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Hours Before joining the other captains to pay tribute before the light throne of the Skylord, Captain Bradson came to the infirmary alone, quietly, gently he entered, approaching the deep slept Yuri's bedside, taking a seat and placed it next to Yuri's bedside and sat down.
His hands caressing Yuri's sky blue hair gently
" Yuri.... My dear child..."
His old wrinkled eyes closed, to cease his tears from coming out
" I have been searching for you, hiding you, taking you far away, from all the torments and darkness of the world.... But fate has to bring you back still."
Old Castiel Bradson sighed, a long sigh of his time, a sigh of grief
" Forgive me, child, for being too late... Forgive me, Yuri.... Forgive Papa Bradson... Forgive Sensei...."
The old Captain shed a tear
" Soon, the Skylord may take over my mind... I am too old, too weak... But I will still try....
You must fight alone now, Yuri, Trust what you are, and what you can become..... .....Alas,
....With all I have done wrong,
I must have done something right,
To share these memories, New and Old,
With all of you... Sweet Children....
..... Goodbye, Yuri...and Fear No Darkness."
Bradson Captain walked out of the room.
As the old captain walked pass the door, passing by three young starbreakers guarding outside Yuri's room. It was the three blue Starbreakers that saved the children from the crumbling tower that day before, Yuka, Yuno, and Yun.
Yuno the one with the curly long hair leaning by the wall watched, eyeing with narrowed eyes at the old captain's leave silently.
Yuka however, stood up from the floor she was sitting this whole time, and looked at the Old Captain angrily
" ..... Fight back... Sensei !!"
Yuka cried angrily, tears in her eyes
" Don't let it take you.....! Fight it, Sensei ! ! !
..... Don't give up so easily..."
" It's useless, Yuka."
Yuno stopped her and the let the Old Bradson Captain walked away in peace, like he didn't see them or hear them at all.
Yun the silent one comforted the strong minded Yuka as she cried quietly in anguish, of longing.
She would miss that old man.
They all will.
" Now is the turning point, girls."
Yuno said to the other two, Yuka, and Yun
" To Help Yuri Retreive,
The Herunis Carna."
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.....
Hours later,
at the Grand Gathering of Airship Captains.
" Say it..."
The One King in the Light commanded, crawling up from his bright high throne
" Say it.... Cas ! ! !"
" ....Betelgeuse..... Pledges Allegiance....
....My Lord."
Captain Castiel Bradson spoke wearily.
" Good...."
The Sky King sat back down at ease
" ...I thought I lost you,Cas..... and all the children...Yuri....It will be like old times, Cas. With you by my side, saving the world...with.....Claudia.
But still....some things must be done."
And the Skylord tapped with his thin crooked fingers the glistening Starbreaking Crown on his head as the jewels, saphires, and mechanic wires and lights all glowed like the blooming stars in the night sky, beaming down onto the old captain as Bradson's eyes were locked by the glow of one prominent red beam at the center of the crown, the one Red jewel filling in all its blaze into old Bradson's eyes.
" ....Memories....will not die this easily....Caesar !!"
Castiel Bradson cried with his last breath before passing out by the Red jewel's blaze.
Firren, without the Skylord's consent, rushed to the captain's side to break old Bradson's fall.
" Hoh.....Firren, is it ? You are a Leader Starbreaker now as well ? How you've grown...."
The Skylord spake god like.
FIrren knelt silently with Bradson in his arms, dare not make a sound.
" .....Bradson Captain must have trained you well..." The Skylord sighed, and began to chuckle eerily
".....say, Firren, What is your first memory ?"
Firren froze.
" The Lord is asking, Starbreaker Firren !"
The Starbreaker Prima Caerlia admonished harshly.
" ...The flames that were burning at my hometown..... sacked by Demons, my Lord. Starbreaker came to save me.....that's all I can remember....."
The Skylord nodded ever so slightly
" .....Good.....bring the Captain back to his quaters, Firren. Make sure the Captain has his ample rest."
Quickly Firren brought Bradson back to safety as the Skylord resume his riruals
" Now we are gathered, All the Light in this World Back To Me At Last....."
