Chapter 7
Her eyes began to focus, trying to understand where she was, there amongst the acrid smoke were three manly figures with eyes glowing red staring down at her, however there was too much smoke to see who they were. The air began to become heavier as she slowly slipped back into the emptiness. She floated within the emptiness once again, unable to move, not even speak.
'Wake up.' A voice rang in her ears. 'Wake up.' It called out to her again, however she was unable to reply. 'Abbie! Wake up! Wake up!'
'Abbie Wake up.' Yaten shook the girl who was sleeping peacefully in his arms, gently by her shoulder. There was no response. 'Hey, wake up.' Yaten tried again. As if he had cast some sort of spell, Abbie very abruptly woke up, springing into an upright position on Yaten's lap. Her hands were clammy and her breathing was erratic.
'Well good morning to you too.' Yaten stated full of sarcasm though slightly concerned. He cocked an eyebrow at her, however she still didn't turn to look at him. 'A-are you okay?'
'Yeah… yeah I-I'm fine just a bad dream… that's all.' Abbie answered through heavy breaths.
'Bad dream? What was it about?' Yaten had a feeling something like this would happen. Over the years he's learnt that humans can be very badly affected by drastic events in their lives, not that the people of his own planet don't, but humans seem to have it worse.
'I-it doesn't matter.' Abbie responded, clutching the golden pendant on her necklace as her breathing began to relax. Yaten shrugged it off, it was probably better if she didn't have to speak about it.
'You know, I thought I was gonna have to get off my ass and find a prince to come and wake you up ya know, took near about some 100 years to wake you up.' Yaten joked sarcastically, trying to lighten the mood a little. She giggled lightly, punching him in the arm playfully. 'Hey what was that for?' He whined trying to act hurt.
'I'm not sleeping beauty.' Abbie rolled her eyes moving off his lap to sit on the edge of the bed.
'I don't know, could have fooled me.' He smirked. 'Shoot, that reminds me, Wesley's downstairs he brought some of your stuff round.'
'This early?' Abbie quizzed, standing up and fiddling with her blonde locks a little.
'Abbie, it's almost 11:30.' He corrected, climbing off the bed.
'Exactly, Wesley never leaves the café before midday.' Yaten raised an eyebrow. 'He says it's bad luck, okay, don't question it.'
'Great so now he's cursed us all then.' Yaten responded sarcastically as they both headed downstairs.
Entering the living room, the silver and the blonde were greeted by the two brunettes who talking politely to eachother.
'Hey.' Abbie smiled cheerfully at the pair.
'Hey! How you doing it's been ages!' Wesley cheered pulling the blonde into a hug. Abbie furrowed her brows in confusion.
'Wesley, I last saw you yesterday evening.' Abbie giggled confused.
'Exactly.' He smiled, tapping the tip of her nose making her laugh. 'Anyway, I brought some of your stuff around, keep you going for a while.'
'enough to last me until I return home?' Abbie asked cheerfully, her face lit up. Wesley glanced at Taiki who looked at the floor.
'Abbie, I think you will be staying with Yaten and his brothers for a bit longer than we first thought.' Wesley explained calmly stroking her arms. Yaten shot a concerned look at his much taller brother. Taiki looked up from the ground at him, debating whether to tell him or not. Eventually he found a conclusion, he motioned his head towards the kitchen and they both exited, leaving Wesley to explain everything to Abbie.
'Why? What's going on?' Abbie's face sunk again. Wesley could see the disappointment and confusion glistening in her eyes.
'Listen, it's not safe for you to return. You know he's dangerous.' Wesley told her, ducking down to her level.
'Well, can I still work there?' Abbie asked smiling weakly, fumbling with her hands.
'It's not that simple Abbie.'
'Why isn't it?'
'He's too dangerous.' Wesley simply stated.
'I will just stay out his way, as long as there's people there then he won't hurt me and the-'
'No, Abbie, it's way too dangerous, you can't be anywhere where he is.'
'But I have a duty, I can't let a domestic issue get in the way. What about… the mew project?' Abbie whispered the last three words, so no one other than Wesley heard her best kept secret.
'You're not needed for that anymore, were bringing zoey back in.'
'Wait what?'
