Beginning of ARC 2
Back at the Hatsugamine's...
The group of ten 15 to 16 year olds busy themselves at around 1:53 PM doing various activities. They want to make the most of daytime before they enjoy themselves outdoors later on.
Most of them are all in the Hatsune's gymnasium room. Rin, Rinto and Neru borrowed Piko's Mathematics notebook and are scribbling to complete their homework at a table in one corner.
The youngest in the group, Nero, Piko and Olivia, are seated on a furry, carpeted floor around a lower table where they are playing their favorite online game with their laptops.
Mikuo and Miku are rehearsing routines and stunts that their parents instructed them to practice at least more than 30 minutes a day whilst Lenka is watching the two perform at the corner. She has all the SP pairs' journals that she just checked and gathered with her and are sitting on her lap. Beside her seat, are all their SP children which are in one big crib who are taking an hour-long afternoon nap.
Scientific specimens they may be, they require special attention, care, food and sleep just like real little children do. One can tell that they are asleep if the spherical SP progeny lies down or is positioned horizontally. They are lined up in the crib with their own little light summer blankets that their parents brought along which Lenka tucked neatly on each of them.
They are all inside the Hatsune residence at the moment whilst Len is outside in the dried-up cornfield's clearing all by himself, standing in the middle of the stargazing party's ridiculous venue.
It looks like a place where they can actually hold a town's beer fest or children's birthday party or some weird fair. A summer wind passes as the breeze makes all the balloons jiggle. There is a small stand prepared for singing in front of the TV and sound system set, it looks like the menacing duo planned a sing along tonight as well.
'It'll have to do anyway for tonight. Unless...' thought the light blond with glowing pale blue highlights.
He is staring at the area but his mind seems to be in another place. He stands there appearing to have drifted off. He looks at his right arm where the entity mark is clearly and plainly displayed.
For years, he and Miku has told anyone who asked that it is a tattoo. What it really was, is none other but a bind that tells him that the entity that he had an agreement with from three and a half years ago will live in his soul for the rest of his life - a contract that will forever remind him that he is the entity itself now.
'From now on, I will have to live with this. No more hiding. The more I hide, the more it wants to break free. I have been intensely working out daily to always drain my strength so that no abilities will leak out and materialise. All along it's just telling me to use it from time to time. It's telling me... The entity is telling me to use its power just as I use my body every day, like to simply move to do everyday activities. This ability is like breathing to me now. I know you are me now and I believe that we both have the same notions and will. You, yourself told me. If it were anyone else then that person wouldn't be your bearer. I must stay wise though and be very careful as to never abuse this and to only use this if the people around me are ok with it.' Len discusses with himself.
He takes his contact lenses off then scans the area for anything or anyone hiding or watching him. After this, he lifts his hand and casts a spell to summon snow which covered the entire party's venue making it looked like a winter festival instead of a summer one.
It is hot and humid outside but the snow on the ground doesn't melt at all and just stood still like artificial snow. The temperature is just right and isn't too chilling or uncomfortable. Any frost on the ground doesn't make any pathway slippery but felt like regular ground.
Then gathering an energy ball in the palm of his hand he concentrates its power in a small area around a meter and a half in diameter then he materializes what seems like a contained blizzard in a dome. He enters the small enclosed area to test its true nature and feel its fierce temperature.
Inside that dome is all the fury of the harshest winter's storm as like in the center of the Arctics itself. In a few minutes, he leaves the dome and seals it like locking a door so that no one careless enough will enter it because this dome wouldn't dispel for another number of hours. Anyone who might enter it and wouldn't go out immediately would die within a matter of minutes for being inside it would give the experience of being in the fiercest temperature of the most severe cold. This didn't do him any harm.
"Woah, so cool!" he hears someone exclaiming in a naturally cutesy manner.
He turns to her, it is Olivia. She walks in the wintry party's venue with her bare feet. It didn't hurt her and just walked on it like it's still summer.
"Oh hey, weren't you suppose to be in the gym room playing that online game?" He impulsively asks.
