So I was just going through my email and I saw a review that I had been given for Son of SOLDIER anyway I saw that I was being asked to update also to you who asked me to. Is your Pen name a tribute to Final Fantasy Type Zero just asking as Judgement of the Arbiter does somewhat remind me of what Cid became in it. Any after I read it I thought darn I haven't updated it since the end of April and was well what the heck so here you go I hope you enjoy ;)

"What are you saying? Are you trying to tell me you have feelings too? You are just a puppet... You have no heart... and cannot feel any pain... How can there be any meaning in the memory of such a being? What I have shown you is reality. What you remember, that is the illusion." -Sephiroth to Cloud after Aerith is killed

Tatsumi awoke upon his bed in the Nightraid headquarters. "I have slept for approximately four hours and thirteen minutes" he noted. Tatsumi went and dressed in his casual gear "right now the Prime minister will be demanding that the palace and capital be searched to find me or my spies. He will find none." After strapping his gloves on he headed out of the room. "Right now Lubbock will begin to inform Najenda and the others of what has happened. They will ask me if I know anything or if I was involved." Tatsumi train of though saw several different paths that forked outwards. "Should I lie and deny my involvement though this might help me in the long run I will be compromising my standards which is unacceptable. The second option is to tell them the truth and explain everything to them though they will not all understand." Tatsumi's glowing blue eyes narrowed in concentration. "While I do not owe Nightraid anything I do not have anything against them either. Sure they are assassins and that is distasteful in itself but in a country like the empire change will never happen unless someone takes action." Tatsumi was not justifying what they did nor was he justifying what he did for them, there was no justification for such acts. All the brown haired youth was thinking was whether he should tell them or not.

Tatsumi by nature was a cautious individual, he preferred to hold his cards to his chest not too close to it but not top far away either. He was one who preferred to obtain the right distance for all things such as his relationship with his fellow members of Nightraid. In his mind Nightraid was dysfunctional family of misfits, unlike most of them he was not too close to any of them always maintaining the right distance for each one of them. And for every member the right amount of distance varied. With Najenda it was as a subordinate to a commanding officer few words were exchanged and the ones that are exchanged were the ones that were necessary. For Leone it was simply ignoring her antics and teasing while usually engaging in conversation every now and again but mainly letting Leone do all of the talking, Tatsumi never did like talking and usually preferred silence. So Tatsumi was able to maintain the right distance with all the members of Nightraid to be useful and able to get along with but not one who people would miss that much on a personal level. The problem was that the rest of Nightraid did not understand this and continuously tried to get to know him better, much to Tatsumi's irritation.

"Hey Tatsumi" Leone greeted him as he was walking to one of the training chambers. "Did you hear the capital is on high alert apparently someone was able to sneak into the palace and steal all of the Prime ministers food." Leone said with a giggle. "Serve that fat bastard right in my mind, though I have no idea why they didn't try to poison him, now he is going to have everything tested before he stuffs himself." she added.

"What makes you think they haven't already tried?" Tatsumi asked giving her a look as to ask why she was making presumptions. In that moment he had made his decision.

"Oh" Leone stated. "looks like you know something about it" she said putting he arm around Tatsumi in a playful headlock. "Come on be a good boy tell nee-san already" Leone asked.

"I was the one responsible" Tatsumi answered. "Not only did I steal the Prime minister's food, I had the heads of the three beasts delivered to General Esdeath and forced the Prime minister to go on a rampage where in the end he needed to be physically restrained while getting my hands on information on the whereabouts and details of the other Teigu users that General Esdeath was calling in." Tatsumi explained with his calm usually expressionless face.

Leone whistled. "Wow you speak as if you were there in person." she stated. But you were here with us so how did you know?" she asked. "I only know about it because I have just come back from the capital."

While Leone was staring at Tatsumi expectantly she thought she saw the shadow of a smile play across his face. "I was there per say though I was also here" he informed her.

"What do you mean?" Leone asked until he remembered on what he had told her about the creatures he had altered. "Wait you got a danger beast inside the palace to do tat for you" she said incredulously.

