Chapter four; The Dead City
Nine days remaining.
Senki woke up as the wagon came to the halt. He saw his brother hop down and begin washing the blood away from his clothing. He pushed himself up tiredly and turned to his brother whom turned towards him with a forced smile.
"Good morning."
"Genki is all this real?"
"Yes."
"What is happening? Where are we?"
"I'll tell you. You wanted to know where I vanished to that time, well it was hear."
"I had a feeling that you'd say that."
"The people in the house back there, they were people I met last time I came hear. They were kindly. I'm sad about what happened to them...I have no idea who the person whom killed them and the villagers is."
"From how you described him, he sounds like the one whom put the stone in my hand."
"....Hm. I wonder if he is one of Deyarteb's followers."
"So, tell me the rest. How did you get hear, and what happened while you were hear?"
"I think I was sucked into that game I won. I was unlocked from a disk by a girl named Holly and a monster named Suzo. We were attacked by baddies and when we got away they told me about this baddie named Moo. He was very bad, he would enslave monsters and destroy homes. Holly herself had her village destroyed. They were journeying to find a monster called the Phoenix, who could revive lost disks, that's dead monsters, and turn baddies into goodies. I unlocked Mocchi that same night and he was one of my very best friends while I was hear. We met up with other friends during our journey. Tiger, Hare, Golem, Pixie, big blue. We had fun together..."
"Where are they now?"
Genki sighed. "We discovered on our journey that the Phoenix's soul was split into five, and those five monsters were my very best friends. They had to be combined into one to reawaken the Phoenix—that action would wipe them from existence...it would be the equivalent of killing them...."
"....."
"I was the one whom killed them, with my own two hands. I had to combine them. It was so hard..."
"I'm sorry...."
"The Phoenix then attacked Moo, whom was possessing the father of my friend Holly. Both died, and as soon as the battle was over and I was thrown back home....as soon as I was no longer needed." Genki hit his fist in the water. "I was just thrown out when I became useless."
"That is why you were so sad..."
"I was afraid to trust anyone ever again, not after this whole world used me. I have nightmares every night of that day when my...friends died...my fault, I..." Genki shook his head. "It's haunting."
"Genki." Senki hopped down from the wagon. "I'm glad you told me, but even if you told me then, I would of believed you."
"I just wanted to forget about all of it." Genki looked away into the water depressed.
"........"
"Was I brought hear only to be used again? I'm sorry to get you involved in this Senki..."
"It's ok." Senki stepped on the forest path, yelping as he stepped on a thistle with his bare feet. Genki glanced over at him and began to dig around in the wagon, pulling a pair of brown boots from out of the hay.
"Hear. I found these in the wagon last night while you were sleeping. They should fit."
"Thanks." Senki pulled them on. "There a little big, but better then walking everywhere bare foot or with roller blades."
"Hm. When I came hear, I only had roller blades too. As soon as I got to the top of the hill, I'd roll back down."
Senki giggled. "That must of been annoying."
"It was."
"Say, Genki. Now that you've talked about it, do you think that you'll get better?"
Genki sighed sadly, setting back down next tot he water. "I don't think I'll ever get better. I wish I could have my old energy back again, my old personality but the wounds on my heart...I know it's all in my head but it makes my body feel so weak and sick."
"Crippling depression." Senki sat down beside him. "What do you think we should do?"
"........" Genki eyes glistened with an unknown expression. "Let's gather the rest of the mirror."
"The mirror? Oh, the mirror!" Senki realized. "I think we left it back at that house...."
"No, I've got it. It's in the wagon."
"The wagon?" Senki cocked an eye brow. "But how....?"
"It was in the room with me when that boy attacked. I shield myself with it from his attack. I stashed it in this wagon so he wouldn't find it, because I had the feeling it was something important."
"Oh. Where should we go to find the rest of the mirror?"
"I don't know." Genki picked the golden plate out of the hay in the wagon looking into the small piece of mirror that was still in it. "It's pretty."
