The two objects fell off the building and crashed to the ground denting the pavement to either side of Sytro. There they stood, two giant robots about two stories tall each. Each one had a small 6 pod missile pack on its left shoulder, some kind of barrel on its right arm, and a weapon of some sort on its back. As they turned to face the two nearby grounded enemy’s one meck pulled a huge rifle off its back and the other a sword that was about fifteen feet long.
Everyone stood still for a moment not sure what was going to happen next until Sytro suddenly looked shocked and yelled “I actually finished a dialog, whoot, see ya!” with excitement he shot into the air and flew away. XE took a few potshots at fleeing enemy and even seemed to hit one of his wings, but to no avail as he still escaped. With Sytro gone the party turned its attention to the two twenty foot tall mecks standing in front of them. Ryo knew she was still tired and was not really going to be much help. But this new sword felt light as a feather and she still had a little fight left in her. On top of the roof she saw XE lift her arm with the rifle in the air and watched as a small green ring of light appeared above the gun and slowly moved down the entire length of it. In its wake the light left a new much larger gun. With a fore foot long barrel the gun looked more like a small cannon then a weapon a human would use, but since XE was not human it fit her rather well. She dropped to one knee and pointed the new weapon at the mecks. The cat girl was already rushing forward at one enemy’s as it pulled its arm with the barrel up and fired a ball of green plasma at her, which she easily dodged. Without really thinking Ryo rushed forward and swung her new sword at the second meck, slicing one of its legs clean in two at the knee. The unbalanced meck started to fall and as it did fired six small missiles from its shoulder pod at XE, who shot them right out of the air with her small hand cannon. Explosions and loud bangs resonated down the street as the battle raged on. In the end the three girls stood amongst the smoldering rubble of the two mecks.
Again for the first time Ryo realized that the little cat girl was not wearing any clothes and quickly took her coat off and placed it around the girl’s shoulders. The cat girl who had been staring down at a destroyed meck kicking it with her paw like foot looked up at Ryo when she did this and smiled. Ryo, a little confused, gave the girl a little smile back and without warning the girl leaped threw the air and grabbed Ryo around the waist knocking her to the ground. “Ojo-sama I’m so happy you’re OK! I’ll never ever let anyone rape you!” Ryo stared at the girl in disbelief and heard a voice in her head speaking to her. “How do you know this girl, and why does she call you “the daughter of a rich family”? Have you made a ton of money since I last knew you?” Ryo thinking to May responded “I have no idea who she is, and no, I have enough money to manage but there’s no way I’m rich!” Ryo returning to the girl on top of her and asked “Excuse me, but who are you? I would like to thank you for helping me, but why are you?” The girl lifted her head up from Ryo’s chest for a moment to answer. “It’s me, Miyuki, don’t you recognize me?” She gave Ryo another big squeeze. “There’s no way I would let that man do as he pleases with my Ryo! So I came here to save you!” Ryo was quite sure she did not know anyone named Miyuki, and she knew she didn’t know any cat girls. She stopped for a moment and thought to herself “Do cat girls even exist?” “No they don’t!” came the prompted response from in her head. She had almost forgotten about May again. Returning to the girl who was looking her in the eyes waiting for a response she said “Lesion I don’t think he was going to do anything like that. I think he just planed on killing me.” She tried to smile as though everything was ok since she was hoping that this change in subject would distract them form the topic of who the girl was, but Miyuki just looked her straight in the eye with a serious look on her face and said “That’s even worse.” By this time XE had jumped down from the top of her building and was walking over to the pair when they all heard the sound of a large vehicle honking its horn. Getting up they saw a couple of large flat bed trucks along with a towing vehicle approaching.
When the trucks came to a stop Anna stepped out from one of them and walked over to the rest of the group. “Hay everyone, XE called me and told me what was going on so I brought some help.” Ryo didn’t remember seeing XE with a phone. Anna’s eyes suddenly widened when she saw the small cat girl hugging onto Ryo and asked the girl in a not so friendly tone “Who and what in the world are you and why are you holding onto Ryo like that?” Looking down on the girl she added “And why are you almost naked!?” Holding onto Ryo tighter the girl responds giving Anna a suspicious look “listen you I’m Ryo’s ‘one and only’ and I’ve looked after her long before you knew her. I even became a person just so I could help her more.” Anna despite her intelligence and usual awareness seemed to miss most of the message except for one part “What do you mean her ‘one and only’?” Miyuki sneered at Anna; she could already tell that this girl was going to be competition “Just what I said, Ryo is mine!” Ryo had been distracted this entire time trying to get Miyuki to loosen her grip and had not even noticed the exchange between the two until Anna addressed her. “Ryo who is this person?” Finally looking at the two Ryo shrugged “I’m not really sure but she seems to know me.” Looking down she saw Miyuki’s teary eyes “You don’t recognize me?” she said between small sniffles. Anna had finally had it and walked off to direct the cleanup of the wreckage.
Copyright Anthony Rea, 2007.
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