A/N: To everyone that likes Dominique, please don't be too angry at me if I keep saying bad things about her.. I have to admit that I dislike her... and maybe a lot BUT it goes with the story and Kaldea's feelings, I don't think she held her in very high esteem…
The dairy of a Bionoid
…Chapter 7- The Dog and the Robot…
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I could hear only tiny bits of their conversation from where I stood but one word rang through my soul like a million bells. "Sion" chirped the crystalline voice of Dominique. Now I understood why the short bouncer seemed so familiar, he was My Sion.
The young blond head crossed her arms behind her back, giggling as she pulled out some pendant from her pocket. She smiled at him and for some reason he smiled back. I clenched tightly my fists and felt rage slowly rise into me: this was unreal; my Sion was falling for such a cry baby, an useless, stupid, childish THING. I was about the jump straight onto the girl but I stopped myself in mid step, I heard a soft thud above me as if something landed on the roof. Frowning, I listened closely…
Suddenly the window near the two love birds shattered into pieces, the droplets of glass were scattering on the floor with a loud crushing sound as the Mikado special forces burst in the bar. I couldn't believe my eyes when I recognised Mugetsu behind his red binoculars. After a long week of work, they came stole my triumph, I failed to prove myself. A tidal wave of shame and disillusion washed over me, I felt all hope crumble inside me. The rest of the bouncers rushed upstairs and the fight grew more and more intense as more Mikado soldiers kept flooding inside the building, each side fought mercilessly for the blond clueless robot. I stood there in the middle of the crowd of drunkards that were fleeing the commotion, many of them stumbled into me and no one cared whether they hurt me or not, even I didn't care anymore. I kept observing as the three men struggled against the mass of grey uniforms, Dominique on the other wasn't even trying to defend herself instead she simply crouched down in a corner and hid her face in her arms, I smirked out of satisfaction as I saw that she was crying.
A soldier flew down the stairs and landed on a table at a few meters away from me, it knocked me out of my reflection and my common sense kicked back in: I had to escape before Mugetsu would notice me, for all of the dignity that was left in me, I had to escape unseen. Without an other hesitation and turned around and pushed open the doors of the "Fate", I stepped outside and closed them back silently behind me, the last sound that emerged from within the bar was a distress call that came from a incredibly high-perched voice, Dominique's voice of course…and her scream was Sion's name.
I didn't have the time to turn around the corner that small feeling of nausea came over me, the world started to spin in an infinite wheel of lights and shadows. Anger, shame, sadness and despair overwhelmed my heart as I realised what the past events meant. I couldn't take it anymore so I ran, I ran as fast as I could.
I stopped only when my feet hurt too much to continue on, I had already lost the whole thing even before it started, how could I be more efficient then a whole squad, how could I be better than something that had been created to be 'perfect'. I lowered my eyes in defeat and sighed. A total failure adding itself to the gigantic list of them that composed my life.
At this precise moment a weird feeling of dizziness spread around me and when it dissipated, what greeted me was a screaming pain. My breath caught itself in my throat as I fell to my knees on the side of the street, I stared at my dazzled reflection that had formed in the puddle of black water as tried to focus on something else than the pain, but what I saw was the last thing I expected. A dim blue light spread from my body as I felt the whole structure of my skeleton deform within me, from my skull to my toes, I felt every bone twist and crack, it seemed to last for hours… and when I looked back at myself what I saw wasn't the miserable human girl that I was but a black panther instead.
Panic overwhelmed me and before I even knew it I was running again, my paws made no sound as it hit the sidewalk. People were screaming and jumping out of the way as I passed, thanks to my panther self. I could have swore that in my run I saw Sion and his group in front of the train station but yet maybe my mind was playing tricks on me, I stared at what I believed to be them, a little dumbfounded, before continuing on my way. When I finally reached a park, the sky was grey, the snow had turned into rain, which poured down heavily, and the leaves in the trees still hadn't bloom because of the abnormal cold. What an irony, the outside world matched perfectly how I felt. I jumped easily onto a stone in the middle of the artificial river and laid on it, staring down at the river's flood, I let the tears I held back freely run onto my cheeks, they trailed down and dropped from the end of my whiskers into the water but since it was raining no one would notice it. A crying panther, it would have been a strange sight. I stayed there even after I cried all the tears I could spend, my only love left me for some robot that stole everything I had. I wasn't the same anymore, now even as a human my lips were too red, my skin too pale and I grew so much.. older, I had to admit that Kaldea Orchid was dead and buried six feet underground. She was gone.
The sun went down, I still didn't move from my rock, I knew some people passed by but in the end I think that they assumed I was a sculpture, funny in some way. It was only when the morning came and that the park became a little too lively for my own taste that I went back to my hotel. I stopped in front of the door and looked up at it, I had one more problem poisoning my life, I didn't know how to turn back into a human.
I sighed or did something that looked like it in my opinion before wandering toward a side alley where I could stay out of sight from the common folks. A flight of helicopters passed over the alley, each bearing the sign of the mikado company. They finally had retrieved her, how happy Dauragon would be when he will learn the news? I didn't even want to imagine it. I let myself crumble down onto a stinking old container and stretched my paws in front of me, I was trying to think of a way to help me out of this situation.
As troubled as I was, I never noticed the emergency ladder that hanged at the side of the building, and when I finally saw it I would have slapped myself if I could. Instead I began to climb it up, I reached my window and slipped my claws underneath it before pushing up. I managed to push it enough to slip in and I did so. Once I was inside, I let myself crumble limply on the carpet and fell into deep sleep, I was over exhaustion.
I heard a voice in my dream, a shooting and calm voice. A voice that was singing, my voice and then it began to fade away until it died out completely.
It was of only one word I recalled when my eyes shot open; Goodbye…
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I think this one is a little shorter than the previous one..but oh well.. the next chapter should come quicklier than this one… but please…
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