The History Of Marron
Chapter 9: Is This Really A Reality?
Author's Note- This is a continuation of chapter 7 (One of the bonus Chapters)
He held the bag of groceries tightly in his hands, he took a deep breath. The painful images of him tossing his pregnant sister to the other side of the dojo plagued his mind. He felt guilty, that was for sure. He knew the dozen of frozen vanilla ice cream that laid neatly in the bag wasn't going to win her forgiveness, but it was a start. He had been standing by the front door for ten minutes, wondering if he gave his sister enough time to be alone. He tapped his foot on the wooden porch waiting for himself to make up his mind. He was receiving a massive headache as stress and guilt began to eat his brain away, all he wanted to do was enter the house to change before going to destroy, but he knew he was going to have to face his sister and now seemed like the perfect time. He touched the black wig on his hair making sure it was on tightly, he still had his purple hair that his sister had dyed for him because he had to keep his disguise for Amaya and he still didn't have time to make the embarrassing trip to the wig store.
He finally made up his mind and turned the knob to the always unlocked door, he heard his sister's soft laughter and he knew she was enjoying a horror movie while devouring her favorite ice cream. He walked past the living room quickly hoping that he wouldn't be seen, but he knew his sister had caught a glimpse of him as he felt her stare. As soon as he reached the kitchen he took a long swig of air he didn't know he needed till he realized he was holding his breath.
He stored all the chicken soup in a top cabinet before putting ten pints of the vanilla ice cream in the half full freezer. He took the two remaining pints of ice cream with shaking hands. He was never afraid of his sister even if she was older and he knew in the state that she was in right now he shouldn't be afraid of her, it was just times when she was furious or serious about certain things that she would tend to produce a scary vibe.
He tried to stop his shaking hands, but as soon as he was making his way to the living room his hands weren't the only thing shaking, he felt his very bones rattling like a bunch of keys as if they were going to soon fall apart. He was glad that she didn't spare him a glance once he began to walk in her direction, her eyes were just focused on the movie where some idiot girl was about to get killed.
How am I still walking towards her? I swear the world just hates me.
The world does hate you, they fear you too.
No one needs to hear you're say Insanity.
No one? You're the only one who can hear me.
Shut up.
He felt like turning back, the scary vibe his sister was producing seemed to have gotten stronger.
Why the hell am I afraid of her? I never am afraid of her.
The dark chuckles of Insanity bounced throughout his head, you were always afraid of her Seventeen, you just don't want to admit it.
I was never afraid of her!
Well maybe not you, but Lapis was.
I'm not Lapis anymore, I'm Seventeen.
Of course you are, but you're still half human, you still have a piece of him left.
Shut up and leave me alone! Lapis doesn't exist anymore.
Oh, I and you know very well that a piece of Lapis is still living within in us, also it's not my fault that I can hear your thoughts.
Seventeen felt a cold liquid trickling down his palms, his eyes widened as he suddenly realized what it was. He was too busy arguing with his other self that he forgot the task at hand, while his anger just took over and caused a mess.
He looked up to see his sister who was staring at him with a half confused expression, 'if that was supposed to be an apology gift, you're going to have to do better than that.'
'It wasn't.' He managed to mumble, his fear now completely vanished.
He disposed of the two crushed ice cream pints before rinsing his hands in the sink to remove the sticky content. After his hand were clean he brought two new pints of ice cream to his sister. He cleaned up the little mess in the living room before cleaning the mess he almost forgotten to clean in the kitchen.
When he was done with his slave work he ran to his room to change into his Red Ribbon outfit to destroy an unlucky town.
The birds were singing a peaceful melody and the summer's sun was relaxing as the couple laid on a soft picnic blanket enjoying some snacks and each other's company. They watched a couple of children run around as they played a game of tag while the parents were talking with each other, having a nice time. Eighteen felt like she was in heaven. Just being here with her lover made it heaven. The weather was perfect, no clouds were in the sky and the wind didn't dare to blow, just the perfect sun coating their bodies with its heat rays.
She laid her head on his shoulder, wanting to get closer but to also take a little nap on his shoulder. She saw him smile which made her smile back before tucking a strand of hair behind her ear.
"I love you Eighteen."
