The Kagato Chronicles

By: nyke

Book One: Inner Demons

Chapter Four

"This is great Washu." Kagato said, "uh.what is it?"

"It's the formula I'm gonna use to create a child for myself," Washu said.

"Um.why." Kagato asked hesitantly, "Can't you just do it the old fashioned way? I mean.I'm sure there's some guy in the academy that would more than happy to-"

"KAGATO," Washu interrupted. "Been there. Done that," she said, a hint of sadness in her voice. Then she returned too normal. " I'm doing it this way so that my child will have the powers of the Masses, plus my intelligence. She'll never be helpless and she'll be as smart as me. Well. almost," She sighed at Kagato's puzzled expression. "I guess that's it. I'm busy so you can let yourself out, right?" She turned and went deeper into the lab without waiting for an answer.

Kagato started to return to his dorm, but stopped when a voice sounded in his mind. Following Yanouku's silent command, he grabbed a disk from a nearby table and copied the formula on Washu's laptop onto it. When it finished, only a few seconds later, he snatched from the disk drive and ran from to lab before Washu realized she had forgotten her laptop.

A month later, Washu's new daughter was ready to be created. She had gathered DNA from Kagato and her own egg cells and mixed them in a tank with the Mass. Kagato watched her carefully through the whole process.

After stealing a few Mass from the lab, along with some spare egg cells, he was ready to duplicate the process. He had even gathered the DNA of Amiel, the current emperor of Juria, when he visited the academy and carelessly let a loose hair fall to the ground. He doubled the amount of his DNA that was used for Washu's daughter, making this child more his than hers.

Kagato spent most of the month in the personal subspace lab he had Washu build for him. It was smaller than hers, less complex, but it suited his purposes.

He stood before the tank, staring at the tiny unborn child for hours wondering if he was too heartless to love his child. Would she even be a child to him or would he end up treating her as some mindless experiment? He didn't know the answers to these questions, nor was he even sure that he wanted to. He would just to wait and see how much Yanuoku would allow him to feel.

Since he had abandoned his studies (they no longer mattered), he had nothing to do but develop his daughter and his plan. He now knew that both Washu's his children were female and delighted in that fact. A woman's mind, at least in his opinion, was easier to control.

Now his child was ready to be born. He had sped her aging process up enough to where she would grow to the age of twenty-one immediately after birth. He approached the control pannel and pressed a button, then stood back to avoid being hit by flying glass as the tank exploded. Five minutes later, a tall girl stood before him on shaky legs and stared at him blankly before hitting the floor.

He slowly walked over to her, as one would approach a frightened but deadly animal, and gently grabbed her arm. He lifted her up until stood once again, leaning on him for support. He pulled her into his room and sat her on the bed before leaving to find some food and clothes for her.

When he returned, he sat the tray of food on his desk and walked over to the girl, offering her the robes. She took them and smiled radiantly up at him.

"Thank you, Father," she said before standing and walking to the adjoining bathroom in sure steady strides to get dressed. When she returned to the bedroom and was eating at the desk, Kagato returned to the lab. He smiled when he realized that in the ten minutes he had been gone, his child had gained ten years of intelligence. Everything was going according to plan.