Elysion stood in front two hospital beds in the Medical wing of the palace.
It has been two weeks since the attack and Sishiya and Kai still have not
awake. Serenity and Endymion had already reassured their parents that they
were doing fine and can visit them anytime.
The people that most frequent the room were: Ami, Hotaru, Rei, Serenity, Endymion, and of course, Usa. They had all been present in the room at one time or another. They were all worried; it was taking the girls too long to awaken.
Elysion stares at them then switched her gaze to the wolf next to her. "Terran, have you seen anything like this?"
The gray and white wolf shook his shaggy head, "No. Never in all my years have I seen such an illness." He stood and padded in between the two beds, sniffing at the people lying on the beds. "They smell like that bird your mother had drugged once to show you that poison, remember?" He turns and looks at her.
She nods slowly, "Yeah, it was made with blow fish poison, snake scales, some human remains and other stuff that is deadly to any life form."
"Do you remember the antidote?"
Another sigh escaped her lips, as she shook her head, "Not really." She pursed her lips, "Do you think.....that that is what happened to them?"
Terran nodded, "In any moment, their life signs should go flat and all."
Just on cue, the heart monitors stopped and went flat, alerting the medical staff.
Elysion stood silently in a corner, waiting patiently for a moment to do what was needed.
Ami's deep blue eyes looked weary and sad as she shook her head, "I'm sorry." She turns towards the others and the parents of the two teenaged girls. "We've done everything we can for them."
Sishiya's mom stood there, her tears find her angry brown eyes. "Why them?" She whispered. "Why?! What have they ever done?! What?!" She demands of the others.
"Why didn't you protect them?" Kai's dad comforts her mom, "Then this wouldn't have happened to them!"
Usa bows her head, "This is all my fault." She whispers as tears fell from her eyes, "I should've known....."
"Stop that!" a voice rang through the room. Everyone suddenly turned towards Elysion, who had, up until now, been silent. She glares at them with piercing stormy blue eyes, as if challenging them to talk back to her. "Don't blame yourself or others for this." She told them and walked towards the two sheet covered beds and pulled the sheets off, "If anyone should be of fault here, it would be me." She sighs and looks at them. "I didn't recognized it for what it truly was."
"What are you talking about?" Serenity was bewildered at this child's announcement, taking on the fault for the girls' deaths. "You couldn't have known that they were going to-"
"But they're not dead!" Elysion cuts in, "That's just it. These girls," She motioned to the bodies with one hand, "Have been poisoned by that demon or something."
"Wait a minute," Minako narrows her crystal blue eyes, staring at her hard, "how do you know if they have been poisoned or not?"
She sighed, "Terran and I were in here earlier trying to figure out what was going on with these guys." She began, "Terran told me that they smelled just like the bird that my mama poisoned when I was studying poisons and antidotes."
"Wait a minute here," Kai's mother stared at Elysion in disbelief, "are you saying that...you poisoned them? Is that how you know this stuff?"
Elysion's eyes blazed as her power level shifted slightly and her hands became fists, staring angrily at the woman. "NO!" She shouts at the woman, who was now clutching her husband, "YOU STUPID, STUPID PEOPLE!" She bit her lower lip for a second and tried not to slip and call them much worse than 'stupid'. "I am a freakin' witch! I've studied this crap for most of my life, so that would mean that I know more about this THAN YOU!" She took a deep breath and calmed down a little, reigning in her temper as she does so. She opens her eyes and sighs, "This is an old potion that dates back several hundreds of years ago. Witchdoctors used it to create so-called 'zombies'. It uses Blowfish needles, which has a neurotoxin in it, human remains, snake scales, and other things."
"What does it do?" Hotaru asked. "To a person, I mean?"
"When given to a victim, the victim goes into a type of coma or hibernation and the body seemingly shuts down." She explains, "So that even when a doctor checks it out, the body would seem dead. When the person is given the antidote, they are revived, a little sick, but they'll live."
They all exchanges looks, "Do you know the cure?" Endymion asked her.
She didn't reply.
"Elysion, do you know the cure for this?" Serenity asked this time.
"Well.....uh......" She had the grace to look embarrassed, "I......forgot it."
"We can always get Kritra to do it." Makoto said, "She'll know it for sure."
"No!" Elysion shouts and quickly calms herself, "Um...that is...leave mom out of it. I'll remember it. I just have to find the stuff for it." With that, she quickly left the room and headed straight to her room.
Once there she sat on her bed and rubs her face, "What the hell did I just do?" She asked the mirror across from her, "How in hell am I going to pull this off?"
scene change
The senshi exchanged glances at each other. They knew something was up. Elysion was acting odd around them and she couldn't seem to remember the antidote. It was then that Serenity made the decision. "We need Kritra." She told them, "According to Elysion, if the girls don't receive the antidote in the next seventy-two hours, they will die."
"I'll get her." Haruka announced, "I remember where she lives."
Serenity nods, "Good, but don't tell this to Elysion..."
They all nodded and went their separate ways.
-island-
Kritra stood on the beach, calmly watching the tides come in and out, feeling the peace around her. She knew this day would come. That she would have to leave her home for nearly half a millennium.
