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[Pre Shokushu: History]Shai’s father was a rich American who made his voyage over to Japan for his business enterprise Tarturas Corporation; A company that specialized in Engineering and Risk Management. If you were building something on a massive scale, if you’re cleaning up an oil spill, we’re the people to call- he’d say. It was in Japan he met Shai’s mother and began a wonderful life with her.
She was the child that didn’t cry, the one that cooed happily in her mother’s arms and didn’t have a malevolent bone in her fragile body. She was beautiful by any mother’s standards, complete with the soft tuft of raven colored hair. By age 2 she was already talking in full, formulated sentences and reading the dictionary- tough going for someone who doesn’t have a sophisticated word base. Her parents couldn’t readily complain, she wasn’t mischievous- aside from always tearing things apart, but considering she usually put them back together 98.99% of the time it wasn’t viewed as a troubling issue, in fact her Father reveled in glee that he may someday be able to pass his legacy onto his budding genius.
When Shai was barely into childhood. It was the day neither her parents, nor Shai would ever forget. It began with Shai buzzing excitedly around the house when she learned she was going to get her first glimpse at Japan- the technology country. “Japan! Japan! I’ll need a kimono mommy, we’re going to Japan!” They had so many fascinating things that could barely wait for the next morning. In a rare occurrence the girl left the house and trotted happily down the trails leading from the house compound towards the woods. Nightfall descended and Shai’s parents were worried about her, and immediately began their search. What they found hours later, they were certain wasn’t even their daughter, but the huddled up form of a child nonetheless. As they neared they noticed that the long locks that were as white as the frilly dress she was wearing- their daughter’s dress.
“Oh sweet mother, Shai what happened to you?” Her mother screamed in agony as she clutched her daughter protectively to her chest. But Shai said nothing for a whole year after, and not much after that. She was still the same in many respects. The girl found her solace tearing apart various electronics around the house, and she still always had her nose buried in a book about some form of science, math, or other subject that was seemingly beyond her age of existence. But her entire presence was different, changed forever.
After acing nearly every subject her first few years of schooling, it was highly suggested that by age 10 she was admitted into education nearing the University level. “You can’t make me Adam.” She said in a factitious tone.
“What happened to Dad? Father?” Adam said gently taking a seat next to his daughter. She was brilliant, but ever since the accident even an act of defiance pleased him to know his only child still had a spark of personality left. “Of course I can, but I’d rather you want to challenge yourself. Do you really wish to hold yourself back with the basic no- average learning of normal kids?”
“You call them normal Adam.” She said with a hint of resentment. “But I still wish to experience the normalcy of an average childhood, and I’d prefer not to socially condemn myself.”
Shai’s father sighed, obviously frustrated but nearly as intellectually brilliant as his daughter yet honed with far more experience, decided upon a fair compromise. “I’ll make you a deal.” He said bluntly, piquing his daughter’s interest. Shai silently closed the book she was buried in.
“What?” She asked after a moment of elevated silence.
“If you can obtain your education and get to a college level of learning by the time you’re 14, I’ll let you go to High School.” He paused to gauge his daughter’s reaction. She stared at him indifferently, but he knew that she was his daughter and would never resist an intellectual challenge. “You see, if we waited for you to come of the appropriate age to enter high school, and it turns out you despise it then those were years wasted. However, if you already had your education…call it a social experiment if you will. Then you wont feel so different when you enter University at 18- that is if you decide to finish high school.”
He got no immediate response from his daughter but after what seemed an eternity of him holding his breath he finally got a resonated ‘Fine’. He was satisfied with the outcome.
Shai finished three years of High School before a tragic severing of her and her boyfriend Josh's relationship. In order to escape from the hurt she was feeling she immediately enrolled in Shokushu.
[Shokushu History]Shai was never really good at making friends. After her arrival to Shokushu she bonded with two women. Fenris and Adena. All three of the women were kidnapped by the Incubus Plague, who held them hostage in a dreadful place.
PlagueShai’s head gently rose as she looked around the dimly lit room. She tried to move but found herself bound tightly to a chair.
“Shai, you’re awake. Do you know where we are?”
Shai was relieved to find Fenris there, but she shook her head in confusion. She looked around the room and saw that Adena was there as well, all three of them bound to similar chairs. “Adena, are you alright?” Shai whispered to the newly awakened teen.
“Yeah, I…I’m fine.”
Shai begin to stir into consciousness, her memories fading into blurred images of Fenris’ Golem the sickening stench of rotting flesh and thousands upon thousands of gallons of torrents of blood swirling about an entire room. The Slaughterhouse, she would never forget that place. Tumbling down to land into the murky, thick concoction, her last images being that of Adena and Fenris, then darkness. A choking, sickening darkness as blood began to fill her lungs.
