First off, I really didn't believe this series would gain the amount of attention and popularity it did, and I would really like to thank all those who read, and for those of you who reviewed, thank you for your no less than stunning reviews, (helped me out a lot)
This series isn't just about the Liger Zero, (some of you have probably guessed it by now) but significant, shall we call them highlights, in the life of a Zoid, given by their point of view.
As a challenge, (to test your skills, and mine) try to guess who the Zoid is in this chapter, (and for those of you who are lazy, its named at the end, lol)
And as always, I OWN NOTHING!
I cannot tell my story without going a long way back.
-Hermann Hesse, the prologue to Demian
It is dark here, confinements in a prison, locked away because of what I am. Madness, a burning passion: a lust for blood so deep rooted within my being it defines my very existence…
Maybe I should start from the beginning.
Many names I have been called- many forms have been chosen. I started as one, a piece- fragment, chipped from the very embodiment of evil, grown, like a spawn in deaths own image…
Can you blame me?
Can you really blame me for being what I am?
My first form was weak in comparison. Blinded not by feats of grandeur, or the glory of victory, but by the very simple act of fighting. Like one once said "fight just for the sake of fighting." I believe her now, like I didn't then. Maybe if my pilot had heeded that sense, he wouldn't have been destroyed.
My second form was stronger, the very scourge of its time. A crimson wave- a bloody tide washed across the battle field. There was joy in their suffering, an embracement of the act no stranger than the connection of the mind. Maybe my pilot was as mad as I…
I remember the countless bodies we left behind, both Zoid and human- and for that I feel no remorse, no pity or sadness.
Maybe I was lucky, my first pilot- he was evil, or at least a form of such evality. Surging only for the pure thrill of battle, it didn't matter to him how he won- and he would do anything to achieve it. I guess, from the beginning, it didn't matter to me either. In a way we both thirsted for that.
We don't get to choose the people in our lives, I guess sometimes its for the best. He changed near the end, no longer for the sake of fighting- he was just and fare, there was something to fight for, a reason behind the madness. And for once I was given a purpose, no more was I modeled an embracement of madness, I had a duty, a reason to exist…
This prison bars more than my body, more than that, and now I fear the purpose once gained within the heat of battle has been lost over however many centuries I cannot count. They locked me away because the feared what I am, what I am capable of, but does that fear bear testament to the punishments born over me? Does fear, over not just actions, but concepts, convey justification for a lifetime of imprisonment?
Must I alone bear this burden of blame, when my actions were not on their own?
A thousand lifetimes, I have carried this burning anger. And a thousand lifetimes more shall I wait. This vengeance I have assumed comes at a cost- I care no more for what I have been, nor do I care anymore for the thoughts of my first pilot…
He abandoned me- a betrayal of my very existence, in his death, and yet it was his greatest friend who sacrificed his life to ensure my survival. I am alive, in every sense of the word. This extra being that exists within me, this being that changed me- twice now, is apart of me, is me. My new body, though incomplete, is strong, stronger than anything I have ever known…
My prison is no longer secure, I can hear them, but what do they want? And why would they want it?
Light and shadow, good and evil, I am no more than my purpose, and my purpose is destruction. I have changed, many times and in many ways, a viewpoint that rolls around before it finally returns to its beginning. Shadowed after Deaths image…
I am the Berserk Fury- I am become death, the destroyer of worlds…
Quotes-
"He doesn't want to Fight just for the sake of fighting now…" Fiona G-File ep 1, (totally taken out of context, Fiona was speaking about Van, not Raven.)
"We don't get to choose the people in our lives…" I can't for the life of me remember where I herd that before, you'll have to excuse my ignorance.
"You are just, and fare." Reece, Tomorrow, ep 67 Return to another tomorrow.
"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."
-J. Robert Oppenheimer, quoting the Bhagavad Gita.
AN.
When creating the back story for the Geno/Fury, I pulled facts from both the well know anime, and the lesser known manga series of Zoids Chaotic Century. Most know in the anime that after Ravens Geno Saurer was destroyed, both Raven and Shadow disappear for a time before returning with another, albeit differently colored, Geno Saurer, which Shadow soon after evolves into the Geno Breaker. While in the manga, after the Geno Saurer is destroyed by the newly evolved Caesar (What Van calls his Shield/Blade Liger) Raven and Shadow do disappear for a while, but they don't return with another Geno Saurer, but rather the Berserk Fury Shadow Edge. (and if you've seen the picture, it does kind of look like Shadow.)
The only noted Geno Breaker in the CC manga was piloted by Hanna of the Prozen Knights, but even with the neurological enhancements she had, the Breaker was unfortunately ripped to shreds by Ravens Shadow Edge. Following on that note, the Berserk Fury from the NCZ series sports a black box, (though it was never noted in the manga) ie an organoid head, hence the artificial intelligence allowing the Zoid to record, remember and predict an enemies actions. This, along with the fact that the Liger Zero sports a similar anomaly, gives me room to speculate whether of not Shadow, anime or manga version, evolved the Geno Saurer into its final stage the Berserk Fury.
Most my info. comes from the Wikipedia pages titled Zoids Wiki, (under each Zoids respective name)
Tell me what you all think, = )