Chapter 90 - Epilogue Volume V - Two Halves

Th-Thank you..., Adyna thought to Iremiya before being taken outside of the courthouse, into a police car. Luckily, the officers only had one police car handed to their care, so both Adyna and Osmos were pushed into the back of the car, sitting next to each other. As the police officers closed the car doors, both Osmos and Adyna looked at each other, wearing looks of fear as they didn't know what was going to happen to them. What are we going to do while we wait, Osy?, Adyna thought to him. Well, Osmos thought back, I'm going to have to guess that we'll have to serve our time in there until Remi and Giko figure things out, Adi...

Osy... did you really have to kill as many people as you did?!, she thought, wearing a frustrated look on her face. Oh, I'm sorry, did they ask you all politely to keep you comatose?, Osmos thought back. As the police officers hopped into the car, they noticed that both of the prisoners didn't say a word out loud, which was something they'd never seen before. After taking a closer look at them, one of the officers noticed that they seemed to be planning something, or arguing at least. "Heh, hey, keep it down, would you?", he jokingly told them. Both Osmos and Adyna stopped in their tracks, looking through the steel grate that separated them from the front seat to the officer, wearing deeply concerned faces on their faces.

"Leave them alone, we have more important things to do than harass the prisoners. You know, like actually doing your job!", the other officer yelled at the first one, capturing his attention. "Geez, I can't joke around even a little?", the first one replied, sitting in the passenger seat. Adyna breathed a sigh of relief, thankful that they couldn't actually listen to their conversation. "4 years of the academy, and you're still acting like this...", the driver said, rolling her eyes as she started the engine. Adyna looked back at Osmos, thinking to him, Thank goodness for that... Osmos softly laughed, knowing that this conversation was going to be a secretive one.

They were driven back to the police station, where they waited for anything else to happen. For the next few days, they spent their time in the station, in separate cells. Both of them had different way of spending their time. Osmos would always ask for notebooks, so he could write. Anything at all, he didn't care. He began a journal, writing about how he felt about his journey for the past 10 years of solitude, hiding in the shadows of society until he found his time to strike. After being placed with Iremiya and Giko, they discovered his writings, and submitted them to a publishing company. The book produced from this journal became a bestseller before the end of the month.

Adyna, however, mostly used her psychic powers in non-intrusive ways, being careful to not disturb the police officers or destroy any properties. She would often have conversations with Osmos with her telepathy, helping him with his journal, and listening to anything he had to say. Of course, she could also talk to her kids, which she did as much as she could. Whenever she heard from them that they did something huge, like win a Nobel Prize, or sell 4,000,000 albums, she would always jump up in down in joy, feeling happiness for her children. Osmos would often think to her, What happened this time, Adi? It would always take her a long, long time to calm down before she ended up hearing something big from her children yet again, repeating the process.

Of course, the officers never really took samples of their N compounds. After all, they weren't scientists, but eventually, two people came by to pick up Adyna and Osmos who were scientists. When Giko and Iremiya eventually came by, excitement was all around, as the scientific community was finally at peace with them. When they moved in, Adyna and Osmos were given a nicely-furnished bedroom to sleep in, three meals a day, access to the internet and television, and even a car to share. However, these weren't free:

The ground rules went like this: Before they could drive the car, they had to take driving lessons just like everybody else, with Giko being their instructors. They couldn't go out to the world for months at a time. At first, the limit was a six-month waiting period, before gradually shifting to shorter and shorter periods of time, until they were able to head out every week. They both had to donate 5 gallons of N to the university a week, but, again, this wasn't a big issue for them, since Giko had ways of collecting it without bothering them. However, they also had to put aside one or two hours a day with either Giko or Iremiya, so that they could more easily study them closer.

Giko was especially interested in Adyna's psychic abilities, such as telepathy, telekinesis, and even the ability to project herself in someone's dream, seemingly at will. She would try placing Adyna into a CAT scanner, asking her to lift something with her telekinesis, which produced a lot of activity in her brain. X-Ray machines could pick up this activity as well, interestingly enough. Even FM and AM radios seemed to work, with Giko wondering if Adyna could change the signals with her mind. With enough practice, they were able to interrupt the local signal of one of the frequencies to play "happy birthday", using this to surprise many of the other helpful scientists on their birthdays.

Iremiya, however, was intrigued by Osmos' fondness of writing. It seemed that every week, Osmos would often form a new story, writing piles upon piles of books before he quit his career. Iremiya became very good friends with the publishing company, even becoming a part-time lawyer to protect them on various lawsuit cases or frauds. Iremiya himself ended up addicted to Osmos' writing, reading to himself one of his books before sleeping every night, even if he had read it the night before already. He was also astounded by how many people would buy these books. Hundreds of thousands flooded the bookstores whenever a new book came out, causing a lot of profits to roll in, becoming another reason to quit his job. Just like everything else, however, Iremiya never quit his passion of studying Osmos.

Sometimes, some of the others would come and visit them, with Osmos often giving Barry a noogie, shouting "You're bigger than anything I can imagine!", whenever Barry would come by. Some showed up less often than others, with the prime example being Matiro. Matiro only showed up once at the lab, which... uh... didn't end well, if I remember correctly. He tried to bring a 24-pack of beer into this laboratory, to share with them, which they immediately rejected. Karito would often show up at different times from her dad, making good conversations with the gang. Ella was the most frequent out of all of them, since she worked at the same university. Whenever they felt sick, they could always count on Ella to take care of them, without having to worry about health insurance.

Things were all smooth and simple, before the day of Giko's disappearance. Adyna immediately gasped as Giko's presence faded from her seemingly omnipresent sight, realizing that Giko had disappeared. "Adi, what's happening?!", Osmos asked, feeling a weight bear down on his heart. "Osy... Giko's... Giko's...", Adyna replied, struggling to get the words out. "...Giko... is gone...!", She eventually whimpered, starting to tear up. "What?!", Osmos yelled, feeling everything around him slowing to a stop. "Giko's gone, Osy!", Adyna cried, throwing herself into Osmos' arms. "Well, great!", Osmos said, looking up at the ceiling, with tears in his eyes as he held Adyna close to him. "Now what are we supposed to do?!"

After the incident, Iremiya moved on to work on a two-way 4th dimensional portal, preferably one that didn't cut off the power from the entire city. Osmos and Adyna didn't have much to worry about, though, as they were taken in by Ella's team of scientists, working to help them get over Giko's disappearance. Don't worry, Dad..., Ella thought to Osmos, I'm sure they'll be able to get her back... Osmos looked up at his daughter, wiping away the tears. After all..., Ella thought, No matter what happens... Osmos immediately perked up, feeling himself feel much better as he finished her sentence, "...We'll always be together!", with a smile on his face. Seeing Osmos happy definitely made Adyna feel much better about the situation, as she realized that her family was going to do everything they could to win Giko back from the land of the unknown. That's perfectly right!, she thought to them, wearing a smile as the last of her tears dried up on her face.

One day, Adyna had a conversation with Osmos that perfectly summed up the whole feeling of being pampered. You know, this isn't so bad!, Adyna thought, It's not like we're in an old folks home... Osmos laughed, before looking back at Adyna, with tears in his eyes as he thought about his long, long life. "Yeah... This... This is worth everything I've ever done, easily!"