Actually, Len decides to start a topic to keep her from asking why he suddenly decorated the place. He thinks that it is better to explain his actions later with the rest of his friends.
"I got bored. Piko and Nero are busy PVP-ing amongst themselves. I came out to pet some animals. Seen any butterflies, birds, bunnies or kitties around?" Olivia cheerily replies and holding up a small translucent grocery bag with a can of cat food, a bag of bird seeds and a number of various pet treats.
"To be honest, I haven't seen any yet. I guess I don't have any animal charisma anymore with these abilities." He informs her now that he noticed and observed it as well. He stares at the direction of the nearby Flower farm and scans the area for any single butterfly or bee flying. He sees none.
"Huh?" Olivia wonders when Len suddenly became silent for a few seconds and then she begins staring at the direction of the Flower farm.
"You can see that far? Well you don't have your contact lenses on after all. It's kind of creepy actually." She observes and politely say a frank remark.
"Oh sorry about that." He calmly utters with a meek grin. He, then, walks to the right tent to rinse and wear them on again. He has an extra eyewear kit that his twin sister packed for him in the lowest cabinet drawer. Olivia follows him out of curiosity.
Back in the cozy gymnasium...
"Aaaargh! I had enough of your crazy cheats! You stupid paytard!" An enraged silveret rants angrily and audibly rumbles as he storms away from the corner of the gym room where they were online-gaming. He looks back and sees the victor of their PVP match grinning widely as his blonde, pony-tailed and very voluptuous SP spouse congratulating him.
"As if he used any brains at all, even an ape can play better, plus he spammed his full HP potions way too many times. Ughh! He only won because he has the best equips in the game that only money can buy!" He bitterly mutters his scientific conclusions to himself as his hook-shaped strand of silver hair on top of his head and USB-like cord accessory or charm that dangled by his belt seem to irritably shot straight up for a brief single second.
"Hey Piko!" Rinto calls his attention, who is seated at the rectangular study table in the other corner of the room where he, Neru and Rin are copying his homework.
"We can't understand this handwriting, what letter is this?" Rin instantly asks as the brainy silveret approaches them and then she points to his handwriting on his notebook.
"I think it's the letter 'd' anyone can tell that!" Neru guesses in her normal tone, a quite haughty know-it-all way.
"Ouch! Hey!" She reacts and glares angrily at the short-haired blonde who just hit her on the shoulder.
"No silly, it looks like the letter 'q'!" Rin protests immediately as she just threw the naturally arrogant, long-haired strawberry blonde a kidding punch on the shoulder.
"Is this a letter 'b'?" Rinto, the golden-haired statuesque interruptedly asks Piko directly, who is giving them a very prominent 'WTH grimace'.
"Maybe it's the letter 'p'!" Mikuo calls out from high above the ground as he is upside-down on a trapeze with his knees balancing him on the handle.
There is a practice trapeze stage and a miniature trampoline stage in the Hatsune's large-enough gymnasium room.
"You know, 'p' for Piko." Then the brawny tealet snickers loudly.
"Bro, concentrate! Aaaahh!" Miku calls out but the tealette collides accidentally with her brother then they both fall down, crashing on the net below.
"Oof!" They both exclaim.
"..."
Piko just gives them yet another prominent 'say-what' face as he is still very irritated about his lost to Nero, who just approach them with Lenka and then he peers at his notebook.
"That's an 'l'! As in 'L'OSER!" Nero pronounces who suddenly became talkative and begins showing off his nerves. Then he shoots Piko an 'in-your-face look'. Piko vexingly death-glares the annoying strawberry blond in response.
"Nero my love, that is mean. Don't be like that. Hmm, I think this is actually two letters guys, a 'c' and an 'l'!" Lenka joins in the guessing game.
"'C'-OMPLETE 'L'-OSER!" Nero clarifies whilst pointing to Piko then he laughs heartily.
