Chapter 11: The Dream Came True
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Finn: Oh. My. Goddess
Die!
Bridget: *grabs 9 and runs* Watch out!
The van slams on the door.
Dust and debris scattered around the school doors. When the dust faded, it was shown the door was smashed in to pieces. Fortunately, everyone's alright. Bridget woke up along with the others.
Bridget: Is everyone okay?
Kyoko: Yeah.
Tails: *along with Mickey, Phineas and Lettuce* We're okay here!
Mordecai: Great! Now the door is broken. AGAIN!
Finn: At least we're still alive.
Dib: Tell me about it.
Unknown: What is going on in here?!
They looked and saw Dipper. He was wearing his pajamas and he brought his flashlight. He must have heard the crash that lead him going to the entrance.
9: Dipper?
Bridget: How on earth did you get in here?
Dipper: I just can't sleep from the incident when I hear a crash from the entrance. What happened?
Finn: Some random van sped up and just crashed here. It break the school's entrance.
Kyoko: ...Again.
While the others were talking, 9 heard a voice came from the van. The color was white with no plate number, though it has some scratches and some broken glass. He looked to the van as it was nothing. He hears that the voices became louder and louder as he comes closer.
You idiot! I told you not to crash in the entrance! What will happen if the boss finds out about this?
It wasn't my fault that I was under pressured because he was going away from here!
Oh, shut up! Let's get that boy already and get the price!
You mean the boy that was in front of us now?
*screams* What the-? That's the boy that the boss wanted!
Well then, let's get him!
Oh no!
At the end of the sentence, 9 starts to run so he could tell this to the others. However, he hears a sound and a sudden force pulls him back. He tried to scream, but a hand covered his mouth so no one can hear him. When he was that far from his classmates and Bridget, someone just hit him in the head that gives him a blackout. Even he was unconscious, he feels a tug that just his hands and legs were together.
Outside, Bridget heard a noise. She turned around and saw the van was starting. It reverses and accelerates away from the school. Bridget is in shock of what's happening.
It can't be...
Not right now.
She holds her necklace and closes her eyes. The others came to her.
Finn: What the-? The van just got away!
Mordecai: We didn't catch it in time!
Lettuce: Wait a minute, how many are we?
Phineas: 11.
Tails: 11? But I see only the 10 of us.
Phineas: So who's?
Tails: You don't mean...
Lettuce: Oh no!
Bridget: *opens her eyes that it was green* Elijah...
Kyoko: *slams the wall* Oh my Goddess! Why didn't we notice that!? Dang it!
Mickey: We better do something! Who knows what they will do to him.
Bridget: Don't worry.*calmly* Call the police, I'll go and save Elijah.
Dipper: What?!
Dib: But we can't just leave you by yourself!
Finn: Yeah, what will happen to you?
Bridget: Don't worry I'll be fine. It'll be okay. Now go.
Lettuce: Just be careful in there, okay?
Bridget nodded and head of on where the van was heading. At the middle of the road, Bridget raise her hand in that air. Then some green mist-like air came and gathered around Bridget's hands. It formed a small metalic wand-staff with a ring on the top while the handle looked like a cross near to the ring.
She runs and instantly glides to the air. Her face was showing determination. She is determined to save 9, no matter what happened to her. And besides, she had an hour or two to live anyway.
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[BGM: Signulm Malum by Yuki Kajiura]
She later landed in an abandoned park that was a mile away from the school. Trees are wilted, grasses were dry brown and the benches were slowly beginning to break. She wandered around the park, knowing the van would stop in here. She stopped to a tree; having looked around the park she didn't find the van nor 9. Then she had an idea. If she can't see them physically, then she might see them spiritually.
So she close her eyes and holds her necklace. All of the sudden, the necklace glows green as well as her eyes.
Bridget?
Huh? Who are...
It's me. Your friend.
Angelo?
She looked around until she stop at the view of a fountain, she sees a boy who is sitting down of the rubbles. He wears a white shirt with jacket along with jeans and belt that holds guns, his hair was gray that looked like an old man. His necklace was light gray with a halo as the frame.
It is you! I thought you already left in here along with Eleanor.
I was. But the Goddess actually sent me here on Earth.
Just to get me?!
No, not yet.
I still have time then?
You do, but not for long. You have to save him before Time runs out.
Angelo, I'm scared.
Don't worry, we will be there right beside you when the time comes. All of us are coming to pick you up, you know.
Really? Thanks.
Be careful.
