Angel of Man

Chapter III

Bloodbath

*WARNING: chapter contains scenes of violence some readers might find disturbing *

Rei looked up to see the upside-down forms of the NERV armoured security. No doubt they were here to capture the boy now nuzzling his cheek into her naval, it was rather nice. Looking to her left she saw Asuka jump behind the armed men and run around the corner again.

“Pilot Ayanami step away from the intruder!” came the command of the sergeant in charge.

Never one to disobey an order from an officer, she pushed the protesting boy off of herself and stood, making her way to find the Second Child. The boy crouched there, seeing all the new things which had suddenly appeared in the room as well as the blue haired girl walking away from him. What was going on? What were these things and what were they pointing at him?

Becoming nervous, and feeling threatened, he started to back up into the square opening he was in. As he saw the girl vanish into the crowd of black things they began to move closer to him. No, he didn’t want them near him! He didn’t like them or the things they were pointing at him, he wanted them to go way, to leave him alone with her.

As the men moved slowly forwards, fully entering the shower room and backing the boy into a corner, one of them lowered their weapon and drew out a tranquilizer pistol. Taking careful aim to hit the boy in the carotid artery he pulled the trigger. The dart hit its target and the boy yelped in pain as he jumped backwards. He slipped on the damp floor, his feet slipping out from underneath him his back hit the wall with a grunt.

What was this thing? He thought as he pulled out the shinny silver object from his neck, examining it he saw a much thinner point on the end which had been in his neck, a drop of red blood dripped off the tip. Had they put something inside him? His body felt weak, he couldn’t move his legs and his vision was becoming blurry as the shadows moved slowly closer.

They were going to take him, they were going to lock him in a cold soulless room again and they were going to take him away from her! No, he couldn’t let them, he wouldn’t, he must find her again, he must find her…he must. As his thoughts became fuzzy and his vision darkened he saw a light coming from his chest then he blacked out.

The sergeant watched as the boy began to fall to the effects of the tranquilizer. His orders were to capture the intruder alive if at all possible and he was just a boy, the thought to himself as the boy blacked out. He was about to order the boy restrained, however, he stopped suddenly when he saw that the glass orb on the boys’ necklace began to glow with some kind of inner light.

It started out small, only a small speck no bigger than a firefly, but soon it filled the whole thing, like some kind of luminescent liquid. As it glowed brighter he saw through squinted and shielded eyes the orb and chain get sucked into the boys’ chest, right in the centre of his sternum. The light vanished but still remained etched in all the men’s eyes. What the hell was that?

Blinking the blindness out of his eyes he looked down to see that the boy had disappeared. Rubbing his eyes to see more clearly he looked again and he had vanished. Frantically looking around he spun on the spot and saw nothing, where had he gone? How did he even move? The sedative in that dart could knock three grown men out cold, how could he even move a pinkie let alone his body?

Then he heard it, a growling coming from behind them, towards the door less entryway to the showers. Pushing his men out of the way he found the boy, crouched down on all fours, violently quivering and snarling like some wild beast. What shocked him even more was the fact that the boys body was changing, growing into something far more bestial

On his hands and feet his nails grew and sharpened into claws which looked sharp enough to rip through steel. Through his parted lips he saw most of the boys teeth sharpen and his canines stretching to touch his quivering lower lip. His muscle seemed to bulge slightly and black markings like a tigers snaked their way over his skin, emanating from the centre of his chest. His hair to grow longer, becoming far wilder and lightened in places so it looked like blond highlights.

The most shocking change was the boys’ eyes. What had once been crystal blue eyes were now a deep glowing blood red with catlike slits for pupils and the whites had tinted with a bloody hue. What the hell had happened to him? Was he some kind of monster? He couldn’t possibly be, he was just a boy! His brain apparently dieing on him as he saw the boy move into the empty doorway, blocking the only way out of the showers, no he couldn’t be planning to…

As the boys cat like eyes narrowed and he crouched low, started him down, the sergeant knew the answer to his last unfinished question. Without thinking twice he ordered his men to open fire, this boy was no boy he was a monster and if he attacked them, then he had no doubt in his mind, that he and his men would die.