And The King sucked all the Light from the containers the Captains gathered, sucking them Light all into him and he became Ten Times Brighter the King he was
" All the Energy.... Finally... All will not be in Waste...no more..."
The king began to sob, around the lifeless figures standing around him,
Lifeless Airships,
Lifeless StarBreakers,
Lifeless Captains,
Lifeless Light,
He laughed, and sobbed, gaining his harvest of the World he built through manipulations and lies, ready to let them all Go.
" What the heck.....???"
Finnir was confused, seeing this King sob and laugh in his ball of light.
" Oh, that's creepy."
Rio agreed
" Anyways, isn't she cute ?"
Rio sighed lovingly at his Princess.
" You may all be dismissed."
The king ordained and the Captains and StarBreakers all left.
" Sora."
" Yes, Father."
And before the two kids Rio and Finnir's eyes,
This Sora, Princess of Sky gathered all the Light above her, and inhaled them with the cutest yet most beautiful way before living eyes,
gathering all the Light in the huge Hall, all over the throne, all over the place
Then the light, all gone,
trapped inside the Princess' body.
And Finnir finally saw,
The King,
out of his illusive shroud of Light.
" Wait....."
Finnir felt dizzy, his stomach turning upside down.
All because he saw, That Face.
A Face his memories couldn't recognize, But his body does, rejecting all contact towards that person on top of all.
" Rio... That's get out of here..."
Finnir whispered, covering his mouth not to puke.
" Uh huh..."
Rio left to follow the Sky Princess who began descending the tall pedestal.
But then Rio felt a pressure onto him, pushing his back.
" Finnir ! Don't rush..... Finnir ?!?!"
Finnir Fainted !!!
Rio, giving one last look at the Princess, reluctantly, carried Finnir behind his back and ran back to their dormitory.
Sora turned around.
" Sora, come."
Bade Skylord Caesar Skyman gently.
" Yes, Father."
Sora the sky princess followed her maker up into the Lord's chambers.
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After hours of searching for suspicious places where the Figure behind the million screens might peek from, Yuri failed, finding no clues whatsoever and lay back to bed feeling tired and lost.
This Sky Lord.....
Yuri thought, folding her arms and sitting in her bed, frowning in deep brood,
Brooding her deep sunken, broken memories.
He gathers Light that swims in the Sea,
He puts children in glass tanks with the Light,
He put Light blood into me,
But what is he hiding ?
What crimes and deceit exactly is he hiding ?
Why hide it ?
Yuri tried to think it through, but aside from too little information from the Past from her dreams, Her memories Before her first memory not yet fully remembered, there's still one problem that's enabling her to concentrate.
It's the constant whispering and chatting outside her door.
Yuri puffed her cheeks in dismay, and went to the door to make those rude StarBreakers shut up when she stopped before the door as she heard
" Patience, Yuka, she might be still asleep. Let us wait."
" No ! Not now then never ! We've waited all this time ! And she's finally here ! Let's get her !"
( Umm... Your voices might be too loud....)
Yuri listened carefully with her ears pressed to the door.
The third voice she recognized, it's the girl StarBreaker with short pale blue hair that saved her from the falling tower.
But, who are the other two....
" Actually, we don't have to argue, Yuka."
The calm elegant voice of reason said to the impatient hot headed one
" Yun, do you mind, passing through this door and see if Yuri's awake ?"
Nani ?! Pass through this door ?!
Yuri leapt back and grabbed her pillow to defend herself.
( Umm... I'll try...)
" Humph ! That's not a bad idea.."
" I'll take that as a compliment from you, then."
" HUMPH !! Don't get all too cocky, Yuno !!"
" Alright~alright~"
And Yuri saw white midst appear all around her bedroom door and sparkles of StarBreaking runes light up and opened a fog gate, and from the other side came
( .... )
" ....."
Yuri and the girl half crawling out of the fog gate stared at each other.
Yuri holding her pillow as a weapon.
(..... YIII !!!)
The girl retreat !
Yuri couldn't help herself,
And smacked her pillow onto the poor shy girl's head, before she vanished to the other side.
" Yun !! What's wrong !! Why cries thou ?!
What just happened???!!!!!!"
