And yet, another chapter. To whoever reads: Plz, please, review!!!
The story's starting to go deep. ::sigh:: Can't help the past Vash, can't help the past.
Sacrifice
Grunt. Doughboy picked up a huge plank with the help of Snowy and Rene. Grunt. He walked two steps. Stop, pant, pant, pick up, and go on, grunting. I watched from the skies with somewhat humor. It was rather funny.
"Yo, Yuki!" Kanari called from the ground. "Come help us!" I flew to a place where Nakita and Kanari were moving another plank, but by air.
"I don't see why Rene and Snowy won't just fly and make Doughboy use his bubble." I complained. "Although, it kind of is funny to see him like this and it is kind of slow for him to go along in the bubble, but it's faster than the walking process."
"I think that Snowy and Rene tire out more if they have to adjust their wings so they're practically hovering in one area for a long time, cause you know how slow that bubble moves." Nakita said. "It probably takes more energy."
"Probably." I agreed as we moved the plank and started to fly.
"What are they doing with the system?" Kanari said. "I mean, how do they plan this out?"
"The dwarfs are helping out too." Nakita said. "The dwarfs, excellent cutters that really never wear out, cut and polish all the planks. Then the workers and some of the dwarfs help put together and paint and polish. Of course, we need to put it together before we can actually start painting, but the workers spent last night and all this morning working out how the ship should look like and now they're building. The only problem was, the dwarfs couldn't get the wood any closer to the ship."
"Why not?" Kanari asked.
"They started out this morning side by side, but then as the dwarfs chopped down the forest, and the ship stayed in the meadow, so they became farther and farther apart. The dwarfs created a remedy that after they sprinkle it, the stump disappears entirely and the roots rot and turn into fertilizer."
"What does that have to do with anything?"
"Well, it just explains why they are no stumps anywhere in the meadows." We flew past three figures that looked like ants, Doughboy, Snowy, and Rene.
"Yeah, so?"
"In case you were wondering." We landed on the ground and walked up to the pile of planks. The dwarfs and workers were moving planks too, but we could do it faster. However, the storage of planks was still slowly diminishing, and we had to hurry and fly back.
After the whole day of practically working, we finally returned to the mansion.
"What a vigorous workout." Vash said. "I could lose a couple of pounds on this."
"Yes, you could." Doughboy replied.
"You should talk." Vash retorted and continued to walk along. Doughboy was steaming mad, but could think of nothing else to say.
"So?" Kelli asked when they were out of earshot. "Have you decided yet?"
"She betrayed us all." Vash said quietly. "That is a must."
"Yes, betrayal is." Kelli asked. "But are you strong enough to do it?"
"Of course." Vash said certainly. But he was trembling, and Kelli sensed the quickness in his reply.
"Very well." She said. "Let us go. It's almost noon, almost time." And hence, Vash trembled again.
We arrived back in the Underground only to be run over by a stampede of dwarfs running to and fro.
"What is going on?" Kanari asked.
"Ho, the dwarfs are starting to build their own village and move to the Upper World." Clay the Elder replied cheerfully, coming out of the tunnel. "They're moving! You think all of them are helping build that ark? Ho!" He smiled and grasped around and took out his cane. "They're retrieved all of the left over from the castle and piled them by the ark. Now, during the break, let the execution begin!"
"What?" Snowy asked.
"Vash." Clay the Elder said.
"I couldn't." Vash said. "Tell them, I mean. At least, not just yet." So hence Clay the Elder started his long speech about it.
Vash and Kelli had started after the stampede already, so we followed quickly.
"Where are you going?" I asked, trying to keep up.
"It's going to be held outside." Vash said. We entered the town, a dusty area, which Clay the Elder said would grow and become prosperous.
"Whatever you say." Snowy replied.
"Are we going to feel an impact when Genesis hits Uri?" Rene asked.
"Likely we'll all be thrown off the planet and be left traveling the Fifth Dimension." Vash said sourly.
"Actually," Kelli said, with a nudge at Vash, "it'll probably throw us off our feet and we'll land several yards away, but otherwise, nothing much."
"Ouch." Doughboy said. We all looked at him for a moment and then continued on. There, in the middle of what looked like the town square, was a small wooden figure, and tied to it was a girl, dressed in a old, red dress that looked like rags, with her red curly hair flying down in her face, sobbing wildly into her hair, since her hands and feet were tied to the posts.
