Blue Skies
By PsychoInnovations & drake202
NOTICE BELOW PLEASE READ
Howdy all, my name is PsychoInnovations, and I am the writer of the story Guyver and the Vampire: Power across Dimensions. Shortly after I released the prologue of that story, I received a message from my now-friend drake202. He had a great idea for a Guyver/Sekirei crossover, which was nothing more than a simple back story for it. First off, I would like to state that this will diverge a bit from normal Sekirei canon, but that is the universe this will occur in. We have decided that Sho will not be our protagonist, but rather an Original Character who this prologue will be told by. Secondly, though we will feature the Guyver I, no other units have been planned to be used at this point in time, however I plan on expanding the powers of the G-unit exponentially through use of my author powers. I guess if you don't like any of this, we're not forcing you to read it. Next, the Sekirei flock of the protagonist will be expanded outside of Minato's normal group by five. I'm not going to say who per say, but I will say they aren't major players in the Sekirei plot, and I won't rip Sekirei away from Ashikabi that are rather plot-relevant. This will be a harem romance, and we will try to diverge the time up between the OC and his Sekirei evenly, but favorites might be picked later on...just a possibility. Other than that, only thing I can say is don't expect lemons in this, but also this won't be PG, I mean anyone who's read or watched Sekirei can attest to that. So now without further ado, please enjoy our baby that we have nursed for 4 months...Blue Skies.
Prologue: Changing of the Seasons
What you are about to read may be a bit much for some to stomach, and it involves what others may consider heartbreak or sadness. I am far removed from such emotions, as they will only slow me down in my fight to bring them down. This is a story about a small boy and his family, sounds pretty normal so far right? The boy cared so much for his mother, father, and younger sister, which is touching is it not? That's as far as the happiness goes for this boy, as I'm afraid his luck turned for the worse, when his father brought his 'work' home with him one day.
I remind you that this isn't what a normal childhood should be like. The boy of this story was only ten, when his world was ripped away from him. His mother and sister were forever lost to him; even to this day he never really knew them. His father was the only one left in his life, and even then he was eventually lost. This tale is but the start to something much more enormous, but I feel it necessary to start with, as to set the stage. We first begin with the day that changed everything.
Vargas' Home
Mangaratiba, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
November 14, 2002
It was a cool night, just like any other, on the large Vargas' estate. What little of the staff that managed the home that were left, lingered around a lone fire near their quarters. A noise from the southwest caused them to turn their attention to it, but after a few moments it was revealed just to be the sound of Mr. Vargas' SUV rolling up the drive. A few of the staff motioned to get up and went to greet their employer. A scruffy-looking man who was the groundskeeper greeted the head of the family first.
"Good evening, Mr. Vargas, I trust everything went well at work today?" The groundskeeper asked sincerely. Mr. Vargas nodded his head to his employee, before moving to the back of his vehicle. He noticed that some of the workers were attempting to move the luggage he had in the trunk, and he quickly intercepted them.
"Please no! Allow me; I know you all work so hard, I'm giving you the rest of the weekend off!" The remaining employees sounded a cry of joy at the kindness of their boss, and they all moved to turn in for the evening. 'That was too close for comfort,' the man thought to himself, 'I need to get this to my study before the rest of the family suspects something is amiss.' Mr. Vargas composed himself and set out to deliver his package before joining his family for dinner.
Dining Room – 45 minutes later
"Elijah! Get your sister it's time to wash up and come down for dinner!" Mrs. Katami Vargas shouted up to her children. At his mother's call, ten-year-old Elijah Vargas came bounding down the stairs. Elijah was had a rather tan-complexion, dark wavy hair, and was tall for his age. His parents always said he took after his father's side of the family, and if that was any indication then the boy was just going to continue to grow. Right behind Elijah was his eight-year-old sister Yukari Vargas, who was much smaller than her brother; she had much lighter skin and midnight black hair, unlike the more deep chocolate color of her brother's. The two took their place at the table and awaited their parents to join them.
Katami moved to sit down with her family as servants brought out the meal for the evening. While awaiting their food, Elijah shifted restlessly waiting for the final member of their family to come and join them. 'Where is dad? I'm gonna eat his plate too if he doesn't hurry up!' the boy thought to himself while smirking like a mischievous little thief. Katami also began wondering of her husband's whereabouts and called over one of the staff.
"Would you be a dear and go fetch my husband for me? He's probably still cooped up in his study with some big new project from work!" Katami chuckled, while the man she was talking to move to carry out her request. Elijah got up from the table and began to walk toward the stairs.
"It's okay mom, I can go get dad for you!" the child grinned before taking off up the stairs, while the staff-person that Katami had ordered to do just that quirked an inquisitive brow in her direction.
"Let him go," she said, "Lord knows that man needs to spend more time with his son anyway!" The servant just nodded before joining the rest of the staff along the wall for when they were needed further.
