How do you love?
~Infinitis~
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AN: Yah! Fifth Chapie! Please R&R :) I changed my mind. The next chapter you may use a tissue.
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Narouki: Thankies *^_^* I'll get it done as soon as I can!
dilly's lover(): Ok, ^.^ I'll keep on writing!
Ruby: *Blush* Ok! ^.~
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Chapter 5: Fate-Alteration
I cry. Yet I don't know why. My heart is heavy.
There is silence, I neither hear nor see anything. The wind blows harshly on my back.
Darkness... No, It's a little lighter. I see a barren wasteland, rocky but flat. I hear footsteps.
"Hello?" I cry. "Is someone there?" I trip on a rock. My eyes survey the area and I come upon a graveyard.
I stand on my legs again and let my feet wander to the gravestones. One of them caught my attention.
HERE LIES: ENCIA SCHEZAR I gasp! 'Mother...' Someone comes behind me. He unsheathes his sword and puts the blade next to my throat.
"Why are you here?" A familiar voice commanded. My eyes turn his way and I see his face. Allen? He was much older now. In his twenties I think.
"Brother..." I shed a tear.
"I told you before, you are not my sister anymore." Allen yelled in an angry voice, eyebrows knotted.
I stare blankly at him.
"Don't you remember? You saw her die, I told you. It's all your fault, Celena."
THAT DREAM! The one I had when I was seven. I did see her die, she was crying out my name till she breathed no more. Allen did tell me it was my fault. IT WAS MY FAULT!
Allen disappeared like vapor, sword and all along with the graveyard.
"No, don't leave Allen! Please!" I yelled and screamed his name, but he didn't come back. I ran, but no one was there. I drop to my knees and cry. Alone... I HATE to be alone. Why is everyone leavening me? I cover my face with my hands.
"Celena, I tried." I look up and see the Canine-man. He bleeds in his chest and falls.
"JAJUKA!" He blows away like dust.
Everything turns dark and bleak. Why, Why, WHY ME!
Someone touches my shoulder.
I tried to make out who was touching me, but my eyes were so blurry from the crying.
In the darkness, his hair was like the Iron Moon against a starless sky and his eyes were like red wine... Dillandau!
"Remember, I'm here for you and I'll always will be." Is he really saying that? Does he really care for me? Light comes back to my eyes and I'm no longer in the barren wasteland, but in a grassland, full of life and full of green. I stand to meet Dillandau eye to eye.
I look at his face and see his scar on his cheek bleading. I touch it and he winces. His bruises reappear on his body. Old scars reopen and bleed. He falters and I catch him, but he is too heavy for me. I let both of us fall onto the soft grass. My arms hold him tight as he pains. I cry in his silver hair. His blood drops to the ground, the grass withers to dust and turns to sand.
"What's happening to you?"
"I'm changing..." He whizzed.
Dillandau yelled in pain. Then he turned cold, breathless. This cannot be happening... No, Dillandau...Don't Go. You can't... You can't be...
"Dillandau...Please, DON'T GO. I don't want to be alone, you're my last light." I cried, tears flowing endlessly like rivers. He doesn't move or flinch. I hold his cold body tighter to me.
"I BEG OF YOU, PLEASE! DON'T GO, YOU PROMISED!" I scream.
I feel Anguish, Sorrow, Death, and Lonelyness all at the same time.
This cannot be happening.
A sharp pain flows through my arm. All the ground is a Desert, all life- once-thrived is Dead, all light is Darkness to my eyes, and all is lost within my heart.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" I echo in the nothingness.
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"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Dillandau woke up to a scream of anguish from Celena. Quickly, he rushed to the edge of his cage where Celena's side was.
"Celena?"
Nothing. He strained his eyes to get a closer look. Her bed was empty. 'D@^^^ those ZS, If they ever touch Celena, I'll beat them to a pulp.' He slid down to his knees and angrily hit the floor with his fist. The hit was so hard; you could see knuckle marks in the metal ground.
