Sorry this chapters a bit shorter but it sets the way for the final conflict in the next chapter. The story will get very serious and sad from here but I will try to keep some light moments in between let's just see what happens.
Memories
Kamakura beach is ahead. What a place to return to. The very origins of my troubles. Night is at its peak and the air feels crisp and cold. Once I was on the ship I was given a blue sweater and black jeans to wear as well as a beanie to keep me warm as I had a brief nap in the bunker. Arakawa slept on the bunker above me making weird moaning noises the entire time. She really needs a man in her life.
"We'll arrive at Kamakura beach in five minutes." One of the ship's crew said – voice muffled by the door.
Since my family died I had nowhere to return to. The closest thing I had left to a family was those at the Maple Inn.
"Do what I cannot and live a happy life with Kouta and the others for me."
Now that Amanda was gone in tragic circumstances it seems the only woman in my life was Mayu. But she was already hurt when I told her I was going to live with Amanda. I guess I could have a shot at Nozomi – guys get off on girls peeing on them right?
"Oooh-Ahh-Whoa!"
"Oh get a vibrator and shut up already!" She grew past my impatience.
"Hey leave me alone! I was in a very traumatic experience…"
"Yeah I can tell by your moans of pleasure."
"W-wait...You didn't hear me that entire time did you?" She started blushing over the edge of the bunker.
"I reckon you would've been a great pleasure slave." I laugh but she doesn't see the humour and tries to swipe at my head only for her to fall down with her gluts pointing upward. I wanted to squeeze them but then again I could use the subtle approach with my vector.
She felt the cold vector caress her left cheek then enter her anal region. "Yikes! What the hell is that?"
"Shhh...Just stay there and enjoy it." And soon enough she was panting with a face of ultimate eroticism.
"Oh.....I really shouldn't be but......please more."
Now I was amazed by her masochist nature. "You say you want more...? You may need to speak louder so I can hear you. So what do you want more of?"
"I WANT MORE OF YOUR VECTOR IN MY ASS!!!"
And to set the stage for the ultimate humiliation one of the crew members came in to much of his astonishment. It's not everyday you see a semi-naked woman panting like a dog waving her arse in the air as a young man pleasures himself nearby. Arakawa dusted herself off and adjusted her panties and I covered up my own shame.
"Ahem...Well we've anchored on the shore now."
"Thank you for taking us back." I show my appreciation.
"Yeah thanks." Arakawa mumbles.
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On the deck we both look over at the shimmering ocean which crashes over the adjacent beach. It is still night but there is a full moon which seems to luminate the beach with a blue tinge making it almost blend in with the sea. A nearby wharf is where we will get off. I'm surprised the researchers don't tell us we're under there control or anything. But I'm not disappointed. Besides they already have the possible vaccine.
"Thank you once again for rescuing us." I wave goodbye to the crew as they slowly retreat to the sea.
"So where will you go?" I ask Arakawa who now has a towel wrapped around her upper body.
"I have a residence you know!" She blasts back. "I'm not some homeless scientist."
"Okay just making sure."
"I was totally embarrassed back there." She frowns.
"Oh come on I don't think they'll think any less of you after that."
"Everyone just thinks I'm an overstimulated girl but it's just my areas are more sensitive than other people's"
"Why's that?" I ask as we walk along the wharf.
"Because I'm a virgin." She looks down as if ashamed.
"Well we can always change that. I'm also a virgin."
"What are you implying boy?"
"Well we can either be virgins together or do something about it." I feel like such a womanizer now.
"Why would I want to have sex with you?" She pouts.
"Because you obviously enjoyed my vector technique."
"Shutup I already told you why."
I laugh for the rest of the walk down and she simply blushes. I soon have to stop my laughter as I spot something – no someone on the blue beach. "Hold on Arakawa, I know that person." I call over with my hands cupped as he is at least fifty metres away. "Hey Kouta!"
Kouta's sitting with his back leaned against the wall of the beach. He turns to me. "Ben?"
"What are you...?" I decide it will be easier to communicate if I go to him. "What are you doing at this beach so late at night?" I then notice his bloody shirt. I remember him being shot in the chest when those hermaphrodite blondes showed up at the Maple Inn. "You need to go to the hospital."
"No Ben...I'm...staying...here." His sentences take longer to form and his breathing is deeper. I cal also sense his shivering. "Oh god here put this sweater on." I pull of my sweater so I only have a white shirt underneath.
