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ULTRA SEVEN POV
"This is Zoffy. I have a bad news. Taro's died."
"KLANG!"
I released my hold on my Eye Slugger. I'm not hearing the next word Zoffy nii-san told us. My body felt numb. I tried to walk away from the training ground but it seems that my leg wouldn't cooperate.
"Walk! Just walk, damn it!," I cursed at my inability to control my body. With some effort, I managed to make a step forward before I dashed towards the morgue. I needed to see the corpse myself in order to believed it. 'The corpse'. I grimaced at the word.
I couldn't spotted anyone near the morgue so I assumed that I was the first to arrive. I entered the morgue and the sighted that greeted me shocked me entirely.
There, laying on the berth was my little mischief, little Taro. I made my way very slowly to him. When he was clear to my sight, I collapsed beside him. I didn't believed my eyes. Was this real?
Numbly, I stared at the long gashes and scar at his body. Impossible. Taro was a skilled warrior. Eventhough he liked to depend more on his brothers during battle, but he would never let anyone, monsters or aliens to hurt him this badly. Something must had happened during his fought.
I tried to reach him with a shaky hands but the action only triggered a bad memory from my past. Once, I was a warrior that had been assigned to protect Earth, just like Taro. I returned to the Land of Light after the time of my service had finished. I was very devastated. Not because I couldn't fought at the earth again but merely because I didn't had a chance to say goodbye to my human comrades before I left.
The first third month after my returned to my home planet, I was very grouchy. Everything was very wrong from my perspective. I had became a short tempered ultra at the moment. I blamed everyone for my returned. Most of all, I blamed Taro.
If not for Taro's presence, I would never be called back to the Land of Light. The reasoned for it was someone need to keep an eye on the son of the most 'glorious' leader. At that time, I really despised him. From thousand of ultra warrior that had been presented during that crisis, why I'm the 'lucky' warrior that had to babysit him?
I tried to be as gentle as possible when we together. The truth was, I hated him. I hated for his carefree attitude, like he didn't cared about anything in this world. On the anniversary of my departure from Earth, I tried to memorize anything about my earth friends. Unluckily, Taro was there. He asked me about my adventure and my techniques. He really annoyed me. Angrily, I snapped at him. I told him to get lost and mind his own business. I saw a flash of hurt across his feature. That's when I remembered that I had lost my temper not to an ordinary ultra but to my baby brother.
He told me that he's sorry to interrupt me. He promised that he would never bothered me anymore. Then he just ran away. Shockingly, I tried to go after him and told him that I'm sorry. But, Ultraman nii-san stopped me. He advised me to let Taro's out to cool down first. He asked me to vent out some steamed in order for me to think clearly. I agreed.
Ever since, Taro had been a quiet ultra whenever I'm around. I knew that he didn't want to upset me more. I tried to tell him that I'm sorry for what I've done but before I could started the conversation, he would ran away from me. The first time he never ran away from me was when I helped him to transported the tortoise family to galaxy. He seem shocked to see me at first but I'm glad when he responded to what I said. It was a good start for me.
"Why is this ever happening, little brother? Is this my punishment for what I've done to you at the past? Why is the fate so damn cruel? It's not fair. Why do you have to leave us? WHY!?," I screamed at the top of my lung. I sobbed a tearless sobbed. I didn't cared if the others heard me or saw me. My pride and dignity was nothing compared to this. Suddenly, I felt a hand on my shoulder.
"Seven."
I raised my head and saw Ultraman nii-san standing above me. Without saying anything, I got up and hug him tightly. He's stroking my back while murmuring comfort word.
"Shh, it's alright. Everything will be alright. Don't worry. I'm here. I'll never leave you. Shh, don't cry."
"Ta...ro...," I choked on my sob. I couldn't said more.
"I know. But he will be very sad if he see you like this."
'Yeah! Ultraman nii-san damn right. Stop crying, Seven nii-san.'
"Taro?," I asked to the air. Ultraman nii-san heard what I was saying but he wrongly interpreted the meaning of it.
"He will always be in our heart. He never died. The memory of him and us will always live in our mind. We will never forget him."
I tuned out what nii-san was saying and strained my ear to hear that voice again. Impossible. If I was hearing it, surely nii-san heard that too. I waited a while but nothing. I slumped my shoulder in defeated.
'What? The fearless Seven is giving up? Please. You are much more tougher than this. Stand up and stand proud just like nii-san tachi.'
I smiled. If that was his spirit, I would welcomed it. I straightened myself and turned to face Ultraman nii-san.
"Nii-san, thank you. I feel better now. You're right. He never died, he always live in our memory and our heart," I saw nii-san smiled to me. We heard a thud and turned around to the door. We saw someone leaned weakly at the door and almost collapsed. We rushed to help him.
"No...," we heard him muttered that word.
So, that's Chapter 4. How is it going guys. For record, I had already completed this story but I was not yet finished editing it. Five more chapter so please wait patiently.
Chapter 5 will be from Ultraman Jack POV.
