ベラミス - her epic journey of her soul

Chapter 69 The deadly radiation

Belamis worked hard trying to recall what happened before she regained consciousness and got out with Dr. Kitty from the captivity of Golinkor.

She remembered after a great pain she blacked out. Then as Belamis recalled, she remembered....

.................
Belamis stared at Jalon, Taxet, Gulok Etta's son and Makka's son.

Gulok commanded, "Start the sequence..."

Immediately from the ceiling lowered a large machine. Then a needle with syringe on a robotic arm stuck out, amd approached Belamis slowly.

Belamis could not move at all, and the needle pointed at her right breast, at her nipple.

"It was one of your pain points..." Jalon said.

Then the machine sank the needle right into Belamis' right nipple.

Belamis felt and immense pain on her breast as that part had a lot of nerve endings, but she could endure the pain, and she made no sound.

"We know you are a tough warrior.... the needle part is just like a mosquito bite to you.." Taxet said, "..wait..." The syringe injected something into Belamis' breast - her breast was a large muscle attached to her pectorals.

Initially Belamis felt her entire right breast was numb.....

Then in just a few seconds, Belamis felt a horrid pain concentrated on her nipple, as though a hot knife went in, and then a drill going into her nipple, then as though something was ripping her breast apart...her entire right pectoral was in a painful cramp and contracted vigorously, and veins popped out as the muscle was contracting ...like the muscle was ripping itself apart.

Belamis clutched her teeth and endured, and she shook. The pain lasted for like 10 to 15 minutes. After that Belamis was breathing heavily, and she had cold sweat all over her.


"That's just one needle..." Jalon laughed.

Then countless needles with syringes appeared, and poked into her chest, abdomen, arms and legs...all on her muscles, front and back...


Belamis felt pain all over...


"It was just the needles... but what's going into your body will be interesting.." Goluk said.

Etta's son pushed the button - the fluid in the syringes were injected into Belamis' muscles all at the same time.

That was not the painful part.

Then all the needles retracted.

Belamis felt her body was numb all over, and after a few seconds of numbness, a horrid pain ripped through her entire body. Belamis screamed.

"Aaarrrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

The five men laughed hideously.

Belamis felt her body was like being immersed in hot larva, it was also like being cut with numerous red hot knife, and her muscles were twisting and contracting in pain, as though her body was being torn to pieces.


Belamis clutched her teeth... entire body shaking violently... all her muscles ached......and after what seemed like eternity, the pain stopped. It was at least 20 minutes. Belamis body was covered in sweat, and she breathed heavily.

Then Belamis moved, and that same pain hit her. Belamis gasped.

"What...what..have you ...done...?" Belamis spoke softly in a weak voice.

"You are a clever and learned person.. look it up yourself........ Avici... all I can tell you is...your body got all the Avici in the universe..."

"Avici... all in the universe...?" Belamis murmured.

Then Gulok walked towards Dr. Kitty, and then took out a crystal. The crystal glowed, and a beam shone on Dr. Kitty's entire body.

Dr. Kitty's face turned pale, and she coughed.

"What are  you doing ???" Belamis gasped.

"A little gift..... find it out yourself.... its called Qualone..." Laughed Goluk.

Then Belamis blacked out.

That's what Belamis recalled.

"Avici.... Qualone..." Belamis repeated the words, and a horrible feeling raced through her mind.

She ran to the computer, and punched into the keyboard frantically and tried to dig the archives and databases.

Dr. Kitty's lab's system was linked up to all libraries, archives, databases and research material in the Galaxy, and could do searches in a split second.

Belamis was skilled and she knew how to sift through the mountains of information returned. There she sat and scoured through the documents.

"Mother.... Dr. Kitty..." Belamis murmured, and her voice choked as she hold back the sorrow in her heart as she read the information.

Belamis looked at Dr. Kitty lying unconsciously on the bed, and Belamis found herself crying non-stop - tears just rolling out of her blue eyes.

"I...I must....hurry...." Belamis thought to herself.

Then suddenly she heard a sound. The door behind her opened.

"Belamis!!" It was Kugo on his clutches.

Belamis immediately hit the delete button, and erased all of the information she retrieved and halt the program. She stood up and turned towards Kugo.

"What happened!!?????" Kugo yelled, as he saw Belamis' blood covered body, and her face in tears.

Belamis ran to Kugo, and hugged him, and she kissed Kugo intensely. Then she pushed away Kugo.

"Goodbye...Kugo..." Belamis spoke softly, and her voice shook, "Take..care of Dr. Kitty for me!!!"

"Belamis, what is happening ???" Kugo yelled.


Belamis then ran to the window, and she crashed through the window, breaking the glass, and she leaped out to the field, and she ran away, wearing only a small cloth on her waist, and body naked.

"No!!!! Belamis!!!" Kugo tried to pursuit, but he fell heavily onto the ground as he still could not walk.

"Belamis!!!" Kugo yelled as he struggled to get up, and he looked out the window. Belamis disappeared into the dark night.


