Dum da da dum…Da da da da da, da da da da dum…Hello people, I AM SO SORRY FOR NOT UPDATING SOONER! I've been extremely busy. Went to Florida and had finals to do as well as make up. Forgive my absence. But everything's set, so don't worry, this fanfic will be complete soon! D Anywayz, where have the rest of the reviewers gone to? I miss u all D Blarg, let's go on with the fic shall we? Thanks for reviewing!
Maieve Avvi- You almost got it…well, let's see. Actually, I might do something quite the opposite from ur guess. I'll leave you guessing for now, HAHAHAHAHA…anyway, thanks for reviewing…Don't worry, that's the only part Mary will get some loving from Jr…actually, that's the last time u ever see her in the story…
TSAdmiral- Don't worry, the whereabouts of KOS-MOS will be revealed soon okies!? . !!! HAHAHA, im just laughing everywhere eh? Thanks for reviewing. It was a cute scene wasn't it? I couldn't resist. Do not fear tho, that's all Mary gets, lol.
Ariadne- The drill probably did confuse some people. No, the drill was not operated by KOS-MOS. Just the guards sent in the area who didn't no how to work the thing, baka's aren't they? HEHEHEHE, anyway, had to give Mary at least one nice scene before she leaves the story, right? Many characters will start leaving the story…you'll see what happens D, keep reviewing!
Angelicmayuka- Glad you like the story so far! Everyone seems to be focusing on KOS-MOS and chaos except MOMO and Jr. LOL. I shall warn, this is a MOMO and Jr. fic, u all may be quite mad at the ending…
PART III
Light Your Face With A Smile
Chapter 25
Been
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SLASH
RIP
The sounds of guards falling to the ground was heard, as chaos quickly wiped his hands and entered the room in front of him. The gang followed closely behind as Ziggy went to make sure no one had followed them inside.
Upon the doors closing, Shion surveyed the room, seeing as how all the guards inside had been knocked unconscious…or an even worse fate. After Ziggy came in and gave an approving nod, chaos and one of the soldiers got to work on the surveillance cameras. Typing away quickly, chaos got used to the systems and began switching cameras to certain areas.
Fast learner…
He narrowed his eyes as in most screens showen, guards positioned in many locations just in case they came to pass their way. Shion walked over to chaos since the other two soldiers guarded the entrance. She frowned, also noticing the amount of guards beginning to double.
" Does it ever stop? They just keep multiplying…the Sub Committee doesn't have a limitless supply of men…"
" Well be ok as long as they don't get in here…Let's worry about that later, for now, we need to find the others." Shion nodded in agreement as chaos typed rapidly once again, some screens changing positions.
" No…" chaos muttered to himself as he checked off each screen. " No…no…no…"
" chaos, look there." Ziggy pointed to one of the monitors as everyone's gaze was directed towards it. Shion's eyes widened as she bit her lip.
" Their…"
" I don't think they are there…" chaos muttered again as Ziggy nodded.
" Yes, it seems so…" Shion sighed in relief, yet the nagging feeling of worry still haunted her mind.
" Where could Jr. and Mary have gone though?" Shion questioned as she looked at the rubble shown on the screen. It soon changed as chaos went to scan other cameras.
" Sir, there seems to be someone hiding in this room here."
" Which one?"
" I'm not sure, seems like a…storage room?"
" Hold on." chaos said as he punched in a few keys, which transferred the image onto his screen. Upon it appearing, Shion tilted her head.
" Yes, there is someone there…although, it's rather dark to tell…"
" Maybe I can zoom in?" chaos questioned as the soldier nodded and had done so, the camera's lens adjusting as it moved closer on the figure…who seemed to be…asleep?
" Wait, isn't that…"
" Mary!" Shion called at the girl's name as they watched her drift off into sleep. " But where's Jr.?"
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He leaned onto the wall and sighed as his body stiffened.
There was someone near by…he could feel them…someone was watching him…
It was a long shot, but maybe it was the same person before on their arrival to Fifth Jerusalem?
