Bleach Fan Fiction / Tenchi Muyo Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Silent Warrior ❯ The Bonds that hold a Family Together ( Chapter 40 )

“I'm pretty happy today. We haven't gone on a family vacation is ages. Of course, it wouldn't be a family vacation if a monster didn't show up. How dare you ruin our little get away! I'll never forgive you, and neither will my family! In the name of my parents, I will see to the end of you!”

Silent Warrior

Episode 40

“What a nice day it is today,” Prometheus says, waking up next to TJ's bed. “Since you have the next two days off from school, we're going to buckle down on getting you to learn how to be a prince and a chosen.”

TJ doesn't respond, so Prometheus jumps up on the bed to discover he isn't there. He then travels downstairs and notices no one is around. At his food bowl, he notices a note and magazines.

“Hi Promeeth, me and the fam have gone to a resort for the weekend. We'll be back on Sunday, so keep our part of the house clean! I'll bring back a treat for you, TJ.”

“How nice it must be to take a vacation; I wish I could've gone!”

The Bonds that hold a family Together

“How ridiculous were you this morning?” Prince is saying to TJ. “Sneaking out of the house just so the cat wouldn't hear you?”

“If you knew Prometheus like I do, you'd sneak out too,” TJ responds. “In the corner, get the monster!”

Prince is playing his game boy, and TJ is trying to tell him how to beat it.

“I think it's nice for all of us to get away,” Krystalyn says. “We've been so busy with missions and such, a little getaway will be relaxing.”

“You speak as if we're old people,” TJ comments. “Prince, give me that game, I'll just do it myself.”

TJ snatches the game from Prince, and the two start to go at it when Ashley's locket falls out of TJ's jacket pocket. He quickly grabs it and comments how he's glad it didn't break.

“What's with all the noise?” Henri asks. “Oh I get it; some special girl gave that to you.”

“Well, I guess you could say that,” TJ responds shyly.

“WHAT?!”

Krystalyn gets furious and turns around to scold TJ. Henri is trying his best to steer with her butt in his face.

“Are you seeing a woman behind your own mother's back?” Krystalyn roars.

“Of course not ma; I never said I was!” TJ answers.

“Honey please, I can't see!” Henri cries.

“Everything is ok now,” she says, calming down. “Of course TJ wouldn't be dating at his age.”

“I'm 14 and a half…” TJ mutters.

They arrive at the resort and stop atop a cliff overlooking a lake.

“It's kind of a romantic place,” TJ states.

“I think it's boring,” Prince says.

“This is actually where your mother and I met…” Henri starts.

As TJ gazes off into the lake, Ashley's locket starts playing.

“Why is this playing?” he asks.

He then begins to think about her and becomes depressed.

“TJ, we're going to go check in,” Krystalyn says, coming up to him. “Is everything ok?”

“Yeah ma, I'm fine,” he answers.

As they leave, air bubbles pop up from the lake.

* * *

“Is this the lake you reported?” King Mithos asks, looking through a window in his throne room.

“Yes milord,” Sacred responds. “I've noticed unusual energy coming from this lake that seems to be similar to the energy output of the demons we send out. But something is not quite right.”

“Lady Yuna, please go and investigate.”

“As you wish, Mithos,” she replies, leaving.

“King Mithos,” Sacred starts, “Lady Yuna has been acting suspicious lately. Do you think she could be noticing that her memories have been erased?”

“That's highly unlikely,” he replies. “The Lady Yuna is completely under my control. She has no recollection of who she was, however…”

* * *

“This is hot!” TJ exclaims, jumping for joy in a hot spring. “We need one of these in the mansion.”

“The professor would never go for it,” Henri laughs. “The mansion is our base of operations, not a place for leisure.”

“But we live there too! At least in our quarters we could install something like this.”

“Princeton, what's taking you so long to get in?” Krystalyn asks.

“I don't feel comfortable getting in a mixed tub,” he answers.

