Wahl
Dreizehn
Author notes: Well, I'm in the teens now. That's a shock for me at least. And thank you Kasra for the twist that I'm going to put in soon.
************
Asuka . . .
Asuka . . .
Not again.
Yoji made to run for his fallen comrade, but was blocked by Sense.
"Don't worry," she said with just the slightest bit of emotion Yoji couldn't make out in his desperation, "You'll be joining her soon."
With speed he didn't know he had he ducked the wrist blade and head butted the girl in the stomach. She made an "ohff" sound and crumpled forewords a little. Yoji threw her off of him and ran to Asuka.
"Asuka, Asuka, answer me."
"Yoji."
"What?"
"I'm going to be ok, it was just some weird thing she did, don't worry it's just a flesh wound"
"Yeah right," Yoji said picking her up in his arms, "Let's get you out of here."
"But the mission . . . Sense . . ."
"She's not going anywhere, and the others can take care of Masafumi if he shows up."
****************
Aya and Chizaru were facing off with Sünder. So far they were fairing pretty well, mostly because Sünder wasn't using his lasers.
Aya did an upward slash as Sünder leapt over him, but Sünder was too high to be in Aya's reach.
He made his way to the office door and turned, "I'm sorry," he said politely, "But I'm afraid I have to leave now.
He turned back around and calmly walked out the office.
*************
'Geist,' came Sünder's telepathic call, 'Masafumi just sent us a message. We got to go.'
Geist frowned and blocked a blow from Nanami, 'I'm a little busy right now.'
'Doesn't matter, we got to go, Rettung is getting Sense as we speak, some how Balinese knocked her out.'
'That's nice.' He gave a swipe at Ken, who seemed reluctant to move from in front of the unconscious Shun.
'Now Geist.'
Geist sighed, "Fine" he said out loud. "I gotta go," He told Nanami and Ken, "But I'll see you guys later." He summoned the shadows to cover him and he was gone.
Nanami sighed, "He was tough, if we would have kept going we would have lost."
Ken nodded as he picked up Shun, "Let's get out of here."
"Alright."
***********************
They got to the nearest police hospital; Boutan was waiting there for them. The doctors got Asuka to IC quickly and said that she would have to remain at the hospital for awhile so she was out of mission for the next few weeks. They got Shun up and going and said that he was fine. Yoji decided to say with Asuka for the night while Weiß returned to the Koneko and Schreient returned to their apartment.
Shun let out sigh as he got out of the shower and dried his hair, "Damn it, I'm such a screw up." He said to his reflection.
"Don't be so hard on yourself, it was your first mission." Ken said from the doorway.
Shun wrapped a towel around his waist, "But still, with all the training that Chi-neechan gave me I should have done better. You didn't get knocked out your first mission did you?"
"I was older, and I was more used to getting beat up with all the soccer training I had."
Shun lowered his gaze, "I should be used to be getting the shit knocked out me though, because of . . . yeah."
"Ah shit, Shun I forgot." Ken said looking embarrassed.
Shun gave him a sad smile, "No, that's ok; I don't want you to remember. In fact I'm glad you forgot I wish I could." He let out a sigh, "Do I have to go to school tomorrow?"
"Tomorrow's Sunday."
"Oh yeah, good thing, I don't think I would be up to going."
"Better get used to doing late nighters; you have a cover to keep." Ken said ruffling his hair, "Oh and Chizaru wants to do some more training with you."
"Damn it."
************************** At Masafumi's lab Schatten had just reported what happened.
"That's nice," Masafumi said with a wave of his hand, "I found a way to take care of them once and for all." He pulled out a picture of Aya-chan, "This is Abyssinian's little sister. I want Geist to go to the hospital she's located and bring her here."
Geist nodded and left.
Masafumi turned to the rest of them. "You're dismissed."
***********************
It was early mourning at the Schwarz apartment. Omi sat crossed legged on the bed staring at Ouka who stood in the doorway.
