Madness Arc part two: Revelations

The door to a cold, empty cell with nothing but a bed and toilet was opened. A girl with blond hair and lavender colored eyes was thrown roughly into the small chamber. With the closing of the steel door, the light was taken away as well. The girl stood up after a minute and tried to seat herself as comfortable as possible on the old and hard mattress, waiting for her companion. After quite some time, the door opened again and a boy with blond hair that reached his elbows was thrown in. He scoffed as he got up, wiping some dust off of him.

"Well, that throw was softer as usual. Either I'm starting to get used to them or they're going soft on me." The boy tried to joke. But the girl could see in his eyes in how much pain he actually was. She has been forced to observe a few times as they experimented on the boy. At first she didn't get why he acted like that, but after a while she realized it was for HER. He acted like that as to not increase her burdens with worrying over him. She tried to let him think it worked, but she couldn't hold herself back anymore. Tonight she will get answers.

"-lotte, Charlotte!" the boy shook her shoulders trying to get her attention. She must have dazed off while being in thought. She looked into his green eyes in which tinges of red started to creep. Those eyes betrayed his reason, answering her question before she even asked it. they were filled with kindness and compassion, but there were also traces of loneliness and… longing. She understood why, and she made a decision. Tonight, she would him what he has become for her in those five months. The boy was relieved when she finally moved.

"Thank god, I thought that the-" He got silenced by HER lips. After getting pas his shock, the boy started to kiss back eagerly, longing for her warmth and touch which was kind and loving instead of the brutal and sadistic ones which he has grown accustomed to over the years. He had nearly forgotten how it felt to be loved. Sure, one of the guards tried to help him as much as he could, but it couldn't be compared to what he felt right now. Soon their kisses became more and more heated and what little clothing they had fell on the floor and saw each other in their full glory. He saw for the first time a girl's body, about to become a woman. She saw his collection of scars, each of them a testimony of what horrendous things he had to go through. She absentmindedly traced one of the larger scars on his chest.

"It's not fair…" she said softly, feeling sorry for him. He just kissed her in response, not knowing any way to try and cheer her up .

"A-are you sure you want to do this?" he asked her nervously. She let out a soft giggle at his concern. He always thought about her before himself.

"You idiot, I wouldn't have started this if I wasn't sure." She said with a small smile. He forgot about all of his doubts and finally gave completely in to his instincts. That night they gave their last piece of innocence to each other…

I lied on my back in the clearing where I fought Kirima… Well, it was more like me completely decimating and ripping his body in pieces which sadly enough isn't real. The only thing that's left intact was his head, but I ran my twin blades through his eyes and pierced him against a tree like that. What, it's only in my sick twisted imagination, so it's not like I'm a psycho. I mean, even you guys must have imagined about killing your most hated teacher. This is the same principle, use imagination to sate your bloodlust, but it's a bit more lucid with me than you guys.

"You really know how to bear a grudge mutt. Did you have to club me with my arm, which you cut off as well?" Kirima's head asked me.

"Ugh, can't you shut up for five minutes?" I asked him annoyed. I don't know why I ran his sword through his mouth yet.

"Have you calmed down Haru-dono?" I heard Superstes ask me. I turned around to see him standing there cautiously. I ain't gonna assault you if that's what you're afraid of.

"I actually feel pretty good. It's like the stress of the past months have just washed away." I said while stretching my arms. I let out a happy sigh when I heard a satisfying pop coming out of my shoulders. I looked to my right when I felt someone tugging on my bloodstained shirt. I curiously observed the two kids, a boy and a girl, both with blond hair looking at me. The girl had something familiar in her hands. It was the gauntlet Superstes made when I first met him. She quietly slipped it on my right arm before running into the forest with the boy. At the edge they turned around and waved before disappearing into the woods.

"Aww, the little kid saved the other ones, how qu-MPH!" Kirima's head didn't get a chance to finish as I threw his blade through his own mouth. I pulled my own blades out of the tree and started cleaning them.

"What do you think those kids represented?" Superstes asked me. I pondered on his question before I got the obvious answer.

