User blog:Baluar/God Eater: Fall of the Heavens, chapter 26: On the brink

-I guess this is it. - Lina commented.

-Most definitely not a pleasant landing. - Lyrr said. Lina couldn't help but think "understatement".

-Next time, be sure to double check your instruments, Nanako. - Baluar said.

-Would the lot of you stop complaining and start fighting? - Nanako replied. - It's gonna get really ugly in here in the next few minutes. Aragami seem to be drawn to our position.

-How come Aragami aren't slaughtering themselves? - Lina said. - It has been bugging me ever since the initial attack.

-Well, the way I see it, it better stop bugging you, or else you're gonna be bugged by an Aragami's teeth. - Baluar said. - Try focusing on the fight that is about to take place, will you? Hey, where are you going?

As they spoke, Lina disappeared from sight and reappeared a meter over Baluar's head, her spear already impaling an Ogretail who had seemingly gone ahead of the group.

-What if you begin to focus? - Lina replied, a smile on her face.

Baluar also grinned.

-I already knew that one was coming. - He then put on a serious face. - Now, get ready!

The next second, a powerful wind knocked Lina off her feet, as a rather strange, stark white Borg Camlann landed after a tremendous jump.

-I'm... I'm not dying today! - She shouted as she picked up her Spear and drilled through the Aragami, which was leaning over in order to devour her. An impressive jet of what seemed to be blood sprouted from the wound as the beast's entire body fell over. Lina had no time to celebrate, for a white-colored Vajra crashed in the ground right besides her, fortunately without any electrical discharge. It quickly recovered from the crash and began to mow down on Lina, who had to move at speeds she never thought possible merely to avoid the being's attacks. However, as the beast was not sentient, it followed an easily predictable pattern, something which Lina quickly realized and took advantage of. In one of the moments when the beast slowed down ever so slightly, Lina moved her Arc upwards and pierced the beast's right eye. She then drilled in further and further, eventually splitting the Aragami in half.

Having a second of rest, Lina decided to look at her teammates.

Baluar was moving so quick he was almost blurry, dashing and slashing at multiple Aragami while sporting a ferocious grin, his blade literally engulfed by flames. A white Quadriga shot missiles at him while he wasn't looking, only for him to them cut in half in one swift motion of his blade. He then proceeded to jump and slash the Quadriga's head in half.

Nanako was in Gun mode. Despite not having carried over the bullets she would have otherwise used to great effect, she still decimated Aragami with every shot. A few shots were rather impractical, yet Lina had never seen such complex bullets in action. When a Sariel closed in on her, she didn't hesitate to use her second Arc's sword form to quickly decimate it, her blade covered in a strangely colored energy.

Lyrr was also in Gun mode. Unlike Nanako, he was not using any especially powerful bullets, but he nevertheless killed Aragami with ease by virtue of shooting always the right shot. In situations where a normal God Eater would hit two or three Aragami with one bullet, he never failed to hit any less than twelve, and with such uneering precision that they almost always fell after two or three shots.

Having checked everyone was safe, Lina returned to fighting stance as a white Anubis appeared from seemingly nowhere and roared at Lina moments before shooting a sand-like sphere to her, which she quickly avoided while changing to Gun mode. When the monster closed in on her, Lina shot it with an electrical bullet, shredding the Anubis' head to little more than a grey puddle of shapeless Oracle Cells.

[Gotta go! Will continue later.]

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