Chapter by Jamesbondkid2001
(Back above Mount Shasta in northern California)
The two Dagon known as X and Y are talking to a figure that remains in the shadows…they had been training this weapon for the past five years to take on the Ho Mega Therion that resided with the girls in Japan.
But first, X and Y wanted to make sure that their weapon was ready.
"So, what is your mission?" X asked.
"To kill the Ho Mega Therion and all those associated with her." The figure said.
"And how will you complete this mission?" Y asked.
"By ANY means necessary." The figure replied with absolute coldness.
"And what if you fail?" X asked, his eyes narrowing.
"There is NO failure." The figure replied.
X and Y grinned maliciously. "Excellent." The said simultaneously.
At that moment, the Dagon known as Z came walking in, grabbing the attention of all three in the room.
"Sirs, I'm afraid that there is some disturbing news." he said.
X turned his attention back to the weapon. "We shall be back, our weapon. Please, wait patiently."
"Understood." The figure said.
X and Y followed Z to the bridge of the ship, where Z shows them the disturbing news on the computer.
"So I see…" X replied.
"It seems that the other girl with the tetra-helix was reborn…" Y said.
"And done so by recreating the feelings that created her the first time." Z finished.
X simply smiled. "Ah, well. All the more fodder for our weapon to demolish.
All three of them laughed evilly and maliciously.
Sakaki sat in the waiting room of the hospital. Kagura had gone back to the Takino-Mizuhara household to inform the others of the situation.
Sakaki sat there, her mind in a total jumble. Kaede was supposedly dead. Yet for some reason, there she was, alive as the moment right before she died.
At any moment, she was expecting to wake up, as if this were all some horrible dream, like she had done so many times before.
Chiyo came walking up next to her, toting a giant teddy bear.
"Hey," Chiyo replied. "They had this at the gift shop, so I figured I'd buy it for Kaede when she wakes up."
Sakaki just nodded.
Chiyo sat down next to Sakaki, and set the teddy bear down next to herself.
A moment of silence passed.
"Still confused, huh?" Chiyo said, breaking the silence.
Sakaki nodded. "I…still don't know if it's a dream or not."
"I don't think it's a dream." Chiyo said. "I haven't had a dream yet where I came down to the hospital with her…"
At that moment, Koyomiko, Yomi, Tomo, Kagura, Kaorin, Chihiro and Osaka all came walking in.
"We heard you came to the hospital with someone." Yomi said. "Any idea as to who it might be?"
Sakaki and Chiyo both looked at each other nervously. Do they tell them?
At that precise moment, the doctor came walking up.
"Mihama-san, Sakaki-san?" The doctor asked.
"Ah, right here." Chiyo said, thankful that the doctor was pulling them away.
The doctor led Chiyo and Sakaki away from their friends.
"So, what do you guys think?" Kagura asked.
"I think there's something that those two aren't telling us." Yomi responded.
"But…what could they not be telling us?" Koyomiko asked.
"And what do you suppose that giant teddy bear is for?" Osaka asked out of the blue.
This turned everyone's attention towards the teddy bear, forgotten by Chiyo.
"Your daughter will be fine." The doctor responded.
Sakaki and Chiyo breathed a sigh of relief.
"She's sleeping right now, but if you would like to go in and see her, you may." The doctor replied.
"Um…y-yes, thank you." Chiyo replied.
The doctor left, leaving Chiyo and Sakaki alone. The two of them went inside Kaede's hospital room, and closed the door behind them. They then sat on Kaede's right side. Kaede had been put in a hospital gown, so she was no longer completely naked.
A moment passed. Sakaki reached out, and touched Kaede's right arm. She still couldn't believe that Kaede was here, real before her very eyes.
A few tears began to run down Sakaki's face, which she quickly wiped away.
Suddenly, Kaede's right hand moved, causing both Sakaki and Chiyo to jump a bit.
Kaede's right hand clenched up, then unclenched. Then the left hand did the same.
Sakaki and Chiyo turned their attention to Kaede's face. The two of them watched, adrenaline running throughout both of their bodies, as they saw Kaede's eyes open.
Sakaki and Chiyo stopped breathing, as they watched Kaede's eyes travel around the room, starting on the ceiling on her left side. It traveled down, then back up, then to her left side…
Her eyesight went down, and came to a total stop on Sakaki and Chiyo, sitting there, frozen solid in utter shock.
"Eh?" Kaede said.
The only noise she had ever made to Sakaki and Chiyo. It broke them both out of their stunned position.
"K…Kaede?" Sakaki asked.
Kaede then gasped, a super-happy look on her face. "AAAH!!" She half-leapt out of the bed, wrapping her arms around Sakaki's neck, and giving her a hug. She kept laughing, as if she easily recognized Sakaki.
