Galerians: S I N
Story & Art by Tragidanna
Disclaimer: Galerians and all of it's characters do not belong to me (I wish).
Story Summary
While Patt looks through memories that Rion has had in the past, he comes over one that catches his attention, what could it mean? Dorothy's back with a new plan to get back at the humans, but what does this new girl have anything to do with it? How can she see the ghostly Dorothy and where did this girl come from?
NOTICE/IMPORTANT:
Genre: It has a little bit of everything really. So if the genre seems a bit off, my apologizes ahead of time. It will have a bit of everything, so I'll just put it in "General"
Rating: The rating will most-likely change as the chapters are added, sorry! For now, it isn't that bad. Rated T for now.
- For more information, go to the prologue.
Chapter One 1:02
What Is The Family Program?
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5:46 AM.
"I'm home", spoken to no one in particular, not that anyone was probably listening this early in the morning. No response.
The only sound that echoed through the tiny apartment was the sound of a TV. That was odd, it should still be off.
'On today's early news, a deadly hit on the streets of Michelangelo City. A seemly bolt of lightning had struck the ground, making a small crater. Some say they heard a scream follow the destructive hit, but no evidence of someone there has been found so far, but it's still being investigated as we speak.'
Kairi leaned against the doorway as the news filled her ears and her eyes caught a certain blonde boy sitting on the floor with a bowl of cereal, eyes glued to the TV until her presence was noticed.
"Whoaaaaa! huh, oh welcome...What the hell happened to you?", he blurted out.
Indeed, Kairi looked like she had just gotten the shit beaten out of her, of course this was an understatement as she had just been literally struck by lightning. The multi-colored eyed girl just rubbed the back of her head and ignored the boy's question as she walked past him and into the kitchen.
"Hey! I asked you something.", he shouted after her
"Shut up...", she snapped dully
Kairion grabbed a piece of bread off the counter and put it in her mouth before walking into the main room, sitting next to the blonde boy, who eyed her curiously. The apartment they were in was a total mess and seemed to rarely be kept up, everything was either semi-new or broken, of course it had been fixed up from what it was 10 years ago.
"Well?", he crooned with a mocking smirk plastered to his pretty face.
"I was struck by lightning." Kairi fumbled with the remote and changed the channel to something she found more fitting, cartoons.
"Lightning?" Emerald eyes sparkled with more questions and some amusement. "Jeez, nothing kills you!"
"Fuck you Cain"
"Yes, I know you want to, but I'm soo above your standards" Cain said in an 'I'm perfection' tone of voice.
Kairi glared daggers before she took a swipe at him, but missed, so she resolved to something else. Which lead to his cereal bowl flying into his face, now it was Cain who glared at the smirking girl sitting next to him.
While Cain cursed loudly to himself and her, Kairion's mind wandered to the little girl, Dorothy. After she had been "attacked" and waking up in the hospital, she realized that she must have been there for a few hours before her awareness kicked in of where she was. She hated hospitals and refused to stay there, so instead, decided to limp her way home. She figured she'd be just fine after a few good long hours of rest at home. Kairi still wondered if it could have possibly been a dream, but it didn't seem likely. Why had she been out that late in the first place. Good question, she couldn't remember.
So why was Cain sitting next to her? The Galerian that was supposedly killed by his younger brother. A story for another time, but to put it all in a nutshell, he had actually found her, in a sense. It wasn't a good start for a friendship, that was for sure, but now they could finish each other's sentences if they so wanted to and without using telepathy.
Yes, telepathy. Dorothy wasn't kidding when she had spoken of "special powers". Kairion was born with psychic abilities, but the use of them has flawed her childhood memories into bits and pieces or so she assumed. Either way, the strange event wouldn't leave her mind.
"I'm going to use the computer.", Kairi informed into the air.
Cain said nothing but instead watched her stand and leave into the other room. Once she was gone, the emerald-eyed boy flipped on the news to listen about the lightning strike, while he cleaned the mess Kairi had made.
The computer hummed quietly as she switched it on and waited a few moments for it to start up before her hands hit the keys in an amazing speed.
"What...is...the...Family Program.."
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'Family Program...accessing back-up data... . . .
Birdman - Failure Restart . . .
Rainheart - Failure Restart . . .
Rita - Failure Restart . . .
Cain - Failure Searching . . .
Rion - Failure Searching . . .
ASH.exe - Failure Restart . . .
Commence 'New' Family Program...
The family program room seemed to come to life as the computers turned on with data instantly filling every inch. Machines that had been dead now started to move again to serve the existence that now flowed through the Mushroom Tower. Power surged from the Family Program room to a new room that had been kept a secret, yet had never been used, until now. The main system's computer screen flashed on, again data filling it's screen.
'Error Corrupt Data . . . Galerian.exe - Accepted.
Access authorized . . . Starting Program. bzztt'
The computer analyzed every aspect of data, every location that could be used, every power source it could possibly steal from.
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Patt was already well on his way to investigating the strange occurrence, finding any information he could on his computer and hacking his way into another.
"Hmm...well this is odd."
'Mushroom Tower... Access Denied.'
"This never happened before."
Patt pushed away from the computer and moved to another set of machinery, hitting buttons and flipping switches, apparently to start it up. It hummed softly in tune with the computer. His fingers glided across that keyboard, again trying to get into Mushroom Tower's database. No avail, but instead received a 'hint' so to say to this confusion.
This was quite interesting, indeed.
"Hmm...That lightning crash -was- pretty close to the Mushroom Tower. Could it be? No no...it couldn't."
Something was blocking his path into the tower's files and data. Something strong and smart in a sense. A mere lightning strike couldn't do -that- much to such a place that resembled that of a scrape graveyard. So, what was causing this?
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"What are you looking for?"
Kairi turned her head to meet with curious emerald eyes. Cain stood behind her with eyes half gazing at her and half gazing at the screen.
"Oh...uh...looking up something. You wouldn't happen to know what the "family program" is...would you?"
Cain stiffened, his eyes wide with surprise, his jaw slightly dropped. Kairi eyed him strangely and began to stand up from the computer chair before he flinched and stepped back.
"Cain...? What's wrong?"
Their eyes met and he instantly changed his expression and grinned fakely.
"Nothing!"
"You're lying", Kairi growled.
"I'm not lying, I'm serious! I don't know what your talking about!"
"Cai---!"
"Hey, I have to go somewhere real quick, lets continue this when I get back", he interrupted quickly.
Before Kairi could respond, he left the room and the sound of a door opening and quickly closing echoed through the apartment. Kairi stood in silent awe and confusion of what just happened. Cain sounded almost 'afraid' and that alone left Kairi's nerves unsettled.
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Cain leaned against the outside of the apartment door, his hand rested lightly on his head and eyes shut tight. Memories of something he hated sped threateningly through his mind. Image after image, words after words, it was almost maddening.
"No way...how did she know about that? Why did she ask? Why is she looking it up?"
It was painful. Painful to remember the past, to think of the other Galerians, to know he failed... maybe he was overreacting, he wasn't sure. He needed some fresh air, he knew that much.
He walked away from the apartment door.
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A/N: FINALLY...I know ;-; I'm so freaking slow at updating this...my deepest apologies...and I know OO NOTHING is really happening in this chapter...sorry! I'm pretty sure alot more will be going on in Chapter Two (which I'll start to work on soon and TRY to finish soon) It's not that good, but I was having writer's block and I so wanted to finish it... I don't know if the rating will change next chapter, it might...but I'm thinking on it.
If you want to know more about how Kairi and Cain know eachother, read my other fanfiction "ReB O R N" thankyou! R&R!
