Chapter XXIV memories (II)

When she was gone, he frantically found her. But he cannot really do so. He was heavily injured since he lost last time to another elite team. His comrades were all gone, his general is also gone. He is like a dandelion seed. One that has no place to stay, wandering around by the command of the wind and sky.

He, limping, is not able to go fast. He asked everyone. The police station, the government buildings, everywhere. Finally, he collapsed. He was too tired.

When he woke up he found that he is in a hospital.

Beside the hospital bed, at the side is his personal belongings: his phone, his wallet, and a paper heart.

He hoped that it is her. But it isn't. Inside was a picture of a girl drowning in a storm drain in the tempest. With a small note that wrote:

"You have two years to save your lover. By the time given, we demand fifty thousand Conerian dollars. Or you and she will suffer."

He read the note, then checked his legs. He felt strange and when he touched them, he felt it.

His legs are flesh and bone again. And he did not know why. However, a letter with the symbol of the Earth Federation was found on the table.

It wrote:

Milky way galaxy,

Norma arm,

Lylat System,

Coneria,

Conerian City General Hospital,

Dear sir,

I apologize for the sudden note, but it is necessary for me to perform so. For you are an elite pilot, I wanted to invite you to the Earth Federation specialization squadrons. In which, I will not restrain your actions, but a command must be listened.

As president, I had already chatted with the General of Cornerian Army, and he agreed to invite whom I wanted to take, in exchange for their permission of inviting our planet's elite crew and economy support in the rebuild of Coneria. So, I set my sights on you, my friend. I know you had some bad traits plus a bad history in Sargasso, but I know you are a good man and is full of royalty and dignity. So I, again, sincerely invite you to fight for and with me. But if you do not accept, I still gave you one hundred thousand Hong Kong Dollars for your spending money inside this envelope plus a full medical service for free, I also cleaned your background legally with the permission of Conerian Government. Wish you will do the decision and be one of us, and you will be well rewarded, or you can conduct your life yourself freely afterward, I am not forcing you, the choice is all yours.

Yours Sincerely,

Hyacinth Chan

President of the Earth Federation, General of the 1st and 3rd Earth Federation army

Seeing this, he already denied. He ripped the letter into pieces of small paper.

"I do not serve anyone who is unexpected. Plus I heard that Fox and Falco is already there helping him. Damn the two..."

Soon enough, he demanded a leave, and assigned for being a police officer and no longer a pilot.

The reason is he checked his phone and found that being a police gives the highest salary. He really needed to earn money quick to save his lover. Coneria after the war is unstable in security issues, although the Earth Federation, generously, gave lots of ships and troops to Coneria for their military and security issues, the crime rate is still very high. And being a police is a hard job. You risk your life fighting villains.

He thought: "I can risk my life in a Wolfen. Why can't I risk mine being a police officer then?"

And so he registered, and he can start already. Since there is a huge demand for police officers at that time.

He did not lose his marksmanship, he scored perfect in his shooting test, and specializes in every weapon-any type, no matter it's Conerian or Earth weapons. Assault rifles or sniper rifles.

Soon enough, a year has passed. He ascended as a police lieutenant since no one ever managed to kill over three hundred villains in a year. He still remembered how a fugitive disguised himself as one of them who celebrates and attempted to kill him. He carried a rocket launcher, but he missed his shot, it created a huge hole in the ground. Much like what the legend says. He was given a silver watch for distinguished service.

He saw his savings rose and rose. He volunteered everything. And the army even gave him lots of cash for distinguished service. Still, it was not enough to save her.

He saw his savings book with thirty thousand dollars, which, most of it were his savings during the wars, and the money the civilians gave him for he had served them well.

Not before the one showed up.

When he went to work the next day, which was four months before he must bring the money to save her, there was a familiar body sitting on his seat. Pink and fat.

"Pigma?"

"Yes. You do not need to work here anymore, you stupid furball!"

"But how'd you?..."

"I bailed out when I should have died. And do not forget I do not have a bad background. Since my former name doesn't exist anymore, just hacking!...Oh, and I already told them everything you had done! You fought for Andross, tried to kill Fox Mccloud and his elite team...everything."

"You despicable being! What about Leon? Is he alive like you you-pink-piece-of-a-General-Pepper?" Yelled he.

"HE isn't. And should I accuse you of police assault?"

He did not respond. And thundered out.

However, his phone rang, and he checked. The robbers demanded to make it early to today. And he had to go to the address he demanded.

"No!" He thought.

He hurried off. It was autumn already. There was a tempest raid. And it was quite serious.

He went to his car and hurried there.

There he saw the robbers holding her, in front of the storm drain.

"Have you brought the money yet?"

"Half of it! Is it enough?"

"Of course not! What do you think me as? You can't do it, and I will drown her."

"No!" Yelled he.

When he tried to walk front, he was forced to stop. His legs were secured by metal arms that rose up from the ground.

She was unconscious, beautiful as she was, but she cannot react. Even though she is in great danger. She was sunk in water by mechanical arms, her body slowly disappearing under the water.

"Now you shall look at your lover die!" Said the robber, who is unseen for the tempest is very strong and the visibility is very low.

He saw her not struggling, calmly drowning, and he could not even walk there to pick her up. And he shouted all the time.

"No! Please! I beg of you!..."

However, there is little to no avail. Three minutes has passed. She was confirmed death. The arms then lifted her up, and placed her on the ground beside the storm drain.

The robber then said: "This is what you get when you do not follow my orders, friend! This is what you get!"

And after a while, the metal arms that restrained his legs let go. And he rushed to her instantly, trying to retrieve her by pushing her chest so that water can get out.

He did not notice his fur is damped by rain, and the fact that she is not dead yet.

She was whispering. Something that only lovers will hear between themselves.

The tempest is getting more stronger. The wind was howling and rain was hitting him as if he were its enemy. The wind is laughing and mocking him, which he was crying desperately for his lover.

She whispered, her sound like Andromeda, as beautiful as her.

"Don't...forget...me...Wolf..."

And she died.

He cried loudly. He screamed to the winds and sky but it gave him no response. He said, why would they do such a thing. Why did he have his fate like that?

He still remembered, looking at an old photo, a line of crystal clear water flowed through Wolf's face from his right eye, as he wiped them out with his hands. The table has a box, a letter and a book on the table.

His headache has turned more severe. It was as if there were a hammer constantly hitting his head. Just because he lost his bottle of pills. Turns out, that bottle of pills were the ones Falco found in the investigation.

Looking at them, he turned on the plasma combustor beside his chair.

He looked at the box he got from miss Conner, spin it a few times, and put it in the plasma.

The flashback of Ms. Conner giving him the box, trusting him, appeared out. And did not forget when she tried to save him, she did not even know how. So that she cannot do anything.

Then it was the photo. He needed to hide this piece of evidence, as he also put it to the plasma combustor. The photo flashed a blue-green blaze for it has a copper surface. He must not let anyone know he has any relationship with Jennifer Morrigan.

After that, is a notebook. Which recorded Steven's transactions. He is the one who fired the shot and fought Falco. He was the hooded figure.

Finally, it was the letter which Katt gave him. He still remembered how he was touched by her eyes that sparkled, and that they are good partners. Plus, she failed in saving him. Where she did not cut her finger down. And did not kill the person. Plus not drinking the poison.

He sat in front of the plasma combustor, his eyes lifelessly looking at the evidence he had burnt away. Flashing into atoms that will eternally float in this world.

He is the Lover's Killer.

He is.

The next one who he is going to kill, is Krystal.