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~Claude~
Before I went to sleep in Hilton, I began to think of my fight with Falceon. I wanted to find a weak point of his, if he had one. I stood up and glanced at Rena to make sure she was sleeping and walked outside. The moon lit the whole quiet town. I walked to the edge of the dock and looked out at the ocean. The moon was reflected off the surface. It reminded me of Nede the night before we went to Feinal. My thoughts drifted to when the Calnus was destroyed. It's because of me all those people are dead. 'NO! Quit blaming yourself.' What was with me? I suppose I blame myself because I didn't do anything but watch. I looked at my wrist. There was a scar where Marsillio had cut me. I sighed. What weak point did the Wise Men have? Preferably Indalecio. None really. Unless I overlooked something. I stood up and walked back inside.
I was the second one to wake up. Leon was the first. Soon everyone woke up and got their things together. We all decided to head for Linga first because we need transportation. That's what I asked Precis to make, something called a speed bike (think of those things from Star Wars) I knew that would help us a lot. We exited the Inn and made our way to Linga. The entire way Leon bragged to Hikeru about the 'amazing' things he's done. She seemed fascinated by them, or maybe she was being nice and pretending to like them. As we were passing Lacour we ran into some Hrifainx (H.R. boss) Ando, Sugano, and I drew our swords, Leon took one step back charging up a spell, Hikeru stood in the back, Rena and Noel took their positions. Instantly both of the monsters jumped Sugano. I thought fast.
"Hey, do you two know what death fells like?" I said. They looked at me. "Let me show you." I did Head Splitter on one of the monsters and it reared back and attacked, as well as the other one. These things are smart. They both lashed out at me in turn. I flew backwards, but before I hit the ground one of them ran at lightning speed and hit me in the back. I hit the ground, nearly paralyzed from the pain. They both shocked me with lightning at the same time.
"EXTINCTION!!" I heard Leon call out, but barley. Comets flew from the sky and on to the monsters. They howled in pain and were knocked away from me. Ando and a recovered Sugano ran at them and slashed furiously. I fell to my knees before falling forward. Rena ran my way and healed me. It took a minute for me to completely recover since I was hurt so badly.
"Are you alright?" She asked me.
"Yeah-ugh." I grunted. I gingerly stood up, waiting to return to health. In that time I thought it might be a good time to try and control my new power. Ando was hit hard and got knocked into Sugano. I felt the rage inside grow bigger. Suddenly my sword was glowing a faint blue. I had found another power! I pointed my sword at the monsters that were advancing on my two fallen friends.
"Ando, Sugano, move!" I shouted. The two hoped up and cleared the path of my target. The Harifainx were still chasing Ando and Sugano. "Hey!" They looked at me. "Never try a fight you can't win." A blue beam shot out of my sword and hit both of the monsters at once. I felt most of my energy drain from my. I was barely able to stay conscious. I canceled out the beam and fell to me knees, almost blacking out. The duo gave their last cry of pain and vanished.
"Claude!" Rena ran to me and knelt beside me.
"I..I'm o-kay." Everything was a bit blurry. Rena helped me stand up. Just then I saw something. It was flying in front of me. It was a phantom! It flew at me as I tried to slash it. The vision ended.
"Claude?" Ando said. "Did you see something?"
"Yeah, a phantom."
"Phantom?" Leon said.
"They're these big, ghost thingies that fly threw you and, uh, forgot." Hikeru said quickly. Man, that was disturbing.
"Take your life." Sugano finished.
"Yeah, what he said."
"Well, we're out of immediate danger, so lets get moving." Noel piped up. We continued on our way to Linga. By the time we got there the sun was setting.
"Well, Linga seems peaceful." Ando said. Rena and I looked at him.
"Not always."
"LOOK OUT!!" Something flew right by me, nearly hitting me. I fell back ward hitting the dirt ground.
"What the." I looked to my side and saw Precis running after whatever just flew by me. She stopped a few feet from us and panted.
"Sorry, bout that. Did-Claude?"
"Huh?"
"It's about time you got here. Leon promised to be back by tomorrow."
"Precis, shut up." Leon said.
"I, guess this means you all know each other?" Hikeru said.
"Sadly." Precis said teasingly.
