Sorry about not updating in so long, but between a family crisis and me keeping up with Graduate school
Sorry about not updating in so long, but between a family media crisis and me keeping up with Graduate school, I have been taking things an hour at a time so work on my stories have come to next to a standstill.
With the semester over I might be able to get back up to speed with my writing.
So for those you have asked for me to update, well here is the story.
Part 11: Grave decisions
Toji looked out on the ocean as he stood by the grave marker. It looked like someone had made camp here over a period of several days. But he knew roughly who it was. Shinji and Asuka. Given the metal cross that was nailed into the wooden plank stated the obvious. Misato Katsuragi was dead. Considering how the grave maker was done, it screamed that it was Shinji who did the marker. Kodama looked around as she moved about the rocks to see what had been left in the area as a sign of possible where Shinji and Asuka had gone to. All they had found so far was one of Asuka's plugsuit sleeves.
"Toji..." Rachel called out as she started to wave something in the air.
"What is it?" Toji called out as he started to run along the shoreline of concrete and LCL saturated ocean sand.
"I think it is a group of maps?" Rachel called out in her broken Japanese.
"Maps..." Toji called out as Kodama started to run over to where Rachel was standing.
"Does this say where Shinji and Asuka went?" Kodama called out as she stopped over what looked like to be a rudimentary kitchen.
"Well I haven't looked at all of them yet, but given that there are like two of each of these and there is only one of this one..." Rachel spoke out as she held out one of the maps. Toji knowing enough geography to realize what Shinji and Asuka were planning on going. They were heading someplace that had plenty of food and supplies to keep them alive and await rescue. Looking at the map and then looking at a stone arrow made on the ground he realized that they were heading up the coast to... Toji's face went white as a sheet when he saw roughly where Asuka and Shinji decided to head. They were heading back to a spot, near Nerv HQ was. They were heading to the farmland to have supplies for food and close enough to be rescued.
"We need to follow this map.' Toji said taking command. "If Asuka and Shinji are there then we can find help." With that the two girls with him nodded in agreement.
Rei was swimming nude through the open darkness around her. The fluid around her felt like the warmth of LCL. Then she heard heart beats,
Rei...
Rei looked around her in fear as she started to swim faster.
Rei...
The voice called out again as a lone figure moved into a momentary area of light.
Rei...
Rei stopped as she treaded water. The water swished behind her as she was forced to spin around to see who or what was following her.
Rei felt a hand move over her lower back. Rei feeling that bolted in a full out paddle away from the source of the form. She didn't care she just wanted to swim faster and get out of this place.
Rei...
The clone called out but this time it was in front of her. The subtle sense that she knew that she was going to be attacked. Then the space around her went light and dark as the figure came towards her. In the darkness the light glow of a face... it was her face. Rei Screamed as she pushed away from it as it reached out for her.
Rei swam like mad until she saw Kaworu s face. Rei kicked and pulled her way towards him as she felt something wrapping itself around her. Rei ripped and tore at it as she worked free of it as it covered her naked body. Rei kept moving until she felt Kaworu's arms around her as she was screaming and in a flat out cry as she felt wet tears across her face.
"Rei... it is going to be okay my Precious Lillium. I won't let anything hurt you." Kaworu said as Rei broke down and clung to him for dear life.
"Kaworu..." Rei was slobbering with bloodshot eyes as she buried her nose in her naked chest. "Is there only one me?" Rei shock in fear afraid to look away from him and his ruby eyes.
"Rei... You only have one soul..." Rei shot her eyes up scared.
"But this body is yours... The rest of the angels have your duplicates. When you die... there will be no others for you to go into." Kaworu said as he pulled Rei closer.
"Kaworu... am I..." Rei felt the ripped cloth in her hand. "In our room. Holding my shredded underwear. Yes..." Rei looked down at her own body.
"You must have had some nightmare to want to be free of anything holding you must have been something terrifying. Was it about your cloned bodies?" Rei nodded as she looked down and felt the air brush against her naked buttocks. "Since we are both naked? Do you wish me to make you a mother or at lease give you the feeling of what it is like to conceive a child?" Rei looked a bit concerned.
"Conceive... Motherhood?" Rei looked at her body. "Am I ready?" Rei questioned herself as she became curious as the young sixteen year old looked up and down her nude frame.
"Rei... We do not have to rush... "Kaworu said as he reached out with one hand and touched her cheek. "When you feel ready... then we will do it." Rei didn't know what was happening but she leaned forward and placed her lips on Kaworu's mouth and lightly put the tip of her tongue on his lips and slowly pulled back. It took a moment for her to realize that she had just kissed Kaworu on the lips.
"Did I just kiss you?" Rei said perplexed as she wondered why she had performed the actions she had just done.
"Yes... Rei... You just expressed your feelings as a Lillium." Rei was concerned that she was becoming something she had never fully been... Human.
