Chapter 21

He heard the scream coming the girls direction, immediately think of the girls, he dashed out from the infirmary towards the where the girls had went.

*BOOM*

*BOOM*

*BOOM*

A set of explosion erupted surrounding them. This made Vayne turned pale as he heard this and he picked up the speed to search for the girls.

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Eighteen minutes ago, as the match still going on and the aces were still busy on their duel. Instructor Fujiwara had already left her seat as she had been reported of a mysterious activities happening on sector 1-6, the maintenance facility is.

With just a few corners away from the location, she encountered with an old acquaintance of hers. An appearance of a girl yet at the same time not a girl, a short hair with a color of a silver purple and an emerald colored eyes.

That person is presently blocking her path with just his petite body of his, showing a smile after meeting an old friend.

“So, it was just you… Why are you here?” «Instructor Fujiwara»

The boy was shock at what she said to him, giving him a straight cold-shoulder treatment.

“Oya oya… Is that how you treat an acquaintance of yours?” «?»

He said as he acted that he was shock. But Instructor Fujiwara answered his question with an ice cold smile.

“Hmmm… If it was you….. Then, yes.” «Instructor Fujiwara»

“Shock… Buhhuhuhu…. Erm-kun… Your girl Iz-chan is really mean…” «?»

He acted as if a dotting parent had found out that their child is on their rebellious phase. Instructor Fujiwara, Iz-chan, had turned even colder that he was being teased.

“Hmph.. Cut the crap and tell my why you are here… Arsur.” «Instructor Fujiwara»

“…. You’re no fun anymore, well whatever. I’m just here to… ‘observe’ this year’s new—”You’re here for the boy, aren’t you.” Oya… How’d you guess?”

Arsur pretended to be surprised when Instructor Fujiwara had guess his purpose on this academy, on this island. But she immediately turned red when she heard what he said as he pretends to mutter to himself.

“… No way… She could read my mind? Iz-chan no Ecchi…”

“NO WAY I COULD DO THAT!!” «Instructor Fujiwara»

Just when she retorted to his word, she heard a quiet laugh coming towards him as he cover his mouth hiding his mischievous smile. Instructor Fujiwara turned fuming red when she realized that she was being played at, but soon turn back to her normal color.

*SIGH* “It’s very obvious that you would be interested with this boy. I couldn’t think of a reason why other than his unorthodox method, but I know there is something that took your interest with that boy.” «Instructor Fujiwara»

She explained as she deduct some of the hints and comparing it to his past actions. But Arsur just maintain an expression that seems to be wondering if it was correct.

She couldn’t tell whether her deduction is hot or cold, but she had a feeling that it is in between.

“Well let’s forget about that, you shouldn’t head this direction… It’s better if you head at the control room..” «Arsur»

Arsur advises her as he slowly passed by her. Instructor Fujiwara didn’t understood why he said that she should go to the control room and just when she turned around, he was gone.

She also heard a voice echo through a straight corridor, as if there is someone next to her saying, “Say “Hi!” to Erm-kun for me…” as it fades away.

Following his advice, she went towards the control room where her instincts began to act up. She began to be suspicious and took out her handgun as she creep from the wall to the edge of the corner.

There she notice that there were no sign of any guards on a high level security area and the door of the control room were open. It was then she had a bad feeling and slowly made her way towards the door.

Inside there is two unknown personnel, equip with a light ballistic suit and a rifle hanging on their shoulder. She creeps behind the console to their left, there she notice the guards dead and the staffs tied and unconscious.

“Captain, a group of three are heading towards the North-East of your position. The ‘Package’ is with them, get ready to intercept.”

Instructor Fujiwara slowly tried to take the gun, that was place on top of the console but she was soon noticed by the one who placed it there.

“ENEMY BEHIND THE CONSOLE!!”

*PARATATATAT~*

She was then got herself barraged by bullet from the enemy, the noise were very loud and could tell that the bullet they use are made of leads, lethal if got shot by them.

Luckily she was able to get the gun before she get spotted, in reply she returned fire.

‘I must save the girls quick!!’

She screamed to herself. Before long, a set of explosion erupted somewhere close to them and the building began to shake losing her footing.

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Vayne arrived at the place where the girls should be at, but there no one there but him. Panicked, he went inside the comfort room but still failed to find the girls.

He forced himself to calm himself so that he could think straight. Searching for any clues where they might had went, he finally noticed a some lying on the floor a bit further from him.

It was Princess’s hair clip and near it is a faint red liquid, inspecting what it was he then discovered that it was blood and was headed straight through the corridors.

He also discovered that there were a sign of struggling, because if there weren’t, then the girls shouldn’t have screamed before the explosion.

He could only think that the explosion were just a diversion or some sort to claim their package, and judging of what happened it may be that one of the two were the target and the other was claim as a hostage.

