Disclaimer: I do not own Klonoa, but Kuroi or Ame and OCs are mine. You can't steal them unless you ask. X3
Chapter 15: Tokei, the Long Sadistic War
Anna shifted in her bed as she slowly came to. Weakly, she opened her eyes only to shut them tight as she shifted painfully in a contorted face. She winced as she painfully turned to her side only to flinch when her face met Maria's, who was still sleeping heavily beside her. Still dazed, Anna looked at her blankly before yawning quietly. She slowly moved her bandaged hand up to her sister's face and lightly brushed her bandaged hand against it. aria stirred as she felt something rough against her cheek and weakly opened her eyes to see a pair of her own sapphire eyes looking at her expressionlessly.
"Maria..." Anna croaked in a raspy soft voice. Maria gasped as she quickly grasped her sister's hand.
"Anna, are you feeling okay?" She asked worriedly. With a weak, soft smile, the black-haired girl smiled before her eyes began to grow blanker. Within seconds she fell back to sleep her hand falling limp on the bed. Maria sighed in relief as she embraced Anna. While doing so, their grandfather walked in with a tray filled with food.
"She woke up I presume," he smirked laying the tray on a table next to Maria. Maria nodded with a soft smile.
"Good, you'll be staying here from now on."
"What?"
"The transportation grew so every person who has the chance is going now. I was going to send you now, but I don't think I can take care of your sister alone." He grinned toothily at her.
"Besides, Anna really wanted you to stay. That's why we got into that big fight." He said before leaving the room. Maria looked down to Anna with narrowed eyes before another smile made way to her lips. She lifted her sister and embraced her tightly again.
"We'll go through this together, Mother's Precious Rain."
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"There that should do it," Anna spoke sternly as she lifted up a piece of chalk in her powdered hand.
"Good, make sure that the liquid and minerals are accurately at the right spots." Their grandfather told her as he and Maria kept a look out. They were all on the roof.
"Is it really that dangerous to make a tiny stone?" Maria asked looking up to the tall old man.
"It is," Anna replied as she carefully placed a diamond on the edge of the circle she had made out of chalk.
"Why?"
"The Philosopher's stone, a stone that is capable of turning metal into gold, an elixir of life to bring rejuvenation or better yet the achievement of immortality. With this stone, we can even go over the paths of the gods if we wanted to." The old man spoke.
"Yep, that was what mother and father were targeting before they disappeared." Anna added with a nod.
"What do you mean?" Maria asked looking back to her sister.
"Old man said that because of our bad conditions with that sickness I forgot what it was... Mother and Father decided to seek the stone themselves. Then I think when we were two months, was it? They both disappeared off the face of the earth. So visibly they are still alive, but not on this world." Anna explained as she patted her dusty hands together.
"So what are we going to do with the stone when we create it?" Maria asked curiously.
"First, we get your parents back. Second, we'll put a barrier around the village. Then we can destroy all those damn weapons from the military." The old man growled with a toothy grin.
"Yeah, I want to see those damn wimps cry like babies when I blow up their tanks." Anna growled in the same manner. Maria chuckled sheepishly at her little sister as she jumped off the ledge of the roof they were standing on and examined the circle.
"So... how do I do this again?" she asked uncertainly.
"Circulation," Anna replied simply "Like this circle, you must circulate you're alchemic energy into the circle while concentrating on what you want. Be sure you stay on task at all times, if one little mistake then that's it for all of us."
"Is it bad, if I mess up?" Maria asked innocently.
"Yes, very bad things. One of us might lose our limbs, organs, maybe even our bodies ourselves. That is what we might have to sacrifice for the stone aside from the dead bodies in our village right now. With this much to sacrifice we have a good hand down to getting the stone." Their grandfather spoke patting a hand on Anna's bandaged head.
"Ready," he asked Anna. She nodded sternly. It had been a week since she had woken up in bed and she was better than ever aside from the still healing wounds on her head, leg, arms and abdomen. She looked better and she was able to move freely without feeling anymore pain. Now she and the others were on the roof of their shop, it was the day of the Air Raid. The perfect time to make a Philosopher's stone.
