On with the next one!

First off I want to thank everyone once again for the kind reviews. Yeah, eheh, I thought the "They're going to eat me" was pretty much eureka too. I felt weird because the part is comical, and yet she's being sexually harrassed by soldiers...weird...

As for the comment on Locus: you're right. He's not the most interesting character. He pretty much fluctuates between a badass killer and a naive, sentimental little kid. While dealing with the enemy he's super-cocky and sure of victory, and with the good guys he's humble, polite,and wise.

A/N: In this chapter it is clear that Eureka knows where she comes from. However, I believe it's in the second volume of the Manga that someone calls out to her, and she's not sure who it is. She barely even knows of her relation to Anemone. Yet this story takes place right after the 14th episode of the anime (the latest one I watched before writing this), and it's based off the anime, not necessarily the manga.

Please forgive me from here-on-out if I make any mistakes regarding the personalities and abilities of Eureka, Renton, and the Nirvash. I haven't watched the entire series, so I don't know the entire series, SO PLZ NO FLAMES;; It is indeed more original and alternate than a fic loyal to the series.

Still, if I make an error, please let me know what has really happened, because so far I'm definitely into knowing more about the storyline…

Chapter 5
Eureka's inquiry, marked by a flabbergasted nature, caught Locus completely off guard. "What! You mean you don't know! But I thought you were…!" he went over her again. Purple eyes. Blue hair. Definitely features a common Olivian would have. Perhaps she was a Brethren that got lost in the universal current and wound up here on Tur. But then again…her skin was exceptionally pale. Being in the presence of trapar concentration for so long would darken anyone's skin (Locus knew this as he came here often for a healthy tan). "Well, if you're not…" he started…"then what are you?" She wasn't a Tauran, that he knew. Once glance at him and people would think Locus was a little out of this world, too, what with the strangely colored hair and eyes.

Eureka looked away, confusion blaring from her soft and lovely features. "I shouldn't tell you…and because of that…" she returned to his eyes with a serious tint in hers- "…I won't."

"Then expect the same response from me," Locus accepted with an amiable nod. "But aside from what you are, at least grant me the honor of knowing who you are."

Very formal speaking skills, Eureka told herself. He could very well have come from the Coral. But that power… "They call me Eureka," she spoke lightly, looking at the ground out of the corner of her eyes. "And you?"

"My name's Locus," said the boy, putting his sword away. "Now, as for what just occurred: Why did the Tinzu attack you? Normally their purpose is to exterminate evil, not initiate it!"

"They're not the evil ones," Eureka glumly replied. "We, the Gekkostate, are."

Locus raised his brow. "Gekkostate? The band of celebrated rebels that ventures throughout the world undetected by the military, performing all sorts of illegal activities involving trapar? You're with them?" Eureka nodded very slightly. "Well, it's no surprise then that they came after you. But what they did- or tried to do- was in favor of a highly malevolent power. Their action spawned from the formation of an evil deed that threatens the fundamentals of morality. Gekkostate…is no longer the bad guy."

This explanation actually made Eureka's jaw drop open. What kind of nonsense was this? Where, exactly, was he coming from?

"How do you know all of this?" she squeaked.

"Intuition," Locus proudly stated, bowing his head in a confident manner. "So, where are you headed to now?"

"Well, I'm trying to locate the Nirvash," Eureka responded, for some unknown reason now trusting this information with someone so enigmatic as herself.

"The Nirvash?" spoke Locus inquisitively. "Is that a mech?"

"An LFO, yes," continued Eureka. "It was last seen under the piloting of a boy named Renton Thurston, surfing out beyond this plateau-"she indicated Darnell hill. "I aborted the Gekko on a liftboard, but I'm no good at actual lifting (A/N: Again, not sure this is true), so I crashed…" she ejected these last few words with a heavily-felt shame- "…so here I am now." She now held Locus with pleading eyes. "I do not trust Renton with the Nirvash. As he continues to manipulate it, the Nirvash becomes less and less itself and more of a mechanical slave…" bitterness became present in her eye- "…just like the military LFOs. Renton does not understand. Nirvash is a living being, not a puppet, like…" tears began to form in the corners of her eyes- "like…" her fists clenched, she began to shake in the presence of a well-known sorrow.

Locus brought her into his arms as she broke down completely, her tears sliding over and across the tick shoulder pads of his vest. That feeling, her in my arms…he thought…it's just like Ni. She is just like Ni…

Ikasury,you can bet that, while reading your latest review, I was a bit like this: o.O. You're gonna call me Ni (I don't mind at all) at the same time I'm introducing a character who was already named Ni! Ironic...

Coming up: a flashback of Locus's past, and a dire promise made to Eureka in the midst of a loving memory.