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Lying down Nemo tossed back and forth
struggling against the water....but feeling the soft brush of wind
against his
nose, and the feel of a smooth hard floor, he opened his eyes. Staring up into the serene night sky, Nemo
was taken back because he was outside, but also because the sky seemed
very strange. Covering his eyes from
the extent of the
light from the stars, they felt so close that Nemo thought that he
could touch
them. Continuing to glance across the
sky, he noticed that there were several planets also close at hand. Pulling his arm down from in front of
his
face, he suddenly realized that his arm no longer hurt.
Holding it up to look at it, Nemo exclaimed
in surprise and realized that not only was he not hurting, but he was
completely dry. Turing his eyes back to
the sky, he realized that he was surrounded by tall magnificent marble
pillars
that hoisted themselves up, as if to hold a heavy ceiling, but only
seemed to
brace the sky instead. Turning his
head, he followed the pillars down till they touched the pristine floor. Glaring their reflection off of the polished
floor, of which was also made of marble but was entwined with the most
purest
gold, it caught the intricateness of the
existence of time.
Propping
himself onto his elbows, not sure if he had full strength, Nemo glared
at his environment
and noticed that he was surrounded by walls on all sides with no door. Carefully getting up, he was once again met
with a soft warm breeze that smelled of flowers, open fields of grass
and
endless spring nights that were filled with beginning life. Taken aback by the apparent beauty Nemo at
first stumbled forward but gained his balance. What
was this place and why was he here?
Suddenly
the serene silence was interrupted by the sound of someone's voice
speaking. "We have been expecting
you...Nemo." Turning around,
Coming full circle to a figure in a white robe, Nemo jumped back, as
the fact that
no one had been there before.
Expecting
me, thought Nemo, Why would they be expecting me?
Stepping
forward, the figure that wore a robe made of thick silk, with their
face hidden
by the shadow of the hood, smiled kindly. Noticing
that the figure had fur and that they had
whiskers, Nemo knew
it was a cat. Feeling oddly completely
relaxed and comfortable in their presence, Nemo didn’t know why but
knew that
he could trust the cat.
"Where
am I," asked Nemo?
"You
are, where you are," said the cat, of which Nemo recognized the voice
as a
female. She pointed her paw over Nemo's
shoulder at the direction completely behind him. Turning
around, Nemo gasped. The wall that had
been there was
missing. Walking over to where it had
been, the tiled floor ended to a drop and gave way to slight misty sand. Carefully watching, the sand moved away from
a central area and right before him was a sewer man hole...building out
farther, the entire city that Nemo had been in shifted into
view...Lightening
up by street lamps and faint lights from peoples houses inside, the
stars
slightly dimmed their light. S
Stepping
closer to the edge, Nemo recognized the place as to where he had been
moments
before. Peeling away the lid of the
manhole, it deteriorated into sand, being blown away by a soft wind. Immediately following, the whole street
brushed up and sucked away the ground all the way to half of the sewer
pipe. Much like the split views of cars
and such, it looked like a real life diagram. Suddenly
Nemo saw a cat that was curled up and in an
awkward painful
position. Noticing the slight glow from
the force field, nemo identified the cat as himself, trapped on the
containment
shield.
"That
is me! How can I be in two places at
once?" Nemo asked. Turning
his direction to the cat who was
addressing him, Nemo couldn't figure out what was happening. Slowly letting the entire information sink
in, he gasped out loud, "Am I dead?"
Without
commenting to his question the cat stated, "The council wants you to
stay
and complete your mission."
"Council,
Stay?" Nemo asked in confusion. "Am I dead
and is this heaven?" He persisted.
"This
is not heaven," said the cat, "but compared to the state of Earth, it
would seem like such a place." She
turned from facing Nemo and walked around him to where his body was in
the
sewer hole. Jumping down the ground, she
gracefully landed like a butterfly onto the ground that had been
widdled away
by the wind and reached towards Nemo's body. Reaching
through the water, which everything was
completely frozen as a
frame of time had been pulled from existence, she passed through the
water as
if it was air and grabbed Nemo's right paw. Positioning
it away from the barrier, she pushed the
button on Nemo's
tail to deactivate the containment field. Figuring
as he watched her that once time was
started up again, the shield would deactivate and disappear, Nemo was
still
completely confused.
"If
this is not heaven and I am dead, then why am I here?" asked Nemo.
"Nemo,
though I may tell you, you will not remember." Walking
back up out of the hole, she stood
once more on the solid ground next to Nemo. "All you need to know is
that
your return to Earth is imperative. In
your hands rests the destiny of two worlds; yours and where you are
originally
from. It is extremely important that you
complete your mission that you were assigned to do."
