okay, after much thought i have deceided to write this next part. for
friendly informational purposes how many of you people reading this think
that Usagi is too violent? Oh well, most of my stories make her slightly
violent. anyway, any feedback would be appreciated, and usual disclaimers
hold for the SM characters in here....the story is mine though. well, on
with the story.

The Awakening
part 4
by battie
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"Three months?!?! You've got to be kidding me." I stated in confusion. I
could have sworn it was only a few hours ago that I got clobbered in the
head. "And what happened to Seiya? He was with me when all of this happened.
Did that maniac attack him too?"

The three women looked at each other, more than likely conversing mentally.
Getting pived I tried to concentrate on hearing what they were saying. After
a few seconds I was starting to feel slightly foolish when out of the blue a
heard their voices blaring in my mind. Wincing and throwing my hands up to
my ears, trying desperetly to block out the racket, I started to shout,
"Stop talking so loud! Your killing me!"

Lady Rei turned around in surprise, looking at me as though I had grown a
second head. Blinking a few times and shaking her head she looked at the
others quickly before walking over to my bedside.

"How did you do that?" She asked in a slightly irratiated tone, she didn't
like being caught off guard.

"What, do you mean here what you were saying?," after a nod of confirmation
I began again,"I just wanted to hear what you were discussing so I tried
concentrating really hard. Then all of your voices started blaring in my
head. It was very loud."

Staring at me for a few more seconds Lady Rei turned around, spoke in low
tones to the other two, and walked out of the door. Makoto and Ami stood for
a few minutes, trying to decide whether to stay in the room or go after Rei.
Leaving finally won out, they took off with muttered words of good-bye.
Sitting there I tried to decide what I was going to do. I was stuck with a
few odd balls in a hospital room with all kinds of weird tubes stuck to me.
Coming to a decision I swung my legs over the side of the bed and proceeded
to tear out all of the IV's that were connected to me. Some of the monitors
went of so I hurriedly took the plugs out to avoid getting caught. I felt
strange, when a wave of dizziness went through me, blurring my vision, I
grabbed the nearest stable object, which just happened to be the metal end
of the bed. Squeezing hard on the metal to help the dizzyness pass I stood
there for a few minutes. When I was finally able to open my eyes again I
took my hand off the bed. When I did I heard a something fall to the floor
with a metallic bang. Looking down I saw that it was part of the bed, on
closer inspection it turned out to be the peice that I had been gripping, it
also had my finger inprints on them. 'Okay, is it me or is this bed made out
of alumium?' Glancing at the bed again I grabbed another part and squeezed.
It was like partially dryed out clay in my hands, not to hard but no too
soft. This was definitely getting weird. I looked around for something that
looked like it would be made out of a tougher medal. The only other thing
was the steel looking door. I walked over to it and placed my hand on the
panel that was the equivalent to a door handle. Pushing hard on it I could
feel it give away slightly. Concentrating on my muscles I tried to increase
the pressure I was putting on it. This time I almost slammed face first on
the door when my arm suddenly went through the door handle. I carefully
pulled my hand out and stared at it in a detached sort of amazement. This
was getting pretty cool. 'Hmm...I wonder if it works the opposite way?'
Concentrating again I thought of how it would feel if I was weak. Pushing
the door again nothing happened, I felt like I was trying to push a redwood
over, I wasn't doing anything to the door. Reverting back I decied to get
out of my little locked up room. Placing a hand on each side of the door I
pushed as hard as I could, this time I was prepared though, when the door
came crashing down I pulled back. Walking out of my new doorway I looked up
and down the hall both ways. All was clear. Listening for noise I heard a
faint sound of cheering down on the left. Walking towards the sound I went
through several hallways before I came to a big entrance door of some sort.
Looking down at my outfit before I went in I straightened my plain white
gown, this would have to do. Pushing at the door lightly bright white light
flooded the hallway. When my eyes adjusted I walked further in and took a
look around. It looked like a huge arena, it also looked like I was at the
wrong entry. A huge giant of a man looked up, from the victem he was
pulverizing, to glare at me. Gulping slightly before I felt my usual
fear-nothing attitude come back I walked towards the center of the arena.
Looking up I saw thousand of people lining the raised bleachors around me. I
had never seen this many people all together at one time before. At the
bellow of outrage I looked down again to see the giant brute coming at me at
full speed. Widening my eyes I tried to think of something to do so I just
reacted instinctivly. Drawing my arm back I gave him an upper cut when he
reached me. Only a small measure of my new found power had been behind that
punch. I had succeeded in catching the man off guard though and my punch
sent him tumbling back on his butt. A look of rage passed over his face when
the crowd went wild for her, this was supposed to be his fight, they weren't
supposed to cheer for her. Jumping up he started to swing on me. The first
punch caught me in the side of the head and sent me into one of the columns
that littered the arena floor.