"Hey, what's that supposed to mean?" Leon demanded.
"Well, are you gonna introduce me to your friends?"
"Oh yes. This is Ando Sarion" I said. "This is Sugano Yuki."
"You had ta say our full name didn't ya?" Sugano mumbled.
"Coulda been worse, I might have said your middl"
"If you dare do that." Sugano gabbed me by the collar. "I swear you'll be sorry."
"I'm only joking, don't worry."
"This is Hikeru." Leon said suddenly.
"Hi, Precis, lets go." Precis said impatiently.
"Precis we have plenty of time." Rena said.
"I just wanna get this done. And Claude, since you want it, you help." Precis said as she walked away. Everyone looked at me as if I had said COOKIE or something.
"What?"
"Is it what I think it is?" Sugano said to where only I could hear.
"Yeah." Referring to the speed bike. Sugano gave a small laugh. I walked into Precis' house along with Rena and Sugano, the rest went to town and got supplies.
"Precis, were does this, thing go?" Graft asked.
"Hm, uh, right there. Man these blue prints are hard to read." Precis complained.
"That's because some of it is in code." I said. Graft looked at me.
"Oh, hi there." He said. "It's been quite a while hasn't it?"
"Yeah, if you need help, you can let Sugano and me do it." He looked at Sugano.
"Well, I could use a break. If you need something, get Precis."
"ARGH! Why is it always me? Me, me, me, ME!" Precis wined.
"Hey, I DID all the work here, you gave me instructions." Graft walked out of the garage.
"Well, these are a bit hard to read." I said as I looked at the print. Sugano picked them up.
"That's because you didn't learn about them as much as I did."
"What? Oh yeah." I forgot that the Federation put important parts to machines in code.
"You work on the bike while I tell you what to do." Sugano said looking at the papers.
"Fine." I said as I looked at the incomplete model.
"Put the, stabilizer, right below the energy pack." I got down on the ground and tried to hook up the part.
"So how long might this take?" Rena asked.
"Depends, if we work any chance we get, probably in a day or two." Sugano answered.
"HEY CLAUDE!!" Leon yelled. I dropped the stabilizer and it hit me in the face.
"Damnit, don't do that." I said standing up.
"Oops, sorry." Leon said.
"Don't mind him, he felt like screaming." Hikeru said as she dragged him away.
"Hey, what the, wait." Leon's voice died off.
"That was disturbing." Sugano said blankly.
"If this keeps up, we'll never get any thing done."
"I'll get Bobot ta help us." Precis said hopping off the seat to go find Bobot.
"Now, lets try this again." I grabbed the part and put it in place. After half an hour we had half of the bike done. I stood up walked outside, out of the frying pan and into the cooler.
"Man. This thing has a lot to it." I complained.
"Could be worse. Coulda been the Calnus." Sugano said. At the mention of the Calnus I gave a deep sigh.
"The Clanus wouldn't be any harder than this, because there is no such thing as the Clanus anymore." I said mournfully. Sugano looked away. He new what it was like to lose someone you always looked up to and cared for. He stood up and walked in to the house with out saying a word. I looked into the star filling sky. All of this reminded me of a song I heard when I was on Earth.
"Maybe, things happen for a reason, and deep in lies the answer, to over come the grieving." I sang quietly. I pulled my sword out and stabbed the ground as hard as I could. Me. My fault. All my fault. My mind was racing. The only thing I wanted to do now was fight. I pulled my sword from the ground and ran outside of the town.
"Claude!" Rena called out from behind me. I ignored her and kept running. I ran a mile from the town and found a pack of monsters. They were feeding off of a dead one they must have killed. I was completely outnumbered. One to five! But I couldn't care less. I ran my sword deep into the back of one of the beasts and it howled in pain and slashed at me. I flew backward and collided with the ground. As I tried to get up another one bit my arm. I felt white-hot pain spread through my body. I was poisoned! Now I was in deep trouble. No one knew I was out here, except for Rena, but she'd probably think I ran just to the bridge or something. I tried to call for help, but got attacked and pined to the ground. They slashed ferociously at me. I heard a loud bang and the monsters looked the same way. Another bang, bang, bang. The monsters all began to run away, and left me to die. I heard someone call my name. I don't know who it was but as I blacked out I saw a blur of someone with worry all over their face. All I could see was blackness, like an endless scream. Everywhere I looked, the same thing.
