Gakuen Alice/ Gakuen Arisu by Higuchi Tachibana
I never knew dream could be this cruel letting my eyes witnessing such horrible scenario... and it turnout... I'm not sleeping... And it's not a dream.
I'm tremble; my heart beats lost its control like it's going to burst my chest out. I left everything behind; I could not even breathe right although to think right, my parent inside the building. I shouldn't leave them.
"Mom... Dad..." my brain drastically sending signal to my feet to blackout myself, those years I never learn what real fear is; now I know how fear could lead me into lightless path. I begin to running try to put my tremble feet to calm. The fire making people and cars stuck on their place.
"Hyuuga Sensei's Hospital it's on fire! Som...! Somebody! Call for help!" I keep running as fast as I can reach the hospital, people getting panic, screaming, everyone that witnessing these; danger did not whispered.
A sound that coming from the sky chopping the air rapidly could be hears after a few second. There is no spot of light from the sky, but the sounds definitely approaching the land. And it's not giving me good news. Something keeps telling me to keep running away from that damn sound.
"Heli in the dark?!" Helicopter that hovers in the dark nothing but catastrophe. The helicopter hovering but the sounds occupied the air and it's impossible for me allocate the helicopter position.
Explosion occurred in a several place in just one time... In just one time the sky changing colour. The dark blue starry sky now turns to hell curtain. There too many sort of sound I could hear in one time filling my head brutally. I've lost; this small town that I consider the best shelter, I never thought someday will end up with a tragic occurrences. It's an attack.
As my foot stepped in front of the flaming building, it took everything from me... strength, confidence, happiness and love. I couldn't forward an another step, the heat alone enough make me feel the third degree burnt on my skin, my emotional state enough made my heart dried to despair.
Is there any clue to keep me stand that mom and dad survive from this hell's fire?
The building turns into ashes and flew and fell like a snow in my shoulders... burnt and left nothing. The times seems stopped and mourn for me, mom and dad faces appear in my mind, I never thought that's going to be the last time I saw and spent my very time with them. They asked a favour but I can't make it... does they now about this would happen?
"You better run or die little cat." The voices bring me back to my sane...
"He's seen more than enough, Kill him either his one of them or just mere human." There two men with a battle geared suit, black in appearance, hiding their face behind faceless mask and I positive those a little from the rest that behind of this horrifying attack. And I don't need to guess twice.
Alice Abolition Movement.
The men pointing their weapon on me... it's confusing me to judge what kind of weapon they have, I could noticed a sharp edge like a sword but the hand gripped queer in design just like truncheon or tonfa infuse with a trigger, for an appropriate explained; sword, truncheon and gun in one complete weapon.
How many times their dirty weapon took away innocent life? How amazing their weapon look but it's still a monster behind it. I am facing a great danger; my life could end up with only single click on the trigger.
And I got them wrong that they only works to vanquish Alices... but they just nothing but a killer terrorist, kills everything that stand on their way.
Until now I keep my promise to mom; never reveal my own Alice. But I'm sorry that I couldn't keep the promise any longer. It's their entire fault... The AAM took my parent away; they took my parent away.
"You killed my only family... I won't let you live." I approach those bastards with bare hand and guard less. They just heartless animal, attacking people without weapon, even my guard open but my hatred become my shield, with no hesitating on me, one of them releasing the trigger and bullet shoots out from the hole build in the middle point of the sword.
That just make my hatred grow even greater, the bullet travel in a tremendous speed but my Alice of fire catch the bullet beyond tremendous definition, the bullet disappeared in the air caused from the fire burns the bullet without trace just before their eyeballs. I can feel the heat around me; I just release my elementary fire Alice since the very last. Like a dragon with a spirit of fire resemblance, the AAM underling change colour on the face, unbelievable sight they just noticed they faced an Alice wielder or they just traumatized to witness the power of my Alice.
Leading to their alert, they begin to attacking me... now they scared to die; the bullet flews rapidly on me but none of the bullet get through and vanished by my fire. There is no way I'm going to let them alive.
I am going to kill them in no delays.
"He... He's a fire Alice! Kill him!" it's just too late to have mercy upon those bastards, in fact; there just human without Alice, there are nothing but against me, I'll show them what hell is.
I'll set them on fire.
Human body contains oil, it's easily burn and causing them to scream out of their panic and suffer. I just watch them burn... Burn along their sin. Watch until the last ashes of their body disappeared in a thin air. I've remind myself how I felt amazed when I grow fire in my hand play it around my finger, but I never thought that I used my Alice to murdered people with an enormous fire I ever done.
Realizing that I just become a murderer... My strength suddenly gone and bring me straight to the ground.
I'm exhausted, my head felt like been hit by hammer, even so I never can get surpass my sudden sadness, it feels like my heart being squeeze and the pain unbearable for me. I've lost and been left by them... Alone is not something that a person wishes for, before you know you could feel how, but if it's finally happened to you, it's only could feel nothing but pain.
"Mom... Dad..." I'm alone... I feel like I'm broken, I wanted to scream the pain in my chest out of me, most of all... I wanted to cry hard... But I only cry without my tears... I could not even shed a tear when the pain quite killing my spirit.
In the middle of desperation, some tiny thing reminded me of another thing, when I stay kneeled on the cold ground covered my face with both of my hands, that's where I realized that, I am not yet alone... The orange orange's button that attached to my coat sleeve, gives me a tiny hope...
"Mikan..." Yes... I barely forgot about her the moment I lost my parent. Bit by bit it come to my mind, the promise I've been keep for her.
I get back to my feet and begin to run. I cannot fall now, I will hold to my promise until I closed my eyes for good. I will protect her till the very end of my life.
Nothing will stop me from getting through these chaotic ugly AAM attack. The only hope left to become my reason to continue lives is her...
