"We'll meet again!! Soon!!" "The airship is here!! Run!!" "We'll get captured again!!" "Mikey!!" "George!!" "Chris!!" "Nick!!"
"Aaah!!" Jun wakes up from the same nightmares again. He's been having them ever since he woke up on this planet.
But he gets those visions almost every week. It's been a week since the imprisonment of Jun.
Jun gets up from the bed "It has to have a meaning" Jun said, "... right?" He questioned himself as the doors suddenly opened to the hallways.
"Jun" Mark brings Jun his food. Jun hears Mark but doesn't walk to the cell bars and observe.
Mark finally gets to the prison cell "Jun, why are you here, it's been a week... you can come out now" Mark tries to get Jun out of prison again.
"No, just hand me the food" Jun grabs the tray. He looks at the food. It was just the boring same old bread, apple, and water.
"Here" Mark pulled out a sodizu drink "Remember these?" He shook the bottle.
"Yeah, thanks" Jun grabs it.
Mark sat down and leaned his head next to the cell bars "I never knew my people that I brought with us would've acted like this" Mark spoke "But I grew up with them... so I have to respect them... I'm sorry Jun... but I think you might have to leave Izuzunu or kick out those citizens... or just live with it for the rest of your life"
Jun stops chewing. He swallows his food and drinks the sodizu "I'll leave... just for a bit. I told Xuanyu to throw away my armor so I don't have them anymore"
"What!?" Mark yelled. Jun stared at his food "Yeah... So I'll leave... and I won't come back until I've rebuilt my entire armor set again" Jun made a deal "So I'll just... work all day... maybe with the help of some friends"
Mark replied "So... after prison, you'll be gone for another week to get your stuff back"
"Yeah" Jun answered "And the spellbinded sword, don't worry, I still have it hidden somewhere-"
"Visiting time's over" a guard interrupts "How could you visit this murderer anyways?" The guard says as Mark gets up "Shut up... don't talk to the vice president like that" He walks away.
"Sorry VP," the guard said. The guard looks at Jun staring at the floor, looking all depressed and hopeless "Disgusting" the guard says.
RISE OF IZUZUNU
VOLUME 4, CHAPTER 34, MARK'S MEMORIES
MORICHI, MAINLAND, IZUZUNU
"Why!? Why should we feel bad for Jun staying in jail!? He caused all of this to happen! He even murdered my brother's family!" An old man shouted.
They all began to shout at Xuanyu as he tried to calm everyone down. Some people even started lying about Jun's actions in the war, accusing him of doing things he'd never done before.
"It's not working," Mikey says to George "Looks like we can't get Jun out of prison"
Mark watches in the corner leaning against a wall. "Hey Mark, what are you up to?" Phoenix asks.
"Yeah... just look at this" Mark points at everyone. They're all screaming at Xuanyu.
"That sucks," Phoenix says.
"I think... we should move out of our house... go somewhere far... hopefully the president doesn't mind that," Phoenix said.
"Yeah... let's do it. But not yet-" Mark suddenly gets a headache "Gah!"
Mark falls to the ground in pain "Ah!" He yells. "Oh my god! Mark! Mark!" Phoenix shouted.
Xuanyu hears Phoenix screaming for Mark as he jumps off the election stage "Mark!!" He shouted. "What happened!?" He yelled. "I don't know! He just started feeling pain all of a sudden!" Phoenix shouted.
"Mark!!" "Mark!!" "I promise! We will meet again!!" A voice was heard. But all Mark could see was black. "What is this?" Mark asked himself.
A child's voice was heard. "Ben!!" "Mia!!" "Mom!!" "Dad!!" "Phoenix!!" "Quin!!"
Suddenly Mark's vision goes bright as Mark falls to the ground.
"What the-!?" Mark shouted as he looked forward in shock. He saw a burning building and the whole town was on fire. "What the hell is going on here!?" Mark shouted.
Mark gets up and begins running through the streets "What is this place!? Where am I!? This isn't Izuzunu!!" He shouted.
"Hello!!? Is anyone there!!?" Soon his vision goes black again "What the-!?"
"Remember" A strange voice was heard "Remember your father... you will remember him!" A woman's voice. "Remember what the Usagians did to us!!" The strange voice shouted.
"They burned the towns! They destroyed it!" Mark's vision starts clearing up and he starts to see a Kingdom.
He sat on a mountain top looking down at the kingdom from up there. "Woah!! It's so big!!" A strange little girl shouted and smiled. She points at the north side of the mountains "Look there, brother! All the way far north of here! Dad promised us he would take us to the Feiburg Kingdom!"
