Timeline Trouble

Chapter 6

The command center is quiet, small sounds can almost be heard. The personnels are on vacation, while others are back to their regular schedules. The tension that was filling the air since the encounter with Kageyama at the Luneta three weeks ago is now gone.

Everything is literally back to normal. The intense training days are over. The noise of fast-paced maintenance and repairs are now silent. The alarms dead. The voices gone. The familiar voices of the comrades.

Well, time to go on my own vacation. It's so good to rest after all these hard work as a Captain of the Gate Keepers South-East Asia Party and especially of the Gate Keepers Philippines.

He sit on his personal transportation pod and punched a few buttons on the panel on his left and the chair hurled to its direction.

He emerged in a chamber room where the planes are kept. The room is also quiet, only the blow of the wind from the outside can be heard.

He walked pass a control circuit and headed to the cockpit. Inside, a small plane capable of doing spy missions is docked waiting for its pilot to sit in and fly it.

Looking at his right, he saw a personnel guarding the place behind a glass at a distance. The control room. He waved and the personnel smiled at him.

He walks towards the plane, touched and checked it all over then climbed up in and sit in the pilots chair. He then strap himself in, closed the hatched and powered up the plane.

The hangar opened up, the plane fired up, then flew away. From behind the base is fastly disappearing from view as he gain altitude at top speed.

View from the top is so beautiful. The cities, then the parks, the seas, the clouds, makes the scenery a wonder to behold. It's been seven months since he flew this plane, before being called by the AEGIS South-East to become the Captain.

He did missed flying this plane, but he surely misses his comrades and those who he just met like Anna.

"Congratulations to all of you for your victory two days ago." Commander Cav said happily.

The AEGIS Personnels clapped their hands on the Gate Keepers achievements. The Gate Keepers all said, "Thank you."

"But before we go on for all day and night celebration, there are some things I must tell you all." The Commander continued his face turning sad and said continued, "I am sadly to announce that Gate Keeper of Love, Miss Loids Artz has left us."

"No way..." The people reacted.

The commander coughs to get back their attention, "But let us not mistake her as an enemy. I will read to you a letter she gave us through her best friend Anna."

He opened up a folder and took a folded paper and read it, "She said,

To the honorable AEGIS-Philippines and my good friends and comrades, Gate Keepers Party-Philippines,

It is I, the Gate Keeper of Love, Loida Artz. I wrote to you to inform you of my status.

First of all, congratulations on all your great effort that ultimately led to our victory. We saved South-East Asia, and much more our own country from the clutches of Kageyama.

Secondly, I am well and sound. Very fine, in good health. So don't think that I am a dead person just because you did not saw me after the battle.

Lastly, I am sorry I have to leave you all. The time has come for us to take our separate ways. I am a member of the 'Lost Order of Gate Keepers' and I am the Captain of one of it's divisions.

I was on a special mission, undercover within your ranks because we received reports four years ago that a top secret agent from the Gate Keepers Army successfully infiltrated your ranks.

Now my mission is successfully completed. We, no, I am giving you a warning, the agent successfully gathered your details, AEGIS South-East Asia details and it's Gate Keepers Parties. Be careful.

I will help in any way I can, but I cannot promise our Order will. You know our ways, we move only if necessary and if the good of all is being challenged.

Until our paths cross again. Thank you to all of you. Thank you my dear friends and comrades. I hope I did not betray all your precious trusts.

Paalam sa inyong lahat. (Goodbye to all of you.)

"For the Good of All, for the victory of the Good. Good shall reign. - The Society.

Capt. Loids Artz, LOGK.

End of letter." The commander said.

The people who heard the letter are saddened by it. Their eyes are watery, others are already sobbing.

The commander took another letter under the table and handed it over to Anna and he smiled saying, "Today I gave her the letter from our sector, written are good words and goodbye words, and the phrase 'We will miss you'. Written by Captain Jay on our behalf." He paused. Looked at the people and breath twice, "On behalf of the AEGIS South-East Asia, I, the Commander of AEGIS-Philippines, Commander Cav Patawa, now relieve you of your duty under the AEGIS Organization. Miss Anna Venus, the Gate Keeper of Shield, Von Voyage!" He smiled and dropped a tear. He continued, "Goodbye Anna and may your journey lead you to your happiness and destined duty to this world." Then he cried like a kid.

We will meet again. We will. "And when that day comes..." then fighter jets flew over the air and formed the AEGIS Symbol over the sky, that seems to be just above where he is laying down relaxing - the beautiful, peaceful, and fresh air and scenery of the Boracay Beach.

The once beautiful place, that used to have trees, grasses, animals, and children and families in the park, now dead. Dark. Muddy and dirty. Stinks. Devastated. Totally devastated. Landmarks ruined. Establishments collapsing. Life nowhere to be found.

"Life is rare, Life is pure,

It gives beauty, it gives happiness.

But when disturbed, death comes in,

Ugliness and sadness rules in.

"Yet life will never give up, it is full of hope.

From nothing, new life is created."

"How ironic isn't it?" a voice said.

She looked at her right and from thin air a figure slowly formed up. He is a tall guy of more or less 5'9" in height, a normal built person, has short hair and clean-shaven face, and a look of calmness, peace, and serenity in his eyes.

"Lord Jean Chretien." She said smiling. "How long have you been here?" Looking at his eyes.

"Long enough to hear your poem." He answered, turned to his left and look at her. "Sad isn't it? It's used to be a beautiful place, a tourist spot, not it's totally devastated, dead, eerie." He continued while looking at the scenery below them from air at thirty feet.

She nodded in agreement.

"But as you said,

'Life will never give up, it is full of hope.

From nothing, new life is created.'

So are the people, they will never give up."

"I remember him..." She interrupted.