Now the flood of tears came from both of Sakaki's eyes. She wrapped her arms around Kaede for a tight hug, and cried into her shoulder.
After a moment of this passed, Chiyo spoke up.
"K-Kaede, don't you recognize me?" Chiyo asked.
Kaede pulled out of the hug with Sakaki. "Eh?"
"D-Don't you recognize me?" Chiyo asked again.
Kaede tilted her head one way, then another way, looking confused the entire time. She couldn't quite recognize Chiyo…
The tears began to well up in Chiyo's eyes.
"Chiyo-chan…" Sakaki said. "When we first met her, your hair was in pigtails…"
The tears welling up in her eyes, Chiyo went to work on her hair. Though she had grown up, Chiyo had still kept her hair long enough so that she could put them up into the noticeable pigtails that everyone knew.
As soon as she was done, Chiyo, her hair pigtailed, looked up at Kaede.
And Kaede got that same happy face she had gotten with Sakaki. "AAAAH!!" Kaede then jumped to Chiyo, and hugged her. And Chiyo did the same thing Sakaki did. She hugged Kaede tightly, and began to break down crying. This couldn't be a dream…Kaede felt far too warm for it to be a dream…
"Hey, guys." Chiyo opened her eyes, while Sakaki looked, to see everyone else walking in. Yomi had been the one to speak up, while Koyomiko was the one toting the teddy bear left behind by Chiyo.
Kaede let go of Chiyo and sat on her bed, watching everyone else come in.
"The…the pigtails…" Osaka said in shock. "Th-They're back…"
Chiyo sighed, and put her hair back down. She knew there had been a reason she didn't like the pigtails…
And Tomo, being Tomo, walked right up to Kaede, and bent down so she was eye-level with her.
"So, what's your name?" Tomo asked.
"Eh?" Kaede asked.
"Your name! What is it?" Tomo asked.
"Eh." Kaede replied.
"You're not very bright, you know that?" Tomo said.
"Shut up, Tomo!" Chiyo yelled.
Everyone stared at an angered Chiyo.
"She's not stupid!! She can't help that she doesn't know how to speak yet!!" Chiyo yelled some more.
"Sorry, geez…why you getting so angry over someone you don't know?" Tomo asked.
At this, Chiyo froze, and looked downwards. Sakaki also wouldn't speak up.
"Chiyo, something you want to tell us?" Yomi asked.
"Um…this…is Kaede…she was…born through…science." At science, everyone knew exactly where Kaede came from. It was the same thing they had told Koyomiko for the past 5 years.
"But…she died…and now…she's here, so…we…" Chiyo couldn't find her words anymore. The fact that Kaede was there before them still jumbled up her mind.
"I don't quite get it…" Tomo said.
Kagura did. It was another child created for destroying this world, and it had been reborn to do the same thing.
"Um…I gotta go to the bathroom, I'll be right back." Kagura quickly said. She ran out of the room.
"Eh?" Kaede asked.
Chiyo sighed. "But…Sakaki and I are her mothers. She was born at the age of 16, which is why she can't speak."
"Oh…" Koyomiko said. She looked at Kaede, who stared back.
"Ah, that reminds me! Koyomiko, could I have that teddy bear back?" Chiyo asked.
Koyomiko handed Chiyo the teddy bear. "Thanks." Chiyo took it, then handed it to Kaede.
"Here, Kaede. This is from your other mother and I." Chiyo said.
Kaede took the teddy bear. "Eh?...eh…." Kaede, unsure of how to handle it, looked at her mother's expectantly.
"Like this." Sakaki said. She took the teddy bear, and hugged it. She then handed it back to Kaede.
"Eh?" Kaede hugged the teddy bear like Sakaki had. "Ehhhh…." A smile came across her face. She put her head on the teddy bear's head, and closed her eyes. It was so soft to her…
Everyone there had an 'awwww' moment. Kaede looked so innocent and gentle holding that teddy bear in her arms…
Kagura finally found something she could use. A doctor's scalpel.
She was going to end it here and now. No more of these freak kids that caused pain and suffering to everyone they knew.
She grabbed the scalpel, put it in her pocket, then quickly hurried back to the room.
Kagura came walking in.
"So, what'd I miss?" She asked, a smile on her face.
"This is Kaede." Kaorin replied. "She's the daughter of Chiyo and Sakaki."
"Oh, is that so?" Kagura said.
Chiyo nodded, then turned her attention back to Kaede, who was still hugging the teddy bear.
"Eh?" Kaede opened her eyes, a puzzled look on her face.
"What? What is it?" Chiyo asked.
Suddenly, the sheets that covered up Kaede's bottom half became wet.
Which caused everyone in the room to get a little bit of a shocked look on their faces.