The three put their hands on the edge of the circle concentrating. They all kneeled side by side as they palms touched the white circle as it began to glow a bright golden light. They grinned as the transmutation began according to plan. Light began to swirl out of the circle as a red dot of light began to float within the middle. That was the developing Philosopher's stone. Anna frowned when the golden light soon turned into a dark black and violet, red lightning bolts swirled along. She straightened herself looking around worriedly. Something was wrong. Suddenly, she flinched when she heard two cries next to her. Quickly she turned to see Maria embracing their grandfather who was yelling in pain as he was dissolving into the vortex of dark light.
"Old man, Maria!" Anna yelled as she began to reach for Maria's hand. At that moment...Maria's and Anna's grandfather disappeared without a final word of good-bye. Now it was Maria's turn to disappear.
"Maria, Maria, NO!" Anna yelled as she tried to reach for her sister.
"Anna, Mother's Rain, stay with me!" She yelled as she was pulled into the vortex trying to reach for her sister.
"No, don't go! You need to see them, we need to see them!" Anna cried loudly as tears began to form in her eyes.
"Anna~!" Maria said before she finally disappeared into the dark light completely out of Anna's reach now.
"Maria, Father's Sun, No! Come Back!" Anna yelled in despair as she was too pulled in with small hands constricting her body. The last thing she saw was the endless balls of fire falling from the sky as large planes began to fill the skies.
"NO~!"
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Anna watched with narrow eyes as she was forced to look into the golden tunnel before her, images of everything known to man entering her head. Life, death, knowledge, war, and harmony, all of them, were mingling together in Anna's mind. She couldn't understand what was going on, but as more images rapidly made way into her head she knew. She knew that this was what alchemy was. Then the images of her family made way into her head and she gasped finally blinking. When she opened her eyes she saw the one thing she wanted before her, her family. Immediately, she began reaching towards them desperately, not even caring about the hands holding her back. She began to trudge desperately to her goal.
"Mother, Father, Grandfather, Maria!" She yelled. She narrowed her eyes as she looked down to what was holding her back. An infestation of peoples' shadows around her back, she noticed that people were holding her back as she tried to struggle.
"Stop! Let go! Let go of me!" She yelled trying to struggle from their grip as they began to smile and laugh maniacally. In a flash, Anna was let go and appeared in front of a large black-stoned gate with statues of people on it. The gates were open revealing eyes and mouths smiling down on her. She looked at it wide-eyed as the gate slowly began to close. When it was closed she finally gasped as if realizing something. Quickly, she ran to the closed gate and began to bang on it.
"Wait, open up one more time, you need to bring them back, I was so close! The truth, the thing I seek was in there, everything we sought was in there!" She yelled banging harder. Suddenly, a loud noise could be heard making Anna frown.
"Equivalent exchange? What do you mean? Toll?" She asked confused. Anna looked down to her right leg to see that it was gradually disappearing as a bright light crawled up her leg. Her eyes narrowed as she watched in terror; finally she let out a terrified yell and everything turned dark again.
"AAGH~~~~!"
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Anna cried loudly as she grasped her fists as she lay on the circle with a bloody leg that was more than half gone. Tears began to flow out of her eyes as she looked up. She watched painfully as the mist around her slowly began to disappear. She was completely aware that everything was on fire and would soon collapse into rubble.
"T-The stone..." she grunted as she tried to get on her one knee. She gasped, eyes narrowed by what she saw, on the circle was a small pool of red liquid. It looked like sparkling blood, but no doubt it was the Philosopher's stone. No, a failed attempt of the Philosopher's stone. Anna looked away shamefully as she began to shake and hacked up blood violently.
"Damnit!" She cried slamming her blood covered fist "No... This isn't what we wished for... Maria... Old man... It's my fault... It's all mine..."
"All those years... all those years of studying... waiting... why Maria...? Why can't our dream be realized?!" Anna yelled in the sky.
"Because, you can't realize the truth, Maryann's precious Rain," A man's voice spoke before her. Anna gasped as she looked up to see a man with pale blond hair and pale blue eyes like her. She noted that he had a shot gun in his hand and a blank look in his eyes like her.
