Chapter 49 Sherry's Dream
Authors note: I have been procrastinating to do this chapter for a while… AND I STILL DON'T WANT TO DO IT. It's the reason why I've slowed down in doing this story, so I'm going to half ass this chapter and just write down what is important and why Sherry NEEDS to beat the living hell out of Zofis and save Koko. Enjoy or don't enjoy reading this chapter it doesn't really matter because I know I'm Not going to enjoy writing it (I'd rather write about Cool badass Zeno, and warm hearted Zatch).
Sherry was having a dream about her and Koko
"Koko" Sherry yelled as she seen her best friend lying on the ground next to a store. "Koko are you okay? What's wrong? "Sherry asked
"I'm fine, I was only thrown out" Koko explains. "Next time I should steal from the fruit shop" Koko stated, this statement surprised Sherry
"That's just…" Sherry was cut off
"It's okay I'm getting used to it" Koko said. "No matter what I say in response to them it's pointless" Koko explained with little hope. "My household has fallen so far, we can't get by without stealing things we need" Koko said
"I believe you, you're my best friend" Sherry stated trying to cheer her up. "You aren't bad. Someday you'll definitely gain happiness" Sherry stated
Koko started crying
"Hey, so don't cry" Sherry pleaded. "Just grin and bear it today" Sherry told Koko
Back at Sherry's mansion
"Old man! Prepare some Tia, I can't study and what not when I'm frustrated like this" Sherry yelled
"Are you upset for Koko again?" the old butler asked
"Yes! Just because of their poverty or looks, people are treated like criminals. they don't know how good she is, that girl" Sherry yelled
"Saved miss Sherry's life, what's more she saved young miss's humanity after all" the Butler said
"that's right, I'm here because she was there for me" Sherry said with her right hand shaking. "Because she saved me ten years ago up to now… she's supported me more than anyone else" Sherry stated. "That girl is strong. She works for a living, studies, and aims to go to a university…Even though people treat her like an idiot she is determined and doesn't despair…" Sherry explained. "Hey, have I told you this before old man?" old man sherry asked
"What is it" the butler asked
"That girl that pulled me, sobbing form the river, the words she said to me as I wept…" Sherry said
"Of course, you tell me more than once a month" the Butler said.
Sherry was drinking her tea
"I've also taken those words to heart, Koko is truly wonderful" the Butler said. "And so Koko has finally made progress toward her happiness, some time ago I received word from the university of her choice accepting her as a scholarship student" the Butler told Sherry.
Sherry was overjoyed by this information
"Get the car old man, we gotta get to Koko right away" Sherry announced
"Rest assured the acceptance wouldn't disappear under any conditions young miss" the Butler reinsured while driving Sherry down to Koko's place
"Really, they really accepted her" Sherry was still over joyed for her friend Koko
"The acceptance letter will be delivered to her tomorrow afternoon" the Butler explained
"Tomorrow's too far away, we must report this splendid news at once, if we don't I won't be able to sleep tonight" Sherry yelled with glee. "She tried so hard, instead of giving into poverty, she broke through her suffering" Sherry said happily then was shocked when she arrived at Koko's town.
(Why is Koko's neighborhood on fire?) Sherry thought while looking at the burning town
Sherry then spotted Koko in front of her burning house
"Koko!" Sherry yelled
"Oh it's sherry, look this was my doing, my power" Koko stated in a calm manner.
This statement shocked Sherry
"Isn't that right Zofis?" Koko asked
"Yes Koko, you are wonderful" Zofis complemented
"I'll triumph over everyone with this wonderful power… I'll destroy the homes of those who looked down on me, and take everything they treasure" Koko stated with a calm but dominate voice
"What are you saying, you said you were going to go to a university, and find a good job" Sherry cried out
"Eh…none of that matter now, this power alone will stop others from looking down on me. I can deal punishment to those people" Koko proclaimed with a calm manner as the sparks of the fire flew above her
"What…? Koko what happened to the kind Koko I always knew?" Sherry asked in despair. "If you gain happiness like that…" Sherry was cut off
"I was powerless up to now! With this power I control life and death" Koko shouted in anger. "Now there's nothing I cannot do!" Koko shouted with a voice of dominance
Sherry pointed her finger at Zofis "it's your fault isn't it! That Koko's changed" Sherry yelled. "What the hell did you do?" Sherry demanded
The cross dressed mamodo with a white dress "….I only tampered with her heart a little bit" Zofis explained. "Augmenting her hatred and having her forget the boring things" Zofis explained in a calm manner
(Her heart?) Sherry thought in a shallow sinking feeling
"It's my special ability" Zofis explained then dashed to mere feet of Sherry. "You are Koko's friend? I am Zofis I'll tell you a little about myself" Zofis explained. "I am not human. I came from another world. 100 children just like me came here. From now on those 100 will be coupled with humans and the battle to decide the king of my world will begin. The humans who taste this power once will become obsessed with it, fight each other and probably get hurt" Zofis explained in an evil calm manner. "An interesting game, you humans' ugly hearts are skillful. So I opened her heart just a little bit, so she would enjoy hurting people or destroying things" Zofis explained with a grin.
