Authors note: Sorry for the delays in the chapters, I've been getting busy
lately. Even though finals aren't until the end of January, my teachers
have been on us about studying, preparing folders, note's etc. I've been
swamped with oral tests in Science and English, and In wood shop I just
started a new project.
But since it's now officially Christmas break, I'll probably post more within the next 2 weeks... (hopefully) Anybody got any good Christmas plans?
CHAPTER 10
Lightstrike awoke suddenly, his bright eyes scanning the darkness for whatever sound it was that had woken him up. Gazing around at all the teenagers in the room he quietly and gently lifted his head. He looked at each face individually, first scanning the bed, then the floor, and finally the couch. Except the couch was empty...
As easily and gently as possible the organoid slid off the foot of the bed and walked slowly out of the room. Peering down the hallway he noticed that the bathroom light at the end of the hall was on. The door was open and he heard water running. He made his way as quietly as he could down the hallway and stopped at the bathroom, surprised to see Ayane getting a cup of water from the faucet.
Ayane splashed a bit of water on herself before she got a cup of water. After filling the little paper cup she turned to go back to the room, completely taken off guard by the organoid standing just outside the doorway.
"Hey." Ayane eventually said, with a soft growl in return from the organoid. She walked passed him and back down the hallway, startled to find Nadia standing just outside the door.
"Did I wake you up?" Ayane whispered, taking a sip of her water. LightStrike walked up to Nadia nudging her lovingly.
"No. LightStrike has slept on the foot of my bed since I even had a bed... Even if he's perfectly quiet and gentle I can still tell when he leaves." Nadia sighed, "I guess I've just gotten so used to him being there..."
Ayane nodded, "Oh."
"So what're you doing up?" Nadia asked.
"Just getting water... and thinking." Ayane answered quietly, looking down into her now almost empty cup.
"I've been doing allot of that too." Nadia replied, giving LightStrike a tight hug around the neck.
"Yeah..." Ayane looked into the dark room, looking at everyone as they slept. She saw Jessie turn in his sleep and Kristen mumble something. Even though they were all teenagers, when they were asleep they looked like a bunch of little kids at a sleepover.
Nadia sighed inwardly as she shook a thought in her head away. She looked over at Ayane and said, "Im going into the main room to make something other than water to drink. I'm not sleepy anymore. Do you want anything?"
"Sure." Ayane followed Nadia down the hallway and into the main room. A gentle glow shone through the glass wall, coming from a small light in the hanger.
Nadia flipped on a lamp in the corner as she made her way to the "kitchen" area of the room. Opening the fridge she pulled out a small container of orange juice, and motioned for Ayane to pick something out of the fridge.
Ayane nodded and pulled out a container of lemonade, just as Nadia got two glasses. They each poured their own drinks and sat at the counter, not saying much of anything. LightStrike just laid down on the floor in the corner, waiting for the two to finish.
After some time Nadia quietly said, "Do you think Koh's... ok?"
Ayane was taken aback by the question and answered, "I don't know..." She looked down at the counter still stuck in thoughts of her own...
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"Sir, preparations are almost complete." A young ZBC soldier stated. He flipped through the sheets on the clipboard he was carrying with a yawn.
"Good." The commander said, turning to face the soldier. The commander had short, spiked dark brown hair and dark brown, almost black eyes. He was tall and average built, with a calm and collective form. Yet his eyes seemed to suggest both a mischievous and curious side to him.
The commander took the papers and thumbed through them, scanning each one quickly. He nodded, showing his approval.
"Sir, do you think this will work?" The soldier asked, seemingly uneasily.
"I don't think it will work, I know it will. It has to." The commander answered reassuringly, "Now I know it's late so get some rest and report back to me in the morning."
"Yes sir, Commander Fly-Height."
******************************** The gentle rays of the morning sun struck through the window, and Clouds eyes fluttered slowly open. Groaning slightly he pushed himself out of bed and yawned.
He walked down the hallway, and risked peeking into the kids room, noticing them all still asleep he went into the kitchen and began to prepare breakfast. It had been decided the night before that he and Nadia would go find the knife, and then they would look for a way to save Koh. Rain would stay at the base with the kids, seeing as though she was injured, and her zoid couldn't do much. At first it was sugested that Zack stay as well, but he refused.
Cloud had noticed that Rain had cried herself to sleep the previous night, but she had hid it from the others. He too felt like crying, but he instead vowed that he would save Koh no matter what.
