Fire Fox- Ravin!
Ravin- Go away, stupid girl.
Fire Fox- Guess what?!
Ravin- Why won't you leave me alone?
Fire Fox- Blimey!
Ravin- I now know what Hell is….Who in their right mind says 'blimey'?
Fire Fox- Blimey! The crock's got my tail!
Ravin- Are you drunk?
Fire Fox- Hehehehe…'R, I be a pirate 'R Fire Fox, 'Rrrrr
Disclaimer: I too once had dreams of being an intellectual, but soon found it to complicated.
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NOW
THE FIRE FOX TIPSILY PRESENTS:
THE PROPHECY OF THE ZOIDS
Chapter Eight: Blood Red Eclipse
The GenoBreaker flew across the plain. The wind ruffled the grass.
People change
Beauty fades
Love dies
But you will always be alone.
The GenoBreaker stopped in the field. There was no point to hurry. Time does not matter. Nothing matters, except death. No one can hide from death, but only a fool rushes toward death, or the desperate. The wind blew harder.
People change
Beauty fades
Love dies
But you will always be alone.
The master of the GenoBreaker got out of the cockpit and looked around. The wind messed his hair. His life was messed up too, much more than his hair. His existence was an irony, one after another. Nothing ever stayed. Only the shadows of misery stayed. Nothing was constant, except one thing. The wind laughed.
People change
Beauty fades
Love dies
But you will always be alone.
'Damn you Van Freiheit,' the boy thought. Van had everything; his life was a fairy tale compared to his. The boy was left with nothing but Shadow. The boy smirked, 'But not all fairytales end happily.'
The wind raged louder. The boy hated the wind, but could do nothing to stop it. He tried to ignore the wind, but couldn't and never could. The wind was his fate, and it laughed harder because of it. The wind laughed at the irony of it all. Happiness was within his reach, all he had to do was grasp it. Yet, he was ignorant. Million of voices laughed at the irony.
People change
Beauty fades
Love dies
But you will always be alone.
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Andrea let the wind play with her hair. She smiled. She loved the wind. It let her know she was still alive, if that is what one wanted to call it. She could sense Ravin and it worried her. He had never been like this that she knew of. But than she hadn't seen him in years. And people change in years. His new state was akin to her Cold Fire. Her brows furrowed at that thought.
What could have caused Ravin such grief? What does he feel so passionately to become a version of Cold Fire? What if I haven't the power needed to help him?
The darkness was powerful. Nothing could stop the darkness in this withdrawn state. Ravin didn't care, and no one could stop him, not even the light. Well, maybe if Van went into the same state. Because as a rule the darkness and light were equal. But Van would never go into such a state of mind. Van was good; Van was too strong.
She looked at the blood object by her. It was the only way to save Van and Ravin. She needed both of them for her purpose.
"Andrea, what is that red thing beside you?" asked Janine. She didn't understand why all of a sudden they had stopped. If they wanted to catch Ravin, they had better hurry.
"It's an organoid."
"Where did you get it?" Janine dreaded the answer.
"Found it."
"Andrea, I cannot believe you stole an organoid! This is really not…" Janine was cut short by a gust of wind.
"Free Fall!"
The golden organoid, who had been hovering overhead, dived to meet her master. It folded its wings in and let gravity take over. It continued to pick up speed, finally at reaching maximum velocity it straighten out its wings, but continued to fall. A gold darkness intertwined with its bright color. When it was only a foot above its master, Free Fall let go of consciousness.
Janine looked on horrified as Free Fall collided with its master. She couldn't believe the organoid would do such a thing.
Janine's eyes widen in disbelief as the dust from the impact cleared. Andrea stood up; well at least Janine figured it was Andrea. She looked like Andrea, except that she had a long gold tail, her hands formed into long, slender claws, antenna replaced her ears, her eyes were more triangular, and she had long, bat like wings.
Andrea/Free Fall turned to the organoid. "Awake, red organoid."
The organoid shakily got to its feet. It turned its head from Janine to Andrea/Free Fall.
"Roooaaarrr."
"It is yours, all you need to do is name it. It once had another name. But that is gone."
"Eclipse, I guess. It kinda suits him."
"To abandon, to fail, to obscure, the cutting off of light."
The red organoid looked to the girl that had named him. He had no choice now, but to follow her.
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Van looked to the setting sun. Another report had blown in about Ravin's rampages. Van just couldn't understand why Ravin had taken to destroying and killing innocent lives again. He had thought that after the Zoid Eve incident that Ravin had gotten tired of his former lifestyle. In fact, Ravin hadn't been heard of for years. But why now? Van just couldn't understand it. But now, he just wished Moonbay and Fiona back on the base, safe, not gone off to some back-roads place.
"I guess old habits are hard to break," said Irvine, unexpectedly. Van hadn't even noticed his friend walk up behind him.
"No, it is more than that," said Van solemnly. He wasn't looking forward to fighting his old enemy.
"I agree with Van," said Thomas. "I mean Ravin hasn't been seen for years. Why would he have any reason to start up again?"
"AND I always agree with Thomas," Janine said cuddling up next to Thomas.
