Neon Genesis Evangelion Fan Fiction ❯ Requiem Of Fate ❯ Chapter 6
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By: GAT-X103 
Anime/Manga: Neon Genesis Evangelion Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 04.18.2006 | Pages: 5 | Words: 2.7K | Visits: 416 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Neon Genesis Evangelion Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 04.18.2006 | Pages: 5 | Words: 2.7K | Visits: 416 | Status: Completed
Requiem of Fate
Chapter Six: Shangri-la
(PLANE)
Flame had been on the plane for 13 hours so far. One more hour and he would be in his new home of Tokyo-3.
Just the thought of living there made him want to vomit.
He hated leaving his home country of America, but he had his order's. He thought back to when he got the orders to go to Japan from ‘Sin'. ‘Reaper' wanted him for a mission. Not that he had anything about doing a mission as long as he got to kill somebody, and the opportunity to blow some shit up, he was cool.
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
###### FLASHBACK ######
He was on the phone with ‘Sin'.
Everything was going fine, until the attempted assassination on the Second Child and NERV's new commander. Nobody was going to kill the ‘Reaper', that was his job, his mission, his destiny. He wanted to kill Shinji ever since the boy beat him in everything they competed in, and he always lost.
(ON PHONE)
"Your orders are to come to Tokyo 3, to protect the Second Child." D said.
"So Shinji ‘Reaper' Ikari needs me to protect his little play thing?" he mocked.
"You know Flame he will kill if you even think about disobeying his orders."
"How long am I supposed to stay in that godforsaken city?" Flame grumbled.
"A week or until you're dead, it is all up to the ‘Reaper'."
Flame sighed a little before answering. "Mission Accepted."
(END PHONE CALL)
###### END FLASHBACK ######
Flame had gotten on a plane as soon as he had accepted the mission. The sooner he got finished playing protector to the ‘Reapers' plaything, the sooner would he be able to get back to the greatest country in the world: America.
The plane ride was getting to the point of Flame wanting to blow it up. He had even got up and opened his bag to pull out a claymore and set up the detonator. He would have actually done it, had his mp4 player not fallen out and landed in his lap.
He sighed. Fate was on the plane's side and everybody that was on the plane.
Flame put it on the song he wanted and turned it way up.
(lyrics to LIVE by ‘Zug Izland')
Clear out your mind
Look to your past and see what you can find
Stole soul afraid
Of the prophets perfect picture falls away
Is this the life that we choose to live
Or is this the life that has been giving
Now is the time to see what my life should be
What is mine!?
Flame closed his eyes as the music took over.
We live in Shangri La now!
We live in!
We live in!
We live in Shangri La now
We live in!
We live in!
It's a timeless rage
For many people praying to be saved
Truth is so strong
It needs lights to guide it so it can carry on
I've seen blood on my hands
Am I dead or is this where it begins
I feel the shame
For my friend who put a bullet in his brain!
We live in Shangri La now!
We live in!
We live in! We live in Shangri La now
We live in!
We live in!
I've got
You've got
We've got
Something to die for
I've got
You've got
We've got
Something to die for
I've got
You've got
We've got
Something to die for
I've got
You've got
We've got
Something to die for
We live in Shangri La now!
A sad expression came to his face, but he didn't dare shed a tear. "Kari." he whispered as the plane slowly began it's descent.
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(TOKYO-3)
After the whole school incident, Shinji had decided to take Asuka for a little ride. Halfway through the ride Asuka slipped her fingers around Shinji's, namely the one that was on the clutch.
He smiled at how much he loved her.
Shinji had taken her to the beach for some fun. They just sat on the beach watching the families that were playing in the sand with there kids.
Kids. That one small concept provoked a whirlwind of thoughts in Shinji's mind: would he and Asuka have a family, or was this mission Shinji's last one?
‘The mission' he thought.
He had been ordered to protect her, he was not supposed to fall in love with her or were they supposed to start a relationship. But he had anyway. He didn't regret it, orders or not, he was happy, more so than he had ever been in his life, really.
Shinji's cellphone went off, ruining the moment.
(PHONE)
"Yes." Shinji spoke.
"I'm here ‘Reaper'." the familiar voice spoke back.
"So it would seem."
"Having fun with your play thing."
"Talk like that again, and I will finish what I started a year ago."
The thought of what Shinji started a year made the scar on Flame's face burn. The scar that went from his left eyebrow all the way across his face to the middle of his right cheek.
