Thank you everyone who had read my story. All of you really had brighten my day. Now for Chapter 2. Enjoy!
ULTRAMAN ZOFFY POV
What's that kid doing? Why didn't he just listened to his elders? I can't understood his action. He should be able to defeat the monster. He should tried first, not asking for our helped when he thought he can't defeated it. When I see him, I will make him wish that he will never been born.
As soon as I entered the earth atmosphere, my heart felt hollow. The earth also eerily quiet for my tasted. It's like they mourning for something. But what?
I saw something out of the corner of my eyes. I descended slowly and carefully so that humans will not afraid of my presence. I used Ultra Eye to see the silhouette clearly. I gasped when I saw what was it actually. Laying above the collapsed building was Taro, Ultraman Taro, my otouto.
My knees buckled under me. I didn't believed this. No, this was not happening. Please told me this was just a dream. Someone please woke me up from this horrible dream. Please.
I cradled my little brother's head in my lap. I traced my fingers along his body. This was my fault. If only I just responded a bit earlier, if only I scared for his safety a bit, none of this would happen. I'm the cause for his pain, his misery, his death...
My fingers halted when I felt something was leaking from his side. I inspected it a little closer. My stomach churned when I could identified the leak. A stab wound?!
I examined his body thoroughly. I could make out 5 stab wound from my inspection. But the one that causing his system to shut down completely was the stab to the chest, closed enough to his heart, his ultra timer. He had a very painful death. I can see a path about a hundred metre from his first standing to his final breath. Knowing Taro, he might dragged himself from there to here. He was a very determined warrior. He's just like his father but different. He liked to rely more on his brothers during combat, maybe because he was their only little brother. I can't scolded Ultraman for spoiling Taro too much for I did that too. All of us did.
I still remembered the first time I laid my eyes on Ultra Father and Ultra Mother bundle of joy. At that time, I'm just a mere soldier. The first time I've been introduced to the Ultra Father, I was a little afraid of him. He was a very strict leader. "You don't see him unless you have very important matter to discuss with him," the other warriors told me. But who knew, underneath his strict attitude, laid his true colour. He was a very loving and caring husband, and he's expecting a child. 'A heir to his throne', they say.
When his wife delivered their child, all of the warriors were very happy. They shouted to inform all the residents of Land of Light that their leader had a heir at last. They said it's a boy. As a warrior under Ultra Father's commanded, I felt obliged to come and congrats both of them for their newborn child.
Ultra Father greeted me. We talked a bit about worked. After some time, I saw two young ultra got out from a room while holding a baby. The older one from the two making faces at the baby while the young one holding it very carefully and laughed a little. I watched them curiously.
"The younger one is Ultra Seven, my nephew while the older one is Ultraman, Seven's friend. Before this, Seven stayed with my family. After he got to Academy, he stayed at the hostel. But they always stop by to see Taro."
"Taro?" my face must be funny because Ultra Father laughed very hard when hearing I spoke that name. My face blushed a little and I mumbled a quiet sorry to him. But he just shrugged it off.
"That's the reaction I got when the ultras asked me what my son's name. You are not the first, so don't be sorry," he patted my shoulder.
"If I have the right to ask, why Taro? As far as I know, your name is Ultraman Ken while Ultra Mother's name is Ultrawoman Marie. Why don't you put a human American name just like the both of you? Why do you put Taro? Isn't Taro a typical human name for Japanese boy?"
"Yes, that's right. But while searching for my son's name, me and my wife stumbled a very interesting fact about name for Japanese culture."
"And that's is...?" I inquired.
"Superstitionist Japanese human loved the name of Taro. It had a very good meaning for them. They believed the people who carried the name of Taro was like a fairy. It's not as superior as they thought about their god but the fairy that brought happiness and hope for others. That's why I hope when Taro grow up, he will become a fairy, not for the humans only, but for all of us."
And that's Taro. He had grew up to become a fine kid. I always thought that Taro had some kind of spell under him because whenever I saw him, I can't said 'no' to whatever he asked me. Soon enough, I've been appointed as head chief of Ultra Garrison. That position required me to be very strict. Since that, I've never spent my time with Taro anymore. Taro always complaint to me about my behaviour but I couldn't took my job lightly.
When Taro fought with Alien Temperor, I just saw it from a distance. I heard he plead for help from us, all of the Ultra Brothers but I pushed him to fight alone. My brothers protested my action but I made it an order. I don't know what's gotten into me but I sent him a mental voice for him to fight without our help. When he lose it at last, all of us joined the fight. I can saw he's relieved to see us but deep in his heart, he's broken for what I did to him.
After the battle, Taro came to see me. He demanded my explanation for my lack of concerned for him. Angrily, I told him he needed to fight alone because not all of us would be there to help him all the time. Coldly, I told him he was no use as an Ultra Warrior if he's always relied on his brothers for battle. I also told him that he's useless to all of us. I could see a flash of pain flickered on his face but he composed himself afterwards. He stated to me that he would never asked my help anymore.
So that's why he didn't sent any Ultra Sign to us. He didn't wanted our help. He believed we would never helped him. This was my fault. Please woke up just to ease my guilt. Taro, my little brother. I'm sorry. I am so sorry. Forgave me.
'Stop with this nonsense, nii-san!'I turned around sharply when I heard that voice. Impossible. Am I losing my mind? Just now, I heard Taro called my name. I turned back to face Taro's corpse. What do you want me to do, Taro?
'Stop being sorry for yourself. Get up and kick Birdon ass for me, will you?'Crazy or not, the voice in my head gave me some sort of motivation. I didn't care if that just a figmented of my imagination. I put both of his hand on his chest. I knew I needed to deliver this horrible news to our parents and brothers. I'm prepared to send his corpse to Land of Light. I rose up slowly and made a call to Father and my brothers.
Birdon, you just wait. No one can hurt my brothers, or kill them without repercussion. You will pay for this.
"This is Zoffy. I have a bad news. Taro's died."
(A/N: So, what do you think about Chapter Two? Is it good? Or is it bad? Anyways, I really hope you will review my story.) For reference: otouto-little brother, nii-san-big brother Next will be Ultraman POV
