Psychic Prodigies – Chapter 12
wow! 9 days since my last update! my sincerest apologies to the people who were waiting for me.... i-heart-kaoru -san wanted me to update before christmas, and i did!
well, here's the summary for this chapter...
Summary: Basically everyone in the limousine is injured and Satsuki basically takes all of their wounds (except Haruhi & Hunny, who were uninjured, and Tamaki, who refused). She wakes up in a pure white room with a mysterious little girl waiting for her.
I don't really like Satsuki throughout my story because she seems so weak, but I'm really proud of her in this chapter. She finally shows some strength! And i-heart-kaoru -san, I DIDN'T KILL HIM!!!!!!! I (almost) killed someone else instead! (kolkolkolkolkolkolkol) *for the people who don't know what "kolkolkol..." means, go and watch Axis Powers Hetalia (APH or Hetalia for short). It's the latest anime that I'm really in to! XD
Anyway, please read and/or review!!!! I'd really appreciate it!!! Thank you!
The limousine was holding Haku, Akira, Haruhi, Tamaki, Hikaru, Kyouya, Hunny, and Mori. Eight people. If Haku hadn't been so reckless, they all probably could have avoided this situation.
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Matt saw the limousine flip and then get bombarded by cars. There was smoke everywhere.
"Everyone's…" Matt heard Satsuki whisper. He looked down at her. Her purple hair was a mess, and her violet eyes were overflowing with tears. "Th-they're… It's my fault. Matt… It's my fault that they're all…" she couldn't bring herself to say it.
Matt drew her close to him. He felt her shoulders shaking violently, and her hand gripping his tightly. And then she buried her face in his chest, trying to smother her cries. Matt tried to comfort her by holding her close and whispering that everything was going to be alright, but she kept on crying. Suddenly, Matt heard something. He looked over to the limousine.
Someone was getting out of the driver's seat, even though the vehicle was upside down. Whoever it was had unnaturally red hair. It was Haku. Matt watched as Haku opened the passenger seat and pulled out Akira, who's leg appeared to be broken.
"Satsuki!" Haku called. Matt could hear Satsuki whispering to herself that it was just her imagination, that her brother wasn't really there. "Satsuki!!!" Haku called to her again. This time, Satsuki looked to where the voice was coming from. When she was Haku, she bolted toward him. Matt followed.
When the siblings met, Haku sweeped Satsuki into his arms in a tight bear hug. As soon as they touched, Matt saw all of the cuts and wounds transfer from Haku to Satsuki. Then the girl looked down to see her other brother lying down on the ground, smiling up at them.
"Aki-nii!" Satsuki jumped down from Haku and touched Akira's cheek. As soon as she did so, she yelped in pain. Matt heard the bone in her right leg snap. It was a horrible sound.
Akira got up and hugged his sister, who hugged him back. "You didn't have to do that," he said.
"I know." Matt saw the two siblings release each other. "Aki-nii, I… think I have to do something."
"God, no. Satsuki, you could die!"
"But isn't this for the greater good? That's what you always say to me and Haku-nii."
"Yeah, but… that's different! Don't do this!"
Matt didn't understand what was going on. "What is Satsuki going to do?" he asked to no one in particular.
Haku hesitated before answering. "She's going to take everyone's injuries."
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Satsuki told Haku with her mind, Can you get everyone out of the limousine? So I can… help them? Haku nodded and rushed to get everyone out as Akira followed.
"M-Matt?" she said out loud, "c-can I hold your hand?" She looked at him. She needed to be strong and brave. But she couldn't do this alone. She needed to be with someone she loved.
"Sure," Matt said as he sat down next to Satsuki and weaved his fingers in hers.
"Satsuki!" Akira yelled to his sister from the vehicle, "Haruhi and Haninozuka-sempai are fine, so they're going to us, okay!" And then he turned back to the people in the vehicle.
"Satsuki…" Matt whispered just loud enough so she could hear, "your brothers are coming. They have Suoh-sempai and Ootori-sempai." Moments later, Akira and Haku set down Tamaki and Kyouya, both of whom were conscious. Tamaki's arm was broken and Kyouya's right eye was bleeding; his eyeglasses shattered and pieces of it fell in. Although it came out, it left his eye bleeding.
"Kyouya-sempai, please calm down," Satsuki said. Kyouya was yelling and clutching his eye in pain. "It won't hurt anymore."
Satsuki hesitated a bit, but brought herself to touch the back of his hand. Her right eye began to bleed instantly. She screamed in pain and instinctively squeezed Matt's hand tighter. She wanted to cry, but she knew I would only hurt more. S she choked back her tears. "T-Tamaki…sempai…" she held her hand out so she could reach him, but he backed away.
"It's okay. I can handle it," he said.
"But," Satsuki protested.
"It's okay," Satsuki saw through her good eye that he was smiling. Not the happy, obnoxious smile he always wore, but a sad, almost depressing smile. And he was crying. Satsuki saw the tears in his eyes. He cared so much for her; he'd bear his own wounds, even if they were painful.
"Sat-chan!" a squeaky voice called. It was Hunny. He and Haruhi were carrying the twins. Hikaru had broken both of his legs and there was a piece of flesh missing from his left shoulder. Kaoru's wrist was only sprained, but his head was bleeding a lot and he was unconscious.
