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Chapter 7: New face
"You're having a wedding tomorrow at Tresor?!" Renton sounded surprised.
"Yeah, we wanted to wait for you two to return before we made it official" Dominic said with Anemone.
"Well, I'll say congratulations" Renton said scratching his head. The Gekko-Go headed for Tresor for Dominic and Anemone's special day. Renton and Eureka were taken completely by surprise by this, Renton thought about the document showing the kids' adoption into the Thurston family, but they didn't really made it official. They stayed at Tresor for about a day before the wedding. It was true that Dominic and Anemone had this planned from a long time ago, but they just wanted to wait for Renton and Eureka to return. When the day arrived Renton and Eureka headed for the location; it was near the KLF testing area. Unlike its normal, desert-like appearance, it was decorated very well: there were benches lined up neatly, a stand for the priest, and lots and lots of flowers (No Anemone flowers though, they represent a dying hope : P). Renton and Eureka got front row seats for their wedding; seeing how Eureka doesn't know a thing about weddings and Renton having never been to one. (I don't know much about weddings myself so I'm just goanna skip few things here okay? Please don't chew me up and spit me out. (Begs for mercy)). After the wedding, they had a party where Anemone went crazy on the cake (again) and Dominic watched her so she didn't get sick again. Renton and Eureka sat there and watched as Anemone destroyed the cake bit by bit. They got their share of cake just in time before Anemone got to it; they ate quietly while they watched Dominic get splattered in cake bits. Not much happened with the exception of lack of cake but other then that it was a good wedding/party. After spending about a day at Tresor again they returned to the Gekko-Go.
"Holland, come check this out" Hap said pointing at the screen.
"What is it?" Holland asked walking to Hap.
"It's Raymond, he moved again, but he was clumsy and got spotted" Hap said.
"So we have a location?" Holland asked quickly.
"Yeah" Hap replied.
"Where is it?" Holland asked with a sense of excitement.
"He's in… the mountains of Karas city" Hap said examining the data.
"Good, set course for the Karas Mountains" Holland exclaimed. It's been other two months since Renton and Eureka rejoined the Gekko-Go, and for that time nothing really happened. Stoner had published his new issue of RayOut and revealed to the world that the hero couple of the world had returned. He revealed to the world that Renton and Eureka, being human and coralian, had lived together in peace for more then one year now. Even though this information might lead to an attack on the Gekko-Go, they needed to show the world the way as fast as possible. The four parts of the military had eventually given themselves official names; each following their own beliefs. The first was the Tresor group now called the UF military, one of the other groups was called the PM military, the third was known as the WA Military and the last was known as the AFX military. For the year and eight months since the second summer of love, no one knew what to do. Due to the sudden disappearance of many lives on the planet, Stoner and the Gekko-Go crew made it their duty to spread the truth about Dewey and his plot of destroying the Scab Coral and taking earth with him. Some believed this, others didn't, and some didn't want to know this truth. For now, the whole world was recovering from the second summer of love; some that was printed in the new history text books. This phenomenon was given the name "The era: the Second summer of Love". People choose this title because this marked the new stone in the history of mankind. No one, not even those who truly belief Dewey could deny that Renton and Eureka saved the world from reaching the limit of question or other wise known as the limit of life. This story was published in many different magazines, books, newspaper and even RayOut. For everyone remaining on the planet, this was a recovery time, a time of peace where the truth is easily slipped out.
"You found him?" Renton asked Holland in excitement.
"Yeah… but we best hurry, we're not sure how long he plans to stay there" he said.
"If we start now we'll reach his location in 3 hours tops" Hap said scanning through his data.
"Tell everyone, we might have to surround his house" Holland said as he walked to the captain's chair of the Gekko-Go.
"Well, I'll go tell Eureka now" Renton said as he ran to the door and to the halls. Eureka was in the cafeteria with the kids and Axel was in the hanger lecturing everyone about their LFOs and their maintenance. Renton had just arrived and the kids all saw him coming.
"Hi Papa" they said together.
"Hi Maurice, Maeter, Linck" he said looking down then to Eureka.
"They found him, Eureka" he said.
