Chapter 8
I Live Only to Serve
Disclaimer: I own all of the materials except for the original scouts and their powers.
I noticed that I had totally forgotten the disclaimers on my other chapters. Sorry about that. I've been really busy lately and writer's block has momentarily left me alone. For those who noticed I have other fics up, they were spontaneous ideas. They just popped in my head, where as this is a tad bit harder to write. Well, enough excuses right? You want the story. So. Welcome to another chapter of Sapphire Midnight. I'm glad to see I have constant reviewers now. You know who you are. Thanks for your opinions. You're great. School is kicking my ass worse than soccer. That's pretty damn sad. But enough jabbering. On to the chapter!
In the imperial establishments, the emperors were having a meeting through a videophone. It was an odd scene indeed. Six old men sitting in six different throne rooms, talking about important issues that would affect every aspect of life for everyone through a television screen. Tell me that isn't weird. Come on now, who does that anymore? Anyway. back to the story. They were still chatting away about trivial things when a huge gong went off in the background of Sapphire's emperor.
"The time has come to talk of more important issues than that of Emerald emperor's new crown. To open up the conference, I'd like to get straight to the main issue, the current attacks upon the imperial establishments," Sapphire emperor stated.
There was murmuring from the other emperors and Emerald emperor let out a huffy little breath that was full of indignity. Apparently constructive criticism gets to his touchy little self. The man was of small stature and bragged to try and get respect. The ruby emperor was a tall severe looking man with dark reddish brown eyes. The Aqua Pearl emperor was a dark skinned man with beautiful amber eyes. Topaz emperor basically busted a gut laughing. He was a shorter man with long white hair and green eyes. Diamond emperor was a quiet man with violet eyes (contacts are big) who rarely spoke except to give advice, make requests or voice his opinions, and give orders. Sapphire emperor was probably the most important one there, he controlled most of the world's power, he was a middle sized man with dark brown eyes and pale skin. He was often stressed (numerous stress balloons had been blown up, and lay scattered in his room.0.o) and nervous, but that never stopped him from kicking ass in the political world. But you've heard enough descriptions. So on with the scene.
"Indeed it has. Have you seen to the matter of awakening your guardian?" Aqua Pearl emperor asked.
"Yes I have," Sapphire emperor said while nods came from the others, "and she has already proven herself to be an expert combatant. The KNIGHTS force has proven to be helpful, yet utterly exhaustible."
"It is clear we can not continue to rely merely on the strength of the KNIGHTS. They are to weak to protect us any longer," said Diamond emperor.
"It is the safety of the people that deserves the attention, we are only here to keep order and serve them," said Aqua Pearl emperor.
"But it is the KNIGHTS force who are there to protect the people, do not forget we are the most important part of these establishments," Emerald emperor argued. "We cannot forget that without us, the order would fall and we would never have any kind of peace ever again."
~*~
Case sat on a bench in the palace. It was lavishly designed, with silk draping over it, and covered in jeweled ornaments. Her armor had faded back into the robes she'd been wearing. She was incredibly sad. She had had hopes of being able to see her family when she was unsealed. But she hadn't been able to do that. She had mentioned it to the man who came running out behind her to fight the monster, but what he told her; she was not ready to hear.
Flash back:
"My parents are."she began. Shock had gripped her entire body. She was paralyzed. Daranden came up to her in hopes of comforting her but she fell to her knees covered her ears and closed her eyes. "Liar! They just can't be! Liar!"
Daranden genuflected and looked at her. He hated when people were sad. He pulled her hands away slowly, and she looked up with glazed eyes that could only mean tears were to follow. Then he did something surprising.
"Case, I'm here for you, but I can't help you if you don't trust me. Try to remember. Would I hurt you?"
"I have to idea what you're talking about, much less who you are, but you did save me from that nightmare, so you can't be all bad."
End Flashback
Daranden stood leaning against a nearby pillar, watching her cry. Then he heard a faint song. And he couldn't help but walk a little closer to listen.