'Like I said, it's too dangerous!'
'Taiki, what the hell is going on?' Yaten quizzed closing the kitchen door behind him.
'How can I explain this.' Taiki rubbed his forehead. 'We need to keep Abbie as far away from Elliot as possible.'
'Right? I'm not following.'
'Elliot's too dangerous, Yaten.' Taiki stated matter of factly.
'No, I thought he was a sweetheart.' Yaten's voice was full of acrid sarcasm. Taiki forgot, he's really not a morning person.
'Cut the sarcasm Yaten, this is serious.' Taiki scolded, making Yaten feel slightly guilty for acting so cold. 'Look, it sounds like Elliot is on a manhunt for Abbie.'
'What do you mean?' Yaten asked, lifting himself onto the worktop, however he still didn't near the height of his brother.
'I think he wants to… get revenge on Abbie.'
'Revenge? What revenge?' Yaten continued to question. However, all that Taiki gave him was a look that he knew meant one thing. 'oh my god…' Yaten muttered with panic spreading across his face.
'I know, I know it's bad. But as long as she's here she's safe.' Taiki tried to calm his younger brother.
'What could his motivation be though?! He was the one to hurt her.' Yaten rummaged through his mind for any solutions.
'I guess sleeping with Seiya behind his back 4 days before their wedding, is a good enough motivation for him.' Taiki shrugged.
'He knows?'
'Of course, he knows! What did you think they were talking about when we went round?'
'Still, I can understand why he would want to do such a thing to Seiya, but to Abbie?!' Yaten ranted.
'I know but- '
'Like I said, it's too dangerous!'
'I think we should probably go see what's going on…' Taiki sighed as Yaten hopped off the counter.
'Why?! Why is it too dangerous?! Tell me!' Abbie yelled in Wesley's face as she swatted his hands off her arms. Just then, Yaten and Taiki re-entered the room as the argument rolled out in front of the pair. Anger and confusion rolled down her face in the form of hot tears. Her arms quivered rapidly.
'I can't tell you!' Wesley shouted back. The brothers watched as the two closest of friends were seemingly having their first argument.
'What? You can't tell me that you don't need me anymore?' Abbie's voice trembled, 'that you and the girls don't want me around anymore?' Wesley was at a lost for words, he didn't know what to say to comfort her, he couldn't tell her the truth as he knew it would brake her but there was no adequate lie that she would believe. All that escaped his mouth was silent noises. 'I knew it…' Abbie stammered, turning on her heal and dashing out the the room in tears.
'Abbie... wait!' Wesley called out before hearing the front door of the flat slam shut. Tears of his own began to escape from his waterline, feeling guilty and particularly nervous. 'What have I done…' Wesley murmured to himself as he paced around.
'It's not your fault Wesley.' Taiki told him reassuringly. Yaten stared at the door that Abbie had made her escape through moments ago. His fists clenched as anger tore through his body, nails digging into his flesh.
'No… but I know whose fault it is…' Yaten growled as he picked up is phone pinning in a number, the two brunettes watched him in confusion. 'Seiya Kou you better pick up this god damn phone, I don't care if your fucking driving right now, you better pull the fuck over and call me back the minute you get this damn message!' Yaten scolded down the phone, flipping on a pair of trainers. 'I'm going to look for Abbie.' Yaten stormed out the flat, making sure to nearly pull the door off the hinges.
'I don't think I have ever heard him been so harsh.' Wesley stated rather bemused by Yaten's outburst.
'Really? Well get used to it.' Taiki laughed slightly.
'Will do.' Wesley smiled. His phone began to beep loudly in his pocket.
'Make yourself at home, I will grab you a coffee.' Taiki offered. However, Wesley was heavily occupied by the beeping on his phone.
'Trouble at the tower,
Come ASAP,
Bring Abbie.
- E'
Wesley ran his eyes over the text a few times, it's been years since he's received a text as serious as this.
'A-actually Taiki, its fine; I better get going.' Wesley forced a smile even though he was clearly alarmed.
'Oh okay, see you soon Wes.' Taiki smiled, raising a hand in goodbye.
'Thanks for the hospitality.' Wesley smiled as he left the flat.
