The Sun: Our Solar System
Airani Iofifeen
Iofifeen tears another picture from her sketchbook. Beside her body, there are hundreds of papers piling around.
" This is no use!" Iofi scramble her hair in frustration. She couldn't do it, no matter how hard she tried.
Now her flying saucer is parking near the sun ( not too close so she won't being pulled by its gravity.) and Iofifeen could draw giant lens at last. It is now floating lazily not too
far away and absorbing every radiation within ranges.
Problem is… how could you draw sunlight?
In order to control the trails of energy and send it flying to earth. Iofifeen need solid picture of its. Not just shining thing, it will be thousands time easier if it was a giant laser
beam.
But the sunlight, while able to see with our eyes, but what it's shape looks like? How wide it is? ETC. Make the energy itself really hard to draw.
Beside, Iofi have to draw it running at the exact spot wherever Aki are. How the hell could she do that?
As Iofifeen still thinking hard, someone suddenly jumping out of her ship's corner.
" Sorry, didn't mean to surprise you." Calliope apologizes as Iofi falling from her chair and screamed.
" What happened?" Painter alien asks.
" Kiara is badly injures. I need to go to the sun…"
" Wait! Wait! Hold up. That sun?" Iofi pointed at shining star through her windows.
" Yes! Could you drive me there?" Calli said impatiently.
Iofi shook her head. " No ways! I cannot go any further or risks being dragged into the sun. My ship isn't lava proves, you see?" She knocks her fly saucer wall.
" Please! She will die. If we can't help her! " Calli beg.
Iofi looks trouble. " It's not that I don't want to. But my ship can't go any further!" Iofifeen walking in full circle around them, ignore her drawing for a while before knocking
her hands.
" Got the idea! But I cannot guarantee your safety, though."
" What is it?" Calli desperately asks.
" I will drawing my fly saucer shadow toward the sun. Then you could teleport over there. It will help me practicing how to draw unseeable objects too, God knows how hard
drawing sunlight can be."
" Then what the heck are you waiting for?" Calli demanded.
" Problem is, what will you do after reaching the sun?" Iofi asks.
" Phoenix probably alright. But I doubt that you would survived long enough to teleport back here. Reaper is creature of shadows, not light."
Calli bite her lips. " It doesn't matter if she survived. This woman just saved me and probably everyone on this planet too. I own her that much!"
" Did you think she will happy in a world without you? Perhaps she rather dies before that happens."
" She will finds new friends. Kiara is a good girl. She will understand."
" If you insist." Iofi shrugged.
…
Iofifeen drawing a picture of her flying saucer. Painting its shadow and moving it to the shining sun.
As the dark cloud climbing on the sun surface, Calliope holding Kiara with her arms and using shadow travel. Teleporting toward the burning star in less than seconds.
The heat is incredible as Calli falling on the sun melting surface, her black clothes start getting on fire but Reaper press on, dropping Phoenix on her knees.
Calli gets up and trying to use her shadow travel before realized that her arms are as black as midnight before turning into an ashes.
Her leg is gone to as she is falling beside Kiara, it is too late to run now.
As her hair started burning, Calli looks at Kiara face for the last times.
" If your stupid tale are true, then I guess I have to leave you again. Sorry about that, stupid bird!" Reaper chuckled.
" No, not this time." Phoenix opens her eyes and replies.
….
Iofifeen looks away as those two idiots being consumed by the sun. What would they expect? Not even her spaceship could survive the star's heat, no need to thinks about to
living being.
She is trying to focus on her painting again but failed. She barely knows Calli and Kiara more than a day but starting to like them. It a tragedy they have to…
" F**k it!" Iofi throwing her sketchbook. She couldn't concentrate enough to drawing anyways. What use could a picture from someone who family and home being turn into
dusts, an artist who keep on drawing on paper when everything is being done in computer and just sending her friend to the sun could do?
Probably not much. Maybe she should just drive her ship to the sun just for the hell of it. Nothing she did is matter here.
