Tuesday, April 20, 2004

Chapter 6; Enjoy!
Chapter 6: Escape

Inside the dark room of the van.
Iruka: “Aisu?”
Aisu: “……….”
The van comes to a complete stop. The sound of footsteps become louder as they approach the van doors. Blinded by a bright light, Iruka and Aisu are taken inside a large sinister building. Once inside they are quickly carried to the elevator and taken to the top floor. “Research and Experiments” was labeled across the steel plated door. Fifth teen men struggle carrying Aisu on a large stretcher while Iruka is forced to walk at gun point.
Officer : “[struggling to sustain Aisu] Hurry up and open the cell will you? This gator isn’t exactly light weight.”
Scientist: “[punching in a pin-number] Hold your horses will you?”
As the cell door open, Iruka and Aisu are thrown in. Iruka quickly went to Aisu’s side checking if he was ok.
Iruka: “[worried tone] Aisu? Aisu wake up”
Aisu makes a few grunting noises and slowly opens his eyes to see Iruka’s relieved face.
Aisu: “[head lifted up while still on the floor] What’s…what’s going on? What happened? Are you ok?”
Iruka: “I’m fine, how about you?”
Officer: “Hahaha. Isn’t that cute? The freaks care about each other.”
Officer 10: “[makes his way to the front of the cell] So that’s how an Elementian looks like. I thought they would look much different.”
Officer 7: “Nah, the Elementians are human wanna b’s with unnatural hair and eye color.”
The lab door opens and a man with long black hair and a white lab coat enters.
Dr. Shigomoto: “Gentlemen! Leave the species alone and return to your stations! Unless you want me to report you to the Warden!”
The officers leave the room angered. Dr. Shigomoto walks up to the cell and examines Iruka and Aisu closely. His eyes widen, full of excitement, when he sees Iruka’s right hand.
Scientist Miho: “Is there something wrong Doctor?”
Dr. Shigomoto: “Izumi!”
Another scientist emerges from the Research Lab.
Scientist Izumi: “Yes Dr. Shigomoto?”
Dr. Shigomoto: “Is the program ready?”
Scientist Izumi: “Yes Doctor! We found out that the problem was that there was not enough power supply up here so we moved everything to the twentieth floor.”
Dr. Shigomoto: “Good. Miho , obtain that Elementian and follow me”
Scientist Miho: “As you say”
Miho punches in a few numbers into the terminal. Another cell wall begins to lift from the ground, separating Iruka and Aisu into two separate cells. She then opens the door withdraws a stun gun.
Scientist Miho: “Now we can do this the easy way or [the stun gun crackles] the hard way”
Iruka gives into submission and is escorted outside where Dr. Shigomoto firmly grasps Iruka’s right hand to get a closer look.
Dr. Shigomoto: “[very low tone] He is the one..”
“[releasing his tight grip on Iruka] Izumi, take the gator to the dissection lab on the tenth floor. I’ve always wanted to explore the insides of a Repthian. The last specimen was not enough for my research. Come Miho!”
Iruka: “Aisu!!”
Aisu: “Iruka!!”
Dr. Shigomoto and Miho leave the room with Iruka in hand. Izumi nervously begins to punch in the number combinations.
Terminal: “Would you like to open the inner cell wall?”
Scientist Izumi: “Yes”
Terminal: “Voice Confirmed. Izumi Kojima. Opening inner cell wall.”
Izumi opens the cell door and he to withdraws a stung gun but much larger powerful.
Scientist Izumi: “I am truly sorry to have to do this Mr. Gator but may you put your hands behind your back?”
Aisu does as he is told. Izumi handcuffs Aisu’s hands with a special pair of titanium cuffs.
Scientist Izumi: “//Strange…why is he so calm?//”
“Now please walk in front of me and do not make any sudden moves or I will be forced to take action.”
Aisu nods.
[ Meanwhile]
The door closes behind them. Dr. Shigomoto walks up to a large computer terminal. Miho leads Iruka to a large fiber glass sphere. Pushing him inside, Miho seals the entrance and walks over to Shigomoto.
Miho: “The Elementian is in the sphere Doctor”
Dr. Shigomoto: “Excellent! Now to start the program [pushes a few buttons]”
Terminal: “Now beginning E.E. Program.”
A large black blob is injected into the sphere.
[ Izumi leads Aisu down the hall and into the elevator]
Entering the elevator Izumi made the biggest mistake you can ever do. Turning his back to punch in the floor number, Aisu slapped the stun gun from Izumi’s hand with his tail. Caught of guard, Izumi jumped against the elevator wall in fright. Aisu wraps his tail around Izumi like a serpent catching its prey. Aisu pulls Izumi close him
Aisu: “[primitive eyes] Now tell me what they are going to do with Iruka or you will become part of my balance diet [opens his mouth slightly showing the rows of teeth; while growling]”
Izumi: “[scared] He’s in the Element Extraction Laboratory!”
Aisu: “Element Extraction Room? Elaborate!?”
Izumi: “Well you see, the one you call Iruka is the chosen one. He is suppose to poses boundless elemental energy. We, Research Corp., have dedicated our lives in search of the Chosen One. Elementian after Elementian that came into Yoshiro, we have captured and experimented on.”
Aisu: “What kind of experiments?”
Izumi: “We will do any type of experiment on him by any means possible if we can harness his limitless energy, even if he is terminated in the process.”
Aisu: “ You are willing to kill him if it means you can obtain this power? You humans have no compassion towards us do you? How many Elementians have you killed in this process”
Izumi: “Every single one that we captured but it’s not like we are doing this for fun or in the name of science! We are trying to save the world from total destruction. We, HUMANS, shall be the saviors of this land and you REAns will have no choice but to worship us.”
Aisu: “What world destruction?”
Izumi: “I’m surprised that you as a REAn do not know the prophecy.”
Aisu: “[growls]”
Izumi: “The prophecy goes like this:

