"The Beginning of the End, the End of a Beginning"
Written by: GuyverNo7
Novel based on Yoshiki Takaya's "Bio Booster Armor: Guyver"
Chapter 1: The Beginning
It's a long hard road out of hell. Those words seem to be the best way to describe these past six years of complete chaos that I have had to endure. Every night filled with worse nightmares then the night before, every morning waking with a dimmer and dimmer dream of peace. So many times have I lost hope and suddenly had it renewed that I feel emotionless now. Sitting here on top this cold tower, I can only begin to think of how everything has gone so wrong. Often when I am alone my memory of the past comes to me, haunting me with the reenactments of what seemed like so long ago. I'm getting ahead of myself though. Before you can understand now, you must know of what happened then. So where to begin is the question.
Six years ago, in a small town called Kyugoto, I was thirteen, just starting junior high school, and the only trouble I had to look forward to was Mid-Terms and SAT tests, things that would one day help me get into college. Ha! College? I never even got to see a glimpse of it. God but I was weak then, a pathetic, pansy, a push over. It almost sickens me to think how clueless I was to what truly was going on in the world and all around me. My name? My name is-
"Sho! Sho! Come on Sho! We are going to be late for class!" a young woman called out to a young man just stepping out his front door. He glanced a moment to the girl, a confused expression on his face until he suddenly heard the five minute warning bell from the junior high school a few miles away. He jerked in surprise, his eyes fairly wide as he called back to his father, shouting a last minute goodbye before shutting the door, dashing out to the young woman and running with her towards the school. My name is Sho Fukamachi. I am the Guyver.
The young man is Sho Fukamachi, age thirteen, 5'4", ninety-one pounds, smooth, black hair, somewhat thick and ruffly. His eyes are often thought to be gray because of how the light tends to hit upon them but in fact they were blue. Sho was very slender, hardly any real muscular definition in him at all say but for the occasional pectoral show through his gym shirt. Sho was thirteen years old, young and very innocent by terms of the outside world. He'd been sheltered most of his life but he knew of the bad things that existed in the world. Just never suspected they would ever happen to him, as most humans tend to think, as well as they should, according to some very powerful and evil businessmen that reigned on high in this world.
The young woman he ran beside was Mizuki, Mizuki Segawa, the young sister to Sho's best friend Tetsuro. Since they had been children, Sho and Mizuki had played together, grown up together, Sho was nearly part of the Segawa family you could say, he and his father. Mizuki had beautiful whispy, redish-brown hair, sapphire blue eyes the twinkled like stars, soft, pink lips, a trim physique, yet well rounded for a young women her age, you might say an early blossomer. Mizuki had always been Sho's dream girl, the one woman he had strived for, always had Sho been trying to show his feelings for her, but sadly she never noticed them.
They both raced as fast as they could down the main street to the town of Kyugoto. The town itself was very old fashioned yet renewed with more recent and improved structures. The streets were always fairly busy with tourists or business people trying to get their jobs or destinations. The shops in it had been there for years, some passed on from as much as seven generations ago. The people there were very friendly. Many of them had known of Sho and his Father through Sho's mother Samuki. Samuki had been a great sales person, she had worked in one of the finer clothing stores in town, but when she had become ill, she was no longer able to work and so Sho's father had had to work double time at a factory just a few miles out of town. Sho had very few memories of his mother, but from what he had know about her, she had been a fighter, a brave woman up to her very last breath. Even though he had only been five years old, he remembered her last words to him.
"Be strong my precious Sho, never look back, but never forget the things from the past. Be a survivor Sho, be strong, and never lose hope. Don't ever lose hope. Promise me Sho, promise me you will never lose hope?"
~~~flashback~~~
"I promise momma, I promise." the young boy answered his mother, tears in his eyes and down the side of cheeks like tiny rivers. Sho didn't understand why his mother was talking like this but he sensed that these would be the last few minutes he'd ever be with his mother again, each passing moment was more precious than the one before. Sho's tiny hands firmly cupped his mother's weak hand. Samuki just smiled to her tiny son. She reached out with her other hand and stroked her fingers through his soft hair. Sho suddenly leaned in and held on tightly to his mother. Samuki weakly wrapped her arms around Sho and nuzzled her face to his cheek.
"Sho, my precious Sho. Never forget the past and never forget to dream. You will always see me there."
"Momma! Please momma, don't leave me, I don't want you to go!" he nearly screamed those words, his tears coming faster.
"Shh.it's all right.it's all right.I'll be ok Sho.I'll be ok..." she tried to calm her son, knowing he couldn't understand what was going on. Saumki smiled then when she knew what might help her calm her son. She pulled him onto the bed with her, and sang.weakly. "Time and space, move like the river.Light and dark, surround you always, but in the heart of memories, embedded in the soul of a child, there.lies.the Unicorn.There, stands my hope and pride, there in all her glory, her horn spiraling to the heavens above.Come now, my precious love, let me lead you by your hand, and into an enchanted land.there.lies.the.Unicorn."