"Well yes" Tatsumi replied with the what did you think deadpan on his face. "I have already told you that I can control the beings that hold my cells." Tatsumi explained. "I though you would know how I can control them even if I am not present" Tatsumi stated. As usual his features remained stoic and calm never once giving any traces of emotion.

"Well I don't understand why you didn't tell any of us this" Leone said pouting. "I mean come on aren't we on the same side?" she asked. "You can trust us."

"I thought that is what Akame said is the first mistake an assassin can make" Tatsumi countered. "I will not justify my actions to you though I have already explained my reasoning to Najenda" h stated. "Though I will say that it is not because tht I don't trust you but it is because you have bigger concerns than what precautions I am making when the revolution succeeds." With that Tatsumi walked off leaving Leone alone.

"What does he mean by 'when the revolution succeeds?'" Leone asked herself. "Isn't that a good thing that we have all been striving for?"

Further down the Corridor Tatsumi picked up what she said. "Idiot" he mentally chastised her. "You have no idea that you will be hung out to dry once all of this is over, in fact all of Nightraid will unless I am successful." He quickened his pace. Najenda had left a few hours earlier in the day and had place Akame temporarily in charge of Nightraid. "They will have Nightraid take the fall once they win so that they can maintain the public support or gain it." Tatsumi reasoned with his understanding of the human mind it was not a surprise that the revolutionary army would do something like that. "The only one who would get off the hook would be Najenda and that is because she has rarely got her hands dirty" Tatsumi noted darkly. "My bad hand, She has rarely gotten her hand dirt" he corrected himself remembering that Najenda had only one arm. The other was a metallic contraption that resembled an arm. Tatsumi narrowed his eyes again remembering what he had heard Najenda say to herself. "Things definitely will get more difficult." he thought. "Whatever no matter what happens I must protect my honour" Tatsumi said to himself briefly reaching over his shoulder with his right hand to touch his buster style sword. "If I do that then I can live without regret." Tatsumi looked at the exit to the base "I think I'll need some fresh air to see things" he said to himself. "Best go see the results of my handiwork after all."

General Esdeath the Empire's Strongest stood over three graves. The had managed to find the corpses of the three beasts and she had ordered for them to be buried accordingly. Looking at her one could not tell if she was feeling anything akin to sorrow as she spoke. "River, Nyua, Daidara" he addressed them in an emotionless tone. "You guys lost" she stated before she paused. "Which could only mean that you were just too weak" she finished. Esdeath kneeled on one knee and touched River's gravestone with her hand. "It is only natural that the weak be eliminated" she explained to their graves. "My weak subordinates." As before Esdeath said this with no traces of emotion "You were so weak" She began "That I'll have to take vengeance in your stead" she stated. With this said the Empire's strongest got up and walked away.

In the background Prime Minister Honest was waiting. Out of the six you asked for the four ones who are alive have come" he stated. "They all seem to have low status even though they are capable, but they all have some form of strange personality quirks" he explained. "You have my apologies on this if it is an inconvenience" Honest stated. Putting down the clipboard he was reviewing.

"No its fine" Esdeath replied. "Though I do wonder" she said with a smile "Should I have some fun with them?"

"I really hop you don't" Honest thought. "Teigu and Teigu users who are compatible with them are very hard to come by." The Prime Minister did not want to lose any more forces after all he also was very clever and that meant that he wanted all Teigu users loyal to the Empire alive so that they may take down the revolutionary army.

Tatsumi at this moment was observing on of the said Teigu users. "His name is Wave" Tatsumi remembered regarding the black haired and blue eyed boy. "He is the user of the Grand Chariot Teigu which was based off Icursio. The grand Chariot though while is formidable does not have the ever evolving trait that the Incursio has. However it makes him j physically stronger than usual though his skill in swordsmanship is not to be taken lightly. The Grand Chariot is also said to have enable its users to fly." Tatsumi had chosen his ambush place well. They were still outside the capital and the route used was not one that had many caravans on it. Leaping from behind he walked towards the capital.

To Wave's credit he leapt forward while turning around holding the Grand Chariot in its sword form at the ready. "Who are you?" he asked. Tatsumi did not answer instead attacked him with one of his broadswords forcing wave to block his strike. To Wave's surprise he was sent flying back into the cliff, pulling himself out he saw his assailant advancing on him. Barely able to push himself to his feet and move Wave barely avoided being impaled. "This guys good" he said to himself. "I have no choice but to use this" he said referencing his teigu.

