Hello! It's me! I did a bonus story just for you guys. It's not really needed to be read. It's about Hibiki's past when he was on the pioneer ship and also memories on the nirvana. I thought this would be an interesting read. I'm already done with the next chapter so I'll be giving it to you tomorrow. Keep reading! Please!
I don't own Vandread. If I did I would make Hibiki and Dita have a romantic kiss. Smooch!
Chpt. 4: Till death do us part part2
Hibiki felt extremely weak. He was in the darkness, alone, and his shirt and jacket were drenched in his own blood. All he felt was pain but was too weak to cry out in agony. He suddenly saw a light from in front of him. Someone opened his vanguard cockpit. His vision had gotten all blurry so all he saw was a tall figure who felt his neck.
"He still has a pulse." The blur announced. "Get a stretcher out here immediately!"
Hibiki knew this voice well. "D-d…Duero?" It was all a blur to him but he knew it was Duero.
"Hold on a little longer, Hibiki." The doctor said.
Hibiki felt a surge of pain as Duero carried him out of his partner. Blood dripped from his hands as he was laid on the stretcher.
"This doesn't look good." Duero said to another as he they rushed him to the ER.
"Mr. Alien please hold on!" a voice sobbed to him.
"Dita." He managed to say, "What…what happened to me?"
"Don't talk now." Duero said to the bloody pilot.
Hibiki began to feel weaker every minute that passed. He suddenly saw somebody he never knew he would see again.
"You don't look to good stranger." The girl said.
"Seran, you came back." He whispered as he slipped out of the world he was in.
"Hibiki! Hibiki!" Duero yelled at the dying boy, "Clear the way!"
"Mr. Alien!" Dita sobbed, "Don't leave me!" she was left behind as Hibiki and Duero entered the ER. She was struck with fear and sadness. She suddenly burst out, "Don't die Hibiki!"
The words never reached him though. He was somewhere where the living could not reach. Somewhere where his life would die or go on.
Hibiki awoke next to a big tree, its green leaves swayed in the wind. Was he all alone?
"Where am I?" he asked himself knowing he would not find the answer in his mind. He suddenly realized that his injuries were gone and he could move around. "How could I have healed so fast?"
"Because you are here." A voice called to him.
"Chief Kokoperi? Why are you here?"
"Have you not forgotten the stone I gave you?" the chief said. "I told you that we'd always be with you."
Hibiki felt the lump on his head. "Well…that solves one problem…but where am I?"
"You are in a world of spirits."
"Spirit world! Does that mean…I?"
Kokoperi chuckled, "No, not yet.
"Not yet?"
"If you stay here too long, you will become a spirit yourself. Hibiki, you must find a way out."
Hibiki looked at his surroundings. They seemed to be a park, but of course he lived on Tarak where they were no things as parks, but it kind of resembled the park on the nirvana.
"All I have to do is get out of this park huh? This will be easy." He stood up and began to run through the trees.
Dita sat on the floor near the emergency room. Her eyes were filled with tears that wouldn't stop. People stood around her trying all they could to comfort her, but all she did was cry.
Meia put a hand to Dita's shoulder, "Dita, you have to be strong. For him."
Dita smothered her head in her hands. "But I'm so scared. What if…he…"
'My grandpa told me something once,' a flashback appeared in Dita's mind. It was when Meia was in a critical condition too and Hibiki comforted her, 'He told me you shouldn't dwell on what the feature brings, if it happens it happens. So there's no use crying over it.'
She stopped crying. "You're so right Mr. Alien." She said softly, "I just have to wait and see. Thank you everyone. But I really need to be alone for now."
They hesitated leaving her all alone, but they decided it was best and left.
Hibiki finally saw the ending of the forest. "Ha!" He said triumphantly, "That was nothing I couldn't handle." He finally past the last row of trees and a blinding light flashed upon him. There he saw a boy sleeping in a sand box. It had Hibiki's hair and face.