Study of Samuel Vargas
As Samuel sat at his desk, he noticed the clock on the wall was showing almost 8:00 PM, and he sighed aloud. 'God is it this late already, the family must be wondering where I am now, but this project is just too important.' The man began arranging the pile of papers that littered his desk into a few piles. 'I just hope that whatever this...thing is, that it won't ever see the light of day again. When they applied the first unit to that man…he went crazy with that power, and he had to be stopped…' Samuel's thoughts trailed off as a noise outside his door caught the family-head's attention.
The man rose from where he was seated and approached the door before opening it. Outside his study Samuel looked down and saw the pride of his life standing before him. His son Elijah was looking up at him with a huffed look upon his features, and he appeared to be pouting.
"Daaaaad!" Elijah whined, "Hurry up! Mommy won't let us eat dinner until you come down!" Samuel's son looked up at him with big eyes, before his father gave in.
"Alright bud, just let me pack up my project and I'll be right down," Samuel told his son, who shouted out in excitement. "Just wait in here while I go wash up, and then we'll go down together, okay champ?" The youngster nodded his head quickly, before sitting in one of the lounge chairs that littered his father's study, and Samuel exited them room to prepare for the put-off-dinner.
Elijah, who had grown bored of waiting for his father, got up from the chair that he occupied, and began to look around his dad's study. Normally he wasn't invited into this part of the house, because his dad usually conducted business here. Elijah wandered over to his father's desk and noticed a briefcase with a dull-gray object inside of it, and curious-as-ever at that age, Elijah reached for the briefcase. As he did so, it toppled over and the object rolled out onto the floor, and little Elijah went over to where it lay after it stopped its small journey. As he reached out for the object, the middle of it began to glow, and then it exploded outward.
"Daaad!" was all Elijah managed to scream as whatever was inside the container, enveloped him, and then his world went dark…
Samuel's bedroom
A few moments earlier
Samuel entered into his room and proceeded to head to the bathroom. He tossed the papers he had collected from his study onto the bed for later review. After Samuel had finished washing up in the restroom, he entered his room and checked on some news before getting up to leave the room for dinner. As he exited into the hallway, he saw an eerie blue glow emitting from underneath the doorway in his study, and a crash that came from within the room.
The head of the household bolted down the hallway as he heard his little boy cry out his name. Samuel ran to the door and kicked it in, just in time to see a creature with multiple tentacles attaching itself to his son. 'No it can't be! Not my own son!' Samuel thought to himself as he ran toward his son, and reached for it, but a tentacle lashed out and knocked the man away from his boy. As the creature continued to meld with the youth, the man could only sit back and watch as his "project" did its horrible duty. 'Good God, why did it have to be him? They told me it'd be safe here, but they didn't even think to put a damn lock code on the device! When I get back to the embassy, shit will hit the fan, but for now, I need to help my son!' Samuel rushed out of the room and called down the stairs.
"Katami! Call an ambulance, Elijah has had a serious accident!" At the sound of her husband's voice, Katami motioned to a servant to carry out her husband's orders before she rushed up the stairs to see what had happened to her son.
"Samuel what happened to my son! I swear to God if that damn place you work has anything to do with this –" but Samuel cut her off she could really get into her tirade.
"Katami, if this has anything to do with my work, I will handle it, so please just stay out, you know my work for the agency is dangerous enough as it is. Just think of the danger we would be in if they found out Elijah accidently activated their project!" Samuel stopped and then slouched against a wall, slowly letting gravity drag him down until he was sitting on the floor. His wife sat down next to him, and just leaned into her husband.
"Sam, what are we going to do? If either of our organizations learns of this, it will tear our family apart. Not to mention what they'll do to our son if they get ahold of him! We have to protect our little boy, Samuel!"
"Dammit Katami, don't you think I know that! We need to get the children and leave Brazil as soon as we can. I know we have more than enough money to last us, but we still need to live under the radar, I will take Elijah and move back to the states, and I want you to take Yukari and head off to Japan and stay there for the time being." His wife gave him a shocked look, before finally nodding.
"I'll go pack my things in the morning, for now we need to let Elijah be taken in to the hospital and for the doctors to look at him." Samuel nodded as his wife moved into the study, where she began to cradle her son's head in her arms, as he was still knocked out from the first attack. The sound of small footsteps caused Samuel to look in a different direction as he saw his young daughter coming over to him.
"Daddy what's wrong with big brother, is he sick?" the innocent young girl asked her father, who did his best to give his daughter a smile.
"Elijah is going for a ride to hospital because he has a cold. I want you to stay here with Mommy and make sure she is alright, okay sweetie?" The little girl nodded her small head dutifully to her father, before rushing over to her mother's side and jumping on her in a big hug, muttering things about how everything would be okay and that big brother would get better. As the ambulance arrived, paramedics came into the house and loaded Elijah onto a gurney to take him to the hospital. Samuel could only watch as his boy was put into the back of the ambulance, before he got into his SUV and followed. Katami, who was holding Yukari, simply stood at the front door, watching her son for most likely the last time…
As the months passed, the boy was constantly wondering where his mother and sister had went until his father had told him the truth. He told his son of the monster that attacked him, and how it was actually supposed to help him in his life, but the boy refused to believe that. Elijah only knew the pain that the thing had brought, and how it had made his sister and mother leave. The father could only feel guilt and regret as his work continued to plague his son's life.
