The past meet's the future
I found out that there are little stories of B't X so I'm going to post my own story of it on fanfiction. I hope you like it, just no rude comments okay?
This is a Bt'X story and just to let you know that I don't own some of the character's from the Bt'X anime, except the characters that I made up within my head. This story is about an 18 year old girl that has no friends, who meets a strange robot that thinks for it self after some of her blood accidentally splashed onto it when receiving an injury from a strange man that wanted to kill her.
A strange encounter
It was dark. Every where she turned she only saw darkness and nothing else; she was alone within this strange emptiness that threatened to engulf her. She was sitting on the ground with her knees curled up to her chest and her head buried within her arms.
"So this is what its like to be alone with out any friends," she whispered to herself. "It's dark...and cold, is this how my life will be like forever?"
Just then, she suddenly felt warmth flowing through her body as the darkness started to disappear from all around her. She slowly raised her head from her arms as she looked to see that she was in a world of light with her body burning with intense warmth. She also saw a bright ball of light floating towards her. She started to see a figure within the ball of light, but she couldn't seem to catch a good glimpse of its body.
"You...Who are you?"
The figure didn't answer her as it only kept floating towards her with the light growing brighter around her.
Real world
An alarm clock suddenly rang as it awoke the person from under the covers of the bed. An 18 year old girl slowly arose from her bed with her long black hair falling down to the middle of her back as she rubbed the back of her right hand over her right eye to get some of sleep out of her eyes.
"What a weird dream," she voiced before a yawn escaped from her mouth.
"Cassandra!" a voice shouted from down stairs. "Are you awake yet?"
"I'm up!" shouted the girl, Cassandra, right back.
"Well you better hurry up and get dressed or you're going to be late for your bus!"
Cassandra groaned in discouragement before she got out of her bed. She walked over to her bedroom desk and looked into her mirror to see her dark brown eyes staring back at her. Her brown eyes held a dull look to them as they show no light of hope within them; it was as if they had lost their light many years ago. On top of her forehead was a small light brown X mark that she had been born with when she was just a baby. Cassandra started brushing her long dark hair to get out the knots that had been made when she was rolling around in her bed.
Cassandra was a girl that lived in the country side within the far west within Colorado U.S state. Her family owned a huge horse ranch with pure breed trail horses and equestrian horse running around their grounds. Cassandra loved being out on this far land for it gave her a sense of freedom from her daily life within the city when she attended school there. Cassandra was a loner for she had never made any friends to call her own, because she was too proud and too stubborn to face up to any one. And she would always keep her problems to herself for she preferred to handle them on her own. Once Cassandra finished she went into the bathroom to brush her teeth and to change her clothes. It took only a few seconds until she finally came out wearing her favorite outfit that she would always wear to school.
Cassandra was wearing a dark blue shirt with a white 'X' on the front of it, a black vest covering half of the front of Cassandra's shirt, tan cargo pants with a black belt around the waist, and black fingerless gloves. Cassandra liked to make her self look tough in front of people for she didn't want to appear weak around of them, but that doesn't mean that she was really weak for she always took up a martial arts class every Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Cassandra also took up some weapon training sessions to defend her self against strangers that wanted to harm her in any way. Cassandra finished the final touch to her outfit by tying a green headband around her forehead before turning to the mirror to look at her self. A small smiled appeared on her face when she saw her reflection in the surface.
"There," she voiced to her self. "I'm ready to take action."
"CASSANDRA!" shouted the voice from down stairs again.
"I'm coming!" called Cassandra in exasperation before looking at a picture frame that stood on her bedroom window. "Wish me luck, bro."
With that said, Cassandra raced down stairs to where her mother was waiting for her. Coming into the kitchen, Cassandra saw her mother cooking on the kitchen stove. Cassandra's mother looked up from her cooking and saw her daughter walking into the kitchen.
The mother's name was Ramona. Ramona was twenty-nine years old with blonde hair that grew down to her shoulders and dark blue eyes that held a beautiful light in them. Ramona was wearing a white halter-top, a blue skirt, and blue slippers on her feet.
"Good morning Cassandra," greeted Ramona with a smile.
"Morning," greeted Cassandra right back as she sat down at the table.
Cassandra started to eat her eggs and toast as quickly as she could before taking a big gulp of her orange juice. Ramona rolled her eyes in amusement as she watched her daughter finishing up her breakfast.
'She takes up after her brother that girl,' she thought.
Cassandra finished her breakfast and quickly placed her dishes onto the kitchen counter before giving her mother a goodbye kiss.
"See you mom," said Cassandra.
"You have a good day at school dear." Ramona said with a smile.
'I wish it were that simple,' voiced Cassandra within her head before running towards the door where her red and blue backpack laid waiting for her.
Cassandra quickly sat down to tie on her black and blue sneakers before grabbing her backpack: "Bye mom!"
"Take care!" called Ramona from the kitchen.
Cassandra shut the door behind her before running down the road that will lead her to where the bus stop is. A black horse lifted its head up from where it was eating its morning grass as it watch Cassandra ran past its pasture. The horse let out a whinny to Cassandra with the girl stopping to look back at it.
"See you later Storm!" called Cassandra with a wave before running off down the road again.
Cassandra made it to her bus stop in time before the bus came to its destination. The bus stopped in front of Cassandra and opened its doors for her. Cassandra quickly climbed into the bus and took her usual spot in the front row while keeping a clear distance away from the other teenagers that were talking behind her in the far back. Cassandra watched the scene of the hills and mountains pass by her window as her country home started to disappear in front of her.
It was always the same for Cassandra as she would always go to school and stare out at the wild scenery that was her home until it changed into the hard streets of concrete where crimes and panic lived in. Cassandra's mind soon wondered to her brother. Her brother was in Australia right now with the men who herded the wild Brumbies and wondered what he was doing right now. Cassandra's home soon turned into the violent streets of the city.
"Well…here we go again," grumbled Cassandra when she saw that her bus had arrived at her school.
The school was a large brick building with nothing else could be seen within the school yard. All the teenagers walked out of the bus with Cassandra being the last of them to get off. Cassandra was about to pass through the gates of the school when she suddenly spotted a man standing ten feet around the corner of the school. The man was wearing brown pants, black boots, and a black cape was draped over his body with his face visible to Cassandra. Cassandra saw that the man had dark red hair that was spiked up on his head and dark blue eyes glaring into her own. Cassandra felt a cold chill run down her spine and she quickly tore her eyes away from the man's eyes as she quickly trotted into the school where she knew that she will be safe within its gates.
The man gave a smirk when he first saw the girl and made eye contact with her: 'So that's the chosen one that will destroy us dark lords and bring peace to this world with her light? Ha! She doesn't have the slightest glimpse of light within those eyes of hers. This will be a piece of cake.'
