My first fanfic. Woohoo! :D
Disclaimer: I don't own Vocaloid... D:
I ran, panting down the dark streets, frantically trying to find a way to get to the main street, getting glimpses of light from lanterns hung outside doors and from windows to taverns and bars. I always knew it was dangerous to make short-cuts through alleys. I guess I had it coming.
A wolf howled in the distance.
I tripped over the frills at the bottom of my dress, they ripped off.
"Blast." I whispered, If only it weren't considered improper for women to wear pants. I bet none of the men in court have tried running in a tight corset and a long dress complete with petticoats.
I scrambled up, the sound of claws on stone growing closer. I ducked into a smaller alley, running on fumes, and the memory of canine fangs on a human figure covered in hair. Someone grabbed me from behind and pulled me through a door. It was like a bad scary story.
"Shhh, I'm not going to hurt you." a Male voice whispered.
"And why should I believe you!" I hissed, struggling madly. He seemed to have no problem holding me still.
He turned me and stared at me with dim red eyes. "Believe what you want, but they can smell fear, and if you hide here you will be safe, your scent will be hidden." I stared at him, his eyes seemed friendly enough
I sighed "Well, I guess you are nicer than those crazy men. Even though you don't seem to know what is proper." I said, glaring at him.
He chuckled, glancing at me he grabbed my hand and pulled me farther into the building. I followed, staring at his long golden blonde hair, it was tied with a ribbon in a ponytail on the back of his head.
He led me into a dark room. "You trust too easily" he laughed and grabbed my arm, and lifted it to his mouth. He bit me. I gasped and blacked out.
I gasped and blacked out.
Or rather, I woke up.
I gasped suddenly waking from my nightmare. I stared into the darkness that surrounded me. I have had that dream countless times. It was all I could remember of the outside world. It wasn't exactly a good memory, but I still clung to it. Besides, sometimes it was all I had to think about. There wasn't really anything else to think about here. I mean, my world consisted of my cell, and the hallways us servants used because we were considered to lowly to use the same hallways as our 'masters' my cell consisted of four stone walls, only a few feet apart, I couldn't even see them most of the time. The servant's hallways were basically stone tunnels barely wide enough for two servants to pass each other.
I stare at the other side of my cell a lot, even though I can't see it.
Sometimes it seemed there were no walls there. Nothing to stop me from just walking on forever and ever, and never stopping, I guess it would be better than my life now.
Whenever I got like that all I had to do was extend my hand, and then I could feel the cold stone wall, only an arms reach away from me at all times. Sometimes I would just sit there, staring at the darkness.
I have spent hours, days, years, staring into the dark like this.
I don't have much to think about. What I do think about I think about in great depth, a good example of this was my escape plan, I have thought of that in VERY much detail.
Sometimes I would try to remember what it was like to be outside when the sun shone. To see the clear blue sky.
Was it blue? I forget...I don't really remember much of being free.
But I've learned things since I've been imprisoned. Like to not trust so easily, actually to not trust at all. Trust and companions are human nature. Humans are social creatures. I am not.
Click.
I stare blankly and weakly into nothingness. I go limp.
Click.
A little slot opened on the floor, light poured in through it. A bowl of thick red liquid was shoved through the hole. My dinner.
I stared weakly at the bowl until the slot closed again.
I quietly reached over and picked up the bowl. I stuck my fingers in and fished around, there was no pill today, sometimes they gave me a sleeping pill or something. I never ate it.
Indistinct mumbles came from the other side of the thick wall.
I drank up. Then I went limp. I waited a while.
Click, Click.
The door to my cell opened.
"She's asleep." a man laughed, "I guess she needed a nap after she ate such a large meal." Him and two others snickered. They grabbed my arms and pulled me out of the cell. Two of them went too pick up my arms and legs.
"Boo" I whispered to, staring at them with my blood red eyes.
I jumped up and shoved two in the cell and slammed the door shut on them. The other one pounced at me and I jumped to the side. He slammed his head against the close walls. I chuckled and stomped on him with all my might. He started coughing.
