Zoids Soul Society

Chapter 4: Mirror Image

Jamie woke up very early in the morning, it's 4.30 a.m. He sat in his bed and stretched, then walked in front of his mirror to the door. But it was strange! The mirror image of him is completely different! Jamie walked back to that mirror and saw his alter ego image; but he has black sclera eyes with glowing green iris. Jamie was astonished. He did a rock-paper-scissor to his image, and in the last chance the alter ego image wins.

"Heh?! What the… Impossible!" Jamie thought. He touched the mirror and his tip fingers soaked into that mirror like he touched water. He tried to a half of his arm get into the mirror, and then all his body entered to inside the strange place. That was a mysterious place, dark and creepy. That was misty place and Jamie stood in the bottom of the abyss. And the worst thing is the portal was gone.

"Welcome, Jamie Hemeros!" someone shouted from somewhere up there.

"W-w-Who are you?" Jamie replied a bit scared.

A boy that maybe the same age as Jamie stood on the rock up there and jumped down then landed in front of the scared Jamie. He shows his face and made Jamie surprised. He is him! He is Jamie in the Wild Eagle ego. His scleras were black and the irises were glowing green, he wore the same outfit like Jamie's, and smirks evilly to Jamie.

"What a shame! You don't know me, Jamie Hemeros?!" that boy asked harshly.

"Wild… Wild… Wild… Eagle… This is impossible… Am I dreaming this?!" Jamie thought and he pinched his cheek. "Ouch!"

"What a fool… This is real you know! This is my world!" the Wild Eagle said as his temper went up.

"And… and… How do I leave from this place?" Jamie asked nervously.

"Defeat me first, you will find a way to leave this world," the Wild Eagle said.

"Wha-wha-wha-what…?! Defeat you?!"

The temper of the Wild Eagle reaches his top. "Huh! That's why I possess you in every supersonic battle! You always sighing when you're commanded by anyone to do battles!" he said and with his fist tightened. "You're great and a genius at strategies, but you became a damn coward when you did zoids battle even the difficulty was very easy!!" The Wild Eagle cooled down and threw an evil smirk at Jamie. "So, what do you think? Come defeat me, and you will know the feel of victory!"

Jamie looked down and sighed. He looked at his empty hand and thought, "Yes… He's right… I'm just a coward. No more than that…" His eyes closed for the shame he got. He tightened his fist then his eyes opened with a serious expression filled his face.

"Ok! I accept your challenge!" Jamie shouted.

"That's what I want… Fufufufu…" the Wild Eagle smirked and snaps his finger as the land transformed into the desert.

"This is the battlefield. We will do zoids battle here. I will call the zoids for you and me," the Wild Eagle said as he claps his hands twice.

The roar coming from the sky and two flying zoids encircle each other. Few seconds later, they landed in Jamie's side and the Wild Eagle's side. They were two Salamanders, dark blue for Jamie, and white for the Wild Eagle.

Meanwhile in the Blitz Team base, everyone was waiting for Jamie to make a breakfast for them. Brad walk straight to the pantry to take a cup of coffee, but after he repeatedly pressed the dispenser, no coffee running out from it. He checked to the inside, and the coffee was run out!

"Oh no…" Brad sighed.

"What's up? You look pale. Are you sick?" Bit asked.

"Ugghh… My coffee has run out!! No more in the cupboard!" Brad panicked.

"Maybe you have to buy more coff…"

"Oh! Thanks, Bit! Doc! I'll go to the market!" Brad said as he ran to the garage and took the car and drove it out.

"Man… Where's Lil Jamie is?" Leena asked.

"I'll check out to his room," Ichigo replied and walk out from the dining room.

He walked along the hallway and finally he found Jamie's room. He stood there and knocked the door, but there's no response. In the second time, still no response. In the third time, he tried to knock it harsher than before. At the fourth time…

"JAMIE…!!! WAKE UP…!" Ichigo shouted as he knocked the door stronger, like a stressed guy punching a wall over and over. But there's still no response. He grumbled and walks fast back to the dining room.

"Doc! Should I break the door to check him out? There's no any response, Jamie's voice, buzzing sound of radio or TV is nothing in every times I knocked the door!" Ichigo asked roughly.

"Huh? There's no TV and radio," Doc answered.

Ichigo sighed. "Ok… Is that means, you let me destroy that damn door to pull Jamie out?!"

Doc stood up and said, "Let's go there together." He walks fast with Ichigo as the other member of Blitz Team followed him.

Finally, they arrived in the front of Jamie's room. Doc knocked the door and call Jamie's name. He spun the doorknob, but it was locked.

"Boo hoo… I wonder what happened with him…" Leena said buried her face into her hands.

"That's odd. Why you're so worried about that kid?" Bit asked.

"Uhhh… He's just like my so-called-little brother, you know…" Leena replied.

Rukia walks closer and leaned to the door. Her eyes widen, she felt strong soul pressure inside. But it's not a hollow. Her body paralyzed, and scrawled. Ichigo was curious about this. He leaned to the door and his body weakened.

"What's the matter?!" Doc asked.

"Jamie's room… was… filled by… just… Just say… a very strong darkness power…!" Rukia answered with a shaky voice.

Ichigo pulled his soul out from his body became a shinigami. He tried hard to stand up and controlling himself from the strong soul pressure.

"What will you do Ichigo?" Doc asked.

"If I don't break this door, we can't go through. I will swing my Zangetsu to this door, got it?" Ichigo answered.

"What is Zangetsu anyway?" Bit asked.

