Evolution Lost

 “…Some reunion this is…mother…” the man said to Jenova while his weapons just push Jenova away from Aya and he stood by her. “If I were Aya…hide…it is what he wants.” The man said while he was talking about Xeo’s conscious mind that Aya knew. She stepped back but did not hide for the moment. “…Think your strong you are Aya? We shall see.” He said while looked at Jenova as the creature kept thinking what to do.



“I can’t believe it…how could you?” Jenova said while puzzled about what just happen.



“The cells…the Jenova cells if you say, does caring your knowledge of any species and life form you exposes to. And by any life form…it does include me. The mitochondria DNA was the only thing missing to make the cells in his host to be fully complete. The midi-chlorains was also a vector but the cells needed an early DNA strain to make the cells in Xeo’s body…complete. It’s quite a long rest I have but I finally get to see you, mother. After all I was once your proud son…was I not?” the man from the past said to Jenova



“I thought you were my son…I called out to you about our plans back on that world…you wanted us to take back the planet for those who were there before. You nearly did…twice!” Jenova said to him



“Almost doesn’t cut it mother…I should never call you that after what my host…Xeo…has shown me. The Jenova Project…I thought you were my mother but from what I know about the truth that you are just a monster…like I am. I can see the truth as clearly now as my will to destroyed you off the face of this world. Only then can I find myself being less of a monster by killing you.” The man said to Jenova while his intention to kill Jenova is coming soon.



“I am your mother…that report could me anything…those beings so long ago…those Cetra were too strong for me alone but out of your species expedition to find me and used my cells to make you…you should be glad about the life you have…” Jenova said while trying to reason with him.



“You know my life well enough, Jenova. I know you’re not my truth mother at all…just an abomination to this world and any others like before. Eve, Dreazin, and Aya were all puppets to you…like how…my old…’friend’ was until his defiance put me into the Lifestream many times.” The man said to Jenova



“Then if you are hoping for a chance to exacted revenge on me…your sadly mistake…I am your maker your true mother. You wouldn’t kill the one that gave you life now can’t you?” Jenova said while readying her blade



“…I have no family…I am lifeless…and if I was given life from you…I can take yours away to correct any other mistakes that are like me in this galaxy. How you die…is up to you, Jenova.” The man said while he starts his stand of holding his masamune pointing at Jenova with both hands in a horizontal stand at the height of his head. Jenova just has her blade in a reverse hand style with the same set up as the man in black.



“Then come and kill your wonderful mother…Sephiroth.” Jenova said as Sephiroth charges at her and a clash of epic super genetic beings begins. Jenova is far powerful but the fight against her own son; Sephiroth would be proven otherwise. The clashing of each other’s weapons send shockwaves of truly eminence power that could be felt from the far places in Manhattan as the city started to shake. Aya looked up as if she couldn’t believe the fight that Jenova and Sephiroth were having. The ocean started to send waves that started crashing against buildings and bridges while ripping them apart. The rest of the navy air force was getting pushed away from the powers coming from them getting sent into other nearby buildings and into the waters below. The chopper that held Daniel and Maeda was taking a beating from the powers being discharged by the two powerful opposing forces. The ships that still have their anchors down was being toss around and even top over. Only the much destroyed ship that Aya was on felt the effects to but it was beat up in many ways that it kept the ship from being toss around too. Jenova’s bone blade was something to reckon with, as it was just as sharp, powerful, and swift as Sephiroth’s masamune. He could send energy blade slices at Jenova while she could do the same to counter his. Jenova speed compared to Sephiroth was evenly match making Jenova no different than Sephiroth. Jenova’s “Ultima” attack did phase him but his strength and genes were just as that as Jenova. The battle between them went into the heart of Manhattan itself while their blades started to dice up the city very easily. Even the stolen Jedi form style from Dreazin’s midi-chlorain genetic memories, thought The Force, was also learned from Sephiroth.



    “How do you like your son is treading you if I should be your son in the first place.” Sephiroth said while his attacks were starting to get to Jenova’s defenses. He smiled knowing Jenova’s death is at hand but Jenova kept countering his moves with lightning speed as they head deeper into city. At one point Jenova sends Sephiroth into an apartment building but he just came back out as if nothing hurt him. “Is that some way to give me pain Jenova?” Sephiroth said while he grabs Jenova’s head and slammed her into multiple buildings and then throwing her aside. Jenova felt to the ground while Sephiroth descended to attack her while she was down. Jenova had little time to react while trying to get back into the air. They kept clashing each other more as said each other energy attacks while exchanging styles of Juyo and Vaapad. Aya using the binoculars from a dead navy trooper could see the battle from afar and the carnage they were doing.

    

    “How can Xeo be like this…what is he now?” Aya said as she could only sit and do nothing that the battle between two monsters was out of her league.

    

    “Get this damn thing under control!” Daniel said as the pilot kept trying to keep the chopper above the water. Maeda felt sick to his stomach as he nearly lost it.



    “If you knew what we could be together son of mine!” Jenova said while getting the backside of Sephiroth’s masamune, which sends her flying to another building and taking out a public school. Sephiroth looks down waiting for Jenova to come back while he could feel her right behind him. Jenova teleports to stab him in the back but he counts and locks his sword with hers.



“…You’re so cold to use that on me?” he said to Jenova



“It’s not like you did it yourself to save your own skin!” Jenova said to him about the event of killing the last Cetra back on his world. Sephiroth just grins and pushes Jenova away as he kept up his offensive attacks at her blade. Jenova throwing everything at him was only getting slowed down while she thought of an idea to use against him. Sephiroth rushed at Jenova but she caught his sword with her own and forces him down onto the street of Manhattan while Jenova came up to the very top floor of the Chrysler Building and looks down at the small view of Sephiroth. “How the mighty as fallen. If you had half of my true power then you could at least been able to kill your mom!” Jenova said.



    “Then I know your power is a shield of its former self, Jenova. Allow me to demonstrate…” Sephiroth said while he gets his long sword to hack up a couple of the floors of the Chrysler Building so fast that they didn’t collapse until Sephiroth show Jenova his unique feature that she gave to him. Jenova from the pass was also a creature deception and came to many words with different looks. Then Jenova came to his world she was in the form of an angel if anything a seraph. Sephiroth exposed his one black wing on him and by just doing that the floors of the building were pushed aside like leaves against a hurricane. He then flew inside the building while it started to crash, which Aya is seeing this moment happen. Jenova looks down trying to see where he is while Sephiroth cuts piece of the building down and using his one wing to blow the section away into other buildings.

    

    “It’s a nice touch your doing this building but this ends now! I know you’re a heartless angel but I can give you a gift I’ve been thinking about. Despair for you? Jenova said as she waited for a response back from Sephiroth. The creature could only tell that she was dicing up the building as must as she could try to stay hidden from him. The building had been totaled as Sephiroth pushed the roof and needlepoint at Jenova, which she started to cut easily with, but Sephiroth was right behind the rooftop. He came out and started over take Jenova that there fight almost when into the high heavens. Sephiroth kept throwing any energy blade attacks at Jenova while her power started to fail her.



