Here is the next chapter of CaM! ^_^ Well, this isn't as long as the last
but I guess it's okay. There are a few little warnings though:
Cell's not in this chapter. (Well, I don't know if that's really a warning...)
There's some gore and violence, so if that offends you, then you probably shouldn't read this one. However, it is an essential part in the understanding of the story. 'K? ^_^ (Did anyone understand what I just said? 'Cause I surely don't! O.o)
A few little potty mouth words... Oh, come on! This IS a PG-13 story! What else did you expect?
Confusion. A lot of it. At least for me. There will be two Sekais in this chapter. So, to make things easier, the older, regular Sekai that we all know and love (hopefully) will simply be known as Sekai and the younger Sekai will be known as Sekai-chan. Just to clear things up a bit. ^_^
Weirdness.
... That's all. ^_^
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SSJ4 Goku: I am too. ^_^ Wow... Man, sounds more than annoying to me. Sounds frustrating too. I don't know. It must be a curse or something. That's just what my "other family" was. But I'm touched that you would want to share this with me! ^_^ That is early... Or is it late? *shrugs* Aw, again with the oh, so bubbly-feeling-type compliments. *turns red* It's too much! I bet Goku ate the last one.... I like him too, but not as much as the Son family(Cell included)! Maybe... Or else they'll feel the force of our combined powers! ^_^ Hey, who's laughing at you?! I'll get them with my evil plushies! Ah, I don't know about that... But you're certainly motivating me! Yep. Yeah, they do! Seriously! *** Yes, he did. Eeh, maybe this chapter isn't for you then. ^_^() Yeah, well, he isn't so smart right now with that thick head of his. Nope. Well, he is weird. Yes, you! ... Disarray is a bad thing? Not with you if it is. ^_^ If you think that's the right choice... I don't mind at all! I even like them sometimes. ^_^ Yes, we do! I'm working on it. Yeah, I'd say so. ^_^() Mine neither... *shudders* sharp rocks bad... I like her too! She's cool! Yep. Thank you! I will, but I'll try not to go so slow as to kill myself from my own suspense. ^_^()
lilmissgoten: Aw, don't worry about it. It's all right. I'm not going anywhere. Sure, whatever you want. ^_^ I bet it was... Not that I personally know, thankfully. Yeah, but she's a tough cookie! Mmm... cookies. Er, back to the subject! Probably but you never know... He just may be considerate of the others for once! (Not...) I like him to along with his first form. But I don't know which one I like best... Oh, well. Thankies! Wait no more! ^_^ *goes to get some cookies*
lilmissgoten (again): *comes back with a big jar of cookies* Hi again. Want some? Here you go. *gives you and then everyone else a cookie* ^_^ Thanx! And it's okay! All right? Good. ^_^
SSJSkaterTrunks: Thanx! ^_^ Yep. You wouldn't believe what I had to go through to look good for him... What's he talking about? I DID kiss him and I glomped him, too! ^___^ Thanx again. Man, he certainly gets his so-called "patience" from Vegeta... I wanna glomp him again! ~.~
Pen Dragon: Don't give up! Keep looking for... whatever you're looking for! ^_^() Boy, those demons are pesky...
ElysianAmazon: Yep. It's already giving me a headache... O.o Yep, until then! *waves the two-finger wave*
kyro: Thankies! ^_^ More's coming; don't worry! Heh, maybe. Wow, really now? *watches and blinks* Yeah, sure... ^_^()
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Disclaimer: DBZ isn't mine. It's Akira Toriyama's. Sekai, her family, the voice, and any other new characters and stuff, however, are mine. So... yeah. ^_^
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Cat and Mouse: Chapter Eighteen
She was floating.
And she didn't hurt anymore.
Everything just felt... happy.
She could see herself down below. Her younger self. That self looked happy, too. Just like the feeling around her own body.