I stopped to finger the nameplate on the door. Rin-02, that's what I think it said, I occasionally heard one of them say Rin around me but mainly they just said 'hey you'. I'm pretty sure it wasn't my real name, but I didn't remember what that was. I know 02 was my number though. Apparently I was brought in right after the original 02 died. Or was killed, or did suicide, they never did tell me. After a while I stopped asking, I didn't want to know.
Dashing down the hallway I didn't even look back to the man dying in front of my cell, coughing up blood.
Running down the empty halls I scoffed at their carelessness. If you take care and watch, you will notice that when you take certain routes there are no guards. It's like they loosened up on security because they didn't expect the element of surprise to be enough for one servant to be able to defeat three men. Probably because most of us servants were girls.
Wait. I'm not sure they qualify as men. More like monsters. I mean, I still physically qualify as a girl and all... but they were monsters. No human left in them.
I ducked into the dark tunnel, luckily no other servants were there, they would have held me back, told me there was no way I could get out, but I had been in here longer than them, I have observed the loopholes.
The familiar darkness swallowed me yet again as I crawled army-style, the passage getting smaller and smaller, just larger than me, it meant only the smallest could follow me.
Suddenly the tunnel widened, I dove forward.
Water rushed over me and I sighed. It felt like I had never felt this kind of coolness. For years I had never been cool, only cold, the kind of cold that reached into your bones and hurt when you warmed up again.
I paddled silently, grabbing rocks on the way to leave my scent. Breathing rarely, mainly when I surfaced to listen, I heard faint splashes, and yells of surprise, I guess they found the underground river.
I felt the pull of the water. Like me it was eager to be free, to feel sunlight, which if I remember correctly, feels good. Together the water and I rushed forward, until I came to a slight indent in the side of the cave. I dove down, it was deep. I surfaced and took a deep breath, then submerged again and sat at the bottom and waited.
Dogs rely mainly on their sense of smell, unlike light, smell doesn't travel through water. Besides, you don't take a creature of the night and imprison it in the dark, it helps develop their senses, except sight.
I could feel the vibrations and I could taste them on the water. They were wet tired, and scared. Years of being served weakened you.
None of them noticed the deep spot.
The group was stretched out, stragglers were panting and falling behind the main group. I felt like a hunter stalking my prey, Ahh it was nice to be at the top of the food chain. One of the stragglers ventured too close to me, I silently pulled them under the water and covered their mouth before they could scream. None of his colleagues noticed, it was too dark, and they assumed he had just tripped or stumbled.
"Shhh I'm not going to hurt you. " I said baring my teeth.
Cloaking my scent with the red stained water I ran at the main group.
"She was hiding under the water! She jumped me and I'm injured!" A panicked manly voice boomed through the cave.
They all jumped up and ran back, looking for me.
"I'm going to go see where this tunnel leads." I said, my voice booming.
"You do that, you are of no use injured" yelled one of the group, running back into the cave, running away from what they thought they were running at. I started running, following the cave.
Rin. I rolled it over on my tongue several times. It sounded nice, and since I didn't know what my real name was I would go by that name. Rin. It sounded nice.
Stopping to catch my breath at the cave entrance I heard yells of surprise. One of them had probably found the body I had stashed in the same corner that I had hidden in. I laughed.
I stared into the starry sky, it was night, looks like I would have to wait another couple of hours to feel sun on my skin. Smirking I dove into the... Lake? Ocean? Sea? The large body of water, I couldn't tell if I was salt water or not. I had forgotten what salt water was like
GACK! It's so cheesy D:... Wow... It has changed so much... In the rough draft she was so pissed off, emo and cocky... Now she's a little less pissed off and emo. Can anyone guess who the random mystery dude was at the beginning of the story :3 OOOOOooooooOOOOOOO O3O
Please tell me what you like and didn't like about this. :D your feedback is important to me.
Also I promise there will be Len in the next chapter. :)