"You remember that night in the cells with Charlotte?" I asked him.

"So it represented your last piece of innocence, which you two willingly gave up. But what does Kirima has to do with it?"

"Well, he was the biggest ass around there so my guess is that my brain realized I needed desperately get rid of my sadistic tendencies."

"You didn't have to ram his own foot up his ass."

"Maybe you're right. I mean, thanks to all that messy stuff I did, my clothes got dirty."

"… I see."

After I cleaned my blades, we followed the path again to find out what was coming next. Let's hope that I'll be able to focus by then, because memories of my six months with Charlotte came back. She was taken away one month after we made love (I'm staying respectful when it's about her and that's saying something). Including the parts where she taught me French. When you're locked up with nothing else to do, you pick up a new language pretty fast. But still, the memories of that time I spent with her made my last year there bearable.

"Comment est-elle maintenant? "I said softly in French.

(how is she right now?)

"Bien probablement, ne t'inquiète pas." Superstes answered.

(She's probably alright, don't worry.)

"Putain, tu connais le français aussi? » I asked him playfully. He let out a low chuckle while shaking his head.

(Shit, you know french as well ?)"

"I already told you, I am a part of you. Of course I'll know the same languages as you do."

The path lead us to the mountain that I saw in the distance. Why am I not surprised? What I am surprised with is that there's a blood red creek flowing down from the mountain. What, wasn't purple good enough anymore or something like that? *sigh* How the hell are we even supposed to get to the top of this mountain anyway? This thing is easily a mile or two high and I don't feel like climbing it.

"We're going to have to climb." Superstes said calmly. Did you really have to point that unpleasant and obvious fact out? I let out a final sigh in recognition and jumped on a rock in front of me.

*WHOOSH*

"So… Why have I travelled 45 feet in one jump?" I asked confused. Superstes jumped as well and landed right next to me.

"I don't know, it was like this as well in your memories. Maybe you were able to do it the whole time." Superstes stated.

"Well, there's only one way to find out." I said before jumping again. And again I landed way higher then I was supposed to according to the laws of physics. Which leads me to the conclusion that I could've travelled like this the whole time, but just didn't realize it. Great, now I realize how many time I just wasted while walking to the next destination. Why do I always miss things like this?

"Sometimes you have to think outside of the box to find the correct answer." Superstes stated.

"You're not exactly helping my self-esteem." I said annoyed.

"Good, that ego of yours is a bit too big sometimes."

"What, since when is it a crime to show my awesomeness to the world?"

"I rest my case."

"Well, screw you too."

We remained silent after that and started jumping to the top. And man, did it feel nice. I got that rare feeling of freedom, like I could just keep going forever in whatever direction I wanted. Hell, I even started doing somersaults because I could. We advanced quickly, but we stopped at seeing a strange sight. The air above the mountain top was red instead of green and smoke could be seen coming from the top. Superstes and I looked at each other before moving on again. I drew my blades and jumped on the top of the mountain, thinking I'd see a campfire or something among those lines. Instead I got rewarded with a sight straight from hell. One that I know all too well from my nightmares. Burning ruins of a giant metallic building stood all around us, corpses lied everywhere in pools of their own blood and the destroyed exoskeleton of an Is lied in a corner, its pilot impaled with a spear. In the center of it all was a pool of blood with a fountain in the shape of a crying girl. Blood came out of its eye sockets and fell into the pool. But the most fearsome of all was the person standing in it. he had long blond hair that reached his waist, a body filled with scars, piercing green eyes and a wicked smile. I knew perfectly who he was…

…

He's me.

"So you finally decided to show up Haru-chan." He said wickedly.

"You… you were the one that made freeze in midair and made me end up here, didn't you?" I asked him, barely containing my anger. His grin grew even wider at my exclamation.

"No I didn't, but I knows the culprit." He said gleefully.

"Then who was it?" I asked him venomously. He just started laughing when he heard my question.

"ANSWER ME!" I yelled furiously.

"Hahaha, okay just let me catch my breath. Man, it's been ages since I laughed like that." That's when I lost it. I dashed forward and grabbed him by the throat and lifted him up.