In the school, Cassandra was sitting at her desk while looking out of the window to the streets that lay out before her and she saw the same man still standing at the corner while he glared up at her.
'Why is he looking at me like that?' thought Cassandra in worry. 'Is he some kind of stalker or something? If that's so, then I'll have to take a different way to get home. That would mean taking a different bus to the countryside, Oh…man.'
"Cassandra!" shouted the teacher up at the front desk.
"Yes ma'am!" answered Cassandra as she quickly looked at the teacher startled.
"Cassandra this is English class, not daydreaming class." The teacher scolded as she waved the tip of her chock at Cassandra.
Cassandra looked down at the floor sadly with embarrassment as the kids started laughing at her. Cassandra wished that she wasn't the center of attention all the time at school, especially with the people in the city for they only saw her as a country girl that only knew of rodeo moves at her Father's ranch, but the truth was that Cassandra had a secret. Up within the mountains near her home, she had a secret place where she worked on machine parts whenever her father's tractor or computer breaks down. She also works on scraps that she would sometimes find within the city to create something useful when she is working on her weapon training. She was the only one who knew about her secret place within the mountains and she never told her parents about it.
The school day dragged on for Cassandra as she tried not to think about the man that was waiting to kill her when she got out of school. The day soon came to an end for Cassandra as she started to pack up her things for the trip home when three girls came up to her. They were all wearing the same outfit, which are spaghetti halter-tops in the color of hot pink, green short skirts, and high heel shoes in the shade of green.
The leader of the group was blonde hair girl with long hair that was tied up in a high ponytail and bright green eyes that held a glimmer within in them. Her two lackeys were a red head and a brunette who had the same hair style as their leader with their eyes being the same color as their leader with the help of contacts.
"Well, well girls, look at who we've got here," chuckled the blonde as she smirked at Cassandra.
"Hello Kristy," mumbled Cassandra in greeting to the blonde. "Are you and you're lackeys still roaming around the school looking for boys to hunt down."
"Hump!" scoffed Kristy with a toss of her hair. "You many think its funny now, but just you wait because one of these days you'll wish you found yourself a boyfriend."
"Yeah," echoed both the red head and the brunette together.
Cassandra only rolled her eyes at them as she finished packing her stuff into her backpack. She slung her backpack over her shoulder's and walked out of the class while blocking out the taunting of Kristy and her group as she started think about that man that's waiting for her outside, and how to get around him. Suddenly, she just remembered the back entrance of the school that lead out into the back alley and thought that it would be the perfect escape route for her. Cassandra quickly ran down the hall towards the back entrance while making sure that no one saw her passing through the halls of the school. Cassandra had to take many corners and turns just to reach her destination until she finally found the entrance that will lead her to the alley behind the school. Slowly she opened the door and started to look around for any sign of danger.
"Good, nobody is here," breathed Cassandra in relief as she stepped out of the door into the alley.
"I've been waiting for you."
Cassandra went ridged when she suddenly heard a voice behind her and turned to see the same man standing in front of her. Cassandra started to feel the same chill go down her back when she locked eyes with the man that stood before her.
"Who are you?" questioned Cassandra in a quiet voice.
The man smirked, and without warning Cassandra felt something stabbed her in left shoulder through her backpacks shoulder strap that was sliced off from her shoulder. Cassandra cried out in pain as she quickly covered the wound as her backpack fell to the ground with a thud. The man smirked at he held up the blade of his sword that had suddenly appeared out from under the cover of his cloak.
"My name is Bowen Standard, the black knight to the true king of this world," answered the man with a smirk.
Cassandra glared at the man in anger as thoughts flew through her head. Why does this guy call himself a knight? And what does he mean by true king? But the most important question that was going though Cassandra's head was why is she being attack by this guy? Her blood started to drip down her arm and fingers as she tried to hold the blood back with her right hand as red liquid drops dripped down onto the concrete ground before her.
"W-why are you attacking me?" questioned Cassandra as she staggered to keep her self from falling over in pain.
"A simple answer to a simple question," cackled Bowen. "You see, from where I come from there is a prophecy that will change the future of this world and it goes like this: 'Where the earth will meet its fate, a warrior will rise up to destroy the darkness that will swallow everything in its path. This warrior will have long black hair and a scar that is in a shape of an 'X' on top of they're head. They will bring light to this world with his sword at his side and true peace shall be restored. That is why my lord has sent me to look for you, oh chosen one, for you are the one that will bring the destruction to our precious Dark Kingdom."
"I have no idea what you're talking about!" shouted Cassandra in anger. "What is this Dark Kingdom? And what does this prophecy have to do with me?"
"Many things kid, many things." Bowen answered as he lifted his sword up in front of him. "And for the prophecy to not be fulfilled, my lord what's me to kill you so that you won't be a thorn to him."
Cassandra grounded her teeth in frustration as she tried to figure out a way to escape this man until her eyes laid on the trashcans that sat a little ways to her right. In one quick motion, Cassandra quickly kicked the trashcans with one of the lids flying off of it. Cassandra grabbed the lid in one quick motion with her right hand before throwing it at Bowen. Bowen quickly deflected it with his sword, but was suddenly caught off guard when he suddenly saw a bunch of trashcans rolling towards him and he quickly jumped to avoid them. Cassandra took that chance to run down and out of the alley to escape the man that wanted to kill her.
Bowen saw Cassandra running around the corner and smirked: "Trying to run huh? That only makes my job more interesting!"
Bowen quickly jumped ten feet into the air and landed on the roof top where he could catch up to the girl more easily as he started to follow her around the city.
Unknown location
Everything was dark within the room as a figure covered in shadow sat within his chair looking down at the floor where a circle of light projected the image of Cassandra running down the streets while holding her shoulder in pain. The figure smirked as he watched the scene before him.
"This is becoming more and more interesting by the minute." He said with a chuckle. "But I wonder how long this girl can run without Bowen killing her in the end."
"I would say that she would have 0% chance of escaping Bowen," a male voice answered beside the figure. "For humans are such pathetic beings who have weak bodies to support themselves, unlike you Master."
"I suppose you're right my friend," sighed the figure in content. "It's a shame that this girl has to live a fate where she will be a threat to my kingdom of darkness, but as people would always say; you can't change destiny."
Back with Cassandra
Cassandra was running down the street as she tried to find the bus stop that will take her back home, but no matter where she turned she just couldn't seem to find one any where.
"Oh man!" cried Cassandra in dismay. "Where is a bus stop when you need one?"
Just then, Cassandra suddenly felt a jolt go through her body and she quickly stopped in her tracks. Slowly, Cassandra turned her head towards where she had felt the jolt from and saw that she was at the entrance of a junkyard. Cassandra slowly walked through the gates of the junkyard as her shoes kicked up the dried dust and gravel from beneath her feet. All was quiet in the junkyard as Cassandra walked into the middle of the yard with all of the metal parts of crushed cars and other appliances surrounding her from all sides. Cassandra looked around with a frown on her face.