And that moment, Yuri saw the door kicked down by stunning force of a force kick from outside and Lo, a hot headed young girl StarBreaker bashed forth, wrists of water arrow blades raised to the level of combat.
" Who is it ?!Who dares hurt our Yuno ?!?!"
This intruder cried menacingly.
" You're sneaking outside my room, that's why !!"
Yuri shouted back, holding her pillow still
" Did the Sky Lord send you ?! To Spy and watch me from his many screens ?! Stand back !! Or I'll.... I'll....."
And Yuri fell to a kneel, holding her lower abdomen weakly all of a sudden.
" Eh ?! What ?! Oy !! What's wrong with you ?!?!"
The aggressive StarBreaker cooled down immediately seeing Yuri fall to the ground.
The calm one called Yuno dashed in To the room in haste and observed Yuri up and down.
" Oy Yuno ?! What's wrong with her ?! Did I defeat her only with my raw power ??"
" No ! She is too weak !!"
The one called Yuno replied calmly, who seldom deals in urgency, pulled out her water bottle and fed Yuri some fresh water slowly
" She's..... She's dehydrated, And....."
( And..??)
Yun the shy one asked, holding her head fearfully.
Yuno hesitated at first, and shook her head
" I don't know. This never happened to us. It's something special to Her, and Her alone."
" Perhaps she's just weak. Lame. Unlike me."
Yuka proudly looked at herself and her wrists of water arrows.
" No, you are just plain stupid."
" NANI !!!!"
Yuno carried Yuri up and put her back down onto the bed.
" Who.... Are you.....??"
Yuri asked in a whisper, trying to sit up and look at them more clearly.
" Fear not. We are not with the Sky Lord you speak."
Yuno calmly answered, hoisting Yuri back down to lie in bed
" We are you..... Your New Teammates of the Betelgeuse, Yuri.
I am Yuno, and this is Yun who you have met before.
And that is Yuka, a plain idiot."
" I am not an idiot!I am Yuka, the strongest!!"
Yuka barked angrily at the introduction, like an angry critter.
" Of course of course, now Keep quiet, Yuri needs more rest."
Yuno placed her quilt to place and tucked Yuri back to bed.
" But... But...."
Yuri still has many questions, but fell back asleep nonetheless.
" Oy oy, you are not taking this seroiusly, Yuno !"
Yuka pointed an accusing finger at Yuno.
" Shhhhh !!"
( Shhhhhhhh !!)
Both Yuno and Yun hissed at the stupid one.
" Fine ! But Yuno ! You lied to Yuri !! We aren't——"
" She needs to calm down and rest first. After all, we are on the same side.
There will be a better time to explain everything to her, just not now."
Yuka sighed
" Alright...How long are we going to wait after this...??"
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2 full Weeks Later.
And there Yuri was, rehydrated and fighting demons again in dilapidated business buildings, with the help of her three new friends !
Of course, Yuka forgot everything about what they were supposed to tell Yuri two weeks later and just enjoyed life and fight demons.
" Haha ! I go Punch !"
And Yuka went to punch many flying ghost like Horse Demons flying and zooming around, countering Yuka's attacks and hitting her from all sides.
" Help ! Save me !!"
Yun rescued her up to a broken building where the others were gathered, looking at Yuka's wounds worriedly.
" There are too many of them ! And only Me doing the attack !"
Yuka argued to her teammates.
" Yeah, we know."
Yuno said, already tired of Yuka being angry
" That's why we asked you to come back here before you jumped down and and say 'Haha, I go punch'."
" Oh. My bad."
Yuka sad, like a critter that had failed to bring back a ball from the park, as Yun patted her head to comfort her
" But... But I thought I am mighty and strong enough."
" We all have our limits, Yuka."
Yuri spake to her teammates, more mature then she once was
" And we support each other, as a team. I have a plan, a strategy from my old 隊長."
" Your old 隊長 ??"
Yuka asked incredulously
" But Yuri, our allegiance is to Betelgeuse, to—"
" Stop joking around. Yuri, what's the plan ?"
Yuno inquired, knocking the idiot on the head.
" These Horse Demons work as a pack, with a leading Demon, hiding somewhere."
