Android Kikaider

Until The Dawn

Written by: Spike (who is STILL writing empty words in parantheses... poor me.)

A/N: To Fyredra - if it's choppy and disjointed, then it is doing its job. If anything confuses you now, it'll most likely be answered in Waiting For Dusk. Now, to conclude this one! Sorry to end it so soon, but seven is my lucky number!

"But, in one morning we'll see the sun...

Bright shining morning dew singing...

They who will search... will find the land...

Of evergreen..."

~Yuki Kajiura - "To Nowhere"

Chapter: Fate's Arrival

::Will I be like this forever? Just a wanderer... of my own fate...? YOU ARE WORTHLESS, FAR BETTER OFF DEAD THAN ALIVE!!::

-Darkness consumes him, suffering defines him, and sacrifice surrounds him. Watch him fade into eternal torment, just like he promised.

"I won't... I won't.... I won't...."

===Real World===

"Huh? What is happening...? Jiro? JIRO!"

Mitsuko was shocked - Jiro's body was suddenly rolling around, and his arms were grabbing his head in pure agony. Mitsuko could not hold on any longer... she let go. He was forced to continue, forced to face his flames, his fears...

"Jiro!! JIRO!!!"

And then, Mitsuko, too, was fading... she was falling down an endless abyss. All around her, memories of her life flickered on and off as she continued to fly downwards, ever searching for him. Suddenly, she felt a jolt of pain. In the real world, her body had collapsed. She was gone...

===Nightmare===

"Hm?"

Jiro awoke. He was standing by the fire again, but this time he had a strange sensation floating around his body. For a moment, he had no idea where he was. He had no recollection of anything.

"What the hell... has happened to me...?"

-He has suffered. Now, I will bring you death. And you will watch her die as well. All you can do is watch fate unravel itself.

Jiro began running through the forest again, calling out a name he didn't even know he knew. "Mitsuko! Mitsuko!!!"

FLICKER! Jiro suddenly saw a flash... it was a memory that he had lost. It was the old man, and he had punched the tree... but why...?

-Be not afraid. Your path is set - in blood.

Suddenly, there was pain like nothing before - Jiro began rolling on the floor of the soft forest ground, grasping his head in more agony. There was no controlling his body - Kikaider re-emerged from the forest, looking angered. From atop a mountain of snow and chaos, Gil watched and waited...

-For until the dawn arises, pain is all you shall know.

Kikaider was unable to feel... unable to control... he was within nobody's power. He traversed a path he never knew about, walking endlessly towards a mountain... a vague sea of mist and mass destruction. He could not see, he could not hear, he could not feel... all he could do was walk. As he walked, voices flashed into his head.

"No! It's too dangerous!"

"I don't want to go home because I have no home to go back to!!"

"You're a... a-a monster!"

"I want you to teach me to be like you."

"Even at 1/16 of its power, it can still kill you."

"...But the price I have to pay... is eternal torment... as the good... and evil inside of me.... struggle forever...!"

Kikaider said these last words without even knowing he had said it. His past was coming back to him, but he could not fight the control he was in.

===Meanwhile===

"Hm?"

Mitsuko had now awoken from her sleep, but now she was in a completely different place. All around her, rocks of snow surrounded her cold memories of anger and hatred. On the biggest rock of all, right in the center, was a continuous scene of Mitsuko's mother performing suicide. It was the rock Mitsuko was forced to watch, and she could not move her body at all. Torment ripped her body in and out, but she dared not try... to struggle.

-You will never begin to fade from me. I am the past, the present, the future, the agony, the pain, the forceful destruction of the Gemini... no... the GEMINI system, never. The twins... THE TWINS...!

::What is.... this..... voic...::

Mitsuko had fainted out of memory. Even Kikaider saw less and less scenes of her as he walked. From high above, a person watches, and an entity awaits, as the ultimate battle approaches its boiling point.

-The only thing left to do now... is wait until the dawn.

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Here's my summary of Waiting For Dusk:

Jiro's hatred and his fears rip through his body as he walks through a mist of pain and suffering. The only person who can help him is fading away from him, and the one who controls their every move is the one who will seal their fates - with blood.

Do not forget the light at the end of the tunnel.

-Spike (Bright, shining hearts forever more - endlessly smile, for you are alive.)