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Six years had passed and those scrawny little kids you might remember from six years ago now turned into teenagers; strong from the labors, but weakened by the drugs. Both Dillandau and Celena were now forced to take bitter tasting liquids along with some other pills. Captured Laborers, like Dilly (^.^) and Celena, were going through the doors of where the ZS do their 'Experiments'. The Laborers never come back, EVER! Jajuka is still alive and well, kind of. After the incident, they ranked Jajuka down to a slave. Dillandau told him that once he finds a way to be free, he said he'll get the ZS @$$#$ and force them to slave over Jajuka for some time. Jajuka laughed at Dillandau's idea of making the ZS slave over him. But he responded with a question.
//Flashback\\
"How will get out 'Lord' Dillandau?" Jajuka always uses that pet name because he thinks Dillandau acts like he rules over the place.
"Well here's the plan," he began. "I'll round up some boys, get them buffed up, and start a rival against the Zaibech Scum."
"You think I'll work?"
"Don't doubt me Jajuka, It'll work." He glares at Jajuka with 'The Look'.
'I don't care what Jajuka thinks, but Dilly acts more like a General then a Lord.' Celena thought while twisting her long blond hair. Somehow the ZS gave the Laborers a time to socialize, so they put us in a garden-like place near the fields. 'Are they dumb or what? I think that putting people together to socialize is a very bad idea; like Dillandau for example. But I know that they are not stupid. There's always a catch, I know they're planning something.' Celena was deep in thought about this. Dillandau notices her spacing-out.
"So, what are you thinking now Cel?" Dillandau said, turning around from Jajuka to face the girl. In-between the six years, Dillandau caught onto this pet name for Celena, not knowing that Allen was the first one who called her by it. Celena didn't care if he used the name or not, unlike her calling Dillandau 'Dilly' which he minded very much.
"Nothing..." Celena said, still in a daze.
"Whatever you say, Cel" He waved his hand carelessly like swatting a fly, then left. Celena smiles, she likes it when Dillandau leaves her alone to think.
//End of Flashback\\
Dillandau gathered the best boys he could find in the Fields, both slaves and laborers. He made up a name for the group and called them the 'Dragon's Slayers' (^.^ He He, Alternative!). Dillandau called them this because 'he' is a Dragon and the boys are his Slayers. The boys (His boys) are: Gatti, Miguel, Chesta, Dalet, Guimel, Viole, and many more. They call him 'Sir' (You know, like when the Marines say in boot camp "Sir, yes Sir" Kay?) and follow his every orders. Dillandau slaps them around every time they say something stupid or do something wrong. Celena didn't really agree with him doing all that slapping, so she gave him a long and boring lecture about Anti-Slapping. After 'the talk' he doesn't slap the slayers, until Celena turns her back. Even through all those slapping-sessions, Dillandau is proud with his 'Elite Force'.
A few weeks later, the ZS had been doing some check-ups and testing on Celena. One day from after the testing, Dillandau found her beautiful long hair cut short. Almost exactly like the length of Dillandau's hair. This made Celena very upset.
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Dillandau waits angrily, but patiently on the cold floor near his bed, glaring at anyone who comes his way. Once the ZS where in sight, he stood up. Seeing that they carried the slender Celena, limp under their arms, he was in a rage. Dillandau, absently stroked his cheek scar (He ^_^ instead of stroking when he thinks about Van, he strokes it thinking about the Scientists!) He saw that the Scientist who carried her had a mechanical left arm. When the Scientist with a left mechanical arm opened the cage door, Dillandau was surprised that he didn't threw her in like an old rag doll. Instead, he put her softly down on her hard bed. The other ZS mumbled about this amongst themselves. One of the other Scientists talked with him.
"Why do you waste time by fussing around the She-thing?" The Scientist hissed.
