Need
By Kuruu
Disclaimer: I own the story… the story and the songs and Aki and Mr. Manager/Producer Azeon and the scientist and the guards ONLY! I wish I own the other characters too… and I'm not Sugisaki-sensei.
Warning: watch out for citrus, words, OOC, and if there is citrus, there is also yaoi. Does OCs count?
Kuruu: I forgot… Freyja is read as Freiya. Thoughts are in italics. This story is turning into AU… if you review more than three times I might ask you to be one of the characters… I'm lacking of characters here… I was planning for more than 50 characters…
"----BREAKERS----" are scene breaks, while IN BETWEEN these "-----YSQUAD-----" are FLASHBACKS… get it?
The song lyrics are in underlines.
Chapter two: White, Candles, Flames, and MothsHeaven was running away from his pursuers, the guards of the Bio-lab, with fear that can kill. He was panting heavily, and sweating. He didn't care anymore; where he'd end up in, as long as the guards don't catch him, but to not see Aki again… That's a different story. With Aki in mind, he ran faster.
-----YSQUAD----- He was in a tank filled with life supporting fluid (curled up in a fetal position), just one hour when the escape pod and the boy were transported to the Bio-lab. But the experiment began years and years ago even before he was created. The scientist was only checking the boy for damages to the implanted program inside the boy's altered mind. For that a painful procedure has to be done.
He opened his eyes for the first time in his memory and the first person he saw was a smiling scientist. The scientist was caressing the glass of the tank as if caressing the injured boy's cheek. The scientist said, "Hello, my angel. Long time no see." But the boy didn't hear anything. -----YSQUAD-----
He turned to an alley in besides a five-floor apartment complex. He jumped up the ladder of the fire exit and climbed to the highest floor and opened the metal door to the inside of the building. Therefore evading his captures. In the hall way he ran to the other end of the hall of the building.
----BREAKERS-BAND-OF-ANIME-ADICTS----
It was ten in the morning, Zero and Erts was roaming the streets to look for a job. Unlucky them, they didn't found a single job to gain money from. They were ordering from a café with their backs behind the window when Heaven ran pass by and being followed by the guards. Zero felt something and said, "Did you felt that? The aura is…" Erts said as he carried the tray of food to their table, "… from someone we know."
Later at eleven-forty eight, they decided to go back to the apartment to refresh a bit. After a few minutes of walking they arrived in the apartment and went to their flat via elevator. When they got out the lift in the fifth floor, in only a few steps someone an inch shorter than Zero bumped Erts and fell to the ground on his butt. Zero grabbed Erts before he can fall down. The body on the floor was panting, sweating and in the verge of consciousness. The red orbs looked at two of the ex-pilots with fear and panic and positioned his arms defensively while trying to find an escape rout, "I beg you, please, don't hurt me…"
Zero looked at the red-eyed boy and his eyes widened, "Hiead? Hiead, is that you?"
Heaven looked up on less fearful than before and started to cry silently, "don't hurt me..."
The empath read Heaven's mind but the red-eyed singer has a very strong barrier.
From the distance a helicopter can be heard. Heaven tried to run away but was caught by Zero and Erts. They tackled Heaven to the metallic floor and drag the panicking singer to their shared flat. They released Heaven and he immediately bolted to a far corner of the living room, very scared and tired. Heaven sat in the corner in a fetal position and grasping his head like it was about to explode as he cried like a boy in severe mental trauma that he is.
Zero went out of his room carrying a blanket, and placed it around the shattered boy. Heaven hugged Zero while saying in a weak, pleading voice, "Help me please, I beg you… I don't want to go back in the Bio-lab." The brunette said sweetly as he hugged back and placed his chin on the crying boy's head, "We'll help you for now. Just don't panic and let us help you."
"Thank you…" with that Heaven fell in unconsciousness and was carried to a bed by Zero. Meanwhile Erts was worried about a little issue called money, they were running out of it. Heaven's phone rang and Zero answered nervously.
"Hello?"
"Is Heaven safe? And who are you?"