"That was weird," she mumbled. "I could have sworn that felt something calling me here."
"I found you!" shouted a voice from above her.
Cassandra quickly looked up and saw Bowen falling down towards her with his sword pointed downwards. Cassandra quickly dodged to the side as Bowen's sword struck the ground from where she had been standing on just a few moments ago. Cassandra rolled a few feet away from Bowen before getting up on to her hands and knees again as she glared at the man in front of her out of anger.
"Damn it, you're persistent!" shouted Cassandra.
"My orders were to kill you no matter what," said Bowen as he lifted his sword up out of the ground. "And I will never stop until you are out of my master's sight forever."
"Oh ya!" growled Cassandra as she quickly stood up from the ground. "Well there's just one little problem to that."
"And what's that?" questioned Bowen out of curiosity.
"I'm stubborn," answered Cassandra before throwing a sharp piece of metal at Bowen.
"You think that will stop me?" scoffed Bowen as he simply raised his metal sword up and slashed down on the object.
The metal was sliced in two, but that was enough for Cassandra to come in close and slam a sharp edged metal pipe into Bowen's stomach. Bowen let out a grunt when he felt the metal pipe being plunged into his stomach with Cassandra leaped back to the same place where she had been at before.
"That's for injuring my shoulder you jerk!" shouted Cassandra with a smirk.
But her smirk quickly disappeared when she saw that Bowen was still standing and that was when her eyes caught something sparking against the metal pipe that was pierced into his stomach.
"Sparks flying out of a human's body?" voiced Cassandra in shock. "That can't happen unless…unless, YOU'RE A CYBORG!"
"So you figured it out huh?" Bowen chuckled with a smirk before throwing off his cloak to revile his top torso.
Cassandra gasped at the sight she saw in front of her. Bowen's top torso was covered with metal parts that were more advanced then the technology of today. The metal sword that was supposed to be in his right hand was actually attached to his arm from the wrist down.
"But…that's not possible," stammered Cassandra as she took a step back in shock. "The technology that we have here isn't supposed to be this advanced!"
"Well unfortunately for you and your human race, the king's technology is much more advanced then you're government's junk."
Cassandra felt her heart stop in her chest as she looked at Bowen in fear. She knew that she didn't stand a chance against something that wasn't of flesh and blood. Cassandra quickly grabbed another piece of sharp metal and threw it at Bowen, but it was instantly flung away by Bowen's sword and as he started to advance towards the fear struck Cassandra. Cassandra quickly climbed up onto the scrap pill while avoiding any sharp pieces of metal that might scratch her hands as she tried to escape Bowen and his sword until she suddenly came to the top where she was trapped.
"Oh, no!" gasped Cassandra when she saw how high she was on the scrap heap.
She was ten feet from the ground from where she was standing on the scrap pile within the junkyard.
"No where to run now little girl," said Bowen as he advanced towards Cassandra.
Cassandra turned around to face Bowen, but that became her biggest mistake when she suddenly felt Bowen's sword pierce into her left shoulder again and that made her cry out in pain. A few specks of blood flew through the air before falling onto the scraps of metal that was below the scrap heap that Cassandra and Bowen were standing on. Cassandra staggered backwards in pain before her right foot landed on an uneven surface of metal, and it soon collapsed underneath the weight of her foot. Cassandra suddenly found herself falling through the air while she was staring up at the junk heap with Bowen smirking down at her in satisfaction.
'Is this the end?' thought Cassandra within her head. 'Am I to die within this scrap heap? No! I can't die here, not yet! I can't break the promise that I made to my grandfather and brother now!'
"I can't give up!"
Suddenly, without warning, the trash heap that Cassandra was falling towards started to move before exploding into the air with a bang. Cassandra heard the noise and started twisting her body around to see what was going on below her and her eyes saw something flying up towards her in a blur, and before she could identify what it was; it slammed into her. Cassandra nearly blacked out for a moment, but soon regained her senses by shaking her head to clear the dizziness and she found herself laying on something hard and cold. She was in a dead man position like how she would lie on her horses back for fun when she was at home on her father's ranch.
"W-what's going on?" groaned Cassandra and gasped when she saw that she was floating ten feet in the air again, "What the-!"
Cassandra suddenly felt movement underneath her body and she saw that she was slowly drifting down to earth again before lightly landing down on the ground. Cassandra slowly slid off from the solid object that she was lying on as she landed on her feet ungracefully. Cassandra was staring at the ground for a minute before she realized that her hands were touching something metallic and she quickly backed away to see what she was touching, and her eyes widened at what she saw in front of her.
Standing before Cassandra was a robot in the shape of a white horse with large wings attached to its back, but something was off about the robot horse. On top of the metal-beast's head were two horns with half of its top right horn cut off, the tail was long and thin like a lion's tail with spikes running down it with larger spikes running down on top of its neck. Its yellow eyes stared at Cassandra with an unreadable look on its face.
Cassandra felt a lump in her throat as she looked at the robot for a moment before noticing a scar shape 'X' on its forehead: 'That scar…It looks exactly like my scar.'
The horse started stamping its front metal hoof down on the metal scrap covered ground in anger as it glared at Cassandra. Cassandra took another step back when she saw this action for she had been around horses long enough to know of their moods, weather they were a robot or not.
"H-hey lets not get too hasty here," said Cassandra as she held up both of her hands in front of her.
The robot only kept stamping its hoof down on the ground as it glared at Cassandra. Cassandra stood her ground as she slowly backed away from the robot while making sure not to make any sudden movements, but she stopped in her tracks when she suddenly heard a deep male voice speaking to her.
"Who are you?"
"W-what?" gasped Cassandra in shock as she started looking around for the source of the voice. "Who said that?"
"I did," answered the voice again.
Cassandra then turned back to the robot with wide eyes: "No…way, you can talk?"
"Hump, not the sharpest tool in the shed," the voice from the robot said again with a toss of its head.
Cassandra twitched at what she heard from this machine and was about to make a comeback when she suddenly heard metal crashing against on each other. She quickly turned around and saw Bowen sliding down the metal scrap hill at high speed.
"Whatever," said Cassandra as she turned back to look at the robotic horse. "Right now I don't have the time to talk with you, because right now I'm in a bit of a situation with a stalker that wants to kill me because of some prophecy that his majesty doesn't want to come true."
"What!" questioned the robot as its/his (for Cassandra was pretty sure that this robot was a he) eyes flashed for a moment.
"Same reaction," mumbled Cassandra with a shrug of her shoulders.
"DARK SLASH!" shouted Bowen as he slashed his sword downwards to create a razor wind that headed right towards Cassandra and the Robot-horse.
