The Chosen
Part 8:
Michael walked into his apartment quietly. They all talked him into coming back last week, he just decided today. He had an erie feeling about it too. He knocked on the door and no one answered. Liz had said she'd knocked awhile and then had to let herself in. He did the same. Wave of the hand and he walked into their tiny apartment. "Maria?" No answer. He walked into the living room to find her sprawled out on the floor. "Oh God." He walked up to her and felt for a pulse. Thank God there was one. He shook her gently. "Maria? Maria wake up."
Maria stirred and opened her eyes. "Huh? What?" She sat up slowly holding her head. "Oh, it's just you." She said harshly and tried to stand only falling back onto the floor. Michael helped her resistant form onto the couch. "What happened to you?" "Why the hell are you here?!" "Maria, why were you like that?" "I passed out half wit!" "No shit! Why?!" "I don't know." "When was the last time you ate?" "It's none of your business." "When!?" "About one and a half weeks ago." "What!?" "I was on a fast." She said mockingly. "Dammit Maria!"
Michael stormed out of the living room and came back with some crackers. "Eat these." "I'm not hungry." "Eat them dammit!" Maria snatched them from his hands and began to slowly eat them. "What are you doing back?" Maria asked. "Well, I came back to see how you were." "I'm glad you cared." Maria said sarcastilcally. "Seriously Maria. You could have died." "But nooo, my fucking asshole in shining armor showed up!" "Maria, I'm sorry okay. I'm sorry you got you feelings and ego hurt."
Maria chuckled. "No, your lying again. Your eyes give it away Michael. Your lying and your doing a horrible job at it." "Maria please..." "Don't Maria PLeaSE me! I know that your lying! You can't tell me straight to my face that your not!" She said shouting as she stood to her feet. Michael's eyes glazed over from anger. "Maria, I don't want you like that." He said calmly. Maria's face fell and twisted. "Oh my God." She whispered. Her eyes filled with tears and her nose began to turn pink. She stood unmoving for a while.
She slowly closed her eyes and fell to the floor, the tears falling down in a small rainfall. Michael stood over her terrified. This time he'd truly hit the limit. He'd caused her way to much pain and he just made it worse. And the worst of it was it was a lie. He'd liked her like that since the first day he'd seen her and it had only grown more since then. He could barely take it when she broke down and cried like this, and this time the weight was on his shoulders.
He dropped to his knees and gathered her into his arms. "Oh God, Maria baby I didn't mean it. I swear to God I didn't mean it. I need you, really no joke. I just, I can't do this. I can't tell you. I can't talk to you about us. I don't even know if we are an us. God, Maria, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry!" Michael's tears fell onto Maria's face, tears mingling together. "Oh God, oh God, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry Maria." Maria's body slowly relaxed and Michael looked down upon her sleeping body.
"I love you." He whispered into her ear. She stirred lightly but her eyes never opened. "Shhh, come on, you need, I don't know what you need, but this, this isn't it." He lifted her from the floor and began to place her onto the couch. She whimpered slightly. "Sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you." He went to place her on it and again she whimpered. "Okay, fine, fine, just sleep." He sat down, laying her head in his lap and her body onto the couch. He sat and stroked her hair.
"I never knew you were like this you know? I mean, I always thought you hated me, at least a little bit. I never thought you liked me like that. I'm not even sure if you do now. But Maria, you can't keep doing this to yourself. You have to live, your gonna be somethin great. They said so, they said you would. You will, your just so damn stubborn. You know, if I hadn't shown up, you might be dead. DEAD. I could never ever face that. Your as important to me as my family. I love you more than a sister, more than a friend more than life itself. I would still die for you."
Maria finally let a sob escape her throat. "What? Oh God, your awake? I told you to rest." "I told you to just let me be." She whispered back. "What?!" "When I first met you. I told you to leave me alone since you wanted to be such an asshole. You remember?" Michael breathed a sigh of relief. "Yea, I remember." Maria smiled a small smile. "You told me, nothing really, not until I continued to ramble when they wanted us to see the king."
"Maria?" "Hmm?" "Tell me why you just did this to yourself." "Did what?" "This. Maria you almost died, why?" "You want the truth?" "Always." "Well, okay first I was like you'll come back, he always comes back. And you didn't. So I decided I'd pass the time and as you see the house is spotless. Then I watch TV and vegged out for around 3 days. Then I just stopped eating and when you found me this mourning on the floor, I was going to you since you didn't come to me."