"Heaven is safe and I'm Rei "Zero" Enna."
"Where are you?"
"My address is room 5-05-88, fifth floor, Urania Apartment Complex, Calliope Street."
"How's Heaven? Was he scared, is he fine?"
"He's sleeping now. What got him so scared?"
"We'll meet in the Castle Cross CE. Complex this noon and make sure that one person you trust stays with him. Go alone, ASAP. The taxi should know where the building is. And look for Azeon Clio, your proof is, or pass number is 15139, remember those numbers in perfect order."
"I'll look for Azeon Clio in Castle Cross CE. Complex, the pass number is 15139. Ok"
The phone was hanged before any more words are uttered and then Zero told Erts to stand by the sleeping singer. After eating lunch, Zero went out and rode a sky taxi to the C.C.CE. Complex. In the flat, Erts sits in the sofa and watched a popular drama/fight show in CCCE Channel Teens called 'Butterfly Sea'.
----BREAKERS----
Zero arrived on the complex's main entrance. He was greeted by reporters, all of them asking where is the singer Heaven. Zero was tensed under all the media people's prodding. From behind the chaos of cameras, reporters, lights, and recorders; stand Azeon and a bunch of guards in blue and white. The guards pushed the reporters at bay and let Zero through. Azeon said to Zero with a tone of ice, "Pass number and other information." Zero answered in a nervous voice, "15139, I'm looking for Azeon Clio." Azeon pulled Zero in the main office building.
The whole complex was made of three buildings in a triangular arrangement; each of them was 50 floors high. The main building is an office building and is a temporary home to some of the ones working for CC. The building to the left was for the shooting of movies and has an editing station in the last 10 floors. The third building was a recording station for the sounds and has things that are involved in sound and effects.
In the thirtieth floor of the main building in Azeon's office, Zero sits in front of the office table in a computer chair. The air is thick with tension, with guards in white trench coats standing near the door. Azeon started the conversation with a set of questions.
"I'm Azeon Clio, Heaven's manager/producer. Answer me honestly and you might get something special that only CC can give a person. I will be recording all of the information you give me in my brain for future reference. What is your name, again, and age?"
"I'm Rei "Zero" Enna, age 19." Zero looked straight into Azeons' eyes.
"Do you have a job, a house, a car, a girl friend, or some secret that's about GOA and GIS?"
"I don't have a job yet, I don't have a car, and I never imagined of having a girl friend, I was Athena-Gaia's pilot. Athena-Gaia is the last name of the white goddess given by her pilot and repairer engineer."
"Do you know someone with red eyes in your batch? May you tell me in full detail please on who that person is in relation to you life in GOA and GIS?" Azeon bent closer, resting his arms on the table.
"In fact that I do know one person who has red eyes and silver hair in my team. His name is Hiead Gner, he was once my rival in the goal of piloting the white goddess, and we were of a hate/hate sort of a relationship, but we get along in some situations, his repairer partner is my repairer's best friend, and he's always cold and calculating. Hiead was the most feared of all pilot candidates because of his dangerous attitude and because of that dangerous attitude he excelled and became the pilot of the blue goddess he called Frigg-Freyja." Zero answered as if he was talking to a long time friend.
The words that the teen spoke made Azeon think of a plan, "You say that, you and that Hiead were rivals and had a hate/hate relationship, but why are you talking about him in a way a friend would talk about another friend?" Zero was thoughtful for a minute before answering back, "We had deeper ties that he knew that I didn't. And for that reason we treated one another as if brothers in a sibling rivalry. It was a multiple layer relationship that even I cannot understand."
Azeon pulled out a pair of file folders containing questionnaires and other fill-in papers. Azeon said as he handed the folders to Zero, "One is for you to answer and the other is for a trusted friend. The folders contain the same information and questions. Follow the instructions well and avoid erasures and make sure to answer honestly for the sake of you and you're friend's life. Come back here in three days with the friend and Heaven. No one must know where Heaven is and where you are located or hell will be right around the corner. All the necessary information is there, the pass number is there and person to look for is also there. Let no one else know of the contents of those file folders, even Heaven, and lastly, don't you dare ask Heaven about his past. Got that? You may leave." he said with pure venom. Zero went out via back door of the main building, escorted by one of the guards.
