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Home Almost Alone
"What have you done Shun!" Dan yells.
"We trusted you!" Julie exclaims.
Shun turns his back to then, keeping his head down. He wouldn't even be there if he didn't have to be. If he wasn't so desperate. He pulls out a small locket that was tucked securely in his sleeve. He pops it open and, surprisingly, almost cries from the picture. He misses them, and he can have them now. He looks back Dan and the others, his eyes cold and uncaring.
"I don't care," he states.
The others fall silent. No one had expected an answer like that. They had thought that they could have still trusted him, even just a little bit, but not anymore. The dejection and lack of hope in the chamber where they are is palpable. Shun tries to block out his guilt, but it's eating him up inside. He was taught to help people in situations like his supposed friends, but he can't. He has to see it through to the end. Besides, what happens to them now is of no concern to him. He just has to go with it and get his side of the deal.
A solid beam of light enters the chamber, but is quickly extinguished. A shadowed figure enters and pauses, looking over each of them. Then his attention turns to Shun.
"You brought them too soon," he says in a deep, gravelly voice that resounds.
"If I had waited any longer the idiots would have started wandering," Shun replies harshly. "Do you want them or not?"
"I didn't say that I don't want them," the voice growls. "Why can't you follow simple instructions? I expected more from one of the Thirteen!"
Joe's ears perk up at the mention of Thirteen. He peeks up at the Shun and the figure, watching them closely. If he heard them right, then Shun was part of the Thirteen… but it couldn't be!
"I'll deal with your impudence later," the figure snarls, walking off.
Not long later Shun leaves too. With a quick. "Don't touch anything!" as he passed.
Joe nudges Chan. "Hey, did you hear that?"
"Ssh!" Ace hisses. "We're supposed to be quiet!"
Joe ignores him. "He said Shun was one of the Thirteen!"
Nothing the urgency in his tone. "You've heard of them?" Marucho asks.
"I only heard it once, and I was very young then too…" Joe frowns. "It didn't make much sense then either, but it's all we've got to go on."
"Just tell us already!" Mira snaps.
"Okay, okay," Joe frowns. "I was in hospital again, and it was late at night. I couldn't sleep so my mum told me the story of the Thirteen. She said that Thirteen people would be gathered together during their infancy. Those people would grow to become fearsome warriors in the fight for the greater good and life as a whole. It's only happened once, for the first ones, but their truest descendants will rise shortly, or they already have. She said that they would protect everyone and everything by doing everything they possibly could. Which is why they were brought together as infants, to grow together in skills and power…. Sorry, I can't remember the rest."
"That's stupid," Dan comments.
"Yea, if Shun was fighting for the 'greater good' then he wouldn't have done this!" Julie snaps.
Joe frowns and slumps against the wall. Thinking things over, he might a thought before opening his mouth and telling them that. It wasn't the most believable story in the world after all. What he doesn't notice, nor do any of the others, are the two sad eyes watching them. Shun…
If it's not Bakugan, then it's mine. As always, everything goes to their rightful, respected owners. Unless it's me, of course.
