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Vitas opened his eyes, to discern pale white metallic walls around him, where he sat, locked at the wrists and ankles by Starbreaking armored material. He was not alone.
Androids with laboratoric equipments surrounded his seat, setting up experiments and tests onto his body.
" Can it be...!!" Vitas examined the androids of their higher class armors and sigils of a palace in the sky, the sigil of the Sky Lord engraved on their metallic faces did Vitas realize he was captured onto SkyWorld, the Capital of Starbreakers, a highly advanced city floating amongst the clouds.
He was last consumed by an Arch Demon iin the snow plains at the North Line, now he was here, that means... Yuri might also be on SkyWorld, VItas presumed.
Just then Vitas felt a spliting pain inside him, he quickly tried to shout for the Androids' attention. but could not, for The Arch Demon Plague inside him sealed his speech through within him.
" I own you now, boy."
the deep wily voice of the Arch Demon Plague warned
" I prolonged your existing flesh, so it is fair you be my vessel to reach the Land of Light."
" Then I'll let them destroy this body again and drag you down with me !"
Vitas vowed angrily to the Arch Demon inside.
" Fool, we have a deal !" Arch Demon Plague reasoned
" Have I not let you and Yuri meet once more, as you so desired as you lay roating on the barren fields and the winds blowing off your ashen torsos ? We could be more, imaging if you had not butted in at the North Line, The Paradise of Light and Love should have been already be in our grasp ! You and your Yuri could bask under your eternal love while I succeed to achieve my purpose !"
And a lab android began piercing needles connected to wires into VItas's limbs. VItas cried but wistood the pain.
" She is here. Not far away." Plague hummed in Vitas' ear
" These Skyworld androids can't sense me from here. Let me take control, and get Yuri before it's too late !"
" I'd rather be torn apart, thank you very much !!" VItas refused and more painful equipments started to pierce into his forehead.
" Fool, do you not see ?!?!" Arch Demon Plague cried and moved VItas' head slightly upwards to see a surveilance camera above them at a corner of the pale white room
" These wires, these surveillances, they attach into your head, only to see through your memories what you saw with the Yuri girl, because they also seek the Herunis Carna !! You know how the Sky Lord manipulates and steals on our memories ! You may sacrifice yourself here, but think of the Yuri girl ! They will do all this to her too, to seek the Paradise, the Herunis Carna !!
Let me do, Fool, and somehow you and the Yuri girl won't be harmed !!!!"
VItas faltered, for what Plague said sounded reasonable. Both he and the Arch Demon are on the same page.
" But how can I trust you.....!!!!"
But before Vitas got his answer, his faltered determination opened a gap for the Arch Demon to sneak in to his core and snatched control of the body once again.
" Fool, vessels need not trust their lord. They Obey !!!!" And the Vitas / Plague burst out of all the restraints and slammed the androids and the lab apart with its Dark wings of demonry, suiting up his Dark Unerva in a blink of an eye.
The whole Sky World Demon alarms began to screech and howl instantly.
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The sirens echoed as red skylights flickered nonstop on sky buildings, over the sky streets, sky bridges, shy trains, sky pods,
In Sky World.
" Attention, StarBreakers, we are under attack.
We are under attack. Location...."
Yuri struggled, fighting against the binds that trapped her to the bed, but Yuri hasn't fully regained strength yet ! And her lower abdomen hurts ! The bed slided accordingly through gravity's traction and hit the wall hard as the building she was in began to crack.
Yuri thought she was doomed.
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Outside across the busy streets full of machines and auto vehicles instead of real people walking around, Sky pods flew from all directions in swarms towards the crumbling building, a hospital binding building.
"Gulp gulp gulp...Niceー!Nice Water !!"
Standing by a riverside edge and watching another swarm of Sky pods fly off over the river, a Moe, light blue of hair, short and piercing to her shoulders and wearing cuddle socks drank from her water bottle as her gaze followed the sky pods to their smoking location.
This high school aged girl praised the good water from her water bottle, turning around to her friend who sat under a classy umbrella covered table, sipping nice water from a luxurious tea set elegantly.
