I DO NOT OWN BAKUGAN
I have a question has anyone cried reading this?
(T_T) HAVE YOU DONE THAT?
I know I have, whenever I reread this, which is hilarious. I also have cried with my legend of korra fanfiction. Check that out, it's called "Love and a lot More". I am currently trying to write a chapter and a chapter of Black Hearts a crossover of Pandora Hearts and Black Butler.
Aside from the name being somewhat a pun, it actually has a deeper meaning. Which I was so shock to discover, because I was thinking about Black Butler + Pandora hearts = BLACK HEARTS!.
ENJOY! Might be my last chapter :/
I sat up on my bed feeling that time was moving way too slow. I was clutching my blanket with my right hand. My knees drawn a palm away from my chest, my left arm rested against my knees and finally my left hand clutching the hair from the top of my head.
With my eyes close and breathing even, I can still see it. From when Ryuu and I met Irile to discovering Ryuu's secret. To Ryuu's offer for me to join him- to me actually joining him. To the scene in his hallway where he pinned me. To finally the night he didn't recognized me anymore. A tear slipped from my right eye as I opened my eyes slowly- rather more lazily than anything.
It has been days since I met him in his room—and him not even recognizing me anymore. I smiled and then chuckled. He had done that before though. I let go of the hair and blanket I was clutching, and placed my hands behind me to support me as I lean back, and I close my eyes again.
There were days when he did not recognize me. When did it start? A few weeks ago or a month—no, I chuckled aloud. It must have been even longer than a month. The tears came as the memories flashes before me once again.
When it finally came to pass, I got out of bed. And robotically did as follows, go to my mirror and stare at my state, rather pitiful I was. And somehow found my hair tie and stared at it. Thinking should I just go now? Like this? And then I stared at my bathroom.
It was afternoon when I finally found the courage to do what I wanted to for days now. I was sitting on the couch on the second floor of Auntie Runo's first café—the one she inherited from her parents. I was sitting with my legs apart and I was leaning forward with my left arm supporting me, which was also supported on my left leg. I ran my hand through my hair.
No one has arrived yet so I waited. And then I ran my hand on top of my head to flip my hair parting on the other side. And finally the door opened. I stood up so fast with my eyes wide looking at the door.
"Avery" Akio says while I called out his name at the same time. I could feel my eyes well up. I look at Quinn who was closing the door completely focus on his task, although looking quite sad.
"Quinn" I called out with a faint and stony smile. He looked startled by it and looks away from the door having successfully closed it. Our eyes met and I blinked away the tears and I no longer felt like crying. There is no turning back now.
"Akio, Quinn" I called out their names as I approached them. "I called you here to tell you something"
Quinn had his hands on his head on the couch that I was sitting previously. Akio was glaring at me from where he was leaning on.
"Damnit!" Akio yelled suddenly and I jolted on the spot and stared at him. "If you had told us this we could have been ahead of this guy!"
"Akio you are mad just relax" Quinn stood up from the couch and approached Akio. Akio looked like he was going to push Quinn away but was able to control himself.
"Okay Avery—tell us again what you know" Quinn looks at me with such calmness that my heart clenched for a moment. He has the right to be as angry as Akio. I understand why Akio is mad at me, I completely do.
"I think it is better if you both sit down" I said to Akio and Quinn.
"Why?" Akio chuckles, "Is this a confession" He jokes and it kind of made me feel guilty for telling him the truth.
"Akio, please." I say sternly, Quinn quietly does as told and had sat down on the couch and Akio follows. I look at the pair on the couch looking rather serious now after I sternly ordered them. I was fiddling with my fingers and was focused on them for a few seconds and then I stopped and looked them straight in the face and said.
"The masked man…I know who he is" And the temperature in the room dropped. I held my left elbow with my right hand.
"What are you talking about" Akio's voice sounded so accusing and cold, his eyes as he glared at me held hostility.
"I was the woman with the butterfly mask." And the air felt like it was robbed from my lungs. There was silence.
"What are you talking about?" Akio repeated between gritted teeth.
"I will tell you everything I know" I say fighting the tears and the emotion from erupting from my mouth. "The bakugans…it started with them" I say a tear slipped from my eyes. Before anyone could interrupt me I continued on.
"The bakugans—they-" I sniff "They start acting berserk first and then somehow it transfers to the owners—they change. They become different not just the owners—the partners—also the bakugans. They become uncontrollable—they changed." I say quickly and then I start pacing.