Tatsumi saw Wave activating his teigu. "Well at least I get to see it in action" he thought.

"Your good" Wave stated. "But this ends here" he shouted. "Time for you to witness the my Teigu the Grand Chariot."

"Why do people talk about their Teigu's before they use them?" Tatsumi thought. As he watched the armour envelope Wave. While similar to Icursio it sported some major differences. The first was that it was black. The second was that it had two floating pieces of metal on each arm. The third was that it lacked the cape that Incursio had.

Wave wasted no time charging at him. "Lets see how you handle my Grand Descent" Wave shouted leaping up high in the air courtesy of the Grand Chariots flying capabilities. Wave then descended at a fast pace performing a drop kick. He made contact sending a massive shock wave through the area. "What?" Wave asked as he realised something as wrong. He was still in the air. More disturbing was that when the dust had settled he saw that his opponent had blocked his kick with just one hand. Wave tried to break away but Tatsumi pulled him in and delivered a strong punch to the gut. Even though he was armoured in the grand chariot Wave felt the blow as if it wasn't lessoned by the armour he wore. He then grunted in pain as he was slammed unceremoniously onto the ground. He expected it to end there but he did not see the figure make any attempt to finish him off.

Instead Tatsumi looked down at his opponent and said "Your Teigu I require use of it" he stated.

"Yeah and what makes you think I'm going to just-" Wave was cut off as Tatsumi stamped down on the marines leg. To Waves horror and surprise he saw the Grand Chariot giving way to his opponents blow.

"Do not presume that you are in a position to bargain or argue" Tatsumi stated. "I require it for something you will either give it to me or you will die." he explained. "Either way I will take it."

"Now you're the one presuming-" One again Wave was interrupted by Tatsumi this time he was backhanded as he attempted to rise.

"The Grand Chariot is not the Incursio. It cannot evolve the strength it possess while considerable can go no further. While you are formidable to any opponent even a fellow Teigu user I am neither." Tatsumi explained.

"What are you after.?" Wave asked barely able to keep concious through the pain.

Tatsumi looked at him through his visor that concealed his face thoughtfully and then said. "How about world domination?" he asked.

"That is not even funny" Wave said coughing up blood. "It seems that blow he gave me was more deadly than I believed" he thought.

"Then what about revenge?" Tatsumi asked him again. His tone passionless and disinterested though the last part was polite.

"What the hell man revenge for what?" Wave snarled. Before Tatsumi delivered a kick to his stomach.

"What indeed. Look around the capital is a leech sucking the life out of the empire villages live in poverty due to their taxes the wealthy enjoy. Those who stand up are struck down or labelled as traitors and criminals" Tatsumi informed him before adding pressure onto Wave's torso. They could both hear the creaking as the Grand Chariot started to give way. "But it is no them who I hat the most" Tatsumi stated. "No they know what they are doing." The cyclopean Visor turned downwards at Wave looking him directly in the eye transfixing him. "No it is not the wealthy ones who look down on everyone else that I hate the most, It is the ones who serve them." he stated. "The ones like yourself who have never experienced the pain and suffering or who turned a blind eye or just don't care in general I loather your kind the most. I can't stand such people"

"What are you?" Wave stammered he was no coward but the moment he stared into that glowing visor he began to feel fear creep up inside of him.

Tatsumi looked at him for a moment before answering "I am a monster" he stated bluntly and matter-of-factly.

"What how I mean you stated that you weren't a Teigu user but how are you a monster, are you some sort of danger beast?" Wave asked before he was backhanded again.

"You have such a limited sense of imagination and reasoning" Tatsumi stated. "The world does not have a particular way it works. That is just human conceit." he informed wave. "But perhaps a demonstration is in order."

Wave looked on in awe as two pure white wings sprouted from his assailant's left side. "Those aren't the wings of a monster" he murmured.

"Then what are they?" Tatsumi asked. "What wings do they look like?"