----BREAKERS----
Zero got home and told Erts about everything that happened in CCCE, "Erts, we have papers to fill up. And I think these are application papers." They opened the folders and it was application papers from CCCE to be Heaven's guards. "Zero are you sure this is not prank?" "Nope, the singer's manager/producer acted like he'll kill something while we were talking. The tension was nerve wracking." They filled up the papers with out further a do.
In the bedroom occupied by Zero, Heaven woke up and walked to the living room with unease and curiosity. Erts and Zero answering the content of the file folders greeted him. When they saw him, they stopped answering and closed the file folders, Zero gathered the folders and hid it in a file cabinet with a lock while Erts tend to the singer.
Heaven asked, "What was that?"
Erts answered, "Nothing, just some job related matter."
"Ok… so… Where am I?" Heaven looked around as Erts guided him to the couch.
Zero said with pride, "You are in room 5-05-88, fifth floor, Urania Apartment Complex, Calliope Street."
"Who are you?" Heaven asked with the mentality and personality like that of a five-year-old child as he bent his head sideward and put a pointing finger on his chin.
It was Erts that answered, "I'm Erts Virny Cocteau and he's Rei "Zero" Enna. Call me Erts and call him Zero, ok?"
"Ok! Hello nice to meet you all! My name is Heaven. I can't remember my real name thou. I'm nineteen years old; I live with my manager/producer Mr. Azeon Clio." Heaven answered again with the mentality of a five-year-old and a huge childish smile. "Can I watch TV? Please?" he added with huge puppy eyes and a pleading voice.
Both the ex-pilots said, "Ok."
Heaven bounced like a psycho bunny and turned the TV on and tuned on the channel 'CCCE Channel Kids', "I love this channel. They have talking animals and anime!" then he bounced back to the couch with the TV remote in one hand and sat like any five-year-old sit like.
On the tea table behind the couch, Erts and Zero had a talk while having tea. They were looking at the back of Heaven's head by the corners of their eyes. They were talking in a whispered manner so that Heaven wouldn't hear anything.
"Zero, what do you think happened to Hiead that can change him this dramatically in just a year and some months?"
"Amnesia, trauma, psychological therapy, brainwash, brain damage, and lots more. So pick one and we'll do something about it."
"I don't think that we can do anything about it, thou… he's better of this way. He's cheerful now than him in GOA or GIS."
"We're not even certain that he is Hiead. Their personality is totally far flung. And he's too childish. The Hiead I know will never do that."
Erts said as he battled if he should say anything, "Yeah but… I remember what Heltage (spelling pls.) told me. Hiead was not born but 'CREATED' in a laboratory along with two others. You might be one of them Zero. She also said that one was stolen, one was sent to another place and the last one stayed there and endured the experiment all alone."
"…" Zero was in shock. "Why didn't you tell me earlier?!"
"Because this is the right time."
On the couch Heaven's pretending that he didn't hear a thing but he listened to them talk and got a few words. But when he heard Erts say 'all alone', he started to cry silently and moved to a fetal position. He remembers something of his stay in the Bio-lab.
-----YSQUAD-GROUP-OF-ANIME-ADICTS-----
In the middle of the experiment, he was there alone in the room with a one-way glass window being electricuted by the wires connected to his back. He's waiting for the session to end so that he can be with Aki in the promised garden. But every time the session was over guards with shields would pick him up tranquilize him and carry him into his isolated room on the top of the building. All the time he was alone, scared, hurt, and lonely. Tears rarely stop from flowing down his very pale cheek, stopping only because he was out of tears to shed.
He thought as he lay in the bed limped and locked away, "Aki, when will we play in the garden? Will the both of us be alone there? Would there be warmth there? Aki, do you like me? Aki… I…"
When he looked to his right he saw a pealed and sliced apple, a carefully prepared orange, a washed plate of purple grape (with out the wood), a strawberry jam sandwich, and a glass and pitcher of iced tea (1). There was a note beneath a peace of the apple. When he was out of the effect of the tranquilizer he sat up and reached out to read the note.
