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Fading Blossom in the Sand	By : Mina-chan95 Category: +G through L > King of Fighters Views: 23 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: This story was made for fun and definitely NOT for making profit or money out of it. Trust me, Mina only sees writing as a hobby and her passion. More important, I do NOT own King of Fighters.

Chapter List
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Update(2023/11/29) :
Alright, boys and gals,
In the meantime, I've decided to rewrite a 2nd chapter as well. So, it seems that within time I may even rewrite the 4th chapter, but this time without holding back like back in the day.
A-anyway,
As always,
Enjoy!~
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After a few minutes of walking, a short beeping noise from the sound transmission device stops Kyo. When he places his finger behind his ear, he answers. “Yes, this is Kusanagi speaking.”
A second later, one of the female operators asks. “This is the Headquarters. Can you give us the status report?”
The brunette cracks a smile and replies. “We are inside the NESTS. So far it’s clear, nothing unusual. Here, the only bother will be checking all the rooms tiredly because there is helluva a lot of ‘em. Heck, Shingo could go alone and he would be fine on his own. It’s too easy.”
The operator remains silent for a couple of seconds. However, even from her voice, one can tell she is concerned yet trying to be professional. “You should not let your guard off so early. Be mindful and remember - you are not alone, you also have a responsibility for this newbie's safety. If anything happens, contact us immediately. Please, stay safe…”
After a brief pause, she continues. “…Yagami gives a weird look again. Do you have anything to tell him?”
Kyo only gives the smuggest look and replies in a buoyant tone. “Oi, Yagami, are you bothering a good young lady and not letting to do her job? Besides, you would have nothing to do here. It’s too boring.”
As he sighs, he adds. “In the worst case, it may take a couple of days to fully investigate all rooms. I promise that I’ll return by then. You won’t even notice that I was missing. So, relax, you have nothing to worry about, and have faith in me, you idiot.’’
Lastly, Kusanagi changes his tone to a more formal one. “This is Kusanagi. Over.”

A couple of hours pass by wandering through endless, silent corridors. Only the sound of the automatic door opening disturbs it.
Upon discovering what is inside of each room, these rooms look like they hadn’t been used for years - rusty iron tables, useless papers or testing tubes scattered around along the other tools, and the remains of supposed to be experiment objects.
However, most of these objects are innocent-looking ones compared to the ones that are later found - from rodents to other small animals whose corpses are dismembered and rotten, to even possibly actual human being parts or at least resembling them.
‘No, it can’t be. Even the worst and lowest scums couldn’t do that… Surely, even with that stench still there, these NESTS people could at least properly dispose of these remains.’ The brunette wonders and feels that he shouldn’t be in this place.
As Shingo and Kyo deeply wander, the buzzing sound of lights on the ceiling accompanies their journey. Eventually, the sound of single water drops also keeps them company on this lonely ship. Unfortunately, some parts of the corridor are completely in pitch blackness.
Before entering the unknown darkness, Kyo asks Shingo to give his flashlight, which he gave him during the trip.
After lighting it up, anywhere where the light touches the surface, it’s visible that the corners of the corridor seem to be rusted.
However, the deeper they go, they notice a narrow, short, dark brownish line, which becomes wider as they go. Eventually, it leads to a larger pool of the same color liquid. After Kyo swallows saliva, he points the flashlight towards the source of it.
Finally, when light reaches that object, it reveals its true form - a headless rotting corpse that leans against the wall, who has been here for a long time, and being eaten by the maggots that can reach the size of the human finger.
That corpse… Why it’s so swollen and with such fragile skin? There are even enormous abscesses under the skin all over the body, which can tear apart at any second.
As one of the maggots crawls into the deeper tissues of this dead person, its skin is damaged, and the dark-colored liquid starts leaking out.
The older brunette even instinctively covers his mouth and widens his eyes. Surely, that stench and such a view make him pale, and he nearly throws out.
Unfortunately, the other soldier loses control over his body, and his knees give up on him.
A second later, the older brunette kneels and places young Yabuki’s arm on his shoulder. As the Kusanagi helps him to stand up, he addresses him in a nearly shaking voice. “Oi! Get yourself together! J-just do not give up on me. Are you listening to me? Hey!”
Gladly, it helps Shingo to return to his senses, even if he hasn’t recovered from the trauma.
‘Poor kiddo, and it’s his first mission, too. Maybe it was his first time dealing with death as well.’ Kyo thinks while feeling bad for his partner.
After going further, they notice that there are no traces of this corpse’s head. Maybe these maggots already have eaten it, yet it doesn’t matter.

