Fo: Howdy... I wanted to post this sooner, but sadly, my grandpa passed away a few days after Christmas and let's just say I'm not dealing with his death very well.
Veemon: I am so very sorry, Fo.
Bob: Yeah... Sorry about your loss...
Fo: Plus, I'm due for a new computer; I have missing keys, some of them don't work, the thing is mondo slow, sometimes the browser doesn't work, the monitor is fucking up, it takes forever to turn on, and the hinges are broken. God! Well, I don't own 'Eureka 7'. Enjoy...
Washu: This takes place almost a year after the events in the anime. Do not forget to review.
Veemon: And no flames...
Washu: If you read any of Fo's work before, then you know she doesn't take kindly to flames.
Duncan: It would be wise and not flame anytime soon... She's tore alotta folks a new one lately...
Bob: Oh yeah...
Veemon: Scary...
Bob: Enjoy the first chapter folks!
Veemon: Don't forget to review!
Bob: And no flames!
Fo: ALSO! This is a re-post from my old account (Hail The Almighty Fo). Not going into the details... Still grinds my gears thinking about it. So, don't report! LOLZ! That would suck! Very, very, very, very much ^^ I would be friggen pissed! Haha! I mean... Who wouldn't? R&R!
Castle In The Sky
Chapter 1: Carry On Wayward Son
"Hey Holland, I think we should head back... I can't find anything," said Hilda looking at a radar, as she steered the Terminus typeR808.
Her dark black hair had gotten longer, but, was still in her cornrows.
Hilda let out a small sigh as the waves carried her in the clear blue sky.
It has been almost a year since Renton and Eureka been gone.
It has been a little over 7 months since Talho and the baby passed away.
Everything changed after that; the crew is quieter and the Gekkostate seems so empty.
Everyone seemed so blue...
Everyone missed them so much. Everyone was slowly moving on.
However, they were deeply missed by all.
Hilda glanced at her small monitor and gasped as she saw a bright green light covering a section in the middle of the screen.
"Hey Holland, check it out!" she said to her captain as she pressed a couple keys.
Holland didn't change much, however, his heart was breaking every single day.
The loss of his beloved wife and still born child sent him into a deep depression.
Holland pressed a key and gasped at what he saw.
He grinned slightly at the image before him and pressed two more keys, before two separate images of Matthieu and Hilda popped up on a floating screen.
"Alright, let's go check it out guys," he said with his famous leader smirk he use to always wore, as he steered the typeB303 Devilfish towards that area.
Matthieu and Stoner were in the Terminus typeR606 and they followed their fearless leader, along with Hilda.
And there the four headed, towards the strange hidden cave.
"Wow, man I never saw anything like this before..." Matthieu said as he stared at the greenish blue stones.
The cave was breathtaking; with the azure blue rock face, sky blue boulders, pale blue marbled pillars that lied in ruin, greenish blue stones, pale blue marbled steps covered in white sand, dark blue clay shards half way buried in the white sand, sapphires, and midnight blue pebbles. The room had a hint of orchids and a dewdrops smell to it. The room had a moist feel to it as well.
Holland grinned as he glanced over at Stoner, who was in a photo taking frenzy.
Matthieu was busy seeing if the blue sapphires in the cave were real.
And of course, they were!
It was a little chilly in that cave, as you look further in the cave; it was pitch black. It was hard to see even with the flashlights.
Hilda opened a small black laptop and pressed a few buttons and a sonar popped up.
Holland walked beside her and peeked over at the screen.
"Are we online?" Holland asked her, almost in a whisper.
Hilda looked up at him and nodded her head slightly.
Holland let out a small sigh, walked over to his LFO, and pulled out a brown bag.
Matthieu walked over and let out a loud yawn.
Holland looked over at him as he rummaged through the bag.
"What do you think is down there?" he asked as Holland handed him a large flashlight.
"I don't know, but the sonar is going nuts," he said as he flung the bag over his shoulder.
Matthieu let out a sigh as he stared at Holland.
"Even if we can't find whatever is down there, we can always cash in those sapphires," Matthieu said glancing at the sparkling sapphires.
Holland rolled his eyes with a smirk as he turned on his flashlight.
He flashed it in Matthieu's eyes, making him curse and swear.
"You're such a dick anymore," Matthieu said as he shielded his eyes with his left hand.