Shinji had ruined his looks that day. He had beat him. That was unforgivable.
Just talking to Shinji made the scar on Flame's face burn. It always happened to him, the scar burnt with the fires of hell. That one training exercise had ruined any chance of a friendship the two could have had. The only reason Flame obeyed him was because the ‘Reaper' out ranked him.
Shinji was brought out of his thought when Asuka leaned her head on his shoulder.
"You still there ‘Reaper'?" Flame joked over the phone.
"Why must you call me that, Flame?"
"Call you what ‘Reaper'?"
Shinji turned to Asuka and whispered. "I'll be back in a minute." he told her.
She nodded as he got up and walked a short distance. He didn't want this conversation to turn bad in front of her.
"Why use that horrible nickname?" Shinji asked the Shadow on the other end.
"Because of who you are." Flame answered. "You are the ‘Reaper' of lives, the destroyer of families and a devil. All wrapped up in a nice blue-eyed package."
"I'm not that person anymore." Shinji said, anger clear in his voice.
Flame drew sick smile across his lips. "You know you can't be with her, yet you still are. Maybe somebody should tell her about the kind of man she's in love with. Maybe I should tell that she's sleeping with a devil, that she's kissing a man who has taken more lives then me and ‘Sin' will ever take."
Shinji grimaced. "If you want revenge against me, then take it. Against me, NOT those I love."
"Love? You talk about love when you ruined my life? When you took..." but he paused.
Shinji knew what he was referring to. Normally, he would have apologized for anything and everything that passed by his face. But he wasn't that person anymore. Sins he did have, lives he had taken, but that didn't mean he was fully accountable.
"So you're going to blame me, because you weren't strong enough to protect her?" Shinji asked.
"What? What did you say?"
"It's easy to kill other people, to put them in the path of a bullet. But to put yourself in harms way? You couldn't do it, could you?"
"SHUT UP!"
"Kari wouldn't want you to beat yourself up over this."
"I SAID SHUT! UP!"
"Why can't you just accept what happened and let me be happy with the love I found?"
"Because you took mine from me, so I'm going to repay the favor!" the mad angry voice shouted.
Shinji turned to see Asuka about a meter away from him, smiling as she walked towards him. He returned the smile, until he saw the red dot on her chest, right over her heart.
"Don't. Please."
"Do you know the feeling when you love somebody so much, it hurts when you can't be there to save them?"
"You don't want to do this."
But it was obvious that he wasn't listening. "Now your going to find out."
Shinji moved. Running as fast as he could towards Asuka, barely getting there when the gun shot rang out. Asuka saw Shinji running at her suddenly. The panicked look on his face didn't register until the knocked her to the ground, at the same time hearing a gunshot. Shinji's chest was on fire as blood spurted out os his chest. Fighting against the pain he struggled to get her away from there. Shinji crawled over to Asuka, shielding her body as three more shots rang out before silence claimed the area.
Asuka found the will to move and grabbed Shinji's cellphone.
"Come on, come on, pick up!"
"Hello?" D answered.
"D! Shinji's been shot!"
"WHAT? Where are you?"
"At the beach! Please hurry!"
D arrived with via VTOL with a full medical unit in less than ten minutes. Asuka was struggling to keep Shinji awake and alive the entire time.
"I need a shot of adrenaline!"
"Keep that wrap pressed tightly!"
"Hang in there commander!"
As the med unit worked feverishly to save the boy, D took Asuka to the VTOL for safety.
"Alright, now tell me what happened Asuka?" D asked the girl who was once again in tears since the last time Shinji was shot.
"Shinji was talking on the phone, to some guy named Flame, when the shooting started."
That was all D needed to hear as he pulled out his own phone.
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
D stepped out of the VTOL as it took off and heading for base. He went right to the spot where Shinji had been shot and looked around.
The beach was a very bad place, mostly because you only had one area to sniper a target from. And that was the land area. But D knew who the shooter was and he wasn't so stupid as to be in the only obvious position to hit a target from.
That meant only one thing.
"This is D. Listen very closely, I need a couple of things." he said into his cellphone.
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Flame dropped his bag on the dock as he hopped off the boat. He was hoping to be gone before the boats owner got back and discovered it had been taken.
His thoughts were on his last ‘assignment'.
