|| Chapter [Eleven] ||

Cannibal of Vienna

Comments – Alright, I totally regret putting up Chapter Ten, but I'm not sure I want to change it. This chapter is going straight from Chapter Nine, so that you know. This is meant to be the recollection of Faith's memories before the Albedo part that happened, so that you get a clear idea of what had gone on during the Dive and all other things like that. Also, it is so that you know how Albedo got a hold of her. Also, Faith's personality is changing due to her past and her Realian chip given to her.

Silence. It draws. Draws on and on, with a feeling that it will never end. As I stare foreword, Gaignun's arm wrapped tightly around my waist, silence has taken over. Yet I'm enjoying this silence, with him in my presence. He's holding onto me so tightly, I swear he wants to keep me for himself. He owns me; I can feel it with his grip. But I don't mind – I'm his: I belong to Gaignun Kukai, the sweetest, most amazing man in the entire world. But as I stare upwards into his sparkling emerald gems, a sickening feeling comes into my stomach. It's nothing strong, it's no where near as strong as the emotion of love I feel for him, but its there – it's noticeable. It's not him who is sickened, it is me. I'm sickened by the sweet why he looks at me; I am sickened by the kindness he is giving me. A part of me wishes to push him away, scream and yell at him. A part of me wishes to see him wither down and cry: I want to break him. I want to toy around with his emotions, I want to play with him like a ragdoll. My fists clench as I feel these emotions.

He can tell. His grip is loosening and his eyes are confused.

What am I doing? Why am I thinking this? It's horrible, I'm a horrible person. I'm pushing it away, I'm pushing all these feelings away but I'm struggling. It's like having an emotional battle with myself, yet I don't know who 'myself' is. His grip is tightening around my waist; my small body is being pulled against his strong one. A feeling emits through my body as he holds me close; it's disappearing. The feeling that came inside me is going away, and my once tense body is now relaxing as I breathe in his scent. I'm staying like that, my mind wondering off on its own accord: wondering whatever made me feel such emotions of sickness and almost hatred.

Seeming to have sensed the thoughts inside of Faith, Gaignun pulled his arm away from her, breaking the contact for a split second before re-contacting her by wrapping his arm tightly around her body. With soft strength he pulled her body to his, tucking his head into her hair as he pulled her head to rest against his chest. Her thoughts had immediately broken from his movement, and she nuzzled him gently, smiling contently as she did so.

"You're a very thoughtful person," he smiled, wrapping a small chunk of her hair around his fingertip. Her locks were silky against his skin. "You may speak to me, you know?"

"I know," her muffled voice replied. The first parts of her words were soft, but when she continued after a small breathe her voice was ice cold. "But I doubt you wouldn't be happy with what I was thinking …"

He froze, a frown set on his face from hearing her stunningly cold tone. "Faith?" he almost whispered as a new set of emotions from her ran through his body. But just as soon as these emotions appeared, they had disappeared leaving her warm aura floating into his body.

Innocently, she lifted her head, looking at him with her beautiful gold eyes. "Yes?" It was as if she hadn't noticed her tone or even what she had said.

"Never mind," he said, tucking her head back into his chest. "Momo shall be taking her dive soon. Can I trust you to act reasonably and not harm her?"

"Of course," she smiled, forcing a thought from her head. "I would never harm Momo," she held back a strange snicker as a second, evil, thought came to mind.

"Thank you," he smiled, holding her possessively close. "She isn't as strong as you and I'd rather she wouldn't get harmed."

"Don't worry, Gaignun," she assuredly said. "I would never harm my own sister."

She suddenly bit down on her lip. 'Don't you call her your sister, you damn stupid girl!!' she hissed to herself in her thoughts. Her white teeth pushed down on her lip again, causing her to squeal as a sharp pain shot through her lips. In a split second she felt the red liquid run down her chin, a drip went onto Gaignun's shirt as she quickly pulled away. His eyes looked down at her, shocked at her sudden movement, and then they widened at the blood running down from her bottom lip.

"Faith!" he gasped, his arms pulling away from her.

"It's just a cut," she muttered, wiping her lip with the back of her hand, holding back the tears that were threatening to betray her eyes. Fiercely, she pulled herself from Gaignun's reach, moving to the glass window where she was able to watch Momo be prepared for her analysis.

Reflected in the glass, Faith was able to see the faint outline of Gaignun's ghostly reflection. His arms slowly moved to his sides, his expression somewhat confused with his eyebrows narrowed and his emerald eyes set on her. He stood still as he always did, trying not to say or do anything. Or maybe not trying at all – it most likely came naturally to the cool and collective Gaignun Kukai: it came naturally for him to seem emotionless. She breathed out deeply, annoyed at herself for being so rude. She sucked the blood from her lip as she stared foreword, at nothing at all. If she had ever pulled away from Master without a word; ever seemed so rude, she would have gotten beat. She knew it wasn't right to be quite so rude and childish but she couldn't stand to be held by someone who loved her dearly when she had all these dark thoughts. Faith didn't want Gaignun getting into her head either; she didn't want the slightest chance of him finding out what she had been thinking, though she knew it was so untrue. She didn't want to hurt Gaignun; she wanted to make him happy.

