Salvation Chapter 2: Past, Present, No Future ll, a misc. anime/manga fanfic

I've never been one for an introduction but if I had to start somewhere I would start with the future it's somewhat of a better memory for me then my past. Too many things have happened to me back then that it's hard to remember it all… but that's why I'm here. To let go of my past and start a new life out here where I can forgot my problems and let life take me to where it wants me...

"Aika! Where have you been you were suppose to be here almost 30 minutes ago do you know how worried we were?" 14 year old Aika strolled through the front door not fazed at all at the way her parents were treating her... This was normal they treated her like any parent should but once the drugs kicked in they weren't given the privilege to be called her parents.

Aika walked up the stairs to her room ignoring her parents completely, as she neared the top she caught sight of her brother waiting at his door leaning against the door frame.

"How many shots?" Aika spoke not a change in tempo in her voice.

"13..." Sora spoke looking at Aika an unspoken apology shared between the two of them as Aika walked into her room slamming the door behind her.

Aika moved in a silent manner to her bed and sat placing her bag underneath, hiding it from view. She would need it for later especially if things were to go as planned tonight. She sprawled out on her bed waiting for the inevitable to happen. When her parents walked through that door she would go back to the one place where they couldn't reach her, the depths of her mind where she lived with a happy family and loved her parents, where she was late from her friends and her mother would wrap her in her embrace sobbing and scolding her for being late and meaning it... But you had to face reality one way or another and that wasn't hers to face. She opened her eyes to see the door opening.

Sora lay on his bed. He tried to block out all the sounds around him especially the sounds of Aika moaning in her room. Every night was like this and he couldn't do anything about it. He didn't have the strength to stand up to his parents neither did he have the guts to run away with her. Aika stood up to it though and that he was jealous of especially since he couldn't. She would defy them in any way possible, she would slam her door or have parties when they left and not bother to hide the fact. She always paid for it though in either abuse or rape... it all depended on how much liquor was in there system that night.

Sora rolled onto his stomach grabbing the pillow under him and placing it over his ears trying to block out the moans and screams from the other room...

Aika opened her eyes, the room was dark and the only source of light was the thin strip streaming out from under her door... she turned her head to stare at it only to moan in pain as she rested her cheek on the pillow. She lifted herself up to look at the damage... she pushed herself into a sitting position then pushed herself to her feet and gingerly walked towards the mirror next to the door. Once there she stopped.

Her face was black and blue. A black eye was forming on her right eye and a bite mark was visible just under her left ear. She looked closer to see blood dripping from a cut on her forehead. She tried to blink it away but it didn't help; it only helped make it worse by spreading the blood throughout her eye. She lowered her head letting her bangs cover her eyes. She didn't want to know how much worse it was. She pushed away from the mirror and started towards the door, she cupped her ear listening for any signs of movement. Hearing none she walked back to her bed and grabbed the bag she had stored under it and slung it over her shoulder wincing a bit. She placed a letter on her pillow addressed to her parents then left her room to find her brother leaning next to her door. She stared at him for a quick second before walking down the stairs her brother right behind her.

"What do you want?" Aika questioned turning on him.

"I'm coming with you..." Sora replied no signs of giving up evident in his words.

"Fine but you need to know I'm never coming back... Never." Aika turned around and stepped through the doors not waiting for an answer.

"I know Aika, that's why I want to leave." Sora whispered as he followed Aika out the door, into the cold frigged air waiting for them.

They were finally free...

It's down to this
I've got to make this life make sense
Can anyone do what I've done
I missed life
I missed the colours of the world
Can anyone go where I am

'Cause now again I've found myself
So far down, away from the sun
That shines into the darkest place
I'm so far down, away from the sun again
Away from the sun again

I'm over this
I'm tired of living in the dark
Can anyone see me down here
The feeling's gone
There's nothing left to lift me up
Back into the world I've known

'Cause now again I've found myself
So far down, away from the sun
That shines into the darkest place
I'm so far down, away from the sun
That shines the life away from me
To find my way back into the arms
That care about the ones like me
I'm so far down, away from the sun again

It's down to this
I've got to make this life make sense
And now I can't do what I've done

And now again I've found myself
So far down, away from the sun
That shines the life away from me

Aika

...

Aika looked to the land before her soldiers lay everywhere. Some dead and some alive, but that wasn't what she cared about. She stepped over every angled body to the large object in her way. This object held more purpose then one would think with its large staff and pointed tip. But this was a Scythe and a Scythe was Aika's weapon of choice. She picked it up by the staff seemingly not fazed by the weight but much rather enjoyed it. She lifted it into the air and twisted it around and around letting the rising sun glint off its smooth surface. A silent stir of dirt behind her notified her of the movement from her brother.

"Sora. You have what you want?" Aika tilted her head back to look to her brother the question following out of her lips. Sora stood there the sun catching the small glint of blonde in his hair. He lifted the two Katanas in his hands then threw them up a quick ways and soon caught them in his grasp once more.

He looked to Aika and smiled "I've got the perfect weapon right here!" He pushed them into the holsters on his sides and walked up to Aika. They then both started off into the woods once more.