"Remind me why you are here," droned Irvine.
"Because my friend told me to come and help you guys out. But the real reason I stay around the EVIL Irvine, is for my beloved Thomas."
"Poor Thomas."
"You say something one-eyed boy!" Janine released Thomas from the cuddling to get into Irvine's face.
"Van, remind me why we trust this thing."
"Because of that," Van said pointing to the blood-red organoid sitting on top Janine's own Lightening Siax. Which was the real reason probably Irvine and Janine didn't get along. With Janine's Eclipse fused with her Siax, it had been pushed to the siax ultimate potential as a zoid. It had out performed Irvine's Siax on all accounts.
Van stared at Eclipse. It was able to push a zoid to its ultimate form and fuse zoid cores together. The red organoid only glanced down at Van than returned its visual to the west.
It has to be Ambient thought Van. It is all just too coincidental for Eclipse to look like and have all the same properties of Ambient for them to be two separate organoids. But where and how did she get him? Ambient was destroyed along with Hiltz. If it is Ambient, why is it following Janine? Why is she here? Why is her friend so interested in us? Why isn't it with Hiltz? Why…
His mind was drawn from his puzzle of questions by Thomas's nervous laughing as Janine flew at Irvine. Van really doubted she was going to give him a hug, unless a hug involved Irvine's blood.
Eclipse looked at the fight with a smug satisfaction for only a second, and returned his visual to the east.
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A figure appeared out of nowhere. She looked around at the ruble that scattered the ground on which she walked. Red and blue metal was mixed with other trash and remains. The wind played with her hair.
"Yes, little sisters, you have waited since the birth of time for this. And now it begins and ends.
"The change winds are blowing."
An unholy light beamed down on the man. He now knew what he was to do. It would be easy. Last time Prozen had been stupid and caused the defeat, but now there was no Prozen. Zi must be rid of all things weak. Van with his love, Raven with his uncontrollable rage, and the other power who remained where all weak.
The red haired man walked slowly way from the valley. He knew his purpose well and knew how to accomplish it.
He only laughed as the wind echoed the questions. He knew the answers. The promise of blood and death filled his senses. Nothing could stand in his way. It would all be his. A cruel smile crossed his lips.
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"Shut up!" Ravin yelled at the emptiness as he fired a charged particle beam at the wind.
Why must it always sing that damned song! Didn't he already know that tune by his soul? It need not remind him of the screams and wreckage of the blue zoid. It need not remind him of how he had to watch the blue Genosaurer fight for its life, with him unable to help. Ravin didn't need to be reminded of the blue metal scattered about the empty field.
The wind hissed back.
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A huge yellow zoid walked towards the east in a steady pass. It walked straight towards its goal. The huge head of the zoid didn't waiver from the destined direction. It walked like a zombie to the east. It had no other purpose but to reach its destination. It walked through forests, deserts, and towns without head.
The pilot was the same. She looked only towards the east. For that is the direction where her purpose lies.
Suddenly, she became aware of a pair of girls to the zoids right failing their arms in attempt to get her attention. A broken down Gustav was also to the right of the zoid. The pilot noticed that the location was the middle of the desert. The girls probably wouldn't survive till another zoid passed by, if one ever did. The path wasn't exactly a main highway.
But she had no time to stop, for every second was planned. She continued on her path.
A nagging feeling edged its way into her mind. A sad thought dashed across her mind: she had caused so much pain and death throughout her life surely this couldn't hurt.
But it could. If she was only a second to late.
It won't hurt.
She halted the zoid a few feet from the Gustav. The girls ran up the yellow Saber Fang.
"Get in," she said.
"You going our way?" asked one of the girls.
Like I really care which way you were going. "I am going east. Get in. I have already wasted to much time on you all."
The two girls exchanged looks and scrambled up to the cockpit. They both managed to squeeze into the back seat of the Saber Fang.
"You can drop us off at the next town," said the darker girl. The blonde just stared at the pilot. There was something unusual about the pilot.
"I can't stop. I must continue to I reach the Finite base. It won't matter after that," replied the pilot in a zombie state. She only looked forward.
"Moonbay?" the blonde sought her companion's attention after becoming aware of the direction in which they traveled, "Don't you think it odd that she just happens to be traveling to the Finite base?"
"Ummm, I guess."
"I mean just how convenient is it that she just happens to be traveling on the same road, same time, and same direction that we where?"
"Yeah, I guess you are right Fiona," Moonbay replied to her friend. "Hey, you! Where do you think you are going! Don't you know Ravin is supposed to be at Finite!"
The yellow Saber Fang suddenly stopped, as if it had crossed the magic barrier between the lands of the dead to the living. Its head looked all around as if it was lost and was trying to figure out where it was. The pilot also became more alive.
She turned her head to look at her passengers in the face for the first time.
"Really?" she asked in an innocent voice, "Well, it IS a small world after all." A voice to innocent to be true.
A smile crossed Andrea's lips, "You girls had better hang on to your seats."
"Wh.." Moonbay tried to ask as the zoid lurched forward and started accelerating at un-natural speeds for a Saber Fang. It continued to accelerate for miles heading in the direction of the base. It crashed through trees without any heed.