"You will answer my question NOW." I told him coldly. His smile grew even wider.

"Alright, but first let me ask you a question. Doesn't this place look familiar? well, don't mind the fountain, it's a more symbolic thing actually." I tightened my grip on his throat.

"Don't screw around." I spat at him.

"Wow, you really are aggressive. Does Cecilia know of this side of yours just as the fact that you killed?" he asked me with that ever present grin of his. My grip loosened for a second, but that was all he needed. He pushed himself off by kicking me in the chest and landed 20 feet further. My blades lied behind me with Superstes, so I couldn't attack him with them. I ran towards him, desperately wanting to hit that smirk of his face. I threw a punch but he simply sidestepped it and backslapped me.

"If you want your answers that bad, fine. But I'm not responsible for the consequences." He said with that same wicked grin. I got up and held my distance from him. That guy is dangerous.

"The two responsible for getting you stabbed and sliding into a coma are both in the ruins here."

"Two people?" Superstes asked surprised.

"Yep doggie, two people, namely me and my partner. But technically the only culprit is Haru-chan over there." The guy said casually.

"What the fuck do you mean?" I roared.

"You really are an idiot… I AM YOU! I'M EVERY TRACE OF EMOTION, MADNESS AND INSANITY THAT YOU EVER TRIED TO SUPRESS!" He yelled out in sheer bliss. It… it can't be right? There's no way that he's me.

"Think about it. You couldn't bear the thought of having killed everyone in that facility and yet you utterly brutally destroyed Kirima without even thinking about how wrong it is to hold a grudge. You adapted way to quickly to the fact that you had to kill, but you shed tears because you repressed your nature." That… psycho reprimanded me like I was a little kid.

"What nature are you talking about?" I asked him.

"You are a bloody psychopath, born for war! You have the symptoms for it! you're a cunning, manipulative guy with superficial charms, you barely feel any kind of emotion and when was the last time you actually cared about another person? And let's not forget your eccentric behavior and need to keep finding something new and interesting!" He stated.

That isn't true! I'm not a crazy killer!

"Psycho,psycho, psycho-"

Shut up, shut up, shut up

"Psycho, psycho, psycho, psycho Haru-chan!"

« SHUUUUUTTT UUUUUUPPPP ! » I yelled as I charged towards him. I hit his cheek and he was sent flying. He slid to a standstill before grinning and letting a spear come.

"Take your blades Haruka, there can only be one of us." He said seriously. I grabbed my blades and went into a basic stance. He just smirked and we charged towards each other. I slid under his jab and tried to stab him in the leg. He simply jumped over my blade and spun around while swinging his spear in an arc. I lifted my blades in an x shape to block the incoming swing, but the force behind it sent me back, slamming me into one of the remaining pieces of wall. I got up with a grunt and charged again towards the psycho. Our blades clashed and we started to fight in high speeds, trying to kill each other. But no matter hard we tried, we were equal in skill. When one of us hit the other, he retaliated and hit back equally hard. After a few minutes we jumped away from each other. I had some bruises and a few small cuts on my arms. He had cuts on his arms and a shallow one on his chest.

"Not bad Haru-chan, you certainly know how to handle a knife." Taunted that guy. I just smirked and cracked my neck. Noting that I remained collected, he got that grin again.

"You're right, let's be serious about this fight. I hope you're ready." He said before running towards me way faster than before. Before I could respond his fist collided with my face and I got sent backwards. He got behind me before I even noticed and kicked me in the back. The force behind it made me fly into the pool. I swallowed a handful of the red water, nay judging by the coppery taste it's… blood. Somebody pulled my head backwards and then pushed it back into the pool of blood. After a little while he pulled my head back up with a sadistic smirk.

"How are you feeling Haru-chan?" he asked me in a sarcastic tone while I gasped for air.

" I'm gonna ram my boot so hard in your ass that you won't be able to shit properly for a fucking month." I spat to him.

"You seem to have some energy left. In that case-" he pushed my head back in the water. "-DOWN YOU GO!" I struggled for air in the thick liquid, frantically trying to get up again. Dammit I need air, I need to get up! get up, get up, UP!

