Galerians: Reanimation

Author

Hihana

Disclaimer

If anyone of those characters would belong to me, I wouldn't leave my room anymore.

Summary (I'm terrible at those)

Rion's alive again. After being told that all the Galerians will come back to life, he urges Pat to bring him to Lilia. He gets a shock as Pat leads him to the Micheangelo city cemetery.

Author's notes

This is the first chapter of the story and it's a bit shorter then the prologue but I promise that the next one will be longer.

As for the others if you don't want spoilers to either of the two games, play them before and now all the sequences in the second game.

Reviewers

To Willow: Thank you for the review, I'll try to heed your advice about my nasty habit for long sentences with no end. To Rion's character, I always try to keep the characters as there are in the game, since I like to develop them as they come along. Rion is an interesting case since in the first game he never wanted to admit that he wasn't human, though in the second game he pretty much accepted it. Odd.

I hope you'll continue to read the story.

Warnings

Character death in this chapter.

Couples

Implied Rion/Lilia (I like the couple, it's kind of childhood love, really adorable!)

I think that was it for now. Read, enjoy... oh and leave a review please...

Bye

Hihana

(Annoying notes from the author)

"Speaking"

quotes, thoughts

telepathic contact

Scanned scenes/flashback

Chapter 1 Horrifying Realization

Last time

"We are there Rion."

The blond Galerian started, there were standing in front of a gate. He froze when he realized that they were standing in front of the entrance of Michelangelo city's cemetery.

He shook his head, no. Turning to Pat he realized that the young hacker was already on the cemetery grounds. He followed him. They followed a small path, first they passed the military graves, Pat stopped in front of one of the headstones. Rion looked at the stone, it was the one of Cas. It was a kind gesture, he knew the grave was empty, there had been nothing left of her, after she blew up the armory to save her friends and soldiers. Her death had been a useless sacrifice, thanks to Romero all humans in the shelter died with the exception of Pat and maybe Lilia.

Cas Parker

born March 29, 2500

died July 26, 2528

beloved friend, wife, soldier,

we will miss you

Wife? He never knew that Cas had been married, she had died very young. He had talked with her but it was always related to the situation, never private. Rion looked around there were a lot of graves just like the one of Cas, he even saw one for Gavie, the young inexperienced soldier Romero had sent to his death in the system- development center. The other names he didn't recognize but then again he had only talked to a minimum of people. Cas, Pat and Lilia had been the only ones who had been nice to him, Romero was downright rude and hateful. The others had been afraid but watched him like he would stab them in the back the second they turned away from him.

After Cain had told him that he was a Galerian with human memories he had denied it, he had continued to think of himself as human but after his resurrection, he had accepted the fact that he was not human and would never be one, but he was sure he was more human than many people, Romero was the perfect example. Romero was human but had betrayed humanity to save his own hide, he on the other hand had much more reasons to hate humans but he had fought for them two times, won and paid with his life, again two times. Life wasn't fair.

…Rion…

His head wiped around, ignoring Pat he began to follow the path deeper into the cemetery. He ignored everything around him and only followed the voice of Lilia. The path ended abrupt and he stopped. In front of him was a headstone, he knew whose grave it was but he didn't want to believe it. The headstone was different from the one Cas had gotten. It was made from white marble and much taller. Carefully he traced the engraved lilies. It was a beautiful piece of craftsman's ship. There were a few flowers on the ground, someone had visited the grave recently as the plants had yet to wilt.

Dr. Lilia Pascalle

born June 02, 2508

died April 06, 2528

beloved friend, mother, hero,

we will mourn your loss

He didn't want to believe it and he knew there was only one way to confirm it for himself. His laid his hand on the ground next to the bouquet. Activating his scanning ability he saw past the earth, the casket and the dead body. The Melatropin cursing through his veins his eyes focused on something years ago….

He saw Lilia sitting in an office, working on a terminal. Her fingers, pale and thin, were flying over the keyboard. He saw as her head, nearly bald, fell forward and she rested for seconds on the device before resuming her work with more determination than before.

