Chapter 9: My Tears Are Saved
Dayton eventually runs back to the cave area where he fought Kyousuke, as Knuckles is surprisingly nowhere to be seen with him. He looks around the entire cave, looking for anything he'll need before spotting the journal that Vector had with him on the floor.
"Is that, Alisa's journal?" Dayton says surprised, walking over to the journal and picking it up off the floor. He brushes off the front cover, and opens the book to the first page and reads it to himself.
"My name is Alisa Irene, if you're not Kyousuke Watanabe then…. Kyousuke? Ugh." Dayton thinks to himself, as he notices a page sticking out of the journal, and instantly turns to that page. "The research data that I have collected proves to be sufficient, showing that elementals do have DNA that they share with a species of humanoid animals called, MOBOSAPIENS?" Dayton thinks to himself, as he then sees a note that tells him to turn to a specific page in the book.
"What in the hell are MOBOSAPIENS?" Dayton thinks to himself way past curiously, as he then opens the page and sees a picture of one that Alisa drew herself. It was a sketched picture of a blue hedgehog with green eyes and red shoes. "What?! That can't be right!" Dayton says doubtfully, until it crosses his mind and he has visions about Knuckles and Vector and all the other mobians that he's came across when he got here. "It's just a lie, that's all." Dayton says to himself. However, he still feels convinced that it might be true, as he only wants to deny it. "It can't be true! Theotrin would never go after this race because of that!" Dayton says trying to control himself from becoming emotionally shaken.
As he clenches his fists in pain, silky, silver fur begins to grow from Dayton's skin, as he begins to morph into his mobian form. "What the hell?!" Dayton says in panic, as he watches the fur grow out of his body and morphs into a mobian wolf with white chest fur, and brown eyes that create contrast with his silver fur. He then starts shaking in horror as he's staring at his new form, never knowing about such a form to ever exist in the first place. "What?! NOOO!" He screams in horror, as he starts pacing around in circles, panicking. "Why is this happening?! I must've gotten infected or something!" Dayton says to himself, panicking like it's the end of the world for him as he keeps pacing around in circles, before being haunted by his memories.
He begins to remember when he still back on the elemental planet, where he was spying on Theotrin, originally planning to do a sneak attack on him instead. Theotrin was in a room that looked like a medical lab, with many different dissection tools and machines he was using to extract mobian DNA from elementals, possibly killing them while at it. He was trying to extract mobian DNA from a yellow skinned elemental, having the power to control sand specifically.
"Ah, you're a special subject, having the final piece of DNA that I need." Theotrin says pleased, as the sand elemental is strapped to a metal examination table with yellow elemental blood spots scattered on the table.
"You bitch! What are you doing?!" The sand elemental shouts panicked, as Theotrin curls his fingers like claws, preparing to grab the elemental right in the stomach.
"You'll be dead anyway, so shut up." Theotrin says, as the elemental morphs into a mobian lizard, in an attempt to slip away from the straps and escape. Despite this, Theotrin beats him to it and rips out a mutated, enormous strand of mobian lizard DNA from the elemental. Theotrin watches and admires some weird yellow substance dripping from the DNA, as the sand elemental screams in agony. Dayton watched the entire thing, seeing it dreadfully and horrified.
"This is what he's doing?!" Dayton says terrified, as he can't think of anything else.
"AAAAAAAAAGH! GIVE IT BACK YOU BITCH, OH SHIT, HELP ME!" The sand elemental continues to scream, feeling like half of his soul was literally ripped out of his body as he starts shaking inhumanly in pain. Tears start pouring from his eyes like they were falling water drops, as Theotrin just leaves the room, having all he needs for his next task.
"I hope you're pathetic race has learned its lesson. Now it's time to teach these MOBIANS their lesson!" Theotrin says determined, leaving the room as the sand elemental continues to suffer in extreme agony, as Dayton returns to reality. He stares at his mobian hands, filled with disgrace at that fact. He angrily punches the wall, creating a large hole in it as he is on the verge of tears, desperately trying to keep himself from crying.
"Why was I such an ignoramus, and why did no one tell me this?!" Dayton asks himself distressed, starting to lose as tears begin to fall onto the ground.
"Hey, what's going on?" A generous voice asks, as Dayton looks right behind him and starts to pull his arm out of the wall in pain.