"To sit here and listen to the wind would be just fine with me, but I know that life needs to be lived and my soul needs to be free. Like the wind blows, I will be flowing from day to night. I will move on someday, that, I know. I 'll have to strength to face all of my fears, I know that someone is waiting for me to come. And I'll flow with them to heaven," She sang. It was quiet and shaky, but it was still beautiful.
He quickly recognized that song. It was the song he heard her mother sing with her every day. He watched her pull her knees to her chest and cry into them. She couldn't believe it. They were gone. She had nobody left anymore. An unbearable sadness gripped her heart and she couldn't help but to cry even harder than before.
~*~
In the Ruby palace, Amber was standing against a bright red pillar. She hummed a song to herself and waited to hear what the plan of attack was. Then a most irregular emotion panged inside of her. It was an uncontrollable anger, fueled by the need for revenge. Thoughts of murder and destruction filled her mind and she smiled a sadistic smile. Then she saw the image of slowly dying men, women, and children. Her smile was replaced by shock, and her anger replaced by fear. She would have become even worse than the people causing the riots would and pain would. As she thought all of this, Zin was walking to her (the room was huge, so sue me).
Zin saw her expression of shock and that strange and evil smile. He quickened his pace to find out what was wrong. It took him 30 seconds to get where she'd been standing. She saw him coming out of the corner of her eye and couldn't move she'd have to face him sooner or later. To her surprise, he didn't bombard her with questions, or even talk about much of anything, he introduced himself and smiled.
"Hi, I'm Zin Asumo. It's nice to meet you," he said, extending his hand to shake hers.
"Hi I'm Amber Flare, likewise," She said. She was sort of dumbfounded as she shook his hand. She was taken aback when she noticed he was staring at her.
"What? Why are you staring?"
"Your eyes are very beautiful, amber is a rare shade to find."
With that he simply walked away, leaving her to wonder, what just happened here? He smiled when he noticed she was following him. She was falling into his trap. He knew he'd only be nuisance if he'd straight out asked her what was wrong. Psychological warfare was his specialty.
"Zin! Wait up!" she said running up to him.
"Yes, can I help you?" he asked putting on his cutest curious look (you can't tell me nobody does that).
"Can I talk to you for a minute?" she asked.
"Sure."
And so he got his way once again.
~*~
In the Emerald establishment Mona was running at top speed attacking dummies with all her might, getting every last bit of doubt, frustration, and anger out of her system. It felt great to be out in the world again. She couldn't remember ever feeling this good. She stopped and screamed out, "Time!"
"30 seconds!" Miliardo yelled. He was really impressed. It was a course record. There were 20 dummies on the course at different height levels. She was amazing.
Mona took a towel form the shelf and a water bottle from the recruit who was momentarily stunned. She smiled and walked over to her new friend Miliardo.
"Well aren't we just toned?" he asked.
"Maybe, but that wasn't a very good run, I'm getting rusty."
"Are you bluffing?"
"The world may never know."
Light laughter resounded and she was feeling better by the second. He looked into her emerald green eyes and smiled. Then he walked her to the locker room so she could shower and left her alone.
~*~
DJ was walking around in the Diamond palace. Yokashi was apparently not interested, and that was just fine with her. She still couldn't help but feel a bit, what's the word, angry. It was so rude of him to do this kind of thing! But then, why did she care? She didn't even know him. So what was up with that? Feeling confused, she ran head on into him. Hard. She had a bit of trouble keeping balance. He grabbed her hand, partly to keep from falling himself. Then came the awkward silence and stammered apologies.
"So, we can't stay apart can we?" Yokashi said, with a cocky smirk.
"Guess not. So what are you doing here?" DJ replied, with a small spark of happiness.
"I'm just bored. I come her every time I'm aloud in the palace."
"This place is huge, can you really remember where everything is?"
"Nope, I get lost every time I come here and end up in this place."
She started laughing, and when she looked up she noticed he was staring at her she had to ask why.
"Because you're pretty, and I haven't had a real chance to see you properly."