Michael sqeezed her tighter to him. "I was scared to come back." "Why?" "Because, I just was. When I had left, I had looked at you first. You were sleeping tears on the pillow, in your eyes. I couldn't face that Maria. So, I left. I expected you to be okay, to come to work each day. You didn't. Liz came over here, she said you looked horrible. After 2 weeks, Tess started in on me. Asking me why I hadn't seen you? Asking me lots of things I didn't know the answer to. So today, I had a feeling, a feeling that I needed to come here now, that it was highly important. And it was." Michael said looking down at Maria's pale form.
Michael stood lifting Maria into his arms. "We need help. I'm going to Liz." "No don't leave me alone again." "I'm not, your coming too." Michael walked out the door and down the steps, into the car after placing Maria into the passengers seat. Michael drove to Tess's house. Noticing Maria, who was asleep. "God, I hope your okay." He whispered to himself. When they got there, he gently picked Maria up, so as to not wake her and carried her up the steps. Knocking on the door, which wasn't easy.
Part 9:
Isabel opened the door and gasped. "Oh wow! Oh oh no no no! Tess! Liz!" Isabel called as she ushered Michael and Maria in. Tess was the first to get there. "Oh my God. Michael what happened to her?" "She stopped eating." "When?!" "A week and a half ago. Or something close. I'm not quite sure what to do." "You've done enough by bringing her here." Liz said calmly. "Bring her into my room." Michael carried Maria into Liz's room and laid her onto the bed despite her whimpers.
"Will she be okay?" "Yea, yes she'll be fine! Now don't you have work Michael?" "Yea, but Maria's...." "We'll take care of her. Max, Alex and Kyle are already there, go ahead. She'll be all better when you get back. I promise." Tess said smiling. "Okay, okay, yea, yea okay." Michael turned and walked out of the room glancing back one more time before he left.
Maria was stripped down into her under garmets. "What's this?" Isabel asked pointing to dark circle on Maria's chest. "I---I don't know. But it doesn't look good." "Well, what's this?" "A necklace Isabel." "Where'd she get it, it looks just like the ones Michael used to have, I think he gave me one once." Isabel said curious. Tess walked up and knelt down and held it in her hand, as it was still wrapped around her kneck. "This---this is---this is one of the ones our parents gave us before they went off to war. They gave me one too. Mines a little different because it was my mother's but this, this one was Michael's from our father, he always wore it. Why does she have it?" Tess looked as if she was about to cry.
"I'll go get the crackers in the living room." She said quickly and darted from the room. "Let's get her into a warm bath." Liz said quietly. Maria woke up in the bath and they shoved crackers and gatorade down her throat. "This tastes horrid." "Only because you haven't been eating lately." "And why is that?" Tess asked. "I'd rather not talk about it." Maria said calmly. "Why? Maria, he's my brother." "Tess, I'm not! I'm not Michael, I'm Maria, I'm sorry for---for everything I've caused your family. I never meant any of it. It was my fault. I'll admit that, but please, don't---don't do me like that. I'm not apart of this family." Maria looked Tess in the eye.
"I'm not apart of any family. Mine is dead, gone. The one person for so many years I considered family, locked me in a room for around two years, because she's queen. Queen! She never even told me that. She never let you or anyone in your family come to Michael, she made him stay. And then Michael, he doesn't need me. Honestly, I don't think anyone should. I'm not what I should be, I caused everything, everything!" Maria said sighing and leaning back against the couch.
Tess looked at Maria weirdly. "What do you mean everything?" "This war, the war. I started it. It was my fault. I stepped my niave little ass into fate and ruined a good thing." "That cannot be true. The person who started the war is locked away in a prison somewhere." "Did they tell you that?" "Yes." "It's a lie. I was 7. I walked up and hugged Nebula, she was meant for something great. There was a gunshot and she was shot. She died. I later found out my father shot her. He killed her for nothing. He was an idiot."
Isabel looked disgusted. "How could that be? It was you? And you live still? You should be killed, for all the suffering that's happened." "Don't you think I know that!? They keep telling me your gonna save the world! Save?! I'm the reason the world is dying! I know all this! It's nothing new to me!" "Calm down now Maria! You cannot keep working yourself up! Your gonna hurt yourself." "What's it matter?" 'It matters very much Maria.' "What?" Maria said aloud.
"Maria?" "Who said that?" "Said what?" "It matters very much." "I don't know what your talking about." 'They cannot hear me Maria, only you can. I'm sorry.' "Who are you!?" "Maria?" 'A friend. A very very close friend.' "Nebula?" 'Kinda, I'm part her, part your family, your entire family. Both alien and human.' "But I'm not either." 'You have both within you, look deep, not now, its to early, but later, later.' "What's wrong?" 'I'm just here to tell you not to work yourself up for at least 10 hours okay? Please do that for me.' "Yes, yes I'll try I swear." 'Thank you.'
