Kaijudo After Years

Chapter 3

Where Do We Go After This?

"Now I must warn you, this is something that I regret from the bottom of my heart. Nothing I did, I am proud of." Saguru said, he was so depressed, and lonely. I was kind of thinking of stopping him... but I wanted to know what had happened. "Eleven years ago Brightmore found me in the Kaiju realm, he was an old man and I was confused, I had lived in that realm for years and not once have seen someone like me. I had to fight all my life, well from what I was able to remember, in that realm and this old man was walking around it like it was a stroll in the park. He knew my name, called me Saguru instead of my actual name, not like I would have known anyways. I thought he was going to fight me, I got ready for one, he told me he came only to talk. ' Saguru I have something you may want to listen to.' he said with a solemn tone 'I am aware of your situation, you have no idea who you are, where you came from, what your actual name is.' 'I am Saguru and I know who I am.' I said. 'Of course you are, but have you ever wondered why you are here? Why you do not see any other things like yourself? You are a human and you are from the human realm. I come from that world. And I can show it to you, I can even get you your memories back fully. Of course you must do one thing for me.' He said. I wasn't sure if he was speaking the truth or not, but his offer did intrigue me. I asked what he wanted from me and that I would considered whether or not I would help. He wished to travel to this realm and help a man named Choten take over the Order and stop them from doing something evil that would change history forever, and not for the best."

"That's not true! The Order helped change so much after Master Raiden, Allie, and Gabrial joined the Order. If it wasn't for them the world would have been destroyed long ago!" I yelled, I wanted to defend my masters.