"It is." Senki fallowed Genki with his eyes as his brother sat back down beside him. He glanced over the mirror. There were scars in the plate, the mirror must of been smashed with tremendous force. "There are four scars in the plate—I bet the mirror piece inside is covering the fifth one."
"So, you think that there are four more pieces?"
"Yes." Senki nodded. "Maybe we should ask around about it?"
"We'll ask at the next village."
"Say Genki..." Senki looked down at the stone in his hand. "These stones has strange powers."
"Holly had a stone that looked kind of like these however it did not go inside of her skin, and her's was green."
"Did it have powers like ours?"
"No. It found disks, it did not attack people."
"I don't want the power to hurt people." Senki frowned looking down at his hand. "Why do we have these?"
"I don't know why, but your luckier then me." "Why?"
"Mine hurts like hell."
"Let me see, maybe it's infected or something."
Genki pulled up his shirt, touching the glowing purple stone embedded inside of his chest, grimacing. "It hurts a lot."
Senki reached his hand up to touch it, but the jewel in his hand made a magnetic sort of resistence and he couldn't. "Strange...."
"I'll say." Genki covered the jewel with his shirt. "We got away from Deyarteb rather easily."
"What do you mean?"
"I was thinking, Deyarteb seemed very powerful. I find it strange that we could of gotten away."
"Do you think he let us escape?"
"Yeah. He did mention our thirteenth birthday."
"It's in nine days from now."
"Well, I guess we'll know in nine days." Genki cupped his chin thoughtfully. "The strange thing though is how we got to that village. The plane crashed almost as soon as we left the terminal—but yet that village is a long distance away from Deyarteb's tower...I wonder if he brought us there for some reason."
"D–do you think it had something to do with the massacre?"
"Perhaps."
Senki whimpered and held onto his brother's arm. "I scared Genki. I want to go home."
"Don't worry, we'll get home somehow." Genki stroked his brother's hair soothingly, trying to comfort him, but inside his head he could not help but bitterly think. 'Oh yes, we'll find a way home, I'm sure this world will throw us out when it doesn't need us anymore....'
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Holly froze as she entered a village covered in blood. She stood staring at the sean in horror. "Oh my god..."
"Terrible." Holly turned to look at Tiger whom had spoken in disgust seeing the sight on the village. Tiger, Hare, Moochi, Golem and Suzo had been revived after the battle. They had all been turned back into mystery disks and fallowing their voices Holly had unlocked all of them. It had taken her nearly a year and a half but she had almost all of her friends back. Almost all. She had not seen or heard anything from Genki since he fell off that dragon. Perhaps he died, but she had searched and searched and could not find any trace of him. It saddened her to know that she would never have all her friends back, he had been one of the most important parts of the team... Almost three years and the pain never became less. Holly had grown up to be a rather pretty woman of nineteen years old. She still wore her hair in the same style except down it was a little longer. She wore a white blouse underneath her same brown vest. She wore a red skirt that went below the knee, a pair of gray stockings which covered her legs and her same brown boots. She still had her father's dagger with her, and somehow not too long ago she had awoken to find the magic stone around her neck. That was when this new adventure had started.
"Mocchi scared chi!" The little pink monster whimpered clutching her leg as it stared at the corpses and the blood.
"Man, these baddies are more ruthless then Moo's bunch." Said Hare queasily.
"Let's get out of hear! It's too creepy!" Suzo pleaded, trying to hop away but tripped over one of the dead bodies. He leap onto Golem's shoulder with a scream. The gentle stone giant stared down at the massacre with sad eyes.
"Death is a waste of life..."
"Deyarteb is more evil then Moo ever was." Holly sighed, closing her eyes as she offered a small prayer for the people whom laid before them slaughtered. "That is why we must continue to gather pieces of the mirror to defeat him."
"But we've been traveling for months and we've only got one." Hare moaned pitifully. "These baddies are so much stronger then Moo's army..."
