"Tobi... please wake up... this has to be a prank... please"
"He is gone already."
"Who's there?!"
Crystal flinches, and turns around in horror at the sound of the dead voice "But this is another ship... Why is he here?" Crystal stares down into the barrel of a gun pointing at her head!
As for who held the gun, It was Lorenz.
"and it's time for you to meet him"
Crystal hugs Tobi tightly to her chest and growls at Lorenz. "Don't you dare touch him..." Crystal warns but Lorenz walks slowly towards her, taking one step at a time, with every step he takes towards her, the tighter Crystal hugs Tobi.
As he takes the last three steps toward Crystal, Lorenz raises his gun and points it at Crystal who was exhausted and fatigued, could only drawback slowly whilst struggling to come up with a plan to escape.
As Lorenz clicks his gun at Crystal, Crystal turns her back to face the gun to protect Tobi,
BANG! BANG! BANG! as she hears the gunshots and braces herself she hears a loud noise, like that of a metal hitting something a skull .
WHAM! "get over this!" Clang clang clang! When the sounds of a metal rod that Dr. Dona had just used hit on the back of Lorenz's head, Lorenz was in utter shock as he fell to the ground and fainted. "my goodness... miss... are you okay?" Dr. Dona walks towards Crystal only to see a teared-filled young girl "he's... he's not breathing..." Crystal beings to weep. "oh no..." Dr. Dona covers her mouth and gasps, Dr. Dona kneels before Crystal and embraces her hugging her tightly, Crystal lets go of Tobi and holds her back, as Crystal's heart felt warm and she begins to weep heavily, Dr. Dona could only bite her tongue and shake her head in pain and regret at the loss. "Why?..."
...
"How is she?" Alfstrat asks Dr.Dona but the distraught expression on her face set off an alarm in him, "Please... don't tell me-" "It's her brother..." Alfstrat's eyes got wide open "What happened to him?" "..." Dona did not respond, slowly she walked up to her desk and falls in her chair, she tosses her glasses on the table and silently cries. "that stupid curse..." she silently muttered.
In-room 105, which was Tobi and Crystal's room, Crystal laid her head on his bed beside him, and tears flowed from her eyes, she was angry and disappointed at herself. "Please... don't go, Tobi..."
Slowly Crystal's world was crumbling, the only family she had was no more the only person she wanted to protect and love was gone, knowing that it won't be long before she too passes on, she held Tobi's hands in so much pain and regret "I'll stay... right here..." "I won't leave you..." Crystal mutters to herself as she embraces her hair with Tobi's skinny left arm. Gradually, Crystal stops crying and falls asleep on the floor.
'Child...' 'Wake up.' 'Ackerman No. 1000'
Throbbing sounds echoed across the domain of Koba, it was the throbbing sound of a heartbeat. The stars and galaxies that moved across the cube-like domain began to revolve around the glass cube that reflected the images of the beautiful galaxies and stars, it was like space was embedded in a cube.
At the corner of this cube, Crystal was fast asleep, leaning her back and head against the wall, her image reflected on the cube walls like a mirror. Her head was dripping from the side of the wall an adequate number of times until she finally woke up.
Crystal gently open her eyelids to see a face right in front of her, her vision was blurry for a few seconds so she blinked, a couple of times before she realized that who she was seeing was not a ghost but rather her brother, "T... Tobi"
Her eyes got wide open, She couldn't believe it, tears began to fill up her eyes " I thought I had lost you.." Tobi knelt down in front of her, and with a soft smile, he says "I wonder why you never look peaceful when you're awake. Worry lines don't suit sis."
Tobi goes on to wrap his arms around his crying sister, hugging her tightly, Crystal cries, even more, this time, rubbing her face all over Tobi's chest "Oh... Tobi, losing you would be a nightmare i'd beg to be awakened from. Please don't go...hicc I havw nobodwy else." Crystal mumbled her words as she cried her heart out.