"I love you momma.momma.Momma?" Samuki had sung her last song.
~~~back to present time~~~
Forgive me mother.I'm sorry.I broke my promise.I'm sorry.
Sho and Mizuki panted as they finally reached the steps to their school. They had only a minute to spare as they tried to catch their breath. Mizuki was reluctant to wait that long though and she quickly dragged Sho into the school. Poor Sho, he nearly lost his balance as Mizuki suddenly pulled him up the stairs and into the long hallway of the junior high school. He managed to catch his balance though and both he and Mizuki reported to their first classes, which just happened to be the same one. When they walked in, the usual tradition of people spread about the room, talking in their small groups, was the event and Sho quickly found himself joining several of his friends, Houta, Yamamoto, and Nakanishi, while Mizuki joined a couple of her own friends. It was the first day of school and all through out the school the students were already spreading new rumors and facts about some of the new events that would happen in the year. Perhaps the most interesting rumor however was about an accident that had happened out on an old rural road to the north.
Sho first learned of it from Nakanishi. "Yeah, did you hear about that accident out on Kengyoto Road, Sho?"
Sho's attention had been on Mizuki when Nakanishi had asked him but he was quick to respond, "Huh? N-no, what?"
"Sho, you know you have no chance with Mizuki right? She's in love with that Agito guy, I mean, no offense or anything, she likes you as a friend but I doubt she sees you as any possible boyfriend." Nakanishi replied, putting a hand on Sho's shoulder.
Sho sighed and looked over to Mizuki once more, his thoughts already troubling him. "It's true, Mizuki has always been more interested in Agito more than me.Agito, ever since grade school he has been the fascination of all girls dreams. He is athletic, smart, strong, handsome, even sexy I would imagine in their eyes. He has always been better than me at something, always my superior. There was a time when I challenged up against him to be better.that was the most embarrassing day of my life. He literally sent me falling into the ground face first when I tried to take a soccer ball from him, it was at a championship game to. Back then, we use to be on different teams, our team had been lucky to make it to the championships. But I was no match for Agito. He avoided my attempt with ease and went on to score the point that broke the tie between our teams and sent his in the grand championships. I still remember lying there, in the mud, my face covered in it, my hair, my shirt, everything just about. I still remember that smirk on his face. I held it back, but I really wanted to cry right there." Sho had been so deep in thought to himself he hadn't noticed the bell ring and it was thanks to Yamamoto that he came back to reality and found a seat just behind Mizuki but close to his three friends.
That was the day I heard about the car accident in the hills to the north. Some truck driver had been found mauled by what they 'claim' was an attack by an animal. What they didn't mention was that that 'animal' had came smashing through the window on the drivers side, ripped him out from his seat belt and onto the road, smashing his body so hard into the concrete it broke it, splintering the asphalt. What they didn't 'know' though would be the big piece of the puzzle they were missing. What they didn't know was the a man, diseased with a mutation to turn into a hideous beast, had stolen a special carry freezing chamber capable of carrying three bio- weapons encased in a special protective armoring holder, and that a mysterious man had offered the diseased man relief from the pain of his burning body if he could deliver the three bio-weapons to him. That poor fool. He didn't realize that it was too late, his body as he spoke to that mysterious man, was already reiterating, flesh by flesh piece he was being eaten away by his own bodies acids. He had to find out the hard way when a team of Chronos agents, sent out to recover the bio-weapon units, found him while he was hiding the units under a rotting log.
As if it wasn't bad enough he was already suffering from a burning sensation throughout his whole body, he was forced to painfully transform into that hideous beast form of his they called Malamot. The fool. He didn't stand a chance once the captain of the team ordered a man to transform into a creature twice the size of Malamot and five times stronger. Malamot locked hands with the creature they called Gregoyle but with ease, Gregoyle had snapped Malamot's hand back and off his wrists, sending him into a tree. Even then Malamot was calling himself human, denying the horrible fact that he was no longer humanoid, but a Zoanoid.
They found the chamber holding the units and just when they were ready to finish off Malamot and exit the area, Malamot made a last minute attack, revealing a bomb in his mouth that detonated and destroyed anything within a 20 foot radius of himself.thankfully, it didn't destroy the three units, just separated them from the case they had been in. Only one of the units was recovered by Chronos, two of them were lost.
Ever hear the saying "The right place at the right time?" Lucky me, it must have my lucky day, cause guess where one of the units landed?
Sho and Tetsuro had been sitting near the lake only about ten minutes away from the school, when they saw a gust of debris suddenly shoot straight up and outwards from a ridge just above them. It had already been a bad day for Sho, a bombing incident didn't make it any better. At the end of school, Sho had gone up to Mizuki to ask her if she wanted to go out and see a movie with him, but as luck had it, she had already made plans with Agito to start a student council meeting. It was Tetsuro who finally managed to convince Sho to relax and not worry so much.