Yuri explained
" I'll lure the pack and Yuno, you track down the Leader Demon with your Air pods."
" Swell !! I'll go slay the Demon Leader while you're at it !"
Yuka was about to jump down and punch again.
" No ! Yuka ! Stay !"
Yuri called and Yuka stayed, crestfallen.
Yuri turned to the all silent one standing alone in the corner
" Yun, you are more suitable for the task to sneak in and fight the Leader. Can you do it ?"
Yuri asked.
Yun was surprised at first, but then looked away reluctantly.
" Yun ?! Yun fighting the boss ?! Can't do, can't do, Yun attack weak, me strong. I am more suitable for the task."
Yuka supported herself.
But Yun agreed silently.
She would agree to what everyone saids.
" Perhaps Yuka is right, Yun can't take down the Leader Demon..."
Yuno suggested to Yuri in a whisper.
But Yuri shook her head
" Yuka is strong, but she is better as Support.
While Yun can fight too."
" Nani ?! No no !! Me Attack ! Not Support !"
Yuka barked.
Yuno silently thought for a moment
" But... You lure the Demon pack, Yuri. Are you sure about that ?"
" Yass."
Yuri nodded confidently
" I've done it before."
Yuno sighed
" Okay. Let's try something new for a change."
And Yuno put on her StarBreaking helmet shaped like a large radar and sent her Air pods away to many directions, looking for the Leader Horse Demon.
(...But...)
Yun whispered, unsure of herself.
" Yun."
Yuri came to the shy StarBreaker
" You need confidence. You are a StarBreaker too, so you have the power to Fight too !"
Yuri smiled, holding Yun's hand in hers.
Yun reluctantly shook her head and pulled her hands back
(....I am sorry... I.. I am weak.... I can support you and protect you from getting hurt, why not let Yuka...do it?）
" You can use them to protect yourself too, right, Yun ?!"
Yuri asked
" You can fight too..."
( But I don't want to lose...!)
Yun talked back, raising her voice higher than her usual squeak, but loud enough to surprise the others
( I am sorry... Yun... Loses all the time,
I cannot fight....)
" Yes, You can, Yun !! You are stronger than you think, I knew it, ever since you saved me out of that building ! Believe in yourself——" Yuri encourages the shy one.
( No.. I...I can't....)
And Yun turned transparent and began scattering into blue particles.
" Wait, Yun !! Come back....."
But Yun disappeared.
Yuri was speechless.
" Yuri."
Yuno came to her
" I have located the Leader Demon. It's under that building on our right."
Yuri nodded
" Leave the Leader Demon to me."
Yuri after a pause of planning reluctantly made her descision
" Yuka, let's go."
" Yay, punch punch !"
" No, Yuka, you go stand on that building.
You'll punch when I'll tell you when to punch."
Yuri pointed to a dilapidated building top not far away.
" But !!!"
" You go, I'll give you my Choco bar later !"
Yuri reluctantly made the deal.
" Yay, Deal !" Yuka hopped away cheerfully.
Yuri jumped down and with one shot of her rifle, the horse demons all appeared, like smoke fuming out from the crevices and cracks and together they chased Yuri, who shot out her grappling hooks and flew from one building to the other, finally leading the Horse Demons to where Yuka stood high above.
" Yuka, Punch !!"
Yuri cried, dashing into the building, kicking through the window with one determined strike.
Yuka began to chant her incantation, loud and long, to gather all the Water arrows in her wrists and in the Skies she could muster and finally,
Finishing her long chant, Yuka jumped up high to the air above the confused pack of horse Demons and punched down with a cry of victory,
As millions of water arrows from the Sky shot down in full speed, piercing all the Demons into porcupines in one fell swoop, destroying them all.
" Yuka Win win !!"
Yuka cheered, punching the sky cheerfully.
" Yuno ! Air Pod !"
Yuri quickly got on her feet and bent down in a preparing pose.
" Right away〜"
And an large circular Air pod flew into the building and stopped behind Yuri, gathering energy and then emitting force, pushing Yuri far and fast, soaring through many dilapidated buildings and finally, crashing into the layer of the Leading Horse Demon.