~*~
Anna Marie was waiting patiently in the garden of the palace. She waited for something, anything to happen. Nobody seemed to be willing to let her do anything except fight. Right now, that was the one thing she didn't feel like doing. She made a fist and concentrated on it. She began to feel a cool sensation flow into it. She closed her eyes and remembered the music she used to play so well. She wondered if she could still do it. When she opened her fist and eyes, a flute had formed in it. The clear ice made a very beautiful effect as she put it to her mouth.
She began to play a slow and twisting song on the flute that sounded so crystalline and clear. Then she heard a piano in the pause of a particularly difficult part of the song. Her eyes opened and stopped playing. She could still tell where it came from. She walked down a long corridor to a huge room filled with instruments. The pianist was none other than the emperor himself. She was shocked and only the cold ice flute brought her back to her senses. He looked up with his charming eyes and smiled. He stopped playing before he spoke.
"I knew I'd heard a flute somewhere," he said.
"I'm sorry, but I could not help myself, it's been so long." she trailed off in reply.
"No, no! That's just fine! I enjoyed your playing very much; it inspired me to play a piece myself. Your talents are more than welcome in this room."
"Really? Thank you so much!" her eyes lit up as she hugged the older man (He was still in his 20's).
Marcus walked into the room only to see the two of them playing together and couldn't help but pick up a violin and join in the piece he knew so well. Soon they were all playing like an orchestra. The music was beautiful, as was the notion behind it.
~*~
Katie was talking to Demos about the current situation. She was a very smart person. It was obvious by how well she pointed out the pattern in which the enemy was attacking.
"Hmm. it sounds as though enemy sent out its stronger minions first to give you a taste of the terror that they can unleash. However, when they saw that you could almost defeat or capture them, they withdrew the stronger minions and put forth weaker demonic monsters to do their dirty work whilst they trained more. They must have had spies everywhere. When they figured out that you were going to unseal me, they must've sent the stronger minions again to delay the process for as long as possible, maybe even stopping the ceremony all together. But why then would they simply send out a monster to face me if they knew it would accomplish nothing?" she said feeling quite disturbed. She knew why, but she wanted a second opinion.
"They probably wanted to gauge your skill to see just how good you were, but they were expendable monsters to begin with, probably only good for killing a few people slowly, and destroying small buildings, your standard class z genetically mutated monster. I'm surprised you didn't think of that," Demos replied.
"I did, but what I don't understand is why they just didn't research the individual status of the fighters in the tournament based upon the performance given while fought against. All it would take is Internet access, and that shouldn't be too hard to find. But I suppose the government could track you down pretty easily considering they can find out exactly who did what and when through the net. That shouldn't have stopped them either because there are thousands of ways to hide your identity online. The best they should be able to do is trace the original broadcast to the computer you used, but that wouldn't give them any trouble at all," she said. This was really bugging her.
"The government has sealed away those files in their private file storage, everyone is denied. I suppose they could have hacked in, but those skills aren't generally common," he said.
Just then the pendant Katie was wearing began to glow and a holograph of the emperor appeared. He looked straight ahead and said in an urgent yet calm voice, "Katie, Demos, pack your bags. You'll be united with the other sleeping princesses and fellow KNIGHTS force officials in the Sapphire Establishment. Be ready in three hours."
~*~
Well that's all of chapter 8, it was a whole ten pages long. It took a long time to write! I hope you guys appreciate this! ^. ^ Well I hope you enjoyed this chapter, I know it wasn't that good, but once I hit my writing stride you'll see it get better. Thanks to all of my reviewers, even if you flamed me. I really appreciate your taking the time to read my story and tell me your opinions. However, I'm not getting that much feed back on any of my stories, so if you like this story or you just want to see if this story is better or worse than my other work, please read my other fics. Oh and a note about Case's song, I wrote it myself, even though it isn't a real song (it's more like poetry if anything). Thank you for reading, and please, I beg of you, for the love of Pete! Review!