'Where am I? Why is there another me?' Sekai thought. Her arms were crossed across her chest and over her knees, which were curled up. Warmth engulfed her, and she could feel her eyelids get heavy. But that confused her further. 'Aren't I dreaming? I shouldn't be feeling sleepy if I am, right?' No answer came to her.
~Do you remember?~
She gasped. 'Who said that?'
~Do you not recognize me now, Sekai-chan?~
'Should I? You don't sound like anyone I know.'
~Look down and see.~
Sekai did as she was told. There was her other self. Still there. But her older brother was there, too, now. Her brother, Nuko. Together, they played a game of hide-and-seek. Sekai-chan ran around, looking for a good spot to hide in. Nuko stood facing a tree with his arms covering his eyes and counted slowly to ten.
'That's me and Brother... But I don't remember that happening,' she commented in her mind.
~Keep watching.~
Nuko had finished counting and begun his search. Both could sense each other; it was like a bond that they had had since birth. Yet he didn't want to ruin the game by cheating so he simply searched with his eyes. Little Sekai-chan had her hands to her mouth, trying to stifle her giggles as she hid in the deep crevice of the large family tree. She was the only one who could actually fit in. Tied to her obi was the silver dagger Yoru had given to her.
Nuko was getting closer and closer to Sekai-chan. She kept very quiet now and kept her eyes on the lookout for him. But something wasn't right.
'Is it supposed to be this quiet? Can I not hear what's going on?' Sekai wondered, half asking the voice who showed this vision to her.
~Listen closely and find out.~
She didn't feel like retorting to the remark so she kept on looking and, this time, listening as well. A faint sound reached her ears. It sounded like... Crows?
Indeed, several crows were flying out of the trees, flapping away crazily like the end was near. Her younger self emerged from her tree and looked to investigate as well. Nuko did the same, feeling uneasy. Why would crows be there? And why would they try to get away from... What?
Sekai, being so high above everything, suddenly saw smoke rise from the forest, only a few meters from where her other self and Nuko stood. The two soon caught the scent and, after that, the sight of the fire that began to blaze high into the sky.
"Brother, a fire! What's happened?" Sekai-chan cried, pointing to the source.
Nuko began to run to where the fire was. "Stay here! I'm going to see what's going on!" And he turned and ran, without looking back.
Sekai-chan stood for a moment, caught between going after her brother and obeying his orders. Her hand unconsciously gripped the hilt of her dagger, and she finally bolted to the site of the fire. After all, she was a fighter, too, and wanted to help!
"Nuko! Wait for me!" she called after him, running as fast as she could to catch up with him.
Sekai watched the scene unfold before her eyes. 'That's when...'
~Yes.~
'Why are you showing this to me? Who are you?'
~Keep watching and the answers will come to you.~
She continued staring at the scene.
Sekai-chan had reached the area near the fire. She couldn't go any farther. The smoke was so thick that it made her eyes sting and her throat go dry. She coughed and took cover behind a tree. Sounds of gunshots brought her right back out from it.
Several men whom she didn't recognize were holding rifles and hot pokers along with other various weapons including flamethrowers. One had her mother in a tight hold from behind while another prepared to grind the poker through her gut.
"Mommy!" Sekai-chan ran to try to save her mother, but her father reached her first. He managed to get her mother away but ended up with the men surrounding him. They all fired at him and, having the upper hand with their strength in numbers and advanced weaponry, they easily killed him off.
Sekai screwed her eyes shut. 'Stop! I don't want to see anymore.'
~You must see this. It's the only way the truth will be revealed to you.~
'I don't want to know the truth, okay?! I'd rather live my life as a lie than have to go through this again.'
~But don't you want to know how the culprits of your parents' deaths died? Don't you want to find out what destroyed them?~
Sekai kept her eyes shut. Of course, inside, she wanted to know what happened to the lowly bastards. But could she really live through her childhood terror once more in exchange for it?
She opened her eyes and watched again, making her decision silently.