"I know this Jared, at least now, back then I didn't know who was on the good and bad side of the war. Your faith in my son and his friends warms my heart, I only wish I knew everything I now know back then. Where was I...?" he said, his voice sounded so deep and hurt by his own words. "Ah yes, we traveled to this world. I was very terrified of what I saw, this world was strange and new to me, it was as if all the realms decided to come together and build something amazing and scary. We walked around for a while, so I could get to see the world. Brightmore took me to a school, of course we might have seem like some old men just wanting to see our grandson or something like that. He said that young humans went there to learn and try and become a help to the world in some way. I thought it was a useless thing, what help could they be inside a building where they were put in an even smaller box. I walked the halls trying to imagine my self walking through the halls, wondering if I knew what I wanted to do with my life. But nothing came to mind, I thought that fighting was all I could have done and learned. He said he was going to do something so he left me in the court yard. I saw a young man drawing in a book he had. He seemed to be interested in that more then anything else. Then another young man came up to him, they talked for a while and then they started looking at something under the table. Seemed there was a spider there. Another young one came, a young lady, she seemed to stand out, said hi to everyone that she passed by and walked up to them, a bully had walked on over and was about to step on the spider, the young lady grabbed it and ran off with it, didn't get to far. But I remember the thought I had, 'the strong always beat the weak', that is how the world works. The children argued. For some strange reason I went up to a man near me and pointed out what was happening. That man stopped the fight. Brightmore came back and we left. Later we went to a spot near the docks. I was very wary of the sea, I did not get along to well with the creatures of Water. We walked to a very large vessel, four men in armor came charging at us, with nothing but their hands. I thought there would be a fight but Brightmore only asked to see the Choten. We ended up fighting them off for a while. They summoned creatures from the Kaiju realm. I was lucky to have my good friend Humonculon, he's been with me for as long as I could remember, I used him to fight off the creatures. Brightmore didn't seem to do anything but walk around dodging the attacks. Once over with the four of them more came out of the ship ready to fight, with them a young girl. She seemed to be in charge of them. 'Alakshmi Verma, it's been ages. How is your mother doing? And your boyfriend?' He said. 'Who are you?' She asked confused and worried. I did not know who she was or what Brightmore was planning on doing." he looked to the left, seemed like he was trying to remembered something about his life. "The Choten allowed us to come in after he heard Brithmores story over the radio. Something about him made me very uneasy, his voice made me angry and his eyes made me want to punch him. Once inside we were given the V.I.P treatment, they gave us food and a room to be in. Brightmore said that all I needed to do was sit in the room and watch television, to help me learn more of this world, he went off to talk with the Choten on his own. After a few hours of being in there I decided to walk around the ship, it was very odd, it didn't seem like it was made for sailing on the ocean. It was very sad really, it was a very beautiful ship. Once I made it back to the room the Choten and Brightmore had just returned from venturing outside. 'Where did you go Sir?' I asked Brightmore. 'Just on a small trip, an insurance measure for the right future for us. Now Choten I must take a rest, but tomorrow we must go and speak with him and convince him this is the right way to go.' I went back to the room and watch something called television, there was this thing called, the news, and it was about an accident that had happened at a construction site in the city, three children were found under some ruble and were safe but said they had no memory of what had happened. They were the same children I saw at the school earlier that day. The news also said that the police had found a mans body lying in the ruble, he had brown skin, a red type of colored jacket on, and had black hair. He was still alive but, like the children, he had no memory of what had happened, or who he was. The police say that he was lucky to be alive, his clothes wore torn and he seemed to have broken his arm in the accident." He took a while to continue, he was getting sadder and sadder the longer he went on with the story, I didn't think he would be able to make it before he started crying. I didn't say a word, I let him take his time, Gloria seemed to have the same thoughts as me. Outside the door I could hear things that didn't sound human. Screams, howls, growls, and windows being shattered. I thought that the creatures were going on a rampage or maybe just having fun. "I was there for weeks just standing by, helping where I could, capturing creatures and making sure none of them got out of line. After three months they brought in a man, he was covered up so I didn't know who he was at the time. They took him to a room and Brightmore went in on his own. That man was there for days, only Brightmore came in and out of the room, no one else was allowed. I had to stand guard outside the door. After two weeks of the same thing Brightmore came out the room with the man. He was as tall as Brightmore, pale skin, gray hair, in robes, and he looked like a younger version of Brightmore, not to young but younger still. He greeted me and walked off with Brightmore. He introduced him to the Choten, the man was also named Brightmore, as his younger self, the one from this time zone. After the year was over I had learned so much of the world, of cars, plains, cities, and people too. I had finally completed the last thing I needed to do... or so I thought. After a year of harsh battles, almost loosing my arms and legs, getting deep scares that I knew would never heal, losing my best friend. We launched and attack on the world, Choten believed the only way for order was to make the world under one persons rule. The Kaijudo Order tried their best to stop us but it was of no use, we won in the end. We had things they did not have, the five artifacts of the Kaiju realm. The things that can control all creatures. We enslaved everyone, we made the world go into a great order where there was no more crimes, no more unnecessary deaths, no more fighting for land of any kind. But Brightmore told me before we can completely rule the world from anyone who could appose us I had to kill just one person. Once she was gone we could move on for good. He promised he'd return all my memories. I was quick to the chance, I thought that if I had a family I could find them, ask Brightmore and the Choten to give them shelter from all of this... but I was a fool beyond belief. I was sent to a home of an old man, a women, and a child. They were scared for their lives. As they should have been, I had Tatsurion with me at the time, completely under my control. I ordered him to kill the women, he obeyed and tore her limbs off, right in front of her child" It felt like the wind was knocked right out of me at that point, hearing this part made me sick, Gloria didn't look so hot either. But we didn't make him stop, we kept listening, he wouldn't tell us this unless it was very important to what had happened to the world. "The child screamed at the top of his lungs, the old man only fainted, he died later that day, her blood ran down Tatsurions hands as he ate her whole body. Brightmore came in when it was over, the boy was to far gone by then to even notice him. 'Well done Saguru, you did exactly what I wanted you to do, everything you've done this last year, you've helped me take over this world and provide order all around. Especially from this' he said as Nigel, the younger one, tossed the Choten on to the floor beaten and bruised. 'As I promised, your memories shall be given back to you. Nigel would you be a lad and give them to him.' he said, Nigel came to me with a flask of five memory swarm creatures. He let them loose and made them give me the memories of my past life. I saw Brightmore, Choten, and three others with me in a chamber, we laughed together, fought together, and then I saw a young women, very beautiful, she held my hand, told me she loved me, said yes when I asked for her hand in marriage, I saw the Choten again turning to a side he should have never gone too, a child born in the Kaiju realm, I saw her again, smiling at me with our child, I saw him grow to the age of three. The Choten attacking, the fight we had, the way he had stolen my memories. Then a sudden realization hit me... I had just killed my own wife. My own father was dead. And I had just scared my own son. 'You bastard!' I yelled and charged at him with full force, wanting to kill him, I ordered Tatsurion to get him as well but he didn't, instead he grabbed me and slammed me into the wall as hard as he could, if I wasn't use to it I might have passed out, Brightmore came up to me and looked at me with a dark look of amusement. 'Why did you make me kill her!?' I yelled, I didn't understand his reasoning, why would he want her dead, what good did it do. 'It's simple Saguru, or should I call you Ken now, with her out of the way, your son and yourself, no longer have anyone to fight for. He hates you know, I mean why would he want to help a father who killed his own wife. And you, you're useless with out a glove and a partner. You have let yourself go. You can't stop me now. I could kill you but I think making you suffer is so much better. Have a good long life Ken. And Raiden I hope you grow to hate your father and creatures of all kind.' Brightmore said as he walked out. Something at that point snapped in Raiden, he screamed at the top of his lungs and some how took control of Tatsurion he ordered him to kill Brightmore. He obeyed him even though Nigel had the sword of fire and the shield of Unity. Tatsurion let me dropped and slashed at Brightmore. The scared were deep, he did not survive it. Raiden then looked at me and said something I did not understand, it was as if he spoke another language one of which I did not know. He ran away and Tatsurion was let loose, he terrorized the whole city on his own, he was confused and the police shooting at him wasn't helping at all." He took a deep sigh "and that is everything I can remember, all the important things anyway. Brightmore had one thing right, I no longer had a reason to fight. There was nothing left for me. So I found this place and made it my own. And have been living here for years now."

