Road to Never Lake - Past revealed!

[Sora]

Sora, seeing that the Guardians were all dispached immediately came to Wolivier's aide. He knew that the wound would be very serious, and that he would need to stop the bleeding. His heart was in turmoil as he reached into hammerspace and retrieved a towel which he took to tying around the wolf's arm as he held her hand tightly saying,

"It'll be ok. Dont worry."

Once the 'bandage' was secure enough for Sora's liking he picked up the small Chao and seeing that she was only KOed, he sighed and put her in a sling which he carried around his waist.

He sat down next to Wolivier and inspected her arm again, and then he looked at his wings... filled with dents and a few... "holes?" the dragon thought aloud as he looked down at his body. There was a bulletwound in Sora's midsection, which bled somewhat profusely.

"Damn. I got tagged bad..." the dragon thought to himself as he tended to his own wound. He did his best not to show pain on his face as he reached into his abdomen with his pointer finger claw, and retrieved a bullet. Looking at his wings, he tought to himself, "I wonder if I will ever fly again...

[Wolivier]

Wolivier gasped as Sora placed a clothe around her wound. It felt strange that she hadn't been able to clean it first but she allowed the dragon to tend to her.

The she saw him looking distantly at his wings. She leaned over and took one gently. "Does it hurt bad?" she questioned, inspecting the leathery skin which was tattered and torn. She licked at the holes in instinct, awaiting his answer. (what a wolf)

[Sora]

Sora was still wrapping his abdomen, but he looked at the wolf and smiled saying, "Only a little. I think they'll heal. Let me see your arm..."

Sora took her arm and examined it again. He put his hand over the wound and shut his eyes. Wolivier's wound slowly began to heal as a warm green aura left from Sora's hand. A few minutes later, her arm was as good as new and the dragon said,

"I'm sorry I didnt just do that earlier... I had to stop the bleeding before I could take that time to heal the wound, otherwise you might... have... died."

He seemed very uncomfortable with that notion, as his face clearly showed. He said,

"I... this is... I have a bad feeling about this. The lab is still active! The Guardians seem to be protecting something. I need to see what it is, and what happened here but I dont want you guys to get hurt..."

Sora grasped Wolivier's arm a little tighter, and seemed to trail off in deep thought.

[Wolivier]

Wolivier smiled at her fixed arm. She listened to Sora intently. At the thought of dieing, her ears bent back sadly but she kept to Sora's voice. Nuzzling his cheek, she replied, "You were there for me no matter what happened. And when you left, we bumped into each other again. I know that this is my chance and my calling to be there for you."

She suddenly looked at Rotor and laughed nervously, "In for a little more than you thought, huh?" Her eyes fell on Kiki who she watched affectionatly.

[AnT]

"I'm just sorry that you got hurt. I should've made sure that bot was REALLY down." he then sighed sadly.


He then approached Sora. "I'm impressed how long the security lasted since the last time you been here. But I betcha that door went into automatic shut down when we stepped foot. Let me see if I can hack it open."

[Sora]

Sora smiled at Wolivier, and said "Thank you..." He looked at Rotor as he spoke to him.

Sora nodded at the Walrus and said, "OK. We are counting on you."

He smiled at Rotor, gave him the thumbs up, and watched intently. He slid his hand into the sling that the chao was in and stroked her head lightly. He spoke to Rotor as he began to hack the door, "So... how do you 'hack' something like this?"

[Kyra]

The chao remained motionless, her body a bit dirty, the longer fur on her feet, tail and arms messed up and flying in all directions. The normally large and brightly burning fireball above her head was small and dim. "... U...uhhag..." She moaned and remained silent.

[AnT]

Smiling, Rotor showed Sora is compact computer. "Well, with the right equipment, with a touch of customed enhancements, you can enter into just about any computerized machines."

With that, Rotor approached the large steel doors, reaching for the small control panel on the wall. He aimed his computer at the panel, which a red little light on the top of the computer blinked.

He focused on the computer and fiddled it like he was playing a game. "Okay, let's see...seems simple enough...yup...hmm...okay...and..."

A loud click was heard from the large doors.

"Okay, got the locks out of the way. Now let's see if I can open the doors to-"

And volla, the doors were opening, slowly but surely.