"They plan to put a fountain in the middle of that town square." Clay the Elder said. "But while they're still building it, they will first let her die here."
"How awful." Rene said. "And then the town square will be always haunted. And she has such lovely red curls." Where Rene sighed and touched her own hair. Rene's hair was short and a little puffy, red by sun and silver by moonlight, it was an odd color. For some reason, she didn't like that color, though I thought it looked lovely. Of course, Lair's hair probably looked the best out of the two, but right now, it was damp and tangled and ugly, and Rene's hair looked better. Rene's hair was pretty, and even if she didn't think it was, it was pretty in the past. Whenever we went to her house, I would see a picture of a little girl with glowing red hair and a sharp cheek and peach skin and radiant little darling smile, which obviously was Rene. And the hair was in beautiful curls. Rene never said anything about that picture though, and although that picture didn't really look all that much like the Rene with us or the Rene in her photo albums, who else could that girl in the frame possibly be?
"Curls or no curls." I said, snapping back to reality. "It's what's underneath that counts. Right Vash?" Vash was staring at the girl on the post, fixed and focused. "Vash?"
"Hmm?" Vash asked, not looking away, but his eyebrows were raised.
"Never mind." I answered and looked around. The dwarfs were starting to gather around the town circle. Lair looked up and saw us.
"Vash, help me!" She cried.
"Oh golly." Kelli said and walked over to a nearby store (which was empty) and sat down on the sidewalk. Rene and I walked over and sat next to her.
"What's wrong?" I asked.
"Vash already has enough qualms about killing her, now this influence may change his opinion, something he worked all day on." She turned back to catch sight of Vash standing next to Lair on the mound and beside the post and the crowds of dwarfs cheering. Doughboy looked as if he was about to throw up and I could hear Snowy saying to Kanari, "This seems like something out of my textbook. You know, history, the hangings." Nakita and Cherry were somewhere in the crowd, and after a few minutes of searching; I finally spotted them in the front row. A yellow bug flew near my eye and I waved my hand at it impatiently.
"Hey!" A big voice said. I looked up.
"Oh, sorry bout that Kero." I said smugly. "Sorry I forgot you too." Kero sighed and got off of Anora's back.
"Always forgetting the pets, Yuki, always." Kero commented and sat on my shoulder, watching. "So, did we miss anything?"
"Not much has happened yet, oh!" Vash took his sword out of the sheath. He rose if a couple of feet in the air, and I saw that he was trembling. But he suddenly straightened himself, and with all his might, aimed the sword towards the neck, which was a part of her that was not bounded to the post.
"Zing!!!" There was a slight noise and a fistful of curls landed at Vash's feet.
"He missed." Kelli said faintly. "I don't believe it."
"I believe you're deaf." Kero said. I hit him on the head. "He missed because she was screaming."
"They should have sealed her mouth." Kelli said. Vash looked up and again at Lair. Her hair was short now, and there was a red mark on her neck, where he had cut her. Vash held up the sword again and lowered it. This time, however, the sword never reached her head.
There was a slight blue flash, like the flash of lightning on a cold, bitter night, and suddenly, Vash was lying flat on the ground. Nakita and Cherry rushed up to him.
"What's going on?" Kelli asked, running through the crowds, the rest of us running to get up there.
"Look at Lair!" I shouted. Her eyes were a deadly neon blue instead of that red and her small freckles were beginning to show. Then, she seemed to summon her strength and the bounds snapped. She stepped forward and great, huge, red wings sprouted from her back and opened her mouth and made a blast at the audience.
There was an explosion and suddenly, five dwarfs were lying down on the ground, locked within an ice cube.
"Ah, Fire Card!" I said as the others rushed past to Vash. "Melt the cube, Firey!" The Fire Card revived the dwarfs. Lair turned around and saw me.
"You!" She said. I saw envy, hatred, and what was that? Greed?
Meanwhile, the others had reached Vash. They shook him and woke him up, his sword lying on the ground by his side. He was so weak he could hardly stand.
