ATE: I got another chap for you guys to read. I hope I haven't written anyone OOC.
Declaimer: I don't own Xenosaga. I only own my OC that appears in this chap.
Chapter 2
After the crew from the Durandal made it back Jr., Mary, and Shelley stood in the Hanger, the capsule with '2008 A.D.' laying on the ground near them. They were sure that there was a person inside it, but the glass had fog on it so they couldn't make out who it was.
"Who could possibly be inside this ancient capsule?" Asked Shelley.
"Who knows? But I do know that we won't find out until we look." Jr. said.
Jr. made his way towards the capsule and started to wipe the fog off, but he was surprised at what he saw.
It was a girl who looked to be 17 years old with long white blonde hair and wore an old school uniform (most likely from the school she might've attended to in her day), her eyes closed, sleeping peacefully as if she had just been asleep for a few hours.
"My god…!" Jr. gasped.
"What is it Little Master?" Mary asked.
"It's…" Jr. turned to look at Mary. "It's a girl."
Mary and Shelley both came over to the capsule and they saw that it was indeed a girl.
"Who would do such a thing to someone her age?" Shelley asked.
"It wouldn't matter if they're long gone…" Jr. said.
Jr. felt sadness and anger at the same time. Sad because of what the girl had to go through and the fact that when she woke up she would be sad upon discovering that everyone she knew was already dead, and anger for whoever did this to her. If there were such things as time machines, he would surely go back and kill the bastards that did this to her. But sadly, no such technology existed, even in this time with the kind of technology they had.
"We're letting her out."
"Are you sure, Little Master?" Shelley asked.
"Positive. She's been inside this capsule for 4000 years. I'd think she'd be glad to get out after sleeping for that long."
Mary went to where the controls for opening the capsule would be and managed to find it, the lid of the capsule hissing opened as smoke was released.
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I hear a hissing sound and I suddenly felt cold as warm air started to hit my skin. With difficulty I opened my eyes, my vision blurry at first but it soon cleared and I saw two women and a little boy looking down at me.
One of the women had blonde hair and blue eyes, wore an outfit of yellow and blue, and wore a blue hat on her head.
The other woman wore purple, and had purple hair and eyes.
The little boy looked to be about 12 years old, with red hair and blue eyes. He wore a white shirt with green pants (the right pant leg had the zipper open near his knee, making it look like it had been ripped) and wore a long black coat with long sleeves. I noticed that he had two guns in holsters around his waist.
I sat up and noticed that my white blonde hair was longer (way passed my waist to my bottom). I remembered it being to my shoulders last time. I looked at what I was wearing and was confused. Was I wearing a uniform? I noticed a necklace around my neck. It was really pretty with three marble shaped violet stones and a sky blue crystal, but were did I get it? Did someone give it to me? And what was I laying in?
"So you're awake." I looked up at where the voice came from. It turned out to be the little boy.
"Awake?" I thought. He made it sound like I was asleep for a long time.
"Where am I?" I asked quietly.
"You're on the Durandal, a ship from the Kukai Foundation." Said the blonde, who had a country accent.
"Mary. She wouldn't know that." Said the woman with purple hair.
"It's alright Shelley, we can explain it to her." The little boy said. "I'm Jr. Gaignun Jr. I got a real name, but let's just leave it at that for now." He gestured to the blonde woman. "The one with the blue outfit is Mary, and the on in purple is Shelley. What's your name?"
I opened my mouth to tell them my name, but then realized I didn't remember it. I looked down at my hands that lay in my lap.
"I…don't remember…" I said sadly.
I heard nothing for awhile, but then I heard them whispering to each other. Unfortunately, I couldn't make out what they said.
"How about we give you a name? That is until you remember your real one?" Asked Jr. after the three were done whispering.
I looked up at Jr. They were going to give me a new name?
"That would be nice." I said.
"How about Ayame?" Shelley suggested.
I nodded my head in approval. It was a nice name and at least I wouldn't go around nameless. I started getting out of the thing I was laying in, but Jr. held out his hand to me. I wasn't sure why he was doing that, and he must've noticed my confusion.
"Take my hand." He said. "I'll help you out."