“What are you being so shy about; it's just us family,” Henri says.

TJ comes up behind him and pushes him in the water. They then begin wrestling and dunking each other. Finally, Prince takes TJ's towel and runs with it.

“TJ, that's enough with all the noise,” Krystalyn moans.

“Relax; let them be boys,” Henri laughs.

TJ chases after Prince, trying to cover his goodies, when he notices Prince stop at the edge of the hot springs.

“What a fantastic view of the lake,” Prince comments.

“You let your guard down!” TJ says, snatching the towel back.

“Hey look, there's someone down there.”

TJ climbs out and looks in the direction Prince is pointing.

“It can't be!” TJ thinks to himself. “Is it really her?”

The person then turns around, and TJ sees clearly that it is Ashley. Not seeing him, she then begins to leave. TJ calls out to her, then turns and runs to go change.

“TJ where are you going?” Prince calls out. “What was all that about?”

TJ races down the long stairs from the hotel to the lake where he spots the outline of a figure. When he gets closer, he notices it is only a statue. Ashley's locket then begins playing again.

“Why is it playing again?” he wonders.

He then hears footsteps behind him, and turns around to see Ashley standing there.

“Ashley…” he whispers.

“Why does that song make my heart confused?” she asks him.

“Ashley it's me, TJ, don't pretend you don't know.”

“Those names: Ashley, TJ; they mean nothing to me. I do not know of them.”

“Don't say things like that Ashley, it's me, TJ. I'm Prince…”

“TJ?” Krystalyn calls out, coming down the stairs.

TJ turns to see her, then turns back and Ashley is gone.

“TJ, you disappeared so suddenly; is everything ok?” Krystalyn asks.

“I'm fine ma,” he responds.

“You stopped right by the statue of the legendary lovers.”

“Legendary lovers?”

“It's an old tale from long ago. A prince from the heavens came to the lands and fell in love with a maiden. But a boy who adored that maiden turned into a monster out of jealous rage. He killed all the people without discrimination. The maiden and the prince sealed the monster in this lake with the power of their love. Afterwards, using all their energy up, they rose up to the heavens.”

“Sealed in the lake…?”

Behind them, unnoticed, Ashley is listening intensely.

“Come on, let's go back before Henri and Princeton get worried about us,” Krystalyn smiles.

“Ok mommy!” TJ squeals, embracing her.

“You're such a baby sometimes pooh bear. But promise me this: if you fall in love, please bring that person by to meet your mother and step dad, ok?”

“I will.” “Someday, I will be able to have you meet her…”

As they walk off, Ashley comes from behind the tree she was hiding.

“So a monster sealed in this lake is the cause of the unusual energy,” she says to herself.

“Looks like she's discovered the secret of this lake already,” Sacred says to himself, appearing in a tree behind her.

Ashley then focuses her energy, and attempts to contact the monster.

“Oh vengeful soul sealed within this lake, I command thee to rise once again! Come forth ancient spirit!”

By Ashley's command, the water stirs, and then erupts, and a serpent like creature comes forth from the water.

“Giver her back!” the monster screams, coming towards Ashley.

Ashley quickly jumps out of the way, and the monster turns around for another attack.

“What will she do now that she has released this thing?” Sacred wonders.

The monster gets up in Ashley's face, but then stops and flies high in the sky.

“Give her back!” it yells again.

It then starts looking around, when it spots TJ and his family in the distance. With a great roar, it races off that way.

“Wait, come back here!” Ashley commands.

* * *

“We're so close, yet it's like we're worlds apart,” TJ is thinking, looking back at the lake.

“TJ, what's wrong?” Henri asks.

“Oh, it's nothing. I was just lost in admiration of the moon's beauty.”

“It is beautiful tonight, isn't it?”

“Yea Henri, so beautiful you could just cry…”

TJ wipes the tears from his eyes, and then turns to his family.

