Journey Seventeen – Lost Eden
'WARNING! WARNING! THE EXPERIMENTAL MA, JENOVA, HAS BEEN RELEASED!'
Many scientists and military staff were bemused about the MA Jenova being released without warning, but for Ashura and Hojo, that meant dilemma. They ran to the core of the trouble, until they were struck by Jenova's missiles. Luckily for them, a swordsman from nowhere appeared managed to protect them both using his famed katana, Muerio, and split the missiles into half.
"Ryoujin!" Hojo mystifyingly shouted to the military general swordsman as he turned to face them "What are you doing here? I thought you were taking a break from defence!"
"Defence?" Ryoujin replied sarcastically "Paradise Eden is swarming with many people turning into weird black monsters, while my younger brother and Ashura are in the building, unaware of the dangers it now faces."
"What? You mean the Black Heart Virus has been released without noticed? That's highly impossible! I've told the staff to store it in the most upkeep secret only known to a few."
"Really? Then I supposed who would do such a thing? Luckily, I saved your wife and child in the same building as you are in and managed to evacuate the citizens to outer space from Paradise Eden…"
"That won't work, Ryoujin. Evacuating the citizens to outer space would cause worse troubles than I have thought." And before Hojo could finish the explanation, there were more 'black creatures' coming to the same position the 'group' were in.
"Dammit! No time for explanations! Hojo, Ashura! You go on ahead, while I provide for your rendezvous!"
"Ryoujin…"
"Now get the hell out of here!"
Hojo had no choice – he and Ashura should run to the core of the trouble and they sprinted away, while Ryoujin slashed many 'black creatures' should either of them were close to his Muerio's blade.
"I have an uncle?" Sephiroth was very confused about his long lost relative "Then what happened to him?"
"I simply do not know what happened to him, as the truth now unfolds." Hojo explained in an inexplicable manner as another scene was shown, only this time it was here that cause the moment to happen.
Hojo and Ashura stopped to find out that something unexpected happened.
"It can't be…" Ashura faintly remarked "I thought you were going away on a business trip."
"What are you doing with my wife, my child and…your brother Vaughn, Ansem?" Hojo cried angrily as he saw Ansem pointing his gun at Vaughn, who was handcuffed to the back and Lucrecia, carrying and protecting their young child.
"Glad you could make it, Hojo." Ansem just slyly replied as he pointed the gun at his wife, who held their baby as long as she could – frightened, but not completely stiff. And then he took out the four test tubes, only two were the same colour and the other two were different colours. "Recognise these, professor?"
"How did you get the Noir Key, Blanc Key and Glace Key?" Hojo was heatedly surprised about how Ansem ever got the test tubes.
"Oh, those?"
"Hojo, take your wife and child and run!" Vaughn shouted as he tried to push his brother, but to no avail as he was at gunpoint as the result.
"You don't want to meet up dead, now do we older brother? Now, as I was saying, before my dear brother was interrupting the scene, I was tired being a businessman away in some foreign country and my dear old Vaughn didn't invite me to his party a year ago. And then some time later, Vaughn came back to my place talking about the balance and that secret project you were taking. Unfortunately, he merely joked about the unbalance as just a fairy tale that is impossible for a human to change it. And then, I thought, maybe I should be the one to change it and so, I began taking him as hostage and led him right to the Lions' Den, activating that virus that drives people's hearts mad; did a little talk with Jenova and set her freedom from her 'prison' to wreak some havoc in Paradise Eden and guess what I found? Not only those experimental liquids I've just taken in as my gifts, but also I added extra hostages to your wife and child, Hojo."
"So, what are you planning to do with those liquids, even though you never inserted one of them, let alone all of them? And what about my wife and child?" Hojo tried to conceal his anger when asking to Ansem, but it was no use.
"Hmm, for the liquids, I am planning to sell them for at least a million Gil. But as for your lineage, Hojo…"he pointed the gun at Lucrecia and the child, to which the baby is now crying "…say at least sayonara to that and it's all over soon."
He was about to pull the trigger, when suddenly out of the blue, a figure appeared from nowhere as he slashed his gun hand and then punched Ansem on to his left cheek, leaving him into unconscious thoughts, although the bullet he shot at, went straight directly to Hojo's torso.
