Fire Fox- Okay, this is a good chapter.^_^ The first part of the Queen of Diamond's plan is accomplished and the GF doesn't even know about her! And new light is shed on her, the mysterious character and his light organoid.
And by the way the Queen of Diamonds isn't an OC like you may think. I think it is pretty easy to figure out who she is, but than again I am the author. I have given two hints, as of this chapter, as to who she is^_^ But I'm not gonna tell you who she is. But I hope it is a surprise to most people when the time comes^_^
Disclaimer: I heard from Tomy the other day...I'm having my friend translate it for me as I type. Yay for free internet translation...which I suspect Tomy's lawyers used . .
THE FIRE FOX FICKLY PRESENTS:
All Things Yesterday Left Behind
Chapter Five- Deliver Me
Deliver me, out of my sadness.
Deliver me, from all of the madness.
Deliver me, courage to guide me.
Deliver me, strength from inside me...
Deliver me, the cross that I'm bearing.
Dr. D studied the massive zoid that had been brought to his camp. It was obvious the zoid was from the times of the ancient Zoidian. Mainly because it had been found when the ruins where the girl, Hecuba, had been found. The discovery of the zoid had been made shortly after the building collasped. In fact the building had been built on top of the zoid.
The zoid itself didn't look to fancy. It looked like an enlarged Bear Fighter. The body was most likely based on the animal known as the Alaskan Grizzly Bear a.k.a. the Kodac Bear, the largest bear known to mankind.
'No doubt it has powers hidden within,' Dr. D thought as he examined the armor. Delicate designs were placed on the sides of the zoid's head. Designs akin to those on Hecuba's suit that she had wore when she came out of the pod.
That's why Dr. D asked her to wear it when she came over. Dr. D looked down at his watch, 'She should have been here before now. That's the last time I let one of girls take the Jeep.'
"I'm here like you asked, Dr. D," a voice said from the door. "Though I don't see why I couldn't have waited for Thomas to get back."
Dr. D turned to face the girl and involuntarily took a step back at the sight of her. She had let her long hair down and her eyes were so dark, he couldn't repress the shudder that passed through his frame. She looked life times older than any girl had a right.
"What was so important that I had to ride with that blonde girl? I am still shaking for my life," her eyes smiled.
'That smile is out of place with the rest, maybe I should have waited for Thomas..oh well to late now. What's done is done.' thought Dr. D.
"Well, I was taking a look at this zoid's armor, and I noticed the designs matched your battle suit. And I was wondering..."
Hecuba smiled and walked around to the side of the zoid. She looked up at the side of the giant bear.
"I don't know how much I can help. I remember hardly anything. But yes the designs do match. So completely," she said thoughtfully.
Dr. D had an idea that might give an insight to the girl and the zoid. "Tell me, what does the design, a phenix symbolize for you? Life, passion, hope, beauty,what?"
Hecuba thought for a moment, "No. It stands for something different to me...you might think it a litte silly or strange."
"Go on child," Dr. D urged. Though it was ironic for him to be calling her child, since technically she was centuries older than him. She looked it now.
"To live, to die, to be reborn- that is the order of the phenix. To be denied Heaven's sweet nectar or Hell's bitter fire. To be a prisoner of this land, never to escape. Not even in death. To lose the beauty that it, itself, symbolizes. Death and birth lose all meaning. They become events in a never ending satire. Even the immortal gods are only born once and die once. Though life may lose its flare, they still are able to revere birth and death. But to the phenix it means nothing. Everything becomes gray to the bird of fire. There is no hope for it." She paused in her long speech, "So I see the phenix as an irony."
~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Just a little closer and she will be in range," he told his companions as he watched the doctor and the girl talk. "You do know what to do?"
"Of course, I do," Ryss snapped. "It was MY organoid that planted the device in the zoid core in the first place."
He smiled as she had taken the bait. She was so much like her. He wondered why she hated that girl so much. He shrugged the thought off as he picked up his binoculars and started watching the girl again.