"Can I help you?" he asked with a smile.
Ouka moved into the room, still silent.
"Ouka-san?"
"Who are you?"
"Nan?"
"Who are you? You are Mamoru aren't you?"
Omi shook his head, "No, I don't know this Mamoru guy. Is he a friend of yours?"
"He was my twin brother, he disappeared a year ago, and no one knows what happened to him. But you look so much like him that I thought that you might be him."
Omi shook his head again, "This is the first time I've been in Japan since I was three. I've been in Europe, mostly London, ever since."
"Oh, I see. Sorry to bother you."
Omi gave her smile. "Don't worry . . ." Tears were streaming down her cheeks, "Ouka-san?" He got up and walked towards her, "What's wrong?"
"You even smile like him."
************
An hour later the five members of Schwarz were in the computer room.
"The end is near; soon history will take a new direction, one that we will lead." Crawford said.
"Cut the drama Brad, we don't need it."
Crawford gave him a look, "Things have to be down the right way, other wise . . ."
"Was? Things won't go the way you wan them to?"
Crawford smirked, "I like the drama, so I'll do the drama, if you don't like it, tough."
Farfarello smiled, "God's reign is near its end, now we shall take up the call and lead the world to salvation."
Schuldig raised an eyebrow at Crawford, understanding the hidden meaning behind Farfarello's words, "I didn't think you were into playing god."
"We won't be playing god, we would be playing the savior."
Omi frowned, "And just how are you planning on making us become the 'saviors' you speak of?"
"All in due time, but first we must complete the Elders' will, then we will start on our destiny."
**********************
Aya walked up the stairs of the hospital. He came to a landing and shielded his eyes from the noon sun. The window was open and he felt a breeze pass over him. Suddenly he felt uneasy; he took off towards his sister's room.
"Aya-chan, please, Please be all right."
He turned the corner and saw a door ripped from the wall. There was a nurse on her back, a large cut on her cheek. "Ran-san," she said shakily, "I'm sorry but they got her."
Aya passed her and entered the room. On the bed was two large gashes shaped like a cross. He turned back to the nurse. "Where did they go?" he asked in a growl. He leaned forward to grab her by the collar, "Tell me! Where did they take her!?"
"I don't know!" the nurse wailed. "I'm sorry, I did everything I could to stop them but . . ." she broke into tears. Aya let her go, took another look at the room, and left.
Schatten, he thought, Schatten will pay for this.
*******
The elders sat on their knees in front of a large stone alter. First smiled to himself as he leaned back. "It won't be long know, I feel it these old bones. Oh, I can't wait to get out of this body and into a new one."
Second nodded, "How long has it been now since we made the switch? Eighty years if I recall, but it has been centuries since we came into this world, the decades go by like seconds to a mortal."
"I remember, oh how I remember." Third said coldly "The mortals destroyed what was once beautiful land, and shunned us, called us demons and monsters and devils. Oh how they sought to destroy us."
"Yes," First said, "But you must remember that we were once mortal as well."
"Yes, but we became the proud race of kitsune, a mix of fox and human. I remember when there were a hundred of us," Second stood and began to walk away from the alter, "The humans feared us so they got the kami to side with them and seal away Lord Zero, and destroyed his original body. They slaughtered our kin. That was when we decided to get our revenge."
First smiled and stood as well, "Yes, you brought forth the downfall of the Shang Dynasty before you yourself were killed, right Dakki*?"
"That's a name I haven't been called in awhile. But please forget it, I left that name when I joined you in our plan to free Lord Zero, later joined by Third."
"All things will go as planed. Now that the part of Lord Zero's soul that Taikoubou* sealed into the stream of time has been born, and placed into our hands." Third stood and walked over to join Second and First.
"Crawford thinks he's so clever," smiled First "Little does he know that we are the ones pulling the strings."
The three of them began to laugh as the walked out to the courtyard.
*********
'Hey, Schu?' Omi called out mentally to his lover. It was night and the two of them were under their covers. 'Are you awake?'