As quietly as possible, he took one of his BLOOD9 gun's out, placing it near his face and touching the wall with his free hand. He tried to breath quietly to sense where this unknown presence could be.
" I know it isn't me…someone's here…" Jr. thought as he closed his eyes and concentrated.
The figure looked at him questioningly, as if it didn't understand what he was doing. The figure placed a hand slowly on the wall and let it slide a bit down…
Jr.'s eyes snapped open and aimed the gun to his right, shooting at intense speed. He felt it, some brushing their hand on the wall. The figure suddenly noticed and moved out of the way just in time before the bullet could shoot at it.
Bang!!
" Dammit." Jr. muttered slightly as he began to run in the direction his bullet had gone to. He examined the bullet hole that he made into the wall, and noticed immediately the sound of a door.
Now this figure wanted to get away?
" I don't think so." Jr. thought hastily as he began to run after the unknown person. The automatic doors opened quickly, leaving Jr. to be inside the stairwell. He quickly looked up and noticed a small hand gripping the rail as the moved upwards. Jr.'s eyes narrowed as he began running up the stairs.
" Ok…that defiantly wasn't a guard or an official…it looked more to belong to…a child?" Jr. thought as he kept his eye on the hand moving higher on the rail.
" Stop!" Jr. yelled as he noticed the hand hesitated for a quick second and left the rail, signaling that it must have entered a door.
" Shit." Jr. skipped a few more steps and entered the automatic doors he thought the figure supposedly went through. Upon entering the floor, he noticed how the hallways seem to suddenly change structure…where was he?
..and he suddenly froze…
Just far off to his right…an intersection stood where the hall continued and branched into another going left. It was the same figure as before…
Hiding behind the wall…A small pale hand was placed on the wall stiffly, a green eye poked out from behind it, was the person kneeling down?
" A…girl?" Jr. whispered as he walked over quite slowly. The girl's eye suddenly expressed fear as she shrunk back…He still couldn't see her fully though. He stopped walking as he noticed the girl's actions…
That eye…it looked so familiar to him…yet…it seemed to express something far off.
" What are…you doing here?" He questioned, which seemed to have startled the girl. She quickly stood up and ran down the corridor. Jr. quickly ran into the corridor and noticed the girl enter a room.
The U.R.T.V. only got the chance to catch a glimpse of a white dress…well, as he presumed. Taking a deep breathe, he walked up slowly to the door and allowed it to open. He stepped inside quietly and looked all around him.
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" What…is all this?" Jr. asked to no one in particular. Computer screen's laid shut off and abandoned on the account of intruders entering Fifth Jerusalem. Technological instruments laid sprawled everywhere, it's silver like brilliance reflecting off in the dim light. Cold metal tables lay about…and on them…
"…What the…hell?" Jr. whispered as he walked over to a disabled realian, some of it's body parts opened for what seemed to be dissection and analysis. Jr. swallowed hard as he lifted a hand near the realians face. It was a female realian, her skin completely pale and her body disfigured…a few instruments even were left inside her…
"…how…" Jr. placed his hand delicately on her face, suddenly stroking it as he gazed at her. What was he doing? Why was he stroking her face? How could they do this to someone? How-
CLANK
Jr. quickly pulled away from the girl and looked around him, the noise gaining his full attention. A silver gleam captured his attention. A scapula? He walked over to it slowly and bent down to pick it up. He examined it and frowned…did that green eyed girl cause it to fall from it's place?
Ruffle…
Jr. quickly looked up and noticed the girl just clouding his thoughts sitting in the shadows…only her curious looking eyes being seen, and a few folds of her dress…
She seemed so familiar…
Maybe a little too familiar…
Jr. slowly got up, his eyes never leaving that of the girl, and as he was fully standing up…
He dropped the scapula and pushed a table behind him in surprise…
Now that he wasn't expecting…
In the distance, just a few feet where the green eyed girl was sitting…
On the table…
Jr.'s breathe suddenly started to quicken as his eyes expressed utter horror and shock.