    “Son…mother wants to you that you can’t really get rid of me…I am apart of you as you are a part of me!” Jenova said while trying to summon the will to beat Sephiroth down. He just looked stone cold at her.



    “Mother is dead to me and that part of me is taken over by rage and anger. I have never felt more filled up with it then your non-sense of martial beggaring.” He said to Jenova while she kept up the attack.



    “As if you had any real power to kill me! What you have shown me is nothing more than stuff that even that Xeo guy can do.” Jenova said



    “…Because…like you I can deceive any one I want.” Sephiroth said while he puts one hand above his head. “I’ll show you what a heatless angel I can be…by give it to you.” He said and like that a dark energy aura form out of his hand and started to pulsate. He looks at Jenova and smiles. “…And now I bestow you…Heartless Angel!” and like that Jenova had a powerful tare in her very body. Her will to stay in flight was nearly impossible. Sephiroth then used this sword to upper cut Jenova’s body to stay in the air long enough for him to do one more power to her. “…If you think I am your son…your very…bright son… then I will let you see how bright you son can be…or in this case…the sun itself!” he said while his other hand went above his head and a powerful energy could be felt. A bright object was in front of Jenova but it didn’t move for the moment as her body started to fall. A vast rubble could be felt on her body while Sephiroth hold on to its power. He went up to Jenova and came right to her face. “My dear mother…your son is here to see you to the end of your journey and for you to give back your materials to the sun.” He said and with that he flew high above Jenova as he went into the energy ball.



    “How are we…going to be able to recover from all this!?” Aya said as she kept looking through the binoculars.

    

    “I descended from heaven’s steps to take your life, which is mine!” Sephiroth said as his blade goes right threw her neck. He grabs Jenova’s head as he flies by her body and kick the corpse into the energy ball that is now increasing in mass. Sephiroth hold Jenova’s head above while her body started to burn up in the energy ball. “Your life now must be place back in heaven’s gates…for that you must be reborn to die again.” He said while he throws her head into the energy ball. “…And to be reborn for like to start anew…I give you the power of the gods, Jenova…the power of…a supernova!” Sephiroth said while one of his hands closes while it the energy ball starts to shrink down. Jenova’s reminds start to get sucked into it has she is no more. His hand then drops to his side and the energy ball explodes in a fiery display. Aya just looked up at what she just saw. The death of Jenova happened at last. If anything to Aya…the crisis is over. Anything to do with Eve and Dreazin’s mitochondria plans was folded. Everything is finally over but only one thing still reminds for Aya. Xeo. Somehow she had to get him back from Sephiroth if she could. She looks towards the sky has the One Winged Angel like being comes to the deck of the ship and lands. He looks at Aya. “The host that I’ve been in…knows you personally.”



    “Xeo…” Aya said. “He has done so much that…it will be all over.”

    

    “But it isn’t…” Sephiroth said to Aya as he starts walking towards her while lowering his head. “Jenova is dead…and I must make sure that all abominations on this galaxy will be cleanse…and you are one such as yourself. Like Eve…like Jenova…” Aya couldn’t do anything about the person of this magnitude in power. As he kept moving closer to Aya his body started to stop on the spot. “What is this…!?

    

    “What the…?” Aya said to herself as a powerful voice come into their mind that felt like Xeo’s Jedi talents.



    “Aya…it’s me. I’m holding him back within my mind, heh!” Xeo said as Aya just listen to him.

    “What…what can I do?”

    

    “You’re not going to like this but…if you wish to stop him…blow the ship up…I’ll hold him at bay until you get things ready,” Xeo said as Sephiroth started to move again.

    

    “This will not be so…” he said at Aya as she ran to the door to the interior of the ship. Going down the corridors she kept running and going deeper into she reach the engine room of the ship. Aya started to throw some switches as Sephiroth made his appearance in the room with her. “You will not let me not do my duty as a great hero…” he said as his body couldn’t move. At this time Aya dropped the last switch and begun to overload of the engine room.

    

    “Do y’know where we are?” Aya said to Sephiroth who could only just listen in. “We’re in Hell’s Kitchen!” The ship started making its emergency sound offs as Sephiroth could only tell that he couldn’t try to use his host’s body.



    “You don’t know the meaning of Hell…” Sephiroth said to Aya as she ran to the escape hatch. As she ran to down the last bit of structure of corridor Sephiroth only waited for the end to come. “So…now I can see you at last,” Sephiroth said while a vision of Xeo came in front of him.



    “…So…you’re the man that everyone fears…funny that someone like me could hold you at bay,” Xeo said to him.

    

    “…I just hope…whatever god you believe in will save you…from my wrath.” He said to Xeo.



    “Somehow I would agree with you. After all…you will be close by. In me,” Xeo said while Sephiroth just smile at him as his head started to bow down into the fires as Xeo was engulf by them. The ship started to break apart after some explosion happened. Aya ran out of the nearest service hole and drop into the ocean. The ship itself was destroyed and done for taking everything along with it. Aya was at sea for the most part and trying to stay afloat. She wouldn’t get hypothermia too soon because of here mitochondria powers to keep her warm. Soon a chopper came by to see her and threw her down a rope. She grabs onto the rope and was being pulled up by a well known friend.

    

    “Daniel!” Aya said as him and Maeda were glad to see her after all that has happened.

   

    “Oh my…Aya! I thought you were gone for sure!” Daniel said as she had a moment to cry for her as Maeda was still blowing his noise from the theory he did for her body while he was crying.

“I didn’t know what I could have done without you two,” Aya said as the chopper flew near a harbor where the NYPD backup awaited the arrival of Daniel and Aya. The chopper settled down as everyone form NYPD came over and cheered for Aya. The sound from the car’s sirens and the crowd of applauding hands from the cops blurred out all but the feelings of Aya about Xeo’s death. Daniel and Maeda walked with Aya as they break away the cops that wanted to give out their thanks to the freezing wet cop. They got to an ambulance to give Aya a blanket to warm up as Daniel went over to the pilot in the chopper to get back a piece of clothing to help her stay warm. Maeda looked around to notice that Xeo was missing from the heroine of the city and to the 17^th precinct. Daniel came rushing back over to Aya sitting in the EMS vehicle as she was quite the whole time.

            “Thought you can use this to help fight the cold,” Daniel said while giving Aya her black leather jacket that she left behind on the Nimitz before the fight with Eve.

            “Thanks…” Aya said as she put down the blanket and got back into her jacket. As she felt it go around her upper body she only took a moment the look at a glass display of medicine cabinet in the ambulance. Seeing her reflection she could only look at the jacket she was warring and could only think about Xeo when he had his own. Being silent about losing him, she tilted her head and could only feel the lost of another life etched in her conscious. Soon Daniel caught on to the fact that he wasn’t around either and had to know what happen.

“Aya…what happen to Xeo? Last time I remember he was with you during that…awful thing…” Daniel said while remembering the whole fight between the U.B. and Aya’s short death experience.

            “We did see him change into…something similar to what you did in front of Eve but then he…did it again…and now he’s not here. Why?” Maeda said while he kept looking around for him. Aya still had her head down while trying to answer their questions.