"Archangel Michael!" Ashura shouted as he freed Vaughn's hands and taking the liquids, while Hojo ran limply, holding his stomach as long as he can endure and hugged his wife in reunion. However, the relief they have been given turned unexpected as the Archangel Michael began to malfunction as he dropped Kusanagi on to the floor and collapsed right in front of them. Ashura could not believe that his project had collapsed right in front of them and had no choice, but to lift him his back and cried. "That can't be…why my creation…came to our rescue…yet, even though he was still incomplete."
"…Jenova…" Archangel Michael's voice faintly whispered to everyone, even though his mouth was not lifting a sound "…she's watching you very carefully…and…and…she's behind you…waiting for her moment to strike…I've only have limited amount of smoke gas to divert her for a short time…but it is our only chance."
"I see."
"Then, what are we waiting for?" Vaughn shouted, until he saw Hojo, hobbling slowly to Ashura's lab coat and getting the two Noir Key liquids "Hojo, what the hell are you doing? This isn't the time for vaccinating!"
Hojo did not have the time to answer as he inserted the liquid into the syringe and then injected himself with pain included.
"There…isn't much time…" Hojo coughed strongly as his voice was very pale and yet strong enough for everyone to hear "…but you have to trust me. Everyone, follow me…there is one thing I would like to show you, that even Ashura wasn't aware of."
"Ansem was here as well?" Leon, Yuffie and Aerith asked in unison with both confusion and surprise in their tones and then Aerith spoke afterwards "How did he enter the scenes? I mean the last time I saw him was when Leon, Yuffie and I were just kids and he didn't seem to remember about everything in Paradise Eden!"
"I don't know what happened in the aftermath of Ansem's demise, or what solution Ashura put into Ansem's body," Even Hojo was surprised that Ansem came to their world for some unknown reason as his tone was unusually a mixture of calm and perplexing "but the content must have been very effective to remove Ansem's current memories permanently."
And soon, another scene shifted to the corridor that led into the surprising room and the stairs that soon led to the same room.
"You built the TARDIS all by yourself?" Vaughn merely joked to Hojo, to which he can only reply with a faint laugh, while coughing at the same time.
"Not exactly. This is my other creation, where I research about time manipulation when I have the time. Soon enough, I developed this, a machine that can send people, only to the future."
"Wait, why not the past?"
"I don't know how to incorporate the past and future, so I only did the future. And it seems, this is the only way to get you escape on a one-way ticket ride."
A few minutes in later and they were near the location, but Hojo could not take the strain he endured and knew his time had come to an end. He walked in a wobbled fashion as he came to Lucrecia, his only child and the Archangel Michael. With his knelt position he made the most surprising moment – injecting the Noir Key onto his own son's arm!
"Forgive me my son, but you must not let anyone take that key I'm giving to you. Lucrecia, this is your only chance to flee from this place, get to the secret basement and activate the machine."
"But, wouldn't that leave you and take me and him to the future?"
"Yes, but at least I can save the world and not let anyone dared to put their foot in. Now go! There's no time for it." And he coughed up blood from his mouth and saw the last time he saw his family. However, he also made another surprising moment as he pressed the button that had activated the smoke screen gas, used his every strength to pick up Kusanagi and threw it straight at his son's back, absorbing into his body without inflicting pain and his wife noticed as they ran downstairs to the room.
"Hojo…" Ashura anxiously whispered as he took the Glace Key and carried the now unconscious Ansem onto his back, while Vaughn picked up the Blanc Key with his expression turning sombre to Hojo.
"Ashura, Vaughn; don't worry about me…" he coughed as his voice was now more faintly than it was, though he smiled with his scattered strength "I've enough strength to follow you later on. Make sure you…protect these Keys…they're the only ones I made them unique…how you would use them doesn't matter to me…now go, I'll track onto you later on…and Ashura?"
"Yes…"
"What are you going to do with Ansem?"
"Don't worry about it, Hojo. I've come up with a formula that would even permanently erase Ansem's current memories in Paradise Eden."
"Okay, but once I've get to the future; I'll find Lucrecia and tell her that you'll be here!" With Ashura's final smile to Hojo, he and Vaughn knew Hojo would not survive to arrive at the location, but despite that, they had hope that one day, they would meet again one day. They turned their backs and ran downstairs as fast as they could, before the smoke screen was dying.