Familiar pink hair…gently laid on her shoulders, her back turned to him…she sat on one of the metal tables, curled into what seemed like a fetal position. But that wasn't what caught Jr. by surprise…
" MOMO!!" Jr. suddenly yelled, forgetting about the other figure in the room. Sharp like cords had embedded themselves in MOMO's back, legs, and arms…only a thin white tank top that had no back and shorts (a little too short) covered her body.
Jr.'s eyes expressed pain as he quickly walked around the table. Her face was hidden as her arms were crossed over her legs. Jr. paled at the site, her pink locks falling over her arms.
" MOMO…how could they do this to you…" Jr. whispered as he went to reach out for her. As he gently touched her…odd enough…
Her eyes opened in a quick second, and with one swift motion, she lifted her head up mechanically and starred at Jr., who seemed to take his hand back and give her a puzzled look. She recoiled from his touch and jumped off the table with a loud thumb on the ground.
" MOMO…?" Jr. questioned as her head turned to look at him, analyzing every little inch of him. Her eyebrow suddenly lifted and she walked towards him slowly, her movement a little unbalanced. Jr. stayed glued at his position, confused at her sudden movements. Her eyes…they were so…
Blank…
" Detach them." A soft yet gently voice called, catching Jr.'s attention. It was the girl…he forgot about her…her voice sending a shiver up his spine…
Now that voice was eerily familiar…it sounded so much…
" What the-?" Jr. had suddenly felt as he was being lifted…and how true his guess was, for MOMO, with unknown strength, grabbed Jr.'s shirt and lifted him off his feet. He suddenly felt the lack of oxygen reaching his lungs…
What was she doing!? Didn't she recognize him?
" St…cough op…MOMO…" Jr. choked out as the green eyed girl stood up and placed her hands behind her back.
" Detach the cord from her back…" The girl commanded again. Seeing that he didn't have much choice, Jr. struggled to reach her back and unplug the cord attached to it. After a few moments, he grasped the cold object and ejected it from MOMO's back…
And she suddenly stopped…
Her eyes dimmed and she let go of Jr., who fell to the ground and rubbed his neck. MOMO fell to the ground limply also, and since she was straining the cords hold on her, the rest of them unplugged themselves from her body, or simply ripped apart.
Her body lying face up, her eyes never closing…
Jr. sat there for a good few minutes, trying to figure out if that had truly happened…
" What's…going on? Why…did she do that…?" Jr. slowly crawled over to her and picked her upper body up.
This wasn't MOMO…
She wouldn't act this way…
She wouldn't try to kill him, would she?
What did they do…?
" She doesn't liked to be disturbed." The green eyed girl called as Jr. quickly glanced at her. She was still hiding amongst the shadows, her eyes piercing through the darkness.
" Who…who are you?"
" Why come for her instead of me Rubedo?"
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They all stared at the screen, confused as to the scene unfolding on the monitor.
" What…is she doing?" Shion questioned as chaos gave off a blank expression, never answering her question.
And his head began to hurt again…
Shion looked over at the silver haired male worriedly as he clutched his head. At the moment, they were still in the surveillance room, trying to find any other comrades…
And did they find one…? Oh yes they did…
Ziggy had left to fetch Mary, hoping no one found her in the storage area, they were to wait for him to comeback before they proceeded.
But…
" KOS-MOS?" Shion questioned as she watched the blue haired girl walk right through the hallway on the screen, killing any person that walked in her path with ease. Her blue hair moved wildly as she swiftly kicked two men down and shot another behind her. Yet, that wasn't the most curious thing…chaos had noticed how she seemed to be muttering something under her lips, which was very unlike her.
" What on earth is she doing? We have to find what floor she's on and get her! KOS-MOS could really get hurt like that!" Shion expressed as she tapped her fingers on the top of chaos's seat.
chaos looked at KOS-MOS, taking her appearance…The rage in her eyes seemed to trouble his mind the most…one victim after another, she would ask them something, which he could not hear, and then kill them, what was she doing? It seemed to him that…maybe, just maybe…she was looking for something…or maybe someone?
