A few hours ago...


    Both Chi-Sun and Eun-Hee barely survived their encounter with the Nebula Grunts.


    They continued through the forest as they heard the sounds of plasma beams being fired in the distance along with gunfire and explosions.


    The two arrived in a small opening in the middle of the forest to find a single large tree toppled over, it looked to have been hit by one of the Nebula Platform beams during the initial attack, on the floor lying next to the tree looked like two persons.


    The Familiar girl was leaning back against the trunk of the fallen tree her short messy silver coloured hair had been dirtied by the preceding battle.


    "Yon!" Chi-Sun called out, both she and Eun-Hee ran to Yon only to see her Coordinator dead in her arms, the girl''s short brown hair draped casually to the side of her face made it look like she was in a deep sleep.


    Yon looked up with dried tears on her cheeks, "Chi!" she replied between her crying fit.


    When Chi-Sun got a closer look, she was shocked by what she saw, Yon''s Coordinator had a gaping hole where her heart would have been instead she could see the bone shards and flesh protruding from the entry and exit wound where charcoaled looking skin and flesh started to crumble.


    Chi-Sun knelt down in front of Yon, she noticed that Yon had blood pouring from her back. "Yon, what happened?" Chi-Sun asked reluctantly to find out.


    It''s been an hour since the Nebula appeared somethings not right usually regeneration would have been in progress by then, Chi-Sun thought to herself.


    "No! I''m not leaving her" Yon held on tighter to Zhen refusing to leave her behind. Chi-Sun knew the feeling of losing a partner, many Familiars and Coordinators made an unwritten law to bring back their deceased partners however it wasn''t always possible forcing some to leave them behind.


    Chi-Sun turned to Eun-Hee, "Eun, I need you to take Zhen back with you".


    "You can barely fight in your condition, as for Zhen she''s already KIA so we don''t need to worry about putting further physical and mental trauma on her..." Chi-Sun looked back at Yon who didn''t seem to quite believe what she was hearing "...you can still use Tachyon right?" Eun-Hee nodded to answer her question.


    At first, Eun-Hee was reluctant to accept the truth and order, but she knew better than to deny such things, she nodded once again, "Okay, but you better come back or they''ll be hell to pay!"


    Chi-Sun laughed thinking about that promise both she and Eun-Hee made back at high school, "Don''t worry, your anger scares me more than the Nebula any day of the week" she smiled.


    She turned to her right she and the girl in her arms moved at the speed of lightning as her body moved due to her supernaturally enhanced state leaving a faint afterimage of the duo.


    As Chi-Sun went back to Yon''s side attempting to pick her up, Yon immediately fell forwards along with Chi-Sun.


    She too picked Yon up in her arms like a princess surprising Yon herself, "We need to get you to a water source" Chi-Sun announced as the duo moved back into the dense foliage of the forest to find a fresh water source.<hr>


    If I make one wrong move I could permanently dislodge Yon''s spine and paralyze her, Chi-Sun''s hands started to tremble at the thought of such a thing happening.


    If you come across this story on Amazon, it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it.Once finished Chi-Sun helped Yon up off the rock, the latter slipping in the water as her bare naked chested was on show Yon landed upon Chi-Sun, her cheeks blushing at the sight of seeing Yon''s stomach and breasts dripping in clear water arousing her somewhat.


    Shocked Chi-Sun didn''t know what to say to that, "You can be such a brat sometimes" Chi-Sun said under her breathe, as she gently placed Yon''s corset back on, and then proceeded to pick her up in the piggyback position before continuing off towards the last known location of the South Korea frontline.<hr>


    Before Chi-Sun could react, the Nebula Pincer used one of its legs to smash into Chi-Sun''s chest winding her and knocking her and Yon through the air.


    Looking behind her she could see another Nebula Pincer, she turned to see where Yon was while also noticing the Nebula Pincer in front of her clearly ignoring Yon that was still on the floor unconscious.


    She furrowed her mind on what to do, she tried to use her enhanced speed to escape. Her body went through the motions she didn''t move a single inch it was as if the tentacles latched upon her negated her powers.


    Before she knew it, she could the sounds of several plasma beams being fired.


    The Nebula Pincer''s flailed relentlessly before eventually dying, the one that had its tendrils latched onto Chi-Sun instantly dropped her as it slowly coiled itself up in a fetus position.


    After a few seconds the carapace of the Nebula Pincer burst open with slime and liquid flowing out, but what surprised Chi-Sun was the naked girl that followed afterwards.


    As the girl started to stir awake, she coughed violently as she tried to get the foreign substance out of her mouth, sitting up she instantly wrapped her arms around herself as the cold dusk air threatened to bit into her skin leaving her breasts out bare.


    Chi-Sun knew the girl a second year Familiar, she had seen her around at the academy prior to this incident.


    "What happened?" Chi-Sun asked needing answers as soon as possible.


    The pink haired girl trembled first before she started speaking, "M-Me...m-my Coordinator...and a few others were trying to make it to the front line..." she started to hyperventilate, Chi-Sun tried to calm her down to stop the girl from panicking "...t-then next minute, w-we were attacked by those eight-legged monsters..." when the girl saw the Nebula Pincer she flinched trying to desperately move away before Chi-Sun once again reassured her by telling her the creature was dead "...these tendrils latched onto us, a-and then pulled us inside of them" the girl seemed fearful as she kept on looking at the Nebula Pincer as if she remembered committing terrible crimes inside that thing.


    Her arms, legs and eyes kept on twitching uncontrollably as if she had lost control of her own body, her breathing wouldn''t slow. Chi-Sun eventually grabbed the pink haired girls'' hand to calm her down.


    Chi-Sun pulls the girl''s face towards hers, "It''s okay calm down, once you''re calm regenerate your academy uniform and if you can your Essence Armament, understood?" the girl nodded.


    However, the one thing that waned on her mind the most as of that moment was the mysterious accomplice that saved her life, Yon''s and pinked haired girl.