Vega: Yeah! Tsk! You should be!
Jamie: *(Nods head)* Yeah!
Angelic: Well why didn't you guys tell them?!
Vega and Jamie: *(Absolute silence...)*
Angelic: You forgot too huh?
Vega and Jamie: *(More silence)*
"Sister?" Kat said in disbelief. She moved the controls on her Zoid, forcing the Blade Sniper/Exile to lift his paw off of the HellSnake's throat. "You mean... You're not Shinigami?"
The HellSnake slowly got to its feet and shook itself off. It then looked at Kat.
"No. I am her younger sister, Fenris Raen. I go by Wolf though," the pilot said. "So... You know my sister?"
Exile seemed to stiffen. He uncomfortably shifted the Sniper's feet.
She doesn't know... he said to Kat privately.
An angry Reaper Zero suddenly stepped in between the two Zoids.
"What the hell is going on here?! We're kind of having a battle, so if you would kindly move your mushy gushy conversation elsewhere, we would really appreciate it," Angel said irritably.
Exile turned his head toward the Reaper Zero.
One, this happens to be sort of important and it's not mushy gushy. Two, your judge is out of commission, so there's no point in you battling, and three, you don't have an opponent to battle anyway. Exile retorted, with equal annoyance
"Okay, I just have to ask. What's up with the talking Zoid?" Strider asked
"Like I said before, LONG STORY. We can talk later," Kat said. She then turned back to Wolf. "Well... Yes, we did know your sister..." she started.
"Who do you mean by 'we'? And why is it 'did'? I mean Shini isn't-"
Kat began to talk, but she froze with her mouth open, and looked as if she were listening to something. And she was.
Kat, I should tell her... I mean, if it wasn't for me Shinigami wouldn't be...
"I told you before, Jake. It's not your fault."
But the organoid had already emerged from the Blade Sniper, returning the Zoid to its normal form. The black organoid looked up at the HellSnake with its blank stare. Slowly, the hologram appeared around Exile's sleek body, giving the illusion of a human boy.
"Fenris... Wolf... When Kat said we, she meant me and her."
Around him, the pilots were mumbling to each other.
"An organoid? I thought they were extinct!""It can talk?"
"How can it put up a hologram like that?"
"That's the guy from the repair shop!"
Jake ignored the comments from the pilots. He was also well aware that this was being broadcasted on the television. But then again, the judge was put out of commission, and nowadays the cameras were built into the judges.
"And when she said 'did', she meant it. Your sister... gave her life to stop a demon... No one else in on Zi probably knows about it, but we do. I was there when she-"
The HellSnake's whiskers were curled around Jake's neck. The red-hot wires were only inches away from touching Jake's neck. But still, the organoid stood perfectly still, looking into the cockpit of the HellSnake with his hawk gaze.
"No... I refuse to believe it... Shini is not dead!" Wolf cried out.
"You have the freedom to choose what you think is true, but that will not change the fact that there is a real truth," Jake said quietly.
"Shut up! Just... shut up..."
The wires fell away from Jake's neck to the ground beside him.
"Tell me... Did... did she die proud? Shinigami always told me, that she wanted her death to have an effect on the world. She told me that she didn't want to die an old lady in bed... She wanted to go valiantly..."
Jake smiled softly and nodded. "Yeah. She died proud."
A scoff was heard. K.O. stepped up in his Blade Liger. He turned to the HellSnake.
"This is touching and all, it truly is, but you've taken out our opponent. And the judge. What do you expect us to do?"
he growled.Wolf snapped out of her emotional stated and hardened again. The HellSnake hissed as it turned to look at the green Blade Liger.
"That doesn't concern me."
She turned to look at Jake once again.
"We will meet again later. But for now, good-bye." And with that, the HellSnake shot into the air once again.
A Whaleking flew into view and landed behind the Last Guard Team. The mouth opened up and Ariel walked out, hands on her hips.
"Well that went well."
"I know..." Strider said sarcastically.
But K.O. was looking at the felled Genos. They were still lying motionless on the ground.
"Have you noticed the pilots haven't said a thing since we've started? I mean, they haven't even exited the cockpits..." K.O. said approaching the Maxi.
He nudged it with the foot of his Blade Liger and backed away. The Maxi continued to lay motionless on the ground. Suddenly, flashes of blakish-purple light exploded from the Genos. They circled into the sky and disappeared from site.
"What they hell were those thing?" Strider exclaimed.
"Demons," Jake answered solemnly. "We may have destroyed the demon queen as well as the power source for the demon world, but the demons themselves have not been destroyed. Before she was destroyed, it seems that Inari ripped open a portal connecting our world to the demon world. But the portal seems to be in a desolate place both here and in the demon world, because those demons seemed to be minor demons. Probably exiles and outlaws. Which is lucky for us, but it's not going to be long before the powerful demons, the ones able to fix physical forms on themselves in our world find the portal. What will happen then, I cannot say, for I don't know what will happen."
Angelic: Ack! I'm sorry! *(bows again)* Anyway, the chapter's kind of short because I just wanted to let you people know I'm still here!
Vega: But we get cookies and cupcakes since the people reviewed right?
Angelic: T.T When did I say that?
Jamie: In the last chapter.
Angelic: Tuh. Fine. You guys are already eating me out of my house anyway... Why not give you more food so I can have absolutely NOTHING in my house?
Jamie: Yay!
Vega: Wait, was that sarcasm?
Angelic: T.T What do you think?