But the AAM even attacked on an innocent people that probably did not know anything about Alice, my heart become once again worried about Mikan if she gets involved in this attack, I swear; the AAM will be my soul enemy, now the movement had killed my parent I got doubled the reason, as long I am still alive, I going to hunted them back...
After a long way run to Mikan's place, the area completed change to ghost town; the street light out of power, it's quiet than I expecting.
"Mikan..." The house she had been stayed for a year's also hit the same fate; dark and got traces of been ambush and attacked.
"Mikan!" I rush to the main gate and run into the living room, it's a total messed, and couldn't see Mikan's present or her grandpa. It's too early to giving up; I proceed to search Mikan in her room, desperately shouting out her name, hoping my voice reach her and response to my voice. But I found out her room were untouched neat and no traces of violated. The only thing that missing is her; she is gone from her own place, my brain loads hundreds of possibility that might be happened to her...
"She's not dead... She's not..." I try to console my heart and believe she still alive somewhere out there. Because she is nowhere to be found, I couldn't see any bloodshed, the house quite in messed but she might be runaway with her grandpa. I have to find her before too late.
I swear I'll going to find her soon, she will never left by my sight... But why... I felt defeated... I thought I've prepared for the worst and even thought that I never let my guards down. But in the end I failed to protect my parent... failed to protect Mikan... My instinct warned me in the first place and somehow I ignored it just to calm my own...
With a slow pace, I walk out from Mikan's room. The AAM will not return in this place in a short period. If the AAM have guts to return, I'll make them return to hell instead.
I passing by the living room and notice the dining room at the corner and when I realized I already sent myself standing next to the dining table, I'm unconscious to do so... on the top of that, I saw something that hurting my heart even deeper.
She was excited...
An identical lunch box placed on the top of the dining table, though it's empty, but I could imagine how she wanted to do her best for tomorrow, she might be thinking what kind of dishes she want to do, or maybe planning to wake up early just to cook the rice... She even takes my words as a promise... She is waiting for it... once again I take a look at the bright orange button on my sleeve.
"Be strong... I know you scared... But I know you just around the corner; I will save you... Mikan." And from now on, I; the wielder of Fire Alice, will not holding back to use my Alice against the AAM... even the result is to kill.
Since the AAM attacked, the town become dark, cold and silent, innocent people lost their house, family, friends and most of all their peaceful life, this is the third days since the attacked, I'm still searching for Mikan and her grandpa, homeless people that managed to survived from the AAM could be seen taking shelter behind a crumble walls roofless building or just sleeping on the street covered with flattened box... There is no rescue team to be appeared, as the correct word to describe the town; just like the town completely cut off from the outside world.
I consider myself not so misfortune that I still have a proper shelter after I discovered a basement under my house which is I never knew about it, yet... it's seem my parent had been prepared... something like this to come. The basement made nearly like my room before it was destroy, it have single bed in the corner, desk with a solar powered light, which I need to take it out in the daylight to restore the solar power so I won't feel pitched dark inside the basement and there a picture of my parent just stand in a frame that been placed on the desk; the only 'piece' of my parent that left for me.
And I got my shirt that I was wear it since the last three days and a piece of coat with an orange's button on the sleeve. That's all I have...
I wanted meet her again, I shall continue to lives and survive till the day I finally found her. Every day I need to find some food to keep my body strength to moving and for my health, I got no choice but to put it on a second place.
It's a cold night that I feel I reached my limit after I push myself to wonder around searching for her. I need to rest as for tomorrow I will continue to search for her again. I got myself some carton of milk and some individual wrapped bread from the neglected convenient store, this is enough for me even there so much left in the store but I believe somebody out there seek for food to survive, so I only took what I need.
On my way back home, I take a shortcut that I could remember, although the winds bring the chillness, but I'm not really feeling the cold in my skin.
The other survivors tries to warm their self, try to build a fire, some of them flamed on a dump canister, while some of them just sit on the corner with the cloths on them; warm their self a thick cloth probably their get from store that been destroyed...
Maybe more than I could watch with my own eyes, there a lot people that made to survived, but I afraid even just to think; how long they can survives in this town... how long they can survive from death? If it's not from starvation, might be outbreak disease.
On my way back home... I saw a mother and her little son on her protective cradle. They are sitting down in a dark alley. I was passing by those poor and innocent survivors. The mother shivering from the icy cold night, giving her best to make her son warm all the time. Her son awfully small, sleeping on her mom arms... If this keep happened, the little son might lose his life... expose to the cold weather and soon winter will be taking the place.
My heart moved as there still a tiny mercy for them, I approach the pair and the mother noticed of my present within the look of my emotionless face, at moment just like this, after the tragic attacked from the AAM; If I was her, panic are just normal reaction; Will you believe in stranger? She tries to escape from me, but I show her a milk and bread that I found before, she looks surprise.
"You need this..." I give her all the food and drink I have... I failed to protect someone that dear to me... but I still could saves someone that worth to lives... the mother hesitates to take the food from my hand but I sincerely took her hand and hand it over to her, after that I take off my black faded coat with an orange's button on the sleeve, yes it's my favourite coat, but the little son needed it more than I am. I kneel in front of the mother and I covered the little son's body with my coat, his mother staring at me as I can see her eyes moisten.
"This is all I could do for help..." I leave them... I could not even watch over myself, how could I watch them over? Add least I could do some help... The mother cries after I left, it's loud enough to hear her voice... she weeping her blessed.
"Thank you... Thank you..." I turn to where their stayed, the mother hugs her son tightly and fixes my coat properly on her little son...
"Yó- chan..." I turn my head back to the path I choose to walk... It's feels like... I just gave them hope to keep lives...