Highschool Wars: Saving Shrine Maidens...with Tanks.

THE DEMON GETS LOOSE.

THE 25TH DAY

THE SECOND MONTH

Tyler and his strike force moved like wraiths in the thick forest. They had only one objective: to rescue the maidens from their captors and reap vengeance upon the poor saps that had taken them. They reached a small cliff overlooking the large encampment and went prone as they scouted out the area. Tyler whistled as he spotted an extra four Sherman's parked alongside a long row of trucks.

"Okay, those tanks have got to go. Sherie, their yours."

"Yay, time to make with the boom boom!"

Tyler then spotted a familiar set of packed cages. He also watched as a girl was dragged screaming into a large central tent. Tyler then took out the large generator with a well-placed shot, knocking out power, and then put a round into a large ammo dump with a incendiary round. Sherie had disappeared to the tanks, Fuji had gone to close with the cages, and Llyia was firing into more dumps from her spot on the far right of the camp. Tyler emptied the remaining shells in his rifle into other dumps and a few heads before reloading and moving in. The surprise attack was successful in causing hysteria and stupid mistakes. Tyler ran threw the chaos, tossing a He bomb into a ammo dump as he passed. The then made it to the cages, alongside Fuji, they then smashed the locks and led the freed prisoners to the large tent to rescue the ones inside. Tyler went in first and there was a similar scene with about twenty girls covered in semen, blood, and other various fluids, the main exception to the last time was the absence of fecal matter on their tortured bodies. Tyler used the same method to free them and they were carried out the front flap, were Sherie met up ad gave him the nod.

"Their ready to pop sir!"

Tyler smiled as he flipped the switch and the four tanks and the field kitchen exploded. The freed prisoners gave a weak chuckle as they saw the kitchen go. They then hurried back into the forest, where Llyia linked back up. There was many a gasp at the Pale beauty's appearance. Tyler just chuckled as he helped carry a particularly injured girl in his arms. he then radioed his results to the main gate,

"Mission success. Have Shiro ready up for more friends. We're inbound!"

Back up at the shrine, Seiki was helping to tend the wounded as Shiro broke the news and they saw the explosions over the treetops,

"Well, they're on their way, priestess. They got about a hundred and fifty freed captives. Congrats, you get your friends back."

Seiki just fell backward onto her butt at the news. She had been completely flabbergasted by the Demons terrifying strength and skills. Her long white gown tore on a rock as she lay flat, completely overwhelmed by it all. first the single largest attack on her school, then the tanks and a near certain defeat, sending little Suki to run, the fall of her walls ad last defenses, resigning herself to capture and subsequent rape and torture, to the sudden arrival of the Demon Squad and Sakamyian' forces, and now their highly efficient leader, tactics and lethal skills. To the sight of Little Suki riding the leader's bike and saying she shot at him, and finding out she had asked him for his help, which he was now giving. The priestess was no fool she knew he would be sure to demand a reward form the Maidens for his help. She shuddered at the demands a Squad leader of a Demon Squad would ask for as compensation from an all-girls school. Seiki let out a breath that sounded more like a sob as she realized that their saviors now had the power to unleash horrors upon her fellow Maidens and they would not be able to stop them if they tried. Shiro appeared next to the freaking out leader and gave her a drink out of a small paper cup,

"Okay, priestess, you need a nap. If you have a mental breakdown now, The Maiden's will lose their heart. And I don't think Tyler wants to have to fight another battle like last time, so take a nap."

Shiro's soft voice drifted away as the sleeping draft took affect. Shiro sighed at how easily and quickly the draft took effect. She then called over a pair of able Bodied Shrine Maidens to her,

"here, Sieki passed out from exhaustion take her to her room and let her sleep. we'll need her later."

The girls sighed as they heard the news,

"Dammit Seiki. I knew this would happen>"

"Yep, she's the only one who didn't sleep last night."

The duo carried the sleeping girl to her bed chamber inside the massive shrine. Shiro felt really bad for drugging the leader, but it was as she said. If their leader broke, they would break too. That was not an option at this point in the game. Shiro then returned to her tasks, flipping her long blue ponytail as she did so. Tyler and his group made it to the front gate of the compound and rope ladders and cradles were lowered over the walls and the escapees and operators hauled to safety. The injured were rushed to the medics, while food came to the returning prisoners, who wept at the realization that the nightmare was over and their were back on home turf. Tyler then went to Shiro who filled him in on Seiki's condition and what she had done. Tyler rubbed the blue-haired girl's head,

"well done Shiro. We can't afford to have the Maidens' leader break now. If she does, we lose the support of the girls. We can win this ourselves, based on their equipment, numbers and the terrain, we could easily win this ourselves. But if we do, we'll have to transport the entire school back to our own because they will no longer be able to defend themselves alone. I'd like to save that as a last resort. I do not want them to lose their home if I can do anything about it."

Shiro was simply glowing at the praise. Fuji also came over and applauded her shrewd decision making. This time around when Fuji patted the girl, She was practically purring at the muscular girls touch.

"I can see I'm not need here. I'll go check in with Llyia and Dani. Fuji, I want you to help Shiro with her medic duties."

Fuji smiled and nodded, while Shiro shot a mouthed 'thank you' when the Major wasn't looking. Tyler was more then happy to play wingman for the Blue-haired cutie. He then went inside the shrine for the first time. It was massive, easily twice the size of the Tower back at Sakamiya. He spotted an elevator and hopped inside and rode it to the top. He reached the roof and steeped up behind Dani as she was explaining something to a Shrine Maiden. Tyler snuck up behind the busty blonde grabbed her large breasts from behind her,

"Hey, They feel even larger then last time! You're holding out on me Dani!"

"Dammit Sherie! Oh Tyler?"

"Okay, that's just fucked. I'm much taller then her and I do not have a girls voice."

Dani rubbed her now sore nipples, looking shocked he had pounced on her like that,

"What the hell? Why'd you do that? Oooohhh, now my nipples hurt!"

Tyler chuckled as he walked over to where Llyia was also giggling to herself,

"Well, Dani I've kinda always wanted to try pouncing on you like Sherie does. So how's this roof treating ya? Oh and Llyia, c'mere!"

he pulled the Pale beauty into an intense liplock right there now the roof in front of all the girls. There were gasps, blushes and more then a few awwwwws, as the lovers shared a quick moment of passion. Tyler and llyia seperated, with Llyia licking her lips, savoring his taste. Dani was the only girl completely unfazed by their blatancy,

"Guys, come, can you please wait to fuck until after we're done here?"

"Maybe, maybe not. We'll have to see. Anyway how's it look up here?"

"well, my rifle has free rein from here to that field over there, that's about 3000m. I can see clearly for another 2000. If anything tried to come up that road, their gonna get a new asshole courtesy of Siberia's Bite."

The Shrine maiden girls were blown away by both the blondes rack and her gun skills. Tyler smiled when he saw more than a few girls licking their lips when gazing at the busty blondes chest. I think Dani is gonna have ALOT of fun tonight! He then saw a few winks and lusty stares sent Llyia's way. She just smiled sweetly and snuggled under Tyler's arm and gave the leering girls a smug grin. There was then a rush of disappointed sighs as they realized she was already spoken for. Tyler smiled as he pulled her close and they gazed out over the landscape. The tall Shrine looked over the vast forest. The sea of leaves giving way to another vast sea of green. The lovers then turned to gaze out over the other side of the tall structure and checked out the large expanse of beaches which gave away to the ocean.

"It's beautiful. I can see why they want to defend this place so badly."

"Its alright. Far as I'm concerned, you're the only truly beautiful sight around here."

this time there was a pronounced awwww, from the maidens on the roof, whereas Dani just sighed,

"Ladies, don't let it impress you. Those two are always like that. I'm just glad their being this tame for once."

One Maiden walked over to the blonde cleaning her rifle. She was a slender thing, with glasses, dirty blonde hair and a decent bust. she was wearing the white gown and red robe top that was standard for that school.

"Um excuse me, but I thought you two were together, but his Lover is Llyia?"

Dani laughed as she explained their mess of a relationship.

"Look the short answer is we kinda formed a harem for him. That's the easiest way to explain how our relationships work. We all love that guy, he's saved our lives more times then I bothered o count. He was rescuing Little Yuki even before he arrived at our school. He'd give his life any one of us at the drop of a hat. He also loves us as well. Although Llyia is the clear favorite."

The curious girl asked the question,

"Why does he love her more? Your rack is awesome! I can't believe you lost to her, she is pretty don't get me wrong but.."

Dani smiled with a sadness that all the other girls picked up on,

"The answer is a rather sad one. They complete each other in a way I can't fully explain. It's like a more powerful version of puzzle pieces. They went through nearly the same exact torture at the hands of their parents. So they understand the others pain. If you want a more complete picture of what I mean then ask them to show you their scars. They won't mind, believe me."

The girl bravely approached the still gazing at the sea couple. She cleared her throat and screwed up her courage,

"Um excuse me you two."

They both looked over at the now nervous girl,

"Hi, what's up?"

The girl then blurted out her request,

"Can I see your scars, please?"

She then went beat red as they just looked at each other then back to the now hyperventilating girl.

"Holy shit she actually did it."

"That she did, that girls got serious balls on her."

"That she does, I like that. So shall we?"

"yes I do believe we shall"

Tyler then pulled his shirt over his head while Llyia undid the front of her uniform and tossed it to the ground. When Tyler had started taking off his shirt, He'd gotten a few whistles until they saw his chest and the catcalling died on their lips. They instantly started tearing up when they saw his scarred body, and they shed full blown tears at Llyia's scars. Tyler just laughed at them,

"Hey now, that's enough. Get those tears out of your eyes. I'm fine and Llyia here is gorgeous. We are lovers because we both experienced the same pain and the loneliness that came with these lines. We can be our truest selves when we're together. We accept our pain and each others as well. Oh and Is that a new bra llyia?"

She had a light crimson velvet half cup bra on, giving her sexy bust a push up effect.

"why yes it is, I bought it earlier. Do you like it?"

"Of course my love, It looks lovely."

"Thank you."

"we can be ourselves. and we embrace each others self without fear, judgement or holding anything against the other. That is what is our most precious thing we have."

The girl who had asked to see their scars was wide eyed staring at their frames. She then did something that caught everyone off guard. She reached up and undid her robe top and let it fall. As the gasps of her brazen actions were still in the air, Tyler and Llyia both froze at the sight of the poor girls body. For she too, had the same exact lines on her body as the two lovers.

"Dani give us the roof please."

"Understood."