" Hey!What now? " the girl standing by the edge asked her friend behind her under the umbrella urgently
" Should we be suiting up and doing something about it ?!"
Her friend sipped elegantly with a chuckle
" Not yet, Yuka~"
Chucked her friend rearranging her long curly grayish blue hair to a neat twisting braid
" I have already sent my 'Clouds' there. "
" Heh ?! Really?!!" This energetic Yuka gasped in surprise, looking around for someone else but just the both of them there
" Even Yun too ? Where is She ?!"
The one sitting under the umbrella chuckled
" To save Yuri of course."
Yuka in a frenzy swallowed the rest of water in her bottle quickly and stretched out both arms to the air suiting up with a cry as the water of the river flew up to her and swirled up around her body and became her Starbreaking armor !
" Alright ! Let's get started !"
Yuka in her Starbreaking armor pointed at her elegant friend heroically
" Yuno!Send me up with your clouds now ! I'll go save Yuri too !"
" Ara, but... Yun might have already finished the job...."
" Nani ?!?!"
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" Yiiiii.....!!!" The wall cracked even more as Yuri's bed crushed it over time, and lo, another explosion erupted and the walls broke apart as the whole building tilted even more and Yuri and the bed fell out the building !
Yuri screamed for life !
(It's alright.
I got you. )
Yuri looked up, staring at sparkles like swirling powder before her as a person, a Figure of a girl just like her, with short smooth tidily cut pale blue hair, in a new form of Starbreaking armor appeared out of the midst of sparkles before Yuri's presence.
Yuri was startled.
( ....It's okay...You can let go now.)
And to Yuri's surprise, the cuffs trapping her were all cut open by misty sparkling fog around her and she was free.
Yuri wasn't sure, but suddenly her lower abdomen pained again and she let go,collapsing again into the Starbreaker girl's arms. They didn't fall,but floated inside a sphere shaped force field the rescuer generated as they slowly floated away,out of the crumbling tower out of explosions, and into Sky World.
The whole city dazzling silver, white roads and streets with water running along the paths under sophisticated bridges.
Sky pods and airships flew and sailed all over the skies
Of the magnificent city that is Sky World.
(Yuri, Are you alright?)
Yuri turned to her rescuer, and saw the young girl's eyes
They were just like hers.
" our eyes..." Yuri said. The girl Starbreaker tilted her head in wonder.
"Our eyes...share the same color. "
Yuri smiled.
And the girl smiled back, but shyly turning away quickly.
(...You are right....)
There came sudden explosions and many metal shards rained down from above.
The girl Starbreaker held Yuri tight.
( Let's go.)
" Wha...??"
And the girl started to glow white blue, becoming transparent as she whispered her incantation of Miracle powers
("Yun • irh • Sala ethr")
(霧ノ域 • 絕対隱行)
And to Yuri's utter surprise,
The girl before her vanished into thin air, as the white sparkles surrounding Yuri gained speed and pushed Yuri forth, dashing forward through building tops, sky bridges and zoomed down, evading all sorts of falling objects.
Yuri screamed the whole way as the white vapor took her on a windy ride towards the splendor of the central Starbreaker Headquarters.
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Back to the children, who were excorted safely also onto Skyworld, but the tower they reside on also was under attack.
" Guys !! I don't think we're safe !"
Finnir warned the others, as they saw outside the wide glass window of their room, another tower just some miles away, crumbled !!
" Get away from the window !!!"
Neo the eldest cried out and the children backened as the coming force shook the glass and it cracked !
They heard a roar from outside.
" What now....?!?!"
Kai asked behind Neo as children started to panic.
But Neo didn't answer.
He watched, so did the others, of what emerged out of the Crumbled Tower.
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Dozens of Sky pods sprang into action as they soared up and around the collapsing tower, opening fire on a looming target gathering Dark matter from below it's feet as it grew bigger and bigger, spreading out Large Wings !
Beams shot down like rain towards the Large Winged Demon like water to a rock, stopping not the Demon as it crawled up out of the smoke.
Silent at first, and it raised its head,
Giving out a roar of a Arch Demon.
" Report!Arch Demon emerging ! "
Reported a Scout StarBreaker
" It possess unseen evade abilities ! Our Ammunition can't do it any harm !"