Cassandra and the Robot saw the attack coming towards them and they quickly dodged it by going in different directions with the horse flying upwards into the sky. Cassandra rolled out of the way, but she accidentally rolled over her left shoulder and that caused her to cry out in pain as she grabbed her shoulder to suppress the blood from flowing out of her wound while glaring at the man again.
"Alright, that does it!" she shouted as she stood up onto her feet again. "I'm not going to run away from this guy any more. Whether he's a cyborg or not, I'm not going to let somebody like him push me around any more!"
Cassandra soon found a sharp metal scrap piece that was as long as a sword and got her self ready to clash swords with Bowen. Bowen smirked at Cassandra when he came to ground level and started walking towards her. Cassandra tightened her grip on her sharp edged sword before rushing towards the cyborg with her sword pointed straight forward.
"Pathetic," laughed Bowen as he raised his sword up above his head to strike it down on Cassandra when she came close up to him.
Cassandra smirked before she halted in mid-step and twisted her body around as she slashed her metal sword across Bowen midsection again where the wound that she had made with the metal pipe had struck. Bowen grunt in pain as he held his stomach in pain.
"Ha! How does that feel when you're the one in pain?" shouted Cassandra.
Flying high above the junk yard, the robot was watching the scene with interest as he saw how the girl had stopped and slashed the man with just a piece of metal scrap.
"Hump, not bad for a human girl." he voiced, "She knew when to stop in front of the man before slashing her scrap metal piece into the dent on the mans stomach. Maybe she is the sharpest tool in the shed after all."
Everything was silent within the junkyard as Cassandra stood facing Bowen with a glare until she was taken back when she started to hear the cyborg chuckling before it turned into a full out laughter.
"What's so funny?" questioned Cassandra crossly.
"You stupid child," said Bowen. "Do you really think that a cyborg can be taken down that easily, and one more thing. You just fell into my trap."
"What!" shouted Cassandra in alarm before glancing down at her feet to see a small bomb resting at her feet.
'Oh, no,' thought Cassandra in panic as she watched the little red light blinking on and off as it started beeping louder and faster.
Just then, the robot horse shot down from the sky in a blur. Cassandra noticed the robot coming towards her and she quickly dropped her scrap metal sword when the winged horse came within range of her.
"Grab hold!" shouted the robot and Cassandra quickly did what she was told as she quickly wrapped her arms around the broad metal neck of the beast as he carried her away from the bomb.
A large explosion occurred throughout the junkyard as it sent a shock wave through the area. Cassandra was nearly knocked off her mount, but she somehow managed to hang on without falling of the metal-beast's back. The robot flew higher into the air before they were finally at a safer range away from Bowen and kept flying away from the junkyard with Cassandra holding on tight to his neck for dear life with her eyes shut tightly. Bowen sneered before grabbing something off of his belt.
"Don't think that you can get away from me that easily!" he growled as he glared up at the disappearing forms of the robot and Cassandra.
In the air
It took a while for Cassandra to slowly open her eyes to see that she was still on the back of the robot-horse as they were flying through the air with clouds passing by them.
"Am I alive?" asked Cassandra quietly. "Or am I in heaven?"
"In hell," answered the robot bluntly.
Cassandra slowly sat up on the back of the robot as she started shaking her head to clear her mind before looking behind her to see what the robot meant. To her dismay, she saw Bowen was still chasing them as he flew through the air while standing on some kind of hover board made out of electricity. Cassandra started to get really ticked as her finger tips started to clench tighter around the metal body of the horse.
"This guy is really starting to get on my nerves!" growled Cassandra.
"What are you going to do about it?" asked the robot out of curiosity.
"Do? I'll tell you what I'm gonna do. I'm going to punch his face so hard that he won't be able to bear the pain for weeks."
"And how are you going to catch him on that flying board of his?"
"You ask too many questions! Why don't you figure out the answer?" shouted Cassandra in anger as she turned her eyes on the robot again.
The robot glared over his shoulder to look at Cassandra: "You shouldn't be shouting at me if I was you!"
"Don't get smart with me!" barked Cassandra before she had to cling onto the robots neck again as it shot out of the way from Bowen's dark slash attack.
"I should be smart because that is what will help us through this crises!" exclaimed the robot as he dived down through the clouds with Bowen following right behind them.
"Who are you anyways?" shouted Cassandra against the wind that blew against her face.
"My name is X, and I'm no ordinary machine." The robot answered before pulling up into a steep climb to get out from the cover of the clouds. "I am called a B'T, which stands for the four B's that created that name."
"What are these four B's?" questioned Cassandra out of curiosity.
"The four B's stand for 'Blood, brain, bravery, battler' and we run on human blood instead of oil or gas." X explained as they broke through the cloud cover that they were flying through.
"Human blood?" questioned Cassandra in confusement as she stared at the robot.
"That's right," said X as he answered Cassandra's question. "We become partners to the human that has donated their blood into our system, and we become bonded to them until the end of their life. But you're blood that dropped onto my body wasn't the blood of my donor, yet somehow it started up my systems again."
"My blood?" voiced Cassandra quietly as she looked over at her left shoulder to see the red stains on her clothing with her blood still pouring out of her wound.
"Yes," replied X. "But that doesn't mean that I will accept you as my donor."
"This is no time to talk nonsense!" shouted Cassandra in denial. "Right now all I want is to get rid of the man who is trying to kill me, and whether you plan to help me or not is completely up to you, you smart aleck!"
X didn't say anything for a moment as they flew through the sky. Cassandra tightened her grip as she waited for a response from the metal horse that she was riding on. After a second or two, X turned his head to look at Cassandra with his yellow optics.
"Your name?" he asked after a moment.
"Cassandra," she answered. "Cassandra, Samuel, Dante."
"Alright Cassandra, if you want me to help you then you'll have to do exactly as I say."
Cassandra nodded for she knew that she had to listen carefully if she wanted to live through this. X soon turned around to face Bowen, who was still following them to no extent.
"Get ready," said X. "Cause I'm only going to say this once to you."
"Alright," answered Cassandra with a nod of her head.
"First, cross your arms in front of you." X instructed.
Cassandra crossed her arms in an X in front of her and waited for her next instruction.
"After you crossed your arms together just shout 'Battle gear on', got it?"
"On it," answered Cassandra before closing her eyes to focus, "Battle gear…ON!"
X's eyes flashed for a moment before he reared up into the air with his metal wings flaring out on both sides of him. Cassandra felt herself being lifted off of X's back and began floating between his wings as she curled up into a ball. Cassandra didn't know what was happening to her, but she felt new strength rising up within her body. She threw out her arms as white armor started to appear on her body. Her clothing changed to that of a teal blue jump suite. Cassandra's transformation was soon complete as she remounted onto X's back.