"Maria!?!" Maria's head shot towards Liz. With a sharp intake of breathe she breathed a what. "What in the world were you talking about?" "It was, nothing, nothing. I'm sorry." "Maria?" Tess said quietly. "Yes Tess?" "Where did you get that necklace?" "Oh, Michael gave it to me. He said it was protection for me, cause well um actually, um...." "What? Please." Cause I was his." "He said that." "Yes." Tess nodded. "We should be leaving you to your rest. Sleep---sleep well okay?" Tess said even quieter. "Yes." Tess, followed by Isabel and Liz walked out of the room to leave Maria to rest.
Part 10:
"Tess!" Michael yelled as he entered her house. Tess slowly walked out into the hallway. "Yes Michael?" "Is she okay?" "She's fine. She's sleeping. Don't bother her right now though, not for a while longer." "But..." "No." "What's wrong with you Tess?" "I have to ask you something." "Go ahead." "Why did you give her daddy's necklace? Did you even know she caused the war? How, how could you just give away our heritage like that?" "What are you talking about Tess. She didn't start the war. She thinks she did, she didn't. And for me giving her the necklace it was to comfort her."
"She said you gave it to her for protection." "Yes." "She also said that it meant she was yours." "She said that to you?" "Yes she did Michael. I know its the truth, but why would you lie to me like that? Why---why---how could you just give her that!? It was meant for you, for us. We're supposed to be all each other has. You haven't been here for me, none of the times I've needed you. Even after I saw you again, you weren't there!" "Tess, I can't just stop everything for you. I can't do that anymore."
"Why not?! You do it for her! For her you'd die! Before you even knew her you would die! She's a girl, I'm blood! I'm you fucking sister!" "And I love you! I love you because your there, because your my sister. But think, think about all the times we were younger, you told me once, you can't always be there for me. I don't expect you to, I expect you to be happy, be happy and I'll be happy. I'm happy Tess, I'm happy!" "I said that before---before I hadn't seen you in 2 or so years. Before, when we were like 10. 10! God, Michael. I want to know one thing."
"What is it?" "Would you leave me for her? Would you leave us all for her?" "What?" "Would you pack up and go away to be with her, so she would be happy." "I'm not answering that." "You would huh? You'd leave us for her, she's not your family Michael. She's not even all there. Who the hell starves themself like that?!" "The kind of person who's like me." Maria said behind Michael. "Maria." Tess and Michael said together, each in tow seperate tones.
"Maria, go back to bed, you need your rest." Michael said calmly. "No, I have something to explain to Tess." Maria turned to Tess, eyes as loving as they could be. "I never wanted that to happen, ever, I never wanted him to have to leave you. I tried, for the whole time we were there I tried to get him back to you. He's yours not mine, despite what you've said, and I've said we know that. He doesn't love me the same way as you. Friends and lovers can be replaced, family cannot. Your family. I'm a friend. And for the necklace..." Maria unclipped it from her neck.
"If you want it, I want you to have it. Like you said, it's not mine to have. It's yours. Your family's, not mine." "Maria put that back on!" Maria ignored Michael and placed the necklace in Tess's hand. "Maria! Dammit!" Michael shouted. Tess looked at Maria in an entirely different light. "Your welcome. I'm going Michael okay? I'm going back to---rest." Maria turned and walked back into the room she'd come from to lay down.
"I'm sorry Michael." Tess said still holding the necklace. "No, no your not." "I am!" Michael shot his head to Tess. "You just got what you wanted and you heard what you wanted to hear. Your not sorry. Your not! I gave that to her because I wanted her to be in this family! I wanted her to be mine for a reason. She has no one Tess. Do you understand that? No one. Her father was an ass who was one of the first men to shoot at the aliens. Her mother follwed her father in whatever. The girl who she met the first time died in her arms. The girl's sister ended up lying to her and becoming queen. The king and queen, her friends, locked her in a room for more than two years and then released her into this! She doesn't have anything, I wanted her to have something." Michael said finally stomping into the living room.
Tess stood in the hall, tears threatening to spill from her cheeks. She turned and walked into the room Maria lay in. She knelt down next to Maria. She clipped the necklace around Maria's sleeping neck. "Because you're his." Tess whispered into her ear and walked out of the room. Maria smiled in her sleep and continued her long needed restful sleep.
