Twilight Thoughts

[Jeremy Hunter]

Izzy booted up her diary once more, the old, venerated program having been left in the recesses of her Raven's Talon..

Entry Ten:

Scenario for Bloodshed
She's grown up.



It's been a few years since my last entry. I haven't aged a day. None of us have. But Seraphim? My baby grew up without me. Soren, Sora...they've grown. But I've stayed the same. I can become twenty five, thirty, forty. I won't look a day over nineteen. It's a curse...it's a gift. I don't know anymore. All I know is that I'm here, once again, in Alexis' penthouse apartment, lookng out across Manhattan with this sense of....sorrow. Foreboding. A sence that what transpired since I was gone has evolved from desperation, from us looking for the whereabouts of happiness....this endless rondo, turning into a scenario for bloodshed.

Akira was a traitor. He worked for the Guild Core, he always had. He had avoided all those scans, those tests...Cerberus had taught the man well enough...and then he struck. He stole Rika...she can't catch a break. Taken by the Guild Core this time, now gone once again...we chased him. We took the Oathkeeper, we took the Kusanagi. The Ghost Eye....we used everything in our power to hunt him down, but for years he eluded us. We didn't know what to do. We didn't know how to proceed. She had the strongest DNA from Masako....she had the strongest DNA of them all.

We found bastards, finally. A Mako...the grand warship of the illustrious Guild Core was their home, and where our precious Rika was.
We trapped it in somne Omicron...and we beat them into submission. When I said a scenario for bloodshed, I meant their blood. We slaughtered them all. They had broken all sence of mercy, decency, and morality within them and slaughtered every single one of them. We took Rika back and turned that Mako to ash. We ensured not even the ash was untouched.
When we were done, we let whatever remained, what little remained, slowly extended and spread into the vast reaches of space. I took my leave, I headed for Manhattan, my home...I headed for my mother.

Jeremy took his family back towards Order space. It was time for their homecoming, their return. For all that had transpired, Jeremy Tobias Hunter was no longer letting Rika return to Manhattan...no, he couldn't let her be near the LSF, the Nomads, anyone but those he trusted.

All I know is that Alexis is going to be torn apart. When I tell her, she will be angry...she will be distraught...but it mattered not.
Rika had to be kept safe.

I only hope Alexis believes me, when I say that she is safest with Jeremy than even herself.

...What the hell do you mean, Seraphim was here? Where did she go...oh you have got to be kidding me.

Entry Ten, Closed

[u]Addendum[//u]
Guilty as charged, Iz. - Rika