Tetsuro was a fairly chubby guy, very short, rough, brown hair and brown eyes. He was slightly taller than Sho and he always seemed to worry a lot more than most people but Tetsuro was a great guy though, and a wonderful friend. Tetsuro had managed to convince Sho to go hang out for the rest of the day, being that it was only Saturday, and thus why they were even up near the lake, which as luck would have it again, they were both about to get caught in the middle of a Chronos operation.
Debris flew over the side of the ridge, several large branches slamming down to either side of Sho and Tetsuro who stumbled to their feet, both backing up just in time as a saucer like object suddenly flew into view and slammed down where Sho had been sitting, spinning around in a wide circle before finally coming to a halt. Sho panted loudly a moment before cautiously making his way over to the unit, picking it up from where it lay. The object was cool despite the vapors rising off it. He examined it closer, staring at the coils that seemed to spin round and round the inside of this saucer thing he held.
"Sho!" Tetsuro called out to him. "Put it down Sho! You don't even know what it is!"
"But Tetsuro," Sho turned to his friend, " it's not even hot. It looks like some kinda machine part-"
"SHO LOOK OUT!" Tetsuro shouted, pointing up to a branch that came flying at Sho, but it was to late. The branch hit into the back of Sho's head, causing his forehead to slam into the unit before he dropped it to the ground. Sho fell onto his knees, holding the back of his head, grimacing at the pain before a sudden 'ching' sound caught his attention and his eyes looked towards the unit in front of him. The center of it was glowing. He noticed something else though, the coils where moving!
"Tet.Tetsuro. This thing is alive!" No soon had Sho shouted those words than the coils suddenly broke through the armoring that it had been held on. The coils were like tendrils, each one wrapping around Sho until they covered nearly all of Sho's body. The pain was immense. Sho could only scream out to his friend Tetsuro who was frozen in fear, the sight of the tendrils constricting around Sho a gruesome sight. What Tetsuro didn't know though was that through every opening, entrance or exit of Sho's body, a tendril inserted itself, rushing into Sho's body till he could feel every vein in his body throbbing against his skin. His last sight was of his best friend sitting near the lake in shock, reaching out to him suddenly before all his vision became black. Sho felt as though he was suddenly thrown into some kind of abyss where his voice echoed and his cries of pain intensified.
On the outside, Tetsuro watched in horror as a green, gooey substance took over his friend. The gooey creature that was his friend backed up, screaming in an agonizing pain just before he fell back into the lake, disappearing beneath the ripples of the dark water. A second after that, Sho blacked out, the pain unbearable. What Tetsuro, nor Sho, would see, would be the green, gooey armor shaping itself into a solid, biomechanical armor.
Moments later, Tetsuro would find himself in deeper trouble. A huge beast came lurking out of the woods, tearing tree's up from their roots, snapping them in half as it made it's way slowly towards him. The creature was green and very muscular, it had a long horn out in front of it and several spike horns going back. It was missing an eye but its other yellow eye stared forward, locked onto Tetsuro. Behind the bushes, the Chronos team watched as the out of control Gregoyle lumbered towards the young boy. It was no loss to them. They would only have to kill the boy anyways, so best let Gregoyle do the dirty work, then dispatch of the rogue Zoanoid. It didn't quite go as they planned.
Gregoyle had just made his sudden charge towards Tetsuro when a wave of water shot out from the lake, parting to either side as vapors off the steaming wave suddenly made a dim mist just behind Tetsuro. Gregoyle halted in confusion and the Chronos team stared in awe as a pair of soft footsteps gradually grew louder and louder. Then, emerging from the mist like some kind of demon, stepped forth the being Sho had become. Guyver.
Gregoyle hesitated to attack, even backed up a few steps as the Guyver drew closer to him. The captain of the Chronos team, held his mouth in gaping awe. Gregoyle was afraid of that puny being!? The Guyver didn't even noticed Tetsuro, it simply walked by him as though he was a stone object. Gregoyle finally charged in, slamming both hands around the Guyver's head with ease, smiling viciously as it applied bone-breaking pressure to the head. The Chronos team smiled in satisfaction, it was over. They were wrong. The Guyver grabbed onto either side of the Zoanoid's arms and slowly pulled them apart and away from its head with little effort. Gregoyle growled in frustration and confusion, how was this weak looking creature stronger than he!? Guyver simply applied a slight pressure against Gregoyle's arms, snapping the elbows backwards as broken bone ripped out from the socket it once had been in, fresh blood dripping from the exposed wound, broken and ripped muscle and tendon's now hanging like string. Gregoyle lunged its head forward in a final attack, a pathetic one at that.
