Three Delivery "New Recruits"
By Crystalquirt
Blood, violence & angsty. Injuries all around, mild sexual content and mild language.
For GAARA-N-SANURA-ALWYS! By request - including her OC's
Sanura, 'San' for short and Ami, introduced in her Three Delivery fan fiction, found at Deviant Art.
In this version, two girls, twin sisters are recruited by Kong Li to catch Tobey and Sid off guard and get rid of them so he can get to Nana and Sue and finally get the cookbook.
I think I got everything but the kitchen sink in this! :D Hopefully it's not too much!
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Well after dark and after the last delivery, Sid went to the skate park on his bike with his skateboard under his arm. Sue hurried home to meet Nana. They had planned to experiment with a new recipe. It was just for brownies, but chocolate anything was as good as learning magic.
Tobey followed Sid to the skate park on his bike. Bikes are only allowed in the skate park if no one sees, or yells at him to get out. Tobey's rules were a little different than the park's rules, but this late in the evening they were usually the only one's there.
Sid complained a little, mostly just to tease Tobey. He was used to having to get out of Tobey's way when he missed his turns. After they played on the ramps a while, they noticed two girls sitting on the benches watching them, so they start to show off, like boys will.
Sid launched his board off a ramp and struck a pose in mid-air. He flipped the board over under his feet expertly before his landed flawlessly again on the next slop. The girls cheered!
Tobey was standing on his pedals building up as much speed as he could get in the short turn before a jump. He took the ramp perfectly. It was the landing that could have used a little work. As his bike hit the ground he went over the handlebars and landed on his head in front of it.
Sid panicked and ran to him thinking he was dead when he didn't move right away. The girls came off the benches and ran out to the boys.
"Tobey! Can you hear me?" Sid gently shook his shoulder, and got no response. "Oh no!" he reached for his phone to call for help.
Tobey started giggling. "Tobey? I'm gonna bust you up myself!"
Tobey rolled away from him and got up in his snake stance. Sid 'performed a round kick' and Tobey avoided it. He jumped into the air and Sid rolled out of his way. It was a well choreographed show they totally put on for the girls.
The mock battle ended in a draw and both boys smiled at each other. Tobey went for his bike and Sid went over to get his skateboard. The girls giggled too and when Sid and Tobey were standing together again. They went over to them.
"We were really impressed by your tricks!"
"Oh, and then the Kung Fu afterwards!" the second girl added.
"We know Kung Fu too!" the girl with the colored hair bragged.
"Yeah but, you guys are so cool! So much better at it than us." She glared at her sister.
Tobey struck a superhero pose, "Yeah, well, I am just a little bit stronger, handsomer and cooler than he is, don't you think?"
The girl with the colored, long black hair giggled and went over near Tobey. "Are you really stronger than he is, he looks bigger?" Her tone showed she was teasing him, but Tobey didn't care. Now that he slowed down and really looked at her, he saw how beautiful she was!
In the glow from the streetlights around the park he saw she had bright electric blue eyes, one covered by her hair, just like his. Her hair was long and black except for a turquoise streak on both sides and her turquoise bangs that hung over her eye.
She mysteriously dressed a lot like Sue too, only her pants were long with flared bottoms. She wore a similar tank top with torn edges, and studded black belt with a collar and wrist cuff to match. Instead of another cuff on her other wrist, she wore a small bracelet with a green stone in silver. Her shoes were gray 'Vans' like Tobey's, only hers had hearts on them. She had porcelain skin just like a beautiful doll.
"I'm San!" she introduced herself.
"Oh um, I'm Tobey!" he was blushing already.
The other girl walked over to Sid. She had long black hair as well except her hair was pulled back and clipped up like his sister's. She had green eyes. Her skin was a rich milk chocolate color. She wore a long sleeved white shirt with a grey and black sleeveless shirt over it. She wore worn blue jeans that flared out over her white tennis shoes. She wore one simple necklace with a light blue stone in silver.
"I'm Ami – we're sisters."
Sid took off his helmet and smoothed his hair. "You must be new around here, are you visiting Chinatown or have you moved here." As they talked they went over to a nearby 'bench height' wall to sit on. Sid pulled his bike and carried his skateboard over and laid them down in front of them. Behind them was a 'bowl' that went up like a hill. They were sitting on a jump.
"We just moved here with our new adoptive parents."
Tobey and San were standing near Tobey's bike closer to the entrance. He had just asked her if they were new in the neighborhood and heard they had been adopted.
"Really? Awesome! Me and Sid were adopted too!"
"You two are the first people our age that we've met since we've been in Chinatown. It's great to meet such cool guys!"