Dani the herded the now curious ladies of the roof. Leaving the scarred fighters alone with their pain. The Maidens' brown skin had the about the same amount of scars as Tyler and they even crisscross her breasts, put she still had a impressive set of melons, which indicated those scars came before their developed. Tyler and Llyia then held out their arms to the weeping girl.

"What's you name my dear?"

Sobbing she replied,

"Rikka"

"Come Rikka, You're not alone anymore."

The sobbing girl then ran forward into the waiting arms of the scarred lovers. They then pressed their scars together and simply shared their strength with eachother. Tyler and Llyia were both taller the Llyia, so Tyler had to lean down to whisper into her ear,

"I think you're beautiful. Just Like Llyia. Though your nipples are larger!"

Llyia also leaned in to say something,

"You can cry as much as you want. We're not going to abandon you. Oh and I want to feel your breasts, they're bigger then mine!"

Rikka was now smiling through her tears, and gave the scarred pair permission to feel. And they did, although they were very gentle in their exploration. Tyler ran a finger over the lines that marred the once smooth orb, sighing as at least Llyia's were still smooth. He flicked a finger gently on her nipple to tease her a little before give her a gentle squeeze to test firmness. Llyia was more interested in softness and weight then the lines. Though she still traced a few. She sighed as she finished her examination of the girls breasts before turning to Tyler who had also finished his look over of the now nervous and flustered girl's breasts.

"well?"

"I like them. I'd very much like to use them as pillows sometime."

"I agree, I may prefer your own rack Llyia, but I have to admit these even give Dani a run for her money!"

They then turned to the now blushing teary eyed girl and smiled as they each took a hand,

"You are perfect. Very soft and large."

"Yes, very nice indeed. I'd like for you to join myself and Tyler tonight."

Rikka went from smiling with a slight blush to full tomato in .3 seconds flat. She stammered as she replied to the bold request.

"Uumm, t-t-thank you. I'm flattered but I don't think i can-"

"Why? We're not gonna fuck you. We just wanna cuddle a little."

"yeah, it's quite comfortable to sleep together. I promise we won't jump you in your sleep"

"She still seemed reluctant, but Llyia went and pressed her silver head into the busty girls rack as she pleaded,

"Come on. I'll give you a back rub if you do!"

The girl was flustered but she agreed just so the affectionate girl to stop molesting her. Tyler smiled as he lifted the girls robe back onto her shoulders,

"Sweet. It'll be fun I promise. Llyia's warm and is really nice to snuggle with. I'm just there as a safeguard."

She seemed nervous at this news,

"A safeguard from what."

"Anything and everything. Cause only someone suicidal would dare to mess with girls sleeping in MY arms."

llyia giggled at the dumbfounded girl as they walked back inside the Shrine. As they passed Dani he gave her a thumbs up that the roof was clear. The roof squad went back upstairs gossiping. Tyler was about to kiss Llyia by surprise when he got a message from Fuji,

"Hey, we got a flag at the gate. How do we respond?"

"A flag? Oh this should be good! I'll be down right away. Dani search for a hidden sniper."

"On it!"

Tyler smiled as he headed back to gate. He put his shirt back on and picked his rifle back up ad chambered a round. He climbed onto the truck holding the gate truck shut. He then rested the rifle on his hip as he gazed at the guy with the white flag. Tyler's razor sharp eye pick out a sniper in a tree. He flipped him off and Dani blew his head clean off. The guy on the road turned bone white has he realized the plan had just failed. Tyler smiled as he addressed the idiot,

"Now that the trash as been taken out. Whatchya got to say?"

The guy was shivering in the hot sun light, as Tyler's eyes were as cold as the grave.

"You are to surrender the Shrine Maidens. Our war is with them. We have no intention of picking a fight with Sakamiya. If you give them to us, we will allow you to go back to your school unharmed. If you refuse we will crush you as well."

Tyler just laughed,

"If you want the girls so bad, the take them AFTER you step over my corpse. IF you even get that far. Now fuck off. I got a hotter then holy hell girl to fuck into unconsciousness."

Tyler then jumped off the wall, leaving the guy red-faced and humiliated. The Maidens all looked at him like he was some kinda god. Which at that moment he kinda was. He went straight to Llyia and picked her up and slung her over her shoulder. He carried the Pale Beauty behind the shrine and they were lost to sight. The next thing that could be heard was Their impassioned screams of pleasure and ecstasy. The red-faced runner now had pure jealousy thrown into his fire of humiliation. The people from Sakamiya just smiled with fondness at the wild lovers, while the Shrine maidens were impressed, appalled, aroused and also jealous at their brazen antis. Rikka was talking to Dani on the roof when they heard the cries. Dani just chuckled at the sounds,

"Well that took longer then I thought."

"Those two do that a lot?"

"All the time. They are so into each other that we'd often find them in a patch of grass just staring into each others eyes, or cuddle up under a tree sleeping together. It's both really cute and mildly infuriating just how lovey-dovey they can get sometimes. I shit you not, I found them once sound asleep inside Llyia's bathtub. It's like a jacuzzi, but seriously?"

"They most really love each other."

"They do. with all their hearts and souls. Hard to believe now, but Llyia was once a solitary loner who would rather be alone with her gun then another person."

"Really? No way! she's so warm and friendly!"

"Yep. it took Tyler and his strange ability to make just about anyone feel at ease around him to finally crack her shell. Then we all crashed at this place one night and he showed us his scars and that was it. Done deal! Well that and he'd fought alongside her in that days defense."

"Was that his first fight?"

"First fight? NO. First war? yes. I was there two, same with everyone in our squad, except for Shiro who wasn't apart of our freak show yet. And Sherie who was on the ground that day. We'd been order by our former commander Milo to set up shop on our roof and rain hell upon the incoming enemy's heads. Tyler had only been at our school for like a week before that. But he'd already showed some serious skills and talents. Hell he even impressed the Major! So there we were, Tyler on his MKII, me on my 50, Llyia on her M24 and little Yuki on resupply with Fuji doing her thing. That guy is as good with a rifle as I am! It was plain scary how good he was. I mean he's American, school shootings are kinda there thing nowadays. He even picked up on the very first inkling we got about the school alliances! After the battle I think he was the only freshman that didn't freak out at the aftermath, while he was crying though. Idiot didn't even know till I wiped the tears from his eyes, he was a scary sort of calm. So me and Llyia decided we didn't want him alone that night, since little Yuki was shellshocked pretty bad. Then i get a message over our comms saying that Tyler had saved Shiro from being raped and Milo from being killed by a group of Sneakers. He kinda just kept doing stuff like that. And when llyia saw that he had the same scars as she did, I imagine she fell for him right there and then. I think he fell for HER a lot sooner then that, but it took him a while to actually both realize it and act on it. And when he did, well they've been like that ever since."

Rikka just leaned against the wall of the roof as Llyia's final scream rang out through the air.

"You all really care about him, don't you?"

"Yes. not just us, but every student who fought in that last battle has kinda started worshiping the ground that guy walks on. You saw how fast he jumped to rescue your people from imprisonment? Well he did that because our last Commander left a good number of our people to die. Tyler had a very big problem with that and rescued them. Then it came out our commander had been playing games behind the scenes with our lives. So again thanks again to him we were saved from a worse fate then death."

"He's that incredible?"

"more so. He took out that Firefly over there with this rifle and two bullets. No bullshit, everyone will back me on this. he also took out a king tiger in a textbook suicide mission, and survived to tell the tale. Although I think it's just because Llyia told him to come back to her."

"Sounds about right. So he actively defied his commander to rescue some captive =students?"

"He does follow orders, but if he gets a better idea or has one of his bursts of inspiration he'll happily go off on his own. And if you try to order him to do something he does not agree with, he'll laugh and do it his way. And the best part? His way is usually better! He is his own master, and marches to his own drum. We follow him because we love him and we know for a indisputable fact he'd give his life for any one of us at the drop of a hat."

Rikka smiled inspite of herself,

"He also just has this effect on people. Its hard to explain. But it's like an invisible blanket wraps itself around you when close to him and you immediately feel better and more comfortable. Like you're protected by something you can feel but not quite see."

"That i get. It's like having a scary big brother that's always gentle with you but evil with everyone else."

"Yess that's it exactly! You should see how he dotes on Little Yuki sometimes. Its soo cute! I wouldn't be surprised if Little Suki wraps him around her finger as well!"

"I could easily see that. I could also see Yuki and Suki becoming as close as sisters too."

"Oh they already are! I think Suki has a little crush on the big scary boy too. It's a shame he sees her as another Yuki, and she's more of a flirty little sister to the big lug."

The girls then just giggled at the thought of the gun toting badass doting on the two small girls. They the sighed as they knew he'd probably never dot on them the same way. Tyler was at that time recovering from a quickie with Llyia behind the shrine. She was resting on the ground, her hair and clothes in disarray. Tyler flopped down beside her and rolled onto his back. They then cuddled for a moment as they got the breath back,

"Think we pissed him off enough?"

"Oh I bet he's livid!"

"come on lets go make some girls jealous and guys envious!"

"I love you you evil bastard"

"I love you you sexy angel"

They then got back up and went back round the shrine to a round of applause from the guys, while the girls just blushed at Llyia's satisfied smirk. The lovers walked over to the front of the shrine, intent on visiting Seiki to see on she was...but whishhhh

A bullet came whistling over the wall...and hit Llyia in her back, blowing straight through and exiting out the Silver Beauties chest. Time stopped. Tyler felt her tug on his arm and saw the blood just above her heart, and his love hit the ground. Her face had a look of pained surprise and as her eye met Tyler's horrified gaze she smiled.

"LLYIAAAAAA! SHRIO GET OVER HERE NOW!!!!!"

Shiro came running at the panic in his voice and froze when she saw Llyia on the ground. Tyler then, with tears in his eyes slapped her in the face hard,

"WAKE UP AND SAVE HER!!!! OR YOU DIE TOO"

Shiro surged in action issuing orders as the rest of the demons arrived.

"Get the surgery ready. We need to save her!"

"We can't we hav-BANGGGGGG!

Tyler shot the objecting Maiden in the head. His eyes were a black soulless pit. Even his own friends were scared of him for the first time.

"If you don't save her. I will burn this place to the ground myself. Now get to work NOW"

His voice had no life, no remorse, no mercy. They rushed the fallen Beauty to their surgery. Tyler then he walked to a supply truck.

"I want my shotgun, and my sword."

The private tossed his SPAZ to the heartbroken boy. He loaded shells, and pumped it,

"I will kill them all myself."

