'Blah'- Thoughts
Blah>-Comm., radio ect
"Blah"- Dreams, memories
Star Ocean Till the end of time
Reunion
Chapter 7: Revelations
"NO…stay…back!" Fayt said through his clenched teeth, he then took a small vial containing a sickly looking yellow liquid from the leather pouch on his belt and put it into between his teeth as he reached into the pouch again and brought out an injection gun, he inserted the vial into it before injecting the liquid into his neck. The second the last of the fluid had entered his body Fayt dropped the tool and collapsed his entire body going into violent spasm and making sickening noises before passing out, Sophia rushed over to his and rested his head on her knees
"Fayt, Fayt wake up."
It had been three hours since the battle and Fayts amazing return. He was now in the infirmary on board the Diplo, the medical technician decided based on Fayt's performance on Elicoor that he was isolated from the rest of the crew, even Maria couldn't get in to see him. Maria, Sophia and Peppita were in privet quarters whilst Albel, Mirage and Cliff had returned to the Pegasus awaiting further updates, and all this time Nel was sitting in her room at the 'Front Door Inn' feeling helpless and completely useless and she hated feeling like this.
"Damn it!" she cursed as she pounded her fist on the table "They left me behind, they took that stinkin deserter Albel with them but not me. Why did I get left behind?" She was so busy ranting she didn't notice Clair entering the room
"I'm sure Master Fayt will pull through without you at his side," Clair said which startled Nel slightly, not that she showed it "or is that the problem, he doesn't need you."
"Leave me alone Clair." Nel replied grumpily Clair was about to say something when suddenly a bleeping sound, on the table in front of them was the communicator that Maria had given Nel so she could be informed of any developments. Picking it up Nel pressed a few of the buttons on it before Maria voice was heard on the other end
…Hello Nel…its Maria…do you read me…>
"HELLO, MARIA I'M HERE. CAN YOU HEAR ME?" Nel yelled into the devise
…Yes Nel I can hear you and thanks to you I've gone slightly deaf, you don't need to shout…> Maria replied
"What's happening?" Nel asked ignoring her comment
…The med techs have finished checking out Fayt and they're ready to present their findings, we can teleport you to the Diplo whenever you're ready…>
"Alright transport for one A.S.A.P." Nel said into the devise
"Make that for two." Nel turned around to see her grey haired friend standing behind her with her arms folded and a determined look on her face "I'm coming as well."
"What! Why doe you want to come Clair?"
Clair closed her eyes as she remembered the events of a few hours ago she wasn't directly involved in the fight she'd been busy helping getting Her Majesty and the civilians to safety but she had witnessed Fayt's return and the way he'd fought and behaved shocked her. She remembered the first time she'd met the azure haired boy how'd he go from being like that to a cold-hearted slaughter machine and she was going to find out
"Someone has to keep you out of trouble." She lied "Clair you've never been on a starship before, it would be the biggest culture shock of your life."
"I don't care I'm going."
"Alright." Nel said in a defeated tone "Did you hear all that Maria?"
…Loud and clear…> Maria replied, returning her gaze to her friend Nel gave Clair a quizzical look
"Just stick close to me and don't touch anything." Nel said to her before they both disappeared in a flash of light before reappearing in the teleporter room on the Diplo. The two of them where greeted by Maria and a surly looking security guard
"Nel glad you could make it. Ms Lasbard, this is unexpected." Maria said as she stepped forward to great them
"How is he Ms Traydor?" Clair asked,
"I don't know, they won't let me in to see him." Maria replied as she led the two Elicoorian women to the conference room.
Inside where Sophia, Peppita, Cliff and Mirage where seated around the circular table waiting for the news whilst Albel was staring out of the window at the planet below. The chief medical officer and her aide entered the room not long after the three women sat down
"Dr how is?" Maria asked "And why won't you let us see him?"
"Based on Mr Leingod's performance on Elicoor II we thought it was best and these finding have only strengthened that belief." The doctor said,
"What do you mean," Cliff asked "what are you not telling us?"
"And what about that stuff he injected himself with, what was that stuff?" Peppita asked
"Hmm," they heard Albel snort, "The maggot disappears for two years and becomes a junkie. I'm sure there's some kind of poetic sense of irony in there."
"How can you say that?" Sophia snapped, "Fayt isn't a junkie, he'd never ever use drugs."
"Then what else could that vile junk be?" Albel said with a small smirk on his face "We where all there, we all saw him shooting up." The silence that filled the room was so tense the group could have choked on it
"You should all prepare yourselves for the worst." The doctor said "Ms Mazaki please activate the holo-display." The lights then dimmed and a holographic image appeared from out of the middle of the table showing Fayts battle with Lerajie Clair looked at it in amazement and got a shock when her hand passed through it when
"It's a hologram Ms Lasbard." Maria told her "It's a computer generated image, it's not real."
