Chapter 9

On the way home the girl stayed vigilant around the duo and didn't make any rush movements as well kept her distance between them. Looking around her eyes laid upon Erica's neck and saw the black with orange armor core that she had. At that moment the girl blocked the path of the two boys behind her and brought them to a halt.

As Shaya and Erica walked down the road before the footsteps from behind ceased, when they looked behind them they saw the girl being hostile towards them. Shaya and Erica stopped walking and turned back to the girl, once they did the girl pushed back the boys and she follow suit.

"What's wrong? Did we do something?" Said Shaya and broke the silence.

"Are you one of them??" Said the girl as she look at Erica with a burning stare.

"What do you mea.. Oh yeah. right you mean this." Erica turned her head and pointed the core at her neck, as she left out a sigh of frustration. Before Erica could talk Shaya cut her.

"Yeah, I know that you must be concerned or feel unsafe around us. But we really mean no harm." Taking in a deep breath Shaya continued. "I have one too." she pulled up her hair up until the girl could see her core.

"What can we do to prove that we are harmless?"

'AURA what the best thing to do in order to gain her trust?'

[Oh. You remembered me. I thought that you didn't want to talk me after the accident.]

'Shut up. We'll talk later.'

[Fine, make a piece of equipment on your body that can't be used as a weapon.]

'Thank you.'

"Erica can you form some sort of a glove or any other equipment that can be displayed with as many nanites as you can." Shaya said before the girl could speak up.

"Alright." Answered Erica and began forming a glove that coverd her arm until her elbow. Shaya did the same thing as well.

The girl stepped back some more when she saw them.

After a few second the gloves from the duo was were finished, they held their hand upfront so the girl could see them and stop being hostile towards them.

"You told her to use as much she can, can you explain?" said the girl and gave a narrow look at Erica.

"You mind?" Asked Shaya gently.

Erica shook her head. " You know something, screw it." Erica changed a finger of the glove to be more like a claw and procceeded to cut down the left portion of the pants she was wearing from the mid thigh and down, as well as the right sleeve of her shirt and slashing them horizontaly in order to expose her prosthetics.

"Understood why not all of them? Remember the explosion about a mouth ago? I was a victim from it as well the rest of my family. Wanna know more?" Responded Erica and throwing a glare right back at the girl.

Backing off from the argument the girl eased up and stopped being hostile.

"Sorry for that. It's only that our father died protecting us from one of those maniacs. My name is Angela, these are my brothers Timothy and James."

Angela was a bit shorter from the duo and around sixteen as she told.

She had long greyish black hair that fell to her waist, two azure looking eyes that were slightly big and shown her innocence and slight fieceness in them.

Her built was rather fit yet slender due to the training that she had with her father,it wasn't enough to make her macho though it was rather slightly attractive. She wore some slightly slim cargo pants and an over sized crop top that slightly exposed her tone midriff.

The boys behind her had the samegreyish black hair like her, one had blue eyes and the other had brown. They didn't have much muscle as they were quite young, and both wore a plain outfit made of a hoodie, running pants and plain running shoes.

The rest of the way home was peacefull without any hostility from either party rather vigilance. Going back and forth throught the houses for essential supplies such as food and water that would last.

Reaching the house after sometime Shaya brought out some toys and gave them boys so they could talk without disturbance.

The duo took Angela upstairs and went to a vacant room and then closed the door.

The duo and Angela took a serious expression and looked at each other.

The first one to speak up and break the silence was Angela. "I have some demands to make if you want as to stay here. The first is that no harm will come to my brothers as well as not force them to do thing they won't do, secondly I don't want to be involved with you problem." as she folded her fingers and stared at the duo.

Shaya and Erica looked at each other, then back at Angela and retorted. "OK, that fair enough. We agree with those two demands any other demands or requests?"

"No, you can go ahead"

"Alright, we want to know why do you hate us, I mean all of the people who have these." Shaya pointed at her neck and showed the core once more.

"As I said before my father died trying to stall one of those maniacs for us to escape. Of course I would loathe them." Angela said.

"Fair enough. Well not all of them are like that. I mean look at us we didn't attack you neither force you to do anything."

"But you could." Angela retorted as she slightly narrowed her eyes.

"That true, but not gonna happen. Anyway, if you could fight them would you do it?" Said Shaya and looked directly into her eyes.

Erica raised her eyebrow as she imagined what was going to happen.

"If I could, I would. But why do you bring that up?"

Shaya took an armor core from her pocket and throwed it at the table infront of her while keeping the eye contact. Angela looked at the table and was a bit confused at first but Shaya explained what it was and what it's uses were.

Angela throwed a quick glare towards Shaya. "With this you can fight them." Before Angela could speak up Shaya stopped her, stood up and walked towards the door.

"Keep it, use it or not. It's your choice if you do use it you'll be invovled this us." Said Shaya and left the room with Erica.

Angela stood agape at the room in complete silince, thinking about what to do.