The Leading Horse Demon was Ten Times the size of its minions and with a shriek, more Horse Demons erupted out from under its mane.
Yuri cut her way through, piercing her sword into the Leading Demon's throat.
But The Demon perish not, and with a great swipe of its long neck, it swung Yuri off to the wall, and Yuri broke her rifle !!
Yuri fell, shielding her lower abdomen through sheer instinct, even she was perplexed of her own action, and she rolled down to the contaminated floor safely.
Her rifle, broke through the middle lay below her feet.
" Why do I always break them so easily...."
Yuri moaned.
A small horse demon sped forth to bump Yuri down. Yuri dodged, shielding her lower abdomen still.
Soon, many sky pods arrived, and began Shooting at all the Demons with light rays from all directions.
" Yuri, retreat !"
Yuno's voice called out to her
" You are outnumbered !"
" I am Fine !!"
Yuri shouted back
" Keep firing ! I'll———"
But suddenly a demon knocked her hard from behind, forcing Yuri to the ground as they all ganged up on her, hitting hard from all sides !
" Yuri ?! Yuri ?!!!"
Yuri curled up in pain, but her body, still trying to protect her abdomen at all cost.
Why am I doing this....?!
Yuri wondered, painfully, trying to remember Firren's teachings to fight back.
I must.... Get my rifle.....
Suddenly, the air turned cold, and moist,
And fog began to Form around Yuri.
The horse demons shrieked, and one by one, their heads were cut off by invisible powers from behind.
Yuri sat up, amazed, seeing all the Demons disperse, destroyed by powers that cannot be seen, slashes that came out of no where cutting them all down.
The Leader Demon roared, and a thousand invisible slashes threaded it before it even finished it's final roar, and the Demons all dispersed, into ash.
Yuri, holding her abdomen stood up slowly,
To see the sun dawn down, its rays illuminating the inner section of the torn building and standing above All the ash remains,
Was Yun,
Holding two StarBreaking daggers engulfed in sparkling fog.
" .....Yun....!"
Yuri surprisedly awed, but looked on, to see this Yun unlike the shy fearful girl she was, but her eyes frowning coldly, even viciously at the Demon remains, her presence steaming with vapor through sheer feminine rage.
"..... Yun ? You... Okay ??"
Yun turned around, and seeing Yuri, her presence turned back to her shy timid form in a breathing pace, and she looked at Yuri with tearful eyes
( Yuri...are you hurt?!）
Yun asked, coming close to Yuri, very close, touching her lower abdomen carefully and observing it thoroughly
( Is..Is it because of me...?Is he alright too?)
" ... No no, I am fine, Thank you..Yun ! You did great... "
Yuri replied, not sure why she's asking.
( ....really...??)
Yun smiled, a genuine relieved smile, placing her head onto Yuri's abdomen peacefully
( ...You should be more careful Yuri... You can't get hurt.....)
" ...Of course..."
Yuri nodded, awkwardly, trying to make Yun let go.
" Woh..... what's going on here ?"
Yuka stood by, awed by the site of the two hugging in a awkward manner.
" No !... Wait !! ....Uh... See ?! Yun can fight too ! And she is powerful !...."
Yuri said proudly, and trying to change the topic.
Yuka looked around the ravaged battle ground and back to Yuri and Yun hugging around
" No. You are bluffing."
Yuka didn't believe her
" Yun could never do this."
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The times has changed.
Now the Skylord's final mission to all the Captains has begun, Airships now seldom sail the skies and mostly stayed in Sky World, for the Sky Lord's final Grand project, has now entered it's preparation phase.
All StarBreakers now receive missions directly from The Sky Lord, not their Captains anymore.
And even though all the StarBreakers serve a different part of the Grand Project, none of them truly knew the whole picture.
Illusive is, this Sky Lord was.
Perhaps the Captains know,
Yuri thought, sitting in a smaller Airship drove by Androids.
As the Four of them rested in the lounge of the small Airship, heading tback to Skyworld.
Yuka was playing with Elsa the puppy wolf nearby on the sofa.
Yuno was sipping her water elegantly with her classy tea set,
And Yun....
" Umm.... Yun ?"
Yuri asked.
