Juuban no hanashi

My take on the story. It will be kinda AU-ish and have a few main OCs. The story kinda joins the series after ep.18 but splits in a completely different direction. Just to warn ya, I haven't watched the anime after that episode.

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'thinking'

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(mind speak) ANs and comments

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Dreams, they are mysterious things. Sometimes they show us good things, sometimes bad and sometimes so strange that even we can't comprehend them. People used to say that dreams reflect either our daily experiences or our dreams/goals and fantasies. I used to belive them but now...I'm not too shure. If what they said was true, then why am I seeing this? It's not something I've seen in real life, nor is it my goal/dream. What is it? I've been wondering for more than a decade and still can't answer this question.. At first I would see it very rarely. It would then disapper for a long period of time and then appear again. This repeated for quite a while but then I noticed the time between each dream decreases bit by bit. Recently, I would see it at least 3-4 times a week. What is this dream? Why do I keep having it? Is it just some illusion of my subconsciousness or maybe something more? A premonition for the future perhaps? I may still not know the answer but I have the feeling I'll find out sooner or later.

===Dream===

I'm in a completely white, endless space. My body is gone and just my mind floats around in one place. In front of me slowly forma a structure. It's shaped like a dome, made entirely out of glass, not a single hole in it. At the top the glass is stained in dark grey and blue colors and as you go down the glass becomes clearer and more transperent. The bottom was attached to a metal block. Inside was full of many things.

In the air floated two orbs, one white, one black, there were many framed pictures hung on the walls. The only thing that changed about them was that some had disappeared over time and others looked like they were cut up with knife, the only intact picture was of a small boy with blonde hair, kind smile, black eyes and two moles above his left eyebrow.

The floor was covered by a thick layer of fluffy carped that depicted many different things, from animals long gone to stars and galaxies. There were also many books, toys, stuffed robot and, strangely, a Klaxosaur-human hybrid chibi with no face.

In the centre was a king-sized bed with many scientific notes and strange trinkets floating around it, they became more and more with each dream, becoming more complex every time I saw them. On the bed always sat a lone girl with long dark brown, almost black, hair. I literally saw her grow up and although I never talked or met her, I felt some sort of familiarity with her. I saw her changing from young girl to a cold, calculating and secretive teen. The closet thing I could compare her to is a snake waiting for the perfect time to strike. She grew her hair and hid her beautiful face and amethyst eyes. The thing about her that never changed was the small cherry branch and stuffed fluffball she always had.

Every time I try and fail to reach her or hear her. She's always murmuring something, like she's talking with someone, but I can't hear a word. In the end everything fades in white.

===End dream===

As I wake up and start plan our next action against the human-wannabes, I can't help but think about that dream again.

'If she really does exist, I hope we won't have to fight eachother.'

I turn towards my subjects and start instructing them. I'm their princess, after all.

===Someplace different, plantation 14===

I've always been different. Ever since I could remember I was the odd one among the other parasites raised to protect the adults. At least I wasn't the only one, No.016, 015 and some others from their group were also different. No matter how much they injected us, we always remained , if you ask the adults I was like most of the children. I was quiet, obedient and didn't show any emotions. I was oten made an example of how others should behave but that wasn't true. I was just awkward with people and didn't know how to act, so I distanced myself and showed no weakness.

-The past-

Only one person could understand me from all other children. I called him Sunny. Yeah, No.016 or Hiro's namegiving had rubbed on to me. I wasn't good with names, so I named him Sunny after his hair, I named myself An- the An from JuubAN. Not very original but it was fine for me. I also started to give the others nicknames too, like Specks, Cowlick, Duckhead, miss Piggy, Tall guy and others because, face it, only Sunny was my friend. I started to put nicknames on the adults too, but because of how they dressed it was much harder. The stiff guy that often checked on us was , there were also miss Too-sweet-to-be-true-smile, the Albinosa, the Grinder (he liked to grind his teeth when andry), nurse Pein, doctor Candy, Chess Pro, there was also the 'Creepy scientist club'. They did shady stuff that were 'secret' enough for me to see quite a few documents and tests. That's how I found my fascination with science and inventing stuff.

Life was good untill they took Sunny away to be tested on because his results aparently weren't high enough to keep him as a parasite. That was the only day my emotionless mask broke since I could remember. I started screaming, trashing and wven attacked the adults in a desperate attempt to save him. They were, however, not only stronger than me but were more and armed. I was tranquilized and dragged off to somewhere. Because I was the smallest number I knew they won't kill me but Sunny, he was in the 400s. The last thing I saw before falling asleep was him smiling at me and mouthing me the message "Please, be happy for me too."

'Sunny...I'm sorry...'

The next few hours were hazy. My mind cleared while I was lead back to my bed. As I laid there, I realized something was wrong. Some black spots had appeared in my memory.

'Come on! Remember! What happened today? I got up and then... and then...'

(An-chan, please calm down. Your head will hurt if you concentrate so intencely.) -Yang, one of the voices in my head told me in caring voice.