Mark suddenly remembers everything. His eyes widened "Wha-... what..."
His vision began disappearing as flashes of light began showing Mark everything: His whole life, his past life. Everything. His mom, dad, brother, sister, family, and his hometown "I... remember"
Mark suddenly wakes up and jumps off his bed. He stood there looking everywhere. His eyes were widened and still shocked to believe what he saw. He saw... his family.
"The... Usagi Empire.." He makes a fist as he looks out the window.
"I can't believe I forgot all about those horrible things that happened to me" He suddenly remembers his dad injecting him with a needle. Soon after he injected him, Mark lost all his memories and became the new Mark we know today.
"So... I did have a past life... when I was only six years old... " He looks down, still in shock "What..."
THE NIGHTCLUB
"Phoenix... I need you to stay here for a while okay? Stay in Izuzunu, protect everyone" Mark spoke. "What? What happened? Are you going somewhere?" Phoenix asked.
Mark answered "I... I have to go... My memories... they're back... How could I forget that moment? All those terrible things…" Mark was about to cry.
"Memories!? What are you talking about?" Phoenix was confused. "I remember... my mom, dad, brother, sister, Quin.... and you" Mark explained "We were all related to each other until the Usagi Empire raided our kingdom, they took my parents... but not yours"
"What happened to mine?" Phoenix wanted to know.
Mark finally turned to Phoenix "They were... killed... in front of me"
Phoenix was shocked but then stopped "Sorry... I can't feel bad for them if I don't even know who they are"
"You'll remember... My father injected me with the serum to wipe my memories clean... and your father did the same thing too... somehow I managed to get my memories back... It was a good life back then" Mark smiled.
"I see... Well, you're not going alone" Phoenix shouted. "Who said I was going alone?" Mark says. Edison comes from the corner "I got almost everything prepared, but let's not leave yet. Maybe leave when Jun gets out? I want to see him out of prison" Edison explained.
"Sure... so starting in a few more weeks... we'll set off to find my hometown, Kujukaeya"
Edison with a confused face "Weird name"
"I'll... stay here in case another war starts; you guys can go. Keep each other safe though" Phoenix leaves the Nightclub and into the paths back to his house.
At Phoenix's house, he sat down on the bedside next to the desk. "I guess I'll see Mark soon"
VALVINA PRISON
"Well... this is boring," Jun spoke out. No one was there and it was dark.
Only one light in the room and it's a lantern. A strange noise was heard from the roofs of the prison "Thump"
It sounded like footsteps and someone banging on the roof. "What is that?" Jun wondered. "It's... whatever" Jun goes back to bed and faces the other way.
Soon the roof breaks open next to the sink as Misha falls from the roof "Aah!" Misha screamed as Jun quickly sat up and watched as Misha walked towards him. There was a rope attached behind him.
"Come on, let's go!" He pulled his hands out.
"Misha... What are you doing here? The guards will catch you" Jun said. "This is your escape" Misha tries reaching for Jun but he backs away. "Misha... you'll go to jail if you help me escape" Jun shouted.
"Bro, don't worry, come on, on the other side is my friend helping me out" Misha tries to get Jun. Jun sits on his bed "Sorry... I can't leave... I have to stay here for a whole month" Jun explained "If I go with you, I'll become a wanted criminal and I don't want that"
"Jun, I can hide you, I live pretty far from here-" His friend shouted "Hurry up Misha!"
"But... it's your choice. Jun, will you take this chance to escape this filthy prison cell?" He asked. Jun stared at Misha for a bit "Why? Why are you doing this for a criminal?"
"Because you didn't even do anything! You were put in here because of the citizens! The citizens are just scared because a war just started, they've never experienced war you know!?" He explained.
"I'm not going" It took Jun a few minutes to decide "I'm sorry, I can't go. I have to finish my sentence"
Misha looks down "Fine... but how will I fix the ceiling now? They'll think you tried to escape" Misha asked. "I got it. Just... go" Jun commanded. Misha began propelling up "See you Jun," He said bye. Jun stayed quiet and stared at the dirty dusty floor with clumps of rocks from the ceiling.
"I can't be an escaped criminal," He said in his head "If I do... it'll make the citizens hate me even more" Jun sat on his bed with a bottle of water in his hands. He takes a sip of it and puts it away on the desk right next to him. He blows out the candle in the lantern as he places his head down on the pillow "This is my life now"
TO BE CONTINUED..