Shattering Humanity

{A few minutes before Laban sets her own hand on fire as a sign of loyalty to Saku, the 2 princesses and Friend had snuck away from the group and are headed for a specific vendor.}

Princess Kawaii is riding on Friend’s back while Princess Rebekah is walking stride for stride, holding onto the trusted furry soldier’s collar and his "Squad 40" bandana around his neck. The alien eyes princess is leading the way.

Princess Kawaii: "Where are we going, Big Sidder Rebekah?"

The older princess looks around and gets excited after spotting something. She starts running in the direction.

Princess Rebekah: "Come on, follow me Kawaii!"

Friend looks back at his respected princess figure and she gives him a cute closed eye smile and points.

Princess Kawaii: "You heard her Buppy, onward to adventurrrrre!"

Friend: "Roooruuff!"

The large German Shepherd starts galloping after Princess Rebekah. Princess Kawaii almost falls off but she manages to grab onto her furry soldier’s fine, thick fur.

After running down the street, with murmurs coming from the public crowd around, the older princess stops with a smile. Friend and Princess Kawaii catch up and look at the food stand the Princess of Roronora is excited about.

A cotton candy stand.

From the reflection within the younger princess’s pink watering eyes, the man running the stand hands out a huge bundle of the sweet pink threads to a customer.

Princess Kawaii: "Wh-What is THAT!?"

She reads the food stand sign carefully while Princess Rebekah walks up to buy some.

Lrincess Kawaii: "Cah-...Cot-ton...

Cotton Can-...Cahn-...Can!

Cotton Can-...die?

Cotton Can-die.

...What’s Cotton Can Die?"

The vendor slowly hands the Princess of Roronora a bundle of sweet light blue threads and she takes it. As she tries to hand him money the old man refuses.

Vendor: "Oh, don’t worry about it, Princess Rebekah. There’s no charge for you or anyone who’s never had the opportunity to taste cotton candy like your friend. All I ask is whenever it’s someone’s first taste of this sweet treat, I get to witness their reactions."

The sweet old man smiles and watches Rebekah DaeMon hand Lil Miss Kawaii a piece of sugary cotton.

Princess Kawaii sniffs it first and her eyes widen in excitement. She shoves the entire piece of light blue cotton candy in her mouth and after her brain registers the enjoyment, the little princess stops, with her mouth open. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

Rebekah tears then pops a piece in her mouth and savors the melting candy.

Princess Rebekah: "Well? It’s good...right? Princess...

...Kawaii?"

Tears are in Princess Kawaii’s adorable pink eyes. While holding her tiny fists up to her eyes, Princess Kawaii starts to let out a sad high pitched whimper that catches Rebekah and the vendor by surprise.

The old man vendor starts to make a pink bundle as fast as possible and Rebekah lowers herself sightly but is surprised after seeing the little girl smiling with tears streaming down her eyes.

Lrincess Kawaii: "Thank you, Big Sidder Rebekah...(happy sob) you’ve shown me so many fun and tasty foods today, that I’ve never had before. (Happy sob)

And knowing your mommy and my Big Brudders and my Big Sidders(mid-sentence inhale)... Knowing they’re friends now and knowing we’ll get to see each other all the time, and we’ll get to enjoy all this again, it makes me so happy to be alive! I’m finally thankful for my Mommy and Daddy making me!"

The old kind vendor smiles and looks at the sky lit orange and pink.

Vendor: "Welp, looks like it’s about closing time."

He turns off his machine and kicks up the cart’s wheel stoppers. He tips his paper hat to the adorable princesses and their doggy defender.

Vendor: "Make sure you two get home before dark and make sure to keep them safe, Mr. Dog. Have a safe night girls."

He pushes his cart down the street and out of sight.

Princess Kawaii sniffles and Friend gives her wet cheek a lick, making the young princess giggle while wiping away the last of her happy tears.

Rebekah DaeMon is speechless and gives a soft smile, with tears now in her right blue eye and left Eyelien. A snowflake falls from her alien eye and Princess Kawaii notices it fall to the ground with the rest of the SeiõrSnow falling around them.

Princess Kawaii: "You cry snow, just like my Big Brudders and Big Sidders. Was it scary when you got that funny looking eyeball?"

Princess Rebekah shakes her head, wipes her eyes and starts walking back to the stadium where their caregivers are. She motions the little pink princess to follow.

Friend: "Borruuff!"

The doggy knight kneels down on all four legs and the small Sanpaku princess carefully hops on.

While riding and walking back, the princesses are holding hands.

Princess Kawaii: "We’ll be friends forever, right Big Sidder Rahbeggah?"

Princess Rebekah: "MHM!"

Friend: "Bork!"

Princess Rebekah: "You too, Buppy. Best Friends forever!"

Both princesses giggle but the pleasant sound of their wholesome laughter is abruptly ruined by the sound of a gun shot.

*FADE TO WHITENESS*

Saku looks at the group now 50 yards away. As soon as he focuses on them his eyes grow wide, seeing something shocking with his abilities.

He quickly swivels his head looking for Drakaina.

She is behind Jorm, Dom, and also Laban. He then looks at Katsu, who has now opened his eyes and is looking at Saku, with a serious expression.

Saku runs towards the girl behind three personal protection layers.

Saku: "Drakaina, get down!"