Trying to
take this all in, Nemo began to think harder. "If
I am not from Earth, then why can I not remember who I
am, or
what I used to be?"
"Your
memories have been suppressed by shock from an incident too sad to talk
about. But you memories will slowly
emerge to their extent to help you complete your mission.
That is all that you need to know."
"I
have a mission on Earth," asked Nemo, "what is my mission?
And what is the gate incident."
She turned
from his gaze and walked towards a huge staircase that had appeared. Extending up over the wall and higher than
the pillars; the stair’s destination disappeared far into the night sky. Slightly glancing back at Nemo, he knew
that
he would get no more answers from her.
The cat
turned her direction as if to expect someone, but Nemo turned his gaze
back to
his body. Extremely confused and unsure
of what this all was, he stared intently at the horrible expression on
his
face, and his closed eyes.
Suddenly he
heard another voice that was not the girl cat. Turning
back to the stairs, his eyes met upon a human girl
that was
completely dressed in white that had a glow around her whole body. Turning her eyes to his, Nemo cringed as they
were the most purest blue eyes that he had ever seen.
Turning her gazed back to the cat, the human
girl’s long blonde hair that trailed to her waist brushed in the wind. "Is this really the one?" asked the
girl doubtingly. "He is unprincipled
and irrational." Nemo remembered
back to his conversation with Duchess, thinking to himself that this
sounded
like something that she would say.
"Yes,"
said the cat to her, while the human picked her up.
"He has a strong will, and gives as much
as can. Plus his memories are trapped
deep in the maze of his mind."
"Very
well," said the girl, "I can not believe that this is the cat that
was so famed, but we shall trust in the fate that is playing at
hand." She smiled at Nemo and said,
"Good luck to you."
Though Nemo
was taken aback by all what was happened he was confused, "Well...don't
I
get a say in this, " asked Nemo, "I mean this is my life, and it is
not fair that I do not know my memories, or who I used to be and what
my
mission is!"
They began
to step up the stairs and nemo started to feel a dizzy.
"Go," said the cat, "this is a
matter of consequence if you do not complete your mission…Go and live
the course
of life." Suddenly Nemo started to
feel a pull towards his body.
"Wait,"
he called," I don't understand." He
tumbled back into the misty sand and fell to his knees
and paws. Darkness started to lap at his
mind as
everything was fading. Losing his
balance, he rolled down the hole that had been gouged he started to
feel the
lap of water on his fur. Looking back
up, the cat was staring down at Nemo...except her hood was away from
her head. As Nemo gasped his last breath,
his mind
caught onto her face. Immediately
recognizing her from his dreams, Nemo called out, "It's
you...but...you...died....but...when"
Nemo fazed
out as he heard her mumble, as her voice garbled with the darkness,
"Goodbye Nemo.......an.d...Good....lu.c...k." Hacking and
coughing Nemo clung to
a ladder that he had managed to grab hold of after he deactifvated the
barrier. Piercing throughout his whole
body, pain shot through his right shoulder, while Nemo clenched his
teeth. As the rushing water whipped by,
Nemo felt
like it would never end. Finallyo
stopping, Nemo carefully looked up, and saw the manhole at the top of
the
ladder. Using all of the energy that he
had left, he climbed up the ladder and pushed the manhole lid aside. Pulling himself out of the hole, he
grunted
and gritted his teeth as his muscles seemed to give out.
How had he lived through that? Nemo
wondered to himself. Pushing the manhole
cover back into place he
jumped in surprise as an annoying voice called over the dark night air.
“Twice
in one night, I can see that my luck in improving,” exclaimed Viktor. Slowly turning
around Nemo grimaced
as he faced Viktor who still held his stun gun, of which was trained
onto him. Glancing at the moon, Nemo
figured that it
had been an hour since the sun had set. Looking
back at Viktor he narrowed his eyes. He
had not survived the sewer hole just to
get caught by Viktor. Though he was in
extreme pain, he did not want to show it to Viktor and nor did he want
to show
his fear. Viktor motioned with his free
hand towards a small vehicle that he was standing by. “It is time to
take you in Nemo.”
Viktor exclaimed while motioning again for him to get into the
transport. Using every ounce of strength,
Nemo stood up
and refused to acknowledge the gesture. “It
seems that you did not learn your lesson from the first shot. Even if you will not be able to use both your
arms, they will recover in time.” Pulling
back on the trigger, Nemo heard an explosion,
cringed and waited
for the impact, but nothing came. Opening
his eyes Viktor was staring at the gun in complete
surprise as
he was only holding the bottom half, the top part had been blown off. Quickly dropping it he cuddled his hand as it
had obviously been burnt. Without to
much more hesitation, Viktor pulled out another gun, but this time when
he
tried shooting again, it ricocheted off of something in front of
Nemo….a kind
of barrier. Hearing the panting of a cat
withstanding the blow, Nemo recognized it as Tsuki’s.