Soon however, the years began to pass, and the boy grew accustomed to his new style of life with only his father. They had left their villa in Brazil and moved back to his father's home in the United States, particularly in Oregon. One day the boy's father announced that his son needed to train the boy to use his powers, and to teach him material arts as well.
More time flew by, but there was one day in particular that the boy was training with his father, and I remember that this particular event was even more traumatic on the boy that anything prior...
Summit of Mount Jefferson, Oregon, United States
Four years later
Eli dodged another volley of discs that fired at him, before he back-flipped behind a tree, and took out the launcher with his head- beam. 'Dad is taking it way too easy on me!' the fourteen-year-old boy thought to himself before a boulder came crashing down a hill toward him. The teen leaped out of the way before the boulder plowed over his previous position. 'Or maybe he's trying to kill me…yeah let's go with that.' The boy rushed after the boulder and activated his high-frequency blades before he sliced at the huge rock, reducing it to small pieces. Clapping suddenly filled the boy's ears as his father walked into view.
"Ah that was a wonderful display, son! It seems you have mastered the head-beam from the way you knocked out those discs and launcher, but we'll call it a day for right now. Let's go on in and have some dinner," Samuel told his son, and Eli turned to follow his father, but the sensory organs atop his head began twitching, causing the teen to turn in time to see a large furred creature rush at him.
"So this is where the Guyver has been hiding all these years! Well now Vargas, I see that you took no hesitation in equipping it yourself!" The creature spat out to what it thought was Samuel in the bio-boosted armor. "Chronos has had enough trouble trying to locate you these past few years, especially since you left that pretty little wife of yours back in Japan!" As the creature rushed Eli, his father pulled out a large .50 caliber rifle and fired. The bullet caused the creature's shoulder to explode and the arm dangled lifelessly by a few fibers of muscle that didn't disconnect from the creature.
"Just who the hell are you and what do you want from me?" Samuel yelled toward the downed monster. The creature looked up at the man holding the rifle and appeared to be confused. The man butted the rifle next to the creature's head. "Who are you?"
"I am Tekur, and I am a Zoanoid, sent here by Chronos to secure the only Guyver unit in the world, but unfortunately it seems that someone has already donned it, so he will be coming with me."
"I don't think so you freak!" Eli growled out to the Zoanoid. "I don't care who the hell you are or who the hell you work for, but I am not going anywhere!" As he yelled this, the boy activated his sonic vibrators on his faceplate and began to bombard the creature with sound waves. The Zoanoid roared in pain as the waves pelted him and became even higher as they attuned themselves to the creature's biometric frequency. As the pitch of the waves grew more and more, Samuel had to cover his ears from the noise.
"Elijah, enough of this!" Samuel yelled out to his bio-boosted son, who promptly complied with his father's wishes. As the sonics died down, the creature laid on the ground, gasping rapidly. As Eli moved to finish off the creature, the ground began to rumble. A giant spiked lizard-like humanoid erupted from the ground and embraced Samuel violently.
"Touch the Tekur and your father dies, boy!" the new creature threatened the teen, who looked to his father for any kind of advice.
"Do as he says, Eli," was all Samuel could offer to his son, before Eli nodded while moving away from the downed Tekur. As he did this, more Zoanoids surrounded the Guyver and his father. The lizard-like one released the father and pushed him toward his son. "Disengage the armor, Elijah."
"But, Dad what about them?" Eli asked his father, regarding the creatures that surrounded them, but his father just shook his head.
"Do it, and that's an order, understand?" Eli just nodded and then unequipped the bio-armor, letting it fade back into its sub-dimensional storage. When the armor was gone, the Zoanoids started to move in, but at the last minute, Samuel picked up his .50 caliber rifle and began firing at the monsters. Many of the Zoanoids were easily picked off by the first couple of rounds, but as they caught on, the creatures began dodging and coming closer to the father and son. Eli ran between some of the Zoanoids and jumped to his father's cases, which contained more weapons. He pulled out a standard 12-gauge and loaded it with slugs. He picked the nearest monster and fired, the bullet ripping through its hide. The creature let out a guttural roar before charging the teen. Eli managed to jump away, but no before the thing clawed at his exposed back.
Over with Samuel, things weren't looking any better, as he had run out of ammunition for his rifle and was now firing away with his side-arm, but it wasn't having nearly as much effect on the creatures as his bigger gun had. A bright light from a few feet over indicated to the man that his son was through with playing games.