The deeper the Resistance soldiers go, they reach the lighter part of the corridor.
In some discovered rooms, there are large testing tubes placed close together. More so, most of them contain humanoid-like forms.
It’s not clear whether these are failed experiments or other species. Whatever it is, it looks like it’s been hibernated for months. However, none of the Resistance soldiers wants to find out whether behind the glass of the test tube life forms can answer them.
There are even single test tubes, which are broken as if someone tried to escape yet stuck to wander inside this spaceship for the rest of their eternity.
It won’t be surprising if someone might be lurking and waiting. So, the main question is where and when it will show up. Even Kyo nervously bites his lower lip at such a thought and feels that primal fear of being hunted down.
After investigating this room, this couple wanders in the endless corridor with no rooms.
Once again, a dead silence surrounds them without a clear sign of where this corridor ends. However, only one second of this couple letting their guard down is enough. Thus, the loud buzzing sound of the insect wings follows them.
Suddenly, Shingo falls to his knees and becomes paralyzed while shakily holding his hand-held gun and pointing upwards just behind the other soldier.
Kyo doesn't even have time to turn around upon hearing the sound of a shot and the target falling with squirting noises. Surely, it makes him realize how close he is to his doom.
Meanwhile, Shingo is pale as a sheet of paper while roughly breathing. Even his eyes are filled with terror as he observes the shot-down object that lets out a dreadful, short, high-pitched screech.
Apparently, it’s a dark, purplish-colored lump of meat that is the size of a small animal and resembles a brain. Yet, it has a single eye in the center and a pair of transparent color insect wings on top of this creature’s body. Lastly, it has eight legs, similar to a spider’s.
For now, this creature barely keeps its balance and nearly leans on its left side while crawling forward.
When this creature’s iris constricts like a reptile, the younger brunette cannot take on this anymore.
After Shingo closes his eyes, he quickly shoots it down while screaming in terror and fear.
Even if most of his shots are missing, it leave burn marks on this creature’s body where the laser beam touches it.
Lastly, after aimless shots, Yabuki manages to blast away this creature, and the green ooze splatters everywhere along its body parts.
Meanwhile, Kyo just silently observes the whole scene.
He never felt so useless just by standing, and it’s like his body refuses to move a single muscle.
It’s the same feeling of being unable to do anything like that one time during one of his early missions when one of his fellow soldiers was shot because of his one reckless mistake. It was his first encounter with death, and he realized how life is such a fragile thing that can be taken away so easily and quickly.
But for now, Shingo opens his eyes while hardly panting and checks on the ruined mess of this corpse.
He cannot stay calm, nor try to hide it while asking. “Just what a hell is that thing?! Why did this thing appeared? What a hell is wrong with this place?! Shit…”
After that, he only nervously shakes his head and whimpers. Even his adored senior can clearly see how he reached his limit.
However, the Kusanagi understands he shouldn’t feel pity and must focus on completing his mission.
But, hell, it’s only a matter of time before this kiddo will have a mental breakdown.
More so, he’ll get all the blame if anything happens to this newbie during the mission.
For now, the older brunette kneels and places his hand on Shingo’s shoulder. “Hey, you’re okay? Should we go further?”
Yet, little do they know that someone is lurking out and how soon they will be greeted with a fate worse than any death.
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