            “My mitochondria…it made him change into what he was but then…into that man later on,” she said as she got up and started walking towards the dock area. Daniel and Maeda followed her as she kept talking. “He wasn’t himself after that man killed…that thing…Jenova. He said that I was next because I was like Eve…like that thing. An abomination he wanted destroyed. But…Xeo used his own body to hold him back long enough for me to…to…take him out along with Xeo.”

            “You mean…” Maeda said as Daniel sighs knowing the end result of Xeo’s choice.

            “He’s dead…to save me.”

            “All this time he kept putting his life on the line,” Daniel said while looking at Aya at first then out to the sea. “Official cop or not…he will get a funeral as we all do in the line of duty. He went all out…till the very end of this whole mess and fought off everything that Eve threw at you, even his own brother.”

            “Like a true samurai,” Maeda said while still making his tides with Japanese traditions. “Till the very end of his journey…to end the evil of his brother’s ways and to stop Eve. He kept going with you along his side to help you agree about your own powers that made you defeat Eve. Even if he did turn…to The Dark Side, he made himself become your shield against the Ultimate Being and more…” Maeda looked out into the sea as Aya set her eyesight to the emptiness of the water where the ship exploited. Only the feeling of sadness and the truth swirled in her mind from the words Maeda and Daniel influenced her mind about Xeo’s duty being next to her.

“Jedi or not…” Aya said as she tried to find the words to say at this moment. “…he won’t be forgotten for what…he did for us…for me…” only a trickle of a tear fell from her eyes as Aya remembered all the moments that Xeo did for her. The moments of feeling alone, uncertain, powerless, advice, family past, and comfort for the unknown about her powers. She even felt depress about how he felt like her at times after falling to The Dark Side from Dreazin’s death. Daniel looked over at Aya to see herself crying softly.

            “I know, Aya…he meant a lot to you after all we been through. Well…mostly you but I feel sad too. He made me less angry and controlled it after the death of my wife…saved my son too,” Daniel said as Aya nodded and could only wipe her tears away. The sun started to perk over the horizon of the sea while a moment of silence was felt between all three of them. “It’s finally over…” Daniel said while he broke his silence over the lost of Xeo. Aya could agree with him even more from the events that just happen hours ago yet something didn’t settle in her thoughts.

            “I don’t understand…why do I have this power? Even Xeo couldn’t explain it to me fully,” Aya said as Maeda turn to her and spoke.

            “It’s because…Maya is inside of you, too, Aya.”

            “What?” Aya said while looking at Maeda while Daniel did the same.

            “It’s true,” Daniel said as Aya looked at him while he explained. “When your mother and your sister died, they transplanted a part of your sister into you.”

            “Into me? How…?” Aya said to him.

            “When…” Daniel spoke. “Can you remember back when you were seven?” Aya looked down as she tried very hard to think back at a young age. After some time thinking Daniel stopped her trip down memory lane and kept talking. “You can’t? May have not remember any of it…but…” he said while a two cops came over and cut him off from his explanation of Aya’s powers.

            “Daniel…sir!” the cop said while Daniel looked at him.

            “Yes…” Daniel said while looking at his name tag since he knows the look of a rookie if he can’t tell by the person’s face. “Nathan…right. What is it?”

            “Well Officer Matt and I were helping out the navy in the cleanup operation when they found…a lost cop of your prescient. The navy called us in to identify him but only Matt knew his face.”

            “Ya Daniel,” Matt said to Daniel. “It’s too bad. I mean he must have been new after what I’ve been hearing how he helped out Baker from that monster before he became an honorary member to the…” he kept saying as all three of their eyes opened up with a shocking expression. Daniel walked over to Matt and looks straight dead into his eyes.

“Where is he!? Where!” Daniel yelled out as Aya and Maeda head towards Matt.

            “I always have the gift for making people hear me out. He’s over their by that navy pilot…they just got him on to the docks,” Matt said as Aya, Maeda, and Daniel ran over to the stretcher and two navy medical officers were moving that had a body on it. Daniel went over to one of the officers and ask them about the body.

            “You! That body…is that one of ours?” Daniel said as the officer nodded.

            “He is but…he didn’t make it. I was just going to get him to the nearest morgue and…” the navy officer said while Daniel kept listen to what he was saying; however, Aya didn’t want to hear any kind of story from anyone. She ran over to the stretcher and took a hold of the blanket covering the body. “Ma’am! You can’t do that!”

            “I need to see,” Aya said to him as Daniel grabbed his jump suit to make this serious to him.

            “He is one of ours…” Daniel said to the navy officer’s face. He just nodded to Daniel and Aya as him and his other officer stepped away from the stretcher. Aya slowly started to pull away to show a man that had brown hair and a vest that she, Daniel, and Maeda knew all too well.

            “No…” Aya said as they were looked at the lifeless body of Xeo. Daniel tiled his head in disbelief to not agree that he was dead from Matt’s conversation just moments ago. Maeda just took off his glasses and had a moment of silence to himself while seeing their friend dead right in front of them. Aya had her hand on his chest and on his head while trying to believe that he couldn’t be dead after all he had done for them. She was trying so hard not to break down in front of anyone but it was only a matter of time for her feelings and emotions to come to surface up again. Her head went on Xeo’s chest as her memories of him started to flooded her mind so much it made her cry out in sadness.

            “Aya…” Maeda said as he walked over to Aya’s side while Daniel put one hand on her back. All they could do now for Aya is let her take a moment to let it all out of her mind about Xeo. She couldn’t do anything for him as he did for her in the past nor had experience to use her own powers on anyone else but herself. Her emotions were making her eat away at her body the more she kept trying to believe that Xeo isn’t alive anymore, even forgetting about how he wasn’t Sephiroth anymore but just himself. They kept comforting Aya as she needed to get her depression out of her body; however, the feelings she was having over Xeo’s death made her body feel weak for the time being. It was then that Aya started to feel her hands becoming warm, at first, as she slowly tiled her head up towards Xeo’s chest. The warmth sensation started to seep out of her hand as Maeda and Daniel look over at her hands. Both hands had a glow of bright yellow energy flowing out and started to go pass Xeo’s upper garments as his head had the same aura of energy from Aya’s hands. Aya slowly stop her crying as she felt her whole body giving out a massive amount of energy. For a time Maeda and Daniel couldn’t even get close to help her in case she passed out. Aya looked on and wasn’t able to break free of her powers and she felt weaker the more her hands let out the energy. The power wasn’t anything she felt before in a long time. Only back in Central Park and the Brooklyn train station did she feel this kind of power working before, but only intensified by the output of energy flow. It was only some time afterwards that the glowing aura went away and Aya kept her balance from not falling.

“What was that?” Daniel said as he got to Aya’s side while Maeda followed in after.

            “It felt…different,” Aya said as she took her hands away from Xeo’s body and checked them for anything altered. No signs of changed were on her hands as Daniel and Maeda were clueless to which just happened. As she put her hands down, Aya could only think about what happen as Daniel started to get the idea that Xeo was never coming back to the world of the living.

            “Aya…let it go,” Daniel said while she looked at him. “If he was all powerful he would seen this thought in a better way than dying for all of us.” Aya nodded as she still felt sad still about the lifeless body of Xeo.