I hesitated for a little bit, but I took Jr.'s hand and he helped me out of the thing I was in. Once I was out I looked back and noticed that the thing I was laying in was actually a capsule and at the bottom was written '2008 A.D.'
"'2008 A.D.'? What does that mean?" I asked.
"You don't know what that means?" Mary asked.
I shook my head, telling her I didn't.
"It refers to the year you were sealed in that capsule. And the current year is T.C. 4767. In other words, 4000 years into the future." (AN: I hope I got that right.)
I was in T.C. 4767. And I was asleep for 4000 years?
"So much time has passed for me…" I thought.
"It looks like you'll need a different outfit to wear." Jr. said. "No use parading around in a 4000 year old outfit like that."
I looked down at my outfit in confusion. It seemed perfectly fine to me and it wasn't like it was ruined or anything.
"Is there something wrong with what I'm wearing?" I asked.
"Well no…It's uh…It's…" I saw Jr.'s face turn as red as his hair.
"What the Little Master is trying to say is that you need a new look." Mary said.
"Yeah, what Mary said." Jr. said.
"We can help you with that." Shelley said.
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Mary and Shelley took me to a room I would be staying in since I had nowhere to go. Right now I wearing the clothes Mary and Shelley had gotten me after I had gotten cleaned up.
The outfit was a short white shirt with no sleeves and a white short skirt with a black belt around my waist. On my feet were black boots that came past my knees and I wore a long sky blue coat (like Jr.'s). Around my neck were a white chocker and the necklace I was wearing when I woke up.
At the time I was sitting on my bed. I looked down at the necklace that I wore and fingered. I couldn't help but wonder where I could have gotten it before I got amnesia.
I then heard knocking on the door to my room and looked up.
"It's open." I said.
The door opened to reveal Jr., who stood outside.
"Hey Ayame." He said as he walked into the room.
"Hi Jr." I replied back. "Is there something you need?"
"No. I was wondering if you wanted me to show you around the Durandal?"
"Sure. That sounds good."
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After we left my room Jr. started to show me around the Durandal. He already told me that the area we had been in was the Residential Area. We made our way down the hallway and rode this subway train like thing to another area of the ship. When we got off the subway we rode up a thing that reminded me of an escalator to the top and entered through the doorway. What I saw amazed me. It was a pretty area with a fountain in the middle, benches, and trees. Flying around in the air were what appeared to be fire flies. There was a huge window that showed the outside of the Durandal.
"This is the Park Area. It's a good place to go if you need to relax or want some peace and quiet." Jr. told me.
"Wow… It's really beautiful." I said.
I heard Jr. chuckle. I looked down at him confused.
"What's so funny?"
"You just act like this was the first time you've seen a park." He replied. "But I can't blame you since you have amnesia."
Just then I started to see something.
There was a little girl with short white blonde hair wearing a pink dress sitting on a swing as a man (I assumed was her dad) pushing her as she swung back and forth, laughing as she had fun. Sitting on a bench nearby was a woman who had a smile on her face as she watched the two.
"…ame?" I heard a voice echo as the image faded.
"…ame?" I felt someone shaking me. "Ayame?"
I shook my head trying to clear my head and I looked down at Jr., who had been shaking me.
"Are you okay?" He asked.
"Yeah. I'm okay." I replied.
"What happened?"
I didn't think Jr. would ask what happened. How would I explain what I saw?
"I saw something, like a vision, I think…"
"A vision? I think you might've been a flashback. What was it about?"
"It was of a little girl with her parents. The father was pushing the little girl on a swing in a park." I explained.
"Hmm… Maybe you're starting to remember." Jr. stated. "But that flashback alone won't be able to tell us much about your past."
"So I'm going to have to wait a while until I can remember everything…" I looked at the ground sadly. I didn't want to go around wondering who I was and my life before being sealed inside that capsule.
"Don't worry." I felt a hand on my arm, squeezing it as if to assure me. I looked at the hand and saw that it was Jr. "I'll be with you as you try to remember. So don't worry, okay?"
I now had a new view of Jr. Even though he must've been a leader of some sort with a lot of responsibilities, he still had time to be himself. Heck, he took the time to be concerned about me. I nodded me head, telling him that I was grateful for the help he would offer me.
"How about I continue showing you around?" Jr. asked, taking his hand away from my arm.