"You." Lair narrowed her eyes at me. Suddenly, her mouth opened and a blue light shot out, straight out. The Firey Card got between us, but that was enough to save my life. It paused the effect as the two forces battled for one split second, and then the Firey diminished, buy by that time, Vash had already gotten to his feet and lunged at me, sending us both skidding across the asphalt. I got up shakily and saw the Firey Card melt the cube of dwarfs that Vash saving me had caused them. By now, most of the dwarfs had started to get the message into their minds to run. I looked at my arms, and having been leaning on them the whole trip, the skin was rubbing off. Vash was lying nearby, choking wildly. I ran over and poured cordial into his mouth and then rubbed some on my arms. A shadow came over us. Kelli and Nakita ran over, followed very closely by Rene.
Lair was flying over us. The clouds were starting to come together, filled with black ash. I shivered as the rain poured down and soaked us all.
"What is going on?" Mr. Clay stood at the side of the shop. He saw Lair and froze.
"We have got to get out of here and get this monster too." Kelli said. "Yuki, do something about your Firey Card." For the Firey Card was dying down as the rain poured.
"Firey, Return to your Powers; Confined." I stuck the card in my pocket and felt increasingly dizzy. Everything had looked so good half an hour ago.
Clay the Elder and the army of the dwarfs, along with Kanari, Kelli, Nakita, Rene, Vash, Cerberus, Cherry, Anora, Mr. Clay, Snowy, Doughboy and I were the only ones on the asphalt. Lair seemed to tower over us as she flew over us, the rain falling only after she had passed and soaking us all, her short curls seemed to extend as they got wet, and her glare was, well, chilling.
"Oh man." Vash said. "Looks like we've got to fight."
"Yes, it does, does it?" Lair said. She touched her curls. "Thank you for sparing my life Vash."
"What?" Vash asked.
"And I like the haircut." But there was something behind that eye, something I didn't trust at all. And neither did the others, I think, except Doughboy, who had already started to accept the apology and say something back, but didn't get too far, since Snowy kicked him in the shins to be quiet.
"But." Lair said, and we knew it was coming. "I knew that you would've killed me, but you gave me something I've always lacked: time. And I remembered Grandmother's old spell."
"Is she related to Queen Jewel?" Rene asked.
"What spell?" Vash yelled at Lair, furious.
"Why are you asking?" Kelli asked Rene, quietly, not interrupting Vash's conversation.
"I was just wondering." Rene said, her red hair turning lighter as the clouds blackened even more and the rain increased. Nakita walked Clay the Elder under an awning to keep him out of the rain and spread her wings to block it from him. The old man was becoming very fragile. Cherry hopped down and joined the others. "It might have some significance."
"The spell of the gods." Lair said.
"Oh please, don't get into mythology now." Vash complained. Lair narrowed her eyes.
"I had great hopes for us, Vash, little dear." She said, twirling a finger around a curl. "I thought we could defeat our utter foe and rule the world together."
"And that's all they think about, ruling the world!" Vash shouted back, outrageous. "What utter foe?"
"I've never seen him so mad before." Kelli said, whispering. "What significance could it possibly represent?"
"Think little Vash dear, think." Lair said, laughing wickedly. Vash concentrated hard.
"No." He said quietly. "I still hear that voice in my nightmares, and it's been so long ago."
"What's he talking about?" Kanari asked. They ignored her.
"It wasn't his fault, not really, anyways." Lair said. "He was originally a wicked guy, but weak, possessed by his mother's darkness, that turned him evil."
"Galdius." Vash fell to his knees. "No, not Galdius, his spirit, his soul."
"I understand!" Kelli said. "So his body was buried miles away, underneath the light and into the darkness that never rises, but his soul is still alive."
"And he can come back and haunt us all, if only we find him." Vash said. "Oh, what have we done?"
"I still don't get this." Kanari said.
"OH!" Vash said.
"I think they just realized that they didn't really kill Galdius." Rene suggested. Kelli nodded. "And Lair here wants revenge of a sort." Kelli shook her head. "No?"
"You ruined my great chances of fame, of this world, of whatever my heart stood for." She growled. "And now, you shall pay!"
"What about Galdius's soul?" Vash asked.
"It won't bother you unless you accidentally drift through it, and you can only do that if you know now where you are." Clay the Elder said from behind Nakita's wings.
"How is killing us going to help?" Kelli asked. "Galdius's soul could have gone to some other place, and you could hunt it down, but is killing us going to help any?"
Lair pondered this for a long while, her eyes now not glowing anymore, but a pale, dark, blue, and I recognized them as Vash's eyes.