Yuki ran to try and stop him, only for him to hit her in the face with his shotgun and walk towards the front gate. Yuki was bleeding from a nasty cut on her head, but she didn't cry. She just watched as Tyler jumped off the wall. Sherie ran over to the fallen girl, her face welling with tears.

"Yuki! Are you okay? How could he do that?"

"That's not Tyler."

"Huh? OF course that's him!"

"No it's not. It's his face, but not him in the drivers seat."

Sherie and the other girls were confused, until Rikka arrived with understanding, and a dark explanation.

"I know what that thing is. And if you want to live, stay the fuck out of it's way."

Fuji grabbed the scarred girl and roared into her face, crying as the new rock she was clinging to seemed to crumble as well.

"What is he?"

Rikka shuddered as she explained,

"First tell me something, have any of you ever seen him truly angry?"

The girls all looked at each other,

"Now that you mention it...no I haven't."

"Yeah, he just either gets frustrated or really intense. He didn't even seem all that mad when we found out about Milo."

Rikka hung her head,

"Its as I thought. Listen to me, thank your lucky stars you haven't seen the anger until now. Remember those scars? No one, no matter how strong they may seem, can go through something like that and come out fine on the other side without a shadow. I have one, and Llyia does too. When we say we accept each other fully, we also except the shadow cast by our pain. Tyler does too, and his is pure evil. Its why Llyia means so much to him, she knows about the monster he fights to keep caged everyday. Hell, the reason it hasn't been set loose in our wars yet is due entirely to her."

They then heard the most pain filled screams any of them had ever heard coming from just outside the walls. everyone raced to the walltop, finding the Maidens and Sakamiya fighters throwing up at the sight. Tyler had a girl with a .22 rifle attached to her small waist and was viciously rubbing her face back and forth across the razor sharp, cheese grater like wall surface, as the girl who couldn't have been bigger then Little Yuki screamed in agony as he dragged her face across the wall again, a wicked smile upon his face. Rikka and everyone viewing the spectacle froze, then a few were about to try and rescue the girl from the horrific end when Rikka spoke up,

"Don't get it's attention if you want yo live! Right now that thing is pure hatred, pure wickedness, pure evil. If you draw its ire, it WILL kill us all. Remember, that girl brought this on herself."

Rikka then ordered everyone off the walls as the little girls screams cut off. But the gut-wrenching sounds of the girls now-lifeless skull being ground against the could still be heard. Rikka led the traumatized girls to a shaded spot by the main Shrine to continue her explanation.

"Okay, so now you know what that thing will do. That is the personification of all his pain, all his misery, everything he suffered at the hands of his family rolled into a personality. It is his dark side. I have my own under lock and key, but Tyler's is on a whole other level. We who have suffered formed this personality to protect ourselves from the pain. Its a shield basically. Tyler's was formed for a different reason. His was made to fight back. He formed this creature purely to hurt the ones who hurt him more. And in order to do this he poured every dark emotion into it. I keep calling it a thing like it isn't human, for it is not a human at all. Tyler will most likely have zero recollection of anything he did while the creature was in the drivers seat. And before you ask, no there is nothing you can do for him right except do everything we can to make Llyia come back, for if see does not, not only will it break his spirit, but he will most likely lose the will to keep fighting the beast inside. If that happens he'll kill himself to keep it from hurting you. As for the Shrine Maiden he killed I'll explain that he's like me and they'll forgive him."

"Just like that?"

Rikka sighed,

"Yes, my own beast got loose here once and I killed three of my fellow maidens before my rage subsided. They then knew how I managed to survive my family. The tears that were shed that day."

She trailed of, as if the pain of the memory itself was a razor blade. Fuji then leapt to her feet,

"I will go assist Shiro, we CANNOT lose Llyia, I won't allow it!"

The other girls jumped as well,

"We will do all we can. Losing Llyia would crush the school, but if we lose Tyler as well right after? we won't survive, and neither would the seven of us. We need him too much"

They then all raced to the Operating room to find Shiro exiting, a relived look on her face,

"WELL?"

Shiro just starting laughing from sheer relief,

"She's alright, hell she's awake. The idiot hit her a friggin .22. The only real damage was a new scar on her right breast. And it kinda looks like a little lightning bolt. Tyler's gonna love playing with it when it heals. Oh and She's asking for him. where'd he go?"

Shiro had heard the screams but had been too busy saving Llyia to pay much attention. The girls were relieved but they needed to fill in the both of them. They went onto the pure white room, Llyia was bandaged pretty heavily around her bust. She turned her head to look at her friends,

"Hey, guys. I expected Tyler to be the first thing I saw when I woke up. Where is he?"

The girls all looked at each other, then Rikka stepped forward,

"I'm sorry, Llyia, Seeing you get shot like that set the Monster within him loose. He's currently outside the gates attacking the enemy camp."

Llyia's pretty Pale face turned the color of paper as she realized just how much of a shock to his soul nearly losing her had been. Then she saw Yuki's swelling bandaged jaw and started to tear up as the Squads little sister explained,

"He hit me with a shotgun butt. No real damage, just a helluva a fat lip."

llyia was stunned, Tyler, under any other circumstances would NEVER harm the girl he held as his little sister. Hell, he'd rather take the pain on himself then see the pretty orange-haired girl hurt.

"What else?

"What-"

"what else has happened?"

"He killed a Shrine Maiden who tried to argue when he made Shiro drop what she was doing to treat you, he also promised to burn the place to the ground with his own hands if we lost you. He killed the sniper who shot you by grinding her head against the wall till it killed her. Plus whatever he has done to the enemy troops by now."

Llyia just sighed with relief,

"Okay, so it's not as bad as I feared. Yuki, you're gonna love it after this. He is gonna pamper the fuck out of you when he gets back. And you too, Shiro. As for the fallen Maiden, he'll bring the enemy commander's head back on a plate and then probably grovel for at least an hour."

Rikka jolted a little at this,

"Wait, then the Monster HASN'T taken control?"

"Oh it has, but Tyler's still pulling the strings from his cage. Right now he's been overwhelmed by his rage at me being hurt with him right next to him. This rage is not for himself, but another person so the beast can't assume full control. He'll remember everything too. If I were you Rika, I'd say that Tyler was distraught at his beloved soulmate being hurt. On top of whatever you were gonna tell them."

"So he'll come back?"

"In a few hours. He just has to unleash hell itself upon the poor fuckers that dared to harm me. He'll either be in a very friendly mood when he gets back, or be nearly inconsolable until he see me smiling. Then He may or may become VERY touchy feely with all of his closet friends until his guilt is, in his mind, absolved. So prepare for some hardcore pampering!"

All the girls just laughed, with sheer relief their friend was alive and well, and that their rock was also still solid, if on the warpath. Rikka sighed as she went to inform the other Maidens that Tyler's killing of their friend had been fueled purely by his pain and near loss of his love. Llyia then laid back down to try and get some rest, with the other members of their little family setting up shop either next to her, on her, or near her. The only piece of their puzzle was out inflicting all the horrors of hell upon the idiots you had shot llyia.

Tyler was at that very moment tearing the throat out of a scout sent by the enemy with his bare hands. He was hunting every single member of the enemy force like a wild animal. He had his shotgun strapped to his back, his katana as well, and a large military combat knife in his fist. He had slain over forty of the bastards, and had just found his next victim, a small girl reminiscent of Yuki, just as Suki had been when they had first met. This time however, Tyler dropped onto the girl from above and pinned the terrified small girl to the ground as he tore open the front of her clothes, he poured a thin white liquid he'd gotten from a plant in the forest and cut her little white panties off, hit her hard in a spot just above her little slit, causing a little blood to flow, mixing with the white fluid, then allowed the horrified girl a single earsplitting scream before slitting her throat, and leaving her to bleed out. Tyler did not go far, as his cut had been enough to shock the girl, for his set up was merely to bait in other students in the area. And take the bait they did. The girl would live to see her friends being killed for coming to her rescue, and she would know that she was the reason they died. The idiots took the bait, hook, line, and sinker, for seeing such a small girl looking she'd been raped in the forest, then had her throat slit was more then enough of a horror to freeze them in their tracks, and give Tyler a chance to close with his knife. The now voiceless girl could only watch in mute horror as her comrades were cut down by the Monster with a knife. Tyler then grabbed one of them, an attractive girl with flame red hair and dragged to where the girl could see them clearly,

"You led them to this."

He then cut open the terrified girl's clothes and began fondling the girls breasts as the bleeding out girl died watching. Tyler then laughed as he snapped his toys neck,

"Welcome to my hell. Enjoy your stay!"

He was enraged at Llyia's wounding, he knew she'd pull through. He'd know as soon as he'd seen the sniper's rifle. Now though, he was determined to make the enemy taste the despair that only came from being truly helpless when your friends desperately needed your help. The feelings that came from when someone you care needing you to rescue them, getting close and having to watch horrors being inflicted upon them and not being able to help in any way. THAT was Tyler's true hell. And he was going to drag every single motherfucker who had ever known the girl who'd shot Llyia down into it. Tyler came across another set of enemy students and pulled a similar trick, instead of the plant liquid and cut above the snatch, he went for a more straightforward form of hell. He tackled one of the rear stragglers, and dragged the stunned boy up into a tree.; Where he began cutting strips of flesh of his body, sending his screams, pleading, and begs echoing across the treetops, the sound bouncing off the trunks and sounding like it came from every where and nowhere. Tyler then began laughing with joy, as he WAS truly relishing the chance to finally release some of the darkness inside his soul. He grew bored of his toys screams and stabbed him in the heart and threw the nearly skinned-alive carcass to the forest floor, before leading his comrades to the body. As expected, the four boys and two girls froze ad started to vomit at the sheer horror, when a shadow fell upon them, and their deaths found them. This time Tyler helped himself to one of the girls as a captive, and dragged her over to a more sufficient location. he had a more sadistic plan for this one. He dragged her along by the ankle, and tossed the defenseless girl into a small clearing not far from the rebuilt enemy camp. He then appraised his new tool in dragging the entire enemy force into the depths of despair. The girl was tied to a tree spread eagled and gagged. She could still see and her ears clear. She was shaking as she stared into Tyler's soulless gaze, his cruel smile and the evil way he licked his lips, sending tears down the girls face,

"What a shame. You're rather pretty. You have such lovely legs, shiny hair, smooth skin too! That rack is quite impressive to, I wonder..."