Guyver simply grabbed the head with both hands, holding it at bay. Despite Gregoyle's struggling, Guyver finally gave its head a quick twist to the right and it was dead. The huge Zoanoid's body fell to the ground, fresh blood now flowing from his mouth. In the bushes, the Chronos team started to fall back before suddenly dashing away, all but the captain who in a sudden burst of anger, transformed and rushed out into view, two huge cocoon like bulbs sitting on his shoulders, opening. A red light flickered in two orbs that were within the cocoons. They suddenly shoot off a double shot of lasers at the Guyver and Tetsuro, just missing by about a couple feet. The Guyver simply stood there.
"Wha-what is that!?" Tetsuro shouted, looking to the new Zoanoid.
"My name is Vamore and 'those' are bioweapons which automatically targets my opponent and destroys them! Get ready to die!" The orbs began glowing red again.
Guyver then calmly stepped forward, placed both hands on its chest, and open it up like panel doors, revealing two clear orbs that suddenly began charging with a blue light. Within seconds of charging, the orbs shot off a powerful beam that slammed into Vamore and sent him and the dead body of Gregoyle flying back into the air, disintegrating until not even ash was left. When the beam dyed, a long, smoking streak could be seen stretched out through the forest and up along the side of a mountain half way. Tetsuro sat there in shock a moment before his stare suddenly focused to the Guyver. He began backing away.
Guyver's attention quickly snapped onto Tetsuro, its bright, orange eyes glowing as the eyes studied the weak creature before it. The unit flickered once and it was then that Sho finally awoke. Sho's vision was blurry at first and it took a moment for his eyesight to clear but when it did, he was a bit shocked to see his best friend backing away from him.
"Tetsuro? What's wrong?" Sho asked concerned.
"Sh-sho!? Sho? Is that you?" Tetsuro replied, his voice shaky, filled with fear.
"Hahaha! Yes it's me, who did you think it was?" Sho replied, unknowing of the new person he'd become.
Tetsuro gulped, reached into his pocket, and slowly revealed a small mirror, standing as he held the hand mirror in front of Sho.
"Wha..what..what's happened to me? No.no.NOOOOOO!!!! AHHHHHH!!! NOOO!!!" Sho cried out as loud as he could, fresh tears flowing from his eyes under the armor. He collapsed to his knees, his hands shaking in front of his face, then balled into fists as he raised them into the air and screamed. Almost as though it was sensitive to the scream, the armor suddenly detached into pieces and then reformed again into the Guyver in the air. Sho sat there a moment, looking at his human hands again, touching his tear stricken face before Tetsuro came to his side and gently lay a hand on Sho's shoulder.
"Sho," Tetsuro said in a calm, soothing tone. "Look."
Sho looked up and saw the thing he had just been. The Guyver was a frightening sight. Its cold orange eyes gleamed, its armor like some kind of demonic war gear a demon of hell might wear. The feet however were designed like a Ninja's, the large toe separated from the rest. Where there wasn't armor, the tendrils were, lacing together as Sho could make out their movements still. He just watched in horror as the Guyver hovered above the lake a brief moment before slowly sinking beneath the water, barely making a ripple until it was out of sight. Today was the end and the beginning for Sho Fukamachi as The Guyver.
~~~ back in future times~~~
I've always said and believed in that the beginning is the end and the end is the beginning. Where one warrior falls another rises. This has been the motto I have lied by for years now. It's a good motto, a good way to live by. If I die, someone greater will be born and one day they will fight, and one day they will die too, and someone greater then them will rise and the same cycle will repeat itself again. I don't fear death any longer, been there, done that. Just because I don't fear death though doesn't mean I ' want' to die though.
I'm nineteen years old now and I've matured to about the age of a thirty year old. With the sacrifice of my innocence though, came the great gift of wisdom. That was the other piece of advice that has stayed with me.even if it did come from 'him'. Agito gave me a piece of advice once before he became his 'godly' self. "With the gain of something must always come a sacrifice Sho. Even with the death of your loved ones, always was there a gain from a sacrifice. Never forget that Sho and perhaps some day you will be a man." Damn that Agito. He always thought of me as a child.and yet, in some sense.perhaps he was right.
"Sho! SHO! Snap out of it man! We're moving! C'mon" a man from the shadows, not far from Sho, snapped his fingers at Sho before he began making his way across several rooftops, his dark blue eyes shimmering coldly as the moonlight gently washed over his indigo armor. Yes, this man calling out to Sho also was a Guyver.
Sho took one last look at the night sky, the stars shinning in it. He pondered only a moment of memories of long ago, remembering the feel of the warm, summer sun on his face, surrounded by his family and friends. Yes, all that had changed now. But tonight.tonight he would bring those memories back again. Tonight he would have blood or die. Tonight was the night, the beginning of the end, and the end of a beginning. Tonight was the night the Guyver would walk the streets.again.
