Angel Beats! REBORN!
Episode 14: Reincarnation
Yuzuru prepared himself as Kuroha readied the program.
"Onii chan, are you ready?"
"Yes"
"Are you sure you want to do this"
"I am"
"Alright, now remember, the Reincarnation program is different from anything you've used. You need to fight with your will to resist the program from deleting your memories of death"
"Okay, got it"
"Then let's start"
Yuzuru looked at Kanade who slept soundly on the bed.
Time to wake up, Kanade. Yuzuru sat down beside Kanade and held her hand.
He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, "Neo Skill: Reincarnation!"
The feeling of the ground was suddenly gone, Yuzuru was falling into darkness. He landed without feeling pain and opened his eyes after a minute. Yuzuru looked around but he was surrounded by darkness.
"Where am I?" he though out loud.
His eyes soon adjusted to the darkness, he took another look around. Wait, this place looks familiar.
He was inside a tunnel; a train carriage was beside him with the front and back trapped by the collapsed ceiling.
"This is…"
Boom! Yuzuru turned to face the source of the noise; the rubble on top of the train had slid down. Yuzuru's eyes widened as dark figures began to come out of the train.
"This isn't good"
Yuzuru backed away from the figures, but was getting closer to the wall.
The figures slowly approached him. This isn't good…
Boom! More rubble fell down; this time from the ceiling, a small line of light hit the concrete floor. One of the figures walked into the light and surprised Yuzuru, the figure was a passenger that was also trapped in the tunnel although his face wasn't shown, Yuzuru remembered his clothing.
"H-Hello, I'm Yuzuru"
The man lifted up his head, Yuzuru fell backwards the moment he saw the face of the figure. The face was full of blood like something out of a horror movie. Soon Yuzuru saw the faces of every figure; they were all full of blood.
Yuzuru hurried up on to his feet.
"Let's calm down here"
The man tried to grab hold of Yuzuru but he stepped aside and the man ended up falling forward.
"You leave me no choice… NEO Skill: Excalibur"
Yuzuru gripped his sword tightly and slashed forth, the passengers were disintegrated just like the Shadows.
"These are level 8 Shadows"
"Yuzuru, can you hear me?" a familiar voice echoed in the tunnel.
"Kuroha?"
"Yes, you need to survive for another five minutes until Kanade and wake up and make sure you don't die, it must be why your memories of death are wiped"
"Five minutes, got it"
Yuzuru continued to dodge their grabs and slashed them one by one.
Yuzuru constantly checked his watch but the five minutes seemed forever to pass. Ten seconds, fifteen seconds, twenty seconds. Through all the fighting, he had only fought for thirty seconds in total.
"This is taking forever to clear up, NEO Skill: Bloody Ballad"
Yuzuru sprayed waves of bullets at the Shadows. He huffed and puffed as he took a brief break.
"Yuzuru, you still hanging in there?" Kuroha asked to keep him in check.
"Yeah, never better"
"You have two minutes to go"
"Okay"
Bang! Bang! Yuzuru continued to fire at will when suddenly. Click, click. Bloody Ballad had run out of bullets.
I can't charge the program!
"NEO Skill: Cross Fire"
Yuzuru pulled the string of the bow back and shot deadly arrows straight through Shadows, impaling them onto the wall instantly. But the Shadows continued to spawn endlessly.
Mayu, Katsura, Hatsune and Kuroha watched Yuzuru sho sat on the soft chair beside the bed fight for his life and Kanade's as well. He gripped Kanade's hand firmly and gave his report vocally.
"These Shadows are come out endlessly"
"Keep it up just a bit longer Onii chan" Kuroha said beside his ear.
Katsura and Mayu shut their eyes prayed for Yuzuru who continued to fight on.
Please let him come back victorious.
"Is there really nothing we can do?!" asked Mayu in a frustrated tone.
"I'm afraid so…" answered Kuroha, "All we can do is pray for him and hope of the best"
"Don't worry Mayu Nee san, Onii chan will pull through like he always does"
"Katsura is right; Onii chan will definitely pull through"
"We can only hope for the best and nothing more" added Kuroha.
Mayu restrained herself from disconnecting Yuzuru from Kanade. I don't want Yuzuru to get hurt, but I don't want Kanade to die either. And I can't use the Reincarnation program. I feel so useless!
Mayu tightened her two fists which were each then held by Katsura and Hatsune while they looked Mayu with wet eyes. Mayu nodded upon seeing their eyes.
I will believe him…
Yuzuru swept the Shadows with Impaler and watched as dozens of them incinerate. Yuzuru checked his watch once more.
Thirty seconds.
Yuzuru realised that a completely different kind of Shadow appeared before him.
A level 5!
The level 5 Shadow came charging at Yuzuru.
"NEO Skill: Excalibur!"
Yuzuru just managed to block the attack but he sees area of Excalibur that collided with the Shadow's blade blunted.
"That blade really is sharp!"
A Shadow came beside Yuzuru and pushed him onto the concrete floor.
As Yuzuru sate on the ground, he looked around for his sword. After a few glances around, he located his sword and hurried to pick up Excalibur, but he was surrounded by Shadows already, he could not escape from them.
I can't die, I can't lose my memories, I need to save Kanade!
The blade of Excalibur suddenly began to glow, Yuzuru looked at the blade surprised.
What is going on?
Instructions appeared in Yuzuru's mind as if the sword was talking to him.
Swing the sword?
He stood up and gave the sword a swing, a wide and slim blade trail appeared and cut through the many Shadows that stood in front of him.
He was then surrounded by light so bright he felt like he would be blinded if he kept them open. He shut his eyes tightly and opened them after a minute or so.
Yuzuru was in a familiar white room. The rubble and destruction that was around him had disappeared. Three girls stood in front of him with tears dripping from their wet eyes.
"Otonashi!"
"Onii chan!"
The three girls hurried to embrace the confused Yuzuru.
"W-What's going on here?"
"We thought you were going to lose the fight…"
"Dummy, I wouldn't lose"
"But we still believed in you…"
"Thank you Mayu… Katsura… Kuroha, thank you all"
Yuzuru suddenly remembered a girl was still missing. He turned his head to face to the girl with golden eyes.
"Yuzuru… I'm back" a sweet smile came with her words.
"Welcome back, Kanade…"
A/N: Anything familiar is not Kyodai Productions
HI EVERYONE! It's good to be back! Elise is back from Japan with lots of anime posters and AMV ideas. However Keima is still in Korea and MIA but he'll be back writing more in a few days. There's a possibility of a sequel but Keima still deciding on the story plot.
Please review! Opinions matter!
Minami