He cut open the front her clothes, then removed them entirely. He then reexamined his captive like an artist inspecting a fresh sheet of canvas, which for his particular form of artwork, she most certainly was nothing more then a canvas...and one that could bleed. The poor, terrified girl was now a sobbing wreck as he pulled his long knife, and pressed the edge to one of her large breasts. Then almost like an after thought, he removed her gag,

"That's much better! I don't work as well without some sweet music! So please, I hope you sound at least decent."

He then began his art. With her screams sounding to his ears, as a form of the sweetest music, second only to Llyia's haunting voice. The camp could hear her piercing screams, and agonized begging throughout the camp, seeing as it was just over a small rise in the forest. A squad raced to rescue the poor girl, only finding the result5s of Tyler's artistic talents. Both her large voluptuous breasts were on the ground between her slashed legs, her stoamch had been carved across, and her snatch had the slit opened all the way to her throat. Her once beautiful bluer eyes had been cut from her face and her lips cut off. The worst part was that she was still alive and conscience. Tyler had learned a lot about the human body during his lessons and the wars he'd fought in. The horrified students were about to shoot the girl to end her suffering, when Tyler descended upon them with a still dripping knife and a wickedly excited smile on his face as he did so. The last guy alive, tried to crawl away, but Tyler caught easily. Before he died he had a single question

"Why?"

"You fucked with my Girl"

He died after that. Tyler left the tortured girl to bleed to death, and made his way down into the enemy camp. He was still smiling as he walked past students and jabbed the in the side as they dashed past. He had snagged a uniform from a male student that was his size. He had cut a small piece of cloth from the sleeve as the fatal flaw required by the schools for Sneakers. Tyler then made his way to the medical tent, and began killing medics as they tried to save lives. He was using all his skills in both stealth and silent killing. He made his way through the first four tents, leaving dead, dying, and tainted medical equipment as he'd found a rather nasty plant-based poison he'd learned about for the war effort. Tyler was beyond fair fights and rules of engagement. He just wanted to hurt the people who had hurt Llyia more. He just wanted to hurt people. So hurt them he did. After moving through the tents of wounded, he made his way to the repaired field kitchen. He went inside and stabbed the first chef he came across, a slender girl with pigtails. Then he moved on to the next, and the next, stabbing each one in the heart, lungs, kidneys, any lethal organ really. Since he did the killing with a knife and was quick, they both heard nothing and had zero time to react before he hit them. The most they got was a forceful shoulder grab as the knife dived into their backs. He then pulled a plant called wolfsbane and put small pieces of the lethal plant in all the pots. Just to be sure. He then made his way over to what appeared to be sleeping quarters. He went right in and found that the bulk of this tent was asleep, so he went right to work cutting throats and stabbing hearts. He made through the tent, when an alarm went up near the first doctor's tent Tyler had visited. He then wiped his knife on a tent flap and grabbed a fresh uniform off a rack and moved to a small darkened area. He changed and left the compromised uniform in a untouched tent, on a guys bunk actually, with the bloodied knife too. Tyler then grabbed the fresh knife from another students bunk and went to visit the ammo dump. Students were all running al over the place as they searched for the Monster in their midst. Tyler then smiled as he walked right into the main remaining ammo reserve, killed the two guards and wired a set of C4 charges to a timed detonator and then left the depot, but not before sending a flare in the sky. He then ran from the depot. The results were pitifully predictable. The majority of the students raced to save their bullets, only for the timer to run out as the massive tent was packed and sending the lot of them straight to hell in pieces. Maybe two hundred were lost from the main blast alone. Tyler smiled as he snuck around the large gathering crowd, stabbing a few along the way just cause. He then found what he was looking for: A large truck rigged to blow on impact. He had figured that the idiots would use a trick like that on the main gate. But Tyler had a far more diabolical plan for the truck. He started the engine and drove the large death mobile straight into the now packed students, using knowledge from a recent terrorist attack back in the 'wanted' world as his basis. He then used the shotgun on his back to set off the bomb truck, sending another hundred plus to hell in a bucket. Then the unexpected, but welcome, surprise of the truck having been loaded with napalm instead of an explosive send the liquid death raining from the sky and pouring across the ground. Most of the camp was then engulfed in searing flames as the volatile substance spread. Tyler smiled as he spotted another truck near a row of tents. He shot the back of this one too, and it blew as well, setting the nearby tents ablaze with the blast. The camp was now pretty much all on fire as the Monster went about his work with a sadistic smile. The air was full of screams of pain and agony as Tyler looked around at his handiwork. Out of the surviving 1100 enemy troops, a solid 400 had been blown to high hell alone, and maybe 150 more were hit with shrapnel. He pumped his Spaz and set off back into the woodlands to return to Llyia.

"Holy."

Dani had gone up to the top of the Tower to see if she could get eyes on the camp. From her spot the busty blonde sniper watched as the clouds and glow were seen at her range. The Russian leaned back to look at Rikka beside her.

"I knew it'd be bad, but what the hell?"

The scarred Shrine Maiden sighed as the blasts and shockwaves were felt.

"He's got a more savage Creature inside him than us. Just be thankful it's a temporary thing."

Dani looked through her sniper cope to get a closer look. She watched as a boy in the enemy uniform; a solid black jumpsuit with red stripes, came sprinting up the road with a look of abject terror in his face screaming incoherently. Dani pulled the bolt back and chambered a round into her M95 and put the upside down V of her long range sniper scope on his chest. She placed her finger on the trigger and just as she went to pull it, a shadow slammed into the fleeing boy with all the force of a runaway train. Her blue eyes went wide as she saw it was Tyler that had hit him. HE grabbed the boy by the top of his head and tilted his head as if wondering just what to do with him. He shrugged and pulled a grenade from the boy's belt, popped the pin, put it in the boys hands, patted his shoulders and walked away. Laughing as he left the now frozen in horror boy with a live and armed hand grenade in his hands. Dani watched as tyler picked a small rock up off the ground and tossed it at the blankly staring-at-said-grenade boy, hitting him in the back making him jump and let go of the thing. He screamed in despair before it blew, shredding his body with the blast and shrapnel. Tyler was laughing like he'd been told a hilarious joke as he strolled back to the barricaded main gate whistling like he didn't have a fucking care in the world. Dani looked incredulously to the Maiden beside her.

"Okay, THAT was the Tyler we all know and love kinda. You SURE he was in rage mode?"

Rikka was smiling as she watched the execution.

"HE was when he killed the Maiden and the hit Yuki. I guess it wore off faster then I'd thought it would."

"Oh. Okay."

Dani looked back through her scope to see Tyler take off at a quick sprint at the barricaded main gate, leap at it, do some kind if wall run to get a hand on the top to vault over it like he was some kinda action hero. HE was wearing the same uniform as the attackers, with soot, blood, and dirt all over his body. The Russian watched as he lifted a hand and snapped his fingers, just as another massive explosion rocked the enemy camp. She sighed.

"Well. He's back. Yay, I think."

Tyler smiled as he saw Dani's rifle barrel poking out from the top of the tower. I'll give her a hug later. First I owe a HUGE apology to Yuki. HE walked into the main building of the Shrine Maiden campus, and just followed the moans and groans to find the main medical bay. He opened the door to find Yuki holding an ice pack to her face where he'd wacked her with his shotgun. The orange haired girl looked over at the sound of the door opening and smiled as Tyler came over to give her a bear hug.

"Sorry Yuki. I kinda lost it a bit there."

She just hugged him back.

"I forgive you. I mean, it's LLYIA."

He hugged the smaller girl all the tighter.

"You freakin rock Yuki."

She giggled.

"Just a bit!"

"Arrogant Narcissism. I think we may have had a bad influence on you. But you cute so I'll let it go."

She smiled as he set her on her feet. HE got a good look at her face, and saw she wouldn't have any marks or scars once the swelling went down, which was a relief. HE then looked to where Llyia was watching from her bed with a warm smile on her beautiful face. She had a layer of bandages over her chest, and they taped her breasts down, which seemed a little wrong to him. He walked over as Yuki left the room to give the two a little privacy. HE sat on her bedside and took her pale hand.

"You okay?"

She smiled happily as she stroked his hand with a thumb.

"Just a little tired. I'll be okay."

Her hauntingly beautiful voice still sent a shiver down his spine when she spoke. He leaned in and kissed his lover softly and she sighed.

"Shiro said it's not a good idea to make my heart race or beat really hard for a few days."

"Well, that's gonna suck."

She smiled at him.

"But once I'm cleared,"

"A bed out there just started pleading for mercy. But, get your awesomeness back."

She looked at him with her emerald eyes full of concern.

"Are YOU okay? I heard it escaped."

Tyler smiled a dark smile.

"Not escaped. Unleashed. The maiden and poor Yuki were in the things gaze as it awakened and before I got my hands on the controller."

Llyia sat back on the bed now, a little shocked.

"You can control it?"

He nodded.

"I can. But when I open it's cage, it takes maybe 2 to 3 minutes before I have it fully aimed."

Her emeralds had a look of awe in them.

"I can't even reach mine, and Rikka said hers is under lock and key. How'd you get control?"

He looked at his hand and made a fist as he spoke.

"Because I made that thing not to hide from my pain, but to fight it. Whole reason they sent me to Sakamiya was because they couldn't break me. Hit me with a brick? I'll hit you with a sledgehammer. Stab me with a knife? Ha, I'll find a sword. Think Hulk, but with Banner able to control the beast. It was made to save my life, and I weaponized it."

The Pale Beauty nodded as she understood.

"It was never meant to be contained."

He took her hand again.

"No. It was meant to help preserve my soul, and give me an edge in a fight. Now that's it been used, it'll be a while before I can use it again"

They kissed again, before she smiled at him.

"Well, I'll take a nap now. Kinda tired."

HE hugged her, careful of her wound.

"Seems wrong for some reason, seeing those melons taped down."

She smiled as he walked to the door.

"They're still growing too."

"I love you."

"I love you too."

The scarred boy walked out as the Pale Beauty settled down to sleep, eager to get better to rejoin her missing piece on the battlefield.

Tyler strode to where he knew he'd find Fuji, and was right. The white jacketed Major was looking at a Tac Map of the area with a few of the Maiden Leaders as he walked in the small command room. The other Maidens looked at him with both pity and fear as Fuji smiled at him.

"Feel better?"

"Well, I'm not in the grip of a blood rage. Now I just feel like crap for killing her and hitting Yuki."

HE walked over and looked at the map as Fuji patted his back.

"We'll win this for them and that'll make you feel better."

"Oh we'll win this. No two ways bout it."

A Maiden spoke up.

"Sir. Sieki is awake."

