Shattering Humanity-Chapter 138: "Throw The 1’s!"

From a stairwell inside the stadium, Saku is skipping 3 stairs at a time trying to get up as fast as possible. He enters another archway to another set of stairs. He passes below a sign that reads "V.I.P Press Box Ahead". With heavy breathing, Saku gets to the final top step, and puts his hands on his knees.

Saku: "Fuck!(takes breath) I’m outta shape.(takes breath) No wonder Katsu’s punkass (takes breath) can keep up with me now. Once this is over, it’s time to train and get bigger. Hopefully Itsuka...."

Saku thinks about what he saw with the Don Laban’s own eye ability. He remembers watching the DaeMon stomp down on Itsuka’s ligaments and bones while the beautiful platinum haired woman begged for him to save her.

A tear rolls down Saku’s cheek and he wipes his wet eyes with his arm before walking towards the door with a "V.I.P" plaque hanging on it. He gets to the door and casually opens it.

Within the luxurious room, Zoram and Drakaina turn around quickly from looking down at the blood stained court.

Off to the right of the doorway, one of the Don Laban’s ’Homies’, a bald white man with a red target tattooed on the top of his head and multiple face piercings, was hidden, standing guard. Saku’s Anjell Eye sends an electric pulse to his brain, making his body barely dodge a sneaking haymaker.

Saku, now knowing an enemy is there, pops off his Anjell Eye, it has a Yin aura, and he jumps forward, connecting two quick punches to the man’s jaw. Then the delinquent does a backflip kick to the man’s chin.

The bald man staggers back and Saku waits for his opponent to make the next move but the man doesn’t and looks to be afraid of Saku and his eye aura.

Saku then smirks and the Iceman he had collected with Silpheed’s ’Cut&Paste’ ability, *POPS* into existence, appearing behind the bald, unfortunate man.

The SunSword-less bouncer slowly turns around and stares at the monster in terror as it pounces on him and begins tearing him up. Blood gets splattered all over the room walls as the man begs for his life but the ice alien doesn’t speak his language.

Zoram pulls out a gun, gets behind the older sister, and points it at Drakaina’s head. The woman is clearly not comfortable with using a girl under 20 years old as a hostage.

Saku looks to his left and sees an unconscious Jormungand, now missing his left hand, passed out on a couch.

The Iceman, finishes it’s prey, and turns to the rest of the humans in the V.I.P room. Saku focuses on the ice alien and it *POPS* back out of existence again.

The Yin Vessel relaxes his eye back to a base-kit and EyeEngages with Zoram.

Saku: "Why are you helping Laban, ’Zor’? Listen, I know ’what’ you are."

Zoram takes a startled breath and pulls the hammer back on the gun. Drakaina shakes and whimpers in fear.

Saku: "You know I have the Don’s ability.I saw how you reacted when you first told Nephilim and his group about the ’Master’/’Pet’ system. I was able to see you use some type of Seiõr on that man’s baby to make it calm down. You can’t hide the truth forever. If you don’t agree with Laban, just say it, cuz neither do we. I don’t know if you’re one of the Völva from 1,000 years ago that she mentioned, and honestly, I don’t care.

We all make mistakes.

Some of us have to live ’as the mistakes’ our parents made, but oh well if I can get over it, anybody can. We just have to deal with the current day and keep living the life we feel is right. Not blaming others for our lows in life."

The gun shakes in Zoram’s tan, beautifully manicured hand, she presses it up closer to the temple of a scared Drakaina.

Zoram: "I truly don’t want to be here, Vessel of Yin, but I’ve been forced to teach Laban Seiõr and to be the nanny for Laban’s DaeMon adopted child all these years. I never agreed with the plan the other Völva and the Valkyries made! I was captured and forced to help Laban with advanced Seiõr control. Out of respect for me not ever retaliating, she kept me around for breeding, which she thankfully never did. Völvas can change the gender of a female with the Seiõr Life energy of a male and vice versa. So whenever Laban wanted a new spawn to release into the world, she made me turn her into a man, and she...she...."

Saku lets a long breath out his nose.

Saku: "So why don’t you just come and join us back at Sanpaku?"

Zoram gets a look of surprise from the kind proposition and tears begin to form in her yellow human eye and her acquired alien eye.

Zoram: "You would accept me, even though my people devised a plan to destroy your very existence?"

Saku rubs the back of his head and shrugs off the question.

Saku: "Well obviously I’d accept you. Idon’t know any of the Valkyrie or Völva that devised their child warrior plan, and they seem to already have gotten their comeuppance, so no hard feelings. Plus, I’d really like to see you use that ’Transmogrif Eye’ in person, so I can copy the ability and use it to play with my furry buddy back home. You probably can help us learn more about this ’Seiõr’ shit, too. That way, we’ll protect you from Laban and from all the rest of the DaeMons."

The cheers from the crowd go absolutely silent as soon as Saku makes the promise of protection and it’s noticeable from the windowed V.I.P box., Zoram turns to see Shelly, now has Madame Fryer and the golden sheath in her possession. The Don Laban is on a knee after getting her face stepped on.

