Chapter 39

Hikan's POV

I woke up on the couch in Noire's room, after faking my sleep and hearing her, I returned my feelings for her and she fell asleep shortly after, I laid her in bed and I moved to the couch, although she wanted me to sleep in the bed.

"Hm?" I was interrupted by my phone ringing in my pocket, when I flipped it up it was Shizuki.

"Hello?"

"Hikan! Where are you?!" she yelled, I had to move the phone away from my ear.

"I'm in Lastation, is something wrong?" I asked Shizuki, I heard her sigh.

"Hikan, I thought you said you weren't going to Lastation…" she muttered and I gave a small laugh,

"I wanted to see what Noire wanted, there's nothing over at Lastation, The Saviors are gone from here." I explained,

"It's the same in Leanbox, since Vert sees me as a helper, she and I have contact info and she said there was nothing in Leanbox either." Shizuki stated, then that just leaves Lowee.

"I'll contact Ozaki and then i'll head back to Planeptune." I said and I heard Shizuki let out a breath of relief,

"Alright, just be careful." she stated then hung up, what was wrong with her? Shizuki and Neptune keep worrying about me, I don't know what's going on, but i'm fine.

I heard Noire yawn behind me and when I turned around, she leaned up, "Good morning Hikan, I thought you were going to sleep on the bed?" she asked me and I smiled at her,

"Don't worry about it, I need to call someone, then I need to go back to Planeptune." I explained and Noire gave me an angry glare,

"You're leaving already?! But you just got here!" she shouted and I held my hands up,

"Calm down, you can come with me if you want." I said, Noire averted her gaze from mine and crossed her arms.

"Fine, I'll go with you." Noire said and I chuckled a bit, still the Tsun even after she confessed.

I flipped up my phone and dialed Ozaki's number and held the phone up to my ear,

"Hello, this is Ozaki, Captain of the Lowean Guard." he started, captain? Blanc ranked him up fast.

"Hey Ozaki, it's me Hikan." I replied and I heard a couple shouts from other soldiers,

"Oh, hey there Hikan, what's up?" he asked me,

"Has The Saviors been spotted around Lowee?" I said,

"No, we've been searching and searching, they're not here." Ozaki said and I sighed, what the hell is going on?

"Alright, can you do me a favor and tell Blanc to go to Planeptune? I'll meet her there." I told him and he let out a laugh,

"Watch yourself Hikan, I know you like Blanc, but I'll be watching you." he said and I let out a laugh of my own,

"Whatever you say Ozaki, just tell her please?" I said and Ozaki yelled at the other soldiers,

"Keep searching! I'm going to let Lady Blanc know what we found so far!" he yelled and the other soldiers shouted back,

"Yes sir!"

"I'll let her know Hikan." he said then he hung up, I looked back at Noire,

"The Saviors are no longer here I guess, they're nowhere." I said and Noire put her hands on her hips,

"I wonder what happened to them?" she said and I nodded,

"Yeah I do too." I replied as we walked out the door of the Basilicom.


After a long walk, we were now back in Planeptune, we were nearing Compa's house and I was keeping my guard up, something doesn't feel right.

When we reached Compa's house, Blanc just arrived there and was nearing the door as well,

"Hey Blanc!" I called to her and she turned around and saw me,

"Oh, hello Hikan." she greeted and I walked up to her,

"I see Ozaki told you." I said with a smile,

"Yes, what did you need?" she replied and Noire walked up beside me,

"Hey, i'm here to you know!" she yelled and Blanc looked at her with an angry look,

"I know you were, but Hikan answered me first." Blanc snarled and I saw a spark go between them,

"This is not the time for that, we need to work together now." I stated and Noire crossed her arms,

"Fine." she replied and I opened the door to Compa's house.

When I walked in, I saw Vert sitting on the couch with Shizuki and Histy with a cup of tea, "Oh, Hikan's back?" I heard her say and I looked at Shizuki, who was sitting next to her.

"I see you had the same plan." I said and Shizuki looked over at the door,

"Oh, you brought Noire along as well?" she asked and I nodded,

"I thought it would be good to get all of the CPU's here." I answered and then Neptune walked into the room.