Tyler looked to Fuji before sighing.

"Okay. We need their commander."

The Maiden sighed as well, but for a different reason.

"She's not our commander. Yoko is."

Tyler stood up to look at her.

"And she is where?"

"She's sick and can't move at the moment. She can't even think straight."

Tyler's brow furrowed.

"Okay, I'mma need to see her. Fuji, have Shiro join me."

"Sir."

The Maiden then led him down a columned hallway to a set of large double doors. Tyler walked in to see a tall girl laid out on a bed near the window. She had black hair that was easily knee length, a large rack under the blankets, and was as tall as he was. HE walked to her bedside and she turned her head to look at him with beautiful pink eyes that were dull and lifeless. She smiled weakly,

"Are you here to take me, Shinogami?"

Her voice was weak and fragile, as if it was all she had to just speak. Tyler sighed, and began his look over.

"No, Miss. I'm a friend."

She looked back at the ceiling and closed her eyes with a smile, but did not reply. He placed a hand on her forehead, pulling away as it felt just how hot it was. Okay, feverish. HE leaned in and pulled one of her luscious lips down to see her gums, and sighed.

"Poison."

He moved back as the blue haired Shiro came in behind him.

"Find anything?"

He rubbed his eyes.

"Her gums are blackened. Girl's been poisoned by something."

Shiro nodded.

"Understood. I'll begin looking for toxins."

"You are the only one allowed in here. Armed guards will be with you from our school."

Tyler walked to where the Major was standing in the door.

"Get a squad from our school to keep an eye on Shiro and Yoko. Girl's been poisoned pretty badly. Only Shiro crosses this threshold."

She nodded as he went next to Seiki's chamber. He found it without too much issue and was let in by the two guards. The girl was sitting up in her futon on the floor drinking some tea as he walked in. She became wide-eyed and her cup started rattling against the small plate she had under it as she started shaking. HE grunted as he sat beside her on the floor. As he did, he noticed what the floor was made of.

"So these are tatami mats? Nifty."

The poor girl blinked as he commented on the floor first. She mustered her courage to ask the question.

"What will you to do us?"

HE tilted his head.

"Huh?"

His obvious confusion at her question made her blink.

"What will you ask for a reward when you save us?"

HE became thoughtful.

"Huh, I forgot about that. What AM I going to ask for?"

The maiden's heart filled with despair as she realized she just told him he COULD ask for something, when he didn't know he could. She watched as he looked around the room as if thinking of just what to take. Then his eyes settled on her own beautiful body and he smiled. She felt her blood run cold, and accepted her fate.

"Okay. Just please be gentle."

"HUH?"

He was now blinking in surprised shock, clearly dumbfounded by this. She tilted her head now herself.

"Why do you seem so shocked? You ARE going to fuck me as a reward, right?"

HE just sighed then.

"Only if YOU wanted it, and Llyia LET me. I was actually thinking of an agreement between our schools."

"WHAT?"

Now it was HER turn to be shocked. Tyler smiled as he waited for her mind to recover from the blast. It didn't take long.

"An agreement?"

"Yup. Like you don't attack us, we don't attack you, you're welcome on our campus, we here, that sorta thing."

Sieki just held her head.

"You….don't intend to rape us?"

"I don't. Sherie? More an likely."

She smiled inspite of herself at the thought of the demented boob addict. Then she frowned.

"It just seems too good to be true. You'll get next to nothing out of it for this, and yet that's all you want from us?"

"Sure. I also get the feeling a few of your girls will wanna jump ship, so if our schools were on friendly terms, they'd still get to see their friends."

She looked at him, her brown eyes full of suspicion.

"Which ones you thinking of?"

"Rikka and Suki. I get the feeling that greenbean ain't gonna wanna let Yuki go, and Rikka's like me and Llyia."

Sieki sighed and rubbed her eyes as Tyler got a good look at her for once. She was a tall, statuesque, athletic girl with browned skin, a large rack, and soft features. Her hands had calluses that could only come from holding a sword handle, and her brown eyes were lively. She caught him checking her out and groaned.

"Great. Instead of a outright rape you're thinking of seducing me."

"Well, kinda. You pretty, so any straight guy would."

He said this with a straight face and a shrug, getting another sigh from the bed-ridden girl.

"Okay, playboy, what's it looking like out there?"

"Well, Llyia took a hit and they pissed me off. So, their camp is burning with several hundred dead, dying or wishing they were dead."

Seiki went pale.

"Is she okay?"

"Yeah. More nasty gut punch. Here, this will explain just WHAT was set loose."

He lifted his shirt and her brown eyes went wide as she saw his scars. Then she sighed sadly.

"I understand. Were any of ours hurt?"

"Well, before I descended upon the enemy, I killed a shrine maiden and wacked Yuki in the face with my gun butt."

Sieki shed a single tear for the fallen maiden.

"Was it quick?"

"Single shot to the forehead. She was gone before she knew what happened."

"A small mercy I suppose."

"Yuki's okay as well. She took it in the face and laughed."

The maiden smiled at that.

"She's cute and tough."

"A most scary combo. I'll need to spoil her a little before I feel better, but that'll be fun."

She looked at him.

"The Maiden?"

She got a sigh.

"I can't really do much there. She's dead, I killed her, and no. It does not bother me. She just had the misfortune of standing there before it was aimed."

"I understand. Rikka lost it once as well. We had to hit her with a tranq rifle to bring her down."

He rubbed his eyes now.

"Well, you're safe now. I can't unleash it again for a while."

"A good thing I suppose. I trust you heard about Yoko by now?"

"Shiro is looking after her. Under armed guard from our school."

Seiki froze in shock.

"She's just ill, right?"

Tyler looked at her, and sighed.

"Yer clean. I can sniff a plot a mile off, and ulterior motives even further. Yoko was being poisoned."

Sieki jumped in horror.

"POISONED? How?"

"We will know as soon as Shiro does. Until then, that girl eats nothing but OUR food, drinks from OUR canteens, and gets OUR drugs. Those I know for sure are clean."

Her eyes narrowed.

"I know what she gave me."

"Thank her. You nearly lost it completely."

She glared at him.

"And now the girls saw me sleep before them! What kind of leader sleeps when she's needed?"

"A wise one that understands their own worth. Seriously, Sieki, being first up last down is all well and good. Trust me I live that sentiment. Yet, we lead the charge and rally those behind us. Answer this: If WE buckle, and THEY see it, what do you think will happen?"

She gasped and looked at her blanket covered form in shock.

"If WE buckle, for ANY reason, it would destroy their spirits entirely."

"Beyond repair. So, as much as it may suck and as hard as it may be, we need to take care of ourselves at least the bare minimum. Just so they keep their strength up."

She was shaking with emotion now.

"I see why they depend on you so much now. You sure you haven't led a war before?"

"If I did, then I don't remember."

She settled back into her futon on the mats.

"I'm still tired, and when I tried to hold my sword I had no strength in my grip. I'll rest a little. Odd as it feels."

"If it would help, I can have Yuki and Suki come snuggle you to sleep."

She laughed at that one.

"That does sound comfy. I am nearly tempted to just go for it."

"Well, alright then. I'll go find your snuggle buddies."

HE got up and left with her indignant protests in his ears.

"What? Hey! No! They're busy! Don't ignore me! Asshole!"

Tyler laughed as he spotted Yuki and the crutch bound Suki cleaning Yuki's P90 between them.

"Hey, girls. I need a favor."

Yuki had tied a fresh ice pack to her cheek with a pink ribbon that made her seem cuter for some reason. Her silver eyes were shing as she looked at him smiling.

"This oughta be a goodee."

He smiled as he patted her head.

"Sieki is trying to get some more rest, but is having a hard time sleeping. Think you two could give her cuddle support?"

Suki giggled.

"Seiki is a great cuddler Yuki!"

Yuki hugged the other girl as she helped her onto her crutches.

"Let's go snuggle!"

Yuki then looked at Tyler.

"And YOU are going to owe me for this."

"A heavy dose of spoiling and a back rub. You sure drive a 'hard' bargain Yuki!"

She squealed with delight as she hugged the boy. Then she helped Suki to Seiki's chamber to both rest themselves and get cuddled. Tyler looked to the wall, and spotted Maria up on it with her TAR. He headed over as he got statuses from others.

"we're set on tank rounds sir!"

"Good to here, Buck! Get broads under the treads to prevent sinking!"

"We used sheet metal!"

"Watch for sparks!"

"Sir!"

"Cap'n Hawk, we got a status on the food."

"What we got?"

"Well, these Shrine maidens might want to think about some laps and exercise when we leave."

Every single Shrine Maiden gave the boy that had spoken a look of pure murder as he said this. Tyler sighed.

"Let it go ladies. That's Chuck. He's gay, and women disgust him anyway. Plus is dense as a brick."

The ladies all huffed as Chuck sighed.

"Why are girls so damned sensitive? All I siad was-"

"Hit the brakes bro. We well supplied?"

Tyler knew that unless he redirected the staunch gay, he'd just say it again. And get shot for it.

"We're good for a few weeks. Using YOUR appetite as a general baseline."

"So a month. Good. Back to it Queerbait."

"Kiss my fabulous ass."

"We've been over this."

Chuck stuck his nose in the air, offended, and strutted off with his hands on his hips like a runway model. Tyler just shrugged as he spotted a rifle on a Maiden weapon rack. His eyes lit up as he saw it.

"No friggin way."

He walked over and lifted the thing off the rack to peer down it's sights.

"Been a while since I saw a SVT-10 in such good shape."

HE smiled as he looked at the soviet area semi auto rifle. Thing was three feet long, with a blue stock, red furniture, golden metal bits and trigger, a long white barrel, and a distinct flash hider on the muzzle.

"That's Seiki's baby. I'd put it down if I were you."

Tyler looked to see Rikka with her own weapon, a small MP5 with an integrated suppressor, laser on the side, odd-looking drum mag, and hard stock, walking towards him from a truck. The girl was not as tall as Seiki, was slender with a decent bust he knew were a good set of D's, soft brown skin, and had a sparkling pair of hazel eyes behind a pair of square framed glasses, dirty blonde hair that hung to her back, and was wearing the white top and red skirt of the Shrine Maiden's school. He knew the long sleeved robe hid a myriad of scars on her beautiful frame, thus marking her like him and Llyia. He smiled fondly at the pretty girl as he set the marksmen rifle on the rack.

"Girl's got good taste. YOU have a great feel. Curious about the taste though."

"Eep!"

"Cute."