"We can't give up." Holly pulled the small piece of mirror she had been able to find from out of her pocket. "The magic stones says there is one really close by."
"It's not in this place, is it?" Suzo asked nervously. He did not want to stay any longer then needed in this slaughter house.
"No. I'm thinking that it might be in the next village."
"Thank god!"
"Hm. This killing..." Tiger frowned thoughtfully. "It doesn't look like the usual slaughtering that Deyarteb's followers commit. This seems much more brutal."
"That your right."
The group turned towards the voice to see one of the men whom had attacked Genki and Senki. "It wasn't your usual Deyarteb follower whom did this."
Unlike Moo, Deyarteb only had five followers, however these five baddies were more stronger then a whole army of Moo baddies. They were all Pixie sub monsters, which gave them a hint about Deyarteb's possible pervert personality. There was an Allure (Pixie/Naga), a monster that could suck the life force out of men. Her name was Shigeko, she was the most easy going and refined of the five pixie baddies whom served Deyarteb. Her vanity and materialistic personality often distracted her from battle, making her the weakest of them, however the group still had a pretty hard time fighting her when it came to acquiring the first mirror piece. They had just barely won and she had gotten away alive. Every village she had destroyed she had first stole clothing, and jewelry from. Her main weakness seemed to be procrastination, and she often suffered from a lack of ambition when it came to fighting. Her other major weakness was cute boys whom she took great desire in draining the life force from. She became so distracted with them that she would leave herself open to attack—that was how they defeated her, when she had attacked Alan. Currently, Alan, Colt and Pixie had split from their team to stay back in the last village and help some of the injured. They had wanted to stay and help take care of the wounded with them, but Pixie insisted they continue and get the mirror. They had agreed to meet up in the next village, but this was not quite the best meeting spot.... The next baddie on Deyarteb's side was a Futurity ( Pixie/Metalner) named Norika. She was very smart and was always seen with old ancient technology. There was a Silhouette that had an incredibly bad temper, her name was Lain. There was a Mia (Pixie/???), whom acted super cute and childish but she was the most blood thirsty and psychotic one them. Her name was Mio. The last one was an Mint (Pixie/Tiger) whom was shy and quite-like, but a killer like all the rest of them. Her name was Mayu. "Who was it?" Holly asked looking at his wounds worriedly.
The man sighed. "It was a little boy whom killed everyone hear. He was laughing in the sea of blood. He escaped us and then—we saw two children whom were most likely his accomplices."
"Woah!" Hare exclaimed. "Back up! Did you say children!?"
Tiger looked around himself at the slaughtered people and the blood that covered everything. "Are you saying that little children are reasonable for this massacre? Unbelievable..."
"Yes, I know." The man sighed. "I find it hard to believe myself. The first boy was transparent, we could not see him good, but he did not seem to be by himself. We saw another boy with him. Later on we thought we saw that same boy walking towards the village, we attacked him but before we could wound him he used the power of a stone that was in his hand to throw us back. It did not harm us much, I think he was just trying to escape."
"What happened to him, chi?"
"Well, we fallowed him back to the village to see him with the boy whom was with the killer. They looked exactly alike the two of them."
"Twins?" Golem asked.
"Yeah. Identical." The man then shuddered. "The one with the killer attacked my friends and I. The only five surviving members of this whole village. He attacked with a stone as well, but it wasn't in his hand. It was in his heart. Unlike his brother he hurt us bad. Two of us died of our injuries. The two of them escaped with a wagon and two horses. We did not see what happened to the transparent boy. "
Holly felt sick putting a hand to her forehead feeling dizzy. "So...Deyarteb is using children to do his killing? How horrendous..."
"You should be going." The man began. "The smell of blood is not good for the young lady."
"No. I'm ok." Holly composed herself, these images reminded her of her own village after Moo had attacked it. "Please allow us to help you burry the dead. It's the least we can do for you now."