Meanwhile, Kyousuke is sitting on the edge of the cliff, as he is looking down at himself, struck with guilt and horrible feelings. The sky was grey and murky, like a thunderstorm was about to happen. He puts his hands out in front of him and stares at them, seeing only the bad things that he has caused with them as he clenches his fists upsettingly. Vector comes out and sees Kyousuke sitting on the cliff edge; feeling concerned as he then goes and sits down next to him.
"Hey, don't let him get to you." Vector says caringly, as Kyousuke just continues to stare at the ground depressingly. "You know, I left my own place once." Vector says sympathetically, as he goes to continue on. "I never knew my parents, and it was hard, especially since I wanted to leave so desperately. They held a grudge against me for it, and I always kept it a secret from everyone." Vector explains, as Kyousuke sits there, motionless and depressed. "I can tell you now, don't think that you're alone, because I went through the same thing." Vector says sympathetically, as Kyousuke finally says something in his depressive state.
"Elementals never have parents in the first place." Kyousuke says, as Vector stares at Kyousuke shocked.
"What?! You really don't have any parents?" Vector asks shocked; as Kyousuke goes on to explain.
"No. We're born from elements themselves, and it was thanks to the Xorda that we share the same DNA as mobians like you." Kyousuke explains, as Vector remembers the Xorda, never thinking that they would also be involved with elementals. "We are born with mobian DNA, not being able to transform into a mobian willingly, until we are forced to resort to it. " Kyousuke explains, Vector now understanding why Kyousuke transformed into a crocodile after stopping Theotrin from killing him. "I never really had any friends because everyone thought reptiles were a form of evil, and I was hated for being the croc that you also are." Kyousuke says sadly and guilt-stricken, as Vector starts to feel slightly mistreated, thinking about how unfair that would be.
"Alisa Irene was the only friend that never thought I was evil, and we were so close." Kyousuke says, as Vector remembers her from the journal and from when Kyousuke first told him about her. "She was a falcon, but that didn't stop us from being best friends. However, she knew how to transform into a mobian already, and I didn't." Kyousuke continues to explain. "I met Dayton sometime while I was with Alisa, and he resented me at first but eventually came to like me as an individual. However, he never had a clue about his mobian genes to begin with." Kyousuke explains, before going to the part where it emotionally crushes him.
"Then Theotrin came, and he destroyed everything and everyone." Kyousuke says, becoming emotionally unstable as Vector stares in complete shock and remorse. "He killed and infected my entire species, even killing Alisa." Kyousuke says sadly, as he is on the verge of tears, unable to control his emotional wounds. "She was everything to me, and now she's dead, along with everyone else who lived there." He says, as a tear falls and hits the ground. Vector watches, starting to feel horrible and remorseful as he never thought Kyousuke would've suffered this much.
"And now I met you Vector, and Theotrin's here and I don't want to lose you like I did with her!" Kyousuke says, now breaking apart as the tears start falling like it's raining, as the sky starts to pour the rain. Complete desolation and regret are the only things that Kyousuke's feeling right now. Vector then puts a hand on Kyousuke's shoulder, as Kyousuke is startled and starts to look up at Vector.
"You can't be thinking like that now. Honestly, I've never felt this feeling of you being close to me before." Vector says, as Kyousuke starts looking at Vector shocked, as the tears still are pouring from his eyes. "I mean, I thought I was the only crocodile around, until you came along and saved me from Theotrin." Vector says caringly, as Kyousuke starts to feel warm-hearted, the tears dripping from the bottom of his face along with the murky rain. "You even taught me how to control fire, and you think I'm gonna go, just like that?" Vector says, as Kyousuke starts feeling happier by every second.
"You became really important to me you know, and I'll never ever leave you, no matter what happens now." Vector says with complete honesty and sympathy, as Kyousuke stares at Vector with complete shock, about to cry again while staring at his Vermillion eyes that show nothing but the truth. Kyousuke then grabs Vector, shocking the crocodile as Kyousuke hugs him in a phase of pure philia and happiness, Vector being surprised by this.
"Thank you, so much." Kyousuke says happily on the verge of tears, as Vector smiles and begins hugging him back. "I'll never forget you, ever." Kyousuke says lovingly, as they hold each other in their grasp in the long rain shower, as the rain eventually stops. Only they are just seen, holding each other with a bond that will now be impossible to break.