Blast to The Past
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Chapter 8
The Fated Field Trip I
Before, when you enter the Saionji Temple, you would easily sense that a happy family lives there. Their overflowing happiness makes the place glow like a beacon. That's why a lot of people, and aliens, are attracted to that place.
Ruu misses the feeling of being in a happy family. Even Wannya does. Now, they can only feel depression. This bittersweet sensation they have is slowly eating them from inside. In two days, just two days, the situation has gotten this worse. Wannya is only capable of pitying Ruu. What's a sitterpet to do in this kind of situation? Wannya believes that Ruu has gotten way past crying. At present, Miyu and Kanata act like they don't know each other. Worse, it's like they don't see each other at all. When Ruu sees this he just looks at them, as if he doesn't feel anything either.
Friday…
At the Saionji Temple…
The sun had almost risen. The mixture of darkness and light outside was the sign of morning. The birds were chirping happily, fluttering their tiny wings and singing their favorite tunes to their hearts content. One bird flew near a window. From that window you could see a blond girl rummaging through her bag thoroughly inside the kitchen.
"Miss Miyu, where will your field trip's destination be?" Wannya asked.
"At the beach! I've never had a chance to go swimming recently so this is really a lucky break for me!" Miyu answered.
"Wow! Can we – "
"Oh no! Where's my towel?" Miyu rushed outside the door.
" – come along?" Wannya continued quietly. His lips trembled and a sigh escaped his lips. He continued wiping the countertop.
Just when Miyu left, Kanata entered. He pulled a chair from the table and started eating a piece of toast.
Wannya saw him and tried again.
"Master Kanata, I heard you were going to the beach… It would be very nice if – "
"No, Wannya. You can't come along this time. Remember the last time when you followed us to the mountains?" Kanata didn't even let him finish.
"Oh yes. I accidentally scared your friends. Even Miss Miyu was frightened… but you protected her!" Wannya said, hoping Kanata would remember their happy times.
Kanata looked at Wannya. He didn't glare at the sitterpet or anything, he just stared directly into his eyes. However, Wannya felt it right to just shut up.
Miyu entered the kitchen clutching a towel. She forced it inside her already stuffed bag and took off without even breathing a quick goodbye. Kanata continued eating like nothing happened. Wannya said nothing.
Unaware to the three of them, baby Ruu was watching from the other kitchen door. He floated away to his room, his eyes blank and unfeeling.
At the Yaboshi Residence…
"Script?"
"Check!"
It was Seiya and Miu.
"Portable force field?" Seiya asked eyeing his list.
Miu held up a circular contraption from the bag.
"Check!"
"Fake blood?" Seiya asked hopefully.
Miu started searching the bag but stopped herself quickly.
"For the last time, Seiya – WE DON'T NEED THAT!"
"HAHA! I just wanted to piss you off!"
"I never should've taught him the other use for the word 'piss'…" Miu muttered.
"So aside from fake blood, all the items are checked. Plan A, step 1 will start in a few hours…"
Later, outside the school…
"Students, always stay with your partners and do not – I repeat, DO NOT – wander away from the rest of your classmates, understood?" Miss Mizuno was starting the day by filling their heads with rules.
The students replied a long "Yeeees!" to their teacher.
The students started entering the bus by pair.
Miyu and Hiro's seats were on the opposite side of Aya and Nanami's seats. The latter sat behind Kanata and Santa and in front of Miu and Seiya. Christine and Nozomu sat behind Miyu and Hiro.
"Hi, Nozomu!" Miyu greeted him since he was seated behind her.
"Hmph!" Nozomu realeased a puff of air from his nose.
Miyu was taken-aback.
"What's his problem?" Miyu wondered.
"Ah, he's ignoring everybody because of the recent bishounen contest." Aya said
Flashback
"Why wasn't I part of the contest? If only I was in it… I would have won! I'm disappointed in all of you! You betrayed me!" Nozomu raged in front of the people responsible for the contest.