Part 11:
"AGHHHHHH!" Everyone jumped from what they were doing and Tess and Michael raced to Maria's room. When they got there they found that the dark circle that had been on her chest had spread. Michael grabbed Maria into his arms. "Make it go away! Make it go away!" She screamed. "It spread." Isabel muttered. "What do you mean, it spread?" "Well, there was a small circle on her earlier, and now it's covering her entire body." "Oh no. It can't be." Alex muttered in the background. "What!?" Everyone asked him.
"Remember the story. Remember, the one who is set to save the world will have to fight the dark evil within. She's got to fight whatever that is or its the end of the world as we know it." "Maria fight it!" Michael shouted at her. 'Look within now Maria! Now!' Maria closed her eyes and thought back, thought as far back as she could.
----flashback----
Maria's father: Maria come here! I want to ask you something?
Maria: What daddy?
Maria's father: Did you take my gun?
Maria: What gun daddy?
Maria's father: Don't play stupid with me!
Maria's father hit her over the head with his fist and she fell back onto the ground.
Maria's mother: She didn't take it! You brought it in for shining, remember?
Maria's father: Oh yea, whatever. Don't ever think about taking it, understood!?
Maria: Yes---fa---father.
Maria's father: Good.
----end flashback----
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Maria's mother: I don't understand you!
Maria's father: No one does!
Maria's mother: But she's so bad and ungrateful! What in the world, what in the world would make you do that?
Maria: What did I do mommy?
Maria's father: You know exactly what you did!
Maria's mother: You broke the window, and this house is a mess.
Maria: I didn't do anything.
Maria's father: Your a lier!
Maria's father slapped her across the face, hard.
Maria's mother: Go into you room! I don't want to see your face!
Maria ran off into her room.
----end flashback----
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Maria sat in a corner of her room crying. Her mother and father had beat her so bad that it hurt to cry, but she did it. She cried.
----end flashback----
----flashback----
Nebula looked out the window.
Zion: Nebula, what is it?
Nebula: She's crying. I can feel her, she's crying.
Zion: What do you mean? What is crying?
Nebula: Something very sad. Something very very sad. They hurt her. They hit her.
Zion: How do you know this Nebula? How in the world do you know this?
Nebula: I don't know Zion, I just, just do.
----end flashback----
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Nebula: She's coming! She's coming to see me! Open the doors!
Maria ran up and hugged Nebula. Nebula finally coming to terms.
A shot rang out through the crowd. Nebula grabbed Maria and realized it was Maria who was shot. In her back.
Nebula's thoughts: I want it, give it to me. She doesn't deserve the pain, she's so young!
Maria looked down as Nebula fell down within her arms.
Maria: Oh no.
----end flashback----
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Sir Remus: Maria, child you are not going to be special. You are the human kind. Human's will rot in hell one day.
Maria sat staring wide-eyed at the man in front of her.
Zion: What are you telling her Remus!?
Sir Remus: Just the truth.
Zion: What truth?
Sir Remus: That she'll never amount to anything. She's a human, human's are evil.
Maria: NO! NO! I'm not human, I'm not evil! NO! NO! NO!
Maria sat and kicked and screamed.
----end flashback----
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Maria: I refuse to be called by the title of human. Human's are evil. They're going to rot in hell one day.
Sergant Scamin: Correct. Human's will rot in hell one day, but you dear are human.
Maria: I'm not! NO! NO!
----end flashback----
----flashback----
Maria: What is behind that wall?
Sir Kayname: That is not something you should concern yourself with.
Maria: But I wish to know. I really do.
Sir Kayname: You do not get to wish.
Maria: I want to know.
Sir Kayname: No. This way.
He walked down the hall and Maria stubborn as she was stuck her hand through the wall with heat. She made a small enough hole to look through. She gasped at what she saw.
People of all ages being brought in and out of the center, cuts and bruises. Bloody figures being carried in or walking out. Crying faces. Fear, hurt, pain anger.
Sir Kayname: Maria! I told you NO! There was a reason!
He grabbed her by the arm and dragged her away, the tears falling from her eyes still.
----end flashback----
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Maria's thoughts: They hate me. I've only been here ten minutes and they hate me. Why did that stupid man send me here with these young Zenitians. That girl, those girls, those kids. They hate me. That boy, he hates me. I never did anything to him and he hates me. Hate is such a fickle thing. That's what Zion said. If only she was right.
----end flashback----
'Good dear. Now fight it. Fight it.' Maria convulsed as Michael tried to hold her down. What the fuck is happening to her?! Michael thought. 'She'll be fine. You must hold her. You have to hold her, and love her. She can't do it unless you love her.' Michael just held Maria closer as the voice had said and loved her.