Satoshi knocked off the men as best she could, trying to reach her fallen husband. Sekai-chan was frozen in horror at seeing the murder of her father. She had taken out the dagger from her obi and held both the hilt and blade in her hands tightly. The blade cut through her skin in her right hand, and the blood dripped soundlessly to the ground. Her lips quivered slightly and tears formed at the corner of her eyes, but she didn't cry. She just watched.
From afar, her brother fought off the other guards with his talented martial arts skills. But even that wasn't enough to get them all. One of the men jammed a poker clear through his side, leaving it in. Nuko gritted his teeth and, with the strength he could muster up, kicked the man in the chin. The force was so great that it snapped the man's neck in half, killing him. He fell limp to the ground.
Agonizingly, Nuko yanked the poker from his side and held it as his own weapon. He saw his mother quickly being approached by the other men and fought his way through to her. He also saw Sekai-chan, frozen stiff and looking scared, standing out in the open with other guards running to her, armed. He heard a fire and turned, his pupils shrinking.
Sekai-chan gasped, seeing the next action before her. They shot her. They killed-- no, slaughtered-- her. Her mother. The bullet flew through Satoshi's temple and out the other end, a small trail of blood following. The thud reverberated in Sekai-chan's and Sekai's ears as she fell next to Yoru, her eyes remaining open with the pupils shrunken down to the size of pin heads.
Now they were both gone. She and Nuko were left to be orphans. No more father. No more mother. Just her and Nuko. With the damn bastards who killed them.
"Sekai-chan! Run!" She could hear Nuko calling and running to her, but she couldn't move. The other men ran at her, aiming guns, rifles, pokers, and swords at various parts of her. Nuko reached her in time and wrapped his arms around her, shielding her.
He suddenly grunted. Sekai-chan looked up at him, seeing his pain-filled face. Then she gasped as she saw the blade of a long sword coming out of his abdomen, nearly touching her own body. No blood covered it; it had gone through too smoothly and cleanly to leave any stains.
Nuko, already wounded with the previous stabbing, fell to his knees, still holding Sekai-chan. He kept a tight grip on her, not wanting anyone to hurt her.
"Nuko!" she cried. Tears flowed down both Sekais' cheeks.
"Hurry... Sekai-chan. You have to... run... away. Now..." he seethed out. Sekai-chan covered his wound protectively, her right hand's blood mixing with his. A tingly sensation coursed through her hand there.
A shadow covered her view from the fire. The butt of a rifle went up over one of the men's heads and went down, preparing to bash in Nuko's skull...
Sekai was now hyperventilating. She wanted out of this dream! But she also wanted to see the fates of the men who were responsible for her pain. Mixtures of emotions coursed through her body; fear, anger, hate, love, hesitation, and sorrow.
~I know this is hard. But it's for your own good.~
'How would you know?! You don't know what I went and am going through!' she screamed.
~... Please. Just try to hold on. There's only a little bit left.~
'A little bit is too much...'
The butt of the rifle came down. Sekai-chan screamed out a warning to Nuko. He moved his head forwards but didn't miss it. The rifle connected with the base of his neck and his eyes widened to their largest as a snap was heard. It rang in Sekai's and Sekai-chan's ears like cursed bells that would never cease their tolling.
The moment went in slow motion. Sekai-chan lost it. All her fear, anger, love for her family, and hate for these terrible men channeled together inside of her and burst. Now all her family was dead. She was alone. She couldn't survive alone. She needed someone to take care of her. She was only six, damn it! No way would she make it out in the world by herself.
Her energy fired outwards as she hugged her brother to her. She wanted to save him! She could still feel some little energy inside of him. The ruby in the hilt of the dagger glowed brightly along with her body as ki flourished around them. Then the energy of her brother faded away. He fell forwards against her and she hugged him, choking on sobs in her sorrow. But she could still feel his energy. It wasn't in him but... in her.
Sekai blinked from above. 'How can I feel what she is feeling?'
~Right now, you and she are directly linked. You can feel what she is going through so you know the greater effect of what happened ten years ago.~
She could feel Nuko's energy inside her. But it wasn't ki energy. Just a spiritual energy not to be released as ki. It felt like... his soul.