" Keep it still ! Launch more pods to sustain its movement !"
Solo, General of StarBreakers gave out the orders.
" But Sir !"
Firren, now in upgraded StarBreaking armor and promoted ranks asked Solo
" The contact to that tower is broken ! And Yuri's is in that Tower ! We must set off at once !"
" Yuri is not in that building anymore, my contacts have reached her ."
Solo whispered to Firren, lowering his voice
" But There's something off about this, Firren... This Arch Demon appearing out of nowhere..."
Firren thought for a moment, and slowly realized
" This Demon right here.. It's not...!!"
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...
He could hear the crumbling and shooting from high above.
This Dark Vitas, sneaking in the shadows of the sophisticated alley ways underneath the high towers and buildings, observed carefully of what was going in above.
" And look how they try to shoot down my mere shadow." cackled the real Arch Demon Plague lurking behind Vitas as they continued their way to find Yuri.
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The children, helplessly watching the Sky pods race their way up to the fiery tower, all destroyed by the great winged Arch Demon's acts and Dark Powers.
Each roar and each strike, shook the glass as it cracked more and more.
" We have to evacuate ! Come on, follow me !"
Neo, leader of children cried.
But the doors of their room was locked !!
" Damn it, they locked us up !!"
Neo cursed.
" You brought us in here !!"
Rio cursed back at Neo
" I told you we shouldn't believe the StarBreakers here !!"
" You never told Nothing !"
Neo pushed Rio out of the way in sheer angst, looking back at the shivering, weeping younger children !
Neo started to think quickly, and found a metal stool nearby, grabbing it up, and hurtled it at the locked door ! And the Stool Died !!
" Die !" Cried the Stool and died.
The children were terrified, by the Demon outside, and also of Neo the Slayer of metal stools.
Just as the children began to lose hope, a soft voice called to them all comfortingly
" Everyone ! This way!"
It was a soft voice, bright, confident and full of hope, calling to those in peril to rise them back to their feet.
The children followed and saw a secret passage from a secret Wall, opened by a secret loli in
white robes and long curly blue hair ! Robes that exposed her white shoulders and milky tender back. Her eyes glistening, dawning hope on those who she cared with her brightened heart.
Rio was aroused at the site of this angelic little girl.
" Rio ! Don't stand idle, Run !"
Kai cried.
Rio couldn't get his eyes off that loli.
Such a loli.
They walked down a secret path and finally to a bridge, a Sky bridge leading to a majestic gate !
The children ran as fast as their legs could take them.
But oh Neo the leader of children saw rocks crumbling, on one of his kin !
Neo pushed the kid out of danger, but the rock crashed onto the bridge, breaking parts of its foundations and Neo was thrown to the air, grabbing at one last remaining edge with his small strong arms
" Neo !!"
Neliya cried.
All the children rushed to save Neo, who shouted back in haste
" Don't Come, Run !!"
Neo cried out to all as more and more rocks tumbled down from above
" Follow Kai ! Kai, Lead them ! !"
And the children were stumped and undecided.
Neliya still but reached out to Neo nonetheless.
" Neo ! ! ! Grab my hand !!"
Neliya cried, but all the explosions above them, the fire and destruction. The children must go.
Lo, to the children's utter shock, The Arch Demon made a wing swipe, and destroyed dozens of Sky pods !
Those the Sky pods now dropping towards the children on bridge !!
Kai has made his decision, and shouted to the children
" Move on, Everyone !! To Safety !! "
Neo saw this and was glad
" Neliya, it's alright. Go, follow Kai....."
and slowly, Neo's shaking hands could hold on no longer and slipped.
Just before Neliya and loyal Kai went to grab him up !!
" Kai...?!?!?!" Neo uttered in shock, as the rubble crumbled all around them still.
" I won't leave you behind, Neo."
Kai vowed and together with all their strength, Kai and Neliya pulled Neo back to solid ground.
But the Sky pods fall !!!! Down on Their Heads !!!
Rio protected the Loli of Sky !! Bravely !
And Lo, a rain of small Blue water arrows rained down and cast the falling sky pods away. Rescuing the children all in one go !
