".......DAVID!!!! So help me, I'm going to reach you!"
"That's something....that's not going to happen."
"...But..." Kos-Mos sighed, took a deep breath, and turned her back to him, "You're going to go, regardless of the fact, that....
"....don't say it."
"She's dead, David. This is not like Mary and Yeshua, you and her....you're not in those circumstances."
"I realize that. It's more like Shion and Kevin, except we will not be trying to save this world. We will, in truth, see it destroyed."
"But, you don't have to. You can stay here....with me, by my side, in Paradise. For years, isn't that what you wanted? or does the thrill of sin pull you so."
"....Nothing...."pulls" me anywhere. I am pushed...."
"...."
"by your love and by fear of your love, I am pushed to oblivion. In a desperate attempt to be clean, I'm pushed to oblivion, the cleansing phase of life through death, otherwise....my filthiness, the uncleanliness of this soul will not be able to bear your love's constant pressure amongst it. The..guilt....the guilt is too great. The resulting pressure is like that of Tartares's darkest chambers, those horrid chambers of punishment for angels, your love....is the darkest chamber, the most-horrid torture room, the most terrifying pit of brimstone. Please...Kos-Mos..."
"David..."
"Don't destroy me any further....please....have mercy."


It's been over 20 years since I last had that dream. My name is David Saverem, at least...the human side of me, retains that name. The other side...is Tarvos. But, that's a long story and no need in telling it now. More importantly, I've met a little girl by the name of Aoi Sakura. Though many words can be used to describe her, only one is needed. That word...is Hyper.The girl NEVER seems to run out of energy. She swears up and down to me, "David, I'm the perfect cherry blossom!!!!!!!!!" And my response is always the same, "I know that. (Tch...you only told me thousand times before I even knew who you were.)." I've also manage to maintain a friendship/rivalry with my longtime running mate, Janson Maxwell. He's been with me since we met at a basketball camp on Corelea'n, he met Sakura the day I did...and hasn't been able to get her to shut up any more than what I have.


Another person I've met thanks to Sakura is Lana Divine. Honestly, Janson and I thought she was porn star, but that's her actual name. A lesson, those bruises we received for our curiosity, will never let us forget. If I remember correctly, she was once a hotshot hacker, now turned computer technician. In her spare time, she works with Vector. Sorta like a side job, and payback. The year is A.Z. 2769. No one knows if the years are taken right from the date that planet Abraxes disappeared or when Momo and the people at Vector fixed the U.M.N. Lana was determine to find out. Hacking her way through encryption after encryption, she said she came across something strange. An image; showing the upper bodies of what appeared to be nude man with a wing for the right side of an angel's body. A nude woman with long hair, her chest showing, with a wing for the left. And the oddest image of two red eyes seeming to overlap the man and the woman. He had no body, no definite shape whatsoever, he just had his eyes and, what she was able to make out, some hair. After that, she was caught. She told us what seem like a entire hour of staring at the pic, was actually a few seconds. She hasn't re-hacked Vector since, but we can all tell she contemplating how. Moving on, another character we met was Marisa Ikari.


Marisa does that Eureka Seven thing...she lifts. We don't have trapers or anything like what that anime has, but we do have boards that are capable absorbing and pushing out tons of air in seconds, thus achieving elevation. Think of it as a surfboard on roids. Marisa's a champion on every level of lifting. Having got to the point where she become board with competition, seeing as none was ever there, she decided to take up freelifting and a delivery service. She lives with Lana (who has decided to move in with Janson and myself...without either one of our consent.), so as one can guess, their room is littered with technology. Marisa's lift board, itself, is a product of illegal modification. Equipped with a shield transmitter, it is capable of breaking through the atmosphere and traveling in space. Marisa even has a special suit designed for outer space travel, though she can't really travel that far from a host ship or planet. The suit is designed to provide 24hrs. of oxygen to the wearer, to adjust the temperature when she breaking through the planets atmosphere into the coldness of outer space and for her break back into the planet, and to adjust to her body size; meaning if she gains a few extra pounds, the suit adjusts itself, accordingly. Another illegal mod she has on her board are the front-side weapons and the backside "supersonic" engine. The front-side lasers give her the ability to take on, even the military's mechs in firepower. And her engine, mixed with the shield for cutting through the wind while she's laid upon the board, enables her to much speeds with even some of the faster capital ships.


Lastly, the board has some sort of mechanism that enables her to place heavy, though not incredible heavy, but heavy packages to and fro for her customers. Needless to say, most are illegal. I don't know how many times we've all had to cover for her. I forgot to mention, Sakura lives with us as well. We adopted her as soon as she finished telling us how she's the perfect cherry blossom (whatever it took to get the girl to shut up, even for just a little bit.). With those two, and Lana's decision to be the head woman of the house (we wouldn't let her be head mother.), Janson and I haven't had a chance to be the lazy dudes we wish to be in our apartment, not even on a Saturday. Women, especially in three different age groups, keep men working and moving. Well...while we could complain, we don't. The way we see it, if it wasn't for them, we'd be bored to death. So, at least now we have some incentive.