“Well, I'm going to take another dip in the hot springs before dinner,” he says cheerfully. “I'll catch up with you later.

“I never know what that boy is thinking,” Henri says as TJ runs off. “Sometimes it's as though he's a total stranger form a different planet.”

As he is running, TJ is thinking about how he's going to get Ashley back.

“No matter what, I'll find a way to save you,” he says.

“Give her back!”

“Who said that?”

TJ turns around to see the monster staring right at him.

“Give her back,” it repeats.

“Give who back?” he asks. “This can't be happening to me.”

“TJ what is that?” Krystalyn asks, rushing over with the others.

“It's a monster, everyone get back! DarkStar!”

TJ changes into his mutant identity DarkStar, then rushes over to his family and knocks them out of the way as the monster sprays mist.

“Its poison,” Henri states as the trees start to die.

“That's it, I'm pissed off now!” DarkStar yells. “Who are you to ruin our family trip, what the hell were you thinking? In the name of the…”

“TJ don't move,” Krystalyn cuts him off. “Leave this to us. Storm Watcher!”

“Kinetic Kid!”

Krystalyn and Henri change into their mutant uniforms, and prepare to attack the monster themselves.

“Kinetic Tempest!”

Kinetic Kid uses an attack which throws kinetically charged particles at the monster. The attack has no effect and the monster grabs him by the throat and slams him against a tree.

“I summon the arctic winds of the ice caps! Come to the aid of your mistress and freeze this demon in its tracks!”

Storm Watcher summons a deep cold, but the monster uses its tail to knock her into another tree.

“I left my changing watch back in my room,” Prince cries.

“Then I'll have to finish this,” DarkStar says.

“How are you going to do anything if mom and dad couldn't even stop it?”

“Phoenix Trans…”

Something races by, causing the monster to stop, and stopping DarkStar from finishing his phrase. DarkStar looks to see a star flower.

“Another weird one showed up,” Prince says, noticing Yellow LightStar.

“She's probably on our side, I hope,” DarkStar responds.

“I won't allow you to harm innocent people,” she says. “Mutants, get out of here now.”

“Don't have to tell us twice,” Prince responds.

“I wish I could help you right now, but I've got to protect my family,” DarkStar thinks to himself.

“Give her back!” the monster roars.

Using her tail, she catches Yellow LightStar off guard, knocking her down.

“I've got to help. Phoenix Trans…”

“Not so fast villains!”

Everyone turns to look as four figures come into view.

“Dark Warrior!”

“Dark Knight!”

“Dark Blade!”

“Dark Sabre!”

“Handsome suited Brother Soldiers to arms!”

“Wow, it's the fighters for truth and justice: the Brother Soldiers!” Prince squeals.

“That's my line,” DarkStar rolls his eyes.

“Give her back!” the monster yells at the Brothers.

“Dark Mist Paralyze!”

Dark Sabre creates his fog, giving DarkStar the opportunity to slip away from his family.

“The hotel is this way, let's go,” Kinetic Kid says.

“Please be careful everyone…Phoenix Transform!”

“Give her back!” the monster is still yelling in the fog.

“Stop your belly-aching! How dare you ruin TJ's family get away! In the name of the Phoenix, I will punish you!”

“TJ is Silent Warrior…” Prince says, watching from behind a tree.

“Yellow LightStar, you protected TJ,” Silent Warrior says. “I knew you were a good person. I love…”

Without hesitation, the monster attacks with its tail, knocking the Brothers around.

“Dark Crescent Beam Shoot!”

“Dark Lightning Bolt Jolt!”

The two combine their attack and hit the monster dead on, watching it turn to vapor.

“We did it,” Dark Knight cheers.

The monster reforms itself, disappointing the two soldiers.

“My sword technique never fails…” Dark Warrior pouts.

“Ok, then I'll do it. Fist of the Phoenix Flare!”

Silent Warrior's attack hits dead on, but the monster just reforms itself.