"Um...I guess I already did opened the doors when I disabled the locks. Never mind."

[Wolivier]

Wolivier blinked, somewhat astonished but unsurprised. Rotor's computers did everything! "Wow, Rotor!" she exclaimed, a big grin growing on her face. "What can't you do?"

[Sora]

Sora smiled at Rotor. "Cool. Nice work, Rotor."

Then he looked into the lab... and saw the room. "Th... !"

Sora's eyes widened and he had another flashback, this time he saw himself being strapped onto an operating table, and the Doctor came in with some tools, and a large blade looking object. The doctor walked up so Sora and said, "Hello. We will be implanting a large blade into your tail. It will be permanent... and if it breaks it will heal... you see, it is a biological blade. It uses large quantities of iron to create a bilogical metallic tail blade. However, there is more."

The doctor held up a small glass which had something floating inside of it, and he explained, "This is a gland that will use particals from the air to convert this iron into a newly discovered super metal. It will be exceedingly durrible. We will also install this system into your wings. Unfourtionatly, the process will be extremely painfull... but maybe you're getting used to that now. Hahaha...."

Sora snapped out of his trance and shook his head.

"Lets move on."

[AnT]

"Well...a lot of things; like aiming for example." Rotor answered, feeling ashamed that he kept on missing with the Black Arms blaster.

Hearing Sora, he followed the dragon.

[Wolivier]

Wolivier giggled at Rotor and stood next to him as they followed sora.

[Sora]

Sora walked in further, past the operating room and into the hallway. On either side, there were countless apartment like rooms, each with a number. In his mind, the dragon saw this hallway when it was newer, with dragon scientists scurrying about, a few of them stopping momentarily to stare at him or smile, or in her case... "Ryonei..." he said as he remembered her.

"Hey Sora!! I hope that your wings dont feel too bad.. I'm sorry that the doctors operating on you cant seem to find more painless proceedures..."

The dragons escorting him, like he were a prisoner took him to the end of the hallway, all the while Ryonei was there talking to him and making the best effort she could to make his pain go away if not for only a few moments. When they arrived at Sora's containment chamber, the dragon escorts wheeled him in and injected Sora with something. Ryonei said something...

"W... WAIT! That isn't supposed to be given to him! Who cleared you to administer that serum?!"

One escort dragon replied to her angered rant with, "Dr. Ingrid specifically ordered the injection of this serum. He says it will complete the immune booster adaptation and his heal rate will improve 100 fold."

She stepped forward and grabbed the arm of the dragon injecting the serum and said, "NO! He should be aware of the risks! It is not complete yet! Temorary insanity, possibly even death! You can...UHH!!" Ryonei keeled over as the second dragon escort delivered a swift punch to her stomach. Sora twitched violently, both in the memory and in real life. He stopped walking down the torn hallway as he reached his containment chamber, and the memory continued...

The escort dragons let Ryonei slump to her knees and then they restrained Sora to the wall. He felt his body begin to burn and he began to growl at the dragons restraining him. At that moment, the escort took out another syringe and began to inject Sora with a second dose of the serum. Sora was growling madly as he tried to free himself, but the restraints plus his weakened state after the operation made it all but hopeless. His veins boiled as the serum took effect, and he screamed in pain. His agony caused Ryonei to find some dwindle of strenth and she lept up onto the escort dragon, sinking her teeth into his neck with a roar. The first escort roared and sunk his elbow into Ryonei's chest, which made a sick cracking sound as she coughed up some blood, which landed on Sora's face. Sora twitched again, and Ryonei staggered back and reached to Sora with her hand...

"S..Sora... I.. I lo.."

Ryonei was cut off by another punch, this time to her face which caused the dragon to sprawl accross the floor, unconcious. The escort dragon walked over to her as she lay there and said, "Stupid girl... guess we can have some fun with her, right? The doc said to kill anyone who got in the way...heh!"

Sora's injections were complete and the last thing he saw before he blacked out was the image of the escort dragons rolling Ryonei over and kneeling above her laughing.

In the real world, Sora was looking at the door to his contaiment chamber... and he punched it down. In the room there was a single computer, which hummed there as it's moniter glowed a bright white. Next to the computer on the wall was where Sora was restrained, and there was an empty escape pod chute to the oppisite side of the moniter. On the floor in front of them there was a skeleton... a dragon's skeleton. The ribs were broken on the skeleton and it held onto something in it's hand...