"Morning Cloud." Rei's voice came from behind him. Cloud turned to face him and nodded, still stirring the many eggs he was going to cook. "Need help?"
"Sure." Cloud handed Rei a bowel and the two got to work on cooking, "Your up early?"
"Yeah. I always get up early. Lavender isn't a very skilled cook, Goji can't cook much either. Oh, and of course Izumi sleeps in. So, I always get up early to make breakfast."
"What about Kristen?" Cloud asked, placing a bowel in the microwave.
"Our base would burn to the ground." Rei sighed, "But I really don't mind cooking much. It's easy, and it's an excuse to get out of bed in the morning."
"Rain told me you used to always be up early and cook when she stayed at your base to build Kaiser." Cloud paused for a moment, suddenly remembering something Rain had told him.
"Yeah. She never complained about the food either." Rei nodded, "Even though I was always basically cooking the same thing."
Cloud nodded slightly, still pondering on the same thought about what Rain had told him, "Rei?"
"Yeah?"
"Why'd you help Rain build Kaiser?"
Rei looked over at him for a moment and said, "Well, I never expected to find Rain when I went out looking for the "abandoned" Gustav that Zack told me about. He said that it was just sitting out in the middle of the desert, so I went to go take a look."
"I know about that. Zack told me that since you were related to Luke, and that it was on file that you absolutely hated him, he told you about Rain's Gustav so that you would find her, and maybe keep her safe. He said that your base would be the last place they would expect to find her." He paused, "But that doesn't explain why you offered to help her build Kaiser."
Rei placed some bread in the toaster and said, "Well... I was fascinated with Rain's description of her old zoid, and I could tell by the way she spoke of her battles, that she was a skilled pilot. She didn't mention much about you of course... only stating that she was looking for you. She showed me a photograph too."
"...and?"
"At first, I offered help because I was interested on battling with her. I wanted to see how good she was. Then I wanted to see if I could join her team." He sighed, "I was on a team once, but we split up and ever since then I had been working alone. But Rain seemed like a fun... yet mysterious person to hang around with. Plus, I could tell that she missed her old zoid very much, and that she would probably build a similar one. I wanted to see it, cuz dragon zoids are rare." He paused, "After a while we became friends and I just wanted to help her build it. I didn't care about joining her team or anything, I just wanted to help."
"I see." Cloud stated, "Rain once told me that she could tell you wanted something, that's why you were helping her... at first."
"She could tell?" Rei said, "Damn, I thought I hid it pretty well. Oh well. I still can't figure out exactly why Zack "sent" her to me though."
"I already told you that." Zack said, coming into the room, "I looked up as much information on Luke as possible, and discovered you were his only living relation. I also discovered that you obviously hated him, and I had to protect Rain from him. I needed to pay Cloud back somehow after all. I told you about the gustav so that you would meet her, and more than likely keep her safe without even knowing it." The Bahamut 0's pilot looked at what they were doing and said, "I'd offer to help cook, but im not good at it."
Eventually all the adults woke up and were in the kitchen/ main room of the base. Except Rain. She was exhausted, and still sound asleep in her own room. The adults who knew how to cook were busy cooking, while the others were sitting on the couches discussing strategy and idea's.
"It's time to get this show on the road." Bit stated, with agreements coming from everyone. He sighed, "Im tired of us always being the ones who get attacked. Now we have to show everyone that we ain't taking it anymore. We'll show everyone just who they're messing with! Right Blitz team!?"
Leena jumped up and agreed, "Right!"
Doctor Tauros nodded in agreement. Bit was becoming quite the leader.
"Don't get too hasty and forget us Bit!" Izumi stated.
"That's right!" Lavender added, "After all, the FireBlazers are in this too!"
"So are we!" Leon stated, nods coming from Naomi, Brad and Tyra of the Flugle team.
"Im not going to stand around either." Ryuji said. Zack agreed with him.
"Thanks you guy's." Cloud stated, serving them their food, "And of course, we Sky-Raiders are in this till the end."
Everyone agreed whole heartily, but quietly so they wouldn't wake the kids. Cloud quietly said, "It will all be over soon. And we'll all be in this till the end."
Orihime and Jemie got busy on the computers, trying to find any information at all about this "Sin" person and his battle zoid "Chaos-sin." They were typing furiously, looking for anything at all. Orihime had even hacked into what was left of the ZBC's secret files.
