SWA: Diclonius End Game.
A Gunslinger Girl X Elfen Lied Crossover, by Elfen Magix.
Gunslinger Girl is © Yu Aida
Elfen Lied is © Lynn Okamotto
Elfen Magix is my online name since 1984 when the first BBSes and Hologate Email relays were online, long before the internet as you know it went online in 1992. It has no connection to Elfen Lied, and no, I did not lied!
Chapter 4: Birth of The Red Queen
If 20-million people living in Tokyo Japan were infected with the Diclonius Vector Virus, then what about the those tourists who were there at the time? Or of the others world wide? They too have become infected, going home carrying not knowing what they had picked up. Even with the vaccine, not everybody was given its cure. But what if in the nearly 20 years ago, the original infection that created Lucy also created several more? Tourists come and go, and many often bring on infections that they had picked up from far away lands.
It can go without saying that because of this reason, Lucy is not the only Diclonius Queen in the world, but the only one in her region. With every birth world wide, it is still a 0.00001% that are born Diclonius; but infected parents still produce Diclonius children. The Russian Federation and certain western parts of the European Union blame the birth of Diclonius on the Chernobyl Accident. In Italy there are a few Diclonius children- less than one can count on the fingers on a single hand and all are unknown to exist in the public's eye.
Yuka wakes up first, and prepares for the day ahead of them. She knows that she has to get adjusted to the time difference and do so quickly. Thus she walks around the main room of the suite and looks over the room service menu. She orders a large Italian omelet with spinach and cheese, along with a few pastries for everyone and drink. She takes a quick shower as the order is being prepared. Mayu, who shares a room with Nana, wakes up next, fixing up her bed and gathers a items to take to the bathroom with her. Yuka was stepping out the bathroom with a towel wrapped around her as Mayu approached the door.
"Oh- you're awake too?", Yuka started to say as she held the towel close to her.
"Good morning…", Mayu said.
"Yes- good morning. I already ordered breakfast for everyone so it should be arriving soon.", Yuka stated.
Mayu just smiled for a moment before saying, "Thank you.", and steps into the bathroom.
Yuka steps into her room she shares with Nyu, and gets dressed. Except for her shoes, she is ready for her day, continuing the tradition of no-shoes in the house. She quickly makes over her bed before stepping out into Kouta's room. Nana wakes up, agitated and nervous from having another bad dream and not knowing how to handle it. Furthermore, Mayu was not there to ease her back into reality. Yuka runs into their room and holds Nan as she cries.
"What's wrong? You had a bad dream or something?", Yuka asks.
Nana tries to calm down, and eventually does. She wipes her tears on the blanket before nodding.
"Everything is OK. It was only a dream, nothing more.", Yuka tells her. Yuka slowly lets her go. "Breakfast will be here soon, so go wash up and dressed. OK?"
"OK…", Nana says.
Yuka quietly leaves the room, and heads to Kouta's room, finding that Nyu had woken up and walking out the door.
"Nana? Nana?", Nyu asks.
"Oh… She had a bad dream, but she's OK now. We all need to wash up and get ready for the day. Breakfast will be ready soon.", Yuka tells her.
"Break- fast?", Nyu asks.
"Food… Its not what we're used too but I think we will like it.", Yuka says.
Yuka takes a couple steps to Kouta's room.
"Kouta sleep?", Nyu asks.
"I will wake him up.", Yuka says. "You go to the bathroom and take a shower, alright?", Yuka says.
"Shower!", Nyu says loudly and runs to the bathroom.
Yuka shakes her head for a second before walking into Kouta's room. She closes the door behind her then walks to his bed. She sits down next to his as he sleeps, brushing the hair from his forehead to the side.
"Kouta, wake up…", she tells him with a slight nudge. He does not respond for the moment. "Oh Kouta, Please wake up. We got a long day ahead of us.", she says with a slightly harder nudge. Kouta wakes up but barely.
"Just another hour of sleep- please…", Kouta says.
"We got a long day, and breakfast will be here soon.", Yuka says.
"Breakfast?", Kouta asks.
"I ordered some room service.", Yuka says.
"But we have little money. Reason why we got this suite is because it would be cheaper to rent it than to rent 5 separate rooms for everyone!", Kouta says.
"Let me deal with the finances, we'll be OK and under budget.", Yuka says.