'There's something not right about those two…' Taiki muttered to himself, folding his arms across his chest.
Abbie ran through the streets, tears making her vision blurred. She had no idea where she was and she had no idea where she was going, she just knew she had to keep running. Anger and confusion continued to stir inside of her as she ran against the wind, hoping the wind will blow all her problems away for her. She continued to run; not realising she had now entered a woodland, trees curved over her, creating a sheltered path for her, as she kept running, not noticing the sharp end that was nearing her. She continued running. Tears continued to stream. Anger continued to build. Confusion continued to stir. Two strong arms abruptly forced her backwards onto her back, snapping her back to reality.
'What were you thinking?! You could of died! Do you have a death wish or something?!' A tall ash blonde shouted down at her.
Yaten ran through the streets of Tokyo, making sure to check every ally for the blonde as he went. He had been searching for a while now and was getting tired. Ring. Ring. Yaten's phone began to ring as he pulled it out and put it to his ear.
'Oi! What was that voicemail about!' a clearly annoyed raven-haired man complained down the phone.
'You! You choudhead! Look Abbie's done a runner and I need you to help me look for her! Maybe if you find her than I might not kick your ass to curb.'
'Done a runner? Which way did she head?' Seiya enquired.
'I don't know I didn't see. But she doesn't know the area so judging on what people do when they're in a blind panic she would of just ran in a straight line so towards the cliffs.' Yaten explained.
'Okay I will head there now… wait cliffs?!'
'Yeah, so get there fast!' Yaten shouted as he hung up, shoving his phone back in his jean pocket and continuing his hunt.
Seiya swiftly and smoothly pulled his car into a parking space at the woodlands, quickly climbing out the car and running towards the cliffs.
'Abbie! Abbie! Where are you?' Seiya boomed his voice through the towns of trees hoping that she would come to him. 'It's Seiya! I promise we can sort this! I'll help you, just shout if you can hear me!' Seiya shouted frantically, trying to get a response. He decided to search around for himself, concluding that he really wouldn't get anywhere just shouting for her. There was a ruffled crash in the distance, catching the attention of the singer as he slowly made his way towards the sound.
'What the hell do you think you were doing?!' Boomed a voice that Seiya knew far too well.
'Tenoh.' Seiya muttered to himself as he came to the incident site.
'Oi get away from her.' Seiya growled, frowning at the ash blonde looking down on Abbie.
'Kou?' Haruka growled, barely happy by his sudden presence. For her, his return to earth was worse than a meteor flying into the earth.
'Seiya.' Abbie gasped turning around to face him, still in a heap on the floor. Her face was heavily tear stained and all the bruises still clearly visible. Even though the shed tears had already dried onto her face, there were still fresh tears hanging onto her waterline.
'It's okay now.' Seiya smiled, calmly strolling to Abbie's side and wrapping an arm round her. 'Haruka isn't going to hurt you.' Seiya sent a glare towards Haruka.
'Ohh so she's another one of your prostitutes. Right that makes sense.' Haruka smirked harshly, 'anyway I saved her from doing a cordless bungee jump off this cliff.'
'Yeah well you didn't have to shove her to the floor.'
'So, you would rather see wind push her to her death then a human push her to the floor.' Haruka remarked curtly.
'Well if the human wasn't you, I would be a lot happier about this situation.'
'So, you would rather see her dead? Wow I thought you were a nice person.' Haruka continued to push his temper, enjoying watching her enemy losing his mind.
'Stop twisting my words, tomboy-san' Seiya scoffed picking Abbie off the floor bridal style.
'Woah, she's covered in all those bruises, shouldn't we get her checked out?' Haruka dropped a bit of concern
'Those bruises are none of your concern!' Seiya spat walking away.
'Sheesh. Have fun with your prostitute!' Haruka called to him.
'She's not a prostitute!'
'Oh, so for free? Well you kids have fun!' Haruka joked.
'Shut up tenoh.' Seiya growled
'Remember protection!' Haruka yelled at him. Seiya rolled his eyes and gently placed Abbie back on her feet.
'What was her deal?' Abbie asked the singer.