( ...yes ? )
" You Can, uhh... Like, lie in bed, instead of on..... you know, my lap ??"
Yuri suggested, awkwardly.
Yun has been sticking close to Yuri after their last mission, rather too close for Yuri's liking.
(.... No.)
Yun refused, and buried her face close to Yuri's belly.
Yuri blushed and turned to Yuno, the eldest calm one of the new team
" Yuno, some help here...."
Yuno chuckled, sipping her water
" Mah~ isn't it nice, that you two are getting along pretty nicely ?"
" But..."
Yuri looked down on the shy girl lying comfortably on her lap
" Why all of a sudden, Yun ?"
Yuri asked
" You said you can't fight and you are weak, but you can fight, and you are possibly stronger than Yuka."
" No. Yun is not stronger than me."
Yuka refused to believe anything.
( I don't know...before I realized, they were gone.....)
Yun replied shyly, looking at Yuri's abdomen blushing.
" Anyways, any plans for the afternoon, guys ?"
Yuka asked them
" We've got some extra time to hang out somewhere."
Yuri suddenly remembered something, and had an idea
" Hey ! How about we go meet my friends !"
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....
As soon as they returned, Yuri brought Yun, Yuno and Yuka to the Children's dorm, where the Children stayed inpeace and learn all sorts of things about Skyworld technologies taught to them by Skyworld androids.
" Here ! We baked cookies for you all!"
Neliya, Lucky and Feira all produced piles cookies of chocolate flavor on plates
" Come on ! Have some !!"
Neliya handed Yun a cookie.
" Yay !! Free cookies !!!" Yuka cheered and grabbed a mouthful and stuffed them all in one gulp.
But Yun hid behind Yuri, scared by all the new faces.
" What a strange person."
Lucky commented to Yuri quietly.
" She's just shy.."
Yuri explained, surprised too that Yun is afraid even of children.
Lima stood by and watched Yun carefully
" I don't remember seeing you before..."
Lima asked seriously, looking at Yun, and especially Yun's intimate behavior around Yuri
" Who are you exactly...? "
" Lima, Yun, Yuka and Yuno are my new teammates from Sky World. There's no need to worry."
Yuri explained quickly, but Lima eyed the shy StarBreaker suspiciously.
" It's okay."
Neliya kindly said, putting the cookies they baked into a pouch
" Here, eat it when you feel like it."
Neliya kindly spoke with a gentle smile and Yun took the pouch of choco cookies, nodding with a timid smile.
" I don't trust your new teammates."
Lima said to Yuri outright while Yuri and Lima were alone at a private corner
" I fear they are spies from Sky Lord."
" No. They are not spies."
Yuri disagreed
" But... There is Really something that they haven't told me yet.
But Lima, did you know..."
The million screens,
The Light in the glass,
The shining blood.
" Know what ?"
Lima asked.
Lima looked up at Yuri, who's eyes were looking at the Lollies trying to talk to the shy Yun.
" Lima, you still remember everything, before all this, right ?
Tell me...
Are we all.... Dead, before ?"
Lima paused at Yuri's question
" In some ways.... Yes."
Lima replied, gravely, finally telling Yuri the truth she hid all this time.
Yuri nodded, as her memories so meant was the same as Lima's
" But what are we ? If we were dead ?"
" Caesar Skyman."
Lima spake the name of the one person responsible for everything quietly for Yuri to hear alone
" This man....with his ways, He made you all seem to live up again, with what ways I don't know... But he manipulated all your memories, to gain control over you, us."
At the mention of that name, Caesar Skyman,
Headmaster Skyman,
Yuri felt sick.
" Then...Do you know about this 'Heruins Carna', Lima ?"
Yuri asked, changing the topic.
" I have heard of it before, but never truly knows what it meant. Some say it's a weapon, some say it's a place of peace and love. Maybe The Sky Lord knows what it truly is, and tries to find it and keep it all to himself through memory manipulations. Whatever way he manipulated everyone, I'll make him pay !"
Lima swore, an oath to push over the Age of Sky Lord
" I'll make him return all the memories he had stolen and return them to you all. And then make him confess for his crimes."
Yuri shook her head
" Not right now, Lima. The Sky Lord is stronger than you think. He controls the other StarBreakers and Airships. He has a Grand plan under his sleeve."
