Emerging Twilight
Story By: Final Knightmare
Disclaimer: Don't own Parasite Eve or any other anime or games may I put into this story except for the plot idea, Siege Brea and any other OC's I use.
"…" Talking
'…' Thoughts (words italicized)
*…* Sounds
Chapter 5: Homecoming
Water's Edge – South Of Konoha
Siege moved to the young girl's side. Trying to get her some help before she hurt herself anymore than she already was.
"Christie, is the woman ok?" Siege asked helping the young girl move over. Christie bent down and cleared the last of the debris off the woman.
"She's pretty bruised up and unconscious, but I can't be sure if she'll make it." Christie told him.
"Who… are you two?" Kurenai got out still hurting and shell shocked. Siege turned still holding her.
"Where not your enemies, were here to help." Kurenai looked up into his eyes, and then deciding to trust him nodded and allowed herself to relax a little more. Pretty soon some villagers had come over to where they were and helped move the woman and the young girl into one of the buildings still intact after the attack. Work had started trying to get things in control enough for everyone to try to sleep tonight and up first thing in the morning to begin repairs. Christie had taken a walk around town asking questions about where they were while Siege retrieved his gunblade from the twilight creatures rapidly disintegrating body as well as the black sword that the creature was using and searched the village with his mitochondria abilities. After a while Siege and Christie met back at a dock near the water.
"I've asked around, apparently this village is called Waters Edge located in Fire Country…" Christie said looking out to the water with Siege.
"I see… I think were not even in our own world any more to be honest. Whatever that thing did back there in New York it opened some type of portal to this completely different world than our own." Siege told her.
"Another new world? What makes you so sure it's a new world?" She asked him. Siege reached into a back pocket and took out several sharp metal Shuriken and a Kunai knife.
"These, since when do try fighting monsters like those back there with metal throwing stars, not to mention that black haired woman was fighting that monster with fire and lighting, and I felt no Mitochondrial activity within her. Then there's the more unbelievable part…" he said. Christie looked at him curiously.
"What part is that?" she asked.
"Those metal headbands they were wearing on their heads, they look like just like the ones I saw in a manga back home." he told her.
"In a manga? What makes you think that we're inside some sort of Japanese comic book?" She said disbelievingly. Siege looked up to the sky.
"Well didn't Einstein or some other smart guy say that there might be multiple alternate dimensions where things are similar but still different, I mean what if that creature opened a sort of gate here?"
"If that's true then how do we get home?" She asked concerned. Siege held out his hand and concentrated. Christie looked on wondering what he was doing.
"What are you…?" Suddenly a small ripple formed in the air right in front of Siege's out stretched had. But soon Siege but his hand down and it disappeared. He took a deep breath and turned to Christie.
"I think I can reopen the passage way home… It's just that I'm a little tired right now." He said.
"How? How can you do that?" she asked in disbelief.
"I'm not too sure myself, it's almost like when I first got my mitochondria power. When I first activated it I really didn't know anything about it or how to use it, but when I needed to do something it just sort of happened, kind of like the time I drove a car without ever having been taught, I just sort of know." He said.
"That power… you used it when we just arrived here too didn't you?" She said.
"Yes… ever since then I could feel it inside me, almost as if it had always been there to begin with and I just never really paid attention to it, I'm telling you it's a pretty weird feeling." Christie nodded.
"So you think you can get us home then?" she said.
"Yah… well at least it's worth a shot, either way its best I try tomorrow morning when I'm rested." Christie turned hearing foot steeps behind her. There on the wooden planks of the dock was the young girl they had rescued earlier. Christie caught a glimpse of the girls eye's and noticed that she was looking towards Siege.
"Well then I'll see tomorrow morning then." She said walking away past the young girl.
"Alright." Siege said getting up and walking over to the girl.
"You're still hurt, you should try to rest." He told her.
"It's fine." Said the girl in a small voice obviously still shocked at what had happened a while back.
