Shattering Humanity-Chapter 124: Jormungand & Drakaina
{From the ’Outer Ring’ of Roronora City, 3:30 p.m.}
A young man, 14 years old, short purple hair, a noticeable scar on his right arm and excited orange eyes. With his shy timid looking older sister, 18 years old, with long gorgeous purple hair and worrisome orange eyes.
Both without an Eyelien in either eye, without a collar, or a ’Master’, and wearing white matching jumpsuits and dirty slip on shoes.
They are near the outskirts of the city borders behind buildings, running while holding hands, the boy is leading his older sister through the hidden unpopulated area of the city. They stop behind a brick building and look out through the chain link fence.
The boy points at some black snow that sticks out perfectly in contrast to the white alien snow surrounding it.
Young Man: "See! I told you Drakaina! Black snow! Have you ever seen something like that, Big Sistah? Where do you think it came from?!"
The older sister has her hand in front of her fearful face and looks around.
Drakaina: "Quiet Jormungand, we aren’t supposed to be outside the ’Pet Sheltered Area’ without a Master. Let’s get-...."
The young woman, Drakaina, turns around without saying another word and falls down on her butt, terrified.
The young man turns to see what she was afraid of. In the shadows of the ’outskirts alley’, the dark silhouette of a ’monster’ with a left 2nd stage IceEye with a terrifying black aura and a white streak, crawling out of the brick wall.
The young man, Jormungand, grabs the hand of his older sister and runs away. Both breathing heavily, also not trying to make too much noise.
The ’monster’, Saku, crawls out of the portal and falls to the ground, his arms out wide to catch his breath. His Anjell Eye finally goes to its base-kit and the Yin aura fades. He looks over at the black snow left from his clone that gave him the chance to get into the city.
Saku: "Okay...now...to find..as many abilities... as possible."
After constantly using his Anjell Eye for over an hour, without food or rest, Saku passes out from energy exhaustion before he can get back up.
Saku starts dreaming about the memories he received from the clone that Itsuka "killed", plus what she said in love and anger.
From his clone’s point of view, her crying eyes over him, and punching him in heartbreak. Unnoticeable to Saku, his hand, with a slight pulsating white aura around it, clutches his actual chest above his heart.
Saku: *I’m sorry Itsuka. I’m so so sorry. That wasn’t really the reason I did it, but my clone couldn’t say it out loud, cuz that other bitch would know immediately. I told her to trust the process. I- I love-. Why does this shit always happen? It’s the same as when I had to run from Tay with Friend. How am I always the one in the wrong? Is everything I do wrong? Does nobody appreciate me? No matter what I do to try and ’fit in’? I’m doing ’this’, running right into enemy territory, alone, for everyone.Even for Katsu’s hatin’ ass and his bitch. Especially for you Itsuka, I’m too afraid to check and see how your fight went, please kick Laban’s ass and I promise you can feel the satisfaction of hitting the real me."
The aura is no longer pulsating but a pure white ’snow aura’ surrounds the ’meditating’ young man and ’snow’ is being pulled in towards his body, a slightly larger ’gravitational pull’ radius than Shelly’s.
Saku: *If there is some ability that I can find to protect you forever, it will all be worth it, even if you hate me, even if you never find out I’ve been protecting you from afar, I’ll make up for what that clone said, I promise.*
The feeling of energy, as if from a spark of fire, combined with a strike of lightning shoots through his body and Saku’s eyes open.
His Anjell Eye, is still in base-kit, however, the same white glow that Shelly had when fighting her opponent in Tomodachi Town surrounds him.
From the ground he jumps right to his feet with ease and looks at his new white ’snow aura’ around his body.
Saku: "Holy shit, this is what that bitch was feeling during her fight? This power feels ’different’, compared to the sun’s energy."
Saku’s eyes widen but his thought is put on pause due to the sounds of the young woman, Drakaina, yelling.