"Sure." I said.
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We soon finished the tour around the Durandal and now I stood on the bridge. Mary was standing near me and Jr., while Shelley was at a computer typing.
It was when I first entered the bridge that I had my first encounter with Realians, or in this case, the 100-Series. At first I thought that they were just very smart little girls, but Jr. explained that they were indeed Realians, telling me that they looked like people, but their eyes were what gave them away since they were yellow. At least I would be able to tell if someone was a Realian.
At the moment I was staring out the window at the stars in space. It was amazing how this was normal for them to see something like this everyday. Or maybe it took so little to amaze me.
Since I knew where everything was, Jr. said I could go wherever I pleased on the Durandal. That meant I could go to the Park Area again. I rode the elevator platform down and made my way to the subway train. I rode it to the Park Area and rode the escalator to the doorway and entered the Park.
Once inside, I went over to one of the benches in front of the window and sat on it, staring out the window. I closed my eyes, deciding on taking a nap.
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I didn't know what was going on, but I knew that a bunch of people had grabbed me. There were people in the room, but I couldn't see their faces because they were blurred. I felt my mouth move as started yelling, but I couldn't hear what I was saying. In fact I couldn't hear what anyone was saying. I felt myself kicking and I soon started to fight the people holding me captive. Soon more arms grabbed me from behind and I was struggling again. I felt something prick my neck and I started crying for some reason.
My eyes closed and opened again to find myself in a graveyard, a little girl in a dress stood in front of me, but everything was black and white, even me. She started saying something, but I couldn't hear her.
The area changed to a dark room. I was scared and confused since I didn't know where I was. I suddenly heard cracking and turned around. What I saw scared.
A man with white shaggy hair and violet eyes and wearing a outfit with a white cape sat on a throne like chair holding what looked like one of the 100-Series Realians, but had long white hair and dark skin, in his arms. He held the Realian's arm as he spotted me.
"So you're here?" It was more of a statement that a question.
I watched as he bent the Realian's arm the wrong way, resulting in a sickening cracking. He discarded the Realian as if it was simple trash on the ground. I looked at the ground and my eyes widened when I saw that there were many of the same Realians littering the ground sprawled in odd angles. My stomach twisted, making me feel sick.
I heard the sound of feet moving towards me and I looked up to see that man approaching me, a wide grin on his face. I started to back away from him until my back touched something. I looked behind me and saw that it was a door, but found it was locked when I tried to open it. I heard the footsteps get closer and I turned to see that he was in arms reach of me. I felt my body shaking in fear of this guy.
"You can run, but you can't hide!" He said. "Because I'm coming for you and ma pêche."
He started cackling manically that it made me scared. If this was a nightmare, then I wanted out of it right now! I didn't want to see this anymore! Let me out!!!
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My eyes shot open as I woke up. I looked around and saw that I was still in the Park Area.
"So it was a nightmare…" I thought.
"Decided to take a nap, did you?" I jumped as I looked to where the voice came from and saw that it was Jr., who sat next to me on the bench.
"Oh, it's just you, Jr." I said relieved. "How long have you been there?"
"I came in and found you sitting on this bench asleep." He said. "You seem a little jumpy. Is something wrong?"
I looked down at the ground, afraid of remembering that nightmare I had. Maybe if I told him, I would be able to forget it, right?
"I had a nightmare."
"A nightmare, eh?" He asked curiously. "What kind?"
"There was…this guy that had white hair and violet eyes. He had a Realian in his arms that looked like the 100-Series, but it had long white hair and darker skin. And he bent the Realian's arm and threw it to the ground." I explained. "He said 'You can run, but you can't hide. Because I'm coming for you and ma pêche.' He…he scared me."
I looked at Jr., who was looking at the ground as he growled.
"Albedo…" He muttered.
"Albedo?" I asked. "Who's that?"
Jr. looked up at me, as if realizing what he said.
"It's nobody you need to concern yourself about." He told me. "Just try to forget what you saw, okay?"
I was confused why Jr. wanted me to forget what I saw, but I nodded to him anyways. I'll try to forget.
ATE: Again, I hoped I didn't make anyone OOC. This chap took awhile to plan, so Reviews would be nice to receive at this point if no one has reviewed yet.
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