A Couple's Date in Terra (IC)

Even if he was wounded after the on the edge combat with the mutated lion and tiger, even if his shirt was most likely all shreds by now, and he was most likely bleeding, Alexander wasn't going to stop at all. Haruna was there... and she... she needed his help.

Taking a deep breath, Alexander calmed himself down, concentrating on feeling the sword in his right hand... ignoring the pain of his many scratches and cuts... and from where the thorns were piercing his arm.... he had to do this... and he had to do this now.

Focusing, Alexander made the black-red blade of Mosrael be engulfed in flames, another proof of the excellent matter and space transformation technology of the Ancients... or magic, as some called it, even if it was a technology, perfectly explicable from a scientific point of view, although millions of years more advanced than anything the humans had.

Rushing forward, Alexander parried the attack of the first corpse.. barely managing to avoid the attack of the second, and slashing his sword, cutting the third one in two just in time. The fourth though managed to stab the Colonial in the left arm with a knife, but Alexander's quick reflexes responded, the corpse ending up without a head a few moments later. Turning around, the black haired man barely managed to parry the attacks of the other two, using the knife that had just recently pierced his left arm by throwing it and the first, using this to his advantage to pierce the second one's chest, and cutting the first just enough to make him burn... a few minutes later, four burning dead bodies were on the ground, next to a heavy breathing Alexander.

Rushing forward, Alexander violently pierced one of the corpses that were trying to climb the cross, using him as a shield against the other one, pushing him away, and using his sword for a straight pierce through its head.. leaving two bodies dead on the sandy ground of the arena.

With all the others dead, Alexander stopped the flames around the blade, using the still hot sword to easily cut off the chains holding Haruna, dropping the sword and catching her as she fell off the cross, unprepared.
"Are you alright? Did they do anything to you?", Alexander asked, worried. But it seemed that they didn't have too much time to talk... as the gray cloaked figures were slowly but surely approaching, as if they had appeared from nowhere.

As Haruna charged at one of the grey cloaked Invaders, Alexander took a deep breath, once again, allowing Mosrael to take control a little more. Thinking about it... the Invaders and the Ancient Swords seemed to work in a pretty similar way, didn't they? Especially while trying to take control of minds... but for some reason, right now, the demon didn't seem to be that malevolent. Under normal circumstances, he would have found it difficult to keep control, keeping Mosrael away, but the sword almost seemed to want to help him... this was something he really have to talk with her about later.

Concentrating on using his feelings of anger, turning the anger to fire, as Mosrael used to say, Alexander once again set his blade on fire, as the thorns on the vines that were wrapped around his arm pierced even deeper, the sword absorbing more and more blood. The Colonial felt the energy surging in... red appearing in his usual black irises, and he rushed froward, parrying the chain attack of the Invader in front of him. Chains appeared from the sandy ground, Alexander jumping over them, landing next to the Invader, who used his pistol to fire at the Colonial. Slashing his sword, Alexander repelled two of the bullets, but the third one hit him in the shoulder.

Ignoring the pain, as blood started to flow out of his wounded left shoulder, Alexander once again rushed forward, before more chains appeared around him, the Invader smirking... but reacting faster than a normal human could usually react, Alexander gripped Mosrael's handle with both of his hands,cutting all the chains in one slash. Before the Invader was even able to react, the black haired Colonial was in front of him, the grey cloaked figure barely managed to fire two more bullets, one of them grazing his cheek, before Alexander's sword cut in two not only the pistol, but also the Invader's hand.

Punching the Invader with his left hand in the face, Alexander pushed him back, forcing him to unsheathe his strange sword, but it was already too late. Alexander rolled to the side, and the Invader's sword hit the dirt, before the black-red blade of Mosrael pierced him from the side. Screaming in an almost unearthly way, the creature fell to the ground, before Alexander took his sword out, cutting its head off this time. The Invader fell dead on the ground of the arena.

Panting,Alexander slammed his sword into the dirt, perching on it a little as he tried to take deep breaths in order to calm himself down. Smiling, he looked at Haruna, as she had also killed her enemy. This seemed to have finished... or not. One of the two figures that were wearing white robes, who had watched everything from the lodge, took its hood down, revealing the partially angry expression of an old acquaintance, Mu. The Invader girl seemed to want to say something, before she turned around and strangely seemed to speak with the other figure, although it wasn't saying anything, the only voice heard being Mu's.

"I know Prior... but why can't I fight them? I know that I am only a Hecatontarch. But... you want to to fight them? Your wish is my command, Prior.", Mu said, bowing. The figure that was called a Prior suddenly made a motion with his right hand, and white chains appeared around Haruna, attacking her, before the cloaked figure jumped in the Arena, Mu remaining in the lodge. Rushing towards Haruna, the figure made something that looked like a long, white halberd appear in his hands, as he attacked..