Cassandra's new outfit was a jumpsuit with white armor covering some parts of her body which were her chest; midsection; shoulders; her lower arms; the back of her hands; knees; lower legs; and feet. A large 'X' was engraved on the chest plate of Cassandra's armor with four more 'X's' appearing on the back hand of her armor and front legs. Around the top of her right tight was a hand gun that sat within a gun holster, and on her face were futuristic glasses with a clouded blue visor/lens that cover her eyes from people who might recognize her on first glance. Her long black hair was tied up into a high ponytail as it flowed out behind her back, and her head band had disappeared to reveal her X birthmark on her forehead.
Cassandra looked down at her self when she saw that her clothing had changed into battle armor. The armor wasn't very heavy on her body yet it proved to be quite strong.
"This…is what battle gear looks like?" she voiced as she looked herself over a few times.
"Yes," spoke X as he turned his head to look at Cassandra. "That battle gear will help protect you when you are in battle."
"Wow," breathed Cassandra in amazement before she finally got back to her senses as she placed her hands back onto the shoulders of X as she got ready to face Bowen once again.
Bowen stopped in front of Cassandra and X with a smirk on his face: "I was wondering when you two were going to stop running."
"I'm tired of running from you," said Cassandra as she glared at Bowen. "It's time to end this chase once and for all."
"I couldn't agree more." Bowen said as he raised his sword up in front of him. "Prepare yourself, chosen one."
"Shut up!" shouted Cassandra before she and X charged at Bowen.
Bowen charged as well as he got ready to slice Cassandra in half with his sword. Cassandra glared at Bowen through her glasses before numbers and letters started to appear in front of her eyes as they showed her the stats on Bowen's body. Cassandra smirked when she saw Bowen's weak point and quickly got ready to attack.
"Sayonara!" yelled Bowen as he pointed his sword towards Cassandra's chest.
"X dodge!" shouted Cassandra.
X quickly did what he was told and veered to the left as they passed by the surprised Bowen. Cassandra quickly grabbed her handgun from its holster and pointed it to where Bowen's weak point was. The gun was clayed in silver metal with a golden star on the left side of it.
"See ya," she said with a smirk. "FLASH SHOT!"
Cassandra pulled the trigger and a bullet made out of golden light shot out from the gun. The bullet hit its mark on Bowen's body where his chest met his stomach. Bowen lets out a scream as electricity started sparking around his body. After a few minutes Bowen screaming stopped as his hover board dimmed underneath his feet and that was when he started falling out of the sky. Cassandra watched the form of Bowen falling when a black hole appeared underneath the cyborg's falling body, and Bowen soon disappeared within its dark depths to never be seen again.
"What…is that thing?" questioned Cassandra in shock as she watched the hole close in on itself before disappearing in front of her eyes.
"My scanners showed that it was no ordinary black hole." X answered as he started to explain to Cassandra on what he found out. "It was an inter-dimensional vortex that can send you through dimensions at any time."
"So Bowen's king decided to take him back," voiced Cassandra with a frown. "That would mean I have not seen or heard the last of him."
Just then, Cassandra started to feel weak as her vision began to grow blurry. She started slumping down towards her far right until she finally felt her self falling off of X's back before she blacked out from the loss of blood from the wound that Bowen had made on her shoulder. Her battle armor disappeared from her body as it changed back to her old clothing while she fell 50 feet through the air to her doom. X saw that Cassandra had fallen off of him and quickly caught her again with her body draped over his back.
"Cassandra!" he shouted at the girl on his back. "Get a hold of yourself, Cassandra! What's wrong?"
That was when he noticed Cassandra's shoulder wound as blood started dripping down her left arm. X looked at the unmoving form of Cassandra with concern before he quickly started flying off towards the city again, for he needed to get her to a hospital right away or she might die from blood loss.
Hospital: Cassandra's mind
Cassandra only saw darkness around her as she sat alone within the dark with her knees curled up to her chest, but she was suddenly bathed in light as she started to hear voices from all around her.
"Is she going to be okay?"
"She'll be just fine."
"Cassandra, wake up my darling."
Hospital: Out of Cassandra's mind
Cassandra slowly opened her eyes and saw the face's of her mother and father staring down at her.
"Mom," she weakly said.
Ramona had tears of joy running down her face when she saw that her daughter was awake.
"Oh Cassandra!" cried Ramona in delight as she lifted her daughter into a hug. "I was so afraid that we'd lost you."
"You had us worried for a moment Cassandra," spoke Cassandra's father.
Cassandra's father had short black hair with a few grey hairs growing here and there, and dark brown eyes that were shinning with joy and happiness. He was wearing a black sweat shirt, brown jeans and brown shoes. His name was John; he was 32 years old and he was the owner of Cassandra's family ranch.
"Dad?" said Cassandra with a confused look on her face. "Where am I?"
"You're in the hospital dear." John answered with a smile.
"How did I get here?" asked Cassandra again.
"We were hoping that you could tell us," spoke Ramona as she pulled away from her daughter.
"I don't really know," answered Cassandra with a scrunched up face. "All I remember is running away from this strange man who was trying to kill me, after that…nothing."
"Well you don't have to worry Cassandra." Ramona reassured with a smile. "You'll be coming home with us tomorrow after the people here finish the blood transfusion on you."
"Blood transfusion?" asked Cassandra out of confusion.
"Yes," answered John. "They said that you've lost a lot of blood when they found you at their door step; so they put you on a blood transfusion until you got back to you're full strength."
'Now I remember,' thought Cassandra silently. 'I was being chased by that Bowen guy after he pierced his sword right into my shoulder. Then that robot helped me get rid of that guy, but…was it all a dream?'
Unknown to Cassandra was that she and her family were being watched from outside the hospital window. Standing on the roof tops was the robot B'T, X, as he watched the scene between the girl and her family with a curious look on his face.
'That girl managed to stay conscious from blood loss for almost a full hour or two when that cyborg was chasing us.' He thought, 'Could it be that she is the chosen one that my donor was looking for, if so…then why doesn't she shine like the prophecy says she should?'
Things were twisting into place as Cassandra's life began to change right before her eyes. Her destiny was about to unfold as she will take her fist step into changing from the empty shell of her dark self to the sun that will shine brightly over the land of the future.
The start of arguments and partnerships
It had been two weeks after Cassandra's encounter with the cyborg and she was now staying home after her blood transfusion at the hospital. She was taking a brake from school so her injury can heal properly. Cassandra's wound was pretty deep so she had to have her shoulder stitched and that meant no physical exercise for a week. Today, Cassandra thought that it would be best to go for a ride to her hideout just for a fun and to see how it was doing. She was wearing a red shirt with a black vest over top of it; blue jeans with two tears in the knees, and black boots. Cassandra was also wearing the same headband that she had worn two weeks ago. Cassandra was riding on her horse, Storm, through the forest path that lead up to the cave which Cassandra kept secret from her parents.
