Chapter 8
The Journey
Amarante had ran and lifted all the way home as fast as could. When she got home everyone was already in the living room relaxing when they heard Amarante slam open the door, enter and quickly removed her shoes then ran into kitchen. She looked around then went into the living room as she found everyone now staring at her like she was crazy.
"He's alive!" Amarante happily said as more tears streamed down her face.
"Are you sure, Amarante! How do you know?" Renton asked in a very excited yet disbelieving tone.
"One of the students was talking about a man who fell from the sky and who had wings. She didn't know anything else but I know it's Shawn!" Amarante said excitedly
"I see. I'm sure you want to head out as soon as possible but can you wait seven days. So we can prepare everything then we'll leave immediately." Renton asked as Amarante thought for a moment as she didn't want to wait but decided it was best.
"Okay." Amarante replied sounding a bit disappointed but she didn't want to travel by herself back to the base.
"Thank you." Renton said
Meanwhile back on the base. Shawn was now awake and walking around on the base by his self.
"Ugh, I'm bored." I said out loud I was looking for something to do.
'You should go back into those caves.' Alucard said
"You again. Thanks for the last time." I said
'Your welcome. I much prefer this side of you.' Alucard stated
"Why? Did we fight or something?" I asked
'Bickered mostly.' Alucard replied
"I see. So why should I go to the caves?" I asked
'Trust me. You'll see.' Alucard stated so I decided on listening to him.
I began walking towards the caves as I got closer I could feel something gently pulling me towards the caves and a sort of excited feeling ran through my body. The closer I got the stronger this feeling became. It was a bit frightening as I didn't know what was going on but I still continued.
'Don't be afraid of the feeling. You'll be fine.' Alucard stated as I just nodded my head and continued.
We finally reached the cave entrance as I walked down the steps and into the first cavern, looking around I didn't notice anything stand out but the pulling feeling still continued into leading me into the next room. Once I reached the next cavern I stopped in the middle and turned left as the pulling feeling lead me into a corridor that ended in a dead end a few feet in.
"This was kinda pointless." I said
'Raise your hand and place it on the wall. Focus on wanting to destroy the wall.' Alucard stated.
I closed on my eyes and focused on the feeling of wanting to destroy something as I could feel a dark power surge from the core of my body through my arm and into my hand as it began forming an orb. I opened my eyes and noticed the orb was colored dark purple.
'Now, step a few feet back and launch it at the wall.' Alucard instructed as I did as I was told launching the orb at the wall with my will. The orb devoured the wall and revealed a passageway that lead further into the cave system.
"How'd you know Alucard?" I asked
'I know a lot of things that you don't Shawn. For now follow the passageway. There's someone who wants to meet you.' Alucard said in a very excited tone.
I began walking through the passageway. It took me about twenty minutes until I finally came to the end of the tunnel as it opened into another huge cavern. Luckily the passageway seemed to give off a gentle glow of green from multiple gems embedded in the wall. I walked into the cavern and looked around there wasn't anything interesting looking except a huge rock in the middle of the room. I could the thing that was pulling me was this rock.
"Alucard there's something in that rock isn't there?" I asked
'Very good my boy! Now place your hand on the rock and bring forth emotions of happiness and all positive emotions. The orb meant form a rainbow colored one.' Alucard instructed as I did as I was told. Again I could feel a power but it was much lighter and pleasant. My wings began to glow and change colors as I could feel the power swelling up in my hands. I looked at the orb and it was indeed rainbow colored.
'Now shoot it into the rock!' Alucard said excitedly. I paused for a moment thinking was this a good idea but decided the hell with safety. I willed the orb to go forward as it shot forth into the rock.
'Now get some distance from the rock quickly!' Alucard prompted me as I began running till I reach the entrance which wasn't too far. Moments later the ground began shaking as the rock shattered and a mech stood up busting through the cave's roof as many rocks tumbled down around it. Light flooded into the cave as now I was able to get a good look at it.
The head of the mech looked similar to TheEnd's while the body itself was slender except in the middle section it seemed to bulge with a lot of armor around it. I noticed two swords on each of the legs and three big sized orbs that look like that detach from the body of the mech. I began climbing over some of the works and walking around others as my eyes never left the mech. When I got closer I noticed the colors on the mech. The head was white with one red strip leading down from each the head over the eyes ending at the body while the body and arms were red with streaks of dark blue. There were streaks along the armor. I noticed though it had no board for flying through the sky with which I didn't question much at the time. The mech moved it's head and looked down at me. It then kneeled as the cockpit opened up. I climbed on board as the cockpit doors shut as it was totally black for only a moment then the screen lit up and I could see everything in a three hundred sixty degree radius. Just then something popped up on the screen. It said "Hello Shawn. My name is Adir. I have been waiting here for you to find me and to lead your coralians." It read
"Adir, Coralians are not mine but If I must lead them then I'm sure I'll remember this task when the time is right." I stated
Another message popped up, "I can help on this." Adir stated and before I could ask anything a minor electrical shock ran through my entire body and ended at my brain then many images from god knows where came flooding in. I saw the battle, coralians, gonzy, but a few things were left out. It was Amarante, Michiko and the other Gekkostate members. I was left in shock for twenty minutes upon receiving all those memories at once falling to my knees as I gripped my head screaming out in pain as blood dripped out my nose.