Nine days remaining.
Senki woke up as the wagon came to the halt. He saw his brother hop down and begin washing the blood away from his clothing. He pushed himself up tiredly and turned to his brother whom turned towards him with a forced smile.
"Good morning."
"Genki is all this real?"
"Yes."
"What is happening? Where are we?"
"I'll tell you. You wanted to know where I vanished to that time, well it was hear."
"I had a feeling that you'd say that."
"The people in the house back there, they were people I met last time I came hear. They were kindly. I'm sad about what happened to them...I have no idea who the person whom killed them and the villagers is."
"From how you described him, he sounds like the one whom put the stone in my hand."
"....Hm. I wonder if he is one of Deyarteb's followers."
"So, tell me the rest. How did you get hear, and what happened while you were hear?"
"I think I was sucked into that game I won. I was unlocked from a disk by a girl named Holly and a monster named Suzo. We were attacked by baddies and when we got away they told me about this baddie named Moo. He was very bad, he would enslave monsters and destroy homes. Holly herself had her village destroyed. They were journeying to find a monster called the Phoenix, who could revive lost disks, that's dead monsters, and turn baddies into goodies. I unlocked Mocchi that same night and he was one of my very best friends while I was hear. We met up with other friends during our journey. Tiger, Hare, Golem, Pixie, big blue. We had fun together..."
"Where are they now?"
Genki sighed. "We discovered on our journey that the Phoenix's soul was split into five, and those five monsters were my very best friends. They had to be combined into one to reawaken the Phoenix—that action would wipe them from existence...it would be the equivalent of killing them...."
"....."
"I was the one whom killed them, with my own two hands. I had to combine them. It was so hard..."
"I'm sorry...."
"The Phoenix then attacked Moo, whom was possessing the father of my friend Holly. Both died, and as soon as the battle was over and I was thrown back home....as soon as I was no longer needed." Genki hit his fist in the water. "I was just thrown out when I became useless."
"That is why you were so sad..."
"I was afraid to trust anyone ever again, not after this whole world used me. I have nightmares every night of that day when my...friends died...my fault, I..." Genki shook his head. "It's haunting."
"Genki." Senki hopped down from the wagon. "I'm glad you told me, but even if you told me then, I would of believed you."
"I just wanted to forget about all of it." Genki looked away into the water depressed.
"........"
"Was I brought hear only to be used again? I'm sorry to get you involved in this Senki..."
"It's ok." Senki stepped on the forest path, yelping as he stepped on a thistle with his bare feet. Genki glanced over at him and began to dig around in the wagon, pulling a pair of brown boots from out of the hay.
"Hear. I found these in the wagon last night while you were sleeping. They should fit."
"Thanks." Senki pulled them on. "There a little big, but better then walking everywhere bare foot or with roller blades."
"Hm. When I came hear, I only had roller blades too. As soon as I got to the top of the hill, I'd roll back down."
Senki giggled. "That must of been annoying."
"It was."
"Say, Genki. Now that you've talked about it, do you think that you'll get better?"
Genki sighed sadly, setting back down next tot he water. "I don't think I'll ever get better. I wish I could have my old energy back again, my old personality but the wounds on my heart...I know it's all in my head but it makes my body feel so weak and sick."
"Crippling depression." Senki sat down beside him. "What do you think we should do?"
"........" Genki eyes glistened with an unknown expression. "Let's gather the rest of the mirror."
"The mirror? Oh, the mirror!" Senki realized. "I think we left it back at that house...."
"No, I've got it. It's in the wagon."
"The wagon?" Senki cocked an eye brow. "But how....?"
"It was in the room with me when that boy attacked. I shield myself with it from his attack. I stashed it in this wagon so he wouldn't find it, because I had the feeling it was something important."
"Oh. Where should we go to find the rest of the mirror?"
"I don't know." Genki picked the golden plate out of the hay in the wagon looking into the small piece of mirror that was still in it. "It's pretty."