'Was ist es Schmetterling?' Schuldig asked
Omi snuggled into Schuldig's torso, "I had a bad dream," he said in a frightened whisper.
Schuldig frowned, wrapped his arms tightly around the boy and drew him closer, "About what?"
"I don't know, but it was scary, with fox eyes, a youko I think, and a girl with blue hair, she was going to be eaten by it. And I couldn't do anything. You and Nagi and Farfie and Crawford and Weiß and Schreient were there and everyone was sad." He sniffed, "I sound like a little kid don't I?"
"It's ok," Schu said kissing Omi's scalp, "It was just a bad dream. You're not a precog so it's not going to happen."
Omi smiled, "You're right. I was just being silly."
Schuldig held onto Omi until he was asleep. Brad, he thought, is this what you saw?
********* Yay! That's down, after a month of getting my ass kicked by Nanowrimo, being sick, dealing with bratty sisters while I was sick, camping, homework, and cooking for about two hundred it's done. After much editing, adding and whatnot it is now ready. I think this was the hardest chapter to write, with my muses wanting to write Digimon, Saiyuki, Pretear, and other WK fanfics, not wanting to write my Nano, or this.
*Dakki and Taikoubou are characters from the Chinese legend Hoshin Enge (sp?). I don't know their Chinese names expect Dakki is Daji, and it would be weird to use a Japanese name and a Chinese one if they're both from the same story (Yet Viz does this with their Fushigi Yuugi translation . . .) So there you go. Also note that I will tweak the legend a little (a lot) to suit my purposes, and make up what I don't know, mostly because I've only seen the TV series Hoshin Enge.
Preview
Ken: Schatten has made their final move, with Aya-chan as their trump card.
Yoji: Schwarz is after Aya-chan as well. It's a three way battle that won't end until at least one team is killed.
Aya: I will not forgive them for what they have done.
Manx: The next chapter promises to be an exciting one. Please don't miss it.
Ken: *pout *
Author notes: Well, I'm in the teens now. That's a shock for me at least. And thank you Kasra for the twist that I'm going to put in soon.
************
Asuka . . .
Asuka . . .
Not again.
Yoji made to run for his fallen comrade, but was blocked by Sense.
"Don't worry," she said with just the slightest bit of emotion Yoji couldn't make out in his desperation, "You'll be joining her soon."
With speed he didn't know he had he ducked the wrist blade and head butted the girl in the stomach. She made an "ohff" sound and crumpled forewords a little. Yoji threw her off of him and ran to Asuka.
"Asuka, Asuka, answer me."
"Yoji."
"What?"
"I'm going to be ok, it was just some weird thing she did, don't worry it's just a flesh wound"
"Yeah right," Yoji said picking her up in his arms, "Let's get you out of here."
"But the mission . . . Sense . . ."
"She's not going anywhere, and the others can take care of Masafumi if he shows up."
****************
Aya and Chizaru were facing off with Sünder. So far they were fairing pretty well, mostly because Sünder wasn't using his lasers.
Aya did an upward slash as Sünder leapt over him, but Sünder was too high to be in Aya's reach.
He made his way to the office door and turned, "I'm sorry," he said politely, "But I'm afraid I have to leave now.
He turned back around and calmly walked out the office.
*************
'Geist,' came Sünder's telepathic call, 'Masafumi just sent us a message. We got to go.'
Geist frowned and blocked a blow from Nanami, 'I'm a little busy right now.'
'Doesn't matter, we got to go, Rettung is getting Sense as we speak, some how Balinese knocked her out.'
'That's nice.' He gave a swipe at Ken, who seemed reluctant to move from in front of the unconscious Shun.
'Now Geist.'
Geist sighed, "Fine" he said out loud. "I gotta go," He told Nanami and Ken, "But I'll see you guys later." He summoned the shadows to cover him and he was gone.
Nanami sighed, "He was tough, if we would have kept going we would have lost."