She heard a sound foreign to the usual calm and peace of the island, a man- made sound from a machine. She shielded her eyes as the machine landed near her and walked towards it, a bag in hand. "LETS GO!" She shouts over the roar of the engine.
Haruka shot her a questioning look but took off again towards the capital of half the world: Crystal Tokyo.
-next day-
Elysion awake, still tired and exhausted. She hadn't been sleeping well, looking through all her books to find the right potion to give the girls. Again, she had not found it and was feeling upset and sad that she might not be able to save the girls. She stood and took a shower and got ready for breakfast. She wore baggy jeans with pockets on the knees and a black tank top. She slipped on some socks and went downstairs to the dinning room where she was met by an unexpected surprise.
Her stormy blue eyes widen at the sight before her. She's not supposed to be here! She thought 'She's supposed to be back at home, safe and away from here! Not in the middle of it!'
"Elysion?" Kritra looks up, noticing her daughter's presence at the door. "Are you alright?" Kritra's hair, that used to be shoulder length, was now well past her shoulder to her butt with the little white shells in them. She was dressed similarly to her daughter, only her pants were slacks and her shirt was short sleeved.
She raised an arched eyebrow at her daughter, "Are you just going to stand there, or are you going to greet me properly?"
Elysion snapped out of it and went to her mother, embracing her tightly, "I missed you and our island." She said.
Kritra patted her back and smiled, "Well, if you still want to after your training, that is, you can return there."
Elysion nodded and sat next to her, "But why are you here?" She asked, having a sinking suspicious of why.
"They brought me here to cure those girls of the zombie draught." She answered drinking her coffee.
Elysion glares at the senshi, who were unfazed by the teen, calmly eating their foods. "Now, now, honey," Kritra said, getting her daughter's look, "Even if you have figured the cure out, you would have had a tough time finding the ingredients to it." She shrugged lightly, "I have everything that is needed with me. I will give them the antidote. Then everything will be alright and I will be heading home."
True to her words, Kritra treated the comatose girls quickly and spent the rest of her time with her daughter.
"I know that they haven't figured it out yet, Elysion." She said as they made their way towards the door, "I know it will be hard on you if it ever gets out. But always remember the ones who love you and that you'll always have a home on Aurora Island." She stops at the door and kisses her daughter's forehead, "Be good." And then she left.
Elysion watched, with a twinge of sadness, as the helicopter lifted off carrying her mother back to the island.....alone.
She shook her head and sighed. 'This is going to be so complicated.' She thought and walked back inside and into her room, closing the door and lying flat on her stomach on the bed. 'I wish things were easier.....on us all......' with a sigh, she fell into a dreamless sleep.
The people that most frequent the room were: Ami, Hotaru, Rei, Serenity, Endymion, and of course, Usa. They had all been present in the room at one time or another. They were all worried; it was taking the girls too long to awaken.
Elysion stares at them then switched her gaze to the wolf next to her. "Terran, have you seen anything like this?"
The gray and white wolf shook his shaggy head, "No. Never in all my years have I seen such an illness." He stood and padded in between the two beds, sniffing at the people lying on the beds. "They smell like that bird your mother had drugged once to show you that poison, remember?" He turns and looks at her.
She nods slowly, "Yeah, it was made with blow fish poison, snake scales, some human remains and other stuff that is deadly to any life form."
"Do you remember the antidote?"
Another sigh escaped her lips, as she shook her head, "Not really." She pursed her lips, "Do you think.....that that is what happened to them?"
Terran nodded, "In any moment, their life signs should go flat and all."
Just on cue, the heart monitors stopped and went flat, alerting the medical staff.
Elysion stood silently in a corner, waiting patiently for a moment to do what was needed.
Ami's deep blue eyes looked weary and sad as she shook her head, "I'm sorry." She turns towards the others and the parents of the two teenaged girls. "We've done everything we can for them."
Sishiya's mom stood there, her tears find her angry brown eyes. "Why them?" She whispered. "Why?! What have they ever done?! What?!" She demands of the others.
"Why didn't you protect them?" Kai's dad comforts her mom, "Then this wouldn't have happened to them!"
Usa bows her head, "This is all my fault." She whispers as tears fell from her eyes, "I should've known....."
"Stop that!" a voice rang through the room. Everyone suddenly turned towards Elysion, who had, up until now, been silent. She glares at them with piercing stormy blue eyes, as if challenging them to talk back to her. "Don't blame yourself or others for this." She told them and walked towards the two sheet covered beds and pulled the sheets off, "If anyone should be of fault here, it would be me." She sighs and looks at them. "I didn't recognized it for what it truly was."
"What are you talking about?" Serenity was bewildered at this child's announcement, taking on the fault for the girls' deaths. "You couldn't have known that they were going to-"
"But they're not dead!" Elysion cuts in, "That's just it. These girls," She motioned to the bodies with one hand, "Have been poisoned by that demon or something."
"Wait a minute," Minako narrows her crystal blue eyes, staring at her hard, "how do you know if they have been poisoned or not?"