"Why don't you be a little bit more HUMANE with your Laborers?" The half- mechanic Scientist rebuked. 'He sounds like a Human!' Dillandau thought.
"Don't talk to us like that! Next time I'll order you to be a little hastier with the She-thing. You ought to be grateful to us for saving you."
The Half-mechanical Scientist madly took off his hood and revealed his true self, a human with spiky blue hair. 'He looks familiar...' "Grateful? You forced me into this...this... Sorcery! I hate what you do; you experiment on people like rats. You abuse them when they're weak! I'd rather die then be in this!" the human was about to walk away, until that one scientist grabbed his robotic arm.
"Folken, we gave you back an arm when that Dragon took yours away." The human hesitated to say something back but didn't. 'So his name is Folken then.' The man looked at Dillandau and lowered his head while he sighs. 'He has red eyes like me!' Dillandau noticed.
Jajuka now walks toward the ZS and the Robot-human. 'He looks angry, maybe it's because of Celena.' "Sir, the experiment is ready to start."
"Good slave. Now get the specimen ready." Dillandau clenched his fist at the word 'Slave'.
Jajuka angrily growls, showing his teeth. "No." He barked. "Send one of your own. I shall not be apart of this atrocity." The scientist slaps Jajuka hard, showing that the scientist too has a human hand. But is the Scientist really human? The Robot-human winces as the Scientist slaps the Canine-human again, making him fall to the ground.
"Resi, go and get the specimen. Now!" The Scientist ordered. One of the cloaked figures rushed down the hall.
"And you..." The Scientist faces Folken and takes off his own hood, reveling a human face with midnight hair. He looks human too, but he doesn't sound like one. Like he's possessed. "You're going to watch!" He grabs Folken's human arm with unhuman strength and pulls him along, the others followed. Jajuka gets up and goes to another direction. Dillandau watches him until he sees him no more. He assumes no one is in the hall, so then he goes to his bars and takes the one out, just like the time he was ten. He was not, however, to go into other people's cells. But this was an emergency. He wanted to see if Celena was all right.
Dillandau goes into her cell and puts back the bars in place so it won't look conspicuous. He goes over to Celena.
"Come on Cel, wake up." He whispered, shaking her slightly. He saw that she was crying before because of the tear streaks. He shakes her again, but this time she woke up. She gasped at Dillandau's presence.
"Dill..." she screamed but Dillandau covered her mouth.
"Shhhhh! You don't want them to notice, don't you?" he said in a harsh whisper. Celena cried, hard. He hates to see her cry. She flung her arms around his neck, pulling him close like she was about to lose him. Dillandau was surprised at her mysterious behavior. He wrapped his arm around her waist so that she wouldn't have to put all her weight on his hurting neck. 'What could of made her act like this? If it was those Zaibach Scum who made her cry like this...' he clenched his fist with his other hand.
"Celena, what's wrong? Is it the ZS? Did they do something to you?"
"Yes...and no. Yes, they did do something. I have a pain in arm, but that's not what's hurting me..." Her arms slipped loosely off the Albino's neck. He grabbed her just in time with his other arm. Celena weakly opened her eyes, still glossy from crying. Her Sapphire orbs gazed into his Ruby ones.
"Are you for real?" she said faintly.
"Yes." he places her hand on his cheek where the scar was. The scar was still there, lightly, he liked it a few years back and it became a trademark to him. Dillandau liked the warmness of her hand on his cheek. He smiled. "See?"
"Dillandau, promise me another thing." Celena said with what little remaining strength she had.
"Anything." He said in a solid and firm voice.
"Live..." she said in the softest voice you could ever hear. Celena then closed her eyes and went into a dreamless sleep. Dillandau laid her back down on her bed and wiped her tears off her face. 'I want to wipe every tear off her face. I want eliminate every fear or hurt from her. I want to protect her. I want to make her happy. I'll find what made her cry like that and destroy it.' Dillandau kneeled near her bed and just looked at the sleeping form of the Sapphire eyed beauty. He had an urge, an urge to hold her, to protect her, to help her... He felt weak at her sight. Dillandau turned away from her and shook his head from the thought. 'I mustn't be weak. I'm strong. But...' He looked over to Celena again. 'What is this feeling I have for her?'