"It sure is a beautiful day today," voiced Cassandra as she looked at the forest all around her before petting Storm on the neck. "I'm glad that I have you with me Storm, because your one of my only friends that I have to talk to. I also know that you wouldn't tell anyone about my secrets either boy."
That was when her mind suddenly wondered to the metal horse that she had met in the junkyard and she though about how her blood had revived him when she wasn't his donor.
"I wonder if it was all a dream?" muttered Cassandra in thought.
Cassandra was soon brought out of her thoughts when she suddenly saw that she had already arrived at her destination.
"Well…we're here," announced Cassandra as she mounted off of her horse companion and lead him over to a cave that was the right size and shape for a horse to stay in.
Cassandra took off Storm's bridle and loosened the girth around his belly before slipping on a halter that had a long rope on it that was attached to the cave's wall.
"There you go boy," said Cassandra in a gentle voice. "You can have a nice graze while I check up on something's within my secret hideout."
Storm only responded by lowering his head and ripping up a mouthful of grass. Cassandra smiled down at the black horse before she grabbed some stuff from out of her saddlebag. The saddlebag contained food, water, and a few tools that she was borrowing from her dad's tool kit. The tools were attached to a tool belt that Cassandra slung over her left shoulder before gathering her things for the journey up to her hidden cave. The cave was twelve feet up the mountain with a cliff that stretched out ten feet from the cave's entrance. It points out towards the west and hangs out over the canopy of the forest.
"It sure fells nice coming out here again," voiced Cassandra as she walked up the mountain path towards the cave that hides her secret stash of machine parts.
Cassandra was almost at the top when she suddenly stopped in her tracks. The reason for that is because what stood in front of Cassandra made her gasp with shock and surprisement. Standing near Cassandra's hide out was the same metal robot horse that she had met within the junkyard, X. The metal horse was standing on the cliff that hung out at over the forest and pointed towards the west. He looked at Cassandra with his yellow eyes glaring down at her.
"It's…you!" gasped Cassandra before she started running up the path towards the cliff and the cave.
She soon came to her destination as X stood his ground while he kept staring at Cassandra when she ran up to him before stopping two feet in front of him with wide eyes.
"Hump, took you long enough," scoffed X in a superior voice.
Cassandra frowned as she glared at X: "What are you doing here! And…how did you find this place anyway?"
"I simply followed you on my tracking system," replied X as he turned his head away from Cassandra.
"Smart aleck," muttered Cassandra under her breath before turning away from the robot and walking towards the entrance of the cave.
X looked back at Cassandra and snorted in displeasure before following after her. Cassandra frowned when she heard the sound of metal hooves behind her before she gave out a sigh before she stopped, and then turned to face X in annoyance.
"Quit following me!" growled Cassandra.
"Why would I be following you?" questioned X innocently as he turned his head away from Cassandra.
"Whatever, just stay out here okay?" ordered Cassandra.
"I don't take orders from the likes of you." X growled as he glared at Cassandra. "For I am a B'T that only listens to his donor, and you are not my donor."
"Here we go with the donor thing again," sighed Cassandra in exasperation. "Okay, listen! I'm going into the cave for a moment to drop off some stuff, and then I'm coming back out to ask you some questions."
"And if I don't answer them?" questioned X.
"Then you just fly away and bother someone else," answered Cassandra simply.
X simply huffed at Cassandra as he turned his head away from her. Cassandra huffed back at him before walking into the cave. The cave was dark inside as Cassandra walked down the tunnel that will lead her into the center of the mountain. Her footsteps echoed against the wall of the cavern as she soon came to her destination. Cassandra soon entered a large room where it was filled with things that nobody could ever expect to see within their wildest dreams. In the cave was a large computer that had a screen, which was the size of a wide screen TV screen, attached to the wall, a console and keyboard sat underneath the computer screen. On the left side from the computer stood a metal table with a few machine parts that had been dismantled from the tractor that Cassandra's father would use when plowing the fields outside their home.
On the right side of the computer was a soft bail of dry hay that Cassandra would always use for a bed sometimes when she was tired from working or coming up after galloping on her horse for an hour. Right next to the mountain of hay was an old wooden table that had a picture frame with a picture of a 17 year old boy with short blonde hair and brown eyes inside of its glass case. The picture only showed the head and the shoulders of the boy so it was hard to tell what he was wearing.
Cassandra placed some of the stuff that she had brought with her on the metal table before walking over to the old wooden table and picking up the picture of the boy. Cassandra stared hard at the picture within her right hand as memories of him leaving without saying goodbye came flowing through her mind; it almost felt like it had happened yesterday to her. Cassandra's far off look soon changed into an angry frown as her eyes shut tightly on her face.
"I told you not to come in here!" growled Cassandra without turning around to face the person behind her.
X had decided to enter the cave that Cassandra had gone into. The B'T had seen the stuff that was standing within the large room and he had to say, he wasn't impressed. X turned his head to look at Cassandra with a glare.
"As I said before, I don't have to listen to you." X repeated.
He soon spotted the picture in Cassandra's hand and he got curious about it: "Who's that boy within that picture? Is he a friend of yours?"
"No," replied Cassandra without turning to look at the robot horse. "The boy in this picture is actually my brother, his name is Kurt and he's in Australia right now."
"And what is he doing there?" asked X again.
"Chasing Brumbies," answered Cassandra simply as she placed the picture back down on the table. "Kurt had always loved to chase wild horses and watch them, even in his dreams he saw wild horses. I got hooked onto them as well, but that soon changed when he suddenly left home to go Brumby hunting in Australia and on top of that; he didn't even say goodbye to me and our parents."
"Maybe he just got tired of being with you and your parents." X pointed out. "After all, he is older now and it seems that he wants to take care of himself with out you clasping onto him all the time."
"I don't clasp on to him!" denied Cassandra in anger as she turned quickly around to glare at X. "And, how would you know? We haven't even met before."
"Hump; I'm far clever than you," replied X with a scoff. "Also, you are nothing but a naive child that doesn't know a thing about B'T's or the prophecy that concerns your world for that matter."
That really crossed the line for Cassandra as she started to feel red hot anger boiling up within her veins while she glared at the robot horse. She soon started to stomp her way towards the entrance that will lead her outside of the cave again. X followed after her to see where she was going as Cassandra came outside and stood on the cliff four feet away from the cave entrance before she turned to glare at X as he came out of the cave.
"Okay metal brain, I have some questions for you!" exclaimed Cassandra as she placed her left hand on to her waist and pointed a finger at X. "First off, what do you know about this prophecy, and why am I a part of it?"
"I had a feeling this would come up," muttered X before he answered Cassandra's question. "The prophecy stated that within this timeline: An evil will take over the world and cover the land in darkness. All of the people within this world will fall under his reign and become his slaves until the end of their lives. But through the darkness a light will shine within the form of a young woman whose hair will be long and black as the night sky, and a scare will be mounted on top of her forehead."