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“Miss Tanaka.” Shai’s eyes fluttered open and she was in a hospital bed. She jolted upright and looked frantically around. “FENRIS?!?! ADENA?!” She grabbed the nurse’s collar in an outrage. “Where are they?” The nurse looked confused. “Miss Tanaka, who?”
Shai frantically ripped the IV from her forearm and leapt from the bed, bolting out into the hallway. “Fenris! Adena!” She screamed at the top of her lungs. “Plague you son of a bitch if I ever see you again I will kill you!” She screamed, before feeling a harsh prick in the side of her neck, and then becoming overwhelmed by darkness again. Finally, a dreamless sleep.
“So Miss Tanaka how are you recovering?”
“Quite well I would like to think, I’m eager to begin my classes again.” Shai said to the cocky, vixen that was the school’s psychiatrist. She’d seen her once with one of the headmasters, a long time ago it seemed.
“We’ll see Miss Tanaka.”
“Please, call me Shai.”
“Shai…Last month you said you were having nightmares?”
“I don’t recall any nightmares.”
“Really now?”
“No.” Shai was lying, she’d played this game before. Pretend to have no clue what they’re talking about.
“How are you dreams lately, Shai?”
“I don’t really dream, the rare occasions I do it’s about new schematics I’d like to draw up, but…they wont give me a pencil and paper. I’m confused, did I do something wrong?” She asked with a façade of innocence.
“No Miss Tana- Shai. There’s something you should know.”
Shai stayed silent.
”You’ve been in a coma for three and a half years.”
The news hit Shai like a bag of bricks. Adena?! Fenris?! If they had escaped then hopefully they had graduated and got away from this terrible place. Three years of my life is gone? How old does that make me, what month is it? Fenris, Adena God I hope you’re okay.
“That’s unfortunate.” She said, struggling to keep an indifferent appearance.
“Indeed. We’ve been treating you on the island per your father’s request.”
Liar. More likely you forged a letter and told him I wanted to sever all contact with him and that I was eloping with another student. “Of course, Shokushu has one of the best medical facilities. I am grateful, I am alive.” Shai said with no hints of cynicism.
“We’ll see about getting you back into your classes, of course you will have to take some tests to ensure that marvelous brain of yours is still in perfect working condition.”
Shai nodded, musing in the thought of ripping every pretty brown strand of hair from this whore’s head.
They conversed a bit more about Shai’s future and her classes, and after what seemed an eternity to Shai, she was finally allowed to go back to her dingy pathetic excuse for a room she liked to call a ‘cell’.
The woman brushed a long tuft of her hair behind her ear as Shai exited the room. This student was very elusive but she was unsure whether or not Shai was faking. By all accounts it had seemed the treatment had worked, if not then they could simply clone the brat and still benefit off of her wonderful mind. She sighed. “The clones are never as good as the original’s.” She whipped out her cell phone and dialed.
ring….ring…ring.. “Hello?”
“Mr. Shaffer, it Me.”
“How is she? Can she come home?”
“She seems to be fully recovered even as far as believing she was in a coma. The last five years have been difficult in maintaining her suspension… but you understand we will never be able to release her.”
“I have made a large contribution to your facility, you will release-“
“I’m sorry Mr. Shaffer. You knew the risks of sending her here. You’re as aware of the circumstances as any of us are, the percentile that are exposed are never allowed to leave.”
“You said she was recovered, that means the memory treatment’s worked! You will release her.”
“No. You know these experiments aren’t perfect, what would happen if she were to remember what happened to her during her stay? It can’t be risked. If you miss her that much we can send you a clone. Nothing more, nothing less…and if you even think about breathing a word, you know what we’re capable of.” With that she slammed her flip-phone shut, thus ending the conversation. After a moment of recollection she dialed another number.
ring…ring…ring… She heard him answer, but he didn’t say a word.
“Headmaster?”
“Yes.”
“Tanaka seems fully recovered, I would like to release her back into the student body with strict observation of course.”
“I trust your judgment.”
“Sir…I don’t trust her Father.”
“Mr. Shaffer is a generous-“
“No, sir.” She bit her lip realizing the implications of interrupting the vicious headmaster.
“He needs to be terminated. He wants his daughter back and is now realizing he wont get her back.”
“I’ll see you in my office, twenty minutes…don’t be late.”
click“…Shit.”
Shai was recently approached by Head Master Stormbringer with an interesting proposition. Shai willingly accepted the responsibilities of a Head Girl, with every intention to use her newfound position to turn the tables in her favor as well as uncover the truth of what happened to Fenris and Adena. [Yet to be written]
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