Shayla Shayla
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Motoko
The Way it Should Have Been
Chapter One:
Realization
After Ifurita was freed and the ensuing battle between Shayla Shayla and Ifurita, Motoko lay unconscious on the cold, hard, rocky, ground, after taking a head on blast from Ifurita's Power Key Staff, in order to save Shayla.
The wind is blowing at a steady pace, Ifurita has escaped. Nanami and Shayla are standing over Motoko. Shayla bends down with one knee and crouches next to Motoko, placing her right hand on his chest, where he had taken the blast. Shayla's eyes fill with tears as she lays her forehead on Motoko's chest, clinching her fists:
"Why did you do that!? If it wasn't for you, I would be the one unconscious and in pain. You're stupid.........why would you risk your life for someone who is self-centered like me!?"
Shayla pounds her fists into the ground, stirring up dirt, as tears drop onto Motoko's chest.
"It's not fair!" Shayla shouted. "I shouldn't have put you in danger like that. It's my fault you're uncon--"
All of a sudden the hills and the valley's echo with the sound of Nanami's right hand, connecting with Shayla's left cheek.
"You're NOT the only one to blame!!!" Shayla looks up to see the brown haired vixen staring coldly at her.
"We are all equally to blame!!! Motoko knew the risks, so stop being selfish!!"
Nanami stands up, and drags Shayla to her feet, by the neck of her shirt.
"Now....we can either sit here and cry, or we can pick Motoko up and give him the medical attention that he needs. You're Choice!!"
Shayla looks at Nanami with misty eyes, and nods her head.
"Let's get Motoko out of here" Shayla smiles.
Meanwhile........
Back in the Bugrum capital of El Hazard, Jinai celebrates his victory over Motoko and the priestesses. But, Jinai is still fuming over the fact that he couldn't control Ifurita like he had thought.
"WHY!!??" Jinai shouted. "Why did Ifurita blow me off like that!? She treated me like I was nothing!' Jinai sits, sipping on Bugrum nectar.
Queen Diva is sitting on her throne. Diva chuckles amusingly. Jinai looks up and stares coldly at her with his pale face.
"Do you find something funny about this situation!?" Jinai crushes the clay cup then stands pointing his finger at Diva.
"You weren't even there......yet you find amusement!? Explain to me what is so funny!!"
Diva looks at Jinai with her piercing eyes. She licks her lips, and takes off her see-through pink shoulder cape, revealing her normal black bikini-like outfit. She walks towards Jinai and says with a playful cowl.
"The way your nostril's flair when you get angry.........it makes me think that you have a passion for the dramatic. You need to calm down, we have other way's to deal with stress."
Diva puts her lips close to Jinai's left ear, and looks off down a hallway.
"If you know what I mean"
Jinai snaps his head up quickly. His pale milky white skin turning beat red.
"Wait!! You don't mean--"
Jinai quivers with fear, as Diva chuckles with anticipation. Diva looks at Jinai and grabs his arm, dragging him down the hallway.
"Follow me"
Jinai screams at the top of his lungs, and tries to break away.
"There are rules to these kinds of things! You can't just start off a relationship like this, you have to take it slow......NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!"
Jinai screams all the way down the hallway until the slam of a door at the end silences his screams.
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Chapter 2:
Confusion
Back at the Grand Cathedral in the Magnificent Continent, Motoko still lays unconscious in the bed of the still missing younger princess. Motoko's teacher, Fujisawa, is sitting around the fountain in the central courtyard, when Shayla sits down beside him.
Fujisawa stares at her in bewilderment as she swipes his bottle of saki and proceeds to down the bottle in big gulps.
How old are you, Shayla?" Fujisawa asks a little shocked.
Shayla snaps her head to the right and stares coldly at Fujisawa talking in a slurred manner.
"How dure you ask a--HIC--girl her age, and efen if I tuld you, vhat boosiness is it of yurs?"
Fujisawa is stunned at how much of a light-weight she is. He takes the bottle of saki from Shayla's hand and set's it on the other side of himself where she can't reach it.
"You know.....Shayla.......It's not your fault. None of us could have known what was going to happen"
Shayla's head droops low and tears start to fall, one by one, making a pitter patter sound as they hit the ground.
"I know. But, when he did that.....something in my heart---"
Shayla interrupts herself, as she get's up and darts away crying, appearing to head down the hallway towards Motoko's room. Nanami was watching from around the corner the whole time. Nanami, presses her forehead against the wall, and thinks to herself.
I kinda figured Motoko would have awakened by now. Shayla is feeling pretty bad. She must really care for him. And here I thought she didn't like him like that."
Nanami looked up slowly and then walked away.
Motoko's room lay silent, and only a gentle breeze can be heard passing through the curtains. The door to Motoko's bedroom slowly creaks open as the red haired and tanned skinned Shayla walks in, her hair whipping gently in the wind as she walks over to Motoko's bed.
