Shattering Humanity-Chapter 128: Itsuka’s Plea
{1,100 Years Before Leviathan’s Invasion}
As all of the Valkyries and Völvas are vanishing around Odin hanging from the tree of life with his own spear through him, there is one of each that stays and they look up at the old pitiful looking man.
A drop of blood drips off the end of the spear into the water below him.The shortest and youngest Valkyrie with golden blonde hair, a single dread on the right side of her head, with familiar blue eyes. Her golden armor around her, 3 sheathed swords, (hips and back) and a long dagger sheathed across on her chest.
The Völva at her side, with familiar purple eyes and purple hair, has a tan complexion, and an all black robe. She smirks and looks at the three different sizes of swords and the dagger long enough to be used as a sword. She chuckles then looks at Odin’s spear.
Völva: "Are you going to take his spear too, Skalmönd? I must warn you, he won’t be happy. You had trouble with the first three, and finding that Læveteinn dagger in Hel was quite difficult in itself. Maybe we should try Thor first.
Remember you die in this ’Mindscape’ you won’t wake up. My ’new youth’ spells only work if the vessel is alive and not fatally harmed."
Skalmönd shoots her Völva partner an annoyed look.
Skalmönd: "Don’t insult my name, Iôunn. I am Skalmönd, Valkyrie of the Blade, when I appear, you know it’s ’sword time’. Even if I am shunned for using the weapons of a man, I have no use for that carpenter’s hammer or this old farts spear, he should’ve shoved it up his ass if you ask me. He’s learning to read, what’s the big deal? I just want to take it all in. The beauty of this tree and this snow-like ash."
They stand there and look at the softly swinging Odin. There’s ’ash’ falling all around them, like snow.
Iôunn: "Every human sees this tree differently. Since not one tree is seen exactly the same, as it is the true reason why it is called ’the tree of life’."
The Valkyrie holds out her hand and a speck floats into her palm and disappears.
Skalmönd: "Those children of their’s the others are making, that are being made out of spite. Those half Valkyrie, half Völva children will kill their parents, won’t they?"
The Völva, Iôunn, nods slightly and looks at Odin.
Iôunn: "They’ve let their rage and curiosity blind them.
The Valkyrie want to get revenge on Christianity for causing Ragnarök, by causing Armageddon.
While my sisters are curious about the outcome and could foresee a ’Witch Hunt Era’ hundreds of years from now because of the same people. Just like our friend here, the information they’re going to learn, will be the death of them. You Valkyrie are adamant on not wanting to live until the end of time. So if their children can be just as strong or even stronger, they’re willing to take that risk for possible protection."
Skalmönd unsheathes half the sword on her left hip and the sword has actual flames coming off of it and from a regular golden sheath. The smell of burnt flesh comes from it.
Skalmönd: "I don’t understand why you Children of Seiõr and the Gods want to live forever or why the Vikings, Valkyries, and those Christians want an afterlife where they live forever and others to suffer for their mistakes. I will live through my children, and my children’s children. Children of love, not spite."
She puts the sword back in and takes one last look at the figurative and metaphoric, dying god.
Iôunn softly chuckles with a smile.
Iôunn: "And that’s the second reason why they shun you, My Savior."
Skalmönd shoots another look at the "slight flyt" of the Völva.
Skalmönd: "And why do they shun you?"
Iôunn: "It’s not that they pushed me out, it just so happened, after my mentor passed away, there was no other Völva that I knew or wanted anything to do with me. So when you saved me from a bear, then approached me, looking for ’a way to get the swords of the Gods’, I decided to repay my debt to you."
Skalmönd looks at the water surrounding the tree of life. The reflection of glowing runes carved on the tree but not on the tree itself. Noticing this too, Iôunn chuckles again.
Iôunn: "What if I told you, the same reason you’ll live through your children, is the reason I want to keep living, My Dear Guardian."
Skalmönd turns from the water in surprise to the Völva’s words. 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦
Iôunn: "I want to know what you Valkyrie call ’love at first sight’. I don’t want to know the afterlife, without knowing what true love is and create children who inherited the love from Seiôr, as well as the love from two lives who appreciate each other."
As they turn around to the black void of nothingness, they can hear Odin mumble something with blood dripping from his lip. It makes Skalmönd turn her head back towards him.
Odin(mumbling):"...word to a word, to a word..."
Iôunn puts her hand on the shorter Viking’s shoulder.
Iôunn: "If you’re ready, please close your eyes, Brave Skalmönd."
Skalmönd turns and looks back at the dark, quiet, empty void of nothingness and fear. She closes her eyes but as soon as her eye lids close...
Iôunn: "You may open them."
Skalmönd opens her gorgeous blue eyes and a breathtaking view of the sea is in front of her, all her weapons from the Mindscape still on her back and hips.
As she adores the view of the sea she asks the Völva another question, the weirdest question ever asked.
Skalmönd: "Aye, Iôunn, what’s your favorite word?"
The Völva gets caught off guard by the question. She lets out a soft laugh out her nose with a smile. The beautiful familiar left purple eye looks out to the same beautiful blue sea and thinks about her answer.
