Sep 30, 2015

ベラミス Belamis - the new wars of the great beings (6)

Chapter 6 Nako's boyfriend and Belamis preparation of the duel

Belamis was up early.

It was her habit since she could remember. Kugo was snoring, and Idina was fast asleep, with Nako beside her bed.

Belamis gently knelt beside Idina's bed, and remembered again, when she was as small as Idina, she would wake up, and saw her mother beside her bed greeting her with a gentle smile.

She decided not to disturb the small girl. Nako awoke, and she gazed at Belamis.

Belamis slept naked, and she put on a bra top, a short and a set of running shoes. She checked that Kugo and Idina was asleep. Then she went out, with Nako following her.

Belamis, despite now a strong cyborg, still liked a jog in the morning. It was her time to prepare her clear mind.

Even at the Galaxy Union Fleet, she would take time to run to take her mind off daily burdens, and a time of her silent thought.

She ran outside at the mansion along the river bank at normal human pace, not using any of her cyborg strength, and Nako ran alongside her.

It was Gariusu cyborg technology that modifed Belamis body forever - but she was the Gariusu giantess, strong even without the cyborg capability.

Belamis missed her youthful days back at Gariusu - she used to run at her home planet - everywhere were flowers.

Nako ran along and Belamis gazed at her, Belamis smiled - it was a time she felt very care free - but she missed it when she was still an athlete.

It was when she was around 15 or 16, Belamis was the star athlete of her school.

"Belamis!! Belamis!!!"

Medona and Sherius cheered as Belamis was running the relay at the last past of the leg and dashing for the finish line.

That memory brought a lot of sorrow to Belamis - one that she had been forcing herself not to remember it.

Then at a bank, Belamis stopped. Not a sweat, and so was Nako.

"You are early!"

Belamis turned, it was Sheldon, and with her, Zeus the big male cougar.

"I have the job of taking the big cat out every morning..." She held the leash that hold Zeus.

Zeus' eyes were fixed at Nako, and he waved his tail.

"I think this boy has a crush on your big cat..." Sheldon smiled.

Nako looked away and pointed her nose up.

Belamis patted her head and said, "So you want to make your boyfriend anxious ?"

Nako purred.

Zeus made a low sound roar.

"Be gentle..." Sheldon smiled.

Belamis gently said to Nako, "You should be with your own kind.."

Nako looked at the male cougar - and she stretched herself and yawned.

Sheldon took a piece of meat out and handed to Zeus, "Bring it to the girl!!"

Zeus gently took the piece of meat in his mouth and gently sat in front of Nako - one meter away, and put down the meat.

"No flowers .." Belamis laughed.

The two women looked at the big cats.

"You are very fit...." Sheldon remarked, "track and fields ?"

"Yes...and combat...." Replied Belamis.

"Obviously, you are a soldier..."

"The Princess wants to have the duel in 10 days, though she has yet to make up her mind.... but it seems you are consistently in top form..." Sheldon saw Belamis body when she tended for her, and she knew Belamis was a professional soldier and cyborg.

"I come out to have some air and relax...." Belamis said.

Meanwhile, Nako looked at Zeus, and Zeus began to roll, trying to please Nako.

Nako approached the piece of meat, and sniffed at it. Then she pick it up and approached Zeus - she shared it with the male cougar.

Belamis smiled, "You have made a friend..."

Nako gently purred, and Zeus licked her ears.

"You can sit beside them... " Sheldon said, "Zeus knows you are Nako's mother...."

Belamis sat down, and Zeus looked at her.

"If you liked Nako, you should be a good man to her..." Belamis smiled, and the huge male cougar purred at her.

"I think Zeus is seeing you as a friend too... try stroking the back of his ears..."

Belamis slowly reached the big cougar and stroked his hears.

Zeus gazed at Belamis and noticed her scars on her arms, and he gently rubbed his head on Belamis' shoulder.

Sheldon also noticed that horrible scar on Belamis' shoulders as she only wore a bra-top - she could infer that Belamis had really gone through very traumatic wounds.

"We have a place where you can work out your body..." Sheldon said, "Come!"

Belamis stood up, so did the big cats.

Zeus then walked beside Belamis with Nako.

"You can hold his leash..." Sheldon snapped back the leash on Zeus' collar, and hand it to Belamis.

"Is it OK ? He's the Princess' pet...."