The Queen figured the girl would serve as a good distraction to the Guardian Force as they continued their work. He had been surprised when he saw how much of the weapon the Queen of Diamonds had built. It was a perfect replica of the original so far. She had done her research well.
He had asked her why she wanted to do all this. She had been real cryptic and only stated that she wanted to carry on her beloved's dream. Well there was nothing like a woman in the delusion of love.
'Beloved...it's been a long time since I've been called that...' he let his thoughts trail off and turned as he felt an icy stare at his back. He turned to see Ryss staring at his organoid. It rumbled lowly in distress.
"Is there something about Opaque that displeases you?" he smiled like he did years ago.
"No. But why is he doing this? I thought..."
"I couldn't let it end like it did...without him saying anything in his dying words," he cut her off before she could say what he didn't want to hear.
Her eyes softened, "Ethan"
"NOW!"
~*~*~*~*~*~*
She had only taken a few steps closer to the zoid to get a better look at the designs while Dr. D had gone to the computer to turn off the locks that kept people from getting in the zoid and tampering with it.
It was then that the horrible pain flooded through her. She felt 'it' accessing her mind. She crumpled to the ground and covered her ears with her hands in an useless attempt to quiet the pain and voice.
It was as if all the pain and suffering had found a voice inside her head. It kept demanding that she do what she was trained to do.
But she had long since made a promise to him that she would never do that...become a mindless killing machine. She had almost reverted back to her old training of mindlessly killing the first time she saw the blue Blade Liger. But the silver one now called Zeke had saved her from herself.
She remembered what she had done carrying out her training. She was a zombie. She needed the choas and fire that surrounded death and destruction. They brought a type of pure, wild ectasty that she couldn't live without. She was its slave. The monster within her fought to be released and the pain intensified.
If she did what 'it' demanded, she would exist only to destroy. Not knowing or being, just killing. She simply would kill: mercilessly and completely. Her existence would be to share and inflict pain. And unfortunately for humanity, she was very good at it. She could get some sort of weird high off of the chaos that would burn in her wake. She wouldn't care about food, water, or anything. Only the choas that comes from war.
'NO!' her mind screamed.
'Yes.' the pain responded calmly. Soon all her walls of resistence would break.
She didn't want to go back to that state. She would have much rather return to how she was before her battle with Van. Because the person Hecuba had promised that she would never walk this path again was long dead.
Her own mental power flared bright in a last attempt to get rid of the pain, but to no avail. 'It' was just to experienced.
'The candle burns brightest before it goes out' was all voice said as everything turned black.
~*~*~*~*~*~*
Ryss wondered how well the device that the Queen of Diamonds had made would hold up against the girl. 'The Queen had said that once I broke her resistance, it should be able to keep her in that state'.
Ryss was amazed about how much thought the Queen of Diamonds had put into this 'distraction', because that was all the girl was- a distraction for the Guardian Force idiots to chase, so they wouldn't notice the Queen's own activity.
First there was the making sure certain information would fall into Dr. D's lap without revealing to much, making sure they found the zoid underneath the ruins, researching it all, duplicating the mind device with only ancient manuscripts, many of which were beyond ruined, and more.
Ryss would have smile had she been able too. It had taken more power than she had thought it would. Ryss looked at Specula in worry. Specula's eyes seemed to be pale with exhaust. Of course, Ryss couldn't loan the organoid any power, because she was drained also.
She cursed as she realized she would be too weak to defend herself if Ethan or Opaque decided to attack her now.
However when she managed to look over at the pair, she saw that Ethan was leaning up against the rock taking deep breaths. He was just barely conscious. And Opaque was in worst shape than Specula.
It was almost if they had taken the brunt of her psychic attack.
~*~*~*~*~*~*
Half a world away, Shadow felt pain surge through him like he had never experienced before. He could feel the pain rise and fall and rise again. It was unbearable. Shadow didn't know how much more he could stand. Shadow fanatically looked around trying to find the source of the pain.