Waves eyes widened in surprise at the fact that he had been heard. "The wings of an Angel" he finally answered.

"Are you sure?" Tatsumi asked. "Then whats should and Angel fight for Wave of the Empire?" Tatsumi asked his voice rising with anger. "What should Angels dream of" he demanded. Then Tatsumi picked up Wave by the throat. "Angels dream of one thing." he stated. "That is to be human" Then he delivered a punch to Waves stomach knocking him out and forcibly deactivating the Grand Chariot. "Your heart is in the right place" he said to the unconscious Wave. "But you work for those who cause suffering. And my enemy is all that causes suffering." Tatsumi stated. Then he took the Grand Chariot off of Wave. As he was about to leave he felt as gust of wind blow from behind him. Closing his eyes Tatsumi said. "Alright you win" Then Tatsumi turned around to where he had left Wave broken and bloody. "I'll take him somewhere he can recover." Tatsumi said addressing some invisible spectator. Then Tatsumi's wing dispersed leaving his white feathers scattered all over the ground. Tatsumi then went and picked up Wave's body and walked off.

Wave opened his eyes and was greeted by a world of pain. "What happened?" he asked. It appeared that he was in some sort of basement area given the stone walls and the rooms temperature.

"You are currently in on of the Revolution army's prison come medic facilities" a voice answered.

"Revolution army!" exclaimed and tried to rise only to find that he was physically unable to due to his whole body hurting. "Dammit" he snarled. "Bastards."

"There are many who share the similar sentiment on our side imperial scum" the voice answered. It turned out to be a man in the later stages of his life his hair was grey and he was cleanly shaven. But the lines across his face and the tired look in his eyes could tell of the weariness in his soul. "If you don't want to die I suggest that you not voice those thoughts of yours" he suggested. "After all many here would kill you just for being serving it" the man explained.

"Dammit why are you even keeping me alive?" Wave asked confused as well as angry.

"We didn't want to" the Doctor confirmed. But when a man in grey armour who is somewhat famous as being the Empire's enemy comes and asks us to keep you alive well we would listen to him." he explained to wave.

"Why?" Wave asked not understanding. From if the person who had brought him here was his assailant then why had he saved him when he had deliberately said that he loathed people like Wave himself most of all.

"I asked him that question as well" the doctor confirmed. "His answer was that while you were the enemy your heart was in the right place and that his honour would not permit him to leave you to die." The Doctor took off his glasses and wiped them with a handkerchief, it seemed as though they had misted up. "Well you better be grateful to him either way, if we had not hooked you up to life support you would be dead." he stated. "You're ribs are shattered and one of your legs is broken not to mention you have several fractures in your jaw and skull." The doctor explained rather dispassionately and disinterestedly. "In truth I am unsure of why he bothered to even save you at all. If he was the one who did this to you then he had done a very good job with putting you out of commission." After saying this the Doctor got up to leave as he was leaving the cold room h turned around and said. "While we were told to keep you alive he also said that we were allowed to put you down if you started to try and cause trouble or if you tried to escape." The Doctor explained before he left the room leaving Wave alone.

Wave could only look on helplessly as the Doctor left. "Why did you save me?" he wondered. working out theories was all he would be doing for some time.

Esdeath surveyed the ground that had the stains of blood on it. "This is the route that boy Wave was going to use?" she asked the Imperial Guardsmen that she had asked to accompany her.

"Yes General Esdeath" one of them answered. "He arrived at the port yesterday and would have been using this route today. This is the shortest route to the capital though it is the most difficult for Caravans to use because of the uneven terrain and road." The member of the Imperial guard explained. "Though I have to admit this was the perfect place for someone to set up an ambush." the Guardsmen added

Esdeath looked at the signs of a battle between Teigu users and nodded. "It appears so she stated." She herself did admit that this was the perfect place to ambush anyone using this route. It was too far for help to come directly. Then Something caught Esdeath's attention. It was something that wouldn't normally belong in this area, it was white feather. Walking over to it Esdeath picked it up and scrutinised it. "It does resemble the ones that the Prime minister had found" she noted. Then she smiled cruely "It seems as if this Angel of Calamity as he calls himself has struck again." she mentally thought relishing the chance to face whoever it was. Though that did trigger a more concerning thought through her mind. "Only a select few know that Wave was one of the Teigu users that I had requested." Esdeath noted. "I know that he can get into the Imperial palace but I didn't imagine that he would be able to get his hands on this information. How much more does he know?" She asked herself. Esdeath made another mental note to review all the palace staff and inform the correct people that their information network had been compromised. If the wrong people found out it would be chaos as it is Honest had the security in the capital on high alert since the Angel of Calamity had delivered his message, as well as stealing the Prime Ministers food. The last bit she found amused her as it had Honest in a rage rampaging through the palace though he was not very dangerous other than politically though Esdeath did hope that someone in the palace would have tried to put him down. It would have given her a good excuse to torture them.

"General is there anything you would like us to do?" one of the other Imperial Guardsmen there asked. IF he was nervous he was able to not let it show.

"No" Esdeath answered. "We will return for now and report this" she ordered. "I believe I know who did this though I only know of him" she explained.

"Yes general" the Three Imperial Guardsmen replied saluting her.

At this point elsewhere a stranger walked into a town. He dressed differently. His attire was a rich red that complimented his Auburn hair. His gloves were also red and strapped to his waist beneath his jacket was a red and rather intricate looking rapier. Also he wore two earrings that rather than make him look feminine pronounced his male stature more. But this is not what drew the villagers attention to him. No his eyes were what drew the most attention. His eyes where a shade of blue bordering on a greenish tint. But what was the real eye catcher was that they glowed.

Now the Stranger himself was confused where he was and could not recognise any place he had been before that was like it other than one. "Is this Wutai?" he asked himself. Before he sook his head. "No" he mumbled. "Everyone in Wutai had black hair, the people here have more than just that." So he continued walking before he was approach by a little girl who looked no older than ten.

"Mr do you know Tatsumi Nii-san?" she asked.

The Stranger raised one of his eyebrows. "I have never met anyone named that" he confessed "did I look like him?" The stranger asked interested his curiosity piqued.

"Uh no" the girl answered. "But your eyes are like his." she explained.

"Blue?" the Stranger asked more interested, leaning down to eye level giving her his full attention.

"No they glow like his but they are also blue like the sky" she answered a little bit embarrassed at how close he was.

Now this was very interesting for the stranger. "Glowing blue and like the sky. Is is possible that there is another member of SOLDIER here?" he asked himself.

"Irismu" a female voice called out to the little girl. "How many times have we all told you not to talk trouble strangers?" she asked.

The little girl now identified as Irismu looked very ashamed of herself. "But Aunty Rin-" she began. But the stranger interrupted saving her from any response the woman she called aunt would have given her.

"I'm sorry mam" he began. "But she was telling me something rather intriguing" he explained and eliceted a gasp from the woman called Rin.

"Your eyes" she stammered raising her hand to her mouth and tears beginning to well up in her eyes. "They glow."

"I am well aware of that" the stranger replied. Then suddenly the Woman named Rin burst into tears and fell on he knees.

"That" she said in between sobs "That is what he said when I fist said that to him."

"Who?" the Stranger asked whoever the SOLDIER who she had known must have been extremely dear to her for her to react like this. The Stranger also reasoned that he must have died or something worse for the tears she was crying from were grief.

"Angeal" she sobbed in response.

No the Strangers eyes widened at this name. He knew it well. "Angeal!" he exclaimed. "You know Angeal?" he asked shocked. "Can you tell me where his is?"

The Woman named Rin continued sobbing before she was able to calm herself and regain some composure. "He's dead" she finally managed to say.

Genesis Rhapsodos looked at the Woman named Rin in shock, agony and sympathy. Leaning in close to her he asked in a soft but firm voice. "Tell me. Tell me everything."

And Cut I hoped you like it. In truth I was planning to add Genesis into the mix at some point and though why not now. Now things will really be getting interesting with the SOLDIER First Class around. Anyway if you have any feed back you want to give me or anything you would like to share please review or PM me any way's until next time.

Anyway don't go eating me out for that last scene with Wave and Tatsumi I have been wanting to put one like that in for a while now So once again until next time