Ch 12
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AN: I just want to say thanks to Ginga2Sam for pointing out my error. I wonder how I never noticed that, :} I watched the entire series after all. I have made the changes and reposted any chapters that had that error. Enjoy this one. :) Sorry that it took longer than usual, I had a very busy week.
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I awoke underneath silk sheets. I felt dizzy, like I was on an out of control merry-go-round. My red eyes began to glow when my head cleared. I could only see darkness for several long moments. When I could see again, I sat up slowly. My body was sore,
as if I ran halfway across the planet instead of teleporting. I moaned and tried to focus my senses. There was shouting to my right. I dazedly turned my head. Through my blurry vision, I could see a white sheet, machines, people moving about, someone
on a bed… someone on a bed… someone on a bed. Valkie on a bed. Valkie being operated on. Valkie being in critical condition. Valkie… I banished the flow of thought before it could fully register. My body felt slow and heavy as I tried to move.
"I think we overdid it on the shock." The idiots! The people of planet Valkie are susceptible to electricity. I made a mental note to kill one of them later. Because of the electricity, I can barely move. After some time struggling to get out
of bed, never really thought I had to go through it, I layed back down, exhausted. I closed my eyes and listened to the humans as they tried to save him. I don't remember how, but I eventually slept.
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I woke to a blinding light being flashed in my eye. I teleported behind the nurse, much to her fright."Bug off." And she did. I turned toward the other bed. Valkie was unconscious. Wires were stuck in his arm, telling me his blood and heart rate on a
screen, and a breathing mask covered most of his face. Bandages covered his torso. I pulled a chair over and sat down. Behind me, a door opened and I heard footsteps."Oi, I thought I said no teleporting!" Bug eyes yelled. I didn't turn around.
"No, I agreed to follow your rules and there is nothing about teleporting now, is there. Right, bug eyes." I replied coldly. I could feel the hate of his stare on my back.
"You little-"
"Where did you get all of these?!" A female voice yelled. I turned just in time to see two girls in GUYS uniforms running past bug eyes and his Baka with my two bags. I grabbed them from their hands and placed them beside me.
"This stuff is expensive! How they heck did you get all of them!" A girl with a round face, short hair, and glasses asked. I chuckled.
"I stole them, of course." I said nonchalantly. The girl with long hair stared at me with an open mouth.
"You stole them! We have to return all of these!" She spoke, grabbing the nearest bag. I quickly pulled my bags away from them and placed them behind me. I noticed that one bag felt different but I paid it no heed.
"You are not taking my stuff away from me. Besides, most of it was originally mine when I first started the Traditional Wait." I stated. They stared at me.
"The what?" The glasses girl asked, completely forgetting about my stolen property.
"The Traditional Wait." I repeated. Bug eyes and the Baka started to walk over. Baka took out some notes as I started explaining.
"Every female from planet Valkie goes through it when they come of age. They go to another planet for a few years, pick up a few skills and some knowledge, until a traveling male comes along and trains us in anyway they see fit. You see, while we are
on another planet, we have our memories wiped, then we are given to foster parents on that planet."
"That's cruel!" The long haired girl exclaimed. I ignored her and continued.
"It is tradition. Since I chose to go to Earth, I was given to a nice couple. I had to learn the ways of the planet, learn its knowledge, and become skillful. When a male arrives and finds me, I would have learned a lot of things that would benefit my
race. The male, which would become my husband, would revive my memories and take my hand in marriage, then finish my education by taking me to our home planet, Valkie, for one year, before traveling the universe.
"Of course, there are always unknown factors. Such as a male would never find us, or we are killed in an accident, or, in my case, have our foster parents killed and be taken in by a different family. The family who kidnapped me killed my foster parents
for some cash and took me to sell to a brothel. Course, I was too young then, so they waited a few years, then they forgot about me and got drunk all the time. So when Valkie finally found me, he had to help me learn the skills I was supposed to learn
before reviving my memories. The process took a few months longer than it would've been had nothing happened to my 'original' foster parents.
"When I finally had my memories revived, before he could propose to me, he challenged Zemshare to make his name known. Typical male behavior, for any race." I finished. The human's stared at me.
"What happened to your foster parents?" Glasses asked. I shrugged at her.
"I killed them."
"You what!"
"You killed them?!"
"Why."
"You murderer!" Murderer? I never considered myself as a murder before. Then again, killing comes as a natural instinct to me as an alien. So why does it hurt so much that they are calling me that?
"Oi, oi, the man tried to rape when I was little, I only got away because he fell asleep after stripping me, and the female kept burning my clothes. I would be hungry for days before they remembered to feed me. Trust me on this, this world would be better
without them." I explained coldly. The humans stared at me. I ignored them and thought back to yesterday night. The night I freed myself. Was it really only yesterday? It feels like ages ago. I tried to remember the feeling of killing them. The feeling
of having my golden blade stuck in their throats. The feeling of seeing their blood spill forth."
"Now that I think about it," I spoke, catching the attention of the humans. "It felt funny when I ended their lives. They didn't even realize that I was going to kill them. Mother was too drugged up to notice and father thought I was mother because he
was so drunk. But earlier that day, father needed money so a mugged a woman on the street. She was sent to the hospital immediately. That very morning, I went to the library to return a book when I saw a different man. He was a complete perverted
jerk." That caused the two ladies to snort.
"I asked where the woman, Mrs. Peterson, my only friend, was, and he told me what happened to her. He didn't even care that she was hurt, all he cared about was the stupid promotion that was offered to him with her attack. He even had the nerve to ask
me on a stupid date! I slapped him so hard that I could see my handprint. I told him to go to hell, and I made sure he did." No one asked what I meant.
"Later that day, I went to visit her, with my book. We conversed and she told me that her husband fought alongside the original Ultraman."
"The original!? How oldwas this hag?" Bug Eyes exclaimed. The girls shushed him with dirty looks.
"Sir, you should show some respect." His baka told him quickly. I ignored them and continued.
"She told me that her son worked here as an engineer, proud family legacy if you ask me. And she told me something else, something that completely caught me off guard.
"She told me that her husband had become an Ultraman once."
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AN: Before I forget, can someone recommend me a story about Nightcrawler from X-men (from any series) joining the x-men and escaping the mobs from Germany? Favorite X-man and I want more of his origins :D Please Review