"Who are you?" She asked a strain in her voice.
"Isn't it obvious, I'm your father, Rozen." He spoke simply.
"No, you're not; you're just a bad imitation of Rozen." She growled darkly at him.
'Rozen' raised an eyebrow blankly "How can you tell?"
"Because, Rozen gives of a glow of safety and happiness even in his pictures but you, you give off this mist of bad energy that's already killing me as we speak." She grunted as blood began to spill from the corner of her mouth. 'Rozen' frowned as he pointed his gun at Anna. She growled as his finger pulled the safety trigger then placed his index finger curling over the trigger. Then in one shot, the bullet flew into Anna's left shoulder making her yelp in pain. Anna gritted her teeth as she began to shake again gripping her bleeding shoulder.
"B-bastard,"
"I don't see why Rozen has such interest in you aside from you being his last daughter... Oh well, hopefully they'll be happy to see you in hell," 'Rozen' frowned pointing the gun to Anna's forehead.
"F-Fuck you!" she panted struggling to speak.
"Say hi to Satan for me," he grinned toothily. Then he pressed down on the trigger...
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Anna opened her eyes slowly to see endless blue sky flowing with white clouds. She floated there limply as she stared off into nothing with her dull blue eyes. She looked down, dazed, as she could see more clouds below along with the deep blue sea. On her back were two angelic wings keeping her a float in the sky. A gust of soft wind blew against her at the same time an angel bigger and older then Anna appeared. She had pale pink hair and amber eyes, she was wearing a beautiful robe like Anna's but it was more decorated. She was smiling beautifully at her as she flew towards the small girl. When she finally reached her, she placed a hand on both of Anna's cheek. She smiled softly at Anna, while the other girl just stared at her lifelessly.
"Anna... you finally made it to the other side."
"..."
"What's wrong...?"
"Where's Maria?" She asked dully.
"She's in heaven." She smiled simply.
"Where am I?"
"In the bridge intertwining heaven and hell,"
"Then why am I here, aren't you supposed to throw me in hell?"
"I wanted to ask you, do you want to become an angel of the living to protect others, or do you want to live as a human again?" She asked still smiling.
"..."
"Do you not want to live?
"...I want to be an angel..." The angel widened her eyes in interest.
"Why?"
"I don't have a good enough reason," she replied simply.
"Still, why?"
"...I can't describe it..."
"Okay," the angel sighed in defeat. She pulled Anna towards her by holding her face, when they were so close that they could feel each other's breath. The angel's face went past Anna's at the same time three different girls appeared behind her in the same stature. They all looked similar to the original Anna. They all floated there limply behind her as the angel spoke to her.
"These are your supporter lives; they will watch over and take care of you as you grow. Now listen carefully. When you start to remember about your past you will suffer both physically and mentally. When an immortal angel dies, you will begin to die out. Once that angel dies you must runaway, as far as you can and wait. There you will stand ground on your own. No one will interfere with you. If they do, you have the right to take lives. You will be a Meister of the people and against the people.
"Suffering and pain will eat away at your soul, and there will be no turning back when you start the path. When you know the time is right, you will hit the end of the path and become Kaguya's death scythe or Konnichi's life spear. If you're good we'll spare the lives you hold dear in exchange for your mind and soul." She smiled in such a calm tone. Anna looked at her blankly as she plucked a feather from her own wings. She delicately held it and pressed it against the middle of Anna's chest. I glowed angelically as it dissolved into her chest. Anna put a hand to her chest as she savored the feeling. Slowly, Anna's receded into her back and she began to fall limply into the ocean. As she fell, she saw the angel smile down on her as the three girls disappeared.
"I, Kohaku, will watch over you as well..." She spoke before disappearing. Anna blinked for a few moments thinking about her new fate, Kaguya and Konnichi... Anna closed her eyes slowly and waited hoping to fall in the ocean with a huge splash. Then everything, once again, went black.
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A young woman with black hair and silver eyes looked down lovingly to a bundle of blankets in her arm as she rested in her bed. Inside the bundle a baby's giggle could be heard as a pair of tiny hands reached out towards the young woman. The new mother laughed happily as she let one of the hands grasp her finger.
