The Veins Bulge

"This is it…" Arthur mumbled as he slowed to walk in front of a large metal double door at the end of the hallway, not wanting to keep Weiss waiting he quickly ran to the door grabbed the handles and threw them open.

His nose soon assaulted by the stench of blood and musk, "Weiss!?" he shouted, ignoring the stench as he looked around, his body freezing as he saw the dozen people strung up on Blut's machines, some just looking like torture devices, a wooden horse, a rack and even worse devices each oriented around defiling their bodies.

As he looked around he saw one figure hanging from the ceiling, her hands tied together by a rope that had a hook running through it that hung her from the ceiling while her legs were chained to the ground by shackles.

Her clothing having long disappeared from her body and fell into a pile under her feet, and last a gag in her mouth from which she was drooling, "Weiss!" Arthur shouted once again and ran up to her, tears having begun to drip from her eyes as she felt relief fill her body.

Arthur didn't waste anytime as he used cross to destroy the the rope holding her up, and catching her in his arms before she fell onto the ground, letting her fall onto his chest where she immediately gripped onto his chest, while crying her heart out.

Arthur's hand gently went to the back of her head and unclasped the gag and slowly removed it from her mouth letting her unmuffled weeping out, "I'm here… I'm here" Arthur softly said as he gently began to rock Weiss's body, his hands on her back and the back of her head.

Giving her a minute to weep, Arthur said, "Weiss, we need to go, the girl who did this to you and these people is still here, We need to get you somewhere safe" his voice just as soft, not getting a response from Weiss as she continued to Weep.

Soon looking to the strapped to Blut's machines, his eyes shut to see if they still had the fire of their souls in their bodies, Yet all he could see were empty husks that were quickly dying away. But as his eyes trailed over the dozen people he saw one fire that raged with such fury that he expected it to burn whoever it touched to ashes, if it wasn't repeatedly flickering and growing smaller and smaller by the second.

Opening his eyes Arthur locked eyes with a woman, with dark purple hair, long black hair fell into purple, her hair messy and frayed, filled with sweat. She was heavily emaciated, having not eaten anything for what looks like day, her skin having long lost its lustre, making it hard for him to even tell she was the same age as him.

But what really got to Arthur was the ordeal she was going through at this very moment.sat atop what looked like vault table, her legs hanging off the side of it, kneeling atop two small metal rails that locked around her ankles and knees forcing her legs back until she couldn't even sit up straight as her belly lay atop the table.

Another metal ring locked around her lower back preventing her body from rising as her arms were also locked into the machine and force her back to bend to a degree that looked to nearly break her spine.

The girl's body was covered in welts and bruises, many of which had broken her skin as well as a small trail of red running down one of her breasts from where Blut had nearly bitten her nipple off.

That wasn't even the worst of it, her body was regularly being pushed forward, only to return to the same spot. As Arthur saw two rods on top of each other connected to pistons that were repeatedly thrusting into the girls body.

Somehow this girl's ordeal, the hopelessness of her situation and the fire in her eyes that were beginning to lose their power to even remain open just clicked with him, His hair having turned pitch black along with his eyes, a dark fog beginning to fall from his body as all the rage, disgust, and sorrow he had experienced from these short few hours in this compound finally broke through his last bastion of defense against his emotions.

"WHY HER!? WHAT DOES SHE HAVE THAT I DON'T!? DO YOU NOT SEE MY BODY!? MY BEAUTY!?" Blut screamed causing Arthur to release Weiss and stand up turning around on the spot while keeping Weiss behind him, his head looking up to Blut who was standing atop the mech that Arthur had ignored when he entered the garage.

Arthur looked at Blut, his eyes filled with both pity and rage, pity for what she went through that it had broken her like this and rage for what she did to others.

"WHY!? WHY WON'T YOU JUST BECOME MINE!? FUCK ME SILLY! I DON'T CARE! CUT ME OPEN AND PLAY WITH MY HEART! I DON'T FUCKING CARE!" She screamed again, her voice angered.

"BUT NO! YOU WANT TO FUCK THE BITCH! YOU ABANDONED ME! It's time for you to learn your place, honey" her last words came out in a growl, the way she spoke reminding Arthur of the way her father spoke to her in the video in the pen.

"She dies today" Blut muttered and quickly entered the cockpit of her mech, flicking every switch she needed, causing the lights on it to burst to life as it lifted its body and loomed over Arthur and Weiss.

"Weiss…" Arthur said, "That girl, save her get out of here" he said, cross having awakened, still showing cracks from where Blut had crushed it.

"What!? No! I'm-i'm not leaving you! I-I don't think I can live without you anymore!" Weiss shouted, only thinking of how calming it was to be around Arthur, the feeling of how he gently comforted her whenever she was breaking down.

Arthur looked up to the mech that was still beginning to start up, his eyes shut for a second before letting out a sigh, turning around Arthur kneeled on the ground and gave Weiss a one armed hug, "I'm not going anywhere Weiss, I'll be following behind you" he whispered to her, his hair and eyes flashing to white for a second before reverting back to black.

"But you need to leave, that girl has not given up on life, please don't abandon her… and… I'm sorry" he said before pushing Weiss back, lifting her off the ground before she landed a few metres away from him.

"Arthur!" Weiss shouted as she watched him pull out a yellow brown dust crystal his aura soon turning it pitch black.