She loved hearing those very words every time, he could say it a thousand times and she would never get tired nor sick of hearing those special words. She loved hearing those sweet words leave his soft lips.
"I love you too Krillin."
He placed one of his soft hands on her stomach to feel the stirring of their unborn child, he gave her a warm kiss to the forehead.
"Do you think the baby will be a girl or a boy?"
She grinned at his question, the answer was already on the tip of her tongue as if she was trained from the day she was born to answer this specific question. "A girl, how about you?"
He looked into her deep blue eyes before kissing her small nose, "I don't care about the gender of the baby, as long as the baby is born healthy. But if you believe that the baby is a girl I believe it too."
He kissed her lip.
As their lips departed Eighteen began to worry, Krillin's words about the baby being born healthy began to register in her mind. What if the baby wasn't born healthy because I'm an android? What if the baby was born with some cybernetics genes? She didn't want to think about it anymore, but the questions plagued her mind like a disease.
Krillin saw the worry in her face and began to softly stroke her hair. He regretted saying that he hoped that the baby would turn out healthy because he knew it was hurting her deeply now. He never really mentioned anything that would indicate her as being an android because he didn't want to offend her as he knew there were certain times when she would despise herself for being the cyborg instead of the full human, but he treated her as if she was fully human and in his eyes she was. She was perfect in his eyes, no matter what others would have said if they saw him with a cyborg.
"Eighteen don't worry, I assure you that our baby will be born a beautiful little healthy baby girl."
He wiped the tears that began to leave her eyes, "don't cry my love, it breaks my heart when you do."
Eighteen nodded before giving him a small smile.
They sat on the blanket for a few minutes in silence as they listened to the peaceful song the birds were singing.
"What name would you like to give our baby?" Eighteen asked.
"What name would you give our baby?" Krillin asked back.
Eighteen pinched his cheek, "I'm not really good with names, now answer my question, I asked you first."
Krillin smiled, "I'll answer your question but first I want you to give me a name."
Eighteen took her head off Krillin's shoulder and shook her head no, "if you knew my real name you wouldn't want me to name our child."
"What's your real name?"
"It's stupid."
"Please." He begged as he pouted his lips.
She gave in, "Lazuli."
Krillin smiled, "that's sweet, like the bright blue metamorphic rock, Lapis-Lazuli."
Eighteen nodded as he was correct.
"I'm guessing your brother's real name is Lapis."
"Yeah."
"It's not a stupid name at all, it's rather unique. Both your names come together as one to form the word Lapis Lazuli which is a bright blue rock and both of your eyes are bright blue, so your parents we're really thinking about giving you guys a perfect name that would fit the two of you."
Eighteen nodded, he was correct again. Her name might have been unique but it now felt stupid to her as she would really never be called Lazuli again.
"So are you going to answer my question now?"
"Marron." He said, the name easily slipped out of his tongue.
She was about to say come again but then she took a moment to think about the name, it was a sweet and simple name, it was a perfect name especially if their child would be lucky to be born with blonde hair.
Eighteen smiled, "why marron?"
Krillin slightly shrugged, "well my name means chestnut and Marron means chestnut in French, so I don't know, I guess I just wanted to keep the tradition going."
"It's perfect Krillin, I love it and it's unique."
She kissed his cheek and he blushed furiously.
"Well I uh…could I uh also get a-"
She slightly rolled her eyes and smiled before placing her lips on top of his as she already knew what he was shyly asking for.
"I love you Krillin."
"I love you too Eighteen."
Minutes passed as they just watched the children play hide and seek, knowing one day when their child is born they'll be able to play that game with her.
The wind that didn't dare ruin Eighteen and Krillin's picnic began to blow, they began to pack their food as the wind began to blow heavily already blowing several items from their picnic away. Everyone in the park had begun to pack their things as they were ready to go, but the sound of thunder caused everyone to stop what they were doing as they were all confused from how the sound of the thunder was made possible if it was still bright and sunny.
"What's happening?!" A parent had shouted.
As the blood red clouds began to form in the sky no one had time to answer that they didn't know as everyone just began to panic, parent's grabbing their kids and running away from what can be the apocalypse. Krillin helped Eighteen up before picking her up and holding her bridal style. He shot a few feet into the air, avoiding the red clouds and the lighting strikes.
"KRILLIN'S DEAD EIGHTEEN!"
