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Lima, come.
Come here.
Put this on.
" What is it, sis ?"
Just put it on. Hurry !
" ...but sis..."
Lima,
Sister Is going to a far place now,
Far far away...
You must promise to be good, okay ?
And always put the necklace on, okay ?
" ...It's not fare..."
" It's not fare, sis!!"
Lima, it is not safe there.
You must stay.
I Will come back for you.
I Promise.
" ...sis......
...you liar."
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Lima, what's wrong ?
It's time to go, To Play Hide and Seek !
" No...don't leave, Yuri!"
Lima.....
The bells are ringing, You must Hide.
" Why.... Why are you all running away from me ? Like everyone else ?!
...please...Come back... Yuri !!!
.....please...
Come back.....
Come back......! !
Everyone.... Neliya..... Lucky.... Feira.....
Everyone.....!!!!
Yuri ————! ! ! ! ! !
COME BACK ...... ! ! !
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" COME BACK, YURI ! ! ! ! !"
Their Sky pod had landed, in the land far away from light. On hard rocky plain, a lone plateau.
The skies darkened as Lima cried, shaking Yuri back from painful slumber, but Yuri was still there, in the void, of pain.
The time has come.
Lima heard unnatural sounds behind her and looked around, seeing Demons ! Rat shaped deformed rodents standing with their hindlegs, hideous Demons, crawling up the slope to the lone plateau where they crash landed. Lima quickly drew out her Light Saber and cut down as many Rat Demons approaching she could, but more and more Demons crawled up to them like a nonstop dark wave.
But soon Lima realized the Demon rats stayed their ground around the Sky pod, moving no more closer.
They are waiting.
But what does this mean ?!
Why aren't they attacking ?!
Lima was confused, and confusion did brew her anger stronger.
" Away !"
Lima cried menacingly, her light saber pointing at the Demons, all kinds of Demons now surrounding them, standing idle
" Away ! Be gone with you...!!!"
But no matter how Lima threatened the Demons, they stayed. Some even let Lima kill them, just to stay, on that lone plateau, by Yuri's side.
" Lima..."
Lima turned around quickly, rushing to Yuri's side but still won't let her guard down, gripping her light saber tightly with one hand, she took Yuri's hand by the other.
" Yuri...! Don't leave me....! I will not let you go ever again, Please.... Don't leave me again, Yuri ! ! !"
Lima cried desperately, seeing Yuri whisper, but her voice too weak to comprehend.
Yuri could still see Lima cry.
Don't cry..... Yuri whispered in her mind
Don't cry.....
And Yuri gave out a faint weak gasp, her teeth biting hard.
Her hand clenching Lima's tightly.
Lima shouted her name, again and again.
The pain.
The piercing pain, heralding the Arrival.
The Demons knew it.
It is coming.
And Lima looked up as the world is then shrouded by Dark, and Lo, the Arch Serpent of the Demon skies,
Arch Demon Death, slowly out of the dark clouds, circling the plateau, giving out a low deep roar and stayed as if in anticipation in the dark swirling sky.
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Rio returned from the Princess Tower, seeing all his friends and fellow children weeping with grand sadness and was startled by the sight.
" What is going on ?!"
Rio asked Neliya who sobbed desperately among the others. And Neliya told Rio everything of Neo and Kai's fateful exploits, Lucky's kidnapped, and Lima's disappearance.
Rio was struck by Fate and his heart was saddened, and seeing his fellowship in dreadful times, Rio thought he must help.
But Rio had no courage to face the Sky Lord himself !
Neo came out of his tent like a hollowed heart boy and Rio came to him
" Brother ! Let me Help !!"
" Fuck off."
Neo pushed Rio out of the way, too sad to be angry.
Neliya saved Rio from being pushed off and tried to pull Neo back to his confidence
" You have pushed Kai, your best friend away...!!"
Neliya cried in tears
" Don't push your brother away too !!"
" I got no brother to push away anyhow !!"
Neo roared and turned to the children he had chosen as Caesar Skylord threatened.
Among these trusted boys and girls of Neo,
there were the twins, Ashoka and Thoka.
The tanned skin loli Nassah.
The timid loli Vena.
The silent boy Owl.
Feira.
And Finnir.
Finnir is sick, but he insisted helping Neo in this trying times.