Quietly and sadly Sora moaned, "Ryonei..."

He knelt down at the side of the skeleton and a single tear rolled down his face as he took the item from it's hand. It was a disk... a computer disk. Sora turned to Rotor and without saying a word he handed it to him. He had an expression on his face that screamed pain and anger, but he did his best to maintain his composure.

[AnT]

Though studying scientific info was always intriging to look at, the sad look on Sora was hard to miss.

"Uh...Sora...?"

[Wolivier]

The whole walk, she had noticed Sora being extremly quiet, concentrated and tense. Then, on first step into the room, Wolivier grabbed her nose and gagged on the smell. The lingering scent of blood and decay rushed into her keen senses. Reeling back, she took a few breaths and forced her way in again.

Upon entering, she saw Sora kneeling beside a long since dead body of bones. Her ears picked up the sound of him muttering a name. "Ryonei?" she questioned, sitting on the balls of her feet next to him.

She stuggled to not choke on the smell as she calmly placed a hand on his shoulder that felt as stiff as a steel wall. "Sora?"

[Sora]

Sora stayed stiff as a board, and he quietly asked Rotor, "Can you use that computer to read the disk? If you can, please do that."

His eyes were filled with tears, but he was definately holding them back as best he could. He looked to the wolf, and said "I know you heard her name. She was the only friend I remember having here... she was my first love."

He fell silent as his eyes shut and tears started to roll down them.

"I could never tell her how I felt though, because the experiments took all of my concious time and whenever I did see her I was unable to talk due to exhaustion.."

He slumped down next to the skeleton and stared at the computer moniter.

[Wolivier]

Wolivier bit her lip, looking away. A previous love, huh? She suddenly smiled, looking at him. It was a sad smile, though.

"Sora... what's it like to love? What are you feeling?

"Is it like your mother dying? Is it like being away from your father for years? Is it like being so confused but so sure? Or is it something else?" She put an arm around him and lied her head on his shoulder. "Is it something you can live through? Or is it something that you... you have had to bare... for too long...?" She rubbed his shoulder to comfort him as she stared grimly at the bones before her. The smell wasn't completely unbareable.

[AnT]

While Woli speaks with Sora, Rotor shrugged as he slid the disk in his mini computer.

"Okay...no password code. Heh, I'd protect my disks with passwords if I were these guys. Oh well..."

There were lot of folder files, but there were some interesting info and data in the first page that interested Rotor.

"Hmm...let's see...." he said, checking through the data.

[Sora]

Sora glanced down at the skeleton in front of him, and he searched deep for his answer. After some time, he replied

"All this time... I thought I would be able to see her and my parents again Wolivier. It gave me hope and pushed me to discover what happened and where they all landed. Yet... Everything I remembered seems to be false. I feel like... yes it would be like losing my mother... and I do miss my father. Seeing these memories, and having the nightmares opened something hidden in my mind. A part of me hoped that it was all false, that these dreams were nothing but nightmares and that Ryonei and my parents could somehow still be alive. Yet, it seems as though there was only one escape pod... and it was mine. Seeing this facility, and knowing what I have seen in these nightmares makes me feel like my parents are not alive. That's too much to bear. Right now.... Love is hurting me. Yet, at the same time... it is motivating me. I saw an image of it in my Nightmares. A monster... it destroyed everything here. I will avenge my family and Ryonei. However in all this, there is also something I am so sure of that I cannot despute it. In you, I have found a new reason to keep moving forward. Nothing will stop me. In a world where everyone looked upon me with fear and unrest, you looked at me and saw what I really was, beneath the scales and the giant tail blade and razor wings. I loved Ryonei... but it's not the same as..."

Sora trailed off and put his claw on her hand. He continued,
"I am closer to you than I ever was to her. All that you have done for me, I will never forget. You are my best friend. I could call what I feel... Love."