Arakawa soon runs over and is equally shocked. "We need to get you to a-"
"NO! I've...already...been...bandaged...I must...wait...here"
"Why? You're only waiting for your death." I say.
"I'm waiting for." He forms his mouth as he breathes the next word. "Lucy."
He's waiting for Lucy. But she's already gone. What should I say? He must really care about her.
"Lucy's dead." Arakawa says bluntly.
"She can't be...I have to ask her something..."
"But didn't you see the whole research facility sink?" I assume he's been here fir most of the night.
"Yes...But she needs to see me...I need to know..."
"What?"
"Why she killed my sister and father..."
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I'm now running at lightning speed towards the Maple Inn. I have to tell the others to get down to Kamakura beach and help convince Kouta to go to the hospital. A short time ago we were talking about why he was on the beach. He told me all about his past with Lucy and how he had repressed a traumatic memory of when Lucy brutally killed Kanae, his sister and his father. No matter how many times I explained that Lucy was gone he insisted that he must stay until the morning so he can see her and get some answers. I told Arakawa to supervise him whilst I travelled to the Maple Inn.
I didn't need to go far though as I notice a group of three shouting a name as they walk along the empty streets.
"Hey over here. I call out to them."
Yuka, Nozomi and Mayu recognise me and run over to me. "Oh thank goodness you're okay Ben." Yuka said relieved slightly. "We didn't know what happened to you and Nyu when those men took you away."
"Well Lu-Nyu (Having to self correct myself – these guys only know Lucy as Nyu so let's keep it that way) is still missing."
"Oh it's horrible Ben." Nozomi came in. "Kouta was being treated for his wound but ran out if the hospital a few hours ago. They rang us up and we've been searching for him since."
"Can you help us find him?" Mayu asked. Well at least she can still talk to me after all that.
"Actually I know where he is. I can take you there now."
Yuka breathed a deep sigh of relief but then returned to a distressed state cautious of his aggravated wounds. "Thank you so much Ben-san."
An idea bulb lights my head as to how we can travel quickly. "Okay we need to get there ASAP so I need you guys to hear me out and trust me on this."
"Whatever it takes to get us to Kouta." Yuka chirped.
"Okay now this might sound strange but I want Yuka-chan and Nozomi-chan to hop on my back and Mayu wrapped around the front."
"Oh please Ben we don't have time for piggy back games." Yuka sighs.
"No I'm 100% serious I will carry you guys too him but you all need to get on me."
"Just hurry up and tell us where he is." Yuka is sounding irrational now.
"The more we bicker the more blood Kouta is losing. Look I know you guys don't know me completely and I may have ruined my reputation after the first night but you have to believe in me."
"I do." Mayu steps over. I smile and she responds in kind. "Let's do this."
"Are you serious?" Yuka snaps. Nozomi decides to hop on as well. Outvoted Yuka reluctantly follows suit.
Their weight combined is quite heavy but it balance out with Yuka and Nozomi on both sides of my back wrapped around my arms and Mayu's weight on my front.
"Okay hold on guys we're gonna fly."
"Oh god..." Yuka drolls.
I slam my vector on the ground and push myself up high in the air. Yuka's attitude suddenly changes from scepticism to fear. "What the fuck? How are you doing this?"
"Mayu take off my beanie please..." As Mayu slides off my beanie it reveals the elongated spiked horns on my head, much like Nyu's and Nana's. "...I'm special."
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After a bumpy few minutes of hardcore leapfrog we arrive at the steps which take us down to the beach. The girls seemed to have different reactions: Mayu was having a blast, thinking it was like a carnival ride, Yuka wanted to puke and Nozomi managed to hold her weak bladder's contents for the duration of the ride but she was so excited afterwards she couldn't hold on.
"Oh sorry." Nozomi blushed.
"At least you saved it till after the ride. Now he's down here."
Getting serious again we all run over to Kouta where Arakawa's looking rather concerned.
"What's with you Kouta!" Yuka resembles an angry mother again. "You know you should be recovering in hospital right now!"
Arakawa looks solemn. "I'm afraid he is losing too much blood...If he doesn't get any medical attention soon.
"Kouta we have to go or you're gonna...you're gonna…" Her tears hold her back.
"I'll ring an ambulance. Nozomi runs up the stairs to the nearest phone booth."
