Athrun painfully groaned as he slowly opened his eyes while his body was in a lot pf pain. "Athrun?" he heard a familiar voice call. Athrun opened his eyes more to see a blurry figure over him. When he was able to get the figure into focus, he was shocked to find out it was Kira.

"Kira?" Athrun said as he remembered the night the village was attacked and destroyed by demons. "I'm glad, you didn't die." Athrun said as he painfully tried to sit up.

"No, you're not well enough to sit up yet." Kira said as he rested Athrun back down and placed the covers back over him. Athrun was too weak, so he had no choice but to do what Kira said. Athrun looked over to see Stella sitting next to Kira.

"Hey Kira, is she the one you were talking about?" Athrun asked. Kira looked back at Stella to see what Athrun was walking about. "Yeah. You don't have to worry, she's not like the other ones we've met." Kira answered.

"Yeah, I can tell." Athrun said as he stared into Stella's eyes. Then something struck Athrun as he remembered what happened before falling unconscious. "Hey, where is she?" Athrun asked.

"You mean Meyrin?" Stella asked. Athrun nodded.

"She's right next to you." Kira answered. Athrun turned his head to his right to see Meyrin asleep next to him.

"She's the one who brought you here. You were in much worse condition than she was." Kira said which slightly shocked Athrun.

"So how long have we been here?"

"A few days. But I think we should get out of here tomorrow morning." Kira said.

"Why?" Athrun asked in confusion.

"Because angels came into the village looking for us. I have a feeling they might be back soon." Kira answered.

"You and Meyrin should be all better by tomorrow so that's when we'll leave." Stella added in.

"Alright." Athrun agreed as he went back to sleep.

"Shinn, Mayu, mom, dad, I really hope you're all okay." Kira thought as he watched Athrun and Meyrin sleep.

The subordinate and his team exited the portal and were now on Earth. Unfortunately, they were close to the village that Kira and the others were at. "Time for some payback." the subordinate said as he and his team ran towards the village at a high speed.

Shinn and the others found themselves at a village entrance to a large village of angels and vampire angels. They quickly entered and tried to find someone to talk to. Shinn spotted an old man and walked over to him. "Excuse me, have you seen a guy with purple eyes and brown hair wearing black?" Shinn asked.

"Oh, do you mean that nice boy Kira?" the old man asked.

"Yeah, that's him! Where is he?!" an excited Shinn asked.

"He's over there in that hut." the old man answered as he pointed over to one of the huts.

"Thank you." Shinn responded as he and the others quickly ran off towards the hut.

When Shinn reached the hut entrance, he poked his head into the entrance to see Kira and Stella sitting next to a sleeping Athrun and Meyrin.

"Hey Kira!" Shinn called out as he walked inside. Kira turned his head in surprise and happiness to see Shinn at the entrance.

"Shinn!" Kira called back as he ran over and got Shinn in a brotherly headlock. "I'm glad you're alive!" Kira said as Shinn struggled in his brothers grip.

"Okay okay Kira you can let me go now!" Shinn said while laughing. Kira did just that as the others walked in. Kira looked and noticed Mayu with the others.

"Kira!" Mayu cried as she ran over and hugged her brother who returned the gesture.

"Mayu, what are you doing here?" Kira asked as he released Mayu from his hug. Mayu gave a sad look at Kira before glancing back at Shinn.

"I've got some explaining to do." Shinn said getting serious. Everyone sat down as Shinn began explaining what was happening. "The reason Mayu is with me, is because... our home is gone." Shinn said. Kira and Stella gasped in shock at the news.

"What do you mean it's gone?" Kira asked confused.

"Everything was destroyed and burned down. Luckily mom was able to hide Mayu from harm. But she, dad, and everyone else were taken by the demons." Shinn answered.

"But why?" Stella asked.

"I don't know." Shinn responded.

"Maybe they're trying to frame you guys like before." Luna said.

"Yeah, they're probably trying to give us a reason to come after them so they'll use mom, dad, and everyone else as an excuse to get our race in more trouble with the angels." Kira responded.

"So now what?" Cagalli asked.

"First of all, we've got to wait until Athrun and Meyrin are well enough to move. After that we've got to get out of here and think of something." Kira said.