Belamis ran and ran, and tears just streamed out of her blue eyes. She heard Kugo calling her... just like that time she flew to the photon monster.

Belamis stopped, and looked back.

"Kugo... Dr. Kitty..." Belamis thought, and more tears rolled out, "I love you..." Belamis said softly.

She leaped high up, and at that moment she transformed to the giantess. Then a field formed beneath Belamis feet, and she used at as pad and leaped out to space, running in space... running away from Earth.

The stir woke up people. Nick and Medora came, and saw Kugo at the window yelling for Belamis.

"What happened ?" Nick asked.

"Belamis... she runs away... she runs away...." Kugo was hysterical and he could not understand what happened, and his heart was broken - Belamis left... and Belamis was wounded.

"Calm down!!" Nick hold Kugo in his arms. Medora looked around, and saw Dr. Kitty.

Dr. Kitty's  face was pale.

"There's something wrong!" Medora exclaimed.

"Get Dr. Joey and Professor Dodge here!" Nick said, "I will take care of Kugo!!"

Medora nodded.

In no time, Dr. Joey and Professor Dodge arrived.

Dr. Kitty was in bed, barely awake, and very weak.

"It is nothing like we've ever seen before......" Dr. Joey said.

"What is it ?" Kugo asked.

Professor Dodge replied, "Dr. Kitty....is gradually loosing...her life energy..."

"What ???"  The others yelled.

"It is very very strange... she is weakening ...." Dr. Joey said, and her voice in sorrow, and she looked at all the instruments showing Dr. Kitty's vital signs.

Nick was a soldier, and he was able to think in a cool head. "What have caused all these...what have gotten into Belamis...?"

"Kugo... look at me..." Kugo was totally confused, worried and shaking.

"Nick...what happened.. to Belamis.. to Dr. Kitty..." Kugo's voice shook.

"Kugo... try to pull yourself together..." Nick said calmly, trying to comfort Kugo.

"We must find out what happened... so that we may know where to find Belamis ..." Medora added.

"When you saw Belamis ....before she ran out....what happened ?" Nick asked.

Kugo took a deep breath.

"She was...she was at this computer ..." Kugo turned, and pointed to computer console.

"Yeah.. this one..." Kugo tried to piece the jigsaw in his totally confused head.


"Yeah... when I came ... I . I come to see her...I could not find her in the house..I thought she's here..."

"There...she sat on this chair... Belamis was staring at the console... I called her...she stood up..." Kugo said.

"Oh...NOOOOOOOOOOOOO.,.. her breasts were bleeding!!" Kugo screamed.

"Calm down!!" Nick hugged Kugo.

"Belamis is injured.. in pain.. I am sure... I can see it in her eyes..." Kugo said, and he was crying. He felt very painful in his heart.

Then Kugo grabbed from the bin ... those bandages Belamis' wore, and he hold those bandages stained with Belamis' blood tightly.

"Belamis was injured..." Nick continued.

Kugo nodded. "She was crying... she said goodbye to me... told me to take care of Dr. Kitty..."

"That's all ?" Nick asked.

Kugo replied, "I...I can just remember this.."

"Try ..please try harder ... we need you to recall every bit of details.... in..in order to find Belamis..." Nick said.

Medora said, "We are worried about Belamis like you too...."

Kugo heard that, and realized that he had to recall. He nodded.


Kugo closed his eyes, and then said, "Before...before she stood up... she hit a few keys... I think she was looking at some files..." Kugo finally pulled himself together. To recall was traumatic to him.

Kugo could not bear loosing Belamis again.

Dr. Joey immediately ran to the computer, and hit a few keys.

"What is it ?" Medora asked.

"Those information Belamis looked through may have the clue... she might have deleted it... but I think parts of them could still be sitting somewhere in the memory..." Dr. Joey said, as she carefully keyed in commands.

Professor Dodge said, "That may be the clue as to what makes Belamis acted like that..."

"A file!" Dr. Joey said. She recovered a bit of what Belamis read before she deleted it from the system.

"Keyword.. Qualone... Qualone ???" Dr. Joey exclaimed.

"Qualone ????" Professor Dodge yelled, and he turned to Dr. Kitty.

"Oh...gosh..." Professor Dodge shook his head.

"What is it ?" Medora asked.

"What is Qualone ?" Medora and Kugo said.

Dr. Joey took a deep breath. She then took out a sensor from a shelf and scanned Dr. Kitty, and she looked at the readings. She ran tests from the other instruments, and the readings came up on a screen. As Dr. Joey read them she began to weep.

"Dr. Kitty will die....she got Qualone radiation poison.." Professor Dodge shook his head  as he looked at the readings with Dr. Joey.

"What ????" The others screamed.

"Dr. Kitty will die..." Professor Dodge said, in tears.

"That's going to kill Belamis too!!" Medora said.

She knew in Belamis' heart Dr. Kitty was like her mother, and she would not be able to bear the pain of seeing Dr. Kitty's death.

