Well, I haven't really been updating much lately. There isn't much of a
reason. I'm still alive though, as most of you probably already know.
Anyways, I'm not sure just how this chapter will turn out, since I've been
trying to think of what should happen. There are a few more cute scenes
that I came up with, but the problem is putting them in.
Disclaimer: See first chapter...I'm too lazy right now.
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It was morning now and everyone was up and about. Risai was still in her room, sitting on her bed. The door to the room opened and Miharu walked in. Risai looked up and smiled.
"Good morning Miharu," she said cheerfully, a huge smile on her face. Miharu seemed just a little freaked out by this sudden turn in her mood.
"What's with you?"
"What do you mean?"
"You seem...cheerful this morning."
"So? Is that strange?"
"To be honest, yes."
"Well, I'm just happy because I know something. You'll be happy when I tell you too."
"What is it?" Risai could sense that Miharu was curious. Risai just smiled and then stood up from her bed. Miharu's expression changed.
"What do you think you're doing? You can't get up."
"Why not?"
"You should know. Don't you remember? I seem to recall you getting injured yesterday."
"I don't care."
"Well I do. You need to get back in bed."
"Taban is alive."
"Don't you try to-what really? How do you know this?"
"He talked to me last night."
"Taban, he always manages to make it past the rules." Miharu just smiled, forgetting about the fact that Risai was up from her bed. 'Good, now she's distracted,' thought Risai to herself. She smiled. She finished getting dressed in her normal outfit and then proceeded to walk out the door.
"You got that right Miharu. Taban has always been able to do stuff like that."
"Yeah." Miharu then turned around, but Risai was already out the door and heading down the hall. She then remembered the argument before and began to go down the hall as well, but Risai had already turned the corner. Miharu needed to find her and decided to head towards the garage first.
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The Blitz, Fluegel, and Fire Star teams were in the garage, working on their zoids. It wasn't an easy job.
"This is taking forever," complained Bit.
"Don't complain," commanded Leena.
"I can if I want."
"I'm your girlfriend and what I say goes."
"I'd like to see you make me." Bit then was hit by a flying wrench. It knocked him over. "Ow..." he moaned.
"That'll teach ya." They all continued working until they heard the sound of footsteps in the garage. All of them looked towards the entrance and watched Risai slowly walk in, holding her arm. All of them quickly jumped down from where they were and walked over.
"Risai!" they exclaimed. She just looked towards all of them as they ran over to her.
"Hi," she said, as if nothing was wrong.
"What are you doing out of bed?" demanded Naomi.
"I need to work on my Genosaurer."
"You need to sleep," said Leena.
"Yeah. We can take care of the Genosaurer for you," offered Rick.
"Oh no you won't. Nobody touches my zoid but ME."
"Look Risai, you really need to go back to bed," said Leon.
"I don't care. There's too much I have to do. I'm not sitting around in bed."
"Risai," started Bit, "We pulled out about 100 pieces of glass from you yesterday, the doctor said that if we had waited any longer you most likely would have died, and now you're walking around the day after."
"Your point being?"
"Are you insane?!"
"I don't care. Now move, I have work to do," she said as she walked past them.
"Can we really let her go through with this?" asked Meiyuu.
"Just let her go," said Miharu as she walked through the door.
"Are you serious?" asked Jamie.
"Of course. She's really happy right now, and I, for one, don't want to break her spirit."
"Why is she so happy?" asked Rick.
"Because Taban is alive."
"Really?" they all asked, excitement in their voices.
"Yes."
"Then I guess she has every right to be happy. We'll leave her alone, I guess," said Bit. They all looked towards the Genosaurer. Risai had already gotten on one of the platforms and was now up by its head. She had a few tools in her hands and then began to work on it. They all decided to get back to work on their own zoids.
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It was 6 hours later and Risai had finally finished working on her zoid. She wiped the sweat from her forehead and then set down her wrench. She was also breathing kind of hard. Her whole body was aching.
"Finally...done..." she panted. She smiled weakly at her now perfect Genosaurer. It was just the way it had been before the battle. "Maybe...they were...right. Perhaps...I shouldn't have...exerted myself." After admitting that to herself, she collapsed on the platform, knocking off most of the tools, sending them clattering to the ground below. Everyone else was in the garage as well and heard the loud clang of the tools against the hard, metal floor. This startled all of them. Some nearly fell off of the platforms they were on.
"What was that?" asked Bit.
"It looks like those tools fell," said Rick.
"No duh," said Meiyuu. Leena jumped off from the platform she was on and walked over to the tools. She then looked up at the platform above and the now repaired Genosaurer. She began to climb up the ladder on the side and reached the platform. She found Risai, asleep.