Iôunn: "Well if you put me on the spot like that, My Dearest Skalmönd, I’d say mine is ’someday’."
{4 years before Leviathan’s Invasion}
On a rainy day, in the apartment building above Hanabi Pet Heaven. There is rock music playing from inside a small weight room, the sound of bench press weights being lifted up and down, and the sounds of a younger Itsuka grunting and counting can be heard.
There is a little cage in the corner of the room, a ramp up the side, with a little name tag with the name ’MiiMii’ on it and a little female ferret on top of it asleep on a blanket.
Itsuka: "48...49...fiiiiftyyy GET UP THERE YOU BASTARD!"
The ferret, MiiMii, wakes up and looks at its owner.
The sound of the weight bar being racked can be heard. The door at the front of the shop says ’Closed’.
MiiMii jumps down from the top of the cage, slips on its landing, but gets up and shakes her little head. She looks at the ramp and then goes to drink water underneath it.
A 15 year old Itsuka, both of her purple eyes, a bead of sweat drips past them as she is now doing dumbbell curls with 100 lb(45kg) in each hand. She’s wearing a sweaty white tee with black shorts.
tsuka: "48, 49, 50, no 10 more! 51, 52..."
Her platinum hair, in the original twisted pigtails of her rageful time. The phone rings and it forces the young devoted girl to put the weights down. As she wipes her sweat with a towel she answers it.
Itsuka: "Hello?...Yea, they left this morning on a plane for an anniversary trip, why who is this?..."
As she’s looking into a mirror at her muscles, she slowly stops and her angry expression goes right to an open mouth shock.
Itsuka: "Y-you’re joking right? Th-this is a joke right?...My mom and m-my dad are..."
She hangs up and slams the phone down. It scares MiiMii as she scrambles into her cage for safety as Itsuka starts to angressively cry. The ferret MiiMii peeks from her little cage to see if the coast is clear, but then Itsuka shouts so loud it can be heard outside in the pouring rain as it comes down harder outside of the ’Hanabi Pet Shop’ with the ’Closed’ sign.
From her room, the younger, puffy purple eyed Itsuka, after a shower and in pajamas, is still lightly crying. Carrying MiiMii on her shoulder.
Itsuka: "Grandma and Grandpa went out for dinner. How am I going to tell them, MiiMii?*sniffles* Why them?! Why my mom? *sniffles* Why my dad?"
She takes MiiMii off her shoulder and puts the calm ferret on her chest as she lies in her bed on her back.The distraught Itsuka sniffles.
Itsuka: "They didn’t deserve to die. Even if it was annoying, they were always talking about love. Why did their plane have to get attacked by hate? Why do those kinds of people have to exist? What’s going to happen to the pet shop?"
The ferret looks up at her owner. The young girls eyes are closed with tear marks falling down the side of her face and she’s calmly asleep after crying. As she’s asleep, the from a young little 5 year old Itsuka’s PoV.
They are in the same Hanabi Park that Katsu first met Saku and Shelly.
She looks over from the other children playing and hears a woman.
Nozomi: "Itsukaaa! Come on Hunbun! Papa set up the picnic!"
Itsuka: "Mamaaa!"
The PoV turns to see Nozomi and Gaman, 5 years older, her father is pulling out sandwiches from a basket on a purple and pink checkerboard blanket, under a beautiful green tree, blowing in the wind. Her tall gorgeous mother waving for her to come over and eat. Her beautiful tan skin standing out in contrast to the white sundress flowing with the tree above her.
The PoV of little Itsuka blinks and is suddenly at the blanket the vision of a PB&J sandwich is eaten underneath, and gone in an instant.
Itsuka: "Mmmm, you’re the best chef, Daddy!"
The PoV looks up to it’s right at her mother with a half eaten sandwich.
Nozomi: "I know right! He’s gotten so much better since we first met, right PaPa!?"
Itsuka’s PoV turns to the left to see the still timid man, but now a father, as he rubs the back of his head and chuckles it off.
Gaman: "It’s just peanut butter and jelly you two, haha!"
The man looks directly at his daughter and then at his wife, tears in his eyes and a grateful smile.
Gaman: "But thank you girls... for everything. 5 years ago I was waiting, hoping someone would find me, and give me value. I couldn’t have imagined my life like this, and now, there couldn’t be a happier man or a man luckier than me."
Tears fill up in the PoV at the words of a man truly grateful for the life he was given and realizing, someday...
With tears in her mother’s beautiful purple eyes, she looks over to her daughter and with a cracked voice and tears.
Nozomi: "Itsuka, Mommy had gone a long time thinking that ’love at first sight’ was just something that only existed in myths, but once I got a good look at your father, I knew my friend wasn’t lying and that made me even more happier to think about her again."
A tired yawn from the vignetting PoV she hears the fading voice of her mother.
Nozomi: "If you truly love someone both of you will feel it in your stomach. Like a ring tightening around your tummy or a shot to the stomach."
{Present Day 4 P.M.}
In Sanpaku’s ’Hospital’, a white room with two chairs and a locked heavy door.The sound of Princess Kawaii humming "Here Comes The Bride" in the rest of the quiet room gives the vibe an eerie tone.