Sapphire
I Live Only to Serve
Disclaimer: I own all of the materials except for the original scouts and their powers.
I noticed that I had totally forgotten the disclaimers on my other chapters. Sorry about that. I've been really busy lately and writer's block has momentarily left me alone. For those who noticed I have other fics up, they were spontaneous ideas. They just popped in my head, where as this is a tad bit harder to write. Well, enough excuses right? You want the story. So. Welcome to another chapter of Sapphire Midnight. I'm glad to see I have constant reviewers now. You know who you are. Thanks for your opinions. You're great. School is kicking my ass worse than soccer. That's pretty damn sad. But enough jabbering. On to the chapter!
In the imperial establishments, the emperors were having a meeting through a videophone. It was an odd scene indeed. Six old men sitting in six different throne rooms, talking about important issues that would affect every aspect of life for everyone through a television screen. Tell me that isn't weird. Come on now, who does that anymore? Anyway. back to the story. They were still chatting away about trivial things when a huge gong went off in the background of Sapphire's emperor.
"The time has come to talk of more important issues than that of Emerald emperor's new crown. To open up the conference, I'd like to get straight to the main issue, the current attacks upon the imperial establishments," Sapphire emperor stated.
There was murmuring from the other emperors and Emerald emperor let out a huffy little breath that was full of indignity. Apparently constructive criticism gets to his touchy little self. The man was of small stature and bragged to try and get respect. The ruby emperor was a tall severe looking man with dark reddish brown eyes. The Aqua Pearl emperor was a dark skinned man with beautiful amber eyes. Topaz emperor basically busted a gut laughing. He was a shorter man with long white hair and green eyes. Diamond emperor was a quiet man with violet eyes (contacts are big) who rarely spoke except to give advice, make requests or voice his opinions, and give orders. Sapphire emperor was probably the most important one there, he controlled most of the world's power, he was a middle sized man with dark brown eyes and pale skin. He was often stressed (numerous stress balloons had been blown up, and lay scattered in his room.0.o) and nervous, but that never stopped him from kicking ass in the political world. But you've heard enough descriptions. So on with the scene.
"Indeed it has. Have you seen to the matter of awakening your guardian?" Aqua Pearl emperor asked.
"Yes I have," Sapphire emperor said while nods came from the others, "and she has already proven herself to be an expert combatant. The KNIGHTS force has proven to be helpful, yet utterly exhaustible."
"It is clear we can not continue to rely merely on the strength of the KNIGHTS. They are to weak to protect us any longer," said Diamond emperor.
"It is the safety of the people that deserves the attention, we are only here to keep order and serve them," said Aqua Pearl emperor.
"But it is the KNIGHTS force who are there to protect the people, do not forget we are the most important part of these establishments," Emerald emperor argued. "We cannot forget that without us, the order would fall and we would never have any kind of peace ever again."
~*~
Case sat on a bench in the palace. It was lavishly designed, with silk draping over it, and covered in jeweled ornaments. Her armor had faded back into the robes she'd been wearing. She was incredibly sad. She had had hopes of being able to see her family when she was unsealed. But she hadn't been able to do that. She had mentioned it to the man who came running out behind her to fight the monster, but what he told her; she was not ready to hear.
Flash back:
"My parents are."she began. Shock had gripped her entire body. She was paralyzed. Daranden came up to her in hopes of comforting her but she fell to her knees covered her ears and closed her eyes. "Liar! They just can't be! Liar!"
Daranden genuflected and looked at her. He hated when people were sad. He pulled her hands away slowly, and she looked up with glazed eyes that could only mean tears were to follow. Then he did something surprising.
"Case, I'm here for you, but I can't help you if you don't trust me. Try to remember. Would I hurt you?"
"I have to idea what you're talking about, much less who you are, but you did save me from that nightmare, so you can't be all bad."
End Flashback
Daranden stood leaning against a nearby pillar, watching her cry. Then he heard a faint song. And he couldn't help but walk a little closer to listen.