"Hey Risai, wake up," she said, but there was no answer, not even a slight sign that she had heard her. "Wake up." She shook her this time, but the response was the same.
"Is she alright?" asked Naomi.
"I'm not sure. She won't wake up."
"Just let her rest," said Miharu, coming back into the garage. They all looked to her. "She's been working all day with that torn up body of hers. She probably over did it. You should just let her rest here. She'll be alright."
"Okay," said Leena as she made her way down from the platform. She was still unsure.
"If you guys are hungry, they're serving a late lunch in the dining area."
"Sounds good," said Bit. He jumped down and began to follow Miharu to the dining room. The others followed suit, leaving Risai there.
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Risai floated in the darkness again, only this time she was happy. Everything seemed perfect, but her comfort was then disrupted by a single thought. 'Leon is in danger'. It was the only message Taban had left with her.
"What did you mean?" she asked, hoping that by some chance he was there. There wasn't an answer to her question. She thought about it a little more.
"It...it can't mean...no...I'm an agent. It can't happen to me...can it? And even if it does...or did...I'm not allowed to think that way...to...feel...that way." She shook her head. "It won't happen, it can't. Not to me."
'Just admit it,' said a voice in the back of her mind.
"No. Agents aren't allowed to think that way. Our duty comes first...but still...I'm afraid...of these dreams and...what they might mean."
'Are you scared to know the truth?'
"What truth?"
'About how you feel.'
"I don't feel anything."
'That's not true.'
"Just shut up."
"Who are you talking to?" asked a familiar voice. Risai spun around and came face to face with Leon. He just smiled to her.
"N-no one," she answered.
"Okay." There was an uneasy silence. 'Why am I so nervous?' She thought a little more. 'My dreams...maybe this is one of them.'
"What are you doing here?" asked Risai.
"I came to see you."
"Me?"
"Of course. Who else would be here?"
"Good point."
"Why is it so dark here?"
"I don't know." Just then, there was a light forming behind Leon. He didn't seem to notice it, but Risai did. In place of the light appeared a silver and purple zoid. It looked like a dragon. The armor was silver and the wings were purple, along with the eyes. The zoid approached them.
"Leon! Behind you!" shouted Risai. He dropped his smile, a confused look replacing it. He turned around to face the zoid. Just then, both of them disappeared. The dark scene was replaced with a desert; a few rock formations were also in the area.
"Not again," said Risai. She then heard what sounded like two zoids fighting. She turned around and saw the strange dragon zoid and Leon's red Blade Liger. They were going at it, fighting with everything they had.
"Why are they fighting?" she asked herself out of pure curiosity. She looked around the area and then saw what looked like another zoid. When she got closer, she realized whose zoid it was.
"Hey...that's my zoid. What's going on?" She ran towards the area and towards her own zoid. It didn't appear to be that damaged. She began climbing up the zoid, towards the cockpit. When she got there, she opened it manually from the outside. Her eyes went wide when she looked into it. The person at the controls was her.
"H-how?" she asked herself. "There's two of me." She reached out to touch this other Risai, but her hand went right through. "What is going on?" She then looked back to the two zoids. The red Blade Liger was down and the dragon zoid began approaching her downed Genosaurer.
"It's time for you to die," said the pilot through the com-link. Risai was standing close enough to hear the message. The pilot sounded female. It was coming closer. Risai looked towards herself in the cockpit.
"Come on! You need to wake up," she coaxed, but she was guessing that her voice would go unheard, just like the fact that she couldn't touch anybody. It was as if she wasn't there. As if she was only watching. The zoid was very close now, but the red Blade Liger jumped up and knocked the zoid over.
"I won't let you kill her. Not as long as I'm here," said Leon. Risai was listening over the com-link. She was speechless.
"He really does care about me," she said to herself. She then quickly shook her head, dismissing the thought. Leon's zoid was thrown aside again and the dragon began to target its guns at the cockpit of the Genosaurer, aiming right for Risai.
"Darn it. I just had to open the cockpit...but...I guess it doesn't make that much of a difference anyway. It would pierce it either way. Darn it! Wake up!" she yelled to the Risai in the cockpit. "Don't you realize you're going to die?!" The dragon zoid was ready to fire. "Darn it!" yelled Risai. The gun fired, but something happened. The Blade Liger moved in front of the Genosaurer. The bullet hit it and the sound of glass shattering could be heard. The small pieces flew out, catching the rays of the sun. Risai just stared on at what had just happened.
