Chapter VII

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Blade stared at the identical looking man at the other end of the room. His eyes fixed onto Jericho's eyes. D-boy was hoping that there would be no red color in his brothers iris. There was none. But there was something more unsettling then seeing the blood red grip of Radom in his eyes. The iris of his eyes held no color. They were black. His eyes were black and white. No light escaped from his brother's gaze. Though there was no color in his eyes they spoke volumes to D-boy. Anger, hate, fear, sorrow, and something darker, something that was at his very soul. He couldn't put a finger on it but whatever it sent shivers up and down his spine.

"I go away for fifteen years and when I come back the first thing you do is try to kill me." Jericho said, his tone wet with sarcasm. The room was dead quiet, the tension in the room was intense. Every one was afraid to even breathe. Seconds felt like eternity. For a time Draco could have sworn that even the air had frozen, forbidding anyone from breathing.

A man who should never have existed broke eternity. His voice was alien. His words were unknown expect by one other in the room. "Shira comria foreen omerialn Blade." only the last word was understood. The team was frozen, they couldn't move their bodies, only there eyes to look onto they their brother.

D-boy only shook his head. But what his body refused his eyes betrayed. He understood! Dead realized. Again the man at the far end said again in the alien tongue, "Shira comria foreen omerialn Blade." Jericho began to walk towards them. Each step echoed in the room. Giving into the tongue that he had hated for so long but had needed for just as long, slowly D-boy replied to the hail of his brother. "Ohfar seesa forgred imralyn, ofshira." The words that came from their brother were what were needed to snap them out of their trance. The Space Knights now had looks of confusion and shock on there face.

"Do you mind if we talk in our native tongue dear brother." D-boy didn't request it he demanded it. Clear to everyone, that language was planted in his mind, not learned. "Every well brother. But is it not rude to talk about me behind my back, but also not to introduce me to your friends?" Jericho was now directly across from D-boy, the Space knights were all that separated the two.

"Never mind brother, I wont be here long." with that Jericho turned and left the room. He smiled as he left. His brother had already given him their names. Though he didn't know it. Before leaving the room, Jericho snapped his fingers and the guards that he had knocked out awoke as if on command. A look of puzzlement was on their faces as they tried to comprehend what had just happened to them. Leaving the confused guards and his brother, Jericho walked down the hallway to the observation deck. I didn't handle that well. Well, I'm sure that he will come to me.

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A few hours had passed sense that disturbing meeting and Hayato was still shaken from what had just happened. Walking beside him was the girl of his dreams, Yumi. Three years ago he had finally gathered up the nerve, with thanks to David, and surprisingly enough from Dead End as well. 'She won't know how you feel unless you tell her!' 'It may shock you to here this from me but listen to David, I think for once in his playboy life that he knows what he's talking about.' their voices still echoing in his mind. Now that three years had passed he had started to think about their future together as a couple. But something was holding him back.

Finally coming up to his girlfriend's door Hayato pressed the fingerprint ID panel that recognized him as an allowed entree. Standing inside the doorway to Yumi's room both of them looked at each other. Yumi was the first to break the silence. "This has been a few weird months." she said, trying to break the tension.

Nodding Hayato brushed his hand across Yumi's cheek. He was about to kiss her when it happened again. A bright flash, images flying though his mind, sounds to fast for the human ear to understand, another flash, Hayato was back in his body. Pulling back from his intended kiss he gave Yumi a hug and said that he would see her in the morning and hurried off.

Walking along the night shore of the beach that was on the Space Knight Island as it had been nicknamed. Hayato allowed the images to come back to him as a slower pace. It was the same thought that had plagued him now almost every time he had thought about Yumi.

In his vision he saw his girlfriend in her Tekkaman form. She was fighting with Natasha. At first he thought it was just a practice. But then he saw Yumi stab clean though Natasha's chest. He heard a scream, it was coming from Natasha's pilot, Goliath. He was screaming words in Russian, yet he knew all to well what they were. They were pleas to stay with him, to stay alive. Then there was laughter. A twisted, dark laugh that only an evil soul could bring forth. It was coming from Yumi. Red eyes occupied the space where her once beautiful eyes once were.

He didn't know why he was having this vision. But he didn't dismiss it either. As much as he hated to think of it. He felt that it would become true. It was almost the same day that he had confessed his love to Yumi that he started to have the flashes. The First one was of him getting a call that his father had died in a freak accident. Two days later he received the call from his mother. Word for word just as he remembered it his mother told him what had happened.

The next flash had happened nearly three months later. He saw a vision of gamma taking a nosedive into the ocean and taking him with it. Luckily he had remembered the first time and had managed to eject before hitting the water. When they pulled the ship out they discovered that had he stayed in the ship that the bubble would have been crushed and sent blades of glass into his body.

After that they became more and more frequent. They weren't all that bad. Some of them revealed to him that he would one day even propose to Yumi. He had even gone and bought the ring with Natasha to help him pick it out. She was the only other one that knew that he had the flashes. When he had paid for the ring and the jeweler placed the band into his hand he had the nightmarish flash for the first time. He hadn't told Natasha for obvious reasons, from that point on all the flashes were about was that nightmare.

Continuing his walk he snapped back to reality when he heard a cold voice.

"They are never always real." the voice said. Hayato frantically looked around trying to find where the voice came from. A shadow jumped from a fifteen-foot cliff to right in front of him. There he stood, D-boys genetic supper clone, Jericho. " I don't mean to intrude, but you were walking the walk of a man trying to figure out if what he saw in his mind and what he knows in his heart can occupy the same being." the shadow said, his voice had become warmer. "Care if I join you in your walk, Hayato." Hayato had tried to keep a cool look about him when Jericho had jumped down a cliff that should have at least have twisted his foot. But know, he was taken aback, no one in the meeting room had even breathed his name. So how did this man know it.