"To sit here and listen to the wind would be just fine with me, but I know that life needs to be lived and my soul needs to be free. Like the wind blows, I will be flowing from day to night. I will move on someday, that, I know. I 'll have to strength to face all of my fears, I know that someone is waiting for me to come. And I'll flow with them to heaven," She sang. It was quiet and shaky, but it was still beautiful.
He quickly recognized that song. It was the song he heard her mother sing with her every day. He watched her pull her knees to her chest and cry into them. She couldn't believe it. They were gone. She had nobody left anymore. An unbearable sadness gripped her heart and she couldn't help but to cry even harder than before.
~*~
In the Ruby palace, Amber was standing against a bright red pillar. She hummed a song to herself and waited to hear what the plan of attack was. Then a most irregular emotion panged inside of her. It was an uncontrollable anger, fueled by the need for revenge. Thoughts of murder and destruction filled her mind and she smiled a sadistic smile. Then she saw the image of slowly dying men, women, and children. Her smile was replaced by shock, and her anger replaced by fear. She would have become even worse than the people causing the riots would and pain would. As she thought all of this, Zin was walking to her (the room was huge, so sue me).
Zin saw her expression of shock and that strange and evil smile. He quickened his pace to find out what was wrong. It took him 30 seconds to get where she'd been standing. She saw him coming out of the corner of her eye and couldn't move she'd have to face him sooner or later. To her surprise, he didn't bombard her with questions, or even talk about much of anything, he introduced himself and smiled.
"Hi, I'm Zin Asumo. It's nice to meet you," he said, extending his hand to shake hers.
"Hi I'm Amber Flare, likewise," She said. She was sort of dumbfounded as she shook his hand. She was taken aback when she noticed he was staring at her.
"What? Why are you staring?"
"Your eyes are very beautiful, amber is a rare shade to find."
With that he simply walked away, leaving her to wonder, what just happened here? He smiled when he noticed she was following him. She was falling into his trap. He knew he'd only be nuisance if he'd straight out asked her what was wrong. Psychological warfare was his specialty.
"Zin! Wait up!" she said running up to him.
"Yes, can I help you?" he asked putting on his cutest curious look (you can't tell me nobody does that).
"Can I talk to you for a minute?" she asked.
"Sure."
And so he got his way once again.
~*~
In the Emerald establishment Mona was running at top speed attacking dummies with all her might, getting every last bit of doubt, frustration, and anger out of her system. It felt great to be out in the world again. She couldn't remember ever feeling this good. She stopped and screamed out, "Time!"
"30 seconds!" Miliardo yelled. He was really impressed. It was a course record. There were 20 dummies on the course at different height levels. She was amazing.
Mona took a towel form the shelf and a water bottle from the recruit who was momentarily stunned. She smiled and walked over to her new friend Miliardo.
"Well aren't we just toned?" he asked.
"Maybe, but that wasn't a very good run, I'm getting rusty."
"Are you bluffing?"
"The world may never know."
Light laughter resounded and she was feeling better by the second. He looked into her emerald green eyes and smiled. Then he walked her to the locker room so she could shower and left her alone.
~*~
DJ was walking around in the Diamond palace. Yokashi was apparently not interested, and that was just fine with her. She still couldn't help but feel a bit, what's the word, angry. It was so rude of him to do this kind of thing! But then, why did she care? She didn't even know him. So what was up with that? Feeling confused, she ran head on into him. Hard. She had a bit of trouble keeping balance. He grabbed her hand, partly to keep from falling himself. Then came the awkward silence and stammered apologies.
"So, we can't stay apart can we?" Yokashi said, with a cocky smirk.
"Guess not. So what are you doing here?" DJ replied, with a small spark of happiness.
"I'm just bored. I come her every time I'm aloud in the palace."
"This place is huge, can you really remember where everything is?"
"Nope, I get lost every time I come here and end up in this place."
She started laughing, and when she looked up she noticed he was staring at her she had to ask why.
"Because you're pretty, and I haven't had a real chance to see you properly."