"Our time has come."
Who was that? The voice echoed through the darkness.
"Time for domination."
Domination? For what?
"Don't you know? Our time to take over the planet of Expel."
Why would I do that?
"Can you not see? It is simple."
Who are you?
"So many questions, but pointless I must say.
Tell me! Tell me, where am I?!
"Tell you I shall not"
Why?!
"You will come with me and dominate Expel, no the universe."
The..universe?
"Yes, you want to. You know you do."
I..am, what?
"You are the dominator of the universe."
I..the, dominator.
"Yes, that's it."
I..I..NO!
"What?"
NO, I WON'T!!
"You will and that's final"
NO!! TOU CAN'T MAKE ME!!
"I have failed to get you this time, but next time, will be different"
Everything began to swirl as if I were going through a wormhole in space. (Go watch Contact, neat movie) There was an opening of light.
"Go through the gateway, and have anything you could ever want."
Why? Why go there when everything I want is right by me?
"That girl? You pass up an opportunity to have anything you want for some girl?"
So what? My life, not yours.
"Next time we meet will be tragic for you, perhaps worse than death."
There was a bright flash of light and I heard voices.
"This is all my fault."
"Sugano, it's not your fault."
"Will he be alright?"
"I hope so."
I felt someone grasp my hand. I knew that was Rena. I tried to open my eyes, but couldn't. I was still poisoned.
"Is he unconscious?"
"I don't know."
Just then I slowly opened my eyes. I couldn't move since I was still poisoned.
"Claude?" Rena said hopefully.
"I..I." I tried to say but felt a terrible pain in my arm.
"You should rest Claude." Ando said.
"No, ugh, I, saw something." I could barely speak. I tried to sit up, but fell back. I moaned in pain. Ando put his hand on my forehead and I fell unconscious.
Divine X: Well, do any of you reviewers have any friends in the towers when they were hit? I did..I don't know if there alive..hope you like the story so far..please R&R. Next chapter, by Rena.
Rena: ..
~Claude~
Before I went to sleep in Hilton, I began to think of my fight with Falceon. I wanted to find a weak point of his, if he had one. I stood up and glanced at Rena to make sure she was sleeping and walked outside. The moon lit the whole quiet town. I walked to the edge of the dock and looked out at the ocean. The moon was reflected off the surface. It reminded me of Nede the night before we went to Feinal. My thoughts drifted to when the Calnus was destroyed. It's because of me all those people are dead. 'NO! Quit blaming yourself.' What was with me? I suppose I blame myself because I didn't do anything but watch. I looked at my wrist. There was a scar where Marsillio had cut me. I sighed. What weak point did the Wise Men have? Preferably Indalecio. None really. Unless I overlooked something. I stood up and walked back inside.
I was the second one to wake up. Leon was the first. Soon everyone woke up and got their things together. We all decided to head for Linga first because we need transportation. That's what I asked Precis to make, something called a speed bike (think of those things from Star Wars) I knew that would help us a lot. We exited the Inn and made our way to Linga. The entire way Leon bragged to Hikeru about the 'amazing' things he's done. She seemed fascinated by them, or maybe she was being nice and pretending to like them. As we were passing Lacour we ran into some Hrifainx (H.R. boss) Ando, Sugano, and I drew our swords, Leon took one step back charging up a spell, Hikeru stood in the back, Rena and Noel took their positions. Instantly both of the monsters jumped Sugano. I thought fast.
"Hey, do you two know what death fells like?" I said. They looked at me. "Let me show you." I did Head Splitter on one of the monsters and it reared back and attacked, as well as the other one. These things are smart. They both lashed out at me in turn. I flew backwards, but before I hit the ground one of them ran at lightning speed and hit me in the back. I hit the ground, nearly paralyzed from the pain. They both shocked me with lightning at the same time.
"EXTINCTION!!" I heard Leon call out, but barley. Comets flew from the sky and on to the monsters. They howled in pain and were knocked away from me. Ando and a recovered Sugano ran at them and slashed furiously. I fell to my knees before falling forward. Rena ran my way and healed me. It took a minute for me to completely recover since I was hurt so badly.
