Elfen Lied: Rise of Renegade
Episode one: Remember to let her go
This girl, she looked so innocent when she slumbers, but what am I to say. She's a stranger, I have no clue who she is, and I'm a stranger who just stumbled over her mess. After her wounds have been treated, the water was crimson that brought back memories of my past. The first human's I killed was back in the A.M.S.W (American Military Super Weapons) facility known as the Asylum. Where I first met my love, Sarah, how I always envied you when we were just twelve.
I faded back to focus. Seeing that Wrath was asleep in his corner, Shade sleeping sitting straight up as he was in his "Secret" state, which was sleep. The girl, the one with pink hair and with that lost horn, she slept soundly after what happened to her.
I could feel what she was dreaming. Love, passion, and affection, pity I lost those human emotion years ago. But why am I feeling what she is dreaming? Was she really in my past? Or my mind is the one who made me paranoid now?
I felt my eyes becoming heavy, my body wanting, needing to rest and my mind wanting to languid. I fade into the confines of my dreams, only seeing darkness before I have these relentless dreams that made me so apathy.
I see only the face of Sarah the girl who I thought was the girl of my dreams now dead and gone from the years of regret.
Sarah brought life into my heart and clouded mind when I was a lad of twelve. She brought joy to me through the roughest times and I did the same for her when she was experimented on. "You're lucky you're not the one who gets needles injected into your arm, Ren." She complained to me countless times, heedless to say. I always looked her over at "recess", only lasting five minutes per day
I always wanted to know how she felt about not being called the Omega-T sample or the Alpha Solitude. She held me to know how we lost our parents. She gave me her symphony about the planned adduction for her several years ago, like myself. "One day, I will escape out of this place." She said with that rosy expression on her face. "And I want you to join me as well and the others, if we can."
Her enthusiasm was my inspiration, and my key to salvation. What a fool! He thinks he can be calm with subject-VW330015? One scientist spoke out, afar from where they were. I despised humans, even though my parents were. That did not matter.
Pity, I enjoyed Sarah's company in my office. Another scientist said, this time, subtle. What were they saying?
Why pity the monsters that took our children away and make them killing machines? They only know death and that is all. Another said bitterly, holding a child.
I remember now…
'Who are you?'
'Crying? Sarah? Why are you crying?' I said before.
'Ren, Help me!' She cried out before a bullet entered the back of her skull and exited through her forehead. Her blood and brain matter splattered onto me. 'YOU BASTARDS, I'LL KILL ALL OF YOU! I'LL TAKE ALL YOU LOVE DEARLY!'
All I remembered was blood of those who I had spilled. Most were monsters who blamed my kind. Very few claimed to be my friend. It did not matter. I no longer cared for them.
The crying began again…
'Sarah?' I turned to her corpse, trying to ignore her death and believed she was alright. But Sarah was gone. All I saw was a young girl.
Her head was in her hands, sobbing.
'Those horns? Are you like me too?' I asked.
Her hair was pink and her horns were eerie. When she raised her head, all I could see was tears and crimson eyes. 'Why did you take my papa away? Why? Why? WHY!?' She cried out with sorrow and then anger.
All I could feel was anger when I killed those humans. When I found out that this little, strange girl lost her father, who was one of these men. 'I HATE YOU! I WISH YOU COULD DIE!' With her uncontrolled anger, I ran.
All I did was run and killed guards.
That was the last time I felt those feelings.
Anguish. Sorrow. Remorse. Dread.
I took this girl's future away and tossed it away and into her face. She was in pain and I ran like a coward. No more. That was the past and her loss was no longer of my concern.
'What is this pain, this digging into my heart? Sarah?'
I woke up, sweeting as I never had done before. This happened every night after we had rescued that strange girl. Was she doing this to me? Or am I over reacting to her? I never remembered that little girl ever since, vaguely to my conscience mind, but when I slept; it was clear as water. And those feelings I damned to banishment returned from a long slumber. What was she doing to me?
Everyone else was fast asleep (even her), so it must be very late or very early.
My head ached. I stood up, stretched, and went to the cooler to get a bottle of water. When I opened it and got a water bottle, I sensed someone moved, and it wasn't Wrath or Shade. It was her. I turned around and she stood in front of me, glaring.
I couldn't move. That feeling returned and then I knew it was her; the little girl who I ruined everything for her. I tried to reach for my guns, but I stood in horror for the first time in eight years. My mind was blank and my body quaked with fear. You are a coward, Renegade! Kill her! I couldn't do it. I was that coward eight years ago. I felt like a monster of what the humans called us. "Who…who are you?" I asked with horror.
Her red eyes looked into my grey eyes, with contempt and hate. "You do not remember me? Pity that you don't recognized the girl you made an orphan." Her voice was dark filled with misery. "You were the one who caused me the pain I endured and killed those around me! You are an evil man! I'LL KILL YOU!" She shouted, waking my companions in sheer terror.
All I did was stand there. Her appendages came from behind her. Those were the same as before we found her.
Wrath and Shade rushed over to restrain her, but pushed away by her invisible arms.
A tear ran down my face, the pain I caused her was greater than my own. All I could do was punch her in the stomach. She gasped for air and she fell to the ground, covering where she was hit. She cried with anger and anguish. "You bastard, you bastard!" she cried out.
{Lilium-theme-plays}
Shade ran up to the girl, to make sure she was alright. Wrath ran up to me, to make sure I was fine (even though I am). "You're crying, Renegade." Wrath pointed out. I knew that.
The girl cried more. "You took everything I loved and made me hurt those I loved! You are a monster! A pure and monstrous fiend!"
Shade looked up at me with a blank face, not knowing what she was saying. Wrath too was curious of what I did to her. "Who are you?" I asked, still shaky. The girl still cried, these memories hurt me more than they did to her. "Kaeda, my name is Kaeda." She tried to calm herself down.
I stood tall, regained my posture, and then looked at her. I glared back at her. My telekinetic hand grabbed her by the throat, raising her up to my level. My fatal kinetic ready to kill her and end all her miseries, tears still in her eyes and anger fallowed. I was going to kill her and end my remorse.
"Renegade! What are you doing?" Wrath demanded to know, trying to calm me down. I was determined to do so. But her invisible arm reached my forehead and went into my head. What are you doing? I thought.
I saw her memories and it was…unbelievable.
I passed out from it and fell to the ground.
As Renegade fell to the floor, Kaede then knocked Wrath to the floor cold. Shade tried to detain her, but he was thrown through the sewer wall. Kaede made sure that all of them were knocked out, or possibly dead.
She then ran out of the sewers and through the city in the dawn. She ran and ran to the only home she knew. A tear ran down her cheek. She was alive.
She ran back to the person that still loved her…
Kotha…
I woke up to see that the wretched girl had knocked every one of us out. I woke them up. "Wake up!" I shouted. Wrath and Shade stirred, but remained unconscious. I wacked them to wake them up, "No, no, baby, let me do the work." Wrath said trying to kiss a girl in his dreams.
The only thing he kissed was my boot.
Shade quickly got up and then began to run after Kaede.
Wrath was groggy. "I'll meet you when we find her." I said as I began to run after her. My blood boiled. My hate grew. My emotions desecrated.
Wrath stood up, but wobbled due to dizziness. He fallowed his leader. To many, he was drunk.
{Lilium ends}