"I-impossible...it can't be...I'm not allowed to...to..." She lowered her head, tears burning her eyes.
"...Leon...I'm sorry."
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People wandered through the base, not knowing what to do. The three teams and Miharu were eating in the dining area.
"This food is always so good," said Bit, stuffing his mouth with a sandwich.
"I agree with that," said Leena. Just then, a huge explosion shook them all, knocking over a lot of the tables in the room. The teams also fell over, or some did anyways. There were many moans from the group.
"What's going on?" asked Brad.
"I don't know," said Naomi.
"Come on," said Miharu. They all got up and began running. Another explosion shook the building. They all staggered but regained their composure. They all ran to the nearest window. There were enemy zoids approaching.
"Not again," said Rick.
"How many armies do they have? They've practically been attacking us every day," said Leena. Another explosion shook the base.
"Darn it. This isn't good," said Miharu.
"We have to get out of here," said Meiyuu.
"I know."
"Uh oh," said Jamie.
"What?"
"We left Risai in the garage. She's still on that platform, remember?" They all seemed panicked.
"Darn it. If she collapsed, then there's no way she would wake up, not even from this. With all these explosions shaking the base...let's go," said Miharu. "We have to go and get to the garage." They all began running again, heading towards the garage.
Meanwhile, Risai was still on the platform. The explosions were shaking the base. The platform, which hung from the ceiling by four chains, was also shaking. Risai could feel all the motion around her, but she wasn't able to wake up. 'I have to get up,' she thought to herself. She tried to force herself to get up, but it wasn't working. She could feel her body shift as the explosions continued. 'Wake up!' screamed her mind. She slowly opened her eyes just as another explosion hit. The explosion caused pieces of the ceiling to fall. One of the chains broke that held the platform, tipping it to a vertical position. Risai fell from it, but quickly grabbed the side of the platform, holding on for all she had. Her arm began to hurt as she strained her muscles, trying to hold on. The pain began to shoot through her whole body. She looked down and knew but one thing. She didn't want to know what it would feel like if she fell.
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That chapter was really REALLY long. Cool! That was fun. Sorry this took so long to get out. I've been having trouble lately. Anyways, don't know when it'll be when I update again. Good luck with school! Oh, and I was thinking. This has to do with this series, you know, my Premonition series. It's gonna most likely be long. I was gonna write a side story as well, but I was wondering if I should or not. I won't if no one will read it, but I really want to. I need input! Audi^.^
Disclaimer: See first chapter...I'm too lazy right now.
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It was morning now and everyone was up and about. Risai was still in her room, sitting on her bed. The door to the room opened and Miharu walked in. Risai looked up and smiled.
"Good morning Miharu," she said cheerfully, a huge smile on her face. Miharu seemed just a little freaked out by this sudden turn in her mood.
"What's with you?"
"What do you mean?"
"You seem...cheerful this morning."
"So? Is that strange?"
"To be honest, yes."
"Well, I'm just happy because I know something. You'll be happy when I tell you too."
"What is it?" Risai could sense that Miharu was curious. Risai just smiled and then stood up from her bed. Miharu's expression changed.
"What do you think you're doing? You can't get up."
"Why not?"
"You should know. Don't you remember? I seem to recall you getting injured yesterday."
"I don't care."
"Well I do. You need to get back in bed."
"Taban is alive."
"Don't you try to-what really? How do you know this?"
"He talked to me last night."
"Taban, he always manages to make it past the rules." Miharu just smiled, forgetting about the fact that Risai was up from her bed. 'Good, now she's distracted,' thought Risai to herself. She smiled. She finished getting dressed in her normal outfit and then proceeded to walk out the door.
"You got that right Miharu. Taban has always been able to do stuff like that."
"Yeah." Miharu then turned around, but Risai was already out the door and heading down the hall. She then remembered the argument before and began to go down the hall as well, but Risai had already turned the corner. Miharu needed to find her and decided to head towards the garage first.
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The Blitz, Fluegel, and Fire Star teams were in the garage, working on their zoids. It wasn't an easy job.
"This is taking forever," complained Bit.
"Don't complain," commanded Leena.
"I can if I want."
"I'm your girlfriend and what I say goes."
"I'd like to see you make me." Bit then was hit by a flying wrench. It knocked him over. "Ow..." he moaned.
"That'll teach ya." They all continued working until they heard the sound of footsteps in the garage. All of them looked towards the entrance and watched Risai slowly walk in, holding her arm. All of them quickly jumped down from where they were and walked over.
"Risai!" they exclaimed. She just looked towards all of them as they ran over to her.