"Alright… I'll trust you with our money.", Kouta gives in.
Yuka just smiles before hugging him. Kouta, unsure how to respond, slowly raises his arms and holds her back. The door bell rings through out the suite. Yuka pushes Kouta off her and runs out the room.
"That must be room service!", she says as she runs out the room.
Once at the door, she opens it, allowing the waiter to come in with a rolling cart. He heads to the dining area and sets covered serving pots on the table. Another waiter sets up the table, though Yuka protests.
"No-its OK, we can do that!", Yuka protests.
The waiters look at her, but continue to finish preparing the table. They leave when they are done. Yuka sighs for a moment, then looks over the food.
"Its not what we're used too, but I'm sure that the others would like it.", Yuka says. She uncovers the serving bowls, looking at the various foods it contained. She cuts the omelet into servable portions and hands out plates of food to the others. For the time being, they enjoy their morning meal like they once had with meals back in Japan.
They clean up their eating area, stashing the dirty plates in the service tray left behind by the waiting staff. Kouta goes into his room, wanting to be left alone in thought and privacy as he sits on his bed under the covers as if he wanted to go to sleep again. But he does not get his wish, as Mayu enters his room when Yuka and Nyu leave to walk Wanta.
"Kouta, can I have a word with you?", Mayu asks.
"What's on your mind, Mayu?", Kouta asks.
Mayu walk to the bed and sits next to him, on the edge with her feet to the floor. She has to turn her body 1/2 way around to see him.
"I got a lot on my mind, and don't know how to say or deal with them.", Mayu started.
"Start with the beginning.", Kouta says.
"Uhm… Yuka told me of everything that happened to you. Of how you were there when your father and sister were killed in front of you.", Mayu started.
"Then I need to talk to Yuka about that. Its not her business to be spreading such personal information around like that.", Kouta stated, letting a bit of anger and annoyance flow in his tone of voice.
"No… I'm sorry… I mean…. I don't know what I mean…", Mayu started.
"Look. Its not your fault. But, I want you to no share my personal life with anyone else but me. I would not do the same to you.", Kouta explained.
"Kouta. I… I see you as my father.", Mayu said. "And Yuka as my mother… You said it yourself- we are a family, so that must make me your daughter." Kouta can only look at her without saying a word. "I need to know that as my father, to what extent do you love me and do you want me?"
"Love? Uhm… I never thought about that. I'm sorry if I have been cold to you, Mayu.", Kouta started to explain.
"No, its not that!", Mayu almost yelled.
"Then what is it?", Kouta asks.
Mayu bites on her lower lip, trying to hold back her tears. Then she lets her feelings known abruptly.
"WOULD YOU EVER FORCE ME TO HAVE SEX WITH YOU?!!", Mayu shouts out as she tears open her robe showing what little she had on underneath. Kouta could only look at her for a moment before turning away.
"No.", Kouta said. "As your father, I am not supposed to do that to you."
Mayu begins to cry. Kouta slowly turns around to see her crying, then reaches out to hold her against him. She resists at first but then slowly leans against him and keeps crying.
"There, there…", Kouta started to say. "I have not been the best father in the world, but I do care about you and the others. I just got a lot to learn in being a father to you. Lord knows that I have failed in protecting you guys in the past in Japan."
Mayu pushes off him and looks at him for the moment. "You did everything you could, almost dying in protecting us. Though you are not superman, you did your best. But Kouta, I know we are not related but I'm thankful for you being there for me.", Mayu says.
Kouta sighs before speaking. "Is there something bothering you?", he asks.
"Kouta, I need to tell you a few things.", Mayu began. "Remember when you and Yuka returned from searching Nyu, and found the house a mess, and that guy with the glasses taking Nyu away?"
"The night I was shot, yes.", Kouta answers with a question.
"Well, it was not him caused the damage. He was somebody who I called for help, because somebody else busted into the house and did things to Nana and me. Nana tried to fight him off, but she was defeated, and I got too scared to fight.", Mayu explained as her tears flowed.
"Look- I forgave you for that a long time ago. A house can be rebuilt, a life cant, Mayu.", Kouta replied. "But you should have told me that somebody else was involved an caused all that damage beforehand instead of me blaming it on somebody else. So, what happened?"