Ken nodded as he picked up Shun, "Let's get out of here."
"Alright."
***********************
They got to the nearest police hospital; Boutan was waiting there for them. The doctors got Asuka to IC quickly and said that she would have to remain at the hospital for awhile so she was out of mission for the next few weeks. They got Shun up and going and said that he was fine. Yoji decided to say with Asuka for the night while Weiß returned to the Koneko and Schreient returned to their apartment.
Shun let out sigh as he got out of the shower and dried his hair, "Damn it, I'm such a screw up." He said to his reflection.
"Don't be so hard on yourself, it was your first mission." Ken said from the doorway.
Shun wrapped a towel around his waist, "But still, with all the training that Chi-neechan gave me I should have done better. You didn't get knocked out your first mission did you?"
"I was older, and I was more used to getting beat up with all the soccer training I had."
Shun lowered his gaze, "I should be used to be getting the shit knocked out me though, because of . . . yeah."
"Ah shit, Shun I forgot." Ken said looking embarrassed.
Shun gave him a sad smile, "No, that's ok; I don't want you to remember. In fact I'm glad you forgot I wish I could." He let out a sigh, "Do I have to go to school tomorrow?"
"Tomorrow's Sunday."
"Oh yeah, good thing, I don't think I would be up to going."
"Better get used to doing late nighters; you have a cover to keep." Ken said ruffling his hair, "Oh and Chizaru wants to do some more training with you."
"Damn it."
************************** At Masafumi's lab Schatten had just reported what happened.
"That's nice," Masafumi said with a wave of his hand, "I found a way to take care of them once and for all." He pulled out a picture of Aya-chan, "This is Abyssinian's little sister. I want Geist to go to the hospital she's located and bring her here."
Geist nodded and left.
Masafumi turned to the rest of them. "You're dismissed."
***********************
It was early mourning at the Schwarz apartment. Omi sat crossed legged on the bed staring at Ouka who stood in the doorway.
"Can I help you?" he asked with a smile.
Ouka moved into the room, still silent.
"Ouka-san?"
"Who are you?"
"Nan?"
"Who are you? You are Mamoru aren't you?"
Omi shook his head, "No, I don't know this Mamoru guy. Is he a friend of yours?"
"He was my twin brother, he disappeared a year ago, and no one knows what happened to him. But you look so much like him that I thought that you might be him."
Omi shook his head again, "This is the first time I've been in Japan since I was three. I've been in Europe, mostly London, ever since."
"Oh, I see. Sorry to bother you."
Omi gave her smile. "Don't worry . . ." Tears were streaming down her cheeks, "Ouka-san?" He got up and walked towards her, "What's wrong?"
"You even smile like him."
************
An hour later the five members of Schwarz were in the computer room.
"The end is near; soon history will take a new direction, one that we will lead." Crawford said.
"Cut the drama Brad, we don't need it."
Crawford gave him a look, "Things have to be down the right way, other wise . . ."
"Was? Things won't go the way you wan them to?"
Crawford smirked, "I like the drama, so I'll do the drama, if you don't like it, tough."
Farfarello smiled, "God's reign is near its end, now we shall take up the call and lead the world to salvation."
Schuldig raised an eyebrow at Crawford, understanding the hidden meaning behind Farfarello's words, "I didn't think you were into playing god."
"We won't be playing god, we would be playing the savior."
Omi frowned, "And just how are you planning on making us become the 'saviors' you speak of?"
"All in due time, but first we must complete the Elders' will, then we will start on our destiny."
**********************
Aya walked up the stairs of the hospital. He came to a landing and shielded his eyes from the noon sun. The window was open and he felt a breeze pass over him. Suddenly he felt uneasy; he took off towards his sister's room.
"Aya-chan, please, Please be all right."
He turned the corner and saw a door ripped from the wall. There was a nurse on her back, a large cut on her cheek. "Ran-san," she said shakily, "I'm sorry but they got her."