At that part, Cassandra lifted her right hand as she fingered the bandana that was tied around her forehead while a frown spread out across her face.
"The prophecy also states that the young woman's body will be surrounded by a light that will cut through the deepest of darkness." X continued as he looked up at the sky in thought. "It is also stated that she will be accompanied by a B'T with tremendous powers that will help her defeat the darkness."
Cassandra slowly dropped her hand down from her bandana as she thought over what X said until she suddenly scoffed at the idea of being the chosen one that will save the world.
"I'm supposed to be the chosen on who's supposed to save the world?" questioned Cassandra as she crossed her arms over her chest. "You gotta reboot yourself because you have got the wrong girl."
"Maybe I do," agreed X as he looked at Cassandra with a glare. "Even thought you have midnight hair, you certainly don't shine like the sun; and you are too reckless and too wild to take up the part as the chosen one."
When Cassandra heard what X said she quickly threw her arms down to her sides with her hands clenched into fists as she glared back at the robot horse with white hot anger: "You are the most annoying robot I've ever met and seen!"
"Same to you!" shouted X back as he pawed at the ground with his front metal hoof. "And I'm not going to be insulted by a human girl who is too stubborn and will deny everything, because she is too scared to face her destiny!"
"You take that back!" demanded Cassandra in anger.
"No I won't!" X barked as he lowered his head as he got ready to charge Cassandra. "Because it's true and I don't see any reason for me in talking to you any more!"
With that said, X ran towards Cassandra with his eyes flashing red. Cassandra stood her ground as she watched X charging towards her until she suddenly moved to the side before grabbing hold of his neck and swinging her self up onto his back. X was taken off guard for a moment until he started bucking, kicking, and rearing as he tried to get the insolent little pest off of his back, but Cassandra stayed on him without trouble.
"You gotta do better than that to get me off of you're back!" boasted Cassandra. "I'm the best rider in both rodeos and jumping competitions!"
X was getting really steamed now as he made one finale attempt to knock Cassandra off his back by rearing up. That trick almost worked as Cassandra found herself almost falling off of X's back, but she managed to come right back by leaning forward onto the metal horse's shoulders and neck. X soon landed back down on all four of his hooves before he snorted in anger while Cassandra sat on his back as she panted from the exhilaration of the ride.
"Now will you take back what you said about me?" questioned Cassandra. "Because it's useless to toss me off your back, and I'll keep riding you no matter what you do!"
"Is that so?" questioned X as he turned his head to look at Cassandra.
"You bet you piece of junk," replied Cassandra as she glared at X.
X's eye flashed for a moment as he smirked inwardly to himself. Cassandra was taken off guard when X suddenly bolted towards the edge of the cliff. Cassandra held on to X's metal body as he ran towards the end of the cliff before taking a great leap and flying off it as they left the earth behind them.
"Flying away, huh?" questioned Cassandra while she leaned forward on X's body to keep herself from falling off as she felt the metal horse's speed increasing within the air. "Well I'm not going to fall off that easily you know? I'm going to keep on riding you until you take back what you just said to me!"
"We'll see about that!" exclaimed X to his passenger.
"What was that!" shouted Cassandra in anger.
But X didn't answer her for he only increased his speed as he flew through the air before disappearing in a flash of light with Cassandra still on his back.
Unknown location
Cassandra slowly opened her eyes when she suddenly felt hot heat touching her body. She looked to see where X had taken her and her eyes shot wide open when she saw that they were in an active volcano with hot magma boiling underneath them.
"What the!" shouted Cassandra in shock and surprise as she looked down at the magma below her.
A hot bubble of magma burst from underneath the air born duo as the two of them stared down at hot fire below them.
'Wait a minute, I know this place!' mused Cassandra as she turned her eyes upwards to the mouth of the volcano. 'This is Kilauea, the volcano in Hawaii! But that's totally impossible. Hawaii is a long ways away from the California.'
Before Cassandra could think on this any further; X suddenly shifted underneath her and started to do a steep dive towards the hot magma of the volcano. Cassandra was taken off guard when she suddenly felt the metal horse move beneath her and she was also socked to see that X was heading right towards the magma that could easily melt them both.
'Is he really that desperate to get rid of me?' shouted Cassandra within her head.
Cassandra's eyes widened in fear before they suddenly became determined as her hands started to grip tighter to X's metal armor.
'If that's going to come down to that then I'm not going to give him the satisfaction of scaring me, and I'm not letting him go until he takes back those words he had said to me!'
X's felt Cassandra tightened her grip on his metal armor as he smirked inwardly to himself. This girl had guts he'll giver her that, but he wondered how far her determination will lead her? There was only one way to find out and that was to put her through a trial of tests that he had in store for her.
Cassandra quickly took a big gulp of air before she and X plummeted into the hot liquid of the magma. Cassandra felt the intense heat of the magma around her, but she kept her mind on one thing and that was to keep holding on to X no matter what. She kept looking between the robot's two horns before she felt herself becoming dizzy with the heat as her vision started to blur and for a split second, her saw red flashing before her eyes until she past out from the heat.
Ten minutes later
Cassandra slowly opened her eyes as she awakened to the smell of salty air and a cool wind blowing across her face. She saw that she was leaning on the white armored neck of X's body. She slowly sat up on his back as she looked to see where they were.
"W-what?" she said still a little bit dazed before looking down to see if they were still in the magma crater.
What the young teenager saw instead was a body of crystal blue water below her.
"Water?" she voiced before she fully looked up to see her surroundings.
Cassandra saw that they were flying above a large body of water that sparkled within the sun's rays of light.
"The ocean?" questioned Cassandra quietly as she held up a hand to her forehead to block out the sun's rays from her eyes. "But…weren't we in magma before?"
"We were," answered X as he answered Cassandra's question. "We were in the magma for about three minutes."
"No way!" exclaimed Cassandra as she looked at X in disbelief.
X only smirked to himself before turning his head to look at Cassandra: "First the magma, now the sea!"
"What!" shouted Cassandra before she quickly grabbed onto X's neck and held on as the B'T dived into the ocean.
It was so sudden that Cassandra didn't have time to take a breath of air as she was being dragged through the water that swept over her body. Cassandra tried to hold on to her breath, but she soon had to let it out as she waiting to feel the water enter her throat and lungs. She soon got the surprise of her life.
'What the…I'm not drowning!'
The two of them continued downwards through the water until they reached the bottom of the sea. The place was so dark that Cassandra could barely see anything that was around her.
"We are now 10,000 ft below the sea," informed X to his rider. "At this depth the pressure here can crush anything."
"What?" exclaimed Cassandra in surprise before she started to think back on what happened at the magma pool within the Volcano. "Now that I think about it, why didn't I melt within the magma? And…how can I breathe underwater while not getting crushed as we stand this deep within the ocean?"