"Vindico!" the boy shouted out, Samuel remembered that it was the Latin word which roughly translated to "to avenge" which he smiled at. As the father stood back, he simply watched his son activate the blades on his arms and slaughter the whole company of Zoanoids that stood before them. As the last of them fell, Eli looked over to his father. "Is it over?"
"I think so, son. I'm going to tell you something that I should have before. I used to be involved with the FBI and had been entrusted with a secret project along with my partner of the time, your friend Cole's father. Anyway, as the years passed we received a request for a meeting with a company known as Chronos, but not knowing what we were getting into, my partner and I blindly agreed and met with them. It was after I learned who they really were, that I decided to bring the Guyver unit home and to try and hide it somewhere in Brazil, however you can see how well that panned out, and after that, well the rest you know."
"Dad I – " His son began, but there was another low rumble the distance, when suddenly a large creature burst from the tree line, and landed before the two, followed by another smaller creature who was floating well above the other. The father and son looked up at the floating figure that appeared to be a man with medium length hair, and a red crystal in the middle of his forehead.
"Greetings Guyver, I am Sin Rubeo Amniculus of Chronos, and this is Derzerb. We of Chronos are kindly requesting that you relinquish the unit in your possession, and if you comply we will let you and your father walk away from this intact, however; should you refuse, then I believe that Derzerb and you shall be exchanging words," the newly identified man said to Eli, while said boy was more transfixed on the floating man's escort.
Standing almost eight feet tall, the grey monster was a hulk of pure muscle, with its head resting near the top of its chest, above its pectorals. From its head protruded a large horn and the eyes of the beast glowed a bright red. Eli took a battle stance in front of his father and prepared to fight. The floating man simply shook his head and sighed.
"How uncivilized, I guess we will have to show this gentleman we mean business. Derzerb, if you'd be so kind?" The hulking monster nodded its head and took a step forward.
"You heard the boss, kid; show me what you're made of!" The giant creature rushed forward at surprising speed and nearly blindsided Eli. 'Damn! How can he move that quickly?' That thought quickly perished as the Guyver jumped aside to dodge the oncoming freight train that was Derzerb. The beast crashed into some nearby trees, before turning around and unleashed a flamethrower from his mouth. Eli crossed his arms in front of his body and prepared for the heat. As the flames washed over the boy he noticed that even he could feel the flames licking at his bio-boosted armor. 'If this keeps up much longer, then I'll really be in trouble, but I have to protect Dad!' Eli looked over to where his father was, but then did a double-take, and saw that his father was nowhere to be seen.
"Bastard! What did you do with my dad?" Eli shouted up toward Sin. The floating man looked around as well, at first confused, but then looked back at the boy.
"I have no idea what you are going on about, but I suggest that you don't lose focus. You have more pressing matters that demand your immediate attention." As soon as Sin said this, Derzerb plowed into the Guyver and Eli went flying and crashed a couple hundred yards to the south. The tank of a beast slowly stomped over to the downed teen, preparing to finish the job, but a low roar in the distance caught Derzerb's attention. As the beast turned around, he looked to see a rather large SUV barreling toward him at insane speeds.
Samuel jumped from the still moving car, and rolled for a couple seconds before stopping. All Derzerb could do was stare as the one-ton steel bullet moved toward him at speeds of nearly one-hundred miles per hour. Eli saw his dad jump from the car and the Guyver quickly moved toward his father's side to see if he was okay. As soon as the Guyver made it toward his dad, the car rammed into the Zoanoid and exploded on contact. For all his thick-hide, Derzerb was sent flying from the explosion, and landed a dozen or so yards away.
"Dad stay here, I'm going to go make sure that bastard is down for good," Eli told his father, who nodded in response, before the Guyver got up and leaped over toward the fallen Zoanoid. When he landed, the Zoanoid was barely twitching, let alone getting up to counter the attack. Suddenly a small noise filled Eli's hearing.
"Tsk tsk tsk, you really shouldn't let your guard down like that, boy," Sin said from behind Eli. The teen turned around and saw that in Sin's hands, was Samuel, being held by his throat. "If you destroy my Zoanoid, you father dies. If you ever try to find us, your father also dies. What I am saying, boy, is that we will come for you again someday, but until that day is upon us, I suggest you hide. If you make any move against Chronos, your father will pay the price."
"Then I'll end you now!" Eli shouted, rage and fury flooding into his voice, as he opened up his chest-plates and began charging the photon-beam cannon mounted in his chest. Sin simply laughed at this as the beam almost was ready to fire.
"Do that, and you will kill me, true, but your father will also die. Can you live with that, child?" Sin started down the Guyver, and the beam still was charging. Sighing in defeat, Eli disengaged the beam-cannon, and turned to walk away.
"Do it son!" Samuel suddenly shouted, causing Eli and Sin to look at the man. "I've lived my life, kill this bastard and send him to hell. God only knows what he's done in the past, and what he and that damn organization will do. Do it Eli!" But Eli just kept walking away from his dad and the Chronos agent. 'It's only for now, Dad I will come back.'