            “Shouldn’t you tell her, Daniel?” Maeda told him as Daniel went back on his explanation of Maya being within Aya.

            “Right,” he said as Aya looked at him to know why. “You were born with a defect in your right eye. And so Maya’s cornea was transplanted into your right eye.”

            “Then,” Aya said while pausing to think about the pass days fight against Eve and moment’s of visions. “What I saw when I touched Eve was…” she kept saying as Maeda interrupted her.

            “It’s said that when you have an extreme experience what you see then is branded on to the cornea…but this hasn’t been proven, scientifically speaking, of course.”

            “That was…Maya’s last memory?” Aya said as she ponders on about the visions that were in her mind in the last couple of days. “That was the last thing she ever saw…?” Maeda nodded as Daniel could agree on a theory that Xeo had to answer for himself.

            “So in that case, what Xeo was trying to find was true after all,” Daniel told out loud. “His power could see other people’s minds and visions. Xeo told us about those visions you had of Maya and how you were able to see his. His powers also made you see his own personal flashbacks from your powers too.”

            “Yes…” Aya said softly.

            “As for the mitochondria that was in Aya’s body I think they underwent a different evolutionary change than Eve,” Maeda spoke to Aya. “By living symbiotically with Aya’s mitochondria, it still possessed Eve’s power. From there, it evolved to the point where it could live symbiotically with the human nucleus.” Aya then look at Maeda for a brief moment and shift her head back. Tilting her head down a bit she could only believe in what is in her now and how the power she had made sense.

            “Me and…Maya…our mitochondrial power…” Aya didn’t move or budge while taking in the feeling of her sister being within her…and against her. Much as happen in the days leading up this morning that Aya could only think that she the choice in her power was no different than what Eve has done to Manhattan. Maya was with her and Aya could feel a sense of righteous and duty of what she has to control now. Out of all the carnage and police sirens that deafen her thoughts she could only make out the voices of Daniel and Maeda; however, a sudden echo in the background was heard no to far away. Aya could hear it as Daniel and Maeda were too as it came in as clear as day.

            “…So it was her that I heard within you,” said a faint but raspy voice from a body on the stretcher as his eyes opened up to see Aya. Daniel, Maeda, and Aya’s expressions of joy and happiness couldn’t contain after seeing Xeo come back to life. As Daniel and Maeda came over to see how it was possible, Aya took a moment to hug him and let out a small tear of joy of his return. “I heard her…Maya within Eve and you, Aya. You…no, she made me alive again as I can hear her still,” Xeo said as Aya pulled her upper body away to look into his face. While nothing felt different in Xeo the only thing that changed was his eyes as they were still the color style of Dreazin’s.

            “Oh my…Xeo is fucking back!” Daniel said out loud as Maeda was still on awe of how he came back from the dead.

            “She…said that?” Aya said to Xeo as he started to get up on his own.

            “Yes,” Xeo said. “It was also how you were able to see her while I couldn’t…she was in you. Giving you insightful help that time in the hospital…”

            “So that’s why…” Aya said as she wipes her tear away from her face.

            “It is also why I am…alive. Your mitochondria that went into me made my midi-chlorains heal my body…at the expenses of them being in me,” Xeo said to her.

            “Huh?” Maeda said to Xeo.

            “They died. They took Aya’s powers from her as they were purging out the midi-chlorains to take over; however, they were not as powerful as they wanted to be. The midi-chlorains restarted my life while they discharged that energy and destroyed the mitochondria. A noble sacrifice on Maya’s part…” Xeo said. Aya nodded and smiled at the fact of her mitochondria didn’t take over his body and yet help him out in the long run.

            “Glad your back, Xeo.” Aya said as he nodded and looked at everyone near him. At the time his eyes started to change back into his normal dark brown colors and felt at peace with himself. “You’re eyes…” she said to him as he could tell already what that meant.

            “I guess I’m a Jedi again, eh?” Xeo said as Daniel and Maeda laughed about it for a moment as Aya just kept looking at him while he felt his old self again. “It’s true about your mitochondrial power, Aya…” Maeda then interjected as he was cut off from Xeo’s resurrection.

            “Oh yes…” Maeda said as everyone looked at him. “Starting with the incident in Japan and now with this I wonder if this is a message to all mankind. I don’t know about Xeo’s people but though…”

            “Message?” Daniel question Maeda in a serious tone now that the laughing moment had passed. “What kind of message…?”

            “How can I explain…? If the earth is a single human being, we humans that invade the earth become like viruses out of control. I hate to compare you, Xeo but you are a foreigner yourself to this world. Look what you and your brother did.”

            “Somehow…” Xeo said slowing his speech down as he could agree with Maeda on his statement while Aya looked at the Jedi. “…The way I see it is not so different from where I came from. Eve even said so about me acting like a virus…coming to this world. My powers made most of Manhattan into a pile of rubble…and I’m sorry about that.”

            “We, in essence, are upsetting the natural balance of the body,” Maeda said. “This is definitely…utter destruction.”

            “The way of The Dark Side and its ways are natural in its nature…” Xeo said as he was looking at Maeda then looks at Aya. “Yet I do believe in all worlds…and galaxies have a little spot of peace and prosperity.”

            “We’re not that weak…” Daniel said while trying to defend Xeo’s point about the last thing he said. Maeda looks away from Daniel while still sticking by the facts of what he knows by his studies.

            “You see…humans are, in essence…parasites. You can say that we are parasites and the world is our host.” Daniel got to Aya’s said as Maeda’s words made Aya felt worried about it wasn’t too far from the truth.

            “Aya. The sun is coming up,” Daniel said as Xeo, being right next to Aya, moves over to her and puts his hand on her back. The glow and warmth of the sun was felt over Aya’s face as the last bit of her feeling cold lifted away. She could feel Xeo’s hand fighting off the cold and warming her upper back. They kept overseeing the rise of the sun as the thoughts of Maeda and Xeo ponder Aya’s mind about what could be in store. Soon a car pulled up that had a rookie cop behind the wheel and stopped it. Daniel could easily recognize the car as his own from yesterday night. “Hey. My car!”

            “Ya…you left this didn’t you?” the rookie cop said as everyone got near Daniel’s cop car and looked to see if it is his.

            “No doubt about it. Guess we should get back to the station. Ben needs to see me as well as the rest of NYPD down there,” Daniel said as he opened his door and sat back down in his seat. Xeo, Aya, and Maeda got in and were driven away by Daniel while getting away from the NYPD/Navy joint task force of cleaning up the sea. Maeda took a while to figure out that something was missing from Xeo’s personal belongings.

            “I hate to even bother you after you recovery but where’s your lightsaber?” Xeo shook his head at him and explained.

            “I had it before I changed after Aya’s short term death. When Jenova came at me I lost it in battle and my brother’s too. I lost my brother’s lightsaber but my own was still intact. Hmm…I wonder.” Xeo said as he looks out towards the sea and reached out with his hand. “Daniel stop the car for a moment.”