"It's OK..." Princess Magenatte was there.

Zeus was thrilled and jumped to his master.

"Good boy...." Magenatte patted the cat, and looked at Belamis.

Belamis noticed she was not that stern.

"Preparing for our duel ?" Magenatte said.

Belamis replied "A morning jog."

"Captain Sheldon, let's have Captain Belamis to be our guest again - in a different way."

"It will be my pleasure." Belamis said.

Magenatte turned, and Belamis followed.

"Let's have a run first..." Magenatte said, and she began running. Belamis also ran alongside her.

They arrived at a plain with a lot of obstacles.

"A cross country obstacle match ?" Belamis thought.

"This is not a duel... but don't  hold back..." Magenatte said.

The two women warrior ran and had a race - they jumped over different obstacles. Their cougars trailed behind.
Captain Sheldon followed closely.

Belamis noticed Sheldon was also very fit.

"Sheldon is the captain of my palace guard.... have I told you that ?"

Belamis had figured that Sheldon was one Magenatte trusted, and she was also a warrior, and at least as capable as the Princess.

There was a high wall, over 3 meters, and the three women cleared it just in a leap.

Then there was a deep trench with three rock in between, they did a three stride leap over it - all the time each was keeping pace with the others.

Then after like 15 minutes, they arrived at a huge mansion.

"That's Her Majesty's private work out palace...." Sheldon said.

"Come in and work out with me...." Magenatte said.

Belamis nodded.

It had a huge interior, a lot of equipment. There were a section were it was for weights, and an open section - one for combat practicing.

Belamis walked to the section of weights - huge machinery with think beams and large weights - that was obviously for cyborg strength.

"Do you train with similar things back home ?" Magenatte asked.

"Yes.." Belamis nodded.

Belamis noticed a big slab of metal but sized like a bench - that was for bench press.

Sheldon lifted a bar bell with huge weights and began doing bench press.

Belamis stood there and assisted by holding the bar bells for her.

"Thank you..." Sheldon said as she did the bench press.

Belamis knew the two women before her were cyborgs.

"Your turn..." Sheldon finished it as Belamis hold the bar bells.

Magenatte stared at Belamis' arms - Belamis' had very strong arms.

Belamis passed the bar bell to Sheldon, and Belamis performed her set.

Then it was the Princess' turn.

After the bench press, Belamis looked at her wrist band - a device to communicate with Kugo.

"I have to get back and make breakfast ..." Belamis said.

"There are servants in the mansion..." Magenatte  said.

"That's my habit... besides Idina wants me to be with her... I have to excuse myself." Belamis said, then she whistled - Nako  heard the whistle and came from the entrance, leaving Zeus behind.

Nako looked back and meowed at Zeus.

"Girl, let's head back..."  Belamis said, "Try keeping up with me..." She told Nako.

Belamis then ran with her cyborg speed, not her ultraspeed move, but still quick, with Nako the big cougar running with her.

The two women watched.

"She is quite extraordinary..." Sheldon said.

Magenatte watched, and replied, "Quite interesting woman...  what do you say, my boy ?" She turned to Zeus.

The huge cougar meowed.

In no time Belamis was back at the mansion, and a sleepy Kugo yawned as he stood at the entrance, "You've gone for a jog ?"

Belamis smiled, and Kugo said, "I already made breakfast..."

Belamis replied, "You did ?"

"Yep... come in!" Kugo hold Belamis' hand.

There on the table was a plate of Belamis' favorite salad, and a cup of juice. Idina was eating her breakfast.

"Thanks...", and Belamis tried.

It was tasty, and Belamis smiled.

"I am a good cook... eh ?" Kugo smiled, and he leaned over and kissed Belamis' forehead.

"I will let you cook more..." Belamis said, and she turned to Idina, "Is papa Kugo's food good ?"

Idina smiled and nodded, "yeah!"

Nako approached, and Idina gave her a spoonful, and Nako meowed.

"I saw the Princess and Shedon..." Belamis said.

"Eh ?" Kugo said. At the same time Idina listened.

"No worries, they just asked me to visit their facilities." Belamis remarked, as she grabbed the juice and drank.

Belamis thought to herself, "They are just being suspicious of people they don't know... something must have happened before."

She remembered the history of her race in Gariusu.

It was the third day after that dinner reception with Princess Magenatte .