"Such a beautiful baby girl, aren't you?" She giggled.
"Yup, just like her mother," A man spoke proudly as he entered the room.
"Hey, Konnichi, I thought you would be finishing her birth papers?" She asked in a tired voice.
"I was, but I don't know what to name her. She's a very special girl. It took us three whole days to wait for her to be born." He grinned sitting on the bed with her to see his new daughter.
"Yes, but it was worth it bringing such a frail child with such a strong wavelength within her into our world. It's almost difficult to name her now she's like a child of taijutsu."
"Well, Kaguya, hopefully this is our last child. We should give her a very special name." Konnichi smirked putting a hand to his new daughter's face. Kaguya looked out the window, it was raining that night. She looked at it dazed before a thought made her widen her eyes.
"Ame..."
"What?"
"How about Ame Mitsukai," Kaguya smiled at him. He raised an eyebrow at his wife. He looked out the window as well before sighing in defeat.
"Yeah, I like it, Ame Touki Mitsukai, the last born of the Mitsukai clan. The next heir of the kingdom of all the kingdoms, I like it, a perfect name for a perfect daughter." He grinned at his wife as he began to write it down. They both looked down to their daughter as she giggled happily waving her hands freely.
"Pretty energetic," Kaguya giggled rocking Ame back and forth.
"Why don't you sing her a lullaby she should be sleepy by now." Konnichi suggested. Kaguya nodded with a beautiful smile and smiled down to Ame who was looking at her curiously.
"Konoko na kawaisa kagirinaya
"Ten ni tatoeba hoshi no kazu
"Yama de wa ki no kazu kaya no kazu
"Obana karu kaya hagi kikyo
"Nanakusa chigusa no kazu yori mo
"Daiji na konoko ga nenne suru," Kaguya smiled to see her daughter fast asleep.
"She's even cuter when she sleeps," Kaguya giggled wrapping Ame tighter to keep her warm.
"I'm going to finish her papers then I'll come back and rest with you, how's that?"
"Okay," she nodded before looking down to her sleeping daughter's serene face. With a nod, Konnichi left quietly closing the door behind him.
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"The angel of and against the people, huh," Konnichi sighed leaning back in his chair.
"Why would Kohaku endow someone as special as her upon us, we don't even exceed the powers of the gods yet. And yet Ame is already holding more soul wavelengths than a normal Tsubasanian baby..."
Just then Kohaku appeared behind him in new robes and a soft look in her eyes.
"Well, she did enter and pass through the gate." She smiled at him. He didn't turn back as he looked up thoughtfully.
"My own daughter, a soul who suffered in the World War, seems pretty bad if you ask me. Luckily, Kaguya's coped with it for now, but wait till Ame meets her siblings all hell will break out. But truly, Kohaku, we would have been fine having Ame as a normal child without such a burden on her." He suggested turning to her in his chair.
"It was her decision after she had entered the gate. You know how those gods are, torturing people who use the gate for their own selfish reasons."
"But that was for Mirai, right? I mean Mirai and Ame used to be twins before all of this happened. Ame was just trying to bring Rozen and Maryann back." Konnichi frowned.
"Well, yes, but going past the boundary lines that we stand in is a felony and whoever tries to pass through those must be severely punish maybe even losing their arms and legs to pay for the price of being there." Kohaku sighed in defeat.
"Ugh," Konnichi growled gathering the scattered papers on his desk.
"I don't know what has gone with all of the clans, Kohaku. They all work together in harmony, but when it comes to land they surely despise one another, even economy, and we don't even have a currency. Sometimes I wish that we didn't have to be reincarnated into a place more disastrous than hell and more beautiful than heaven. Some place to live as we live as angels and devils don't you think?" He smirked at his friend.
"Well, over populating heaven and hell would be very difficult if we sent all of you there. So far the gods watching over their people all agreed that all who don't believe in them should just end up here." She giggled.
"I guess, a bit ironic don't you think, non-religious people become angels and devils here to learn to become gods." He chuckled then gave out a good-hearted laugh.