Chuckling Jericho merely said, "when you become a Tekkaman you will find that you can look into other Tekkamen minds. Though it takes a strong will to find what you are looking for, it can be done." "Why should I trust you. You're the guy that tried to kill my friends." Hayato hissed in a vain attempt to hide his surprise over what the other man had just confessed. "If you were in my shoes Hayato, you would have done the same. Walk with me and let me tell you why."

Going against is better judgment, Hayato reluctantly agreed and fell in pace with the enigma that called itself Jericho.

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Aki was walking down the corridor to D-boys office. Hundreds of questions raced though her mind. As much as she tried, she just couldn't figure out the questions on her own.

Continuing her long walk towards the office the voices for her Blade and of Jericho speaking in that strange tongue just kept playing in her mind. What was it that they had said. What would she say to D-boy?

Coming to the door Aki found the hidden panel that when pressed would open the false wall. As the door opened she instantly saw that no one was at the large desk. Walking in Aki tried to mentally call for D-boy. After a moment the mental radar in her mind revealed that he was in fact on the very top of the Space Knight command tower. Turning to leave she saw out of the corner of her eye a record was on display on one of the wall monitors. Looking at it Aki tried to comprehend what she was looking at. Five pictures occupied the screen the two on the top were identical twins, the two on the bottom were men, one was an elderly man, the other looked like the younger version of the elder. The one in the middle resembled the two on the top but with a slight difference. His eyes iris were black. Then it hit her. This was a diagram of what each of the four had given the one.

Touching D-boys face on the screen caused it to shimmer and expand. The diagrams revealed that D-boy have given Jericho his knowledge of fighting, his honor and his stubbornness. Aki laughed lightly. The thought of D-boys stubbornness felt so fitting. Backing out of that file she reluctantly selected D-boys brother, Cain. Cain had given his fighting abilities as well as his logic and a part of his darker self. The thought of Saber made Aki shutter. If Saber was all evil, then what would a piece of him do to Jericho. From what D-boy had told them, that was supposed to coupled with an already existing personality. But his father and other brother had interfered.

Looking at what Conrad had given was shocking. It was like good and evil was given at once. He had given his compassion, strong passion, his ruthlessness and his cutthroat determination. Aki tried to comprehend what the military had tried to do. If she was reading this right, they were trying to make a assassin instead of a super solder. Backing out of Conrad's file Aki thought about not looking at Nick's father's file. But curiosity won out.

Aki was greeted a several traits that had been given. One was knowledge. The kind that only the Elders could have. It was the kind that took a lifetime to receive. Willingness to learn, the kind that allowed a man to adapt quickly. And there was one other thing. It was in a file. The caption under the file was labeled Code. Opening the file Aki was shocked at what she saw. It was like looking at medieval times and the code of honor that the Knights of old had followed.

All this was in one person. What affect had this on Jericho? Aki's mind reeled as she tried to figure out things as even more questions came pouring into her mind. She had to find D-boy, she had to go to him. Casting out another mental wave to find her love she found that he had not moved from his spot. Leaving the room Aki began to run to the elevator. She needed to confront D-boy on something she hated to do to him. She needed to confront him about Nick Carter.

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"So what do you think will happen?" David asked as Natasha, Dead, Anita, and Goliath and himself were getting ready to go to the mall. The Chief was kind enough to give everyone a few days leave. But as usual if Radom were spotted, then vacation would take the back seat to their lives. "What do you mean?" Dead asked, a questioning look on his eyes. David only shrugged off his own question. Loading up into the jeeps Dead was still thinking of what David has said. 'So what do you think will happen?' As they pulled out of the garage and began to drive towards the gate to the city Anita spotted Hayato and Jericho walking along the beach. I wonder if maybe he would like to join us to the mall? Stopping the jeep Anita hopped out and ran towards them, shouting back at her friends in the jeep not to leave.

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"So tell me Hayato, why are you holding back." Jericho and Hayato had been walking alone the beach for the past hour as they had talked. Hayato had told him about the flashes that he had been getting lately. He didn't tell him about the ring that he had gotten for Yumi and didn't plan on telling him. Silently, Hayato walked along side him, not bothering to answer his question. "Let me ask you this then, you have dwelled on the thought that one day Yumi will become everything she's not. Why not try to prevent it, you've done it before, why not try to do it again." Hayato stopped, had he really been dwelling on thought of what might happen to Yumi that it would stop him from living his life?

"How did you get so wise Jericho?" Hayato asked in response. Allowing a smile to grow on his face, Jericho continued to walk. "Even though I was made to kill, doesn't mean that I have to live that way. Someone's coming."

Looking around Hayato spotted Anita running down the beach towards them. Turning around again to face Jericho, Hayato wasn't really surprised to see that his new friend had disappeared. "Hey Hayato, where's Jericho?" Anita asked in between the deep breaths that she was taking in. "He said something about needing time to himself. Can't blame the guy after what happened to him." Hayato said, trying to cover for Jericho's disappearance.

"Oh, was hopping that he would want to come with us to the mall, wanna come?" Anita asked, she had finally regained her breath but was still red from her run. Nodding his head Hayato agreed to go with. As they walked off towards the jeeps, a pair of black eyes glowed green as they walked away. I shouldn't get myself attached to these people. If Nick has failed in his quest to protect earth then I'm going to have to take up his quest. I don't need friends in my way.