Kiara bursting from the sun and flying toward Iofi flying saucer with flaming wings on her back, calliope in her arms.
" I need help!" Kiara said as Iofi open her ship's door and let Phoenix flying in.
" Wait? She has eternal fire inside her body?" Iofifeen couldn't close her mouth as blue flame star erupted from Calliope wounds, healing her.
" I give it to her long ago. But that doesn't matter! Do you have any alcohol here?" Kiara yelled.
Without thinking. Iofifeen running at her personal showcase and pick one bottle of wine up. It is Chateau Margaux 1787.
Something that one European aristocrat give it to her for drawing picture of his dead wife and let he interact with her for the last time, since he going to war during her last
moments of life.
Iofifeen doesn't understand much about value of booze and not a drinker herself, so she stores it inside her trophy room along with. White horse mane(Reward for drawing
picture of Genghis khan in Secret history of Mongol. Kublai are very generous about those who pleased him), painting of Hannibal on his elephant's back marching to Rome
via Alps mountains( Iofi wearing polar bear skin and follows them on goat trail, it was a very cold but funny experience.)
Picture of Babylon hanging garden, Moai statues or stuffs like that.
Kiara quickly opened the bottle and gorge the liquid through Calliope mouth. For a while there is no response, but Calliope finally awakes and greedily sucking wine from the
bottle.
" Alcohol is a substance of both darkness and light. It burned but also making from the dead and rotten seeds (grape, grain etc). The death things. It suits Reaper body very
well and help her healing without reducing effect of eternal fire." Kiara explained.
" Sound cool! Where can you learn that from?" Iofi asks excitedly.
" Nowhere, because I just make that sh*t up." Kiara looks away.
Before Iofifeen could punches her face. Calliope choked and back to consciousness again.
" What the f**k happen?" She asks.
" You are almost die!" Kiara hugging her friend tightly as Calliope crying from the pain in her wounds
" Calm down! Stupid bird. I am not going anywhere."
" You are crazy. You know?" Kiar wipes her tears as she remembers how Calliope jumping in the ocean of fires to save her.
" But it's working. Isn't it?" Calliope laughs as she hugs her friend and their head touches.
" Next time! I order you not to risk your life in order to save me. Understand?" Kiara ordered.
" Can I demanded the same?" Calli said softly, and smiles when Kiara avoiding her eye contact.
" It is done then. Don't think too much about it, stupid bird. I am not dying that easily. But…"
She looks at half empty bottle of wine in Kiara's hand.
" Can I get more of that? It is the sweetest thing I ever tasted, my real-life saver here."
Phoenix smile sweetly and throw the bottle away.
" NO!" Calli yelled, but it is already too late. She running at the broken wine bottle and trying to lick it from the floor.
Kiara dragging her away from the broken glass and splashing wine.
" Don't just lost you dignity like that, Reaper."
Iofifeen clear her throat. " If you two can stop flirting. Can we go back to discussing our plan now?"
"" What plan?"" Phoenix and Reaper asks.
Painter alien hold her anger. " I am trying to control sun power through the lens. But couldn't do that since sunlight are kinda invisible."
" So?" Calli raise her eyebrows.
" Maybe we have to converting sunlight into something else make it more visible."
" I'm not getting near that sun again!" Calliope declares, tearing burning skin off her hands and legs.
" Maybe I can do something." Kiara said. " Phoenix has energy core in its body. I will try to control power from the sun, sort of use by body as an adapter or something."
" Are you sure about that?" Calliope asks.
" We have to make that weapon useful after all. There's no way we can be sure that Moona could beat that Android on her own. Just treat me a nice dinner party after this.
Okay?" Kiara winks.
" Huh? Sure! Whatever." Calli brain couldn't followed what Kiara said at the moment, she still stares blankly at pile of alcohol and broken glass on Iofifeen ship.