"To my Darling Angel, I am your servant, your knight, your all. Only in you shall I find my real Heaven. From your servant the kind Demon."
He smiled as he reads the note over and over while shedding tears of happiness. After a while he ate the carefully prepared food on the tray slowly to savor the taste of each bite and memorize each emotion that came along it. He was happy knowing that someone out there cared for him. "Aki, you're warm."
-----YSQUAD-----
Heaven stood up, shadows covering his eyes and went besides Zero, kneeled down and cried hard on Zero's lap, "I don't want to be alone anymore." Heaven placed his arm around Zero's hips in a tight embrace. Erts stood up and kneeled down and whispered comforting words into Heavens ears as he pats the singer on the right shoulder. Zero placed a hand on Heaven's head and the other on Heaven's left shoulder. Heaven looked up and uttered with all seriousness gone, "… can you feed me? I'm hungry…" Zero and Erts's face faulted.
They went to the kitchen and had a snack. Zero made a strawberry jam sandwich and Erts made chocolate shake fit for six persons. Heaven said as he waited, "do you need help?" the two answered, "physically nope, financially… yes." Heaven rummaged his pocket for money and placed them on the table. Zero and Erts went out and saw the money on the table, "Heaven?!" the singer replied with a smile, "you said you need help? Here help!" he smiled widely like a five-year-old does.
----BREAKERS----
On a castle (and it's grounds) floating above an ocean, on the highest balcony there stood a teen (19 years old) with metallic blue hair, mismatched eyes (ocean blue right, black left) and a seventeen-year-old boy with black hair and orange eyes. Both were looking towards a distant metropolis of electronic lights and high stake risks and both were wearing assassin (2) like cloths.
"Crade, do you want to go there?"
The younger replied with eagerness, "Can I?!"
"Yes you can. This is turning into a circus. We need to assemble CCC again."
---TBC---
1 – the fruits are symbolical! Orange is for Citrus, yes, citrus. The forbidden fruit in the Christian bible is always depicted as an Apple. Grapes are used in describing a Yaoi pair in some rare stories that I have read and they are not in the net, Strawberry for sweetness. The tea is there for no reason what so ever… or make that the impurity of the soul… as fresh clean water is for the washing away of filt… ah! What ever…
2 – assassin in Ragnarök online RPG.
Most of the references I used can be found in wikipedia and any search engines of course.
CC is for the Castle Cross, the castle in the sky with a huge land mass and is also floating. I'll have a pic on it later. I love that castle… its grounds are gigantic!
CCC is for Castle Cross Corporation… the whole group and is lead by three leaders and six assistant leaders.
CCCE or CC. CE. or CC.CE. is Castle Cross Corporation Entertainment… Department…
Hiead: why the addiction to CC?
Kuruu: be cause that castle is our dream castle… it is in every story we wrote so far…
Zero: we?
Kuruu: me, Crade, and Okasamyn.
Okasamyn: dear readers… READ THE LINES, BETWEEN THE LINES, AND BEYOND THE LINES.
Erts: why?
Kuruu: some of the hidden meanings have vital roles in this fic.
Crade: Kuruu-ichan are you preparing for the life of a novelist?
Kuruu: and yes.
Azeon: FToD, your role? Chose: teacher, nurse, scientist, assassin, actress, singer, dancer, newly hired producer of Heaven, fortuneteller, detective, police officer, anything that has to do with movies, a caretaker of the Urania apartment complex, hacker, messenger of some sort, body guard, novelist, a sort of Azeon's Rill sort of figure but more hopeful relationship, a staff or crew of CCCE, Heaven's nany? Your char age, gender, a name from one of the gods or goddesses out there (in ancient beliefs) that matches your character, and personality is yours to decide, while the colors and rank is for master Kuruu and master Leckie to decide.
Kuruu: and that's that. Ja mata
