Haru:
Fifth Moon
AUTHOR'S NOTES: HARRY POTTER 5 IS JUST SOOO FINE~~~!!! WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA~~~~!!! XD Errh...ahem. Anyway, it's Asato's turn! I would be introducing some new Shikigami here, as a result of his very tragic and frightening breakdown after that Armageddon 4 years ago. GOD ASATO at 19 YEARS OF AGE~~~!!! XD XD XD I guess he would be REALLY hot. 3 R./R please!
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Bey Blade, Sakura Taisen, and Asato Tsuzuki, and his 12 Shikigami. They are owned by their respective authors. On an added note, some of their elemental affiliations and powers are just completely made up by me, as I have no idea what they actually do. I haven't seen any site with ample information about the 12 original Shikigami below; these are bits and pieces I have managed to get from an awesome site, Compulsion. (thank you, thank you, Theria-san!). So these are some of her thoughts about the Shikigami. I am just borrowing it, OK? But I do own the OC's and the new Shikigami I would be introducing here. So no SUING~~~!!!
Asato
***These are taken from the medical files and medical journals of Dr. Junji Takada, 60 years of age, part of the Avatar Phase.
Name: Tsuzuki, Asato
Country of Origin: Japan
Nationality: Japanese
Birthplace: Tokyo
Age: 19
Height: 179 cm
Weight: 54 kg
Blood Type: AB
Birthday: February 24
Skills: Summoning Aetheria, Shadow Aetheria, Psychic Aetheria
PRN: 0010 - 000 - 000
EP: 578
APR: 100%
Test Results: 100%
Affiliation: Imperial Capital Defense Corps
Status: Aether Knight
Avatar Phase to Nirvana Obsolete: 94.938% synch
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CASE # 127 - 870003
Examiner: Dr. Junji Takada Attention: Imperial Capital
Assisting Examiners: Dr. Kunihiko Maeda Defense Command
Dr. Hideo Takemura
Date Examined: 06-24-1915
Time: 0800 hours
Please note that this report is certified true and correct.
It has come to our conclusion that the patient in question is in very critical condition the moment he was brought to our attention during Armageddon. It is not clear, however, what is causing the erratic state of his vital functions, although it is a very clear case of neuroglobulin dysfunction in relation to the sudden upsurge of Nirvana energy. Animum Psychic Ratio very faint, traces of the Kyrieans Effect very much alarming. Patient in question has lost a great deal of blood, brain activity almost non-existent, but he's still living, nonetheless; just alive, but barely. Bouts of catatonia very sporadic, Kyrieans Effect is not making him sleep, eat, and drink. Will continue on observing for some changes, bad or good. But we have to keep him alive. Avatar Phase is almost completed. We are watching, and waiting. Buddha help us now.
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Shikigami
- nature gods, nature spirits. Guardians of death and life, they are oftentimes said to bring about the balance of everything material or eternal. Aetheria pretty much unknown, they continue to baffle even the most brilliant para-psyche scientists. Although quite numerous, they generally fall into 9 categories: Wind, Water, Fire, Earth, Lightning, Time and Space, Ice, Shadow, and Holy. Perhaps the most brilliant explanations I have ever encountered in searching for the meaning of Shikigami is by way of a noted para-psyche scientist named Dr. Masao Kinogu. I've written down some excerpts from his book, Finding The Way of the Gods.
...Shikigami are the Gods of Life and Death, of Destruction and Creation. They are in everything we sought to understand: how the flowers bloom, how the wind blows and nods a tender bamboo sprig's head, how the seasons change and how we breathe life until our very death. It is not known where they have come from, but mythical epics from the feudal age tell of stories of Gods who are immortal yet share life and death with the very mortals themselves. Are they for salvation, or are they tools for Heaven's destruction of we sinful children of this plane? To better understand the nature of Shikigami, we must first learn about life and how we all truly accept it.
...Major Shikigami: These by far are the most powerful Shikigami I have ever encountered, almost all of which are controlled by a young boy my colleague and I have encountered: that boy's name is Asato Tsuzuki.