Drakaina: "Please, don’t hurt him!"
Saku quickly runs to the noise. He gets there in less than a moment, he peeks the corner and at first sees three cops.
One is stepping on the young boy, Jormungand’s neck, holding the boy’s right wrist up, exposing his scar and pinning him to the ground. The little brother is clearly beat up.
While the other two crooked cops are near the girl. The fattest one is behind her and has her arms pinned back.
The final cop pulls out a switch blade and slices open her jumpsuit revealing her bra. She screams, and the cop quickly covers her mouth. All of the evil men laugh.
Jormungand struggles, despite the vulnerable position both he and his older sister are in.
Jormungand: "Leave her alone you bastards!"
The cop pulls up on his arm and twists his foot, making the desperate younger brother relax.
Switchblade Officer: "I know you’ve both been told what happens to ’strays’ in this city, haven’t ya love? We get to make examples of y’all now. Ever been ’broken in’ yet, beautiful?"
With her eyes closed and her head turned she quietly pleads with her assaulters.
Drakaina: "Please, just let my little brother go..."
The cop who tore open her shirt, snickers as he holds the blade up to the middle of her bra and begins cutting slowly. Before he can cut halfway through, his legs get swept out from under him, he fumbles the small blade, and a white aura covered hand catches the handle of the switch blade, and the closed fist alone makes contact with the cops head and slams it to the ground, knocking him unconscious as the white aura fades away from the fist.
The cop holding Drakaina’s arms back can now see his other partner who was holding Jormungand down, is also knocked out. Before he can reach for his gun, the young 14 year old little brother knocks the cop on the side of the head, with the officer’s own weapon. Making the 3rd and final crooked law official let go of his sister.
The young man runs to his sister on the ground and falls into her for a hug.
Jormungand: "Drakaina!"
Drakaina: "Jormy!"
The siblings hug each other and then look over at the man they had thought was a monster, actually be their hero.
Saku: "Here."
Saku takes his "Saku 40" sweatshirt off and gives it to the young woman, who is just a year younger than him, as she is blushing. She is holding her torn shirt together to cover herself and her half torn bra.
Drakaina slowly takes the offering as she is still blushing. She puts the oversized sweatshirt on.
Drakaina: "Th-thank you."
Her little brother steps in between the stranger and his sister, with a charming confidence, the opposite kind of confidence compared to Dom’s. With charisma similar to...
Jormungand: "The name’s Jormungand, you can call me ’Jorm’ or ’Jor’, but not ’Jormy’, that’s solely the name for my sistah to call me. I’m 14, love basketball and I won’t ever quit when someone tells me I can’t do something. It’s an insult to me and that’s my creed my mother instilled in me.
That’s my sister Drakaina, she takes more after our quiet librarian father. She just turned 18 today, Mister, do you wanna marry her and can we get adopted together!?"
He holds out his hand to the Izanami Division Leader.
Drakaina: "Jormy!I’m sorry he- he’s-"
She hides her face inside Saku’s sweatshirt that she’s wearing. From inside the dark sweatshirt, her eyes widen and she blushes from smelling Saku’s pheromones.
Saku smiles and shakes the hand of the young man who he helped save. The slight collected snow energy aura no longer surrounding him.
Saku: "I’m Saku, nice to meet you. Cool names."
Saku looks at Drakaina as she pokes her head back out.
Saku: "It’s my birthday today too.But don’t expect that sweatshirt to be your present. Imma need my sweatshirt back before my girlf-.Just make sure you give it back, please."
Drakaina nods slightly without looking at him.
Saku sighs and looks at the three officers who got assaulted back for the siblings and he turns back towards Jorm.
Saku: "Okay, here’s the deal, my eye ability copies all other eye abilities that I see or get used on me. I already have the Don Laban’s ’Omnipotence N-Eye’, so I already know this place and it’s scummy way to earn citizenship. It’s prison rules, fight on entry to prove you aren’t a punk among thugs in a ’hardass society’. If you don’t prove you fight, you just wait to be made someone’s bitch."
