Dave looked at her with a very warm and charismatic smile...
"Oh, how couldn't I forgive you Ellie ? " Then he kissed her cheek.
"You've been so sweet and close to me so far, you are a special person. Don't worry about what you asked me, It was something that put me on thinking... and I will consider it in the future..."
He paused then looked in her eyes and continued...
"And I think I like you Ellie, very much... I never thought I would find someone like you here... on an Order celebration. You are very smart, pasional, kind, sweet and beautiful, it's what I call, a very rare and unique combination of traits . *he then smiled again* "
He hold her hand very gently..
"No need to be sorry for anything, I like you the way you are, because I rarely find so big interest in any particular women."
Rudimentary creatures of blood and flesh, you touch my mind, fumbling in ignorance, incapable of understanding. - Sovereign
"Liberty did the same thing to me... when DSE went bankrupt, and when I've lost the trust of most the science divisions because of the incident with the experimental Jump Gate... damn Ageira, I will never forget them. And what I obtained ? Their hostility. But I observed Liberty for several times, I was right "above" their noses. My old home changed dramatically."
Dave continued after a small break...
"Do you really want to see Manhattan again ? I tell you this, Manhattan is the worst colony ever established by humans in Sirius. Corruption, murders, and many immoral activities. Though, I was born there... life changed. "
Rudimentary creatures of blood and flesh, you touch my mind, fumbling in ignorance, incapable of understanding. - Sovereign
"It happened on Manhattan. Jeremy told me the beginning...Rika...Rika saw it all."
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Nathanial crouched on the rooftop, his eyes on the balcony two stories below him on the
LSF apartment complex across from him. He could see the girl, clothed in a simple pink nightgown, sitting on the wide railing, her back against the wall. her voice, her beautiful voice, sang softly into the night, drifting across the street and down, making passer Byers stop and listen for a moment. If he was not enlightened, then he would feel a pang of sorrow for taking such a light.
But no sorrow, no regret would be shown to Rika Hunter.
Nathanial lifted his long throwing dagger and hurled it at the girl, it slicingin through the air to pin her through the chest to the wall.
His mission was to kill Rika as slowly and painfully as possible. She was ten, and he did not give a damn.
The dagger turned once in the air.
And was intercepted by a huge, black key, black as the night. The dagger clattered into the building, and a black-coated figure appeared, having run up the building. The man caught the key and landed behind Nathanial.
"Knight..." Nathanial allowed himself a small smile. "Found you."
Nathanial drew his mighty blade and prepared to attack. Knight threw the Keyblade straight up, and then threw off the cloak, revealing the white-clothed figure of Jeremy Hunter. Jeremy caught the blades and raised them into attack positions.
"This ends NOW. You threatened Rika Nathanial...no one lives for doing that. You will not live to regret it!" Jeremy charged, swinging his Keyblades is feints, jabs. Nathanial expertly blocked every attack. Jeremy somersaulted over Nathanial, swung around, and crossed his blades in an X, and made an X mark on Nathanial's back. Nathanial grunted in pain. He swung his blade, slicing Jeremy on the side of the neck. Jeremy ignored the pain and attacked, his mind on defending Rika. It seemed to never end. He, Nathanial, was Nomad-enhanced. But what the Nomad thought as humanity's greatest weakness was Jeremy's greatest strength. His love for Rika.
"Love...is your species' weakness."
"Love is what makes us more dangerous!" jeremy leapt with a war cry, and spun like a top. Nathanial barely blocked as Jeremy landed and slashed Nathanial's legs.
Nathanial pivoted and threw his sword at Rika.
It turned once in the air...
And buried itself in Jeremy's chest. Nathanial smiled. "Good bye Hunter."
Jeremy looked at him. "There is no greater love...then he who gives his life for a friend...and Rika is the best friend I have ever had..." Jeremy's Keyblade slipped from his hands, clattered on the roof, hung on the edge, then fell to the street.
"You would die for her?"
"I would die for her, I would die for Ellie...I would die for all I love..."
Nathanial watched as Jeremy fell backwards off the roof. Nathanial stepped forward, trying to grab Jeremy.
He missed. Later he wondered why he had done that. Jeremy's clothes turned redder by the minute, Jeremy seemed to hang in the air for a second. "I forgive you."
He plunged down, bounced off a Rhino, and hit the ground, ten stories below.
Nathanial picked up his sword and looked at Rika.
He threw another dagger.
Rika parried with Destiny Place, her keyblade. Nathanial smiled, turned around, and left. Within his mind, the old Nathanial Valentine had fought a losing battle to stop the killing, and had succeeded in this one.
Far below, Jeremy lay, bleeding, as Izzy and Ellie ran over. Izzy threw herself on Jeremy, her white dress now red as she held the dying lover.
"Please Jeremy...don't dammit, DONT GO..."
Izzy cried and as her tears hit Jeremy's face, she whispered "I'm pregnant Jeremy...you're a father now...don't go..."
Jeremy's eye flickered open, and he managed to point to his pocket.
Izzy removed a velvet box and opened it. On the top was a folded piece of paper. On the bottom was a beautiful ring. She opened the paper and read.
If I die before I say, then my Izzy this ring do you take?
Izzy cried harder as she whispered yes to him. Ellie put her head on Izzy's shoulder, her red hair spilling over, obscuring her face.
Above all this sat the Oracion, hidden in the stratosphere. On the bridge was a Black-clothed man.
He turned to Aqua.
"Prep the Pod."
"Yes Captain Paladin."