To be Continued..
Novel based on Yoshiki Takaya's "Bio Booster Armor: Guyver"
Chapter 1: The Beginning
It's a long hard road out of hell. Those words seem to be the best way to describe these past six years of complete chaos that I have had to endure. Every night filled with worse nightmares then the night before, every morning waking with a dimmer and dimmer dream of peace. So many times have I lost hope and suddenly had it renewed that I feel emotionless now. Sitting here on top this cold tower, I can only begin to think of how everything has gone so wrong. Often when I am alone my memory of the past comes to me, haunting me with the reenactments of what seemed like so long ago. I'm getting ahead of myself though. Before you can understand now, you must know of what happened then. So where to begin is the question.
Six years ago, in a small town called Kyugoto, I was thirteen, just starting junior high school, and the only trouble I had to look forward to was Mid-Terms and SAT tests, things that would one day help me get into college. Ha! College? I never even got to see a glimpse of it. God but I was weak then, a pathetic, pansy, a push over. It almost sickens me to think how clueless I was to what truly was going on in the world and all around me. My name? My name is-
"Sho! Sho! Come on Sho! We are going to be late for class!" a young woman called out to a young man just stepping out his front door. He glanced a moment to the girl, a confused expression on his face until he suddenly heard the five minute warning bell from the junior high school a few miles away. He jerked in surprise, his eyes fairly wide as he called back to his father, shouting a last minute goodbye before shutting the door, dashing out to the young woman and running with her towards the school. My name is Sho Fukamachi. I am the Guyver.
The young man is Sho Fukamachi, age thirteen, 5'4", ninety-one pounds, smooth, black hair, somewhat thick and ruffly. His eyes are often thought to be gray because of how the light tends to hit upon them but in fact they were blue. Sho was very slender, hardly any real muscular definition in him at all say but for the occasional pectoral show through his gym shirt. Sho was thirteen years old, young and very innocent by terms of the outside world. He'd been sheltered most of his life but he knew of the bad things that existed in the world. Just never suspected they would ever happen to him, as most humans tend to think, as well as they should, according to some very powerful and evil businessmen that reigned on high in this world.
The young woman he ran beside was Mizuki, Mizuki Segawa, the young sister to Sho's best friend Tetsuro. Since they had been children, Sho and Mizuki had played together, grown up together, Sho was nearly part of the Segawa family you could say, he and his father. Mizuki had beautiful whispy, redish-brown hair, sapphire blue eyes the twinkled like stars, soft, pink lips, a trim physique, yet well rounded for a young women her age, you might say an early blossomer. Mizuki had always been Sho's dream girl, the one woman he had strived for, always had Sho been trying to show his feelings for her, but sadly she never noticed them.
They both raced as fast as they could down the main street to the town of Kyugoto. The town itself was very old fashioned yet renewed with more recent and improved structures. The streets were always fairly busy with tourists or business people trying to get their jobs or destinations. The shops in it had been there for years, some passed on from as much as seven generations ago. The people there were very friendly. Many of them had known of Sho and his Father through Sho's mother Samuki. Samuki had been a great sales person, she had worked in one of the finer clothing stores in town, but when she had become ill, she was no longer able to work and so Sho's father had had to work double time at a factory just a few miles out of town. Sho had very few memories of his mother, but from what he had know about her, she had been a fighter, a brave woman up to her very last breath. Even though he had only been five years old, he remembered her last words to him.
"Be strong my precious Sho, never look back, but never forget the things from the past. Be a survivor Sho, be strong, and never lose hope. Don't ever lose hope. Promise me Sho, promise me you will never lose hope?"
~~~flashback~~~
"I promise momma, I promise." the young boy answered his mother, tears in his eyes and down the side of cheeks like tiny rivers. Sho didn't understand why his mother was talking like this but he sensed that these would be the last few minutes he'd ever be with his mother again, each passing moment was more precious than the one before. Sho's tiny hands firmly cupped his mother's weak hand. Samuki just smiled to her tiny son. She reached out with her other hand and stroked her fingers through his soft hair. Sho suddenly leaned in and held on tightly to his mother. Samuki weakly wrapped her arms around Sho and nuzzled her face to his cheek.
"Sho, my precious Sho. Never forget the past and never forget to dream. You will always see me there."
"Momma! Please momma, don't leave me, I don't want you to go!" he nearly screamed those words, his tears coming faster.
"Shh.it's all right.it's all right.I'll be ok Sho.I'll be ok..." she tried to calm her son, knowing he couldn't understand what was going on. Saumki smiled then when she knew what might help her calm her son. She pulled him onto the bed with her, and sang.weakly. "Time and space, move like the river.Light and dark, surround you always, but in the heart of memories, embedded in the soul of a child, there.lies.the Unicorn.There, stands my hope and pride, there in all her glory, her horn spiraling to the heavens above.Come now, my precious love, let me lead you by your hand, and into an enchanted land.there.lies.the.Unicorn."