'SHAWN GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF! Maybe I rushed things to much. Shit!' Alucard said
'You owe me Shawn. Let's switch.' Alucard said as he forcibly switched us so I was now in my own subconscious and he was in my conscious self. I noticed the pain in my head went away as Alucard was now focusing on controlling the pain. A good thirty more minutes passed until he finally had everything under control. Alucard stood up wiping the blood off my nose then looked at the monitor. Adir had greeted Alucard and was now waiting for his command.
"Shawn pay attention. I'm going to show you how to operate adir." Alucard stated as I kept silent while Alucard began showing me how to fly Adir, how the weapons works and swords. He had Adir climb out of the cave and began walking towards the Tresor base. When we were about 15 minutes from the base an alarm sound and a lot of Mechs came out of the hangers and were now aiming their guns at us. Alucard couldn't figure out why they hadn't radioed him as he was approaching.
'Did you activate the comm system.' I asked
"Oh Shit!" Alucard replied as he turned on the comm system and quickly radioed on an open channel.
"This is Major Shawn Murphie, leader of the coralians. Stand down." Alucard stated as a few minutes went by.
"Welcome back Shawn. This is Tresor HQ, All units stand down." The operator ordered as all the units put away their weapons and headed back into the hanger. The moment we reached onto the base stopping by the Gekko Go hangers Alucard opened the cockpit jumping out. The moment he landed most of the Gekko go crew that was present including Anemone, Dominic and Layla (A/N: Anemone gave TheEnd this name.). Backed away a few feet upon seeing shawn in his more demonic state.
"So your back." Holland stated sounding rather annoyed. He didn't like nor trust Alucard one bit.
"Yes I am. If you don't like it then you don't be around me." Alucard stated as this really pissed off Holland as he stormed off not caring anymore that there was an LFO in front of him.
"Okay we'll just ignore that outburst. So, Shawn why did Holland do that and why do you look like that?" Kevin asked
"I'm actually called Alucard. I'm a different personality then Shawn. This appearance represents this demonic state of his or more specially me." Alucard stated as this surprised Kevin quite a bit.
"Alucard where did you get that LFO?" Talho asked
"In that cave not so far from here, I had navigated Shawn towards it." Alucard answered
"Then explain to me why it has armor on it. Don't they usually just have an exoskeleton?" Talho asked
"Adir is special. When he was born armor slowly formed on his body and then was encased in a boulder waiting for the one meant to lead us to find him." Alucard stated as Talho showed some surprise.
"I see. We'll hopefully Adir will be of use then." Talho stated
"He will but I will say this. When Shawn is ordered to do something he doesn't wish to do Adir will reject the commands given to him, Adir is an intelligent being who can think and act without a pilot if he so wishes." Alucard stated as this caused Talho to become very surprised as did everyone else.
"If there is no more questions I'll give you Shawn back." Alucard stated as everyone shook their heads then the black and red faded and Shawn's body was back to normal as he collapsed onto the ground.
A few hours later I awoke with quite the headache as I looked around. I noticed there was a woman with short black hair and one with pink long hair staring off out of the window. I continued staring at them for another two minutes until I cleared my throat getting their attention as the pink haired girl rushed over to my bedside.
"Shawn, are you okay?" Anemone asked sounding very worried.
"Who are you?" I asked
"You don't remember me!" Anemone stated in a very upset tone.
"Remember Anemone, Shawn has Amnesia." Layla stated as Anemone calmed down quite a bit.
"I'm Anemone. I'm engaged to Dominique Sorel. This here is Layla who used to be TheEnd. The LFO I piloted. Similar looking to the one you just arrived in." Anemone stated all in one breath as I sat there dumbfounded.
"You talk really fast." I stated chuckling a bit as I visually winched again due to the pain in my head.
"Anemone could you get me some pain killers?" I asked politely as she grabbed a bottle that was left on a table. Giving me some pills and water as I took the pills and laid back down.
