Bring him back

chapter 2

The next day

The Raimon team was training on the field, but not in an enthusiastic way. They've been having their heads down the entire day - Shiro isn't there anymore, no one knows where he is -, their plays were sloppy and slow, they would miss out on simple passes because they were often too deep in their thoughts.

Suddenly a bright, large ranged beam of light shone in the middle of the field, everyone backed to the sides, startled. After a few seconds, the light dissipated and where the light was once shone, stood three figures, new to majority of the team, but familiar to the Earth Eleven members

"Katra, Lalaya, Ozrock!" Exclaimed Shindou, current captain of the team. The three aliens turned heads to the voice owner and Kirino asked

"Shindou, you know them?" One look at the rest of the teammates, Shindou realized that they were all confused, quite understandably

"Yes, we met them during the Grand Celesta Galaxy." With just that simple statement, the team's confusion was immediately solved

"Why are you here? Is the galaxy in danger again?" Asked Shinsuke, the team turned heads to the three aliens who had walked closer to them and they shook their heads

"We're not here for the galaxy." Answered Lalaya, the Raimon members gave them questioning looks and Ozrock then said

"We're here for your friend, Matsukaze Tenma." At the mention of that name, the Raimon members tensed up, that name hasn't been said by any of them so far because they were too ashamed to even think of it

"If you're looking for Tenma, he's-" Endou was a little taken back by himself, not sure if he was even worthy of calling the brunet by his first name. But before he can cut himself off, someone else did

"We know he isn't alive anymore." Ozrock did the favor for him, they all looked at them with awed and confused gazes, the three of them moved forward a little and was about three-four steps away from them

"We've been watching over you from our own planet, ever since you went back to earth." Explained Katra "We saw what happened and we have a few things to tell you." When she explained that first part, the Raimon members suddenly had flashbacks of the horrible things they did, but when she announced that they had something to tell them, they immediately got intrigued, some of them even picked up a fishy smell to this whole ordeal that they were dealing with

"To start things off, Matsukaze's cousin, Matsukaze Shiro-" At the mention of that name, everyone's aura's grew dark but Ozrock merely continued, seeing that none of them were about to stop him "-wasn't actually his cousin." Hearing that seemed like a time bomb just went off, the humans were completely confused at this point, not sure how they should feel towards this breaking news

"That Shiro you met, was actually... My brother in disguise..." Their eyes widened at Ozrock, who now had his head looking at one side, slightly looking down. Before anyone could say anything, Lalaya proceeded to finish the explanation

"Ozrock's brother had the same intentions as Ozrock himself during the Grand Celesta Galaxy, but as some of you know-" She said looking at the three members that were part of Earth Eleven "-Ozrock changed in the end and gave up on his plan for revenge, though that wasn't the case with his brother. Ozrock's brother, Okita, was very mad at his brother's decision, so after the Grand Celesta Galaxy he fled to another planet."

"We never heard of him ever since then, all we knew was that he was completely powerless based off of Ozrock's given information." Continued Katra this time "But it seemed that his thirst for revenge was too strong. And because he was powerless and couldn't do much, he decided to tackle the core of his revenge, in other words, he went after the defense less Tenma." When sudden realization washed over them, they felt like they were preys in a trap

"After he succeeded with his revenge, he went back to his planet. But due to the fact that we were watching over you, we followed his trail and went after him. Currently he's in the prisoner's dungeon in Faram Obius." Finished Ozrock, finally looking up again. The Raimon members were astounded by the massive discovery that they just witnessed, the three aliens weren't surprised though, in fact, it was to be expected so they waited for them to soak in the new information before telling them the other thing that they had to say

"It's very nice of you to come to Earth to tell us, but... I have a feeling that you didn't just come all the way here to tell something so 'simple', right?" Deducted the older strategist, narrowing his eyes behind his goggles, the three outer space extraterrestrials looked at him and Ozrock said

"You're right, we didn't come here just for that." The strategist suddenly had a slightly proud look in his eyes and Ozrock had to suppress his urge to sweat drop

"We're here because we want to bring your friend back to life." Announced Lalaya, for a moment there, it seemed like the Raimon members had turned into stone statues, but very soon they all exploded

"WHAT!!!!!????" The three aliens had to cover up their ears to prevent them from hurting, not that it helped much anyway. Once their scream had died down, the three aliens removed their hands, Katra took a deep breath and started

"Before any of you loose your self-control, yes, it is exactly what it sounds like. We're here to bring Tenma back to life." The team finally got their head around and Shindou asked

"But-but how!?"

"We can explain that right away, but we have to start from the very beginning, otherwise the whole thing is gonna turn out to be an absolute mess." Said Lalaya. They all made themselves comfortable on the grass and Lalaya started the much needed explanation "So, as we said before, we can bring your friend back to life and that's because we've-" She said gesturing her and Katra "-been announced as guardians of the living and the dead." At first their eyes widen and they have slight confusion drawn onto their faces

"Being guardians we have the duty to maintain the balance between the living and the dead." Said Katra "And that equals taking lives that have come to their end and resuscitate the ones that still have a long lifespan to live."

"Due to the fact that your friend's death was never supposed to technically happen in the first place and because he ended up dying due to us overlooking the importance of my brother, the princesses are doing an exception." The Raimon members all raised a confusing eyebrow, up to this point they understood everything, but now they didn't get the exception part

"We will reincarnate your friend." Said Katra, earning wide eyes from the humans "Normally we wouldn't be allowed to do such a thing, because we only have the privilege to do this once a year, so we tend to save it for a special occasion, but in this case, we do think that it is worth to do."

The team was ecstatic hearing that, they were getting their friend back! They couldn't have asked for anything better to happen on that day and it certainly did not happen

"But-"

(Obviously, there always needs to be a 'but' somewhere)

"-there is a twist to this reincarnation from the ones you earthlings most likely know." Mentioned Ozrock

"What do you mean?" Asked coach Endou, alongside the expression of the others that pretty much speaked the same as him

"For this reincarnation, it requires you to find the roaming spirit of your friend-" And as if that wasn't shocking enough, the next part truly broke their hearts "-and convince him to come back to life, otherwise we can't perform the spell without his agreement." Explained Lalaya. Hearing that they had to convince Tenma to come back to them, was like a rock just dropped on their hearts, ever since yesterday they've been imaging what would it be like if Tenma was still alive with them regretting everything they did, they had pictured the worst case scenarios possible, from him merely ignoring them to him bullying them back, they never imagined receiving forgiveness after everything they had done, much less him listening to them, but now it wasn't just their imagination, it was real, very real.

Despite the harsh reality, they still knew their choice, in fact, for them their only choice

"We'll do it."

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Not sure if I did the aliens personalities correctly, probably got them wrong, but... Meh