The Rules of This "Game"

Reika

Ironically enough, the scene came from the book in the series called The Voyage of the Dawntreader. IN particular, it was where one Eustace Scrubb found that dragon's lair on an island.

No, perhaps not such an irony, when you consider the events that had happened earlier. There seems to be a bit of malicious intelligence behind a LOT of these events in my Quest! I wouldn't be too terribly surprised to learn that this Author is directing the shape and direction of these Chaos events.

Whatever the case, somehow I feel that though the Geofront which we now are all stationed in may NOT be a good place to stay for too long. I'll bring that point up with Uncle Sigin when we the others in the upcoming meet here in a few moments. In addition to whatever sensor findings and such Akagi and the others have managed to make upon the Chaos wall, that is something else that must be addressed.

. . .

I had heard a rumor about the walls drawing inward at a slow but increasing rate . . . and I hope I'm in error on that.

However right now, I am much more concerned about what my brother has gone through! I mean I have only just discovered I have a brother. Me, a product of science rather than the product of a mother and father, I have a brother and I DO not feel a need to lose him too soon, thank YOU.

And I find that I am (a little bit) reluctant to part ways with "my" Asuka by her shuffling off her mortal coils. Leave them both I must soon enough, but let us not do it quiet yet! With my new found self I've . . . just gotten to actually to be able to actually know them, damnit!

That said . . .

What exactly had happened in that dank cavern which caused us so much grief is not exactly known. What we DO know that it had mysteriously appeared right next to the place a now determined Asuka and (understandably) a somewhat hesitant and nervous looking Shinji. "My" Asuka --the one who'd gone and put her foot in things with Rei I (re: 64957) wasn't too sure that he'd want to go off all alone with an angry Asuka, you see. She'd been known to hit (and hit hard) people who she found annoyed her. Something that a classmate named Touji could tell you all about.

But that aside, "my" Asuka had decided on "taking the plunge" and had gone off (alone with Shinji into what had BEEN up until then a safe and secure area within NERV) and had been set upon trying to actually have some kind of meaningful relationship with my brother! She'd planned (I believe) on at least trying to get some kind of date going, but things had decided on "going south" as the old Western saying goes.

Not saying that the fault lay within Asuka, even IF she had been practically ambushed by the youthened "sister" she now had (i.e. the Asuka from the so called "manga" reality version of MY home) and made to promise to appologize to each and every version of ME (or anyone named Rei at the moment) for her rude remarks. "My" Asuka couldn't say no to her little sister, she was too . . . cute. But afterwards, she'd been in a fowl mood. However, that was not the cause for our grief. At least not directly, that is.

A few moments later, a fierce set of growls had been heard from the spot the couple had gone. A cave entrance suddenly came into existence where I'd been resting while speaking with Uncle Sigin.

We found ourselves in a rather sticky mess: boxed into the confines of Tokyo 3 and such by walls of Chaos energy. Trapped with no clear way out. I had just asked Sigin what we may be faced with in here while "fenced" when an answer presented itself, LOUDLY. Out of the caverns that had suddenly appeared came a pair of the ugliest looking dragons you'd care to ever lay eyes upon. One had been brown scaled and the other red scale, but both were similar in length and height, and ONLY a small fraction the size of my parents when THEY were in dragon form.

Wasn't even the slightest trace of Dragon Fear coming from those reptiles, though they'd given me a good enough fright. Didn't freeze me in my tracks. Only a FOOL feels no fear, I am told. A fool or a person who'd had the emotional trauma I'd had early on in my life (now mystically cured, thank GOD).

Both I and Tabris had managed to get off some well placed shots with our sidearms into the beasts, but being that they'd been set on only "stun"! WE both had been thinking that IF we should have to use those weapons, they'd be used against human sized targets (and targets which COULD be stunned). Rogue dragons from the blue had NOT been in the gameplans, you must understand!

Sigin had a better time of it. He had switchedover to full dragon form- -instinctive reaction to attacking dragons I believe--and made relatively short work of the attackers as we and other personel drawn to the area by sounds of battle cheered on from a safe distance.

Yes, it was short work he made of them, but that is NOT to say that Sigin came out of the fight unscathed. At the time I had not exactly understood WHY (maybe dragon killing dragon had been some kind of taboo), but I only found out later WHY he'd hesitated. None of the blows he'd landed would have been instant kills (though he had outmassed and outclassed his opponents by quiet a bit).

Seeing the enemy dragons had been subdued, Sigin had paused and looked at the downed pair in askance. Leaning in, he then actually sniffed something on one of the dragons, and then the other.

"Asuka and Shinji," he mutters, reeling back slightly. "I was right! It IS them!!"

"What?!" I and Tabris shout together in unwitting duet, blinking.

We'd just been attacked by Asuka and Shinji, who had been transformed INTO these . . . creatures. THAT was something I did not (and STILL do not) like even contemplating!

It would appear that the rules to this "Game" (i.e. whatever you wish to call this twisted situation the Author has set upon us) I have failed to grasp until now!

. . .

I'd almost killed my brother, for God's sake! If our energy weapons hadn't been set for stun . . .

1. "Oh good Lord no!"

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