"Where is he?" Eureka asked.
"We'll reach his location in about three hours until then Holland told everyone to get ready" Renton said recalling everything that Holland had told him. Eureka nodded and the kids didn't understand what was happening, Maurice had a faint idea but all it was, was an idea. The three hours of waiting for the Gekko-Go to arrive at the location was a long one. The Gekko-Go was the circle around while Holland, Hilda, Mathieu, Dr. Bear, Eureka, Renton, Dominic and Anemone went to see the scientist. They took the 909, 606, 808, Exiellenia, and the Devilfish typeChaos. They landed the LFOs near a small opening in the mountain but found that it was large enough for the LFOs in car mode to enter. Doing so they entered the opening and found that there was a small net work of tunnels; this was an abandoned mine. They soon reached a large cave in the structure and not far from the side was a man repairing a broken KLF. When he heard the sound of the LFO engines he turned around, he didn't look every happy to see us.
"What are you doing here" he said walking up to the 909.
"We need your help…" Holland said coming out of the 909.
"Isn't that always the case with you people?" the man said bitterly. The man wore a white lab coat but it was stained with oil, dirt and other fluids that one could not identify. He had dark gray hair and it looked like it wasn't combed or washed for months. His face was dark in color and sweat covered it making it look shiny.
"Raymond, please we need your help with this LFO…the Exiellenia" Dominic said pointing at the Exiellenia.
"What do I get in return?" he said looking like he took a little interest.
"What do you want?" Holland asked.
"Let me take a small look at that LFO" Raymond replied looking at the Exiellenia. Holland agreed; Raymond looked like he respected LFOs very much, he washed his hands and freed it from the layers and layers of oil and transmission fluids. He banged it slightly with his finger and listened to the sound then he looked at most of the Exiellenia and then the cockpit. He got up and he looked satisfied with what he saw.
"Give me three days" he said looking excited. Eureka and Renton looked around the cave and saw that it was filled with KLFs and LFOs of all kinds. As they looked around even more they saw that Raymond had posters of the Nirvash; looking around they realized that he had collected many different types of LFOs. From 202s to 909s and Mon-Soonos he had almost every type of LFO except Nirvashes.
"Three days? For what?" Holland asked.
"I'll tell you what it wants in three days, letting me see it is good enough pay for me" Raymond replied still looking excited.
"But if you have any extra food, I'd gladly take it off your hands" he added as everyone heard his stomach growl. He began looking carefully at the Exiellenia and examined the armor carefully.
"Mister Raymond?" Eureka yelled.
"Yes?" Raymond replied back.
"How did you get all these LFOs?" she asked looking around.
"It's my collection; I take broken LFOs and try my best to repair them. I don't like to see works of art left around like trash" he said sounding proud.
"You're Eureka, right?" he asked crossing his arms.
"Yeah…" Eureka replied sounding confused at the question.
"Okay…" Raymond said as he changed his mind about something. He returned to looking at the Exiellenia. They all left Raymond here to examine the Exiellenia while they left for the Gekko-Go. When they arrived at on the Gekko-Go, Mischa and Dr. Bear wanted tot ell them about their medical conditions.
"Eureka… I've done some studying into your wings and that jewel in your head" Mischa started. Eureka and Renton were sitting next to each other on the infirmary bed.
"First off, you can move your wings right?" Mischa asked.
"Yeah… But I can't make them fly or anything" Eureka slowly reached for Renton's hand.
"I've examined them and I've found that you could use them to fly, but I'm not sure how effectively you can use them" Mischa said studying her chart.
"As for that jewel in your head…" she stopped.
"I think it's a transmitter of some sort" Dr. Bear said.
"There's enough data to say it's one but we don't know if it's one" he said. Renton knew that he could hide his some how but seeing them eye Eureka like an experiment he wasn't all too happy.
"There's one more thing I have to tell you" Dr. Bear added seriously.
"Renton, Eureka… right now your bodies have grown to how a 25 year old would be" Dr. Bear said as he adjusted his glasses.
"What? How?" they asked together.