After few arrangements, Kiara flying out of saucer pan and diving in the sun. She absorb its power and turning back in her Phoenix form, 'cover' crystal shines as giant
burning bird flying out of the star's surface, power of the sun follows her back like an invisible strings.
Kiara shrieks and shooting energy ray out of her mouth.
The powerful beam hits the giant lens and start forming something new.
" That's it!" Iofifeen clench her fist and start drawing like crazy.
" Bring me the map of solar system! I need a reference." She yelled at Calli who still mooching.
" What? 'kay. " Reaper quickly run at the map and hands it to painter alien.
"Pencil! Not that stupid HB! Bring me one of those EE now I need to draw shadows." Iofi demanded.
" Where are my fokken yellows? Not that! The one on the left.
That's it." Iofi didn't look up as she starts drawing a picture of Phoenix light, increase energy beam little by little.
" Guess I am assistant now." Reaper muttered to herself as she keeps scurrying by painter alien's ordered.
…
Rio de Janeiro: Brazil
Murasaki Shion
" Man, this is how life should be spends!" Shion who wearing only a swimsuit and sunglasses near the big swimming pool said, now she is laying on the sunbathing chair and
enjoying another sip of Suipiss ( Some kind of apple cider from Mongolia which is very expensive. One small bottle is almost 200,000 $. Shion buys it because she want to
show the world how rich she is. Despite the fact that the liquid inside the bottle taste like… someone pee.)
Group of good-looking boys and girls that Shion hired for this occasion running around her villa, eating free foods and drinks.
Magician roll her body toward one of the boys. " Sebastian. Put on some sun lotion on my back."
The boy look trouble. " My name is Paolo ma'am."
Magician raise her eyebrows " Just do as I told."
As the boys shakily wipe her back, Shion mind travel back in the past again.
After finally free from Atlantis, Shion travel around the world, enjoy her freedom and luxury. Gura give her fee worth of 200 years. Pearl and valuable stuff like that.
Enough for Shion to travel around the world and live in luxury for another century and she is currently doing that, travel around, buy a new house and enjoyed.
Sometime, Shion minds slips into what Gura tell her about. Helping her friend name Ina or something. But Magician brush the thought away. She will do it tomorrow, if not
next years. if Shion can wait for 200 years for her freedom, a year or two probably not too long for that girl.
" No serious thought today. Get over here Baqua. Baqua!" Shion calling for a black cat that remind her of long-gone friend, it look at her with contempt before running away.
Shion sighed in relief, everything is fine despite the fact that people start talking about valentine day for some unknown reason. Shion wonders why, nobody care about
Valentine! This is Brazil after all.
She sips another cup of Suipiss. Life is beautiful and Shion still want it to carry on.
Something falling from the sky and crash through Shion's villa, as everyone screams and running away. Shion stares in shock at two woman who falling from the air start
punching each other with incredible speed, collapsing the whole building in the progress.
Who fight like that in Brazil anyway?
Baqua seems confused and meowing at one intruder. She is a purple hair woman with Star dust floating on it. She looks at the cat, as confused as Shion right now.
Before they could interact, yellow hair woman suddenly punching purple hair face, sends her flying toward nearby building.
Cat looks unimpressed, it swings its claws at newcomer leg, flinches when there is a metal clanking sound coming from the target.
Aki charging her beam, aiming at the animal.
"NOT MY F**KING CAT!" Shion yelled on top of her lung, shooting lightning out of her hands, stunning the robot for a while.
Aki turn her head toward Shion, but Moona then comes in and punching her face, send her flying away for several hundred meters.
" Enough with this bullsh*t!" Shion casting her spells to summoning portal and target-lock at two of them.
" Gate of Babylon! Send those two where their journey starts." Two Struggling star people being suck back to wherever they came from, hopefully their already-supernova
home, so they can f**k off forever.
When it was over Shion running back to where her cat is. " Baqua, are you okay? Ouch!" Magicianscreams from being slapped on her face by cat's paw.
