Reveciel
Legacy Name: Reveciel

"He is a fugitive. The government is looking for him. Other than R�veciel, his bounty is the highest the world has ever known."

I gazed down at my feet. My bounty was the second highest in the world. I didn't know whether to cry or laugh, so I did neither. Instead, I asked the boy,

"Boy, what's your name?"

The young boy looked at me for a bit, and found my model-mark on the back of my neck. He gave a sigh of relief, laughed a bit, and said to me,

"Ah, so you're the R�veciel."

I immediately got into an attacking position. This boy's voice suddenly seemed malicious... Even though this boy seemed to be a robot, I knew that the government used some robots to catch fugitives and robots seeking soul containers. Best be on guard rather than get caught and executed on the spot.

"Oh, no need to be frightened, Madam. I'm Qa, the Forbidden One. I'm glad that we could meet. Please sit down. I'll recharge ya."

I sat down onto an extremely soft chair and looked around the room. It seemed to be a lab. Just as I had been told, Qa had been experimenting with soul containers. Though I had never imagined that his robotic body had been created in the form of a six-year-old boy.
Qa came in with new wires and new nuclear batteries for me. I quickly loaded them and gave my thanks.

"So, R�veciel, what brings you to me today?"

I was unsure of how to answer that.

"I came for...a soul...con-..."

Qa immediately frowned.
"Madam, you surely don't want to..."

I suddenly felt bold and said a little louder,
"I want...a soul container. I want to become human!"

Qa gave a thoughtful look, then reached behind the table and opened what seemed to be a secret compartment. I leaned in my chair to see what item was in his hand.

Gold? Was a heart container made from gold?

"R�veciel, you do understand the price of obtaining the soul for the soul container?"

I looked at Qa, puzzled. He sighed, and continued.

"This is an antique accessory. It belonged to a certain lady named Nura. Have your sensors scan it and you'll understand."

I held the tiny, beautiful trinket in my hand. It was a thing of beauty - probably made by a greatly talented craftsman. My sensor did sense something, so I let myself go into read mode.

Qa's memories? In here?

PART III
The price of a Soul Container

This happy little boy. Is that Qa?

Perhaps he was the creation of some famous scientist too. He looks just like he looks now - still the pale, childish face, dimples and all. But there was something different about him; he seemed...passive, almost dead. He was suspended in a capsule filled with a fluid similar to the type that robots were developed in. His listless eyes were staring straight forward.

On a closer look, Qa looked different from the robots I had seen and known in my life. He looked more...human-like, possessing features that only humans have. Yet, it was clear that he was a robot from the various mechanical parts that hung from him.

The scientist in question walked into the room of the capsule. He took a striking resemblance to my Master. A group of researchers and scientists clad in white robes walked in behind him, with the last one pushing a cart on which a grotesque-looking module was laying.

All of the sudden, Qa seemed to wake up. His eyes were revived with a flash of light, and immediately he began to pound on the thick plexiglass in which he was held.

The head scientist noticed the rebellious child, and remarked "Oh look, our boy is excited for his soul container!"

Soul Container? The object on the cart was a soul container? Why was Qa rejecting his soul?

Another flashback occurred. This time, Qa was sitting amidst a flower field. The view shifted behind him, where a young lady was sitting. It was clear that she was a true human being, delicate and vulnerable. On her neck, something flashed in the bright summer sun - it was the butterfly trinket.

But that was irrelevant compared to the face that slowly came into focus. I gasped.

It was my own.

I immediately withdrew from read mode.
"Qa, why am I within your memory?-"

"That is Nura, the wife of your Master...and my birth mother."

PART IV
The Revived Family

It could not be. I could not comprehend what was going on. Why would Master have created me in the image of his beloved wife? And why was it that he wanted to create a utopia for this lady? He had never mentioned anything about his wife or child, and the data he had never been input into my memory.

"Yes, R�veciel, I am a robotic reincarnation of Nura's son, Yurien. Qa is derived from Qarin, Nura's maiden name. It was the name of the program installed in me."

"Why would he..."

"To hide the fact that I was gone."

"What?!"

"My father, your Master, worked for a government organization that tried to prove the Frankenstein Theory. Yes, in terms, they were trying to revive the dead through use of technology, and control them through the use of mechanical parts and memory chips."

"But what does that have to do with Yurien's...your death?"

"...Yurien was kidnapped by the organization when he was five."

I did not understand why I was feeling this emotion of "pity" toward the child now.

"It was to keep my father in check. They needed a subject for the soul container project, and it was decided that I was the perfect material."

"That was you inside the capsule?"

"Yes, that was even before I had completely transferred into a robotic state. I still possessed my own soul at that time. But before then, my father, in order to comfort Nura, had created the robot named Qa to hide my disappearance. To him, I was good as dead."

"But he could have tried to save you at least..."

"He really couldn't, and I don't blame him. The organization was not something a single scientist could put a fight up against. Due to his insubordination on the soul container project, the organization had decided to put him to complete ruin, and erase his existence. That is when they decided that Yurien would be the subject, and Nura would be used for the soul."

Suddenly, everything came together.

"And then Master created me...to replace Nura?"

Qa silently nodded.

"Mother."

A voice activation program triggered within me, opening a data encryption program that had been sleeping within me for decades. I became paralyzed.

"Mother, it is time that I return this to you."

Qa had opened up part of his chest and taken out a sealed container that seemed to be filled with the element of light itself. With much struggle, he placed it where my heart was meant to be.

"I love you."

With a final flash of light, Qa slumped to the ground, robotic and lifeless.

Then, with a jolt of pain, my memories rushed back.

"Yurien! Oh Yurien, my son!"

I had become human again. The sense of touch tingled my fingers as I lay them upon Yurien's pale, beautiful face.