'That's going to cause a headache.' Picking myself off of the floor I shoke
my head in an effort to get rid of the fuzzy edges of my vision. Putting my
hand on the back of my head I came away with blood. I started to panic
slightly when the big brute came at me again, he was at least three times my
size and had already showed me that he was fast. Looking above me at one of
the columns I saw that it had a small platform about halfway up. Bunching my
thigh muscles together to prepare for the jump I sprung up and grabbed ahold
of the very edge. Looking down at my attacker I saw in look up in vexation
and prepare to climb after me. My grip was starting to slip. Calling up all
of my upper body strength I hauled myself onto the platform and stood up.
Observing the arena from up here I could see that there was a series of
these on random columns with chains in between with which to swing yourself
on.

'Hmm....I wonder...' Jumping off of my little safe haven I reached for the
nearest chain and swung myself towards the next platform. One this one there
was a few weapons, if that's what you would call them. One was a rather
large stick that had a big shpere shape on the end. Obviously you were
supposed to brain your rival with this and then run like a bat out of hell.
That wouldn't do, I was starting to get dizzy and I wouldn't be able to run
that fast. The screaming crowd distracted me for a moment, a moment I
regreted when I felt a massive paw wrap around my ankle and pull me over the
edge. Grabbing the first thing I could I hit the ground with a resounding
thud. The wind was knocked out of me, leaving me momentarily helpless to the
attack of the sneering oaf above me. A blow to the chin left me feeling
dazed, and a kick to the stomach gave me the needed motovation to scramble
out of the way of the next hit. Crouching on my knees I looked at the weapon
I had picked up, I looked like a gantlet of some sort. This would be
useless. What a minute....I slipped the thing on my right arm and felt it
lock into place with a metallic click. Putting my arm in the air and
pointing it towards the giant I tapped one of the buttons that was
stragically placed side. An electric current flew from the palm of my hand,
missing the monster of a man and hitting the column behind him. I looked at
it briefly in amazement, the whole column had exploded into small peices,
one of which had thankfully hit my assailant in the back of the head,
leaving him merifully unconsious. Unfolding myself from my crouched position
proved hard, right as I stood up I fell back down from the swirling of my
head. When I saw the a group of guards running towards me I tried to get up
and escape. I actually got as far as the other side of the arena before I
looked up into the stands and saw him. It was Seiya. With him were five
other people, one of them was the brown haired man who had hit me over the
head at my apartment. He must be in trouble, I'll help him, then maybe we
can get out of here together. Jumping up I landed on the box seat that he
and his compainions were seated in.

"Seiya! Come on we gotta get out of here!" Grabbing his hand I tried to pull
him from his seat and was met with resistance. "Come on! What's wrong with
you?"

He looked up at me in resignation and pulled his hand free from mine.
Jestering to one of the guards who had just showed up he motioned them
toward me. Looking around to the others I saw two were older, probably in
their forties, and the other two were young men, with an uncanny resemblance
to seiya. Their builds were simalar, not their looks. The tallest had long
brown hair, and and intelligent looking, albeit thin face. The other, the
shortest, had silver looking hair and blue eyes.

"I'm sorry Usagi, I'm not looking to be saved. This is my home." Seiya's
melodic voice broke through my thoughts. Looking at him I finally admitted
what I had been unable to before. His was the voice I heard before I blacked
out. He was the one who said he was sorry. Now I knew why. He had betrayed
me.

"You brought me hear?" I tried to keep the betrayel from my voice as I
spoke, "Why? I thought you were my friend."

Looking at him I thought I detected shame in his gaze. This enraged me. Here
I had thought that he cared about me, had been nursing a crush on him. And
he turns out to be a double crossing ALIEN! When he tried to speak again I
lashed out at him. The sound of flesh hitting flesh could be heard echoing
through the now silent arena. My hand stung where it made contact with his
cheek, and I could see a red welt making its way to the surface on his face.
When the guards ran at me I lifted my right arm and let loose a surge of
energy from my new toy. It moved through the air like a gust of wind and hit
the oncoming guards, blowing them over like so many leaves. Turning to glare
at Seiya again I could see that the three women from before, Rei, Ami, and
Makoto, had arrived. Rei made a few gestures with her hands and a ball of
fire flew at me. Jumping out of the way, breaking my gantlet on the way
down, I rolled behind one of the big chairs adorning the platform. Feeling
some kind of power well up from within me, I close my eyes and envisioned
the power coming up to rest in my hands. Standing up quickly I caught sight
of Makoto crossing her arms, little bolts of electricity coming out of her
hands, before I put my hands together and threw the ball of energy I made at
all three of them. Ami had looked up just in time to see it coming. When the
dust from the explosion died away it revealed all three of them to be just
fine, standing behind a wall of energy, that proved to be a sheild, coming
from Ami. I turned around to jump back down to the ground when I felt
something hit me in the back. I had forgotten about the bolt of energy
Makoto had been working on. I felt the pain burst in my head like a
fireworks display and hit the floor. Looking around weakly, about to faint
from the pain surging through me, I saw Seiya looking at me with pity.
Giving him my most hate filled glare I promtly passed out. Maybe I'd die and
all of the confusion would be over.
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okay, all done kiddies! well for this chapter at least. anyway, see ya
later.
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