She Felt on the ground as the cat running away. Shion wonders if she needs to follow it or not. The animal seemed to capable of doing just fine without her.
Magician looks up and stare at the destruction of her home. There are no ways Shion is going to pay for all this messed. She decides to take off again. Maybe this is signed of
the universe, tell her that there is still one job left.
Shion opens her dimension pocket and look at her note for Ina'nis whereabouts. Hopefully Gura already tell her friend about Magician tutor, or their met will surely become
awkward.
….
Moona Hoshinova
Before realizing it, Moona is falling on the Maldives beach again, she looks up as Aki is crashing next to her, both of them are as confused as their brain could possibly allow.
" Oh! So you guys still alive. Are you two stops fighting yet?" Risu looks up from where she is sitting and playing her phone.
" No!" Moona headbutt hard enough to knock Aki on her feet, but when she is trying to go on, Aki back kick send her flying to the nearest giant stone, shattered it.
" Everything Okay?" Subaru asks, she is flying with helicopter near the island.
" No." Moona said, before Aki grabbed her hair and start spinning, creating a tornado that sucking everything inside before throwing star people upward, send her flying out of
earth's atmosphere.
" Shit!" Subaru swears after forcing to park her helicopter on the beach.
Aki follows her enemy, charging energy from her body and shooting it out of her hairs, mixing them into one giant cannon that hit Moona's back while she is still being knock
out from the attack.
Before Moona realized what happened, she is being push again by the power. Her face met the moon surfaced less than a second.
And then everything went black.
After shooting a giant beam that pushing Moona away and creates a giant meteorite crater on the moon in a few seconds. Aki body starting to overheat, she shut down some
unnecessary gadget in her body, leaving only main power line stay intact.
She turns her head toward Subaru and Risu who stare at her from behind the bushes.
" Sh*t!" Subaru start running away, but Risu chanting her magic and screams the spells name.
" Gravity field!" The ground start shining as the magic circle is being activated. Subaru just realized that the entire island is being covered by nuts, drawing on the floor as
some kind of ritualistic symbol.
And the reason it isn't getting blow away during Moona and Aki fights is… Magic and sh*t?
Subaru suddenly drop on the ground, even Risu is falling on her knee too.
" What's happening?" Subaru asked, watch intensely as Aki starting to fall down. Android is still floating, but unable to do anything more than slowly moving in the air like
some lazy butterfly even though she keep pushing on with full engines.
" I just use my spell, it will tricking your mind into thinking that you unable to move any further. The spell will strong enough to stop each individual at their full strength."
Magician explained.
" So, what's next? Sit here and play blinking game?" Subaru stumbles to reach the cellphone in her pocket.
" This should buy us time until whatever weapon Iofifeen can produced will reach here."
" Then what can stop her from- Oh sh*t!" Aki shooting laser from her eyes, aiming at Subaru face.
" Eye of Reflection!" Risu shouts, creating a nuts mirror that reflex the beam and hit Aki face with it, knocking her down.
Subaru phone rung, so she quickly picks up. It's Calli number.
" Do you want to hear bad news or worse news. I am calling from the sun by the ways, using…"
" Just tell me the worst. It always bad at this point." Subaru groaned.
…
Mori Calliope
Calliope looks at Iofifeen pale face before replied.
" First. There is some misunderstanding with your blueprint. We didn't make a lens cannon; it is a charger.
The thing it can produce is not deadly energy beam, but more like the one they use to make their machine move, filled their fuel tanks, or cure injured star people.
This is not something I recommend on shooting at our enemy."
" Second. Even if it can be useful somehow. The angle of the earth right now make it impossible for us to shoot at your location in Maldives. If you want us to shoot, you have
to move the target from there."
" Last is we unable to delay the shooting any longer. I will discuss with them about where to shoot. Probably let it pass the world instead of hitting it.
Who knows what will happen if our beam did?"
Calli watch uncomfortably as the beam start shooting from the giant lens. Iofifeen try her best to slow it down. But the blue beam keeps running nonstop toward the earth.