She saw an abandoned food stand that it had a lit light. And if there's a lit light, it means there is someone in the stand according to her spiritual vision. She continued to run non-stop until she reached the stand.
Inside of the stand, two masked man and a woman in black who the masked man mentioned as the boss was hiding in the dark side of the corner held 9 who was bound in a chair from his hands and feet and his eyes were blindfolded. He remained motionless on the chair; probably the knots were tight for him to move. Bridget puts her ear to the wall, listening to what will they say.
WHAAAAAT?! YOU BROKE IN TO THE SCHOOL BY USING MY VAN?! You idiots don't know what you are doing! This is all your fault!
It wasn't me, boss! It was him!
What? Me? You're the one who steered the van!
Well you're commanding me to do it!
I do not!
Shut your both mouths up and-
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Hindi niyo siya masasaktan!
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What the heck is that?!
They looked to the front door that the location of the noise was. They looked at each other, then the two looked to the 1st one. They pushed him to the front door where he gave them a 'You're so freakin dead!' look.
He opened the door and saw nothing, until he got blasted by a green light and another one that hits the remaining two. It was revealed that Bridget blasted them with her staff. Bridget entered the room silently and came to 9. Bridget touched his shoulder and shook it gently waking him up. 9 stirred and began to gain consciousness.
9: Ngh...Bridget?
Bridget: *sighs in relief* Thank goodness you're okay. I'm going to take the blindfold off, okay?
9: Okay...
Bridget: *takes the blindfold off, then went to the back of the chair and untie the ropes* These ropes are pretty tight, isn't it? No wonder I saw you looked like a scarecrow. Only tied up in a chair.
9: I really can't move.
Bridget: Don't worry, I'll get you free. *stands up* But first, would you do me a favor and hold very still?
9: Okay, I'm actually doing it.
Bridget summoned her staff and channels her power with it. The ring glows bright green. Bridget raised her staff up in the air and immediately slashed the ropes freeing 9. Unfortunately, the noise make the boss woke up. She saw Bridget and 9, she stands up.
Boss: YOU! WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN HERE?
Bridget: I came to free my friend. Perhaps you owe me an explanation why you took him.
Boss: An explanation?! *picks a gun from her pocket* I don't think you need an EXPLANATION!
She immediately pulls the trigger of the gun. And shot Bridget and 9 with her gun, but the dodged and ran to the door. The boss ran to the door and shoots again 3 times.
Bridget and 9 run for their lives. They didn't stopp but they begin to slowing down. 9 is ahead of Bridget, he is showing exhaustion as he was a machine and not a human being. Suddenly, 9 tripped by the root of the wilted tree. 9 went back to his knees and began to run again.
But a loud bang and an unexplainable pain from his left shoulder stopped him.
Bridget look back because of the noise. She gasp in shock and saw 9 was shot in his left shoulder. The wound was quite big despite the bullet can't make a wound big enough to take over his shoulders, which is pretty mysterious. 9 holds his shoulder in pain and sat down on the ground, Bridget ran back for him.
Bridget: Elijah! Are you okay?
9: I - *whimpers in pain, but nodded slowly*
Bridget: *looks at the wound* The shot really hit you, but it's not severe. I got to get you back to the school.
9: *looked up and gasped* BRIDGET!
Bridget: What is it?
Bridget turned around and saw the boss with two guns in her hands.
Boss: Have some of this.
The boss pulled the trigger 14 times. The bullets are heading towards 9 and Bridget. Bridget, with no other option, shields 9 with her back preparing for the impact of her own life.
[BGM: This Is My Despair by Yuki Kajiura]
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14 bullets hit her one by one as Bridget cries in pain, she falls down as 9 laid on his back. The boss, assuming the two are dead, smirked and walked away from the park along with the two masked man and the wrecked van. 9 lift Bridget from the ground, Bridget was still awake despite from the gun shot that the boss gave her.
He knew that Bridget was seriously hurt from those bullets that hit her, and she was visibly pale from her face. But Bridget didn't care and just helped 9 from walking.
By the time they almost reached the entrance of the park, Bridget tripped from her knees. Her wounds gave her serious injuries. 9 tried to helped her up, but Bridget resisted and pulled 9 down. Bridget's condition was far more dangerous. Her skin was getting paler, her back was filled with bullet wounds with blood dripping down to her dress, her eyes are turning green and she was now coughing up blood
9: Bridget...No...I have to get help!
Bridget: No! No need for that. I'm sorry...I don't think I can go on much farther...I think...This is the place where I should stay and sleep...At long last...