"Good, now that Hikan is back, I can make sure that Noire can't steal him." she said and Noire glared at Neptune,

"Steal him? It's hard to believe that Hikan would choose you anyway." she stated and I glanced over with a shocked look, that I wasn't expecting,

"Steal him…" Blanc mutter quietly, I was the only one that heard her.

"It's quite obvious that he would choose me, since I am the most mature." Vert said as she bounced her chest, Blanc immediately looked over with red eyes,

"Is that what you're going to go on about?!" Blanc yelled and then the whole argument started,

"Everyone calm down!" Histy tried to persuade them, but it was like they couldn't hear us, I clenched my fists and stared at the ground, then shot my head up.

"ENOUGH!" I yelled and fire erupted in a circle around me on the ground, everyone looked over at me with a surprised look, "This is not the time for that! I wanted you all here to talk about what to do next. Not argue over this love fight!" I yelled and the fire died down.

Shizuki walked up next to me, "He's right, The Saviors aren't gone, we know they're hiding somewhere." Shizuki said,

"Where are they? They're not anyway where in any nation." Noire said,

"Um, who turned on the TV?" Neptune asked and we all looked at the TV, it was now on and was loading something,

"What is going-" before I could finish my sentence, a video started playing, on the screen was Saito.

"Hello Gamindustri. I am the leader of the organization as you all know of called The Saviors, we have been offering our help with getting rid of the CPU's as nice as we can be. Now there is a new motive, the boy called Hikan Masato is the most dangerous individual in all of Gamindustri, we highly advise that you stay away if you so happen to see him, The Saviors will stop him. As for the CPU's, you have been helping the wrong side, this goes for everyone in Gamindustri, capture Hikan Masato and bring him to us and we will insure that the safety of both you and your CPU's." Saito explained, the video stopped and we all stared at the screen for a bit, then I broke the silence.

"I will kill them all…" I muttered, my anger started to rise.

"That place where he was at." Histy said,

"Yes, that was Celestia, our home." Vert agreed,

"How did they get there, only CPU's can reach Celestia." Noire said, I clenched my fists even harder, then turned around towards the door,

"No! Hikan you can't go!" Neptune yelled as she stepped in front of me,

"Neptune. Get out of my way." I snarled and someone grabbed my shoulder, it was Shizuki.

"Hikan, calm down." she said, I turned around and glared at her,

"Calm down? Calm down?! Is that really what you want to tell me?!" I shouted, everyone walked up to me,

"Hikan, you must calm down now, The Saviors want you to get angry and go after them." Histy tried to persuade me,

"The Saviors are my problem! I will deal with them myself!" I yelled and everyone stood in front of the door.

"Hikan, you've helped all of us with our problems in our nations, now it's our turn." Noire stated, I looked at all of them and shook my head,

"No. I cannot allow that, you all need to stay here and watch your nations." I stated and they all shook their heads,

"Our decision is final." Blanc stated, I looked down at the ground and said nothing.

"Hikan, I know it's hard, but you have to do this." Shizuki said, I fell to my knees.

"If any of you die, I won't be able to live with myself." I stated quietly, all of these girls gave me my reason to live.

"Then none of us will die, we'll win." Neptune said and I looked up at all of them.

"Everyone… thank you." I stated and got off the ground.

"Then it's time for the final battle!" Neptune shouted and everyone nodded, we all walked outside and then a flash of light surrounded the CPU's, then they were all in their CPU forms.

Vert's CPU form had long emerald green hair that was tied into one long ponytail, her eyes were purple and her outfit revealed the bottom of her chest and body a good bit and what she had on above everything was grey and green, she had a white gauntlet on her left hand and she had on the grey stockings and grey and green boots.

Blanc's CPU form had ocean blue hair with two long sideburns going down to her stomach, her eyes were about the same red color as mine and her outfit looked like a white bathing suit with two gauntlets on as well, she also had white and blue boots on.

"Hikan, stay safe." Neptune told me and then they all flew into the sky, Celestia was a floating city from how this is going, Shizuki, Histy, and I all watched as the CPU's flew towards their home.