Dillandau hears foot steps down the hall. He gets up and swiftly goes to his cell. He sees two ZS. Oh, how much he wants to twist their arms off. Dillandau hears them speaking.
"Another gone, but we're getting close."
"Yes, we're almost there to perfection. Soon the Fate-Alteration Experiment will be complete."
Dillandau was in shock. 'Is this the reason of those disappearances, because of this Fate-Alteration Experiment? Who'll be next?'
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The next day Celena told Dillandau about the FIRST part of her dream during that 'socializing time'. Dilly and Celena sat at a little table. Dillandau looked into her eyes.
"How could brother like Allen deny his own kin which he loved very much? I think those ZS are trying to keep us from loving our family by putting weird dreams about them in our heads. Don't you think?" He raised his eyebrows to make a point. Celena looked away and sighed, thinking that maybe Dillandau was right.
"I guess, but why would they want to keep us from our family?" she turned to him again.
"The same reason we are here." He looked away.
"To labor?" She didn't get it. 'Why would they need us to labor?'
"No, that's part of their plan too. We are here for something bigger, Celena, Bigger. I mean, why are they drugging us, laboring us, putting weird dreams in our heads, check-ups, and do tests on us?" He put his hands on the table, leaned over to Celena face to face. Celena was getting a little edgy on her seat.
"What are they going to do with us?" she whispered.
"I don't want to frighten you, but..." He leaned closer to her ear so no one else would hear. "I have a hunch we will probably go through those doors where 'the laborers never come back'."
"I don't understand." She was all the more confused. Dillandau sighed and retreated to his seat.
"They're going to experiment on us, Celena." He said sternly. She gasped. "I've herd that they almost 'got it to perfection. I don't know what those Zaibech Scum are trying to do, but whatever it is, it killed the 'laborers that never came back'. It's called 'Fate-Alteration Experiment." Dillandau stood from his seat and pushed back his chair.
"What are we going to do?" she said in a hysterical voice, looking spaced- out. The Albino walked to her and put a hand on her shoulder. Celena looked up to him.
"I'll do a emergency meeting with my Dragon's Slayers." He now put both of his hands on each shoulder and went eye to eye with Celena. "Don't worry, I'll be always there to protect you, Cel." 'That reminded me of my DREAM!' she gasped a little.
"But what about you?" she asked, a tear glided down her cheek.
"I'll be fine, don't worry." He smiled and slowly decreased the space between their faces. The urge again flamed up within him.
'What is he trying to do? Is he going to kiss me? Does he...he...love me?' Celena's eyes glittered in the sunshine.
Just as they were nose to nose... 'What am I doing?' Dillandau thought, eyes wide open, and backed away slowly. 'I shouldn't be weak like this. I need to be strong for Celena.' He turned away leavening Celena.
'He doesn't love me...' Celena cried into her hands.
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Dillandau gathered all of the boys and told them about the situation in a very hidden place so that the Scientists. They heeded Dillandau's words very seriously and started to plan. The Young man Miguel suggested that they would do a surprise attack at the fields. There was a pause. Dillandau went to him and raised his hand. But instead of slapping him on the face, Dillandau put his hand on Miguel's shoulder and smiled. Miguel thought of this as very awkward.
"Nice thinking Miguel! I think I'll use that. Don't you agree?" He looked at all of the Dragon's Slayers and the boys all nodded, including Jajuka. "Good, let's get started then."
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AN: 8 pages! Ahhhhhhh! I'll do the really sad part next time. Phew! Man I need a brake! Like o no like! Please Review! Thanks for being my E- mail bud Narouki! ^.^ Until next time, Bye!