"Some bounty hunter was looking for Lucy/Nyu… but found us in the house instead, and he tried to kill Nana and then tried to rape me.", Mayu answered before crying. "Why must men such pigs?!!"
"I'm sorry Mayu. If I was there, I could have done something to stop that.", Kouta explained. "But to answer your question, it is something that I can not answer personally. You see, there are some men who are of such vile and filth that they let their impulses takeover them and dish out evil deeds like Yuka does with our meals. They have no hearts, respect or contempt for others, and see people like you as an easy target for their whims. But I am not like that. I just don't know why though."
"You are a wonderful man and great father. Nothing like my last step father was.", Mayu says softly as she leans against him.
"Your step father?", Kouta asks.
"Yes..", Mayu answered.
"Your mother made no mention of a husband or step father when she gave us your papers.", Kouta replies.
"He would make me take off my clothes and do things to me.", Mayu says as the tears fell harder.
"He raped you?", Kouta asks.
"Yes, often. Almost every night mother went to work…", Mayu answered.
"And that's why you ran away?", Kouta asks.
Mayu could only sheepishly nod.
Kouta pushes her off and takes the edges of her open robe, closing it, then ties the robe belt together. Mayu can only blush in embarrassment and sadness. She reaches down to the belt of the robe and unties it, then throws back her robe open again. Kouta reaches to closes her robe again, but she grabs him by the wrist, and stares into his eyes.
"I need to know… if I can trust you with my body, see if you would rape me like the others have or not… I'm sorry… I just don't know why I'm doing this!", Mayu says as she cries.
Kouta relaxes his arms, putting them down at their sides. He closes his eyes and turns his face away from her.
"You are much like my little sister, and I will treat you as such. I don't care how naked you are in front of me, or of wanting sex with me, Mayu. I do care for you, but I would do my best not to hurt you…", Kouta answers. "But Mayu…"
"Yes Kouta?", Mayu asks.
"Don't temp me or force me into a situation where we could have sex.", Kouta tells her. "I don't want to fail you as a father, but I also don't want to be tempted as a man either."
"Don't you find me attractive?", Mayu asks.
"I don't find anyone attractive. I either love them or I don't. I love Yuka, and Nyu, and then you and Nana. But I am a man, Mayu, and am driven by those same impulses and drives like any other. But I'm supposed to in control of those impulses as well, because I'm not an animal. Any man who allows himself to be taken over by his impulses is not a man but an animal. Understand that, because if I allowed myself to be taken over by my impulses, I would have raped you just now for you tempting me and a long time ago because you were available and conveniently there.", Kouta answers.
They did not hear their hotel suite room door open as Yuka, Nyu and Nana returns from Wonta's walk. They find it odd that the suite would be found empty, and check on Kouta's room, finding a near naked Mayu under her open robe Mayu with Kouta in the same bed together. Neither Nyu or Nana does not know that to think of what was going on, but Yuka runs to the bed, yanking Mayu off it, and slapping the crap out of Kouta's face.
"KOUTA!!!", Yuka yells at him. "HOW DARE YOU!!!"
"Yuka!", Mayu started to try to end the fighting.
"NO! KOUTA- YOU GET YOUR THINGS AND GET OUT OF HERE! GO BACK TO JAPAN, YOU PERVERT!", Yuka yells at him.
"YUKA!", Mayu yells back at her.
"STAY OUT OF IT, MAYU! I'M HERE TO PROTECT YOU FROM THIS PERVERTED SEX CREEP!", Yuka yells back before giving Kouta a right hook to his jaw that sends him off the bed. Yuka gets on the bed to go after him, but is stopped by Mayu grabbing her arm.
"STOP IT! ITS NOT HIS FAULT!!!", Mayu said.
"NOT HIS FAULT?!!", Yuka yells back. "DON'T FALL FOR THOSE TRAPS MEN PUT UP TO GET TO YOUR PRECIOUS PRIVATE PARTS!"
"NO! STOP IT! IT WAS I WHO TRIED TO TEMPT HIM AND HE REFUSED!", Mayu yells in return.
"THAT'S SO WRONG!… What? You tried to tempt him?", Yuka started to yell but suddenly calms down.
"Yes…", as Mayu started to cry. "I wanted to know if I could trust Kouta or if he was just like any other man out there… nothing happened, and I can now trust him!"
Yuka kneels on the bed, looking at Mayu.