Meanwhile, Rain slept as peacefully as possible. She had had a rough enough time so far, and she needed sleep... badly. She woke up a few times, but went right back to sleep.
Her eyes slowly opened once again, looking down at the foot of her bed as a reflex. Even though it had been a long time since LightStrike slept at the foot of her bed, she still found herself looking for him whenever she woke up. She sighed inwardly, realizing he wasn't there, but suddenly wishing he was.
As if on cue she heard a soft growl from outside her door.
"LightStrike?" Rain asked quietly.
The organoid walked in, and looked over at her worriedly. After a few seconds he jumped up onto the bed and curled up at the foot, as if he knew what she was thinking.
"Thank you my old friend." Rain whispered, running a small hand along her old partners back, and giving him as tight a hug as it was possible without hurting herself. He growled softly, nudging her lovingly but carefully.
Rain swore that the organoid seemed to say your welcome. But, she figured she was imagining it, since organoids couldn't talk. She sometimes wished that LightStrike could.
She laid back down and fell asleep once again whispering "Cloud will find him... I know he will."
The organoid looked up at her, and if he could have, he would have smiled gently and said, "Yes he will. Don't worry." But he couldn't so instead he growled once again, laying at the foot of Rains bed to keep her company.
~~~~~~~~~End of Chapter 10~~~~~~~~~
Sorry once again for the delay. I've been planning exactly how I want this story to lay itself out. I could lay it out a million different ways to get the ending that I want, and it was going to be hard to choose which "path" to take, in a way I had a slight writers block on deciding what to do. I finaly figured out exactly how I want it to go last night as I was trying to fall asleep, yet there is still something that seems missing in my plan... but I can't figure out what.
I found this chapter extremely hard to write. I have no clue why, but I couldn't figure out how to word it. But I think I finnaly got it.
Anyways, now that Im on Christmas break, expect more updates cuz Im going to try. I have a feeling this story MAY be longer than the other two, but I can't tell yet.
I was also thinking of going back and re-doing Fight For the Future. I went and re-read it, and for some reason was kind of disappointed in it. It doesn't seem as detailed as either Searching for the past, or Flight of the Phoenix.
Do you think I should? Im not sure... tell me what you think.
Thanks all my loyal reviewers for sticking with me thus-far!
But since it's now officially Christmas break, I'll probably post more within the next 2 weeks... (hopefully) Anybody got any good Christmas plans?
CHAPTER 10
Lightstrike awoke suddenly, his bright eyes scanning the darkness for whatever sound it was that had woken him up. Gazing around at all the teenagers in the room he quietly and gently lifted his head. He looked at each face individually, first scanning the bed, then the floor, and finally the couch. Except the couch was empty...
As easily and gently as possible the organoid slid off the foot of the bed and walked slowly out of the room. Peering down the hallway he noticed that the bathroom light at the end of the hall was on. The door was open and he heard water running. He made his way as quietly as he could down the hallway and stopped at the bathroom, surprised to see Ayane getting a cup of water from the faucet.
Ayane splashed a bit of water on herself before she got a cup of water. After filling the little paper cup she turned to go back to the room, completely taken off guard by the organoid standing just outside the doorway.
"Hey." Ayane eventually said, with a soft growl in return from the organoid. She walked passed him and back down the hallway, startled to find Nadia standing just outside the door.
"Did I wake you up?" Ayane whispered, taking a sip of her water. LightStrike walked up to Nadia nudging her lovingly.
"No. LightStrike has slept on the foot of my bed since I even had a bed... Even if he's perfectly quiet and gentle I can still tell when he leaves." Nadia sighed, "I guess I've just gotten so used to him being there..."
Ayane nodded, "Oh."
"So what're you doing up?" Nadia asked.
"Just getting water... and thinking." Ayane answered quietly, looking down into her now almost empty cup.
"I've been doing allot of that too." Nadia replied, giving LightStrike a tight hug around the neck.
"Yeah..." Ayane looked into the dark room, looking at everyone as they slept. She saw Jessie turn in his sleep and Kristen mumble something. Even though they were all teenagers, when they were asleep they looked like a bunch of little kids at a sleepover.
Nadia sighed inwardly as she shook a thought in her head away. She looked over at Ayane and said, "Im going into the main room to make something other than water to drink. I'm not sleepy anymore. Do you want anything?"
