ACT.9 TRUTH
"Here…" Rei place a cup of hot tea in front of him avoiding his 'thank you' and then sit down near the sliding door. Obviously trying to get as far as she can from him. Hiro can't hold his smile, it's too cute. He never describes a girl attitude as cute, they annoying in a lot of occasions. But with this girl, why he always find every gesture she's been showing up is amusing him. He definitely not that kind of guy. Maybe there is something really wrong with him.
"So…Jed..Ummm. Azai-san." The black hair man who he know now as Chiba Mamoru started to break the silent. He sat in front of him with a perfect gentleman manner.
"Just Hiro, please." He gave him a smile.
"Hiro…Umm…I don't know where I should start. But…" Mamoru clearing his throat, "Do you in any possible way, remember me?"
"No." Hiro answer in the instant making Mamoru hesitated, "But somehow, I saw you in the flash of memories or dreams I had."
"Your dreams?" His eyes getting back up with a light of hope.
"Yeah…It started few years ago after I recover from the accident."
"Accident?" The dango hair girl who he know as Tsukino Usagi look at him with curiosity.
"Right. Few years ago I went hiking with my college friends on the mountain in Hokkaido. I got separated and lost. That's the only memories I had about that day. But when I wake up in the hospital, they told me that I already lost on that mountain for almost five months. They found me in the middle of the forest with a serious head injury and internal bleeding. I coma for a three months before I woke up that day. And since then I had this dream." Hiro drinks the tea, the warm filling his body and start to spread while he continuing his story, "It just like a flash of hundred images at first. But after months it became clearer. And it always same. Me in this some kind of cave, there was cold, but I'm not alone. I look at a girl who I know now as Rei…standing in front of me, looking at me. I was trying to call out her name when suddenly out of nowhere there is this loud lightning strikes me. Directly to my heart…and I woke up."
"That's all?" Mamoru sighs while look at Usagi and Rei.
"That's all…mostly about that dream. But recently I had another dreams…sometimes about me in the middle of a war. And in this one I'm death too." Hiro says with a sarcasm in his voice, "And the one I had it when I'm not sleeping."
"It is when I bumped into you actually…in the Christmas Eve."
"What?"
"I suddenly had this vision of you standing in the large throne room with a middle age costume or some kind like that…"
Hiro ended his stories and bend his body against the wall. Waiting for their responses. Mamoru thinking for a moment, he look at Usagi who nodding at him with a gentle smile. Encouraging him. While Rei just look at the outside, to the twilight sky above the shrine.
"I…I know it maybe sounds ridiculous and even crazy but…the truth is what you've been seeing all this time. They were not a dreams…that's a memories. Your real name…or maybe I should say it's your previous name was Jadeite. You are one of my most faithful guardians back in our past life on earth. You've been dying in war between people on earth and people on the moon and being reincarnated in this life." Mamoru look at him with a sad face, "But…before you gain your memories back, old enemies play a trick on you and the rest of my guardians, washed your brain, and made all of you against us…against me. And when you started to have your memories back, they killed you."
Hiro just listens to him. Still trying to find a way to understand. Is that kind of things truly happen? Isn't it just a stories that you used to read a fiction novel or manga? He look at three people that still waiting for his reaction. He could see that Mamoru is serious about the stories, he's not trying to make fun of him. Neither Usagi, her face even though he could saw a playful girl back then, right now this girl is as serious as the man beside her. Hiro turns his gaze to Rei, that girl look at him but then turn her face away. Hiro can catch a glimpse of "He will definitely never believe us" expression in her eyes. Hiro took a deep breath.
"If I being killed that time…then how can I ended up in that forest?" He finally decided to make the things clearer, searching for the gap between the stories.
"We all died that time." Mamoru trying to decide whether he should tell him everything or not, "But there is this thing…you can call it Silver Crystal. It's a powerful thing. In the end, it brings me, Usako and the rest of Shensi back to live. So I thought it maybe brings you too. But because at that moment you were our enemies' servant. The power of Silver Crystal brought you back to your last true memories about your life in this era."
"So you say because we didn't fully remember who we really are, I mean we in the middle of their control. So this thing brought us back to the place where we used to know? To the place where our 'true self' last memories were. In my case, what I remember was being separated from my friends on that mountain. In your case, what you remember was being killed in enemies' place."
"That's the best guess I could have."
"What about the other guardians? Have you find them?"
"No…actually you are the first. The three of them still out there, somewhere." Mamoru stands up and walks to the garden. He stop at the terrace, folding his hand in his chest, "I want to find them too."
Hiro look at the man's back. Somehow he feelings it, a kind of honor, respect, and responsibility toward this man. Maybe it's the truth, even though it sounds weird, or crazy and ridiculous but it's still the truth. He must regain his memories…all of it. That's the way to convincing his rebellious mind. But his heart…Hiro knows that his heart is already going along with the stories…
After this chapter I'll show you a glimpse of the villain.
I decided to make a battle scene, maybe after one or two more chapter...so stay tune