"So what exactly happened after I exited the cave?" I asked
"Well, you arrived in a very cool looking LFO and Alucard had taken over your body again. Once Alucard released his control you returned back to normal and then passed out." Anemone explained
"I see." I replied as I could feel the pain killers slowly starting to work.
"Where is everyone else?" I asked
"Holland is teaching his hand to hand combat class. Talho is relaxing. Your friends from the village that I heard about are waiting outside and everyone else is basically going about their business as normal but they are worried about you." Anemone stated rather quickly.
"I see. You can let the other people." I stated as Anemone nodded as she opened the door to my medical room.
"You guys can come in now but don't make a bunch of racket!" Anemone stated rather sternly. Everyone quietly but quickly walked into my room as Akane was the first one to rush to the side of my bed followed by everyone else after her.
"Shawn, are you okay?" Akane asked
"Now that the pain killers are working, yes." I stated
"So what exactly happened back there?" Aimi asked curiously
"Alucard told me to go to that cave as I also felt something pulling me there. So I went there and followed his instructions which led me to Adir. I regained a lot of memories thanks to Adir's shock therapy and Alucard took over to surpress the pain in my head. We left the cave in Adir and ended up on the base as I passed out when he released control of me." I stated
"Well we're glad that your okay. We were really worried about you." Aimi said as she hugged me.
"No need to worry. I won't go down that easily and I'll always come back one way or another." I said smiling confidently while the girls shook their heads.
"Yeah Aimi, something like that won't put Shawn down for long." Akio said as Ayumu agreed which irritated Aimi as she gave the boys a death glare causing them to back away.
"Why don't you boys go lifting or something." Aimi stated as the boys listened and walked out of the room feeling defeated.
"Talk about being whipped." I said as I began laughing
"I don't see why it's funny." Aimi and Akane said.
"It's nothing just my normal odd sense of humor." I replied after I finally calmed down from my laughing fit.
"Weirdo." Aimi stated
"That's our Shawn." Anemone and Dominic agreed with her.
"What do you mean?" Aimi asked
"Exactly what it means, Shawn has always been like this and this is what kept everyone stress free and enjoying our everyday lies while at war. He kept us together just like Renton and Eureka did for the Gekko State when they first joined." Anemone stated as Aimi or Akane didn't have anything else to say.
"Anyways where was Adir moved too?" I asked
"It moved itself into the hanger where the Gekko Go is being kept." Dominic replied
"I see. Dominic, Anemone and Layla can one of you ask John if I can use that LFO and fly to Bellforest?" I asked
"Why?" Anemone asked
"When I regained some of my memories the place where I dropped from the sky from came back to me and a few scenes showing the sign of Bellforest. I want to go see this town, maybe more memories will come back to me." I stated sounding determined to get my way.
"Very well." Dominic stated as Anemone gave him this look as he just shrugged and left the room.
"Excuse me." Anemone said quickly and politely as she hurried after Dominic. Once she caught up with him she stopped him dead in his tracks.
"Dominic, are you sure he's ready! Are you thinking this through?" Anemone stated
"It's his choice Anemone it's not our right to stop him. We're his friends and I'm going to support him." Dominic said as he gently removed Anemone's hands kissing her then walked around her heading to John's office as Anemone was left speechless.
Dominic reached John's office, stopping and knocking on his door.
"Come In." John answered, as Dominic entered his office, shutting the door behind him and walking up to the desk saluting him as he saluted back.
"What do you need Dominic?" John asked
"Sir, I would like to request, on Shawn's behalf, he be allowed to fly his new LFO to Bellforest." Dominic straightforwardly asked
"Always straightforward, I like that. As for your request, Shawn may go under the condition he survey's the city of Gremikowa. He may leave in seven days." John stated as he handed Dominic a big envelope with the words stamped top secret on it and a set of cloths for Shawn designed to give him better camouflage in the darkness along with a cloak for his wings.
"Only Shawn is too see this contents, Understood." John stated sounding very stern about it.
"Yes Sir!" Dominic said as he saluted John as did John.
"Dismissed Soldier." John stated as Dominic turned around and left his office. He headed back to Shawn's room upon reaching it Anemone had bursted out the door in an angry rage leaving Dominic in a daze. Once he recovered he entered the room seeing Layla shaking her head and Shawn looking out the window with an emotionless expression.
"Shawn I have the answer." Dominic stated snapping me out of my thoughts.
"And?" I asked
"You may leave in seven days but you must survey a city on your way. Here's the envelope John gave me and only you can know the contents of his envelope." Dominic stated as I nodded. I took the envelope from him and opened it up pulling out the paperwork. It showed a picture of a blonde haired woman with the name of Krystal on the paperwork. It talked about this city possibly being one of the hidden rebel bases somewhere in the city. I was too survey the area in the cover of night gathering any intel and taking out any rebels if I had to.
