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Chapter 9; finding out more

Meeting room

            The Medabot was a Samurai type, I'd seen many samurai type Medabots before but this one was a bit different, it was wearing a dark purple robe and had a long silver sword with a gold hilt strapped to his back. More often than not more Medabots would come in to the room and stand behind designated podiums talking among them self's, Metabee went to stand behind the podium that had Keumou written on it.

"Silence!" the samurai type Medabot shouted out over the chatter of the other Medabots this instantly made the others shut up "If any one has any thing to say, say it after the meeting, Now Naoki you being the Defender means very much to this world, why would you want to give this up?"

"Umm… well, you see" I didn't know what to say because I had absolutely no idea what he was talking about "Err… could we possibly… postpone the meeting?"

"I'm sorry Naoki but we've given you all the time you can have"

"What, why?" I asked

"If we let you give up you're part as Defender now, we would have to find another that's has compatible spirit, that could take at least three cycles. We don't have three cycles that's why we urge you to say the Defender because you're the best Defender we've had"

"She's the only Defender we've had" another familiar voice said, but there was something about this voice that sent a horrible chill through my Medal, I spun around to see who it was, Leon was standing behind a podium with his arms folded "She's nearly the oldest Medabot on the planet"

"Well, I…" I was speech less, I had all the right things to say but I couldn't seem to say anything because they weren't to do with what they were talking about "… I don't know what to say"

"Naoki, it is with you're spirit and the council's decision, that you shall stay the Defender of our Destiny, for the rest of your time… meeting finalized" All the other Medabots started to get up and go, I was still standing in the middle of the room wondering what they were talking about. Metabee left his podium and walked down the stairs to wards me.

"Deacon what was all that about?" Metabee asked

"I dunno, why don't you tell me"

"Naoki, Keumou walk with me" Leon said from the door way, I didn't trust him much but after the things that had been said here and what he'd said back in reality, I couldn't help but to find out more by going with him, I walked out of the building with Metabee and Leon and on to one of the balcony's of the temple. "Naoki why do you really want to not be the Defender any more? I mean sure every thousand cycles you have to fight a ravaging horde of Medabot demons, but you always come out on top and the power you have is unimaginable, I would give any thing to become the new Defender"

"What's stopping you?" I asked

"Ah come on you know it already, my spirit isn't the right type, they haven't found any Medabot with the correct spirit, it was like yours as the only one" Leon seemed to be more understanding now than before. With out little warning, well with no warning at all actually, the world started to shift about and change under my own feet then darkness enveloped the land just like before when I had fallen in to this dream world. I could hear distant familiar with voices, blurred colours and shimmering blinding light, as the colours got clearer and the light got dimmer I noticed that I hadn't gone from the bedroom, but had instead dreamt about the other so called 'world'

"Oh just when I was going to find something else out as well" I said shallowly as I sat up and rubbed my head.

"She's ok!" Dr.Aki shouted

"Yeah why wouldn't I be?" I said, looking over my shoulder I saw Metabee coming around as well "You had to wake up right then didn't you?"

"Hey where's Ikki?" Metabee asked

"He went to school, but that's besides the point, the point is what happened here?" Dr.Aki asked us both, he then pulled out a chair from under the desk, sat on it and started asking more questions.

"Well, I came up the stairs to wake them up but when I came in to contact with Metabee I woke up in a completely different place" I explained

"If this is what I think happened, then his has happened before"

"Hu, what do you mean?"

"Yeah it sure did, remember I told you about it didn't I" Metabee said

"No I don't think you did," I said in a sarcastic way as I squinted at Metabee, rain started to clap against the half open window and thunder rumbled in the distance, rain water was making little wet specs on the carpet that vanished as soon as they had fallen on the space, the bed room was miserable and dull probably because it wasn't a sunward facing room but the more likely reason for this was because the sun was blocked out from the cause of the heavy cloud cover in the sky "Oh yeah, I forgot to show you this"

"What is it?" I showed Metabee the medallion, this time the hand had moved from the top rune to the rune next to it, just like any normal clock but one other thing had happened the rune it had previously been on was glowing a ghostly purple "Wow, that's one seriously cool watch, but its missing the second and hour hands and the numbers are all strange! How can you read it?!"

"That's the thing Metabee I cant… you say you've been asleep all morning?"

"Yeah and?"

"And no one's come to see you before I did?"

"No why?

"Great… so now what if we cant find Kirsty now Dr.Aki? What do we do?"  I questioned, Dr.Aki rose from the set he was sitting in and walked out of the room "Hey! Were you going?

"Stay with Metabee, I've got things to do"

"Man, he's got a nack for doing that" Metabee said

"So… what do you normally do on a school day?"

"Well for one thing, I don't read books… like a certain Medabot" Metabee said as he folded his arms and looked away.

"Hay, watch it you… I bet you sit around on you're tin can all day doing nothing!"

"Ooh, look who's talking," Metabee said, still looking the other way

"Yeah I am" I couldn't help my self-but to burst out in laughter

"What the? What's so funny?!" Metabee said, as he got more aggravated

"Nothing but… it's just I've never argued like that before, well maybe a couple of times with Jordan but never like that with another Medabot and the way you said every thing"

"That's because… I rock! Now come on lets go"

"Go where exactly?" I asked

"We're going to go pay the school a visit" Metabee said as he walked out the door and down the stairs, I followed tightly to make sure not to get lost.