Shinji ‘Reaper' Ikari, with any luck, was dead. His revenge was complete now and maybe Kari could rest in peace. He was relaxed now. It didn't bother him, anything that Shinji had said to him.
It wasn't his fault Kari had died. It wasn't his fault that he hadn't gotten to her in time. It wasn't his fault....
‘Are you trying to convince yourself, or justify your actions?' a voice said to him.
Flame paused, he knew that voice. Not his conscious, someone more precious.
"Don't do this to me." he said in a whisper.
‘I never blamed you. Or him.'
"Well I did. Someone had to be responsible."
‘Even if it was you?'
"You're blaming me?"
‘You are blaming yourself.'
"It wasn't my fault!"
‘Then let it go.'
"I Can't!"
‘It's the only way you can be free to move on.'
"I can't. Not without you."
‘I will always love you. But you have to let me go.'
"I love you too." he said as the voice faded, replaced by another one.
"That's so sweet of you to say." D said, a gun pressed firmly against the back of his head. "One flinch and you die."
"How did you find me?" he asked.
"You always underestimated my resourcefulness, Flame."
"Yeah. I guess I did." he smirked.
"Let's get one thing straight. Shinji's hanging by a very thin thread. If he dies, you die very, very slowly."
Flame sighed. "I expect nothing less from you."
D gripped the back of his gun and slammed it into the back of Flame's head. He dropped hard to the dock as the accompanying security detail surrounded him.
"Get him out of here. Full restraints. Use duck tape and twist ties if you have them. I want him as immobile as a freshly wrapped mummy!" D said as he stepped back to let the men do their work.
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Omake!
Shinji saw Kenji slap Asuka and lost it. He pulled D's gun from his holster and shot him in the arms.
"OW!"
"Now, dance puppet! Dance!" Shinji said as he fired bullets at the boys feet. "Your feet work, so lets see you dance for your master!"
Asuka smiled as she watched the boy who had struck her hop up and down trying to avoid being hit.
‘This is so amusing' the redhead thought.
"I said DANCE for your supper!" Shinji laughed as he continued to fire.
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Omake 2
Shots rang out as Shinji knocked Asuka to the ground.
"OW!!!" Shinji screamed as he dropped to his knees in front of Asuka.
"Shinji, are you alright?" the girl asked, panicked.
"No, I'm not alright! Son of a bitch shot me in the ass!!!"
A/N mad love going out to my proof-reader gunman with out him this story would blow. Much love man
Chapter Six: Shangri-la
(PLANE)
Flame had been on the plane for 13 hours so far. One more hour and he would be in his new home of Tokyo-3.
Just the thought of living there made him want to vomit.
He hated leaving his home country of America, but he had his order's. He thought back to when he got the orders to go to Japan from ‘Sin'. ‘Reaper' wanted him for a mission. Not that he had anything about doing a mission as long as he got to kill somebody, and the opportunity to blow some shit up, he was cool.
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
###### FLASHBACK ######
He was on the phone with ‘Sin'.
Everything was going fine, until the attempted assassination on the Second Child and NERV's new commander. Nobody was going to kill the ‘Reaper', that was his job, his mission, his destiny. He wanted to kill Shinji ever since the boy beat him in everything they competed in, and he always lost.
(ON PHONE)
"Your orders are to come to Tokyo 3, to protect the Second Child." D said.
"So Shinji ‘Reaper' Ikari needs me to protect his little play thing?" he mocked.
"You know Flame he will kill if you even think about disobeying his orders."
"How long am I supposed to stay in that godforsaken city?" Flame grumbled.
"A week or until you're dead, it is all up to the ‘Reaper'."
Flame sighed a little before answering. "Mission Accepted."
(END PHONE CALL)
###### END FLASHBACK ######
Flame had gotten on a plane as soon as he had accepted the mission. The sooner he got finished playing protector to the ‘Reapers' plaything, the sooner would he be able to get back to the greatest country in the world: America.
The plane ride was getting to the point of Flame wanting to blow it up. He had even got up and opened his bag to pull out a claymore and set up the detonator. He would have actually done it, had his mp4 player not fallen out and landed in his lap.
He sighed. Fate was on the plane's side and everybody that was on the plane.
Flame put it on the song he wanted and turned it way up.
(lyrics to LIVE by ‘Zug Izland')
Clear out your mind
Look to your past and see what you can find
Stole soul afraid
Of the prophets perfect picture falls away
Is this the life that we choose to live
Or is this the life that has been giving
Now is the time to see what my life should be
What is mine!?