And Neliya, the loli that won't leave Neo's side.
" Neo, you must talk to Kai ! The Skylord.... He is tearing us apart !!... That is his plan...!!
Don't let him make us become enemies.... We are not... We Never go against each other !"
Neliya sobbed, and the children begged, but Neo was undecided at first by his weakness and guilt.
" You are right, Neliya."
Neo spoke at last and looked at all the children
" And I am wrong."
For the first time, Neo had admitted his wrongs before the Children
" The Skylord had us, because I see not what is already before my eyes. I have lost myself, and lost you...."
And Neo turned around and walked to the side of Kai and his children.
But stopped at the door.
He knows his wrongs, but he was afraid. And thinking all those bloody fists on Kai's nose, he knew Kai will never forgive him.
So Neo turned back, failing to do his apology to Kai.
But Kai was waiting just behind the door, and seeing Neo leave, Kai's heart sank.
He had lost a friend.
Neo returned to his side of the children.
Finnir came to him, while Feira help support this sick kid's frail body
" Neo. Of this next stratagem I will share. To you and Kai, you need but put your trust onto me."
" Share with Kai ?"
Neo was unsure.
" Yass." Finnir nodded confirmingly, slowly bowing with his skinny body
" I have sent word to Kai of what I am about to tell you, Neo, of the next step for us Children to move on and thrive in this suppresion of Skylord."
" Move on and thrive !!"
The children clapped, finally hopeful.
" First," Finnir spake
" We can't save Lucky."
The children all Booed Finnir and commented Finnir is wrong in the head.
While Finnir now speak to Neo side however, he sent Feira to say the same to Kai side.
" Why not save Lucky ?! You bad ! You sick !"
Nassah the tan skinned hot headed loli hollered angrily, for she is a bosom friend of the Lucky.
" Because We are too weak, in front of the Skylord's powers."
Finnir explained
" Skylord has powers to finish Lucky and us too. Now we must obey, but not lose our hearts."
" Obey... But not lose our hearts !"
Gasped the two kings Neo and Kai.
" Yes, and the true heart, is to stay together, Children thrive !"
The children listened and nodded in agreement. Neo was moved also.
" And Neo."
Finnir turned to Neo his leader
" Recruit Rio to your side. He is needed for this strategem to succeed."
Reluctantly, Neo let Rio join him.
And Finnir came to Rio, and whispered His plans to Rio.
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Meanwhile on the barren high ground among no where.
Arch Demon Death slithered in the air but approached not closer to Lima and Yuri.
It just circled the plateau, looking down onto Yuri from time to time.
Lima couldn't understand....
The Demons... They are not being aggressive at all !
It must be a ruse.
Lima thought and dared not let her guard down. But still deep inside she was afraid. She turned to Yuri worriedly, to see Yuri fallen to a fever like slumber, her conscous in confusion and disarray, as visions of long before slowly slided in through the disorience and chaotic minds, as a dream to Yuri's hazardous sleep.
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Was it..... Snow ?
It's Blue snow.... Right ?
Right... Mommy ?
The snow.
The people, rushing nearby here and there.
The lights.
And
Mom.
Mommy... Is it you...?
It's really you.....
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Mommy..... I....
And Yuri looked down, there,
A ball of pure transparent Light,
Shining in her arms.
It was Light, but of a different glow.
A shine Yuri has never seen before,
But felt, Close, warm.
The Light,
So bright....
Everyone around her was no longer rushing, but smiling, happily, around her.
And Mom,
Sharing the warmth of the transparent new Light.
Yuri looked carefully at her surroundings, lightened up by the glow in her arms.
It's a facility, of machinery miracles and labs of superior technology.
And the blue snow,
It is light, traveling down, slowly in the facility.
It was never snow in her First Memory.
It was Blue Light flakes,
coming from above many rings and mecinations of wonders,
Of The Herunis Carna.
Mom.......
The facility, the real Land of Light,
Now Before my eyes, yet....
Mom.....
You are holding the Key,
The Key to this place,
To the Land of Light,
To The Herunis Carna....
For me to lock......
But how.... How can I find it ?
How can I find this place ?
How can I Find the Herunis Carna ?
Find You, Mom !!
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And then,
For the first time,
She spoke.
Yuri listened.
Her mother, using her voice, her reasoning,
Her Love.
