Author's Note: I don't own Blazblue, Arc System Work does. Well if you bother to read this story, you should have known anyway. I am a newbie in Writing and Fanfiction. Please, if you are benevolent enough to a newbie, please review this. Thanks a lot…..
The town is in disarray…people running around, bloods spilled everywhere and houses crumbles. The town that was filled with screams and cries just hours ago is now filled with nothing but the breeze of the wind
Far away at the end of the town…stood a large eastern Building which top has been frozen, showing large brilliantly coloured light blue. There Stood 1 blond with his Katana un-sheathed, he wore a customized blue uniform with horizontal red lines on the side. His shoulder part are likes an attachment of the uniform as its flaps by its own.
In front of him a shadowy Figure can be seen, however he has his feet frozen solid. Although the situation seems to demand him to break the ice, he stood still with his arm crossed and his eye closed. Nobody seems to intend to say anything, yet somehow nobody intends to move either. Despite the situation seems to favor the Blond, he stood still simply eye-ing his opponent.
The blond is clearly getting impatient if his face is any indication… soon enough unable to bear with the silence, he decide to spoke out first.
"You are not going to resist at all?"
"No. Just do your job"
"Your Men were fighting for you, sacrificing themselves for you and you will just surrender without a fight?"
"Were you care about my subordinates child?"
This time, finally the older man finally spoke. By the slight lights that illuminate the room, it can be seen he finally open his eyes to scan the blond. The blond merely shrugs when he hears the reply of his question, which is…another question.
"No its not like that…I just cant fathom why would you give your life so easily…..though if that is what you wish, then I shall comply….Ikaruga's Master Tenjo-Amanohokoshaka …"
The blond, finally lift his Katana, about to strike the ground. He intend to freeze the whole room including the man that stands in front of him now. However, he was stopped by the very man's own voice before his Katana can reach the ground…
"Do you have something to fear Boy?..."
"Fear?...i do…but I forgot what is it long time ago."
"You forgot your fear? I see….then do you have anything you love?"
"Love?...what is this question about?...i…love my siblings…but they are dead. And there is this one other girl. Tch, why are we even having this conversation?"
"What if what you fear, happen to your loved one boy?"
"What?..."
The blond is currently stabbing his katana to the ground, but he didn't put any power to it. Resulting the Katana to meet the ground without anything happening. On his face is the expression full of confusion, he wonders why the opponent decide to have this kind of random questions? And why did he feels like answering.
"I don't even know what did I fear….how should I know?"
"Then do you want to know?"
"Huh?..."
"You are like that Katana, Jin Kisaragi. Cold, deadly, and proud….however what you have different with that katana is…. You are always sheathed…."
"What?...what do you mean?"
"If you really want to know, then open up yourself. Believe in yourself, and not just yourself but also others. Doubt others, and not just others but also yourself. This world….may not be the same as like what it seems…."
"Stop bickering around and tell me what do you mean?"
"MAAASSTTEEER!"
Suddenly the room got another figure, this bulky figures barge in with alert and he is in hurry. He immediately tries to kick the blond on his head with hook swing of his feet. The blond responds by dodging and plan to stab him on the stomach.
However that is blocked by the irons on his gauntlet. The counter attack however doesn't stop there, his gauntlet starts to freeze. Noticing this, he hurriedly throws Shuriken and Kunais to the guy with the name of Jin Kisaragi. This prompts jin to dodge and he starts to eye his opponent, scanning and tries to figure out who is this
"Bang stop it."
"But master…."
"How is the evacuation?"
"Yes…everybody has left Ikaruga, we are now safe to board to somewhere else. That is precisely why, you must come with us!"
"Left…Me…be bang….Jin Kisaragi, it seems….our….conversation is over"
Jin and Bang starts to see Tenjo glows in blueish-green light. He cough while talking to the both of them, and when he is glowing. Then he suddenly throws something to Bang, which is in the form of Gigantic nail. And cross his hand and closed His eye again.
"Go with that Bang, now leave! This is an order….ugh….Jin Kisaragi…"
'I still have a little bit of my soul….if this boy is also another victim to the cruelty of the world….then the least I can do is guide him to prepare for the world…and bang too..'
Bang immediately left the scene, despite in pain for losing his master. He took his master's Nail with him and flee, Jin left him alone and never shifting his focus from the older opponent
"Do it…..Do your job! Ah…and please tell that man just now….to use it…when the time came"
"What?"