“What Xeo?” Daniel said while he pulled over and kept the car in park. Xeo got out of the car while still having his hand out. Aya and Maeda look at Xeo as he was using his power of The Force. He could barely able to use his Force Telekinesis to pull his weapon back to his belt hook. Feeling large amounts of stress on his mind he knew the battle within his body left his midi-chlorians in a weaken state and couldn’t be of much use with The Force. Once he had it back on his belt he walked back towards his group of human friends as Maeda could only think of how Xeo would be without his weapon in his current state. Daniel got the car back into motion.



“That felt like you had trouble of your own? We all know you’re more powerful with The Force, Xeo…why didn’t feel like you were having trouble?” Maeda said as Xeo look at him.



“My body hasn’t recovered from what it just went through…how would you think if you been taken over by two powerful cellular entities, mutated, blown up, and lose the mitochondria from help of your midi-chlorians?” Xeo said while Maeda took a step back with his hands up towards Xeo’s face.



“Okay okay…sorry I asked…still. What would of happen if you did lose your lightsaber on this world? I mean would you be able to rebuild it?”

 

            “Well…you would have a vast knowledge of technology that we haven’t been able to theorize yet,” Maeda said as Xeo could tell what he was getting at. “You could give out your thoughts of…” he kept saying while Xeo cut him off.

            “No. Maeda…I wish I could but most of the technology that I could give you would be easier explained or shown to you by the data banks on my ship, which is destroyed,” Xeo said while pausing for a moment as he remember about his only means of going home now laid to waste. He had an idea of how his ship’s mainframe could be intact if he could get back to it; however, something didn’t feel right about to the crash site. “Still…the mainframe could be altered to read out on your computers. That should help you out…”

            “I don’t know about you, Xeo…” Daniel said while taking his time to get back to the station. “But some of our guys did go back to that site before Eve’s attack at Central Park. They were able to take back some of your downed ship as evidence to be sent to our CSI labs.”

            “Did it get shipped out?” Xeo said while waiting for Daniel’s response.

            “After Eve’s 2^nd attack we closed off Manhattan…it didn’t go anywhere,” Daniel said while Xeo thought he had a chance to get the data from his ship and could figure out a way to get back him. He sighs knowing it was his only way to see what can be done for him. Aya, overhearing the conversation, felt happy about Xeo was able to get an idea of where he stands about going back to his galaxy. At the same time, she also was beginning to feel sad that Xeo went beyond the call of duty for her and Daniel that it seems misplaced to leave. Whatever it was that bothered Aya she kept it silent as they kept driving closer to the police station. Hours after Daniel’s car got to the station and everyone was inside a number of orders, given by Daniel himself, were set into effect. The blockade around Manhattan was finally lifted as citicens of the city started to come back to their homes or to see them in ruins from the terrible events that happened. Jobs were back and city dwelling people roamed the streets again while seeing the awesome powers of Eve without hinting anything towards Xeo and Dreazin. As time went on in the day and as evening was drawing near a thought from Ben was being said to his father.

            “Dad?” Ben said to him.

            “Yes son?”

            “Why aren’t you having a good time? All that you did in the last couple of days and we haven’t spent together…or your friends,” Ben said while Daniel took a moment to agree with him.

            “You’re right! We need time to be happy and celebrate after that…” Daniel spoke to him as he saw Maeda walking with stacks of paperwork to bring back to Japan. “Yo, Maeda…you shouldn’t worry about going back yet. Come on let’s enjoy this night with everyone that stopped Eve.”

            “I do need to get this out of the way,” Maeda said while having second thoughts about going so soon. “You got my vote! I’ll go tell Aya and Xeo.” Daniel nodded as Maeda went out of the detective room and into the staff meeting room to see Aya and Xeo giving out their reports to Baker, who was in good shape to be back. “Sorry to bother everyone but I have a message to give to Aya and Xeo.”

            “Yes?” Baker said as Aya and Xeo were looking at Maeda.

            “If it’s alright with you, Daniel wanted Aya and Xeo and me to have at least one night together before we all get back to our normal lives.”

            “Sure…” Baker said to Maeda. “You guys fucking deserve this after what you did to save this city…not sure about you Xeo, but still.”

            “Great!” Maeda said as Daniel came into the room while Ben was around him.

            “So…it’s a go then for tonight? Okay…but where?” Daniel said to everyone in the room while no one came up with any ideas until Aya could think of one possible place.

            “Maybe we should try the opera again? A redo in a way?” Aya said while Daniel and Maeda nodded. Ben didn’t know what an opera was but he didn’t care where his dad was going. As for Xeo it never went to an opera before in his younger years before and could use something to take the edge off from all the fighting.

            “Good idea. Let’s say for about 8 o’clock?” Daniel said as Maeda look at his watch and said something to him.

            “We got less than 2 hours…cutting it a bit close?” he said to Daniel as he looked at him and just laughed.

            “You know me…we’ll use my car this one time,” Daniel said as Maeda knew what that meant. He walked off to finish getting his paperwork done as Daniel looked at Aya and thought about the night she was at the opera before. “I hope you still got that dress of yours?” Aya looked at Daniel and then shook her head.

            “Oh…I left it at the dry cleaner place. It had to get clean…” Aya said while Daniel knew where it was and had a plan in motion.

            “Well I guess it’s now or never,” Daniel said as he went down the hall yelling, “Maeda…forget the paperwork we need you…NOW!” Aya knew from the tone of Daniel’s voice that they were going to make a beeline to her dry cleaner and apartment. Xeo could feel it in The Force about Daniel’s choice to help out everyone as he wasn’t too surprised about his issue with time.

            “Better get ready then…” Xeo said as Aya and himself walked away from Baker and started heading for the car garage. Soon everyone got into Daniel’s car as he drove away from the police station. Again his skills at dodging motorists and cutting people off didn’t dull over the course of being without other drivers on the road. It didn’t take him long to find the dry cleaner place that Aya left her black dress in. She got out and ran to the door while calling up her dress to the workers inside. A minute later they found her dress and it was clean without the stains from the sewers. Getting back into the car they drove away from the place and headed towards her apartment. At fast speeds Daniel was able to get to her home just as soon as Maeda checked his watch.

            “Less than an hour!” he said as Daniel set the car in park. Aya got out of the car and went up to her door and unlocked it. While Aya was changing to her black dress Daniel also forgot to tell Aya but said it out loud.

            “Oh damn it…I forgot about something…” Daniel said as Ben looked at him.

            “Cursing!” he yelled out at his father for poor parenting.

            “Sorry, Ben…you know me when time is against me. I just let it out.”

            “What is it?” Maeda said as Daniel looked at him and Xeo.

            “She had a man with him the night Melissa became Eve. I knew I was forgetting something but…still he was the one crying after that event. I can understand why but still he was a jerk about the whole ticket seats,” Daniel said while the next question came to mind. “Well I have to tell her once she gets…” he kept saying but was interrupted by Aya who was in a whole different outlook. She had her black overcoat on for the cold weather but kept it on while being in the car. Xeo and Maeda were looking at her while Ben tried to get a look at Aya. Daniel turn towards Aya and told her about what he knew was missing. “I forgot something Aya.”

            “What?” she said while fixing her hair to be just right.

