This is the part where I tell you tragic news D:
Okay well not really tragic, but…
I'm going to split each chapter into two chapters (which may change later) to write in separate PoVs. Yes, it'll be Rika and Ben, you wouldn't think I'd leave her behind, would you?! Haha.
Anyway, I'm getting pretty damn close to the end of the plot. After this story, I really want to do another continuation story with Ben and Rika. It won't be like my others where I'm continuing the story on in another, well, story. I'll be creating an entirely new plot for the two of them.
I'm terrible at making plot, though. If any of you gracious review-submitting readers as of right now would like to help out, please PM me or send in a review. Any ideas are appreciated!
Yes, I'm talking to you, Roses 'n Horses, MegaPea, TrueLight, and Maxwulf. You guys have made my day by submitting reviews most recently and I'd like your help! Pleaseee? haha. I've probably PMed each of you by now but just in case I haven't…
In any case, the story must go on until the very end!
ooo Rika ooo
This planet….
I knew nothing about it. I'd called it my home when I was much younger, but now it was just as foreign as Earth…
It was nighttime now, longer than the planet I'd most recently called home. Our moon shown a different color than that of Earth's, giving a variety of a more opalescent rainbow than a stark white. Our sun was different, too. From the far away stars, the sun was a beautiful blue, yet on land it was as similar as Earth's own.
I've never liked change... At least I had someone to pull me through it.
Now… now I have no one.
I'm all alone…
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"Please, don't cry," Aikka begged, rolling over onto his back. "You're home, Rika… You should be happy." Aikka depressed the long grass under him, as did I. Our planet was covered in the long, tan grass, the only exception being where we'd cleared paths for the marketplace. Those streets were now bloodstained, not even fit for a peasant to walk on.
I shook my head. "What else can I do? I'm alone here. I'm literally the last of my kind and you're telling me not to cry…?"
Aikka hummed. "Well, when you put it that way it sounds pretty bad. But I don't like seeing you cry."
"You… you tell me why I shouldn't cry. You knew how happy I was on Earth. How happy I was to get away from… from this bloodshed! It's hell on this planet! You were the only one that knew the truth. Even Ben didn't know how big a miracle it was to run into him."
Aikka smiled.
"I had no intention to love him in the end…," I sighed. "I knew he would be my key to escaping all of this. I just didn't think he would make me come back…" I fell back onto the plush grass and lifted my arms straight up, sweeping my hands across the starry sky. Mother used to bring meteor showers from far away galaxies for my brothers and I to watch before the war got too out of hand.
"He's very nice," Aikka laughed. "Crazy, but nice. He suits you very well." Aikka crawled over to rest on my stomach.
I smiled, wiping my face.
"I swear if we ever see him again, I'm going to claw the hell out of that bike of his."
"Why?" I asked, laughing.
"One, I'm never going on that thing again. Two, I'm not going anywhere with him. That guy found it funny to eat me!"
I shook my head. "Would you have rather been in the water?"
"…I'd rather have been killed by those soldiers."
I laughed. "Aikka, Ben just wanted the best for you and no matter how unorthodox and stupid his ways may be… Let's just put it this way, he's not too good at thinking on his feet."
"Agreed," Aikka said quickly.
I sighed, looking back up towards the stars. "Do you think we'll survive here alone?"
"If not," Aikka yawned, "we can always leave."
I shook my head. "Ben told me to stay here. Leaving could risk my capture…"
Aikka stretched out a paw, letting it rest across my side. "What if you are captured? Wouldn't that be a good thing?"
I sighed. "I'll be under lockdown… I'll have no chance of finding Ben, even if they don't kill him."
Aikka smiled. "And there's the loophole." He quickly sat up. "What if they don't kill him? If they don't kill him, they'd be going against what Kevin said. Kevin said it's pretty much an instant death to get captured. If they don't kill him, who's to say they'll truly put you under lockdown?"
I smiled, closing my eyes. "That's assuming they don't. I don't want to take that risk."
Aikka's tone changed. "So you're just going to sit here and do nothing? You think they're going to kill him, don't you?!"
I opened my left eye. "Ben was lying… He was lying when he told me that he was coming back. "No more goodbyes. I'm coming back." He was lying."
"He was unsure. I could hear it in his voice. When we were on the ship before he left he didn't want to say anything incase it turned out to be a lie. Goodbye is a lie only if you're coming back."
I smiled. "So he is coming back?" I asked eagerly.
"No… I can't be sure. By saying see you later, he wouldn't be lying even if he didn't come back. According to many Earth religions, there is a Devine presence… They believe, or most of them at least, that there is a heaven and hell. An afterlife. Ben said see you later… whether it was after the ordeal… or after his death…"
I closed my eyes again, trying to force back tears. What was the point in trying if Ben wasn't coming back?
"Look," I breathed, picking Aikka up as I sat up. "Why don't we just try to get a good night's rest tonight and worry about the rest tomorrow?"
He smiled, closing his eyes.
"Good."
ooo
Okay. Now I'm a little sad. I just planned out the end and it boils down to three chapters left.
Three. Until the end.
D:
ooo Ben ooo
I sat at a desk, holding my head in my hands. My head was on fire… The anesthetic or tranquilizer had really burned a hole in my arm and slowed my thinking process to a standstill. When I woke up, I found I was missing a shirt and wearing pants I knew for a fact I hadn't put on earlier this morning.
My shoulder burned, screaming. It was my inked shoulder… Maybe they added to it? Glancing downward towards it, I noticed a large welt where they had filled in an uninked circle in with black. Great.
I looked down at my feet finding my shoes to be missing. Whenever I was to be interrogated they would remove my shoes… What I still didn't get was why I didn't have a shirt. The room they'd tossed me in was freezing.
The instant someone stepped into the room, without looking at them, I spoke up. "I don't know," I told them.
The girl laughed. "You don't know what?"
"It's the answer to all of your questions. I don't know."
"You don't know… or you're not going to tell me?"
I looked up. She was my age. "Oh, I'm going to tell you guys everything. Just not you, specifically." I put my head back in my hands, facing the table's surface.
She didn't have a folder… or a degrading demeanor either. She sat down in the chair opposite to me. "Well… I assume that's a request to face the council…"
I shrugged. "I just want out of here."
She sighed. "Ben, they're not going to listen to you."
"I meant out of here, whether that meant death or freedom. I came here expecting death, anyway."
She reached out, resting a hand on my shoulder. "Then you know what's going to happen."
I nodded.
She stood up. "They're waiting for you. I'll have a few guards take you down there."
I nodded again, my head hitting the table. "I'm sorry, Rika…," I muttered to myself.
The woman turned around. "Rika?"
I turned my head on its side to look at her. "Yeah…"
She looked away. For some reason, I felt like the woman saw it my way. Did she know the story? Did she know why I did it? I highly doubt it… but maybe she knew I was telling the truth when I said I was innocent.
"Ben, I'm so sorry," she whispered.
I lifted my head back up and hit it against the table a few times. "Don't worry about it. I can't take any more tears anyway. I left my girlfriend back home… my cat… my family… my friends…"
She tried to speak again but quickly turned away, leaving the room.
I sighed. There was nothing left I could do…
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Sorry this chapter's so small. The next one will be a bit longer. I promise!
I think this story will be over tonight… Sorry to say…