Belamis remembered she had something to do and said, "I have to report back to Galaxy Union on the progress... I am not having a vacation here."

Kugo saw the business like look at Belamis' face and signed, "Our Captain is at work again."

Idina sat on the high chair, and said, "Mama Belamis, is it urgent ?"

Belamis nodded, "Yes. I have to go back to Princess Gariusu and start working.... damn the paper works ..."

It was a thing Belamis hated about being back on Earth after fighting in the front line - all the administration stuff.

Belamis exited the mansion and saw that the Uquotians had transported Gariusu Princess to a large plot near them.

Captain Sheldon was there, "Captain Belamis, we knew you will need your ship..."

"Thank you for your thoughtfulness..." Belamis replied.

Then Belamis turned to the garden - where Nako was playing. Nako was looking at a distance - there it was Zeus again.

Belamis smiled, "Well, I think that big cougar is courting our cat..."

The big male cougar was light brown in color, very big, and he slowly approached.

Nako stood up and growled - she was very protective of the family.

Then when Zeus was just a few meters from Nako, he rolled on the grass, exposing his belly.

Sheldon laughed, "I only seen him like that when Zeus was a little cub..."

Zeus purred at Nako.

Nako looked and meowed back.

Idina heard the sound and came out, "Oh..... Nako and a boy cougar!"

Zeus rolled and purred, and then Nako jumped and played with him.

Belamis watched and smiled, "Yeah.... Nako you are now a woman.....no longer that little baby"

Idina laughed and watched.

Kugo then came out, "Are we back to work now ?" He yawned as  he emerged.

"I'm afraid so..." Belamis replied.

Belamis entered Gariusu Princess and into the main control room, and switched on the systems and turned on the communication system, in order for her to contact Earth, with Idina staying with Nako.

"Sign.... the files..." Belamis pulled out the computer and began her work.

Kugo peered over her shoulder and said, "Wow... so many documents!!!"

Belamis had before her four screens, and each was a document.

"I have to send in a report by today.... sign...." Belamis hated these work.

Belamis began typing and pondering.

"So what are you going to say ?" Kugo said as he thumbled with the other controls to check the ship.

"I will leave the dual thing out for sure..." Belamis signed, "I am not suppose to do such thing with my capacity as the Ambassador..."

"I thought you will report everything...." Kugo said.

"Well.. I don't have to .. as long as it is not risking the mission...." Belamis replied, as she did the report quickly.

"You are fast..." Kugo said.

"I did study in college..." Belamis smiled.

Then she remembered not hearing anything about Kugo's early years.

The pair met in the less than peaceful circumstances, and since then they were between missions, battles and even separated for over a year when Belamis was Blue Snow.

Belamis stopped and saved the documents, then she turned her gaze to Kugo.

Kugo looked into Belamis eyes, and he kissed her lips.

Belamis hold Kugo's hand, "Let's just go out for a walk....."

The pair turned to Idina, "Be back soon...."

Belamis turned to Nako, "Now be a good baby sitter!"

They treasure times together...and for Belamis, she was eager to know more about Kugo.

They walked, and Kugo looked around like a curious kid.

"Whoa.... this place is big... not like the slums I grew up.." Kugo began.

Belamis looked at him but did not interrupt. She kept her silence and let Kugo talk more.

"Look ..... there's tree..." In no time Kugo was up a high branch.

"Come up!!! When you are Blue Snow you too climb trees!!!"

Belamis smiled and leaped up to the same high branch.

"I must have been chimp or a monkey in my previous life..." Kugo hanged himself upside down from the branch, clinging it with his legs.

"Without the tail..." Belamis smiled and she did the same.

The two hanged upside down.

"Sign...." Kugo continued, "...I was orphaned.... in my clearest memories I was just a street kid... hanging around with other kids in the slum... a kind auntie took me in with a few kids and let me sleep at her place... a very small place..."


Kugo's mind flew back years......

It was a very poor part of the town, and a baby was crying. It was Kugo... hardly a few months.

"The auntie told me.... she found me near the corner of an alley... no notes, nothing...just me wrapped in two towels..."

Belamis looked at him.. Belamis was lucky. Though she was born from the lowly class of the giant race at Gariusu, she was adopted by her father and grew up in a much well off surroundings.