Tobey blushed and tried to act cool. "We've been training in kung fu for years now!" he started to tell her about himself. He was nervous so he kept looking past her and around the park, exaggerating what he said with hand movements.
He glanced over at Sid and saw Kong Li was standing right behind him in the low point in the jump!
"Sid! Look out – Kong Li's right behind you!"
"Tobey! NOT NOW! This isn't the time to mess with me! I'm talking!"
Embarrassed by Tobey's pranking in front of the girls, Sid ran his hand through his hair again. Kong Li already had the staff raised, ready to strike him in the head.
Kong Li was smiling and the girls didn't react at all. They just watched Tobey like they didn't see an attacker either.
"Sid – I'm not kidding this time!" Tobey was already running toward Sid to save him. Sid had no further warning before the staff hit him right in the head and made him fall sideways off the low wall.
Stunned, and dazed for a moment, he rolled onto his back with his eyes shut. He held his head with both hands. Kong Li landed over him and had the staff high in the air ready to bring it down in his face.
Tobey leapt into the air and blocked the next strike Kong Li aimed at Sid. Kong Li smoothly jumped backwards, back up on the wall. Tobey landed over Sid where Kong Li had been standing, in just the instant it took him to look up, Kong Li was gone. Tobey stepped to the side and held a hand down to help Sid up. "Are you hurt badly?"
"Only my pride. Sorry I didn't believe you – but can you blame me? You're always pulling stupid stunts! Last time you said Kong Li was behind me with spiders and you just got done pretending you were dead after you crashed on your bike!"
"Yeah, but you should know by know when I really mean it!"
"Yeah – How?"
As they argued they forgot about the girls. Sid shushed Tobey while he called Nana. He walked away so the girls couldn't hear him talk to her. Tobey stayed with them and tried to explain what just happened as an unexpected mugger.
After Sid hung up his phone, he told Tobey to come on - they had to go. He got on his bike with his board under his arm and started off. Tobey excused himself, but made sure the girls knew where to meet them the next day for lunch at school.
Ami and San stood their quietly until they were sure the boys were out of earshot and then they giggled.
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Sid and Tobey told Sue they were meeting the new girls for lunch and wouldn't be at her table. She sighed and glared at them, as they walked to class, but it wasn't the first time it happened. She hated eating lunch alone.
Well she sat with her friends, but she missed sitting with Tobey, and Sid but mostly Tobey. He could always cheer her up if she was having a bad day, but she would never let him think he was that funny.
After school Sid and Tobey came in poking each other and laughing. So happy, Nana suspected something was going on. "What's going on with you two?" Sue already knew what was going on and she just sat there looking annoyed.
"Nana? We met two new friends! Can they come in and eat with us before deliveries?"
"I'm sure there is enough." She went to the kitchen to tell Barney to help her bring out trays with enough bowls. Sid and Tobey ran back to the front door to tell San and Ami to come in. Sue rolled her eyes and took her bowl back to the kitchen. There wouldn't be room in the booth for her to eat with them anyway.
They sat and giggled and talked about nothing for almost an hour while they ate, and soon Mr. Wu started yelling about deliveries and no one working. "Can we go with you guys on your deliveries?"
"Sure!" Tobey blushed again.
"We insist you come with us." Sid was 'so' smooth.
Sue was 'so' annoyed. For one thing they had never even introduced them to her. It was like she wasn't there at all. And what girls giggle and swoon over two guys they just met, especially her brother and Tobey?
The more she saw them together, the more she thought they were fakers and had to be up to something. Girls usually left when Tobey stuck his finger up his nose, but not these two, they just giggled.
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It was a slow night and Sid and Ami got to talk a lot while they rode aimlessly after Sid made his delivery. She told him that her sister, San like to skateboard and played guitar. Sid told her he played guitar too. Ami called San and told her to meet them back at Wu's with her guitar. Always willing to entertain, she agreed and said she'd see them soon.
The next time Nana went through the dining room, Sid and San were both playing guitars and San was singing. Tobey and Ami sat in a booth and watched them quietly for as long as they could stand it. Tobey got bored.
Tobey and Ami went in the garden and spared. San and Sid soon joined them and after seeing Ami with Tobey pinned under her, San accused Ami of trying to steal him away from her. San was really angry at first, but soon it became a mock kung fu battle between them like the boys had at the park.
Sid thought Ami had more skill, Tobey thought San was better, and soon it became a four way brawl. They all wound up lying in the grass laughing so hard they couldn't get up.
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Sid volunteered for the next and last delivery so he could ride with Ami again. Ami waited by the bikes while he went in. While he was distracted, she reached over to his bike and yanked the break cables from the front and back wheels.