"I love you momma.momma.Momma?" Samuki had sung her last song.
~~~back to present time~~~
Forgive me mother.I'm sorry.I broke my promise.I'm sorry.
Sho and Mizuki panted as they finally reached the steps to their school. They had only a minute to spare as they tried to catch their breath. Mizuki was reluctant to wait that long though and she quickly dragged Sho into the school. Poor Sho, he nearly lost his balance as Mizuki suddenly pulled him up the stairs and into the long hallway of the junior high school. He managed to catch his balance though and both he and Mizuki reported to their first classes, which just happened to be the same one. When they walked in, the usual tradition of people spread about the room, talking in their small groups, was the event and Sho quickly found himself joining several of his friends, Houta, Yamamoto, and Nakanishi, while Mizuki joined a couple of her own friends. It was the first day of school and all through out the school the students were already spreading new rumors and facts about some of the new events that would happen in the year. Perhaps the most interesting rumor however was about an accident that had happened out on an old rural road to the north.
Sho first learned of it from Nakanishi. "Yeah, did you hear about that accident out on Kengyoto Road, Sho?"
Sho's attention had been on Mizuki when Nakanishi had asked him but he was quick to respond, "Huh? N-no, what?"
"Sho, you know you have no chance with Mizuki right? She's in love with that Agito guy, I mean, no offense or anything, she likes you as a friend but I doubt she sees you as any possible boyfriend." Nakanishi replied, putting a hand on Sho's shoulder.
Sho sighed and looked over to Mizuki once more, his thoughts already troubling him. "It's true, Mizuki has always been more interested in Agito more than me.Agito, ever since grade school he has been the fascination of all girls dreams. He is athletic, smart, strong, handsome, even sexy I would imagine in their eyes. He has always been better than me at something, always my superior. There was a time when I challenged up against him to be better.that was the most embarrassing day of my life. He literally sent me falling into the ground face first when I tried to take a soccer ball from him, it was at a championship game to. Back then, we use to be on different teams, our team had been lucky to make it to the championships. But I was no match for Agito. He avoided my attempt with ease and went on to score the point that broke the tie between our teams and sent his in the grand championships. I still remember lying there, in the mud, my face covered in it, my hair, my shirt, everything just about. I still remember that smirk on his face. I held it back, but I really wanted to cry right there." Sho had been so deep in thought to himself he hadn't noticed the bell ring and it was thanks to Yamamoto that he came back to reality and found a seat just behind Mizuki but close to his three friends.
That was the day I heard about the car accident in the hills to the north. Some truck driver had been found mauled by what they 'claim' was an attack by an animal. What they didn't mention was that that 'animal' had came smashing through the window on the drivers side, ripped him out from his seat belt and onto the road, smashing his body so hard into the concrete it broke it, splintering the asphalt. What they didn't 'know' though would be the big piece of the puzzle they were missing. What they didn't know was the a man, diseased with a mutation to turn into a hideous beast, had stolen a special carry freezing chamber capable of carrying three bio- weapons encased in a special protective armoring holder, and that a mysterious man had offered the diseased man relief from the pain of his burning body if he could deliver the three bio-weapons to him. That poor fool. He didn't realize that it was too late, his body as he spoke to that mysterious man, was already reiterating, flesh by flesh piece he was being eaten away by his own bodies acids. He had to find out the hard way when a team of Chronos agents, sent out to recover the bio-weapon units, found him while he was hiding the units under a rotting log.
As if it wasn't bad enough he was already suffering from a burning sensation throughout his whole body, he was forced to painfully transform into that hideous beast form of his they called Malamot. The fool. He didn't stand a chance once the captain of the team ordered a man to transform into a creature twice the size of Malamot and five times stronger. Malamot locked hands with the creature they called Gregoyle but with ease, Gregoyle had snapped Malamot's hand back and off his wrists, sending him into a tree. Even then Malamot was calling himself human, denying the horrible fact that he was no longer humanoid, but a Zoanoid.
They found the chamber holding the units and just when they were ready to finish off Malamot and exit the area, Malamot made a last minute attack, revealing a bomb in his mouth that detonated and destroyed anything within a 20 foot radius of himself.thankfully, it didn't destroy the three units, just separated them from the case they had been in. Only one of the units was recovered by Chronos, two of them were lost.
Ever hear the saying "The right place at the right time?" Lucky me, it must have my lucky day, cause guess where one of the units landed?
Sho and Tetsuro had been sitting near the lake only about ten minutes away from the school, when they saw a gust of debris suddenly shoot straight up and outwards from a ridge just above them. It had already been a bad day for Sho, a bombing incident didn't make it any better. At the end of school, Sho had gone up to Mizuki to ask her if she wanted to go out and see a movie with him, but as luck had it, she had already made plans with Agito to start a student council meeting. It was Tetsuro who finally managed to convince Sho to relax and not worry so much.