"Hello chaos," she spoke quietly as she saw him approach; her eyes had caught his reflection in the glass. His white hair stuck and yellow clothing stuck out the most in the reflection, but she could just about see his turquoise eyes looking down at her curiously.

"Hello," he greeted once stood next to her: his arm barely an inch away from hers. Faith didn't look at chaos; rather her eyes stared at Gaignun's reflection. He had turned around, moving over to a computer screen, seeming to be unaffected by Faith's strange behaviour though she knew he was. She could feel his mind working.

'No matter how much you try, Gaignun,' she thought. 'Your emotionless body cannot hide your conscious. I can hear your brain working, the ticking of it as you think. You're working, thinking, fast like clockwork. Unstoppable.'

"Are you feeling okay?" chaos softly asked, flicking some of her hair from her cold face.

Faith stared at Gaignun's reflection, though stared yet again at nothing at all. Her skin shivered as chaos brushed her hair away, the tip of his finger moving smoothly against her skin, tickling her like a soft feather.

"I'm feeling fine," she answered, her voice as soft as his. "Are you?"

"Yes, thank you," he smiled.

"Ever heard of Robert Ackermann?" Faith suddenly asked, turning her head to him; her attention fully on chaos as she stared at him with thoughtful eyes.

"Robert Ackermann?" he repeated, raising a brow.

In the corner of her eye, she saw Gaignun turning his head, a brow raised as he stared at Faith.

"The Cannibal of Vienna," she said. "An old murderer; a cannibal."

"N-no, I haven't heard of him," chaos' shaky voice replied. He seemed to turn pale as she spoke, obviously uncomfortable with the conversation she was about to begin.

"He murdered his roommate, you know?" she said, her eyes devious as she let her lips curl upwards into a smirk. "He was in a mental hospital, crazy little guy. He was just nineteen, the same age as myself when he murdered. He murdered in the hospital, where he was meant to be getting help. Robert didn't mean to, God I doubt he meant to. The two had a fight, over a porno video if you could believe it."

She leaned close to chaos as she spoke. "He beat up his roommate, Josef. Surprisingly, the nineteen year old was able to beat up the forty-nine year old. Believing he was still alive, Robert went back to his room, cooked, ate, read a little bit as you do and then went to a peaceful, innocent sleep. I feel for the guy, don't you? Such an innocent child he was …"

She sighed deeply as he devious yet saddened eyes looked up into chaos' almost surprised ones. She could feel Gaignun's gaze on her face, as he stared at her with confused and shocked eyes.

"When he woke up, I expect he was surprised to find him dead," she sighed. "Wouldn't you feel so shocked, so heartbroken that you had murdered someone, chaos?"

"W-why yes," he nodded, hardly able to find his voice.

"God knows if Robert was though," she sniggered. "His actions were those of delight. The young teen had eagerly wished to have a body to experiment on all his life and finally he had his chance. He cut the mans body from groin the throat, and with his bare hands he explored the gooey insides of the man he murdered. His fingers roamed through every part of his body, wishing to know more, his mind curious to find out about it."

Chaos shivered as she continued. "Two days later, he told the cleaner to call the police. He admitted his deeds and fully explained what had happened. Unfit, he was unable to go to Jail, so he stayed under constant care of the mental hospital. He studied Medicine, you know? He wished, oh how he wished he could be a surgeon to fulfil his lives dream, yet everyone kept calling him a monster."

She brought her face closer to chaoses. "Would you name the man a monster, chaos? He was so curious, so involved with the human body, who could blame him for experimenting on it? He hadn't killed him on purpose, so why not? Could he be branded a monster?"

"What is your point …?" chaos whispered his throat dry.

"Faith!" Gaignun almost yelled as he grabbed her shoulder sharply.

She turned her head quickly; the devious and slightly maddened emotion in her eyes had disappeared, only to be replaced by her usual look of frightened innocence. He pulled her away from the stunned chaos, taking her to the side of the room; his hand firm on her shoulder. He pulled her body close to hers, and again they found themselves in their own little bubble, forgetting about the world as they spoke.

"What was that all about?" he asked, his voice low.

"I was just asking about the Cannibal of Vienna," she whispered, her eyes wanting to look away yet not wanting to at the same time. "Why? Was it wrong?"

"Yes it was," he almost hissed. His voice caused her to flinch, but soon his arm was around her waist, his eyes soft. "Please don't speak about murderous things like that, Faith. I do not believe it to be your nature."

"I was curious," she whispered. "Robert hadn't really done anything – he was so innocent. He was only curious."

"No," Gaignun shook his head. "There is no exception when it comes to murder. The man had no right to destroy the body of that man."

