Day One: Afternoon

[Aero]

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He had escaped the death that welcomed his body at C-5.

The sun shined brilliantly in the sky above after the intense battering of the rain finally discontinued after six straight hours. It cast a long shadow of Gokua behind his dragging feet.

We walked through the barren land with no particular destination implemented just yet. Footprints of his boots left small imprints in the soft dirt behind him, leaving a faint trail of his travel.

His long journey had begun. What long journey? The journey that he subconsciously knew would have to arise if he were to ever locate his longtime friend Kiro. He remembered the words that were said when he saw his face on the tele?.

Well, I plan to make it pretty far and hopefully meet up with a childhood friend of mine.

Those words were like a syringe being lodged into Gokua?s vein, pumping him with some alien drug. His friend knew much, and the swordsman craved to know the same. Kiro knew of the civil war?and its secrets. Gokua had always pondered about the civil war that occurred back on his home planet against the Njuru-Jins. Kiro knew the secrets; that?s why he abandoned the swordsman, leaving him to be shot a few times and almost die.

He knows who he is.

Damn right Gokua knew Kiro was speaking about him. Who else was in the competition that knew a Pathosian? No one.

He began to attempt and fathom what happened during the civil war. It was something he had always tried to make sense of, but always fell short of any actual conclusion. And now was a better than any other to know the answers. That?s why he needed to find Kiro. Fuck saying hello, or how?re you doing. Fuck cheap talk about the past when they used to train together. Fuck trying to reconstruct their friendship. He needed to know what transpired between the Pathosians and the Njuru-Jins. Kiro knew.

Come with me Gokua! This battle is not worth dying over! Trust me!

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Gokua kept moving. Thoughts of Kiro and the entire war back on his home planet still hammered at his cranium like a blacksmith smashing a mallet against a sword he was creating.

He had to find Kiro.




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OOC: I figured I should finally go in-depth with Gokua's purpose in DA now.