" But When ?!"
Lima impatiently asked.
" When more preparations are made Lima. There's still too much we don't know. Perhaps... We may start from..... "
And Yuri whispered to Lima's ear, and Lima nodded.
" Alright. Take care, Yuri."
" You too, Lima."
And Yuri turned to fetch Yun and the others, who's surrounded by curious children and drowning in cookies.
Lima smiled.
Yuri has remembered, though not all of her memories,
But enough to remember the times she and herself had spent together.
Lima, finally had a slight feeling of happiness, of joy with a remaining friend.
But a cat eared loli had heard all of their conversation, and her eyes, staring at Yuri and Lima talking before,
Are One of the million screens, watched by The Skylord before the million screens across the world.
...
...
Yuno and Yuka went to report their mission progress to the Starbreakers headquaters, while they ushered Yuri back to rest earlier, with Yun staying with Yuri to protect her.
" But Yun, they are not scared of you, they like you too."
Yuri said surprised
" You are just too shy, it's alright, soon you'll get used to them. "
Yun shook her head.
As the two sat in a glass cabin moving throughout the Sky City like a metro.
( Perhaps.....)
Yun whispered, looking at the scenery outside sadly,
The flying air pods busily sending resources here and there.
The Base, always at full ablaze all day long, with large construction Androids moving around.
Slowly, Yun moved closer and closer, leaning toward Yuri, and asked timidly
(.....Can I.....?)
Yuri paused and realized what Yun wanted.
" Oh...okay...." Yuri agreed, seeing they were alone , so she let Yun do as she did before, lying down on Yuri's lap and rested.
" Yun really likes lap pillows, huh...."
Yuri sighed with a smile, gently caressing Yun's short blue hair. Yun's ears leaning close to Yuri's belly.
( Perhaps..... I like... Babies....)
Yun finally uttered the word, her face turned crimson red in an instant, sitting back up away from Yuri's lap, looking down at the glass floor of the cabin, her body shaking out of embarrassment.
Yuri looked at Yun with wide eyes.
" What is... babies....?"
Yuri asked, out of the blue.
Yun looked at Yuri, this time it's her turn to stare with wide eyes.
( Yuri..... You don't know.....?)
" No. What is babies ?"
( I... I don't know either !)
Yun turned away quickly, her face deep red
( Look, isn't that Android cute..... ?? Right ?!?!)
Yun asked pointing at a construction Android to change the topic super quick.
" Wait ! You know what it is ! Tell me..."
But Yuri stopped, as she looked closer at the construction Android Yun was just pointing at.
The Android is talking, to Bradson Captain !!
Bradson Captain ordering something to the Android,
And Lo ! It's a ground moving Android, with tires and machine arms to grab and carry heavy objects, and what the Android was carrying, is
" ... It's the Piano...."
And Yuri, though vague they were,
In her memories, the teachers,
They will teach them to sing,
Singing with Vitas,
Singing the lullaby,
With The Piano ! ! !
( Hmm ?)
And to Yun's utter shock,
Yuri quickly exited the glass metro cabin from high above and leapt down with her Starbreaker armor loaded in mid air and crash landed to the same platform as the Construction Android.
Yuri stood up raising her arms at the large construction Android to stop it from leaving.
( .... Wait, Yuri....?!)
Yun quicky transported through light blue midst and appeared next to Yuri
( Yuri, stop.....)
" Stop, Android !"
Yuri cried, trying to block the Android from moving forward
" Stop where you are, Android !!"
" Yuri....?!?!"
Bradson Captain noticed her and approached.
" Please Move aside. You are hindering construction work."
The Android replied.
" Papa, what do you mean by this ?!?!"
" Yuri, move away from the Android. It's dangerous."
Captain Bradson advices sternly.
" No ! ! !"
Yuri cried out, tears to her eyes
" Those are memories !! Of us singing..... Before....."
But Yuri realized,
Papa Bradson didn't know.
" Where are you taking it ?!" Yuri asked urgently.
" Yuri, I am busy. Not now...."
" WHERE ARE YOU TAKING THE PIANO ?!?!"
