Thursday, November 8, 2007

Fan Fiction "Elfen Lied" By Victor Chen


Act 1

Her name is Lucy, unlike the rest of us, she was created in lab, designed to be the ultimate biological weapon. Her psychic powers allow her to move objects with her mind. She knows very little, like a child, she doesn’t have her own free will because of the helmet on her head. This helmet is installed with an artificial intelligence that commands her every move. She is just a weapon of war.

She is growing, the personality inside her is trapped by the helmet, she wants to be free, and eventually her desire to be her own master became strong enough to free her mind from the shackles of the artificial intelligence. For the first time, she moves on her own free will. The guards are surprised, but before they could react, Lucy instantly rips their limbs off without even moving a muscle. The entire research facility is shut down and guards rush to stop her. Armed with machine guns, a dozen guards unload their rounds on this girl, none of them hits her. Instead, she effortlessly returns the bullets in the direction they came. The guards were all instantly killed. Filled with joy, she begins to run away from the facility, her creator Kurama fires a sniper rifle aimed at the back of her head. Having let her guard down, the bullet pierces through the helmet and wounds her head. She falls into the ocean unconscious.

Yuka waits for her childhood friend Kouta at Gokurakuji station. Yuka spots Kouta from a distance as he is making his way to the ocean. Both of them head down to the beach to reminisce the time they shared together when they were here. Yuka interrupts his thought and points out to the open ocean. It seems that the waves had carried a girl’s body to the beach. It’s Lucy. Lucy does not seem as menacing as she escaped from the facility. However, she quickly darts in the opposite direction and start crying when Kouta and Yuka are trying to approach her. Lucy has losses her memories, She becomes a childlike girl who can not say any other word, except for “Nyu”. Therefore, Kouta and Yuka decided to call her ‘Nyuu” because that is all she says.

Meanwhile, the facility and the government, everyone is trying to figure out how they could let a vicious, dangerous weapon escape. The chief Kurama organize a special team to catch Lucy. Kurama also sent her daughter “Nana” out to hunt Lucy. “Nana” is an ultimate weapon as well; she also got the same ability as Lucy and is even stronger then Lucy. The team have arrived Gokurakuji and has conduct a search mission to recapture her.

Act2

While the team is heading to Gokurakuji, the chief Kurama also organizes another special assault team lead by Bando to catch Lucy as well. Bando is an extremely arrogant sniper who loves to hunt human prey. When he joined this mission he is very pleased because he can hunt and kill Lucy without any reason. Meanwhile, Kouta, Yuka and Nyuu went back to the Kaede House, where Kouta will be living while attending college.

Inside the house, there is a broken grandfather clock standing next to the front door. However, Nyuu seems to be in distressed when she arrives and start to run around the house frantically. When Kouta and Yuka cannot understand why she is upset, she sits down and pees on the floor. This has really annoyed Kouta because he has to clean up the floor while Yuka is giving Nyuu a bath.

After they finished their dinner, Kouta pulls out a sea shell that his sister gave to him. Kouta explains to Nyuu that he received this sea shell, not long after his sister got sick and died. Suddenly Nyuu snatches the shell away from Kouta and then breaks the shell into half. He immediately lashes out at Nyuu’s action and asks her to leave. Yuka approaches Kouta and tries to calm him, but Nyuu quickly runs out from the house. Few minutes passed, Yuka explains the reason that Nyuu broke the sea shell is because she notices that it makes Kouta sad and unhappy.

Nyuu runs far away from the house and decides to head to the beach. She finds a cave and sits in there and starts to cry. At the same time, Kouta looks at the broken half of the sea shell and tries to recall the details that had just happened to him. He starts to worry about Nyuu but the sound of a knuckle rapping onto the door interrupts his thoughts. Few men come into the house and ask Kouta for a missing person and they show him a photo. The photo has surprises Kouta because the face of Nyuu stares back at him. He denies the claim of seeing her and these men leave soon without saying anything. Kouta tells his encounter of the approach of a few strange men that came to look for Nyuu to Yuka soon after the men left. They began to worry for Nyuu’s safety and quickly grab an umbrella and starts to look for her.
Meanwhile, Bando and his team have arrived Gokurakuji. They are looking for Lucy in the beach line. At this stage, Kouta also went to the beach and he saw Nyuu hiding in the cave to cry. He tries to comfort her and apologizes for what he had done earlier. He expresses that he wants to take her back home. Just as they are walking out from the cave, Bando appears in front of them. Bando hits Kouta and kicks in his face. Kouta falls down and fainted. Bando proceeds to arrest Nyuu and to bring her to a one-off area.