"What's Qualone then ?" Medora asked.

"A lethal kind of radiation even with all medicine and technology in the Galaxy, even with Galaxy Energy...there's no stopping of the deadly radiation..."  Said Professor Dodge.

"This deadly radiation... is unheard of for nearly a thousand years.." Dr. Joey said.

"What the hell are you talking about???" Kugo could not understand those scientific jargons.

"I have heard about it..... it radiated from a kind of metallic crystal... this is a very rare metal...people said even if you collected them all in the cosmos.. it would just be the size of a golf ball.. and is a deadly weapon if anyone can use it to multiply their energy....." Nick continued.

"It's one that was being used in Golinkor empire... we thought we destroyed them completely.." Dr. Joey said.

"You mean...someone has it... ?" Kugo said, as he tried to get up in clutches.

"Someone...but we are not sure who..." Dr. Joey said.

"We found disturbances in the cosmos of Galaxy energy, and strange radiation.. and that's why Dr. Kitty went out on a mission... Belamis followed, and when they were back... Belamis was injured...." Dr. Joey said.

"Why didn't you tell me right away ???" Kugo demanded.

"We thought the wounds are not serious... we don't want to alarm you all......" Professor Dodge said, as he wept.

"Now...I can only put Dr. Kitty on life support...and make sure Dr. Kitty feel no pain.... " Professor Dodge remarked.

"How.. .long..." Medora asked, in tears.

"Not..not too long...perhaps just a matter of... 5 or 6 days...at this rate...." Professor Dodge said.

"There's more...." Dr. Joey said.

Nick ran and looked at the computer, and gasped.

"What is it saying...?" Kugo asked.

"It..was from  a very very old document... among all the documents about Qualone.....it says there is a cure.... or...so to speak... a mythical legend.... " Nick said.

"All of the other documents from all universities, libraries and scientific research, said there's no cure for Qualone.. except this piece of archive that survived from an old planet, contains an old legend..." Dr. Joey said.

Medora voice shook, as she read along. "Belamis is out trying to get the cure to save Dr. Kitty ........even...even if the hope is slim..."

Kugo ran to the screen, and there displayed a short cryptic message:

To the farthest edge as far away to the dark edges of the cosmos...where even the braveheart fears

The bravest one pursue relentlessly with courage and love
Braving all dangers, all hardships, all pains, all kinds of obstacles...

From there the deadly Qualone lashed its claws, spitted its deadly flames.....
Battling and fighting.... the bravest one persisted... and beyond the great light....lays the healing teardrop..

"That's all ????" Kugo said.

Nick looked at Dr. Joey and the Professor. Medora then said, "We must go out and look for Belamis!"

"I go with you!!" Kugo yelled.

"No..." Nick placed his hands on Kugo's shoulder, "It will make it more difficult......you must stay on Earth and wait..."

"Nick... I will come along..." Medora said.

"I will join..." Dr. Joey, "You need all the scientific analysis..."

Kugo voice shook..."I cannot stay here!!"

Nick thought in his mind, "Who did this to Dr. Kitty....why did Belamis just run......."

"We still have to figure out one thing..." Nick said.

"Yes... where to look for Belamis..." Dr. Joey replied.

The company fall silent - where to look for her in the vast cosmos ?


At the meantime, Belamis was in the cosmos, and she turned back to human form. She could literally ran in space with a force field forming beneath her feet, and Belamis was racing in high speed.

Then she landed on an asteroid. She was totally naked.

She looked at her wounds, they were closed.

Belamis turned back, and looked at the dark cosmos - Earth was somewhere back there....Belamis hold back her tears, and said, "I will find the Teardrop of Hope..."

Then suddenly Belamis fell to the ground......

As Nick, Kugo and Medora headed home, they saw Idina crying.

Nick picked up the baby and said, "Woah...easy easy..."

Idina just cried non-stop.

"Are you hungry... ?" Nick asked.

Then Medora's mind connect with Idina, "She..she could feel Belamis... and Belamis is in pain!!" Medora gasped.

She took Idina into her arms, and Idina looked at Medora in her little black eyes.

"You can help us find Belamis ?" Medora spoke softly.

Idina nodded.

Nick and Medora looked at each other.

"I want to go !!" Kugo said.

Soon the company started the journey. Kugo, Medora, Nick, Idina, Dr. Joey and Nako were all on board.

The friends of Belamis were out looking for her.

Idina pointed to a direction.

Nick noted and said, "Let's go..."

Dr. Joey started the engine of the space ship, and they headed to the direction which Idina pointed to.

Belamis lied down on the asteroid. That's another attack of the pain on her body. It seemed as though it was multiplying at each attack...

"Avici..." Belamis said to herself, as she breathed heavily, she remembered what she read about it...

Then she got up, and looked to the darkest patch in the cosmos...

Belamis repeated to herself,

To the farthest edge as far away to the dark edges of the cosmos...where even the braveheart fears

Belamis leaped up and raced towards that dark patch, and tears streaming out of her eyes.

"Mother....."