'You should be thankful because we saved you the shame of embarrassment.' The girls thought.
End of Flashback.
Miyu's eyes next caught sight of Christine's sleeping face.
"Christine… she looks so… tired." Miyu said.
"Yeah. I have seen her sleeping in almost every class." Aya said.
Hiro changed the topic.
"Miyu, I was wondering why you never wrote to me again even if you promised to…"
"Umm… ahhh…" Miyu didn't know what to answer. She couldn't write to him about aliens and stuff… Besides… she kind of 'forgot' to write.
Miyu was sweating hard, fumbling for words to say.
"I'm sorry. I shouldn't ask such questions…" Hiro said.
Miyu shook her head hard and smiled.
"No. It's alright…"
Santa started talking loudly.
"Hey, Kanata, have you heard? The Kame Studio is doing a remake of 'Cactus Man'! I can't wait to watch it again!" Santa happily informed Kanata.
"Hm? I can't believe an animation company would invest on something like 'Cactus Man'. It was never really that popular back then. Remember we were the only ones who dressed up like him? Maybe it's just a rumor." Kanata sunk Santa's hopes of ever seeing his favourite show in action.
Seiya was listening to all of this.
"Those aliens at Cactus Planet spawned a TV show here on earth? I can't believe it! They must be making lots of money!"
"No way! There's a Cactus Planet! What other planets are out there?" Miu asked herself quietly.
Much later…
"Hwow!"
Miyu and her friends were staring at the vastness of the sea, admiring its azure color. Miyu inhaled the breeze, enjoying its scent, a wide smile spreading on her face.
"C'mon!" Nanami led them towards the water.
Miu and Seiya stayed behind.
"It's better if we do it much later… when it's dark." Seiya said.
"Are you sure it's not dangerous?" Miu asked.
"Of course! It's not as if they're going any – "
"AAAHHH!" Miu screamed. "There's a b-b-bug on y-your should-d-der…"
Indeed, on Seiya's flesh was a winged pest.
Miu was cowering behind a palm tree.
"M-make it g-g-g-go aw-way…" tears were now ready to flow down her cheeks.
Miu's voice was quivering so much because her whole body was shaking.
She blinked and when she opened her eyes, the bee was already one inch from her face.
"NOOOO!" She screamed like crazy and hid behind Seiya. It followed her there too.
To cut the story short, it followed her wherever she went.
Miu stumbled to the ground because of exhaustion, her voice died down too. This is when she heard someone laughing.
Seiya was on all fours, banging his fist on the sandy ground.
"I-I… hehe… can't breath!" Then he burst out laughing again.
When Seiya got tired of laughing, he went over to Miu and showed her a cellphone-like thing.
"This is the remote of the cam-bee." Seiya said.
"C-cam-bee?" Miu repeated.
"It's a video camera! You just input the pictures of the people you want to take a video of and voila! It'll shoot a video of whoever's picture is entered in the remote!"
"So you programmed it to follow me…" Miu's eye's glowed red.
"Yeah! I should program it now to video the two of us!"
Seiya pushed some buttons on the remote.
/pi, pi, pi, pi/
/pi, pi/
"There!"
The bee flew above them.
"C'mon! Let's play!" He pulled Miu's hand and dragged her towards the sea.
The sun was already meeting the sea. The sky was becoming orange and the street lights were flickering on.
Seiya, Miu and the rest of the class have stopped swimming. Most were watching the sunset on the shore while the others are already at the hotel.
"It's time." Seiya whispered. "Do your thing."
Seiya pulled a communicator from his bag while Miu ran towards Miyu.
Miyu was sitting on the sand watching the sunset when Miu suddenly went up to her.
"Miyu…" Miu ushered her quietly to an isolated area.
Miyu walked towards her obediently.
"What is it, Ayumi?" She asked.
"We have a big problem." Miu spoke in a softer tone, "There are aliens here…"
Later…
"…and they know about baby Ruu and Wannya!" Seiya told Kanata.