" Yaho !! Yuka Sugoii !!"
Jumped out a Moe in StarBreaker suit to the rescue, shooting down the sky pods with her water arrows from her wrist.
The children praised and rejoiced
" Cooool!!"
" Hooray!!!"
Neliya stared at the new coming StarBreaker that saved them all and was surprised
" ... Is it, Yuri..."
Neliya whispered to herself.
" Hey hey !!! Looka !! Yuka can do this !!"
And Yuka the sea blue StarBreaker leapt out with glee from the attention of children, gathered her water arrows and shot out a flurry of water arrows like gatling guns ! At the winged Arch Demon !!
The Arch Demon was unscarred and unhurt, but Annoyed, and breathed out a Demon breath at the Children on bridge !!
" Oh no ! ! ! !"
Yuka cried out at her own blunder !
But numerous large round disks with runes of Power like Sky pods appeared at the last second and flew up to the Demon Fire breath and blocked the blow, absorbing the force and saving the children !
" Here here!Kept you waiting huh〜"
And Lo spake a teacher like StarBreaker with a microphone, and with Beeg Boobs and long greyish blue hair tied to a curly braid floated up on her large Sky pod to rescue the children
" Come now, hop on in~"
The greyish blue StarBreaker escorted the children onto her army of round disk sky pods, and turned to the sea blue Starbreaker who uses darts and arrows of water
" Not you, Yuka. You are useless."
" No ! Take me, Yuno ! Take me ! Let me in !!"
And Yuka the blundering StarBreaker cried, clinging on one side of the large Sky pod as they flew away to safety.
" But Your highness, where do you wish to go ?"
Rio asked lovingly to the white loli, who was flattered so.
" To my tower then, come, I'll lead you there."
Bowed this Princess of Sky courteously with a cute smile.
Rio had a boner and pledged his allegiance to this Princess of Sky.
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Solo shook his head gravely
" Hold FIre !!!!! " Solo cried to his Starbreaker army
" This Arch Demon is just reflecting our attacks...Seal the gates and barriers !! The real culprit is on the run !!!"
Firren punched the wall in anger, leaping out of the military outpost and towards the streets, dashing with his fiery blades pointing backwards to push him as he zig zagged above the building sides and towers as fast as he could.
The Arch Demon shadow saw Firren with its demonic keen eyes, and rose up with a swipe of its wings and dashed towards Firren, flying forth to stop Firren.
Firren and Demon Wyvern fought a fight on Sky World rooftops, but Arch Demon loomed, attracting skypods and all sorts of things with it's dark wind to smash Firren's path !
Firren was trapped under it's schemes !!
Then Firren see two streaks of light of two different color soar high to top the air, and slowly, gracefully diving down.
The next second,
Firren heard no sound,
Sound itself was penetrated,
And Space and Time were all halted and elongated as the Striking two Beams of Light struck down through the copy Arch Demon's back, and bursting out, from all directions of the Demon turning it to a ball of long thorns.
But as each beam pierced through, more sprouted out of its tip, growing more and more out trapping the huge Arch Demon shadow in more and more spears, penetrating every inch of its dark hide.
" Go, Firren !!"
Solo cried from the microphones
" General Caerlia.... Her Exaltedness, She is on the field !! Just Run, don't stop !"
Firren heard of what it was but hadn't seen it for the first time, and how it destroys this Demon Brought chills down Firren's spine.
With millions of Photon spears piercing out of it from inside out, the Arch Demon gave a final roar of agony, before exploding into dark ash and dispersed.
" Fe · Pilias ! Ag· Liykan !"
Firren heard the echoing voice of Her Exaltedness herself, floating high above theskies, standing on one of Five of her many crooked machine like long Lance rifles, as two other crooked machine Lance rifles flew out from around Firren and went back to their master's side, all Seven Lance rifles gathered around this Exalted Starbreaker among Starbreakers
" Go fetch that Demon Prisoner back for me, you two ."
The Exalted Starbreaker whispered to her two flying rifle lances,
And the two rifles that just destroyed the Arch Demon copy in just seconds sped off to the edges of Sky World, aiming at a far away shadow, fleeing with his two dark wings !