"I just wanted to live my life the way it was, with a mission, and you destroyed it all!" She cried. "Besides." She looked at Vash. "He has to pay."
"What do I have to pay for?" Vash asked angrily, climbing to his feet. "You-you just want to rule over the world, and now we've destroyed it for you, you think that the only reason (and let me tell you Lair, this is true too) you can is to defeat us, isn't that right?" His booming voice was instantly cut short by the clasp of thunder and the lightning.
"That may be true." Lair said quietly. "But there's more that you don't know and won't ever find out."
"The fact that you may be related." Rene whispered. "And the grandmother might have been…" But she trailed off and looked at Clay the Elder.
"No way." Kelli said.
"It's possible."
"Then how did she get here?"
"I don't know, all I know is it's possible, and that's all that matters."
"I still don't understand!" Kanari whined.
"It's simple." Snowy answered. "She wants to take over the world, a reason to destroy us first, and she wants to keep us from learning anything else. And also, Galdius isn't really dead after all, his body is but his soul is still alive, somewhere, but we needn't worry about it so soon because likely it'll never affect us, and she wanted to destroy the soul along with the body, all the reason to destroy us." Snowy said.
"Then what was all that talk about?" Kanari asked.
"Just mapping it out, I guess." Snowy replied.
"You now see Vash?" Lair asked.
"And what if I agree to you?"
"For what?"
"Ruling over the world."
"Vash!" There came many voices of protests. Vash held up his hand. Lair smiled slyly.
"Then." She said cautiously. "Everything will be forgiven and we will rule."
"Vash." Clay the Elder said, walking over to him. Nakita flew over him, guiding him and shielding him from the rain. "Vash, whatever you do, remember that I trust you and always will."
"There is a possibility, I know there is." Rene insisted. Kelli grunted.
"Yuki's the psychic one, not you!" She snapped and caught herself.
"All right." I knelt down and took out the globe. Putting my hands over it, leaving a room my for my eyes, I stared at it. I was so caught up at it that I didn't notice that everyone else was too. But they didn't see exactly what I did. I saw wings, everywhere, but they saw something entirely different, something altered everything.
I'm posting the next one today also because I finished writing it (duh)
The story's starting to go deep. ::sigh:: Can't help the past Vash, can't help the past.
Sacrifice
Grunt. Doughboy picked up a huge plank with the help of Snowy and Rene. Grunt. He walked two steps. Stop, pant, pant, pick up, and go on, grunting. I watched from the skies with somewhat humor. It was rather funny.
"Yo, Yuki!" Kanari called from the ground. "Come help us!" I flew to a place where Nakita and Kanari were moving another plank, but by air.
"I don't see why Rene and Snowy won't just fly and make Doughboy use his bubble." I complained. "Although, it kind of is funny to see him like this and it is kind of slow for him to go along in the bubble, but it's faster than the walking process."
"I think that Snowy and Rene tire out more if they have to adjust their wings so they're practically hovering in one area for a long time, cause you know how slow that bubble moves." Nakita said. "It probably takes more energy."
"Probably." I agreed as we moved the plank and started to fly.
"What are they doing with the system?" Kanari said. "I mean, how do they plan this out?"
"The dwarfs are helping out too." Nakita said. "The dwarfs, excellent cutters that really never wear out, cut and polish all the planks. Then the workers and some of the dwarfs help put together and paint and polish. Of course, we need to put it together before we can actually start painting, but the workers spent last night and all this morning working out how the ship should look like and now they're building. The only problem was, the dwarfs couldn't get the wood any closer to the ship."
"Why not?" Kanari asked.
"They started out this morning side by side, but then as the dwarfs chopped down the forest, and the ship stayed in the meadow, so they became farther and farther apart. The dwarfs created a remedy that after they sprinkle it, the stump disappears entirely and the roots rot and turn into fertilizer."
"What does that have to do with anything?"
"Well, it just explains why they are no stumps anywhere in the meadows." We flew past three figures that looked like ants, Doughboy, Snowy, and Rene.
"Yeah, so?"
"In case you were wondering." We landed on the ground and walked up to the pile of planks. The dwarfs and workers were moving planks too, but we could do it faster. However, the storage of planks was still slowly diminishing, and we had to hurry and fly back.
After the whole day of practically working, we finally returned to the mansion.