"I don't understand what is happening to the bakugans and why they affect their partners" And I stopped in front of Akio and Quinn, and fell to my knees "This is why I called you, I hope you two can." I look at them in the eyes for four seconds "Help Ryuu." I whispered as I sat on the floor, my face buried on my hands as I wept. The heavy atmosphere in the room lifted—no vanished when I mentioned his name.
"Avery" Akio calls out placing a hand on my shoulder, as I look up to stare at him, I can see the turmoil within his eyes. "Ryuu is the masked man?" He repeated- asked rather calmly to almost a fault.
"Yes." I nod, as a tear slipped again from my eyes without me blinking.
"So why is he taking people's bakugans?" Quinn added
"We-" I stopped and took a deep breath and gulp down my next words, because 'we', we are no longer a 'we'. I closed my eyes for a moment, I can hear the clock tic. They didn't interrupt me, but as the seconds pass I could feel the room become heavier. I sniffed as I said, "He… Ryuu, his only taking the bakugans that are corrupted" I closed my eyes as images flashed behind my eyelids. And I wanted to scream.
I suddenly stood up, and then took a step back, stumbled, and as I fell back, dodged the edge of the coffee table by an inch. I look at the edge of the coffee table thinking, if I had not missed it, the impact would have been painful.
"Irile." I said as I look at the pair with widened eyes. "No—I had known—I was just-" With my hands on either side of my head, I looked at them and soon after my eyes kept shifting. Finally I settled with glaring at the space between the two and gritted my teeth, my hands clenched so tight that my nails dug into my palm. "It started with her" I sneered the hate seeping through my teeth so naturally.
"I have always had doubts with her." And then as I took a breath, I composed myself. I wiped the tearstains from my face and I could feel my eyes turn cold—I could feel my body react accordingly. I became cold—indifferent—seemly unaffected, as though the one who was crying had not been me. I stood up patted the dust from my butt and I sat on a couch sit for one person. I crossed my legs as I rest my elbow on the couch's arm and in turn rest my chin on my hand, I look at the company I had with cold eyes.
"That is all I have to say, I will give you a moment to let it sink in." I said as flatly as I could.
"Damnit!" Akio yelled suddenly and I jolted on the spot and stared at him. "If you had told us this we could have been ahead of this guy!"
"Akio you are mad just relax" Quinn stood up from the couch and approached Akio. Akio looked like he was going to push Quinn away but was able to control himself.
"What you are telling me is that Ryuu is the masked man?" Akio says standing up, I can hear the anger he was restraining from his voice, I close my eyes and faintly say yes. I hear Akio's footsteps.
"The bakugans started acting berserk?" Quinn says with a hint of suspicion.
"Not completely. They start of acting odd, it is so miniature that it becomes unnoticed. But quite frequent that when the small act becomes gradual and develops to more than a small oddity—it becomes unnoticed until a level—as I call it 'berserk'. Because it develops unnoticed—because the partner becomes accustomed to it unconsciously—they—they do not see it until it becomes too bad to be undone." I say as I opened my eyes, finding the rest sufficient enough, because we had more pressing matters. My eyes burn but I cannot deal with that now. I noticed Akio had already leaned on the wall across from me his arms crossed over his chest. Quinn was on the long couch looking very grave.
"Picking out the bakugans who are affected by this strange occurrence is difficult. When I had recently joined them—him. He had mentioned that he had false alarms, quite the number mind you. But as time progressed he had stated that they have figured out a way to narrow it down. And even then it was difficult. We… we had not intend to take more than the infected ones. We—we just wanted to contain the ones that were infected so that no one else would be harmed."
"So the doom cards—where those cards transport them—that is the quarantine zone" Quinn says, I nod in reply and say yes verbally.
"But there are people missing—the ones whose bakugans were taken." Quinn continues
"I assume that it wasn't grief from the disappearance of their partners that caused it, did it?" Akio continues for Quinn, and I had a bitter smile on my lips. Look at them, finishing each other's sentences, it made me almost laugh.
"As I have mentioned before—it starts with the bakugans—there are some cases were we had taken bakugans that were not infected." The bitter smile on my lips fade and was replaced with a frown. "But it did not mean we had succeeded in collecting bakugans that were only infected. There are some cases wherein we had failed. You see—this is the tricky part. As I have said, it starts with the bakugans. And once the bakugans reach, as we had estimated the middle part of the transition- the brawlers—their human partners—they become infected too. They start to act odd. The masked man—Ryuu—was the first." I closed my eyes to fight the tears and I inhaled a deep breath and opened my eyes to continue on.