"Visibly, Konnichi, you and Kaguya are next in line for death and life gods." Kohaku reminded him in a matter-of-fact tone.
"Yeah, but I don't want to leave Ame. She's just been born, and I'm worried about her." He quickly frowned looking to the side thoughtfully. Suddenly, the door crashed open to reveal 'Rozen' again in tattered bloody clothes. Konnichi narrowed his eyes as the man trudge to him and grabbed him by the shirt.
"Where is she?!" He asked loudly.
"Where is who, and how the hell did you enter my N-field?" Konnichi asked in the same tone.
"The angel! The angel of and against the people! I know she's here." 'Rozen' growled holding up the gun in his hand.
"There's no one here, so you either leave or I kick your ass to kingdom come!" Konnichi growled putting a hand to the sword that was latched on his hip.
"I know she's here, not even someone as powerful as you can give off such a strong wavelength." Rozen growled again as his eyes turned scarlet red.
"I'm telling you, no one's here!" Konnichi yelled as he unsheathed his sword and lunged towards Rozen. In a flash the two clashed weapons with one another. They glared at one another as anger began to build up in them.
"What do you want to do with such a frail child anyway?" Konnichi asked loudly.
"That 'frail child' is a menace to everyone around her and I've come to end her to keep everyone safe!" Rozen replied loudly.
"Konnichi," Kaguya called from the door holding a whining baby in her arms, "I heard a loud sound and it woke up Ame, is something wrong?"
Kaguya froze when she saw the two clashing weapons. She froze when her eyes met with Rozen's and within two goods shots from his gun which he quickly held up. The two bullets hit Kaguya and Konnichi in an instant. Rozen grinned as their blood stained them and saw Kaguya fall over while still holding Ame. Ame was crying softly as Rozen walked over to the frail child and picked it up by the blanket tightly wrapped around her.
"Hmph, already fifty years and here you are again as a baby, might as well mess around with you for the next few years, you're not that much of a threat anyway," Rozen grumbled to her as he cradled her in his arms and taking her small right wrist. Suddenly, his palm began to glow around Ame's wrist and black tattoos began to spread across her small body. Slowly, Ame began to lose consciousness and immediately fell limp in Rozen's arms. He dropped her next to her mother then left the room as if nothing even happened. Luckily, Kaguya was still breathing weakly and she caressed her child for one last time while bringing out her music box. It clicked open by itself as it played slowly and softly.
"A-ame..." she spoke weakly "you must become... strong and fight for us... and your people... I will always watch over you... with your father... please bring us... to harmony in the... fu... ture..." She then fell limp with her child still in her arms, she wasn't breathing anymore and the blood spilling from her fatal wound spilled all over her child's sleeping face.
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Maria narrowed her eyes in shock, history... was repeating itself. She looked down to her dead sister surprised, Anna had gone through all of that and she didn't even have the guts to tell anyone. She gave her little sister a sympathetic look, until the light from the orb that fell out of Ana's body began to glow. She looked up quickly only to gasp like everyone else. Before her stood two people clad in white. The first was a girl the same size, stature, and face as Anna. The only difference was that she had white long hair. The other was the unmistakable Tokei, one of the true heroes from the war. This was the first time Maria had ever seen or met him, she remembered hearing from rumors that he was the one who saved Anna from falling into hell.
She watched them as they kneeled beside Anna's body. The girl with white hair put a hand to her pale cheek as a tear escaped from her eye and dripped down Anna's cheek. Maria frowned as she reached and placed a hand on top of the girl's.
"I'm sorry, I couldn't protect. She wouldn't let me." Maria frowned sadly at her.
"It's alright, it wasn't your fault... She just couldn't bring herself to tell you." The girl frowned.
"W-What do you mean?" Maria asked confused.
Tokei frowned sadly at her "After I had died, she began to die out herself. She was trying to hold out as long as she could until new children were born into your clan. This was her fate, Mirai, and we can't change that for her."
"B-but she deserves to live longer than all of us, she sacrificed everything, even her way of life." Lion protested. Tokei and the girl shook their heads.