Whispering tenderly and clearly through her lips,
Their past,
Their times together,
Though short lived, but it was there.
They would fly together, around the world.
Her mother was a fighter, a creator, a Savior of her world.
She found her love there.
Had a child there.
And Yuri was born,
here,
In this facility,
The Herunis Carna.
This was her mother's facility.
And it's built, For the Future,
For Yuri.
But her mother must go, their world needs her saving.
She made her choice,
For the best of Yuri,
Yuri's Future.
She was sorry.
And as she spoke,
Yuri's tears began to fall,
Falling into the blue snow, making holes.
Yuri then wiped her tears,
holding the transparent ball of Light close,
Smiling.
Thank you...mom...
Well...I...I....
Yuri continued wiping her tears, as mother waited and listened.
I never would have thought.....
That we would have such wonderful memories together, mom.
Thank you.
And about myself.....
I... I am pregnant now,
Just like you were,
But.. I am not Afraid, anymore,
Like mommy...
Mommy loves me...and will protect me, and my Future....
I will love my child too..... And do all I can to protect him and his Future.....
And so...I have decided.
Even though the World out there can be cruel,
The land barren....
And the dark swarmed across every corner...
I must...
I must, Fight, live, for him.....!
This child, is my love, My joy, My hope...
And like what Mommy did for me...
I will too..... For him.
I will bring him, to the Land of Light,
The Land of Love,
The Land of Tomorrow,
Not your.... Or mine.....
But to His World.
I will protect him...
Just like...Mom did for me....
So...
Goodbye.... Mommy..... Whoever you are.....
.... Wherever you are...
I will come back..... Someday....!!
So..... So...!!
Goodbye...!...Mother...!!
From Vitas, Yuri had remembered the Bitter Memory.
And from her Mother,
Yuri had remembered Love Memory.
And Yuri turned away, from the crowd,
From the blue Light,
From Mom.
She had found her mother, and her mother had told her the way,
The way to the Herunis Carna.
She has a mission to complete,
For her mother,
For herself,
And for her Child. For his World.
And Yuri walked, against the falling blue snow, the falling lights,
Holding, hugging, her transparent new Light to her bosom.
She moved on, towards the path before her, a speck of Light among the foggy snow fall.
We are almost there....
Just wait....
Are you cold ?
Are you afraid ?
Don't be....
mommy Will always~ be by your side.
Always.
One step, to the Light.
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And Lima watched in disbelief, as a pillar of light appeared on where Yuri lay.
The Demons all cowed, and seemed to howl, crying, with tears !
Archdemon Death gave a low moan, witnessing the birth of the New Life of the new Age.
Lima walked to the pillar of light, which slowly faded, and there, Yuri lay, holding a ball of light,
An egg.
A pure white egg of light.
And the Demons howled and wept.
Lima was very confused.
And Lo, a Golden force, dashing ina shape of a Golden Trident, sailed down from the sky, crashing down in the plateau, and it was a different kind of armored being, clad in alien gold, wielding a trident of golden energy condensed into it's lengthed structure.
The Demons that were idle, now turned beastly at the sight of this new alien armored Golden StarBreaker, holding a golden Trident.
Lima stared in awe, as the Golden Trident wielding StarBreaker started massacring the Demons ! Even attacking Archdemon Death with throws of its golden trident, dashing at piercing the Arch Demon but then returning in an instance back to it's wielder to be set off to strike another blow nonstop !
" El fiend shir hohm, Iden bvegan commencean."
a raspy low foreign voice hummed to the golden StarBreaker from afar, speaking in an urgent tone
" No need."
Replied the Golden StarBreaker to the unseen speaker of afar, and proceed slaying the Demons around the plateau with strong blows of quick elegance
" I can fend them off alone."
But then to Lima's surprise, Yuri tried to stand up and cried
" Stop.....!"
Yuri crawled up, but too weak, as Lima carried her up while Yuri held her egg close.
The Golden Trident wielding StarBreaker, slayed and slayed, until all the Demons, even Archdemon Death had retreated, then turned to Yuri and Lima, and pointed lo Trident at them.
Yet The tip of the Trident was not pointing at Yuri nor Lima ,
But pointing at Yuri's egg.
" Vilen did thit crepe, Ayano ?"
asked the raspy unknown voice to the Golden StarBreaker again.