"Just listen to my heartbeat... I'm still alive..." Tobi hugged Crystal even tighter as her head pressed against his chest, Crystal heard his heartbeat and indeed Tobi was alive. "thank goodness... really" Crystal let out a sigh of relief.
"now now now children I have something to tell you" Koba who was at the center of the cube called out to the pleased siblings, they both looked at him with tears in their eyes, like five and six-year-olds. Letting go of each other the two sat down in a kneeling position, drying away their wet eyes by rubbing their fists on them,
Koba proceeds to talk to the two, "The reason why you, boy did not die after drowning in so much water is because of this..." Koba opens up the palm of his arm and there a ball of flame continued to burn while floating on his palm. "what is that?" Tobi eyes glowed as he examined the floating fireball, "this your emergency life ball. I've put three inside of you so that you don't die no matter what happens to you, right now you only have two left in you boy" There Koba clenched his palm and discarded the fireball slowly it move towards the corner the two were sitting, "but what about sis, doesn't she need one of those things?!" Tobi concerned Koba with his reason for caution, but Koba shunned him by saying "She doesn't need it, she's my last and strongest child, killing her will not be easy even for Ackermans. She might be shot, stabbed or even blown into pieces... but my child will not... no... she will never stop breathing"
Koba walked to Crystal and gently lifts her chin to his face, and smiled at her "Child don't cry... " "..." Crystal turns her head away, her face had turned red and warm because of the warmth coming from Koba's touch.
Koba lets go of her and closes his eyes in disappointment, "sigh..." Koba takes a deep breath and sits down with the two teens, stretching his hands at each of them, "There's something important I need to tell you... Hold my hands for now" Tobi and Crystal look at each other and nod in agreement, holding the hands of Koba's hands separately. "It will get hot slowly so just hang on".
"Ark!" "Kulgh!" The two teens spat out saliva and with the heat that went through their blood vessels, their blood temperature and gone up from thirty-five degrees to seventy-five degrees, it was really painful "HEY! YOU SAID IT WAS GOING TO BE SLOWLY!" Tobi roared at Koba, "Boy just focus!" Koba yelled back, "Once you feel it in your brain you can tell me to stop-"
"STOP!!!" X2 The two yelled, Immediately Koba gripped the hands of Tobi and Crystal tightly, FLASH! and opened his eyes, they were illuminated and bright like the sun. Fire engulfed the three and caught the whole cubic domain of Koba, making it burn brighter! Until the two teens passed out.
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"Urgh... What was that.." Tobi muttered as he rubbed his forehead and temple in pain, tightly closing his eyes he hears a familiar voice "Tobi Tobi wake up" As Tobi opens his eyes he looks around and realizes that he was in a different world!
"What is this place?!" Crystal exclaimed Koba and Tobi looked back at each other " ... I think It's an underground monument " Tobi explained, The three stood beside each other, staring at the entrance of a cave in tropical rainforest.
" Now, I want you to listen to what I'm about to tell you " Koba stretched out his arm and opens up his palm, there appears a glowing orb of white light, Koba motions it and it levitates from his hands, and floats towards the cave creating an illuminated path for the trio,
"Woah!~ " Crystal and Tobi's eyes glowed with so much amazement and awe, the cave was indeed magnificent, But before the two teens could trade the cave they were held back by Koba, "Slow down! I haven't told you to go in yet!" Tobi looked back at him agitated "Well... Tell us what you want to say!"
Koba let out a sigh and shook his head, "Fine... I just need you to listen carefully-"
"Just say it already would ya!" Crystal turned around and yelled back at Koba.
