Broken Bird
Ran drew a long, labored breath and Gingetsu's memory broke.
He was beginning to slip faster and faster with each day. He was dying so fast on the inside that the outside couldn't even keep up anymore. But everywhere he showed the signs of life coming to an end.
His skin was beginning to sink into the crevices of his cheeks and eyes. Everything about him was a dull ashen color. His eyes never fully opened. It was hard for him to just cross a room. He was always cold.
And sometimes he'd just slip away...
A Dying Bird Without a Cage
"5 years! They said he'd last five years!"
"Gingetsu, calm yourself. They said five years at best. You knew the 3 leaf could not live outside the cage." General Ko observed Gingetsu with an icy stare
"He was supposed to have five years..." His eyes where pressed shut and his fist shook against his body.
"Commander Gingetsu, your mission was to watch C until he died, to keep him safe from A. Your mission is nothing else. You should know better then to come to me with this"
Gingetsu turned and left. He didn't know why he had come to her. He knew the 3 leaf couldn't live outside the cage. But he believed there was something she could yet do. He walked away full of anger and feeling very unfulfilled.
Dark Clouds Cry a Sky Full of Tears
Gingetsu was so still on the way home a few imaginative students wondered if he wasn't a hologram. The train lurched forward, stopped suddenly, swayed this way and that, he didn't move. He stood with his back slightly curled and his head aimed at the floor a few feet in fron of him.
Ran was changing him. Had changed him. Until Ran started to...go, he could ignore it. But now, it was staring him in the face. It was so hard to just watch Ran die. To feel so powerless to help him. And now his outbirst and General Ko. He had to get control. He couldn't be emotional. He was military, and now he was...he cared about the Clover he was ordered to protect. He hadn't taken Ran in because he cared about him, General Ko had told him to.
He stepped out of the train.
That was it. It was General Ko. He is just a mission.
'When he dies, my mission will be complete." He thought.
He didn't know if he believe it or not. If he didn't think about it, he didn't need to know.
But there was one thought that troubled him even more, and he would not let his mind wander there.
A Bitter Caged Bird
In a large empty room the sound of broken glass echoed off the expansive walls and pieces of mirror crashed to the floor.
"Why couldn't you stay with me? I told you to stay, but you left and now you die like some pathetic old man."
He swaggered like a drunk with a piece of broken mirror in one hand
"I hope you die like a dog! You should have stayed, but left! You left the cage, but I am still here, I will live forever! I will be the strongest Clover! I always was! B was in the way, and I had you, then you LEFT me, but soon you'll die. You'll die unremembered like a dog in the gutter, and I will live forever as the strongest clover!"
"NO! I miss you, C. I miss you-why didn't you stay with me, C!"
He slashed at his arm with the mirror. His tongue slipped across his arm.
"We taste the same, C. We are the same. I can bring you back and we can live forever in the cage..."
He collapsed on the floor and a team of heavlily armed medics rushed in and picked him up.
As the carried him to the infirmary
"C...I miss you...I will get you back"
Ran drew a long, labored breath and Gingetsu's memory broke.
He was beginning to slip faster and faster with each day. He was dying so fast on the inside that the outside couldn't even keep up anymore. But everywhere he showed the signs of life coming to an end.
His skin was beginning to sink into the crevices of his cheeks and eyes. Everything about him was a dull ashen color. His eyes never fully opened. It was hard for him to just cross a room. He was always cold.
And sometimes he'd just slip away...
A Dying Bird Without a Cage
"5 years! They said he'd last five years!"
"Gingetsu, calm yourself. They said five years at best. You knew the 3 leaf could not live outside the cage." General Ko observed Gingetsu with an icy stare
"He was supposed to have five years..." His eyes where pressed shut and his fist shook against his body.
"Commander Gingetsu, your mission was to watch C until he died, to keep him safe from A. Your mission is nothing else. You should know better then to come to me with this"
Gingetsu turned and left. He didn't know why he had come to her. He knew the 3 leaf couldn't live outside the cage. But he believed there was something she could yet do. He walked away full of anger and feeling very unfulfilled.
Dark Clouds Cry a Sky Full of Tears
Gingetsu was so still on the way home a few imaginative students wondered if he wasn't a hologram. The train lurched forward, stopped suddenly, swayed this way and that, he didn't move. He stood with his back slightly curled and his head aimed at the floor a few feet in fron of him.
Ran was changing him. Had changed him. Until Ran started to...go, he could ignore it. But now, it was staring him in the face. It was so hard to just watch Ran die. To feel so powerless to help him. And now his outbirst and General Ko. He had to get control. He couldn't be emotional. He was military, and now he was...he cared about the Clover he was ordered to protect. He hadn't taken Ran in because he cared about him, General Ko had told him to.
He stepped out of the train.
That was it. It was General Ko. He is just a mission.
'When he dies, my mission will be complete." He thought.
He didn't know if he believe it or not. If he didn't think about it, he didn't need to know.
But there was one thought that troubled him even more, and he would not let his mind wander there.
A Bitter Caged Bird
In a large empty room the sound of broken glass echoed off the expansive walls and pieces of mirror crashed to the floor.
"Why couldn't you stay with me? I told you to stay, but you left and now you die like some pathetic old man."
He swaggered like a drunk with a piece of broken mirror in one hand
"I hope you die like a dog! You should have stayed, but left! You left the cage, but I am still here, I will live forever! I will be the strongest Clover! I always was! B was in the way, and I had you, then you LEFT me, but soon you'll die. You'll die unremembered like a dog in the gutter, and I will live forever as the strongest clover!"
"NO! I miss you, C. I miss you-why didn't you stay with me, C!"
He slashed at his arm with the mirror. His tongue slipped across his arm.
"We taste the same, C. We are the same. I can bring you back and we can live forever in the cage..."
He collapsed on the floor and a team of heavlily armed medics rushed in and picked him up.
As the carried him to the infirmary
"C...I miss you...I will get you back"