"Though my body would not carried on to meet them, maybe if my soul could dive into the Archangel Michael's body and…"
Unfortunately, the scene finished seeing that Hojo's memories have soon been done only through him and the company were whisked to the garden, where Sephiroth and Jehovah first met each other.
"What happened to you?" Yuffie asked cheerfully, but also in a baffled manner "Did you entered into that robot's body?"
"Frankly I did," Hojo replied while he was cleaning his glasses "but unfortunately that's where I black out at one minute and the next moment, where I 'opened' my eyes that I was in some lab with people checking on the Archangel Michael's body. I tried to move his arms around, but because my soul was transfer to his body, I couldn't do it. All I could do was to watch through his eyes, while they changed his body. And then, I found out the realization as to why I can't control the Archangel Michael… his memory data has been replaced with a new memory data and couldn't recognise me. Hence, his body was full of very advanced technology and that name…YESHUA."
"No way! You mean the robot boy we just saw was actually the Archangel Michael and not some kind of superhero legend?"
"Yes, I'm afraid. I don't understand as to why no one had actually noticed this YESHUA had completely over taken the Archangel Michael's body or why Paradise became Lost over a thousand years later. However, if you want to the complete truth about this, first you should contact the person who changed the Archangel Michael's body. And Sephiroth…"
"Now what is it?" the silver-haired man asked, though he could not spit the word 'father' to Hojo.
"Please don't hate me on that burden I've made to you. I know you'll hate me for that, but I'm glad you've grown up to such a fine gentleman and lived in a normal life for a while."
"…" it was hard for Sephiroth to accept this and Hojo knew his only son that the statement was too early to accept that he was talking to him as father and son.
"And if you were asking me of the whereabouts of Masamune before you actually got it at such a young age, I knew I was carrying it around, even if I didn't noticed at that time."
Back to reality
"Yay!" Yuffie shouted as she removed the red-tinted glasses "I'm back at the real world!"
"Yuffie, will you please shut the hell up?" Leon frustratingly asked to Yuffie when the group exited the room, leaving the stationary lifeless YESHUA there and entered into the room, where Yazoo and Eliza were in and put away the red-tinted glasses.
"So, how was your trip to virtual reality, Sephiroth?" The Afro-Edian engineer asked politely with a gentle smile.
"…" Sephiroth, however, replied with a silence and neutral expression as he was in no mood to talk to anyone and left the room.
"Uh, I don't think Sephiroth wants to talk to anyone Eliza." Aerith desolately replied to her in behalf for the One Winged Angel.
"Huh, what happened to him? Did he change so suddenly completely?"
"…Let's just say, he was reunited with someone special and never realises he never got the chance to see him, until now."
"…I see…so, could you tell me what you did with Sephiroth and the others when you're inside YESHUA's memory?"
"Well…"
Aerith explained everything to Eliza about the truth – how myth revealed as actually lost history that the planet, Paradise Eden became Lost Eden for over a thousand years, the truth about the Archangel Michael, the three artefacts. In fact everything that the young brunette told her everything she can remember, though she never mentioned Sephiroth's father as she thought that would spread like wildfire on gossips and such.
"…You mean YESHUA is actually the Archangel Michael? That's impossible! The first time I came to contact with him, was when I first got recruited by my director."
"Then maybe, we should go to him and get things clearer."
"But there's one problem…"
"What?"
"My director is completely obsessed with YESHUA and won't talk to anyone when it comes to YESHUA's secrets. Even Yazoo and I weren't able to talk about how he got him in the first place."
"Oh dear…then must be the way to talk to him."
The next day, Reeve's office
KNOCK! KNOCK!
"Come in! I have plenty of free time!" Reeve shouted as he was still fixing the part of Cait Sith. The door opened and Yazoo and Eliza came in, along with unexpectedly, Aerith and Sephiroth, who was still silent around yesterday's incidents. "Well, you've brought guests Eliza. I assumed they're from Dratis Iris, is that correct?"
"Yes, sir." Eliza replied "But, the reason they're here with here is this – why YESHUA was not completely bespoke, but as a different cyborg being replaced?"
Then Reeve stopped everything and silence entered in. He knew that the secret has been spilt. "I guess you found out, eh?" He sighed as he stood up and pressed the button that closed the blinds. "Yazoo, could you please close the door behind you?"
"Yes, sir." And he did and Reeve did not know where to start the explanation to Aerith, Sephiroth and now Eliza and Yazoo, his rookies.