Vitas ! ! !
Firren saw, fleeing off the horizons and stood up to fight.
" Stay down, Firren."
Caerlia, The Prime of All StarBreakers, the Lansara Prima, Her Exaltedness, The Incarna and the Reviving Kundala, spake to this Firren below her with a queenly tone
" Even you are not safe in the Skies now."
And with a point of her finger at the fleeing Vitas, like a minuscule fly at the end of the skies, the Two Lance rifles fired their zigzagging beams as the beams began sprouting out more beams of sizzling Light and all those sprouted photon beams spread out More photon Beams and all those new photon beams of light sprout out more and more, and soon with just blinks of the eyes,
Firren's eyes were filled with Light Beams spreading across the skies, covering the blue like a blazing carpet of Sky fire, all piercing towards this one Vitas !!
Vitas opened his anti light shield !!
His Demonic wings covering his body !
He zoomed, as fast as he could out of the barrier, to safety !!
" This is too much, We must Leave !!!"
Arch Demon Plague cried to Vitas
" Find The Yuri girl later !!!"
But one, one light beam among all the others, broke the outer brim of his shield, and pierced through his leg, his calf, going through the tibia.
Vitas uttered a cry of sheer pain.
Yuri heard this shout from afar
" STOP ! !"
Yuri shouted and the white particles escorting her stopped and the pale blue hair Moe reappeared, holding Yuri's hand.
( Yuri....?)
She asked.
" Take me there !!"Yuri pointed at where the millions and millions of light beams were heading
" Take me there !! Please !!!!"
Yuri's hand clenched hard, tightly to the girl's who was uncertain what to do.
But the eyes, the color of Yuri's determined eyes,
They are of the same color.
( Alright.)
The girl understood and took a deep breath,
And produced a water bottle from her pouch and began drinking water.
( Gulp, gulp, gulp, gulp...)
Yuri waited in utter surprise,
And finally the girl finished drinking and with another deep breath
( Let's go, Yuri.)
" Let's go!"
And they sped forth in white particles.
Even with one leg down, Vitas sped here and there, evading most of the coming beams, but the more he evade, the more the photon Beams came, raining down more and more and more as they sprouted out at him, covering the skies with all but Beams of Light.
Vitas was slowly trapped and two more beams penetrated his spleen.
Vitas gagged and spet dark blood.
" MOVE !! I'll heal the wounds !!!"
Plague cried as Arch Demon matter tried to cover the bleeding scorthed wounds, but to Vitas and Plague's utter shock, the beams that penetrated his calf and abdomen all sprouted out more beams from within wounds, piercing out of the already bleeding orifices, ripping his skin and flesh and tearing his body apart from inside out.
Vitas screamed and screamed and screamed, raped by the light beams in such a horrid manner that he finally fell, passing out in the sky.
His memories,
His love,
The School,
Yuri,
Singing on that rock.
He would stay behind that rock,
And listen to Yuri sing.
These lies... These betrayal.....
Yuri ! ! ! ! !
I Will Save You From This ! ! !
And the StarBreakers saw,
Solo watched from afar,
Firren saw it not far away,
The children sitting on Sky pods, awed by the beams of Her Exaltedness,
And Yuri, saw,
Vitas, impaled through all sides, his mouth, eyes, not a single orifice and limb were spared and all the lances, Beams of Light struck in hard and piercing out of Vitas, deep through, and then with one last twitch of the Vitas, the light beams all sprouted out together and ripped this Vitas Dark Unerva into smithereens of Dark Ash,
His dark blood dripping like rain in a small radius.
Yuri came forth, kneeling before the ash trays that was once a young man, a young kid,
Once Vitas.
" Vitas..."
Yuri whispered, to the pile of ash from the remains of Vitas she could gather around her feet
" I must remember.....
I must remember what you remembered....
We lived together,
We grew up together,
We knew each other,
We loved each other,
But you are betrayed... And now.....
.... You are gone... Forever... To my Memories.... Vitas..."
And the girl stood behind Yuri, letting her weep tragically over the demise of This Vitas Man.
The dark ash remains swept far, swept accordingly off the bariers of the Skyworld and to the beyond.