'Is that…me?' He wondered.
Another boy came near the snoozing kid.
'Hibiki……Hibiki…." The new boy called to his sleeping friend.
The child's eyes opened and a boy was standing right over him.
"Hi Hibiki." Greeted the boy. He was very young but the same age as the other. "You were sleeping in the sandy box."
"I haven't gotten my nap yet." Little Hibiki groaned.
"Hibiki. I can't come on your ship. Daddy says he's going to fly this other one."
"Noooo!" Hibiki whined, "You can't come with him! I'll never see you again!"
"Why?"
"What if you're ship crashes! We'll never be able to be friends again!"
"That's why I'm giving you this." He untied his bandana and gave it to Hibiki. "This was my mommy's. She said that a bond of friendship can never be forgotten. So we can use this for our bond."
"Thanks."
"Hey Hibiki!" cried a blonde haired girl, "Its getting late its time to go. Hey where did you get that bandana?"
"Hikaru gave it to me!"
"Yeah!" seconded the boy. "It's a symbol of our friendship!"
She smiled "Well you have to keep it close to you." The girl took the bandana from Hibiki and tied it around his hair. "You can tie your hair with it. I've been practicing with my friend's hair. See how pretty you look?"
"Boys aren't pretty!" Hibiki shouted, "They are handsome."
"What ever. See ya later Hikaru." She took Hibiki's hand and dragged him away.
"Hikaru! I'll take good care of it!" Hibiki yelled to his friend.
"Bye Hibiki!" Hikaru yelled back. "I want it back when we meet again." His yellow eyes gleamed with joy.
'Yellow eyes?' The older Hibiki thought. He suddenly remembered the pilot he was facing had yellow eyes too. The flash of light came again, and the people were no more.
"Wha-what was that?" Hibiki asked.
"It was a forgotten memory." Kokoperi answered. "A memory that has slept in your mind for years."
Hibiki noticed that the territory had changed. It was now looking like Tarak's city.
"Crap! Another annoying scene! Why can't I get to the end of this place?"
"You must travel through your life. The spirits are testing you to see if you are strong enough."
"Whatever." Hibiki began to run wildly around the buildings trying to find the exit. "Hey Kokoperi? How come I'm not getting tired?"
"The spirit world does not let its victims tire; they feel at their full strength."
"There's one reason to like it here I guess." Hibiki sighed and past another building. It was beginning to be more familiar to him; it was around the place he worked. Another flash of light filled the room and he was in another flashback. He saw himself, fourteen and just stopped living with his grandpa. He was sitting near a chained fence resting from a hard day's work, and about to meet some nasty people.
"Hi." The fourteen year old greeted enthusiastically, "I'm Hibiki!"
"Aww. How cute." Laughed one of the bullies, "You wanna be my friend? Hahaha! What a dope! Who does he think he's dealing with?"
"Yeah!" agreed another, much chubbier than the other, "Where the hell did you come from. I haven't seen you around."
"I've been living with my grandpa." Hibiki replied, "He lives on the outskirts of the city."
They both felt very irritated by Hibiki's presence. "You ass!" The first one said punching him in the face. "No one talks to the elders! Especially a third class citizen like you."
"Yeah!" The chubby one seconded, "Were second class citizens, meaning we have power over you!" He then kicked Hibiki in the stomach and watched the poor youth tried to stand.
"B-but I do live with my grandpa." He stubbornly said, "And why should I even look up to you guys in the first place?"
They grinded their teeth at him, and began to smack his face in the chained fence. The poor boy felt so weak.
"We already told you," Sighed the first one, "We have a higher rank than you. You must be nuts. You pretty much act like it from the way you keep rambling about you're grandpa."
"You know," the second began, "I did hear that there was an elder living on the outskirts of the city. Maybe he's talking about that guy."
Hibiki's face light up with relief.