9: What do you mean?
Bridget: I'm sorry, Elijah.
9: What do you mean? Why did you say sorry to me for? You didn't do anything wrong to me.
Bridget: There is. When you were at your room, your classmates and I talked about something. A dream...a dream that already came true. Just right about now.
9: You mean...She's dying?! No! You can't die...not now...please...Don't die right now!
Bridget: *smiles* Elijah, I'm so sorry if I'm not there defending you during the Quiz Bee. The incident was unpredictable and...
9: It's okay...I deserve it anyway...I made a lot of mistakes. I even sabotaged the Quiz Bee. I deserved to be punished. Being kicked out of school was a fitting punishment for me.
Bridget: You don't deserve that! That's why I shielded you from the attack, right? I was saving you because you're still needed from this world! You don't deserve to die!
9: *shocked* Bridget...you did that for me?
Bridget: *smiles* Yes, I said you're still needed from this world. I know not all the students liked you...but, that's just the beginning. You have to be strong even I'm not here anymore. I have something to give you.
She shows 9 her delicate necklace. The necklace has a teardrop shape jewel that has something green inside like a soul. The frame has swirls surrounding the jewel along with a cross in the middle. Bridget wears it to 9's neck weakly, she then touched the necklace which it glows green.
9:Your necklace but...but I can't accept this.
Bridget: I know that. But Elijah, would you do me a favor?
9: A favor? What is it?
Bridget: Would you take care of my necklace? I know it's a simple thing that you have to throw it away or leave it for good...but it is very important to the school...your friends have this also, and you were the last to have this. Because...because it will be the last hope for the school when grave danger has happened.
9: Grave danger? But I thought...
Bridget: The school is no ordinary school, Elijah. This place isn't the thing what you see from the others. It's something else that we Children need to do this, because we might not able to see it in the future. So we need you and your friends to help. And Elijah, please take care also Aliana for me? I know she's a strict teacher, but she might help you. She's the only one who can help you now and not me. Someday, she'll need your help. You would never know. So...you think you can do that?
9: *tears up mentally* I swear on it! For you...For Aliana...And my classmates! I'll do everything I can! I promise you! I PROMISE!
[BGM: Soldiers by Presence of Music]
Her eyes felt watery and her vision starts to get blurry, Life was about to end with only 9 as the last person to be with her before she is going to die. She was crying right now, what will she ever do to this innocent boy. He already got kicked out of school and now he's going to be accused for Murder. He's not like that! Not right now!
Bridget.
In front of her were eight people wearing white outfits with a black pin attach to it. They have halo on their heads and wings on their backs. Behind them was a girl wearing a gray gown that reached almost far to her feet, she has long black hair and her eyes were shining with the color of blue. Her gloves reached to her elbows and her footwear were pointed Ballet shoes. Her wings were colored gray with black linnings that resembled as fairy-angel wings, though she lacks the other one on her left.
She recognize these eight people and the girl. They are her friends and the one who is called as The Goddess.
It is time to go now.
She slowly stands up from her state and look at the precious view. 9 stares in confusion, he doesn't know what the heck is going on right now.
The Goddess slowly reach her hands towards Bridget as she does the same despite her state.
Elijah...
Alam ko na nalilito ka ngayon.
Patawad kung ganito ang nangyari sa'yo.
By the time Bridget reached the Goddess' hands, Life already pulled her away. The Goddess already took her and leaves along with Bridget's friends.
Pero sana, maging malakas ka.
Sa kahit anong magiging pagsubok mo sa buhay.
She was slowly falling, and 9 snaps out from reality as he sees Bridget falling towards him. He catch her before she hits her head. Her hands are wrapped in 9's back as she kneel down. She was hugging him until her last breath, she thought that he might need it before she dies.
Kahit kakagising mo lang, masaya na ako nakikita kita palagi.
Patawarin mo ako sana.
Pero sana mabuhay ka pa at hindi mamatay katulad sa akin.
9's eyes wide in shock as Bridget says something that make him shock. Bridget closes her eyes and give her last breath as her tears fall down on the ground. Her hands went limp and fell to the ground.
He knew that Bridget wasnt breahing anymore yet her body didn't fall down on the ground. It remained at this position. It was meant to be like that. She wanted his hug to return to her. 9 returned the hug to Bridget and cried to her.
Her necklace slowly dims from green to deep, pitch black. It means...
Bridget Solano is gone...
Forever.
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Thank you
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End of Day 6