Sekai turned to the bright light now coming from below. Her younger self screamed seemingly endlessly and the bright flame of her aura wiped out all life that was within a two mile radius of her. The glow's intensity hurt Sekai's eyes, but she kept staring. She had never seen anything like this. She had to see this.
'How... How can this be?' she thought, finding it all hard to believe.
~This is the same power that you have recently begun to release these past few days.~
Sekai's mouth hung open. She forgot to ask how the voice knew that and all of this. She forgot everything. All she focused on was the past events playing out before her. Her tear-filled eyes blurred her vision, but she simply blinked them away. She moved her mouth but was speechless. She couldn't have been able to do that, could she?
The light was finally beginning to fade away and as soon as it did, the first sight Sekai saw was of herself. She lay on her stomach, unconscious. Her brother's body was gone as well as of any of the other men or her parents, dead or alive. The land around her smoked slightly and the fire had been absorbed into the blast. It was just a barren wasteland.
'This was when I woke up all alone. And this was why the investigators never found my parents' or my brother's bodies. There were none. But why couldn't I remember this much of it?' she asked the voice.
~Because you had released so much energy at once, your body couldn't handle it and you fell unconscious. The impact and pressure of it all made you lose parts of your memory.~
Sekai saw the entire scene finally fade away into darkness. A tall man in a white cloak appeared in front of her as she still floated in her curled-up position.
'Who are you?' she asked. 'Why did you make me remember all of this? And how do you know about it?' She felt that this man was the voice talking to her.
He was silent for a while. Then, slowly, he lifted the hood of his cloak from his head and revealed himself. Sekai stared, her eyes widening. She had never expected him to be...
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Well, there you go. I know, evil cliffhanger. But I love teasing for some reason. ^_^() I am sooo evil... But don't worry. You won't have to wait too long... hopefully. ^_^() Try to guess on who this new voice is. Boy, there sure are getting to be more and more voices... I'm starting to hear voices in my head, too, now... O.o Uh, I'll be going now. Later! ^_^
Cell's not in this chapter. (Well, I don't know if that's really a warning...)
There's some gore and violence, so if that offends you, then you probably shouldn't read this one. However, it is an essential part in the understanding of the story. 'K? ^_^ (Did anyone understand what I just said? 'Cause I surely don't! O.o)
A few little potty mouth words... Oh, come on! This IS a PG-13 story! What else did you expect?
Confusion. A lot of it. At least for me. There will be two Sekais in this chapter. So, to make things easier, the older, regular Sekai that we all know and love (hopefully) will simply be known as Sekai and the younger Sekai will be known as Sekai-chan. Just to clear things up a bit. ^_^
Weirdness.
... That's all. ^_^
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SSJ4 Goku: I am too. ^_^ Wow... Man, sounds more than annoying to me. Sounds frustrating too. I don't know. It must be a curse or something. That's just what my "other family" was. But I'm touched that you would want to share this with me! ^_^ That is early... Or is it late? *shrugs* Aw, again with the oh, so bubbly-feeling-type compliments. *turns red* It's too much! I bet Goku ate the last one.... I like him too, but not as much as the Son family(Cell included)! Maybe... Or else they'll feel the force of our combined powers! ^_^ Hey, who's laughing at you?! I'll get them with my evil plushies! Ah, I don't know about that... But you're certainly motivating me! Yep. Yeah, they do! Seriously! *** Yes, he did. Eeh, maybe this chapter isn't for you then. ^_^() Yeah, well, he isn't so smart right now with that thick head of his. Nope. Well, he is weird. Yes, you! ... Disarray is a bad thing? Not with you if it is. ^_^ If you think that's the right choice... I don't mind at all! I even like them sometimes. ^_^ Yes, we do! I'm working on it. Yeah, I'd say so. ^_^() Mine neither... *shudders* sharp rocks bad... I like her too! She's cool! Yep. Thank you! I will, but I'll try not to go so slow as to kill myself from my own suspense. ^_^()
lilmissgoten: Aw, don't worry about it. It's all right. I'm not going anywhere. Sure, whatever you want. ^_^ I bet it was... Not that I personally know, thankfully. Yeah, but she's a tough cookie! Mmm... cookies. Er, back to the subject! Probably but you never know... He just may be considerate of the others for once! (Not...) I like him to along with his first form. But I don't know which one I like best... Oh, well. Thankies! Wait no more! ^_^ *goes to get some cookies*
lilmissgoten (again): *comes back with a big jar of cookies* Hi again. Want some? Here you go. *gives you and then everyone else a cookie* ^_^ Thanx! And it's okay! All right? Good. ^_^
SSJSkaterTrunks: Thanx! ^_^ Yep. You wouldn't believe what I had to go through to look good for him... What's he talking about? I DID kiss him and I glomped him, too! ^___^ Thanx again. Man, he certainly gets his so-called "patience" from Vegeta... I wanna glomp him again! ~.~
Pen Dragon: Don't give up! Keep looking for... whatever you're looking for! ^_^() Boy, those demons are pesky...
