The armored vehicle drove through the area, taking the team of god eaters to the area where they were to conduct a mission to make sure to eliminate any aragami that were attempting to destroy the walls that split them and the civilians apart. Within the transport was the Kage Unit, formed by their leader known as Mystogan or 'Raven'. The inside of the truck was quiet, as it was always. Mystogan would be lying to himself if he didn't say his missed being back in the Blood Unit he started out in.At least he would have been surrounded by not only reliable teammates, but also dear friends. His current unit were reliable yes, but they never spoke to one another except on the battlefield. Mystogan was only sixteen after Blood disbanded due to..well previous events they were involved in. It has been two years since then, and Mystogan has grown into a fine young man. Especially since he formed and now runs his own unit in the Far East

The armored truck comes to a stop after about twenty minutes of silence. They grab their weapons and make their way out of the back of the truck as it opens, the appearance and sound of falling rain greeting them as they exited. Luckily it wasn't red rain, otherwise they would have to abandon the mission entirely. As they walked to the cliff that they would drop into the fight from, Mystogan turned around to look at his unit. They stopped and tilted their heads a bit.

"Yes sir?"

Meeka, a god eater from the German branch asked

"I ask that you be on high alert this mission everyone. I don't know why, but something is nagging at me to make sure everyone stays close. Should any aragami lead you away, do not follow. Watch each others backs and stay vigilant. I know I say this every time we go into battle but, I will not lose anyone to these monsters again. I lost a friend when I was in the Blood Unit all those years ago. I know you all probably don't care for friendship, but this is MY unit. And no one will be dying while I am the captain. Follow my orders. Is that clear?"

"Sir!"

they all shouted

"Good, god arcs locked and loaded."

With weapons ready, they leaped off the cliff and landed in the battle zone, charging forth at the first set of aragami they say. The beasts noticed them approaching, letting out roars and growls as they charged at them as well. Mystogan starts throwing out orders.

"Meeka, you are the fastest among us, run through with a flurry of attacks to throw them off balance! Malakai, Axel, we will switch to gun mode and fire at them once Meeka is clear! This should soften them up nicely! Then when that's done, we all rush them in a pincer attack! Destroy these monsters!"

"Sir!"

They charged forth, letting Meeka use her short blade and cut through the aragami, aiming for their legs and causing them to become off balance. once she was clear Mystogan gave the order.

"Unload!"

Mystogan and the others began unloading their bullets on the beasts, two of them showering them with fully automatic carbine weapons and Mystogan sending large cannon blasts of lightning from his weapon. The aragami become dazed and fall to the ground after the rain of bullets and shock from the lightning. They all switched back to the melee mode of their weapons.

"Alright everyone, let's take them down and move onto the next area! Meeka, you are with me. Malakai, Axel, you take the left side! We meet in the middle when they are all dead!"

Mystogan's melee mode on his weapon was a variant scythe, a weapon that he handled with expert hands, it was quick, and could extend to reach the enemy should he not be quite in range. Axel and Malakai both used buster weapons, large heavy sword god arcs that could deal very heavy damage, but were quite heavy to wield. They cut through the aragami like butter as they moved, blades severing and cutting the bests apart as they flew through. Mystogan and his team meet in the assigned spot. looking around to see that their plan had worked perfectly. their operator comes on the coms now.

"Kage Unit, get to the walls now! It turns out the large class aragami is a Marduk! Hurry before it breaks the barrier!"

"Got it, thanks Licca!"

They wasted no time in rushing off to their destination, cutting down a few weak aragami on the way, eventually leading to the outer wall of the target. There before them was a few garms, and in the middle was the Marduk itself, blasting with its blaze attack and smashing it's large paws against the wall to try and break it down.

"Alright everyone, kill off the garms first..then we all concentrate on the Marduk. Make sure you have your restore pills on hand..this is going to be a rough fight.."

They all nodded to him. They charged in and went straight for the garms, The Marduk seemed like it was too distracted with it's objective to care that it's entourage was being slaughtered. As the last garm fell, they then faced the Marduk. Mystogan changed back to his cannon weapon mode and fired at the beast's head, knowing it was one of it's weak spots. It growl as it staggered away from the wall and glared at it's attacker.

"One of you killed a friend of mine....I won't let you or any of you sorry bastards take from me again!"

