My Heroes: A Hero's Journey
Chapter 34 - Boom Base, part 1
"Okay Kaiba, any day now," Kirsty said as she waited for Kaiba to start off., with them sitting opposite from each other.
"Ever since I got here, my memory has been a bit of a blur," Kaiba mumbled. "Bits and piece have been coming back to me, like…battling old foes, when I fell own the well, and just recently, the day…" he said before he suddenly stop, finding it hard to mention the next bit. Kirsty, seeing this lent forwards and put her hand on top of his.
"It's okay, I know," she said softly as Kaiba nodded.
"And more recently, I just...I keep going back to this memory..."
--flashback--
"That's it! Now you've done it!" Kaiba yelled as he charged towards one of his arch rivals, Pegasus. He was about to punch him and Pegasus was going to do the same. But suddenly, as they clashed, a white light surrounded them.
"What's going on?" Kaiba yelled as Pegasus smirked and jumped out the way.
"See if you can get out of this one Kaiba-boy!" he yelled as, right behind him, a evil looking figure came out and grabbed Kaiba by the throat with it's claws.
"AAAAHHHH!" Kaiba screamed in pain as it's grip tightened and the light died down.
"You're not going anywhere," the figure said, as Kaiba's life was fading. He could only make out a blur of the thing holding him. It had short black hair with a little bit of red in it as well, it had blue/grey skin with huge wings sticking out her back of the same colour. It then held Kaiba closer, with it's fangs starting to stick out nearer to his neck. "To bad, so sad," it mocked before suddenly the bright light reappeared between them again. The thing instantly hissed, dropping Kaiba on the ground, and looking over to where the light source came from.
Kaiba, who at this point was barely conscious, looking up a little at the light source as well.
"Long way from home aren't you Kairi, who sent you?" a female voice came from where the bright light was coming from. The thing, now known as Kairi, hissed at her angrily.
"Oh like you don't know," she informed her.
"You spoiled little bride, leave this place, right now," the light yelled.
"Hahaha, you won't be able to stop it you know, no matter what you do!" Kairi evilly laughed before she and Pegasus disappeared.
Meanwhile, Kaiba struggled to stay a wake as he felt someone place their hand on his chest. He glanced up to see the light form leaning over him.
"You're safe now, that's good. I'm glad," the light said as Kaiba suddenly began glowing, healing all his injuries in the process, but he was still falling unconscious. "We shall meet again Seto Kaiba, when the time is right..."
--End flashback--
"...and that's when I woke up in this world," Kaiba finished before turning to Kirsty.
"Wow, interesting," Kirsty nervously replied.
"I've been healed suddenly twice now, just like that night, somebody up there must obviously like me," he said as he looked up at the ceiling but then looked back at Kirsty. "Or somebody down here," he continued as Kirsty's eyes suddenly widened.
"So it's noticeable huh?" she replied.
"Just a bit."
"How much do you know? Have you been reading my book?"
"What book?" Kaiba questioned puzzlingly.
"Oh, never mind…" Kirsty said as her mind began to remember something that happened not to long ago.
--Flashback--
Kirsty sat alone in the lab, while everyone else was settling in the new base, she had a red book on her lap and a writing pen in her hand. She wrote in the book's bright yellow pages as she quietly hummed a song to herself.
"I just hope this help if it does happen," she whispered as she finished the last page of the book and closed it up. Suddenly stopped humming and looked up from what she was doing as she stood up.
"Can it be?" she mumbled under her breath, but then shock her head. "Na, can't be." she said before continuing what she was doing. She held the book in her hands and concentrated in the book as it suddenly disappeared. "Stay hidden, for one day we may need your knowledge," she whispered, with a tear roll down the side of her face and her hands together, like she was preying. When the book completely disappeared, Kirsty wiped away her tear and went over to the machine parts on the lab floor, as the hummed song she sang to herself earlier began to turn into words she quietly sang to herself.
"We're chilling out with the crew in the sch…" Kirsty sang, but suddenly an explosion was heard, which shock the whole building and knocking her of balance. "Whoa!" she responded as she fell onto her knees. Kirsty then sighed angrily before getting back up and leaving the lab. "Not again!"
--End flashback--
"So…how did you find out then?" she asked, snapping back out from her memory.
"I heard what you told Mana, about what would happen if...you know," Kaiba said as Kirsty looked down sadly and nodded.
"Yes...but the thing is, since Kyra and me were once as one, one of us can't be destroyed unless other is as well. So at last there at least some guarantee there."
"But what if, I the unlikely event that you two are both destroyed. What would happen?"
"This world is my creation, it is linked to me, if I think of something, even for a second, it happens. It's that's why you keep on getting healed and it's also the reason those other two suddenly appeared."
"Who? Metal-head and speedy Gonzales over there?" Kaiba mocked as Kirsty chuckled a little and nodded.
"So if I was not to exist anymore, neither would this world or us any of the people in it," Kirsty said as she stood up and was about to leave the room. But as she placed her and on the door handle, Kaiba placed his hand over hers, stopping her.
"So, what do you do then, to prevent it?" he asked, looked down at her.
"Don't worry about me, I'm a fighter," she replied, looking up at him into his blue eyes.
"Yes you are," he whispered as he rinsed his other hand and caressed her cheek. But before anything else could happen, the whole room suddenly shook, knocking Kirsty and Kaiba off balance and falling to the floor. Kirsty hit the floor first and then Kaiba fell on towards of her, but he just managed to stop himself by putting his hands on the floor to stop himself from falling on top of Kirsty who was underneath him.
"Are you okay?" Kaiba asked, looking at her.
"Oh…I'm just fine…" Kirsty replied with her face being a little red.
"What was that?" they both wondered out loud, as a loud alarm ringing through out the entire base.