Subaru bites her lips. Now the thing they can do is to wait and see if Aki or Risu will run out of energy first, which is not something in favor of Magician.
Reading files about Murasaki Shion teaches Subaru that their energy will run out soon after big spells. And Risu already uses multiple of them.
" Wait. Calli! You said that our beam couldn't touch the target on earth, but can you make it go somewhere else?" Subaru asks.
" Where exactly?" Calliope asks back.
" The Moon. Right now, I knows it hard to explain but Moona is being knockout on there-"
" Iofi! Can you shoot at the moon?" Calli asks painter alien.
" Yes, but where exactly on the moon?"
Subaru wish she has telescope right now. " The front parts that facing earth. At the new meteor crater. Just running the beam around. It probably hit her somewhere."
" Wait! Iofi, can you make the beam bigger? I mean the biggest you ever done." Calliope asks.
Iofifeen scratch her head. " Guess I can try." She quickly draws the picture of beam keep on spreading wider and wider.
The blue beam is big enough to cover half of the moon when it finally reaches the target.
…
Moona Hoshinova
Moona body fills with aches and pains, Star people is unable to remember why she is here, being buried under the rock of this dark place.
Her minds are being fuzzy with thoughts of everything. Why are she being here again? To die in this lonely, forgotten places with no one to remember?
The blue light that starts shining on her body made Moona realize something. While not perfect, Moona still wanted to live her life.
It a bit of messy, she admitted, but meeting and talking with other people, even if they are so alien from what she is can be fun and exciting, so she wanted to keep doing it.
Star people open her eyes again and flying upward, feeling the light being absorbed inside her body. This is the power and Moona embrace it.
Her body start shining too as she is looking at the earth, Moona senses are so improving that she can see Aki on earth, still struggling to get up along with some of her
friends.
Moona looks at her enemy and realized of what to do next. She starts charging her own powers, feels it running from nuclear reactor cores insides toward her hand.
Since she is too busy focusing on the new attack, Moona has no time to think of its name as she is shooting her crescent beam toward Aki Rosenthal.
…
Subaru looks up as the moon start shining until it was too bright for her eyes. The night suddenly gone as the light shines over everything around her. Aki get up and trying to
fly away, but her movements is too slow.
" What now?" She yelled at Risu.
" The gigantic energy beam is come here. It's probably wiped the whole island off the map." Magician answered.
" Then how can we-" Subaru going to asks since they couldn't move their arm and leg under the spells, but Risu simply open portal under her body and disappear.
" …This is why I hate f**king magician."
Before Subaru could whimper more, Portal suddenly open behind her as Risu dragging Subaru inside.
" What do you want to complain again?" Magician asks, Subaru shook her head. " Nah! Must be the wind you are hearing. I have nothing but love and respect for Magician."
On the small island nearby, they watch as the crescent beam swallowing it whole, destroying everything in its range.
…
Aki trying to use last bits of her energy to creates electromagnetic shields, but the attack is too strong. The shield breaks and Android feels the energy cutting through her
body too as her eye's sensor is gone and everything went blacked.
…
A few hours later
As the light start fading and the night return. Everyone gathered on what left of the island.
Risu is wrong on that: the blast didn't wipe the whole island off the map, just wipe everything on it and turning white sands into a block of glasses.
At least there are plenty of space left for Iofifeen to parks her flying saucer now. She, Calli and Kiara start tiptoeing around the island, careful not to touch the place that too
hot for their feet.
Risu and Subaru quickly joined them, and Moona don't need much time to flying back from the Moon.
" So, did we win?" Star people is the first who asks.
Subaru shook her head. " Not sure. Let scan the area first."
As they start walking around the center of the glasses island.
Moona spotted something buried inside the changed sands.
Star people shattered it with her fists before dragging the things out.
It is Aki Rosenthal body, only her upper body and one arm is remained, the rest has turn into dust by Moona energy beam.
