(Have I no shame?
Being forced into hibernation not once but twice?
If the other beast found out about this they’d probably exile me because I’d be too worthless to kill,
Then again, I’m never returning to the bends, with those monsters…
I’m not one of them I’m human,
I am human
I am
I am)
….
….
Chnngk♪
“Urrrrr?” grunts Shiryu opening his eyes for the first time,
Chnngk♪
A chain pulls back his arms and legs as tries to move
(Where am I?)
Cnngksssk♪
He easily breaks free adjusting his sight to the darkness of his current location,
A small cold gray room in which chains hang from the wall, where he was previously strapped,
A steel door bars his exit
“Hey!”
Bamm!
BAM!
Blamm!
He hammers the steel
“Where am I!
Let me out!”
….
….
“It has awakened…”
Some voices whispers behind the door
“Who’s there!?”
….
No reply,
Patpatpattatatataa♪
The footsteps of the ones behind the door seem to be leaving the area
“Hey, come back!”
(Guess I’m breaking out then)
SLAMM!
Shiryu rams into the door
SLAMM!
SLAMM!
SLAMM!
SLAMM!
SLAMM!
SLAMM!
SLAMM!
SLAMM!
SLAMM!
SLAMM!
BASHAMM!
The door finally flies out of the walls along with a recoiling Shiryu,
“Eerr.” He stumbles up groggily looking around a lit corridor,
It seems to be an empty prisoner block…
Instead of cells these unlighted rooms with steel doors and chains
(Where is this?)
Shiryu turns open the steel door of a room next to his,
Inside a pale body chained on the wall in an ‘X’ position,
(Strange…..)
Shiryu goes for a closer look,
The body like an empty husk
Chkkshhh♪
It disintegrates into dust the moment he lays a finger on it
(Very strange…)
Shiryu leaves the room trailing out along the corridor to stone steps at the end, cautiously he climbs them not knowing what to expect
“We should wait for Dexter to come and deal with this, I don’t want to set that thing free.” Some voices become clear to Shiryu as he nears the door atop the steps.
(…..)
….
“I’ve already freed myself!” Shiryu pushes open the door hard to startle the owner of the voice, expecting it to be armed guards, it turns out however to be regular persons, not even wielding anything there faces turn ashen white with fear seeing Shiryu and immediately scatter,
“Help!
The monster is free!”
(Monster?)
“Hey wait?
I’m not…”
(Never mind)
“Yow–Shiryu, your up?” a familiar voice calls coming up from behind the ones running away,
“Natsu?
Wait I’m in the asylum?” Shiryu recognizes the plain walls and strict lighting over an unfurnished back room on the first of said building
Solitary
He reads off a sign near the stairs from which he’d emerged
“They didn’t want to put your body outside so that man Dexter compromised to let you remain inside in the solitary room.” Explains Natsu
“You had better leave as to not cause an uproar,”
“Is Aki and Pinoki here?
Did they get away?”
“Who else would have brought you back here, they both got banged up managed to avoid permanent scars,
The narrative has been taken without permission. Report any sightings.
That thing you fought sounds wickedly strong I want a go at it.”
“How long have I been down for?” Shiryu follows Natsu through the first floor of the asylum to the exit door,
“Some weeks,
But your healing is remarkable, those were some near death injuries, your brain was practically leaking out your skull.”
“It is the only advantage I have as a beast honestly.” Shiryu steps back out on the grass, everything is just as he had last seen it
“Good, I was just about to come and you out myself.” A hand pushes his back further out,
“Hmm?” he turns to see the well dressed commissioner Dexter standing behind him,
“I was already out.” Growls Shiryu at him
“Now you are fully out, if you are looking for the chief of Bakufu she is somewhere on the grounds,”
“What are you hiding inside there?” Shiryu’s mind suddenly flashes to the body that turned to dust
“….”
Slam!
The door shuts in his face instead of a reply,
“I don’t know why you don’t kill or at least injure that one.” Shrugs Natsu
“You four siblings think exactly the same you know,”
“Because we are the best there is.”
“Then you injure that man for me.”
“Why would I?
He does not bother me or get in my way,”
“Fair enough, I will take harming him into consideration…”
“Good, anyway if you are going to the chief she is probably by the lake,
I prefer not to accompany you, but look for me when you get back I have more to ask you about that thing you faced.”
“Yeah, yeah” nods Shiryu still feeling somewhat confused about everything
Seeing Natsu off he makes his way around the grounds to lake
…
…
“hahuh-hahuh-hahhhhuh!”
Exhales become louder as Shiryu near the lakeside,
“Hauahuh-hhahhh!” huffs away a leanly muscular woman attempting pull ups off a tree whose trunk is covered with slash marks
“Aki?” Shiryu steps into her eyesight
“?”
She notices him, but instead of speaking she rushes into his arms
…
...
“I..
I’ve missed..
I’ve missed my strength…”
Aki pushes him away after regaining her strength from the embrace
“Find that one armed man Pinoki,
We’re going back at once.” She says
“Wait, wait, let me catch up on everything first…
“What happened after?
How did you escape?”
“uhh” Aki groans wiping the sweat off her face in her vest, flashing her abs out in the process
“I grabbed you and we ran, end of story,
I don’t want to talk about it,
You are unreliable Shiryu.”
“Me?”
“We could have won but you keep breaking sync,
And it cost us, I lost to a suit of armor, and the had to wait for you to take a good snooze for weeks!” Aki’s eyes are alit with the passion and frustration she’d been harboring for weeks,
The fact that she was powerless without Shiryu annoyed her to no extent, to rely on someone else…
This was not the norm for someone like Aki
“Bu–” Shiryu opens his mouth to object
“–Enough talk we–I have been here for far too long, it’s time to put an end to this.”
….
Those words she spoke unknowingly would soon come true in a way which none of them could have ever imagined.