"You'll see the truth now," They both said as memories began to play from the music box again.
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"But sir, I will not take part in the war as a weapon! It goes against laws!" Anna protested loudly slamming her fist on the table that kept a distance between her and Dokyoo. Dokyoo looked at her quickly.
"I enforced those laws for a reason, but rarity cadets are not enforced in it!" he shot back. Anna narrowed her eyes in anger with gritted teeth.
"When I enrolled in this militia, I wanted to fight for our home with my own powers. You said so yourself when I enrolled as a world class alchemist, why do you intend for me to take this?" she yelled banging on the table again. Immediately, Dokyoo slammed his fist on the table.
"I'm doing this for my home and for our families!" he replied loudly.
"What families?! I'm an orphan and you don't even have a wife or kids!" She asked angrily. Angrily he stood up instantly, knocking the chair he was sitting on fall to the floor. They both looked at each other angrily for a few moments.
"As an honorable and loyal cadet I will fight for my home, but if I must be given certain powers to defeat my enemies then I decline!" She growled at him.
"You will not!" He shot back making Anna narrow her eyes. He smirked pressing a button on the remote on his desk and a screen appeared behind him. Anna narrowed her eyes as she watched the screen as she did so Dokyoo spoke.
"When they enrolled in the military they swore to give up everything, and also their lives. It would be a shame if I were to shoot bullets at their orbs and let them die slowly." He smirked wolfishly. Anna looked down thoughtfully, then after a few moments she sighed in defeat nodding to her commanding officer.
"I will take part as a Rozen maiden and win this war hands down." She frowned sadly dropping her head.
"Good," he said in a tone of pleasure.
"As a Rozen maiden you will have a new family now, I would like to introduce you to your new father." He smiled as a tall blond man appeared behind him. Anna widened her eyes when the real Rozen entered the room.
"This is Rozen, your new father." The man introduced
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A man in his early thirties with dark green hair and river green eyes ran with a group of men in a war ground. He panted hard as he followed behind with a gun in his hand and many weapons strapped to his back. He and the group of men he was with stopped when they heard a loud howl and painful screams. The man gasped for breath looking around the barren wasteland. Suddenly, a crash appeared before them as their comrades fell to the floor bloodied and unconscious as a Kishin wolf appeared with something gnawed in its mouth. It began to shake its head violently still holding the thing in its mouth. The man gasped when he saw it was Anna and her right side was being torn off by the wolf, he then noticed that her left arm wasn't moving due to the big bite mark on her left shoulder. Too stunned to move, he flinched when Anna was slammed to the floor with the wolf still biting hard on her small body.
Anna grunted as she tried to get out of its grip, but its teeth or mouth wouldn't budge. She began coughed up blood as she was slammed again and more blood spilled out of the wolf's mouth. Suddenly, she was dropped and she crashed hard on the rocky floor as the man began to batter away at the wolf. Weakly, she got on her knees holding her bleeding shoulder watching the man fight. She raised an eyebrow as if wondering who this man was and why he was helping a rarity cadet like her. Finally, the wolf ran away with various wounds on his body making the man grin victoriously before turning back to the young girl. He widened his eyes to see that this girl was way younger than he thought. She looked like a ten-year-old. He was about to ask until he noticed that she was badly injured and knelt in front of her beginning to wrap her wounds with bandages from his portable first aid kit on his belt.
"What were you trying to accomplish fighting that wolf?" He asked worriedly as he tried to stop the blood flowing out.
"That wolf is a Kishin, it was trying to take the angels from our squadron headquarters there. He's been stalking me and my squad for a month now, so I decided to end it before he would take the cargo I had been protecting," She replied tiredly as she collapsed on her bum panting hard. The man looked up to the girl to see she was an elemental like him, but something was different about her. She had this look in her eyes that he had never seen in any other elemental he ever met. He noticed by now that the young cadet was nodding off as they sat there in silence.
"What's you name, cadet?" He asked looking at her ranking badge.
"Shippuu Okami, of the elemental clan, you?" She asked tiredly.