"There was one thing that I didn't mention to you – I don't even know how to explain. Well, here goes nothing…
"The YESHUA you see here is actually that robot I found couple of years ago, where you people was barely born. I was the head of Yeager's Enterprises Financial Department, where I already have a promotion. Then sometime later, I accidentally got lost in the streets of Serapha, where I saw this stranger and that robot, which was in tatters. I couldn't leave them here, let alone seeing them as strangers, so I took them to my place and have that person recovered. However, the day, that person got up despite with his injuries and asks me that I should mend the robot. I never saw him again as soon as he left my place and I didn't know what to do with the robot. Should I mend the robot like he told me to do or…
"I've asked Yeager that I should resign the job and work as a director to this new project I have been devising to 'mend' this robot, who was originally called 'Archangel Michael', given that person told me that robot's name, before he took off so suddenly."
"Did you know the name of this person?" Aerith asked with some curious tones in mind.
"Sadly not at all, I'm afraid and it's been a while since I've seen him for a while in over a couple of years, so I have the faintest idea of his appearance. Anyway, Yeager Senior gave the go ahead and soon Project Y had begun. However, instead of mending 'Archangel Michael', with many past staff members I have hand selected, I disposed of the components that were deemed irrelevant with today's world and replaced with Yeager's best technology around and re-christened as YESHUA. Many years later and with members replacing after some time, you came around Eliza when you're just a graduate a few years back along with your friend Andrew and more recently Yazoo. Now it seems we're right back to the start." He sighed with irony that he finished his part of the story to the group and silence have entered the building.
"So, you were the only person who knew that YESHUA is actually the 'Archangel Michael' and no one else, is that correct?" Sephiroth finally spoke with a neutral tone.
"Yes, assuming that these words are only my evidence to you, so what are you planning to do with this?"
Sephiroth opened the door, while Reeve asked him a question and he turned around for a reply: "I would use your words to understand more of what is going on with the situation you and I are in and hopefully…try and dismantle the XIII Order from getting hands on Lost Eden." He soon left the room, to which was followed by Aerith and Yazoo, but Eliza was standing there feeling so lost with new information that she never knew.
"I'm sorry I haven't told you this before Eliza."
"Why, why haven't you told me, let alone Andrew and the rest of the crew?" She exclaimed in anger as her eyes were flowing with tears.
"If I told you a few years back, then the plan would arise to problems and I would force to halt Project Y. So, what more could you ask for?"
Somewhere dark
"So, your brother Hojo had managed to fend off those XIII Order fools, is that correct, Ryoujin?" 'Master' asked in a calm manner.
"It would seem so, considering his soul is still functioning inside that YESHUA." The blue masked person replied rather quickly and tranquilly.
"However," Bellima soon spoke seconds after his reply "I've heard that your nephew, Sephiroth, has yet been aware that you're not been missing the whole time. Is that really true?"
"…Yes. But to that context, I do not wish to meet him, just yet. Unlike Lawrence, who has apparently exposed himself to the members of the XIII Order and the few people, not to mention my brother's friend, Ashura; is it not?"
"Hey, don't blame me!" Lawrence smirked as he shrugged "Ashura was the only person who has the amazing ability with those wonder drugs!"
"And then, there are the things that Hojo didn't mention. I wonder what happened to them…"
"You've got to ask Ashura for that!" Astaroth sarcastically replied as he brushed his golden hair back "He's Hojo's closest friend, before the accident happened!"
"…"
Several hours later in the meeting room, Vatican
"…and that's all we could find on this piece information." Sephiroth formally explained to everyone, apart from YESHUA, before he sat down.
"By they way, what ever happened to YESHUA?" Bach finally asked, after he somehow noticeably disappeared for some time.
"Are you picking that question up, again?" Adrian asked with a heavy sigh.
"YESHUA is currently resting in his cryobed somewhere in this Vatican, as I've been told."
"But why on Genso are you taking with him? He still needs some more maintenance, before he can actually be free!"
"Bach, aren't you the one, who is a technophobic person and yet still carries a guitar full of advanced technology?"
"Anyway, I need YESHUA for special reasons on talking to Ashura Zhan and hence, why we are going to his home for last fifteen times! Is that all right for you now, Yuffie?" Sephiroth asked angrily to Yuffie when se kept asking where the hell they are heading to.