Shayla sits down on the bed beside Motoko and gazes at him deeply. A tear hits the bed as Shayla looks upward towards the ceiling. She closes her eyes
"I'm so sorry Motoko. If it wasn't for my weak and untrained eye, I could have avoided that attack, and you would still be awake and unhurt"
Shayla looks down, her eyes sparkling gently.
"Ever since that day at the hot springs, I just tought that you were a pervert. But, after journeying all that time with you, my heart started to open to you. More and more. And I started to show you sides of me to everyone in the group, that I had never shown anyone. But, only when you were there."
Motoko's palm lay open on the bed beside her. Shayla slides her hand onto his and squeezes. Tears fall onto Motoko's arm.
"I wanna be with you."
Shayla leans down and kisses Motoko softly on the lips. For Shayla.......time seemed to have stopped for that brief moment. All that could be heard was the wind, whipping softly through the room.
Shayla leans up with eyes closed, and while leaning up, slowly opens her eyes.
"WHAT!!" Shayla shouted in thought.
Shayla was stunned to see, that when she opened her eyes, Motoko was staring straight at her, eyes wide and gleaming.
"Oh Motoko! Your awake!" Shayla sighs with relief.
"I have so much that I wanna tell you. Now I can finally tell you how I feel."
Motoko looks at Shayla confused. Shayla looks at him, eyes, teary and sparkling.
"I love you" Shayla looks at Motoko and smiles happily.
Motoko sits up and looks at Shayla.
"Excuse me miss........who are you?"
"Who am I?"
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Chapter 3:
The Clincher
Shayla was bewildered. There was a long..........silent pause. Like the calm before a storm. All she could do was stare at Motoko in disbelief.
"What did you say!?" Shayla asked hesitantly. Hoping that she had heard wrong.
Motoko looked on in a confused daze. Looking straight into Shayla's eyes, in a innocent, yet scared dimeanor.
"I am sorry, miss. But, I don't know who you are. I don't even know where I am. Do you know me?"
Shayla looked at Motoko, and smiled gently. She put her hand on Motoko's head, and rubbed it gently.
You stay and sit right here. I will be right back with some of your friends, okay?" Shayla continued to smile.
Motoko just looked on in confusion.
"Okay. So, I stay here right??" Motoko layed back down and stared out the window.
Shayla leaned down and then kissed him on the cheek before gently getting up, and walking out the door. Shayla rushed to the moss covered altar in the middle of the hallway and grabbed a make-shift loud speaker.
"Everyone........gather in the courtyard by the water-fountain, I have some important information for everyone."
Shayla hung up the loud-speaker and then proceeded to rush to meet everyone at the courtyard.
Shayla arrived at the courtyard just as the last person was joining them, and proceeded to explain the situation.
"That's horrible..........was the blast that big to give him amnesia?" Nanami asks with a confused look on her face.
Everyone looks at each other and Fujisawa, sets his saki down and gets in his stereotypical thinking pose.
"Well, if you think about it.........his cat armor absorbed most of the blow, so, he shouldn't have amnesia for that long. Although....Motoko, did hit his head pretty hard on the wall, when the blast knocked him back."
Shayla looks around at everybody.........her temper slowly rising.
Why in the hell is everyone just sitting there!!! Shouldn't we be trying to find a way to restore his memory!!?? While we are sitting here thinking...the bugrum could be getting ready for another attack, and we have no defense against them as long as we are doing nothing!!
Shayla gets up and walks off, but then suddenly turns around.
"You know. We should all go see Motoko. Maybe seeing one of us will jog his memory........some of it at least.
Shayla turns around and starts running towards Motoko's room.
"What's her deal??" Meese asks, with a confused look.
Nanami just sits quietly and then gets up.
"I'm going to go check on Motoko. You all should do the same. He must be so scared right now"
Everyone gets up and starts heading towards Motoko's location.
But, before anyone can do anything.........an explosion erupts in the central plaza area of the Cathedral. Everyone turns around to see a huge pillar of billowing smoke.
"Crap........why now!!??"
Everyone rushes towards the smoke-stack and sees a dreadful site.
'What the hell!!?? No way!! The group says together.
Ifurita had left a gaping hole in the wall of the cathedral, but it wasn't just one hole.......it was a series of holes that formed a hallway......and looking closely......Jinai and Queen Diva were with her. Carrying the motionless bodies of Motoko, Shayla and Nanami on their shoulders.
"We have your friends......if you want to see them again, you must journey to the Bugrum Capital and surrender your country in person.....only then will you see them again........I might even be kind enough to give Motoko's memory back" Jinai stated boldly as He, Queen Diva and Ifurita disappeared into a cloud of smoke getting away.
"Noooo, Motoko.........Damn!!" Fujisawa yelled in anger.
Meese and Afroman, look harshly in the direction of where they had escaped. Both looked at each other and said together.
"They just kidnapped one of our own. Now, it's personal!!!"
I hope you enjoyed. I shall have some new chapters up ASAP. Keep in mind that this Fan-fic is rather old. And does not represent my current writing skills.