ElysianAmazon: Yep. It's already giving me a headache... O.o Yep, until then! *waves the two-finger wave*
kyro: Thankies! ^_^ More's coming; don't worry! Heh, maybe. Wow, really now? *watches and blinks* Yeah, sure... ^_^()
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Disclaimer: DBZ isn't mine. It's Akira Toriyama's. Sekai, her family, the voice, and any other new characters and stuff, however, are mine. So... yeah. ^_^
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Cat and Mouse: Chapter Eighteen
She was floating.
And she didn't hurt anymore.
Everything just felt... happy.
She could see herself down below. Her younger self. That self looked happy, too. Just like the feeling around her own body.
'Where am I? Why is there another me?' Sekai thought. Her arms were crossed across her chest and over her knees, which were curled up. Warmth engulfed her, and she could feel her eyelids get heavy. But that confused her further. 'Aren't I dreaming? I shouldn't be feeling sleepy if I am, right?' No answer came to her.
~Do you remember?~
She gasped. 'Who said that?'
~Do you not recognize me now, Sekai-chan?~
'Should I? You don't sound like anyone I know.'
~Look down and see.~
Sekai did as she was told. There was her other self. Still there. But her older brother was there, too, now. Her brother, Nuko. Together, they played a game of hide-and-seek. Sekai-chan ran around, looking for a good spot to hide in. Nuko stood facing a tree with his arms covering his eyes and counted slowly to ten.
'That's me and Brother... But I don't remember that happening,' she commented in her mind.
~Keep watching.~
Nuko had finished counting and begun his search. Both could sense each other; it was like a bond that they had had since birth. Yet he didn't want to ruin the game by cheating so he simply searched with his eyes. Little Sekai-chan had her hands to her mouth, trying to stifle her giggles as she hid in the deep crevice of the large family tree. She was the only one who could actually fit in. Tied to her obi was the silver dagger Yoru had given to her.
Nuko was getting closer and closer to Sekai-chan. She kept very quiet now and kept her eyes on the lookout for him. But something wasn't right.
'Is it supposed to be this quiet? Can I not hear what's going on?' Sekai wondered, half asking the voice who showed this vision to her.
~Listen closely and find out.~
She didn't feel like retorting to the remark so she kept on looking and, this time, listening as well. A faint sound reached her ears. It sounded like... Crows?
Indeed, several crows were flying out of the trees, flapping away crazily like the end was near. Her younger self emerged from her tree and looked to investigate as well. Nuko did the same, feeling uneasy. Why would crows be there? And why would they try to get away from... What?
Sekai, being so high above everything, suddenly saw smoke rise from the forest, only a few meters from where her other self and Nuko stood. The two soon caught the scent and, after that, the sight of the fire that began to blaze high into the sky.
"Brother, a fire! What's happened?" Sekai-chan cried, pointing to the source.