Itsuka is calmly asleep, with wet tear marks down her face, over the broken heart tattoo on her right temple. In an all white pajama set. Her right knee in a thick brace and left foot in a medical boot.
She repeatedly and barely audibly mumbles "Saku".
In the room Aiden is checking Itsuka’s pulse on her wrist. Shelly is sitting with Princess Kawaii to her right.
ith her elbows on her knees and her mouth covered by her fist in her hand, Shelly is looking at her unconscious and seriously injured ’Big Sis’ with a no-blink stare.
Like a professional athlete getting ’in the zone’ before a big game.
The Princess is humming while making a single braid out of Shelly’s beautiful golden blonde hair.
The Princess is admiring the sparkle of her hair.
Princess Kawaii: "Wow, Big Sitter Shelly, your hair is beautiful."
Shelly doesn’t move and answers with a slight somber tone.
Shelly: "Thanks sweetheart, just one will do, thank you."
Daisuki is sitting looking at X-rays of Itsuka’s shattered injures.
Daisuki: "Well Doc, it’s safe to say she’s gonna be decommissioned for a while, even with an IceEye’s healing help."
Aiden looks over and nods with a sad frown.
He goes over to the X-rays.
Katsu is leaning up against a dark corner wall, with his head down and his eyes unseen by the darkness covering them, his bottom of his grimace is the only thing visible.
Princess Kawaii: "Aaaand DONE!"
Shelly breaks her concentration for a moment to acknowledge the incredibly well done braid.
Aiden points the x-ray at the light.
Aiden: "Yea, I don’t know really how much these eyes do with shattered limbs but I will say the difference in between two shots taken only a few minutes apart is pretty stagnant."
There’s a noise heard of something heavy falling on the concrete floor and everyone turns to look in shock, except Katsu.
Itsuka is crawling, gritting her teeth in pain, and grunting in agony towards the door.
The sound of her boot and knee brace sliding across the ground.
Her hand reaches to claw the cement floor and breaks a nail but she slides forward anyway.
Shelly now has darkness covering her eyes.
Princess Kawaii is afraid of both the situation and of Shelly’s new look.
Daisuki too, can be seen heavily impacted by the actions of a woman truly in love with a man in the midst of danger.
Aiden looks around at everyone just watching. He runs over to help her.
Aiden: "Itsuka you need to-"
The injured and desperate woman pushes his help away.
Itsuka: "GET AWAY FROM ME!"
She is crying as she gets to the metal door, locked from both sides without the key.
Itsuka, from the floor, tries the knob. Once it doesn’t turn she starts banging on the door, HARD.
Each hit slightly dents the door and after every hit she shouts.
Itsuka: "LET ME OUT! LET ME OUT! LET ME OUT!"
The sounds of her hand breaking is heard and makes Princess Kawaii flinch.
Ituka: "YOU ALL HATE HIM! YOU ALL HATE HIM! NONE OF YOU WANT TO SAVE HIM! NONE OF YOU! NONE OF YOU EXCEPT ME! LET ME OUT, FUCK ALL OF YOU!"
Once her knuckles are covered in blood she starts banging her head against the metal door covered with dents and with blood spots of from her fist.
The painful groans after each hit to the forehead of her gorgeous face makes Princess Kawaii cover her eyes but before she can give one last slam to do real damage, a hand grabs her platinum hair and holds it back.
Katsu his Anjell Eye popped off in 2nd Stage with a dark black yin aura with a white stripe, is behind her, holding her by the base of her beautiful hair.
He lets her go and she softly leans her head on the door.
Itsuka stops throwing a fit and there is silence in the room until she can be heard weeping. Her tear drops and a blood drop from her forehead fall on to her bloodied knuckles.
Itsuka: "Katsu..."
Katsu: "Yea?"
Itsuka: "Do you really hate Saku?"
Katsu: "Yea."
Itsuka: "Do you hate me, because I love him?"
Katsu: "No."
There’s silence while both Itsuka and Princess Kawaii can be heard softly sobbing. Shelly gets up from her chair and begins walking over to the two at the door.
Itsuka slowly looks up, with tears in her eyes. The blood from her forehead has run down her face and it looks as if she’s crying blood.
She EyeEngages with Katsu.
Itsuka: "Katsu. Help ’me’. Please."
After her voice cracks on ’please’ Itsuka is picked up by Shelly, easily, and is carried back to the bed she started from.
As Shelly lays her injured Big Sis down and wipes the hair and tears from her bloodied face she looks Itsuka in the eye knowing how it feels to worry about the man she loves and not being able to do anything about it.
Daisuki unlocks the door with his key and his IceEye pops off to a blazing pink aura, tears coming out his human eye, and snowflakes down his IceEye.
Katsu walks to the bed and takes off his ’Katsu 40’ sweatshirt and tosses it towards Itsuka’s lap.
He and Shelly nod at Aiden and the genius of the group nods back.
Without an answer to Itsuka’s plea, the vessel of Yang, always seen with azule, leave the room clearly on a mission.