Looking over to behind a tree a little ways
off, he saw Yoru standing with a gun that Nemo had never seen before. Once again Yoru
took aim and
blasted the gun that Viktor had been holding. Suddenly
Viktor reeled back as had been kicked by
something invisible. “That was for
last nigt,” Nemo
heard Tsuki exclaim; though for some reason he could not see her. “Give it up
Viktor,” Tsuki called,
while punching him in the stomach. Though
Nemo was exhausted he had to hold back a laugh as
it seemed that
as Viktor started swinging and getting punched he was just fighting
with
himself.
Though
Viktor was extremely adamant and was very determined to get Nemo he
yelled out
in frustration. “Nemo I will get you
yet.” With that said he went up in a puff of smoke with his vehicle. Collapsing, Nemo
had spent the last
of his energy standing up. Yoru raced up
to him while Nemo continued to hear Tsuki’s voice, but for some reason
could
not see her. Looking at
Nemo’s shoulder, Yoru
put the gun down and reached to examine it, “Wow Nemo, you seem to get
hurt in
the weirdest ways possible.” Tsuki called in,
“Did Viktor get a
good shot on you?” Though ashamed
to admit his obvious
defeat, he nodded to Tsuki’s question. Once
again he doubled over in pain as his shoulder seared
in pain. “We need to get
him some medical
attention fast!” called Yoru. Nemo smiled
slightly, “Don’t worry
guys I will be alright, just get me home.” Yoru relaxed at
hearing Nemo
talk. Letting his eyes trail down to the
gun that he had shot at Viktor earlier, he pulled it up into Nemo’s
view, “Look
what HQ sent us! They sent some new
weapons and a lighter invisible pack. They
also sent more efficient heat goggles.” Remembering the
heat goggles, Nemo
knew that the ones that he had brought into the sewer were gone. Looking over at the car and the bag that he
had left underneath the car, he told Yoru to go and get it. Carefully
getting to his feet Nemo
stood up once more, as Tsuki turned off her new invisible pack and came
up next
to him to help him walk towards home. Tsuki couldn’t
hold it in anymore, “Did
you like the cool shield that they sent with the invisibility pack?” “So that is what
saved me after you
guys shot the first gun,” put in Nemo. “Thanks
Tuski and also thanks Yoru for that good shot!” “Don’t mention
it Nemo,” said
Tsuki. “After all,”
Yoru stated, “We are
in this together…”he paused as Nemo suddenly remembered that he had
left them
out of the mission. “After you left
Nemo, we got
worried, especially when we didn’t find you in the control room,” said
Tsuki. “Though thanks
to the note that you
left us, telling exactly where you had gone, we were able to track you
down,”
Yoru commented. “So what happened
between you and Viktor?” Note? Thought
Nemo to himself, I
never wrote a note. Looking back
into the two young
cats eyes he turned back to their questions, “all right,” He finally
said, “If
you want to know, I faced off with Viktor, but I failed.
I dropped myself into his clutches like a
complete idiot and almost died.” “Is that all,”
asked Tsuki, “Viktor
came out LONG before you did!” “Yah, did
anything else happen,”
asked Yoru. Nemo cringed; he
was not even sure
what happened. One moment he was crushed
by the wall of water, and then slamed into the barrier he had put to
capture
Viktor and the next thing he knew, he was clinging to the ladder that
he had
gone down. Finally admitting Nemo said,
“Guys
I really don’t know. Recently there has
been happening a lot of strange unexplainable situations.
One moment I was going to die, and the next I
was clinging to a ladder.” “For a whole
hour,” mused Tsuki, “WOW,
You really are the best agent in the WHOLE WORLD!!!” Nemo smiled at
her enthusiasm. Making their way
home, Yoru said to
them, “So how we going to fix you up this time? Should
we make you look like a dog got you again, or
perhaps a bird?” Nemo chuckled a
little, “I don’t
care, just let me get home so I can rest up for tomorrow night’s
mission.” As they made
their way off of the
street and onto the side walk, they did not see the limping cat walk up
and sit
down on the ground where they had been, undetected while watching them
go home. Slightly smiling to herself, the
old cat
sighed and began to walk home too. She had had a long night. Though she had only written a note and
watched everyone from afar, she was retired and truthfully was out of
shape and
very, very exhausted.
To
be continued next
week in: “EPISODE III : The broken Past Awakens”
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