"Sure." Ayane followed Nadia down the hallway and into the main room. A gentle glow shone through the glass wall, coming from a small light in the hanger.
Nadia flipped on a lamp in the corner as she made her way to the "kitchen" area of the room. Opening the fridge she pulled out a small container of orange juice, and motioned for Ayane to pick something out of the fridge.
Ayane nodded and pulled out a container of lemonade, just as Nadia got two glasses. They each poured their own drinks and sat at the counter, not saying much of anything. LightStrike just laid down on the floor in the corner, waiting for the two to finish.
After some time Nadia quietly said, "Do you think Koh's... ok?"
Ayane was taken aback by the question and answered, "I don't know..." She looked down at the counter still stuck in thoughts of her own...
********************************
"Sir, preparations are almost complete." A young ZBC soldier stated. He flipped through the sheets on the clipboard he was carrying with a yawn.
"Good." The commander said, turning to face the soldier. The commander had short, spiked dark brown hair and dark brown, almost black eyes. He was tall and average built, with a calm and collective form. Yet his eyes seemed to suggest both a mischievous and curious side to him.
The commander took the papers and thumbed through them, scanning each one quickly. He nodded, showing his approval.
"Sir, do you think this will work?" The soldier asked, seemingly uneasily.
"I don't think it will work, I know it will. It has to." The commander answered reassuringly, "Now I know it's late so get some rest and report back to me in the morning."
"Yes sir, Commander Fly-Height."
******************************** The gentle rays of the morning sun struck through the window, and Clouds eyes fluttered slowly open. Groaning slightly he pushed himself out of bed and yawned.
He walked down the hallway, and risked peeking into the kids room, noticing them all still asleep he went into the kitchen and began to prepare breakfast. It had been decided the night before that he and Nadia would go find the knife, and then they would look for a way to save Koh. Rain would stay at the base with the kids, seeing as though she was injured, and her zoid couldn't do much. At first it was sugested that Zack stay as well, but he refused.
Cloud had noticed that Rain had cried herself to sleep the previous night, but she had hid it from the others. He too felt like crying, but he instead vowed that he would save Koh no matter what.
"Morning Cloud." Rei's voice came from behind him. Cloud turned to face him and nodded, still stirring the many eggs he was going to cook. "Need help?"
"Sure." Cloud handed Rei a bowel and the two got to work on cooking, "Your up early?"
"Yeah. I always get up early. Lavender isn't a very skilled cook, Goji can't cook much either. Oh, and of course Izumi sleeps in. So, I always get up early to make breakfast."
"What about Kristen?" Cloud asked, placing a bowel in the microwave.
"Our base would burn to the ground." Rei sighed, "But I really don't mind cooking much. It's easy, and it's an excuse to get out of bed in the morning."
"Rain told me you used to always be up early and cook when she stayed at your base to build Kaiser." Cloud paused for a moment, suddenly remembering something Rain had told him.
"Yeah. She never complained about the food either." Rei nodded, "Even though I was always basically cooking the same thing."
Cloud nodded slightly, still pondering on the same thought about what Rain had told him, "Rei?"
"Yeah?"
"Why'd you help Rain build Kaiser?"
Rei looked over at him for a moment and said, "Well, I never expected to find Rain when I went out looking for the "abandoned" Gustav that Zack told me about. He said that it was just sitting out in the middle of the desert, so I went to go take a look."
"I know about that. Zack told me that since you were related to Luke, and that it was on file that you absolutely hated him, he told you about Rain's Gustav so that you would find her, and maybe keep her safe. He said that your base would be the last place they would expect to find her." He paused, "But that doesn't explain why you offered to help her build Kaiser."
Rei placed some bread in the toaster and said, "Well... I was fascinated with Rain's description of her old zoid, and I could tell by the way she spoke of her battles, that she was a skilled pilot. She didn't mention much about you of course... only stating that she was looking for you. She showed me a photograph too."
"...and?"
"At first, I offered help because I was interested on battling with her. I wanted to see how good she was. Then I wanted to see if I could join her team." He sighed, "I was on a team once, but we split up and ever since then I had been working alone. But Rain seemed like a fun... yet mysterious person to hang around with. Plus, I could tell that she missed her old zoid very much, and that she would probably build a similar one. I wanted to see it, cuz dragon zoids are rare." He paused, "After a while we became friends and I just wanted to help her build it. I didn't care about joining her team or anything, I just wanted to help."