"What are their intentions?" Kanata asked.
"I don't know yet… but what if they are planning to kidnap Ruu?"
"Well, Ruu and Wannya aren't here. They won't know where they are if nobody tells them." Kanata said.
"Kanata, you don't know what you're talking about! They're 'aliens'! What if they have mind-reading powers too?" Seiya said.
"Where are they?"
"Follow me!"
Soon, they reached a secluded cave. They had a hard time going there because it was at the top of a cliff bordered by rocks.
Only the entrance of the cave shared the light of the moon. Kanata looked further and saw nothing but darkness. He took one quiet step into the cave. He could hear sounds of dropping water and soft footsteps. He was guessing that it was the alien. Kanata was ready to take another step when…
/ZZPPP/
"What was that?" He heard someone say from inside the cave. Soon after he heard the voice, he heard running steps coming towards the mouth of the cave.
The light from the moon illuminated the face of Miyu.
They caught each others' eyes.
Their moment of silence was interrupted by a loud laugh. They turned to look outside.
"HAHAHAHA! Now taking the alien baby would be easy!" A tall lady wearing a mask said. Her pigtails were swaying with the wind.
"Yeah!Yeah!" Her minions (two shorter girls) said.
"Shit!" Kanata said banging his fist on an invisible wall blocking the opening of the cave.
Miyu saw Miu/Ayumi and Seiya standing a few meters away from the aliens.
"Ayumi! Seiya!"
"Get out of here before I shoot you!" Seiya took a gun from his pocket and held it up for them to see.
"You won't scare us with fake guns!" The enemy shouted before laughing hard.
"Oh yeah?" Seiya pulled the trigger and loud blasts of air balls escaped from his gun.
The blond lady fell backwards while her minions tended to her wounds.
"You'll pay for this! We'll be back!" They said before running away.
"That was easy!" Seiya said.
"Hey, help us get outta her!" Kanata said.
Miu walked near the cave and spotted a small contraption situated at the top front of it.
"Oh no… we'll have to dismantle that thing. If we touch it the wrong way… it'll blow up!" Miu said.
"You two, stay put! I'll go get my tools at the hotel. We'll be back ASAP!" Seiya said.
The two of them climbed down the side of the cliff.
When they were out of earshot…
" 'We'll be back ASAP!' " Seiya repeated what he said earlier. "Yeah… you wish!"
"The Good Gang did a good job acting as bad guys!" Miu said.
"That's because they were originally the 'Evil Gang' " Seiya said.
"And I also think that your part in the script was TOO heroic." Miu said throwing Seiya a side glance.
"Hey, is that an insult?"
Meanwhile…
At the cave…
Kanata had his back leaning on the cave wall while Miyu was standing up and both her hands were on the invisible barrier. She was staring at the starry sky.
'This is uncomfortable…' Miyu thought eyeing Kanata.
"Err…" Miyu started.
Kanata looked up slowly.
Rain started pouring from the sky.
"Kanata… I…"
The portable force field at the top front of the cave started emitting sparks of electricity.
The invisible barrier suddenly vanished. Because Miyu was leaning on it, she stumbled forward a few steps and slipped on some wet rocks.
The rain started coming down in torrents.
Kanata stood up.
Everything he sees was in slow motion.
Miyu outstretched her arms.
Kanata started running towards her.
Miyu fell off the cliff. She didn't scream because everything happened so fast.
Kanata was a second too late. He didn't even manage to touch Miyu's finger.
Lightning lit the dark sky and thunder deafened him.
Miyu hit the water with a splash.
'No…'
'Miyu…'
He didn't waste another second.
He jumped after her.
End of Chapter 8
andrey4414:"YAY! I finished another chapter! This one is longer than usual… hehehe… Please tune in for Part II of the "Fated Field Trip". Thank you for reading this chapter! And don't forget to write reviews! Thanks!"