1 Reluctant Abomination Chapter 5
(And...just like that...two pieces of the astronomical puzzle slid together..just like that...like marionettes on strings...)
Drive is a thing all in itself. Drive is what brings one's soul to move..to make action...Kula Diamond was driven by a voice. A voice of the deceased. Kula Diamond was driven by nostalgia and hope...which, would be proven to be a deadly combination. It did not take her a long time to make her move from Canada back to Tokyo Japan...dreamy nights spend in an endless haze as she trekked across the land, be it by foot or by auto. Kula was driven to forget herself at this time...to become a puppet to carry out a mission...go to the source...unite the sun and moon..but what did it all mean...nothing...to her. But did that matter? Of course not. Kula Diamond was driven...determined...not clear-headed....
=Project Solar is coming along nicely, don't you think?=
=Oh. Of course...except for that little skirmish in the beginning, no?=
=It's to be expected..certainly they have been made a bit too real. Then again...their emotions have carried them to do many things for us...things we had not even predicted.=
=The time is coming...soon, my brethren...soon. Kula will be the spark that draws the Sun and Moon together.=
=The revival will be glorious...heh...heh..heh..=
Kula carried herself with light steps throughout the city....a frost formed on the ground..bastard frost without it's father Winter...green trees were tainted with a crystal-white...they shatter nigh without notice and fell to the ground. Once semi-humid air was ridden with small crystals of ice, which strangely, seemed to choke those they came across. But, Kula strode on...her eyes had taken on a blank stare and she moved with an undeniable aim..but was she moving or being pushed, or was it pulled by the great force that had seemed to take her over? He words were crisp and abrupt, falling like cracked ice from her lips.. "Tsuyoke dewa iki, yowake dewa shinuka..." A sinister smile curled at her lips as she lowered her glance to the ground below large crater...the scene would have been significant to one that was there before...especially those who had caused it....across town...
"K-Kula-chan!?!.." K' jolted p from a light nap upon the couch, he winced and reached his right hand for his left arm, which was still bandaged up.. "Kula...Kula is back....she's here..close..." A slight smile reached his face and he slowly rose from the chair, grumbling in a quiet fashion due to random twangs of pain in his body...recovery had been fast, but not fast enough, and now all that remained were the annoying subtle but existent ebbs of discomfort. A pinpoint of pain at the back of his brain that served as a reminder that he was still injured. "Maxima-san! It's Kula! She's back!." The large Canadian man stepped into the room where K' was housed, a shaving razor against his cheek, white shaving cream around his jawline. "Eh?...S'that so...?" He turned the other way and began to shave again. K' looked slightly annoyed at his friend's nonchalance. "Maxima! She's been away for so long. Is that all you can say?" Maxima flecked the remaining shaving cream into his face and glanced over his shoulder at K'. "Yah. It's all I think I should say...I got a bad feelin' about this one, kid. You think you're the only one that can sense her? Look a little closer." He slung a towel over his left shoulder and left the room rather swiftly, humming, calm as usual. It really did amaze K' at times how mellow this man was, but at the same time he seemed to have everything together and be perfectly organized. He sighed and put his chin in his hands, gazing out the window... "Hmm...Kula.."
He felt Kula..but it just wasn't Kula..as if it where hollowed out, or something of the sort. An empty shell..but she was all there, in her entirety...she wasn't weakened at she seemed to be at full strength..just, misdirected. "Well..whatever...I'm going to go see her..how bad could it be, right?"
Maxima stopped and turned around yet again, gazing at K' from down the hallway. "Now damn it, kid! That's exactly what you said the last time when you felt that little blue-haired freak runnin' around! Do you purposely try to dive face first into a big pile of trouble? You know something's up, I know something's up. For once just leave it alone! You're in no condition ta be gettin' yerself back in the shit again, anyway. And I'm not gonna bail you out this time. Hell if you're gonna be this senseless an' ya got some death-wish to fulfill I mightaswell've left you back at that crater in the middla town. Stupid ass." He sighed and folded his arms over his large chest tapping his foot against the floor, awaiting the inevitable answer from K'. "So are you are you gonna leave right now then? Mightaswell fuckin' come with ya so I can drag your limp body from the rubble again.
A grin pulled itself across K's lightly tanned face. "Right away, buddy!" He stood up off the bed and slid his sunglasses out of his coat pocket, pushing them over his eyes. "You know you can't stop me from getting myself into trouble, right?" Maxima closed his eyes and tilted his head towards the ground. "The only thing I'm worried about is keepin' you from dying, kid...but I don't know if I can even do that anymore.
=A universal coincidence of catastrophic proportions was about to take place. Owari.=