Chiro sighed, his hands behind his head and legs dangling from the side of the robot. After he had returned with Nikki and Nana, he realized that his legs had begun healing at a rather unusual pace. So, naturally, he ditched his chair and hobbled outside, desperate to walk on his own.
He smiled, closed his eyes, and lay back against the cool metal of the robot, replaying the days earlier events in his mind.
He knew he should be thinking about the formless child, but he just couldn't stop thinking about Nikki. Jinmay had told him to, go get her, but how could he?
When he was with Jinmay, he worried for her safety, but she could protect herself. Nikki couldn't. She was wonderful. Smart, funny, careing, and strong.
'Maybe she should train with us,' he thought absently, a picture if her smiling face in his mind.
Her smile...
All of the sudden, words were repeating themselves in his ears.
'We do, what we must do.'
His eyes snapped open. That was what the gun assassin had said. But why?
And then the child.
'I know you can't save everybody, but...can you save me?'
He sat up, his eyes wide. "Wait..."
'Thank you for proving him wrong.'
His mother. When she died...
His mother had smiled.
He lurched forward, hand over his mouth, trying to hold the bile back. His shoulders shook and he curled into himself, shutting his eyes tight.
He knew what had happened to his mother, but he had no idea...
He scowled, raising his head, eyes filled with rage.
"He is going to die."
The team and Jinmay, were just sitting in their chairs when Chiro limped in, murder in his eyes.
Gibson ran to him, "Chiro what are you doing? Your legs aren't healed yet!"
Ignoring him, Chiro limped to the main screen. Hands flying over the keys, his eyes were firmly set on the screen.
"Chiro?" Nova approached him but shrank back from the anger in his eyes.
"There's...something you need to know," Chiro said as pages and pages of information flashed across the screen.
"Chiro, what's going on?" Antauri asked.
"Whay are you so angry?" Otto whispered.
Chiro sighed and turned to face them, then said bluntly, "My father was the Alchemist."
|Should I end it here?...Nah, I'm not an ass X) |
"But-I-you..." Sprx stuttered, the others were equally confused. Chiro sighed from annoyance.
"When my Father was changed into Skeleton King, I was there. I loved my father and wanted to know what he was devoting all his time to, instead of his son.
I was changed too. Insanity is in all of us, but he brought mine to the surface. At the same time, I was sent through a warp in time and ended up here. I was only seven."
They all just stared at him, riveted to his words.
"In time, I learned to control my insanity. I had no idea what was happening to my mother. He wore my father's skin and tricked her. Changed her. She wasn't the loving, careing person she used to be. My Father convinced her I hated her and didn't love her. Eventually, she believed him. Her love for me was burried."
He took a deep breath and let it out slowly.
"My father stole children and adults from their homes while you were sleeping and changed them as well. That is how formless were formed." Chiro sighed,
"I just realized that today, when the assassin came." Their heads snapped up.
"Wait a second kid, you mean the assaassin approached you, and you didn't tell anyone? There was no one who could've helped you!"
"Nikki was there," Chiro said cooly, "And besides, we didn't fight. He just, died. He was only a child."
Antauri was deeply disturbed, "That is strange. Do you know why Chiro?"
"Yeah. But it didn't matter. I already knew what he was trying to tell me."
"And, what was that?" Sprx crossed his arms.
"That I can't save everyone, no matter how hard I try."
He clenched his fist, and scowled at the floor.
"And I believe him."
I think I'm going to be sorry when this is over ::( so...maybe...I'll have to make a...SEQUEL!