"Satsuki…" Matt said, "How are you gonna do this?" If she touched Kaoru, she would become unconscious as well and she wouldn't be able to touch anyone else. Unless…
"Matt," Satsuki hated the quiver in her voice, "c-can you make sure I make contact with anyone else that comes? No matter how bad it is?" She looked and him and saw him nod with reluctance. Then she turned to Hikaru, who was covering his face with the arm that wasn't injured.
"Hikaru-kun," she called his name to get his attention.
He brought his arm down and snapped, "what?!" As soon as he uncovered his face, Satsuki touched his cheek. As expected, she felt her flesh rip off and her legs break once again. As this happened, a few tears came and her right eye seared with pain. Then, even through all of this pain, she still reached for Kaoru. He was just out of her reach, only a few centimeters.
She reached a little farther and was able to just graze his fingertip. But with that little touch, she fell into unconsciousness. As her eyes closed, her wrist sprained and her skull fractured.
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Matt caught Satsuki just as she was about to fall to the asphalt road. As he did so, Kaoru was blinking himself awake. The blue-eyed boy lay her down gently, tilting her head in a way so that there was a minimal amount of pressure and weight on the wound.
"Guys!" Matt turned to where the voice came from. It was Haku. He was holding Mori's upper body while Akira was carrying his legs. Matt gasped at the sight of Mori. He basically had a hole in his side and blood was pouring from it.
"Takashi!" Hunny cried in alarm as he ran to his cousin. Haku and Akira set Mori down next to Satsuki and Hunny, who was crying like a child and calling out Mori's name.
"We found on the sidewalk with a pole in his side near the construction site over there," Akira said gravely, "he must have fallen out of the limousine when the door broke off then landed on the pole."
Matt heard Akira's words but couldn't comprehend them. He was staring at Mori's blood. He couldn't let Satsuki take this. He looked at the girl with purple hair on the ground beside him. It was she who asked him to make sure she took anyone else's wounds. "No matter how bad it is." Matt looked at Mori. Satsuki's words kept replaying in his mind as he got up and walked to the other side of her. Then he took her hand and pulled gently so that her arm was extended closer to Mori. Then he took Mori's hand and made sure Satsuki's hand touched it.
Matt watched as Mori's wound vanished. Then he heard something. It was so soft, he almost missed it. A musical voice whispered, "… thank you…" Matt whipped his head toward the source of the voice.
Satsuki was looking at him with the eye she could see with. It was only open just a crack, but she was definitely looking at him. She didn't seem to feel the hole in her side. "Don't cry, Matt." He didn't understand what she was saying until he realized that tears were flowing from his eyes like rain. Satsuki slowly, weakly, turned her head towards Haku and Akira.
"Aki-nii… Haku-nii…I got to... save… daddy in the end. I… didn't kill… him." Matt noticed that her breaths were almost silent, but he didn't say anything. He was too scared. "Haku-nii… your eyes… they're… gold…" And then she was silent.
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Satsuki found herself alone and uninjured. She was in a pure white room with no furniture and no door.
"Hello, there!" Satsuki turned around to see who was speaking. It was a girl of about six. She had long blond hair in two ponytails and was wearing a plain white sundress. She wore no shoes and she was also holding a white cat.
"Um... hi. Where are we?" Satsuki asked the girl.
"You're between Heaven and Earth. But don't worry," the cat jumped out of the girl's arms and disappeared. Satsuki was very surprised. "You're not dead. You're not a ghost or anything either."
I don't understand… Satsuki thought to herself.
"It's okay if you don't understand," the girl said. Satsuki was suddenly alert. This girl could read her thoughts. "My name is Aurora. I'm an angel. And you're my experiment." The girl just stood there and stared at Satsuki, who was trying to comprehend what she just said.
"Well, you aren't my only experiment. Your brothers are too. I wanted to see what would happen if an angel went to Earth with their powers. They would be born like normal humans, but with their powers. You, Jericho, and Nazareth were volunteers."
"Who's Jericho and Nazareth?"
"Jericho is Akira and Nazareth is Haku. And you are Bethlehem."
"Did you ever wonder why all three of you were prodigies? Well, you are an angel of music, Jericho is an angel of intelligence, and Nazareth is an angel of strength.
"And as for your powers, while you were still normal angels, you were all able to control them very well. But when you went to Earth, you lost all of that control.
"And you noticed that Nazareth's eyes were gold right before you came here. That's because he became in control of his powers of seeing another person's aura and personality. His eye-color was slowly turning gold. You just didn't notice it. And as for Jericho, his eyes are turning gold as we speak."
Satsuki was listening intently. It was very fantasy-novel-ish, but it somehow made sense. "Wait, what about my eyes? How am I supposed to learn how to control my powers? You know what my powers are, I'm sure, so how do I learn how to control them? It's not like I can chose which wounds I want to take."
Aurora giggled a bit. Then she said, "Did you know that it took you 5, 486 years to control you powers? That's because you fell in love with a human and lengthened his life by taking away his wounds from a battle. Your eyes started turning gold then. It took only a few hours for them to turn pure gold.
"And since you just lengthened Takashi Morinozuka's life, your eyes will be turning gold soon." Aurora did a little twirl, making the edge of her sundress rise a little. Then, in a sing-song voice, she said, "Bye-bye Bethlehem! I'll see you later! You will be returning to earth in… three, two, one!"
And then Satsuki disappeared from the room.