"What a vigorous workout." Vash said. "I could lose a couple of pounds on this."
"Yes, you could." Doughboy replied.
"You should talk." Vash retorted and continued to walk along. Doughboy was steaming mad, but could think of nothing else to say.
"So?" Kelli asked when they were out of earshot. "Have you decided yet?"
"She betrayed us all." Vash said quietly. "That is a must."
"Yes, betrayal is." Kelli asked. "But are you strong enough to do it?"
"Of course." Vash said certainly. But he was trembling, and Kelli sensed the quickness in his reply.
"Very well." She said. "Let us go. It's almost noon, almost time." And hence, Vash trembled again.
We arrived back in the Underground only to be run over by a stampede of dwarfs running to and fro.
"What is going on?" Kanari asked.
"Ho, the dwarfs are starting to build their own village and move to the Upper World." Clay the Elder replied cheerfully, coming out of the tunnel. "They're moving! You think all of them are helping build that ark? Ho!" He smiled and grasped around and took out his cane. "They're retrieved all of the left over from the castle and piled them by the ark. Now, during the break, let the execution begin!"
"What?" Snowy asked.
"Vash." Clay the Elder said.
"I couldn't." Vash said. "Tell them, I mean. At least, not just yet." So hence Clay the Elder started his long speech about it.
Vash and Kelli had started after the stampede already, so we followed quickly.
"Where are you going?" I asked, trying to keep up.
"It's going to be held outside." Vash said. We entered the town, a dusty area, which Clay the Elder said would grow and become prosperous.
"Whatever you say." Snowy replied.
"Are we going to feel an impact when Genesis hits Uri?" Rene asked.
"Likely we'll all be thrown off the planet and be left traveling the Fifth Dimension." Vash said sourly.
"Actually," Kelli said, with a nudge at Vash, "it'll probably throw us off our feet and we'll land several yards away, but otherwise, nothing much."
"Ouch." Doughboy said. We all looked at him for a moment and then continued on. There, in the middle of what looked like the town square, was a small wooden figure, and tied to it was a girl, dressed in a old, red dress that looked like rags, with her red curly hair flying down in her face, sobbing wildly into her hair, since her hands and feet were tied to the posts.
"They plan to put a fountain in the middle of that town square." Clay the Elder said. "But while they're still building it, they will first let her die here."
"How awful." Rene said. "And then the town square will be always haunted. And she has such lovely red curls." Where Rene sighed and touched her own hair. Rene's hair was short and a little puffy, red by sun and silver by moonlight, it was an odd color. For some reason, she didn't like that color, though I thought it looked lovely. Of course, Lair's hair probably looked the best out of the two, but right now, it was damp and tangled and ugly, and Rene's hair looked better. Rene's hair was pretty, and even if she didn't think it was, it was pretty in the past. Whenever we went to her house, I would see a picture of a little girl with glowing red hair and a sharp cheek and peach skin and radiant little darling smile, which obviously was Rene. And the hair was in beautiful curls. Rene never said anything about that picture though, and although that picture didn't really look all that much like the Rene with us or the Rene in her photo albums, who else could that girl in the frame possibly be?
"Curls or no curls." I said, snapping back to reality. "It's what's underneath that counts. Right Vash?" Vash was staring at the girl on the post, fixed and focused. "Vash?"
"Hmm?" Vash asked, not looking away, but his eyebrows were raised.
"Never mind." I answered and looked around. The dwarfs were starting to gather around the town circle. Lair looked up and saw us.
"Vash, help me!" She cried.
"Oh golly." Kelli said and walked over to a nearby store (which was empty) and sat down on the sidewalk. Rene and I walked over and sat next to her.
"What's wrong?" I asked.
"Vash already has enough qualms about killing her, now this influence may change his opinion, something he worked all day on." She turned back to catch sight of Vash standing next to Lair on the mound and beside the post and the crowds of dwarfs cheering. Doughboy looked as if he was about to throw up and I could hear Snowy saying to Kanari, "This seems like something out of my textbook. You know, history, the hangings." Nakita and Cherry were somewhere in the crowd, and after a few minutes of searching; I finally spotted them in the front row. A yellow bug flew near my eye and I waved my hand at it impatiently.
"Hey!" A big voice said. I looked up.
"Oh, sorry bout that Kero." I said smugly. "Sorry I forgot you too." Kero sighed and got off of Anora's back.