Suzaku: Goddess of Fire and of Death and Rebirth, Protectress of the South
- Elemental Affiliation: Fire
- as the legendary Guardian Phoenix of the South, she wields the Flames of Life
Souryuu: God of Water and Purification, Protector of the East
- Elemental Affiliation: Water
- as the legendary Guardian Dragon of the East, he wields the Water of Purification
Genbu: God of Earth and Protection, Protector of the North
- Elemental Affiliation: Earth
- as the legendary Guardian Tortoise of the North, he wields the Earth of Redemption
Byakko: God of the Winds and Righteous Judgment, Protector of the West
- Elemental Affiliation: Wind
- as the legendary Guardian Tiger of the West, he wields the Winds of Judgment
...how he has managed to wield and control these 4 Gods, is a matter of pure mystery. Subsequent testing to the Avatar
Phase reveal more Shikigami, of which I am to note here. His sensitivity to the Nirvana Crystals is most fascinating,
as his release of pure aetheric energy in times of utter distress. His aether release is 45% above normal APR in his
normal state. What more if he manages to break through his Phaser Limit...
Rikugou: Deity of the 1st Rank, Divination and Astrology
- Elemental Affiliation: Unknown, presumably Elemental
Touda: Deity of the 1st Rank, Endless Chaos
- Elemental Affiliation: Fire, presumably the Flames of Hell.
***Mr. Tsuzuki only released him once, during an "air raid". Suffice it to say, I wouldn't want to see anything
like it again.
Kijin: Deity of the 1st Rank (?), Water of Divination
- Elemental Affiliation: Water
*** Most curious, as he said so himself that he is one of Souryuu's children. His power lies with the divination
of "past-present future".
Tenkou: Deity of the 1st Rank (?), Water of Healing
- Elemental Affiliation: Water
***Younger sister to Kijin. Her power is mostly healing.
Taimou: Deity of the 1st Rank, Time and Space
- Elemental Affiliation: Time and Space
***Her power is mostly concerned with the constricting of things.
Kouchin: Deity of the 1st Rank, Music (?) and Tone
- Elemental Affiliation: Tone
***Her power lies with the music of the biwa she carries. Mostly for healing, rejuvenation.
Tenkuu: Deity of the 1st Rank, Healing (?)
- Elemental Affiliation: Healing (?)
***Of all Shikigami Mr. Tsuzuki controls, he is easily the largest, as he is a palace. Since all other
Shikigami take refuge inside him to rest (?), then he is used mostly for full recovery of their
elemental prowess.
Daion: Elemental, 2nd rank, Non-Elemental (?)
- Elemental Affiliation: Unknown, presumably Non-Elemental
***Of all the other Shikigami, his powers are still a complete mystery, as he is a POT. Maybe a
cornucopia of sorts, like those spoken about in ancient Western mythology...?
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CASE # 127 - 870003
Examiner: Dr. Junji Takada Attention: Imperial Capital
Assisting Examiners: Dr. Kunihiko Maeda Defense Command
Dr. Hideo Takemura
Date Examined: 03-10-1919
Time: 1200 hours
Please note that this report is certified true and correct.
Same case as always. His response to the Nirvana Crystals are steadily becoming very volatile again, Kyrieans Effect almost at its peak. Suffered a relapse just a few hours ago, almost succeeded in tearing off his life support, cut through his wrists by manner of a blunt dinner knife before some of the able-bodied support staff managed to stop his newest attempt on his life, and he was given sedatives, 5.8% higher dosage than normal. Nurses at the hospital tell us of instances where he could withstand the normal dosage of sedatives for a normal person...but then again, he isn't exactly normal. His ascension into the Nirvana Obsolete almost complete. Awaiting further instructions.
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The elderly nurse smiled at the catatonic patient kindly.
"There you are, young man. Oh my, don't you look really well today? Look, I've picked these roses up from the flower market today, aren't they lovely? Yes, you did say you liked roses, didn't you? Well then, I'll be back in time for your bedtime medicine. Would that be alright with you? Good, good." She then took one last look and minutely arranged a wayward rose, smiled, got her tray on which small glass phials of medicine stood, then left the hospital room. She closed the door behind her with an inaudible click.
