Chapter 2

As Doc and I walked out the abandoned building, I noticed the entrance was set up to be a maze, each turn we take and each long dimly lit hallway had doors and traps. The sight of that blood still pools in my mind. To my surprise Doc noticed that I wasn't quite myself, blindly walking behind him. As we walked out into the blanket of night, there was a small layer of snow covering the ground. The soft steady crunching of our feet made me feel uneasy but tired.

'I hope no one is here looking at us as we pass! Those gunshots probably woke up every damn soul in this place.' I thought as my gut sank into the feeling of someone or something was really following us. Doc helped me into his nice black Subaru BRZ, the interior of the car had a nice leather and chrome dash board. The sliding sound of us sitting onto the leather seats sounded even so more distant in my mind then the shutting of the doors. As he pulled away with the heat on, the feeling of eyes on me grew but I kept pushing it out my mind, for I'm tired of all this weird shit happening with me.

'I swear I don't get any of this! I want to know everything about everything at this point! If I am what Doc says I am, what will that mean, and I'm sure I'll have to reevaluate my life!'

"Madachi, you ok? You look green." Doc said looking to the side at me. The soft hum of the car passing over the highway makes me feel even drowsier.

"Of course, I've been trying to make sense of all this, but it's killing my brain!" I say.

"I have no doubt about that. I'm terribly sorry, Madachi. Why don't we go to a bar, it's loud and I'm friends with the owner." Doc says cheerfully.

"Fine, but you're paying for it." I say roughly.

"I was planning on doing that." Doc said intensely watching the road.

We continued to sit in the car in silence. I'm still enjoying the soft purr of the car even with this uneasy feeling of someone following.

"Do you have seat warmers?" I asked shaking from the cold.

"Yes I do."

"Can you turn them on, my *** is cold!" the drizzle of a shiver passes over my spine again.

As my *** was getting warm, I began to think 'What if I am this special person? I mean I've always had this weird feeling of differentiation. It's not a long stretch once I really think about it.'

Once I began to fall asleep we arrived at the bar called One Treat, which is ransacked with people. Once Doc and I got to the door a woman with platinum hair burst out crying, I wanted to say something but I figured I might as well stay out of it. So Doc and I walked in without a second thought. The cold staring eyes of people watched us even more intensely than my gut feeling.

'Shit I still have my hospital clothes on' looking down at myself. Doc lead me to the private room he has from his friend. As Doc and I began to sit at our table, our waitress comes to get our orders. I look up and the breath is drawn out of my very lungs. She stunningly beautiful; with her red crimson hair falling perfectly over her shoulders and dazzling deep blue eyes that make you want to drown in. Her smile was bubbly and her red lipstick gleaming in the light, with her hair outlining a beautiful young woman. On her right shoulder lays a rusty colored kitten, sleeping safe and soundly as if this bar noise doesn't even effect it.

"Hello! My name is Haru. This kitty is Azumi, and we'll be your waitress for the night."

"Hey beautiful! I'd like sake, please."

"Same for me." the words soft and quiet as I spoke.

"I'll be right back with your drinks." Haru said walking off to the counter on the other end of the bar.

"Doc. Stop staring at her ***!" I grumbled out raising a fist.

"Come on! Don't tell me you don't find her body hot." Doc said leaning back against the booth.

"I do but I at least have some decency." I say. "So now tell me..."

"Here you boys go! Drink up and call me over if you need any more drinks." said Haru setting the drinks down in front of us.

"Thank you, Haru." I said.

"You're welcome." Haru said in response, and left closing the sliding door.

"Ok, now tell me, Doc. What are these sacred gears?"

"Well, there relics. They have different powers and different shapes. Your relic, what ever it is, is the most powerful. You could say that your relic could destroy the world in itself." Doc said taking a swig from his bottle.

"Ok, I get that but how do you know all this?" I asked holding my bottle, not really in the mood to drink.

"Because I was raised by monks who were supposed to protect the relics. I was trained to sense them and use them,in some cases." Doc said.

"How do you know which bodies have these gears?" I asked.

"They still have some of the power left by the gears."

"Well, when you were talking to me, you knew, didn't you."

"Yes."

"Well, how do you sense how powerful the gears are?" I ask.

"The monks taught me that as well." Doc said taking a big swig of his bottle.

"So I need to go talk to these monks. Where can I find them?" I asked.

"You're talking to the last one." Doc said depressingly.

"Oh. I'm sorry, I didn't know." I said.

"It's ok, but why don't we just drink and have fun." Doc said drinking more of his sake.

"I disagree." I said drinking some of my sake. "I'm some freak with some mystical power inside me. How do I use it? How do I control it? How do I..."

My words cut off by Doc's hand covering my mouth.

"Shut up for now! Damn. I'll help you tomorrow ok? Just drink for now."

As the night went on we became more drunk and probably closer as friends, but that isn't a problem for either of us. Haru eventually told us to pay and go home because we couldn't make proper sentences. I was the first to leave and I walked toward my apartment building. The snows coldness seeped through my clothes, the bag crinkling as I walked that held the clothes I had from the hospital. After a few minutes I make it to the building, but I'm freezing.

"Fuuuuuuck! I hate these damn stairs!" I say aloud to myself as I walk up two flights of stairs. On the third floor I walk to the third door on the right, apartment room 1998.

"Ah, I'm home." I say to my self with a chuckle.

As I begin to unlock my door to go into my apartment I hear a woman crying. I want to push it from my mind, for I hear this shit all the time but something was compelling me to see if she was ok. As soon as she a merged from the stairs my jaw dropped. Her dazzling platinum hair fell perfectly over her shoulders, her deep blue eyes were like the ocean. Her tight black shirt exposed her breasts and perfect curves. She was the definition of dazzling beauty. I began to think who would make such a beautiful woman cry. I pull my keys out the doorknob and walk over to to her. She notices me about half way to her.

"Oh I'm terribly sorry you have to hear this." she says still crying.

"It's ok, but are you doing ok? Oh, and by they way my name's Madachi. I live in 1998." I say looking into her deep blue eyes.

"No. I caught my boyfriend cheating on me with my best friend." she said, taking her right fist and slamming it into the door as hard as she can.

"Hey, hey. Don't beat yourself up!" I say grabbing her and pulling her into a hug. "Trust me there's assholes like him all over the world. Don't beat yourself up. It's not worth it." I whisper into her ear as she starts balling, and hugging me back. A few neighbors walk past giving me some dirty looks because of this beautiful girl crying in my arms or because I'm still in my hospital clothes.

"Thank you, Madachi. I really needed this hug, and my name is Brianna." she said into my shoulder, finally calming down.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Brianna." I say.

She stays hugging me for awhile longer, so I just continue to hold her tight. As she pulls away she asks if I'd be interested in talking inside her room. Me being me with my big *** heart, I say sure. She smiles and unlocked the door, going in first. As I walk in she tells me to make myself feel at home and asks if I'd like some tea.

"Sure, whatever you have is fine with me." I say politely.

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