[Sora]

The file Rotor opened caused a movie screen to pop up, and on it Ryonei's face appeared. She was badly injured, but she could be seen clearly enough... She looked into the camera, tears in her eyes and said,

"Sora... it was all a terrible mistake... I should have known. I should have done something to stop them... Dr. Ingrid hated your father, and to be honest with you so did I. The reformation he propoesed was... it was the unintentional cause of my father's death. That's why I joined his cause, and that's why I permitted the experiments to happen. At first, I hated you too... I'm so sorry. As you suffered, and as they raided your mind to pry information about the reformation from you, I came to realize that your father had only the best intentions, and that you were nothing but a child. So I started to talk to you, and I tried to justify what I had done by being your friend. Sooner or later, I began to pity you, and then... even started liking you. But by this time, it was far too late. The experiments were killing you, and the doctors really didn't care. So, under the guise of furthering Dr. Ingrid's plans, I developed a healing factor using your genetic makeup. It worked wonderfully, and you began to recover. However... there was a side effect. The first dose was rejected soonafter injection and you became... mentally unstable... it took several dragons to restrain you, and two died. Seven were injured. The effects wore off, and you again slipped into decline. So, I pressed on feeling like this was the only way I could redeem myself. I eventually perfected a perfect serum which would not be rejected by your immune system, but the slipping sanity still remained a problem. I informed Dr. Ingrid of the sucess, and he was very excited. I also told him that the serum still had to be perfected, but the effects would be permenant, but that it still caused severe psychotic meltdowns in you. Today... after the installation of your tail blade and your wing razors... they began injecting you with the serum. I tired to stop them, and they attacked me... after the attack... they planned to rape me and kill me. They finished injecting you, and began to beat me... the serum worked Sora. It healed you! And... it also turned you into a raging monster. You broke free of the restraints, and killed the dragons that were attacking me. I thought you would kill me too.. but you left. You in fact destroyed this entire facility and the city surrounding it at the base of the mountain. With that complete, you came back here to me... and I was able to sedate you long enough to use the mind machine and to give you a more satisfying memory of your past life... and cure the insanity. If this is you watching this though... it means that you remembered this place somehow, and I will not keep the truth from you. There were no survivors of the attack you made on the facility or the city, and it is all our fault... my fault... There is only one working escape pod remaining... and I will die. I cant avoid it, the dragons who assulted me did a good job of ensuring that. So I send you, the last remaining Blue Dragon into the world. Please Sora, use this curse that I helped put on you to help those in need. Heed my request: make my mistake into something worthwhile. Fix the world, and to protect what your father stood for... justice. I made you forget about me... but please... never forget again. Never... forget..."

She pressed a button on the escape pod wall and looked back at the screen, saying "Never forget my request. Sora, I... I Love you." she turned and watched the escape pod as it took off to unknown places and sadly finished with "Goodbye..."

The moniter returned to it's normal state, with files and information on Sora's genetic experiments and his records that the lab kept.

Sora was stiff again. His eyes were wrought with sorrow and his body was trembling. He stared at the moniter, and he sounded like he was choking as he said, "I... I did it... I killed them all... I was the monster... I killed my parents and my friends... I should be destroyed..."

Sora broke down into tears and he fell onto his stomach, crying.

"Why...?"

He slowly raised himself and sat against the wall, looking at Wolivier, Kiki, and Rotor. His eyes were riddled with tears, and he said,

"Wolivier... I'm so sorry. I wont forget the request she made, and I will try to help others as much as I can. But I am a monster. I cannot ask you to stay here, with me. If you guys want to leave, go. Thank you for being my friends."

[Wolivier]

Wolivier's eyes were brimmed with tears. She shook as the bones below her feet showed as a, barley, living being upon the screen. She walked over to Sora and sat beside him. Taking his hand firmly, she made sure he looked at her straight.

"Who did she love, Sora? An experiment gone wrong or the person I see today? What matters most to you?" She smiled warmly now, tears staining her fur, "You did nothing wrong. Those drugs controled you. If a demon were to steal your skin and kill me, I would die knowing it wasn't you. Your family and your friend..." she looked over to the bones once more before turning her attention to him again, "Loved you." She suddenly threw herself on him, tossing her arms around his neck and cried, "I won't leave you and I'll never let you go! I can't let you go! I'm so sorry this happened!"

She felt a little silly, knowing that Rotor was probably watching. She didn't know how Kiki was.

[Kyra]

The chao groaned, and sat up, grasping her head with her large, clawed paw. She attempted to stand, but immediantly fell back down. HOW DARE THEY SPIN THE ROOM ON HER?! However, she didn't know what the three of them just saw or went through. Instead, she begin swearing at the spinning room in her own way.