            “This might not going be 100 percent about this redo but…your date…” Daniel said as Aya rolled her eyes and knew that was something she could leave out.

“Oh…right. Him…its okay I’ll just be fine with everyone,” Aya said as Ben jump into the conversation.

            “That’s not fair! You said it should be a redo…why don’t you have one those men back there. You know…to be your date’s replacement?” Ben said while Aya slowly turned her head to Maeda and Xeo.

            “While you pick…I’ll drive!” Daniel said as he took off to Carnegie Hall. During the way their Aya had to think about what Ben said and thought the idea was good. Her first impressions about Maeda were okay about how he was able to explain about how her powers and the mitochondria were changed by Maya. She didn’t want to be harsh while thinking he was mostly into his research and could never be able to fully listen to everything he would talk about. Then she thought about Xeo. Aya could tell a lot had happen between them as Xeo did everything for her from the traumatic pass of her family, the horrors of Eve, the talks about her power, and bring her back to life as she did the same for him. Even if Xeo was a Jedi she could ask him just as a favor.

            “Xeo?” Aya said while he looked at her from his seat in the back of the car.

            “Yes?”

            “I know you’re a Jedi but since you did what you needed to do. Could you put that aside this one night?” she said as Xeo can tell what she wanted from him.

            “You…want me to be your date for the night…” Xeo said while Aya did bring up a good point that there is no threat or mission for him to be a Jedi for the time being. “Yes. I will…Aya.” Maeda just looked away in disappointment but could understand that from most of the time they were together against Eve. Aya smiled and looked back to the windshield while waiting for Daniel to get near to Carnegie Hall. It didn’t take him long as Maeda checked his watch to see that 15 minutes were left before 8 PM. The car pulls up as a bell hopper came to see what NYPD wanted.

            “Yes officer…oh it’s you,” he said while being able to see Aya’s face. “Don’t mind this space…we got some room for other parking places.

            “Thank you!” Daniel said while Ben gets out of the back passenger door and goes up to Aya’s door. He was about to open the door until Daniel said, “Ben…that’s rude. Xeo has to do that on this night.”

            “Oh right!” Ben said while he gets out of the way for Xeo to get out of the car and get to Aya’s door. He opens the door and extends his hand out.

            “Allow me, Aya.” Aya’s hand grips on to his as she got out of the car with his help. Ben started laughing at them while Daniel got out of the car next followed by Maeda to be the last.

            “What’s so funny, son?” Daniel said as Ben pointed to Xeo and Aya.

            “Grown up stuff…ewwww!” Ben said in a joyful tone while Aya looked at Xeo and smile at Ben’s thoughts. The Jedi just looked at Ben for a brief moment to feel somewhat annoyed at him but turned his eyes back to Aya.

            “Boy I swear!” Daniel said to him while trying not to crack up but does anyway. “hahaha…oh, Ben. You will one day…geez.” Maeda comes around to get close to the motley crew of NYPD’s best. “Still…I’m not too good with these social events. Last time I took out that reporter but he deserves it.”

            “Nah, not me!” Ben said to his dad. “I love these things!”

            “We have to make up for Christmas Eve. This is our retake on it,” Aya said.

            “This is my first time, so I’m nervous…” Maeda said to them while fixing his glasses.

            “Why?” Ben said to him. “Never been to a play like this? Just relax you’ll be fine!”

            “It’s starting…” Xeo said as his Jedi Senses could hear the lightest note being played at that moment.

            “Shall we?” Aya said as everyone started to head in. Daniel, Maeda, and Ben were out looking for seats as Xeo was with Aya. “Hold on, Xeo…I need to hand them my coat.”

            “Oh okay…I don’t know why you can’t take it in…” Xeo said while Aya took a ticket from the coat checker and gave her coat. Xeo had a moment of trying to act Jedi but wanted to keep this date as best as he could. “…I guess I can tell why…” he said while looking at Aya in her dress while not being able to back in the police car. Taking in all the detail as Aya went back to Xeo he was stunned by the way she looks being this close to him. He had to be the right kind of man at the time and took her hand. “Let’s not keep the others waiting.” Aya nodded as they both enter the audience room and could tell where Daniel, Maeda, and Ben were sitting. Ben was waving his hand as an onlooker was getting his view blocked. They walked over to them and moved to their seats. Xeo and Aya sat down next to each other as they orchestral played on a few music numbers.

            “We now present to you a musical complementary number before our main attraction…our apologies everyone,” an announcer said over the loud speakers.

            “I just hope it isn’t boring…” Daniel said while Xeo looked at him.

            “Come on…you’re with your son.” Daniel turned to Ben and then back to Xeo.

            “You’re right…sorry,” Daniel said as another announcer called off music titles to pass the time away.

            “We now give you, John William’s best known works.” The pit started to play some powerful and elegant music as Maeda could know some of them.

            “I know this man. His music was done for a lot of films that had stuff right up your ally, Xeo from what you told us about your life,” Maeda said to him as Xeo shook his head.

            “Na…” Xeo said as the band kept playing until another announcement was said.

            “We are still working on getting our play in order…we will give you another rendition of music from another composer.” The band started playing another set of music. The last one they played had lyrics that were dreadful and epic for all to hear as the vocalists did their part.

            “Estuans interius ira vehemnti. Estuans interius ira vehement,” and “Veni, veni, venias, Ne me mori facias. Veni, veni, venias, Ne me mori facias,” were being sang as Xeo felt unpleased within his body.

            “…What’s wrong?” Aya said to Xeo as she looked at him. “You seem tense…”

            “I’m…” Xeo said as the music started to end fast. “Fine…just had a disturbing moment their…sorry.” Soon the lights dimmed down as the play begin to start. It was a retake of what happen on the first day before Eve came to be. Only Aya knew about this play but could tell everyone was replaced with new actors after that traumatic event. The scene played out as before.

“Father, please give me permission to marry Eva.” The man walks towards his father in the play who is in a dark purple tunic with a gold and red painted scepter. The king, because of the time era, spoke to the prince. “I FORBID IT! You know well what will happen if you do! Those who succumb to her beauty ALL die in horrible ways!” the actor said while the prince of the play started to argue with the king. “You don't understand! SHE is the one that has suffered after the deaths.” The king, who was about to call his guard on his son, the prince said from his lines, “She is EVIL! Guard! Grab HER! And burn her at the stake!” The play then had the prince starting to throw his life away for the main actress while saying his lines. It was at this point that Aya, Daniel, and Maeda got up to make sure a moment of repeating the Eve attack didn’t happen again. “Father! If you are sentencing her to death...then I ask you take my life along with hers...” the prince said while Eva, the actress walked over to him.

“Edward…” the actress said to the actor playing as the prince. A moment paused as she started to sing her voice lines. They kept standing up and wait for anything abnormal to happen until a voice was said behind them.

“Leave those off by the door. Don’t track any dirt or filth anywhere,” Aya said while he just nodded and agreed with her. He gets down on the floor and removes his boots. Putting them aside next to Aya’s shoe and her own boots he gets back up while heading for the living room. From his point of view he could tell a familiar feeling was percent in his mind. The kitchen and living room were just a reminder of how his whole was like with a technology downgrade, but it didn’t bother him to look on while he pounder. The setting of where the furnace and layout of both rooms were having a different self expression that what he had seen before in Manhattan.