Maria stood in a dark void. "You are finally here." Maria spun around to face a man who seemed to be 9 feet tall. He had long grey hair that wavered down his shoulds. His eyes were a piercing red and his smile sadistic. "Who are you?" "I am Shemien, otherwise known as the dark angel." "Dark Angel? What Dark Angel?"
"Oh my dear child, I am here to destroy you." "You can't do that." "Oh can't I. I will." "No, it's not possible. You ever heard the story of the little girl destroying your big ugly ass?" "No." "Well, I'm about to tell it to you." The man laughed. "Dear child, a human brat such as yourself cannot destroy me." "Let's get this straight, I'm not human, no I'm not Zanitian either. I am an orgianal. One born to live the life of both. I'm special." "Who is feeding you this garbage."
"My best friend...who loves me more than his own life." Maria smiled. "Your full of crap dear child. If you think words can help you." 'Michael, make them all feel love. Love for you, for one another..."
Michael turned to everyone. "Love someone, something. Feel love, she needs love. Please." Tess smiled at her brother and placed her hand on his shoulder loving him, for being happy. Liz and the others following.
Maria smiled. "NO!!!!!! Tell them to stop!!! Tell them to STOP!!! Love is evil, evil it is!! Love will be the end of you." "You too." The man's face twisted in anger and he began to fade. "I'll be back!!! When the world hates another again!!!! I'll be back!!!" Maria sighed in relief and was quickly taken out of the dark void.
Part 12:
Maria's body began to glow. "Not now!! Not now!!!" Michael screamed. Maria's eyes opened and her green eyes were crytal clear. "NO!!!!" "Michael what's happening?!" "They're taking her! They can't have her! No!" Maria faded into thin air, out of Michael's arms. "NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Michael fell to the floor in a fit of tears. "What's happening?" "She did her purpose." Michael whispered. "She---she's gone." Tess gathered Michael into her arms and let him cry his heart out.
Maria sat straight up and looked at her surroundings. "Where is he?!" Three people ran into the room and strapped her to the table. "NO! Where is he?! Where is he?!" Maria screamed with all her might and the three people just walked out of the room none caring. She whimpered to herself. "Come and get me Michael. I need you to rescue me now."
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King Kalinvo walked into the empty room where Maria lay. "Maria?" She spoke nothing. "Zion? I think she's fading farther." "That can't be we brought her here so that wouldn't happen. She can't be in shock any longer. It's been over a month." Maria's eyes snapped open. Voices, she heard voices. "Who---who--s th--ere?" She asked barely above a whisper. "It's me Maria, Zion. And Kalinvo." "No---I--do---don't wan--t---yo--u--he---re." "Maria?" "I---wa---nt m----y---best---friend."
Zion looked worriedly at Kalinvo. They both walked out of the room. "Bring him here." The guard nodded and walked down the hall.
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Michael swept the floor in a continuious motion. He hadn't seen Maria....Maria....His Maria. He hadn't seen her for over a month, not since she vanished from her arms. He was interupted from his thoughts when three big guards rushed into the Crashdown and grabbed him. He kicked and yelled as they dragged him out and placed him into a truck and dorve away. Tess ran into the middle of the street and watched as they took her brother away, tears streaming down her face.
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"Let me go!!!" Michael screamed. They dragged him down the hall and then he was thrown into a room. A pale white room. "No!!!" He heard a sigh. He shot around and noticed a table in the middle of the room. He stopped yelling for his freedom and stood walking over to the table. He began to notice an outlined figure laying on the table. "Oh my God." He whispered.
Maria's eyes shot open. "Mic---hael?" "Oh god, Maria!" He was at the side of the table breaking the straps on the table as fast as he could. He finally reached his goal and they were finally unstrapped. He set Maria up. She whimpered as he did so. "Am I hurting you?" "No---it---s---just---been a---while---sin---ce--I've s---at---up." Michael nodded and hugged her to him.
"Can I heal you?" "Do yo--u----know----whe----re to----start?" "I have an idea." Michael turned Maria to face him and lowered his head and kissed her, a deep passionate kiss. Full of everything he'd ever felt, her feelings returned in full force. They finally broke apart. "I think that---helped." Maria said, no longer gasping to talk but for breathe instead. "Yea, yea I think so too."
King Kalinvo and Queen Zion stood outside the room watching Maria and Michael kiss each other deeply. "The Chosen." Zion whispered. "They've only just begun."
THE END
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