" So, we fatality her I guess?" Calliope shrugged.
" Don't get careless all of sudden! She might still alive." Kiara warned.
" Nah. Nobody can survive from this." Calli kick the robot and flinches when the light suddenly shines from Aki's body.
" Sh*t!"
Everybody ready for the next brawl, but Aki seems to not in the mood.
" This is the last drop of my emergency power core. I will be gone soon. So, may this dead thing ask some questions? Where are my people?" Aki voices is become more
serene during her last moments.
Kiara gingerly walk toward her. " I don't knows if this is help or not. But here is the 'cover' crystal Tokino Sora uses to wear. It's belonged to me now.
But I guess it always keep the memories of the past with it. Ina said that it is." Phoenix hand over her triangle necklace in Aki's hand.
Android open the system and links her memory card with the crystal. Seeing how Yagoo give it to baby Tokino Sora before sending her toward unknown planet that will
become earth in the future.
How Sora struggling life with humanity.
How the arrival of Hoshimachi cruiser ship destroys parts of the world and how they fight to death with humanity.
How Sora spares Suisei despite the fact that she could kill her.
How it transfers to Minato Aqua after death of Tokino Sora.
How 200 years has passed for the crystal without finding its news owner.
How Tokino Sora revived but decided not to take the item and give it back to someone else, and now it is belonged to Kiara, sharing good and bad memories with her.
" so, some of us is still alive. After all." Aki smiles, give the crystal back to the Phoenix.
" I wish I could see their face again, but seeing their memories. Knowing that everyone did their best to survive is enough."
Android felt silence for a while and everybody thinks she is gone, but then she suddenly jerks.
" Suisei! Am I did well enough?" She talks with a person that nobody can see.
"Kiara gently touches her hand. " You are the most destructive Android I ever met."
With that, Aki's light faded and she is dropping on the ground. There are no more responses coming from her body.
…
Subaru scratches her hair. " I knows the situation is a bit dramatic, but don't let it ruin your days. Akukin will try to fix her again, except from the engine and fuel tanks every
part seems to be okay.
If we could bring her back. Star people Android will help us a lot, if she willing to, of course."
" So, what's next?" Moona asks, still looking thoughtfully at the broken Android.
" How about-" Subaru going to say something when they realize that there are two newcomer behind them.
One is a shark girl in blue hoodie while the other is blonde woman in detective coats.
" Is everything alright?" Amelia Watson asks.
" We keep tracking you guys position for a while ." Gawr Gura lied as naturally as she breathed, since she just swimming randomly around here until she bumped into Ame's
speedboat and decided tag along.
Iofifeen, Risu and Moona simply walking pass them.
" I knows good bar on the Mars, their Martian Martini are superb. Wanna joined?" Iofi said with Calli and Kiara.
" Now that sound like a plan." Calliope follows and since she has nothing better to do, Kiara joins them too.
" About whether we should join you guys or not…" Moona turn her head back toward Subaru and smiles.
" I thinks we prefer our ways. It's a fun teamwork, I admit but I still have my own things to do, somebody to say thank you. So, see you later!"
Moona and Iofifeen disappear in Iofi flying saucer along with Calli and Kiara, but Risu turns back and look at Gura body up and down.
" This is not a slumber party, kiddo!" Magician laugh before disappearing in the UFO too.
Gura watch them gone and clenched her teeth. " I hate it when everybody keep saying that."
Amelia chuckled. " To be fair Gura. You did sleep in those clothes."
" Shut the f**k up, Watson!" Shark girl flustered.
" Hey! You guys are free right? Help we carry this damn robot!" Subaru yelled at two of them, kicking Aki's remaining.
" What the f**k is happening here?" Ame asks, looking at the crystallized sands around her feet and then half of the robot body.
" Long story. Let carry her to the bar at the island over there first.
We will discuss this over beers." Subaru concluded as Iofifeen flying saucer start flying away in the middle of the night.