            “This is like how I used to live back at home. Simple and less of everything to make the most out of it. Organized and to give a flavor to anyone that comes into my home…and Aya’s is just the same with it…” he said in his thoughts as he had to know why. “Aya…” Xeo said while he couldn’t find her at first until her upper body and head came into view from the kitchen. “There you are.”

           

“Its okay, Xeo…” Aya said while her hands were full of food products. She had Cha somen noodles, blanched, refreshed noodles, scallions, cucumber, Minced pickled vegetables, sesame seeds, and fresh crab. As she went over to the copping board and started to turn on the oven for a pre-heat temperature Xeo got back to his question.

            “This might be a weird coincidence…but this kind of reminds me of how I used to live…at home,” he said as Aya took her time to cut the crab meat up and started laying down a thin noodle mix layer on a sushi palter. She then turned her head to look at Xeo to talk about what he just said.

            “Really? A set up of like this?”

            “Yes,” Xeo said as he looked around and walked from the living room and into the kitchen. “It almost feels the same…in my mind.”

            “If you must know,” Aya said while trying to get mix the crab with the olive oil and pickled vegetables. “I tried to have a home that would have my mother’s touch and to remember about who I am and where I came from.” Xeo could see the sushi palter being taken up by food that Aya was making and thought he should help her out by any means.

            “You’re…Japanese heritage?” the Jedi said as he walked over to her side. Still looking at Xeo, Aya was trying to toast the sesame seeds as one of them popped and burned her hand.

            “Ow!” Aya said loudly and quick. Her upper body jerked up from the pain she could feel and slammed into Xeo’s chest. The Jedi was holding her while not being able to sense her body coming into him. It was only a brief moment that he was holding Aya as she looked up into his face. Xeo could tell what happened.

            “Very sudden of you?” he said to Aya as she back up from Xeo’s chest while his eye were able to see the burnt mark on her hand. “Aya…I’ll help out.” With that said Xeo used his Force Heal on her hand. This time he felt the need to take out his gloves and put them in his pockets as he made his bare hands covering Aya’s damaged hand. It only lasted a few seconds to make the pain go away. Aya looked at how he was able to heal her and then looked up into his eyes again.

            “Thank you again, Xeo.” Aya said as she took the time to look at the burnt mark vanished before her eyes. Soon she told Xeo what to do about the food she was making. “Come…you make the crab meat and noodles become one as I’ll clean up.” He took the mixture of noodles and already chopped up crab to make one of the finished products that Aya was aiming for to make.

            “Like this?” he said to her as Aya looked and nodded with joy.

            “Hey you got it on your first try.” They both smiled as Xeo kept making a dozen of them as Aya cleaned up the pan and chopping board while leaving them in the sink for the morning. Aya went over to the fridge to get ice and filtered water to put into the glasses. She looked over to see that Xeo was done and was cleaning his hands from the sink to get any crab meat residue off. Xeo only looked around to think where Aya was going to eat but didn’t take into account that he was also going to have dinner with her. “To the table,” she said as Xeo walked over with the food.

            “That’s a lot of…uh…sushi?” he said while Aya set got the glasses down on the table and walked over to a shelf with plates. As she got the chop sticks from a draw below the shelf she told Xeo about what she just made.

            “Crab and Cha Somen Noodle Sushi, Xeo.”

            “But still…that’s a lot…” Xeo said as Aya came over with the plates and gave on to Xeo and the chopsticks.

            “I can’t finish this amount on my own. This is for us tonight,” Aya said while she looked at him and smiled from the reaction on his face.

            “Well…I should have seen this coming, eh.” the Jedi said as he laughs calmly. Aya did the same as they both sat down and started eating the food they both made. During the times they were taking pieces of the sushi palter of food, Xeo and Aya kept talking about their time at the opera. Complements and complaints about what they went through as the pile of food went away. Soon there was nothing left to eat as they both had their fill for the night. “Wow. That was something…”

            “Can’t believe you had more than half” Aya said while she kept looking at Xeo’s face for a sign of enjoyment. She felt happy to know his taste in Japanese food was equaled to Aya’s too. She got up and started to clean up as Xeo knew it was not for her to do alone.

            “Hold on, Aya I’ll…” Xeo said as Aya looked at him while holding the used plates.

            “No no…take it easy. You ate enough as it is…” she smiled at him while handling the dirty plates and sushi palter. Xeo thought it would have been a good idea to use The Force and help out but he refused to do it. He knew deep down that from all the troubles and battles they went through that Xeo could take a moment to not be a Jedi in front of Aya. As he waited for Aya to come back Xeo got up and walked over to the living room to take a seat on the couch. He was looking over some of the items nearby him as he was able to pick up the remote for the TV set. Aya kept putting away the dishes and chopsticks into the sink to clean up now and then in the morning. Xeo, while seeing Aya still cleaning up, was able to use his Psychometry Force Power on the TV remote to figure out how it works. Able to sense Aya’s times using the remote he was able to turn it on and flip through the channels but was only able to get static. Once he turns it on, Aya was moved by the fact that he was able to use a technology that Xeo wasn’t used to and came over to sit with him. “Hmmm…” Aya said while Xeo knew what he was doing was correct but still no picture of anything.

            “Something I’m doing wrong?” Xeo said while looking into Aya’s direction.

            “I don’t think so…” she said to Xeo. “Bet you the cable company are still trying to get there services back online after leaving Manhattan in a rush.” Xeo puts down the remote and knew that answer is the most plausible one.

            “Thought I was losing it but…yes I guess that is true.” He looked at the TV and then back at Aya. “So if this did work…would you be able to get news about what was happening here?”

            “At this point we would,” Aya said while showing him the TV guide. “Everyone would not be able to stop talking about what happen in Manhattan. Everywhere around the world had to talk about it in their own way.”

            “Reminds me of the holonets I knew back in the New Republic. Back at home while our family would read about the horrify reports of The Vong efforts being too strong and how we knew the day they would come to our world,” Xeo said while looking at Aya still.

            “From what you tell me…it sounds no different from what wars our country had been going through,” Aya said to Xeo.

            “You mean your home country?”

            “No…” Aya said as she thought Xeo was talking about America as her home country. “America’s wartimes…not Japan.” She pauses for a moment as Xeo had an expression of confusion. “I guess all this time that Maeda and I never talked about Japan in full detail as you have about your home. Here I’ll show you since we have nothing else to watch.” Aya gets up and started pulling out some VHS tapes of Japan and its history. While she was looking for some tapes of what she recorded, Xeo was able to take this time to look at her but without the restriction of being a Jedi for the night. Aya was crouch down as Xeo was able to take in some of her details of her body. Her back had signs of being smooth and trained muscle from her time being in ROTC. A great curve from her spine all the way down to her lower body as she held her own weight from her legs while not being able to show signs of weakness in them.