"Alright, I'll accept it. Tell John please and thanks Dominic for doing this." I stated as he just nodded.
"Are you sure you'll be fine?" Layla asked
"I'll be fine, I promise. Please drop it." I asked Layla nicely as Dominic left the room.
'Must have been a safety issue with Anemone regarding Shawn.' Dominic thought as he headed back to John's office to give him Shawn's answer.
Mischa came into medical bay an hour later to check on Shawn.
"Hello Shawn. How are you feeling?" Mischa asked
"Hey Mischa! Feeling pretty good. Can I leave this room?" I asked
"Let me check all these print outs from the machines. I'll tell you then." Mischa stated as I patiently waited.
"Everything checks out. You can leave on the condition you won't go find danger till your mission day." Mischa stated
"Hai Hai!" I said as I climbed out of bed putting on my regular cloths.
The moment I walked out of the medical bay my stomach growled rather loudly so I decided on heading to the cafeteria to grab something to eat. I ran into Moondoggie and Gidget along the way so we all decided on eating together. I decided on paying the extra money to eat a steak, while Moondoggie grabbed a bowl of Ramen and Gidget grabbed soup and sandwich. Finding a place to sit we started digging in.
"So Shawn have you remembered anything else?" James asked
"I've remembered quite a bit but nothing more about the Gekkostate sadly. Everything came back to me about the Coralians thanks to Adir." I stated as I took another bite of my steak.
"Adir?" James asked
"The LFO that's stationed next to the Gekko Go." I stated
"Oh! So that's the name of it! You really found a nice LFO." James stated nudging me with his elbow.
"Don't have to tell me that. I know Adir is quite special." I said laughing a bit as I went back to eating.
"So how did Adir cause your memories to come back?" Gidget asked
"Shock therapy and it wasn't fun at all but it worked for most of memories." I stated
"Owe! That must have hurt!" Gidget stated
"Yeah it did and having those memories rush back didn't help either."
The rest of the day went by really fast as I helped James with some ship maintenance. After I finished helping with the Ship I headed over to Adir, climbing into the cockpit and began learning what controls do what while also having a conversation with him. It turned out he had quite the sarcastic sense of humor which made our conversation very amusing to say the least. I was really surprised no one had interrupted me the entire time I was learning how to use Adir properly. I decided it was finally time to take Adir out for a spin even If it was getting dark. I stood up signaling with my brain to close the cockpit as the cockpit closed not a second later. I started up Adir and began walking like I normally would as it reacted and began moving forward. The lag time was not noticeable at all. The moment we got outside the hanger I removed the swords from my legs as a line layer of red lit up along the edge of the sword and didn't even look like it was vibrating at all but I could slightly feel it that the blades were moving. I began practicing with the swords doing multiple different moves with the swords combined with a lot of extensive moving. After I finished that I decided it was time to figure out how this thing flies as an idea struck me. I focused my thoughts on flying pictures my own wings extending from the back of Adir as I began running within minutes I was flying up in the air as Adir had grown energy wings that looked red as they seemed to gather trapar around the air and propel itself.
"Adir you are by far one of the few amazing LFO's out there." I stated with a lot of excitement in my voice.
"It is my honor leader." It said into my head
"Wait, telepathy?" I asked
"Yes, I can speak directly into your head and you do not have to be touching me either." Adir replied
"That's some really good tactical advantage." I said grinning
"I agree." Adir replied
"So what else can you do my friend?" I asked
"I'll show you." Adir replied as I heard something click and in front of us were three orbs.
"What do those do?" I asked
"You can channel your energy through me and into the orbs for those destructive orbs you use. Those orbs out there will fire it and destroy your enemies though normally they fire lasers and can create a triangle shaped shield." Adir explained
"I have a feeling we'll have a lot of fun in the future to come." I stated sounding very excited to have had Alucard lead me to this amazing LFO.
"Same here Shawn." Adir stated
"Anyways let's head back. I have a feeling I have a long day tomorrow." I stated
"Very well." Adir replied
We headed back to the base landing near the hanger of the Gekko Go as I walked the LFO back inside the hanger, shutting it down and climbed out the cockpit. I headed into the Gekko Go, finding my room and collapsing onto my bed from exhaustion.
The next morning there was some major commotion though I was oblivious to it as I was still asleep.
A dark skinned man with a yellow tank top with the number 5 on it drove onto the tresor base while his honey rode in the passenger's seat.
A/N: OMG WHO MIGHT THEY BE! *GASP*. I'm sure everyone already guessed XD!