"Okay! Okay! I get it now!" The young ninja exclaimed as she knew that if she pissed the One Winged Angel too much, she is going to meet her demise.
"So how long are we going to get to Ashura's home?" Yazoo asked politely, who was unlike the young kunoichi.
"Around several hours I believe."
Recreational Room
"Sephiroth, are you here?" Aerith's voice asked, as she came into the room and sat down next to him.
"…" That was his reply as he looked to the black blanket of stars. For Aerith, she could not help but to smile in order to cheer him up.
"…It must be really hard for you."
"…"
"I know. I don't really know what to say when you met your father for a very long time. It…must have been…a long time…seeing him for a long time."
"…"
"I'm sorry; if I ever bothered you…maybe I should you alone and…" She then noticed as she was about to stand up and turned around, his hand was on her arm.
"Please, don't leave me alone…I need some…company." She nodded and sat down again.
"So, what's on your mind?"
"…Ever since when I was just a kid, I never knew where I was actually born, because my mother was so protective when I asked her about my birthplace. I never asked her about my father's whereabouts, until she disappeared and so many years later…I found him, inside that robot who is actually 'Archangel Michael' for the whole time…I'd just feel so confused and angry…."
"I know how you feel…"
"Another thing that crops to me…are that I wasn't born somewhere like yours…but in the past. I…" And without warning, he hugged in front of her and for the first time since his childhood, he cried; tears flowing from his pale face. "…I…know now that I'm not alone anymore…"
"Yes, you're not alone. You've got me, Yuffie, Leon, Bach, Adrian, Eliza…in fact everyone is here with you. I don't know how many more are going to support your cause, but there's one special thing…I'm always at your side, so…you're not alone." And something unexpected happened to Aerith – Sephiroth kissed on her lips!
What the? That's not right! I'm mean…this is unexpected right…
Sephiroth held his face back and felt a little uncomfortable about that kiss as his face was a little blushed. "…Uh, I'm…so…sorry about that!"
"Don't worry about that kiss! I've had worse when my first kiss went terribly wrong…I ended up kissing to a moogle once when I was only a kid."
"Oh…I see." Sephiroth tried to hide his snickering upon his response and then regained his composure.
"So, what are you going to do when you are going to confront Ashura?"
"I'm going to make him talk about everything that I found out from my father and explain more in detail."
Ashura's Office, inside his manor in Third Saccharine
Ashura heard footsteps as he looked out to the window, gazing at the beautiful scenery.
"So, you knew about the cover-up on Lost Eden." He calmly remarked as he was still looking at the windowpane.
"Tell me, why were you involved with my father over a thousand years ago?" Sephiroth's voice asked with some concern.
"I knew you say that." He turned to face his friend's son and his 'acquaintance' "Your father and I were very good friends since high school, along with Vaughn. And ever since Paradise Eden was such at the peak of peace, we were fools of playing God's beautiful creation and as a result, Ansem opened Pandora's Box and Hell let loose."
"Then, there are the three Keys – The Noir Key, to which my father have spoken, the Blanc Key to which a person named Vaughn has got it and that Glace Key – i.e. you. What are they?"
"I knew you would say that. The Three Keys are actually the ones that can only unlock the path to Lost Eden as it is now called. The Noir Key, as you may well know, enhances the person's offence, defence, speed and intelligence, but with notable differences, such as black wing or wings appearing from back and silver hair covering every strand. However, since your father hasn't got enough information about the other two, let me fill you in. The Blanc Key is pretty much like the Noir Key, except it's the exact opposite in terms of appearance and the Glace Key is more of an experimental liquid…it lets the person who is being injected have offence, defence and normal personality in three separate entities."
"Wait a minute," Aerith came in seconds after Ashura's explanation "You mean those three personalities you have are not some kind of diagnosis, but the Glace Key's effect?"
"Good, now you come into there. Fearing that one day Ansem would regain his memories after that solution I made, I personally injected the Glace Key onto myself so that he may never know where the exact location is. However, that Glace Key gave me the effect of having my appearance ageless by the time I inserted to myself and I have to control my personalities for a bit, until I got used to it."
"Ah, I can see why you look so young back then. But what about those boys you have?"
"You mean Ran and Mardo? They were orphans back then they were just toddlers and I took them as my children. I wonder if Hojo could see me now, after I regretted myself for not rescuing him and my creation – Archangel Michael."