"That's soul of my sword. Now keep away from me. This is will causing a great energy that can threw you out,"

Doc, Bit, and Leena carries the paralyzed Rukia into the safe area. Ichigo started to raise his soul pressure and then shouted, "GETSUGA TENSHO…!" The energy blade destroyed the door and the wall straight until the end of the base. Jamie's room messed up. Ichigo called Bit and others to come back there.

"Where's Jamie?!" Bit asked.

"No one's here! I didn't feel his soul pressure too!" Ichigo answered.

Bit walked into the room and stood in front of the antique mirror. That's odd. Ichigo's attack can't break that shiny thing. And, who's brought Jamie this mirror? He never told anyone about this beautiful and antique thing before. He felt a small breeze that comes from the mirror itself. He was a bit afraid, and a negative thought in his brain told that the Jamie's room haunted. He gulped and walk slowly back to the outside of the messed room.

"There's s-s-something about that mirror…" Bit said with a shaky voice.

"Huh?" Ichigo looked around and saw the thing that Bit has mentioned. "That's very odd! How did it can't be destroyed?"

"Bit…" Rukia called with a weak tone. "I feel a strong darkness power from that mirror…"

Meanwhile in the mysterious battlefield in the Alter Ego's world, the zoids battle spent about 2 hours. Jamie lost almost of his faith at battling against his alter ego. His dark blue Salamander scrawled on the sand and it seriously damaged. The Wild Eagle landed his white Salamander near the critical dark blue metallic dragon.

"What the hell is this?! I'm sooo concerned to see your useless abilities! Huh! This battle just wasting my time! I'll send you to your real world now. Ok! Play time's over! Get the hell outta from here, you coward! Train harder!!!" the Wild Eagle said with much of harsher words and tone than before. He claps his hands tree times and Jamie gone from the inside dark blue Salamander cockpit.

Everyone in the base was so confused and panic. The mirror can't be broken with anything, from a plastic until they used big steel kitchen knife. They almost lost any idea. When Ichigo will break the mirror with his Zangetsu, a strange white dazzling light shining in the mirror and they shielded their eyes with their hands. Without any notices, everyone saw if Jamie fell downward in his messed bed.

Jamie opened his eyes, sat down and… "AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH…..!!!!! WHAT THE HELL WAS HAPPENED IN MY ROOM…..???!!! THE CEILING SPLIT, MY BED FULL OF DUST, THE DOOR DESTROYED AND…" Jamie stopped yelling and looked to the crowd of his friends, "WHAT ALL OF YOU DOING HERE?!"

"We have to ask you, where are you been?" Leena asked.

"Your room was locked, and there's no other way than messing your room!" Bit added.

"Who's idea is it?!" Jamie asked roughly.

Everyone stares at Ichigo. "What?! I'm just offering to do this… But…"

"Stop complaining everyone…!" Rukia yelled. "Jamie, where did you gone?" she asked.

Jamie turned his head towards the mirror. "I… I… was… in… the one-on-one zoids battle…" he said with a shaky voice.

"Huh? Is that it?" Bit asked, confused. "We rarely accept any battle request about the one-on-one zoids battle from another team or ZBC. The our last battle is against Harry's team,"

"Besides, your room was locked and there's no other way than destroy it. After us going in, you're suddenly appeared in this room after a strange bright light dazzled, boy. How do you did a zoids battle out there?" Leena asked.

"That mirror… It's horrible…" Jamie shook his head and ran out from his after-the-fifth-Zi War room condition like a child that has been bullied by his schoolmates.

"Huh? What's wrong with him?" Ichigo asked.

"He said something about that mirror…" Bit said as his hands crossed in his chest. Once again, he stared at the gold-framed mirror curiously.

Jamie hide in the under of his dark blue Salamander in the hangar. He leaned in the right foot, which is dark enough to hide. He sighed, thinking about the horrible battle in the mysterious world inside the antique mirror. His zoid was attacked fiercely, burned, shattered, and tossed aside. The Wild Eagle was pretty strong, like a hungry air predator that seeking and attacks with it big and sharp claws at it victim to eat. Fortunately, Jamie was safe from that deadly fight. He just got several injuries in his hand and leg.

"What are you doing here?" there came Rukia's voice from the right side of Jamie, stood beside him. After that, he sat up beside him.

Jamie lifts his head and then turned back. "None of your business…" he said.

"Jamie, please tell me the problem. Maybe I can-"

"I said, this is none of your business,"

"Please Jamie. You look stressed, I just want to-"

"Shut up Rukia!" Jamie yelled harshly. He stood up and walked away from the dark. This is the first time for being angry like that. Bit, Leena, Ichigo, and Doc watched them behind the boxes that not far from there.

Rukia hold him with her hand on his shoulder and Jamie turned back. "What do you want from me? I don't need any help from ya!" Jamie said as his temper went up.

"Of course you need it! You said something unintelligible about the mirror inside your room. And I think that made you scared and run away!"

"Yes! If you know it, what made you need to ask for that problem?! Leave me alone!"

"No, Jamie!" Rukia yelled and hugged him. Jamie was blushed madly. He can't pull her from his body. He can feel his mind racing in his head. Bit and his friends that hiding behind the boxes looks surprised after they saw them acting like that.

"We're so worried about you, Jim…" Rukia said as her tears rolled on her cheeks. "We won't forgive you if anything worse happened to you. Now, please… Tell me your problem,"

The flames of anger that burning in his heart turned blue, as Jamie made an eye contact with the raven haired girl. The timid self of his has back, and he pulled Rukia away from him. "I…I…I will tell about it inside…"

They didn't notice if Brad leaned in the wall with a cup of coffee, which saw all the scenes happened there. He clearing his throat, Jamie and Rukia blushed. Then, he walked into the living room as he sipped his coffee.

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