"Always forgetting the pets, Yuki, always." Kero commented and sat on my shoulder, watching. "So, did we miss anything?"
"Not much has happened yet, oh!" Vash took his sword out of the sheath. He rose if a couple of feet in the air, and I saw that he was trembling. But he suddenly straightened himself, and with all his might, aimed the sword towards the neck, which was a part of her that was not bounded to the post.
"Zing!!!" There was a slight noise and a fistful of curls landed at Vash's feet.
"He missed." Kelli said faintly. "I don't believe it."
"I believe you're deaf." Kero said. I hit him on the head. "He missed because she was screaming."
"They should have sealed her mouth." Kelli said. Vash looked up and again at Lair. Her hair was short now, and there was a red mark on her neck, where he had cut her. Vash held up the sword again and lowered it. This time, however, the sword never reached her head.
There was a slight blue flash, like the flash of lightning on a cold, bitter night, and suddenly, Vash was lying flat on the ground. Nakita and Cherry rushed up to him.
"What's going on?" Kelli asked, running through the crowds, the rest of us running to get up there.
"Look at Lair!" I shouted. Her eyes were a deadly neon blue instead of that red and her small freckles were beginning to show. Then, she seemed to summon her strength and the bounds snapped. She stepped forward and great, huge, red wings sprouted from her back and opened her mouth and made a blast at the audience.
There was an explosion and suddenly, five dwarfs were lying down on the ground, locked within an ice cube.
"Ah, Fire Card!" I said as the others rushed past to Vash. "Melt the cube, Firey!" The Fire Card revived the dwarfs. Lair turned around and saw me.
"You!" She said. I saw envy, hatred, and what was that? Greed?
Meanwhile, the others had reached Vash. They shook him and woke him up, his sword lying on the ground by his side. He was so weak he could hardly stand.
"You." Lair narrowed her eyes at me. Suddenly, her mouth opened and a blue light shot out, straight out. The Firey Card got between us, but that was enough to save my life. It paused the effect as the two forces battled for one split second, and then the Firey diminished, buy by that time, Vash had already gotten to his feet and lunged at me, sending us both skidding across the asphalt. I got up shakily and saw the Firey Card melt the cube of dwarfs that Vash saving me had caused them. By now, most of the dwarfs had started to get the message into their minds to run. I looked at my arms, and having been leaning on them the whole trip, the skin was rubbing off. Vash was lying nearby, choking wildly. I ran over and poured cordial into his mouth and then rubbed some on my arms. A shadow came over us. Kelli and Nakita ran over, followed very closely by Rene.
Lair was flying over us. The clouds were starting to come together, filled with black ash. I shivered as the rain poured down and soaked us all.
"What is going on?" Mr. Clay stood at the side of the shop. He saw Lair and froze.
"We have got to get out of here and get this monster too." Kelli said. "Yuki, do something about your Firey Card." For the Firey Card was dying down as the rain poured.
"Firey, Return to your Powers; Confined." I stuck the card in my pocket and felt increasingly dizzy. Everything had looked so good half an hour ago.
Clay the Elder and the army of the dwarfs, along with Kanari, Kelli, Nakita, Rene, Vash, Cerberus, Cherry, Anora, Mr. Clay, Snowy, Doughboy and I were the only ones on the asphalt. Lair seemed to tower over us as she flew over us, the rain falling only after she had passed and soaking us all, her short curls seemed to extend as they got wet, and her glare was, well, chilling.
"Oh man." Vash said. "Looks like we've got to fight."
"Yes, it does, does it?" Lair said. She touched her curls. "Thank you for sparing my life Vash."
"What?" Vash asked.
"And I like the haircut." But there was something behind that eye, something I didn't trust at all. And neither did the others, I think, except Doughboy, who had already started to accept the apology and say something back, but didn't get too far, since Snowy kicked him in the shins to be quiet.
"But." Lair said, and we knew it was coming. "I knew that you would've killed me, but you gave me something I've always lacked: time. And I remembered Grandmother's old spell."
"Is she related to Queen Jewel?" Rene asked.
"What spell?" Vash yelled at Lair, furious.
"Why are you asking?" Kelli asked Rene, quietly, not interrupting Vash's conversation.
