Disclaimer: I don't own Medabots or any of the characters but I do own Deacon (Naoki), Kirsty, Archon (Baatezu), Jordan, Leo, Josh, Fenix, Mike, Orcar, Jeff, Spitro, Leon, Aquilla, Ahrok, Bruke and Zenriha
"Thoughts
lead to acts.
Acts lead to habits.
Habits lead to character.
And our character will determine our eternal destiny
Chapter 12; something else to worry about
1:40pm, out side the East Point pavilion (following day)
"Oh… I'm so board, there's never any thing to do around this town!"
"Yeah but remember you were supposed to be at school on Friday, so it's your own fault that we did every thing then, really"
"My fault… Deacon you told me that it would be better if I stayed off school yesterday!"
"No I said your teacher wouldn't mind if you weren't at school"
"No I'm quite- wha… That doesn't matter any more"
"Hmm what about going to see a movie? Or to the arcade?"
"Good idea, but I don't have any money," Kirsty said as she pulled her pockets inside out
"Ok then… how about, going for a swim in the sea? Its as warm as its going to get in summer" I said, Kirsty seemed to accept and walked down the road back to the house to get her wetsuit, I waited for her here but soon moved of down the ramp to the beach. There were crowds of people on the beach with fewer people in the sea, the sun made the sand look golden but the sea looked anything but clear. But then it never did, at any time, the sand was just not white enough and the waves were too harsh to let the sand settle to the bottom. So it always looked muddy but it never was. I sat on the sand and sieved it through my fingers; each tiny grain caught the sun and gleamed like a very small diamond.
"How do you think all those grains of sand got there?" A familiar voice that came from behind me said, I turned to look but there was no one there, so I turned back round again and there standing in front of me was Leon "They line most of the coast of this continent and most other continents as well. So how do you think they got there?"
"Oh it's you, what do you want?" I said as I stood up and raised a fist at him.
"Do not worry Deacon, I would not attack you again…" Leon said, walking up to me he pushed my arm down out of the way. "The sand that we now stand on was made out of rocks rubbing on each other for millions of years, the waves that rubbed the rocks against each other were generated by wind speed, wind is part of what makes the atmosphere, the atmosphere is what makes the earth. The earth was made by matter collecting in one part of space, and space is endless"
"Uh-hu… sorry you kind of lost me at the part about wind speed" I said scratching my head.
"I know, you never were easy to teach, but that girl you 'hang out' with seems to have taught you in a manner of mire days"
"Excuse me? What do you mean never were?"
"Have you still learned nothing? Unfortunately I can't show you your past, but I could tell you some of it, but it is still to much of a mystery, the only two Medallorians to know more of your past were Zenriha your creator and Baatezu" Leon explained
"Zenriha? My Creator you say? And Baatezu?" I asked
"Zenriha…. Zenriha was one of the first two Medallorians; He created you to guard a shard of crystal, placed in side your body for over a thousand centuries. But the shard was Medalorian made, and pure evil; it started to make you do things that were terrifying. Knowing this would only get worse if he let it continue, he put a stop to it - "
"Whoa slow down! I can barely keep up!" I said cutting Leon off
"As I was saying… He made the Ta'llgesna, the living metal. The Metal would keep the shards evil concealed away forever, but what he didn't expect was for the Living metal to have a reaction to the shard of crystal. He knew that you would gain control over the shard and Metal but what he didn't know was that several years down the line, ability to control the metal became even more powerful, as the whole council found out of that day, when Alzar, the army's first leader was banished to the gate world, but he refused to go with out a fight. He picked you as his target…"
"What happened? Did I kick his butt?!"
"Well yes, and no"
"What do you mean 'and no'?"
"Well, as Alzar was charging for his first attack, you seemed to drop to your knees, shaking and you had you arms wrapped round your self, I didn't know what was going on, and neither did all the other council mem…"
"Hay Deacon!!" Kirsty shouted cutting Leon off, when I looked back to where Leon was standing he was gone, he obviously didn't want to be seen with me.
2:00pm, south beach
"Sorry I took so long but mum put my wet suit up in the attic" Kirsty said sitting down next to me. She took her shoes off and stuffed them in a bag along with her Medawatch and jacket "Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you but only Ikki and Metabee were able to come over here. They're at a gas station in Chelmsford so they should be here within the hour. I told them to meet us here. Is something… the matter?"
"Nothing… nothing, its just when you went back home, I had an unexpected visitor"
"Who was it?"
"Leon, he showed up about five minutes after you'd gone"
"What did he say?"
"He ran on about my past and something to do with Zenriha and Baatezu…"I started to trail off because I didn't want to go in to any details, who would have thought that I was made just to defend something I didn't even know about until now. I tried no to dwell on the thought but it was hard to forget something told to you like that. I didn't believe it much but it was still a daunting thought. "Don't worry about it"
"Ok I wont, but if you've finished pitying your self lets go swim" Kirsty said as she gave me a slight pat on the back. We both ran down to where the waves crashed against the beach, I stopped right in front of the sea but Kirsty kept going and dived head first in to an oncoming wave "C-come… in, th-the waters… G-GRATE!"
"Hmm…" I said quietly, I then ran over to one of the near by groynes and started to climb along it in till I reached the end.