"We ran various tests on Mr Leingod whilst he was unconscious and the findings where quiet disturbing. It's the Destruction gene his father Dr Leingod implanted in him, it has taken a greater toll on him then he could ever imagine, the damage it's causing him is on the cellular level." There was a lengthy pause as the doctor allowed the group to absorb the information
"There's no way to sugar coat this I'm afraid, the destruction gene it's killing him, burning out his cells one at a time." The doctor then brought out one of the small vials that was in Fayt's pouch "The substances in this vial is some sort of neural relaxant, he had a large amount of this stuff on him of various dose amounts."
"Wait a second!" Sophia snapped, "Are you saying Fayt is going to die?"
"I'm afraid so." The doctor replied. There was a long silence everyone was absorbed with their thoughts
'There must be some mistake, Fayt can't die he just can't.' Maria thought whilst fighting against the tears that where forming in her eyes
'This can't be happening. I just found him again.' Sophia was mentally screaming
'This is totally unreal. After all the things he's fought this is how it'll end!' Cliff thought whilst trying to push away a feeling of defeat
'Too bad, looks like I won't be getting my rematch after all.' "Wait a moment." Albel said as something occurred to him "How did the fool pull off that trick with the fire?"
"Well that is quiet interesting." The doctor said and a few moments later the holodisplay was showing two images both of which was of Fayt's head one was of his face whilst the other was a profile and was showing the inside of his skull "We ran a cranial scan on Mr Leingod and the results are rather interesting, does anyone know what the Natpudan theory is?"
"I do." Mirage said "I accompanied my father to one of his seminars last time I was on Klaus. The basic theory is that the mind is the single most powerful force in the universe, that the mind apparently has almost limitless potential."
"Correct, it is theorized that the average person only uses 20 percent of their brain leaving the other 80 percent untapped. It seems as the destruction gene slowly consume his body it also allows him to tap into the psychic sensitive areas of the mind, what you saw was pyrokinesis, the mental manipulation of fire. Based on these findings he may also be capable telepathy and telekinesis."
"Tele what?" Clair said slightly confused
"Telepathy: the ability to read minds." Albel said before anyone else could answer Clairs question "And telekinesis: the ability to move objects using only your thoughts."
Before anyone else could say anything a beeping was heard
"Go ahead." Maria said pressing a button in front of her
…Lady Maria…> a frantic voice at the other end …Mr Leingod has escaped from the medical facility…a security detail has sent to subdue him but they were no match…we need back up now…> the line suddenly when dead
"Hello, hello. Can anyone hear me?" Maria asked franticly "Let's get down there." She said to the others. Fayt stood over the fallen forms of the security team that had tried to stop him from braking out of the ships medical facility. After restocking his pouch and wrapping his cloak around him, he made his way towards the transporter room only to find more resistance but he put them down pretty quickly. Soon he reached where he wanted to go
"Don't even think about it fool!" looking around he saw Albel and the others rushing towards him instantly he tapped into his new found telekinetic power and used it to hurl Cliff, Mirage, Clair and Peppita into a nearby wall knocking them unconscious
'Pathetic!' he thought as he drew a laser pistols he'd stolen from a member of the security team, set it to stun and shot Maria in the leg, Nel and Albel tried a two pronged attack but Fayt caught their blades using his sword and then using their momentum against them pushed them away and sent Nel crashing to the ground with a vicious side kick attack before he and Albel clashed, the sound of steel striking could be heard all along the corridor with a force so great it knock the swords out of the fighters hands.
For a few seconds the two combatants stared into each other's eyes sizing each other up then in a spilt second Albel activated the control panel on his arm guard and Fayt went for his gun but the Elicoorian swordsman got there first punching the Earthling in the face his fist glowing a soft blue, as Fayt feel to the ground Albel felt a sense of pride welling up inside him
'I win.' But that feeling of victory was quickly dashed as Fayt got shakily to his feet
"Nod a bid shot Abel." Fayt said in a distorted voice "Jud giv me a secnd to wewocate muh jaw an puth my eyeball bag in plathe."
Albel's eyes widened in shock, being a hardened soldier he'd seen and done many disturbing things and had taken it all in his stride but the sight of Fayt with his lip crooked and blood flowing out of his right eye and other areas of his face actually scared him, a sickening crunching sound was heard as Fayt snapped his jaw back into place which followed by him pushing his eyeball back into it's socket
"Ahhh, tha's bedder. You ready?" Fayt snarled as he glowed once again with destructive power though at a lower level as the light wasn't so bright this time, the power was then transferred into his fist which the connected with Albel's face which sent him flying backwards and crashed into Nel.