Calme-toi et attends Haruka. Ce n'est pas comme toi de ne avoir pas un plan.

(Calm down and wait Haruka. It's not like you not having a plan.)

At hearing her voice in my head, I calmed down and waited. Of course, if he's trying to kill me, the he'll heave me back up when-

"Hah, dead already? That ain't fun." The psycho complained. I grinned inwardly and stabbed him right through his side in his left lung with the Hidden Blade. I opened my eyes and saw him looking shocked at my face.

"Surprise motherfucker." I said with a grin before slashing his throat open. He touched the cut on his throat before falling down with a genuine smile.

"You sly… bastard. Should've… known." He stuttered out. with each word more blood poured out of the wound.

"Don't talk, it'll make dying more painful." I advised him. He just smirked at my comment before grabbing my wrist. I looked down to see him with pleading eyes.

"Don't forget… your tainted cause… get over the sorrow but… never forget the sacrifice." He told me seriously. I grabbed his wrist in return in a warrior's handshake.

"I won't. You were right all along." I told him with a sad smile. He let out a small laugh as he closed his eyes.

"Finally…now… some…fucking sleep." he said tiredly.

"I never caught your name." I said quietly.

"Already… told you… moron. I'm a part… of you." He said annoyed and tired at the same time.

"Oh right. Go to sleep now before I knock you KO." I said with a smile.

"Can try…you ass…hole." He said before his body turned to ash and slowly scattered with the wind. The only thing that remained of him was the blade of his spear. It was a foot and a half long and was made out of a shining black metal. I grabbed it carefully so that I wouldn't cut myself and put it in an empty pouch. Superstes came next to me and lied down.

"So… what are we going to do now?" he asked me. now that everything was over, I felt a wave of tiredness coming over me.

"You do realize we've been on the move for two days without sleeping?" I asked him. He looked at me before closing his eyes. I smiled before lying down and closing my eyes as well.

"you know Superstes, you actually make a great pillow."

"…u-chan! Haru-chan, are you alright?" I heard a girl's voice. I slowly opened my eyes to see G looking worried at me. I yawned an stretched, feeling energized after my nap.

"Hey G, how've you been?" I asked her casually. She looked shocked at me before crushing me in a hug.

"Thank god you're awake, I thought that something bad happened to you!" she nearly yelled out. I just returned the hug and sat there calmly waiting until she was done. When she let go of me, her personality did a big ass 180.

"WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING WORRYING EVERYONE LIKE THIS!" she yelled at me.

"Well, to put it simply-"

"SHUT UP! YOU FELL INTO A COMA FTER I GOT SHUT OUT AND COULDN'T HELP YOU WHEN ICHIKA STABBED YOU! THEN I FIND YOU HERE ALSO IN A COMA FOR TWO DAYS AND YOU ACT LIKE YOU WERE TAKING A NAP! " G yelled frustrated with tears in her eyes. I just pulled her again in a hug and she immediately started crying.

"I was so worried you idiot." G said between sobs. I just stroked her back while she cried on my shoulder.

"Well, now that we have the awkward and emotional bonding part over, what the hell happened to you?" G asked me in her usual tone. I took a deep breath and told her everything about the crazy journey I made, the memories and the epiphanies. When I was done she sat there with a shocked face.

"G, are you alright?" I asked her unsure. When she makes that face, shit is bound to happen.

"You… already lost your virginity almost two years ago." She said in a daze.

"Yes."

"With a cute blonde French girl that's way above your league." Awtch, that comment hurt my pride.

"Haruka…"

"What's wrong G?" That's a rare serious look she has there.

"You have my deepest respect to pull something like that of, TWICE." G said with a polite bow. Well, that bow is unnecessary… Wait, what do you mean with twice?