The young man nods at the correct comparison.
Jorm: " If I had an Eyelien, I could save sistah from gross scumbags that visit the ’Shelter’.I have to threaten them and tell them, ’if I do get adopted by another person, we still live in the same city. I’ll find the place she’s been taken to, and kill them in their sleep to save her’."
Saku raises an impressed eyebrow at the resolve of the would-be high school freshman.
Jorm: "I’ve wanted to enter the ’Initiation Arena’ but-"Drakaina: "NO!"
Saku looks at her while the little brother looks at the ground and clenches his fist.
Drakaina: "I’m not allowed to go watch him fight one of those monsters unless I have a Master to accompany me. We only have each other left in this world. If he left to the ’Initiation Arena’ and never came back, who would threaten those scary men with government protected power? I’d be getting abused, alone in this world with ’no hope’. No hope you’d save me, ever."
Saku now looks upset and walks over to her.
Drakaina: "Even if I was getting raped daily, but knew Jorm was still alive, I could grit my teeth and survive off of that ’hope’ alone."
Saku slaps the girl he gave the sweatshirt to, HARD. Jorm takes one step but Saku looks over his shoulder at the young man and nods.Jormungand steps back.
Saku: "Your own little brother is willing to end your suffering and be that ’hope’. There you’ve been abused, twice, he can now be the hero you dreamed he could be."
Drakaina: "He’s too you-"
Saku: "You’re being selfish as his older sister and making your own little brother continue to suffer because you’re scared of his failure. His own big Sis should be protecting him in the first place."
Drakaina looks ashamed from the last statement.
Saku: "You can have ’faith’ or ’hope’ in being saved all you want, but your brother has ’desire’ and ’drive’ to find happiness for the both of you. He is his own hope and you’re suppressing his hope."
Both siblings eyes open from the philosophical reasoning behind Saku’s words and the way he is breaking down these two people he just met.
Saku: "You just want your little brother to stay alive and live as ’dogs’ together, instead of trusting in him to be the ’hope’ now, you want him to live through having to be without you and risk his life anyway, trying to find you and save you as a ’pet’. You’re best case scenario is you both live and die at the Shelter, his age has nothing to do with it, he’s obviously capable and athletic enough to be known as a ’fighter’."
The siblings lock eyes and the look from the little brother proves to Drakaina, that everything Saku’s is saying, is how the young 14 year old truly feels as well but has been too afraid to make her upset.
Saku: "I’ve never had a sibling and only one fake friend growing up, but I have had a stray pup, a ’Friend’, that I’ve relied on and he has also relied on me. He’s not a human little brother, but I’ve treated him the same way I know a protective older brother would watch over his younger sibling. We fought an Iceman together and now I have the alien’s left eye and he has the alien’s right one back at home. We fought to save each other and trusted that our own ’hope’, was the trust we could save ourselves, with our own trust and love in one another."
Drakaina is shaking from the fear the thought of her dead brother. Saku sighs again and scratches his head.
Saku: "How about this, I’ll be your temporary ’Master’ here while you two bring me to this ’Initiation Arena’..."
The closest cop to him starts waking up but Saku heel taps him in the head to put the crook back to sleep and the Izanami Leader, looks back at Jorm.
Saku: "...you can enter that 1 on 1 with an Iceman, get that eye, and then you’ll show me where ’Princess Rebekah’ is and her ’Fores-Eye...t’."
Drakaina nervously considers the deal, Jorm however....
Jormungand: "Sure! As long as you promise to get my sister out of this place, I’ll follow you through Hell, Master Saku."
Saku clearly gets triggered by the ’Master’ title and shoots a comedic look at the new comrade.
Saku: "Try again."
Jorm: "Mr. Saku?"
Saku: "JUST. ’Saku’."