"..." Asato Tsuzuki was just staring out of the window, his right free amethyst eye staring out onto the darkness outside his window, watching the rain beat upon it in relentless sheets. His other eye was covered by a clean gauze bandage wound twice around his head, some of its threads falling over in a haphazard way above his brow, obstructing its view. There were 2 tubes that wound its way and its electromagnetically-sensitive ends were taped over his left breast, measuring his heartbeat by means of the Hiwatari Heavy Industries revolutionary steam-powered electrocardiogram (the world's very first), its steam canisters beside the ungainly white steel-clad device. It took Hiwatari Heavy Industries' top scientists a good 4 years developing this contraption, along with the -Sigils-. There were really frightening episodes in which Asato almost died, the mysterious attacks coming twice or sometimes even 5 times in any given day, and the frightening part of these attacks were its tendency to go off in very sporadic bursts. So the need for this device, to monitor his daily heart rate. It arrived just a few weeks ago, due to the help of Mr. Souichiro Hiwatari, the Hiwatari Heavy Industries' philantrophist chairman, almost the same time that the Imperial Capital Defense's Kagekidan branch started receiving -Sigils-. The Imperial Capital Defense were most anxious to keep him alive, the very same persons leading it now condemning him to death 4 years ago.
But Asato didn't really care if he lived or died.
Why was he kept alive, anyway?
It was better this way, he was very far off from the people who checked on him every single day, talking to him kindly as if he could still comprehend what they were saying.
There were periods when he was still conscious of what was going around him, and once he tried killing himself by slashing his wrists so that he could end this miserable life, this cursed life, and yet he still lived, for there were other people around him at the time and stopped him from carrying out his little plan. But these periods became very far-off and very rare, and in the past 4 years he was in this hospital, there was a period that he would go absolutely blank for 3 months, and the doctors were very frantic, for they thought he was dead. These past couple of months he remained as catatonic as always, very quiet and still, if it weren't for the small squiggly lines on his electrocardiogram, he would be thought of as dead.
But what was being dead, anyway?
A cessation of heartbeats?
A cessation of retaining memories?
A cessation of being able to feel any emotion?
What was it?
There were small patches of light, bright patches, rainbow-colored patches, that always visited Asato whenever he tried to think who he was.
He had strange, often impossible dreams.
But...
Were they really...
Memories?
One of those bright-colored patches stood out more vividly than the rest of the other bright patches put together.
He was running, he was running as fast as his legs could carry him, running away from blurred shapes that chased him across an even blurrier landscape.
What were they?
Animals...?
***Get lost! Get LOST! You DEMON~~~!!! You MONSTER~~~!!!***
Asato then could feel pain, as small rocks hurtled at him from nowhere, cutting through his arms, his legs, drawing blood.
Then Asato remembered.
Yes, this was his memory.
As a small boy, he always knew he was different. But try as he may to become close to other people, they shunned him, they turned him away. Why? Wasn't he human? Even if he wasn't...he always wanted to become human. To be loved. To be a part of anything...
***Get lost you MONSTER~~~!!! We don't need you HERE~~~!!!***
Voices...
Yes, those kids chased him off the road one day out of whim, throwing all those rocks at him, chanting that same hateful phrase over and over again, taunting him, laughing, as the small thin child ran and ran and ran, covering his head helplessly with his arms, shielding himself from the quick sharp pains he felt as some of the rocks' jagged edges tore and scraped and stung at his skin.
How was it to become human?
Was it to feel pain?
Was it to feel alone?
If that were the case, then Asato was definitely human.
But...
Why do they hate him?
Why do they hurt him?
Was he even real...?
***Asato...whatever happens, if the whole world seems to fall down all around you, please always remember that you are not alone.***
Another bright patch visits him, and he sees the kind face of Dr. Judy Mizuhara smiling down at him. Asato remembered how she looked so beautiful, with her shiny blond hair up in coiffed curls about her nape, held in place by many pins. Magic pins, she called them, and this is what made Asato usually laugh.