"Please… I'm sorry!", Mayu pleaded.
Yuka slowly turns to Kouta. "I'm sorry… Kouta."
Kouta just lays on the floor holding into his jaw, trying to shake off the blow to the face he had just gotten from Yuka. Then he sits up into a ball. "Everybody, get out.", he tells them.
"Huh?", Yuka started. "I said I was sorry."
"I want you to leave, and leave me alone.", Kouta said.
"But…", Yuka insisted.
"LEAVE!", Kouta yells back.
Yuka stays there stunned looking over him as she knelt on is bed. A few seconds passes as she recomposes herself and leaves the room, taking Mayu with her. A minute passes before Kouta gets up off the floor and locks his door. He then quietly gets dressed and packs his bag. He checks for his passport and airline ticket to return home.
A million images and words come crashing in like waves against the shore but does so slowly. It registers in the mind like a heavy static buzz of an unavailable TV Station selected on a blank channel. It takes either a lot of concentration or a loud signal to latch onto a mind and how on to it, then read it of its ever changing content. As Fernando in his body, he was more sensitive as a telepath. In Juanita's body, things took a bit more energy and concentration to get things done. But she was still as sensitive as he was when it came to loud signals. Passing by a hospital or ambulance and sensing the death screams of those who met a violent demise and refuse to die in emergency care is a simple test.
As the Porsche races back to Rome, it passes by a horrific traffic accident, and the brain inside Juanita's body becomes receptive to the mental screams of pain and anguish, forming a headache deep inside the skull. It takes a lot of concentration to ignore it, making for white knuckle driving for a few fleeting moments. The pain goes away as the mental screams fades into the distance.
'At least she still has that ability with others. But damn it, where is the volume control?!' Fernando thinks to himself.
Another 1/2 hour of driving puts the Porsche entering the Roman City Limits. Unfortunately, it takes another 45 minutes to get to midtown Rome and its shopping centers. She spends a long time at the drug store, carefully looking over various medications.
(Translated from Italian) "Need any help, Miss?", a stock clerk asks as he puts down a box of medication to put on the shelves.
"I'm, uhm… need something that does not have Acetaminophen in it.", she answers.
"What for?", the stock clerk asks.
"Headaches and overall other things. My husband, he's allergic to Tylenol.", she answers.
"Oh, I see. Hmmm…", the stock clerk begins to thinks. "I suppose he wants the strongest stuff available."
"Yes, if you have something that wont require a prescription. We are just here for a couple of days.", she states.
The stock clerk takes a few steps past her and goes over the labels quickly. He then reaches into the shelf and pulls out a box of aspirin with Codeine. "This should help your husband greatly.", the stock clerk said, "But don't over do it. And always read the packaging information or its inside pamphlet which has a section written in English."
"Thank you…", she says as she takes the box of pills with her. She takes couple of other items off the shelf before taking them to the counter.
In a high school not far away, a girl walks alone in the halls, not sure on how to deal with the pressures of everyday life. Though she is slighter better in shape and appearance than most girls in her 11th grade class, she is constantly harassed and bullied by others because she does not fit in to the various cliques and groups. She keeps her knit cap low just above her eyebrows, covering her bright violet red hair, and the slight protrusions just above her temples that sticks out of her hair. Not even her name seems to fit the usual Italian structure she lives in. Being a transfer student does not help her in the slightest bit.
"Kieya! Kieya! Wait!", a female voice yells through the halls, getting louder as if it was approaching her, for it was. A hand grabs the girl by the arm, making her stop in her tracks. The girl calling her steps in front of her, "Kieya, they were only fooling."
"Then why must they always pick on me?", Kieya asks, holding back her emotions.
"Its because you make yourself an easy target, Kie… you don't laugh, you don't play… the things you say- they are scary! Everyone thinks you're bluffing, or at least lying!", the girl continues.
"I don't bluff. And I don't lie!", Kieya tells her.
"Then prove it…" the girl tells her.
The class bell rings, and the halls suddenly fills up with teens going to their next class. A few from their class gather behind them.
"I wont.", Kieya says, trying to step around the girl. She manages to take a couple steps away from the girl.
One of the boys from the soccer team pushes Kieya from behind, making her fall to the floor. Some of the teens laugh but most stand stunned in silence.
