ATE: Okay, things are starting to look up with 5 reviews now. Anyways, we now have chap 7, so go read.
Declaimer: I don't own Xenosaga. I only own Andrea/Ayame.
Chapter 7
I woke up that morning to knocking on my door and went to answer it. When I answered it, I found that it was Jr. waiting outside.
"Good morning Jr." I said.
"Morning Ayame." He said. "I just wanted to tell you that we'll be arriving at the Foundation soon."
"That soon?"
"Yeah. We're all going to meet in the Park Area, so when you're ready you should come there."
"Okay."
With that Jr. left to go to the Park Area. I might as well get ready myself. I put on my sky blue coat and left my room. When I left my room I saw the others heading to the Park Area as well so I followed them to that location.
We soon got to the Park Area and I looked out the big window to see that we were flying towards a place floating in space. On closer inspection I saw that there were buildings.
"Wow. That place is unbelievable." I said.
"So that's the Kukai Foundation?" Allen asked as he looked out the window. "They sure know how to spend their money…"
MOMO nodded as she looked out the window as well. "I can't wait to see the Durandal turn into a skyscraper… It's so beautiful…"
"What? We're…going to dock, just like this?" Shion asked surprised.
"This ship's supposedly one of the most famous landmarks in the Foundation." Allen told her. "I saw it in a travel guide on the Elsa."
"Oh, really? I'd never know… I don't check out vacation guides very often…"
"Oh, look, we're docking!" MOMO said excitingly.
The Durandal was soon docking vertically into the Foundation. We watched as our view changed to being vertical as the ship came out of the water, making it splash everywhere. The ship was soon docked and stood proudly over the other buildings in the Foundation.
"This is amazing." I thought.
"New Year's Eve is the best time to visit." I turned around and saw man with black hair and green eyes wearing a black suit walking into the Park Area with Mary and Shelly on each side of him. "The evening metropolis is quite a sight to behold with all her lights."
"Gaignun Kukai…" Ziggy said. "The managing director of the Kukai Foundation."
"He looks like…" I thought.
"Huh? Jr.…?" Shion whispered.
Gaignun walked up to Shion and stood in front of her.
"What was that?" He asked.
"Ah, nothing… Nice to meet you."
"Welcome to the Kukai Foundation." He held out his hand to Shion.
I watched as Shion looked down at Gaignun's hand and stare at it. Why was she doing that? She soon shook his hand.
"I heard about your situation from Captain Matthews and chaos. Is everything all right?"
"Oh, uh, yes. Thank you for all your help." Shion said.
"Enjoy your stay."
I watched as Gaignun walked over to MOMO.
"And you must be MOMO." He then knelt down so he was eye leveled with her and placed a hand on her shoulder. "I've received word from Juli Mizrahi of the Contact Subcommittee. We'll make sure you got to Miltia safely."
"From…Mommy?!" MOMO asked.
"Right." Gaignun nodded. "She told me to take good care of you."
"Can I…talk to her?"
"Well…she seemed pretty busy." He said.
"Oh…I see… Why doesn't Mommy ever want to see me?" She asked sadly.
"I'll let you know as soon as I hear from her again."
"All right… Thank you very much…"
I saw Gaignun stand up. I thought he was going to leave but he then made his way over to where I was until he stood in front of me.
"You must be Ayame." He said.
"Y-yes I am." I said.
"How did he know?" I thought. "Did Jr. tell him before?"
"I welcome you to the Kukai Foundation as well." He said as he held out his hand.
I was about to shake it when I saw the number '669' on the palm of his hand.
"Sorry about that, Sir." I apologized as I shook it. "I wasn't sure what to do at first, that's all."
"It's alright."
Gaignun started to leave with Mary and Shelley with him.
"Is that why Shion hesitated in shaking Gaignun's hand?" I thought.
I looked up and saw that Gaignun had stopped near the doorway and turned his head to the side.
"What the…?"
