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Post by gantzgun74 on Nov 17, 2011 21:19:17 GMT -5
To be honest, Gantz wasn't too entirely sure he liked where this was going... Still, he opened the door to the room, and he, Kaitlin and Max left the room.
Outside, they found Rosaline, Gene, Lilia and AJ, AJ looking like he was strumming a guitar to pass the time by. When the door opened however, the group turned to see them walking out. "Gantz!" Rose quickly ran up to him, and gave him a hug. "What happened in there? We heard yelling!"
The man let out a long sigh. "Trust me, the details are going to take a while to explain..." He then turned to Lilia. "Kavma wants to see you Lil."
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"Me?" She seemed a bit confused at this. "Why would he want to see me?"
Letting out a groan, he motioned to Evan. "He also wants you in there Evan... For what I don't know..."
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Post by doctorzero on Nov 17, 2011 21:26:47 GMT -5
Evan looked solemn. It was obvious he knew what was up.
"...All right, start talking."
Evan raised an eyebrow. "Come again, Kate?"
"You know something." She stepped forward and looked him in the eye. "SPILL IT."
He pushed her away. "Easy. I have things to do." He bowed to Lilia and opened the door for her. "Ladies first."
Cue massive eyeroll. After they entered the office, Kaitlin turned to A.J. "Okay, first, where did you get that guitar?"
"Janitor let me borrow it. It's nothing like my Sonic the Hedgehog guitar, but it works." He plucked a few notes. "What happened it there, anyway? You guys sounded like you were screaming at each other."
"It'll take a while to explain," said Max, "But you aren't going to like it..."
Kavma kept his head down as Evan and Lilia entered the room. Without bothering to look up, he gestured towards a bookcase. Evan went to stand at that spot without complaint.
After a moment, he looked up at Lilia. "...Time goes on, and questions are left unanswered. But the answers can be painful. But I can see that you are ready for them."
He stood up, keeping his gaze on her eyes. "Now, you shall ask, and I shall answer."
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Post by gantzgun74 on Nov 17, 2011 21:42:33 GMT -5
Lilia stood where she was and looked at Kavma crossly a moment. She hated how somber the air seemed...
............ A moment later, she let out a breath.
"I got to meet someone you once named Superior Summer during the Subspace incident. We didn't get that much of a chance to talk but... I had this... Weird feeling about her since we met... Like... Like I remembered her from sometime long before..."
She let out a sigh. "So... Here's my question... Who IS Summer? And don't give me that ranking nonsense. I want to know who she is." She gulped a bit. "Who she was."
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Post by doctorzero on Nov 17, 2011 22:49:28 GMT -5
Evan and Kavma gave each other the smallest of glances. Evan gave a tiny nod.
Kavma nodded in response and turned to Lilia. "The question has been asked. And thus, I shall answer."
Many years ago, there lived a woman and her family. She was of the aristocratic sort, being brought up in a well-to-do family and married to a man of high social standing. She was a kind woman, but fiery--she could be passionate, and many frowned upon her mannerisms, believing that she did not act in the manner of a 'proper lady'. She loved her children very much, and her husband especially so.
But one day, thirteen years ago...there was a tragedy. During the depression, criminals and charlatans tried to take her daughter from her.
And her own life was taken in the attempt.
Her death was not like others. She was not ready for death for her family needed her, but she could not return, and was thus trapped in a limbo between light and dark.
But...a mysterious character appeared to her in that limbo of life and death, and offered her a chance.
Though she could not return to how things used to be, she could be given a new life, and a new purpose. She would stand alongside those which would fight against that which would drive all things into oblivion.
Her reason for this was not because the alternative was damnation to an eternity of nothing.
She chose it for the sake of the family that had been taken from her.
Silence fell as Kavma finished speaking. The fire in the hearth flickered indiscriminately.
"She chose a different name from when she was alive," Evan said quietly. "She had chosen to start over. She thought it was appropriate to have a new name to match.
"She called herself Summer."
