37 – Dust of Time

TW// Mention of murder

Taggi is tied up to a chair. He wakes up. He recognises the place – he's in his old room.

TAGGI: N-no...

He tries to escape.

TAGGI: No. No!

DAD: We finally found you.

He turns around and sees his parents.

TAGGI: No please!

Akane is looking at Sei who is sleeping. She's smiling. She tuckes a sstrand of hair behind his ear. Than she wants to touch his left wrist, but she stops, she moves her hand. She get's out of bed and dresses up. She goes to Seis lab.

AKANE: Perl. Please start it.

PERL: But Sei said-

AKANE: Please.

Perl hesitates.

PERL: Okay.

She starts it. Akane comes closer, puts her hand in and it disappers. Then she takes a rope and ties it around her weist and around a column supporting the ceiling.

PERL: Miss Akane are you sure this is okay?

AKANE: No... But I need to do it.

PERL: Be careful.

Akane breaths out, closes her eyes and goes in. She opens her eyes. A woman is standing in front of her in a spaceless place.

WOMAN: Hello Akane.

AKANE: Who are you? What is this place?

AMAIA: My name is Amaia and I'm the woman of the past. This place is a space of the past.

AKANE: So it worked...

AMAIA: Indeed. Whose past you wish to see Akane?

AKANE: What happened to Seis parents?

AMAIA: See for yourself.

She moves her hand and the place changes. It shows Sei hidding in the trunk and his mom fighting three hodded guys.

AMAIA: This is Seis mother. This was the last time Sei saw her.

AKANE: What happened to her?

She points at the sceen.

Seis mother get's taken away by the hooded people. They take her to Vulmone.

AKANE: Vulmone?

They push her next to a man, they are both tied up. Akane quickly figurs out that the man must be Seis father.

MOM: Chay?

CHAY: Alyx? Are you okay? Did they do anything to you?

ALYX: I'm okay don't worry.

CHAY: What about-

Alyx nods away and Chay stops talking.

QUEEN: Alyx...

Alyx looks at her.

QUEEN: I never trusted you. I knew you'd betray your country.

ALYX: There is nothing wrong with loving someone else!

The Queen grabs Chay by his hair.

QUEEN: Him? He's nothing. He's just a normal Ceanuses.

Alyx tries to lunge at her, but they stop her.

ALYX: Don't touch him!

QUEEN: Don't order me!

She moves Alyx shirt and on her chest there is the tattoo of the symbol of the ten strongest assassins.

QUEEN: It's a shame... You were a good fighter.

ALYX: What are you going to do with us?

QUEEN: I have a special job for someone, who must prove herself to be, hopefully someday as strong as you.

She turns around and looks down at little Akane. She's scared. The Queen takes out a sword and gives it to Akane.

QUEEN: Prove yourself daughter.

LITTLE AKANE: N-no, I don't want to.

The Queen pushes the sword in her hand.

QUEEN: I said do it!

LITTLE AKANE: I don't want to do it! They haven't done anything wrong.

The Queen grabs Akane by her hair.

QUEEN: They betrayed our country! You know what happenes when you someone betrayes us. You need to become stronger Akane. This is the only way.

She pushes her infront of Chay and Alyx.

QUEEN: Do it!

Alyx and Chay holds eachothers hand. Little Akane swings her sword, tears running down her cheek.

Akane is watching everything, tears bursting out.

AKANE: No. NO!!

Little Akane kills Alyx and Chay.