"My names Siege Brea, what's yours?" Siege asked her, moving hid had up. The girl took it shaking it gently.
"Kurenai Yuhi." She said. Siege looked into the girls deep red eye's and then looked around for a bit. Spotting an abandoned shack right on the beach front, Siege moved closer to her.
"We'll we can talk over there, come on let me help you move." He said moving to her side. Kurenai was a little hesitant but nonetheless put her arm around his neck, but was surprised when Siege moved a hand down to her legs and picked her up bridle style and carried her over to the small building. Setting her down gently Siege moved to her side and sat down.
"Who are you?" She asked looking out to sea. "I mean you took down that thing when even Mikoto sensei couldn't." She asked.
"Oh that… well whatever that thing was it was immune to a lot of things, heck even I barley barely damaged it until the end there and as for who I am… well you could say that my partner and I were just sort of caught up in all of this and we couldn't just stand by without doing something." Kurenai sat still with a quiet and still sort of out of it look in her eyes.
"What were those things? She asked him.
"I'm not sure, my partner and I were investigating recent disturbances in the area when we encountered one of those things. We fought it and ended up outside the village when we realized there were more of them here we came as quickly as possible." Siege told her, not wanting to tell her they weren't even from this world. Kurenai looked down quietly and Siege knew what was wrong with her. Just a little while ago they had found the bodies of two young kids about his age who had been killed by that big "twilight" guy. Siege put a comforting arm around the young girl.
"Look… I'm sorry about what happened to your friends, but take my word for it that I'll find out what these things are and who sent them and I'll make them pay, that's a promise. He told her looking into her eyes. Finally Kurenai seemed to let go and began crying. She moved into his arms and sobbed at all the pain of losing her friends that she had been holding back all this time. Siege held her as she wept.
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New York City
Aya had little concern for her son's first assignment as a MIST agent. Firstly there was a high probability that the disappearances were caused by some serial killer and was not connected to ANMC activity. Secondly the only lead they had to this being connected to ANMC activity was an eyewitness who was a drug user who had said he had seen a big monster kidnap one of the victims. Truthfully she fully suspected that her son and new partner would arrive, ask a few questions rule out anything connected ANMC's and be on the next plane home. Then on the first morning since Siege had arrived she had turned on the morning news and saw a picture of her son and his partner fighting a large creature in a New York street… quickly contacting MIST she learned that they had only just received the news as well and were busy trying to contact the two of them. So far they had no luck. So she and Melissa were on the first flight to New York where other MIST agents who were closer had already arrived and started the investigation.
Aya drove down the New York streets avoiding traffic were she could. Melissa had tried reassuring her that their son was ok and she didn't need to worry. Aya tried to believe her but was still very worried about her son.
Melissa looked to her lover; Aya had been rattled all day since she first saw the news broadcast and like a typical mother worried about the safety of her son. Melissa on the other had saw things differently. She looked at that photo on the news and instead of seeing the danger she saw the condition of situation he was in. Christie was completely fine, it was obvious that the woman had activated her Mitochondria powers and was pummeling the creature with full auto fire. Siege was fine as well and looked about to deliver the lethal blow to the creature. And the creature was already covered in bullet holes and bleeding badly, as far as Melissa was concerned her son had won that fight and for some reason or other could not contact MIST and was ok wherever he was.
"Aya calm down Siege is fine." Melissa told her. Aya concentrated on the road and getting to the scene of last night's fight.
"I can't just do nothing Melissa I have to try and find him." She told her. Melissa nodded and continued to look around the city. She turned to Aya.
"This place brings back a lot of memories." She said.
"I know I'm trying to forget." Aya told her.
"Forget? Why? This is where we first met." Melissa said.
"You were trying to destroy the human race back then remember." Aya told her. Melisa brought up a finger to her chin as she looked up.
"Oh… that right." She started giggling. Aya shook her head and continued driving down the street.