Act3

Bando is very surprised when he saw Lucy. This is because Lucy is not as dangerous as what the reports wrote. Lucy seems harmless and did not try to defend herself. Bando was upset at this stage; he does not have any more interest in Lucy. He asked one of the team men to load up the gun and shoot her. While the man is pulling the trigger on his gun, he feels that there is a hand touching his arm. He felt that the hand is cold and his arm was torn off within three seconds. The personality of Nyuu has transformed to Lucy. She becomes violent and aggressive. Bando is shocked by her transformation and he quickly pulls his gun and fires away. He tries to open fire and shoots Lucy. But, she has blocks all the bullets and starts to walk slowly towards to Bando like a zombie.

Lucy has finally shows her secret weapon. She has a set of extra physical hands that appears when she needs it. She starts to throw large objects violently at him. Bando tries to shoot down some before she can do much damage. At one point, Bando laughs to himself because this is so unexpected. Nyuu has completely becomes a different person compared to a few seconds before. He thought he has the upper hand in the situation and now he is finding it increasingly hard to defeat Lucy. She has amputates his left arm and uses her super power arm to drive Bando’s finger into his left eye socket. Bando’s body is full of blood, he lies on the ground but he never stops shooting Lucy. Meanwhile, he sees a car near where he lies and is trying to crawl towards it. He musters every ounce of energy he has and tries to grab onto the car. Just as he tries to escape, Lucy grasps onto her own hand and starts to yell uncontrollably. Her extra physical hands had disappeared and she returns to the personality of Nyuu again.

Yuka found Kouta lying unconscious on the beach and she quickly calls an ambulance to take him to the hospital. As Kouta recovers in the hospital, two policemen enter and ask him what happen to him yesterday night. He explains he saw a few soldiers with guns that is trying to rob Nyuu and they attacked him. Unfortunately, the policemen do not believe him. After some interrogaration, the police left the room. Kouta is also preparing to go home as well.

When Kouta arrives home later that night, Nyuu is waiting outside the door. She gives him a special gift, a sea shell. He hugs her and happily accepts. Meanwhile, Yuka notices that there are some bloodstains on her cloth. Yuka starts to worry about what has happen by the beach yesterday night but she did not say anything. She just simply asks Kouta to bring Nyuu back to the house and get her some new dry cloth for her.

Nana, the other ultimate biological weapon was chained on the wall since she was born. The only happiness for her is to greet her father - chief Kurama. Nana is now clean up and dressed. She is now ready to go on her mission.

Act 4

A few days pass by; everything has return to normal in Gokurakuji. It is just another wonderful, sunny day. Kouta is tidying up their room while Yuka is making breakfast for everyone. Nyuu wants to help him but she is not very helpful at all, she seems to make the room messier than it was before in the process of helping. Kouta has decided to ask her to go out and play outside while he is cleaning the room. Nyuu leaves the room with a pout and heads toward the door slowly.

After a while, Yuka goes to the room and asks Kouta where Nyuu is. Kouta explains that he asked Nyuu to go out because he was annoyed her. However, Kouta has started to feel worry about Nyuu so he tells Yuka to stay home while he is going to check on her. On the other hand, Nyuu walks to a nearby park and sits on the swing by herself. She hears there are footsteps approaching the park. Nana walks up to Nyuu and confronts Lucy on the swing. She explains that Lucy has to go home with her. Nana’s father - chief Kurama is waiting for you, the robot tells Lucy. Nyuu was afraid, she tries to run away but Nana extends her extra invisible hands and starts to attack and capture her. Nana attacks Nyuu by first grabbing onto Nyuu’s neck with her vector. It is then, Nyuu’s has switched her personality. She is now Lucy again. Lucy tosses Nana into the stone pillar but Nana still does not loose her grip from Lucy’s neck. Lucy tries to make use of her extra hands to capture Nana but she soon realizes that she cannot reach her. Nana’s vectors are longer than hers. Nana asks Lucy with an expressionless tone for her to come home as she lies helpless in her grasp. Lucy rejects her request and meant this by throwing a several stone pillars to her direction. Nana blocks these attacks off and hides behind the trees for safety. Lucy quickly appears in front of Nana and wanted to try to use her vectors to pierce through Nana’s body. It is the exact moment she realizes that she cannot move her vectors. Nana’s vectors are holding onto all of Lucy’s vector. Nana, with one remaining vector, pounds the weapon onto Lucy’s stomach and slams her to the ground.