This made Vayne angry at himself to neglect their safety that was instructed by their father to him, the failure of not able to do his mission and failure to protect his family.

This pain, he is force to endure it and rush through the corridor to find them and rescue them safely. He ran and ran until he heard the girls screeming through the room that he just passed.

“Get your hands off me!!” «?»

It was a familiar voice, he looked inside and found out that it was a staircase leading to the roof. He climbed through the staircase on a level 2 to the level 6, where the roof is.

When he finally reached the roof, he used the generators and the water pumps as a cover then looked for where the girls is at.

He found the girls gather in one place, hands tied behind their back and their mouths are being tied as well. He carefully looked at their conditions, Erica seems to be fine but Princess’s hair were messed up and Eliza had a bruise on her cheek.

The girls soon noticed him and he signaled them to not make any suspicious movement.

“… How long will our ride get here?”

Fifteen minutes…”

“Good, we’ll just have to wait for the Team A to arrive… and seems the girls calmed down, good girls. You should had done that in the first place.”

Although they were quiet, Eliza been glaring at the guy without even noticing that I was there. He tried caressing her cheek but her glare became more fiercer, this made him displease and slapped her other cheek.

Seeing this gave him the urge to kill the person but was reluctant of risking getting spotted without being a help.

“That should teach you, I like the fire in your eyes. Can’t wait playing together… That is if you didn’t break first.”

“Mat… what do you think you are doing?”

“N-Nothing sir, I’m just checking for any weapons that might have hidden…” «Mat»

“…..”

He stare at him for a second then went back to his mobile. The person who is in question was asked sigh with relief and walked back to his post, away from the girls.

This gave him an opening to rescue the girls, but it’s risky to go save them without a exfiltrate and have no way of protecting them.

What he need is a weapon that could penetrate those thick armor of theirs, but to do that he need to take out one of them on their overpowering power suits.

Pondering how he could immobilized them, he soon notice the shape of their magazine. It is almost exactly like his VS-01’s magazine, and he had an idea but he had to move fast.

Going back inside rushed towards the infirmary to get his gun and power suit. He also began hearing screaming and some small explosion going outside, he didn’t bother looking at the window.

Then he encounter another problem, while climbing down the stair it suddenly collapsed from the explosion. Clicking his tongue, he went back to the third floor and went to the room where two floor below the infirmary.

He smashed the window and took the fire hose and used it as a rope, holding on to the hose the tightly and jumped out of the window.

He began rapidly descending until he stopped between the second and first floor, he descend a bit down to the window and jumped to gain some bit of momentum to break the window with just one try.

He looked around the room and saw no one inside, some of the beds had fallen over and the other were missing. He guess that they were rushed out of the building when the explosions happen.

Looked around for a bit and found his weapon and power suit fallen on the floor, he immediately equipped the power suit but his head piece was no where to be found.

He then start searching for it under the fallen bed, cabinets and corner. He soon found it near the window where he came from. It might had been kicked around from the commotion.

He look for a pack bag then place some bandages inside and other he might need if things goes bad.

Just when he is about to go, on the distance is some kind of heli-plane just like a V-22 Osprey but bit bigger, flying towards the top of the building.

Seeing this, he quickly climbed back up the hose and rushed towards the roof. Flames also began to climbed up rapidly.

When he touched to the floor of the roof, he saw that it is about to fly away. He sprinted to catch the Helo and jumped from the edge of the building to the landing gear.

It didn’t shake much when he grabbed the landing gear but he would had fall if the sudden explosion from behind him didn’t gave him the extra boost.

But he can’t just hold the landing gear for long, he seached for a hatch below it to climb in. He found a hatch and used his strength to open it up while holding the landing gear tightly.

Inside, it seems that it’s some kind of cargo hold and it became pitch black when he closed the hatch, but thanks for being a half were-beast he could see just fine.

*CLICK*

*CLANK*

When he suddenly heard this, he went behind the cargo and the door suddenly opened. He spotted a light swinging from left to right while walking closer to him.

Vayne’s blood pressure slowly increases as the distance between then shorten. He didn’t have any weapon with him other than his rifle, but it is no use in this situation.

He could only pray that he won’t be found.

*THUD*

*THUD*

*THUD*

*THUD*

*THUD*

The step suddenly stopped, and the distance between them are now close enough with just a box away from each other. His hand grew close and closer—

Hey guys, sorry for this cliffhanger but this is the only way I could stop it at this point. Like the one that requested me to prolong the story, I'm doing it today onward, 6+ pages.

The reason why I stop here is because, this is where I could choose which scene I could write next. A scene where he got caught, or not, and other more. I really need to introduce Vlad to the world, but having trouble how to...

So just please enjoy the ride guys!!

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