"It's a lie that can't be, she's lying right Koko! For you to do something so horrible" Sherry cried out
"Sherry… I told you before didn't I?" Koko said in a calm manner. I did this with my power. Isn't it great that I have this power" Koko said spreading her arms open with the mamodo book in her left hand, as the town burned to the ground.
Sherry started to cry
"So sorry Miss Sherry. I'll do anything to become the ruler" Zofis proclaimed
"For that the cooperation of a human is essential" Zofis explained
"That's how this battle is" Zofis said giving an evil glare toward Sherry
"Sherry if you get in my way… I'll have to beat you too" Koko stated in an emotionless attitude. "I don't want to lose this power" Koko proclaimed gripping her mamodo book tightly
Sherry started to have a flashback of when they were kids
"Sherry share your pain with me" Koko said trying to cheer Sherry up
"Sherry teach me how to study! I wanna become great" Koko pleaded, Sherry was all too happy but to help
"Sherry, what's all this fuss about? Tell me." Koko stated while Sherry was crying
"Sherry let's find happiness together no matter what" Koko said with a smile
End of flash back
"What the hell was that" Sherry growled while crying
"Good bye Sherry" Koko said reading the first spell out of the spell book, Zofis aimed and a dark flame of energy started to form
Another flashback occurred into when she was a child
Sherry was playing the piano for hours now
"That's enough, stop right there!" the woman shouted. "Start over from the beginning, practice the basics for six hours" the woman shouted
It was already 10 o clock at night
"But, I'm supposed to sleep during that time" Sherry tried to explain
"Silence" the woman demanded. "Improve if you wish to sleep, begin you incompetent child" the instructor yelled
Sherry went to her mother "It hurts? I don't want to hear those words Sherry, as the daughter of the Belmond clan, you will have an air of refinement so as not to embarrass us" the mother stated with a cold tone
Sherry kept on going to her lessons through serous strain and exhaustion
"What are you doing?" the Piano teacher shouted smacking Sherry's hands as she played the piano
"Be Serious" the dancing teacher demanded as Sherry fell from exhaustion
"Can't you do as I say? You incompetent fool" the martial arts teacher yelled at the exhausted and beaten Sherry lying on the ground
"How could I give birth to a child like you" Sherry's mother yelled while crying
Sherry then walked to a bridge with a rapid river underneath why it was raining
"I shouldn't have been born… That's why everyone's always angry with me" Sherry said with a lost hope voice. "That's why every day is painful… if I don't die here it won't end…If I live here it won't end" Sherry thought in despair as she jumped off the bridge
Koko ended up saving Sherry from the streaming rapids by using a rope tied to the tree and jumped into the river then brought Sherry out.
"You were really about to die. If you die everything will disappear" Koko explained. "If you die now… what'll happen to the happiness you'll gain when you're older" Koko stated while crying
"The happiness I'll gain when I'm older" Sherry repeated with a dull look of depression
"Right now… it may be painful, there may be a complete darkness, like the inside of a tunnel, but by working hard and continuing to walk we will one day find light" Koko stated. "There's no such thing as a tunnel without an exit… If we work hard and continue to walk, someday we can bask in the light" Koko reinsured Sherry but herself as well. "So don't die here, if you die now… you won't grow big and happy" Koko stated
Life was now returning to Sherry's eyes yet she was still crying
End of flash back, now to the time Zofis took away Koko
"Open your eyes Koko" Sherry pleaded
"Radom" Koko chanted out the spell, Zofis shot an powerful ball of energy like fire towards Sherry creating an explosion
"I wonder if she's dead" Koko wondered
"Well even if she's alive she still can't move" Zofis explained looking at the smoke created
"Let's go Zofis" Koko said
"Yes, let us go, Koko" Zofis agreed
The two then walked away
Sherry was covering her head somehow alive
"Somehow it looks like I saved you" a voice stated
Sherry looked at her savoir to find a dull skinned teenager with black hair and a glare of death itself, and a few tattoos on his arms, he was wearing a black fur cape with steel toed boots. The menacing looking boy threw a black book toward her with strange looking letters in it.
"Try reading that book" the teenager demanded
Sherry then woke up from her dream and got out of the hotel's bed
"You're finally awake" Brago said annoyed
"Shut up, It's been awhile since we've stayed somewhere indoors" Sherry retorted. Sherry sat on the bed for a moment (I will save you Koko and help bring you the happiness you deserve) Sherry thought