By Shirogami
Day 3, Part 2
"Gee... where could it be..." Piloting his Fire Valkyrie, Basara keeps questioning himself the same thing over and over again, and still, the answer seems to maintain unchanged: Unknown.
But not for Wind Warsong, as she concerns more onto the flying experience than Basara's worry. Looking at the land she always stands from eagle-eye view is a totally different feeling for Wind to have, she never imagine herself will have the chance to do this along with the 'God's Messenger' and his 'bird'. As a result, she keeps her 'Wow!' 'Fantastic!' 'This is great!' yelling almost every single minute.
Basara cannot stand the noise from the girl, he quickly flies his Valkyrie in drilling way, in tend to makes Wind to feel scare and shut her up. But, the result is not like what he is expecting. After he stops his 'torture' and asks the silent Wind, not only she yells with high laughter, but also says, "This is exciting! Can we do it again, Mr. Basara?" As a result, Basara totally give up and not dare to have any more ideas.
To search for the white twirl he had in his mind, Basara flies long enough and almost across every land he can see. Wind finally tired for her screaming and feels sleepy, she rest her head on Basara's shoulder and closes her eyes to rest. Meanwhile Basara finds quite relieved, as she does not shout more, and he can concentrate more on his searching.
But, he is a musician after all, it is boring enough for Basara if he is not singing. But, he dare not to sing rock songs as it will awake Wind and she might start to yell and scream again, which he does not want. Just when Basara is squeezing his brain for some songs, he hears words from Wind Warsong, as she is sleep-talking.
"Mama... please don't leave me, Mama..." as Basara heard her words, he also felt something is making his shirt wet. It is her tears. Wind Warsong is crying and it is sure caused by her dream, her sad dreams.
"Ms. Wind..." Basara feels sympathy on Wind, although he does not know the reason for her sadness, but he can sure that tears Wind drops right now is not for happiness. As the Valkyrie flies cross bunch of flying bird and sunset scenery, Basara's emotion feels even deeper, as he remembers the sorrow when he lost the very first alien fan from protodevlin, Gigil who ever sings along with him for the first time and last time. At this moment, he starts to sing a song, which he felt bored not long time ago.
"Omae ga... kaze ni naru nara
Hateshinai... sora ni naritai
Hageshii ame oto ni tachi sukumu toki wa
GUTAA o kaki narashi Kokoro o shitsume you"
While Basara starts to sing 'My Soul For You', Wind's tears become less, and she even feels more comfortable, as she starts to rub gently Basara's chest like her pillow and hears his heartbeat, which pumps along with his songs as lullaby. As she hears the song, she knows that Basara is trying to comfort her by this song.
"COME ON PEOPLE, kanjite hoshii
Ima sugu, wakaranakute ii kara
COME ON PEOPLE, inochi no kagiri
Omae o mamori tsuzukeru MY SOUL FOR YOU"
Basara sings this song soft enough to not waking the sleeping Wind up, he does not know the reason for his action, but he can assure that he really cannot stop himself from singing, as he always said, "I sing when I want to, wherever, whenever, or whoever I sing to." Yes, his heart and his passion are also the reason he sings 'My Soul For You', he really sings this sings because Wind's tears influence the sadness he felt upon the moment Gigil died in ashes in front of his eyes.
"Omae ga michi ni mayottara
Hohoemi de yami o terasou
Omae no kanashimi ga iyasareru nara
Koe ga kareru made Utai tsuzuke you
COME ON PEOPLE, shinjite hoshii
Itsu made mo, kawaranai ore o
COME ON PEOPLE, taiyou no you ni
Omae o kagayakaseru MY SOUL FOR YOU"
As he finished the second phrase, Basara feels that Wind's arm starts to ring around his waist, like holding someone who can give her tenderness and warmth, someone close to her, someone like.
"Mama..." Wind speaks in her sleep again as she feels like what she hold now is who she thinks is, Basara's song makes her feels that her mother is still by her side now and reminds her about the happy times she had with her mother. The proof is the smile she has on her face now after the tears dried by her soft cheek. Looking at the sleeping girl, Basara smiles, as he slightly knows that he had made Wind feels easier for her sadness and he is happy with it.
"Well, at least this is something I can do." Looking back to the front, Basara continues his flight and his searching.
Lately at night, Basara goes back to the place he hides his Valkyrie, then he land it in Gerwalk form, after he shuts all the system, Wind is still sleeping in his chest, like she does not want to wake up from her dreams. Basara sighs along with his smile. He unplugs his suite with the pilot system first, then he fold the guitar to the back of the suite. Carrying Wind Warsong in his arms, Basara jumps out from the cockpit and land to the side of it. He pushes a button on the side to close the cockpit. Knowing that Wind is still sleeping, Basara says nothing, just carrying her like a bride and goes back to the 'Warsong' village.
When he reaches the village from far, he sees that everyone is searching around the village. At the moment he arrive the entrance, a teenager notices and yells, "Ms. Warsong is back! Along with the God's Messenger!" The young man keeps shouting and run around the village. Heard the title they gave, Basara cannot help himself a sigh and thinks, "Give me a break"
After around two minutes, their chief, Lonewolf Warsong comes to the entrance and feels happy to see Basara and his daughter.