***You are special. It is not some freak mistake that you are born into this world. You were brought here because you were sent to do something very important.*** Dr. Mizuhara's bright blue eyes looked so wistful in the dying sun that day. ***Remember that well...Asato.***
He was sent here...yes, he believed her.
But what was his real purpose of being sent here, anyway?
To kill people?
To destroy?
***I don't care what everybody else says...you're still human, Asato!*** Takao Kinogu was telling him, with a very serious face of a 9 year old. ***You're really nice, and you're really gentle! The most important thing is that you're Asato Tsuzuki...and NOBODY else in the world could make a claim like that! OK, Asato...?***
Takao was always so kind to him, when the whole world hated him; he was like a little brother he never had.
And yet...
***ASATO~~~!!! What do you THINK you're DOING~~~?! A-SA-TOOOO~~~!!!*** Masao Kinogu was screaming at him.
Asato looked at his hands, tears streaming down from his very pained amethyst eyes, as sobs racked his frail 15 year old body. Blood...there was blood everywhere...dripping...covering him...
Fei Kon was slumped in a pool of his own blood in his cockpit a few feet away, Geistall slumped over in a pool of its liquefied Nirvana Crystals. Astalte floated over him, the mocking laughter of the Axis pilot so loud and deafening to his ears.
***He died...*** he sobbed. ***He DIED...***
But before Astalte could deal that death-dealing sword blow to him, Asato screamed, letting out everything at once, his fears, his anger, his sadness, his helplessness. Tears poured out in a spray as every emotion swelled up inside him and burst, sending his aether energy out of whack, the Nirvana Crystals furiously glowing a glaring white, as Falcrest floated in a blinding sphere of light above them, scattering bolts of psychic energy everywhere, sending buildings it touched exploding, scattering debris, its unforgiving maelstrom turning its anger unto the hapless Axis soldiers, their screams vanishing instantly as their own -Relics- vaporized, destruction everywhere, chaos everywhere~~~
Then just as quickly as that, Asato ceased to remember who he was, and the bright patches of light swirled about him, faster and faster it went, spiraling into dizzying heights, surrounding him, enveloping him completely, until the noise and the colors and the scenes and everything about himself dissipated into nothingness, emptiness, as this unimaginable void came and swallowed him whole, swallowed him completely, his mind turning abruptly blank, leaving him with only a shell of a being that was his sole existence in this world.
The rain beat upon his window even more relentlessly, and Asato took no notice of it, as he had not taken any notice of the outside world where he was, for the last 4 years. His right eye mirrored the raindrops as they fell, their incessant pattering a welcome respite from the unbearable heat that had almost fried him to crisp just that morning.
Was it really possible...that he actually felt it?
"..." Asato returned to gazing blankly at the window, his eye, revealing nothing of his emotions that lie underneath, lurking, hiding, waiting for that exact same moment when he could finally be alive again.
Or wasn't he...?
Takao was blinking at the newcomer.
"Gentlemen, I would like to introduce to you our newest teammate, aside from Mr. Kon over there." Kai gestured to the young man beside him. "Please behave yourselves."
"Hi! My name is Yuri Ivanov. How do you do?" Yuri asked them cheerfully, his eyes closed happily as he did so. He held out his hand. "Sorry for dripping water like this on your carpet, the weather's just so horribly disagreeable today..."
"Hey, no problem!" Max grinned at him as he shook Yuri's outstretched hand. "Welcome aboard, Yuri!"
"Are you Russian?" Kenichiro asked with wide, deep green eyes.
"Yes, totally."
"Transferred from the Kyouto branch...?"
"Got almost stranded in Hong Kong, but here I am, safe and sound from Kyouto. Arrived just this late, late afternoon."
"Wow..."
"This must be a day of newcomers." Kai shrugged. "Well then, it is most proper if you lot introduce yourselves before I whisk him off to Daitenji-kacho."
"For once you are ABSOLUTELY right, Kai." Max grinned even more. "My name is Maximillian Christopher Mizuhara. Yeah, she's MY Mom, if you're planning to ask, and yeah, I'm half-American."
"I'm Takao Kinogu."
"Kenichiro Hasami."
"And I'm Lei Kon," Lei said last, nodding at him.