'Wow you actually got her sex right, well done.' Seiya joked barely humorously, 'it's an ancient mutual hatred. She doesn't like me being friends with her princess.' Seiya cringed slightly realising he said to much.
'Princess?' Abbie kinked an eyebrow at the raven head.
'Uh… it's um a kind of, what do you call it- nickname… of some sort… you know, like we take the piss over the fact that Haruka is overly protective of her.' Seiya stammered trying to cover up his blip.
'Oh, right I get it.' Abbie responded understandingly. A ringing pultruded from her pocket. She pulled it out to see the last name she wanted to see beeping at her right now. 'Sorry I-I got to take this.' Abbie apologised before hesitantly putting the phone to her ear. 'Hello… why do you want to know?... there's been a what?!... well where?!... oh my god is everyone okay?... yeah I will get there as soon as I can.' Abbie put the phone back in her pocket and began power walking into the distance.
'W-where you off to? What's happened?' Seiya questioned catching up to her.
'There's been an explosion.' Abbie replied firmly not bothering to look at him continuing to walk at great speed.
'An explosion?! Where?'
'Tokyo Tower.'
'Well if there's been an explosion it's probably best not to head there.' He stated rather matter of factly.
'There's people hurt Seiya! They need all the help they can get.' Abbie scolded, sending him a firm glare. He had never seen this side of her, it was if she had been taken over by a inner spirit.
'Fine… but let me drive you.' Seiya negotiated dragging her towards his car by her wrist.
Seiya made a mad dash towards the explosion site, knowing exactly what to find. Unknown to the general public this was no ordinary explosion. This was a long awaited planned attack by foreigners to the blue planet, knowing this he swiftly transformed. However, this time his Fuku would be unfamiliar to his own body. Instead of transforming to his original female form, he stayed male. His fuku now being a smart guard uniform. A white suit folded three quarters across his chest with a strip of black to out line the jacket and long line sleeves. Gold embroidery patterns covered the left side of the jacket, sketching what looked like a messy galaxy. He wore white trousers from the waist down and black shoes. A red cape blew against the wind behind him as he swiftly ran towards the incident site.
'Of course, the eclipse.' Fighter said to himself in his mind, remembering the terms of agreement him and his brother signed back on Kimouku. He pulled out his henshin out his trouser pocket pressing down on the centre star to alert the other two starlights. He reached the tower where the four outer senshi were already heavily caught up in battle with three humanly shadows. Even though the shadows were outnumbered, the outer senshi were struggling to fight off these incredibly Agilent enemies. They were nothing like Fighter had ever seen before, they were much faster and stronger than Galaxia or any others he had encountered on Kimouku.
'Fighter?' Pluto gasped upon seeing the different yet very familiar foreign soldier watching them struggle. Fighter was snapped out of his trance when one of the shadows made a move towards Uranus.
'Star serious laser!' fighter commanded sending a bright beam of light towards the shadow causing it to back off slightly.
'Baka! I don't need your help!' Uranus growled at the senshi sending him a stern glare.
'Really? You should be an actress then.' Fighter replied sarcastically receiving a displeased snarl from the ash blonde.
'Star sensitive inferno!' another beam of light heads towards the shadow dissolving all of them. Fighter and the outer senshi swiftly turned to where the beam came from to see Healer and Maker running towards them.
'Your all… men?' Saturn gasped dropping her glaive to the side.
'Umm… yep.' Healer sighed looking down at his new form which was identical to Maker's and Fighter's.
'What happened to you three?' Neptune asked furrowing her eyebrows at them.
'Ehh well-' Fighter started.
'It's not up for discussion.' Maker ended the conversation. 'It's none of your business what happens back on kimouku. You've never cared before so why start now.' Maker frowned at the outer senshi, his face cold and emotionless.
'We never mentioned about caring.' Uranus remarked smugly twizzling her sword on her finger proudly.
'You didn't have to.' Healer rolled his eyes, turning around beginning to stroll calmly away. He pulled out the transformation broach out of his pocket and started to de-transform.
'Healer, look out!' Pluto called as a glowing purple ribbon headed towards him. Healer turned around to see what the commotion was but was too slow to dodge the ribbon. Interrupting him mid-de-transformation, the attack threw his against one of the supporting pillars of the tower, stopping him from de-transforming. He screamed in pain, feeling the burns from the whip and pain from the pressure of transforming soar through his body.