~Infinitis~
Disclaimer: Go to a seer and find out yourself! :p
AN: Yah! Fifth Chapie! Please R&R :) I changed my mind. The next chapter you may use a tissue.
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Narouki: Thankies *^_^* I'll get it done as soon as I can!
dilly's lover(): Ok, ^.^ I'll keep on writing!
Ruby: *Blush* Ok! ^.~
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Chapter 5: Fate-Alteration
I cry. Yet I don't know why. My heart is heavy.
There is silence, I neither hear nor see anything. The wind blows harshly on my back.
Darkness... No, It's a little lighter. I see a barren wasteland, rocky but flat. I hear footsteps.
"Hello?" I cry. "Is someone there?" I trip on a rock. My eyes survey the area and I come upon a graveyard.
I stand on my legs again and let my feet wander to the gravestones. One of them caught my attention.
HERE LIES: ENCIA SCHEZAR I gasp! 'Mother...' Someone comes behind me. He unsheathes his sword and puts the blade next to my throat.
"Why are you here?" A familiar voice commanded. My eyes turn his way and I see his face. Allen? He was much older now. In his twenties I think.
"Brother..." I shed a tear.
"I told you before, you are not my sister anymore." Allen yelled in an angry voice, eyebrows knotted.
I stare blankly at him.
"Don't you remember? You saw her die, I told you. It's all your fault, Celena."
THAT DREAM! The one I had when I was seven. I did see her die, she was crying out my name till she breathed no more. Allen did tell me it was my fault. IT WAS MY FAULT!
Allen disappeared like vapor, sword and all along with the graveyard.
"No, don't leave Allen! Please!" I yelled and screamed his name, but he didn't come back. I ran, but no one was there. I drop to my knees and cry. Alone... I HATE to be alone. Why is everyone leavening me? I cover my face with my hands.
"Celena, I tried." I look up and see the Canine-man. He bleeds in his chest and falls.
"JAJUKA!" He blows away like dust.
Everything turns dark and bleak. Why, Why, WHY ME!
Someone touches my shoulder.
I tried to make out who was touching me, but my eyes were so blurry from the crying.
In the darkness, his hair was like the Iron Moon against a starless sky and his eyes were like red wine... Dillandau!
"Remember, I'm here for you and I'll always will be." Is he really saying that? Does he really care for me? Light comes back to my eyes and I'm no longer in the barren wasteland, but in a grassland, full of life and full of green. I stand to meet Dillandau eye to eye.
I look at his face and see his scar on his cheek bleading. I touch it and he winces. His bruises reappear on his body. Old scars reopen and bleed. He falters and I catch him, but he is too heavy for me. I let both of us fall onto the soft grass. My arms hold him tight as he pains. I cry in his silver hair. His blood drops to the ground, the grass withers to dust and turns to sand.
"What's happening to you?"
"I'm changing..." He whizzed.
Dillandau yelled in pain. Then he turned cold, breathless. This cannot be happening... No, Dillandau...Don't Go. You can't... You can't be...
"Dillandau...Please, DON'T GO. I don't want to be alone, you're my last light." I cried, tears flowing endlessly like rivers. He doesn't move or flinch. I hold his cold body tighter to me.
"I BEG OF YOU, PLEASE! DON'T GO, YOU PROMISED!" I scream.
I feel Anguish, Sorrow, Death, and Lonelyness all at the same time.
This cannot be happening.
A sharp pain flows through my arm. All the ground is a Desert, all life- once-thrived is Dead, all light is Darkness to my eyes, and all is lost within my heart.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" I echo in the nothingness.
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"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Dillandau woke up to a scream of anguish from Celena. Quickly, he rushed to the edge of his cage where Celena's side was.
"Celena?"
Nothing. He strained his eyes to get a closer look. Her bed was empty. 'D@^^^ those ZS, If they ever touch Celena, I'll beat them to a pulp.' He slid down to his knees and angrily hit the floor with his fist. The hit was so hard; you could see knuckle marks in the metal ground.
