Fight for the future

Chapter 5: Wherever I may roam

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the well-known characters.

'' Thoughts

...And the road becomes my bride
I have stripped of all but pride
So in her I do confide
And she keeps me satisfied
Gives me all I need

...And with dust in throat I crave
Only knowledge will I save
To the game you stay a slave
Rover wanderer
Nomad vagabond
Call me what you will

But I'll take my time anywhere
Free to speak my mind anywhere
And I'll redefine anywhere
Anywhere I may roam
Where I lay my head is home

...and the earth becomes my throne
I adapt to the unknown
Under wandering stars I've grown
By myself but not alone
I ask no one

...and my ties are severed clean
The less I have the more I gain
Off the beaten path I reign
Rover wanderer
Nomad vagabond
Call me what you will

But I'll take my time anywhere
I'm free to speak my mind anywhere
And I'll never mind anywhere
Anywhere I may roam
Where I lay my head is home

But I'll take my time anywhere
Free to speak my mind
And I'll take my find anywhere
Anywhere I may roam
Where I lay my head is home

Carved upon my stone
My body lie, but still I roam
Wherever I may roam

METALLICA: Wherever I may roam.

Jay sits by himself in the lounge of Amara and Michelle's apartment when Trista walks in "how exactly did you meet Hotaru in your time?" she asked him "it was after a battle in which I was spared, I was on no ones side anymore…"

Flashback

Hotaru and the others walk through a field armed with rifles "is Trista sure he's around here?" Amelia asks Hotaru "she's never let us down yet" she replied to Amelia's question when a bullet flies past her ear causing everyone to drop to the floor "I CAN'T SEE THEM!" Reiko shouted, "That's because there's only one… in that tree" Hotaru replied, "I'm on it." Reiko says pointing her rifle at the tree and opens fire before they see Adam jump out of the tree "that's him." Hotaru tells everyone causing Reiko to lower her rifle and they follow him to where he had seen his friend die, they walk in and see the bodies of the defenders and attackers lying on the ground, some of the defenders had been buried and their rifles used instead gravestones, they check the buildings for survivors but they find none. Down by the palisade Adam sits in a foxhole.

"Found him?" Hotaru asks Reiko but she shakes her head "check down by the palisade." Hotaru replied as Reiko leaves for the palisade when she finds Adam's hiding place "FOUND HIM!" she shouts back and everyone runs over to find Adam in the foxhole with his rifle by his side looking up at them before he stands up and climbs out of the fox and puts his hands up in surrender "it's not like that" Hotaru tells him "I'm an ex sailor scout and these are their daughters and we've been sent by Trista to look for you" Hotaru tells him "I'm not leaving until I've buried all my friends" he tells them before he picks up his entrenching tool and opens it out into a shovel and starts to finish off a grave next to his foxhole when he's finished he putt's the body of his friend Ricky in it with a bottle tequila before filling it back in.

2 hours later

Adam's finished burying his fallen friends he stands at the gates looking back at the death he had seen before breaking down into tears and Hotaru comforts him by wrapping her arms around him and letting him cry on her shoulder "let's go, there's someone who wants to meet you"

End flashback

"That's how I met Hotaru and the others," he tells Trista as she sips her tea.

Amara, Michelle and Hotaru come downstairs "I'm sorry for getting you all involved in my fight" he says to them before he takes his tank top off and stretches and finds everyone looking at the largest scar on his chest.

"I got that one from my three years of captivity"

Flashback

Adam sits in a cell when the door opens he looks up to see Rini standing in the doorway "hello Adam Kun" she says cheerfully "what do you want" he said his voice literally dripping with venom as Rini closes the door behind her and walks towards him.

"That's a nasty scar you've got their Adam," she tells him lightly touching his scar before moving her hand to his face "I really like you" she says before she kisses him before she leaves again.

End flashback

"Rini would never do that," Hotaru says causing Adam to look at her "the Rini you know is not the one I know" he replies making her blush lightly when they get a call Trista answers it and looks at the others only to find an empty chair where Adam once sat, Hotaru goes to the room he's using to find it empty and the window open she runs downstairs "he's not upstairs and the windows open" she tells them whilst catching her breath back.

In town Adam follows the trail of destruction that the latest youma attack has caused he follows the trail to the park and finds just one youma another human like one, reaching behind his back he pulls out his sword and goes to finish it off when the senshi arrive minus two members as he's just finishing it off causing them to go white in the face as his methods are a little crude in killing youma when I mean crude he cuts off the legs and arms of it to let it suffer before using his knife to finish it off.

"If I were to die here can you put this on my gravestone, carved upon my stone
my body lie, but still I roam, wherever I may roam" he asks them and they all nod before he walks away as they de transform and follow him "don't you think that was a little crude?" Lita asks him causing him to turn round "look, I've seen good people die, murdered, skinned alive and that's to name a few!" he shouts at Lita before he walks away with tears in his eyes

Please R&R