"Yes, Team Hoshi." Yuri nodded. "I'm really glad to meet you all!"
Takao blinked again. "How come you speak Japanese so GOOD?"
"I had very able teachers. I really have to thank them; 3 years ago, my Japanese was SO abysmal."
"So what can you DO?" Takao asked again.
"I could sing and I could act," Yuri said nonchalantly. "But I'm afraid, it's nowhere near as polished as yours. My actual forte is dancing."
"..." Lei had turned into a chibi neko. "Uh...do we REALLY have to do all those things...? I thought the Kagekidan was a top military facility...."
"It is, but we have to act as a group of singing and dancing thespians as not to blow our cover to the many Axis spies wandering about. I thought you'd already digested THIS?" Kai sighed again. "Come, Mr. Ivanov, Daitenji-kacho is expecting you at the office."
The 2 of them leave. SD Takao was very angry, steam coming out of his nostrils. "OOOOoooooOOOOOooooHHHHHHhhhh I REALLY am going to get that VILE that UNCOUTH snobby BRAT~~~"
Max tossed him some of the pink flamingos during test drive a while ago. "Well, we really can't make him change even if we wanted to; he's not exactly Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Takao."
"You know, he'd make a GREAT lead if we were to star in a play like that," Takao muttered. "Yes! I'll ask Daitenji-kacho if he would agree to that very IDEA!"
"And what would WE be, a couple of rosewood display CABINETS? No, thanks. I've had better luck acting as a street post during this school play when I was in 3rd grade." Max playfully tossed another pink flamingo at him. "Your affection rating with Mr. Hiwatari would literally be more than abysmally zero."
"I wasn't seeking Kai's stupid affection! I just want to THROTTLE HIM~~~!!!" SD Takao was a furious little burning ogre. "I don't care if he flames me with DRANZER just this once I-WANT-TO-THROTTLE-HIM~~~~!!!"
"Takao-senpai..." Kenichiro said with a sweatdrop.
"Hahaha, Kai would DEFINITELY love that." Max looked over at Lei. "Sorry about Kai's outburst again, Lei. There are times that he's just SO unusually cranky..."
"It's...alright."
Max was then giving him another evil grin. SD Lei started to sweatdrop. "Uh...Max...what is it?"
"You burned a total of 973 flamingos, so times 200 gives you a GRAND total of...194,600 POINTS~~~!!!" SD Max was grinning very evilly. "And you KNOW what that MEANS, Lei?"
Lei looked blank.
"It means you have to run now, Lei. And FAST." Takao patted his back. "Trust me, you wouldn't want to be at the receiving line of Max's sugar high."
"B-but...b-but...Max kept throwing those flamingos at ME, how could I not flame them OFF~~~?!" SD Lei said in a really panicked voice.
"That shows that you're exceptionally gifted in the ways of a Sigil pilot, Lei, and I must say, you're a REALLY damn good one." SD Max was now laughing like a madman. "Well what do you say Lei? Turbo, Super Turbo, or Omega TURBO?!"
"H-huh?!"
"It means the Revenge of the Muriel PLUSHIES~~~!!!" Takao gestured to the sack that Max had managed to filch from nowhere. "Trust me when I say Omega Turbo's the kindest. Too fast, too evil, but totally bloodless compared to the other 2. Well, Lei?"
Lei didn't have time to answer for Max had now chased him out of the room.
Kenichiro was sweatdropping. "Should we ready ice bags, Takao-senpai?"
"By any means, Kenichiro." SD Takao had a silly grin on his face. "Come, we might be able to make it past the Hall of Portraits before Lei totally succumbs to Muriel. I hope Lei regains consciousness soon..."
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AUTHOR'S NOTES: Evil, evil, EVIL~~~!!! Max is so EVIL~~~~!!! Who the heck is Muriel, ANYWAY?! Let's just say he/she/it is the precursor of a certain purple talking dinosaur. ***GRIN, GRIN*** On an added note, the _____ on top is supposed to represent a staple wire. ^^;; Yes, I know, it is ODD. The debut of Team Axis coming right UP! 3 3 3 3