"Tokei, Tokei Jikan, a master bard from the elemental clan as well." He replied before she finally fell forward and immediately went limp. Tokei picked her up under her shoulders and rested her limp body on his back making sure she was secure. He then turned to his men ordering them to get her assigned squad while he took her to the infirmary.
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Tokei watched the sunset on the empty land of war ground he and his crew just cleared, he was waiting for someone. He flinched when he heard footsteps to his right side and turned towards it to see Shippuu covered in bandages with a sly grin on her face. She partially limped over to the tall young man and looked at the setting sun with a grin.
"So... you're Ame of the Mitsukai clan." He smirked at her to receive a good hearted laugh from her. He turned to her with a smirk as she laughed with a bright smile.
"Yeah," she sighed recovering "I was told I was when I turned seven. Makes sense as to why I was the only orphan in the whole kingdom of water."
"You do know that you are the one of and against our people, right?" He asked inquiringly.
"Yep," she frowned sadly "Kurayami, the head Shinigami told me that an angel who would be a true hero was going to die because of me."
"You betting it's me?" He asked.
"Yeah, since you saved back there two weeks ago. Be happy I finally killed off that damn wolf Kishin, I thought I'd never get out of his mouth, his drool smelled so bad it stuck to me for a whole week before I finally fell in the ocean's waves while infiltrating a flying craft from the enemy." She replied simply.
"When were you deployed here?" Tokei asked looking down to her.
"Three months ago, I still have three more to go before I return home." She replied in that same mono-tone.
"That goes against laws for a cadet to stay that long." He frowned at her.
"Yes, but not for rarity cadets," She replied exasperatingly. Tokei narrowed his eyes at the young girl as she continued to look at the orange sun. The red tint made her dark blue hair a little brighter and her blue eyes sparkle a little even though they were glazed with sadness. It was visible she had gone through a lot even more than her past months here. And even though she looked better then he saw her before, she still had visible cuts, burns and bruises all over her arms necks and face and that was only things that weren't covered by her clothes.
"I see you're wearing the armor mail on your chest, you weren't wearing it when I saved you." He grinned at her with a dark chuckle.
"I let my 'precious cargo' use it, she was supposed to stay at the camps but she's very stubborn when I take chances with myself so she came along until the attack. Luckily she was behind the barricades when I and the other leaders fought. We already have two of them crippled from that attack and some have a few broken bones, unlike me I got the most damage and here I am two weeks later talking to my savior." She explained to him still looking at the sun.
"You know ten year olds are usually still in the militia's training academy this war should be for older people like me." He suggested.
"I know, I didn't want to come here at first, but when I heard some privates and other ranks lower than sergeant majors began to get badly injured or close to the feeling of death again I had to come here. Except that bastard Major General Dokyoo wouldn't let me deploy myself unless I took the powers of the last resort weapons and some good ranking officers around my age range. Stupid idiot thought I was too weak to go alone and he wanted to test me by how long I could hold out like this. So he doubled my deployment more than the main leaders in this, I guess that's what I get for being one of the double digit battle systems." She sighed sadly.
"You know life isn't fair, you should know that by now." He frowned at her.
"I guess, but life is sometimes worth it. The princess asked me the weirdest question when I was eating before I went back to sleep last week." She smirked.
"What did she say?"
"She said 'what was your wish when you were younger?' and I replied 'To see everyone smile,' I thought it was a stupid question so I chose that answer." She smirked grimly.
"Really, your wish is to see everyone smile?" He smirked inquiringly.
"Well, yeah when I was five, my master said he always smiled whenever I had fun during training so I came up with the thought that I was a good girl in the world." She smiled sadly "But as I grew older, I found out that life is never easy from step one."
"Who was your master?" Tokei asked.
"Kisho Ronin, I believe he is a good friend of yours. He did mention a bard like you who was born to this clan, and of course there is only one bard for each clan so it was easy to see through that." She smirked before turning back "thanks for the save, but I suggest you keep yourself in top shape, because the next we meet... might be the last."
And with that she left walking in little strides.
Nya: Sorry got carried away with this, oh well, I have a candy hangover right now so I'm going to bed. *yawns* Good night... X3