"Hi," she said, as if nothing was wrong.
"What are you doing out of bed?" demanded Naomi.
"I need to work on my Genosaurer."
"You need to sleep," said Leena.
"Yeah. We can take care of the Genosaurer for you," offered Rick.
"Oh no you won't. Nobody touches my zoid but ME."
"Look Risai, you really need to go back to bed," said Leon.
"I don't care. There's too much I have to do. I'm not sitting around in bed."
"Risai," started Bit, "We pulled out about 100 pieces of glass from you yesterday, the doctor said that if we had waited any longer you most likely would have died, and now you're walking around the day after."
"Your point being?"
"Are you insane?!"
"I don't care. Now move, I have work to do," she said as she walked past them.
"Can we really let her go through with this?" asked Meiyuu.
"Just let her go," said Miharu as she walked through the door.
"Are you serious?" asked Jamie.
"Of course. She's really happy right now, and I, for one, don't want to break her spirit."
"Why is she so happy?" asked Rick.
"Because Taban is alive."
"Really?" they all asked, excitement in their voices.
"Yes."
"Then I guess she has every right to be happy. We'll leave her alone, I guess," said Bit. They all looked towards the Genosaurer. Risai had already gotten on one of the platforms and was now up by its head. She had a few tools in her hands and then began to work on it. They all decided to get back to work on their own zoids.
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It was 6 hours later and Risai had finally finished working on her zoid. She wiped the sweat from her forehead and then set down her wrench. She was also breathing kind of hard. Her whole body was aching.
"Finally...done..." she panted. She smiled weakly at her now perfect Genosaurer. It was just the way it had been before the battle. "Maybe...they were...right. Perhaps...I shouldn't have...exerted myself." After admitting that to herself, she collapsed on the platform, knocking off most of the tools, sending them clattering to the ground below. Everyone else was in the garage as well and heard the loud clang of the tools against the hard, metal floor. This startled all of them. Some nearly fell off of the platforms they were on.
"What was that?" asked Bit.
"It looks like those tools fell," said Rick.
"No duh," said Meiyuu. Leena jumped off from the platform she was on and walked over to the tools. She then looked up at the platform above and the now repaired Genosaurer. She began to climb up the ladder on the side and reached the platform. She found Risai, asleep.
"Hey Risai, wake up," she said, but there was no answer, not even a slight sign that she had heard her. "Wake up." She shook her this time, but the response was the same.
"Is she alright?" asked Naomi.
"I'm not sure. She won't wake up."
"Just let her rest," said Miharu, coming back into the garage. They all looked to her. "She's been working all day with that torn up body of hers. She probably over did it. You should just let her rest here. She'll be alright."
"Okay," said Leena as she made her way down from the platform. She was still unsure.
"If you guys are hungry, they're serving a late lunch in the dining area."
"Sounds good," said Bit. He jumped down and began to follow Miharu to the dining room. The others followed suit, leaving Risai there.
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Risai floated in the darkness again, only this time she was happy. Everything seemed perfect, but her comfort was then disrupted by a single thought. 'Leon is in danger'. It was the only message Taban had left with her.
"What did you mean?" she asked, hoping that by some chance he was there. There wasn't an answer to her question. She thought about it a little more.
"It...it can't mean...no...I'm an agent. It can't happen to me...can it? And even if it does...or did...I'm not allowed to think that way...to...feel...that way." She shook her head. "It won't happen, it can't. Not to me."
'Just admit it,' said a voice in the back of her mind.
"No. Agents aren't allowed to think that way. Our duty comes first...but still...I'm afraid...of these dreams and...what they might mean."
'Are you scared to know the truth?'
"What truth?"
'About how you feel.'
"I don't feel anything."
'That's not true.'
"Just shut up."
"Who are you talking to?" asked a familiar voice. Risai spun around and came face to face with Leon. He just smiled to her.
"N-no one," she answered.
"Okay." There was an uneasy silence. 'Why am I so nervous?' She thought a little more. 'My dreams...maybe this is one of them.'
"What are you doing here?" asked Risai.
"I came to see you."
"Me?"
"Of course. Who else would be here?"
"Good point."
"Why is it so dark here?"
"I don't know." Just then, there was a light forming behind Leon. He didn't seem to notice it, but Risai did. In place of the light appeared a silver and purple zoid. It looked like a dragon. The armor was silver and the wings were purple, along with the eyes. The zoid approached them.
"Leon! Behind you!" shouted Risai. He dropped his smile, a confused look replacing it. He turned around to face the zoid. Just then, both of them disappeared. The dark scene was replaced with a desert; a few rock formations were also in the area.