Poor Rikka was nod full tomato in the face at this attack. She was quick to stammer out a reply though.

"T-th-th-thank you! I h-h-hope you like it! Eep!"

She covered her face with her sleeves in embarrassment at her unintended slip. Tyler just chuckled fondly and went to pat the girl on her head.

"Still cute. And looking forward to it."

She smiled a little as the Master sergeant on the wall sighed.

"Ya done ruining her panties?"

Rikka had freakin steam coming off her now, so embarrassed was she. Tyler patted her back before climbing up to the wall top.

"For now. I'm actually thinking of ruining someone else right now."

Maria blushed now herself as he stood beside her and looked at the jungle.

"Oh, eh, really?"

"yeah. This girl's got a nice bust, is sweet, has long black hair, wears glasses, and is rather good looking in them."

Maria was actively squirming now.

"What's her name?"

"Oh, you don't know? What's it say on that card you carry?"

She gasped, as he poor heart was beating like a jackhammer.

"Me?"

He responded with a rather feely hug from behind, making sure she could feel the bulge he had below the belt against her back. HE hugged her to him, and his hands were near both her treat and her bust.

"See? You do know."

He was using a more lusty tone as he spoke into her ear, making her quiver under it. Poor Maria's glasses fogged up, so hot and bothered was she with him holding her and teasing her as he was. The nearby shrine maidens weren't in much better shape, as a fair few were itching their own aching groves through their skirts.

"Damn him! Now my poor little fox is howling!"

"He did that to ALL of us!"

"hey, guys? I need to go to the bathroom."

"I need to get off right now sooo badly."

Tyler smiled as he held Maria against his body, when he noticed movement in the tree line. He sighed.

"As much as I want to ravage Maria right now, we got movement, left flank low by the fifth tree. Where me rifle?"

Maria switched gears from hot, horny and ready to warrior like a light switch. She lifted her bullpup rifle to look down her hybrid sight as a boy tossed Tyler his MKII as he tossed his empty SPAZ to him.

"That thing's filthy, so watch yourself."

"Yes Hawk!"

Tyler snorted as he flipped the lever on the rifle, chambering a round as he was now sighting more furtive figures moving in the tree line.

"We got company! Lock and load ladies and queer!"

Chuck was heard snorting hard as he fitted a grenade into his launcher.

"I really hate that guy."

The defenders all raced for weapons and gear as Tyler smiled.

"Hey, that knothole ready?"

They had put a small hole in the barricade for the STUGIII's long sniper barrel to be fitted through with room to rotate the tank side to side for rounds. The tank commander was quick to respond.

"Burt's ready to spit sir!"

"Save your shots for the tanks. Use your MGs."

"Sir!"

Tyler placed his rifle barrel on the wall as he crouched behind his scope and used the thermal attachment to pick targets.

"Light em up!"

HE fired and the glowing signature's head exploded as he swiveled the barrel to another target, and same result. Maria was crouched beside him with her TAR set to burst to both preserve her ammo and make her shot's count. And count they did. Her Tar had been upgraded with a custom mag that held 70 shots, a longer barrel, lighter stock to decrease weight, with a flash hider topped off with a thermal overlay for her 4x sight. So, when she fired it sounded like a ratatatat from a drummer as she dropped idiots left right and center.

"We got a truck headed our way!"

Tyler sighed.

I thought I got em all. Fuck. Bertha, ya got a shot?"

"Dead center. Orders?"

HE fired at a girl with an RPG, hitting the warhead and taking the tree with her.

"Load HE then kill it."

"Yes Cap'n Hawk!"

"Prick."

That got a laugh as Tyler shot a guy in the heart, and the round take the girl behind him in the face.

"See? That's what you call a heartbreak!"

"I loved that song!"

"Wow, Tyler, I'm impressed again. A good taste in music as well?"

Tyler laughed as he dropped down to fit more rounds into his rifle.

"Now if only I could cook worth a damn."

Fuji's warm voice was heard laughing.

"Then you'd be TOO perfect!"

HE finished his reload as a rocket slammed into the wall just beneath him and Maria's spot, sending them to the dirt with a heavy thud from the concussive blast. Tyler was on top of a startled Maria from how they'd landed. She squeaked at the new position, as heat flooded her face.

"You okay?"

She could feel his body heat on her skin, and her heart was racing as she replied.

"Yeah. The dirt's nice and soft here. My Glasses are cracked, but to be honest they're just for show."

Tyler smiled as he pushed off her.

"Good. I'd mount you, but we got work."

She pulled her ruined glasses off as he helped her to her feet.

"Right. I take it I'm with YOU tonight?"

"If Llyia is okay with it and YOU want it."

He picked her rifle off the ground and handed it back to her as she gulped.

"I do want it. As long as she let's you give it."

"Have fun with her."

Llyia's haunting voice was heard over the comms, getting a laugh from Tyler, and a blush from Maria.

"Love you too, llyia."

Th other girls on the line were all giggling as well.

"Poor Maria, you have NO idea what he can do to you in that bed!"

"Have fun Maria."

"Ohhh, FINE. I'll snuggle with Suki tonight."

"I'll take Fuji."

"Oh my Shiro. I'll look forward to it."

Tyler patted the now nervously excited girl's head.

"I'll go as easy as you like."

She smiled at him.

"I'd like that."

"Well, let's get this done."

A loud bang was heard as Bertha fired her cannon and the high-explosive whistled to smash into the oncoming truck with a massive explosion that made the ground shake a little.

"Trucks done!"

"Thanks Bertha! Reload with cluster round."

"Nice."

Maria took her rifle and put a fresh mag in as they climbed back up the wall. Tyler smiled as he retook his spot with his barrel on the wall top, and took a would-be sniper in the face, knocking her to the ground.

"We got a hot date Tonight!"

Maria was smiling with a light blush at the thought of her nighttime romp. She was also laser focused as she fired her rifle taking enemy troops down like wheat to a reaper. Tyler was smiling widely as he sighted the lumbering bulk of the last tank the enemy had.

"Tiger sighted. Bertha, use those piercers."

"On it Hawk!"

"That STILL bugs me. Oh, hi, nice to kill you."

He had sighed a team setting up a mortar tube, and put a round in the box of shells the idiots had left in the open. Result? A five foot hole ten feet deep. The blast knocked a bunch of nearby students off balance, and they were hit with more bullets as the easy kills were mopped up. The tiger fired it's 88 and the round slammed into the wall, shaking it pretty badly as Bertha fired in response. The round was aimed slightly downward to explode at the base of the things' treads and get dirt in the driver's slit. The point was to blind the driver, and make them veer off course, and make them an easy target. It worked, but only partially, as the beast turned hard to the right as a piece of shrapnel from the round fit through the small grove to take the driver's eye. The tank veered off the mountain road and slammed into a tree. Now stuck, the turret was still able to rotate, but was at the same time harder to reach with Bertha's limited view.

"This is Bertha, we fucked ourselves on that one."

Tyler chuckled.

"Not too badly. Good idea bad luck. Hey! I need a RPG!"

"Here!"

A Shrine maiden came up to toss him and empty tube.

"I got four rockets ready!"

"One please."

She tossed the thing to him and he loaded it before setting it on his shoulder. He fired and the shaped charge slammed into the right tread of the tiger, effectively crippling it.

"That thing's stubborn!"

They dropped as the turret rotated towards their spot, only for him to huck a smoke grenade and it landed just in front of the thing as it sent up it's screen. Blinding it. Tyler used the lull to load a High explosive into the round and fire it into the cloud again, as he knew exactly where he'd hit it before. The cloud of white smoke was blown away by the blast, and it revealed the now burning husk of the Porsche Tiger. HE set the tube aside as a line of MG's opened up on the walls, hitting a good number of Maidens and his own troops before they dropped down. He looked up to the Tower.

"Dani, how's the weather topside?"

The sexy Russian was laughing as she replied.

"Nice and peachy. They can't really reach us up here."

"I'll head up. Any chance of a mortar tube setup there?"

A Maiden replied now.

"Not a good idea, as the height would throw off the aim pretty badly."

"M203's it is."

They laughed as he walked to a truck and lifted the hand held grenade launcher off the thing. A boy in a Sakamiya Uniform handed him a backpack.

"Got maybe 350 shells in there."

"Neat. My M24 in here?"

"Dani's got it up there."

"Of course she does. Thanks."

Tyler ran off with the launcher and ammo as the Mg's now had the force pinned.

"Bertha, swap with Butch. That nose needs to move."

"Yes Cap'n Hawk!"

"Idiots."

they laughed as he rode the Tower lift to the top where he found Dani with her Dragonov picking off idiots at will. The roof was also populated by Shrine Maiden shooters as well, and they too were holding their own. Tyler walked up behind the topless blonde and patted her back.

"I see your guns are getting some good use today."

She smiled as he loaded his launcher.

"They're a little sore, but nothing a little lubing won't fix."

"Get Sherie to do it. God knows she'd be thorough."

Dani laughed as she pinged a guy with a rocket in the chest.

"She would, and probably get off doing it. I'll have her do it to me."

"Awww! Tyler! Setting me up with a boobathon with Dani? ALL to myself? You're so good to me!"

Tyler laughed as he fired the launcher, sending the two-inch thick round into the center of the packed together Mg's.

"I gotta keep my favorite pig tailed gunnut satisfied."

He could see the boob addict on the wall with her BAR wedged between a pile of sand bags and was pouring the heavy 30-06 rounds into the trees as she laughed.

"Such a good boyfriend! If your not careful, I might end up falling for you!"

"Well, I already LOVE you, Sherie. Oh, and cute panties."

She was proned on the walltop, and as usual was not wearing pants. Her panties of the day were a thin pair of neon blue that were weirdly eye catching, and hugged her firm rear tightly.

"Glad you like em. I got em today actually."

"Blue's my favorite color."

She smiled as he fired another round into a second pack of MG's.

"Mine too. Guess we got a case of the blues."

"Well, I bet I can cheer you up."

Tyler loaded another round and aimed for a spot near the found gate where'd he'd seen a tree looking precariously tipsy. He fired and as it impacted the thing, it took the three foot thick thing down with a crash that flattened a solid twenty students beyond the wall. He was laughing as Sherie replied with curiosity in her bird-like voice.

"What's yer plan to cheer me up?"

"Oh, nothing TOO fancy. Just letting you know I'm looking forward to TOMORROW night. Thinkin of getting a gun cleaned. Know a good smith?"

He saw her quiver from the roof!

"Ohhh, I know a DAMN good cleaner!"

