Story 1
Part 3
I ran down the street hot on Gene's trail as I quickly began to realize as he start to rapidly pull away from me, that I was no match for his speed. Gene longer legs and well-develop muscles made a huge difference in this race as I watch him get further and further ahead. I just hope that he wouldn't find Hanmyo before I was able to catch up to him. My mind then began to wander as I raced after my partner.
After arriving on Sympa 5, the crew kind of separated with Suzaka resting aboard the ship and Aisha going somewhere to have a little fun. Gene struck around with me at least until we had made an agreement with the spaceport's mechanic, then he too left, but not before I made Melfina his guardian for the night. Then I went to work on the battle plans, because I knew that the next time we meet that other ship we might not be so lucky. So I soon found myself alone in the cargo room with Gilliam. Man, sometimes I swear he is the only one who truly appreciated me, but these thoughts would have to wait as Gilliam gave me some more information on the ship and another cup of coffee. It didn't take long for night to fall and with the coming of morning I still found myself steadily typing on my computer. That was when Gilliam announced as I yawn that maybe I should take a break. "I was so exhaust," I exclaimed as I yawned again, but I wasn't ready for bed yet, so I decided to take a walk. So, I left the Outlaw Star and wandered around for a little bit, until I found myself siting on a railing next to the park.
That was when I saw a black kitten with two white ears and a single patch of white over her right eye. It was so cute that I soon found myself rubbing it. That was when another one appeared, this one was mainly white with a black tail and four black paws that made him look like he was wearing mittens. It also had a huge patch of black on its head that resembles a mask that stretches from the tip of his ears to a place underneath his eyes. I eagerly began to rub them both as they purred happily, but this wasn't meant to last as they suddenly stop purring and quickly ran away. I of course followed them, mainly because I wasn't done playing with them. The two cats ducked into the park where I searched and call out for them and that was when I met her, Hanmyo. Her beauty and grace stun me as she leap on the edge of the sparkling fountain. Her hair twisted in the wind as she stuck a magnificent pose as she finished her beautiful display of skill. I felt my heart melt as she suddenly turn to face me.
"Hello!" she responded upon meeting me.
Of course I was tongue-tied and simply asked her about the cats, who was sitting underneath the fountain. She hopped off the fountain and walk toward me, and I swear that my heart stopped as she asked me my name.
By then I knew that I was in love and I made a promise to myself to protect her. That was why two days later after my first meeting with Hanmyo I chose to learn more about her, and that was when her secret was revealed to me. I realized that our plans to launch that day would definitely result in us meeting her ship again, and I had no plans of killing her so I ran away. I thought that maybe I could buy us some time.
Fat chance! Now their meeting was going to be worst then it would have been originally. At least in space, there was always a chance for escape in its vastness. Here in the park there was only one exit and I doubt either one would be patience while the other escapes.
"Damn, what I fool," I curse myself under my breath as I finally arrive at the park to hear the sounds of gun shots in the distance. It seems that the party has already start I thought as I rushed into the park to meet my fate at the hands of one of my love.
I quickly arrived upon a scene with Hanmyo shooting at Gene with a regular old pistol from behind a tree, while her two cats Mata and Kemi were siting and watching him in his place behind the park bench. This look like an old western with Gene loading his Castor Gun from behind the bench while Hanmyo fired shot after shot at him, and at first sight anyone would have thought that it was a show with the cats quietly standing by.
"This scene looked completely ridiculous." I moan as I prepared to shout out to both of them.
That was when it happen as Hanmyo stop shooting to reload her gun. Gene slowly appeared from behind the park bench and aimed his Castor Gun at the girl, and then the two cats attacked Gene as he tried to get a steady shot. He fired the gun as Hanmyo managed to reload her gun and turn to face him. She barely managed to dodge the shot as the tree she was hidden behind was vaporized. She then fired a single shot as she dove behind another tree. It caught Gene in the leg as he attempted to dive back behind the bench, and he fell heavily upon the ground. He drop his Castor Gun as he fell and it landed a few inches from him as he tried to scramble toward it, but was stop as he reach his hand out to retrieve it only to have his hand return to him with five deep scratch marks on it. The black cat Kemi positions herself between him and the gun. So with the gun nolonger an option Gene turned to see the girl at a distance holding the gun at him (pointed at his head). She smiled a horrifying smile that chills me to the core as she spoke.
"This is it Gene Starwind," she said slowly and without a shred of mercy in her voice.
Everything slowed down for me as I ran toward them, and just as she pull the trigger I position myself with my arms out wide and my body in between her and Gene.