Nuko began to run to where the fire was. "Stay here! I'm going to see what's going on!" And he turned and ran, without looking back.
Sekai-chan stood for a moment, caught between going after her brother and obeying his orders. Her hand unconsciously gripped the hilt of her dagger, and she finally bolted to the site of the fire. After all, she was a fighter, too, and wanted to help!
"Nuko! Wait for me!" she called after him, running as fast as she could to catch up with him.
Sekai watched the scene unfold before her eyes. 'That's when...'
~Yes.~
'Why are you showing this to me? Who are you?'
~Keep watching and the answers will come to you.~
She continued staring at the scene.
Sekai-chan had reached the area near the fire. She couldn't go any farther. The smoke was so thick that it made her eyes sting and her throat go dry. She coughed and took cover behind a tree. Sounds of gunshots brought her right back out from it.
Several men whom she didn't recognize were holding rifles and hot pokers along with other various weapons including flamethrowers. One had her mother in a tight hold from behind while another prepared to grind the poker through her gut.
"Mommy!" Sekai-chan ran to try to save her mother, but her father reached her first. He managed to get her mother away but ended up with the men surrounding him. They all fired at him and, having the upper hand with their strength in numbers and advanced weaponry, they easily killed him off.
Sekai screwed her eyes shut. 'Stop! I don't want to see anymore.'
~You must see this. It's the only way the truth will be revealed to you.~
'I don't want to know the truth, okay?! I'd rather live my life as a lie than have to go through this again.'
~But don't you want to know how the culprits of your parents' deaths died? Don't you want to find out what destroyed them?~
Sekai kept her eyes shut. Of course, inside, she wanted to know what happened to the lowly bastards. But could she really live through her childhood terror once more in exchange for it?
She opened her eyes and watched again, making her decision silently.
Satoshi knocked off the men as best she could, trying to reach her fallen husband. Sekai-chan was frozen in horror at seeing the murder of her father. She had taken out the dagger from her obi and held both the hilt and blade in her hands tightly. The blade cut through her skin in her right hand, and the blood dripped soundlessly to the ground. Her lips quivered slightly and tears formed at the corner of her eyes, but she didn't cry. She just watched.
From afar, her brother fought off the other guards with his talented martial arts skills. But even that wasn't enough to get them all. One of the men jammed a poker clear through his side, leaving it in. Nuko gritted his teeth and, with the strength he could muster up, kicked the man in the chin. The force was so great that it snapped the man's neck in half, killing him. He fell limp to the ground.
Agonizingly, Nuko yanked the poker from his side and held it as his own weapon. He saw his mother quickly being approached by the other men and fought his way through to her. He also saw Sekai-chan, frozen stiff and looking scared, standing out in the open with other guards running to her, armed. He heard a fire and turned, his pupils shrinking.
Sekai-chan gasped, seeing the next action before her. They shot her. They killed-- no, slaughtered-- her. Her mother. The bullet flew through Satoshi's temple and out the other end, a small trail of blood following. The thud reverberated in Sekai-chan's and Sekai's ears as she fell next to Yoru, her eyes remaining open with the pupils shrunken down to the size of pin heads.
Now they were both gone. She and Nuko were left to be orphans. No more father. No more mother. Just her and Nuko. With the damn bastards who killed them.
"Sekai-chan! Run!" She could hear Nuko calling and running to her, but she couldn't move. The other men ran at her, aiming guns, rifles, pokers, and swords at various parts of her. Nuko reached her in time and wrapped his arms around her, shielding her.
He suddenly grunted. Sekai-chan looked up at him, seeing his pain-filled face. Then she gasped as she saw the blade of a long sword coming out of his abdomen, nearly touching her own body. No blood covered it; it had gone through too smoothly and cleanly to leave any stains.
Nuko, already wounded with the previous stabbing, fell to his knees, still holding Sekai-chan. He kept a tight grip on her, not wanting anyone to hurt her.
"Nuko!" she cried. Tears flowed down both Sekais' cheeks.