I saw Gaignun soon leave the Park Area. Why did he do that?
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Later that day Jr. was relaxing in Gaignun's office with his feet propped up on his desk while he sat in his chair.
"That android, KOS-MOS…she's got an incredible amount of potential, you know. There's no way she's just a prototype. I'm also concerned about how she resonated with the Emulators." Jr. said.
"The Hilbert Effect… I heard they lost the archetype, but it looks like there's more to this than it seems…" Gaignun said. "And don't forget about her engineer… What was her name? Shion? And that other girl, Ayame. I think they might be on to us…and our powers."
"No way." Jr. looked to Gaignun. "They're just ordinary humans."
"They might not be as ordinary as you think." The older man looked to Jr.
"I doubt it." Jr. placed his arms behind his head. "They seem normal enough to me, though Ayame has amnesia. But I guess it's possible, though. After all, she's involved in the highest classified part of that project… The same one Helmer's involved in…"
"The Zohar Project…"
"Listen…" Jr. said. "Why don't we…lay off the Mizrahi talk for a while."
"Hmm… Concerned about that MOMO girl?"
"Don't look at me like that." Jr. pointed his finger at Gaignun. "You think she likes being called the child of a madman? After all, we were both there when Mizrahi finally met his end. We saw what happened. You know that girl's a Realian. Her memory might be imprinted with something…"
"So you're saying the image she holds of Mizrahi is a false one?"
"I don't know. That's why I want you to lay off when you're around her. At least for now, anyway."
"If you're that concerned about her, why don't you invite her down to the beach? I'm sure it'll help take her mind off of things."
"Man… I told you, it's not like that!" Jr. protested as he got out of the chair.
"And what you said about that Ayame girl having amnesia, how did that happen?" Gaignun asked.
"None of us know how she got amnesia. We only found her inside a capsule in suspended animation when we attacked one of U-TIC's battleships."
"I know that if someone were to be put into suspended animation, their capsule would have the year when they were sealed inside. What was the year on her capsule?"
"Her capsule had 2008 A.D. on it. The year Lost Jerusalem was still populated with people."
"You know, we could have asked her for information on Lost Jerusalem and what it was like in her time."
"But sadly she has amnesia." Jr. said sadly as he looked to the ground. "She doesn't even remember her own name so we gave her the name 'Ayame' for now, at least until she remembers her real name. While she was with us, she told me that she had some flashbacks that might have something to do with her memories, but she's worried since they're coming to her slowly."
"So you're concerned about her as well?" Gaignun said. "Why don't you take her to the beach with the others."
Jr. started to blush, but it quickly went away with his response.
"I thought I told you not to look at me like that! And it's not like that with her either!"
Jr. started to walk for the door as Gaignun picked up a box.
"Hey."
Jr. turned around as the box came his way and caught it.
"…What's this?"
Jr. went over to the pool table (AN: It looked like a pool table when I played the game, so I'm calling it a pool table, if it looks like a pool table then it's likely that it IS a pool table). Placing the box on it, he opened it and was surprised at what he saw!
"Man, it's a stainless-steel finish Makarov! With the original box and everything!"
"I won it at a Lion's Heart auction. It was part of their antique weapons collection." Gaignun told him.
"This isn't like you. You're up to something." Jr. looked at him with a suspicious look on his face.
"Not at all. I just though I'd reward you for all the hard work you've done for us recently… Have I gone too far?"
Jr. started shaking his head 'no' as he said 'nuh-uh'.
"Don't go shooting that thing all over the place. Remember, you're older then I am. Try to act like it once in a while, all right?"
Gaignun left the room closing the door behind him.
"Sweeeet!" Jr. yelled excitedly when the door was closed.
Gaignun sighed when he heard this and walked away.
ATE: Thank you for reading chap 7. And before i forget, I wanted people to know that I'm starting to worry about the Xenosaga characters being OOC, so if anyone notices any of the Xeno characters being OOC, then tell me in a review. Remember Please Review :)