(Cheh! Stop botherin' with 'er! I'll tell ya wha' happened! Your bestie got 'napped to be some testin' subject to the fking scientists, you tried to rescue 'im but were spectacularly defeated by a tranquilizr. After tha' you were strapd ta some weird metal bowl with many cables but woke up, bit e few O' those bastard but were 'nocked out again. Then they deleter yer memories!) - Yin, the other voice told me.

Suddenly everything flooded back to my mind. I was furious with the adults, with the APE, with the Papa and prof. Metalhead (prof. Franxx).

' I'll never forget what they did! I'll return it to them tenfold someday! For now, I'll bide my time and grow stronger. And when I have the opportunity, I'll strike them!'

(An-chan, please don't become self-destructive!)

(Sut up ya fool! She manned up!)

(But she's a girl! How can she 'man up'?!)

(She just can! So, close your trap!)

Suddenly they stopped arguing. One white and one black orb overlapped in my dreamscape. This meant only one thing.

(As the years pass, and the tree grows, it'll break free from its prison. It'll spred its branches lush and shelter those in need. With the help of the different and one of the fake, it will change the world for better. Seek the princess that rules no man. With her help true peace will come to all.) - they said the prophecy in at the same time.

'What tree? Ugh, they are so confusing sometimes. I have to seek the princess that rules no man? What princess? Wait! If she doesn't rule us then who, there aren't...! The Klaxosaurs! She must rule them! Does that mean I have to go to the klaxosaurs to meet her? I'll surely be killed! And who are the different and the fake one? I'll have to wait and see. For now, I'll have to train more and start trying to do some of my experiments but for now I'll sleep.'

From then on I trained with all I've got. I learned how to hide my 'forbidden' items so that the adults won't find them and ruin my plans. I even made secret compartments near my bed and in a secluded corner in the library. It took a bit more time to figure the guards' shift and patrool patterns, also where the cameras were, but once I did, no one could stop me. I snuck in and out as I pleased. One night, well in was very early in the morning, before the sun had even started to rise, I saw a new caretaker I've never seen. I don't know what made me follow her but I did and saw her take a big tray of food, along with a book of some sort, and bring it to a secret place. A door hidden in the end of one of the hallways we weren't allowed to go. I didn't follow much, only 5-6 small steps and peered inside, I saw an interesting room with colorful tapestry, toys and something like a chain screwed in the wall.

'Is someone imprisoned there?'

I heard fait noise from the hallway on my left, it was footsteps.

'Crap! I forgot about the wedensday morning patrool! I'll get caught if I don't hurry! Thank fate I heard them!'

I quickly snuck into another hallway and entered the ventilation shaft and waited for the guards to pass.

'I have a minute and 40 seconds to reach block B before they lock this section for disinfection. After that I'll have to return as soon as possible to my bed!'

I got out and ran. I managed to reach it in 1'30 minutes. After that I went to my bed through a vent because they locked the doors. I even had an hour to spare!

'What do you think? Who was there? Why do they need to be chained?'

(OI! Slow a lil, will ya! I'ma tryin' to sleep!)

(Don't yell yet, please. I'm also sleepy but I don't take out my anger on others Yin.)

(Yeah, 'cause you're a p*ssy!)

(I'm not! I'm a gentleman!)

They started arguing again. If I wasn't going to attract attention, I would have told somebody. Voices in your head aren't something good. On the other hand they keep me company and make things more amusing in this boring place.

'I'll try to sneak in a lab tomorrow! It's time I start my first experiment! The 'Electrum Ooze' should be able to contain a TON, no even more than a ton of energy, I just have to test and make the first prototype!'

Next day was not good one. I saw on my way to the dining hall. He was talking with another scientist about beginning some tests on a 'subject' that day. God knew how long that would last, so I needed to change my plans.

'I'll look who the person in that secret room is, and if possible see which labs the Metalhead is using and stay as far away as possible.'

That same night I snuck out through the vents again. I used one of the butter knives I secretly took from the dining hall to loosen the grate that was right above the secret room. I made almost no noise as I removed it. I peered inside and saw a gorgeous room with many toys and a cmfortable bed. There was a star-themed tapestry all around the room. I searched and saw no cameras were looking below the vent. The only cameras were looking at the entrance and the place with the chains that were now empty.

'Damn! Looks like I was late. Whatever, I'll get a look and see if there's something nice.'

I used one of the bed's posts to climb down, it was close to the vent and high enough for me to climb back in if needed. I walked around the room, avoiding the two places watched by cameras, and went to the toys. There were many but what got my attention was a stuffed yellow fluffball with two blue eyes glued to it. It reminded me of Sunny, so I climbed the mountain of toys and got it.

(An-chan! You have to go up! Someone will come here soon!) - Yang was worried.

I trusted him and went in the wents as quick as possible. I had closed the vent and scewed it back when I heard a crash and cursing.

(Hahaha! Ya hear that?! The idiot tripped and fell on his face! A masterpiece if I may say myself!)

(Shut up! We're trying to listen!)

A scientist came in, walked to the chain and took some pictures and DNA samples, he left after that. I turned around and headed towards my bed. Tere was more excitement than I wanted tonight. I would have to look for a lab tomorrow. I went to bed with my new toy fluffball.