Yuri shrieked angrily, as if threatening the old Captain.
Bradson Captain didn't speak, but with a wave, let the Android move forth.
" That song.... Papa..."
Yuri spake, still blocking the Androidis path
" You remember that song, it's that lullaby, Papa !"
" What are you talking about, Yuri ?"
" The song ! It's the lullaby.... You played it in your office, when Vitas and I sat at the balcony outside of your cabin..... It's the same song !! You knew !!"
Yuri came to realize, Bradson Captain had been playing the same piano tune of her past, of her memories Before Light !
The lullaby !!
" .... You knew everyone... At school , right ?!
Neo. Kai... Neliya, Lucky, Lima, everyone ?!
You were there... Right, Papa...Were You ??
Before.... The Light.....?"
...
...
「You were there... Right, Papa...?
Before.... The Light.....?」
Her voice, loud and clear,
Her face, close, on the screen.
Among all the other million screens in the room.
" Before.... Light....."
Caesar Skyman frowned, putting the microphone to his lips.
...
...
" I don't know what you are talking about, Yuri. Now move aside, before you hurt yourself."
" But ....!!!"
Yuri still won't move
" You can't... ! am I the only one that feels strange.... Am I the only one that doesn't belong—"
" You belong here, Yuri."
Bradson Captain spake in a computer like calming tone
" It's okay. You need rest, my dear. Now, let me do my job...."
But Yuri pushed with her hands, pushing the Android back !!
" No !.... It's not okay... You can't destroy The Memories... They are Real !!! Vitas was Right ! THEY ARE REAL ! ! !"
And Yuri pushed the captain back hard and rushed to the moving construction Android.
Yun came forth quickly to the Android quickly before Yuri lose her temper and smash the Android and ordered
the Android in a way Androids will understand.
( Android, Object Report !)
Yun cried and the Android stopped abruptly.
The Android stopped and answered
" Object Report :
Object Number 617. Piano.
Usage : Instrument / Decoration.
Extracted Location : Betelgeuse Captain's second cabin.
Import Location : Incinerator."
" Incinerator.... NO ! ! ! ! NO NO NO NO, THAT'S PAPA BRADSON'S PIANO ! ! ! !"
Yuri shouted angrily and jumped onto the large construction android and came to the piano, attempting to snatch it back from the Android.
" Yuri ! ! ! I ORDER YOU TO STOP ! ! ! !"
Bradson Captain raised his voice to a manly Shout, that would usually make Yuri cow,
But not any more.
The construction android began to speak for itself and the laws of Skylord
" Stop. Violence against Sky Lord property is prohibited. You'll be accused of crimes of Vandalism agaisnt Sky lord's properties. Stop now."
The Android begged in a robotic tone.
" Like I even care !!"
Yuri shouted angrily and kicked the Android's talking head down and it let go of its robotic arms, letting the huge piano slide down to a side down it's slanting platform and push Yuri down to the edge of the high platform.
The piano pushing Yuri off the ledge !!!
Quickly, Yun disappeared into white blue particles and reappeared behind Yuri, grabbing her tightly and together they transported to safe ground,
While the piano fell, down, down, down,
Crashing into the construction sight of part of the Grand Slam Project, which exploded below their eyes.
Yuri knelt, before the fire below, burning up her memories of song.
She was sobbing, in full regret.
" Yuri."
Bradson Captain came solemnly
" I, as a Captain, shall now retain you for violating the Orders of the Skylord and destruction of The Lord's Grand Plan, hereby treason.
You have violated the StarBreaking rules of Safety, Unity, and Honor.
I must take you down, and condemn thee to House Arrest."
" Wha...."
But before Yuri could stammer another word, two Androids came up behind her and pulled her arms backwards, cuffing her wrists on tight metal.
The Androids then pulled Yuri up and dragged her away, far, far away from This Bradson Captain she no longer knew and the Androids threw Yuri into her dark room, locking the doors and left.
Letting her cry alone in the Dark.
Slowly,
While still watching the screen of Yuri, weeping in the dark, among million other screens before him,
Caesar Skyman put down his helmet and microphone,
And sighed,
With a snide sneer of content.
[.....To be Continued]