She sighed, "Terran and I were in here earlier trying to figure out what was going on with these guys." She began, "Terran told me that they smelled just like the bird that my mama poisoned when I was studying poisons and antidotes."
"Wait a minute here," Kai's mother stared at Elysion in disbelief, "are you saying that...you poisoned them? Is that how you know this stuff?"
Elysion's eyes blazed as her power level shifted slightly and her hands became fists, staring angrily at the woman. "NO!" She shouts at the woman, who was now clutching her husband, "YOU STUPID, STUPID PEOPLE!" She bit her lower lip for a second and tried not to slip and call them much worse than 'stupid'. "I am a freakin' witch! I've studied this crap for most of my life, so that would mean that I know more about this THAN YOU!" She took a deep breath and calmed down a little, reigning in her temper as she does so. She opens her eyes and sighs, "This is an old potion that dates back several hundreds of years ago. Witchdoctors used it to create so-called 'zombies'. It uses Blowfish needles, which has a neurotoxin in it, human remains, snake scales, and other things."
"What does it do?" Hotaru asked. "To a person, I mean?"
"When given to a victim, the victim goes into a type of coma or hibernation and the body seemingly shuts down." She explains, "So that even when a doctor checks it out, the body would seem dead. When the person is given the antidote, they are revived, a little sick, but they'll live."
They all exchanges looks, "Do you know the cure?" Endymion asked her.
She didn't reply.
"Elysion, do you know the cure for this?" Serenity asked this time.
"Well.....uh......" She had the grace to look embarrassed, "I......forgot it."
"We can always get Kritra to do it." Makoto said, "She'll know it for sure."
"No!" Elysion shouts and quickly calms herself, "Um...that is...leave mom out of it. I'll remember it. I just have to find the stuff for it." With that, she quickly left the room and headed straight to her room.
Once there she sat on her bed and rubs her face, "What the hell did I just do?" She asked the mirror across from her, "How in hell am I going to pull this off?"
scene change
The senshi exchanged glances at each other. They knew something was up. Elysion was acting odd around them and she couldn't seem to remember the antidote. It was then that Serenity made the decision. "We need Kritra." She told them, "According to Elysion, if the girls don't receive the antidote in the next seventy-two hours, they will die."
"I'll get her." Haruka announced, "I remember where she lives."
Serenity nods, "Good, but don't tell this to Elysion..."
They all nodded and went their separate ways.
-island-
Kritra stood on the beach, calmly watching the tides come in and out, feeling the peace around her. She knew this day would come. That she would have to leave her home for nearly half a millennium.
She heard a sound foreign to the usual calm and peace of the island, a man- made sound from a machine. She shielded her eyes as the machine landed near her and walked towards it, a bag in hand. "LETS GO!" She shouts over the roar of the engine.
Haruka shot her a questioning look but took off again towards the capital of half the world: Crystal Tokyo.
-next day-
Elysion awake, still tired and exhausted. She hadn't been sleeping well, looking through all her books to find the right potion to give the girls. Again, she had not found it and was feeling upset and sad that she might not be able to save the girls. She stood and took a shower and got ready for breakfast. She wore baggy jeans with pockets on the knees and a black tank top. She slipped on some socks and went downstairs to the dinning room where she was met by an unexpected surprise.
Her stormy blue eyes widen at the sight before her. She's not supposed to be here! She thought 'She's supposed to be back at home, safe and away from here! Not in the middle of it!'
"Elysion?" Kritra looks up, noticing her daughter's presence at the door. "Are you alright?" Kritra's hair, that used to be shoulder length, was now well past her shoulder to her butt with the little white shells in them. She was dressed similarly to her daughter, only her pants were slacks and her shirt was short sleeved.
She raised an arched eyebrow at her daughter, "Are you just going to stand there, or are you going to greet me properly?"
Elysion snapped out of it and went to her mother, embracing her tightly, "I missed you and our island." She said.
Kritra patted her back and smiled, "Well, if you still want to after your training, that is, you can return there."
Elysion nodded and sat next to her, "But why are you here?" She asked, having a sinking suspicious of why.
"They brought me here to cure those girls of the zombie draught." She answered drinking her coffee.
Elysion glares at the senshi, who were unfazed by the teen, calmly eating their foods. "Now, now, honey," Kritra said, getting her daughter's look, "Even if you have figured the cure out, you would have had a tough time finding the ingredients to it." She shrugged lightly, "I have everything that is needed with me. I will give them the antidote. Then everything will be alright and I will be heading home."
True to her words, Kritra treated the comatose girls quickly and spent the rest of her time with her daughter.
"I know that they haven't figured it out yet, Elysion." She said as they made their way towards the door, "I know it will be hard on you if it ever gets out. But always remember the ones who love you and that you'll always have a home on Aurora Island." She stops at the door and kisses her daughter's forehead, "Be good." And then she left.
Elysion watched, with a twinge of sadness, as the helicopter lifted off carrying her mother back to the island.....alone.
She shook her head and sighed. 'This is going to be so complicated.' She thought and walked back inside and into her room, closing the door and lying flat on her stomach on the bed. 'I wish things were easier.....on us all......' with a sigh, she fell into a dreamless sleep.