"I was just wondering." Rene said, her red hair turning lighter as the clouds blackened even more and the rain increased. Nakita walked Clay the Elder under an awning to keep him out of the rain and spread her wings to block it from him. The old man was becoming very fragile. Cherry hopped down and joined the others. "It might have some significance."
"The spell of the gods." Lair said.
"Oh please, don't get into mythology now." Vash complained. Lair narrowed her eyes.
"I had great hopes for us, Vash, little dear." She said, twirling a finger around a curl. "I thought we could defeat our utter foe and rule the world together."
"And that's all they think about, ruling the world!" Vash shouted back, outrageous. "What utter foe?"
"I've never seen him so mad before." Kelli said, whispering. "What significance could it possibly represent?"
"Think little Vash dear, think." Lair said, laughing wickedly. Vash concentrated hard.
"No." He said quietly. "I still hear that voice in my nightmares, and it's been so long ago."
"What's he talking about?" Kanari asked. They ignored her.
"It wasn't his fault, not really, anyways." Lair said. "He was originally a wicked guy, but weak, possessed by his mother's darkness, that turned him evil."
"Galdius." Vash fell to his knees. "No, not Galdius, his spirit, his soul."
"I understand!" Kelli said. "So his body was buried miles away, underneath the light and into the darkness that never rises, but his soul is still alive."
"And he can come back and haunt us all, if only we find him." Vash said. "Oh, what have we done?"
"I still don't get this." Kanari said.
"OH!" Vash said.
"I think they just realized that they didn't really kill Galdius." Rene suggested. Kelli nodded. "And Lair here wants revenge of a sort." Kelli shook her head. "No?"
"You ruined my great chances of fame, of this world, of whatever my heart stood for." She growled. "And now, you shall pay!"
"What about Galdius's soul?" Vash asked.
"It won't bother you unless you accidentally drift through it, and you can only do that if you know now where you are." Clay the Elder said from behind Nakita's wings.
"How is killing us going to help?" Kelli asked. "Galdius's soul could have gone to some other place, and you could hunt it down, but is killing us going to help any?"
Lair pondered this for a long while, her eyes now not glowing anymore, but a pale, dark, blue, and I recognized them as Vash's eyes.
"I just wanted to live my life the way it was, with a mission, and you destroyed it all!" She cried. "Besides." She looked at Vash. "He has to pay."
"What do I have to pay for?" Vash asked angrily, climbing to his feet. "You-you just want to rule over the world, and now we've destroyed it for you, you think that the only reason (and let me tell you Lair, this is true too) you can is to defeat us, isn't that right?" His booming voice was instantly cut short by the clasp of thunder and the lightning.
"That may be true." Lair said quietly. "But there's more that you don't know and won't ever find out."
"The fact that you may be related." Rene whispered. "And the grandmother might have been…" But she trailed off and looked at Clay the Elder.
"No way." Kelli said.
"It's possible."
"Then how did she get here?"
"I don't know, all I know is it's possible, and that's all that matters."
"I still don't understand!" Kanari whined.
"It's simple." Snowy answered. "She wants to take over the world, a reason to destroy us first, and she wants to keep us from learning anything else. And also, Galdius isn't really dead after all, his body is but his soul is still alive, somewhere, but we needn't worry about it so soon because likely it'll never affect us, and she wanted to destroy the soul along with the body, all the reason to destroy us." Snowy said.
"Then what was all that talk about?" Kanari asked.
"Just mapping it out, I guess." Snowy replied.
"You now see Vash?" Lair asked.
"And what if I agree to you?"
"For what?"
"Ruling over the world."
"Vash!" There came many voices of protests. Vash held up his hand. Lair smiled slyly.
"Then." She said cautiously. "Everything will be forgiven and we will rule."
"Vash." Clay the Elder said, walking over to him. Nakita flew over him, guiding him and shielding him from the rain. "Vash, whatever you do, remember that I trust you and always will."
"There is a possibility, I know there is." Rene insisted. Kelli grunted.
"Yuki's the psychic one, not you!" She snapped and caught herself.
"All right." I knelt down and took out the globe. Putting my hands over it, leaving a room my for my eyes, I stared at it. I was so caught up at it that I didn't notice that everyone else was too. But they didn't see exactly what I did. I saw wings, everywhere, but they saw something entirely different, something altered everything.
I'm posting the next one today also because I finished writing it (duh)