"Don't do it Han--!" I began as a sudden jolt of pain went through my body like an electric shock. The words I was going to say died on my lips, as I look at her wide eyed as sudden fear and realization floated to me on the wind. Hanmyo had shot me, that much was way too clear to me, and in a way I wished then that I had been one of those normal stupid kids who wouldn't have known the truth. But I wasn't and I did know as my arms slowly dropped to my sides. It was at that moment, as I looked into Hanmyo's brown eyes that I realize that she truly love me too. I could see the same fear and realization in her eyes as I look into them, and then my legs gave way beneath.
My world was quickly wrapped in a pain as I dropped first to my knees and then in one swift moment toppled over into the arms of Hanmyo, whom caught me before I hit the ground. She then turned me quickly yet gently in her arms so that I faced her, and Gene, who has suddenly forgotten about his leg managed to arrange himself beside me. It was funny I thought as I look up into her beautiful eyes and felt Gene quickly grab my hand," How perfect everything was!" " They had forgot their differences in a matter of moments," as she held me close I felt so complete, but then a sense of weightlessness took over me as Gene slow pried me from the girl's hands. He then uttered something that I couldn't understand as he somehow manage to get to his feet with me in his arms.
As Gene slowly rose from the ground the small pink rose that I had kept in my jacket fell upon the ground into a small patch of dirt cover in my blood. I look upon that rose and remember the day that I gave Hanmyo a banquet of flowers, in which she chose that small rose and handed it back to me. She then said to me that a pink rose represented life and death, and has the ability to change a tragedy if one wishes. I made that wish then, a wish for an alternative ending in which me and Hanmyo would be together. Then right before my vision clouded as Gene hurried away with me, I swore I saw it sink into my blood.
"Had my wish been granted?" Then the darkness claimed me, before I could ponder on this more. A voice called out to me, one that I didn't at first recognize, but soon it became clear to me who it was. It was calling me home, but I refused it. I couldn't leave without telling them… without telling her how I felt. So, the darkness slow cleared as I open my eyes to see Gene running toward the park entrance. I knew I didn't have the strength to say a entire sentence, so with all the strength I could muster I manage to speak as Gene paused for the moment to asked Hanmyo if she knew of any hospitals near here.
I cough loudly as I tried to clear the blood from my throat," I--I *cough* cough* l--love you." Then the darkness claim me again as Gene looked down at my in worry and frustration. Hanmyo then broke down and cried. The two cats Kemi and Mata meowed loudly, and then as my hearing began to diminish I heard him shout at the girl.
"It isn't over with yet!" "Jim is a stronger then you think and has been through worst then this, so I won't have his girlfriend giving up on him."
My girlfriend? I thought as I slowly sunk away from them and this world. I never real thought about it and now it just seems pointless to as I heard Hanmyo sniffling as she stops crying. Then the sound of meowing drifted to my ears as Hanmyo exclaimed with an air of hope in her voice.
" Mata says that there is a hospital just down the street and he will show us the way."
Then there was a loud silence as I imagine Gene's expression about her ability to talk to cats. I bet he would've asked her a million different questions if he didn't have a more urgent matter to attend to. Then I felt his rapid movements as they started to run. The words that they exchanged as they ran fail to reach me as my hearing vanished, and the only true sign that I was still alive was the fact that I could feel my body moving in a steady rhythm up and down. Then the voice called to me again, and this time I didn't turn away from it. I was just too weak to turn it down this time. I knew that I could nolonger open my eyes, move my hands, or even listen to the sounds outside this world of nothingness, and the sheer numbness of my body as I lost the ability to feel was too much for me to take. I agree to go with it, and it was then in the darkness that the voice became a solid form as I looked upon my mother. She then held out her hand, which I quickly accepted.
Gene could feel my breathing growing shallower as he quickly approached the hospital. Then all of a sudden my body shook one last time as I drew my last breath as he reached the front yard and bolt to the steps. Here my breathing stop as I died on the door steps of the hospital in Gene's arms with Hanmyo at his heel crying loudly with one of the cats at her side and the other one just ahead of them inside the hospital doors. Of course Gene quickly yelled for a doctor, but by the time they had gotten me into the back room the doctors already knew that it was too late, but yet they tried anyway. The doctor returns a while later with his head down as he tried to avoid the eager eyes of the people infront of him. "It was a bad wound that took him in the heart," the doctor said as if to justify what he was going to say now. "I'm sorry." "He is now free from all pain," the doctor announces sadly to Gene, Hanmyo, and the rest of the crew of the outlaw star, whom Gene had called as soon as the doctors had taken me away.
"My story had ended here, but I wonder if in another time or place if it could had been different. What would have happen if I had survived and would me and Hanmyo had been able to be together? Well that sort of thing really didn't matter now, since I'm just another spirit who has finally find its way home."
The End of Story 1