"He was curious," she repeated, her eyes shinning with desperation. "He was …"

I wanted to say more. I couldn't remember how I knew of Robert, but he was forever burned into my mind, a part of me wherever I would go. For as long as I've thought, Robert has been part of me but never have a thought of him so deeply as I did then. My mouth opened, about to say more when the sound of an alarm came on, filling the room with noise. In a few minutes, the girl, Momo was being leaked for the Y-Data: Master had planted another trap inside of that stupid 100 Series. A furious rage overcame me as I stood there, watching as the commotion happened. People were worrying for her as she took away her own memories, and I couldn't help but be pleased with this. The girl was killing herself and it made me more then happy. Though I knew I was no realian, that who I believed to be my father was not, I was happy his precious little girl was dying. I was happy that the stupid girl that had put my 'sisters' in danger with Master was deleting herself. But then, all of it stopped. I wasn't able to understand what was going on, but soon her Mother came running into the room, trying to resuscitate her daughter. I wanted her to die! My hands were clenched, my heart was pounding as soon Gaignun was wrapped his arms around me, calming me down with hushes.

He knew. He knew I was thinking darkened thoughts, surely. God, I'm such a monster… What am I? Who am I …? Until I realized I was not a proper Realian, I never had thoughts like this.

Before Faith knew it, the group Shion, Jr, chaos and Ziggy were preparing to do an Encephalon dive within Momo. Though Faith hated Momo, she was curious to join in. The memories of Jr would be shown, meaning she might be able to learn about Master and Gaignun: understand their past a little more. Her curious gems looked up to Gaignun, wide.

"I want to go," she pleaded. "Please, please let me go."

"But you …" he shook his head. "It's too dangerous Faith."

"I can protect her," chaos' voice came through the speakers. He looked at them through the window, smiling gently as he did so. "She will be safe with me, I can promise you."

He paused, looking down at his porcelain doll he cared so much about. A deep sigh escaped his lips, his eyes shut as he pulled her close to him. "Take care of yourself, okay?" he whispered in her ear, his breath tickled her skin. "If anything goes wrong, I'll be in there as soon as I can."

His hand slid inside of her pocket, making her shiver. Something cold slipped from his fingers in her pocket; something he gave her. For a second he kept his hand in her pocket, though he didn't need to. Looking up to him, she saw him blush as he pulled his empty hand from her pocket, smiling a little as he did so. "That's in case you get in trouble. It works when you push the button."

Faith nodded, and smiled. "Thanks. I'll be okay though, I promise."

She fumbled the red glasses between her fingers as everyone else placed them on their faces. She stared at the unfamiliar item with curious eyes, before feeling an arm on her wrist, pulling her head to look up.

"Just put them on," chaos smiled. "It won't hurt."

Obediantly, Faith slipped with red glasses on her face, smirking a little as she did so. Twirling, she half spun around, facing the glass. Gaignun was watching her closely and she did a large salute, making his serious face turn to a happy smile.

"See you in a bit, Sir!" she smiled, straightening her posture.

"See you soon, Faith," he grinned. "Are you sure you'll be okay? It's not too late to say no."

"Hmm …" Faith playfully put a finger on her torn lip, pretending to think. Then she shook her head, smiling widely. "Too late to say no! I'm in the mood now, Gaignun, I'm not backing down. I have to do this. Really."

"If you say so …" he said.

Faith nodded again, her eyes playful as she spun around, her back to him. She breathed deeply as the world began to spin, her mind felt dizzy as she was drawn inside of the Encephalon. Her heart pounded as she held her hands together, patiently waiting for the dizzy spell to pass: her eyes were shut.

Comments –

Okay, crappy chapter and crappy chapter end but OH WELL.

May I point out that Robert Ackermann is indeed a real man? Yes, he murdered exactly the way I had described in the Year 2007 at the age of 19 years old. He killed his roommate, Josef Schweiger on August 26th, 2007. They had been arguing over a porno video and a missing cigarette lighter that belong to Robert. He had found the video in Josef's possession and in anger the two men had a fight, Robert unfortunately and unknowingly gave him a devastating blow to the head. In the morning when he hadn't seen his roommate, he assumed he was sleeping off a hangover. Later that day he went to check up on him, found him dead yet was not alarmed by the death. Instead he was fascinated. Fact's I have used, like the fact he cut his body from groin to throat are true. He phoned a cleaner two days later, requesting her to phone the police. He had not actually eaten his roommate, rather he tasted him as an experiment, though when the police arrived Josef's brain and tongue had been placed on a plate. It is true that to this day Robert is in a Mental Hospital, studying Medicine in the hopes of becoming a surgeon. He is mentally instable, though he is taking medication. I read about him a few days ago and his story has made me quite curious. XD Links to him and Faith will soon be explained in later chapters, so don't worry! XDXD Sorry I made it so damn confusing.

Oh and Robert murdered in Vienna, Austria.