episode six: other side of sounds of waves

The Silver Noah is travelling through stormy skies. Pogo, the innocent of the lot, jumps up in fear as lightning strikes close, but Chongara
reassures the boy by saying the ship won't go down because of some lousy weather. Arc keeps silent. It is only then when the crew
notice that something is up. Suddenly, he opens his eyes and says, "Fire is approaching."

Following the Silver Noah is Elk and co inside the helicopter looking machine. As they fly through the skies, Shu tells Elk to slow down
otherwise they would run out of fuel. However, ignoring his mentor's advice, Elk speeds up to try and catch up to Arc. Arc on the other hand
tells his people to speed up as well, and that way they can lose them.

Suddenly, the engine on Elk's machine blows up, and Shu goes out to look. As Elk looks up to the sky and sees the Silver Noah disappear,
his machine falls down from the sky.

[opening song]

It opens with a report on the destruction to the statue of the goddess and on the city. In response to the situation, the mayor has declared a
state of emergency. The mayor and Clive are looking at the debris of the statue, and it seems that they themselves are not responsible, for
it was Andel's plan and he was the one who was inadequate in gathering information. Also, Andel wants Galliano to report to him as soon as
possible. However, the mayor leaves it up to Clive to do so. As the mayor leaves, Clive looks up to the statue. He says, "Guess we're in
tremendous debt now." He does not seem at all worried.

Elk again is having the dream of when his village was burnt down and the Silver Noah landing. But then he wakes up to find himself on a
beach with the ship in the water. He then looks around and sees Lieza passed out on the sand with Pundit watching over her. Running
towards her, Elk then shakes her to wake up. Two people then approach Elk and Lieza, a small girl and an oldish man. Elk is still shaking
Lieza when the man tells him to stop moving her.

Later, inside a resort looking house, Lieza thanks the man, whose is known as Dr Vilmar. He tells her that she is fine, but it's strange that her
body healed so fast. She just replies that it was a mistake. He blandly agrees, and then says that since she is healed, she and Elk should
hurry and leave the island. The doctor views them as being suspicious, and doesn't want trouble being brought on to the island.

Elk is now sitting on the beach, deep in thought. However, the little girl interrupts and asks what's wrong, but Elk replies: nothing. The girl
then wants to take him around the island, since she knows everything, and is discouraged when Elk tells her to leave him alone. Elk looks
back to the girl and feels some guilt. He then asks her if he could ask a question. She replies in a smile.

The girl, whose name we know now as Lea, is seen to be asking people for someone of a certain description. However she has no luck.
One of the men tell her that maybe he was washed away by the waves, but is stopped when everyone looks to the side and sees Elk
walking along the shore. As he approaches the group, Lea reports to him that the person he was looking for wasn't on the island. Elk just
smiles and says that that person is not easily killed.

Night time has fallen on the island. As Lieza and Lea wash the dishes, Elk is standing on the front porch and staring out at the sea. Lea is
talking about her life on the island, and how she lives with Dr Vilmar whom she calls granddad. The doctor is known to be an outstanding
doctor, but Lieza asks if he was originally from somewhere else, and why he came here. Lea doesn't know why, but she says that he
doesn't like the city, and also the people who come from the city as well. Vilmar, who is also on the porch, looks out at Elk in the corner of his
eye. He has a flashback. He is walking in a corridor and a child is crying. Looking through a glass window, he sees three children playing,
one of them Elk and another the girl who he left as he escaped, Merryl. Vilmar's eyes are full of guilt. Then, back to the present, Elk walks
into the house, and Vilmar stares at him. His eyes widen as he says, "It couldn't be!"

Lieza wakes up in the middle of the night and sees that Elk is not in his bed. Walking out onto the shore, she sees him staring out at the ship.
Lieza then sits down beside him and starts conversation. However, he apologizes her for causing her injury, and starts voicing his regrets
on chasing after Arc. Lieza stops him by telling him that she is fine now, and inquires about him. Elk also says he's fine; he just bumped his
shoulder. Reaching out her hands onto his shoulder she closes her eyes and tells him to be quiet. A white light then surrounds her, and as
the light disappears and she pulls away, Elk asks what did she do. It is now apparent that she has healing powers.

Looking up at Elk, Lieza wants him to tell her what had happened between him and Arc. Elk then begins to tell her about his past. He grew
up in the peaceful village of Piruka. As a child he watched the men practice their powers of the flame, and it was his dad who was the best.
That power that they have was conferred by the sacred spirit of fire, and that those people were ever grateful for it. One day, the village
was attacked in the middle of the night. As Elk woke up, he heard his father and grandfather talking. They did not know what the attackers
would gain from destroying that village, but perhaps it was for the statue of the sacred spirit of fire. There are those who would use the
powers of the sacred spirits for evil deeds. Elk's father then tells Elk and his mother that he would protect them, the statue and the village.
However, as the village is being destructed, Elk runs out of the house saying that he is going to help his father. Suddenly, when he left the
house, a bomb was thrown at it, and behind him his house was burnt, with it his mother and grandfather.

Elk's father was one of the last who stood at the statue, protecting it. He told the attackers that they would not get the statue, but they in turn
shot them with their guns. Elk saw this and he ran up to his father. More bullets were shot, but none hit Elk. His father, who was near death,
told Elk to run away and save himself. However, Elk would not leave. His father's last words were: "May the sacred spirit of fire protect you."
The attackers then marched towards Elk and the statue in unison, and as they did so, Elk summoned the power of the flame for the first time
and killed some of the men. As he drooped to the ground, the attackers saw that he had great power, and would then take Elk to the White
House. He then blacked out.

Back to the present, Elk continues with saying that everything began that day. After he escaped from the white house, Shu took him in, and it
was there when he found out that the Silver Noah was Arc's ship. Lieza is now crying, but then Elk puts his hand on her shoulder. He tells
her that it is for something for her to heal faster, and begins to pull away but Lieza grabs his hand and places it back on her shoulder. Elk is
looking confused but Lieza stares up at him and thanks him for talking to her.

The next morning the islanders help Elk to pull the ship to shore. As Elk begins with the repairs, he explains that since he is a hunter, he has
to know the know-hows of those types of things. He wants to fix it as quickly as possible so that they can go back to Claudius. Looking up at
the sky, he says that he knows Shu is alright, and if he was fine, he would go back to Claudius. Lieza smiles and agrees, and they then
begin their work on the ship with Lea helping.

The scene is of Silver Noah now, flying through the sky. Arc is looking out at the window, but Pogo comes along and they chat. Pogo says
that it has felt like ages since they were on the ship, but they would still follow Arc anywhere and forever. They don't have many friends, but
one day people will show up and understand. Arc agrees, and says: "Everything is just as the sacred spirit has guided us." They then
head back to the others, but as Arc stops, he looks out at the window and wonders if he is to ever meet Elk again.

[ending song]

End of episode six: other side of sounds of waves. (does that even make sense? perhaps it's meant to be "The other side of the sound of
waves.")

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