"For now, you win, but I will come for you and my dad, and when I do, there will be hell to pay," Eli darkly told Sin, who just huffed in annoyance, before psychically lifting Derzerb and stared flying off. Eli activated the gravity orb in the center of the suit and floated off as well. 'This isn't the end Sin, somehow…some way… I will find you and you will die by my hands alone!' Eli jettisoned faster and faster until he arrived at the safe-house, but when he touched down, he smelt smoke.
His home suddenly caught fire, and the flames spread to the surrounding forest. 'Dammit! They must've known I'd come back here, but it doesn't matter, I still have the accounts set up by dad from a few years back, that should hold me over for a while…' The boy disengaged the armor and started walking away as the sound of sirens filled his ears. 'This is only the beginning.'
Soon after the loss of his father, the young man turned to a rather self-destructive life-style. He was not above using the powers of the Guyver to gain information on Chronos or more specifically, Sin. Yes the boy had a rather large wish to see that man's head on a pike, after what he did to his father.
A few years later, when the boy was seventeen, he realized that his financial resources had reached their limit, and he was broke. The teen was in the city of Tokyo when this occurred and he turned down an even darker path to continue his search for Sin and Chronos…
Rosenberg Investment Trust
Tokyo, Japan
2009
With the last of the guards unconscious on the floor, a lone figure walked through the bank toward the back of the vault. The figure moved into the vault with relative ease, cutting through it with a heat-beam and then proceeded to collect stack of yen and other valuables from safety boxes. Suddenly an alarm sounded and the figure heard more guards on the way. 'I should've guessed this would've happened, but nothing I can't handle…anything to bring down those bastards.' The figure finished packing up his loot, and then focused and created a small localized gravitational anomaly, which created a hole in the back wall of the vault, allowing for a quick escape.
As the figure made his escape through the streets of Tokyo, a blinding light was suddenly given off. From that light emerged 17-year-old Elijah Vargas, still holding a few knapsacks of money that he had acquired at the bank, and he then proceeded to where he had parked his vehicle. 'That wasn't too bad, but way too close. Hopefully this money will be enough until I turn 18 and inherit whatever Dad had left back in Brazil.' The teen's thoughts were interrupted when a police officer tapped him on the solider.
"Hey kid, don't you have school in the morning, what are you still doing out here?" The officer asked Eli, who was still kneeling down adjusting his luggage, before glancing up at the officer.
"Just running some errands for my parents, sir, that's all." Eli went back to adjusting the contents of his bag, before he opened the trunk to his Nissan Skyline Coupe, and tossing it in. The officer eyed him cautiously.
"Mind if I take a look in there, son?" Eli turned around and faced the officer, before rising to his full height. At 6" 2', Eli had a good seven inches on the officer, but the officer didn't back down. "If you're trying to intimidate me, son, it won't work. I've done this for twenty-five years, and have faced a lot scarier things than you, kid." Eli just rolled his eyes, before moving to get into his car. The cop grabbed him by the arm.
"I really wish you wouldn't grab me."
"I still want to know what's in your bag." The officer moved to the back of the car, and Eli just sighed, before popping the trunk once again. "Thank you." Eli moved next to the officer.
"Like I said, just groceries, see?" Eli opened up a bag and it contained various food items. Seeming satisfied the officer moved away from Eli's car and nodded.
"Alright get on home then, it's a school night." The teen nodded, before getting into the Skyline and driving away. 'Oh to be young again.' The officer thought, before returning to his patrol car.
Moto Abazu Place
Minato, Tokyo, Japan
20 minutes later
As Eli rolled up to his apartment, he parked his car and noticed that the office lights were dimmed. 'Huh, the landlady must be sleeping finally.' Eli moved to unpack his car and then walked into his four-bedroom apartment. 'For 1.8 million yen, this place isn't too bad.' Eli plopped down onto the couch and flipped on the TV, and saw that a special broadcast was in progress.
"If you are just joining us, we have just received word that the Rosenberg Trust building was just robbed hours ago. For more we go live on the scene with our field reporter Tetsu Segawa. Can you tell us anything more, Tetsu?" The reporter in the studio asked. The camera then cut to a rather portly fellow with a scrubby chin beard in a suit.
"Thank you, new reports are coming in that the assailant used a laser-beam cutting technology to open the vault. Police are still baffled at how this technology fell into the hands of any criminal, as it is still relatively new even in our own military. Regardless, police are saying this was most likely a team operati-" Eli turned off the TV and went out onto his balcony. 'They haven't gotten a clue that it was me. I know this is wrong, but it's for the mission.' With that, Eli went into the apartment and shut the sliding door before calling it a night.
So there were a few more dark times in this young man's life, but eventually he came back onto the path that he was meant to follow. After earning enough money, he moved further into the city and picked up another smaller one-tenant apartment near a college. He needed to keep up the disguise of a college student while he secretly worked in the shadows to find Chronos.