Tetsuro was a fairly chubby guy, very short, rough, brown hair and brown eyes. He was slightly taller than Sho and he always seemed to worry a lot more than most people but Tetsuro was a great guy though, and a wonderful friend. Tetsuro had managed to convince Sho to go hang out for the rest of the day, being that it was only Saturday, and thus why they were even up near the lake, which as luck would have it again, they were both about to get caught in the middle of a Chronos operation.
Debris flew over the side of the ridge, several large branches slamming down to either side of Sho and Tetsuro who stumbled to their feet, both backing up just in time as a saucer like object suddenly flew into view and slammed down where Sho had been sitting, spinning around in a wide circle before finally coming to a halt. Sho panted loudly a moment before cautiously making his way over to the unit, picking it up from where it lay. The object was cool despite the vapors rising off it. He examined it closer, staring at the coils that seemed to spin round and round the inside of this saucer thing he held.
"Sho!" Tetsuro called out to him. "Put it down Sho! You don't even know what it is!"
"But Tetsuro," Sho turned to his friend, " it's not even hot. It looks like some kinda machine part-"
"SHO LOOK OUT!" Tetsuro shouted, pointing up to a branch that came flying at Sho, but it was to late. The branch hit into the back of Sho's head, causing his forehead to slam into the unit before he dropped it to the ground. Sho fell onto his knees, holding the back of his head, grimacing at the pain before a sudden 'ching' sound caught his attention and his eyes looked towards the unit in front of him. The center of it was glowing. He noticed something else though, the coils where moving!
"Tet.Tetsuro. This thing is alive!" No soon had Sho shouted those words than the coils suddenly broke through the armoring that it had been held on. The coils were like tendrils, each one wrapping around Sho until they covered nearly all of Sho's body. The pain was immense. Sho could only scream out to his friend Tetsuro who was frozen in fear, the sight of the tendrils constricting around Sho a gruesome sight. What Tetsuro didn't know though was that through every opening, entrance or exit of Sho's body, a tendril inserted itself, rushing into Sho's body till he could feel every vein in his body throbbing against his skin. His last sight was of his best friend sitting near the lake in shock, reaching out to him suddenly before all his vision became black. Sho felt as though he was suddenly thrown into some kind of abyss where his voice echoed and his cries of pain intensified.
On the outside, Tetsuro watched in horror as a green, gooey substance took over his friend. The gooey creature that was his friend backed up, screaming in an agonizing pain just before he fell back into the lake, disappearing beneath the ripples of the dark water. A second after that, Sho blacked out, the pain unbearable. What Tetsuro, nor Sho, would see, would be the green, gooey armor shaping itself into a solid, biomechanical armor.
Moments later, Tetsuro would find himself in deeper trouble. A huge beast came lurking out of the woods, tearing tree's up from their roots, snapping them in half as it made it's way slowly towards him. The creature was green and very muscular, it had a long horn out in front of it and several spike horns going back. It was missing an eye but its other yellow eye stared forward, locked onto Tetsuro. Behind the bushes, the Chronos team watched as the out of control Gregoyle lumbered towards the young boy. It was no loss to them. They would only have to kill the boy anyways, so best let Gregoyle do the dirty work, then dispatch of the rogue Zoanoid. It didn't quite go as they planned.
Gregoyle had just made his sudden charge towards Tetsuro when a wave of water shot out from the lake, parting to either side as vapors off the steaming wave suddenly made a dim mist just behind Tetsuro. Gregoyle halted in confusion and the Chronos team stared in awe as a pair of soft footsteps gradually grew louder and louder. Then, emerging from the mist like some kind of demon, stepped forth the being Sho had become. Guyver.
Gregoyle hesitated to attack, even backed up a few steps as the Guyver drew closer to him. The captain of the Chronos team, held his mouth in gaping awe. Gregoyle was afraid of that puny being!? The Guyver didn't even noticed Tetsuro, it simply walked by him as though he was a stone object. Gregoyle finally charged in, slamming both hands around the Guyver's head with ease, smiling viciously as it applied bone-breaking pressure to the head. The Chronos team smiled in satisfaction, it was over. They were wrong. The Guyver grabbed onto either side of the Zoanoid's arms and slowly pulled them apart and away from its head with little effort. Gregoyle growled in frustration and confusion, how was this weak looking creature stronger than he!? Guyver simply applied a slight pressure against Gregoyle's arms, snapping the elbows backwards as broken bone ripped out from the socket it once had been in, fresh blood dripping from the exposed wound, broken and ripped muscle and tendon's now hanging like string. Gregoyle lunged its head forward in a final attack, a pathetic one at that.