A truly incomprehensible person, this is what Jin thought of him as he coughs while trying to talk. All of his question and words just give jin even more Questions. He felt something odd about this whole situation but he can't figure out what it is, and this person just make the situation even more odd than it was before. Why did he ask him all this questions? Why didn't he resists? Why did he have that giant nail? Why did he gave it to his subordinate? And most importantly
Why did this person talk as if he tries to teach him something?
However Jin got no respond, he starts to wonder whether his opponent is dead. However he decides to not dwell here anymore and stab the ground. Finally freezing everything in the room in the light blue crystal of his Ices, white mist fills the room and the older opponent is just a frozen statue now. Eye-ing his opponent one last time before he depart, he wonders…..
'Believe in myself and others….and doubt myself and others….i don't understand…'
"Believe in myself…and others…and doubt too huh?.. I still don't understand"
The scene change to that of people building houses and people selling foods and merchandise, there Jin with bandages stood and mumble by himself…..
'Everybody is living their life as if no care about the world here…so peaceful. This is not the kind of place I belongs'
He was starting to leave until he hears a voice calling him, turns out the person who calls him is the ninja that was on the same room as him before. He recall this…man? woman?...person seems to be the only one who didn't have any hostility on his…her….? Words other than bang
"Your Partner, The squirrel lady has went for her business first. She said you can go without worrying about her. That's all"
"I see…Thank you."
he was never intend to wait for Makoto either. With that he starts to leave the scene, his eye now only see a certain white spiky haired guy in red Jacket. With determine face, he walks towards his destination.
'Wait for me…brother'
"Do you girls know each other?"
With a deep voice, the Red giant asked intrigued. The Lavender hair girl nodded silently, she keep smiling when she see her old squirrel friend. The said squirrel friend though, is now adopting a dumbfound face. In her mind she debates whether this is a good change…or just calm before storm
"Fancy meeting you here Makoto, what have made you come here?"
She talks in soft spoken voice, her words are polite and a grimace of excitement mixed. Makoto though, still in her mind completely ignore her. Albeit not on purpose…
"Wake up Makoto, are you alright? Your face looks rather pale"
"She said she came here to see the fossils….and look for Kokonoe."
Because Makoto didn't answer her, the red Giant known as Iron Tager decides to answer in her stead instead. Both never stop looking at the squirrel girl in front of them. One looks in suspicion, another one looks in concern and excitement.
"Ahh…right…I was… ergh,.. umm"
Makoto stuttered, she can see that her friend Cajun knows she is not here simply for the fossil. They have known each other and have a rather close relationship since the day in academy, she is bound to know Makoto nature life and animals, but she have no interest in fossil that are not cute nor beautiful and it does not stimulate her adrenaline either….
"Is that so? Okay, would you like to get together too here? For old time sake?"
Makoto see Cajun using professor coat, she draw conclusion that most probably Cajun is also another scientist for sector 7…and the fact that she was with Iron tager, maybe she is Kokonoe's subordinate as well. Sighing, she decide to just throw away her act and just be done with it
"Geez….i know its not enough to fool you Cajun. Fine, I'll tell you two….I am not here for fossil, I am here for professor Kokonoe of Sector 7. I have something to give her, and I can guarantee its nothing life-threatening or…anything harmful….it's probably useless anyway"
"I see. And what is the thing you want to give her? Ah its okay Mr. Tager, I know her. I'll take responsibility if she did something suspicious."
"Actually I am…."
Suddenly a Hologram projection appeared, revealing a pink haired cat woman who talks while munching marshmallows. She have rather sleepy expression on her face, and black below her eye
"Oi, what is it?"
"Ah Professor Kokonoe!"
"Kokonoe, do you know her?"
Kokonoe scan Makoto with her eye for awhile, her expression never change still sleepy as before as if she can fall faint from exhaustion any time. In reality she realize who is Makoto after looking at her.
"So where is the disk?"
"Ah…here"
Makoto Hands a disk to Iron Tager. Cajun and Tager open their eyes wide upon realization of what is the true reason Makoto is here. They were informed beforehand that a Double-Agent spy from Sector 7 that currently spying on N.O.L is coming back soon with the Data. The agent success in infiltrating the Intel department of NOL and supposed to give them the disk containing stolen information
It was never in Cajun's mind that Makoto who was always brash and girly will be the double agent, moreover it never in her mind that Makoto also belongs sector 7. Makoto on the other hand, now with no expression on her face began to think back to her situation.
'Maybe I should just tell professor Kokonoe about my problem….i don't see the harm in telling her anyway, considering she may be able to sends me back…Still, I need to search for Lady Rachel after this and there is something else I want to do…'
"What's the password?"
