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Chapter eleven: Sisters

"I…I have a sister?"

"Rosalie, you didn't have any siblings," Tawny said. "You said you lived in the orphanage all your life."

Bisetsu punches Tawny with her elbow on the rib with a pissed face, she should have not said something in front of the boys about her past since it is none of their concerns. Hikaru could not believe this, she seems optimistic and joyful when he is around her, and he would have never thought that a girl like her would be an orphan. But it did not matter now; they have to find her and try to sort this whole thing out as soon as possible. Mitsukuni picked up the key that lay on the ground and looked at it to see a symbol of Cancer printed finely on the key. Rosalie took the key from his hand and marched out first, she seemed both pissed and afraid of what was happening. Hikaru, without knowing it himself, started running along with her by her side so he could keep check on her.

This was odd, he never felt like this. He never wanted to help out anyone besides his friends; Rosalie to him was very annoying and bratty in her own way. But something inside made a huge trigger that affected him to follow instead of backing off, which he never felt in his life and did not care about what he is doing now. Now Hikaru and Rosalie are together, Hikaru turned around to see if the others are behind and they were not, they are completely gone and nowhere to be found. That was when Hikaru blinked just one moment and suddenly found himself in the hospital but it looks like it is brand new and people are taking care of some patients. Hikaru turned himself around to see if Rosalie was there, but she was missing in his sights and he started to go into a frantic state.

He is lost and does not know where he is at all, that was when he heard something behind him, it sounded like a little girl crying. When he forced himself to look, he saw…the same little girl from before except she has beautiful silver eyes and held on tight around her arms a brown colored teddy bear with a green ribbon tied around its neck. She sniffles sadly as tears poured down her eyes, she wipes them with the hand of the teddy bear and it caused Hikaru to bend down to the child.

"What's wrong?"

"I-I can't find my mommy…"

Hikaru mentally sighed, how could such a mother does something so irresponsible to let her child wander off alone in the hospital and cannot find her way? He examines her more, she did not carry a cane with her and her eyes are not covered with a bloody band aid. She wore the hospital gown and she is wearing on her feet cute black leather shoes with blue ribbons on the front. Hikaru took his hand and introduced himself to her, he asked her name and she only muttered 'Jessica' to him. Hikaru said that her name is lovely and that he will find her mother for her, she starts jumping up and down with a bright smile on her face since she is so happy that she will find her mother. He took her hand and they start to walk around the lovely styled hospital with nurses helping the sick and ill, people with smiles on their faces and doctors drinking coffee with their patients.

Hikaru asked how long has she been here and she said that she has heart cancer for five months now, but she is fighting as hard as she can to get better. That was when they heard a soft but a little loud yell to them and Jessica remembered that voice, so did Hikaru…that is sounded like…

"Mommy!" Jessica cried, she raced to her and she hugged Elizabeth tightly.

Hikaru looked up to Elizabeth with wide eyes, she is really the mother of little Jessica. Elizabeth wore a fine blue dress with frills that went to her waist and a red rose is placed as a hairclip for her forehead bangs, and what he noticed first is her stomach because she is pregnant.

"Mommy, is Rosalie coming now?" Jessica asked, touching her stomach to fell some kicks hitting her stomach.

"Not yet, but I think she'll come soon," she said with a warm smile. She looks up to see Hikaru and goes up to him with Jessica tight in her hand. "Thank you so much for finding my daughter, she likes to look around places when some people don't know it."

"Mommy, this is Hikaru, he's a nice boy. Can I marry him?"

"Um…"

Hikaru laughed at pats Jessica on the head, making her pout with a puffed cheek because she is treated like a child. He dims down his laughter into chuckles because at first, at the winds of the air conditioned hospital, he thought he heard a cry of a voice calling his name many times. He was about to leave the Jessica and Elizabeth when he turned around to find himself back at the ruined hospital. He called out for Rosalie but now answer was heard, that was when he was pounced from behind to show Haruka sitting on top of him when he fell down to the hard floor. She smiles kindly to him as he tries to get himself up, he does so and he got up through Haruka who giggled because she was tickled by this. Hikaru looks around to see Rosalie out of his sight; he asked Haruka if she has seen Rosalie.

Haruka responses with a cute and innocent smile and said that she was completely gone out of her sights, too. Haruka jumps up and took his arm, saying that she will accompany him to find her if he would like that. He said that he was fine looking for her himself, but she still takes his arm around her chest. That was when they both heard a thud noise that made Haruka cower in fear, Hikaru mentally sighs to himself and he shakes off her so he could examine the hallways. All of the places have rooms for the sick patients; each has a room number for each one and oddly a horoscope sign…

Then it hit him, the key! But Rosalie has it; he starts to look at each door with different symbols like Capricorn and Virgo until he finally found the Cancer room with a name plate saying 'Jessica Elling' up front of the Cancer sign which is rusted for many years. He took his time to control his breathing until he took all of his courage to go through the door to see a bed with chairs by the side and someone lying in the filthy bed. The person looks so elderly; she looked like she was like a fake figure for a haunted house and he gulped his saliva. He steps closer to the bed where he might be able to find something, the woman has long white hair that grew so long that pieces of strained hair fell of the bed as her blind eyes are pure white and is completely blind.

Yet, suddenly when he made it to the side of her bed, she forced her eyes to glare at his very own eyes to know that she is really alive for all these years. That is when Hikaru figured it out…this is Jessica who is alive.

"Hikaru…."

Jessica took out her skeleton hand and reached out for him, she touched his stomach which made her hand go through. She smirks sadly to herself, knowing she is not entirely dead quite yet and a tear sheds down her face.

"My little sister….I want you to give this to her…" she muttered quietly to him as his eyes are starting to be filled with liquid tears that never came to him.

She points at a little bowl on her desk, Hikaru goes up to it and looked inside to see a keychain of Aquarius in light blue color. She said, softly and loud as she could, that that keychain was supposed to be her first birthday gift. She told him to give this to her after she finds the younger Jessica and banish her, because the reason why the elderly Jessica is alive it that she cannot die unless he regrets have been replenished within herself.

"Once you find her and save my dark self, come back and take Rosalie with you…I need to speak with her."

Hikaru took the keychain using his mental powers; he looked at the Aquarius keychain and clutched it in his hand with determination within his heart. He bows down to her and raced away out of the room to find Rosalie.

"I'm right…he is her light…"

…

"Rosalie! Where are you?"

Right now, Hikaru is in the third floor of the abandoned hospital as he searches for Rosalie and no sign of her. He decided to check one of the rooms since maybe she could check inside, he looked at all the doors surrounding him and picked the one closest to him. The door had nothing on it; it was just an ordinary door that nobody opened. So he walks down to the mysterious door, goes through and found nothing but darkness until a light bulb from above starts to flicker to show Hiyori, Tawny and his brother tied up with a blindfold on that has red marks on them. He quickly went up to Kaoru first, he took the blindfold off and his eyes are closed and to his relief, his eyes are still in place. Hiyori and Tawny were the same when he went to them, but none of them woke up when he got the blindfolds off their faces.

That was when Tawny started to move a little and she woke up to look and see everything dark, but she saw Hikaru right in front of her. She was about to say something as she opened her mouth, but that was when she saw something behind him and froze. Hikaru asked what got her shook up, but he could hear deep breathing from behind as he carefully turned himself around to face the beast behind. When he looked with his eyes that contained both fear and anxiousness, he saw a dark shadow that looked just like him except its whole body is dark and its eyes are glowing with red.

"RUN!"

Hikaru got up quickly and was frozen, he did not know what to do except run and let Tawny with the others get hurt. So, without thinking, he charged to the shadow and grabbed its neck to start choking it. But that was when Hikaru started coughing loudly and soon realized that he is choking himself, so he had to push the shadow away out of the room. When he got out getting him, the shadow disappeared to unknown. Tawny catches up to him as she rubbed her wrists from untying herself from the rope that somehow were able to tie her and the others up. Hikaru asked her what happened, she starts to explain that when Rosalie and him ran off, Haruka followed him and the others tried to catch up when dark shadows of themselves captured them.

He asked if she by chance saw Rosalie with them when they got in that room, she shook her head with sadness and said that when they got in, Rosalie was with them but she was dragged away by her shadow who was accompanied by the little girl who did all of this. Hikaru told her that her name is Jessica and starts explaining to Tawny part of the story that he found until she could no longer take the pressure of any of the details. Tawny quickly said that she will go and take care of the others as he goes to find Rosalie and the rest. He nod in agreement, he raced down the hallways and that was when a huge earthquake suddenly erupted. Now things got personal, Hikaru could tell immediately that Jessica is behind this the moment she pushed that shadow away and knew things are going to get tougher.

He carries on venturing to find Rosalie and the rest of the gang, he found the stairs and starts walking up, each pacing step he took a creak followed behind him as he starts calling out for Rosalie. When he made it to the fourth floor, he found two paths going left and right. He was lost, he cannot go up since the rest of the stairs are destroyed and both of the paths seem dangerous with darkness, and what should he do to figure out where to go? That was when he heard footsteps slowly getting close, too close from the right. He thought it might be Rosalie and immediately rushed to the right corner to bump into Jessica without her band aid covering her eyes, instead it shows pure white color.

"How dare you continue to come here?" she demanded to know, tilting her head to her right shoulder and it laid there.

"Jessica…I found the gift you wanted to give Rosalie," he then realized…he must have dropped it when he was fighting that shadow.

"What gift? I never liked Rosalie from the start, she was going to steal mommy and I knew that once I died, they would collect the insurance money right at the moment I'm dead. I never left this hospital when I died from the poison, nor do I know who or how it happened, but I can tell that every single spirit left this hospital once they saw a light. I didn't go…

"I refused to go; God ruined my life all the time. Do you know what happened back at home? I was abused by my daddy every night because he gets too drunk, so did my mommy and she couldn't do anything about except save me from getting beaten up. When I got sick, he raped mommy when he got drunk and she took the child!

"I then understand that once Rosalie is born, she and I will run away with mommy to go to Hawaii where seas are blue every day. But it's too late because I didn't die from the poison; I died because of the cancer and died way before the poison spread around the place. At least I had something that made the pain go away…and that was death."

"Jessica…I'm sorry about what happened, and I'm sorry that you had to be bedridden all your life, never going out to play with others or start a new school or even get your first kiss," Hikaru apologized to the suddenly bewildered Jessica. "I know that feeling that I just wanted to die, but that doesn't mean just because I died I couldn't do something that'll help others!"

"When I started working at Partway café, you should've seen Rosalie working all the time, she is wonderful at her job. The way she smiles to her customers and the way she gave cute small talk to them, which made my day secretly. And when she gave me those chocolates, a sudden pain came from my heart that never occurred to me.

"Just because you are powerless on some things, doesn't mean that you shouldn't give up what you really want to do. What did you want to be, before you died?"

Jessica growled at him…but she muttered that she wanted to be an artist; she would practice drawing her mother every time she visits her. He said to her then that maybe if she is truly pure enough, God will forgive her and he might let her have the chance to become what she really wanted to be.

"THAT'S A LIE! WHERE'S YOUR PROOF?"

"You see," he said, calm about her outrageous reaction. "I wanted to be an artist, but I was killed in a truck accident. But that does not mean I didn't forget what I dreamed about, I promised once I get to Utopia, I'll start making art and show everyone true beauty of art."

Jessica stares at him; he was right but did not want to say so right in front of him. So she took out her cane that she carried close with her and she floated up into the air so she could battle him. She starts spinning slowly, then faster until she became a rapid tornado that was in a color of dusty brown that swept the room. Hikaru covered himself with his arms, many things started flying into the tornado and there was nothing he could do!

"STOP!" cried…Rosalie with tears from her eyes.

Rosalie is at the left corner of the hallway, she was bursting in tears when she heard that heart whelming story that Jessica told him with her own words. Then the tornado dims down and Jessica landed on the ground very abruptly, her knees are stuck on the hard cold floor and her head is down to not show her face.

"Jessica, this has to stop. I…"

"Don't…your tears are speaking to me…"

Hikaru and Rosalie are understandably confused.

"I finally understand clearly…" and then she disappeared with a sparkle of light.

"Hikaru…," Rosalie spoke to him, "where's she going?"

"I think I know where."

…

Hikaru took Rosalie by the hand and they made it to the room that he went out which belongs to Jessica, Rosalie took the key she had and opens the door. That was when the door opened slowly, letting them in to see Jessica standing near her corpse who is truly dead now. When Jessica saw them, her eyes glowed with whiteness that begins to be filled with tears of happiness. She walks up to Rosalie and has something in her hand, the Aquarius keychain that Hikaru took so he could show it to Jessica. Jessica told her to take it, since this is a symbol that shows that they are sisters for the rest of their death and life. But she looked up to Hikaru, and then she flew back to her corpse and floats upwards, saying that he is in fact the light to Rosalie. They both looked at each other and are yet confused again, she continues that she will have to go to the light but wants her to protect her forever.

He will be the light that guides her from dark places, the hero to save the sad maiden, the loving kitten to the lonely child. He will protect her with all of his heart, knowing that she will be safe forever, but she will also protect him from day and night. When they both find this Utopia he was speaking about, she wants him to make sure that when they find this place, they will be together even after being reborn again. Then, a light starts to shimmer around her, she smiles once more to them and bid them both farewell…and then, she was gone in the light. When Hikaru looked at Rosalie, he saw tears streaming down when she looked down at the keychain. But that is when he touched her hand that held the keychain, saying she knows that she should not cry about her sister leaving since she is happy now.

That was when they both heard someone calling out for them outside, when Hikaru went to the window to check, he saw Bisetsu and all of their friends out of the hospital. Hikaru and Rosalie started to go down the stairs one last time and made it near to the entrance of the hospital. When they got out, everyone embraced them with a huge hug that made Rosalie cry even more.

"Looks like we found a new couple!" Tawny shouted out loud.

Rosalie and Hikaru looked at each other with a huge blush and the two of them both pout away, not knowing that they do like each other.

To be continued…

When unknown fates trespass the Partway café

It is uncertain what some might say

Questions will be answered, but show prices

So, let us look at our fate as we roll the dice

Chapter twelve…can you read this without dying?