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Water's Edge – Next Morning
Last night Siege had continued to comfort Kurenai as she mourned for her fallen friends. The two of them had stayed up late talking, as Siege had tried to keep Kurenai's mind off of what had happened. Across the street from the hut were Kurenai and Siege had fallen asleep in Mikoto Uchiha opened her eyes and awoke in a small bed she had been placed in the night before.
"So you made it. Your injuries were pretty severe, we weren't sure you would be ok." Christie said stepping away from a dark corner of the room.
'What's going on?' Mikoto thought as she slowly sat up in the bed.
"Last night's attack, do you remember?" Christie asked hoping the woman hadn't hit her head that hard when she crashed through that house.
'Last night…? The attack! Her team!' Mikoto's eye's shot up suddenly wide awake. "My team, are they…" She trailed off remembering some of what happened last night. Christie walked up to her.
"The two boys didn't make it." Christie said. "The girl was injured but nothing serious, she should be with my partner Siege right now." Christie told her. Mikoto closed her eyes remembering last night when she had seen her students killed. Mikoto stood trying to get up.
"Where is she?" Mikoto said. Christie moved to help her walk.
"Come on I'll take you to her." She said helping the woman walk to where only surviving student was.
The walk to the beach area had been short, every where they walked people were once again moving stuff here and there and the sounds of construction could already be heard as the village pieced it's self back together after the horrible blow it had received the night before. Christie and Mikoto stepped through the opening of the hut were the kids were and walked in on quite the sight. There on the floor of the small building were Siege and Kurenai. Siege had moved over to some stacks of grain that were on the floor and was leaning back against them. In his arms and under a thin blanket was Kurenai Yuhi lying down on top of him snuggled into his chest. Christie smirked already planning to let this little piece of information slip once they got home. Mikoto on the other hand was not easily amused.
"Wake up kids its morning." Christie announced smirking. Siege awoke quickly, his sudden movements waking up Kurenai as well. Kurenai awoke and instantly realized she where she was. She moved back quickly redness across her face from embarrassment.
"Well you two look comfy." Christie said. Siege and Kurenai stood up. "Well why don't I wait outside." Christie said and left the room. Kurenai moved over to Mikoto.
"Mikoto Sensei are you alright?" Kurenai said helping her teacher sit down. Siege moved to follow Christie out of the building. Outside Siege found her waiting by the beach. Siege walked over to her and sat on a rock on the beach.
"You can get us home now right." Christie asked.
"Yes I feel better now, it should be no problem to recreate that thing and go home now." Siege said.
"Alright then, it's best we leave once the ninja do, I've known a few in the past and their the sort that always get in the way of things, you haven't told them about us right?" she asked him.
"No, I just sort of made up a story about having run across another monster in the woods and followed the rest to this village; I haven't told her anything very specific."
"That's good then, best they don't ask too many questions." Christie said.
"What do have against ninjas it's not like their many of them back home?" Siege asked.
"It was during the DOA tournaments; a couple of the fighters were from these Japanese backwater villages that still trained in the ninja arts, they made things inconvenient for my missions." She told him. Siege looked puzzled.
"You know, you never told me what you did back then." Siege said. Christie blew out a breath.
"It's nothing that impressive, I was a hired assassin paid to do a job, after the fourth tournament I discovered my powers and not long after that I was stupidly captured by the Americans. When they found out about my power they offered a job instead of a cell, I'd worked primarily in Europe and not the U.S. so it was a bit easier to hire me without too many questions being asked. I was given a new identity and my past crimes were sort of pushed under the rug, it's not like I left much evidence to tie me to any of the crimes anyway so I became an American citizen and now kill monsters instead of humans." Christie explained. Siege raised an eyebrow finally knowing the whole story.
"Wow, I just blew up a building and killed a bunch of dudes to get my job." He said. Christie started laughing remembering how the kid had achieved his own powers. From behind them and down the street they heard some noise and turned around. Christie moved to walk towards them.
"What's that?" Siege asked.