"Sounds like a date. I hope she wears those blues for me. They look really good on her, for ya know, something I'll pull down myself."

"Damn it! Now my receiver is wet! Thanks a lot. Damned silver tongued horndog, I JUST put these on!"

"Love you too Sherie."

"I love you too, now STOP RUINING MY PANTIES BEFORE YOU FUCK ME!"

The defenders were all laughing at their filthy banter as Tyler poured rounds from his launcher into the forest, making it rain blood, dirt, viscera, and body parts. He was smiling as he loaded another round.

"I love my job."

He fired, and the launcher blew up in his hands. It sent the round flying, but the launcher itself tore a large gash in his arm and long slash on his side.

"FUCK. Medic!"

Dani looked as he dropped behind the wall to tear his shirt off to try and stop the bleeding. Her blue eyes went wide as she saw the blood and cuts.

"HOLY SHIT! Shiro get up here now!"

"Coming!"

Tyler had his shirt off and wrapped around his arm as the blue haired medic came running out of the lift. She saw his stone face, clearly fighting off waves of pain, and his improvised bandage. She dropped her bag and got right into it.

"Okay, what happened?"

"That damned launcher blew in my hands. Tore my arm to hell, but my fingers are still set and I can feel em. Sherie!"

"Here!"

"Get off the wall and check that truck. That damned thing was rigged!"

"On it!"

"Cannons! Set the damn forest on fire! Load incendiaries!"

"Sir!"

"Shiro. Your arm."

He let her unwrap it and she breathed a sigh of relief as she saw the gash.

"Oh thank god. It's just a flesh wound. Looks nastier an it is."

She got out her needle and thread as he poured a bottle of her peroxide on it as she stitched him up. He spotted the remains of the launcher, and looked to Dani.

"Get those pieces to Sherie. Not another soul is to touch em, understood?"

The sniper nodded as she loaded the rigged Launcher into a blanket and left the roof. He looked as Shiro finished with his arm and readied another line a bit further out.

"Don't you think you're over doing it?"

The blue haired girl huffed.

"A goddess like me knows EXACTLY what you need. Such doubt of one such as me! Even when I'm going to such lengths for a mere trigger-happy Incubus!"

Tyler smiled at the arrogant girl fondly.

"Nice one Shiro. I didn't know you knew ghosts."

She blushed a little as she finished her go over with the thread. He then gave her access to his side.

"I was dabbling in ghost hunting before I got sent to Sakamiya. I still have all my evidence. Though my gear was destroyed by my family."

"That sucks. Hey, now I'm curious. When we get back, wanna show me what ya got?"

She had a shy smile now, a most uncharacteristic expression the normally self-confident girl had.

"I'd love to."

He smiled as Sherie's voice came over.

"Update."

"How bad?"

"We had a Sneaker saboteur. He's dead now, but I don't trust two of our trucks."

"He a frenchie?"

"Oi! Asshole! I'M French!"

"Explains why I wanna kiss you so badly Maria."

"…..Prick."

"Love you too. Mark those trucks Sherie. We'll clean up and you'll see what you can do."

"So you know, Llyia's rifle was in there."

"I see you found your first task."

"Already on it. Dipshits. They merely replaced her bolt with a faulty one."

"A simple fix."

"Yup. I'll look it over properly later. How's your arm?"

HE looked to Shiro as she lifted it and he extended it a few times.

"Feels stiff, but useable."

The blue haired medic had him do a few more exercises before nodding.

"Okay. You're good to go. Just be careful with it. You tear those open I'll have to add a THIRD layer."

"As the Goddess of Health and Beauty says!"

She smiled knowingly as she went back to the lift.

"I see you're finally starting to understand my greatness. This is good. Now, grovel mortal, as I saw fit to grant you the gift of my aid and the honor of my presence. If only such good fortune were to strike again."

He smiled as he reached for his sniper.

"If I get THAT lucky again, I'll buy a damned lottery ticket. For my Goddess of Luck, Health and Beauty."

She rode the lift down with a happy smile as he looked his rifle over before trusting it. As he rolled onto his stomach, Dani returned from her dropoff to lay beside him with her own rifle.

"Sherie says that launcher's screws had been loosened. Idiots were trying to cripple the user."

Tyler pulled his bolt back as he sighed.

"A simple trick, and far too easily missed."

"I brought one she approved up to replace it."

"I don't have the arm strength right now to use it right. I'll plink for now. He the only idiot?"

He spotted another mortar team and blew their rounds up. The forest was starting to burn rather hotly now, as all the tanks, and extra hands were lobbing incendiary grenades and rounds over the walls, and turning the lush green jungle into a flaming death trap. Dani was smiling as the smell of burning wood and flesh reached them as the black smoke rose into the sky.

"Thus far. We're doing a uniform inspection as we speak."

Tyler spotted a guy crawling towards the wall, and hit him in the back with a armour piercing round. He had a bomb vest on and it went, taking with him a good ten others in the blast.

"Shiro say what's wrong with Yoko?"

"She's been given food and drink laced with the local berries. Things kill, but you need to eat them continuously."

"A long term plan to weaken the leadership for the kill."

"Fuji said the same thing. Shiro gave her a draft of our prune juice and IV's to start flushing her system."

"Good. She say how long till she's up and running?"

"At her current rate, two days."

Tyler whistled as he a tank round hit something in the trees, resulting in a massive explosion that shook the tower, and sent up a cloud of napalm.

"Damn. Wanna see what the hell they had planned there. Yoko a quick healer?"

"I guess so. The other Maidens all said she's always been a very strong girl."

"Kinda eager to see it meself."

Dani laughed as she threw her empty mag aside to reload.

"Lookin to fuck her, too?"

"Like I told Seiki, she's hot and I'm a straight guy. So, yeah. More curious what kinda girl she is when not a vegetable."

Tyler tossed his own empty back and put a fresh on in. He threw the bolt and aimed as a boy stood with a remote in his hand, only to get a round in the face.

"Heads up, detonator sighted. No clue what its rigged to."

"It's not the wall, thing's stick proof."

"Have a bomb squad do a sweep."

"On it Hawk."

"Why Hawk? Seriously, they coulda called me anything, and they chose Hawk?"

Dani snorted as she got a double kill off an idiot holding a grenade.

"Tyler the Hawk. Got an oddly satisfying ring to it."

"Captain Tyler the Hawk."

"Okay. I see your point now."

"Yeah. My name sucks for good sounding titles."

That got a grunt of sympathy as Dani focused on a rather distant glint in the distance. She fired and the glint vanished as a round clipped off the wall just under them. Tyler looked to the spot she'd fired at, and saw a now third-eye sporting body behind a large rifle.

"Ya know, I think I know what my next gun will be."

Tyler pulled the bolt to load the next bullet. He sighted in on a sniper in a tree as Dani now became curious.

"What's got your fancy now?"

"Barret Fifty cal."

He fired and it took the shooter out of the tree and he landed on two of his buddies.

"A classic. I've been meaning to get one myself, but never got around to it."

HE smiled as he rechambered and took out a girl with a rocket launcher.

"Now that I think of it. I don't really have an SMG either."

"You do seem to prefer the long range style."

"Much as I love firing the big guns, getting in their teeth is fun too. Though we haven't really had a close quarters shit fight yet."

Dani chuckled as she blew a boy away with her Dragonov with a shot to the chest.

"We will sooner or later. Watch, in the winter, we set up trenches with the snow and they have to fight us in them."

"Yeeesh. A Russian in the trenches in winter. A most terrifying force to face an no mistake!"

"Aww, you sure know how to flatter a girl!"

"Eh, only the hot ones."

That got a comms wide awww, as the girls of his squad glowed a little.

"Wow, Tyler. That was kinda smooth."

"Teehee, he thinks I'm hot!"

"Hmph, I see he IS seeing my greatness at last."

"I love you too."

"He really does have a way with the ladies."

"Still ruining my panties, but thanks!"

"He is rather smooth ain't he?"

Tyler was laughing as he sighted an odd sight.

"Hey, Miss, toss me that spotter scope please. Thank you."

He put the thing up to get a better view.

"What the hell are you doing down there?"

A boy was pushing a long tube up out of a small crater towards the wall, and every time it seemed to run out, he added another piece. Tyler groaned as it clicked.

"Get fire on that crater! 1 o clock low! Idiots brought Megalows!"

Maria was closet to the boy with the anti-fortification charge, and threw a grenade into the hole. The boy screamed as it blew and set the long pipe charge off, making a two foot trench to the bottom of the wall. Tyler sighed.

"watch that. We lose that wall we're fucked."

Dani loaded another mag into her rifle when she noticed something.

"It me, or there a lot less now?"

Tyler looked at her before getting up and taking the spotter scope to get a better view of the battle. HE looked at the returning fire, and saw it too.

"Yeah. The hell? All units, pick your shots. Switch to marksmanship over volume."

The defenders all swapped to semis and bolts as they picked their targets more carefully, and it became very apparent the return fire had dropped significantly. The fires were still burning, and had left a solid hundred meters of the jungle a blackened death field with dead trees, no grass and scorched earth. The attackers now had to cross a barren no-mans-land to get to the wall, and seemed to have fallen back, leaving the odd shooter to keep the defenders anxious. As he watched, a loud whirring was heard as a large C130 Hercules transport jet fly by dumping a payload of flame neutralizers across the jungle. Smothering the flames before heading off to both rearm and return. The flames sent up a massive steam cloud from the drop, and Tyler sighed.

"Switch to thermal optics."

Tyler flipped the integrated sight, and saw a group of troops trying to use the blinding cloud cover to advance across the field.

"Not today idiots."

He and Dany fired into the cloud, dropping three, as Tyler's target had another walk behind tim at the wrong moment.

"Thermals ready."

"See em?"

"Clearly."

"Drop em."

A series of bangs and barks were heard, as the defenders dropped the attempted sneak attack. Then a horn was heard over the battlefield.

"That a retreat?"

Dani sighed.

"A tactical one. They're not done yet."

"All units, set up a round the clock rotation. That wall is to be manned at all times. Get the seriously wounded to surgery, and rearm. Demons, meeting in the war room."

And so it went, the defenders let their stiff fingers relax, and went to their tasks tiredly. Tyler went right to the War room and started looking over the Tac maps. Five minutes later the others, except for Yuki, who was still snuggling Seiki, and Llyia, who was bed ridden, all joined him in the room. Fuji looked as he started marking X's on spots between the new forest line and the wall.

"Mines?"

HE smiled darkly.

"And other such tricks. How's morale?"

The Major rubbed her head.