Everyone nodded in response to Kira's suggestion and prayed it would work, but what was about to happen, they wished didn't. All of a sudden there was an large and powerful explosion that shook the entire village.

"What's going on?" Mir said as everyone tried to keep their balance from the shaking the explosion caused.

"Something's going on outside!" Kira said as he and Stella tried to hold Athrun and Meyrin still from all the shaking. Shinn looked outside to see demon warriors clad in black and white armor attacking the village.

"Not again." Shinn said in annoyance as he remembered when the previous village they were staying at was attacked by demons.

"You guys get Athrun and Meyrin out of here. Me and Shinn will take care of these guys." Kira said as he picked up his sword. Everyone nodded as Luna picked up Meyrin and Cagalli and Mir picked up Athrun. Stella gave Kira a worried look, but Kira gave her a reassuring smile, telling her that he would be alright and that he would come back. Stella nodded as Luna broke through the back wall and everyone escaped into the forest as Kira and Shinn ran out to deal with the armor clad warriors.

They stopped about eight meters away from them as the warriors turned their attention to Shinn and Kira. "So Kira, you finally showed up?" the one in front, obviously the leader, said.

"Who are you?" Kira asked as he and Shinn drew their swords.

The leader removed his helmet to reveal his face to Kira. Kira gasped when he realized that the leader of the warriors was the demon ninja he brutalized before.

"It's you!" Kira said as he remembered who the demon was.

"I'm glad that you remember me Kira, because now I'm gonna make you pay for what you did to me!" the subordinate said as he put his helmet back on. He brought his arms back and drew two swords from their sheathes. One was black while the other one was white. The subordinate quickly swung the two swords and sent two black and white energy blades at Kira and Shinn. Kira and Shinn quickly brought up their swords to block, but the energy blades were so powerful they sent Kira and Shinn flying upon impact.

The two landed on the ground very hard, which hurt a lot from the force and speed they were sent flying at. "Wh-What the hell was that?" Shinn grunted as he and Kira got up. As soon as they got up, they saw all the armor clad warriors disappeared except for the leader.

"Where'd they go?" Kira said as he and Shinn looked around the area for them.

"They went after those friends of yours." the leader answered.

We have to go after them!" Shinn said as he and Kira turned around to pursuse the subordinates team, but the subordinate appeared in front of them with his swords in defense.

"Your opponent is me!" the subordinate said as he leaped towards Shinn and swung both of his swords down. Shinn brought his sword up and blocked the strike, but the force and strength of the subordinate was too much and Shinn's arms were being pushed down. "He's so strong." Shinn thought as he continued to struggle against the subordinates swords. Eventually, the blades of the two swords reached Shinn's shoulders. The subordinate quickly pulled his swords back and sliced into both of Shinn's shoulders. Shinn grunted in pain as he jumped back to avoid getting hit again.

Kira quickly jumped over and swung down, but the subordinate simply sidestepped and avoided the strike, much faster than Kira could see. The subordinate swung his leg around and nailed Kira in the stomach, causing Kira to cough up both saliva and blood. The subordinate swung his leg and sent Kira flying back and right into a hut which Kira smashed right through. Shinn dashed forward and stabbed while the subordinate was distracted, but the subordinate suddenly disappeared into thin air. "What?!" Shinn said as he saw the subordinate disappear.

The subordinate suddenly appeared behind Shinn and slashed with his white sword. The sword left a large slash on Shinn's back, who grunted as the sudden hit sent him to the ground. The subordinate walked over and raised his black sword over Shinn's abdomen. Kira stood up out of the wreckage of the hut, only to hear Shinn cry out in pain. Kira quickly ran out only to see horror. The subordinate impaled Shinn through the abdomen with his sword and raised Shinn's body in the air while he was impaled on his sword.

"Shinn!" Kira cried out as he ran towards the subordinate. The subordinate swung his sword and flung Shinn off his sword as he blocked Kira's attack with his other sword. The subordinate looked into Kira's eyes to see a look of anger and hatred in them. The two jumped away from each other and landed a good seven meters from each other. Kira was not yet at the level that the subordinate wanted to fight him at, so he decided to anger Kira enough to bring out his Seed powers again.