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The others begin to form smiles on their faces and couldn't help but laugh a little as well. It's not entirely because of the joke but because Nero used to be so shy or just usually plain dead silent. It's a strange yet refreshing change to them all as they figured that he's just trying to open up to them.
Miku and Mikuo has just approached the table and they scan the item in the notebook.
"This looks like a script writing of the letter 'z'!" Miku says, biting her lower lip to stop giggling.
"Hell no! Not a chance that it's a script 'z', that looks like... like... pffffft! hahahahahh!..." Mikuo butts in and then suddenly choked laughing at what he thought it resembles like and then whispers it to Rin's ear which made her heartily ROFL-ed at the obscene-minded idea which then she whispers to the others.
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Piko had enough and is now super pissed.
He heads for the crib, scoops out Athrylith and starts walking out of the gym room as he crossly retorts, "I'm going out for some fresh air. If I stay any longer, I'll have a permanent 'say-what' face with all your shenanigans. Hmpf!"
They all watch him stormily exit the door when,
"AND FYI! THAT'S A NUMBER 2!" He irritably shouts the answer.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHH!"
The moment he's gone, a round of LOLs, ROFLs, chuckles, giggles and snickers are heard. Even though he's super angry, he can be so irresistible. That is the main reason why most of them find it so hard not to tease the group's youngest male.
Piko walks outside the green embraced homes. He needs to release his steams. He is enjoying a brisk stroll in the Flower farm when he suddenly remembers that someone in the gym room is missing. The only person who could instantly lift his spirits up and the only one in the group who is younger than he. He, then, decides to commence searching for that certain someone whom he knew that could instantly blow off and melt away all his frustrations.
He recalls she loves to pet animals so whilst in the Flower farm he looks for her there believing that she could be chasing some butterflies in the area. He scans in every corner of the place but didn't find her. Then it occurred to him, there aren't any bugs or insects in the vicinity.
"Where could your maternal unit be?" He indirectly inquires Athrylith who is in his embrace. He would normally balance him on top of his head but he has too much anger inside it that he thought it wouldn't be a good idea to do that at the moment. He pulls something out of his pocket and straps Athrylith in his baby carrier and wears it like a backpack.
After searching the Flower farm, he walks around the Kagamine's home then around the Hatsune's home, next, he goes to where he parked his car. He glares at Nero's jeep that is parked next to his vehicle. He's so tempted to vandalize it but decides to be the better man and give him this last chance before he delivers him a sure retaliation.
Next, he passes by the metal works building then the tractor's shed then to the silos' site. Lastly, he heads for the clearing in dried-up cornfield to the party's venue. When he gets there, he is amazed at what he sees.
The stargazing party's venue looks like a glistening winter landscape.
As he walks around, the certain sealed area catches his attention. It looks like a huge snow globe doorway. He touches it and gives it quite a strong push but he couldn't go through it.
"This is entirely breath-taking but I wonder what this really is. I have a strong feeling that this isn't a decoration at all." Piko quietly mutters to himself.
He notices footsteps going to the tents' area which are behind the TV set and heads there. The footsteps lead him directly to the right tent.
He approaches it quietly and takes a peep and is at once surprised at what he saw.
There is Olivia and Len.
Olivia is sitting on the table whilst Len sits on a chair beside it. Notedly, Len's hand is emitting a faint light blue glow that almost looks closely water-like. He lets the pale blue water-light touch Olivia's left foot as he gently unbundles its bandage. Her wounds slowly heals and closes then disappears in only a matter of 4 to 5 minutes.
Piko backs away from the tent's entrance as he feels a heavy, nagging and unknown feeling which made him impulsively clutch his upper-left chest. For some reason, he finds it ultimately unbearable seeing her alone with another man. Or, is it that he is just plainly jealous of Len who is actually helping her get better? What could it be? There's only one thing to do. He enters the tent and greets them, "So this is where you were!" he says stolidly.
"Oh, hi Piko! I couldn't find any critters to pet when I got out of the gym room but Len is here to entertain me." Olivia replies cheerfully.