Toji was walking through what was left of a sea coast town. Between finding some clothes and some underwear, he finally felt human again. Between Rachel and Kodama finally wearing clothes the girls looked more attractive, but he kept seeing Hikari's face as she used to run to school. He kept seeing her freckled face and how she looked great as she let her skirt spin around as she swung around the light post by the school yard. Toji wanted to find her, kiss her, hug her... Hell he wanted to marry that girl. If there were survivors then the odds were that Hiktari was alive some where and he wouldn't rest until her.
"Toji..." Rachel called out as she poked her head out of the shopping center. "Toji..." Rachel called out again before throwing a show at him. "TOJI... "Rachel stormed out wearing a grayish white pair of loose thermal pants that had a blue stripe down the leg and a dark blue hooded sweat shirt with the upper half of a cartoon skull on the front. "Hey even in the Apocalypse a girl needs to know that she is attractive." Rachel stormed out of the changing room. Toji looked at her.
"Sorry, I was thinking about a girl I was..." Toji changed the thought to something hopeful, "...I am in love with." Rachel walked over slowly realizing that he had something heavy on his mind.
"Oh..." Rachel let her gaze go away from Toji's face. "
So..." Rachel worked to put the words into place about what she wanted to say. Kodama was acting the same way.
"Rachel... I was trained to stop this event from happening now... for all I know Kodama's sisters could be dead... and right now I want to reach that farm so that I can find out if the girl I am in love with is still alive." Rachel took a step back from Toji's reaction. "Sorry." Toji looked down at the ground after his outburst.
"Don't be..." Toji put his thoughts together. "We all have been through a lot and I just want to see if there are any leads if there are any survivors to my school and friends." That was when Kodoma showed up, Toji looked at the older girl and realized that he wanted to find Hikari and hug her, kiss her, Hell... Marry that girl and have a slew of kids with her and grow old with her. The last memory he had of Hikari in any detail was when he was in the hospital recovering from the Angel Hacking of Unit Three and the subsequent loss of his arm and leg. That was when he reached over to the now regrown limbs. Some higher power had granted him a second chance he would not loose it. He would do his best to make every day from this point forward count for something. He would help make this world a better place for everyone. Right now his priority was to find other survivors. Behind Toji a red Octagon of AT Field energy formed behind him as he marched forward towards his destiny as an image of the girl he loved took shape in the filed for just a second before the image faded away out of his visual range as it followed him.
Hikari was sitting in the girl's bathroom. Having to nearly remove the Plug suit so that she could take a tinkle, given the feeling that her body was sweating like mad, Hikari reached to every place that was on every inch of exposed flesh and scratched. Given that this was like day two or three after she had been in this thing, she needed to find a shower strip down naked and just let warm water flow over her body. The she felt a cramp forming in her stomach.
"Shit..." Hikari said as she hesitantly spread her legs to look down into the water and urine filled basin of the toilet. Blood... Hikari gritted her teeth as she reached out and grabbed a handful of toilet paper and wiped way the dribbled urine from between her legs more blood. Standing up and pulling enough of the plugsuit up so that she could at least walk outside of the stall, she found the tampon dispensary in the rest room and walked over to it. Seeing a purse that had been left behind during the events of Third Impact. She rummaged through it until she found a change purse and found some coins to place into the dispensary and just turned the knob a few times till a tampon came out. Seeing the Plastic wrapped rod of hygienic paper and cotton was like seeing a level of civility in this hellhole come to life.
Dropping the plugsuit and not caring if anyone saw her naked ass, Hikari ripped into the German written tampon and inserted it into her body. After several moments of adjustment and gritting her teeth she got the tampon in. As she pulled up the plugsuit she turned to see a faint image in the mirror.
"Toji!!" Hikari called out as she turned around to see a faint image of Toji. He was standing in some large structure. Toji had both arms and legs from what she could see. Then a hand fell on her shoulder before she could make out any more of the place Toji was at.
"Hikari ??"
"I'm here..." Hikari called out as she ran towards the young man she loved. Then the sleeve of the plugsuit that she was dragging got flung in front of her foot as she ran and mid stride she went flying forward through the ghost and slammed right into the floor.
"Hikari !!" Amanda ran over and pulled up the entangled girl. Hikari blinked as she looked around her environment. "You okay?"
"Toji..." Hikari pulled herself up looking around, forwards, back, sides, spinning around, scared and panting. Amanda moved slowly over to her worried.
"Hikari ..." Amanda said slowly as Hikari realized where she was and collapsed to the floor.
"I'm okay..." Hikari said as she realized that she was back in the restroom she had been using minutes earlier.
"No you are not..." Amanda said kneeling down to the girl. "... What the fuck is wrong with you... you looked like you were in a trance or something when I came in."
"I don't know, I think I saw my boyfriend Toji." Hikari realized that she might be going mad. "I just worried that I have lost him forever." Unknown to her Toji had the feeling that someone was crying and missing him dearly and he could not do a thing to comfort her and say everything would be okay.
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