"Hey! Rosita was talking to you! You should at least respect her request for communications, you conceited bitch!", the boy in the soccer uniform yells and points at her. More laughter fills the silence of the halls, but from the same people who laughed before, while the rest stayed stunned.
"I promised that I would be a good girl. That I would never lash out anger at anyone ever again…", Kieya says to herself. The boy in the soccer uniform steps up to her.
"What was that bitch?", he yells at her. "No One Ever Talks Back To JD!" He follows with a soccer kick to her face, thought lightly he intended it to be, it was still hard enough to be felt and knock her down again.
"GET UP BITCH!", JD yells at Kieya. "GET UP SO I CAN KICK YOU AGAIN!"
"THAT WAS UNCALLED FOR, JD!", Rosita yells at him.
"YOU BACKING UP THAT BITCH?", JD argues with her.
'Nobody likes you to be anywhere…', a voice says that only Kieya could hear. 'How many homes are you going to move from? How many schools are you going to transfer to? What have you done to them for them to attack you? You cant hold back any longer, no matter what father used to tell you, in the least you have a right to defend yourself!'
"But people are going to get hurt and die if I do!", Kieya says to herself. It was loud enough to be heard by those around her, including JD and Rosita.
"YOU'RE GONNA HURT NO ONE!", JD yells at Kieya before giving her a harder kick to the side of her ribs.
"JD! GET INTO THE CLASSROOM NOW!", a teacher's voice can be heard yelling at him.
Before JD could answer, he suddenly rises up into the air and his legs are ripped off at mid thigh, and then his arms just below the shoulder. He screams in ungodly agony as he floats in mid air, spraying blood from his ripped off appendages. Then the wall displays and bulletin boards are ripped off the walls and thrown about. The teens and teachers who gathered about the area run for safety. Kieya gets up off the floor and steps up to JD as he remains floating.
"Want to try to kick me now?", Kieya sneers at him. "You think you are all grand and powerful, that being the #1 soccer team player actually means something… lets see you play soccer from inside a box buried 2 meter into the ground…"
JD's head pops off from his neck and shoulders and both the head and body are dropped onto the floor. Kieya stares at the carnage she had created out of anger. She suddenly calms down, gets nervous and looks around, finding the halls empty. She takes her book bag and runs away.
The psychic death scream was silent compared to the voice inside Kieya's head, telling her to fight back and kill anyone who got in her way. It was felt by all those sensitive to those frequencies: Nana, Nyu/Lucy and others like them. It was also felt by Fernando and Juanita.
Juanita sits in the driver's seat of the Porsche, clutching at her temples on the side of her head in serious pain, bent over to have her forehead against the steering wheel. Then the pain goes away, leaving just the static of a millions minds around her. She slowly sits up and shakes off the lasting affects of the headache.
"What the fuck was that?!!", Fernando says in her mind. She looks about for a moment, panting for air, then rechecks the car's cockpit, finding the key in the ignition, and a bag of pharmaceuticals in the passenger seat.
"Uhg?!!", Nana yells out, holding the sides of her head just below her horns.
"Are you alright Nana?", Mayu asks as she checks her out.
"Uhm… I don't know.", Nana says. Then she looks at Nyu who was just near her. "How is that possible… unless."
"What Nana?", Mayu asks.
"Its nothing.", Nana said.
Kouta steps out of his room, carrying his suit case with him. At first no one notices him as they were preoccupied with Nana. But in seeing him walking with his suit case, the girls run to him, grabbing on the arm carrying the luggage.
"Kouta, where are you going?", Yuka started to ask.
"I'm going home.", Kouta answers.
"No, you cant.", Yuka tells him.
"Why not?", he asks.
"Because we need you!", Yuka answers.
"You need me? Some pervert, who lives in a house full of girls who constantly temps him into doing something to them…?", Kouta answers.
"I'm sorry!", Mayu says loudly, "I did not mean to do that!"
"Yeah, right…", Kouta says to himself.
"If you leave, you're not leaving with your suitcase!", Yuka says as she pries the luggage handle from his grasp. She manages to wrench the suitcase away from him, though it flies out of her hand and against a wall, opening and spilling its contents to the floor.
"Then, fine. I will leave without my belongings.", Kouta says as he turns away and walks top the door. Though the others want to stop him, they don't. He walks out the door and continues going.