Yuri wept and wept, until the pain in her abdomen took her, and she fell. On Vitas' remains.
Caerlia Lansara Suprima, The Starbreaker champion slowly floated down to ground after her performance of Demon slaying
" Go, rest now, my fellow subjects."
She said, not to Firren standing behind her utterly cowed, but to her crooked StarBreaking Lance rifles, that flew away to her abode
" Be not flames of destruction,
But to defend, protect the gates of the Land of Light ! !"
She wasn't talking to any StarBreaker, but to her rifles.
She is a protector, more than a destroyer.
Her eyes looking down coldly in those Demons that try to rape the land of Light with their repulsive nature,
And Her sneer of leisure before they Demons were impaled.
Yet in silence, the warmth in her palm, or the slight frown when in the skies,
For this Land she knew and believed,
Betrayers of Light,
Be gone with thee.
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Gusts of Night breeze came and as if picking up Vitas' remains, they blew them up, throwing it back down to the earth, with the shard of his shield, all that was Vitas down they descended to the land below.
Where the Dark Beings, the Dark Unerva were waiting with pride down under.
Oh Vitas, Rider of Plague, they praised in their own language
Impaled by Light, forsaken by Lies,
Never gives up, on Faith and Love,
Never give up what's True.
You will Transcend, Vitas,
You will not Fly, Vitas,
You will Spread !!
You will Surpass !!
You will Evolve.
And the Dark Unervas danced under the two moons, like tentacles of Nano Scourge swinging about, and Varium, giving out some essence from her dark hand, they combined them, into one new atrocity,
A gathering of pus and misgivings,
A rememberance that will never let go,
An outspread fever of lust and emotions like a disease,
Vitas is Dead,
But he returned, as Vernuii,
As The Rider of the ressurected Archdemon Plague.
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" Alright, class, so how do we know the area of this circle ?
Anyone ? No ?"
Old Castiel asked the class, the children, who were either in deep thought or edge of deep slumber.
" Well it is simple."
Old Castiel drew a straight line from the center of the circle out to the brim
" See ? This be a radius. With this radius here....
Yuri, wake Up."
Where...? Am I...?
The children laughed at the child sitting by the window, yawning and searching for her text book.
The old guy wasn't pleased.
Oh...It's...Me...
Yuri watched,
As her younger self placed her text book on the desk and whispered something to the boy sitting next to her
" Gosh, this class is boring. Let's go out and play already !"
The boy chuckled and both the little girl and little boy started chatting quietly and writing small notes to each other,
Smiling together.
Yuri found an empty seat,
And sat down,
Watching the two having fun, while she wept.
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" Secretary, for symptoms like this, I highly recommend a full examination, a scanning, if you will...."
" Not now, Dr. Austrius."
Reina refused the White StarBreaker Doctor Austrius' proposal
" what Yuri needs now is rest."
Reina caressed the blue hair of the sleeping Yuri in a comfy bed of a new hospital tower.
" But secretary, are you not curious of what is wrong, Inside Her ?"
Austrius asked, eager to cut Yuri open with a Starbeaking saw
" I heard that she had close... Intimate contact with a Dark Unerva before. What wonders can we discover, if you leave her to me..."
" Yuri is not leaving our protection at this current state, Doctor !"
Leina refused adamantly, the Androids of the Betelgeuse began shoving Australia out
" The last time she's under Your check up, you restrained her to a bed. Let not happen a second time."
" We need... Answers, secretary."
Austrius seemed to sneer under his crow shaped StarBreaking helm he wears all the time, concealing the disfigured face and mental welfare underneath
" Tis be a beautiful specimen not even possible in our laboratories.... If you do reconsider..."
" No. Get out."
Reina had the doctor leave.
Austrius smirked and left the scene.
" Reina姉...?"
Reina hurriedly came to Yuri's bedside
" What is it Yuri ?"
The secretary asked holding Yuri's hand closely to listen.
But Yuri was reluctant, turning away slightly sadly.
" It's alright, Yuri."
Reina whispered softly
" Whenever you are ready. I'll be here for you."
" Leina姉..."
Yuri finally said in a weak whisper.
" Yes, Yuri?"