Sid suspected nothing, not recognizing the smirk his new friend had plastered on her face as anything sinister. When they started down the next steep hill, Ami used her brakes and fell behind. Sid looked back at her as he picked up speed, and put his own brakes on to wait for her and find out if anything was wrong.
Ami stopped completely to watch him. She could hear him yell "Crap!" and giggled, excited at first that her plan was working.
Sid tried frantically to get the brakes to work with no luck. He got low over the handlebars and concentrated on keeping control. To keep from running right through a group of tourists out in front of a restaurant he had to go up a ramp connected behind a flat bed trailer. He flew over the trailer and truck that pulled it, and made a perfect landing in front of it.
Ami was impressed. She started coasting down the hill so she could stay close enough to him to see what happened to him. Right in front of him, there was a busy intersection that would surely be the end of his ride.
Sid started yelling "NO BRAKES!" and the pedestrians in front of him cleared the crosswalk. A car narrowly missed him, car tires screeching in both directions. The yellow bike didn't look like much more than a streak as Sid flew through.
"Wow, he's good – and lucky." Ami found herself rooting for him, hoping that he made it all the way.
The next intersection wasn't as busy and he aimed through it, going between two cars like he was threading a needle. He managed to jump the curb when the street ended and had no place else to go but into a park.
In the park, it wasn't as steep after the first grassy hill, and he avoided the trees but aimed on purpose at the bushes. Crashing through them, they slowed him down enough as they tore at his clothes that when his bike hit a bench it wasn't damaged.
Sid flew over the handlebars and landed on his back in a grassy patch near the swings.
"Wow, what a ride huh?" Sid spoke to a spotted puppy that had run over to him and was licking his face.
Ami stopped on the hill and watched him playing with the puppy below. "Oh crap, how lucky can he be? Father will be so angry with me!"
Inside she felt very relieved and glided down the hill to be sure he was really ok. By the time she got to him, tears had welled up in her eyes. She was so confused.
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Sid and Ami rode home together. He jumped off his bike before the big down hills each time. Ami went across the street to her apartment and Sid parked his bike in the garden and went to his room. He didn't find Tobey in his bunk so he went back down to the dining room to look for him.
The kitchen light was still on and he looked down at his clothes. His pants were ripped to shreds, worse than he could see in the light of the streetlights and he was covered with small cuts from when he went though the bushes. "Oh no – another pair of pants are shrimp toast."
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After Sid and Ami went for their ride, San didn't leave for a long time. She and Tobey sat at the booth and talked. Sometimes, for long periods of time they didn't even talk. They just sat and stared at each other smiling. Tobey blushed a lot and soon San was holding his hand across the table.
Ami and Sid were still not back, but San finally stood up to say goodnight. It was close to midnight. 'Father' will get mad if we're not there when he gets home, she explained. Tobey said Nana would be mad too if she knew how late I stayed up but I really enjoy your company."
"I enjoy your company too Tobey. Walk me home?"
"It's just across the street – oh ya! I'll walk you home!" Tobey was slow, sometimes, but he always caught up eventually. When they got to the door of her apartment she leaned in very close to Tobey's face. He backed up at first, but looking into her eyes he willingly leaned forward and their lips met.
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"When san got back to the apartment, Ami was already inside and waiting impatiently. Did you do it?"
"Yeah."
"Good Tobey's end is near! Nothing can save him. I'll get Sid next time, in fact – I've already . . ."
San interrupted her sister. "But it's terrible what we're doing! I don't think we should be doing this – father seems too evil – I don't think he's telling us the truth about them."
"Of course he is telling the truth. It has to be done-they are protecting the old lady-and she is trying to destroy Chinatown! After it's done we will finally have a home of our own! And father said we would meet our own end, if we didn't take care of this for him."
"But at the cost of their lives – and all he wants is some cookbook in return? Something is very wrong. What father tells his daughters to do something like this?" they shut up when they heard someone in the hall.
'Father' came in and greeted his girls. He laughed maniacally when he learned Tobey would soon be no more, and Ami promised Sid would meet his end soon after. Kong Li threw KFC in a bucket on the table for them and left again. San couldn't stand it and ran back down and across the street to find Tobey.
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Back at Wu's, Sid was downstairs looking for Tobey. He saw him through the glass still out on the street and went to meet him at the door, ready to scold him for being outside so late.
Before Tobey even got back across the street he doubled over in pain. Sid ran out and met him at the curb.
"Tobey what's wrong?"
"I don't' know. My stomach hurts all of a sudden. I felt fine until just now."
"Are you gonna throw up?"
"No - It just hurts."
"Come, sit down, I'll get Nana."
