Thursday, November 8, 2007

The Gantz Fan Fic by Yi-An

Act 1 The Beginning

Korono Kei was a high school freshman, just like any other school boys, his only thought was about girls. Furthermore, Kei was always thinking about some things in his mind, but he did not like to express his own thought to other. He was a traditional Japanese male. One day, on his way home, he saw a vagrant beggar who accidentally fell from the train platform. He did not care about other people. He was actually excited because he could watch this man die. However, Kato, who was the childhood friend of Kei, immediately jumps into the rail track to help the man. When Kei saw this, he reluctantly jumped onto the track to help his friend, Kato. Shortly after they carried the man to the train platform, they saw a train coming towards them. At this moment, their minds were completely blank, what both Kei and Kato could do was dash, as fast as possible. They were hoping the train could be break off before it hit them both, whatever, it was too late.

“Where is this place? Somewhere in Japan?” said Kei and Kato. They were so amazed that they were still alive. “Look at that ball. What is that? Did someone save us? Hey, we don’t even have any injuries.” said Kei. And then Kei soon noticed that there were also some other guys there, two people squatted at the corner and another person who stood behind the black ball looked at them quite depressed. However, their eyes looked around again this place and tried to move around their legs and touch their own bodies. This was a room, and there was a big black ball looks like a 32inch television at the center of the room and there was a large window on the left side of wall. They even saw that Tokyo Tower was not too far away from here. When Kei walked close to the window, he felt an invisible wall between his hand and the window. “Oh…What’s happened? Can anyone tell me?” said Kei. On the other hand, Kato seemed much more imperturbable than Kei, and he held his breath, wondering what will happen next.

Three minutes past, there was a comatose young woman who was formed by molecules appeared in front of Kai on the ground. The woman slowly opened her eyes and crawled to Kai. “Is this heaven?” said the woman. After they had a small conversation, Kai knew that the woman is called Fomiko who killed herself by the gas. Therefore, Kato made a conclusion that they were killed by the train. When they are dead, they were transferred into here at that time. After a while, people starts to continually appeared in this room. When all of them are dead, they are suddenly ‘transported’ to this room. The numbers of people were starting to increase and the room was getting crowded. Everyone in there was anxious and they started to yell out, hoping that someone can come to rescue. They were so worried about what was going to happen to them. “What a mystery!” said a guy.

Act 2 Mission Starting

Mystery seemed to be written on the faces of all the people in the room. The fear was dug into their heart. Suddenly, there was something wrong with the black ball; music was broadcasted from the black ball. It was very loud and deafening. It was then the ball started to split down the middle. They could see a well stocked collection of weapons and special suits inside it. Furthermore, there was a 3D image that was shot outside the black orb; the ball called himself “Gantz”. Gantz is one of the secret industry from the Cosmos that aims to protect humans from the aliens. The people in the room were selected to fight the aliens and protect the humans. The Gantz was informing the status of the mission and indicating who the target was. The target was an alien from BK Star. “There are aliens on our Earth and our job is to kill them because the aliens are going to destroy the world.” explained the Gantz. The group was surprised that they were selected to do such heroic things to protect the world. They did not know what they were going to do next. But, they obeyed the commands of the Gantz and started to arm the weapons and suits as the Gantz asked. By now, the time on the monitor has started counting and everyone in the room was transported away one by one.

Darkness had already veiled the sky, only the streetlamps lighted their road. The look of fear was still clouding the face of Kei and others. Kato tried to take the role of leader and work with everyone in a group. He wanted to discuss the strategy before they meet the aliens so they could have better chances at killing them. However, there were some people that were not willing to cooperate. Therefore, they were divided into two groups, one was leaded by Kato, and the others that were not willing to fight the aliens wandered off by themselves. Unfortunately, the black ball had already installed a plan for those who leave outside the area of the place of mission. Whoever that are trying to leave the place will immediately explode because you either fight the aliens for your survival or you die for not joining the mission. No one shall leave by escaping the mission because the Gantz wants to keep this as a top secret mission. The time on the monitor was ticking fast, but they did not see any of aliens appeared in the area

“Bi~ Bi~ Bi~ Bi~”

Suddenly, there was an unexpected sound coming out from the special suits. It seemed that the suit had detected something was approaching them. The weapons were clutched tightly in their hands by Kei and Kato.

With the dim light of the streetlamps, they could see a man walking towards them from a little path of the building. He was tall and strong but his eyes did not fit his face. Kei had a creepy feeling because he could not feel any emotion from the man. His face was very blank. The alarm from their suits was getting increasingly loud, but all they see is just a man was walking. There are no aliens to be seen. Suddenly, one of Kei’s teammate could not bear the suspense anymore. He walked restlessly towards the man and accosted him with an unfriendly voice. However, the man seemed to be unable to say anything but a few words. The teammate sensed something fishy and started to push the man down the ground. When Kato saw this, he quickly ran over to help his team mate. The strange thing is the man that the team mate was spinning down had blood spurting out from the veins of his neck. However, the team mate had yet to done anything to hurt him.

