Chapter 6: Save my life. Part III.

Witold took a sip from his cup of coffee looking at the city from over his balcony. Routine going around him on the streets and the sky oblivious to the battles recently fought or the inminent danger that the Kobayashi gang was about to face. The city welcomed Witold into a new morning, and his troubled mind.

He smiled as he felt the wind surround him and closed his eyes.

-"You control the wind...no Nessa? (he asked to no one) the wind is calling...but who answers it?" he said to himself as he drank another sip from his cup of coffee.

He smiled as he saw the sakura leaves dance with the wind suddenly, and went inside his room to pickup his jacket from a nearby chair. He looked back toward the balcony, seeing the sakura leaves play still in the wind,then he left the room.


Nessa stirred slightly and opened her eyes to see the beautiful blue Neo Tokyo sky, she smiled slightly and stretched her arms. She noticed she had as a cover a jacket that wasn't hers, she quickly looked around her to find Aleksandr lying down beside her, still sleeping near Charles Daniel's grave.

She smiled as she saw Aleksandr fast asleep still even with the sun blaring upon them. She sat up on the floor, her back to the tombstone. She closed her eyes and smiled.

-"You can come out now Charlie..." and beside her sat Charles Daniel.

-"Good morning Nessa dear..." he said softly.

-"Morning..." she said nonchalantly.

-"My apologies for leaving yesterday so...unexpected.." he said shyly.

-"No need to apologize Charlie..."

-"I still can't tell you what I know...although my guess is that the seer will fill you in due time..."

-"The seer can tell me things, but the dead travel the obscure, the dead allow me to see intention and behavior more clearly..." she said moving a strand of hair from Aleksandr's face.

-"That young man right there...knows more than meets the eye, remember that..." said Charles Daniel smiling, getting up from the floor and walking away waving a 'goodbye'. Nessa waved back with a smile.


Kenji Kobayashi looked at the city from his office, savouring the traits that it showed, sipping a bit of tea as he did so. A knock on his door brought him back from his reverie looking toward it seeing Richard bowing slightly, walking into his office.

-"Yes Richard (he said with a smile) how are you my boy?" he said greeting Richard shaking his hand.

-"Alright sir...considering the situation..." Richard said sitting down in a nearby chair.

-"Yes...have you got new intel on who might be behind all this?"

-"Not clear sir, many factions can be behind this but none of them has claimed responsability. We are still looking and for the time being I have instructed the team to be on guard at all times. Specially after Yevgeni's readings we saw the other day sir..."

Kobayashi turned back to the view of the city, sighing, he took another sip of his tea.

-"This are hard times my friend, humanity has proven to have enormous capacity for building and union, but also to destroy and divide. Even as everything seems peaceful and nonchalant at the moment. Deep down human beings have a battle to either join good or evil and exploit them within themselves. Exploit the hate among others as well and attack without having a mindless clue as to why..."

-"My goal is to avoid another war for the team...it would be devastating for them..."

-"Alas we are not subject only to wars among people that use the craft as weapons, but as to people without it...humanity sometimes is so dense...(he then turned back toward Richard) my petition to you is to keep them safe...and keep them together...many trials await them and without each other they won't survive"

Richard nodded and bowed.


Aleksandr and Nessa walked the streets of Juuban, holding a cup of coffee in hand, talking about general issues regarding their lives.

-"I missed this (Aleksandr said taking a sip from his coffee) Neo Tokyo mornings are magnificent, the sakura leaves dancing in the air, the clear skies...the busy people on the streets, hey even the traffic seems like an orquestrated incident..."

-"You went away for too long" she said with a smile.

-"True that...next time I'm telling Richard to get me at least one of you guys to accompany me..."

-"Oh really...who would that be?"

-"Hmmm...someone that likes to enjoy a good cup of coffee and exploring cities and new places..." he said looking at her with a playful smile. She laughed heartily.

He laughed along for bit,then he suddenly turned into a serious tone of voice.

-"I heard Witold came back..." he said almost in a whisper, as if being afraid of her reaction.

-"Yes...(she looked at him with a shy smile) he did..."

-"And...(he looked at her shyly) how are things with him?" She looked at him puzzled.

-"What 'things'? You don't know Witold?"

-"I was kinda guessing he would get his mind together to at least ask you out on a date..." she laughed a little.

-"We are not dating if that is what you are asking...when he left he kinda closed the door on that one, if he wants to have a relationship he shows no signs of it..." Aleksandr looked up at the sky and smiled a little.

-"Do you want to...have a relationship with him...after all this time?" he asked shyly, she looked at him with a smile and mockingly lifting an eyebrow.

-"Mighty curious aren't we?" she said with a smile.

-"Just asking a normal question..." he said looking away whistling slightly.

Nessa felt the air heavy around her. She stopped walking suddenly and looked around, Aleksandr followed her motion, looking at her puzzled.

-"Nessa..?"

-"Go...(she said in a whisper) go run Alek..."

-"I'm not leaving you here..." he said taking her hand.

-"Go!..." she said the cup of coffee falling from her other hand as she tumbled a bit. Aleksandr held her not knowing what was going on.

-"Nessa!!" he said as she started mumbling something, Aleksandr looked around them, everything seems to stop around them, he was feeling more and more puzzled. Nessa mumbled what appeared to be a spell and the wind started to play around them both.

Aleksandr held her closer as he felt the wind's strength around him.

-"You are not getting me out of here....I'm staying with you damn it!" he said to her as he held her closer.

The wind roared around them, and suddenly they were gone...