"Hurry... Sekai-chan. You have to... run... away. Now..." he seethed out. Sekai-chan covered his wound protectively, her right hand's blood mixing with his. A tingly sensation coursed through her hand there.
A shadow covered her view from the fire. The butt of a rifle went up over one of the men's heads and went down, preparing to bash in Nuko's skull...
Sekai was now hyperventilating. She wanted out of this dream! But she also wanted to see the fates of the men who were responsible for her pain. Mixtures of emotions coursed through her body; fear, anger, hate, love, hesitation, and sorrow.
~I know this is hard. But it's for your own good.~
'How would you know?! You don't know what I went and am going through!' she screamed.
~... Please. Just try to hold on. There's only a little bit left.~
'A little bit is too much...'
The butt of the rifle came down. Sekai-chan screamed out a warning to Nuko. He moved his head forwards but didn't miss it. The rifle connected with the base of his neck and his eyes widened to their largest as a snap was heard. It rang in Sekai's and Sekai-chan's ears like cursed bells that would never cease their tolling.
The moment went in slow motion. Sekai-chan lost it. All her fear, anger, love for her family, and hate for these terrible men channeled together inside of her and burst. Now all her family was dead. She was alone. She couldn't survive alone. She needed someone to take care of her. She was only six, damn it! No way would she make it out in the world by herself.
Her energy fired outwards as she hugged her brother to her. She wanted to save him! She could still feel some little energy inside of him. The ruby in the hilt of the dagger glowed brightly along with her body as ki flourished around them. Then the energy of her brother faded away. He fell forwards against her and she hugged him, choking on sobs in her sorrow. But she could still feel his energy. It wasn't in him but... in her.
Sekai blinked from above. 'How can I feel what she is feeling?'
~Right now, you and she are directly linked. You can feel what she is going through so you know the greater effect of what happened ten years ago.~
She could feel Nuko's energy inside her. But it wasn't ki energy. Just a spiritual energy not to be released as ki. It felt like... his soul.
Sekai turned to the bright light now coming from below. Her younger self screamed seemingly endlessly and the bright flame of her aura wiped out all life that was within a two mile radius of her. The glow's intensity hurt Sekai's eyes, but she kept staring. She had never seen anything like this. She had to see this.
'How... How can this be?' she thought, finding it all hard to believe.
~This is the same power that you have recently begun to release these past few days.~
Sekai's mouth hung open. She forgot to ask how the voice knew that and all of this. She forgot everything. All she focused on was the past events playing out before her. Her tear-filled eyes blurred her vision, but she simply blinked them away. She moved her mouth but was speechless. She couldn't have been able to do that, could she?
The light was finally beginning to fade away and as soon as it did, the first sight Sekai saw was of herself. She lay on her stomach, unconscious. Her brother's body was gone as well as of any of the other men or her parents, dead or alive. The land around her smoked slightly and the fire had been absorbed into the blast. It was just a barren wasteland.
'This was when I woke up all alone. And this was why the investigators never found my parents' or my brother's bodies. There were none. But why couldn't I remember this much of it?' she asked the voice.
~Because you had released so much energy at once, your body couldn't handle it and you fell unconscious. The impact and pressure of it all made you lose parts of your memory.~
Sekai saw the entire scene finally fade away into darkness. A tall man in a white cloak appeared in front of her as she still floated in her curled-up position.
'Who are you?' she asked. 'Why did you make me remember all of this? And how do you know about it?' She felt that this man was the voice talking to her.
He was silent for a while. Then, slowly, he lifted the hood of his cloak from his head and revealed himself. Sekai stared, her eyes widening. She had never expected him to be...
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Well, there you go. I know, evil cliffhanger. But I love teasing for some reason. ^_^() I am sooo evil... But don't worry. You won't have to wait too long... hopefully. ^_^() Try to guess on who this new voice is. Boy, there sure are getting to be more and more voices... I'm starting to hear voices in my head, too, now... O.o Uh, I'll be going now. Later! ^_^