She paused to cough, in horror he watched as she pulled her hand away to see the blood splattered over it. The brown eyes seemed so sad. Reaching for the intercom she paused and instead resumed her work. She didn't stop. Then he could see that she had managed to do what she had wanted to do, her brown eyes glowed with happiness before a violent cough broke the moment and this time her hand didn't shield her mouth. Droplets of blood flew and splattered onto the monitor, her whole body shook with the coughs.

Shaking she grabbed a disk. Pausing again she took deep breaths, swaying she nearly fell onto the ground, the disk was inserted and the hardware booted. Lilia used the keyboard again. Her breathing was becoming uneven, blood was running down her chin, he knew she would be dead soon. The hardware stopped, the disk was put into a case. She labeled the case before reaching for the intercom.

"Pat? I found him." He could hear her happiness, he knew that voice so well, the same tone she had used as she had welcomed him in the fallout shelter after his resurrection, the tone she had used as they met for the first time.

But she never heard Pat's answer. The moment the words had left her mouth, her eyes closed and she fell backwards, a smile was playing on her lips before her eyes fluttered open and she looked straight to the corner where he was standing as if she knew he would watch this. Her smile widened making her more beautiful then ever.

"I'm sorry Rion, there is so much I wanted to tell you in person… but now I won't be there anymore…. for…. forgive me Rion…. I never…. as.. asked…I love.. you. "

Then eyes closed and her last breath lifted the chest once more before her body stilled completely, her head rested on her right shoulder. She didn't hear Pat's screaming through the intercom neither did she hear as the case slid from her fingers and fell to the ground with a thud. Lilia had died, two years and four months after her exposure to the radioactivity.

Rion felt his insides freeze, retracting himself he became aware of his surroundings again. Pat was now behind him. His hands were folded and he had his eyes closed, apparently he was praying. Rion snorted, humankind still believed in god? Well his god and creator was dead, good riddance to that piece of crap. Dorothy had destroyed more than one life and created nine miserable ones, his own included. He remembered what Spider had said, the first time they met in the back up data of the family program.

… I never asked to be born… and I never wanted to come here Rion… if only …if only you hadn't destroyed mother I never would have known this world….

She was to fault that Lilia was now here in the graveyard, that she was lying under the cold earth. But if it was Dorothy's fault what about their parents? It had been their parents who had implanted the virus and the launching program in their children's brains. Were they responsible too? They had created Dorothy, but she had been supposed to serve mankind not try to eliminate and replace them with her own children? No there couldn't have known, could they? So many questions and now more than ten years after he woke up as Rion Steiner he could think about them.

He didn't want to think about them, he never wanted to be brought back to life, he had been happy with the arrangement after his fight with Ash, being lost in the space of data.

"Pat? Why did you do it? Why did you bring me back?"

"Rion.."

"Why? I was happy? I never wanted to return in this world! I meant what I said in the AirBeagle." He wanted to yell, scream and rave but his voice was normal. He couldn't bring himself to be angry with Pat.

"I never wanted to live…in a world without Lilia…!" he added in a quieter voice. He should have expected that the young woman was dead, she had nearly died in the waste uranium chamber but he had hoped, he never wanted to live in a world without Lilia. His hands clawed at the ground beneath him, his frame was shuddering but no tears escaped him. He didn't really expect it but he had wanted to so that he could at least mourn her properly. He saw that Pat was leaving. Giving him the privacy he desperately needed. "Why? To fight a war for a race… who despises my very existence?"

Pat stopped and spoke in an equally quiet voice.

TBC…

Chapter Analysis

Chapter 1:

The first installment is finished and we got a bit of explanation of what happened with Lilia, but there's more to come. Don't think it's this easy. (rubs gleefully her hands) I wanted to introduce a bit of Rion's, but also Pat's thoughts and motives. Rion has now found out, that Lilia is dead and has to deal with the emotions he felt, but never spoke about. Through both games there is always a certain tenderness between Lilia and Rion. Near the end of the second game, Lilia tells Rion that she loves him, and I don't think she thinks of him as a brother.

Pat on the other hand has to deal with his and Rion's emotions, since he is responsible for bringing him back. In this chapter Rion despises Pat for it. I also introduced a part of the plot. Anyone who read the story thoroughly has certainly found it. That's it for now. As last time, feel free to disagree. This are my thoughts, if you don't share them okay, no prob.