STONES OF MYTH: CHAPTER 6
The pain was immense, but the shock of what happened seemed to hurt even more. Makoto tried to lift her arms to pull out the weapon, but they would not move, if it was fear or just because the rest of her had already left, she did not know. All she knew was that she was fading, her mind was fading fast. Quickly the body that had once belonged to her had seemed to melt away into a green pile of metallic blood; the sword that killed her seemed to disappear as well.
As she opened her eyes all she saw was darkness, once Makoto found that she could move her arms and legs, she reached for the stone. Her eyes widened in shock, NO! It must be there, it never leaves Me. after searching her entire body for the stone, she checked around her feet, whatever she was standing on was hard and slimy. Makoto suddenly became blinded by a bright green light; she covered her eyes but it did no good, the light seemed to penetrate her skin and kept her blind.
"Makoto, Daughter of the Jupiter, Wielder of the Greek Sword. You were chosen to fight an ancient evil that has been haunting the world of men. It is you and only you that was freed from your prison in time, and sent to this world. You are the only one of the Nine who was ever able to wield your weapon with skill beyond that of the other Daughters."
Makoto headed towards the light, her eyes got used to the light quickly and saw that it was actually the woman who had killed her.
"What am I doing here?" The woman laughed, smiling at Makoto, she leaned down and kissed her cheek.
"You are here, because you wanted to be perfect. You wanted all of the stones that are in your possession to join with you and help you in your quest." Makoto nodded, she did understand that part but, "Why did you kill me?" the woman's smile seemed to grow.
"It was the only way that I could ever get the stones to join you, my daughter. I am recreating your body, building it with the stone. You will have to do this with every stone that you want to join with. Each time you join you will meet the guardian of the planet that represents that stone."
"So I must die five more times?" The woman nodded, "Each time that you die, you will be recreated with the stones that you are joining with or already joined with, and each time that you are reborn you will have a mark on you to symbolize just who and what you are." Makoto nodded in understanding, "There is also a perk to the recreation, you will never have to carry the stones around with you, once they are joined to you all you have to do is call for the weapon and it will appear there are also other powers that you will discover with time." The woman looked up and smiled, "Ah, are you ready Makoto, because your body is."
Quatra looked grim as they headed towards the base where Makoto had lived. It seemed that even though there was tons of equipment in the base there was only one person who was in there. Setsuna, why did you leave me? Looking down at his ring, Quatra focused on the one garnet gem that was placed in the center of the braided band. He smiled softly as he remembered the moment that she met him, and the moment that he knew that she was going to be with him forever...or so he thought. Squeezing his fists tightly, one drop of blood slipped out of his fist and fell on to his pants.
"We're here!" Duo cried, the others hushed him and Hiiro slowed the car down to a crawl.
"Trowa, is there anyone in the building now?" Hiiro asked calmly. Trowa began typing furiously, after a few beeps he shook his head, "There is no sign of anyone in the building." Hiiro stopped the car and they all got out. Getting their guns ready they headed towards the dark building. When they were only ten feet away a bright green light appeared out of no where. Raising their guns they focused on the middle of the light, it died down to reveal a girl with brown hair that went down to her waist and had a few green highlights in it. She also had one strip on either side of her cheek in deep green. She was dressed in an emerald velvet Chinese style dress, with two slits up either side, ending at her waist.
"Well, well, well, so we meet again." Makoto smiled, her sword materialized in her hand, "We have yet to formally introduce ourselves, I am Makoto, Daughter of Jupiter and Protector of this planet." Tilting her head she looked at the five boys, "Who are you?" Quatra stepped forward, "I am Quatra Rababa Winner, we are here to find out why you have been destroying the research facilities, and who you are working for." Makoto smiled.
"I am working for one woman; it is just me and her here. If you are here to threaten her life or our mission, I will have to destroy you." Quatra began to head towards her. "Is it Setsuna that you are working for? Why is she doing this?" Makoto laughed and made her sword disappear. "Why don't you ask her yourself?" Makoto moved to the side and out of the building appeared Setsuna.
Lifting the dagger above his head, James began to read the text out loud, then plunged the spinel dagger into his heart and fell to the ground. His body melted away in a orange/gold colour, it took several minutes but his body finally materialized in the room again, this time instead of being a man in his 50s, his body was that of a twenty year old. His hair black as night with orange highlights and his arms were covered in swirls of metallic orange. Raising his arms, he made the dagger appear in his hand. His laughter broke threw the silent room, "It has begun!"