" What if... What if, there is a past, before the world here, and... We had a life there.
What if... Vitas is right——"
" ...Yuri."
Reina said softly, but very seriously
" What matters before is behind us."
" But he knows !"
Yuri cried back, in the verge of tears
" He knows who I was, who I once were ! He remembers... What is true..."
" Everything here,right now, is also true, Yuri."
Reina comforted her
" We are true. What Vitas said, was one part true, but that doesn't mean what we do now is meaningless.
Don't worry, Yuri. You are whoever you are. You'll always be my that little sister of mine.
And now, the only Truth that matters is you need rest."
Yuri looked at Reina, looking straight into her eyes for a long silence.
" What is it ?"
Leina asked.
Yuri shook her head
" Nothing."
And Yuri buried herself into the quilts and turned to sleep, burying her smile as well underneath the quilts.
Reina chuckled and patted her head, before leaving the room.
But Yuri didn't fall asleep at once.
She crept out of bed, and looked around the rooms, looking for unusual Eyes.
Eyes from the Thousands Screens somewhere,
Somewhere she had seen in her memory.
Screens of floating light, light Beings and live in the water they drink from.
Screens of armored Beings, stronger than StarBreakers, more powerful in every way.
Screens of the skies full of Airships, armies full of cannons.
And the screen of the Land of Light.....
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" Yuri, wait !!"
The small loli scampered quickly and turned into a corner, and stopped.
" Yuri, what's wrong ?!
You have been acting strangely, since last night !"
The loli panted, leaning her back on the stone wall at the back of the school, where they were alone.
Her eyes on the ground.
" Yuri....?"
" Vitas....."
The boy nodded and listened carefully.
" It's... I sneaked out last night."
The boy seemed not at all surprised.
" Where ?" The boy asked calmly.
" The backyard. I followed headmaster Skyman.....
He walked along the bushy road, and then... There's a door on the ground.. Next to the rock....."
" Next to the rock ?!"
The boy was surprised.
There was no door there to his knowledge.
The loli nodded, her body shaking
" It was open, so I went in...."
And the loli fell silent.
" And then ?"
The loli didn't speak.
Her eyes, looking at her shoes.
" Yuri, what did you see ?!"
The boy cried, shaking both the loli's shoulders.
But the loli gave a sharp squeak as the boy touched her right shoulder, and she sprang away in fear.
" Yuri !!"
The loli tripped, and fell.
The boy took the loli's hand tightly, and hugged her close.
None of them spoke,
As they stood by the wall,
The loli sobbed quietly.
" Headmaster Skyman was there. Standing in front of a lot of screens, looking at many things... Many terrible things..... And.. And...."
The loli hugged Vitas, to calm herself of her panic attack from what she saw.
" Just... screens...?!"
Vitas grew angry, his anger, his hate on Caesar sensei for making Yuri afraid like this.
But Yuri shook her head.
Not just the things on the screens.
" There are children.... Like us... In glass tanks of water... With.... Light..... And... And.... And..."
And Yuri fell, shivering all over and wailing in fear.
Vitas' fist clenched and was ready to avenge.
" I'll... I'll find the Headmaster ! !"
" DON'T !!"
Yuri screamed, grabbing Vitas' hand frantically
"Headmaster... He is angry... He... He forced me to a chair... And took the Light from the tank and..... And..... He will do it to you too ! Don't go...!!"
Vitas more angered at what he heard
" He... forced you to a chair....?!"
Vitas' hate, such hate.
Such love.
" What did he do ?! What have he done to you, Yuri ! ! ! !"
And out of fear, out of need for consolation,
Yuri slowly rolled up her sleeve with her shaking hands and revealed
A white bandage placed on the side of her arm.
" Headmaster had a sharp needle...full of shining blood, And.... And.... He pierced inside me....."
And Vitas, in his anguish, hugged the crying loli, his youth and helplessness angered his every cell if his body, his hate making his blood boil.
" Vitas..."
The loli sobbed
" Am I going to Die...?"
The tears flowing down like streams
" I don't want to Die....!
Vitas....
Save Me...!!"
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Yuri, sitting on her bed facing the glass window, rolled up her sleeve,
And there in her reflection, on her right arm
A small scar, was all it left.
