Author's Notes
Okay, I'm sorry this took so long. You see, I was originally going to finish the story with this chapter, but then it started to take longer and longer and finally I decided it would just be better to split it into two parts, not that I have the other one done or anything but. . .
Disclaimer: Has been posted in every chapter. But I claim no legal rights to zoids or any of its characters.
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There was nothing they could do.
They were helpless.
And being helpless was not something Bit Cloud too to well.
It had been two weeks since their battle with Rachel. Alex had been taken to the hospital and
had been treated for a concussion and a broken arm as well as a few minor burns. He had been
lucky, within two days he had woken up.
But Leena had not.
They had taken her to the hospital as well, but the doctors had no clue what was wrong with her.
She checked out fine. Her breathing was normal, her pulse, heartbeat, everything was fine. But
she wouldn't wake up. She was trapped in some kind of eternal nightmare.
Since there was nothing they could do for her at the hospital they had taken her back home and
set her up with an IV drip in the med room. But she had to be monitored constantly or else she
would try to rip the IV out.
They were all troubled, all worried, all frustrated because they couldn't do anything but wait,
and hope.
* * *
She was fighting. She was fighting hard.
But she would win eventually, because no matter how hard she fought, she was still just mortal.
She had already managed to gain complete control of her body. Pity someone kept putting that
needle back in. Without it, she would have an easier time getting into her mind, starvation and
dehydration would do that to a person.
No matter. She was still mortal. And all mortals had fears and insecurities. Soon she would be
able to fully make her way into the violet eyed piolet's mind, and then she would know hers.
And then... Oh the havoc she could reek. The torture she could inflict on her mind.
Yes... her revenge would be sweet.
* * *
She had to fight. She couldn't give up. She had to get back to them.
But she was tired, so tired from shielding her mind. From blocking Rachel's entrance.
She wanted to rest....to sleep...
For a moment her mind drifted a little.
And that was all Rachel needed.
* * *
Bit Cloud sat by the bedside of Leena Tauros. She was pale. Her face was expressionless. She
looked as one dead. But she wasn't, thank god she wasn't.
There was nothing he could do. He had promised to protect her, promised to find her, but he
couldn't do either. The only battle left was an unseen one, hidden deep withing her mind. The
most important battle she would ever have to fight and he couldn't help her with it.
"Good luck Leena." He whispered. "If you need me I'll be here."
He got up and began to walk out of the room. But he turned around at the door, "Don't forget
that okay?"
There was no response.
* * *
First there was darkness. All around her was cold, unfeeling blackness that seethed despair.
Then, slowly, there came to be a little light, just enough so she could see her hand. Then there
was the sound of a little girl laughing. The sound bounced around in the blackness and echoed in
her ears.
The laugh brought forth the mirrors. She was surrounded by them and while they intensified the
light, seeing the images they held made her wish for the blackness again. Every moment in her
life she had been scared played before her eyes. Every time she had hurt someone. Every time
she had made a mistake. Every time she had felt guilt. Every time she had been hurt. Running
to play with Leon and being left in the dust. The news of her mother's death. Losing her best
friend. Breaking one of her dad's models. Blowing money on stupid things. Leaving her school
to become a full-time zoid piolet. Yelling at Bit. And being knocked out in battles first, again...
and again....and again.
She cried, but every tear fueled the mirrors to produce more memories of sorrow and hurt.
And the darkness began to consume her.
* * *
Alex stared down at the girl his daughter hated so much. The girl who was fighting for her life
and Rachel's salvation.
"I know you're there Rachel." He said suddenly. "The others don't seem to have figured out
what you've done, but I know."
He paused a moment, as if waiting for a reply. "Leave her Rachel, she is not the cause of your
suffering."
He seemed to be waiting for an answer. But none came.
BAM! He slammed his fist down hard on the side table.
"Rachel I am your father and you will listen to me!" He screamed. But tears began to fill his
eyes and spilled down his face. He had lost his daughter and now because of his daughter the
same thing would happen to his friend.
"Please," The plea came out barely a whisper. "I thought I would die after you and your mother
left me. Now I will do everything I can to spare someone else the pain I've been through."
He silently left the room.
* * *
She was beyond tears, beyond pain. She floated silently in the black abyss. There was nothing
left. No one cared. She was worthless. What was the reason to live?
A child's laugh rang out in the nothingness. The laugh was as cold as it was gleeful and radiated
fear into the hearts of those who heard it.
But the only ears it fell upon were already dead to fear, pain, love, happiness, joy and sorrow.
Existence itself was but a chore.
"I've done it." The small girl materialized, a smirk played at the corners of her mouth. "It was
difficult, but I have taken my revenge. I have broken you!" She laughed once more.
Leena just waited. Her end would come soon. And she was ready to embrace it. There was
nothing left for her. There never had been anything for her. She had built up a fantasy world
around her to protect her heart from the truth. But now that world was shattered and lay in a pile
of dust at her feet. No one loved her. No one cared. They'd all be happier now with her gone.
But the emptiness that filled her was sharing the space with something else, an emotion she
could place. It tore at her. She wanted the end but knew she couldn't leave, not yet. She reached
out, trying to find something to settle herself, ro perhaps to prove that the nothingness was real.
Another hand grabbed hers.
* * *
Bit Cloud sat quietly next to the bed of a girl lying motionless as she had for more than a week.
"I'm sorry." He said. He raised his eyes from the floor to look at her face.
"I said I would find you, because you thought you were losing yourself. But I couldn't do it. I
couldn't protect you. Now I 've lost you completely."
"Please come back Leena." He slipped his hand in hers.
Then the world shifted.
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Author's Notes
TA DA! I just felt like saying that. The next chapter will be the last chapter. I know what's going to happen, it's just that I have to find the time and energy to write it. Anyway, REVIEW! Reviews are good things. When readers review, authors write then update. When authors update readers are happy and review. When readers review, well you get it.