"Where is Master Raiden now?" I asked

"I do not know. I tried keeping track of him but couldn't for too long. He might still be traveling but I do not know."

"Where do we go from here then Jared? If that Brightmore guy is dead then that means our only way home might be gone as well..." Gloria said, she looked like she was about to cry.

"You said he had something in his hand?" Sagurur asked me.

"Yes, like a tube of some kind and it had like electricity coming off it." I said remembering the details that I could.

"Nigel had something like that, the day he came out with Brightmore, it might be the same one. If you can get it, you might be able to change everything back to how it was."

"Really!? Where is he now? We can go and get it."

"It's not that simple, he lives in the new Realm. It's hard to get there with out a creature. And finding one to help is harder then you would think. It's hard to control creatures now a days. I'll draw you a map if you'd like but finding the things you'll need will be up to you. I also suggest you should get some allies for this. There is a resistance that is trying to take back control of the world, if what you say is true, then they will want to have a talk with you. They may be willing to help."

"Great, we'll go and find them. Thank you so much."

"No need for that. I'm just being a selfish old fool, hoping that you can correct the mistake I made." He stared off, thinking of the history he just told us, just hearing made me cry, I couldn't begin to imagine what it felt like to live through it all. "For tonight you can both sleep here, Gloria you can have the room back there and Jared you can have the other. In the morning you can both head on out. And hopefully you can survive all this. Also," he got down on his knees and bowed his head to the floor, "I am deeply sorry for what I have done and hope that you can forgive me."

Gloria and I looked at one another, anyone wouldn't forgive such a man, someone who obeyed the orders that brought the end of the world. But for some odd reason Master Raiden popped into my head, he was training me one day on my own when I first started. I started off with a low level creature that even new people could use but it didn't want to do what I wanted it to do. And it even attacked me! I was ready to punch it back but Master Raiden only laughed and said 'You know, creatures only obey when the person trying to control them believes in them. If you have any doubts about your creature you could get hurt, so even though she hit you first, Kenina will only hit you again and again in till you understand what it is you want her to do. You have to learn to forgive them in order for you two to progress further ahead. Do you understand me Jared?' and I thought about that. Did I really understand his words during the time. I couldn't say for sure but standing here now I finally did. He was right, if I couldn't forgive then we couldn't progress any further than where we were.

"I forgive you Saguru. But can you forgive yourself? In order to move forward, you must forgive. That's something Master Raiden taught me and it's helped me a lot." I said and nothing more. We went to the rooms we were giving. Just as we were about to go in Gloria called me.

"Hey Jared?" She said.

"Yeah?" I said.

"...what are the chances we'll make it back?" I thought about it. I had no idea if what we were going to do would work out. If anything we might have been stuck here forever.

"Honestly...I don't know. But I can tell you that I am going to do whatever it takes to get back. I don't like seeing an annoying girl like you crying every five minutes." I said in a joking tone

"I have not been crying every five minutes jerk." She said and shut her door. Before it closed I could have sworn I saw a smile.

As I laid there thinking of everything I had learned, everything that had happened, I couldn't help but wonder how life was like in this new world. I kind of want to know how everyone is like in this new world. As I drifted to sleep I heard Saguru crying in the living room. Something told me he forgave himself but I couldn't tell you for sure. I never asked him about it.