10:52am, out side the school grounds

The walk from the house to the school wasn't very long, the rain was still heavy and there were large puddles all along the path and every time were came to one Metabee would jump straight in to it putting mud that had collected in the puddle all over us, when we had both reached the front gates we saw that the school playground was deserted, the clock on the front of the school read 10:58am and on the other side of the playground kids were walking back in to the school, probably after having gym class "Ok the bell's going to go in a minuet so stay out of sight until it dose"

"Why Metabee?"

"Why? Well if coach Mountain caches us here we're toast! And besides Ikki will kill me"

"Then why be here, back home Medabots aren't allowed to go to school"

"Really, they must have the same p.t.a"  As Metabee was speaking the bell rang, and all of the schools kids flooded out on to the playground "Come on, this way"

"Hey wait where are we going now?" I said as I was being dragged along by an over enthusiastic Metabee "Would ya stop draggin me?!"

"Quit you're moaning" Metabee said letting go of me

"Why have we stopped here?" all there was in front of us was a wall, a rubbish bin and a small crate all up against the wall, I was a bit confused about all this but Metabee started to climb up each successive object to the top of the wall, Metabee reached his hand out to me so I started to climb up to the top of the rubbish bin and took his hand, this helped me get to the top of the wall faster "Ok what now?"

"First of all, we're going to meet up with Peppercat and the others"

"Peppercat, who's that?" Metabee turned around slowly to make sure he didn't fall off, then with one small leap he jumped off the wall and in to a near by oak tree, so I followed him but what I didn't count on was that there was a small platform near the bottom of the tree with some steps leading up to a much larger platform above  "Heh what's heck is this doing here?"

"Since Medabots aren't allowed in school, the principle put some money in to building this, so that means we can be close by in case of an emergency but no on the school grounds as well" Metabee explained as he walked up the stairs

"Clever, the principle at Kirsty's school would have never thought of doing this, he's to uptight with his money" reaching the top of he stairs we noticed that the second floor was deserted "Where is every one?"

"I dunno normally the place is nearly full, at this time in the morning any way"

11:39am, in the tree

After a good long break time, all the kids at the school dawdled back in to their classes, no other Medabots turned up so it was just Metabee and me and every time I talked to him I felt shy so I tried not to talk much. "I'm really starting to worry now, I mean Kirsty hasn't come to look for me yet, I mean wouldn't you're Medafighter come looking for you?"

"Yeah he would, I guess… hey you said Kirsty wasn't your Medafighter but now your saying she is?" Metabee asked

"Well no… and yes, I wasn't activated by Kirsty but by something else, she found me or you could say I found her" I went on to explain to him. "It was one night about a year ago when I ran in to Kirsty. All the world was new to me I didn't know what anything was or where anything was, I didn't even know what I was"

"Whoa man"

"After winding my way around a town called Lowestoft I found my self confronted by a gang of Medafighters and there Medabots but back then I had no clue as to what theses things were. They shot at me with all kinds of weapons… so I ran, I ran down a small dark ally way of course they followed me but I was running faster, I was looking down when I was running I didn't see her so I bumped straight in to her" 

"In to who??"

"Kirsty… I tried in vain to get to my feet before the gang got any closer; she helped me up then asked me what was I running from. I replied… that there were lots of strange things chasing me. The gang that had driven me down the dark ally way started to pile up in front of us and I coward behind Kirsty not knowing what to do"

"Yeah then what happened?!" I could see the suspense was getting to Metabee

"Well she started to reason with them"

"Did it work?"

"No… when I thought all of this would be over in a matter of seconds, then out of nowhere a boy and his Medabot managed to fend the gangsters off, I was thankful and that's how Kirsty and I stayed together"

"So that's why you two didn't have a Medawatch, we've got another Medabot around here like that except he stays on his own" Metabee continued on as he laid down on a branch that over hanged the platform "Yeah he's name's Rokusho, you don't see him around here much anymore"

'Why dose that name sound so familiar?' I thought to my self, it was clear as day but I just couldn't figure it out were I had heard that name before

"Hello, is any one here?!" A female voice called from down the stairs  

"Ah, finally… what took her so long?" Metabee said as he left the overhanging branch and walked to the edge of the stairs "Yeah, why are you so late?!"

"Because Sam got up late," The other Medabot said as she reached the top of the stairs, the Medabot was a Cat type and I think that most people will know what a Cat type looks like

"Where's Crosserdog, Totalizer and Brass?" Metabee asked

"I don't know" The Cat type answered back

"Looks like every one is disappearing" I said

"Who's that? I've never seen him before" Every one who sees me seems to think I'm a boy just because of my Medabot but I don't really care

"I'll say it once and I'll say it again, I am not a boy" the cat type looked at me in a strange way but then most people and Medabots do when I tell them that

"Oh sorry about that, my name's Peppercat" the Cat type told me

"And my name's Deacon nice to meet you"