As his men empty their magazines at the stationary boy he nearly pissed his pants when he saw the bullets all stop at the sudden appearance of a pulsating hexagonally shaped energy shield centred on the boys face. His men stopped firing; the energy field vanished, the boy crouched lower preparing to struck, he snarled even more, his wife’s smiling face flashed before the NERV sergeant and then nothingness engulfed him.

Rei reached up to Asuka as she was hurriedly pulling on her lace panties. The girl was breathing quickly and shallowly, had flushed skin was quivering and sweating. If Rei was correct the girl was afraid. Thinking of what to do she also grabbed her undergarments and started dressing, if Asuka had a panic attack then she would aid her if needed.

As she had just pulled on her panties she heard the loud gunshots of the security guards automatic machine guns. Turning she looked at the Second Child, who now stood half dressed, wearing her white school shirt, she was clutching her chest with all her strength and staring in the direction of the showers where the guns had silenced.

Seconds later it was replaced by much more horrible sound than that of guns. The tortured and twisted screams of men, the sounds of something damp hitting something solid, more anguished screams, sporadic gun fire, curses and prays and calls to any number of deities, sounds of tearing clothes and ripping flesh, more tormented screams then silence.

The last drawn out anguished scream of pain echoed through the locker room like a ghostly phantom, lingering far longer than it should have, or maybe it was only in the heads of the two girls standing frozen not twenty feet from the source of the screams. It was replaced by a freighting stillness; Asuka had her hand over her mouth, trying to hold down her stomach contents as her bladder emptied itself of its own volition.

Rei, never showing emotion, except for the fear in the depths of her red eyes, slowly moved forwards, towards the corner that hid the shower room. She glanced back at Asuka who stood there weakly, shacking and sweating with sheer terror on her pale face. Turning her attention back to the corner, she moved closer, slowly as to not make a sound.

She could dimly hear the sounds of tarring flesh, a growling grunting sound and clothing being torn apart. There was also a continuous drip, drip sound of falling liquid. As she got to the corner she flinched as a severed arm, still spilling large amounts of blood, cam flying down the short hallway. Bouncing a few times on the floor it skidded to a halt against the far wall, the fingers still twitching. It leaved a smeared trail of blood behind it as a testimony to its journey.

Asuka barely managed to hold down a scream and couldn’t stop from vomiting onto the ground at the sight of the arm. Rei, after glancing back at Asuka to see if see was alright, slowly moved to the corner of the wall and with her left eye looked around the corner, when she realized what she was looking at, her eyes widened in true terror.

Blood, blood covered everything in or near the showers. From ceiling to floor it was splattered across everything; it was running down the walls in thick, winding rivers. It clung to the ceiling in hanging pools of deepest crimson, droplets of blood falling every few seconds like a bloody rain. The floor of the hallway and shower was nothing more than a smeared slowly congealing pool of blood, this was guess work however because she couldn’t see the floor of the showers though all the body parts.

They were piled mainly in the centre of the showers, fallen where they stood, however some had been thrown and lay broken and torn in the corners or against the walls. One poor soul had had his arm ripped off and then thrown high against the wall, a bloody shower head piercing his chest, keeping him suspended there.

There were various limbs or parts of limbs flung all around, over the low walls that separated the shower room from the rest of the locker room, they had stuck to the tops of lockers and the trouser of one leg had gotten stuck on the latch of the ventilation hatch were it swung weakly by itself. Some of the bodies had been torn open, their organs ripped from their bodies and splayed onto the walls or floor, someone’s entrails dangling off of several shower heads.

In the centre of it all was the boy, covered head to toe in blood, violently clawing and what looked like eating the broken remains of one of the poor men. There was an evil look on his face, his eyes a brighter and deeper red than even hers were; even Rei could tell that, he was primal thing now, feral, an animal, lost in bloodlust, a berserker.

Then Asuka screamed right next to her ear and the next thing she knew she was being dragged at lightning speed out of the locker room away from the crimson eyes looking into hers.


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Yo, what you guess think so far, any good? I think so anyway. Before i get flamed i know Asuka might be called a little OOC but it think it works, dont worry she'll be back to her normal fiery self soon, promise. Well will update soonish. R&R plz.

Revic