"It is." Senki fallowed Genki with his eyes as his brother sat back down beside him. He glanced over the mirror. There were scars in the plate, the mirror must of been smashed with tremendous force. "There are four scars in the plate—I bet the mirror piece inside is covering the fifth one."
"So, you think that there are four more pieces?"
"Yes." Senki nodded. "Maybe we should ask around about it?"
"We'll ask at the next village."
"Say Genki..." Senki looked down at the stone in his hand. "These stones has strange powers."
"Holly had a stone that looked kind of like these however it did not go inside of her skin, and her's was green."
"Did it have powers like ours?"
"No. It found disks, it did not attack people."
"I don't want the power to hurt people." Senki frowned looking down at his hand. "Why do we have these?"
"I don't know why, but your luckier then me." "Why?"
"Mine hurts like hell."
"Let me see, maybe it's infected or something."
Genki pulled up his shirt, touching the glowing purple stone embedded inside of his chest, grimacing. "It hurts a lot."
Senki reached his hand up to touch it, but the jewel in his hand made a magnetic sort of resistence and he couldn't. "Strange...."
"I'll say." Genki covered the jewel with his shirt. "We got away from Deyarteb rather easily."
"What do you mean?"
"I was thinking, Deyarteb seemed very powerful. I find it strange that we could of gotten away."
"Do you think he let us escape?"
"Yeah. He did mention our thirteenth birthday."
"It's in nine days from now."
"Well, I guess we'll know in nine days." Genki cupped his chin thoughtfully. "The strange thing though is how we got to that village. The plane crashed almost as soon as we left the terminal—but yet that village is a long distance away from Deyarteb's tower...I wonder if he brought us there for some reason."
"D–do you think it had something to do with the massacre?"
"Perhaps."
Senki whimpered and held onto his brother's arm. "I scared Genki. I want to go home."
"Don't worry, we'll get home somehow." Genki stroked his brother's hair soothingly, trying to comfort him, but inside his head he could not help but bitterly think. 'Oh yes, we'll find a way home, I'm sure this world will throw us out when it doesn't need us anymore....'
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Holly froze as she entered a village covered in blood. She stood staring at the sean in horror. "Oh my god..."
"Terrible." Holly turned to look at Tiger whom had spoken in disgust seeing the sight on the village. Tiger, Hare, Moochi, Golem and Suzo had been revived after the battle. They had all been turned back into mystery disks and fallowing their voices Holly had unlocked all of them. It had taken her nearly a year and a half but she had almost all of her friends back. Almost all. She had not seen or heard anything from Genki since he fell off that dragon. Perhaps he died, but she had searched and searched and could not find any trace of him. It saddened her to know that she would never have all her friends back, he had been one of the most important parts of the team... Almost three years and the pain never became less. Holly had grown up to be a rather pretty woman of nineteen years old. She still wore her hair in the same style except down it was a little longer. She wore a white blouse underneath her same brown vest. She wore a red skirt that went below the knee, a pair of gray stockings which covered her legs and her same brown boots. She still had her father's dagger with her, and somehow not too long ago she had awoken to find the magic stone around her neck. That was when this new adventure had started.
"Mocchi scared chi!" The little pink monster whimpered clutching her leg as it stared at the corpses and the blood.
"Man, these baddies are more ruthless then Moo's bunch." Said Hare queasily.
"Let's get out of hear! It's too creepy!" Suzo pleaded, trying to hop away but tripped over one of the dead bodies. He leap onto Golem's shoulder with a scream. The gentle stone giant stared down at the massacre with sad eyes.
"Death is a waste of life..."
"Deyarteb is more evil then Moo ever was." Holly sighed, closing her eyes as she offered a small prayer for the people whom laid before them slaughtered. "That is why we must continue to gather pieces of the mirror to defeat him."
"But we've been traveling for months and we've only got one." Hare moaned pitifully. "These baddies are so much stronger then Moo's army..."