Flame closed his eyes as the music took over.
We live in Shangri La now!
We live in!
We live in!
We live in Shangri La now
We live in!
We live in!
It's a timeless rage
For many people praying to be saved
Truth is so strong
It needs lights to guide it so it can carry on
I've seen blood on my hands
Am I dead or is this where it begins
I feel the shame
For my friend who put a bullet in his brain!
We live in Shangri La now!
We live in!
We live in! We live in Shangri La now
We live in!
We live in!
I've got
You've got
We've got
Something to die for
I've got
You've got
We've got
Something to die for
I've got
You've got
We've got
Something to die for
I've got
You've got
We've got
Something to die for
We live in Shangri La now!
A sad expression came to his face, but he didn't dare shed a tear. "Kari." he whispered as the plane slowly began it's descent.
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
(TOKYO-3)
After the whole school incident, Shinji had decided to take Asuka for a little ride. Halfway through the ride Asuka slipped her fingers around Shinji's, namely the one that was on the clutch.
He smiled at how much he loved her.
Shinji had taken her to the beach for some fun. They just sat on the beach watching the families that were playing in the sand with there kids.
Kids. That one small concept provoked a whirlwind of thoughts in Shinji's mind: would he and Asuka have a family, or was this mission Shinji's last one?
‘The mission' he thought.
He had been ordered to protect her, he was not supposed to fall in love with her or were they supposed to start a relationship. But he had anyway. He didn't regret it, orders or not, he was happy, more so than he had ever been in his life, really.
Shinji's cellphone went off, ruining the moment.
(PHONE)
"Yes." Shinji spoke.
"I'm here ‘Reaper'." the familiar voice spoke back.
"So it would seem."
"Having fun with your play thing."
"Talk like that again, and I will finish what I started a year ago."
The thought of what Shinji started a year made the scar on Flame's face burn. The scar that went from his left eyebrow all the way across his face to the middle of his right cheek.
Shinji had ruined his looks that day. He had beat him. That was unforgivable.
Just talking to Shinji made the scar on Flame's face burn. It always happened to him, the scar burnt with the fires of hell. That one training exercise had ruined any chance of a friendship the two could have had. The only reason Flame obeyed him was because the ‘Reaper' out ranked him.
Shinji was brought out of his thought when Asuka leaned her head on his shoulder.
"You still there ‘Reaper'?" Flame joked over the phone.
"Why must you call me that, Flame?"
"Call you what ‘Reaper'?"
Shinji turned to Asuka and whispered. "I'll be back in a minute." he told her.
She nodded as he got up and walked a short distance. He didn't want this conversation to turn bad in front of her.
"Why use that horrible nickname?" Shinji asked the Shadow on the other end.
"Because of who you are." Flame answered. "You are the ‘Reaper' of lives, the destroyer of families and a devil. All wrapped up in a nice blue-eyed package."
"I'm not that person anymore." Shinji said, anger clear in his voice.
Flame drew sick smile across his lips. "You know you can't be with her, yet you still are. Maybe somebody should tell her about the kind of man she's in love with. Maybe I should tell that she's sleeping with a devil, that she's kissing a man who has taken more lives then me and ‘Sin' will ever take."
Shinji grimaced. "If you want revenge against me, then take it. Against me, NOT those I love."
"Love? You talk about love when you ruined my life? When you took..." but he paused.
Shinji knew what he was referring to. Normally, he would have apologized for anything and everything that passed by his face. But he wasn't that person anymore. Sins he did have, lives he had taken, but that didn't mean he was fully accountable.
"So you're going to blame me, because you weren't strong enough to protect her?" Shinji asked.
"What? What did you say?"
"It's easy to kill other people, to put them in the path of a bullet. But to put yourself in harms way? You couldn't do it, could you?"
"SHUT UP!"
"Kari wouldn't want you to beat yourself up over this."
"I SAID SHUT! UP!"
"Why can't you just accept what happened and let me be happy with the love I found?"
"Because you took mine from me, so I'm going to repay the favor!" the mad angry voice shouted.
Shinji turned to see Asuka about a meter away from him, smiling as she walked towards him. He returned the smile, until he saw the red dot on her chest, right over her heart.
"Don't. Please."
"Do you know the feeling when you love somebody so much, it hurts when you can't be there to save them?"