"Of course, the guy's supposed to be nuts. He's trying to make things grow in the middle of that desert!" The second laughed, "He was so crazy that he was thrown out of the elder's council."
Hibiki's face blazed in rage. "My grandpa's not crazy!" He bellowed and tried to attack the chubby one but to no avail. He got himself punched back in the fence.
"Ha! The coot must have found you in the desert abandoned," Laughed the first as he kicked Hibiki periodically, "Cause who would want a kid like you. You're worthless, annoying, weak, and you're as crazy as that old man!"
Hibiki was beaten several more times until he stopped trying to get up.
"That was a good laugh!" the chubby one said with enjoyment.
"Yeah," agreed the first, "Let's go beat up some more third class citizens."
As the two wandered off, Hibiki was left all alone. He sat near the fence and began to cry.
The flashback suddenly ended and Hibiki was in a place very familiar to him. He was now on the Nirvana.
"I hated being that weak." Hibiki admitted to Kokoperri, "I was always pushed down for what I said so I eventually stopped trying to be friends with everyone and just stuck to being alone."
"Hibiki, you're getting closer to the end. You must be stronger for what lies beyond this region. The test will get harder."
Hibiki stopped dwelling on the past and began to dash through the halls, "I'm going to find my way out of here! There's so much left undone! I can't die yet!"
Hinoki sat in the lunch room, alone, the way she liked to be when everything got so hard for her. She clenched her fists in rage and began to pound the floor.
"Damnitdamnitdamnit!" She hollered. When she finally stopped her knuckles became all bloody but her pain seamed to not matter.
"You have a problem?" Gasco said as she came through the door, "I thought I heard someone cursing. So what's wrong?"
Hinoki bit her lip as she faced the woman from reg center, "It's my fault…It my fault that this happened ya knows? If I dodged the EMP cannon, I…I could've helped!"
"But you didn't did you?" Gasco smiled, "You can't change the past. You'll have to deal with what happened. All you can do now is wait."
Hinoki grinded her teeth, "There was still no excuse for the way I acted. I just froze out there. He….I need to train." She stood up from the table and ran off.
'She's just like Hibiki.' Gasconge thought to herself, 'Always getting worked up over things. Don't worry Hinoki, he'll make it.'
Hibiki made his way to the core room. He sat on the metal path overlooking the mighty blue progmma. There he had another flashback. This one was a year ago when he first met Dita. She fell on top of him, and after making some examination's he finally learned she was a woman, feared by all Tarak people.
He immediately pushed her off and tried to run away.
"No wait!" She cried pulling off her mask revealing her beautiful face, "Wow! She cried with delight, "A real live alien!"
"A-alien?"
Dita made strange hand movement to Hibiki, and really having no clue to what she was doing, he followed her same motions.
"I did it!" Dita cried with delight, "I made first contact."
Hibiki began to think this girl was a Waco, "hehe….See ya!" He dashed out of sight.
"Wait!" Dita pleaded, "I still have to take your picture!"
"I remember that." The original Hibiki said, "I was so dumb back then. To actually think that women were monsters."
The flashback suddenly ended but instead of bringing Hibiki to a new place, he was only surrounded by darkness.
"Chief! What's going on!" But there was no answer. Only a memory was there, but he would wish he would never see it.
He saw himself as the little boy again. He was being carried by a woman. "Mommy!" He cried, "Where are we going? Where are sis and daddy?"
"Don't worry Hibiki!" His mother comforted, "Everything's going to be all right." The older Hibiki saw she had tears running down her face.
'Why is she so sad?' He wondered.
The woman brought Hibiki into a room with pods all around.
"Mommy! There are people in there! Why are they in those pods mommy?"
"There just sleeping. There safe in there, nothing can hurt them in there." She noticed an empty one and put the boy in it, immediately shutting it closed.
"Mommy! Don't go!" The boy sobbed.
"It's alright sweetie." The woman said to her son, "You'll be safe in there. I'll let you out when it's safe."