Aika swung her Scythe in a large arc motion towards the oncoming enemy. As it made impact with a man's skull she threw him to the ground by swinging her weapon towards her right. As he fell from the blade her Scythe collided with another enemy. But her glory was soon to be quenched when a cloth was draped over her mouth. A faint scent hit her nose and she understood 'sleeping gas!' As she slowly floated to the ground in a flurry of weapons she caught the distant sight of Sora being pulled away. His eyes closed.

Aika opened her eyes to rest upon a white door not knowing what was on the other side she shrunk further into the depths of the room. A small bell rung and her door opened. She sat there staring at it with hatred incapable for a normal person. A small man walked through the door. He leaned down in front of her and studied her. She lashed out at him with her useless nails only to make contact with a small electrical barrier. She quickly pulled her hand back and clenched it at her side.

"What do you want with me?" Aika couldn't hold it in anymore she needed answers.

"What I need you for is none of your business. That is for me to know and for you to find out. Now get up we have work to do." The man finally spoke but his words didn't hold the meaning Aika was hoping for.

"No. I'm not going anywhere not until I know what you need me for!" Aika replied with a spit at his face but the liquid only managed to reach the barrier then hit the ground with a soft splat. Her eyes never left the man's not once for she was afraid that if her eyes moved a bit she'd miss something important something that might get her out of here.

"Yes. You will come with me, you have no choice." The man spoke, not a change visible change in his voice. He roughly grabbed her wrist and pulled her to her feet. Aika staggered for her footing. It had felt like so long since she had stood like this. He pulled her forward and Aika struggled behind screaming and biting the whole way there. Once the man stopped Aika stopped herself she looked around her to see white. White floors, white ceilings, and white beds. She was then moving again and found herself strapped to a bed. Shackles were placed around her arms and legs only to be lifted from the bed in her fight to get out. Soon a leather band was placed over her abdomen stopping her struggle. As Aika fought back against the bands a needle was placed in her arm. Stopping her movement instantly she looked to her arm where the nurse had injected a strange liquid into her veins.

Then the pain began. It was so unbearable that not only was she unable to speak she was unable to move. All she could do was lay in place. A numbness running through her blood and into her muscles. She whimpered and closed her eyes.

Sora looked at his surroundings as he was dragged from his cell into a small white room, inside he saw beds and a tray full of used needles and needles that waited for their chance to be used. His eyes scanned the beds and all words caught in his throat as the sight of Aika fully hit him. He screamed and kicked fighting his way to Aika's side. He sunk to his knees and pulled the wires from her body, only to feel no pulse. The nurses and doctors pulled him from her body and a small beat of a heart caught his attention.

Sora opened his eyes for the second time that day to find the room flickering from red to white and back again. His sense finally adjusted and he could hear the faint sound of an alarm blaring in the distance. He turned his head left and right and finally rested on Aika. She seemed to be struggling with wires and bands. Finally they were off and she was at his side, pulling leather and metal off his body. As she slowed down he noticed he could move his arms and legs again. Lifting his arm he rested his hand on her cheek. She sobbed quietly and placed her hand on top of his only to pull it away and lift him to his feet pulling him out the door and into the halls.

Aika looked down the narrow hall only to rest on an open door. As she pulled Sora forward a distant sobbing caught her attention she looked behind her to see a couple on the ground. One hugging the other in a tight embrace as the other pulled them to their feet. She quickly turned away and raced to the door pulling Sora with her in the process. As they neared the door a small thought occurred to her that they would be free again. She ran harder and flew through the door only to hear the distant sound of an explosion getting closer to her she looked back to see the flames reaching towards them, only for them to fly through the air in a sudden pressure of air. As Aika rolled over to her stomach the same pain from before over took her and the only words she could get out were.

"We were too late." And her world went black.

Aika opened her eyes to feel a heavy weight on her back. She rolled onto her back only to cry out in pain as two lumps pushed themselves into her body. She bolted up into a sitting position and turned around to find nothing on the ground but in the movement her body made she had caught a glimpse of black fly with her body. She attentively raised her hand to her shoulder feeling nothing she let in slowly move down her back only to rest on a shaft about 5 inches in diameter and reaching out of her back in an unknown length. But the weird part about it was the texture it felt like a bird. Feathers slipped through her fingers as she pulled the object towards her. As the object came into sight she gasped. They were wings, attached to her back. She left it go and it flew back to its original position on her back. Looking around her she caught sight of a piece of metal lying on the ground. She crawled to it and stood up in front of it. She could barely make out her reflection but it was enough to see the wings sprouting out of her back. She looked so surreal. So monstrous that she cringed back in fright. Unintentionally she wrapped her wings around her body.

It's been 4 years since that day... the day that their lives changed. The radiation had changed them creating them into these things. When the Radiation hit the earth no one lived. The world ceased to exist and they were all that was left but that's what they thought.

Aika looked up from her spot on the ground to land softy in a flurry of feathers atop a small cliff, before her stood a small town. It seemed deserted but to her nothing was deserted she scanned the area both mentally and physically. Then a sudden presence in her mind stopped her and she grinned.

I did not write this, I wrote the first chapter :) I'm just the editor. I don't know what song she used, I'll ask and post it at the start of the 3rd chapter. Comment :) Tell me who has the better chapter (MINE NOT HERS! Jk) or if it's a tie that's cool that's cool.

P.S Please don't send in ideas about what should happen, my friend and I already have it all written down, but not all of it. So when it comes time I'll tell you when to send ideas but until then please please please don't!

Lots of 3 TenMari