Holland chuckled a little bit as he walked over to Hilda and Stoner.
"Are we ready, Holland?" Hilda asked as she looked over at him.
Holland looked at Hilda and nodded his head as he stared to walk forward.
Matthieu looked at his spouse with a pout on his lips.
Hilda and Matthieu tied the knot 9 weeks ago.
It wasn't a fancy wedding, but, it did cheered up the Gekkostate a little bit.
The whole crew needed a reason to celebrate...
"What?" Hilda grumbled as she glared at her beloved husband.
"I don't understand why we can't mine these sapphires, instead of going into to a pit, looking for scrap LFO parts... I bet we would make a fortune mining these sapphires," Matthieu said with a matter of fact as he looked at Hilda.
Hilda sighed and shook her head.
"You wanna know why there are ruins here?" Hilda asked with a smirk gracing her lips as they followed Holland and Stoner.
"What about them?" he asked as they walked as he continued to pick up the strange stones.
"A long, long, long, long, long time ago this area was the capital of the world and it's said that this very cave is said to be the tomb of the capital's leader and these sapphires, it's said to represent each life that was lost for defending the capital..." Hilda said as if she was telling a ghost story, Matthieu stared at her in 'awe'.
Matthieu looked all around with his mouth wide open.
"That's a lot of soldiers..." he said.
"It wasn't just soldiers... Everyone fought for the capital," Hilda said as they continued to walk.
"That's nuts," Matthieu blurted out.
Hilda smirked even more as Matthieu got into her story.
"When you touch a sapphire you'll be cursed for life," Hilda said as she gave Matthieu a sinister smile.
Matthieu stopped in his tracks and started to sweat profusely.
Hilda erupted in fits of laughter as the continued deep into the cave.
Stoner looked over his shoulder to Matthieu.
"That's just a story... Hilda doesn't even know the original tale anyway..." Stoner said annoyed like as he glared at Hilda.
Hilda sighed and shrugged her shoulders; she didn't care.
Nevertheless, she really enjoys scaring the piss out of Matthieu.
"Educate them, Stoner!" Holland said with a smile on his face as he looked at Stoner.
"First of all, the capital was never marked on any map, to keep enemies from knowing its location and after the war had ended, the gods took most of the capital to the heavens," Stoner said as he checked the pictures in his camera.
"And?" Matthieu spoke curiously, as they continued to walk.
"And that's all I know..." he said casually as he fidgeted with his camera.
Then suddenly, Holland came to a halt. The three stopped as well and looked at their leader.
"What is it, Holland?" Stoner asked him in a concerned voice as he looked at him.
"Do you hear that?" Holland asked as he squinted his eyes into the dark abyss of the cave.
Holland was hearing some sort of hymn (Fo: Think of Norse hymns.).
He took a few steps onward and the hymn got louder.
Hilda walked up beside him and brought her ear forward.
"I can hear water..." she muttered with knitted eyebrows as she looked up at Holland.
Holland looked over at the female pilot with a content look.
He did hear a faint sound of a waterfall and stream, but, it was the hymn that caught his attention.
It sounded so sad and so ancient. It sounded as if it was a forbidden melody for mortals and was meant for the ears of a god. For a second, Holland started to believe Hilda and Stoner's myth of a lost capital might be fact. Then Stoner walked closer the two, as he took a few moments to listen in, his eyes turned to saucers.
"Someone is down there!" the photographer exclaimed as he looked at the two.
Matthieu also honed in with his big ears, and he too could hear the exquisite hymn. As the pilot continued to listen in, he then stood up straight and ran his right hand through his large Afro before speaking.
"It sounds like a woman," Matthieu spoke as he listened in on the distant music.
Holland looked over at the three and then the direction where the singing was coming from.
Without speaking, Holland started to walk towards the hymn. And the three soon followed him. As the four continued to walk through the wondrous cave, they never expected to encounter anything like this before. They had waltzed into a chamber that was lit by a blue glow. The hymn that they heard was coming from this area; there they saw a small waterfall and a small stream.
The water was the clearest blue, which any of them have ever seen in their whole lives!
They were in total 'awe' by the tranquility and splendor of the chamber.
The chamber smelt of orchids and water lilies, the bright blue sapphires in the cave walls shined like the stars in the clear night sky, the water glistened brightly, and they could feel a moist breeze that felt like an early summer morning. It was as if this cave, was untouched by man.