The Saber Fang roared an angry cry as it sensed two other powerful zoid locked in battle. One of the zoids went down and the other powered up to deal the final blow. The Saber Fang growled a low rumble. As soon as it feet had touched the ground, they were off the ground. It only wanted speed and nothing else. Its fangs caught the ruby light of the setting sun. It sensed its master's worries, something about setting suns: as one sun sets, another raises. A final challenging roar escaped the Saber Fang.
"You are pushing the Saber Fang to hard and fast!" cried Fiona as she and Moonbay hung on to each other for dear life, "You are going to bust the zoid core!"
Andrea just made the Saber Fang go faster, "You would know, Fiona."
"Forget the zoid core!" screamed Moonbay, "there is a cliff coming up. If you continue at the speed you are traveling now, you will never avoid it."
Andrea rolled her eyes, Really. "My, my. Now that is a problem, isn't it?"
"Are you some kind of psycho nut!" yelled Moonbay.
"Probably," Andrea replied as she commanded the Saber Fang to jump off the cliff. While the Saber Fang began its free fall to the ground below, Fiona noticed a golden streak fall from the clouds and merge with the zoid.
Fiona shivered, as the Saber Fang was being transformed, re-designed to Andrea's abilities, her strengths, weakness, and desires. She felt the zoid core's power rise to rival that of the Geno-Breaker and Blade Liger. How can a zoid change to suit the pilot? Fiona's eyes widen with realization, Shadow increases the sheer power of any zoid, Ambient and Specula pushes the zoid core to its ultimate potential, and Zeke reduces the reaction time between zoid and pilot, so this has to be the work of an organoid.
Fiona felt her stomach turn as the zoid melted away and re-formed into something more. It's un-natural was all Fiona was able to think.
"Rggggghhhh!"(I am NOT un-natural!) Free Fall roared from the zoid core, picking up on Fiona's thoughts.
"Shhhh, my golden beauty. Of course you are not un-natural. Pay her thoughts no never mind," Andrea soothed her organoid, "She only worries for the pilot of the blue Blade Liger."
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A battered Liger lay on its side, unable to move if its life deepened on it. An equally battered Geno-Breaker prepared to fire a charged particle gun. The battle between the two had been long and hard. Of course in the state that Ravin was in, made it an un-fair battle. Nothing could stand up to such a withdrawn state, except for another person in the same state.
Van stared at the Geno-Breaker as it charged up energy. Ravin had always fought with passion, but this was different. He had always wanted to killed Van and zoids, but Ravin had changed. The bloodlust was still there, but it was a different type of need to kill. It was as if Ravin merely existed to burn out the lives of others.
"rorrrrrgggg."
"What do you mean 'you sense Fiona'?!" Van yelled at Zeke. Van silently cursed. It was bad enough that he was going to die, but Fiona? He tried to make the Liger get up to no avail.
"Where do you sense her?"
"rrrrggghhhh." (In the Saber Fang.)
"What Saber Fang?" Van asked.
"aarrrggghhh." (That one.)
A yellow Saber Fang leaped off the side of the cliff with the Geno-Breaker its clear target. It landed on the back of the Geno-Breaker just as it was about to fire a charge particle beam at the Liger, causing the Geno-Breaker's head to swing back and miss the Liger. It sank its teeth into one of the Geno-Breaker's pincers and ripped the red armor off of it, and jumped off in one swift movement.
Van heaved a sigh of relief at Fiona at least being with an experienced pilot. Knowing her, he wouldn't have been surprised if she had showed up with a novice. He was also happy he hadn't been fried. Zeke certainly agreed with him on that account.
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Factoid- This looks like a good place to end.
Shadow- Grrrr. (So, she has no idea how this is going to end.)
Factoid- Yep.
Fire Fox- *hic* But I rrrrr be a rrr pirate Fire Fox, Ravin. So you MUST stwalk the splanch for that *hic* scurvy comment, you scallywag.
Ravin- Have you been drinking?! HEY! Get that rope away from me! Put down that sword. Aren't you supposed to have ONE peg leg?
Fire Fox- *staggers in with four peg legs and a peg tail* Blimey! The crock done bit my Rrrrr tail off! *takes a drink of her Vanilla coke*
Ravin- That's not beer!
Fire Fox- *begins to sway from side to side* Rrrrrrrrrrr
Ravin- It's Vanilla coke *takes a sniff* laced with…Nyquil! Alright. Who put Nyquil in Fire Fox's drink? You know HOW she gets when she takes that stuff.
Shadow- *who had been looking around innocently* GRRRRRR!!! (Factoid did, Master!!)
Factoid- *wakes up* What? *runs with a P.O. Ravin chasing her*
Shadow-^.^ *kicks a Nyquil bottle under some chair*
ª Please review! I love all reviewers! Only three or four chapters to go, then I will be finished! *Everybody smiles happily* But I do have two ideas for new stories, so don't get to excited about my being finished. I apologize again for the crappiness of this chapter, blasted Nyquil. That and I didn't proof-read this chapter too much before I posted it, sooo…..ª
