Fight for the future

Chapter 6: The unforgiven

Authors note: Serenathy, this story is not over by a long shot I'm trying to get ideas for the chapters and soon the bloodshed will start, and as to why Adam seems more friendly with the outers is because he's fought beside Hotaru since he was 18 and their will be a side story about Adam's time attached to the end of this story. The reason why he's 21 is because he's had to grow up quickly in a battlefield environment.

Disclaimer: Do I look like I own the well-known characters?

'' Thoughts

Adam walks through a cemetery with his hands in his pockets 'it seems so peaceful, unlike my time… I wonder how the others are holding up without me?' he thinks to himself as he walks back to Amara and Michelle's apartment, the place where he's staying, he walks in and finds Hotaru sitting down watching T.V, Adam goes to his room and brings his sword down and pulls out a whetstone and begins to sharpen his sword as Amara and Michelle walk in and see Adam run his thumb down the blade and a thin trickle of blood runs down the steel.

"Can I use that whetstone later?" Hotaru asks Adam "sure" he replies as he puts it down beside him and passes the whetstone to Hotaru before she walks off with it and goes to her room "err, why did she ask for my whetstone?" Adam asked before running upstairs and into Hotaru's room and sees her sharpening the silence glaive "what the hell is that?" he asks.

"This? It's the silence glaive" she replies as Adam closes his mouth "I've heard the tales, but I never thought I'd see it" he replies as he watches her sharpens it "you want to go get some ice cream? I'll buy." Hotaru looks at him with a smile on her face as she puts it away Adam goes to his room and grabs a carrying bag he had made during his stay at the apartment and goes downstairs to put his sword in it before putting it on his back.

In town

Hotaru and Adam sit in an ice cream shop, Hotaru devouring her ice cream and Adam has hardly touched his when Raye and the rest of the inners arrive "Lita, sorry about yesterday, I've seen too much death" he tells her "it's okay" she replies before they leave and soon he finds himself dragged into a music store.

New blood joins this earth
And quickly he's subdued
Through constant pain disgrace
The young boy learns their rules

With time the child draws in
This whipping boy done wrong
Deprived of all his thoughts
The young man struggles on and on he's known
A vow unto his own
That never from this day
His will they'll take away

What I've felt
What I've known
Never shined through in what I've shown
Never be
Never see
Won't see what might have been

What I've felt
What I've known
Never shined through in what I've shown
Never free
Never me
So I dub the unforgiven

They dedicate their lives
To running all of his
He tries to please them all
This bitter man he is
Throughout his life the same
He's battled constantly
This fight he cannot win
A tired man they see no longer cares
The old man then prepares
To die regretfully
That old man here is me

What I've felt
What I've known
Never shined through in what I've shown
Never be
Never see
Won't see what might have been

What I've felt
What I've known
Never shined through in what I've shown
Never free
Never me
So I dub the unforgiven

You labelled me
I'll label you
So I dub the unforgiven

Adam closes his eyes and clenches his hands before he walks out of the store "what's wrong with him?" Raye asks "this song must remind of his time" Ami replies before they leave to find him. Adam goes to the park and sits underneath a tree bringing his knees to his chest and resting his head on his knees, "Thought I'd find you here" Adam looks up to see Trista standing in front of him "go away" he replies but Trista sits down "I really do feel sorry for you and so do the others" he looks at her "well don't."

"This is the first time I've ever seen Hotaru this happy" she tells him "she thinks of you as an older brother" Trista watches as he stands up and walks away elsewhere the others try to find him, they cut through the park in hopes of finding him they find him punching a large tree, his knuckles torn up leaving the flesh open as he continues punching the tree with tears running down his face.

"Adam…"

He stops what he's doing and turns round; they all stare at his fists with his blood running down his hands "let's get those hands bandaged up" Ami says as they leave for the apartment, when they get there Michelle and Amara see Adam's bloodied hands "what happened?" Michelle asks as Amara goes to get some bandages and returns and bandages his knuckles up Adam looks at his hands slowly opening them and closing them constantly and watches as the bandages slowly turn red.

Later Adam sits in the lounge staring at his reflection on his sword when Hotaru walks into the room he looks at her from the corner of his eye until she sits down opposite him and watches him as he puts it down before he reaches in to his boot and pulls out his knife "what type of knife is that?" Hotaru asks him, "This is a Bowie knife, named after the famous knife fighter Jim Bowie who died at The Alamo." He puts it away and straps his sword to his back as he sees someone walk past the window he runs over to Hotaru and stands behind her using himself as a shield "stay low" he tells her as the wall behind him explodes covering Adam in shrapnel as Michelle and Amara run downstairs to see what's going on….

Authors note: The songs called The Unforgiven and it's written by METALLICA R&R