"Eh? Err….Gnu…though most probably its wrong…"
"What?"
Kokonoe's voice pulls her back from her thought, she was shocked for a while but immediately answer the pink cat. Her answer however is unexpected as she tell the password which she think as wrong. The professor with confused expression on her face then said the actual password…
"Its…-"
"its Baa"
"-…Baa"
'Sigh….figures that's the password…"
"…If you know that's the password why did you say its Gnu?..."
Kokonoe Narrow her eyes, her previous confusion has now starts to become suspicion. It doesn't make sense at all to her for someone to say the fake password when they know the actual password…..unless she is trying to not tell her the actual password which is unlikely since she herself know it. Or if she is joking, but her face doesn't looks like she is joking
"Well…its hard to explain. But that disk's password is Gnu, not Baa"
"What do you mean?"
"When I contact the sector 7 to submit the disk, they tell me before hand the password for the disk that I need to set. That disk is set to Gnu because that's what sector 7 told me, while instead it should've been Baa"
"You mean someone set you up?"
Iron Tager decide to speak after being silent for a while now, he and Cajun have doubtful expression in their face. As even them didn't know about Makoto being Double agent, who would be able to set her up
"No no…its not like that…actually just test the disk itself….i bet even the date doesn't match up"
Kokonoe insert the disk into her Computer….and what happens is the Disk's password is…Correct, its"Baa".
"It's working…The Baa password"
"WHAAAT?"
Makoto Shouts as loud as possible, the foreboding fear starts to get bolder and bolder. Her shouting voice immediately fills the large hallway of fossils show, visitors turn to look at her and give her annoyed eyes. However Makoto don't care, what happen right now is just much more important…because none of them make sense….she is in the past right?
"How is that possible? Damn, what about the date? What date is it? Is it January 3, 2200? Or is it February 10, 2200? And what is today's date"
'nothing make sense anymore….whats actually happening..Tsubaki…Noel…help…"
"Dammit calm down, we are not here to hear your oh so beautiful screeching voice. I would prefer to hear someone clawing a chalkboard rather than your screeching voice "
Kokonoe Plugs her ears, and scolds Makoto for disturbing her sleepy atmosphere. That did work to make her lost her will to rest though…so in a way it works to make her more energetic…. She check the disk's Date and today's date which match up. When she inform Makoto, life seems to depart from her body
"I see…so its December 31,2199"
Makoto immediately falls to her knee, face looking down and colour as pale as possible. The other 3 tries to call to her while Kokonoe keep asking to spare her the drama. Makoto however lost her power completely….she was now in fear just like the first time she cross the boundary…fear of the unknown…and fear that she wont be able to go back
Makoto herself actually questions why she falls to her knee. Did she overreacting to this? Or is she just being pessimistic? Or is it because she knows something bad will happen?. At any rate, her body now limps without power….until an image of a certain blonde and a redhead appears on her mind
'That's right….stand up Makoto, you cant stay here when Tsubaki maybe in danger soon. And remember that you want to make sure that Noel is here.'
"Professor Kokonoe… I need your help…."
"If that "Help" is to prevent you from shouting then I'll be glad to…."
"No, not that…umm.. actually I don't know whether I need your help or not…anyway I MAY need your help…or Lady Rachel's Help"
"….Who are you?"
"Heh…so even you will ask that huh?..."
Kokonoe knows that Rachel wont comes out from her…[Spectator's Seat] unless there is something she need to do and only her capable of. So an agent from sector 7 to know Rachel is weird, she shouldn't have any interest in this squirrel girl and this girl should'nt play much role in the World. But then the said squirrel girl looks as if she is knows her before. But before Kokonoe could ask anything more, the girl in question has ready to go
"I can't tell you much yet, there is somewhere I need to go now….sorry. But I can tell you that I come from the dimension which Noel=Vermillion Exist. Oh and Cajun Faycott its nice to see you again, lets meet up again just like before with the others, Adieu~"
"Wait hey!..."
Kokonoe instantly widen her eyes as wide as possible when the name Noel Vermillion mentioned. Makoto however already run away to who knows where while waving her hand to Cajun. Cajun and Tager tries to ask whats happening to kokonoe but it falls to deaf ear…
"Wait for me…TSUBAKI! This time, I'll definitely be there with you!"
"Its okay you two can come in now
The door open revealing a Blonde and a Brown head coming inside. The Redhead who calls them then close the door and the three of them sit on the chairs, surrounding the table with the squirrel girl
"….."