"W-where are you-you… going y-you W-WUSS!" I heard Kirsty shout to me as I ran back along the plank towards the beach, then I ran back to wards the sea to pick up enough speed for a jump.
"BONZ-EY!!" I shouted out after jumping, there was a rush of freezing water, I was taken by surprise that I could feel how cold it actually was, so I swam up to the surface and had a look around, already I noticed the Living Metal had done what it does best, the fins made it tremendously easier to tread the water and stay in one place when fighting the waves. After I had finished thinking about 'why this' and 'why that' I dived under again but this time as I was, I felt a sharp choking pain in my shoulders and chest, and then passed out like in a robattle… if you're the loser…
2:50pm, south beach
"Oh god, Deacon please wake up you can't quit on me now…"
"Yeah come on, your still with us I know it…"
"Please stay with us…"
"I don't know if I'd be able to cope with out you…"
"She's freezing, how could this be? Metabee was only in there for ten minutes and he's fine"
"YEAH BUT I'M GUNNA RUST NOW!!"
"Oh come off it, your not going to rust, ok?"
"Wait she's coming around… Deacon can you hear me?"
"I… could… hear… you… a… second ago" I said slowly
"She's ok, but can you sit up?" someone said, I didn't know who it was because all the voices sounded jumbled and I couldn't see anything because the light was directly in my eyes.
"I could try… but don't expect any miracles" I said as a joke, as I sat up the sharp choking pain in my shoulders and chest came back but this time it felt like something else was stuck there as well, it rapidly moved it's self in to the two unused black cylindrical ammo holders on my shoulders then it dissipated out wards.
"AHH!"
"Stop whining Ikki its only water"
"Yeah but I didn't really intend to have a shower today!! And it's all right for you Kirsty you're the one wearing a wetsuit!" Ikki moaned. The sun was no longer in my eyes now so I could see every one again, basically the sheet of amour that looks like a dragons top maw acts as a cap kind of like the ones off baseball caps. It shields me from air attacks to my vision sensor and the sun.
"Metabee? Ikki? When did you guys get here?" I asked"About an hour ago" Metabee said
"So how long was I out for?"
"An hour, but are you sure your ok?" Kirsty said
"Whoa an hour hu? And yeah I'm fine why do you ask?"
"Well first of all when I went over to where you fell in, you were floating on the top now somehow I don't class that as normal for a Medabot. Second of all when I pulled you out you were freezing and I don't just mean normal metal cold I mean ice cold it was like your heat generators weren't working. Third of all I kept getting a systems critical from your Medawatch and fourthly you managed to ''spit up'' water. Now I'm no expert but that's not normal," Kirsty explained
"Well… umm… you see…theirs probably a logical explanation for all that" I said as I looked round at the three who were staring at me.
"And there is actually…" The same voice that I heard before from behind me when I was sat on the beach sifting through the sand came from behind me again
"Leon would you stop sneaking up on me!" I shouted
"Kirsty, the reason why Deacon floated on the surface was because her body is about the same density as water. What happens when you humans go in to the water?" Leon asked Kirsty
"Err… we get… cold? But that's depending on the temperature of the water"
"Exactly, 'Bio-metal' that you have so affectionately doved can't with stand temperatures below 20C and temperatures above 45C. It has to have a constant core temperature of 37C. You see Deacon doesn't have heat generators because she doesn't need them. But when faced with a freezing temperature it opens air intake ports on Deacon to try and take in as much warm air as possible to warm its self up. If it gets to hot it tries to expel the warm air to cool down and the intake ports happen to be… well I think you found that out already." Leon explained
"What then how come she's never done it before hand?" Kirsty asked
"Has she ever been in the sea before now or how about a hot country?" Ikki said
"Well now that you mention it… no"
"I rest my case"
"You don't have a case," Kirsty said
"It was a figure of speech"
"Ok that explains the systems critical and the freezing but what about spitting up water out of those ammo crates?" Metabee asked
"Very simply, when Deacon fell in the living metal instantly knew that it was freezing water-"
"So it instinctively knew to open the air intake ports…" Metabee said abruptly cutting Leon off
"Yes, in a manor of speaking. But instead of taking warm air in it took in lots of ice cold water, this stopped the living metal from functioning, that also meant that Deacon could not function either"
"Well that's a drag… wait a sec didn't Dr.Aki say something about to you about to much of an electrical shock could seriously damage you?"
"Yeah he did, but how did you know that Kirsty?"
"Are you kidding, Dr.Aki kept us up-to-date on everything that was going on back when Metabee wiped the floor with you in that robattel" Ikki said
"Don't remind me," I said glaring at Metabee, he soon looked a way in dismay. Leon gave me a small look of uncertainty but it wasn't uncommon for people to give me this look at the moment.
"I have to say I've never heard of Deacon having such a weakness, but I wouldn't be at all surprised" No one could actually see Leon as he was standing behind Kirsty, Metabee and Ikki but when he did first arrive they all looked to see who it was. I looked down at the sand just going over what Leon said to me first of all about how the sand got there, I didn't want to delve any deeper in to what he said as it would have just ended up with something else to worry about. After I had tore my mind away from his endless riddle I looked up to answer his question but he had vanished.
"It's amazing how much that guy loves to stick around," Metabee said