As the years went on, Chronos' influence in Japan seemed to all but disappear, but the man would here about them every once in a while, but it was always a dead end. One certain rumor had the man heading to Arizona in the United States, and what he found was even more astonishing than anything before, and revealed much more about the history of the Guyver than anything ever had, but I am getting ahead of myself, that story is for another time. The man is now in his twenties and living a peaceful life in Tokyo, still in his one-person apartment, always watching. Always protecting. Now you may ask how I know the history of this individual, and more importantly who I am. I guess the best way to answer both of those is by simply saying it.
My name is Elijah Vargas, and I am the sole-possessor of the Guyver unit. I have been with the unit for a decade now, and I dare say I haven't even mastered all its features yet. As for those bastards at Chronos, I still am searching for them, but until the day comes when I find them, I simply will wait and watch. Now that you know who I am, I will dive into yet another story, this one much more complex.
It all started with that day, that well, I guess no one would believe me when I said it, but if you have enough faith in me, and believe everything else I've said…well then it started with the day a woman fell out of the sky and landed on top of me…
Shin District, Tokyo, Japan
April 2012
It was mid-April and the cherry blossoms were flowering. Many people were bustling through the streets of the city, but one man stood away, and outset from the crowd. Elijah Vargas was watching carefully from a distance, as he stared directly at a shadowy man in a suit. 'If this man is an inspector for Chronos, then I finally may have the break I need, and I can bring the bastards down, just got to make sure no one gets in my why when I bio-boost.' Elijah moved to follow the man and was soon descending stairs into the train system.
'Now where did he go?' Elijah scanned the crowd, but couldn't seem to find his target. Cursing his luck, Elijah moved over to walk down a flight of stairs when suddenly a breeze filled his ears.
"Excuse me, one-side, coming through!" A woman's voice yelled in Elijah's direction before a small body crashed into the man. Both toppled over, the woman landing on top of Elijah. 'God, what the hell was that?' Looking up Elijah saw just what it was. It was actually a woman, and an attractive woman at that. She was blonde, with hair that flowed down just above her shoulders, and a blue-tie in one of her front bangs. She was clothed in a red mini-dress that went down only to her mid-thigh. She was also wearing a golden belt that cover most of her abdomen, and on top of her she was also wearing a white-short-sleeved jacked with two breast-pockets, and thigh-high black boots.
"I am so sorry, Miss, I should have heeded your warning and moved," Elijah politely told the woman who was still atop him. The woman looked at him and quirked her head to the side, before she frowned, and swatted Elijah on the arm.
"I would like to think you are, buddy. Now why are you still on the ground, I mean that can't be sanitary!" The girl said matter-of-factly to the man below her. Elijah looked at her seriously, before giving his dry reply.
"Because it would be rude of me to forcibly remove you from myself, but I would appreciate if you did, people are beginning to stare at us." The girl blushed lightly at that, but then got up and offered a hand to Elijah, who grabbed it, and was surprised at how much strength the girl really had.
"Well, I guess if you really want to make it up to me, you can help me find my Ashikabi, sir," the girl requested of Elijah. The man looked at her oddly for a second, before giving in.
"Very well, if it means my debt is repaid then I will gladly assist you in your endeavor," Elijah replied curtly, "where do we begin?" The girl looked thoughtful for a few moments, before snapping her fingers. She stuck out her hand to Elijah, and waited.
"My name is Kuruse, and I thank you for your help!" The girl's gusto caught Elijah off guard, but he quickly recovered, and he shook her hand
"Pleased to make your acquaintance, my name is Elijah Vargas, and I am simply repaying a debt, but as I said where should we begin?" The girl then grabbed Elijah's hand, and began dragging him up the stairs.
"Come with me, we need to start searching the city!"
"Wait the city!?" Elijah shuttered at the thought about spending an entire day looking in Tokyo for her Ashikabi. 'What on earth is an Ashikabi anyway? I need to be on guard at all times for Chronos' return and yet here I am helping this girl that fell in my lap look for her friend. Am I going soft?' The man was drug from his thoughts as Kuruse went into a run. The hunt was on.
Later that evening
"Wow I am beat!" Kuruse exasperatedly exclaimed, before plopping down on a bench in the park. Elijah strolled over and sat down next to her, still keeping a bit of distance between the two of them.
"So who exactly is this Ashikabi fellow that we have been looking for? Is he a brother or something?" Kuruse looked over at the man with a quirked brow, before turning to face him fully.
"No silly, an Ashikabi is what we Sekirei call our destined soul mates. I have looked all over for mine, because I want to get stronger and fight beside my Ashikabi and win the tournament!" Elijah now just looked more confused.
"Care to elaborate? What tournament?" The girl just shook her head at the Guyver.
"No spoilers, only Ashikabi and Sekirei are supposed to know about it. Oops." Kuruse seemed to have realized her mistake. "I guess I've already said too much about it, but still thank you very much for all your help today Mr. Vargas!" Elijah allowed himself to chuckle very slightly at this girl.
