TheRemnant: This is Not Flesh & Blood

Cross to Bear (Part II)

She wraps her legs around Shikauhno and hits the top of her head with her free hand.

Shikauhno chokes out as S.02 squeezes tighter, "You're afraid of disappointment; that you're clinging to false hope."

As a result of the chain shortening S.O2 is also being choked. Blue cracks begin to form throughout her skin and her eyes turn blue.

Shikauhno utters, "I'm afraid."

S.02 loosens her legs' grip around Shikauhno and looks down at her.

Shikauhno looks up, "But love and purpose outweighs any fear in my heart."

S.O2 lets her go. Tears fall down both S.O2's face. S.O2 shatters into small blue fragments just like the first Other.

Before Shikauhno can hit the floor, the blue pieces of dust catch her and place her softly on the ground.

The blue pieces drift over to one of the walls in the room, it's covered in bandages. The pieces fly back to Shikauhno and surround her, some pieces nudge her back and some float around her arm, beckoning her to the wall.

Shikauhno places her hand on the walls and begins ripping away at the bandages. The hilt of a broken blue sword is embedded into the wall.

"Shizukana?"

Shikauhno grabs it. The pieces around her conjoin into the sword and form half of a broken blade.

The room begins to shake and all four walls of the room collapse like a house of cards. 

SCENE ELEVEN: MAKU VS. AIDDO

Aiddo looks down to inspect MEI and MAshido as they restrict him. Maku continues to bind Aiddo-even down to his legs and feet.

Aiddo struggles to raise his right hand and his arm begins trembling. Aiddo speaks calmly, quoting the Bible "And all of this was vanity underneath the sun.

I'll show you that your efforts to contain me are in vain."

Maku is positioned behind Aiddo and reinforces MAshido around his arm. Aiddo's arms is lowered by MAshido's force. Suddenly Aiddo utters, "Kiru."

*A sip of Remnant Juice: Kiru means to cut in Japanese*

Suddenly one large wing rips through the flesh of Aiddo's left shoulder blade. The wing breaks through MEI and MAshido, setting Aiddo free.

The wing is bloody and deteriorated in many areas.

Maku takes a careful step back as Aiddo pointedly places his hands on top of his headpiece, "My wings were clipped and rotted, my pride shattered, my head, lifted from me."

As he slowly lifts his headpiece off of his head he speaks in a loud voice, "This world is ours for the taking. We shall continue our works of old, and renew them. It is ours to claim and our paradise!"

The camera jumps to Maku and back to Aiddo as Aiddo's head is revealed.

80 percent of his face is continually shifting, like a rotating rubics cube. The only thing that doesn't move in his face is a portion of his mouth and his left eye.

Maku remains calm and states, "Your kind has no place in this world. The In-Between will once again be your proper home and your hell."

He let's out a maniacal laugh, "Hell? Hell? HELL!? The only Hell I know is the region beyond this sky!" 

After his laughing bout he calms down and utters in an ominous tone barely above a whisper, "It is written that the Remnant will be reduced from few to null."