Paladin turned around and watched as the Sekhmet launched from the Oracion, and rocketed downwards to the spot where Jeremy lay, considered dead by the paramedics on scene.
Edge stood by them, and turned to contact Colonel Tainer. Jeremy was dead, but the Oracion was still missing.
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A few tears were in Ellie's eyes.
"I knew the last part from Aqua. She told me."
Ellie looked at Rika. "She enver gave up on Jeremy. Rika knew that he wasnt dead. He is one of the hardest bastards in the Sirius Sector to kill."
Dave listened carefully and stood silent as he watched deep in Ellie's eyes. He saw her affection and patted her hand even more, and as a blink of anger he tight his left fist and said with a serious tone...
"Animals... how could they even conceive to harm a small child as Rika ? *He looked at Rika, then turned back to Ellie*
"And he even had a K'Hara symbiote...*his face turned into a very frowning one*"
He made a pause, then he looked into her eyes...
"When I was working for the Bretonian government, I was able to create a research division working for the Sunderland station in Newcastle. One day ... we went to Omicron Delta, to gather some rare artifacts near the Iota jumphole. My ship got on the cargo hold "something", because it was tagged as "Unknown Cargo" by my ship's computer. I stopped my ship and went to the cargo bay. As I approached the bay, I started to hear some odd noises. I unholstered my weapon, and went into the dark room. When I opened the lights, I almost made a heart attack. In front of me was a humanoid creature like... 1.8 meters height, purple in color, and with transparent skin and insides. I didn't had time to react because the "thing" hit me in the chest and I was throwed to the door. My weapon was lost. For a second I thought I will die... but something happened then. The creature said through telepathy, something, very vague... then it was clear, I remember each single word..
"Human, you are near a realm that your mind can't even conceive."
"What are you !"
"We are the vanguards of the great space-time dominators..."
Then I was thinking at a single word "Nomads ! ". I never saw one, they were a myth for me, until that day. One mistake he made, he read my mind, and remembered me of my dark past. And an interesting fact Ellie, is that, the creatures suggested me that my feelings for the one I loved, were futile, then.. he was already dead in my eyes.
"You suffer.... Dave, you have great suffer in you, It is burried deep within your consciousness limits. *then his eyes started to glow*. You are weak human, free your mind in front of me... Ahhh, and who is this humanoid female... Ashley ... you've lost her.. and you couldn't do nothing ! Because you are weak !"
"Stop it !" And I ran towards him but.. I hit some sort of ... invisible force field.
"You've discovered one of the guard systems between your realm and ours, and you paid the price for your selfish curiosity human ! Your knowledge sacrificed the one you loved human, we know about her, we've got her ! Let go to your mind and you can still save her ! She was a good thing to be processed and indoctrinated, she was very easy to corrupt !"
"This is enough ! " And I went screaming at him in an extraordinary fury. Somehow I passed his shield. I hit him in his chest with my right fist, then with my left one in his face... he was down on the floor and I had on my hands some purple viscosity. In a second he was back on his feet, and threw me against the wall. He tried to immbolize me and burn my brain with his telekinesis, but I hit his face with my forehead, then I jumped on him delivering tons of fists on his face. Jack arrived on my ship because he knew something went bad. He was amazed. I threw the creature on some boxes.. and Jack started to blast him. He jumped on the walls, hitting Jack's weapon. Then I took a nearby plasma torch and went to his torso and started to cut him very badly. The thing was screaming in pain, but again he hit me with his leg so hard, It almost broke my right arm... He tried to jump against me, then I hit him with my left leg and he was near the vacuum dispenser. I grabbed my weapon, and blasted his left leg, and right arm. He was immobilized.
"You know she is lost forever Dave ! Your love for her was futile, in vain !!
I grabbed his head and put it into the vacuum dispenser.
"NEVER ! "
I hit the button and slowly his head was sectioned. He was screaming to death. That was the first time I saw a nomad, his body was valuable, because I never saw one like him before..."
Dave stood silent, and then he looked to Ellie.
"Love is what defines us most, is the key to the everlasting peace in the Universe, and it gives us the power to make a difference, to take a decision. That's why we are special. I wished more individuals had the way to see things, like we do..."
He again patted her hand very gently, then said to Ellie on a relaxed and warm tone..
"How Jeremy survived ?"
Rudimentary creatures of blood and flesh, you touch my mind, fumbling in ignorance, incapable of understanding. - Sovereign
"Seth and the Ghost Eye. They retrived Jeremy. We placed him in a special healing device we call a Regenerative Healing Pod. His wounds were healed, but it was ultimately some Navy marines who were taking over the Ghost Eye that brought him back."
Ellie gave a small smile.
"They pointed thier guns at Rika. A few minutes later...Jeremy was back. The Neith II and Montu helped to cover the Eye until it reached Magellan. It managed to escape. Then Jeremy was thrown in prision for the first time."
"I think it was difficult for the young man, to face this in his life, especially after his recovery..."
Then he looked in Ellie's eyes again..
"I think what brings people toghether is of several events that shake our lives, very well. We forget about differences and unite ourselves to fight for a noble cause. In Cerberus, all of my high-ranking officers passed through a catastrophe that changed their lives forever..."
With a sad tone he said then...
"As long as there will be humans, there will exist wars. Unfortunately a very true say. But people like me, you, Jeremy... can make a change... to make our world a little brighter, even if sometimes there evaporates the very last drop of hope.."
Dave sighed. He then looked deep into the floor, thinking....
Rudimentary creatures of blood and flesh, you touch my mind, fumbling in ignorance, incapable of understanding. - Sovereign
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