Evan looked directly at Lilia, their gazes meeting. "That answer your question?"
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Post by gantzgun74 on Nov 17, 2011 23:49:28 GMT -5
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No-one could read the expression in her face... Not even Kavma.
"She..." She looked down, hurt and confusion crossing her face. "Oh... Oh my... Oh my god..." She looked down. "I... I don't..."
............. Quickly, she lifted her head to Kavma. "Wh-where is she?!?!? I-... I have so many questions I want to ask her!"
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Post by doctorzero on Nov 17, 2011 23:52:15 GMT -5
Kavma actually looked hurt at the question. "I..."
Evan took over. "Near the end of the Subspace Incident, Summer resigned from us and left on her own. She wasn't able to take the stress of what had happened. I'm sorry, Garrington, but none of us know where she is now."
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Post by gantzgun74 on Nov 18, 2011 0:03:36 GMT -5
"Wh-What??? No!" She looked between Kavma and Evan. "That can't be right! She was working here when I last saw her! I... I was so close to finding her again!" She looked close to crying. "And besides, YOUR YOU, KAVMA, you have to know where I can find her!!!"
She looked like she was getting desperate, tears forming some more. "Come on... Please..."
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Post by doctorzero on Nov 18, 2011 0:11:17 GMT -5
Kavma looked away from her, unable to meet her gaze. "...Lilia, I'm sorry. But after her resignation, she told me, plain and simple, that I was not to go after her for any reason. I will not disrespect her wishes. But I will tell you this," he added, "she told me that, if you ever came to me in regards to her, I would tell you this--
"That she never stopped loving you, your brothers, and your father, no matter what paths you all took, and that she would see you again one day. And...that she was very proud of you."
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Post by gantzgun74 on Nov 18, 2011 0:29:45 GMT -5
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"I..... I........"
After a second, Lilia dropped whatever she was going to say... She couldn't really say anything else after that... ....... All was silent for a few moments.....
....... "I... I'll..." After a second, she turned her head. "Th-thank... thank you Rayleigh..."
And with that said, she walked to the door and left the office behind her...
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Post by doctorzero on Nov 18, 2011 0:35:56 GMT -5
"Hey, wait a minute--" Evan moved to stop her--
"Let her go, Evan."
"But--"
The two of them looked at each other. "...Sorry."
Kavma simply nodded. "You are dismissed."
Evan nodded and headed to the door, though he stopped and looked back at his employer. "...you gonna be all right?"
Kavma waved him off. "Of course not. But I will be. Now go. Take the evening off with your team."
Evan gave a slight nod and left. Kavma buried his head into his arms and began to sob.
"I am so, so sorry, everyone..."
"--and so, bottom line, Kavma's threatening us with house arrest," Max finished.
He, Kaitlin and Gantz had just finished telling them what Kavma had told them. A.J. had dropped his guitar in shock.
"No way..."
"Yes way, unfortunately," Kaitlin muttered. "But I can't believe that stuck up--"
She broke off as Lilia left the office. "Lilia? What did you--hey, are you all right?"
"Did Kavma do something to you?" Max demanded. "Because if he did--"
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Post by gantzgun74 on Nov 18, 2011 1:09:59 GMT -5
"No..."
That sullen tone more then caught Max's attention, as well as everyone else's. When they all turned to her, she kept her head lowered, hiding her expression. "He... He didn't..." She looked in another direction. "He just... Told me the truth."
"What truth?" Gene looked to Lilia carefully, his expression concerned. "Lilia... What happened in there?"
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Lilia raised her head after a few seconds... Revealing that though she was tearful, she had the tiniest of smiles on her face. "She... She was here Gene... Mom... And... And she... She left this place..."
......... Gene let out a sigh of relief.
Really, that's all Lilia had hoped for. Even if her mom did come back to life, nothing made her happier then knowing that her mom was no longer wasting her life working for a piece of slime like her father did. She was out there... Somewhere. Being her own person.