'Yaten!' Fighter absent-mindedly shouted out his brother's real name as he rushed over to help him up.
'I'm okay I promise.' Healer batted off his brother as he stood up himself.
'Where the fuck did that come from?!' Maker cursed looking around for the attacker.
'Look up.' Uranus stated coldly, drawing the other senshi's attention to 4 silhouettes stood on the roof of the department like. They were very human like, however shared features of animals, such as tails, wings and ears.
'There's more of them?' Neptune questioned, inspecting them closely.
'No, these are much more human like shadows.' Saturn stated, holding her glaive close to her chest.
'Maybe they control the other shadows?' Fighter piped up upon hearing the conversation.
'Like shadow galactica?' Pluto asked.
'Exactly.' Healer chimed, rubbing the side of his head. 'Our prin- doesn't matter…' he looked towards the sillouhettes. 'where have they gone?!' Yaten shouted noticing the absence of the sillouhettes. Frantically all the senshi scanned the area for signs of the foreigners.
'Peek a boo!' A voice whispered in healer's ear.
'Whose there?!' Healer called for the voice. Swiftly a short yellow haired girl jumped in front of him. She had a monkey tail and ears and was wearing a yellow jumpsuit that came to her thighs with brown fluffy lacing round the edges.
'Who are you?' Pluto asked pointing her orb at the girl.
'Could ask the same question to be honest.' She quirked an eyebrow at the soldier.
'Space sword bla-' Uranus began to commence an attack before a gloved hand tightly gripped round the space sword. She looked up to see a angry face glaring down at her. The hand began pressing down on sword more, cracking it right down the middle.
'Shit! Get the fuck off me!' Uranus cursed trying to pull her sword out of the grip, only ending up shattering the top half of it. The figure landed in front of the Uranian soldier, in the shadows.
'Nobody messes with my planet.' The figures voice growled at the senshi. A huge gust of energy came from it, sending all the senshi flying backwards against the towers base. And just like that, the new 'enemies' were gone.
'Damn it!' Uranus cursed as she began to de-transform back into Haruka. Her sword lied scattered upon the floor in small shards.
'Who were they?' Healer asked returning to his civilian form, along with the rest of the senshi.
'No idea, but their certainly not allies.' Taiki retorted, standing up again.
'They mentioned something about not messing with their planet, do you think they were referring to earth?' Hotaru questioned.
'Who knows. But they certainly were powerful.' Seiya stated. He looked down at the ground, noticing the handle of the sword glistening under the light. Seiya looked at Haruka who still sat on the ground, head in hands. For the first time, he felt sorry for his arch enemy. This was the first time that he had ever seen her defeated. Picking up the handle, he calmly strolled over to the defeated warrior.
'Here,' Seiya held out the handle to Haruka, causing her to look up at him, 'you might need it sometime.' He smiled at her.
'What am I meant to do with that?! It's useless!' Haruka retorted, snatching it out of his hand.
'Well, maybe you can get a new one. Im sure the royals back on Uranus can find a replacement!' He offered cheerfully, hoping it was an option.
'Idiot! That's a talisman! It took us years to find them! It's the only one there is!' Haruka scowled at him. Seiya began to run out of ideas.
'Oh… well surely you can manage without it. It's just a sword.'
'It's not 'just a sword'! I'm completely powerless without it!' She retorted, standing up.
'Your stronger than you think. You don't need a sword to define your strength.' Seiya sighed, trying to get her to see eye to eye. It felt weird to him; never had he thought he would ever try and comfort haruka tenoh, the senshi of the wind.'
'Don't try and understand my situation, Kou.' She snorted as she began to walk away.
'Stop hiding everything from everyone. It's not going to help anything!' Seiya pleaded to the racer.
'And talking to someone about my problems is?!' Haruka's voice began to crack.
'You can't run forever, Haruka.' Seiya placed a hand on her shoulder, which was quickly slapped away.
'Don't touch me!' She shouted at him, glaring at him. Seiya looked at her, tears were running from her eyes, before she began to run away, like the wind.
'Was Tenoh-san crying?'
