Fan Fiction ❯ Sweet Raptured Light ❯ Chapter 1 ( Prologue )

Disclaimer: I don't own Xenosaga. Well, tough luck. This story is a mystery pairing (at the end!) so nothing is really what it seems. Evanescence songs that are themes for the `Saga characters (except Ziggy):

Shion: Hello (picture a ghost Shion)

KOS-MOS: Tourniquet (KOS-MOS kneeling with her wrists slashed)

chaos: Imaginary (chaos with wings reaching for K-M and wearing only that weird white shorts)

MOMO: Taking Over Me (MOMO holding her angel arrow staff and holding the bullet Jr. gave her. She is wearing Jr.'s jacket)

Jr.: My Last Breath (Jr. falling surrounded by blackness, hole in chest, with his hands outstretched and guns falling above him)

Sweet Raptured Light (This story): Whisper

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Sweet Raptured Light: Chapter 1

"KOS-MOS!" Shion screamed, watching the blinding light envelope KOS-MOS. Shion was laying on a ruined street in Second Miltia, watching the `super' Gnosis destroy it.

{catch me as I fall
say you're here and it's all over now}

"No!" chaos cried, trying to move but unable to. Shion, Ziggy, Jr., MOMO and chaos were watching the android sacrifice herself to save who was left………

{ speaking to the atmosphere
no one's here and I fall into myself }

The Elsa crew was dead………along with Allen………

The Kukai foundation was obliterated………

And now………Second Miltia………

{ this truth drives me into madness
I know I can stop the pain if I will it all away }

KOS-MOS had decided to use her remaining energy to kill the `mother' Gnosis. If it fell, the others would fall.

{ don't turn away
don't give in to the pain}

chaos suddenly had a sickening vision of what the light was doing. HE saw her………but he could see her hands, her gloves ripped………blood was pouring from her slashed wrists, and she was using her now-rose tinted life force to kill the Gnosis………

{don't try to hide
though they're screaming your name }

"I'm sorry………" she whispered, tears running down her eyes and cheeks………

{ don't close your eyes
God knows what lies behind them
don't turn out the light
never sleep, never die}

As the flashed cleared, they saw her lying face down in a pool of blood.

{I'm frightened by what I see
but somehow I know that there's much more to come }

chaos was frozen. Shion ran forward amid the fallen Gnosis. "No………no," she cried, kneeling by KOS-MOS.

{immobilized by my fear
and soon to be blinded by tears
I can stop the pain if I will it all away}

No one noticed the dark black-green tentacle come up next to Shion………that is, until………

It shot up and went through her back, piercing her heart. She made a gurgling sound, her eyes wide before falling over, lifeless.

"Shion!" MOMO cried, before hearing a grunt from Ziggy. Turing around, eyes wide, she saw him fall over decapitated. She covered her mouth to stifle her scream. More tentacles sprang up around the street, reaching for the other fleeing survivors.

"Its those tentacles!" Jr. yelled.

"Jr……… do you think its………?" chaos looked over at Jr. and MOMO, finally speaking.

"Yeah! It's Nikita! But I thought we left it on Miltia!" he yelled. MOMO looked over at Jr. `what is Nikita?!" she asked.

Jr. opened his mouth to speak, but a massive tentacle shot up behind him. "LOOK OUT!" chaos yelled. The tentacle wrapped itself around Jr., and he was yanked back into the hole it came from, dropping his guns.

"JR!" MOMO cried, rushing for him. She reached the hole and was running so fast she nearly fell in, but chaos caught her. She was sobbing. "No………he's gone……..why?!" she screamed, sinking to the ground. She noticed one of his two guns near her, and picked it up. "………it's all I have left of you………" she mumbled, before breaking down into tears again. chaos kneeled down next to her, and hugged the 12 year old Realian, even as he saw the rescue helicopters grow near………

{ don't turn away
don't give in to the pain
don't try to hide
though they're screaming your name
don't close your eyes
God knows what lies behind them
don't turn out the light
never sleep never die

fallen angels at my feet
whispered voices at my ear
death before my eyes
lying next to me I fear
she beckons me shall I give in
upon my end shall I begin
forsaking all I've fallen for I rise to meet the end

don't turn away
don't give in to the pain
don't try to hide
though they're screaming your name
don't close your eyes
God knows what lies behind them
don't turn out the light
never sleep never die }

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Wow. Lots of death! Oh, remember Jr. didn't technically die, he just got stolen and chaos has heavenly powers………why tell you such? Because you'll see in the next part!