"Let me explain, when we discovered Eureka, she didn't have growth hormones but now when we analyzed her DNA and genetic make up we discovered she gained a small amount of growth hormones" twiddling his fingers.
"As for Renton, your growth hormones went faster and have stopped now, you won't age from this point on" he said he adjusted his glasses again.
"But how did…?" Renton started.
"I think it's because of the Scab Coral" Dr. Bear said.
"There's not enough data" he suddenly said.
"Well, it's okay. We don't care how, but if you do find out could you tell us" Renton said. They left the infirmary after that but Holland was a bit nervous about leaving the Exiellenia with Raymond Yamato. He was pacing around Charles' crib in his room; he just didn't feel safe leaving the Exiellenia with a hermit-like scientist. It's only been five hours since they left the Exiellenia with Raymond but Holland was already sweating like it was late September. Talho just entered the room.
"You know you shouldn't be that uptight" Talho looking disappointed.
"I just don't feel safe leaving the Exiellenia with that obsessed person" he said still looking worried.
"Well, if you leave it with him then you have to trust him" Talho looked a bit annoyed.
"I better check the map and position of the CFF" he said trying to put his troubles away. Dominic and Anemone were in the kitchen cooking cakes (Oh my god, Anemone's goanna be a fatty! Joking!) So this left Renton and Eureka a little time alone.
"Hey Renton, I left something on the bed can you help me get it?" Eureka asked from the door.
"Sure" Renton replied. He placed his hands on the bed and searched for anything that was hard or different from what was normally there. He was still searching when he felt Eureka lean on his back; he turned around and looked at Eureka; who was staring at him with wide eyes.
"Uh…I'll go see what Maurice and the others are up to" Renton said nervously. Eureka rested her head on his back and wrapped her hands around him but Renton place his arm around Eureka and place her on the bed and bolted out of the room.
"Aw… So close too" Eureka said in disappointment. Renton ran as fast as he could to the hanger where Axel was teaching Maurice a bit about mechanics.
"Hi Grandpa" Renton said catching his breath.
"You're going to be working very, very, very hard Renton" Axel said evilly. Everyone waited for the three days to be up and finally Holland and the others finally returned for the result of Raymond's research on the Exiellenia. They entered the cave to find Raymond on his laptop typing slowly; he looked like he didn't sleep, ate, or moved from that spot. When Holland walked up to him he looked up slowly.
"So the three days is up" Holland said looking annoyed.
"Yeah, I know and I finished looking into what you want" Raymond replied.
"So?" Holland said.
"I was just organizing the data so I can present it to you" he said tiredly. He click on his computer a few times and turned the screen so everyone could see.
"Okay, for the very basic statement: The Exiellenia wants to join the Nirvash" he said.
"You mean where it is?" Holland asked looking confused.
"No, I mean it wants to be a part of it" Raymond said yawning.
"Okay, I'll tell you all why it won't move for anyone but Renton and Eureka" he said pointing the screen. There was a bunch of lines that went up and down all lined up.
"Okay, the Exiellenia is just like the Nirvash, it won't move for just anyone it has to move with a human and a coralian, or an artificial one. Which ever one you like" he said with his eyes half closed.
"But why did it move before?" Anemone asked.
"When a couple, namely Eureka and Renton piloted it, it wanted to only move for them and no one else" he said as he began to wake up a bit more.
"Now, I'll explain everything that I've found: The Exiellenia is in fact an archetype that can move and think on its own, unlike the Nirvash it can't do this at will. Only at certain locations and conditions can it do so" Raymond was falling asleep in his own explanation.
"Also, it told me something about seven cross over points. However, the archetype only revealed that much to me, I can't figure anything past that" he said.
"There's not enough data to show what's beyond that" he added.
"So, what are the seven cross-over points?" Holland seemed interested in that and only that.
"I'm not sure, but I know that it's important to the Exiellenia" Raymond said.
"Okay, thanks, we'll be leaving now" he said.
"Take care" Raymond said as Eureka and Renton jumped in the Exiellenia. There was a large light that came from tunnel that they came from. It was a missile.
To be continued…
Danger follows the young man and young woman, what awaits them at the seven points? Next time: Painful separation.