TWO DAYS LATER:
Theo walked out of the sliding doors of the hospital, into the early morning sun, wearing a plain black t-shirt and baggy trousers, Blaze was hot on his heels, carrying several small boxes of pills that Theo had to take. Theo was still slightly weak on his feet so he was using a cane to aid him walking, They reached the car park and Theo spotted his bike in the corner of it, Blaze sighed,
"Right are you sure you feel up to riding that thing" she said, her voice layered with concern. Theo turned and grinned at her,
"Well when I'm sitting on my arse, I do tend not to use my legs as much".
"How do you feel?" Blaze asked,
"I'm fine" Theo lied, in truth he was far from that, he had been pondering the choice he had to make for the past two days and he was still no closer to an answer. He thought Chaos' proposal was evil and insane, but he couldn't ignore the fact that if he didn't do it, he would be dead by the end of the year. Theo and Blaze reached his bike, he opened the small storage space at the back of it and Blaze placed the boxes of pills inside it. Closing the storage space with a snap, Theo cautiously walked around the bike, examining every nook and cranny of its gleaming black surface,
"What are you looking for?" Blaze said, tapping her foot impatiently on the tarmac,
"Good" Theo muttered to himself "Levinski did treat the bike well, good man", Blaze giggled,
"Boys and their toys" Theo sat on the bike, strapping the cane to his back, he pulled out the keys from his pocket and inserted it into the lock and twisted it. The bike roared into life,
"God, how I've missed that sound" Theo muttered, he turned back to Blaze as he backed the bike out, "Get on and wrap your hands around my waist, and put your feet on the holds". Blaze got on and pressed her body into his back and wrapped her hands around him, she searched with her feet for the holds and eventually found them and rested her feet on them, although Theo didn't admit it, he kind of enjoyed having Blaze pressed against him. He accelerated out of the car park and onto a road crammed with early morning traffic, thanks to his bike though, the traffic wasn't a problem, he simply swerved out of the way. All the while, the part of his brain devoted to driving the bike was on autopilot, his brain was still focused the choice he had to make, he was standing at a crossroads and he was the guide and the demon that lead and stopped him on both paths and left him stranded in the same place as he started. He would have to choose a path, either destroy or save, die or live, each path had its own patch of thorns along the way, either way he would do something that would harm himself or others.
He turned down a smaller path lined with trees, letting the sunlight sine through the thick canopy of leaves in small patches. The gravel road underneath crunched as the bike rolled up it's sloped surface, Theo slowed down as they climbed to the top of Raven Hill, occasionally catching glimpses of wide, rolling fields through the trees that shone with the colours of a variety of flowers. Theo smiled as he saw his ornate garden at the end of the path, still well maintained and shining from the morning dew,
"It's still beautiful" he muttered to himself, the bike rolled onto the garden path, surrounded by a range of plants from all around the planet, but something immediately caught his eye, a fountain, 50ft tall and 20ft wide was gushing water into a large bowl shape pool below, in the centre of the garden. Theo stopped his bike and stared at it,
"How?" Theo stuttered,
"Nicole installed it as a thanks from the citizens of New Metropolis" Blaze said,
"I didn't know that the citizens thought of me this highly" Theo said in wonderment
"Your like a hero to them, the citizens who got away from the main fight in the park, told everyone, their children, their neighbours, their friends. Now you see kids playing, pretending to be you, trusting their hands forward as if they have electricity powers" Blaze said, smiling. Theo chuckled and drove on slowly, Blaze gasped when she saw the monumental Georgian mansion appear around the corner, Theo chuckled,
"I presume you like it" he stated
"It's…magnificent" she breathed. They raced forward down another path until they reached the huge oak front doors; Theo shut off the engine and dismounted the bike, taking the cane off his back as he did so. Blaze opened up the storage and took out the medicine boxes. Theo walked around the bike and slowly walked up the steps, taking a large key out of his pocket, he put it into the large iron lock and twisted it, he then pushed the large oak doors open, revealing a huge entrance hall, with two large, twisting staircases towering upwards towards the floor above, from the large domed roof hung a gargantuan chandelier. Their footsteps echoed off the deep hall, as they walked in,
"Put the boxes down there" Theo said, gesturing at a long table that sat next to the door, she placed then down and gazed around the huge room,
"How much did this place cost?" Blaze asked, Theo chuckled,
"It was free"
"What?"
"When I was first enrolled into GUN, I had no place to stay so GUN renovated this old manor and gave it to me, I've been living in this place for around four and a half years" Theo said as he closed the creaking front doors with a bang which echoed around the room. Theo walked towards a door on the other side of the room, underneath the grand staircases, he motioned Blaze to come after him, he opened the door and stepped into a large sitting room, with a tall fire place and shelves filled with books lining the walls, a circle of leather chairs and sofas surrounded the fireplace and the large 48 inch TV that hung above it. Underfoot were plush, exotic rugs and carpets that your feet sunk into as soon as you stood on them.
Theo walked over and sat down on his favourite armchair, leaning his cane against the armrest and sank into it, sighing and closing his eyes with pleasure, he opened one eye and looked at Blaze, who was still stood there,
"You can take a seat you know"
"Oh sorry" Blaze said sheepishly, she sat on one of the soft leather sofas at looked around the room in amazement, she gazed at the fireplace and focused on it, she then clicked her fingers and a fire burst to life in the fireplace bathing the room in a soft amber glow.
"Oh yeah, Sonic invited you to his birthday party tonight, at the Imperial" Blaze said, smiling, Theo whistled, the Imperial was a 6 star restaurant in the centre of New Metropolis, only the intensely rich and famous went there, the food there was said to be some of the best in the world.