The sky overhead was dark with clouds; the wind rose to a gale. A blinding flash of lightning followed at once by a tremendous crash of thunder and then the rain pours down and drenched everything. The crimson blood from the body of the man mixed with the rain was started to spread across the grounds. As if an illusion, the skin and body of the man were slowly sliding off him, along with the blood. The guts of the man now are exposed to the air as his skin had slid off. It was a strange sight. The alien-fighters stood there, unable to comprehend what had happened. It was then, the guts of the man were tearing up, and an alien crawled out of the body. It rose to a height of about two meters or bigger, dark skin and its saliva was eroded the ground where the corpse that it was standing. Its eyes are filled with hatred, staring at us. “Oh! Look. He is that alien.” said Kei. The alien yelled madly and rushed towards the group of people. At the meantime, Kei and the rest of people was struck dumb with fear. Their faces were pale as snow and large drop of sweats perched on their brow. As the group of people stood there with overwhelmed shock, the monster had jumped onto one of the person. “Bap!” his head was cut down by the alien’s slash. The roll onto the floor and the blood was rushed out like an open faucet and splashed onto Fomiko’s cloth. Kei and Fomiko watched the violent scenes unfold upon their eyes. The smell of blood made them feel weak and dizzy. Their courage and heart were not in with them anymore. They were scared.

Kato stared at Kei and Fomiko for a moment. Suddenly Kato found his voice and shouted, “Run for your life. Quick, this way!” Kei was afraid that his feet would be stiff but luckily they worked. However, he had a look at Fomiko because he was sure that she did not follow him. He saw that the alien was getting closer to her. Just then, Kei pulled the x-ray gun and zapped the alien but it sensed the ray of the gun coming towards him. The alien jumped. Although the X-ray gun looked like the toy gun, the effects and the power of the gun is unbelievable. This was the first time that Kei felt glorious by saving the lives of others. He became very brave because the powerful weapon was held in his hand. Due to the ghastly killing, there were only a few men remain. However, the alien soon recovered and smashed the ground in anger. Kei is able to pull the trigger this time without any hesitate. The alien used the dead body as a shield, and he started his killing spree.

Good times did not last long, Kei and the girl reached a blind alley and the bloody monster was getting closer and closer. When the slash of alien was coming towards them, Kato held out his right arm from the side. He tried to protect them but he did not stop the assault from the alien. He was falling straight onto the ground and start yelling. “Run away!” However, Kei appreciated the courage that Kato did for them; he felt a mingled emotion of anger, fear, despair and great bewilderment. All he wanted to do to end this was shooting. Kei quickly grabbed Fomiko’s hand and fled for their lives when he had the chance. When Kei successfully crossed the bloody alien but Fomiko’s leg was caught by the alien. And the whimper from Fomiko deep influenced the heart of Kei, finally he could not bear. Kei’s childhood memories went through his mind in the twinkling of an eye. Kei jumped on the alien’s back and madly zapped with the X-ray gun again until the alien’s breathing was within an inch of life.

Act 3 Way to Death

After the brutal attack, Kei threw away the X-ray gun as the ammo went out. He hit the monster with his own hand again and again until he had no more energy to spare. Then, his eyes turned to his friends. Fomiko lied in a puddle of blood in a lifeless condition. Kato was very weak because he was losing too much blood. Then, Kei held Kato’s shoulder with his bloody hand. At the moment, Kato smiled to Kai that he managed to survive. Kei burst into tears.

Kei: I used to hate you. Now I understand. It is all because I refused to join you. I was moved by your justice and your kind heart. Look at them, how miserable they are. We are losing so much here.

Kato: You need to face the reality.

Kei: It’s not about facing the reality. It is whether others understand our situation. It’s not that I am not facing the reality, but….

Kato: Things happen, but we can not always cope.

Kei: If I can go back to the past, I want to start my life anew. Oh, I understand maybe this is not so easy.

Kato: Kei, I am dying…never despair…trust yourself…

Kato looked at Kei with one last effort and closed his eyes. However, Kei was alone now, but he was encouraged by Kato and had obtained new courage and the will to live. Suddenly, he heard a familiar sound inside his brain.

“Bju ~Bju ~Bu ~Bu~” (sounds of the alarm) Kai woke up and found that the sun was up and sending its warmth into his room. “Ah…It has all end. I was glad that it was but a nightmare.” said Kai. However, he had leant that life is a passage, bad thing is that it is only a one way trip, but good thing is that there’s no need to return. The future is full of hope.

No comments: