Raven's Legacy
Disclaimer I do not own anything in this story. Except Terra, I own her, but that's it.
Chapter Twelve
The night seemed to fly by, as the three of them spent their last night together at the Guardian Force base.
Ryss laid on the bed with Vega sitting next to her. He was playing with his Saber fang toy. "Mommy, am I in trouble?" He asked timidly.
Raven was leaning against the wall, staring out the window, as Ryss responded to the question, "Wha, no honey why would you think that?"
Vega fiddled with his toy. "Well you and daddy left me in that room and then the old guy made me bleed."
Ryss smiled warmly at him and pulled him into a hug. "No Vega, your not in trouble at all," she told him and kissed his cheek.
"Aww mom." Vega complained, but stayed in that position as he continued to play with his zoid.
Raven glanced at the two of them laying on the bed. "This is our last night together," he smiled in spite of himself. "To think I've grown so soft as to want a family, but the thing I want most right now, is to have things the way they were."
"Raven?" Ryss asked with concern, he seemed to be in a trance.
"Huh? what is it?"
"Nothing, it just seems like the past hour, you've been kind of, out of it." Ryss said as Vega looked up to her, then to Raven, trying his best to understand the conversation.
"I-I just," he sighed. "I'm having a hard time knowing this is our last night-" He stopped when Ryss shook her head, knowing Vega was indeed listening to every word.
Raven's eyes softened as they landed on the boy's confused face. "Hey kid, do you want to know what we're talking about?" Vega nodded and sat up.
"Raven, what are you doing?"
"Don't worry Ryss," He leaned down at the edge of the bed. "Tell me something son, how would you like to go on a ride tomorrow?"
Vega wasn't altogether sure how to answer this, all his life his father had never called him 'son' it was always 'kid' or 'kiddo', so what was with this new dialog? He shook it off though, he knew what 'son' meant, so the fact that Raven said this must have meant this ride would be really special somehow. He gasped. "Oh yeah! really daddy?"
Raven smirked at his reaction, as he thought back to when his own father said something much similar to him, he too, was excited at the thought of a vacation with his family, but sadly he never got the chance.
Ryss sat up and looked away. She knew full well what Raven was getting at.
He continued with the details, as Vega grew even more excited about the next day. "Daddy can I call Shadow in here? please?" The boy asked with pleading eyes.
Raven nodded a yes and moved around the bed. "Raven are you sure that's a good ide-" Ryss started to object before Raven wrapped his arms around her waist from behind, "Who cares," he whispered in her ear.
Vega jumped from the bed and to the window. "Shadow, com'ere boy!" He shouted, and within seconds Shadow hovered outside the room. "Shadow! your such the best zoid!" Vega clapped his hands as Shadow carefully opened the window with his snout, then made his way through.
Ryss laughed softly as Raven pushed himself above her and started kissing her intently.
Vega made a face at Shadow, wondering what was up with his parents. Shadow purred and rolled playfully, not really caring anything about his master's actions at the moment. Vega giggled as Shadow made a strange movement with his head, while laying on his back.
Ryss finally pushed the dark warrior up from his activity. "Raven lets not be getting frisky in front of Vega." She told him, trying to catch her breath.
Raven looked down at Vega, who was now on the floor and laying on his stomach as he scratched Shadow's chin. He turned back to Ryss and gazed at her mischievously.
"Raven," She warned.
Raven, however, didn't catch the warning and reached for her pant's zipper, but before he could do much more than that, Ryss kneed him in the ribs, setting him off balance and rolled him, so she was now sitting above. She laughed outright as he did the same to her and before long all they were doing was rolling around, both fighting for domination.
This caught Vega's attention very quickly, however, as he walked to the edge of the bed. "Mommy?"
They ceased immediately, Ryss sat up in a straddling position, both her and Raven breathed heavily. "Yes sweetie, what is it?"
"What are you doing?" Vega cocked an eyebrow when Raven caught Ryss off guard and switched position with her.
Ryss growled with agitation as she tried to over power the maverick. "We're just playing a-" she scowled playfully at Raven, as he did the same. "a game honey," she finished with grunt.
"Oh, what's it called?" Vega asked, now very interested.
Raven grinned at the question. "It's called 'Ten seconds', whoever stays on top for ten seconds wins." He pinned Rys's arms down and lowered his face to hers. "I win."
Ryss discontinued her struggle as Raven let her up. "We made it up before you were born," Ryss said and gave Raven a narrow look. Vega suddenly became very bored with this game and walked back to play with Shadow.
Ryss smiled as Vega hugged Shadow's head. "He looks so happy, he doesn't deserve to be taken away so soon." She thought sadly as a frown showed up on her lips.
Raven noticed this and moved to his side of the bed. "Vega, com'ere kid."
With a last pat on the head, Shadow hummed as Vega obeyed and crawled into bed between his parents, both of them dreading the next day.
"I can't do this Raven, I can't leave him like this!" Ryss yelled out and fought Raven's grip. The capsule hissed and closed around the tiny half zoidian.
"No Ryss! we can't change our minds now." The dark warrior found himself somehow being overpowered by his mate and now struggled to keep a hold on her.
The capsule began to fill with green liquid and the boy tried to call out to his panic stricken mother, but alas, his mouth was covered by an oxygen mask. "Vega!" Ryss cried out and with one last surge of energy, forced Raven to release her. She reached the capsule and put her hands to the glass. She was too late, however, since he had already fallen into the hibernation sequence.
"Ryss..." Raven spoke softly and placed a hand on her shoulder. She quickly moved away from him.
"I know, we should leave," she looked at him with a hurt that even he couldn't describe, it scared him to tell the truth, and he wasn't sure he could comfort her in the least.
Ryss stared at the now green capsule, as if trying to saying goodbye to her baby. A tear flowed down her cheek as she turned and walked out of the lab. Raven watched her leave. She never looked back.
Dr. D approached Raven slowly. "I'm told there is nothing in the world like a mothers will to protect her child..."
"Nothing in the world." Raven repeated.
"You know, we will be transferring him, and that reminds me, he needs a last name, because in the future, when he is awakened, you and Ryss will more than likely be legends. That will only make his life harder than it needs to be," Dr. D explained to the maverick, "so It's best to choose a new last name for him."
Raven understood and answered, "Obscura then."
Dr. D nodded and jotted the information down. "Do you want the coordinates?"
Raven shook his head. "No, it's best we don't know." Dr. D nodded again with understanding as Raven faced his son's capsule and placed a hand to it. "Make me proud son, I know, you'll be a great zoid pilot," he smiled briefly. "See you around runt." With those last words, the dark warrior parted from his son. He too, never looked back.
Outside the room Ryss let the tears flow freely into her hands. Fiona and Moonbay were beside her, trying their best to comfort the blue haired zoidian.
Van stood leaning against the wall, as Raven entered the room. "Rave-" Van started.
"Look Flyhight, I'm not all together sure about my feelings toward you at the moment," Raven cut the great hero off and paused for a second. "On one hand your the reason we found out about Vega's disease, but on the other your also the reason he's no longer with us," He scowled and clenched his fists. "I suggest you don't cross me for some time."
Van stood erect with his mouth open. Raven continued forward. "Ryss, we're leaving." She lifted her head from her hands and swallowed hard before following.
"Look Raven, Fiona and I are in the same exact boat you are, don't think your situation is any different from ours!" Van shouted.
Raven stopped, letting Ryss catch up with him. He said nothing to Van's comment and continued his way out of the base.
Raven stormed through the hanger's entrance with a heartbroken Ryss trailing behind. "Pack it up Specula, we're leaving!" The maverick snapped at the blue organoid, as he passed both of the confused zoids.
Specula shot her head back with a small growl, but then nodded when Shadow pointed out how serious this must be. She held her head low after seeing her master ignore her completely. Humming with uncertainty she fused with the Krystal Geno Saurer.
Ryss found it extremely hard to keep her strides centered, as her vision was blurry and her only guide was Raven ahead of her. "Get me away from here Raven. Far away." She told him as he waited for her at the Geno Breaker's cockpit.
Raven's own pain escaped his eyes, as he stared down at her. "I will." He told her softly and watched her step into his cockpit sadly. "I will." He repeated more to himself rather than to her, as he too stepped swiftly into the cockpit.
Almost an hour passed after they left the large base. Raven pushed the Geno Breaker to it's limits with the boosters on high. Both organoids were as confused as ever, why wasn't Vega with them? Shadow was really starting to panic about this.
Ryss continued to cry uncontrollably behind Raven's seat. He couldn't take it anymore, this pain burning inside him was to much for him to bear, and with Ryss in this state it only made things worse. With a sudden pull of the controls, the Geno Breaker came to a halt, somewhere in the middle of the desert.
Raven jumped from the now steaming zoid, it hadn't ever really recovered from the last battle and it still needed some time to heal before going into battle, or any kind of action for that matter.
Raven hung his head and trudged forward through the desert sand. "Am I destined to suffer? am I paying for my sins?" The maverick fell to his knees; a tear flowed freely past his red mark. "Am I not suppose to be happy?" He screamed, the pain in his voice was evident. More tears streamed down his cheeks as he slammed his fists into the sand. "I am, I am paying for my sins, it all makes sense now." A vision came to his mind, no, it was a mixture of many vision's. Visions of his past,
A grin plastered on his face, as he smashed what was left of a republican command wolf. Shadow flew overhead. The zoid suddenly changed speed and dove into a spiral attack, smashing strait through one redler after the next. The young Raven laughed with enjoyment as he shot down the remaining zoids, without a second thought.
The warrior was interrupted from his brutal memories as Ryss came from behind and laced her arms around him. "Don't blame yourself Raven." She rested her head on his back and closed her eyes.
Raven put a hand to her arm, trying his best to comfort her back. He smiled sadly as other memories flooded back to him. "Ryss, do you remember when he was born? No that's a stupid question, of course you do," he turned around and held her close to him. "You were seven months into your pregnancy, I was scared to death because I thought you were giving birth prematurely, but-"
"Yes, zoidian's usually give birth within six months, since he was both human and zoidian it turned out to be somewhere in between." Ryss finished explaining for him.
He smiled at her warmly. "Yeah, well I could have used that bit of information, before your water broke."
His statement caused her to chuckled a bit. "Hey it wasn't my fault, your the one that band me from reading minds."
Raven scoffed. "I suppose your right." He shifted a bit, and began running his fingers through her hair. "He's going to be ok you know. That boy of ours, he'll make us proud." He told her as she made eye contact with him.
"Yeah, but-" her gaze wavered from him. "Will he remember us?"
Raven smiled slightly when she looked back to him. "I doubt it, but I bet he'll remember something about Shadow, he did fuse with him after all. In my experience, organoids seem to have a significant effect on a human's, or a zoidian's memory."
Ryss nodded agreeably before returning her head to his chest. Not a moment had passed as her body shuddered and she began shedding silent tears, gripping the mavericks uniform with both hands.
Raven sighed, as he closed his eyes, resting his chin and a hand to her trembling head.
Both Shadow and Specula stood below the larger zoids. What's going on? Where's Vega? Shadow demanded to Specula.
How would I know? More importantly, why is my master so sad? Specula retorted and cocked her head in confusion.
What are you talking about? Nothing is more important then Vega! Shadow growled at the blue one.
Oh would you just shut up! You and your stupid obsession with the boy is probably what's causing all these problems! She growled back and curled into a ball on the desert ground.
Shadow moaned, thinking she might be right, but it never caused a problem before, when he played Vega, so why all of sudden was he gone?
The dark zoid hummed sadly before hovering up to the Geno Breaker's head. That was his usual sleeping place, the only difference. No Vega to nuzzle or nap with.
AN: (sniff) This was a sad one for me to write. (sniff) I'm sorry. (blows nose) Ok well I hope it didn't make you cry too bad. Oh and All that Zoidian slash Human side effects are my ideas, so if you want to yell at me about how you think it's all stupid then that's ok, but I just wanted to state the fact that I came up with all of it, even if it is strange...anyway review please.