Her body froze as she heard the voice, it was her brother.
Krillin was about to stop and search for the source of the voice but his main mission was to get his lover and unborn child to safety, he kind of wished now that they would have had a car since it would have been more safer especially since Eighteen's wasn't in the condition to run.
For a few minutes they were on the right track of getting to safety as Krillin kept avoiding the lightning strikes.
Krillin froze as he was stuck in a circle of lightning bolts, he and Eighteen watched in fear as the red clouds began to form a face, the face was no other than Seventeen.
"KRILLIN'S DEAD EIGHTEEN, HE'S NEVER COMING BACK."
She shook her head at the huge face in the sky, what he was saying wasn't true, Krillin was right here holding her tightly as he was trying to bring her and their unborn child to safety.
"He's not dead!" she shouted at the angry face of her brother.
They both watched as the face above facial expression changed, he was smiling. He was laughing a dark laugh.
"OF COURSE HE'S DEAD, I KILLED HIM."
As soon as those words were spoken she felt Krillin's tight grip loosen, she turned to face him and wish she didn't, he had a pain look placed on his face.
"I'm sorry Eighteen, but I'm not real."
He was no longer holding her, but his wounded stomach where a bullet inhabited, he began to plummet from the sky with speed, a small smile on his face.
Eighteen cried out as her heart was broken once again, tears began to leave her eyes and instead of falling downwards they were flying upwards. She began to scream as she realized she was plummeting to her death, she couldn't feel her baby anymore which made the fear of her falling to her death disappear, but a new pain appear, that her baby was no longer alive.
The images of Krillin plummeting to his death wouldn't escape her mind, the sounds of her dying baby filled her ears like sirens.
KRILLIN'S DEAD EIGHTEEN. The words burned into her memory.
She woke up before she hit the solid ground, grasping her sheets for her dear life as she began to try to steady her breathing. The sweat falling off her face wasn't the only piece of water that was falling. She stop clutching her blanket and touched her stomach to see if her baby was still living, she was.
She heard a sigh of relief, turning around she saw her brother with a worried look on his face but he managed to have a small smile.
They stayed in silence for a while, the only sounds heard were the soft cries Eighteen was letting out.
"I thought I was going to lose you in there."
She didn't turn to face him again, knowing that he might have that I told you so look, because she had almost gone insane in dreamland when he told her not to activate her dreamland application when she was going to bed.
Dream. It was all a dream, Krillin was really dead, the picnic wasn't real even if it felt as real as it could be, I was just stuck in dreamland grasping the last thing that would have made my life complete.
"How long have I've been asleep." She asked silently looking at the night sky through her window.
"Two days." Seventeen whispered.
"I've been stuck in dreamland for two days?!" She asked not actually believing it.
She felt Seventeen staring at her, "I was going to wake you up later, I knew you were dreaming about him as you kept sleep talking, but well I knew starving that baby for two days wasn't something good. It took me a while to figure out how to wake you since you wouldn't wake up by any physical contact. I had-"
"To make my dream become a nightmare." She forced the tears to stay in, no longer wanting to cry as crying wasn't going to change anything.
They both was silent for a while till Eighteen broke the silence, "thank you, Seventeen."
He stopped staring at his sister and stared at the carpeted floor as it now interested him, he unfolded his folded arms and jumped off the drawer he was sitting on for hours.
"Yea….well I have some food for you I know you might not be hungry but that baby sure is, I'm surprised it lasted that long without eating."
"It's not an it, she's a human being."
"She?" Seventeen asked as he was rolling in a cart full of food.
"Yes she, her name is Marron."
"Marron?" Seventeen asked as he snickered.
"It's not funny."
"Sorry, the name sounds a little ridiculous."
She rolled her eyes at her brother, she knew soon that once Marron was born he would take a liking to her and her name.
He pushed the cart in her face and revealed to her what each and every meal was as he took the tops off.
"Where did you get all the food from?"
"My ass."
She held her tongue not trying to give him a slick comment on his sarcasm, "thanks for going to hell to get all this for me."
He nodded a yea.
"Bon appetite." He muttered before stealing a French fry and tossing it in his mouth before chewing.
"When did you start eating?"
"Lots of things changed these past two days." He answered before leaving her room so she could eat her food in peace.