'Disrespectful little brats...' Koba thought to himself, stretching out his arm in the opposite direction, the whole cave became illuminated right to the very end of the cave. CLAP! Koba brings his hands together and holds his palms in a prayer position, the cave began to rumble like an earthquake was taking place "Get down!" Koba yelled at Tobi and Crystal who were far away from him, they both went on their knees and ducked for cover,
"..." A few moments later, the cave stopped rumbling, "huh? what was that for?" Crystal stood up immediately, not impressed at whatever took place "Child! I did not say get up yet!" Koba roared at Crystal's disobedience,
Suddenly! Several screens came rushing out of the cave, about seven of the screens came out of the cave with glowing fluorescence, and they spun around in a circle making a light ring that sparked like metal when it was being welded, spinning around at such fast speed it charged towards Crystal who was still standing.
"woah~ so pretty... wait... why is it coming toward me?" Crystal's blue eyes reflected the brightness of the ring and how close it was heading towards her, "Sis RUN!" Tobi yelled as the ring passes over his head slicing bits of his hair, "Oh shit..."
Tobi realizes that those were not normal screens but blades! "Hey! do something" Tobi yells at Koba, who in return yells back "It won't hurt her! just don't get up, if it came at you, you'd be in bits!" Tobi gulped at the last statement, "You're on your own sis..." The ring light continued to chase after Crystal, Crystal ran for her dear life whilst thinking to herself " I'm an Ackerman why is it after me?!"
Crystal closes her eyes so tightly as she ran in circles trying to avoid the ring from touching her, eventually, she got tired of running in circles she ran towards Tobi, Tobi who saw this couldn't believe the betrayal, "No non no wait! Wait!" Tobi stretched his two hands shooing Crystal away from him.
THUD! Crystal tumbles over Tobi's body, crashing him into the ground, when she opens her eyes she sees herself floating in the air! It was the ring that carried them off the ground, way up in the sky, Crystal was in the center of the ring floating.
"AHHHH PUT ME DOWN!" Crystal shrieked in fear, Koba who was witnessing all this was not faced, he was not moved by her fear and just with a wave of his arm, the ring stopped spinning and dropped Crystal on the ground!
Thud! Crystal falls on the ground with so much impact'' Kulgh! That hurts..." she passes out, The ring force was very strong and it could kill a regular human being which was why Koba warned Tobi to stay out of it.
Now that the ring was calm, Koba separates the screens into their separate compartments, starting from the first to the last. The screens were not ordinary, they were pictures of great Ackermans that existed before the time that Crystal and Tobi were born. The first three screens were the greatest first Acermans of the first gen, and the last four were the greatest Ackermans of the second-gen.
"Who are these people?" Tobi asks, "They are all my children" Koba replies, he goes on to explain further, "They were the strongest Ackermans I created. The first three are from the First gen of Ackermans, while the last four are the strongest in the second-gen of Ackermans"
Tobi looked puzzled, she squinted his eyes and looked back and forth at the last four, he then asked "Why is Sis not here?". " That's because she was born only for such a time as this. But her father is part of the last four" Tobi's eyes got really big "Where?!" He said looking back and forth at the last four Ackermans, "There." Koba sends a light orb at Crystal's Father, which highlighted the screen's edges,
There stood the greatest of all time, the well-known Waider, "He was famously known as the king's personal guard and a first gen Ackerman, he was the strongest back in his day" "Where is he now?" Koba closes his eyes in pain, as the painful memories flooded his head "He is dead"
Tobi was taken aback, how could he die? He was an Ackerman, surely mere humans back in the day weren't any more powerful than humans of today? "What... How? Why? how is that even possible?" Koba could only shake his head in disappointment "He was the only one that the curse didn't get to"
"What curse?" Tobi questioned as he looked at the other Ackerman's portraits, they seemed pretty fine and not cursed in Tobi's eyes, ''The curse that makes humans weary of Ackermans today, the curse that started the pandemic of death on the earth years ago"
"Why are you telling us this tho?... Wait... It won't affect sis right?..." Tobi became worried at the words coming out of Koba's mouth, but the look on Koba's face said it all.
"I'm afraid it has boy..."