            “Strong…she really has done a number on herself,” Xeo said while having a moment to himself. “A body that can do a lot against people from her pass and those NMCs…and yet she still can be able to look like that…her emotions do get to her but that’s something to deal with. No one can’t be ready for a time of feeling depression or angry, with a body to fight off against anything.” Soon Aya got back up for a moment while she moved over to the VCR and put in a tape of one of her recorded videos. She sat back down as they video began to play out. Xeo was taking in the history of Aya’s homeland. The Ancient and Classical Japan eras, Feudal Japan where Xeo was able to see samurais being acted in the video, the Meiji Restoration period, and World War II and the outcome of it. Xeo felt a whole different view of what Aya talked about her heritage and from what Maeda kept nagging him about being a samurai but it didn’t take long for him to talk to Aya. “Is this the heritage…your side that you want to express in your home, Aya?”

            “My home and set it is to remind me of my mother,” Aya said while trying to recall her moment of finishing up her sentence before the sesame seed burned her hand. “I have it in a way to let others know about where I came from, of course; however, I do have this set up to not forget about my mother. Still…you and I have a grim view of what our governments have to put up against when it comes to war,” Aya kept saying as the VHS tape ends. Aya went over to eject the tape and turned off the TV set.

            “You really do miss your mother don’t you?” Xeo said as Aya went over to sit back down next to him; because, all they could do now is talk.

            “As much as I miss Maya, even thought she is with me…”

            “In sprit?” Xeo said while he knew it was a way to calm her emotions down if Aya was going to think about her dead family.

            “I wish I could believe in such things. She is a part of me as much as this power she gave me. My mother didn’t know about what we would turn out to be…or at least Maya would. I just wish I could express my feelings to her and about how Maya is. I could only wish on that…just to…” Aya said while she started to feel sad about the lost of her family. Xeo could tell right from her facial expressions that he made her upset about telling her passed again. He didn’t even used his Force Powers to know now that he was used to Aya and her emotions being seen.

            “Be with them again…” Xeo said bluntly and being coinsure to her. Aya could feel herself being in pain and alone again in her mind that travel down into her heart. It was not even her own mitochondria powers to make her feel like this but her own self thinking to make her emotions feed off of it. Aya just looked at his face and moved closer to him.

            “Oh, Xeo…I just wish I could…for one more time…just to be with them again…” she said as she started to feel less then what she was before Xeo talked about her mother. The Jedi felt it was is problem and his duty to make her not upset anymore from the trauma they went through. Not just against Eve and Dreazin but reliving their pass again knowing that they did everything they could, which was only making Aya feel torture even more. He moves right up against her side and puts one arm around her back. Holding her shoulder, Xeo could do nothing more than comfit her with his own touch. For once he was able to know how her body was going though from his bare hand on her shoulder. Xeo could feel her muscle tensing up and then feeling loose as her emotions were fighting against each other for Aya to be either happy or sad. Soon her body fell over to his own shoulder as she puts her head against his. “Xeo…how can you deal with this after ending Dreazin’s life? What kind of satisfaction or accomplishment do you get out of this? Does it bring you closer to your own family?” Xeo just looks into her watering eyes as he delves into his own personal feelings.

            “Knowing what I know now from Dreazin and that documentation…” Xeo said while trying to find the right words to say. “My family’s life was taken by my own brother. He knew why and had his ideal plan to rule my galaxy as a Neo-Jedi from that I know now. His plan to get back at the New Republic was not just an easy task but with his passing…by my hands, he will never get to harm another soul ever again. My parents are dead but they will not be looked on as being the evil bearers of a Dark Jedi that could have ended everything. Sure…he could have ended the war but he knew the New Republic was also his target for reformation and vengeance against what they did to him and my father. Now that I know this…they can rest in peace without the slightest knowledge of this ever getting out. It’s like how you are with Maya…you had to stop Eve from her power. She had the means of ending all life on this world and taking over as the new mitochondria race. You have this power too from Maya and used at against Eve while knowing it was in your family’s blood. If anything…your mother was the one who gave Maya her evolved mitochondria while you were given it too. We know now that the mitochondria are their own species and will try again…but at least you are here to make sure that doesn’t happen. Plus…I’m not the only one who went through a life of losing family…I have…” Xeo said as he looked at Aya to see her eyes having been closed for a while he was talking. “You…” Xeo said very quietly as she was sounded asleep on his shoulder. He soon laid his back against the couch horizontally and rested for a while as he looked at Aya’s sullenness of being asleep. Xeo could feel the warmth from her head being on his chest and her breathing was being pressed against his legs. Unknown to Xeo, Aya was only able to keep sleeping as his heartbeat was making a rhythm to aid her in being asleep. He could only look on as her brush her hair to the side to see all of her face. After what he was telling to Aya, before and after she fell to sleep, he had only himself to talk too while trying not to wake her up.

            “This is…different. For once I am not really feeling unease about her being like this on me. I mean I know deep within my mind that a Jedi shouldn’t be like this…even for her. I just can’t seem to understand that we have so much in common that I don’t feel any conflict with my beliefs towards her. I don’t care at this point about what the Jedi have to live by…just this night…this one time…I am at peace without harm. Emotions aren’t getting to me by no means and I can feel myself being no different that I was before with her for the first time. Back in that food import store…that sudden feel of everything melting away way that was doubt and disbelief,” Xeo said in his mind. He knew nothing would of ruin the moment of being close to Aya like this; however, something eluded his mind for so long that he knew had to be answered. The idea of why he was being overprotected towards Aya in the past days made his mind and heart feel unease even after he felt to The Dark Side, but once he did he knew the answer before the U.B. was born. At that time of his self thoughts his heart did race for a moment while Aya’s sent filled his lungs to confuse his mind about the answer. It didn’t seem right to be thinking about it in the position he was in but soon it helped him learn about the feelings that Dreazin and Eve kept telling him about. The emotions that he could never feel before had to be discovered it for himself and for that he had to be alone for. As much as he didn’t want to ruin the moment he slowly started to get up while holding on to Aya. Soon he got Aya to be on the couch alone and lifted her up with his upper body strength. Looking around the room he was able to see a door that was left open a tad. With Aya in his arms he slowly walks pass the glass table and into her bedroom. Not able to turn on a light, Xeo used his Force Sight to see in the dark and to make sure didn’t trip over anything to drop Aya. Making his way to her bed he used The Force to pull the covers back and leave them in mid-air as he put Aya on her bed. At first he was about to leave her as she was but knew that the dress Aya was in was not meant to be taken to bed; however, he didn’t want it ruined either. Xeo took the bed covers and sheets into his hands as he looked at Aya, being sound asleep still, got an idea of how the dress could come off. His point of view was looking in the other direction of her bedroom as he closed his eyes and could only reach out, with The Force, to slowly see the dress alone in his mind. His powers went over to the thin straps on her shoulders and were being pulled away. From there Xeo was able to move the whole dress away from her upper body and not down. Using his Force Levitation, he moves the dress and puts it down on the ground next to the bed. Xeo lets go of the covers and tries to get Aya to be covered up in her own bed. He couldn’t do anything else at this point but to just see her sleep peacefully. “Rest easy, Aya.” Xeo said as he slowly walks out of her room.