"What I did to your brother was just the start. After I'm done with you two, I'll make sure to kill all your friends... starting with that girl Stella. I'll make sure to kill her nice and slowly." the demon said.

The subordinates statement caused the anger building up in Kira to flare. Kira growled in anger as he clenched his fists super tight and gritted his teeth. A purple energy surrounded Kira as his power level suddenly skyrocketed and a powerful gust of wind suddenly shot over the area. "Here it comes." the subordinate thought as he watched Kira's power intensify.

"Never! I'LL NEVER LET YOU HURT STELLA! I'LL NEVER LET YOU HURT ANY OF THEM!" Kira shouted as he felt the Seed explode in his mind. The energy that Kira was releasing doubled which told the subordinate that Kira activated his Seed. The same ice design from before appeared on the blade of Kira's sword as Kira raised his head, showing his eyes were in their Seed mode form. The subordinate smiled evily under his mask as he raised his swords up.

"Let's begin the real battle." the subordinate said as Kira brought his sword up. The two leaped towards each other and swung their swords at each other. The subordinate swung the black sword at Kira, who moved his sword back enough for him to block it while still keeping the white sword off him. Kira pushed the subordinate off him before spinning and swinging his sword around. The subordinate ducked under the strike before swinging the black sword at Kira. Kira sidestepped and jumped passed the subordinate.

Kira quickly stabbed his sword at the subordinate who suddenly disappeared from sight. Kira looked up to see the subordinate come flying down on him with both of his swords. Kira jumped back as the subordinates swords made contact with the ground. Kira quickly swung his sword and sent a blast of ice at the subordinate. The subordinate swung down and sliced the ice blast in half to see Kira come flying towards him. The subordinate flew towards Kira as well and the two swung their swords at each other before flying passed each other.

As the two turned to face each other, a bleeding cut suddenly appeared on Kira's left shoulder as a small scratch appeared on the right arm of the subordinates armor. "Not bad." the subordinate said.

"Not good enough." Kira responded.

"Fine then." the subordinate said as he swung both of his swords and sent a large ball of orange energy at Kira. Kira simply slashed his sword and destroyed the energy blast with ease.

"You're more powerful than I thought." the subordinate commented on Kira's surprising strength.

"And you're weaker than I thought." Kira said with a sly smirk. The subordinate growled at Kira's remark and he charged at Kira with his swords. He swung down the black sword which Kira blocked, but he didn't notice the subordinate was charging demonic energy into the sword. A bright light shined as there was a sudden explosion. Kira was sent flying into the air as the subordinate jumped up at him. The subordinate stabbed both swords which pierced into Kira's abdomen. Kira grunted as he struggled against the subordinates blades in his abdomen.

Kira used the strength of his legs to push the subordinate away from him, causing the swords to rip out of him. Kira landed on the ground while bleeding profusely from the wounds in his abdomen. The subordinate landed and smirked, but gasped at what he saw. There was steam coming off of Kira's wound's and they were slowly closing up. "So the Seed's powers include high speed regeneration." the subordinate thought as he watched Kira's wounds heal immediately.

When the wounds finished healing, Kira quickly swung his sword and sent an airblade in the direction of the subordinate. The subordinate sensed this and quickly jumped out of the way as the airblade flew passed. When he landed, he looked in the direction the airblade flew to see it sliced through a large number of trees in the forest, all of which were very clean cuts. "Impressive." the subordinate said as he turned to face Kira. He lunged and swung his swords as Kira lunged and swung his sword in return.

Stella and the others continued running through the forest while carrying the unconscious Athrun and Meyrin. Suddenly, they all stopped when they heard lots of rustling in the trees and bushes around them. Six figures suddenly jumped out of the bushes and surrounded them. They all recognized the figures as the armored demon warriors from before. They all drew their sheathed weapons from their armor. "Kill them all!" one of the warriors shouted to the others as they all jumped at Stella and the gang. Stella closed her eyes as she was expecting death to come soon. "Kira please help me!" Stella cried in her mind as she was getting closer to death.

Suddenly, balls of water came flying from a direction and slammed into all of the armored demon warriors, and sending them flying to the ground. Stella opened her eyes to see the armored demon warriors on the ground and covered in water. Stella turned in the direction the water came in to see two figures standing before her and the others. Tears came to Stella's eyes as she recognized the two figures standing before her all to well. They were her older brothers Auel, and Sting.