'E... Entertain? What does she mean? And, did she just called out my name plainly and without any attached term or suffix of endearment at all?' He ponders furiously, trying his best not to form a death-glare facial expression out of his paranoia but one of his eyes, the left one which is blue, twitched noticeably.
Our dear silveret has eyes with different colours, the left one is light blue while the right one has a slight touch of green, therefore making him heterochromia iridum.
"Looky!" She lifted up her left foot to show him.
"It feels great now without the wound and scars. Thanks Len!" She gratefully thanks him.
"I'm happy to be of help. What's next? How about your eye or your knee perhaps?" Len gladly offers.
"The knee first please." She perkily chooses, which this time makes Piko's green eye twitch because he unintentionally sees Len instantly smile at her cute response.
Piko imagines a scenario as he feels like grabbing her, throwing her over his shoulder and storming out of the tent, carrying her away.
Of course, he didn't since they aren't doing anything wrong. He cannot deny the fact that she has such an immense and powerful charm that could make anyone even the most serious one in the group break into a smile.
He then just decides to approach closer to her and stand right beside where she is seated.
"Alright, let's begin with this next then." He hears him say. Len emits the steady glowing to magnify from his left hand, positioning it aside her knee as he carefully unbundles the bandages using his right hand.
Olivia flinches a little from the pain for a portion of the bandage acted like a tough adhesive that stick to her wound's surface. She grabs Piko by the waist who is standing right beside her as she presses her face on middle of his chest. Startled for the sudden reaction but soon grins, he then draws closer to her to secure the embrace until four to five minutes has passed.
"I hope I didn't hurt you too much." Len says as he finished healing her right knee.
"It was the bandage that hurt me and not the watery glowing thing. You actually made it feel so much better now. Thanks again, Len!" Olivia utters gratefully as she turns her head to face him but still leaning on the silveret's chest for he hasn't let go.
"Last one then, the eye." He informs Olivia, who then lets go of his waist and sits herself properly. She is feeling nervous as Piko notices her shaking. He takes her by the hand to keep her steady as Len takes her hat off and slowly unbundles the bandages but leaving some of the bandages unbundled as to avoid hurting her again.
There are scratches on her left eye lids, scars underneath the lower left part of the eye and a deep, oozing wound right on the center of her iris. Gathering his concentration, Len slowly places his left hand over her left eye and emits an even stronger pale blue watery glow.
This wound appears deeper than the previous ones. It takes him more time to heal it. The wounds finally close after 8 minutes but he decides to add an extra minute since he isn't satisfied with the outcome as he frowns with the result.
Piko, himself, couldn't believe it either as all he can do is observe and examine as the healing session occurs and progresses.
With the last attempt's end results seemingly to be a failure. Len sadly closes his eyes to inform Olivia the outcome.
The scars below her eyelids have disappeared, the scratches on her eyelids closed and are gone, no more blood seems to be oozing out of the critically damaged middle portion of her left eye and the pupil and iris have formed back to normal but...
"Olivia, I'm sorry to inform you this but I have some bad news..." Len slowly utters.
"I don't feel any pain coming out of my eye anymore and I think I'm beginning to have a slight eyesight returning on it a little. Much appreciated Len. You really have my deepest gratitude and..." Olivia cheerfully states as she wears her hat but Len interrupts her.
"No! Don't thank me at all! I may have made it worse for you!" He hurtfully admits then he quickly turns around, opens and searches Miku's cabinet drawer and takes out a small round mirror.
Realizing Len's voice sounds like it is in pain, Olivia begins to feel so afraid and very nervous so she slowly turns and looks at Piko who is staring at her in the eyes in complete silence.
She noticed that he is looking rather pale which made her shiver.
"W..what's wrong guys? You're both scaring me." Olivia fearfully and nervously says to the point of crying.
Then before Len can hand her the mirror, her eyes shot wide open as she sees her own reflection in Piko's eyes.
* GASP ! ! ! ! *
Her left eye has regained full sight
but what she sees in his eyes is ...
a glint of eerie shade of deep red.