"We can't give up." Holly pulled the small piece of mirror she had been able to find from out of her pocket. "The magic stones says there is one really close by."
"It's not in this place, is it?" Suzo asked nervously. He did not want to stay any longer then needed in this slaughter house.
"No. I'm thinking that it might be in the next village."
"Thank god!"
"Hm. This killing..." Tiger frowned thoughtfully. "It doesn't look like the usual slaughtering that Deyarteb's followers commit. This seems much more brutal."
"That your right."
The group turned towards the voice to see one of the men whom had attacked Genki and Senki. "It wasn't your usual Deyarteb follower whom did this."
Unlike Moo, Deyarteb only had five followers, however these five baddies were more stronger then a whole army of Moo baddies. They were all Pixie sub monsters, which gave them a hint about Deyarteb's possible pervert personality. There was an Allure (Pixie/Naga), a monster that could suck the life force out of men. Her name was Shigeko, she was the most easy going and refined of the five pixie baddies whom served Deyarteb. Her vanity and materialistic personality often distracted her from battle, making her the weakest of them, however the group still had a pretty hard time fighting her when it came to acquiring the first mirror piece. They had just barely won and she had gotten away alive. Every village she had destroyed she had first stole clothing, and jewelry from. Her main weakness seemed to be procrastination, and she often suffered from a lack of ambition when it came to fighting. Her other major weakness was cute boys whom she took great desire in draining the life force from. She became so distracted with them that she would leave herself open to attack—that was how they defeated her, when she had attacked Alan. Currently, Alan, Colt and Pixie had split from their team to stay back in the last village and help some of the injured. They had wanted to stay and help take care of the wounded with them, but Pixie insisted they continue and get the mirror. They had agreed to meet up in the next village, but this was not quite the best meeting spot.... The next baddie on Deyarteb's side was a Futurity ( Pixie/Metalner) named Norika. She was very smart and was always seen with old ancient technology. There was a Silhouette that had an incredibly bad temper, her name was Lain. There was a Mia (Pixie/???), whom acted super cute and childish but she was the most blood thirsty and psychotic one them. Her name was Mio. The last one was an Mint (Pixie/Tiger) whom was shy and quite-like, but a killer like all the rest of them. Her name was Mayu. "Who was it?" Holly asked looking at his wounds worriedly.
The man sighed. "It was a little boy whom killed everyone hear. He was laughing in the sea of blood. He escaped us and then—we saw two children whom were most likely his accomplices."
"Woah!" Hare exclaimed. "Back up! Did you say children!?"
Tiger looked around himself at the slaughtered people and the blood that covered everything. "Are you saying that little children are reasonable for this massacre? Unbelievable..."
"Yes, I know." The man sighed. "I find it hard to believe myself. The first boy was transparent, we could not see him good, but he did not seem to be by himself. We saw another boy with him. Later on we thought we saw that same boy walking towards the village, we attacked him but before we could wound him he used the power of a stone that was in his hand to throw us back. It did not harm us much, I think he was just trying to escape."
"What happened to him, chi?"
"Well, we fallowed him back to the village to see him with the boy whom was with the killer. They looked exactly alike the two of them."
"Twins?" Golem asked.
"Yeah. Identical." The man then shuddered. "The one with the killer attacked my friends and I. The only five surviving members of this whole village. He attacked with a stone as well, but it wasn't in his hand. It was in his heart. Unlike his brother he hurt us bad. Two of us died of our injuries. The two of them escaped with a wagon and two horses. We did not see what happened to the transparent boy. "
Holly felt sick putting a hand to her forehead feeling dizzy. "So...Deyarteb is using children to do his killing? How horrendous..."
"You should be going." The man began. "The smell of blood is not good for the young lady."
"No. I'm ok." Holly composed herself, these images reminded her of her own village after Moo had attacked it. "Please allow us to help you burry the dead. It's the least we can do for you now."