A sleeping gas flowed into the pod making Hibiki fall into unconscious. "Don't….go." he said as he fell fast asleep.
The woman sobbed into tears as she ran out of the room.
The older Hibiki was struck with fear. He knew she wasn't coming back; she wouldn't come back for him ever. "She…she left me!" He shivered as the whole room turned black again, "She left me! She promised she would let me out but…but she never…came back! I…was alone…for a hundred years!"
Hibiki's body was still in terrible condition, and Duero was doing all he could but the circumstance suddenly went worse.
"His vital signs are dropping!" Cried out Amber, a doctor of Magno's pirate crew, "At the rate their plummeting, he should die in a matter of minutes!"
'Hibiki! Why are you losing the battle?' He asked as hedid all he couldto save the boy.
Hibiki was fading away in the real world and was turning into a wandering spirit in the world he was in. He was giving up hope, for he was seeing all the memories he'd wish to forget.
He began to see when Gasco's ship blew up in the flagship attack, he saw his battle with the red peixis, and then…he saw something that haunted him for a long time. The slaughter of the Melanus fleet and two friends that he had made there.
His mind was now drowning in a sea off torturous memories. He himself was giving up on life.
"I get it now." He whispered, "My world has been a sad painful memory, all that I've seen proves it. I barely had any joyous times. Only pain and destruction, I…I want it to end. Take me away." He began to disappear into a light; it would bring him to his end.
The heart monitor made a screeching noise as it went flat.
"His heart stopped!" Paiway gasped.
Hibiki saw he was now on a new terrain. The terrain was cut into two sections by a stream. The section he was on was a beautiful flower meadow while the other side was covered by a mist.
"If I go to the other side, I can finally end this." He said to himself as he waked into the stream.
"Stop this Hibiki!" Cried out a voice from the other side. It stepped into viewing range and was from his friend Seran accompanied by her brother Leader.
"Seran! It's you!" He said in joy.
"Hibiki you cant do this!" Seran cried.
He asked, "I can't live like this anymore. I'd rather live a life like yours, peaceful and happy."
"More like death and sadness." Leader barked, "Hibiki, the memories have poisoned your mind! They made you loose your grip on what good has happened in your life."
"Leader's right" Seran chimed in, "And what's a life with no life at all in you! Were the dead, we can't go anywhere except for here."
"You have too much to live for! Think about the people, who need you, think of all the things that must be done!"
Hibiki remembered what the heard about the Castile royal family and how they treat people like slaves, he thought about all the people that he was close to. Jura, Duero, The Captain, Bart, Hinoki, the others, but especially Dita. He could hear her voice already.
He turned his head towards the side he was on.
"There's still time Hibiki." Seran encouraged. "Go to them."
"But…but what about…"
Leader smiled at the worried boy, "Don't worry were happy. Go on."
"Thanks." Hibiki said to them and ran back to his side where the light began to get brighter and brighter.
"Congratulations Hibiki." Kokoperi's voice came back, "You've passed the test of the spirit world.
"Hey! Where were you two minutes ago when I needed you!" Growled Hibiki.
"The spirits would not let me interfere with the last test. Only you could do it."
"Well…I had help from the sprits myself." Hibiki said as the light consumed him.
Duero walked out of the ER, his sleves were stained with blood.
Dita ran straight up to him hoping he would give her good news. "Duero?"
There was a long moment of silence from him but then he said, "He's fine…weak but fine."
Dita rushed into the room. Everyone else started questioning Duero.
"What's his condition?" Meia asked.
"The blow he took almost killed him. He's on life support for now but he'll heal soon."
Dita sat beside Hibiki holding his hand.
"I'm glad you're still with me." She whispered to the boy.
She almost thought she could see a smile on his face.
I know it was not what you were waiting for. If you wanted to read the story I promised a while ago. It will be on shortly. Thanks and tell me how you liked it!