"Actually, he's here, only his soul is inside YESHUA's body, which he is actually Archangel Michael with all those technology inside of him. And then, there's another issue to me – why is my father is involved with you, I mean, you never told him the whole truth about Paradise Eden."
Ashura was shocked Aerith asked him two questions that were her concerns. "That's impossible…I thought Archangel Michael…my creation was gone…and Hojo…dead for over a thousand years…"
"Then this would overcome your doubts…"Sephiroth smirked as he stepped out of the way to show YESHUA walking in front of the many-swords-swordsman and yet, he was actually the lost bioroid he had created. And Hojo's soul inside YESHUA's body? That was incredibly impossible, even Hojo would know that! "Eliza and Yazoo were kind enough to modify his…er, whatever inside of him and Hojo should be read to speak as soon as he regain control of YESHUA's components."
A few minutes in and nothing happened….then the moment came; a similar voice to Ashura. "Good to see you, Ashura Zhan, or should I say…Ashura Cheng."
"It can't be…Hojo? I thought you were perished, along with Ryoujin and the rest in Paradise Eden over a thousand years ago!"
"Yes, I was perishing, but my body was only to expire, not my soul. And unfortunately, I was black out to the events in the aftermath until now."
And before Ashura could say another word to his lost friend, a klaxon was heard and it was a voice of his bodyguards.
"ASHURA, WE HAVE TROUBLE COMING IN THE MANOR! EVERYONE, BUT RAN, YAZOO AND I WERE BEATEN UNCONSCIOUS BY THE XIII ORDER! YOU MUST FLEE THE MANOR, NOW!"
"What? How many members are currently present in here?"
"About four!"
Author's Note: And that, my friends, is the end on the special chapters present and by god, that took me a while to round the history up and don't really ask me why Ryoujin is Sephiroth's uncle, I just made that up to go along with the fanfiction! And yes, that TARDIS joke was the reference from my favourite sci-fi show, Doctor Who. Hmm, strangely, I don't know why a Doctor Who reference was included in the FFVII category, but I might look up for those Doctor Who and FFVII crossover fanfictions soon.
And I hope these chapters will help your head free from the confusion I make during the story. Apparently, the original story before Nimbus Exploration became this was originally called Nimbus Journey and the storyline was similar to Journey One, except after that, Sephiroth, Aerith and Bach were on the floating island, comparable to Noodle's one from Gorillaz and exploring every world that contain different cultures everywhere. Oh dear, looks like my head went a little too far for that. And I was about to put many FFVII characters, as well as the Three Silver-Haired Men (Kadaj, Yazoo and Loz, if you are lost to the letters, SHM), Denzel and Marlene in most of the chapters!
And then, some more fanfiction ideas came into my head again, but this time, it set in Hollow Bastion or Radiant Garden for some reason (even though I haven't got that game again! Argh! Why do we wait for KH2 in September?), where Aerith and Sephiroth are pretty much separated to each other where Aerith goes out on a journey to her world to discover more with the two original characters I came up with and Sephiroth catches up to Aerith to bring some news to her party, only with Yuffie and Sora as his company and yet, these two are connected in many journeys around the world they live. Perhaps I should write that as a monthly basis or do that, after I end the finale chapter to Nimbus Exploration. So, what do you think, readers?
And big thanks to my usual readers and AeriSeph fans, Foi, Lily Silver, Tish, turtlerad17 and others. Many reviews are welcome, as long as it is not flamers. And now, here's an extra goodie present for you: Nimbus Detour! And for Disclaimer's note, I don't own many books, as they were own by its respective authors and Doctor Who for some reason, as you can read why.
Nimbus Detour – Bypass Four – Hardback
Kinja Bookstore, Serapha, Second Eden
Poor Loz. Not only last night's gig ended in failure for him, but also his beloved acoustic guitar was destroyed by this long silver-haired man who has a black wing on his back. And because of that, he had to earn all that money again by working in Kei's bookstore. Again, though his head was on the table, crying that he may never rise to the record contract.
"Oh, Loz, could you do me for a favour?" The male Afro-Edian asked politely as he was about to leave his bookstore "And please stop crying, you'll only going to damage the books further, especially the hardback edition of Watership Down!"