Angered. the Colonial rushed forward, parrying the chains that appeared from the ground to hold him, and before the white robed figure could react, the Colonial slashed his sword at him, only to be parried by the figure's long halberd. The violent fight continued, Alexander trying to push forward, but being in a clear disadvantage. Not only did the figure seemed to be incredibly fast, moving around with that long halberd as if it was nothing, but Alexander also had to continuously avoid the chains that seemed to appear from everywhere. Even so, desperate, Alexander was fighting, trying to push the figure away from the chained Haruna- he wasn't going to allow that bastard to hurt her anymore.

As Haruna was laying chained on the dusty ground of the arena, probably in pain, she could suddenly see someone looking at her from above. More specifically, a certain red eyed girl, with her long, red hair caught in twintails. Mosrael.
"Well, well, it seems that you are quite in the middle of a difficult situation, aren't you?", the red haired demon asked, smirking. "Wouldn't it be so nice if someone would be able to help you?... Oh wait, I can." Giggling, the girl touched the chains, and in a couple of chains, the chains burned down, disappearing, leaving Haruna free. But... it was too late, as a laughter was heard from the other part of the arena.

Turning around to parry a chain, Alexander made the mistake of leaving himself open for the fraction of a second- enough for the white cloaked figure to take advantage of it. Before the black eyed Colonial was even able to react, the figure slashed his halberd at the Colonial.. Alexander stopped. Unable to fully understand what was happening, he dropped his sword, and touched the rather large wound that had formed on his chest, blood staining his hand. A couple moments later, without even being able to say anything, the Colonial fell on the ground in a pool of blood.

The figure simply laughed, and snapped its fingers. Suddenly, the energy field around the Colosseum broke in a bright explosion of light, and when Haruna and Mosrael were finally able to open their eyes again, the figure and Mu had disappeared... but Alexander was still wounded, on the ground...

Slowly, Alexander woke up, feeling Haruna as she was hugging him, and hearing her last words... for a few moments, the black haired Colonial remained quiet, remembering the pain he had felt when the Invader slashed at him with the halberd... for a few moments, he really thought that he was going to die. But it seemed... that the time for him to die hadn't come yet. None of the vital organs had been destroyed... so the curse, or the blessing, known as the Genesis Genome, started to regenerate the damaged cells... healing his wound.

"Let's never do something as stupid as fighting in the Colosseum again... alright?", Alexander said in a low voice, as he slowly hugged Haruna back.

Alexander smiled. Even if they ended up fighting Invaders and got wounded in the very end, that still didn't change the fact that their unfortunately maybe a little too short holiday on Terra, was extremely nice and relaxing. But yeah, unfortunately, their break was coming to an end. Apparently, rumors said that a meeting between various intergalactic leaders was going to be held, in order to discuss the current situation of the civilized nations in this part of the universe, threatened by the Invaders. There was also no wonder that the meeting was probably also going to discuss the tense situation in the Milky Way. And even if he had no wish to go to that meeting, Alexander was sure that the Hegemon, or Cardinal, or both were going to "force" him to go. And most likely, Haruna was going to also go there with the delegation of the Star Fleet. That's why, they soon had to leave Earth...

"You're welcome.", the Colonial said smiling."Don't worry about it, as long as this made you happy, it made me happy too.". Alexander then remained quiet for a few moments, simply enjoying the relaxing feeling of being near the girl he loved. "Let's come to Earth again sometime... okay?"

"Yeah, at least that.", Alexander said, smiling. The Prinz Eugen had come to take them from Earth, the Colonial battleship being docked into one of Earth's orbital towers. Right now, the couple was in a transport running off Earth's orbital ring, taking them from the tower above Area 5, to the tower above Area 1, the main dock hub of Terra. The transport was moving pretty fast, so they soon reached the tower. But strangely enough, there were soldiers waiting for them at the station.

As the transport stopped into the station, seeing the soldiers, Alexander instinctively touched his pistol, even if the soldiers were Colonial... before he saw who commanded them, and calmed down. The Colonial helped Haruna out of the transport as soon as the doors opened, and then, a voice could be heard.

"Well, well, you go on a date on Earth, and you didn't tell me that you came here with your girlfriend? What kind of a friend are you, Alexander?", a man said, as he stepped forward from behind the soldiers. A rather tall man, who seemed to be around 30 years old, although his hair was already gray. He was wearing a more casual light blue uniform, and seemed to have a rather high position, judging by the number of bodyguards/soldiers. What was the strangest about him were the black sunglasses he was wearing, even if they were inside an orbital tower, far away from any natural light.

Seeing him, Alexander smiled, approaching the man and shaking his hand. The Colonial then looked at Haruna. "Haruna, this is Gustav Nachtigal, the Temporary Colonial Governor of Earth, and also, an old friend of mine."

The grey haired mine smiled, looking in the general direction of Haruna. "Nice to meet you, Miss Shimazaki. Alexander here must be a lucky guy, I've heard stories about your beauty, but unfortunately, I can't check it myself". By the way he was speaking and acting... those black glasses weren't there against the sun. He was blind.

"I would like to apologize for what happened in Rome. I don't know how those Invaders got through, we're still investigating, but I would like to apologize in the name of the entire Colonial forces on Earth.", Governor Nachtigal said, bowing.