Surveying his handiwork Fayt saw Sophia staring at him her eyes wide with fear unable to bring herself to fight with him, giving the people he once called allies and friend one last look Fayt picked up his sword and gun from the ground and walked into the transporter room. A few minutes later the others began to peel themselves off the ground each of them feeling pretty sour Albel gingerly got to his feet limped his way to the door using his sword as a support vaguely registering Maria saying he was in no shape to go anywhere
'This isn't over Leingod.' Approaching the door he found it wouldn't open
"Damn it, the maggot must have sealed it from the inside." Feeling the wall next to the door he found what he was looking for he removed a section of the wall to reveal a control panel and began typing furiously and a second later the door hissed open
'I love this thing.' Upon entering they discovered the room was empty
"Damn." Cliff said "He's now on the surface."
"Then what are we standing around for?" Mirage said "Lets saddle up and get after him."
"Alright lets role." Peppita said,
"You're not going anywhere Peppita." Maria said as she leaned on Sophia for support "What!" Peppita exclaimed,
"It's too dangerous and we can't protect you and defend ourselves at the same time." The blue haired woman said sternly
"Yeah well I'm going. It was just as dangerousas the war with Luther but Fayt trusted me enough to let me come." The small girl snapped as she ran to the transporter with the others in tow Maria muttered about how this was really not a great idea.
Whilst this was going on Fayt had already emerged on the surface just south of Peterny and made his way through the crowds towards the town centre, many people where giving him funny looks but just brushed them off
'Let them stare.'
Upon reaching the town centre he saw what he was seeking in front of the church of Apris was the gateway, which would not only transport him off this planet and this whole universe.
The only hitch was that it was guarded by four burly looking characters, no doubt Nel would have told the Queen that the shape that was now nestled on the ground was very dangerous and that no one should go near it. The four of them saw Fayt approaching them
"Halt in the name of her Majesty." One of them said as Fayt stepped in front of them.
By the time Nel and the others arrived on the surface they'd lost sight of the blue haired warrior but fortunately he wasn't going to be difficult to find as he'd left a trail of blood for them to follow which was heading into town, when they reached the town centre they saw him standing in front the gateway the four men assigned to guard it on the floor
"FAYT." Cliff called out "Don't do it kid." Fayt looked over his shoulder his left eye giving them a cold look whilst his right continued to bleed, he then looked away and stepped into the gateway vanishing from view
'Just great.' Maria mentally growled as she and the others approached the gateway.
All except Nel she simply stood there and watched the others as they stepped into it, looking over her shoulder she saw Clair looking at her
"Go," she said, "I know that you want to."
"I can't just up and leave." Nel replied, "My duties here are…"
"Don't give me that." Clair said her tone very serious "Your not happy here, you haven't been happy with your life since you got back from your adventure with your friends." There was a tense silence between the two of them
"I'd love to go with you," Clair continued "see all the sights that you saw but we both know I can't follow you in there." Nel knew that her friend was right.
After the war with Luther ended two years ago she returned home to Elicoor II and just expected things would go back to the way things were before Fayt, Cliff and Mirage crash-landed on her world but it didn't work out that way, so she tried to distract herself with her work which helped but sometimes when it was late at night and all her work was done her mind would sometimes wonder leaving her body, the room, the country, hell the whole planet behind and would drift amongst the stars, and the dreams didn't help much either, on occasion she'd have dreams about her friends from beyond the stars though curiously most of the time they involved herself and either or both Albel and Fayt. Once again the words to her in Fayt's letter echoed through her mind,
"Tell her Majesty I will return once I'm finished Clair." Nel said to Clair as she walked towards the gateway, she wasn't entirely sure what Fayt's words meant but she was going to find out, Clair stood there smiling as she watched friend step into the gateway and disappear
"No you won't." she said as the gateway disappeared.
A.N. Well here is chapter 7 sorry it took so long to up load but I started university and they've already dumped several different assignments with ridiculously short deadlines on me leaving me very little time to do any thing else. Sorry if this chapter isn't up to the same scratch as the others but even though I sent this to proof reader the genius that is Tristan Amaryllis he never got back to me, Tristan if your reading this where the fuck are you, if your having trouble getting through try my alternate email address shmlondonmet.ac.uk. I also apologize if the characters are a little OC. If the beta read copy of this chapter comes through I'll post it however if anyone else would like the job contact me at the address above or check my profile for my hotmail account. Till next time peace.