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Chapter 2 - Who Are You? Who Am I?

Izz wake up light headed and a ray of light covering his field of view. Before long his vision returned to him and he look around. Surrounding him is about 10 people wearing rugged cloths pointing swords and small guns at him with a facial expression that of fear. 

"w-who are y-you people.."

Izz asked slowly.

"we should be the one asking that!!"

One of the man shout still keeping a save distance from Izz. From the original doorway of the lab which is now wide open emerge a female figure with a quite a long sword with a small handle warped behind her waist, to her left side is a short knife but quite massive for it's use and to the right side is an odd looking gun much different from the one used by what Izz believe is her subordinate. The light armour she wear made out of leather and thin plating of metal.

"who are you"

She honed her sword towards Izz. Her tone is cold and imposing, her sword seems impossibly thin and her gaze piercing Izz as if she is not even looking at him.

"m-my name is Izz"

Izz stammers since his safety is in grave danger once again. She sighed heavily and hand him a pair cloth confused by this Izz looked down and quickly realized why. Frantically he put them on and try to move out of his broken capsule.

"if you dare to act against us I myself will kill you"

The woman claims after facing away and start rummaging through the mess of the broken lab. Everyone else start putting their weapon down but still cautious of Izz. While he walk around trying to find the other capsule he was connected with. After a long search Izz finally found the broken capsule under rubble. Izz move his hand and gently rub it against the cold and smooth surface of the odd looking shield.

"you..."

Izzu muttered it out quietly before a sudden burst of light shine outwards with a blinding brightness. A sharp pain stung Izz left arm feeling something moving and wiggling under his skin. The ray of light calmed down and the shield has implanted itself right into Izz body. It transform to be smaller in size while it warp around all the bits of muscle and bone in it's host.

"AAAAAARRRHHHH IT HURTS IT HURTS!!"

Izz screams in pain. The blast of light cause the soldiers from before to open fire on him out of sheer panic. The shield that has cling itself to every fiver in Izz being move the hand that it is on and another much weaker ray of light shine and all the bullets fired to Izz either bounce off or flatten upon impact.

"ENOUGH!"

The woman from earlier told her subordinates to cease fire. After awhile finally they stopped shooting after their magazines is emptied. The ray of light turn dim before gone after the violence ended while Izz try to get up the woman from earlier come forth in front of Izz.

"Commander don't get close to him!!"

Her subordinates warns but she ignored them believing completely in her action. She try and help Izz get up from his seemingly pitiful state.

"I suppose I haven't give you a proper introduction of myself"

She manage to get him up on his feet.

"T-thanks"

Izz stammers still feels intense pain that is slowly subsiding.

"My name is Albertine Léane"

She shake hands with him.

"Try to not cause trouble will you?"

Her voice get slower the realisation of not knowing his named sunk in her mind.

"Izz. My name is Izz"

"Right try to not cause trouble Izz"

As the situation calmed down and everyone return to their work.

"Commander it stopped!"

A man shout from the broken doorway.

"The sand storms as stopped!"

Quickly most of the soldiers run for the exit including Léane herself. Izz try to follow suit but his heavily weaken body is slowing his advances. Rather quickly the hallway change into cave like structure before Izz could even realised it has changed. It gets much harder to walk the longer he go the floor feels steeper with every step as if he is climbing a mountain. When we manage to catch up with everyone else his eyes is blinded by the huge fireball in the sky. The brightness of the sun hasn't hit his eyes and body for so long. The moment he manage to open his eyes he is met with a barren desert the topography change immensely then he originally remembered. The volcano that is originally there is gone as if it was razed out of existence.

"Where am I?"

Izz asked but the question was more for himself then it is for others.

"Unfamiliar with the area?"

Léane asked him, her left hand on his right shoulder.

"I remember how this place used to look like and it is nothing like this. Yet I can't remember most of the things about myself"

Léane can only nodded wonder to herself how long has this relic of a person being buried under the sands. She get away from him ready to command her subordinates to be ready to leave.

"Yes Commander!"

They answer in unison before most of them start working taking fragments from the lab. Izz head to the highest dune not too far from cave opening and take in the view of the surrounding area. While looking around the sun hit the shield in his hand at just the right angle and it shines on Izz face reminding him the sentient object in his arm. The more he inspect the shield the more intricate it look the surface looks like a silver metal and a crystal at the same time.

"What are you?"

He asked to the shield hoping for some answers he know he won't get. Suddenly while lost in his thoughts the sand beneath him shakes and shifts. Immediately Izz rush down where the rest of people from earlier is still transporting goods and relics.Before anyone could calm down a huge sandworm emerge from a far and heading to the general area of Izz and everyone else very rapidly.

"Open fire!"

One of the man shout and everyone starts to fire all that they have on it. Unfortunately the sandworm is unfazed at such attempt and keep moving faster and faster. Izz look at the shield in his arm.

"Please help me now!"

Izz scream to shield unfortunately the shield is unresponsive as a piece of rock. The sandworm is still approaching at a rapid speed even Léane can't seems to scare it away with her gun.

"What are we supposed to do?!"

Shout one of her subordinates some others already started scrambling away for their life. She takes out a small silindrical cartridge filled with green violent substance and with great strength she throws it to the creatures mouth causing a reaction that almost melt through its hideous face.

"DIE YOU BASTARD!"

Léane shouted the monster withered in pain before burrowing itself underground.

"TAKE ANYTHING YOU CAN AND RUN TO THE DESIGNATED SAFE SPOT!!"

Léane screams and her subordinates quickly get to work grabbing any relic they can and flee to one direction. Izz hold Léane hand and run with others except his physical strength is still at an all time low and fail to get far before falling to his knees. Léane put Izz's hand over her shoulders and make the run for it. As they run they feel the ground shakes and rumbles signaling the beast rising upwards beneath their very feet. Léane stopped moving and throwing another green cartridge and throw it far away. Slowly the rumbles under their feet is move towards the cartridge. They waited until sandworm emerge and consume the cartridge before making the run for it.

"IT, ATE IT GO GO GO"

Léane rush while holding Izz and he look over to the monster tough skin melt from the inside and it's organs spilled out rotting and desolving. After they get to rocky plains area situation calmed down.

"So where are we going?"

Izz asked Léane since she force him to be beside her due to his unpredictable power.

"My homeland and our country"

Léane answer preparing loading her gun as she move. Izz stays silent occasionally his eyes glance at the shield wondering it's origin. He looks up into the sky it's clear blue as far as the eye can see with few birds and even fewer clouds adding to the cold breeze that hit his face. Izz take a deep breath after all that had happened he believed he deserved it.

"We are far enough let's take rest"

Léane commanded and most start setting up a fire and a place to rest, others go material and animal hunting and the rest like Izz who is injured take a rest to heal their wounds.

"I am so tired.."

Izz says to himself before he drift to deep slumber.

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