"His progression first started with withdrawal. Withdrawal from people he loves—to things he took interest in. He started pulling away from family—stopped dancing. Of course it was not abrupt, it was a gradual development. Just enough that people thought that it was just a 'phase'. I had also been one of those people, but I had noticed something was wrong before they had." I chuckled coldly "I guess I got the head start on the issue" I closed my eyes again as I clenched my fist, anger riling in within me. I try to calm myself with deep breaths.
"And then—"My voice broke, I clenched my teeth, trying to focus, trying to sound stable. "He…" The tears I could feel was so close to falling again. No. I had no more tears to shed. I opened my eyes with determination not to cry and not to fall into the emotion anymore. "He started forgetting." My eye twitched.
"Eventually he forgot me." I withdrew my hands so that it rest on my lap and I gaze at them there.
"What do you mean he forgot you?" Quinn asks his eyes in turmoil. I suddenly stand up, my right hand against my forehead, and I laughed.
"Can you not understand Quinn? He forgot." I glared at him my body facing Akio but my head tilted to the ground slightly towards Quinn's direction. "He forgot even me."
"It first started with him being sick. Too frequently. That was the first thing that had happened." I say rearranging my memories. "But we had not thought anything about it because—as a child he was quite sickly" A bitter smile forms on my lips again " I had not thought anything about it, because he had fallen sick before the situation escalated to the whole masked man deal." I paused and then look at Akio and then Quinn, and then feeling guilty suddenly.
"And then she came" I say almost sneering "Irile. I do not know where she came from—but she came from nowhere and claimed that she was there to help Ryuu." And then I could feel my anger forming again "I don't know what lies she told Ryuu—but he fell for them. Which I believe started this ordeal. He then became withdrawn, as I have mentioned before. And then he started staring into nothing for a second—and then a minute—and then almost an hour. He would suddenly laugh—disappear—He was acting very very strange. How could he just disappear? No one seeing him exit! That was my bottom line. My suspicion had reached its climax. But his case, it had not. Whenever he arrived he continued to act oddly. He'd forget things—eventually people—memories associated to people. He would barely be at home." I closed my eyes as a tear slipped from my eyes. I had failed to contain the emotion of grief.
"He forgot about me. It was instances at first. No form of recognition when he looks at me for a second and then it eventually becomes am minute." I laughed aloud shaking my right hand. "The funny thing is, when you are just seeing him forgetting other things—other people—you can at least try to be objective and assist him—but when it is you—myself, I could not. That minute of no recognition would eventually become no recognition at all. Not even the slightest. You can tell him a complete lie and he would not know." Another tears falls "I know I have." I took a deep breath. "I have lied to him quite a few times—and he had not known it." Another bitter smile forms "I had not imagined the day would have come." And I try to control the emotions fluctuating from within me.
I was so tired. I glance at my companions wearily. They had not said much, I wonder if they are taking me seriously.
Quinn had his hands on his head on the couch that I was sitting previously, before they had entered the room. Akio was glaring at me from where he was leaning on.
"Okay Avery—tell us again what you know" Quinn looks at me with such calmness that my heart clenched for a moment. He has the right to be as angry as Akio. I understand why Akio is mad at me, I completely do.
And I told them what I had previously said. Akio had finally come closer to Quinn and I.
"You have mentioned this Irile person quite some time—who is she?" Akio asked calmly, as the information had finally sinked into him
"All I know is she is not from here—she states that she was here to help Ryuu. I believe she is an alien." I say quietly.
"We have to tell the others" Akio and Quinn says in unison, Quinn follows his words with a gentle sigh.
"This will be a pain" Quinn says sarcastically, as he leans on the couch's back and places the back of his forearm over his eyes.
"This will be a pain" Akio states with so much conviction that I found myself praying I do not regret this.
"I sought you two because I hope you can find a solution." I took a few steps near Akio and place my hands on either side of his arms, and said with teary eyes "Please. Please save Ryuu"
If you have not noticed the italics is actually a flashforward.
I am enjoying this type of writing, haha, but if it is confusing to you guys do tell me.
I will stop or add a ~~~ just tell me which you prefer.
Hope you like this :3
PS: BETA; no proof-reading. I am tired.
Although even when I reread it for errors, I miss those errors o.e;;