But didn't she have functions to locate a person immediately?
Switching to another surveillance camera, chaos and Shion obtained a closer view of her. She had just finished killing off another guard…
And creepily, starred at the exact camera chaos was using to look at her.
" KOS-MOS…" Shion trailed off as KOS-MOS suddenly walked up to the camera…ever so slowly…
chaos focused his full attention on the android, not quite sure what she would do…
She suddenly stopped, and just stared at the camera as if she was starring at chaos himself…
A few moments passed, Shion waiting anxiously as chaos crossed his fingers together under his chin.
Tick…
Tick…
Tic-
KOS-MOS had suddenly muttered a word and immediately left the camera's view…
Shion stood in a thinking position, as chaos's eyes widened.
Did Shion catch it? He certainly had. There was no doubt in his mind as to what she had just said…
" chaos."
Plain and simple…and she didn't seem to happy of saying the name either…which could only mean one thing…
" Shion…"
" Huh? Yes?"
" Take the soldiers with you…You need to leave…"
" What!? Why? What's wrong!?"
" You need to leave." chaos spoke again, somewhat more commandingly.
" I don't understand…"
" If you run into Ziggy along the way…head to the docking bay and take one of the ships off this place."
" chaos?"
" Just DO it!" chaos suddenly yelled, which took Shion aback with surprise. She watched chaos get up from his seat and readjust his gloves, he took one last look at her before running to the door. " There isn't time for me to explain…All I know is that if you stay here any longer, she'll hurt you."
" She? Who?"
" Never mind, just go ok?"
" But what about Jr.? MOMO? And KOS-MOS!?" Shion eyed him desperately as he held his hand up to stop her from continuing her sentence.
" I'll get them, don't worry, I know where KOS-MOS is headed…Just head over to Ziggy and get out of here, now." With that, he ran out of the room, leaving a bewildered Shion behind…as well as the other soldiers confused at his sudden actions.
She wanted to settle unfinished business with him…
wanted to settle unfinished business with …" I don't know what to do…" Shion said suddenly and turned around to look at the monitors again. Her eyebrow lifted suddenly as one of the screens showed Juli Mizhari in her office.
" Hmmm…come on!" Shion said as an idea formed into her head, she couldn't just leave everyone behind, they were all going to make it out together.
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Jr. sat there frozen by the girl's sudden words…
How did she know his real name? So eerily familiar…
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She coughed suddenly…causing Rubedo to look at her worriedly. They had been standing in the rain for quite sometime…he could really worsen her condition if they just stood outside any longer.
A small yelp escaped her lips as Rubedo picked her up and jogged to her porch.
" Rubedo please, you don't have to pick me up, I'm fine cough." Sakura said as he placed her down on the porch away from the rain.
" We should go inside."
" No!" Sakura suddenly tugged at his arm, startling the young boy. " Let's just stay out here…I like watching the rain…"
" Are you-"
" Please?" Sakura questioned as Rubedo sighed and gave in. After a few moments, they proceeded in sitting on the swinging chair, trying to think of a conversation, yet, they both sat in silence…
Rubedo looked over at the girl, watching her breathe…looking at her eyes as they starred forward…and she suddenly placed her hand on top of his. He looked at her, surprised by her gesture, which she only smiled and sighed.
" Do you understand why I did that?" Sakura commented, referring to her hand on top of his. Rubedo also looked down at their hands together, and gave her a light squeeze.
" I think so…" He whispered as Sakura placed her head on his shoulders and coughed a little.
" You know…this will probably be the last time I see you…"
" What…why?" Sakura shrugged at his question and also squeezed his hand.
" I always feel so tired…I think…I think I'll be taking a long…nice sleep. Mother doesn't want me too, she always hides the facts from me, but I already know what will happen soon…I don't need anyone telling me or making me feel better, because my body knows…"
" Sa…"
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" Sakura?"
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I FINALLY updated, damn, I was getting real lazy with this, feels good to type again. Read and review!!!