"Early this morning some of the village men went out to look for the remains of the bandit camp. I had told them about it last night when some of them questioned them. Apparently the Ninja's had been hired by this town to wipe them out, they were going to do it early this morning but then all this stuff happened and it was cancelled." Christie said moving away. "I'm going to go check if they found them." She called back. Siege watched her go then noticed that the small hut door had opened and Kurenai and her teacher had come out.
"Kurenai told me it's you I have to thank for rescuing me young man, my name is Mikoto Uchiha." She said holding out her hand to him. Siege walked over still on the beach.
"Yah I'm Siege Brea." He said then looked a little more serious. "I'm sorry about your friends; I couldn't get here in time to save them."
"No you are not to blame. I was their teacher the responsibility was mine and I failed them." Mikoto said closing her eye's trying to block the memory of her dead students out of her memory. Kurenai looked away also saddened by the loss of her teammates. Siege looked away uncomfortable.
"Any way that monster that attacked us last night, how where you able to defeat it? I threw everything I had at it and it never even felt it." Mikoto asked him.
"Oh that well I used my uh… special ability." He said lying. "It just seemed more effective than even physical blows." He told her.
"Special ability? Do you mean to say you have a bloodline trait?" She asked wondering what he had that the Sharingan did not.
"Um… bloodline?" Siege asked wondering just what exactly she was asking about.
"A bloodline, as in special abilities passed down from generation to generation." Mikoto explained. Siege thought about it 'Bloodline? Well I guess that my mitochondria abilities were passed down from my mothers so I guess it's true.'
"Well yah I guess my parents had them too, but I only just activated my own a few weeks ago." Siege said.
'Amazing.' Mikoto thought. 'Only a young boy and already he could best an opponent that a fully developed Sharingan could not.'
"You have a bloodline? What can you do?" Kurenai asked having not discovered this last night when they spoke.
"Ummm... well when I got my power's it made me a whole lot faster, stronger, and I kind of hit a growth spurt right after wards that made me look a little older than I am." Siege said. Mikoto looked amazed.
"Older? You look almost fifteen." She said. Siege scratched the back of his head smiling.
"Yah I know I actually turned thirteen a few weeks ago." He said smiling then remembered something. "Oh! And if you think that's weird my mom's like forty years old but still looks like she's in her early twenty's!" He told them.
"Really?!" Kurenai asked amazed. Mikoto on the other had was thinking about what he had just said. If it was true then this boy's blood line could radically change the power balance in favor of the leaf village if his family joined Konoha. Just imagine a whole clan of powerful Shinobi who entered active service in the ninja ranks early and were able to stay in it well into their late life.
"What else can you do?" Mikoto asked questioning if the boy's tale was true. Siege stepped back and brought a hand up.
"Well this is one thing I can do." He said bringing forth a ball of fire in his hands.
"Wow." Said Kurenai amazed at the skill the boy had with fire Jutsu. Mikoto on the other hand knew that what the boy was doing was not with chakra.
"How are you doing that, that's not chakra?" Mikoto said. Kurenai looked to her sensei surprised.
"Chakra? No this is Mitochondria, the organisms within my entire body are producing this power, and not just fire, by using it in different ways I can produce powerful blasts of air at targets crashing them into other things, I can also create powerful electric currents to paralyze my enemies and strengthen my weapons. I still have a lot of things I haven't had time to practice with too, I still haven't completely worked out how to heal others yet." Siege told them still bouncing around the ball of fire.
"That's amazing!" Kurenai said. Mikoto was once again amazed at the skill of this boy. Suddenly inspiration struck Siege. He bent down and grabbed a large handful of sand from the beach and poured it into the ball of fire in his hand. Using his power to manipulate the air molecules Siege moved his other hand to the fire ball and began to increase the temperature.