But...
What really caught their attention, was a large pale green cylinder shaped crystal in the middle of the chamber.
Holland and the others were shocked at what the crystal contained.
Inside of it was a young woman...
She was curled up, with her bare knees to her naked chest, her bare feet arced, with her toes pointed, her bare arms were in a slumbering like position that rest on her knees, her fingers looked elegant as they laced, her slender neck was elongated, her stunning face looked peaceful, her flawless lips were parted slightly in a slumbering grin, her eyes lids showed on peace, and her long navy blue hair looked as if a fan blew underneath her.
The four of them did not know what to do...
Matthieu sighed and stepped on the tiny hill of white sand and leaned his ear against the crystal tomb. Matthieu gasped as he lifted his ear off the large crystal and turned to his comrades.
Hilda saw his shocked expression and figured it was something important.
"What is it, Hun?" she asked, tilting her head to the side as she walked up to her husband.
"The singing is coming from here!" he exclaimed as he looked at Hilda with wide eyes.
Then Holland walked over to the crystallized tomb along with Stoner. Stoner quickly took a couple of quick shots with his camera, before Holland placed a hand on the tomb.
He stared at the mysterious beauty for quite so time.
He was completely lost in thought, but, was brought back by the bright flash of Stoner's camera.
Then suddenly the four cease to hear the captivating hymn.
All of them noticed it...
Holland looked at Stoner, as if he knew the answer.
However, the 33 year old photographer was just as clueless as he was.
Then suddenly Holland felt the crystal begin to shake underneath his hand.
He looked over at his crew with a concerned expression on his face.
"GET BACK!" he shouted loudly as he jolted away from the cylinder shaped tomb.
The trio obeyed their captain and darted towards the way they came in.
But, Hilda came to a halt and noticed that the cave was not shaking at all...
She looked over at the greenish transparent crystal and saw it was the only thing in the cave that was shaking. She had a hunch that they were not in any immediate danger.
Holland looked back as he sprinted and saw that Hilda wasn't following them.
He growled in his throat as he glared at her.
"HILDA! WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING!?" Holland shouted to her as he spun around and ran towards her.
He gripped her feminine muscular bicep and tried to drag her to safety, but, Hilda yanked her arm free and looked at him with a thin lip. She gripped his toned bicep getting his full attention.
"HOLLAND! WAIT! There is no cave in!" Hilda explained desperately as she glanced around the cave in every direction, Holland looked at her with an 'are-you-fucken-stupid' look, but then he relaxed a bit when he didn't felt the ground shaking.
Holland looked over at the shaking tomb; Hilda was right...
The cave wasn't collapsing...
The tomb was breaking, he could see large cracks forming on the tomb and a bright glowing blue light was surfacing from the cracks.
Holland looked over at his fleeing friends and then brought his attention to the cracking tomb.
"Hilda... Go get those two..." Holland said in a monotone in his voice as he continued to gaze at the shattering crystallized tomb.
Hilda nodded her head and ran off for Matthieu and Stoner.
Holland took a deep breath and started to walk towards the tomb cautiously.
The light was getting brighter and brighter; it got so bright that Holland thought he might go blind. All of a sudden, the crystal dissipated into nothing, only leaving a bright blue light.
Holland's eyes were like saucers as he watched the mysterious girl float, shrouded by the same blue luminosity.
Her hair flew upwards wildly, with her back arched as her naked breast reached for the heavens; her feet arced, her face looking up, and her pale skin glowing brightly.
Holland's jaw could have of hit the floor as he stared at her.
Then the mysterious woman's eyes began to open slowly; revealing a pair of bright violet eyes.
Holland noticed that the light was starting to fade away and the next thing he knew; he was holding the young woman in his arms.
He gazed into beautiful face and felt a ping of familiarity.
Holland felt his his heart pound as the strange girl gazed at him with curiosity.
"Eureka?"
End of Chapter
Fo: End... So very sorry it was not the best chapter. Like I said I am having problems at the moment...
Washu: Just hang in there, Fo...
Veemon: Yea...
Bob: We're here for ya, Fo!
Fo: Yea -.-
Duncan: I'm afraid...
Ryuk: This chapter was named after the song by the band 'Kansas'.
Fo: I heart this song. I'm going to go listen to it right now ^^ *giggles*
R.I.P Grandpa Delbert Shutler The 2nd
1948-2009