Guyver simply grabbed the head with both hands, holding it at bay. Despite Gregoyle's struggling, Guyver finally gave its head a quick twist to the right and it was dead. The huge Zoanoid's body fell to the ground, fresh blood now flowing from his mouth. In the bushes, the Chronos team started to fall back before suddenly dashing away, all but the captain who in a sudden burst of anger, transformed and rushed out into view, two huge cocoon like bulbs sitting on his shoulders, opening. A red light flickered in two orbs that were within the cocoons. They suddenly shoot off a double shot of lasers at the Guyver and Tetsuro, just missing by about a couple feet. The Guyver simply stood there.
"Wha-what is that!?" Tetsuro shouted, looking to the new Zoanoid.
"My name is Vamore and 'those' are bioweapons which automatically targets my opponent and destroys them! Get ready to die!" The orbs began glowing red again.
Guyver then calmly stepped forward, placed both hands on its chest, and open it up like panel doors, revealing two clear orbs that suddenly began charging with a blue light. Within seconds of charging, the orbs shot off a powerful beam that slammed into Vamore and sent him and the dead body of Gregoyle flying back into the air, disintegrating until not even ash was left. When the beam dyed, a long, smoking streak could be seen stretched out through the forest and up along the side of a mountain half way. Tetsuro sat there in shock a moment before his stare suddenly focused to the Guyver. He began backing away.
Guyver's attention quickly snapped onto Tetsuro, its bright, orange eyes glowing as the eyes studied the weak creature before it. The unit flickered once and it was then that Sho finally awoke. Sho's vision was blurry at first and it took a moment for his eyesight to clear but when it did, he was a bit shocked to see his best friend backing away from him.
"Tetsuro? What's wrong?" Sho asked concerned.
"Sh-sho!? Sho? Is that you?" Tetsuro replied, his voice shaky, filled with fear.
"Hahaha! Yes it's me, who did you think it was?" Sho replied, unknowing of the new person he'd become.
Tetsuro gulped, reached into his pocket, and slowly revealed a small mirror, standing as he held the hand mirror in front of Sho.
"Wha..what..what's happened to me? No.no.NOOOOOO!!!! AHHHHHH!!! NOOO!!!" Sho cried out as loud as he could, fresh tears flowing from his eyes under the armor. He collapsed to his knees, his hands shaking in front of his face, then balled into fists as he raised them into the air and screamed. Almost as though it was sensitive to the scream, the armor suddenly detached into pieces and then reformed again into the Guyver in the air. Sho sat there a moment, looking at his human hands again, touching his tear stricken face before Tetsuro came to his side and gently lay a hand on Sho's shoulder.
"Sho," Tetsuro said in a calm, soothing tone. "Look."
Sho looked up and saw the thing he had just been. The Guyver was a frightening sight. Its cold orange eyes gleamed, its armor like some kind of demonic war gear a demon of hell might wear. The feet however were designed like a Ninja's, the large toe separated from the rest. Where there wasn't armor, the tendrils were, lacing together as Sho could make out their movements still. He just watched in horror as the Guyver hovered above the lake a brief moment before slowly sinking beneath the water, barely making a ripple until it was out of sight. Today was the end and the beginning for Sho Fukamachi as The Guyver.
~~~ back in future times~~~
I've always said and believed in that the beginning is the end and the end is the beginning. Where one warrior falls another rises. This has been the motto I have lied by for years now. It's a good motto, a good way to live by. If I die, someone greater will be born and one day they will fight, and one day they will die too, and someone greater then them will rise and the same cycle will repeat itself again. I don't fear death any longer, been there, done that. Just because I don't fear death though doesn't mean I ' want' to die though.
I'm nineteen years old now and I've matured to about the age of a thirty year old. With the sacrifice of my innocence though, came the great gift of wisdom. That was the other piece of advice that has stayed with me.even if it did come from 'him'. Agito gave me a piece of advice once before he became his 'godly' self. "With the gain of something must always come a sacrifice Sho. Even with the death of your loved ones, always was there a gain from a sacrifice. Never forget that Sho and perhaps some day you will be a man." Damn that Agito. He always thought of me as a child.and yet, in some sense.perhaps he was right.
"Sho! SHO! Snap out of it man! We're moving! C'mon" a man from the shadows, not far from Sho, snapped his fingers at Sho before he began making his way across several rooftops, his dark blue eyes shimmering coldly as the moonlight gently washed over his indigo armor. Yes, this man calling out to Sho also was a Guyver.
Sho took one last look at the night sky, the stars shinning in it. He pondered only a moment of memories of long ago, remembering the feel of the warm, summer sun on his face, surrounded by his family and friends. Yes, all that had changed now. But tonight.tonight he would bring those memories back again. Tonight he would have blood or die. Tonight was the night, the beginning of the end, and the end of a beginning. Tonight was the night the Guyver would walk the streets.again.
To be Continued..