Nobody said anything, the red head seems worried, while the blonde looks sad, and the brown head looks concerned. The squirrel? She have rather complex expression because she have no idea how to react to the whole situation.
"H…how about some cookies? Hehehehe…he…"
Celica A mercury, suggest with nervousness in her voice. She don't like this awkward atmosphere, considering her happy go lucky life style. Furthermore, she realize this awkward situation is brought by nobody else but her.
"Where did you get that from Celica-chan"
"Oh? Before I came here I actually goes to some confection store, I always buys sweets for my sister that it becomes a habit hehe"
Noel interest in the bear shaped cookies, with her eyes twinkling. In reality, she is also nervous and just forces herself to look happy. Normally she would take the cookies, because she love sweets, but now she take those cookies just to keep her mind on something else other than her dear friend does not know her at all.
"That looks good, let me have some too"
"Here here, just take it~…..how about you Makoto?..."
Tsubaki join as well. Some of the cookies are coated in chocolate filling, and Tsubaki love chocolate so much she could literally live with only chocolate as her diet. Celica, in return over Tsubaki the cookies…..and offer it to Makoto as well….
"….."
Silent starts to emerges from nowhere again….celica mentally slapped herself for bringing the awkwardness that she tries to avoid in the first place….however Makoto move her hand towards the caramel coated cookies and eat them with a smile
"This is great! Thanks uhh…. Celica…chan! Yeah celica….."
"Hehe eat as much as you like, it taste better when eating together!"
"…..you see…-"
Makoto Starts to show the other occupants of the room a sad smile. Tsubaki is the one who understand her, the most among the other, as she is the only one who talk directly to her before and see all of her reactions.
"-….I, err..how do I say this. Dammit! What I want to say is that, I don't want to make it sounds awkward for you girls. Even if I cant remember, just act as usual and don't mind me…I know its not easy, and I don't mean to try acting like…..this world's me… its just that…. I don't want to see you girls look so down like that…."
Makoto sheepishly rub the back of her head, she constantly change her expression to rather complicated one. She truly does not want to become the "Emotional Burden" of the group. The other 3 however, simply Laugh at her making the squirrel girl rather agitated.
"Yeah, this is Makoto alright!"
"Yeah, no matter what dimensions you come from you still the same, aw~ Makoto let me hug your tail"
"Makoto-chan is Makoto chan after all, hehe"
"You bitches…. Eh hey, don't grab it so hard…auugh…No…Noel…..uughh"
Tsubaki, Noel, and Celica's spirit immediately rose from Makoto's Heartful Speech. Noel immediately hugs Makoto's Tail violently and refuses to let go. In fact, after Makoto ask her not to grab it so hard…she starts to grab it tighter and rub her face on the tail blissfully
"Noellers…(Noeruuun~)"
"What?"
"You always call me Noellers when we are at a free time, so call me that first…augh so fluffy…I am so happy~"
"okay Noellers….Please let go of my tail!"
"Okay…with a condition"
"What is it?"
"You gotta taste my new recipe~"
"What ? another free food? I do…"
Tsubaki, upon hearing that Immediately grit her teeth, face become pale and horror struck on her head. Then she thought.
'Oh my gosh, I forgot to tell her about Noel's Cooking"
"NO DON'T! Noel! Are you trying to kill Makoto?"
She immediately interrupt Makoto's talk with Noel, she fear for her friend's Safety as the [Death Dinner] may takes yet another victim…a victim that normally knows it best how terrifying it is. Ironically though, unknown to Tsubaki and Noel, Makoto's Body automatically shivers a bit when Noel offers her food…but Makoto decide to ignore it.
"EEEEHHH?"
Makoto right now completely shivering from the top to bottom…or from the bottom to top….her face becomes blue and her tail spikes up…Tsubaki and Celica have Fear in their face…while Noel screams while tearing up on Makoto's tail…
It was not a comfortable feeling, of someone shouting and crying on your Tail…
Inside a room that seems to be a hall…. Right below the staircase, two men resides… One standing while the other one in the ground.
The one standing wears a Red jacket, black t-shirt, with black Hakama. His white hair flutters while still hiding his Eyes. He pulls his big sword from the ground and put it back to its scabbard on his back…
"Jin….i am not letting you go with me….just sleep here."
"Bro…Brother"
With that, the red jacket guy lifts Jin kisaragi up and rest him on the nearby wall. He starts to walk towards the staircase to go up, Jin can only extend his hand to him while his eyes is getting blurry. It was not long until his hand and head falls down and his eyes closed. Breathing slowly, softly…sorrowfully….
