Everyone Forgets the Beginning (BattleR Saga Story 1)
Second Chant

Closed frontier

"Officer Khail! We haveestablished voice connection with HQ. Shall we send them the currentmission status and transport report? Sir?

But Khail’s mind was somewhere else,somewhere where he could do anything he wanted; he was looking into his past.Brown skies with golden rays of light bursting through the massive clouds surewere worth remembering. But what happened below them was a terrifyingslaughter. Ocean of dead bodies, most of them decomposed or beheaded. Friends,families, soldiers, and civilians. All that is left is suffering and theblack-haired Shiroshura Bakemono, shadowed Monster of White War Zone.

"Sir! Orders?!" thecommunication officer shouted to his ear with all his might.

"Shut up and call the generalsimmediately," the tall, purple-skinned, bald guy with huge, yellow eyescalmly answered. "Can't you see he's trying to remember his past again?Now get the generals on speaker."

"Yes sir," said the officer,and he typed some data into the console before him.

At the center of the first bridgeappeared a huge holotomic flat screen. The purple guy stood at attention beforehis superiors, and, with calm voice, reported:

"Chief General, sir! This isTherraN-1 on its way to planet Therra. Second officer Qe Tohr at your services.Status report: we experienced connection loss in the worm tunnel some time ago,but now it's reestablished. During connection loss, our scanner noticedunallied spaceships in sector SF-11 northeast. Commander Dhamm is on his way toinvestigate those ships and took a small team composed of himself, twosupporters and Captain Yakufe. Mission priority C-Class. He should returnbefore we enter the solar system. Estimated time of arrival: 20 minutes. End ofreport. What are your orders, sir?"

Four shadowed characters looked ateach other without a sound. The one on the left, a huge, chubby character,stood up and raised his hand.

"We wait," said a slim womansitting next to the standing man. "Call us when Chief Dhamm returns, orwhen you hit SS frontier."

"Yes Ma'am! TherraN-1 out."

The big screen disappeared, and Tohrsat down on the chair behind him.

"All right, boys and girls. Nowwe wait for Chief and hope we get good news from him."

"What do you mean?" askedKhail out of the blue.

"I mean," he said as herested his head on his hand, "if something happens to those ships thismight bring trouble, and our mission is not a trouble-solvers mission. Youfollowing? Or you swinging in the past again?"

"Yeah, I get it..." Khailmoved away from the window and looked at the monitor behind Tohr. "Youknow why he took Yakufe with him? Is it you who is in charge now?"

Sarcasm and irony burst out ofnowhere. The crew could almost clearly see green and yellow lightning strikingfrom the high officers' eyes, but both of them smiled.

"Fine." Tohr waved his handand left the bridge. "You're in charge. I need to take a dump anyway, sohave fun here, waiting..."

Khail sat on Commander's chair andclosed his eyes smiling.

(end of part 1)

part 2:

We slowly got used to thisoverwhelming darkness swallowing us inside the huge hangar. Step by step, wediscovered some device resembling an elevator, and a white room with shut downscreens.

“Looks like it’s abandoned for sometime now,” said Meg wiping one screen with her sleeve. “Those monitors weren’tused for years.”

“Meh, go with Yakufe and check theelevator-like thing. It looks like it’s made of some unknown alloy.” Meh noddedand left the screen room. “You, Mah, are going with me. There must be somegenerator to turn the lights on somewhere near this room.”

And so we split. Meg and Mehdisappeared from my sight in a moment.

“Ok, Mah. Listen to me,” I whisperedto Mah’s ear. “You can’t tell anyone, especially Yakufe, of what you’re aboutto see. That’s an order.”

“Yes sir.”

Since Meg wasn’t around, I couldfreely use at least three elements at once, and, that way, I can replace the electriccircuit to the generator. The only problem is that combining water, metal andlightning elements is extremely unstable.

“Meh, here.” Meg opened the first partof the heavy elevator doors.

“Step aside, please.” He raised bothof his hands, mumbled some incantation, and closed his eyes. “Black Metal Element. Chant #12. Kata Kymbe.”

Clinging noise crushed silence in thehangar as the elevator started to tremble. Meg stepped back more when theelevator fell a few floors down, and Meh went down with it.

“Meh!” Meg rushed to the hole wherethe elevator and Meh fell into. Doors closed right before Meg got to them, andmetallic noises were coming from inside.

“Meh! You okay?

“Move away from the doors,” themuffled voice of Meh stroked deep in her head.

She stepped back a few meters. Doorsopened and a tall caped man jumped down from the elevator roof.

“Mission accomplished. Let’s go backfor Chief and Mah.”

“O-Okay.”

At this moment, the hangar was filledwith faded green lights and the groups reunited at the screen room. Mah washolding me on his shoulder while I was heavily panting. Meg and Meh looked ateach other and Meh smiled when his eyes connected with his brother’s.

“What happened? Akh, are you okay?”

“Y-Yeah… Never better.” I forcedmyself to smile and look at her while passing by. “How’s the elevator?”

“We’re all good. Now that the power ison we can use it without elements. It’s a high tech metallic alloy. I’ve seenone of those, though they aren't easy to get.”

“Great... Now let’s move up...” I let goof Mah and stood up, still panting.

“These screens are out of order... Noway could we use them… And we still must replace the crew…”

After finally replaceing my balance andregenerating a little, I closed the screen room and we headed to elevator. Asmall shadow moved behind the barrels close by, but I was too tired to noticeit. We entered the elevator, which, thanks to Meh, was as good as new.

“Up or down, sir? I saw some lights afew floors below.”

“No.” I looked at Meh straight in theeyes and I saw that my iris blackened.

“We go up. There’s nothing worthchecking below.”

The elevator moved, and we moved up afew floors.

“Stop. That’s enough. We’re going inhere.

“Eeeh…” Meg grabbed my shoulder.“Chief? How do you know where to go and where not? What exactly happened at thescreen room?

“Nothing happened.” I looked backabove my shoulder so she couldn't see my eyes directly. “It’s just anexperience and a hunch, don’t let it bother you.”

Doors opened and a blue corridor goingstraight forward appeared. We left the elevator, leaving the doors open, justin case. Now the fun part begins.