A few minutes after they left, IF and Compa came running towards us, Shizuki and Histy greeted them as I stared where the CPU's went,

"Hikan, you saw it didn't you." IF stated and I kept staring, all I did was nod.

"Hikan…" Compa called out to me, I turned around and walked back into the house, if anything happens to them… it'll be my fault…

I opened the door to my room and sat down on my bed, please everyone… come back safe.


Third Person POV

The CPU's were rapidly approaching Celestia, Neptune had her doubts on leaving Hikan alone, but the bigger problem was Saito.

"There it is!" Noire yelled, the whole group looked up at the floating city that they call home, Celestia.

"How did they even get up here?" Vert asked and they observed the area before landing, the area was closed off by the edge of Celestia, one step and you would fall back to Gamindustri, each path led above the nations where the transporters were, each transporter would send that Goddess to their nation, but only CPU's were allowed to use that transporter.

"It doesn't matter how, we know they're here, so let's go and kick their ass." Blanc cursed, the whole group materialized their weapons and treaded on carefully,

"Neptune, you've been quiet for some time now." Noire pointed out, it's true that she has been quiet ever since they left Hikan and the others back in Planeptune,

"I'm worried about Hikan, we all seen the look he had when he saw that video." Neptune stated, Hikan was in a completely different mood then when what he was in before, the only thing he had on his mind was to kill.

"It's true that Hikan wants to fight, but we can't allow it, he's a citizen of Gamindustri. Which means we need to protect him as well." Vert said,

"Even if he can fight, I'm not gonna let him do it himself, he's fought enough in all of our nation's." Blanc said, then Neptune noticed something that didn't make sense.

"Wait, where are they? Shouldn't they be guarding the area?" Neptune stated and everyone looked around, no members of The Saviors were in sight.

"That's odd, maybe they surrendered?" Noire said, but Neptune shook her head,

"From what Hikan said, the leader is someone who doesn't give up easily." Neptune said and then they heard footsteps coming from in front of them, they all readied their weapons for the possible attack,

"Hello CPU's." Saito said as he stepped in front of them,

"You're the leader of The Saviors? Saito right?" Noire said and Saito nodded,

"Yes, my name is Saito Hiroshi, the leader of The Saviors and also Hikan's stepfather." Saito introduced with a bow,

"Trying to get on our good side after all you put us through?" Vert pointed out and Saito grinned,

"Not my tactic, but I thought we should talk about some things first." Saito stated and Blanc cracked her knuckles,

"The only thing I'll explain is beating your head to the ground!" she yelled and charged Saito, Saito held his hand up and blocked the incoming axe strike by holding the blade,

"Impatient as always White Heart?" Saito asked and Blanc pulled her axe back and swung it down at him, only for Saito to dodge the blow by stepping to the right,

"Shut the hell up! I'll kill you!" Blanc yelled as she charged Saito again "Tanzerin Trombe!"

"Useless." Saito stated, he held his hand up again and stopped Blanc's movements in an instant, she could no longer move.

"What?! How the hell?!" Blanc struggled to get out of his grip, but failed in trying.

"I highly advise that you all stand down and listen to what I have to say." Saito said and the CPU's glared at him,

"Fine, we'll listen to what you have to say." Neptune stated and Saito looked over at all of them,

"I'm sure Histoire has already informed you on what is going on with Hikan, this is exactly why we need him captured." Saito started, everyone gave Saito an angry look since he was talking about Hikan in a bad way,

"Shut up about him! We refuse to believe that he would do something like that!" Noire yelled but Saito shook his head,

"You all don't know him like I do, it's inevitable of what he is going to do, if you bring him to me, I can ensure the safety of all of Gamindustri's citizens, including you." Saito said, Neptune continued to stare at Saito.

"You say you know him? That's a lie, you never knew Hikan, you just used him to get what you wanted!" Neptune yelled, the CPU's looked over at her shocked, even Saito was a little shocked by her yelling, "You never took the time to know Hikan! He was abandoned by his own parents and you treated him no different! He was a prisoner in your clutches and you used him, if he didn't have that elemental power, you would have pushed him off like some brat!"