"Think nothing of it, Miss Kuruse, and please call me Elijah, if I hear Mr. Vargas I think to look for…my…father…" Elijah dropped off, and Kuruse seemed to pick up on it.
"Are you alright, Elijah?" The man simply nodded before suddenly getting up.
"I think it's time I returned home, I wish you luck in finding your Ashikabi, and it was lovely meeting you, good night." With that Elijah turned to leave, and Kuruse remained on the bench. Elijah started to walk away, and soon was well out of the park and on his way home. 'Dad…'
In the park – With Kuruse
As Kuruse sat on the bench, she pondered her next move. 'I wonder what set that man so out of place, was it something I said? Either way he was nice, and I hope I see him again!' Suddenly a rustling in the forest line, and Kuruse looked up. Two women began to approach her, and they didn't look very pleased. 'Not these two again!' Kuruse thought, before she got up to leave. A bolt of lightning shot in front of her, and thought otherwise. Kuruse turned to face her attackers.
"What do you two want? Come to 'recruit' me again?" The two women before her were twins, both wearing very revealing outfits. The only real difference in the two was breast-size, but Kuruse didn't seem to care.
"You hear that Hikari, she thinks we are here to recruit her, no it's nothing like that at all!" one said in a mocking tone. The other one – Hikari – laughed at her sister's joke.
"Hibiki is right, little girl, just come along nicely and we won't hurt you." Kuruse stood her ground and looked at the twins defiantly.
"There's no way in hell, I'd go with either of you two, I've heard the rumors that your Ashikabi is trying to build his group by forcefully taking innocent Sekirei, but not me, you'll have to fight for me."
"So be it then!" Hikari shouted before she and her sister grasped hands and shot of another bout of lightning at the blonde. Kuruse dodged and revealed her powers. She gestured and five tridents appeared and then shot off at great velocity towards the twins. Sadly, lightning was faster and shot all five of the projectiles and reduced them to metal dust. The twins then fired another bolt and it directly hit Kuruse.
"Kyyaa! Help me someone!" Kuruse shouted out, before she racked her brain for anyone that would hear her. "Elijah! Help me!" Hoping that her message would be heard, the girl shivered as the twins moved closer to her, preparing to finish the job…
With Elijah
As he was walking back to his car, a scream suddenly filled Elijah's ears.
"Elijah! Help me!" was all that he heard. 'Was that Kuruse? She sounds really scared, and in trouble! Hang on, I'm on my way!' Elijah then hopped into his car, and floored it back into the park. 'Not really meant for off-roading, but hell I can afford the work!' Flying across the grounds toward where he left Kuruse, Elijah raced faster and faster.
As figures came into view, Elijah could see two unknown women standing over Kuruse's downed form. Elijah hopped out of his car and ran toward the two women, and got in between them and Kuruse.
"Who the hell are you two, and what are you doing to her?" Elijah barked at the twins. They actually shrunk back from his voice, but then came back for a fight.
"We are Hikari and Hibiki, and we are here to bring this one back to our Ashikabi, so she can be added to our group!" Elijah frowned, not liking the sound of that at all, but then his eyes widened when they said Ashikabi.
"So you know this Ashikabi person? Are you what Kuruse called 'Sekirei'? In a tournament?" Elijah rattled off questions, this time making the twins' eyes widen in surprise at the knowledge he had of them. Hibiki spoke first.
"I don't know how a pathetic human like you knows all of this, probably because this little brat told you, but now we need to deal with you, so you don't go blabbing it all over town." Electricity began circulating around their fists as Elijah took a fighting stance against them.
"I really wouldn't mess with me, if you have any sense at all, girls." The twins just looked at him and laughed, before firing off a bolt. Elijah jumped down over Kuruse to protect her, and the blonde let out a shriek of both fright and surprise. When the smell of ozone faded, Elijah got up and glowered at the twin Sekirei. "Okay, I was willing to try and talk this out, but some people only speak force. Vindico!" A brilliant light erupted from behind Elijah as a steel-blue armor that for the better part of a decade, had been with him, enveloped him, making him more powerful. "Now then, who's first?"
"H-H-Hikari, you can take this one!" Hibiki stuttered, before her sister rolled her eyes, and then fired off a bolt of lightning. It struck the Guyver dead-on, but when the smoke cleared, he was still standing, with not a single scratch on him.
"What on earth is this guy?" Hikari asked herself, before she fired more lightning at him, but to the same effect. The Guyver's eyes glowed red, before Elijah spoke.
"Okay, my turn." Suddenly the two orbs on his faceplate began to oscillate at a very high rate, and he started pelting the twins with sound waves. The two thunder Sekirei cried out in pain, as Elijah neared their biotic-frequency, but he stopped short of it. As the noise ceased, Kuruse removed her hands from her ears, and Hikari and Hibiki got up from where they had fallen.