"What time?" Theo asked
"Well a limo is going to pick everyone up and it should arrive here around 6.30" Blaze said,
"Are you coming?" Theo asked,
"Yep"
Theo clapped his hands together,
"Great, consider it a date"
Blaze looked at him, confused,
"What?"
"Well I did ask you on a date when we met, so consider this a date, plus some others" Theo explained "And I do admit that I was quick on asking you on a date". Blaze smirked,
"I'll say, we only talked for about ten minutes".
"I still don't feel like I should belong with you guys" Theo said, quietly
"What do you mean?" Blaze asked
"Well. I'm just a soldier, heck, I'm a demon, I don't belong with heroes"
"Theo, you are a hero, you saved and helped people in the demon attack and you're apposed to evil" Theo looked at her with a dark look in his eyes "It doesn't matter what your born as, it's what you do that makes you the person".
Theo smiled and got up out of his chair and sat next to her,
"Thanks Blaze" he said and hugged her, he then pulled away and then they both leaned forward and kissed each other, Theo slipped his tongue into her mouth and she met his with her own, they both moaned, the kiss continued for another couple of minutes until they finally broke apart.
"That was great" Theo said as they held each other,
"Wow, we're great kissers" Blaze muttered, then suddenly she looked at her watch and jumped away from him,
"Shit" she yelled as she bolted up from the sofa and rushed to the door "I'm suppose to be somewhere important" She walked into the hall, with Theo hot on her heels, he turned to face him, "Look I'll see you tonight ok".
"Sure, see you later" Theo said coolly, as he hugged her goodbye, she reached the door and with one last smile, she opened the door and disappeared round it. Theo still stood in the hall as the door shut, he smiled and touched his lips, as if looking for prove that the kiss hadn't been just a dream. He turned and began to climb one of the large staircases, He then found himself in a large lab-like room that also served as his study, a long mahogany desk stood on a small podium that overlooked the enormous window that dominated the wall opposite, the window lead out onto a balcony that hung over the backend of the garden, and the centre of New Metropolis in the distance. On a metal elongated section of the room stood a row of metallic targets that Theo used to practise his powers on.
All around the room were various work benches with machines and chemicals sitting on them, ether silent and unmoving of whirring and bubbling, However the whole of the rightmost wall was covered with pictures of maps detailing demon movements and omens, along with photocopies of various pages from loads of ancient scrolls, Theo had drawn arrows and notes on nearly all of the pieces of paper. However Theo had given up on this a few years ago, as it was too hectic to use, but as soon as Theo walked into the room, the lights dimmed and the window began to glow with a eerie green light, then a voice began to speak:
"Hello Captain, I am NICOLE, don't be alarmed, its just that you computer has been plugged into my mainframe, so I can monitor your activates and you can access all information stored in my data bank."
"I don't feel comfortable with someone looking at what I'm doing" Theo muttered as he climbed the podium and sat in the black armchair, the shutters on his window closed, so the entire room was bathed in the glowing green light,
"It's protocol sir, just for security reasons" Nicole said as code began to appear on the screen, to quickly for Theo to read, "Anyway sir, I need to perform a sync with your robotic eye, so you can access information on the move, now this is going to feel a little weird".
"Wait a minute" Theo said nervously, "How long is this going to- ARGHHH!"
Theo's vision when blank, code began to pass in front of his vision, as the remainder of the nerves at the back of his eye socket stung painfully, the code began to speed up until it was a blur, then it suddenly stopped as soon as it had started, and his red tinted vision returned.
"Well, that was certainly…unpleasant" Theo breathed, "Ok then, I need you to search something for me".
"Ok then, what is it?" Nicole asked,
"Access a received GUN transmission that was found around 2 weeks ago from the Northern Wastes" Theo requested, the code sped up and several windows popped up as she searched, eventually after about 10 seconds, a audio file showing the dips and peaks of the transmission. As the transmission began to play, Theo listened carefully, brow furrowed, suddenly Nicole spoke
"I have found so extra files relating to Utopia"
"Show on screen" Theo said, the screen now changed to display several separate screens,
"Utopia has been mentioned in many different cultures under many different names, Necropolis, Xisada, City of the Dead, Cadina etc. But they all mostly have the same characteristics, they are said to be run by demons and to have emerged from a great war, at their heart is also said to be a huge power source that every new demon gains their power from" Nicole said, another picture appeared of a painting of a demon-like figure with distorted features, clad in a robe pure darkness leading a gigantic army of demons, "Utopia is also said to have been founded by a powerful demonic leader, there is no definite name for this leader, some cultures call him Lucifer, others Necros but the most commonly given name is-.
"Rafael" Theo interrupted gazing at the picture of the demonic overlord,
"Yes" Nicole said "He is said to have the power to control matter itself, so he can also copy powers that others have".
"Sounds powerful" Theo said, getting up out of his chair and pacing the length of his desk, he then suddenly thought of something "Levinski said that GUN suspected that Mephiles could be Rafael",
"Sources show that the total probability of Mephiles being Rafael is rated at 67.8%".
Theo nodded "Right, thanks Nicole". The room brightened up and Theo jumped off the podium, "Ok then, I'd better get ready for my date"…
A/N: ok hope you enjoyed that chapter, remember to keep sending OC's, also I came up with an idea, I was hoping that me and some other writers could do a separate story arc of their OC set in the world and starring some of the characters that this story portrays, in return I would try to publicise your stories and I will also give you my definite opinion on them. If you are interested please tell me. Until Next Time!