Kouta speaks but his voice is deteriorating. "I must avenge Kanae and father."
"What are you saying Kouta?" Yuka rests up next to him.
"I remember everything about that night ten years ago. I need to see Lucy."
"Who's Lucy?" Yuka isn't familiar with the alter ego.
"She's Nyu only much more violent and sadistic." I clear her doubts.
"Nyu would never do anything like that to Kanae." Yuka sobs a she tries to defend the innocent often docile woman she had come across not too long ago.
Kouta grabs the collar of Yuka's jacket. "It was her...And I have to know why..."
"I tried to explain that Nyu's gone but he wouldn't listen."
"You don't mean?"
Before I can form words a white capsule washes up on the beach. I get an angry twitch in my head as I sense a bad force generating. But it's too late. The door opens and the last person I'd expect to find comes out; her pink hair dancing in the ocean breeze.
"Lucy..."
"Lucy..."
"Lucy..."
"Nyu...?"
"Ny-Lucy?"
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Seconds seem like minutes and minutes seem like hours as awkward silence ensues. Lucy stands idle for a few minutes before she walks over to Kouta.
"I'm sorry Kouta..." She says as if she anticipated this very moment.
"Dammit Lucy why did you do it?" Kouta coughs up blood as he vents his rage. Lucy puts out her hand in concern but Kouta snaps back. "Don't give me your charity till you tell me why."
"But Kouta you're bleeding." Lucy seems different than her usual killer persona but she's not Nyu either.
"I don't care if I die on this very beach because what you took from me was like death anyway." Kouta is sounding more irrational than Yuka does. Why would anyone refuse treatment for a bullet wound? What point is he trying to prove?
"Kouta..."
"Why did you kill them?"
Lucy's hair falls over her face as she accepts her guilt. "I gave in to my instincts."
"Huh?" I interrupt.
"I have two embodiments in my sub-conscious, the first one is the one you know as Nyu who can live with humans, but the other is a more vengeful and barbaric personality...When you were at the Summer festival I saw you in the arms of your cousin Yuka..."
Wait their cousins? But they are like a couple...I'll save my incest thoughts till later...
"I was jealous and wanted you to myself...I was selfish and resorted to my instincts and for that I'm sorry." Lucy was sobbing heavily. She covered her eyes with her hands but the tears ran down her arms and dampened the sand below.
Yuka and Mayu were shocked at this revelation but Kouta was not changing his stance. "To resort to your instincts is sad of you Lucy. I remember you told me about your hard times at the orphanage but there are other ways to solve your problems."
"Kouta..."
"Don't talk to me like that!" He blasted – inevitably coughing more blood. "You knew how to get back at me on that train and you were simply being manipulative. I hate you so very much for that."
Lucy's mouth quivered and her tears ran down like a flowing river. I'm assuming these two had a strong relationship at one stage so for him to say that was pretty harsh. But if I was in his situation then maybe I would react even worse. I already showed my vengeance to Man for his actions.
"Okay Kouta you found out why she killed your family now let's go." I say hurriedly.
"Yeah come on Kouta-kun." Yuka backs me up.
"You don't need to forgive me but I won't forgive myself if I let you die." Lucy offers her help.
"Why bother...I should let you know what true grief feels like." Kouta stands up and hobbles over to Lucy. Blood gushes from his sweater. He goes over to Lucy and gives her a large swipe to the face; tears erupt from his eyes now too. "I won't forgive you EVER!"
Lucy was absolutely gutted. Her soul had been ripped from her body. The only man she ever cared about is never going to forgive her for her past actions. She felt no physical pain but the emotional scars ripped a hole in her heart even bigger than Kouta's.
"KOUTA WATCH OUT!"
Lucy jumped up; blood suddenly flickered from her left arm. "She had just taken a bullet for Kouta."
"Darn I knew these things weren't as accurate over a long distance..." The cold voice of a man possibly even more sadistic than Lucy spoke from a shadow nearby.
"Kouta! Nyu!" Yuka and Mayu knelt down next to their fallen companions.
"You bastard..." I uttered as the shadow formed into a person I saw as a traitor ever since he last attacked us.
"Oh it's you again pipsqueak." The rustic figure spoke.
"And so it's you again Bando...the Biono-man..."
The Bionic man has returned to this very beach where all the problems originated. I smell a final battle approaching but who will be victorious? The next chapter will reveal all.