That was when it finally clicked for Cassandra as she quickly turned her eyes on X: "Wait a minute...could it be that you-"
"Now you get it?" questioned X as he interrupted Cassandra in her sentence.
Cassandra held on tight as X jump up from the sea floor and started rocketing towards the surface.
"The donors are protected by a guard system that their B'T partner surrounds them with." X explained as he flew through the water at an incredible speed.
"Guard system?" repeated Cassandra confused.
"It's a system that lets the B'T and their donor travel to any place on earth whether it is hot or cold; dry or humid."
Cassandra's eyes widened with amazement as she held onto every word that X told her. If she had a B'T of her own then she might be able to travel any where on earth; even Australia!
"But the donor can only go to such places when they are together with their B'T." X continued before they broke through the surface of the ocean and continued flying upwards towards the sky. "So whether you fall off me or not is something that I don't really care about."
"I told you before and I'll tell you again, I'm not going to let go until you take back what you said about me!" shouted Cassandra in anger as she held on even tighter to the robot's armor.
"And as I said before, we'll just see about that!" exclaimed X as he took off even faster through the sky. "Don't start panicking!"
Outer space
Cassandra let out a gasp when she saw that she and X had left the earth behind them and were now flying through the depths of space with stars shining brightly all around them. Cassandra's heart gave a great leap of excitement as her eyes looked upon the stars that shone through the blackened skies of space.
'This is amazing!' thought Cassandra as she watched the stars around her. 'I never knew that space would be this big before. I must be the only teenager that has ever gone up into space with a robot who thinks for it self. X was right; he doesn't listen to anybody that has awakened him. He only listens to the one that has given their life's blood to him…only they can control him…only they…'
Cassandra didn't know why or how, but she suddenly started to remember something that had happened to her a long time ago.
Flash back
Everything was dark around the young 9 year old Cassandra; the only thing that she was feeling right now was the pain that went through both her heart and right shoulder. Voices were talking all around her, but she didn't have the strength to open her eyes or the strength to speak.
She couldn't make out what the voices were saying, but she felt like something bad was about to happen to her. The voices stopped talking after an hour until more pain started too erupted throughout her body as an electrical current ripped through her veins, blood, and heart. Cassandra screamed and screamed as she cried out for help, but no one was there to hear her cries until a voice started to shout out through the darkness.
"Stop the procedure, now! Or else we'll lose her like the rest of the subject here!"
End of flashback
Cassandra let out a short yelp as she held her left shoulder in pain while she leaned down on X's neck for support. The two of them were once again flying through earth's natural skies as they had left space behind them a few hours ago. X turned his head to look at Cassandra after he had heard her yelp in pain.
"What's wrong?" asked X to his stowaway passenger.
"N-nothing," answered Cassandra as she panted for breath.
X didn't believe her as he only kept staring at the human girl that was mounted on his back.
"Doesn't look or sound like nothing to me when you hold you shoulder like that," he said to his passenger.
"I'm fine, okay?" snapped Cassandra as she sat up straight on X's back.
X still looked at her, but soon turned his head away as he decided to drop the subject for now. Cassandra let her right hand slip off from her left shoulder as she placed it back down on X's neck while they flew back to her hideout. The troubling pain of her stitched wound still lingered on her body, but Cassandra ignored the pain for she didn't want X to see her as a weak person that needed help from him.
Her mind soon wondered to the vision that she had had a few moments ago.
'What was that memory?' thought Cassandra quietly to herself as she looked up at the sky above her head.
X soon landed on the rock platform of Cassandra's hideout as the 18 year old girl dismounted from his back and landed ungracefully on her butt as she fell to the ground with a thud. X looked at his passenger with a smirk, even though it doesn't show on his face.
"Still believe that I'm a piece of junk?" questioned X in challenge as he stared down at Cassandra.
"Okay," sighed Cassandra as she stared up at X. "I'll admit that it was cool going to places that no other man could go without the use of equipment and such, but I still won't forgive you on what you had just said about me."
"Stubborn," muttered X as he turned his head away from Cassandra.
Cassandra glared up at him for a moment before turning her eyes downwards to glower at his legs. That was when she noticed a scratch on the B'T's left leg. It wasn't a serious scratch, but it is better to be safe than sorry. Cassandra stood up from the ground as she reached behind her to untie her bandana from her head before walking up to X. The robot horse noticed Cassandra's approach and got ready to rear at her.
Cassandra noticed this and rolled her eyes before looking at the B'T again: "Will you relax; I'm just going to tie this to your left leg so that I can patch up that scratch on your knee."
X looked down at his left leg to the scratch before looking up at Cassandra again.
"This I nothing that you'd have to be concern about," spoke X to the human.
"Doesn't matter," argued Cassandra as she walked up to him with her bandana in her hand. "It is better to be safe than sorry when it comes to injuries, even little ones."
Cassandra soon bent down to the height of X's leg and stared to rap her bandana around the scratch on the robot's knee.
'Boy, it's a good thing that I've taken up medical lessons in collage,' thought Cassandra to herself.
X watched on as he kept a careful eye on the human to make sure that she didn't try anything funny on him, but his eyes soon caught something of interest to him. He spotted Cassandra's birth mark that was mounted on top of her forehead. It was the mark of the chosen one.
'Then this girl is definitely the chosen one that the prophecy had described,' thought X in realization, but he decided to keep quiet about it for he didn't want to get into another argument with this girl.
Cassandra noticed X staring at her as she turned her eyes up to look at him.
"What is it that you're looking at?" she questioned to the B'T standing above her.
"That mark on your forehead," answered X as he looked down at Cassandra. "Where did you get that mark from?"
"You mean my birthmark?" spoke Cassandra as she finished tying her bandana around X's leg before standing up to face him. "I got it when I was born."
"I see," mused X as he looked away from Cassandra.
Cassandra soon let out a sigh as she looked at the metal beast in front of her before she started to speak again.
"Listen X," she started. "If you don't have any place to stay, then you can always stay here if you want."
X looked at Cassandra in surprise when he heard her offer before she started to speak again.
"Of course…you don't have to if you don't want to."
X looked at Cassandra for a few minutes before he answered her.
"Are you sure that it is alright for me to stay here?" he questioned.
"Yeah," answered Cassandra with a shrug. "Besides, I guess it does get kind of lonely up here sometimes."
"Than I accept your offer Cassandra, for now that is."
Cassandra looked at X as a small smile graced her face before she raised her right hand up to touch the B'T's face, but stopped. Her fingers were only a few inches away from the side of the robot's face as she contemplated whether she should touch X or not. X helped her solve that problem as he slowly leaned his head against the tips of Cassandra's fingers until her palm fully made contact with his face.
This was just the first step in their partnership as their real adventure will test them through their friendship and loyalty when they will fight within the battles that will come in the future.
To be continued