All of a sudden, the sound of a gun shot goes off from MamMon’s group and the girls behind a pissed off MamMon, scream.

Esau, with an enraged expression, is behind a smoking gun pointed at Laban.

Friend wakes up at the sound of gun fire, making both princesses also wake up from their dreams of earlier in the day.

The bullet travels the 50 yards and in slow motion, the hot lead barely passes by Saku’s ear, then Laban casually tilts her head to easily dodge the bullet. It then soars over Dom, who has fallen on his ass, and finally as Jorm raises his last human hand to protect his sister’s face, the spiraling lead goes right through his fingers.

The bullet is heading straight for Drakaina’s head.

*CLIIIIINK!*

A cold steel blade, covered in a shining pink and gold SeiõrShield deflects the bullet from it’s trajectory at the very last millisecond.

[ Shelly’s Special SeiõrShield Of Hope: MACH 1!!]

The bullet flys away into the sky.

Shelly, has the cold katana blade that saved Drakaina, in her teeth.

She keeps her pose and growls across to the group who fired first, but as she scans the pack, the gunman can no longer be seen.

Bethany, Stephanie, and Petra have immediately taken cover behind an abandoned car. Both women have the little girl sandwiched and protected.

MamMon’s whole face can’t be seen since she has her hood up and has put Lil Lævateinn back in her cloak but at a closer look, it’s obvious she is PISSED.

Shelly(thinking): *Where did that creep go?! He can’t be that formidable if he resorts to using guns.*

Since Princess Kawaii was sprawled on top of Friend, she wakes up to her strong soldier galloping towards safety behind a large tree.

Princess Kawaii: "Big Sidder Rahbeggah?"

However, Princess Rebekah wakes up, alone. As she flutters her eyes open, a dark shadow covers her making her cower.

It’s Katsu, and he quickly picks the princess up, cradling her while on the run, giving her a comforting smile.

Katsu: "Don’t worry, I gotchya, Princess Rebekah!"

Shelly’s instincts make her look towards Katsu in panic.

Shelly: "KATSU!!"

From out of nowhere, Esau, covered in a raging, bright, all red SeiõrShield kicks Katsu square in the face HARD, and through the chain link fence.

It makes the Yang Vessel drop the young princess and she screams before hitting the SeiõrSnow covered ground.

All the alien eye users realize the situation an entire second after Shelly.

The force of the powerful kick makes Katsu easily break the tension bars of the weak metal fence and the young man flies through the air with the broken metal fence creating no wind resistance.W

While Shelly focuses and launches herself towards her new enemy, Madame Fryer unsheathes herself and flies over towards MamMon DæMon, her flames are blazing and crackling.

The DæMon snarls and for the first time since her coup on the remaining Sisters, she exposes a bright orange Seiõr covered hand from her cloak.

As Madame Fryer goes for the stab, MamMon with her Seiõr hand, grabs the flaming blade and stops the sword in it’s spot. A drop of blood falls to the ground, from MamMon’s hand.

MamMon DæMon: "Foolish ’tool of war’. You are nothing without a real thinking being wielding you.

I bet you planned that I would be foolish enough to use this ’tool of war’..."

She pops out the dull tip of Lil Lævateinn from her other sleeve. The tip begins to absorb the SeiõrSnow around MamMon within a 50 foot radius and forms a SeiõrShot at the tip.

MamMon DæMon: "...to block your attack. Thinking I would just let you two have a sweet reunion on collision?

Sorry to break this to you, Granny of all Seiõr, but it seems Hævateinn has given in to my authority and no longer grows those thorns to be a nuisance. Turns out with some really strict parenting, you can turn a delinquent young man, into a respectable- OWW FUCKIN HELL!"

At that moment, Lil Lævateinn grows out his thorns so they prick the DæMon holding him and she accidentally drops him.

Madame Fryer pulls back from MamMon’s grip and zooms to the falling dagger.

Juuuust before the metal within the flames touches the dagger, MamMon’s hand reluctantly pulls the mythical dagger away, reluctantly puncturing her palm, and more of her blood drips.

MamMon bites her lip and charges another SeiõrShot.

Meanwhile, descending Katsu lands in the main shopping center. In the area that is supposed to be the city’s main attraction. A bustling shopping center across the street from Roronora’s main entrance and proof to all newcomers, an established society, with a pre-apocalypse normalcy, is here.

However, now, an 18 year old and a dangerous section of chain link fence flies through the display window of a busy bakery. Glass goes everywhere making women scream, and kids cry.

Katsu, with a bright white SeiõrShield protecting him, comes to a stop on his back with his eyes open. As his white SeiõrShield fades he closes his eyes and takes a deep breath.

He opens them to show his sad, defeated eyes.

Katsu(thinking): *It’s always the first death that is the toughest to accept. As long as it’s not Shelly, I couldn’t care less who dies tonight.

I doubt this version of Saku will open his goddamn eyes and accept the truth. Trying to prevent one death alone, will cause so much suffering for even more. Only the truest hero can stop all of the suffering, forever..."

Katsu slowly gets up and calmly and carefully exits the bakery through the broken window he entered in.

Katsu(thinking): *That man who kicked me, it was him.

...Well Saku, that guy is going to explain what I mean, in a way I definitely can’t do... for now.*