He looked at the distance, think, and said, "Yes. An encounter that changed you, that gave you hope. Don't waste that precious moment." He looked back to the scenery and people are starting to work and rebuild the place. "Look, the people are working now, they are rebuilding the place. You must do the same, don't give up, us who were granted immortality must not give up, there is a reason behind this, otherwise we won't be here in the first place. Learn from the past and forget it so you can hope and look into the future, and finally, always live in the present." He said smiling, showing hope and happiness in his face and voice. "You used to say, and it's even famous now,

'If this is not the end of oblivion, then I shall live everyday...'"

"'As if my life were to end this very day.'"

She continued. She looked up in the sky, looked into the horizon, looked around then to the people working down below and said, "Thanks Lord Jean, and thanks to Ukiya. I can do my job better than before."

"Good that's the spirit."

"Sayoonara, Jeansama. Visit us here again sometime in the future."

He looked at her and said, "Lady Yukino Houjou, I am very glad that you have found where your happiness is. I will hope that someday you'll be the imeLady again.

"Take good care of the Gate Keepers Universe, you are not its guardian. Sayoonara Yukino-sama."

She smiled back and waved. She moved her hand up and said, "Geeto Open!" And a snow like ring appeared at the top of her hand and it goes down slowly to her from head to feet and she disappeared as a snow and whisked away into the sky.

"God Bless Lady Houjou, Guardian of the Gate Keepers Universe." He said sadly with a mixed of happiness for the person, who was living alone for years.

Now I have to go, I still have something to do before I leave this Universe. And he disappeared into thin air.

Loids and Anna are walking in the corridors of the Lost Order's headquarters. She just finished touring her best friend Anna to the place and now heading to the cafeteria to eat something.

Loids ordered 'Sinigang na Baboy', her favorite Filipino dish. It is a dish that many people who visited the country likes most, it is a pig dish cooked in a steamer to soften it's parts, then cooked together with a soup with cabbages, carrots, potatoes, and with the added taste of sourness that makes the dish alive when eaten.

Anna ordered the same dish, best friends after all, but hers is 'Sinigang na Baka', the same cooking and ingredients but different in the main ingredient, it's a Bull dish.

They seated in a table and eat their food. A light suddenly shown in their table, and a paper formed from it with the words written in it that says, 'For You My Dear Sugar'. It's a letter!

Anna and Loids looked at each other startled. She picked it up and handed it over to Loids. She opened it up and read it,

"Dearest Sugar,

I hope you're doing fine now and you have gained back your best friend's trust. Me? I am fine, very well alive.

Now do not worry about me, though you will not see me again sometime soon, I can always see you. Again I am not dead yet, or will never die.

If you can still remember that night, I opened up a Gate similar to those of the Gate Keepers, similar to yours. It is not a Gate to be exact, it's only a manifestation of my power I chose in this Universe, and I call it the Gate of WhiteLight. It is a highly positive or should I say the most opsitive enrgy in Laibcoms, it is also the Holiest of Holy energy, and the most powerful there is.

It is a long story how I got this kind of power, but I know that one day I will be able to tell you everything right from the beginning and to the end. Until that day comes, don't think about it.

As I've said you won't see me for now. I have to leave this universe, the Gate Keepers Universe for there is a mission I have to do as the 'Laibeus Lord', as you have heard Yukino and a voice called me. Also, my true name is Jean Chretien, sorry I told you my name is John Clinton.

Lastly, I want you two to know that the Gate Keepers Universe now has a guardian, her name is Yukino Houjou, yes, it's Lady Yukino the Gate Keeper of Snow and Time. She is the first under my timeperiod as the eight Laibeus Lord. Do not tell this to anyone. Only you and Anna are allowed to know this matter.

But for now, after you read this, certain parts of this letter will be locked out from your memories. Until the time comes when you will need it that it will be unlocked.

This is a powerful revelation and very dangerous. I cannot explain it further, these are the only things that I am allowed to tell you for now. One day, and I look forward to that day, when I will have more authority as a Laibeus Lord, then we will be together for all eternity.

Right now, Lady Yukino stopped the flow of time, no one heard you reading this. From this point onwards, the memories that are destined to be locked up will be lock-up. See you next time, when you remembered them again.

Love,

Jean Chretien"

The letter then turned into snow and melted in her hands, and the time continued to flow again.

"The Gate Keeper of Snow and Time, Lady Yukino. You know, I really think this is not yet your destined position in the Laibcoms." Jean said.

"Naze" she asked.

"Your Gate is Snow and Time, and you know that the previous rulers has written about the knowledge they had gather"

"That only the TimeLord or TimeLady has the power to control time." She interrupted.

He nodded in agreement. "And you have chosen to be the Guardian instead of being a TimeLady." He continued, "and you were granted that power when you were still living with your family."

"Soo desu." She replied.

"I guess we still have to study and research more abuot this so called Laibcoms and the rules as heads of the various positions in it. I hope it'll be our generation that can solve the whole mystery behind this Laibcoms."

A rift opened up and a guy stepped out, "Or maybe Lady Yukino was trusted with the time-control, and based on the rulers before us that I recently found in the Dimension A41G48B, there were already incidents of overlapping powers and positions." He said.

"And we will never know why until we can find a new TimeLord or TimeLady." Jean continued.

"Right." He replied affirmatively.

"Very well, we will wait and search for the others who has been destined to receive positions in the Laibcoms." Jean said. "It's time to go for the next adventure. See ya both." He continued.

"I have to go back to El-Hazard." He said.

"Sayoonara Jeansama, Makoto-sama. I have to find co-guardians now for our universe." She said.

"Take care Lady Yukino." The two guys said in unison.

They all left for their destinations and jobs.

The End

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