~*~
Anna Marie was waiting patiently in the garden of the palace. She waited for something, anything to happen. Nobody seemed to be willing to let her do anything except fight. Right now, that was the one thing she didn't feel like doing. She made a fist and concentrated on it. She began to feel a cool sensation flow into it. She closed her eyes and remembered the music she used to play so well. She wondered if she could still do it. When she opened her fist and eyes, a flute had formed in it. The clear ice made a very beautiful effect as she put it to her mouth.
She began to play a slow and twisting song on the flute that sounded so crystalline and clear. Then she heard a piano in the pause of a particularly difficult part of the song. Her eyes opened and stopped playing. She could still tell where it came from. She walked down a long corridor to a huge room filled with instruments. The pianist was none other than the emperor himself. She was shocked and only the cold ice flute brought her back to her senses. He looked up with his charming eyes and smiled. He stopped playing before he spoke.
"I knew I'd heard a flute somewhere," he said.
"I'm sorry, but I could not help myself, it's been so long." she trailed off in reply.
"No, no! That's just fine! I enjoyed your playing very much; it inspired me to play a piece myself. Your talents are more than welcome in this room."
"Really? Thank you so much!" her eyes lit up as she hugged the older man (He was still in his 20's).
Marcus walked into the room only to see the two of them playing together and couldn't help but pick up a violin and join in the piece he knew so well. Soon they were all playing like an orchestra. The music was beautiful, as was the notion behind it.
~*~
Katie was talking to Demos about the current situation. She was a very smart person. It was obvious by how well she pointed out the pattern in which the enemy was attacking.
"Hmm. it sounds as though enemy sent out its stronger minions first to give you a taste of the terror that they can unleash. However, when they saw that you could almost defeat or capture them, they withdrew the stronger minions and put forth weaker demonic monsters to do their dirty work whilst they trained more. They must have had spies everywhere. When they figured out that you were going to unseal me, they must've sent the stronger minions again to delay the process for as long as possible, maybe even stopping the ceremony all together. But why then would they simply send out a monster to face me if they knew it would accomplish nothing?" she said feeling quite disturbed. She knew why, but she wanted a second opinion.
"They probably wanted to gauge your skill to see just how good you were, but they were expendable monsters to begin with, probably only good for killing a few people slowly, and destroying small buildings, your standard class z genetically mutated monster. I'm surprised you didn't think of that," Demos replied.
"I did, but what I don't understand is why they just didn't research the individual status of the fighters in the tournament based upon the performance given while fought against. All it would take is Internet access, and that shouldn't be too hard to find. But I suppose the government could track you down pretty easily considering they can find out exactly who did what and when through the net. That shouldn't have stopped them either because there are thousands of ways to hide your identity online. The best they should be able to do is trace the original broadcast to the computer you used, but that wouldn't give them any trouble at all," she said. This was really bugging her.
"The government has sealed away those files in their private file storage, everyone is denied. I suppose they could have hacked in, but those skills aren't generally common," he said.
Just then the pendant Katie was wearing began to glow and a holograph of the emperor appeared. He looked straight ahead and said in an urgent yet calm voice, "Katie, Demos, pack your bags. You'll be united with the other sleeping princesses and fellow KNIGHTS force officials in the Sapphire Establishment. Be ready in three hours."
~*~
Well that's all of chapter 8, it was a whole ten pages long. It took a long time to write! I hope you guys appreciate this! ^. ^ Well I hope you enjoyed this chapter, I know it wasn't that good, but once I hit my writing stride you'll see it get better. Thanks to all of my reviewers, even if you flamed me. I really appreciate your taking the time to read my story and tell me your opinions. However, I'm not getting that much feed back on any of my stories, so if you like this story or you just want to see if this story is better or worse than my other work, please read my other fics. Oh and a note about Case's song, I wrote it myself, even though it isn't a real song (it's more like poetry if anything). Thank you for reading, and please, I beg of you, for the love of Pete! Review!
Sapphire