Loup-Garou
Part Two: Trust
by YYY
I wake up feeling agitated. Why do I feel so uncomfortable? I look down at my body and see that my shirt and pants are torn. There are traces of blood on my shirt. I must have smelled the blood and get agitated by the scent. I don't remember how my shirt got torn. I don't even remember how or when I fell asleep. Just what did I do last night? My thoughts are interrupted when I hear noises coming from outside of my room. A mob of angry ARCAM agents run into my room and shout to me, "you killed 7 of our agents last night! You killed our comrades!" The angry mob starts beating me up mercilessly. I try to fight back but I can't, I don't want to hurt them. I thought for sure that I'm going to get beat into a prune when Yu fights through the mob and covers me with his body. "Stop it! Stop it! Don't hurt him!" Yu shouts. The agents scream, "Get away from him, Ominae! He is a beast! He will kill us all if we don't stop him now!" I shout, "please! Believe me! I don't want to hurt anyone! I really don't remember anything!"
"Shut up! You murderer! We will not believe in anything you say! You're gonna pay for your sin with your blood." The agents yell at me. Yu screams, "The only way your bullets will get to Jean is to pass through my body." Those agents point their gun at Yu's head and shout to the boy, "Fine! You can die together with him!" I start panicking. Being a Spriggan, I'm never afraid of pain or death; but I will never ever want Yu to die because of me. "Let go of me!" I yell to Yu, but that stubborn boy does not listen. He just holds onto me tighter. One of the angry agents says to Yu, "Don't be naïve! Jean is a killer! I know he is your friend but don't let your emotions get the better of you! Use your sense of judgement! If you don't kill him now, he might kill you next." Yu still refuses to let me go. Some agents try to pull Yu away from me while another agent points a gun at me.
"Stop pulling me!" Yu screams to the agents. Right before the gun goes off, Yu struggles away from the agents' grab and blocks the bullet from me. The hot crimson blood of the young boy splashes all over me. "Yu!" I scream. I pick up the boy and press on the wound to try to stop the bleeding. "Someone get him a doctor, damn it! This is the medical center! Where is the doctor?" I scream. One of the agents runs out to get a doctor. Yamamoto comes in and asks, "What's going on here?" Yu says, "Jean said he didn't remember anything, leave him alone." The agents will not give up. "We can't just forgive him! Jean killed so many of our people!" They yell. Yu says weakly, "killing him will not bring those agent back! Why can't you guy remember how many times Jean saves our lives? Most of us will not be here now if it weren't for him! How can you point a gun at the one to whom you own your life to and pull the trigger! Can't you see that he needs our help?" Yu is barely conscious now. I can feel the boy's energy draining away. "Don't talk, just save your strength, the doctor is coming." I say to Yu as I hold him tight.
The doctor comes and takes Yu to the surgery room. Yamamoto says, "I came here to see how Yu is handling the whole situation, I guess he is not handling it too well. I should have been here last night. This is too much for him to handle. Not that I can blame him, so many of his classmate and co-workers are killed and you're his friend. I know something like this is gonna happen." The angry agents shout, "sir! You have to kill Jean now! He is an insane beast! He killed our agents!" Yamamoto eyes them coldly and says, "if I kill Jean because he killed our agents, then I should shot you all right now since you shot Yu and he is our Striker. Look at yourself! you guys act more like an insane beast than Jean. Yu told me that someone might be framing Jean. Did you guys consider that? If someone is really framing Jean and you killed him, you will be playing right into those people's hand."
All the agents are quiet now. Yamamoto says to them, "you still have a job to do, so go back to your post." Everyone leave. Yamamoto turns to me and says, "I'm not helping you. I just cannot allow those agents to lost control and do whatever they like. I'm going to lock you up in the cell, if I find out you really are responsible for the killing, you'll be terminated." Two security guards take me to the cell and lock me there. I sit in the cell worrying about Yu. I know I might soon be--as Yamamoto so delicately put it--'terminated', but I don't care about dying anymore. I just want Yu to be okay. I keep thinking about Yu until I suddenly wake up. I don't know how and when I fall asleep, all I know is I'm not in my cell. I'm in the middle of a cage in ARCAM high security area. "Hey, what's going on here?" I shout to the security guards. When they don't answer, I bang on the cage bars.
"Ouch!" I shout in pain the moment my fist comes into contact with the bars. The bars are charged with high voltage electricity. "What is the meaning of this?" I scream. The agent who guards my cell says, "you really don't remember, do you? You almost killed someone again last night. Last night, you break out of your cell and attacked someone. When we found you, you're cover in blood lying right next to the victim." I rub my painful head and ask, "I attacked an agent again?" The guard shakes his head and says, "last night victim is a Spriggan." I am scared out of my mind, the only Spriggan around here is Yu! I fall on the floor and knee on the ground. Tears come out from my eyes as I punch the ground. "Damn! Damn! Damn!" I yell on top of my lung. I almost killed Yu! The guard says to me, "it's not your friend." I look at the agent. He says to me, "you're worried that you hurting your friend, right? the boy who blocked the bullet for you. That's not the one who got hurt last night. Another Striker came yesterday; he was the one who got assaulted. I think his name is Oboro." My whole face goes white.
Oboro must have heard about what happened and got worried, so he came check on Yu. There is no way Yu will still want to believe me and help me after I almost killed Oboro since Oboro means the world to Yu. This is the end of me. I lie down on the cell floor, reminiscing the time I spend with Yu. I remember every mission we been through together, the way he fires a gun, the way he moves when he fights our enemies. I also remember the free time we spend together, the way he sounds when he talks to me. I wonder what it will be like if he is moving under me in my bed, how will his body moves? What will he sounds like when the moment comes and he screams my name?
"Jean!" Yu screams on top of his lung as he run toward my cell. "What in the?" I try to get up and realize I can't move. Someone must have drugged me. I open my eyes and see a giant wolf chasing after Yu. "Jean! Get up!" Yu shouts. The wolf jumps onto him and tries to bite him. "Yu…" I murmur. I can't let the boy get hurt. I struggle up and shouts to the guard, "Open the cell door!" The guard just stands there, he is too scared to move. I scream again, "I'm not the killer! That wolf is! If you don't let me out it will kill the boy!" The guard works up the courage to go to the computer and presses the key words. Before the guard can open the door for me, the wolf jumps toward him. The guard screams and dodges. Yu jumps toward the wolf and slams the wolf away. "Get out of here!" Yu screams to the guard.
The guard runs away in fear while the wolf jumps onto Yu. The boy that I love is outside my cell getting killed but I cannot do anything. It is driving me insane! He is right in front of me, yet I cannot help him. The wolf's bloody mouth opens and it bites down on Yu's shoulder; the sharp teeth tear the fresh on Yu's shoulder. I can't just stand there and watch anymore. I have got to do something. I holler with all the air in my lung and reach out to grab the wolf's back leg. The electricity from the bar shocks through my body but I don't care. I take the wolf leg and pull the giant wolf to me. When the wolf is pressed against the electric bar, I wrap my arms tightly around the wolf. The wolf yelps in pain and struggles madly. I feel like all the organs in my body are getting fried, but I refuse to let go of that wolf. I will not let it attack Yu. Finally, the wolf fainted. I let it go and fall to the ground. My whole body is smoking when I fainted on the floor.
-TBC-