"Sorry, Kei!" He responded, as he dried his eyes and carefully placed his somewhat favourite book, Watership Down to the other side "So, what is it that you want?"
"Look after the shop, while I go to that auction place to stock some more rare books." And he left in a hurry.
Many seconds have gone and it seem that there were no customers, until Loz have heard this strange whirring noises coming from the outside and then, a young woman with short blonde hair dressed like some delinquent was accompanied by a young man with short messy brown hair wearing a brown pinstripe suit and those shoes that were not match to his.
"Um, Doctor, are you sure this is New Earth?" that young woman asked as she looked around the store "Hey, that's the book that my mum used to read me when I was a kid!"
"Rose, don't be so noisy!" The Doctor exclaimed, while Loz was literally lost for words upon, until he shook his head.
"Um, excuse me…" he started saying rather unshakably. "…but do you want something from this bookstore? I've got more not from the shelf, if you like."
"Nah, I'm just looking and…" he went closer rather disturbingly to the young silver-haired man "…is this New Earth?"
"Er…I have no idea what you are talking about, but this isn't New Earth; you're in Second Eden I'm afraid."
"What? Really?" The young man was ecstatic that this was not New Earth after all, but in a completely different planet "Then, I guess my coordinates must have been taken a wrong turn. Okay then, thanks for your help. Rose! We're going back to the TARDIS!"
"But I'm not finished picking which book to buy for!" Rose exclaimed as she had trouble selecting those books.
"Rose, either you'll leave the books and come with me or I'll leave YOU here for the rest of your life!"
"Okay! Okay! I'm going, sheesh!" And with few seconds of leaving the bookstore and Loz completely speechless later, that whirring noise came in again and Kadaj entered the store, feeling a little spaced with his emerald green eyes wide open.
"Hello Kadaj, dear young brother." Loz politely remarked.
"Hello, Loz," The young man rather answered quickly and shakily "Do you have any books that contain any stress-free tips on post-traumatising?"
"Huh? Why do you need that?"
"I can't shake that memory off two years ago, where that blonde haired man put a shotgun on my head and I thought I was going to die!" And then he cried.
"Hey! Hey! Don't cry, I've got this book to soothe you!" And Loz handed Kadaj the book that he will enjoy: The Hobbit.
"The Hobbit?" Kadaj stopped crying "Why the hell did you give me this?"
"Well, it helps me from most of the traumatic moments. Oh well, enjoy reading!"
"Uh, yeah…thanks, dear older brother." The young man can feel that a large sweatdrop producing behind his back.
Several hours later
"Hi, I'm back!" Kei's voice shouted as he entered into bookstore "So, Loz, got any books sale by any chance?"
"Oh, sure." Loz happily answered as he put down his favourite Watership Down novel onto the desk "And here are the customers who bought."
"Oh, really?" He handed the Afro-Edian man the list and what was on the list was either pretty amusing or pretty surprising:
Kadaj: The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkein
Sephiroth: How to Get A Perfect Girlfriend by S.M. Uto
Cloud Strife: How to Win Back Your Girlfriend by Toby Snatcher
Reno: Comedy Stand-Up for Dummies by I.M. Notlaughfen
Rude: The Edian Guardian's Best Guide to Theme Parks in T.S.S. by S. Reem-Alota
Elena: The Idiot's Guide on Successful Job Interviews by Mora Mony
Tseng: Romance of the Three Kingdoms in Latin – written by Guan Luazhong and translated by Harius Potterius
Scarlet: DK's Guide to Building Successful Machinery by Rodney Coppertop and B. Rakin-Alut
Since when did Sephiroth began to get a perfect girlfriend? Kei thought puzzlingly as he lingered on further on the list And strange, I didn't seem to own a book that instructs on how to win back. I wonder why?
"And guess what I saw?"
"Yes, do go on Loz."
"I saw these two weirdoes asking me if this was New Earth; I said 'no' to them; that guy who was called the Doctor told this girl, named Rose or something, to go back to this TARDIS and they disappeared when they left the store in a whirring noise."
"What?" Kei was in such a funny position when Loz explained to him about everything "I thought this bit only occurs in science fiction."
"Yeah, I thought so, myself."
Quick Note: Apologise for the bad book title puns and those author puns and yes, the Doctor is basically the current version of the New Doctor Who series, if you really must know, i.e. the David Tennant one.