[AnT]

"Whoa...some heavy stuff." he muttered after he watched the video.

Putting it away, Rotor watched Woli throw herself on Sora. The walrus could clearly see the bond these two share. Sure, it was a dissipointment for Rotor; he thought Woli is pretty cute. But Sora really needed this.

"You know, this kind of sound like Shadow's story."

[Sora]

Sora wasn't sure what to think, but Woli's words reached him. He was still trembling, but he didn't get much time to regain his composure before another video came up on the moniter. Sora's eyes focused on the person in the video, and he immediately recognized him. Sora's eyes widened and he slowly rose to his feet holding the wolf in his arms. He angerly muttered, "Dr. Ingrid..."

"Sora... you little shit. *cough* I thought for sure... that you wouldn't be able to get me in *cough* that underground shelter... alas you managed to wreak enough havok above to cause the Volcano to erupt... *hack* and it flooded the lower chamers in the shelter. No matter... *cough* your existence was enough to ensure the success of my experiment. If it weren't for this little bitch here, you would be dead and things would be merry... *cough!* Nevertheless... the experiment is activated and it awaits your return... haha... it responds to your genetic data. Have fun... hahaha see you in the afterlife, SORA!!"

The moniter flickered off and the screen went dark as the ground beneath Sora and Wolivier began to rumble...

Sora tossed Wolivier away from him, towards Rotor just before the ground underneath him erupted and a Red Dragon came up and slammed Sora into the celing. He fell to the floor and the Red Dragon landed next to him, roaring. The Red Dragon was like a red version of Sora... a clone. It stared at Wolivier and the others, and began a menacing approach. Sora quickly recovered however and lept onto the faker's Red Dragon's back, slamming it into the floor. He looked at the others and cried,

"RUN!!"

[Wolivier]

(Well, Rotor! Your hypothosis on a dragon clone army was PRETTY DAMN CLOSE! *laughs*)

Wolivier growled, baring her fangs and showing her claws. "Never!" she shouted. Mother, give me the strength you left behind!

Wolivier ran directly for the red dragon. She leapt up and tried a simple kick.

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[Sora]

Red Dragon
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To the wolf's defense, the clone didn't see the attack coming... almost. Sora still had it pinned to the floor, and it narrowly avoided being hit by the kick. The clone tried to elbow Sora in the face to get him off.

Elbow
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Sora's dodge roll
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Sora saw it coming, but he lost his grip on the clone and it was able to slip out of Sora's pin. Sora stood up and pelted a blue fireball at the clone.

Sora's attack
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Does it dodge?
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[Wolivier]

Wolivier also forced herself to try and avoid hitting Sora. The force of the kick being thrown off of it's balance caused her to slip and fall onto her bottom. She hopped back up and flipped in the air, swinging her leg around at an attempt to hit the dragon in the back of the head.
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It simply avoided her. Her leg crashed into the ground and sent a painful impact in her foot. However, she felt more embarassed upon realization that the dragon gave no attention to her. "I'm a threat you know!" she snapped, leaping onto his back and trying to bite into his neck.
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In her fury, she bit into his shoulder and kept her fangs in. But the clone seemed to hardely care as it approached Sora. With wolivier still biting into him, he swung around in an attempt to smack Sora into a wall with his powerful tail.
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[Kyra]

OH GOODY. A CHANCE TO REDEEM HERSELF. The chao spread her wings, roared (though its not as loud as the dragons roars) and lept straight for the red dragons eyes, aiming with her claws carefully.

Maybe the dice will be nice and not get a 4.

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[AnT]

"Aw man! And I thought we'd leave without any killer science experiments trying to kill us! Can't believe I was partly right about the clone thing!"

Quickly and nervously, Rotor searched through the disk in his computer as ran a safe distance away from the battle. "Come on! Please let there be something about this thing!"

[Sora]

TAIL! AHH!
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Sora got whacked, hard. He flew into the wall and smashed into it with a cracking sound. He moaned, coughed up a bit of blood, and slumped to the floor, but looked up at the Red Dragon. He saw Kiki's attack attempt, and realized it would not be successful so he let out another fireball in the clone's direction.

Fire!
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