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Six years had passed and those scrawny little kids you might remember from six years ago now turned into teenagers; strong from the labors, but weakened by the drugs. Both Dillandau and Celena were now forced to take bitter tasting liquids along with some other pills. Captured Laborers, like Dilly (^.^) and Celena, were going through the doors of where the ZS do their 'Experiments'. The Laborers never come back, EVER! Jajuka is still alive and well, kind of. After the incident, they ranked Jajuka down to a slave. Dillandau told him that once he finds a way to be free, he said he'll get the ZS @$$#$ and force them to slave over Jajuka for some time. Jajuka laughed at Dillandau's idea of making the ZS slave over him. But he responded with a question.
//Flashback\\
"How will get out 'Lord' Dillandau?" Jajuka always uses that pet name because he thinks Dillandau acts like he rules over the place.
"Well here's the plan," he began. "I'll round up some boys, get them buffed up, and start a rival against the Zaibech Scum."
"You think I'll work?"
"Don't doubt me Jajuka, It'll work." He glares at Jajuka with 'The Look'.
'I don't care what Jajuka thinks, but Dilly acts more like a General then a Lord.' Celena thought while twisting her long blond hair. Somehow the ZS gave the Laborers a time to socialize, so they put us in a garden-like place near the fields. 'Are they dumb or what? I think that putting people together to socialize is a very bad idea; like Dillandau for example. But I know that they are not stupid. There's always a catch, I know they're planning something.' Celena was deep in thought about this. Dillandau notices her spacing-out.
"So, what are you thinking now Cel?" Dillandau said, turning around from Jajuka to face the girl. In-between the six years, Dillandau caught onto this pet name for Celena, not knowing that Allen was the first one who called her by it. Celena didn't care if he used the name or not, unlike her calling Dillandau 'Dilly' which he minded very much.
"Nothing..." Celena said, still in a daze.
"Whatever you say, Cel" He waved his hand carelessly like swatting a fly, then left. Celena smiles, she likes it when Dillandau leaves her alone to think.
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Dillandau gathered the best boys he could find in the Fields, both slaves and laborers. He made up a name for the group and called them the 'Dragon's Slayers' (^.^ He He, Alternative!). Dillandau called them this because 'he' is a Dragon and the boys are his Slayers. The boys (His boys) are: Gatti, Miguel, Chesta, Dalet, Guimel, Viole, and many more. They call him 'Sir' (You know, like when the Marines say in boot camp "Sir, yes Sir" Kay?) and follow his every orders. Dillandau slaps them around every time they say something stupid or do something wrong. Celena didn't really agree with him doing all that slapping, so she gave him a long and boring lecture about Anti-Slapping. After 'the talk' he doesn't slap the slayers, until Celena turns her back. Even through all those slapping-sessions, Dillandau is proud with his 'Elite Force'.
A few weeks later, the ZS had been doing some check-ups and testing on Celena. One day from after the testing, Dillandau found her beautiful long hair cut short. Almost exactly like the length of Dillandau's hair. This made Celena very upset.
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Dillandau waits angrily, but patiently on the cold floor near his bed, glaring at anyone who comes his way. Once the ZS where in sight, he stood up. Seeing that they carried the slender Celena, limp under their arms, he was in a rage. Dillandau, absently stroked his cheek scar (He ^_^ instead of stroking when he thinks about Van, he strokes it thinking about the Scientists!) He saw that the Scientist who carried her had a mechanical left arm. When the Scientist with a left mechanical arm opened the cage door, Dillandau was surprised that he didn't threw her in like an old rag doll. Instead, he put her softly down on her hard bed. The other ZS mumbled about this amongst themselves. One of the other Scientists talked with him.
"Why do you waste time by fussing around the She-thing?" The Scientist hissed.