Before he could think much more, Lilia hugged Gene as she continued to cry a little bit. He couldn't really do much more then return the embrace, patting her back comfortingly.
Smiling at the scene, Gantz and Rose looked to each other with a nod. "Good for her." Gantz sounded like he was in relief as well.
"Mmm hmm." So did Rosaline.
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Post by doctorzero on Nov 18, 2011 1:26:47 GMT -5
It was awkward, bearing witness to such an emotional event and not knowing what to do when it doesn't concern you.
Even so, Kaitlin and Max were both happy that Lilia had learned of her mother's current status. They looked at each other and nodded.
"Happy for her?" Max asked.
"Oh yeah." Especially after all the crap she's been through, what with Saturn and everything...
A.J., not wishing to interrupt Lilia and Gene's moment, leaned toward Gantz and muttered, "Not that I want to ruin the mood, but what do you think we should do about Kavma? He's not just going to let us go after Zero, is he?"
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Post by gantzgun74 on Nov 18, 2011 17:08:34 GMT -5
After a moment, Gantz let out an agitated sigh. "... I'll be honest... I don't know." He rubbed his chin. "I want to hunt down Zero make no mistake. But... I dunno." He thinks a second more. "Kavma seems really twisted up in a knot about all of this."
"Then.... What do we do?" Rose asked, looking to Gantz curiously.
................ It was a long hard moment, before Gantz let out a groan. "I dunno, what do you guys think?"
"ARE YOU KIDDING ME?"
By that point, Lilia was away from Gene looking to Gantz with a smug grin. "This coming from Gantzy boy? You HATE Kavma. Give me an example to when you've EVER listened to that self-absorbed, omniscient blowhard."
.............. "Well none before now, but-"
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Post by doctorzero on Nov 18, 2011 22:58:59 GMT -5
Kaitlin interrupted him. "Gantz, even if Kavma did it for our own good, you have to remember that he tried to get us all killed at one time or another. Heck, he's probably even lying. I can never tell with that guy."
"He didn't lie when he helped us with Black," A.J. reminded her.
"That was a different matter entirely!" she protested.
"No, it wasn't, Kaitlin," said Max. "If Kavma did want us to fail, then wouldn't it make sense to just leave us alone and watch?"
Kaitlin looked at him disbelievingly. "Who's side are you on?! Look, that doesn't matter right now, I don't care if Kavma doesn't want us to go after Zero, Jaron is still out there! Are you two actually going to just sit there and leave him?"
"Hey, we want to find Jaron as much as you do," Max replied, "But this is Kavma we're talking about. He really would do those things if we push him."
Kaitlin threw up her arms in disgust. "So what, you're just going to give up?"
Max grinned. "You kidding? If he tries to stop us, we'll pound him into the dirt!"
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Post by gantzgun74 on Nov 19, 2011 0:07:44 GMT -5
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After a second, Gantz nodded to Kaitlin and Max. He then looked to the group he was with. It looked like agreement was being passed all around.
Welp... Looked like there was no helping it.
"Okay then." Gantz said with a mischievous grin. "Come on gang! Let's head back to the estate, pick up the rest of the gang and get searchin'! Jaron's still out there somewhere and we ain't gonna stop till he's safe and sound back with us!"
Rose pumped a fist into the air right along with him. "Yeah!" She giggled as he chuckled. "Heheheh. Anyways, how should we handle this?"
Thinking about this a second, Gantz pulled out his cell phone. "Well, Tarosuke's still out there, so that's a start. Let's make sure he's informed of this. Then after that, we can figure out group placements when we get back to the manor."
A chuckle followed this, as Gene followed the group with Lilia. "Yeah! We are back! Let's get started! Nothin's stopping us now!"
Gantz opened a door that would've normally lead to the lobby of Crystal Room.
EEEEEEE-HAAAAAAAAAAAAAW!!!!!!!!
There was a flash of light and color at that as well............
[Yes, this is Kavma sending them home.]
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