Aya passed her and entered the room. On the bed was two large gashes shaped like a cross. He turned back to the nurse. "Where did they go?" he asked in a growl. He leaned forward to grab her by the collar, "Tell me! Where did they take her!?"
"I don't know!" the nurse wailed. "I'm sorry, I did everything I could to stop them but . . ." she broke into tears. Aya let her go, took another look at the room, and left.
Schatten, he thought, Schatten will pay for this.
*******
The elders sat on their knees in front of a large stone alter. First smiled to himself as he leaned back. "It won't be long know, I feel it these old bones. Oh, I can't wait to get out of this body and into a new one."
Second nodded, "How long has it been now since we made the switch? Eighty years if I recall, but it has been centuries since we came into this world, the decades go by like seconds to a mortal."
"I remember, oh how I remember." Third said coldly "The mortals destroyed what was once beautiful land, and shunned us, called us demons and monsters and devils. Oh how they sought to destroy us."
"Yes," First said, "But you must remember that we were once mortal as well."
"Yes, but we became the proud race of kitsune, a mix of fox and human. I remember when there were a hundred of us," Second stood and began to walk away from the alter, "The humans feared us so they got the kami to side with them and seal away Lord Zero, and destroyed his original body. They slaughtered our kin. That was when we decided to get our revenge."
First smiled and stood as well, "Yes, you brought forth the downfall of the Shang Dynasty before you yourself were killed, right Dakki*?"
"That's a name I haven't been called in awhile. But please forget it, I left that name when I joined you in our plan to free Lord Zero, later joined by Third."
"All things will go as planed. Now that the part of Lord Zero's soul that Taikoubou* sealed into the stream of time has been born, and placed into our hands." Third stood and walked over to join Second and First.
"Crawford thinks he's so clever," smiled First "Little does he know that we are the ones pulling the strings."
The three of them began to laugh as the walked out to the courtyard.
*********
'Hey, Schu?' Omi called out mentally to his lover. It was night and the two of them were under their covers. 'Are you awake?'
'Was ist es Schmetterling?' Schuldig asked
Omi snuggled into Schuldig's torso, "I had a bad dream," he said in a frightened whisper.
Schuldig frowned, wrapped his arms tightly around the boy and drew him closer, "About what?"
"I don't know, but it was scary, with fox eyes, a youko I think, and a girl with blue hair, she was going to be eaten by it. And I couldn't do anything. You and Nagi and Farfie and Crawford and Weiß and Schreient were there and everyone was sad." He sniffed, "I sound like a little kid don't I?"
"It's ok," Schu said kissing Omi's scalp, "It was just a bad dream. You're not a precog so it's not going to happen."
Omi smiled, "You're right. I was just being silly."
Schuldig held onto Omi until he was asleep. Brad, he thought, is this what you saw?
********* Yay! That's down, after a month of getting my ass kicked by Nanowrimo, being sick, dealing with bratty sisters while I was sick, camping, homework, and cooking for about two hundred it's done. After much editing, adding and whatnot it is now ready. I think this was the hardest chapter to write, with my muses wanting to write Digimon, Saiyuki, Pretear, and other WK fanfics, not wanting to write my Nano, or this.
*Dakki and Taikoubou are characters from the Chinese legend Hoshin Enge (sp?). I don't know their Chinese names expect Dakki is Daji, and it would be weird to use a Japanese name and a Chinese one if they're both from the same story (Yet Viz does this with their Fushigi Yuugi translation . . .) So there you go. Also note that I will tweak the legend a little (a lot) to suit my purposes, and make up what I don't know, mostly because I've only seen the TV series Hoshin Enge.
Preview
Ken: Schatten has made their final move, with Aya-chan as their trump card.
Yoji: Schwarz is after Aya-chan as well. It's a three way battle that won't end until at least one team is killed.
Aya: I will not forgive them for what they have done.
Manx: The next chapter promises to be an exciting one. Please don't miss it.
Ken: *pout *