"You don't want to do this."
But it was obvious that he wasn't listening. "Now your going to find out."
Shinji moved. Running as fast as he could towards Asuka, barely getting there when the gun shot rang out. Asuka saw Shinji running at her suddenly. The panicked look on his face didn't register until the knocked her to the ground, at the same time hearing a gunshot. Shinji's chest was on fire as blood spurted out os his chest. Fighting against the pain he struggled to get her away from there. Shinji crawled over to Asuka, shielding her body as three more shots rang out before silence claimed the area.
Asuka found the will to move and grabbed Shinji's cellphone.
"Come on, come on, pick up!"
"Hello?" D answered.
"D! Shinji's been shot!"
"WHAT? Where are you?"
"At the beach! Please hurry!"
D arrived with via VTOL with a full medical unit in less than ten minutes. Asuka was struggling to keep Shinji awake and alive the entire time.
"I need a shot of adrenaline!"
"Keep that wrap pressed tightly!"
"Hang in there commander!"
As the med unit worked feverishly to save the boy, D took Asuka to the VTOL for safety.
"Alright, now tell me what happened Asuka?" D asked the girl who was once again in tears since the last time Shinji was shot.
"Shinji was talking on the phone, to some guy named Flame, when the shooting started."
That was all D needed to hear as he pulled out his own phone.
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
D stepped out of the VTOL as it took off and heading for base. He went right to the spot where Shinji had been shot and looked around.
The beach was a very bad place, mostly because you only had one area to sniper a target from. And that was the land area. But D knew who the shooter was and he wasn't so stupid as to be in the only obvious position to hit a target from.
That meant only one thing.
"This is D. Listen very closely, I need a couple of things." he said into his cellphone.
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Flame dropped his bag on the dock as he hopped off the boat. He was hoping to be gone before the boats owner got back and discovered it had been taken.
His thoughts were on his last ‘assignment'.
Shinji ‘Reaper' Ikari, with any luck, was dead. His revenge was complete now and maybe Kari could rest in peace. He was relaxed now. It didn't bother him, anything that Shinji had said to him.
It wasn't his fault Kari had died. It wasn't his fault that he hadn't gotten to her in time. It wasn't his fault....
‘Are you trying to convince yourself, or justify your actions?' a voice said to him.
Flame paused, he knew that voice. Not his conscious, someone more precious.
"Don't do this to me." he said in a whisper.
‘I never blamed you. Or him.'
"Well I did. Someone had to be responsible."
‘Even if it was you?'
"You're blaming me?"
‘You are blaming yourself.'
"It wasn't my fault!"
‘Then let it go.'
"I Can't!"
‘It's the only way you can be free to move on.'
"I can't. Not without you."
‘I will always love you. But you have to let me go.'
"I love you too." he said as the voice faded, replaced by another one.
"That's so sweet of you to say." D said, a gun pressed firmly against the back of his head. "One flinch and you die."
"How did you find me?" he asked.
"You always underestimated my resourcefulness, Flame."
"Yeah. I guess I did." he smirked.
"Let's get one thing straight. Shinji's hanging by a very thin thread. If he dies, you die very, very slowly."
Flame sighed. "I expect nothing less from you."
D gripped the back of his gun and slammed it into the back of Flame's head. He dropped hard to the dock as the accompanying security detail surrounded him.
"Get him out of here. Full restraints. Use duck tape and twist ties if you have them. I want him as immobile as a freshly wrapped mummy!" D said as he stepped back to let the men do their work.
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Omake!
Shinji saw Kenji slap Asuka and lost it. He pulled D's gun from his holster and shot him in the arms.
"OW!"
"Now, dance puppet! Dance!" Shinji said as he fired bullets at the boys feet. "Your feet work, so lets see you dance for your master!"
Asuka smiled as she watched the boy who had struck her hop up and down trying to avoid being hit.
‘This is so amusing' the redhead thought.
"I said DANCE for your supper!" Shinji laughed as he continued to fire.
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Omake 2
Shots rang out as Shinji knocked Asuka to the ground.
"OW!!!" Shinji screamed as he dropped to his knees in front of Asuka.
"Shinji, are you alright?" the girl asked, panicked.
"No, I'm not alright! Son of a bitch shot me in the ass!!!"
A/N mad love going out to my proof-reader gunman with out him this story would blow. Much love man