"I just did go to school... but running around doing errands to whoever paid me... delivering things, cleaning, gathering garbage... manual labor jobs....." Kugo said.

"I have a knack of being bad ass then..." Kugo recalled.

It was back when Kugo turned teenage...the kids at his neighborhood were frightened of Kugo and also admired him -  Kugo won fist fights all the time, even if he was outnumbered.

Belamis chuckled, "I am also like that too.... but in school competitions..."

"We fight rough on the streets... but never to the point of trying to kill... we just had brawls over things like who got to play on the football pitch.. who got the paid jobs first... that sort of thing... and a lot of those kids who I beat up actually became my buddies....."

Kugo remembered Parko (Garfield's note: in an episode of the show Kugo reunited with an officer).

Parko was his buddy who also volunteered to be a cyborg to protect Earth.

"I then caught the attention of the Professor  and Dr. Kitty... they needed volunteer to test their new cyborg technology..." Kugo said.

Belamis remembered her too was on a new cyborg technology test.

"It worked..." Belamis said.

"Too well.... I was such a knack in disobeying orders... crossing lines..... ignoring authorities..." Kugo chuckled.

He remembered how he was a menace on Earth..... unstoppable, and probably invincible in the Solar System...

"Then Dr Kitty found a way to lock me up... disable my capability...." Kugo recalled.

"Lock you up ? Dr. Kitty...?" Belamis said.

"Well... Dr. Kitty is a kind mother to you... .you are the good girl.. and I am the bad boy..."

"No...you are just the mischievous boy..." Belamis said, and she reached her hands and stroked Kugo's hair...."Just a naughty chimp..." She looked into Kugo's large brown eyes - in there was a golden heart, and Belamis just remembered she was in love of him the moment they met, though she had not realized then.

"The bad boy was grounded..... for 10 years..." Kugo said.

"For 10 years ?"

"Yup... on the Moon.... that was the worst time of my life.... confined in a dome... couldn't go anywhere..." Kugo said.

Belamis wouldn't believe that Dr. Kitty would treat Kugo like that.

"Well... I was pissed off... I did start to go on a rampage round the Earth with no reason.."

Kugo remembered.

He wanted to be an army officer after he successfully became a cyborg, and he wanted the job ... to prove to himself and others that he was somebody.

Without formal schooling and his upbringing as a rowdy boy in the neighborhood, Kugo often had his thoughts.

"I am not good at rules or orders...." Kugo said.

In contrast, Belamis was a trained soldier.

"I can tell right from the day I met you....." Belamis remembered how "disrespectful" he was.

"You are a soldier... so into your duty and discipline.... one was that they tricked me that I was doing a cool job of maintaining their rockets... but later I found out that I was placed to just be a janitor to clean the places... I genuinely thought I was serving the army ..."

Kugo was so pissed off he knocked all the rockets down... the officers were frightened, and they called more soldiers to contain him, and that only aggravated his anger...

"Dr. Kitty did not just leave me on the Moon.... she talked to me every day..." Kugo recalled.

"At first I found her annoying... but now I feel the way you feel to her..." Kugo said to Belamis.

Kugo looked at Belamis - she was wearing a sleeveless top... the wound on her shoulders where visible - the wounds from when Belamis' arms were severed in those horrid tortures.

"Dr. Kitty was like my  mom too...."

Dr. Kitty had been very kind to Kugo, though also very strict.

Belamis began, calmly, recalling her days to Kugo.

They were out unti it grew dark.

"We must get back to the little one..." Belamis said, and she let herself go and landed on the ground. Kugo followed.

The two walked with hands together, and there on the road was Sheldon, with Zeus the big cougar.

Sheldon saw the pair, and gave them a light smile.

Belamis nodded in return.

"Well... the duel again..." Kugo smiled.

Sheldon hailed them, and spoke in a clear voice, "The Princess Her Highness decided... 10 days from now..."






1 comment:

Isis Zarana said...

"I must have been chimp or a monkey in my previous life..." Kugo hanged himself upside down from the branch, clinging it with his legs.

"Without the tail..." Belamis smiled and she did the same.

Loved this lines! Loved the scene Kugo talking about his life before being a cyborg! And Belamis recalling that she felt in love with Kugo since the first time they met.

Do you think so? That they fell in love for each other when they met?

So Nako has a boyfriend! Hmmm... I guess Idina will be taking care of little kitties pretty soon!