"Are you alright?" She asked me.
"Yeah-ugh." I grunted. I gingerly stood up, waiting to return to health. In that time I thought it might be a good time to try and control my new power. Ando was hit hard and got knocked into Sugano. I felt the rage inside grow bigger. Suddenly my sword was glowing a faint blue. I had found another power! I pointed my sword at the monsters that were advancing on my two fallen friends.
"Ando, Sugano, move!" I shouted. The two hoped up and cleared the path of my target. The Harifainx were still chasing Ando and Sugano. "Hey!" They looked at me. "Never try a fight you can't win." A blue beam shot out of my sword and hit both of the monsters at once. I felt most of my energy drain from my. I was barely able to stay conscious. I canceled out the beam and fell to me knees, almost blacking out. The duo gave their last cry of pain and vanished.
"Claude!" Rena ran to me and knelt beside me.
"I..I'm o-kay." Everything was a bit blurry. Rena helped me stand up. Just then I saw something. It was flying in front of me. It was a phantom! It flew at me as I tried to slash it. The vision ended.
"Claude?" Ando said. "Did you see something?"
"Yeah, a phantom."
"Phantom?" Leon said.
"They're these big, ghost thingies that fly threw you and, uh, forgot." Hikeru said quickly. Man, that was disturbing.
"Take your life." Sugano finished.
"Yeah, what he said."
"Well, we're out of immediate danger, so lets get moving." Noel piped up. We continued on our way to Linga. By the time we got there the sun was setting.
"Well, Linga seems peaceful." Ando said. Rena and I looked at him.
"Not always."
"LOOK OUT!!" Something flew right by me, nearly hitting me. I fell back ward hitting the dirt ground.
"What the." I looked to my side and saw Precis running after whatever just flew by me. She stopped a few feet from us and panted.
"Sorry, bout that. Did-Claude?"
"Huh?"
"It's about time you got here. Leon promised to be back by tomorrow."
"Precis, shut up." Leon said.
"I, guess this means you all know each other?" Hikeru said.
"Sadly." Precis said teasingly.
"Hey, what's that supposed to mean?" Leon demanded.
"Well, are you gonna introduce me to your friends?"
"Oh yes. This is Ando Sarion" I said. "This is Sugano Yuki."
"You had ta say our full name didn't ya?" Sugano mumbled.
"Coulda been worse, I might have said your middl"
"If you dare do that." Sugano gabbed me by the collar. "I swear you'll be sorry."
"I'm only joking, don't worry."
"This is Hikeru." Leon said suddenly.
"Hi, Precis, lets go." Precis said impatiently.
"Precis we have plenty of time." Rena said.
"I just wanna get this done. And Claude, since you want it, you help." Precis said as she walked away. Everyone looked at me as if I had said COOKIE or something.
"What?"
"Is it what I think it is?" Sugano said to where only I could hear.
"Yeah." Referring to the speed bike. Sugano gave a small laugh. I walked into Precis' house along with Rena and Sugano, the rest went to town and got supplies.
"Precis, were does this, thing go?" Graft asked.
"Hm, uh, right there. Man these blue prints are hard to read." Precis complained.
"That's because some of it is in code." I said. Graft looked at me.
"Oh, hi there." He said. "It's been quite a while hasn't it?"
"Yeah, if you need help, you can let Sugano and me do it." He looked at Sugano.
"Well, I could use a break. If you need something, get Precis."
"ARGH! Why is it always me? Me, me, me, ME!" Precis wined.
"Hey, I DID all the work here, you gave me instructions." Graft walked out of the garage.
"Well, these are a bit hard to read." I said as I looked at the print. Sugano picked them up.
"That's because you didn't learn about them as much as I did."
"What? Oh yeah." I forgot that the Federation put important parts to machines in code.
"You work on the bike while I tell you what to do." Sugano said looking at the papers.
"Fine." I said as I looked at the incomplete model.
"Put the, stabilizer, right below the energy pack." I got down on the ground and tried to hook up the part.
"So how long might this take?" Rena asked.
"Depends, if we work any chance we get, probably in a day or two." Sugano answered.
"HEY CLAUDE!!" Leon yelled. I dropped the stabilizer and it hit me in the face.