Kouta who had headed out earlier to look for Nyuu hears a loud crash from the park. He quickly runs over there and he sees Nyuu lying on the ground and a girl is slowly approaching Nyuu. He runs closer to see what happened but Lucy uses her vector to throw him far away from their fight. Lucy is trying to protect him. Nana takes advantage of the distraction and uses her vectors to pierce Lucy’s body. Lucy also manage to defend herself by slicing off Nana’s leg and the fingers of her hand. They are now both helpless. Lucy and Nana lies in a pool of blood, unable to move and on the verge of dying. While Lucy lies on the ground, she indistinctly saw chief Kurama brings an armed force. They took their body back to the lab.

Late in the night, Kouta finally wakes up in the hospital. . He only sees Yuka is there to take care of him. He remembers that Nyuu was fighting with a girl in the park. He is worried about Nyuu and runs quickly to the park. However, he sees nothing wrong in the park when he reached there. There are no broken stone pillars and there are no indications of struggle or fights had happened there.

Nyuu has disappeared for many days. The residents of the Kaede house spend a somber day reminiscing about the girl that brought so much laughter. Kouta is holding a sea shell that Nyuu gave him. Yuka sets out an extra bowl at the table, although no one expects Nyuu. Outside, there is a click of sound on the door knob; Kouta walks outside to check if they have an unexpected guest. The broken grandfather clock begins to work again and Nyuu stands by the door.

Kouta ran out and embraced the girl with a big hug. He yelled out to Yuka and asked her to come out and welcome Nyuu back. They are both overjoyed to see Nyuu to return unharmed. All their faces shone with happy tears as they walk back to the dining room; the empty bowl set on the table found it owner once more.




1 comment:

Yian said...

Hello, Vic…Finally I can see your Fan Fic, actually I was waiting so long lol…^^ I have watched this anime series before, but I forgot that was so long ago. I felt it was quite nice, although some of the scenes were very very bloody and violent, but I really appreciate the artworks as well as those pretty girls…I still remember the ears that Lucy has on her head. Yes, it is very relate to the cat ear, a symbol of cuteness. However, I am really intrigued about her mystical power.

In your story, it is quite interesting that you make Lucy as an ultimate biological weapon. It make me remember that the other anime series “She, the Ultimate Weapon”…it is also a good anime. However, I quite like your ending that Lucy finally found what she does want. And, I think that will be a good idea if you can tell me that how does she back, or what did they do when they both in a pool of blood. Anyway, from your writing, I feel sympathy for the character Lucy. She was a pity girl and from she is unscrupulously killing, I can see she strongly want to be freedom. But it is funny that a happy ending story contains war, violence and sanguinariness. It is quite hard to link a murderous feeling to a girl. Also her character contains Lucy and Nyuu, I think it implied to the darkness and innocence. The potential of Lucy (Nyuu) is scared by the exogenous factors that she changes her characteristics to protect herself to overcome the dangers.

In your story, Kouta was played an important role in Lucy (Nyuu)’s life. The situation of Kouta was seemed not only as a healer but also the helper. Compare with the original Elfen Lied, the relationship of Lucy and Kouta, I only remember that Lucy was Kouta’s childhood friend before Kouta leave the city. Then there is something happened to her, but sorry I can’t remember. However, the existence of Kouta and Yuka in your story was a sign of warmness that relate to the family member and home and it is what Lucy pursued in life is freedom and sweet home.