She stood there silent, mouth wide open, gaping at the boy.
He looked at them smiling and made a funny face. "Um… are you guys okay?" He asks the light surrounding him begins to fade. The others still silent stood motionless.
Minutes passed, and Shinji was feeling uneasy. "Okay… well, I'm going inside now, can I have the key please?" He looks at the professor.
Without another word, Fuyutsuki hands him the key he then thanked the professor and walked away.
"What exactly happened?" Fuyutsuki asked
Rei motioned towards the inn, Wuffles went first and they followed.
Inside
Shinji sat on the floor, when the others arrived he gave them a wave.
The room was silent. It seemed eerie; do children have the power to destroy the world? Rei pondered on the thought, she knew she was special, but she just doesn't know how. Her memories are somewhat different, flashes of a previous life? Does that even exist? Quantum theory and all that crap, things she heard from her parents.
The professor sat beside Shinji, facing the boy, he held his hands and asked. "What the f… I mean, what just happened?" Shinji shrugged. "I don't remember but deep inside me… deep inside me I feel anger so strong it scares me." Then he smiles looking at Rei. "She's like me too… only she's pure."
Rei jumped unto the bed and Wuffles trailed after her but made her mark at the lamp before jumping up with the child.
"For some reason this room is exactly what we need." She answers absentmindedly. Looking at the ceiling.
Fuyutsuki curses… and tries to look for his cell phone.
"It's out there somewhere," says Shinji… "Under the rubbles."
Tired, the professor decides to rest on the other bed "So you mean to say, you have no idea why those things are after you?" And I have no way to contact Gendou… you fucking ass, you left me the fate of this children, what kind of parents are you?
"Faith… I guess," Shinji answers. "I'm no Christian and when I say that… I really mean I was raised under a different light."
"How so?" Rei asked, cuddling the cute dog. The professor too was curious; he shifted his position so that he can face the boy. Almost forgetting their situation.
Like always, story telling is what makes people come together to learn his or her story.
Fixing his shirt. Shinji tried to recall his childhood.
"I didn't have much when I was growing up, or more specifically, I don't really remember much of it, just flashes and pictures."
Rei nods gesturing him to continue.
He told them about his growing up all alone, always by himself reading books, or loitering in the park, getting beaten by hobos and almost dying the last time, but he thanked Rei for taking him in, but gives her the eye. "That was for kicking me," he says.
She just sighed.
Anyway, he then tells them that he dreams there was a war in heaven, hell on earth and that; somewhere in between everything was destroyed.
"It's in the scrolls… the dead sea scrolls." Fuyutsuki suggested.
Rei threw her pillow at the professor.
"Sorry, sorry." He laughs and pats the boy to continue.
Anyway, he then tells them that God and the Devil decided to turn back time and hope that the outcome this time would be different.
"Turn back time." Rei whispers.
"Yes, and there are something's that even I don't understand." He told them that they four are coming.
"I don't know much about them except that they'll bring the end."
"The four horsemen of the apocalypse." Fuyutsuki suggests.
Rei sighs…
"But that doesn't explain what you did back there." Says Rei
It was her turn to describe how the boy wrestled with the Sphinx and as if fire itself came from his hands and laid it on the temple of the beast causing a bizarre light that ended with the enemy destroyed.
Shinji just cringed. "I did what?"
Rei and the professor nodded.
Wuffles fearfully hides behind Rei and yips again and again.
"Well, if you guys say so… all I can say is I don't remember."
Fuyutsuki was just about to add something but… he decided not too. Even though these children were strong, he still doesn't have a clue what's going on.
Their discussion ended with the three of them eating some ramen from the inn's cafeteria.
"We'll be leaving again tomorrow." Fuyutsuki says solemnly.
The two nods.
"We'll talk with an old friend of mine."
They nod again.
The professor was just about to say something when he chocked on some noodles.
This time it made them laugh and such is the way with children.
Later they'll have to face the fact that life is hard and will do it's best to beat them down. But for now… they'll rest for their journey is far from over.
To be continued