" Cannot confirm, my leige."
The golden StarBreaker reported back
" But it doesn't belong————"
And Ice stacks stabbed out of the ground, trapping the Golden Trident wielder between sharp ice !
Yuri stood up, and Lima had never seen such a furious look in Yuri's eyes before.
The Golden StarBreaker tried to fight back ! But more did Yuri summon Icy blue energy stakes from the ground just with one glance of sheer malice, which pierced up in blinks of an eye and the Golden StarBreaker, trapped by the limbs by the blue stakes that all pointed at its neck.
Yuri can, and will destroy the golden Alien StarBreaker !!!
" STOP ! ! ! ! ! !"
Lima, rushing between them shouted,
Her Light Saber, pointing at the Golden StarBreaker.
Even Elsa the wolf cub stood up against The Golden StarBreaker, protecting Yuri.
" ..... Lima.....!"
Spake the golden StarBreaker after a long intense standoff, letting go of her Trident which dispersed into Golden stardust.
And the golden StarBreaker yielded, kneeling down to Lima's level
" Lima..... Lima....! .... listen !
..... stay away from her."
" NO ! "
Lima shouted
" You stay away from Yuri ! Stay away !
You.... You..Liar!!"
That one word,
Striking through the golden StarBreaker's heart like a baneful Trident.
The Golden StarBreaker clicked a few buttons around her chest armor slowly, letting out the sizzling steam at the same time taking off her helmet,
Swaying back lo long pure dark purple hair behind,
With those round Golden eyes,
Like Lima's.
" I can protect you, Lima.
I can protect you, Now. And your friends too....
.... I am back now, Lima. It's me....
It's your sister———"
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The twelve children of Neo came to the Sky Tree at dawn, as Caesar Skyman ordained.
They entered the hall, but didn't see Caesar Skyman.
But twelve sets of dark blazing purple customized StarBreaking armor in display.
In the same size as the children.
The twins Ashoka and Thoka are thrilled
" Are these... Ours ?!?! Are we becoming StarBreakers too ?!?!"
" No ! Stay back !"
Neo cried, but the calm footsteps of Lo Skylord turned them children all silent.
" Yes, Children."
Spake Caesar Skylord, in StarBreaker King armor and robes, his Celestes Helm high with Lucky's crown on top.
He is like the Light, that blinds the eyes.
" Come, try them on."
Caesar Skyman welcomed them with wide spread arms
" They are yours now."
" Set Lucky Free This Instance !! You Kidnapping Moron !!!"
Feira stood up first and cried angrily.
" Yeah ! And Free Kiro too !"
Nassah and Vena stood up too.
" And stop hiding Nia !!"
The two twins Ashoka and Thoka cried.
" You can't threaten us with petty schemes !! Humph Humph !!"
The Sky Lord is not at all angered,
He is sublime.
" Threaten ? Scheme ? No no cat !
My children, These, They are Starchilds !!"
And Caesar Skyman showed the children his newly designed StarBreaking armor, the Starchilds, and convinced the children that he is a military genius.
" Why give us these ?!?!"
Finnir asked
" We want our friends back !!"
" Because if you help me, I'll repay you. And this is the guarantee."
Caesar Skyman spake.
" Guarantee ?? Of what ?!"
" Of power. My child. Power, that can rival me. If you help me, I will grant your wishes, and if I lie, you can use these Starchild armor, to Kill Me. We are even now, if you join me."
The children gasped.
Neo gasped.
Such a bargain !!!
" Fine !!"
Spake Rio, coming forth to the Starchild Armors
" I am In !"
The children were all surprised, and Rio putting on the armor and was soon able to dash and fly around the hall, kicking and slashing with energy blades like a warrior of great calibre.
Rio himself was amazed, and so were the children.
" Good, Rio, Good !"
Caesar Skylord praised
" Now, child, what does thou want ?"
Rio need not hesitate
" I want Sora Sky Princess ! As My Wife !!"
Children gasped.
Caesar Skylord nodded.
" DEAL."
And the children all followed suit.
But Neliya was smarter
" What is it you need us help ??"
Neliya asked the Sky Lord.
" Great ask, smart Neliya. I ask, for one thing only...
Find Yuri, and lead me, To Her."
[......To be continued]