"Not again," said Risai. She then heard what sounded like two zoids fighting. She turned around and saw the strange dragon zoid and Leon's red Blade Liger. They were going at it, fighting with everything they had.
"Why are they fighting?" she asked herself out of pure curiosity. She looked around the area and then saw what looked like another zoid. When she got closer, she realized whose zoid it was.
"Hey...that's my zoid. What's going on?" She ran towards the area and towards her own zoid. It didn't appear to be that damaged. She began climbing up the zoid, towards the cockpit. When she got there, she opened it manually from the outside. Her eyes went wide when she looked into it. The person at the controls was her.
"H-how?" she asked herself. "There's two of me." She reached out to touch this other Risai, but her hand went right through. "What is going on?" She then looked back to the two zoids. The red Blade Liger was down and the dragon zoid began approaching her downed Genosaurer.
"It's time for you to die," said the pilot through the com-link. Risai was standing close enough to hear the message. The pilot sounded female. It was coming closer. Risai looked towards herself in the cockpit.
"Come on! You need to wake up," she coaxed, but she was guessing that her voice would go unheard, just like the fact that she couldn't touch anybody. It was as if she wasn't there. As if she was only watching. The zoid was very close now, but the red Blade Liger jumped up and knocked the zoid over.
"I won't let you kill her. Not as long as I'm here," said Leon. Risai was listening over the com-link. She was speechless.
"He really does care about me," she said to herself. She then quickly shook her head, dismissing the thought. Leon's zoid was thrown aside again and the dragon began to target its guns at the cockpit of the Genosaurer, aiming right for Risai.
"Darn it. I just had to open the cockpit...but...I guess it doesn't make that much of a difference anyway. It would pierce it either way. Darn it! Wake up!" she yelled to the Risai in the cockpit. "Don't you realize you're going to die?!" The dragon zoid was ready to fire. "Darn it!" yelled Risai. The gun fired, but something happened. The Blade Liger moved in front of the Genosaurer. The bullet hit it and the sound of glass shattering could be heard. The small pieces flew out, catching the rays of the sun. Risai just stared on at what had just happened.
"I-impossible...it can't be...I'm not allowed to...to..." She lowered her head, tears burning her eyes.
"...Leon...I'm sorry."
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People wandered through the base, not knowing what to do. The three teams and Miharu were eating in the dining area.
"This food is always so good," said Bit, stuffing his mouth with a sandwich.
"I agree with that," said Leena. Just then, a huge explosion shook them all, knocking over a lot of the tables in the room. The teams also fell over, or some did anyways. There were many moans from the group.
"What's going on?" asked Brad.
"I don't know," said Naomi.
"Come on," said Miharu. They all got up and began running. Another explosion shook the building. They all staggered but regained their composure. They all ran to the nearest window. There were enemy zoids approaching.
"Not again," said Rick.
"How many armies do they have? They've practically been attacking us every day," said Leena. Another explosion shook the base.
"Darn it. This isn't good," said Miharu.
"We have to get out of here," said Meiyuu.
"I know."
"Uh oh," said Jamie.
"What?"
"We left Risai in the garage. She's still on that platform, remember?" They all seemed panicked.
"Darn it. If she collapsed, then there's no way she would wake up, not even from this. With all these explosions shaking the base...let's go," said Miharu. "We have to go and get to the garage." They all began running again, heading towards the garage.
Meanwhile, Risai was still on the platform. The explosions were shaking the base. The platform, which hung from the ceiling by four chains, was also shaking. Risai could feel all the motion around her, but she wasn't able to wake up. 'I have to get up,' she thought to herself. She tried to force herself to get up, but it wasn't working. She could feel her body shift as the explosions continued. 'Wake up!' screamed her mind. She slowly opened her eyes just as another explosion hit. The explosion caused pieces of the ceiling to fall. One of the chains broke that held the platform, tipping it to a vertical position. Risai fell from it, but quickly grabbed the side of the platform, holding on for all she had. Her arm began to hurt as she strained her muscles, trying to hold on. The pain began to shoot through her whole body. She looked down and knew but one thing. She didn't want to know what it would feel like if she fell.
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That chapter was really REALLY long. Cool! That was fun. Sorry this took so long to get out. I've been having trouble lately. Anyways, don't know when it'll be when I update again. Good luck with school! Oh, and I was thinking. This has to do with this series, you know, my Premonition series. It's gonna most likely be long. I was gonna write a side story as well, but I was wondering if I should or not. I won't if no one will read it, but I really want to. I need input! Audi^.^