They charged toward the large aragami with weapons ready, Mystogan switched his ammo from shock round to freeze rounds. This slowing down the fire type aragami considerably.

"Axel, Malakai, attack the frontal legs! Meeka, you got the hind legs! Break it's bond and we will end this fight soon!"

Mystogan continued the assault on it's head with his weapon, his teammates moving in while it was blinded by the rounds of ice to it's face. Axel and Malakai both started tearing at it's frontal legs, breaking down its stone armor with their heavy blades. Meeka cutting from hind leg to the other, attempting to have it fall so they could all stroke for the head in melee mode. Mystogan noticed that a reddish orange light was building around the Marduk, he yells out to his team

"Back off, its charging up an area of effect attack, back off!!"

Everyone jumped back in time, then began resuming the attack as planned. As they went through the fight, they were dealt damage as well from fire blasts, claw swipes, even nearly eaten. But with one final push, they managed to get the Marduk to fall.

"Everyone, attack it's head in one go!"

Meeka was first to attack, cutting at the beast's eyes and gouging them. Axel and Malakai stabbing their buster blades through its snout. And Mystogan leaping overhead, bringing his scythe down with force right in the middle of it's skull, embedding the blade deep. The struggling monster stopped, going limp as the scythe blade penetrated it's brain. Mystogan and the others remove their weapons from the corpse, falling back on their rears from exhaustion as their mission was a success. covered in injuries, they awaited their extraction.

"I swear, these things get stronger and stronger everyday..."

Mystogan slowly stood, using his weapon for support. That feeling was coming back to him again. That same nagging feeling like something was forgotten. Suddenly, he turns to see another large class aragami charging at Meeka from behind. It was a Hannibal! A large dragon-like aragami that was quite a deadly beast. one of the first new species to be able to regenerate without a core.

"Meeka, move!!!"

Mystogan shouted as he gathered up all the energy he could, grabbing his weapon and running as quick as he could. Time seemed to slow down for him as he ran, the aragami getting even closer to his teammate. he pushes harder, getting to her just in time and shoving ehr out of the way. Seeing the large clawed hand coming down towards him and swipping across his torso, sending him flying and tumbling across the ground along with his scythe. coming to a stop, and a hard one against a rock, letting out a cry of pain as he hits the hard surface.

"CAPTAIN!"

They all shouted

"Get out of here now! Retreat! This aragami is going to take more than all of us to take down! Get reinforcements!"

The aragami slowly approaches it's target. starring down at Mystogan as he tries to get back up, the large gashed across his torso throbbing and bleeding out.

"No Captain, we won't leave! You need to get help with that injury, or you will die-"

"I said, RETREAT, that's an order!"

Suddenly the beast's tail comes around and slams into his side, the impact causing blood to come from his mouth and send him flying.As he flys through the air again, a bright light engulfs him, he vanishes within it. The light vanishes just as quickly as it came. Mystogan was gone, and he didn't have his weapon anymore. Wherever he was headed. he would either die from bleeding out, or from a wild creature that will claim him in his weakened state.

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--Everfree Forest, Late Afternoon--

Zecora was looking through the forest to find some ingredients for a potion she was making. She stood about five feet tall, wore a green halter top and a knee length skirt that split at the sides, all hidden mostly with a long brown cloak. her body was atheltic, but she had curves in all the right spots, especially a decent sized bust and rested nicely in that top she wore. As she was gathering what she needed, a blinding light shone in her eyes, causing her to stagger back. She barely has time to move out of the way of the object flying out of the light. After it vanishes, she looks over at what came out. It wasn't something, it was somepony! And they looked extremely injured!

Mystogan hit the ground hard and slid across it, slowly trying to move his body, but struggling to do so trying to use the lower part of his arms and legs to get himself up even a little, but collapses soon after. His vision going blurry as he sees a cloaked figure run up to him. He could her them speak, they sounded female, but he couldn't understand the words. He simply choked out a few of his own. A lookof determination in his eyes. He was struggling to keep himself alive.

"Please...help...I am not ready to die yet..."

He said as his vision finally gave out, collapsing on the ground, motionless.

Author's Notes:

Ha, this oughta be a good one. A god eater in a new land without his weapon, the only thing to protect him is his bare hands. How's that fora hard start huh? Anyways, enjoy.

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