It's been this way for 5 years now, hectic, but peaceful. However, that peace is about to be shattered, I feel. Although slight, people have been reporting Gnosis sightings all over the place. According to estimates, there's been at least 1 or 2 sightings of them, every two weeks. So far, just sightings. There's been no reports of violence...yet. Something has been left undone. I've been studying Shion's, and what has become known as the Xeno crew, expeditions. From what I've learned, she and her friends were able to destroy a machine that had the ability to, from what I understood, avoid the Apocalypse by restarting mankind's time. As for how many times this circulation was performed, no one knows, but apparently it has happened before. More importantly, with it's destruction, mankind has been left to the last days. Left to our fates, there is no Shion nor KOS-MOS to save us. So...who will guide us away from this death. I'll be honest.....I think it will be the perfect cherry blossom, the so-called "daughter of Amaterasu", the one girl who's energy is that of the Zohar.


I haven't told her, but I do believe that Sakura is a proxy of The Saviour. And that she will lead people into Paradise, the land where Kos-Mos lays.



Chapter 1- Sakura

As the days fade in and out, Sakura seems to grow more and more energetic.
"This is the FIFTH TIME, I've had to pick you up from school this week! Why are causing mischief over there!? Why can't you be good, SAKURA!!!?"
Sakura, mumbling under her breath, "The same reason you can't stop having lesbian sex with Marisa."
"WHAT DID YOU SAY!?"
"AH! I said the same reason you can't stop messing with Vector, hee hee."
".....are you surrrrre you didn't say something about my nights with Marisa..."
David, sitting in the hallway of the apartment, was listening to the entire conversation. "Damn, Lana....just come on out with it. I mean...how could that Possibly have an effect on Sakura" , he thought to himself.
Sakura, now looking at Lana curiously, asked a question that neither Lana or David thought her capable. "You and Marisa are really lesbos, huh...wow...it all makes sense now."
"What makes sense?", Lana asked as she began to drink her warm tea.
"Well...", suddenly her faced blushed, matching her pink, twin ponytails. She giggled a bit and the question busted from her lips, "Why haven't you given David any playtime!? We all know you want him and he wants you too!!!"
Spitting out her tea from shock, Lana was caught completely off guard, "WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
She wasn't the only one, David had to refrain from slamming his head in the wall. "Damn it,Sakura!!! That was going to happen tonight, but not now!!! ....Oh, well. I guess it's for the better. I mean...I can go without sex. I've done so for a while now. Resilience, David...that's the key."
"C'mon, Lana. You're like my mom and David's the dad. A key for a healthy relationship is intercourse. Why aren't my parents making love? How am I going to get a younger sibling for me to push around, if you guys don't get at it? Go in his room, Lana. No one's here, but me. I'll make sure no one interrupts you guys while you're getting a more complete fami..."
"Alright, Sakura, that's enough!"
"You guys could even get married! That would kick soooooo much ass!!! I know the perfect dress."
"I SAID THAT'S ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!"
"Lana-san..."
'I...I don't mean to yell at you Sakura, but...it's...not like I haven't thought of those things.
David was surprised to learn of this. "She thinks...me!?", now that was a delightful thought. As far as he was concerned, he was the one Lana hated the most out of the two.
Lana, now laughing with a smug look on her face, bent down to Sakura's ear and whispered, "To be honest..."
"Yeah?"
"I was gonna work him crazy, till he couldn't take it, haha. But, now that you've shouted all those things, I think it's better if I make him suffer."
"oooooohhhh, how deLIGHTfully...eeeevillllll."
"Yeah, but not like Marisa, though."
"Oh....how so?"
"Marisa broke Janson off hard! ....And she hasn't done any more since than give him a kiss, here and there."
"So Janson's caught!? She caught the guy voted best sexpot in town!? WHY!? I mean...does she know how a guy gets that title?"
"Yeah. And I asked myself the same question. But, she says it's too prove that he's not the man the world makes him out to be. Know what....I believe her. David swears up and down that Janson's a good person. I always thought of him as just a big playboy. But...I think I finally see what David and her see."
"Wow, I like Janson, but who would've thought, eh. Anyhoo....what about David...what do you see in him?"
Lana's smile faded. She spoke more solemnly now as she fixed herself and Sakura some tea. Sitting at the table, tears began to form. "Sakura...."
"......."
"I see a man....who's more concerned with being your father than being my husband. A man of determination. Someone...who has very deep wounds, that I cannot heal."
"Don't say that, Lana. David, he always tells me to believe in myself. NO MATTER WHAT!!!"
"He always tells me...."Don't worry about me, I'll be fine."..."
He almost sunk, David had no idea the effect he was having on Lana. Never once did he take into account her feelings. He'd play with her and everyone else, but other than Sakura, he never once thought of anyone else's care.
"..it's like he doesn't believe that I can help him, that I'm worthless. I do a few nights with Marisa, but...I much rather just lay in his arms. Just...lay there. We don't have to do anything, he doesn't have to try and impress me...I just want to be held."
Sakura, hearing this, showed another side of her. One David already knew, but one that was rare, regardless; her maturity. "Lana," she said as she pointed in the direction of the small hallway. "...in that room of his, that he let me have....he's right there. Get up, undress, and lay right there by his side. Don't worry, he probably be a bit pervy, but that's because you're a naked woman. Plus, your cups are pretty big, you're no small woman, so don't let his staring at you turn you away. Woman up, go in there, and lay in his arms.
"There will be no need for that." David finally spoke.
"David?? ...You don't....want me.."
"I want you, it's just that..."
Sakura picked this as the perfect time to intervene. "Go ahead, you twoooo. Aoi Sakura is on the job! Nothing will get in this house! ...And, for the ultimate privacy, I'll be wearing the earmuffs so that your 'oooohhhs' and 'ahhhhhhs' and your 'Oh, baby, F.." She cut off for a moment, seeing both Lana's and David's faces staring calm daggers at her, just waiting for the word to slip. "Well...you guys get the idea. Earmuffs...for your privacy (and my sanity. Hearing your parents go at it drives kids to therapy sessions for life.)"