"I'm sorry" he said again as he stabbed the crystal into the ground sending his aura into it causing it to shatter as a massive, grey wall of rock a few metres thick raised from the ground, reaching to the ceiling. Leaving Weiss and the the still trapped girl alone, with a single door where they could escape from.

"Arthur!" Weiss screamed as she ran up to the wall and began to beat on it with her fist, some part of her hoping to break it down with her hits that couldn't even dislodge dirt from the earthen wall.

Soon she laid her head against the wall and slid down it onto her knees, "Please don't leave me…" she pleaded, feeling a vibration that caused the wall to shake along with the sound of something crashing into it from the other side.

"Please be okay…" she begged, taking a deep breath she stood up and turned around, slowly walking to the girl on the machine, Weiss moving to the panel on the wall beside her, quickly turning the machine off and releasing the restraints holding her, letting her body fall onto the table, her arms weakly hanging off the front of it, whilst she remained kneeling on the rails which had also released her ankles and knees.

The pistons having stopped their movement but not having removed themselves automatically. Taking a deep breath Weiss grabbed the top most rod, "You're a huntress Weiss, remember Celeste's words, Arthur will be fine… Arthur will be fine… he always is" she told herself, struggling to keep her self from crying as she began to fear the worst for Arthur as she slowly began to pull the first rod from the girl's body.

Sending a tide of blood out of her when it was completely removed, the blood soon stopping, "One more Weiss… one more…" Weiss muttered to herself to keep herself calm as she tried to ignore the squelching noises coming from the girls lower body, another tide of blood and cloudy liquid dripping out of her once she was free.

Taking a look at the wall that had stopped shaking, but Weiss could still hear powerful gunshots from somewhere as well as crashes that shook the very building they were in. "Please Arthur…" she whispered and turned back to the girl, slowly pulling her onto her back and beginning to lug her way towards the door, opening it to be assaulted by the frigid air of the Schreien forest, "Find me Arthur…" She said, leaving the building into the forest

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Turning back to Blut, Arthur looked up to her, as her mech had full awoken, [WHY CAN'T YOU JUST LOVE ME!?] Blut screamed through the speakers in her mech.

"Because, you do not deserve it" Arthur coldly replied.

[AND SHE DOES!?] She screeched as she fired two of her cannon rounds at Arthur, knowing full well that he would survive it, one of them missing him and hitting the grey bedrock wall, leaving a hole in it a few centimetres deep.

Arthur having been shot backwards crashing into the wall when he blocked the shot with his Innocence's newest form of γ which was a coffin shaped shield, leaving an impression in the wall from his body.

[WHY!? WHY!?] Arthur could hear her sorrow through her anger.

"I'm sorry… Aster… you did not deserve anything of what happened to you" Arthur said pushing himself off the wall his shield still up to defend himself.

[I AM BLUT! ASTER IS DEAD!] she roared, her mech charging Arthur sending a swing at him with its giant cannons, Arthur raising his shield to defend himself, the impact sending him flying through one of the compounds walls and skidding along the ground into a familiar garden where he had fought Gehirn, a dull ache in his arm as he could feel the cracks along it getting large with each hit.

[LOVE ME!] She screamed sending another cannon shot at Arthur who instead of blocking raised the shield above his head, the sharpened edge of it coming down to cut the the shot in half sending either half crashing behind him.

The edge of crosses blade chipping with the cut as a chunk directly fell off, [FUCK ME TILL I DIE! FLAY ME! BREAK MY ASS, BREAK MY PUSSY! JUST LOVE ME!] she roared, her mech coming before Arthur both cannons raised up as they slammed into the ground creating a dust cloud that slowly began to dissipate.

[SCREW ME! TEAR MY LEG OFF AND USE IT AS TOY! JUST FUCKING LOVE ME!] she cried, panting as the dust cleared showing her two cannon had been cut in half, whilst Arthur was running up the arm towards the cockpit, his arm shattered and the entire top half of it having gone missing, shattering when he cut through her mechs arms.

"I'm sorry Aster" Arthur said as he came to her cockpit, his arm thrusting into it piercing through Blut's belly in its α form, only two fingers remaining, his ring finger and thumb.

"[You're like papa…]" he could hear Aster say, through both the cockpit window and the mechs speakers, whilst also feeling something grip on one of his remaining fingers and his arm, his arm dragged deeper into the mech slamming his cheek on the metal plating of the mechs cockpit.

Soon agony gripping his body as he felt Aster repeatedly tug on his arm, the skin on his shoulder tearing until he heard his bone snap as she tore his arm off. Before he could even scream the window of the cockpit shattered as a fist found its way into his stomach, with enough power that it sent him across the garden into the wall where his spear was still impaled into the wall, and landing in a familiar spot where he first met her.

"[WHY DOES EVERYONE I LOVE TRY TO KILL ME!?]" She roared as she stepped out of the cockpit, blue veins having bulged up all around her body, her eyes having nearly turned pure red as blood filled them from popped veins driving agony into her body, which only seemed to excite her as she began to cackle madly.

"[WHY!?]" She screamed, disappearing from the top of the mech and reappearing in front of Arthur within a few seconds her skin tight suit having torn revealing the heavily toned and veiny muscles that had bulged up to an unnatural degree.

"THEN I WILL TREAT YOU LIKE PAPA!"

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Alternate Chapter names: [It is hard coming up with these for these chapters…]

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