"Damnit, don't do that." I said standing up.
"Oops, sorry." Leon said.
"Don't mind him, he felt like screaming." Hikeru said as she dragged him away.
"Hey, what the, wait." Leon's voice died off.
"That was disturbing." Sugano said blankly.
"If this keeps up, we'll never get any thing done."
"I'll get Bobot ta help us." Precis said hopping off the seat to go find Bobot.
"Now, lets try this again." I grabbed the part and put it in place. After half an hour we had half of the bike done. I stood up walked outside, out of the frying pan and into the cooler.
"Man. This thing has a lot to it." I complained.
"Could be worse. Coulda been the Calnus." Sugano said. At the mention of the Calnus I gave a deep sigh.
"The Clanus wouldn't be any harder than this, because there is no such thing as the Clanus anymore." I said mournfully. Sugano looked away. He new what it was like to lose someone you always looked up to and cared for. He stood up and walked in to the house with out saying a word. I looked into the star filling sky. All of this reminded me of a song I heard when I was on Earth.
"Maybe, things happen for a reason, and deep in lies the answer, to over come the grieving." I sang quietly. I pulled my sword out and stabbed the ground as hard as I could. Me. My fault. All my fault. My mind was racing. The only thing I wanted to do now was fight. I pulled my sword from the ground and ran outside of the town.
"Claude!" Rena called out from behind me. I ignored her and kept running. I ran a mile from the town and found a pack of monsters. They were feeding off of a dead one they must have killed. I was completely outnumbered. One to five! But I couldn't care less. I ran my sword deep into the back of one of the beasts and it howled in pain and slashed at me. I flew backward and collided with the ground. As I tried to get up another one bit my arm. I felt white-hot pain spread through my body. I was poisoned! Now I was in deep trouble. No one knew I was out here, except for Rena, but she'd probably think I ran just to the bridge or something. I tried to call for help, but got attacked and pined to the ground. They slashed ferociously at me. I heard a loud bang and the monsters looked the same way. Another bang, bang, bang. The monsters all began to run away, and left me to die. I heard someone call my name. I don't know who it was but as I blacked out I saw a blur of someone with worry all over their face. All I could see was blackness, like an endless scream. Everywhere I looked, the same thing.
"Our time has come."
Who was that? The voice echoed through the darkness.
"Time for domination."
Domination? For what?
"Don't you know? Our time to take over the planet of Expel."
Why would I do that?
"Can you not see? It is simple."
Who are you?
"So many questions, but pointless I must say.
Tell me! Tell me, where am I?!
"Tell you I shall not"
Why?!
"You will come with me and dominate Expel, no the universe."
The..universe?
"Yes, you want to. You know you do."
I..am, what?
"You are the dominator of the universe."
I..the, dominator.
"Yes, that's it."
I..I..NO!
"What?"
NO, I WON'T!!
"You will and that's final"
NO!! TOU CAN'T MAKE ME!!
"I have failed to get you this time, but next time, will be different"
Everything began to swirl as if I were going through a wormhole in space. (Go watch Contact, neat movie) There was an opening of light.
"Go through the gateway, and have anything you could ever want."
Why? Why go there when everything I want is right by me?
"That girl? You pass up an opportunity to have anything you want for some girl?"
So what? My life, not yours.
"Next time we meet will be tragic for you, perhaps worse than death."
There was a bright flash of light and I heard voices.
"This is all my fault."
"Sugano, it's not your fault."
"Will he be alright?"
"I hope so."
I felt someone grasp my hand. I knew that was Rena. I tried to open my eyes, but couldn't. I was still poisoned.
"Is he unconscious?"
"I don't know."
Just then I slowly opened my eyes. I couldn't move since I was still poisoned.
"Claude?" Rena said hopefully.
"I..I." I tried to say but felt a terrible pain in my arm.
"You should rest Claude." Ando said.
"No, ugh, I, saw something." I could barely speak. I tried to sit up, but fell back. I moaned in pain. Ando put his hand on my forehead and I fell unconscious.
Divine X: Well, do any of you reviewers have any friends in the towers when they were hit? I did..I don't know if there alive..hope you like the story so far..please R&R. Next chapter, by Rena.
Rena: ..