"Simple. First, you have to beautiful French girl in distress and now you have a beautiful British oujo-sama… come to think of it, you don't happen to have a fetish for blonde girls do you?" G asked me with a mischievous smirk. I could feel my face becoming red at that statement. G seemed to notice and kept pestering me about it for half an hour before she finally quit. Only then could I take a good look at my surroundings. And it was really something else. We were on a plain with grass that reached my knees. There was a lake with crystal clear water and a little beach and there were hills all around us. The whole landscape was accented by a never ending sunset. It was really beautiful. As I was gazing into the distance Superstes stood next to me, still in his wolf form.

"How are you feeling Superstes?" I asked him.

"Like everything's back the way it's supposed to be." He said solemnly. I petted his head and we just stood there, watching the sky. After a while we went back to G, whom seemed to be working on something.

"What're you working on?" I asked her curiously.

"A new look for your IS, what do you think of it?" she asked me. she showed me a sketch of what she wanted to build. The only approval she needed was the longing smile on my face.

"How soon is it finished?" I asked her.

"Two days, but you'll have to manually change some parts and new programs have to be written." She stated while continuing to work.

"G, what if you could hypothetically stream a crash course IS engineering into my brain so that I know everything necessary to make my own weapons and to maintain the armor?" I asked her.

"Then you would be unable to learn anything else that way because you'll brain will overheat and your coma will be prolonged with twelve hours. And even if we did that, you'd only have the knowledge and you'd still have to practice your skills." She explained.

"G, please stream that data into my brain and eject me out of the coma when it's safe."

"I knew you'd say that. We already started at the same time when you asked me your first question."

Wednesday 23/04 20XX ,IS Academy Infirmary, 9.42 am

I opened my eyes, looking at the already way too familiar white roof of the infirmary. Seriously, I'm pretty sure they're already keeping a bed open just for me. I sat up with a groan and let my feet touch the cold ground.

"Well, look who decide to wake up." I heard Miyuki's voice behind me.

"What, no emotional outburst over how worried you were?" I teased her.

"Brat, the only way that you could be killed is if they chopped off your head. You'll survive pretty much anything else thanks to the Nano machines in your bloodstream." She stated like it was basic knowledge.

"Well, that's nice to know."

"But there is one thing that concerns me…"

"And that is?"

"All of your scars except for the one of Ichika's broadsword have disappeared." she stated with curiosity. I pulled my shirt up and saw that all of my scars were gone, except for the one that Ichika's toy sword made. But how the hell did they disappear?

Let's call it starting over with a clean slate Haru-chan.

Wow, thanks Psycho I really appreciate it.

Tsk, do I hear the crow calling the raven black? Anyway, I'm gonna go back to sleep until you need me again. See ya.

I just smiled at his response. Maybe we're more alike than I'd like to admit.

"Haruka? Are you alright?" I heard Miyuki ask me worried.

"Yeah I'm alright mom." I told her with a reassuring smile. Then I got a great idea.

"Hey Mom, what day are we?"

"Wednesday, why do you ask?"

"Are classes still going on?" I asked her with my infamous smirk.

"… I'll prepare the beds for possible casualties."

And here is the second part of the Madness arc. Revelations have been made, old memories have been dug up and I can already say that—

*THUNK*

Haru: Shut up and don't spoil everything for the readers goddammit… Crap I knocked him out. while he's unconscious I'll answer the reviews.

Cappa: He's been told NUMEROUS times that he should go to a shrink, but he didn't saying "I don't want to pay 50 euros an hour to start nagging at some poor guy while I can do it for free with my friends."

Mandalore Requiem: Why the hell should I sue a Star wars fan who way more knowledgeable in tis universe then me? By the way, does that site also teach you how to talk like a Wookie?

And I do hope that what Haru did to that guy was satisfying enough.

Haru: dude you're awake already?

My head is stronger than it looks like.

Haru: and also a lot emptier.

LeafeonLover: I'm intending to keep Superstes as a wolf right now since Haruka has rediscovered his forgotten roots. And what'll happen to the doctors… that's for next chapter.

AnimeL0ver00: Well, it ain't gonna be pretty, but perhaps they'll work it out in the end… He's gonna star in the next chapter or the one after it, so it'll reach an conclusion pretty soon.

That's all! I hoped you enjoyed reading it and until next time!