"Why don't you be a little bit more HUMANE with your Laborers?" The half- mechanic Scientist rebuked. 'He sounds like a Human!' Dillandau thought.
"Don't talk to us like that! Next time I'll order you to be a little hastier with the She-thing. You ought to be grateful to us for saving you."
The Half-mechanical Scientist madly took off his hood and revealed his true self, a human with spiky blue hair. 'He looks familiar...' "Grateful? You forced me into this...this... Sorcery! I hate what you do; you experiment on people like rats. You abuse them when they're weak! I'd rather die then be in this!" the human was about to walk away, until that one scientist grabbed his robotic arm.
"Folken, we gave you back an arm when that Dragon took yours away." The human hesitated to say something back but didn't. 'So his name is Folken then.' The man looked at Dillandau and lowered his head while he sighs. 'He has red eyes like me!' Dillandau noticed.
Jajuka now walks toward the ZS and the Robot-human. 'He looks angry, maybe it's because of Celena.' "Sir, the experiment is ready to start."
"Good slave. Now get the specimen ready." Dillandau clenched his fist at the word 'Slave'.
Jajuka angrily growls, showing his teeth. "No." He barked. "Send one of your own. I shall not be apart of this atrocity." The scientist slaps Jajuka hard, showing that the scientist too has a human hand. But is the Scientist really human? The Robot-human winces as the Scientist slaps the Canine-human again, making him fall to the ground.
"Resi, go and get the specimen. Now!" The Scientist ordered. One of the cloaked figures rushed down the hall.
"And you..." The Scientist faces Folken and takes off his own hood, reveling a human face with midnight hair. He looks human too, but he doesn't sound like one. Like he's possessed. "You're going to watch!" He grabs Folken's human arm with unhuman strength and pulls him along, the others followed. Jajuka gets up and goes to another direction. Dillandau watches him until he sees him no more. He assumes no one is in the hall, so then he goes to his bars and takes the one out, just like the time he was ten. He was not, however, to go into other people's cells. But this was an emergency. He wanted to see if Celena was all right.
Dillandau goes into her cell and puts back the bars in place so it won't look conspicuous. He goes over to Celena.
"Come on Cel, wake up." He whispered, shaking her slightly. He saw that she was crying before because of the tear streaks. He shakes her again, but this time she woke up. She gasped at Dillandau's presence.
"Dill..." she screamed but Dillandau covered her mouth.
"Shhhhh! You don't want them to notice, don't you?" he said in a harsh whisper. Celena cried, hard. He hates to see her cry. She flung her arms around his neck, pulling him close like she was about to lose him. Dillandau was surprised at her mysterious behavior. He wrapped his arm around her waist so that she wouldn't have to put all her weight on his hurting neck. 'What could of made her act like this? If it was those Zaibach Scum who made her cry like this...' he clenched his fist with his other hand.
"Celena, what's wrong? Is it the ZS? Did they do something to you?"
"Yes...and no. Yes, they did do something. I have a pain in arm, but that's not what's hurting me..." Her arms slipped loosely off the Albino's neck. He grabbed her just in time with his other arm. Celena weakly opened her eyes, still glossy from crying. Her Sapphire orbs gazed into his Ruby ones.
"Are you for real?" she said faintly.
"Yes." he places her hand on his cheek where the scar was. The scar was still there, lightly, he liked it a few years back and it became a trademark to him. Dillandau liked the warmness of her hand on his cheek. He smiled. "See?"
"Dillandau, promise me another thing." Celena said with what little remaining strength she had.
"Anything." He said in a solid and firm voice.
"Live..." she said in the softest voice you could ever hear. Celena then closed her eyes and went into a dreamless sleep. Dillandau laid her back down on her bed and wiped her tears off her face. 'I want to wipe every tear off her face. I want eliminate every fear or hurt from her. I want to protect her. I want to make her happy. I'll find what made her cry like that and destroy it.' Dillandau kneeled near her bed and just looked at the sleeping form of the Sapphire eyed beauty. He had an urge, an urge to hold her, to protect her, to help her... He felt weak at her sight. Dillandau turned away from her and shook his head from the thought. 'I mustn't be weak. I'm strong. But...' He looked over to Celena again. 'What is this feeling I have for her?'
