User blog:Seieireppa/God Eater x RahXephon: When the World is Tuned, chapter 2: Aragami

As I stood before the egg of the RahXephon at the Shrine of Xephon, far above me in the skies of Tokyo Jupiter, a battle was taking place. The humans who had invaded from the outside—a wholly unfamiliar idea to those of us within the barrier, as only two or three years had passed as far as we were concerned—engaged the Mulians in battle.

The humans piloted simple fighter jets. Sure, they were a good deal more advanced than what I was used to seeing, but they were fighter jets nonetheless. But as for their opponents, well…

They were called Aragami, Reika told me. Violent Gods. Vicious beasts brought to heel by the power of a “priestess,” Mulian girls who control the Aragami through the power of song and voice from afar. We—the humans, not the residents of Tokyo Jupiter, of course—had the superior tech, but against the Aragami, well… there wasn’t much we could do. Our fighters were downed one by one by the power of the enemy’s Aragami, until only a few remained.

Reika pleaded with me. “Take up the mantle of Instrumentalist, Ayato,” she beseeched me, “and become one with the RahXephon to tune the world.”  Whatever that meant.

And Haruka was there, too, somehow. I guess that wasn’t the last train bound for this place. She pleaded with me not to awaken the RahXephon, that only terrible things would happen if I did… but like hell I was about to let those damn Aragami destroy my home!

“RAHXEPHON!!”  I cried out its name to the heavens, the name that would awaken humanity’s greatest hope—

—and a crack appeared in the egg, and another, and another—

Little by little, the egg’s shell broke apart, revealing to the eyes of everyone there its contents. A strangely robotic giant, it was made of what appeared to be brilliant white metal, with wings covering its eyes. And there it… stood? It floated there in midair, extending its hand to me as if to beckon me closer.

And before I knew what I was doing, I was walking forward, and there I was… inside the RahXephon—

—and it sang.

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