"I…guess she hasn't been potty trained either…" Chiyo said.
And as if nothing happened, Kaede went right back to hugging her teddy bear, which caused everyone to giggle a bit.
Everyone, except for Kagura.
She had been watching. Everyone's attention was on Kaede. Now was her chance.
She reached her hand into her pocket, and grabbed hold of the scalpel. She watched to make sure no one was looking, then took the scalpel out of her pocket, and her hand with the scalpel behind her back.
She made one last look, then took a deep, heavy breath. This was the moment…
She looked at Kaede. Another creature who was going to kill them all. No one had believed her when she had said the same thing of Koyomiko. Now, she was going to take matters into her own hands.
Anger and rage built up, she charged at Kaede, scalpel in hand.
"GAAAAAAAH!!"
Kaorin reacted quickly. She stuck her foot out, tripping Kagura so she fell harmlessly to the floor by Kaede's bedside.
However, the scalpel fell out of Kagura's hand, and skidded to the side of the wall, where everyone got full view of it, and knew precisely where it had come from.
"K…Kagura, what the hell were you doing?!" Kaorin yelled.
"I was going to kill that monstrosity, before she could kill us." Kagura said coolly as she picked herself up.
"What?!" Chiyo yelled as she stood up. "B-but…Kagura-san, why?!"
"Because that fucking creature had almost killed us all before!!" Kagura yelled, pointing straight at Koyomiko, who looked utterly shocked.
"M-mama, Kaa-san…she's scaring me…" A frightened Koyomiko said.
"And you all know it!! You all fucking lie to her about her past, and for what reason?! So she has the chance to kill us all again?!" Kagura continued to yell.
At this point, Kaede hugged her teddy bear tighter, becoming afraid of a screaming Kagura.
"K-Kagura, calm down…" Tomo said, shaking in disbelief at how her former classmate had just snapped.
In an instant, Kagura charged at Tomo, grabbed hold of her collar, pinned her up against the wall, and lifted her so that her feet no longer touched the ground.
"Don't tell me to calm down!!" Kagura grumbled angrily. "My life has been utterly ruined because of that monster you call your child, and I'm not about to let another one run loose!"
"Kagura-san, let my Mama go!!" Koyomiko yelled.
"Why don't you ask your 'Mama' here where you really came from?!" Kagura yelled.
"Kagura, that's enough!!" Yomi yelled.
"Don't believe a word that either of them say, Koyomiko!! You were born from an alien abduction 5 years ago, and almost killed us all!!" Kagura yelled. "They tell you that you were born from science, it's all lies!!
Koyomiko remained silent. She turned to Yomi.
"Kaa-san? Is it true?" Koyomiko asked.
"K-Koyomiko…" Yomi muttered out.
"Go ahead!! Tell her the fucking truth!!" Kagura yelled.
"Kagura, that's enough!! Put Tomo down!!" Yomi yelled back.
"Like hell!!" Kagura had had enough. She wheeled back and punched a completely-defenseless Tomo straight in the gut.
Yomi pushed Koyomiko out of the way, and laid a punch of her own, straight at Kagura's face. Kagura lost grip of Tomo, and fell to the ground, landing hard on her back.
The room remained silent, save for Tomo's gasps for air, as Kagura stood back up, glaring angrily at Yomi.
Then, as soon as it had started, Kagura whipped around, and ran out of the hospital room, slamming the door shut so hard behind her that it cracked a window.
A moment of silence remained afterwards. Now Kaede began to cry.
"Kaede, it's alright." Sakaki said. She pulled the frightened Kaede into a hug, and remained silent while it happened.
"Mama, Kaa-san, was she telling the truth? Were you…lying to me?" Koyomiko asked.
Tomo and Yomi looked down at their child. "C'mon, Koyomiko, let's head home. I think…we need to have a talk." Yomi said.
And they left without another word.
"See you guys later." Kaorin replied. Then she and Chihiro left.
"I'll…be seein' you guys." Osaka said. She bowed and left.
Leaving only Chiyo, Sakaki, and a crying Kaede in the emergency room.
For Kagura, she would run out of the hospital room, out of the hospital, then run down the street. Where she was headed, she wasn't sure herself. All she knew was, she was running…
My life has been a total failure because of that night…Kagura thought as she ran, tears streaming down her face. All of them…they're so happy…all because they took in those abominations…and I'm left alone…a failure…
Kagura continued to run, the tears that hit the pavement being covered up by the oncoming rain.
Author's Notes: A sad chapter indeed. Kaede's back among the living, but it seems that Kagura isn't all too happy about it.
Next chapter goes back to Jay, where he'll explain Kagura's life over the past 5 years, and why she considers herself a failure.
See you all next time!
-JBK2K1