"This isn't over you bastard, we'll be back!" With that the two twins ran off, back to the woods, hopefully for good. Elijah let out a long sigh, before he let the armor unequip itself and it traveled back into its sub-dimensional storage. Kuruse took a long hard look at Elijah, before she fell over.
"You have a lot of explaining to do!" she said accusingly to the Guyver, who just gave her a deadpanned look.
"You're one to talk, Kuruse, I just risked my cover to save you, so I think you owe me an explanation, but not here, back at my apartment, we can get cleaned up there." The blonde Sekirei nodded, before the two moved to go to Elijah's car and back to his apartment.
Moto Abazu Place
An hour later
After an almost silent hour drive in the car, Elijah finally pulled up to one of his apartments. Kuruse's eyes widened at the sight of his building.
You live here? This place is so big! Which one is yours?" Kuruse asked the man. Elijah looked over to her before simply replying.
"All of them, I bought the building a few years back in case I ever needed a place to lay low for a while, I think this will serve our purpose for the time being. Come on, we should get inside." Kuruse followed Elijah in as he unlocked the building's doors and then entered into the first floor apartment. The two sat down across from one another in opposite chairs and began discussing their tales.
After about half-an-hour, Elijah seemed to grasp the situation. "So you're telling me, that this MBI is responsible for all of this, and that your Ashikabi is a husband to you?"
"Not quite a husband, but close, it's someone we Sekirei are born to find. He or she is someone precious that I may or may not have already met. They are my perfect match, and it is my job to guide them to the ascension." 'What on earth is the ascension?' Elijah thought to himself, but figured it didn't mean much, and he returned his gaze back to Kuruse. He noticed that she was giving him an odd look, with that slight blush upon her face again.
"Uhm, Kuruse, are you alright? Do you need some water or something?" Elijah tried, but Kuruse shook her head suddenly, and then looked down at her lap.
"No I'm fine Elijah, but thank you. I do however, feel very hot…" she trailed off, and Elijah picked up on the tone in her voice, but then Kuruse got up and then fell forward right into Elijah's lap.
"Kuruse! Are you alright?" Elijah asked worriedly, however; the girl in his lap looked up at him with a deep blush on her face.
"Oh Elijah, I think I know now, who it is…" Kuruse said vaguely, causing Elijah to become confused again. The girl giggled at his face, before moving closer to it. "I've finally found my Ashikabi…"
"Wait, what do you mean?" Elijah began, but then pondered her words. "Wait! You can't possibly mean – " But Kuruse moved in and pressed her lips to his. 'What is going on?!' Elijah screamed in his head. 'I can't be doing this with this woman, I barely know her!' His rational, stoic side thought, but that thought was crushed. 'Yet, it feels like they belong there!' Elijah's more hidden side screamed out in his mind, and just this once, Elijah agreed with his emotions.
As Elijah began to reciprocate the kiss, a warm golden glow suddenly filled the room, as bright, golden wings burst forth from Kuruse's back. After a few moments, the two pulled away, a deep blush upon Kuruse's face, and a very small one tinting Elijah's.
"Forever and ever…" Kuruse whispered to Elijah, before she fell asleep, and Elijah allowed himself a smile, something that hadn't graced his features in the longest time. 'I don't know what all this is about, or what Sekirei even are, but I think I can take it on, with this woman by my side.' Elijah then closed his eyes, and simply fell asleep with his Sekirei…
Well that is only the beginning of my tale my dear reader, I hope that you will learn something from this, but I am regretful that this story will not be all sunshine. People will die, and hearts will be broken. I just hope that someday, Kuruse can find it in her heart to forgive me for what I had to do. That day, well that day will come in time, but for now please stick with me on this.
The whole Sekirei Plan was a big mess, and when Chronos got involved it really went downhill. I need someone who is outside this all to hear my tale and spread its legacy, so I'm counting on you to keep the legacy of me going. I know that when I come to the end of my tale it will be stormy and things will look bleak…but after the end of every storm, there will be blue skies.
Well folks, there it is, after almost 4 months of waiting, "Blue Skies." I guess I should clear a few things up on this. First off, this will be more like a merging of the two universe's but with more Sekirei elements present. Chronos will be more in the shadows like toward the beginning of Guyver, and there never with be an X-Day. Elijah's Guyver unit is essentially Sho's Guyver I in terms of looks, but is slightly taller due to Elijah being 6"2' instead of 5 something like Fukamachi is.
Second thing is the first-person blurbs. I will be doing those at the end of each chapter, seeing as how this is more like a memoir-story from Elijah's POV, so be on the watch for the hints I drop every now and then like I did.
Finally, and I can't stress this enough. Leave me some feed-back please! I'm not doing this just for me, I put my stuff out here for you guys who are kind enough to read my material. Drake202 and I have put nearly 4 months of labor an ideas into this story, and this may only be the beginning, but I want to know how you liked it, or if you want to change anything. Once we get into this, I plan on making it very AU, so suggestions are always welcomed and encouraged. Please R&R, thank you and have a pleasant rest of your day.
~PsychoInnovations