“That's so cheap,” he cries. “That should have done the trick. Nobody likes it when you don't play fair!”

“It's not a monster,” Dark Blade says. “It's an evil phantom born of old, fanatical jealousy.”

“He's right,” Yellow LightStar says. “I am responsible for bringing this ancient creature to life. You little boys back off.”

“No doing toots, phantoms and spirits are my domain. Demon Rightus! Dark Magician, release my Demon Staff of Omens!”

Calling forth his staff, Tauro Demos places it in the ground, creating an enchanted circle around himself, and one around the monster.

“Exorcise and cleanse with the power of my purifying flame. Wall of iron sand, pagoda of priestly form, shimmering fireflies of iron, fill until the silent end. Way of binding number 75: Five Pillar Iron Embrace: Gochuutekkan!”

Five iron pillars fall from the sky, each with a sutra tied to it, and surround the monster on the outskirts of the enchanted circle surrounding it.

“Raging Bull's Fury: Dark Fires Engulf!”

Picking up his staff, Tauro Demos creates a circle in the air in front of him, and then punches through, the end result being a massive version of Dark Blade's fire ball.

“Do it now, Silent Warrior!” he yells.

“Dark Crystal White Flame Piercing Cleanse!”

After being struck by the arrow, the monster turns back into a man, and floats towards the sky.

“Finally, his ancient jealousy has been lifted, and he can soar to the heavens” Tauro Demos explains.

As the man is floating up, he spots Yellow LightStar. He looks at her for a moment, and then sees through her outfit to her soul (Ashley) and smiles. He finally understands after all this time, and fades off into the moonlight.

“I could say what you all did was unnecessary, but I will withdraw this time,” Yellow LightStar says to the guys.

“Yellow LightStar…” Silent Warrior starts.

She leaves, and Silent Warrior is left standing there.

“Lady Yuna is a strange one,” Sacred says to himself, appearing in another tree.

“Will you cut it out?!” Tauro Demos roars.

Sacred turns to see Dark Warrior on Tauro Demos' back.

“I'd heard about it from TJ, but I've never witnessed it,” he says. “A 7ft tall bull that walks like a human. Are these horns sharp?”

“Will you get off my horns please, Prince…”

“Ok, ok, don't say anything more,” Dark Warrior says, quickly getting down. “That's just our secret, ok?”

“Those boys are going to be the death of him,” Sacred sighs. “Sometimes I want to kill them just to get them off of him. My poor baby brother…”

* * *

“TJ where are you?” his family is calling out.

They are searching the woods not too far away.

“I should've let him borrow my game,” Prince sulks.

“Then give it to me,” TJ says, slapping him on the back.

TJ runs over to his parents, and reflects on how grateful he is to have such a family. A little later that night, the guys are all down at the hot springs. TJ is looking depressed as he looks at the lake.

“TJ don't worry, you'll have other chances,” Damon says to him.

“I know, thanks guys,” TJ responds. “How did you get out here anyways?”

“Prometheus told us you were here,” Tyrese answers.

“Styve, when you change into Tauro Demos, do you remember anything?” Tyrone asks.

“I remember everything,” Styve answers. “There are things he keeps from me, but we have a pact. Whatever he doesn't tell me, it's for a good reason.”

“So did he say anything about me?”

“Yeah, he said you were climbing on him like some bull in a rodeo!”

“Hey TJ?” Prince says, coming from inside. “Can I talk to you for a minute?”

TJ gets out of the springs, and the two walk around the hotel.

“I saw what you did back there,” Prince says.

“What are you talking about?” TJ asks.

“I saw you change into Silent Warrior, and then fight that monster.”

“I don't know what you're talking about…”

“Hey, it's ok, I understand. Just know I'm proud of you.”

“You're crazy, how could I be Silent Warrior?”

TJ laughs and walks back to join the others.

“Thanks Princeton, for being a good little brother.”