David and Lana just looked at each other. They lusted for the other's flesh to the point where it was becoming an obsession. David spoke first, a bit nervously, but only a bit, to Lana, "Lana...I don't know if there's a...proper way to say this, but...."
Lana, smiling serenly, didn't let him finish, "Yes, David. I would love to give Sakura a younger brother or sister."
"REALLY!?! I mean....Lana."
Sakura, briming with pride over her success, began to walk out the door. "I'll just leave you two right where you are. When I come back in, I expect the room to smell like sweat and funk, and I want to get the sense of man and woman as one within ecstasy. ...Have a nice afternoon."
They both responded to her, sarcastically, "Yeah, we will. You too, Sakura."
"Alrighty, then. PEACE!!!!!!!!!"
Once Sakura left, David immediately picked up Lana and sat her in his lap as he took her chair. She rubbed his face with her right hand and played with his manhood with her left. "David, should we tell her? Should we tell her that we've been trying to get a child for her, but..."
"Lana...don't even think about it."
"How can I not think of it...not being able to have a child."
"We'll get one...alright?"
"Plus...."
"(Don't say it Lana.)"
"You're still in love...."
"Lana, Please...."
She grabbed him tight and stuck her tongue in his mouth. "You're still in love with Eve...you're still in love with Kos-Mos."
"...."
"And she still loves you...doesn't she?"
David didn't say a word. He simply held Lana tighter and started kissing her more and more. Eventually, they were into making love, healing each other's wounds; emotional wounds with physical passion. Sakura was right outside the door. She thought to herself, "I hope Kos-Mos never comes back....we're a perfect family, right here." She walked towards their apartment's balcony and looked up at the setting-sun colors of the sky, thinking even deeper. "Don't take this away from me...my dad...and mom...don't take them.....like the darkness took my real parents." The thought of the figure in black that seemed to have swallowed her birth parents caused feelings of hurt and anger to form. "I won't let you or ..That thing, do again....not without a fight next time. If anyone tries to split this family apart......I'll split them!"

-----Meanwhile-----

"Adam....Adam....How many moons have pasted since your departure from me? Do you lay with the whore now? Oh, damn you, my cruel love. Damn you. Torture me, you will no more." Rising from her bed of blood drenched roses, a woman made her way to a window to peek outside a temple that appeared as stone. Suddenly she went through the window and stood at the edge of small platform, behind her the temple had disappeared. "David....you can no longer hide from me. I will be coming to get you."
"KOS-MOS, get in here. We're getting ready to jump into the U.M.N to meet Momo and Ziggy."
"I will be in, give me moment to scan the area (where are you, where... are... you?)
"(Scan the area?", Shion thought to herself, "Are you looking for Gnosis?"
"No, there are none here. Coming in now, Shion. The target is out of range."
Shion simplied looked at Kos-Mos as she walked by. Kos-Mos never acted strangtely for no reason. She was looking for someone. "Was she sleep walking again? Who is this Adam she keeps talking about?"
"You worried about her too, huh Chief?"
"How can I not be. This is the 5 time this week, right on cue", she said as she took off her airsuit, "She gets up, walks to airlock, opens it, goes out and just stands there saying, "Adam...Adam". And after that, she starts speaking a language that even she can't understand." They had recorded her words and played them back to her, but Kos-Mos couldn't understand the language as well, despite having mastery over every language.
"Allen...if she keeps this up and does this for the next 3 days...It'll mark the 7 month she's done this."
"It'll be the 7 month, on the 7th, at 7:00 pm, Miltia time."
"Doesn't those numbers and the way they're coming into play, through Miltia time, strike you as peculiar?
"They do, but what do you suggest, Shion?"
"I don't know Allen, " she said while looking at Kos-Mos hard, "I really don' not."