"Glad we finally found you Stella." Auel said.

"We've been looking for you and your friends for a while now. Mom and gramps have been pretty worried about you." Sting added in. Stella quickly got up and hugged her brothers tightly as tears slipped from her eyes.

"I've missed you guys so much."Stella said as she cried her eyes out. Her brothers hugged her back, but their reunion was interrupted when the demon warriors stood up with thier weapons ready.

Stella stay back. We'll take care of these guys." Auel said as he and Sting let go of Stella and walked towards the demon warriors.

"You guys will pay for that!" one of the warriors said as they all got up.

"You guys don't know who you're messing with." Auel said as he drew his azure and light blue underwater decorated trident from his back. One of the warriors charged and swung with his sword, but Auel swung up extremely fast and deflected the attack. The demon stumbled a bit before striking again. Auel easily managed to block the warriors attack. A large burst of water suddenly shot forth from Auel's trident and pushed the warrior back.

"Is that all you got?" Auel taunted.

"You bastard!" the warrior shouted back as he charged at Auel again, but another one pf the warriors held his arm out in front and stopped him.

"What are you doing?!" the warrior said to the one who stopped him.

"I just recieved a message, angel warriors are heading this way. If they catch us fighting with members of the royal family, they'll condemn our entire race and everything we've done so far will have been for nothing." the other warrior answered.

"Damn!" the warrior said as he sheathed his sword on his back.

"You guys got lucky, but next time you won't be!" the warrior said as he and the others suddenly disappeared in a flash of white.

"Well that was boring." Auel said as he sheathed his trident on his back across his sword. Suddenly there was a large and powerful explosion in the area behind them.

"What the hell was that?!" Sting said as everyone turned to see the explosion. Sounds of clanging and scraping metal could be heard, and they were headed towards the gang. Suddenly, Kira came flying out of the forest while smashing through trees and colliding with the ground. The subordinate came flying out from the same place and swung both of his swords down, but Kira quickly brought his sword up and blocked the attack, though the force of the attack was pushing him into the ground.

Kira began focusing his strength into his arms and released a powerful swing which knocked the subordinate into the air. Kira quickly got up and jumped towards the subordinate and swung his sword, sending a blast of ice energy towards him. The subordinate swung his sword and destroyed the blast of ice, only to see Kira was right behind it. Kira swung his sword down and nailed the subordinate right on the chest, sending him flying into the ground.

Kira opened his wings and gently floated down to the ground. The subordinate rose out of the ground without a single scratch. "Kira, there's something I want to ask you." the subordinate said.

"What?" Kira said back.

"Back during our first encounter, you asked me if I was having fun. Why ask me something like that?" the subordinate asked. Kira remained silent as everyones eyes fell on him, waiting for his answer. Purple energy surrounded Kira's body and his sword as he raised his head.

"The reason I asked you if you were having fun?" Kira said as his energy began to rise. "The reason I asked you that was because... I sure was!" Kira said as an insane and sadistic smile crept onto his lips. Kira's evil appearence struck fear into everyone, especially Stella.

"Well, back then I wasn't having fun at all. You massacred my entire team, as well as almost killed me. But that's different now. This battle we're having right now, has now become very fun for me!" the subordinate said as his armor turned crimson red. His swords were also glowing the same crimson color as his power skyrocketed as well. He suddenly disappeared from sight, leaving crimson particles at the spot he was at. Kira gasped when he sensed the subordinate right in front of him. He appeared and quickly swung his swords at Kira who brought his sword up in defense.

This did little as the force of the subordinates new strength and his powered up swords sent Kira flying backwards. Kira quickly flapped his wings and took off to the sky to regain control. When he looked down, he saw the subordinate flying towards him super fast while leaving a series of afterimages in his wake. "What the hell is that?!" Kira thought as he brought his sword up. He swung down, but the subordinate simply flew to the right and evaded Kira's attack with ease. Kira stopped his attack to face the subordinate, only to see he was flying all over the place with his super speed and leaving afterimages all around Kira.

Kira was super confused as to which one was the real one and which were afterimages. All the afterimages suddenly disappeared as the subordinate appeared in front of Kira. He stabbed with incredible speed at Kira's face. Kira tried to evade the strike, but he wasn't fast enough and the attack pierced into his right shoulder. Kira grunted as he quickly flew back to avoid any more damage to his shoulder. The subordinate easily caught up with him and rapidly swung his swords at Kira. Kira brought his sword up to block the constant attacks, but the force was pushing him down and causing more blood to seep from his shoulder wound.

One more strike from the subordinate sent Kira flying towards the ground very fast. The subordinate flew down after Kira with his sowrds ready to strike. "This is the end for you Kira!" the subordinate shouted in delight as he was seconds away from killing Kira. Kira's whole body felt very weak from both his wounds and his inexperience with the Seed. Kira looked down and saw much concern Stella's eyes. He could tell from how they looked that Stella was begging him not to die. While looking into her eyes, Kira remembered the promise he made to Stella.

"Don't worry. I'll never leave your side. Never."

"That's right, I'll never leave your side Stella." Kira thought as his normal smile returned to his face. A light blue aura suddenly surrounded Kira's body as he was falling. Everyone gasped at the strange energy surrounding Kira's body.

"This is the end for you Kira!" the subordinate shouted in delight as he was now seconds away from killing Kira. He quickly swung his swords down to deliver the finsihing blow, but when his swords were about to make contact, Kira's body disappeared in a light blue flash and a few light blue particles were left in the spot Kira was. "It can't be!" the subordinate thought in shock.

He suddenly felt a tremendous energy resonating from behind him. He turned to see Kira floating behind him while covered by a light blue version of the energy surrounding him.

"You can use that power too?!" the subordinate said in shock.

"I don't know what this power is, but I'm gonna use it to protect Stella." Kira responded as he raised his sword up. He flew towards the subordinate so fast he also left afterimages behind him.

"Don't get cocky with a power you understand nothing about!" the subordinate retorted as he also flew towards Kira with his swords ready. The two constantly clashed their swords with each others as their powers were now on an even level. Their speeds were so fast that Stella and the others had a hard time keeping up with them. The two lights that were Kita and the subordinate constantly smashed into each other many times as they tried to gain an advantage over each other, only to always result with no change in power.

"What's that light?" Luna said as she watched Kira and the subordinate fight at high speed.

"It's so powerful." Mir commented as she watched as well. Kira raised his left hand and a light blue nergy ball formed in his hand. It reshpaed itself into the form of an energy katana Kira grabbed with his left hand. Kira quickly flew towards the subordinate at swung down both of his swords. The subordinate brought his sowrds up to block, but was knocked down to the ground by the immense force of Kira's strength combined with his new ability.

The subordinate quickly rose up and flew towards Kira, swinging down one sword, but Kira moved to left and the subordinate only sliced through afterimages. Kira quickly slashed his energy sword at the subordinate and it actually left a large scratch on the left arm part of the armor. "What?!" the subordinate thought in shock as he saw his powerful armor scratched so easily. He was ready to attack Kira again, but got a telepathic message from a member of his team telling him that angels were approaching his location.

"Well it seems we have an unexpected interuption. You and I will battle again one day Kira! Don't forget that!" the subordinate said as he flew off at high speeds. Kira's energy blade disappeared as the light blue energy surrounding his body faded away. Kira flapped his wings to slw his descent before landing and retacting them back into him. As he turned around, Stella crashed into him with her arms wrapped around him.

"Thank goodness you're all right!" Stella said as tears streamed from her cheeks.

"Of course I am. I promised I'd never leave you." Kira responded as Stella let go of him. Kira looked up to see the others approaching them. He noticed Auel and Sting who he didn't recognize.

"Hey Stella, who are these guys?" Kira asked.

"We were about to ask the same question about you." Auel said back to Kira. Then suddenly everyone felt multiple strong spiritual pressures approaching from the opposite direction.

"We'll talk later, we've got to get out of here now!" Luna said.

"Wait, Shinn's still back there!" Kira said back. Luna handed Meyrin over to Kira as she opened her wings and flew off towards the destroyed village. "You guy's go on ahead, I'll get Shinn!" Luna said. Kira nodded as he and the others quickly ran off in the other direction.

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