A mark of time.
Now Yuri believed, that what she once believed of this world before her first memory, the Land Before Light,
Was true.
And he is watching
Seeing from every corner, every mechanic eye around her,
Behind those thousand screens.
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At night, Rio sneaked out to find the Princess of Sky World, against his friend Finnir's disapproval, even though Finnir followed Rio out of curiosity.
The two boys came to the headquarters of StarBreakers, and there, all the Airships gathered, with their captains and StarBreaker leaders, all waited before a large tall pedestal.
A majestic grand site to behold. And the two boys were blown away.
" She's there, Rio !"
Finnir pointed at the top of the Great pedestal where a throne stood slanting, and next to that throne, is the Princess !
" Captains, StarBreakers,
Welcome Back to Sky World."
The Princess of the Skies greeted the Airships below with a courteous bow.
The captains and StarBreakers returned the courtesy with loyal salutes.
" Look ! Bradson Captain ! And Reina ! And Firren leader were there !"
Finnir pointed them out below , But Rio's eyes were too glued onto the shining Princess of blue Skylight.
" For the Next Phase of our Mission, our High Lord of the Skies has planned long and hard for this gathering to take place."
Announced the Princess
" Now, it's time, for you to pledge allegiance one last time, to rid the World of Dark, cleanse the Land of its dark stains, pray lead our Souls,
To The Land Of Light."
Finnir observed the Princess, and watched then the Throne behind her, which was so bright, so blinding and shimmering a figure sitting so high above all Airships and men, like the Star Core of the Skies at bloom.
This High King..... The Lord of Light !
Also Finnir saw, A warrior StarBreaker Queen in splendid uniform of highest rank, stood at the other side of the throne, looking down at the world coldly with seven crooked machine Lance rifles circling behind her menacingly.
That's the StarBreaker Goddess that destroyed the Arch Demon's shadow in one go, Thought Finnir, chills down his spine through instinct fear.
Then finally, a hand came out of the blinding light of the throne and the Princess loli listened, and nodded.
And Lo the Princess announced
" Now, may the Oath begin."
And captains came forward to the throne high on top of the pedestal, handing over the Light their ships had gathered and placing them before the King of Light, pledging their allegiance as they came forth.
" Zaiten, at your service."
The Captain of Airship Zaiten knelt before the Skylord, placing the container of Light it collected from the common folk throughout its travels before the throne.
" Yamitir, at your service."
Knelt the next Captain.
" Waimar, at your service."
Knelt the next.
" Simultron...."
" Rondomea...."
Finnir listened to all the strange names of ships, and watching the captains handling in their Light containers.
Such strange ritual, thought Finnir in wonder.
" Matshallar at your service."
An arab Captain knelt.
" Hydrangea at your service."
Knelt a blond gentlmanly Captain.
" Forleo....."
" Eoneon...."
" Delfalak....At your service."
A bold Captain knelt hesitantly with snide ideas. He was once planned to have screentime in OG Before Light, but was cut out early. Now he bets his next chances in the Remastered version.
" Chelavita, at your service, King."
Lo, it's Reina secretary, now promoted to Reina Captain, with her own ship, and by her side, Seito and Momo !! Joining her as the ship's StarBreakers !
Finnir applauded proudly. But Rio couldn't care less.
The Sky Princess is too Kawaii.
Firren the Flame Starbreaker looked around at all the captains clapping in unison and noticed, all their eyes looking forth blankly, their hand clapping synchronized like robots at work. Possibly mind controlled by someone very fond of memory manipulation.
But not every captain is under such spell.
" .... Betelgeuse....."
Bradson Captain, walking passed Firren, up to the pedestal of Light, putting down his light container down like a Chad and stood,
before this illusive King of Light behind his brightness.
Bradson Captain's robes flapping with the wind blowing behind his back.
This Captain stared back, like meeting an old friend.
" Say it."
Spake the calm voice of a man behind the light
" Say it, Cas."
Captain Castiel Bradson stared back in a menacing frown,
Fighting back the Light blinding his eyes.
" The Betegeuse...at your service..."
[......To be Continued]