While Zoram is distracted, Saku’s Anjell Eye quickly pops off to 2nd Stage again, with a Yin aura, and in an instant, a *POP* releases the Iceman he captured, inside the V.I.P room.

The long whip-like tongue lashes left and right as the dumb alien realizes where it is. It’s symbiotic eyes lock onto the two girls in the room.

As the Queen of Roronora realizes the monster has spawned into the room, Saku quickly looks at the gun in Zoram’s hand. It disappears with a *POP* and Saku looks at his hand.

The Iceman begins to charge for the defenseless Zoram and she falls to the floor with Drakaina, both girls screaming in terror. The gun *POPS* into Saku’s hand and he immediately looks at the alien as it pulls back its icy claws to swipe at the girls. It disappears once again, with a *POP* and Saku lets out a sigh of relief.

Zoram and Drakaina, both shaking out of fear, look up with their tear-filled eyes, to see Saku. He has a hand out for both of them.

Saku: "I’m sorry I had to be the bad guy to both of you for a bit today, but I only did that, cuz I’m not the best at words sometimes. Come on, it’s time to go home. To a new home, without discrimination. Please, just trust me."

Both girls hesitantly reach out and grab one of the young delinquent’s outstretched hands. He helps pull them back up to their feet. The Izanami Captain looks at the young unconscious Jormungand, sleeping on the couch He then looks at the missing left hand or the brave 14 year old boy with so much resolve to protect his older sister, he didn’t even hesitate to cut one of his only two hands off when it was stabbed by an Iceman.

Saku smiles at the sleeping boy and his Anjell Eye switches from the black Yin aura, to a shining white Yang aura, then he looks at an empty wall next to a trophy case.

Saku: "Okay, since Shelly and Katsu are keeping Laban busy, and these ’Homies’ of Laban’s are pretty much scrubs, we can get out of here without anyone noticing. Just give me 3 seconds.Can either of you carry Jorm?"

Zoram goes to walk over to the boy, but Drakaina grabs the beautiful Middle Eastern woman’s hand and shakes her head.

Drakaina: "I’ve been doing it his whole life, he’ll probably wake up if he feels someone else’s heartbeat."

Zoram lets out a light laugh from her nose and nods.

Zoram: "Sisters truly know best."

Behind them, Saku focuses on the white wall and while using Daisuki’s ’Portal Eye’, within a fraction of the time it takes the Squad 40 Mentor, Saku opens up a large enough portal for them all to enter in less than 5 seconds.

From the other side of the hole in the wall, the Division Captains and Daisuki’s connected bedrooms back in Sanpaku can be seen.

Saku: "Alright, Ladies and wounded warriors go first."

Drakaina easily picks up her "little" brother, also known as the winner of everyone’s respect within Roronora City. She walks through the portal with him but accidentally bumps his head on the way through.

*BUMP!*

From the other side, the clumsy older sister can be heard apologizing to her, still out cold, brother.

Drakaina: "Oh my God, Jormy, are you okay?! I’m so sorry!"

Saku lets out a soft chuckle remembering how many accidents, fall downs and slip ups have happened while crossing through one of these inner-dimensional ’fast travel portals’.

Zoram walks up next to the Yin delinquent and contemplates going further. Saku side-eyes her and then looks back at the hole in the wall with his green human eye and Anjell Eye with a Yang aura.

Saku: "Nobody is forcing you to come with us. I just thought, we could help each other out, ya know. Do what we can to survive longer and have better fights to participate in, and watch, hehe."

Zoram smiles at her new ally.

Zoram: "You’re awfully giddy for someone who has lived their life as the Vessel for all that is Yin. I would expect you to be more of a curmudgeon."

Saku smiles at the floor, trying to think of ’why’ he is so happy right now.

Saku: "Well, just don’t get used to it. I guess, it’s cuz...you wouldn’t know this, but today is my birthday and I originally came here to jack as many eye abilities as possible, which would’ve been cool if I got to load up my ’eye ability arsenal’. But instead, I got some pretty cool new allies. One, possibly two new eye abilities to copy and, knowing that the crowd has gone silent, means Shelly is mopping the court with Laban right now as payback for Itsuka.

So I guess I can say, other than what happened to Itsuka, today has pretty much been the best birthday I’ve ever had’, hehe."

Zoram smiles and approaches Saku. She leans in and kisses the young birthday boy on his broken heart tattoo, the smell of her perfume and female pheromones making him blush.

Zoram: "Happy Birthday, My Savior. May we all celebrate many more, in the future."

She turns back around with the *Click-Clack* of her high heels against the floor and she hops with grace through the portal. Saku begins walking towards the hole, but suddenly there is a kick on the door to the V.I.P room. Two more forceful slams are heard and on the third attempt, the mahogany door swings open and Katsu is standing in the doorway, with his Anjell Eye also popped off. A matching Yang aura and an Above Sanpaku trying to stare a hole through his rival Division Captain.

Katsu: "Aye, where the fuck you going? It’s time for Round Two, Bitchass. Throw the 1’s."