"Low. The Maidens are exhausted, while our own troops are still fresh."

"Okay. I need to rest as well with Maria."

The brown haired girl smiled.

"You sure you have the energy for me?"

"If I can't muster the energy to make a girl scream, then I'd HAVE to be dead."

That got a laugh from the girls.

"Typical horndog boy."

Tyler looked at the map.

"Okay, now we get evil. Mines, foot holds, whippy branches, the works."

Sherie tilted her pig tailed head.

"Whippy branches?"

"Pull a branch back and rig it to a tripwire, idiot steps on it, gets a nasty gut shot."

She giggled.

"Or if you aim lower…."

"Sherie."

She looked at his now concerned voice.

"Yeah?"

HE gulped.

"If I've ever done anything to piss you off, I'm sorry."

She smiled wickedly now.

"Oh, you ARE going to make it up to me now."

"By doing things for you or to you?"

"Yes."

"Yikes."

She licked her lips as the rest of the room lost it. He sighed.

"Well, I got Maria tonight, and I'll say goodbye to my ability to walk tomorrow."

"Ohhh, so will I."

"Okay. My gun hurts now."

HE shook his head to clear it as a Shrine Maiden came in with a clipboard.

"Wounded and dead sir."

"Thank you. Shells?"

"Still counting."

"How it looking at the moment?"

She sighed now.

"We're running low across the board."

"Okay. Then we need a decisive victory and we need it soon. I'll think on it."

She left as he looked at the numbers.

"Okay. They had a thousand students before the lead rain. Now they're down to 450 that can still fight. Rest are either dead or wounded. We lost 25 of our own. Mostly due to random headshots. Okay, we got 600 fighters left."

He sighed and looked at the map.

"We don't have access to a satellite feed. Would we?"

Fuji smirked.

"No. we use recon drones to scout with."

"Oh. I'm pretty good with a remote control plane."

"We'll have a drone up in five minutes."

"We need a look at their camp. Badly. This point we're looking at either a head on assault, or the demons rest hard, before going dark to raise hell again."

Maria was rubbing her forearm.

"We're all a little achy, but good."

"Drones up. Remote's yours."

Tyler got the black controller as the feed was played on a large white screen with the footage being recorded on a laptop. Tyler had the controls figured out quickly and had the thing zipping along as it came upon the enemy camp. The ladies gasped in shock as they saw the results of his rampage earlier. As hundreds of bodies were covered in sheets, trucks were still burning, the hospital tents were gone as he'd ruined their medical supplies, a few survivors of his wrath were bearing his artwork, and a boy was walking down the line shooting each of the ruined students in the head to put them out of their misery, they were eating ration bars as he'd also ruined their foodstuffs as well. The girls all looked at him, a little fearfully now, as they saw the thing he kept locked inside him. He didn't notice as he was focusing on the task at hand. The numbers of active enemy troops was drastically reduced, and it seemed the number was in the neighborhood of 350 left that could still fight. The rest went dead or dying. The enemy force had gone from 2500 to 350. And yet were still going to keep fighting. Tyler sighed as he piloted the small plane over the camp.

"These idiots. We outnumber them now. So, why aren't they retreating?"

Fuji walked up to get a better look at the screen.

"See if you can find a command element."

"On it."

Tyler had the plane do a sweeping pass over the perimeter of the camp with the camera before crisscrossing the camp until he found the now outdoor table. There were five boys with black jackets standing around a table looking at maps. Tyler smiled as he flipped the plane into an extreme climb, before having it dive straight down to give the ladies a perfect shot of their maps and other intel before pulling up to keep up the sweep. Dani whistled.

"Damn dude. Nice one."

Tyler chuckled as he did it two more times.

"I had one of these myself once. Hell, I BUILT one for fun. Sometimes I'd throw it out my window and hook it to a screen and fly it around town. Just seeing what was what. I got maybe two hours flight out of it per go, so it filled a lot of days I got left behind for whatever reason. Would get fun when they'd try to shoot it down, and fail every time."

The girls watched as he preformed another three passes over the camp before flying the plane back to the Shrine. Fuji was already looking over the footage of the table.

"That was spectacular piloting. It seems they CAN'T retreat, as according to the paper on the table, their alliance is struggling to get by. Seems like only four schools are apart of it."

Tyler had a copy of the footage to look over himself. He was amazed by the clarity of the picture.

"Hey, question, but the hell kinda cameras are on that thing?"

"Ultra-high def 4k cameras with a 160 frame record speed."

"Okay, that's freakin hardcore. So, according to this one, it seems that the Alliance is crumbling. Why the hell are they walking around with such sensitive information? And why leave it in the friggin open like this?"

Fuji crossed her arms.

"That plane is a silent flyer, like it makes less nose then a butterfly. Yet the shadow should of given it away."

"Not the way I was flying it. Most they'd have though was a bird was passing overhead. What's worrying me is the way they have their secrets out like that. Seriously, it's not hard to make a simple lean-to."

Fuji rewinded the footage to see if the plane got spotted on it's way in.

"Hey, look here."

They looked to see a girl point at the plane and run to the place the table was. Tyler smiled.

"Oh so THAT'S the play. Idiots are clever. They used documents with either real facts to bait us in, fake facts to the same with the added backup of if we win we got bad intel, or are trying to manipulate us into a bad defense."

Fuji looked at the maps and attack plans.

"It looks like from these they're plotting to use smokes to blind us."

"And we'd use our thermals to counter them. Yet, if they then throw flash grenades or something similar, we're blinded."

Tyler looked at the clock. 6:34 pm.

"We're looking at a night battle. Great."

They nodded.

"It fits the plan."

"Okay. We'll get fed, laid, and rest for a while before the lead starts back up."

That got a round of smiles as he took a now blushing Maria's hand.

"WE can eat in bed. AFTER we get our rocks off."

She smiled as Fuji tossed him a key.

"Head down that hall and it's the third door from the back left."

He smiled as they headed off. They found the room easily enough and went inside. The room was medium sized with a futon laid out on the mats. Tyler locked the door as Maria looked at the bed. She gulped as he hugged her from behind.

"You okay?"

She was breathing hard as she looked at him.

"Just nervous. I've never done it before. Everyone else never wanted to look at me, and now you want me? A little nerve racking."

HE held her as she looked at it again.

"Do you still want to?"

She took a deep breath, strengthening her nerves.

"I do. Just nerves."

"We go at your pace."

She nodded as she undid her hair and let the black lockes flow free as she laid her weapons down and unhooked her ammo belt. Tyler having set his own gear by the bed in easy reach as Maria gulped again, just from sheer nerves.

"I….want you to go first."

He nodded and stripped for her. Her green eyes wide as she saw the gun he had for her standing to attention.

"That's because of me?"

HE smiled at the timid soul.

"Because of you. Just FOR you."

She shivered now, and seemed to make a decision. She then started removing her own clothes, with little gasps and grunts as she did so. She stripped to her panties, as he'd seen her in them already, and hesitated with her fingers in the waist band. She looked at him, as if expecting him to change his mind or rebuke her. Instead he was smiling at her as he drank in her body with a clearly admiring gaze, and it made her shiver again. Then she dropped her panties and kicked them away to stand there naked and trembling as she let him see her. His gaze was drifting over her body as if he couldn't get enough of her, and got a most….longing look as he looked at her treat. She was so nervous as she looked at him.

"You…still want me?"

HE smiled at her.

"I do. It kinda hurts now."

She gasped a little at this admission. Then she walked over to stand in front of him and tentatively reach for his hand. Only he reached to take it himself. Her green eyes went wide and she looked up at him.

"Yes, Maria. This is happening. I want you. I want to LOVE you."

She looked down at him and blinked.

"Okay. Just, don't force it in."

"Okay."

She laid on the futon and he followed after her. She looked up into his eagerly smiling eyes as it pressed against her spot. HE took her hands in his and she nodded.

"Do it."

HE slid into her soft folds slowly, as she moaned hard at the penetration, loving the stretching and filling feeling as he entered her treat. Once he was fully inside her she had a tear fall from her eye.

"I love you."

He leaned in to kiss her.

"I love you too."

She kissed him back as her heart sang from having the words said to her, and them be meant. She had never known love, as her family simply used her as a means to absorb their own venom and bile. If she seemed happy or proud of something, they would go out of their way to ruin it as much as possible. As one time she'd drawn a picture her teacher said was good, and her mother and father then spent the next four hours criticizing it to the point she had burst into tears. She'd been raised being told no one would want to love her, touch her, or fuck her. Now she had found one that was all too eager to do all three. So, she was eager to give it back. As he pulled back, she bucked her hips a little.

"Go slow, I wanna enjoy it!"

HE laughed and leaned in to latch onto her bust, and she moaned hard. Then he looked into her eyes and grinned.

"Let's get you screaming!"

He had her screaming alright, for as he started moving, she bucked as well, loving the feelings her fullness was giving her. She rolled over and found him giving it to her from behind as he set his fingers to her still-full grove, and she felt her first orgasm tear itself out of her body as she felt her insides get creamed. Maria was a more timid lover then Sherie or Llyia, but no less eager. Her cries were more passionate and her skin both softer and warmer. Plus he was loving her just the way she'd always fantasized: Kind, gentle, warmly, with a longing to make her lose her mind. When they finished, she laid on the bed with a happy smile as she gazed into Tyler smiling face.

"We did it."

HE kissed her softly, and hugged her.

"We did. I loved you."

She looked down at her creamed grove.

"I guess, I'll get pregnant now."

"You can't. My family had me poisoned so I can't."

She looked up horrified.

"Does Lylia know?"

"Most likely she does. Willing to bet they did the same to her."

Maria pressed her head into his scarred chest.

"They took even that from you."

"There's ways to make it happen if we want it. Just a question of IF we DO."

Maria kissed him again.

"I get it. Though, I guess it works out for us."

He smiled as he rolled onto his back.

"I guess."

Maria rested her head on his chest.

"So, would you have me again?"

"Oh hell yeah."

No hesitation, and nearly instantaneous with it as well. Maria lifted her head to look into his eyes.

"You….would? Really?"

"I'd take you again right now, but I need to reload."

She smiled such a happy, proud smile as she laid back down.

"I'll look forward to it."

"AND I'll just ruin the panties you're wearing at the time in the meantime."

"Eep!"

"STILL cute."

"Damn you, and your ability to nearly give me a heart attack!"

"Love you too."

"Eep! I love you too, but I hate you right now."

She sighed as she settled down and closed her eyes.

"See you when we wake up."

"Good night, Maria."