"I see." Cloud stated, "Rain once told me that she could tell you wanted something, that's why you were helping her... at first."
"She could tell?" Rei said, "Damn, I thought I hid it pretty well. Oh well. I still can't figure out exactly why Zack "sent" her to me though."
"I already told you that." Zack said, coming into the room, "I looked up as much information on Luke as possible, and discovered you were his only living relation. I also discovered that you obviously hated him, and I had to protect Rain from him. I needed to pay Cloud back somehow after all. I told you about the gustav so that you would meet her, and more than likely keep her safe without even knowing it." The Bahamut 0's pilot looked at what they were doing and said, "I'd offer to help cook, but im not good at it."
Eventually all the adults woke up and were in the kitchen/ main room of the base. Except Rain. She was exhausted, and still sound asleep in her own room. The adults who knew how to cook were busy cooking, while the others were sitting on the couches discussing strategy and idea's.
"It's time to get this show on the road." Bit stated, with agreements coming from everyone. He sighed, "Im tired of us always being the ones who get attacked. Now we have to show everyone that we ain't taking it anymore. We'll show everyone just who they're messing with! Right Blitz team!?"
Leena jumped up and agreed, "Right!"
Doctor Tauros nodded in agreement. Bit was becoming quite the leader.
"Don't get too hasty and forget us Bit!" Izumi stated.
"That's right!" Lavender added, "After all, the FireBlazers are in this too!"
"So are we!" Leon stated, nods coming from Naomi, Brad and Tyra of the Flugle team.
"Im not going to stand around either." Ryuji said. Zack agreed with him.
"Thanks you guy's." Cloud stated, serving them their food, "And of course, we Sky-Raiders are in this till the end."
Everyone agreed whole heartily, but quietly so they wouldn't wake the kids. Cloud quietly said, "It will all be over soon. And we'll all be in this till the end."
Orihime and Jemie got busy on the computers, trying to find any information at all about this "Sin" person and his battle zoid "Chaos-sin." They were typing furiously, looking for anything at all. Orihime had even hacked into what was left of the ZBC's secret files.
Meanwhile, Rain slept as peacefully as possible. She had had a rough enough time so far, and she needed sleep... badly. She woke up a few times, but went right back to sleep.
Her eyes slowly opened once again, looking down at the foot of her bed as a reflex. Even though it had been a long time since LightStrike slept at the foot of her bed, she still found herself looking for him whenever she woke up. She sighed inwardly, realizing he wasn't there, but suddenly wishing he was.
As if on cue she heard a soft growl from outside her door.
"LightStrike?" Rain asked quietly.
The organoid walked in, and looked over at her worriedly. After a few seconds he jumped up onto the bed and curled up at the foot, as if he knew what she was thinking.
"Thank you my old friend." Rain whispered, running a small hand along her old partners back, and giving him as tight a hug as it was possible without hurting herself. He growled softly, nudging her lovingly but carefully.
Rain swore that the organoid seemed to say your welcome. But, she figured she was imagining it, since organoids couldn't talk. She sometimes wished that LightStrike could.
She laid back down and fell asleep once again whispering "Cloud will find him... I know he will."
The organoid looked up at her, and if he could have, he would have smiled gently and said, "Yes he will. Don't worry." But he couldn't so instead he growled once again, laying at the foot of Rains bed to keep her company.
~~~~~~~~~End of Chapter 10~~~~~~~~~
Sorry once again for the delay. I've been planning exactly how I want this story to lay itself out. I could lay it out a million different ways to get the ending that I want, and it was going to be hard to choose which "path" to take, in a way I had a slight writers block on deciding what to do. I finaly figured out exactly how I want it to go last night as I was trying to fall asleep, yet there is still something that seems missing in my plan... but I can't figure out what.
I found this chapter extremely hard to write. I have no clue why, but I couldn't figure out how to word it. But I think I finnaly got it.
Anyways, now that Im on Christmas break, expect more updates cuz Im going to try. I have a feeling this story MAY be longer than the other two, but I can't tell yet.
I was also thinking of going back and re-doing Fight For the Future. I went and re-read it, and for some reason was kind of disappointed in it. It doesn't seem as detailed as either Searching for the past, or Flight of the Phoenix.
Do you think I should? Im not sure... tell me what you think.
Thanks all my loyal reviewers for sticking with me thus-far!