Dillandau hears foot steps down the hall. He gets up and swiftly goes to his cell. He sees two ZS. Oh, how much he wants to twist their arms off. Dillandau hears them speaking.
"Another gone, but we're getting close."
"Yes, we're almost there to perfection. Soon the Fate-Alteration Experiment will be complete."
Dillandau was in shock. 'Is this the reason of those disappearances, because of this Fate-Alteration Experiment? Who'll be next?'
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The next day Celena told Dillandau about the FIRST part of her dream during that 'socializing time'. Dilly and Celena sat at a little table. Dillandau looked into her eyes.
"How could brother like Allen deny his own kin which he loved very much? I think those ZS are trying to keep us from loving our family by putting weird dreams about them in our heads. Don't you think?" He raised his eyebrows to make a point. Celena looked away and sighed, thinking that maybe Dillandau was right.
"I guess, but why would they want to keep us from our family?" she turned to him again.
"The same reason we are here." He looked away.
"To labor?" She didn't get it. 'Why would they need us to labor?'
"No, that's part of their plan too. We are here for something bigger, Celena, Bigger. I mean, why are they drugging us, laboring us, putting weird dreams in our heads, check-ups, and do tests on us?" He put his hands on the table, leaned over to Celena face to face. Celena was getting a little edgy on her seat.
"What are they going to do with us?" she whispered.
"I don't want to frighten you, but..." He leaned closer to her ear so no one else would hear. "I have a hunch we will probably go through those doors where 'the laborers never come back'."
"I don't understand." She was all the more confused. Dillandau sighed and retreated to his seat.
"They're going to experiment on us, Celena." He said sternly. She gasped. "I've herd that they almost 'got it to perfection. I don't know what those Zaibech Scum are trying to do, but whatever it is, it killed the 'laborers that never came back'. It's called 'Fate-Alteration Experiment." Dillandau stood from his seat and pushed back his chair.
"What are we going to do?" she said in a hysterical voice, looking spaced- out. The Albino walked to her and put a hand on her shoulder. Celena looked up to him.
"I'll do a emergency meeting with my Dragon's Slayers." He now put both of his hands on each shoulder and went eye to eye with Celena. "Don't worry, I'll be always there to protect you, Cel." 'That reminded me of my DREAM!' she gasped a little.
"But what about you?" she asked, a tear glided down her cheek.
"I'll be fine, don't worry." He smiled and slowly decreased the space between their faces. The urge again flamed up within him.
'What is he trying to do? Is he going to kiss me? Does he...he...love me?' Celena's eyes glittered in the sunshine.
Just as they were nose to nose... 'What am I doing?' Dillandau thought, eyes wide open, and backed away slowly. 'I shouldn't be weak like this. I need to be strong for Celena.' He turned away leavening Celena.
'He doesn't love me...' Celena cried into her hands.
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Dillandau gathered all of the boys and told them about the situation in a very hidden place so that the Scientists. They heeded Dillandau's words very seriously and started to plan. The Young man Miguel suggested that they would do a surprise attack at the fields. There was a pause. Dillandau went to him and raised his hand. But instead of slapping him on the face, Dillandau put his hand on Miguel's shoulder and smiled. Miguel thought of this as very awkward.
"Nice thinking Miguel! I think I'll use that. Don't you agree?" He looked at all of the Dragon's Slayers and the boys all nodded, including Jajuka. "Good, let's get started then."
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AN: 8 pages! Ahhhhhhh! I'll do the really sad part next time. Phew! Man I need a brake! Like o no like! Please Review! Thanks for being my E- mail bud Narouki! ^.^ Until next time, Bye!