"Hikan knew his purpose all along, it was all the girls fault, she wanted Hikan for her own purposes and Hikan happily went along, Hikan was a fool, he let his feelings take him over, even though he could never love anyone because of his power, it would just make him kill." Saito explained,

"Not anymore. Hikan has changed, we gave him the feelings he thought he would never have, and we refuse to let you capture him." Noire said, Saito glanced at all of the CPU's and then sighed,

"And here I thought I would be able to negotiate, but looks like that is out of the question." Saito stated and released his grip on Blanc,

"There!" Blanc charged towards Saito, but only to get intercepted by a sword slash to block it, "What?!"

"Well well well, looks like I can finally have some fun." A voice said, the CPU's turned and looked to the right and looked at the path that led to Planeptune, standing in the middle of the path was Akumu, he had a wicked smile on his face and was staring right at the Goddesses.

"H-Hikan?" Vert and Blanc called out, but Noire shook her head,

"No, don't be fooled, that's not Hikan, that's Akumu." Noire said and Akumu raised his hands,

"Guilty as charged! Wow, leave it to Noire to figure me out so quickly!" Akumu complimented, "I gotta say though, remember the time when we took out Kinoshita? That was fun wasn't it?" he also said.

"This guy is new…" Blanc muttered, Saito looked over at Akumu,

"Akumu, I trust that you'll take care of these girls, then i'll be back later." Saito said and Akumu gave him a thumbs up,

"Gotcha!" he said and Saito walked back along the path to Lastation, "man, that old guy knows how to trigger people huh?" Akumu asked and Noire gritted her teeth,

"You really are stupid!" she shouted and charged Akumu,

"Noire wait!" Neptune called out, but it was too late,

Noire tried to slash Akumu, but Akumu raised his hands and slapped her mouth shut and spun her around and whispered into her ear "Nap time…" he whispered in her ear and Noire went out of CPU form and started to fall asleep,

"Noire!" Vert yelled as she dashed towards both of them, Akumu dropped Noire and did a somersault kick to kick away Vert's spear,

"Wait your turn, all of you will have a chance to fight me." Akumu said as he stepped in front of Noire, she fell asleep anyway.

"This guy is powerful, we need to be careful and attack together." Neptune said, Akumu walked closer to them,

"I always wanted to fight you goddesses, I guess I can thank Saito for once." Akumu said while licking his lips, "Get ready!" he hissed as he dashed towards the goddesses.


Hikan's POV

About an hour had past since the Goddesses left, I was still in my room and I was sitting in the middle of my bed and staring at the bedsheets, I snapped out of my trance when the door opened,

"Hikan?" Shizuki said as she walked through and shut the door, I just stared at her, "I wanted to talk to you." she said and I nodded, she walked up to the bed and climbed up and sat down next to me,

"Hikan, I wanted to tell you about what's going on, I know that you don't want to sit here, but we don't want you to go. They only want you too so they can capture you." Shizuki explained, I looked over at her,

"So what… If any of them end up hurt or even killed, it'll go back on me." I finally said and Shizuki grabbed my arm,

"No it won't, they wanted to do this on their own decision, they want to protect you Hikan." Shizuki said and I gritted my teeth,

"That's the point! I know they want to protect me and that they love me, but Akumu will kill them off! They can't beat him!" I yelled, Shizuki stared at me for a second.

"What do you mean they can't beat him? Is he that strong?" Shizuki asked me, I shook my head,

"No, He's exactly like me, he was with me the whole time since Nagana's death." I explained and Shizuki stared at me,

"So, that thing that was in your head, that was him?" she asked and I nodded, "If they're serious about how much they care about you, then they won't lose, they'll fight until Akumu is defeated." Shizuki said then stood up.

"No, they're gonna get killed if they stay." I said and Shizuki looked back at me before walking out the door, I put my heads in my hands.

Everyone, please come back safe...


A/N: Alright there is the next one. Now i'm sure you guys and girls what's coming next, so you know what to expect when the next chapter goes up! Anyway, thanks for reading and I hope to see you all later!