Only seeing Raven and GenoBreaker, Shadow figured she must be experiencing pain. Anger spread through him faster than the pain. But the pain persisted. It was too strong. Shadow was angry at himself. He was to far away to protect her.
Shadow's eye sensors glowed brighter as he suddenly realized something. Quickily he turned what attention he had to Raven. Sure enough, what pain Shadow was feeling was flooding over to Raven. His master had doubled over in pain. Shadow braced himself and spread his wings. He wasn't sure if he would be able to function again after this act. But if he couldn't at least protect her, he was going to protect his other master.
Without a second thought, Shadow shielded Raven from the pain by taking more on himself. It was the only way. He hoped he didn't stop functioning because of this. She would probably tell him how stupid he had been. She would be right. But she would understand. Shadow hoped Raven would understand.
Raven felt the pain ebb away somewhat. Enough to stand on his own, but the throbbing continued. He managed to make his way over to Shadow.
"Shadow?" he said uncertainly. He wasn't sure if his organoid could take much more. He couldn't bare the thought of losing Shadow again. It would be unfair if all he could do was watch Shadow struggle with an enemy he couldn't even see.
Just when Shadow thought he would explode, the pain stopped. Shadow collasped to the reality of the sand on the ground. Everything went dark. Then the need for destruction arose within Shadow. That need had laid dormant for years. Then Shadow figured that whoever had caused such pain to his mistress had achieved what they wanted. Although, now she would be impossible to control, like wildfire.
That hunger for destruction burned deep within his circuits again. And all that stopped Shadow was his master shaking him and repeating his name.
"Shadow." But something seemed wrong with name...it felt incomplete.
~*~*~*~*~*~*
When Dr. D returned from the lab, he found Hecuba on the ground. He rushed over to see if she was alright.
Slowly Hecuba managed to stand up, but something was different about her he noticed. 'But what could have happened?'
She walked toward the bear zoid with deliberate movements. She walked in a straight line to the zoid, Dr. D catiousily walked over to the girl, hoping to distract her from whatever occupied her mind.
"So do you remember anything about it? Like maybe, the zoid's name?" Dr. D asked.
"Yes."
Dr. D felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand. Her voice was harder. It didn't take much imagination to figure out something was wrong.
"It was called 'The Cruncher'. And surely even you can figure out how it got its name. Or do I need to give a demonstration?"
"That's okay." Dr. D started to back away slowly, only a few more steps and he could call sercuity. But he would never make it as Hecuba turned to face him.
"Now, good Doctor, may I ask you a question?" In one swift movement, Hecuba closed the distance between her and Dr. D. She craned her neck so she whispered into his ear, " Have you ever danced with the devil?"
With an upper-thrust and a backhand, Dr. D was now the one who laid motionless on the ground.
"I always thought he was a perve, anyway," Hecuba said smuggily as she walked back to the zoid. She walked like a panther after a kill.
The zoid rumbled in amusement at its master. Now Zi would see how the Cruncher got it's name and the design of a bloody red phenix on its armor.
~*~*~*~*~*~*
Fire Fox- Well there you go.^_^ Next chapter Hecuba and Raven will meet (Shadow will meet her, too). If you could call the Cruncher trying to rip off the GenoBreaker's head meeting.^^
The quote under the title is from Sarah Brightman's song 'Deliver Me'.
Contary to popular belief, the polar bear is not the largest bear. But the Kodac found on an island in Alaska^_^ Just so you know.
On a side note, I thought I would tell you the history of Ethan's name. Now I have no idea what Ethan really means. But I got his name from combining the Latin word 'excido' and Thanatos. Which should give you some insight to him^_^.
excido- [to fall out , fall away, be lost]; of words, [to slip out unawares, escape]; of ideas, [to pass from memory or thought, be forgotten]
Thantos-Means "death" in Greek. This was the name of the Greek god of death who resided with Hades in the underworld.
Please review
I love Raven. See ya .