There will be a war between four races that dwell on the land
One race shall reign supreme and dominate
But the war has only begun
The God of Destruction shall rise once more
To destroy all life on this earth
The Goddess of Creation will able to do nothing
For she shall fall into a deep slumber
But there is hope
A boy shall be born, Chosen by the Gods
He will be gifted with limitless Mana
His symbol shall differ from the rest
But alone he cannot win the fight
He will be accompanied by five members
One of these members will be of his own blood
This boy will be the one that will destroy the God of Destruction
But he will face many challenges ahead
And when he confronts his final challenge
He shall triumph

Izumi: “But there was one line that was recently discovered, ‘His life energy will perish’. We believe that if he saves the earth then he will die in the process. So what we are trying to do is well harness his power and use it ourselves. If he is going to die anyways, well you know.”
Aisu: “[slams Izumi against the elevator wall angrily] You will release me right now and take me where he is!”
[ Back in then E. E. Room]
The black blob has Iruka half devoured into its gooey substance.
Iruka: “Let me go! LET ME GO!!”
Miho: “Doctor! His mana readings are increasing!”
Dr. Shigomoto: “Excellent…”
Iruka screams for help as his face and left arm protrude from the blob.
Terminal:” [outside E.E. Lab] Izumi Kojima….confirmed.”
It was too late, Iruka was completely devoured by the black blob by the time Aisu and Izumi entered the room.
Aisu: “Iruka!!!”
Miho: “What…what are you doing here!? Izumi!”
Izumi: “He caught me off guard when I was transporting him! I’m sorry!”
Dr. Shigomoto: “I’m afraid you are too late! [turns over to the terminal] Begin Element Extraction!”
Terminal: “Commencing Elemental Retrieval in one minute”
[ Inside the black blob]
Iruka floats in boundless abyss of darkness. Turning over in his mind are past memories off all the times he’s been thrown in the Dark Room. All the beatings he took as a small child from Saya, the pain of being alone. A hazy image appears before Iruka.
Iruka: “ Mother….”
???: “This is all your fault!”
Iruka: “What?”
???: “It’s your fault! You deserve to die!”
Iruka: “Mother don’t say that please! It’s not my fault! There was nothing I could do!”
???: “You left me to die!! [fades away]”
Iruka: “[crying] No! It’s not true! It’s not true!!”
An image of Aisu appears comforting Iruka but soon he too begins to fade away.
Iruka: “No Aisu don’t leave me! Aisu come back!!”
“[low tone] It’s not my fault…it’s not my fault….IT’S NOT MY FAULT!!! AHHH!!”
A burst of elemental energy engulfs Iruka.
[ In the lab]
Terminal: “System overload! WARNGING! System overload!”
Dr. Shigomoto: “His elemental energy is off the scale! The system can’t harness so much energy!”
Children quietly play outside, the townspeople of Yoshiro bustle through the streets and sidewalks. Without any notice the sewer lids pop off as geysers of water spew underneath them. The ground begins to shake with anger and a the earth begins to part at an unbelievable rate. The people scream in terror running for safety. The R.E.S. Headquarters soon feels the rumble from the quake.
Miho: “An earthquake!?”
Izumi: “But how!? We never get earthquakes!”
Dr. Shigomoto: “It’s the boy! He’s the one causing it!”
The fiber glass sphere that imprisoned Iruka begins to crack. The earth continues to part as it leaves town and heads towards R.E.S. Headquarters. Striking the facility large spears of clay erupt from the ground as the building splits into two and begins to collapse.
Izumi: “We are all going to die!!”
Aisu is engulfed in a bright light and vanishes as the half of the building crashes into the ground. Aisu re-appears on the rocks that form an island in Meiro Lake.
Aisu: “Meiro Lake? But how? WHERE’S IRUKA!?”
A sphere of light appears in the sky and from it emerges Iruka crashing into the lake. Aisu jumps into the water and brings Iruka back to the rock isle.
Aisu: “[shaking Iruka] Iruka? Iruka wake up!”
Iruka: “ [wakes up] Aisu?”
Aisu: “[smiles] Yes Iruka?”
Iruka: “You will never leave me…right?”
Aisu: “No Iruka, I’ll always protect you and never leave your side…..I promise”
Iruka smiles warmly at Aisu and passes out.

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I finished chapter 7 ^^!!!! Now on to chapter 8!! Mwahahaha! G'night guys!
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