"Oh God, you had made us worry so much, Mr. Basara. It really scares me when I know that Wind is out for almost a day just to pick up herb." Lonewolf says in relief as he sees his daughter comes back, although she is still sleeping in Basara's arm, mumbling, "Mama, you are so warm"
"Wind!" Lonewolf surprised when he heard his daughter calls for her mother, so as the other older villagers. Basara notices their expressions, says, "Mr. Lonewolf, I think we better put Wind back to bed first, my arms are getting tired"
"O... Okay, this way please, Mr. Basara" Lonewolf leads the couple to his house, and the other villagers are being called to go back to their own place.
City 7
Another night falls upon the busy street again, and every fan of Fire Bomber is worrying of Basara as there is still no news from the searching.
Standing by the window of Basara's apartment, which is also used as their practicing studio, Mylene is looking at the place where the Fire Valkyrie always stands. Under the weak light from the apartment, she stares at the deep footprint of the Valkyrie and thinks, "It is too long, why papa takes such a long time to look for him"
"Mylene, anything okay?" Rei asks after he checked upon the recording of their practicing just now.
"Mmm... nothing much, Rei. How's the result?" Mylene throws away her worries and gets back to her work.
"Hmm... your new song is okay already. All we need is just a little adjustment upon the chords of the chorus part. The else is okay." Rei looks at Mylene and says.
"Really? That's great!" Mylene smiles as she finally hears good news.
"Ah..." Rei feels better when his words had made Mylene gains back her smile.
In the mean time, Vifidas stops hitting her drums, look at Rei and thinks, "Good work, Rei"
Mylene puts down her towel, which she used to wipe her sweat just now, says, "Well, what are we waiting for, Let's do it, shall we?" Her suggestion gets Rei's action of picking up his keyboard guitar and Vifidas's drumbeat as their agreements.
While Mylene is getting back her bass guitar, she thinks, "Basara, please come back early to hear my new song." Then she yells, "Let's do it!" then Vifidas hits her drums and their practice begins again.
Warsong's village
After putting Wind Warsong back to her bed, Basara is having conversation with Lonewolf Warsong, as he got question to ask.
"Mr. Lonewolf, may have a word with you?" Basara asks as he takes off his pilot suite.
"Sure." Lonewolf replies. "First of all, I am sorry about the ride this afternoon." Basara apologize.
"It's okay. I should feel glad if she is happy with it." Lonewolf won't dare to say something makes Basara angry; after all, he is 'God's Messenger.
"Secondly, I saw Wind crying when she called for her mother. I wonder what is making she feels so sad upon her?" No doubt of it, Basara concerns the only fan he got in this village.
Lonewolf stops for a while, then he replies, "Wind lost her mother when she was 6 years old, because of overworking and lack of nutrition. I owed her too much for helping me in everything and gave birth to my beautiful child." Basara apologizes for the sadness he recalled, "I am sorry, Mr. Lonewolf"
"It's okay, there is nothing sad about it. My wife passed away in peace and calm, I hope she is living happily in the 'Spirit's Place' now, right, Mr. Basara?" Instead of felling sad, Lonewolf is thinking that his belated wife is living in the place also known as heaven for Basara's time. Basara thinks for a while, says, "Ah, I may missed to meet her there. But I am sure about that she is living in that place." Eventually, Basara does not want to hurt their feelings more. In fact, he may not 'God's messenger', but he knows that objecting someone's hope is not what he likes to do, so as he does not like when his wish of singing to convince the protodevlin was being thought as silly matter to think of.
"Thank you, Mr. Basara." Lonewolf thanks for Basara's understanding. Then he continues, "Because of that, Wind is been raised without mother's love and care. She may be a strong child in everyone's eye, but I know that she always miss her mom when she is crying alone in her room." Lonewolf stops for a while, and then look at Basara, says, "Anyway, Mr. Basara. I should thank you for making my daughter feels easier when she is sad. I don't know the reason but it seems like your music is not only not hurting my daughter at all, but also comforting her soul as well"
Basara suddenly feels strange and asks, "I always wonder why all of you got serious headache when listening my song, is it something wrong about my music?" As a musician, Basara wants to know if he is the cause of the problem. But Lonewolf just swing his head and answer, "I also don't know the answer as you do, Mr. Basara." But still, Basara cannot think of any reason why his song is 'dangerous' to them.
Meanwhile, at the town of Modarms.
"Sir, I got news from the scout, says that they had located the enemy's secret weapon's hideout." A soldier reports to his superior.
"Are you sure?" the person in charge asks for right answer.
"Definitely, they said they got it this evening and also the figure of the one who control it." The reporting soldier passes his superior a picture after his words.
Looking at a picture of Reiki Basara, the captain smirks a bit and says, "Well done. Gather our men tomorrow morning, we got a bird to catch"
"Yes sir." Then the soldier leaves the room. Leaving only the captain and his mad laughing.
"Hmmhmm... Hahaha..."
End of Day 3, Part 2
Author's note Hello everyone, Shirogami here and thanks for reading this fan-fiction.
Thank for your review, ChibiErinn-chan. I will try my best for the following chapters. This chapter might not satisfies enough this time, after all, I always prefer writing action-based fiction.
I don't owe any character or songs of Macross 7 in this fan fiction, but I hope you enjoy the story.
Please RR, no matter good or bad. Your words will be a cure to the mistakes of this fan fiction.