"What are you doing?" asked Mikoto as Kurenai looked on in wonder. Siege built up the heat and then began to move his hands seemingly manipulating something inside the fire ball. Siege concentrated a little more then closed his eyes wondering what the exact shape he could make it to be. Suddenly a little bit of the power he had felt last night appeared and an idea struck him. Concentrating a little more he finished up and the fire balled died away. In his hands were two pairs of angel wings created out of the sand that had been super heated to glass. Siege looked at them and smiled.
"Here you go." He said handing both Kurenai and Mikoto a small glass pendant. "You can find a chain or something and use them as a necklace." He said smiling. "I've never tried anything like that, its kind weird that they came out this good." He said. Kurenai and Mikoto took them and held them. They were still warm and beautifully made. They were almost at a loss for words.
"Thank you." Mikoto said holding the small crystal in her hand.
"Thank you Siege." Said Kurenai. Christie came back to the beach where they were.
"Well it looks like they found the remains of the camp in the woods." She said. Mikoto let a breath.
"Well then looks like we failed our mission… in more ways than one." Mikoto said. Siege grimaced as he remembered what had happened.
"Any chance we can convince you to pay us a visit in Konoha sometime?" Mikoto asked.
"Sorry but we really have to head out for home, we sort of got led here and no one really knows where we are right now." Siege said. Mikoto nodded.
"Well if you're ever around here again make sure you visit something, I sure the village leaders will welcome you with open arms, Good bye." She said. Then turned to Kurenai.
"Come on Kurenai we better get moving, we have to get back to the village and report in what's happened here." She said with a heavy heart.
"Yes Sensei." The young girl said and moved to follow her teacher who was making her way into town. Then she stopped and moved back in front of Siege. Quickly moving her head up, she kissed him on the lips and moved back.
"Good bye Siege." She said blushing then moved to catch up with her teacher. Siege stayed there a while with a stunned look on his face.
"My my you certainly left in impression on her." Christie said by his side.
"…yah looks like." He said grinning.
"Come on we have to get home too you know." Christie said as they moved in the opposite direction away from the village. When they reached the woods and a good distance away Siege brought up both hands and concentrated… then a light appeared like it was cutting the very space in front of them. The light appeared like a line and widened until a passage way of light appeared floating in the air much more different that what that 'twilight' creature used to get here. Siege moved his hands down, the gateway still open.
"Looks like it's done." He said. Christie nodded and stepped forward next to Siege.
"Well no better time to try it than now I suppose." Siege said and jumped on through. Christie took a breath and jumped in after him. Once threw the light faded away like it had never even been there.
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New York City - Alleyway Were Siege and Christie were last scene.
They had found their car and checked the trunk, as expected several weapons were missing but the rest were still there. MIST agents had arrived and tapped off the area while they investigated. Aya and Melissa walked with a MIST agent who had arrived on the scene and conducted the initial investigation.
"The fight started up there." Said the woman pointing to a large hole on the wall of a nearby abandoned building. "They must have gone in to search for the creature they believed was there and found it. There are signs of a battle up there in the room, but it looks like they quickly turned the tables on the creature and it attempted to flee. They followed after it and ended up here in this dead end." She said bringing them to where the trail ended. "After that we don't know what happened to them, only that they did corner the thing here." She said. Aya looked thoughtful wondering just where Siege could have gone. Suddenly they heard a strange noise in the air followed by a white light. Quickly turning around they only just managed to catch a glimpse of two shapes as they came crashing down on top of a trash bin in the alley. Siege stood up holding his head from where he had hit it on the trash bin.
"This thing looks familiar." Siege said as he laid eye's on the trash bin. Standing up he turned and spotted all the MIST agents and his mother looking at him with wide eyes.
"Oh! Hello mom!" Siege said grinning from ear to ear. Christie stood up rubbing her back from where she had landed.
"Damn kid you got to work on your landings." She said. Aya and the other MIST agents only stood there in shock at what they had just seen. Melissa only smiled and turned to Aya.
"See I told you he was ok." She said smiling.
To be continued…
Chapter 5 is done!
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