"No don't bother her, I'll be fine - I'm going to bed." Tobey went to their room. Sid downed some hot chocolate before going up.
When he got to their room, Tobey was thrashing around on the lower bunk. He didn't even make it up to his own bunk. He was sweating and his skin felt very hot when Sid checked him. Tobey had taken off his clothes, even his wrist bands, and was lying on top of the covers in only his boxers.
"You're burning up! Tobey what's wrong – you said you were fine just a few minutes ago?"
"I must be getting the flue or something, my stomach really hurts and I'm so hot! Can you get me a cup of ice?"
"Sure, I'll get it." Sid ran back downstairs and got the ice. On his way back up he heard frantic knocking on the locked front door. San was standing outside jumping up and down. He ran over and opened the door for her.
"What's wrong?"
"Where's Tobey! I have to go to him!"
"It's late, we'll see you guys tomorrow – he's not feeling well anyway."
"I know – it's my fault! He really needs this!" She showed him a vial that she had in her pocket.
"Why does Tobey need that-what is it?" Sid was blocking her from just charging in the door.
San ignored him, her mind on Tobey. "How is he? The pain will be terrible by now – please let me in!"
"How did you know?"
"'cause I'm the one who poisoned him!"
"Poison? How . . . why?"
"With a kiss – I carry the antidote so the poison won't affect me while it is on my lips. I have to take it each time I start to feel the pain."
"And now I'm the only one who can save him! Please take me to him!"
Sid still didn't understand, "Why would you want to poison Tobey? And if you did, how do I know what you have in that vial won't finish him off!"
"NO TIME - Let me in!" San lowered her shoulder and rammed Sid.
"This is messed up!" he rolled back up to his feet and followed her up the stairs calling for Nana as he went.
San didn't know what room Tobey was in, and just ran frantically to the end of the hall. Downstairs, they left the front door standing wide open.
Sid called for Nana again. "No don't tell her – I can save him – no one has to know this happened!"
"I'm not letting you do anything to Tobey."
"I already did something to him – I'm so sorry - Now I have to fix it."
"Nana!" Sid screamed again. Nana came out of her room and Sid told her that this girl wanted to give Tobey something because she said he had been poisoned. Sue looked out of her bedroom door at the chaos in the hallway.
Sid added, "She may be right, Tobey isn't feeling well – but how do we know her 'antidote' won't hurt him more?"
They all went to check on him. In just the short time Sid was gone, he saw Tobey had stopped thrashing, but was lying in a pool of his own sweat. His hair was wet and stuck to his face. He looked very weak and didn't seem able to even lift his head. He opened his mouth to scream from the pain in his stomach and Sid saw his tongue was dark purple!
"Tobey!" He sat on the edge of the bed and took his hand in his, and felt his forehead. Tobey was even hotter than he had been, and when he put his hand on Tobey's stomach he felt how tense his muscles were from the pain he was experiencing.
"Sid. I hurt so bad!"
Nana leaned over and checked him too. Tobey was burning up with fever, and his skin felt clamy when she touched him. As they watched, the purple color was beginning to appear in streaks on his arms and legs and it was spreading fast.
"What's wrong with me? Help me Nana!" San tried to push her way past them to get to him. Nana stood up and restrained her. Sue came in and glared at San before she took over for Nana.
San struggled a little when Sue took Nana's place holding her arms behind her back. San knew hurting Sue or Nana would not help her convince them that she was trying to help so she allowed herself to be restrained.
Sue was not surprised that this 'San' person had caused some sort of trouble but she didn't know what yet.
Nana was asking her, "What did you do to him?"
"I'm not sure exactly and there's no time to explain – please I have to give him the antidote fast or he will die! I'll tell you everything I know after."
Nana had already seen Tobey's symptoms and took the vial from San's pocket to smell it. Nana recognized it and told Sue to let her go. She handed it back to San quickly and told Sid to get out of the way.
Nana instructed San to "Give it to him."
San sat down and tried to open Tobey's mouth, but he was moving around too much and threatened to make her drop the antidote. This had to be done right. Sid got back in behind her and caught both of Tobey's hands to hold them against his chest and hold him still.
San carefully pried his mouth open and put a spool of thread she found on the nightstand between his teeth. Then she dripped five drops of the liquid under Tobey's purple tongue. She poured the rest in her hands and rubbed it into his skin where it was turning purple on his arms and legs.
Once it was done, Sid could feel Tobey was not fighting anymore so he let go of his hands. Tobey had his eyes squeezed shut and his teeth clenched. His head went back and his shoulders came off the mattress as he arched his back in pain.
"I thought you said this would stop the poison! He's still in pain!" Sue jumped on San and knocked her down. Nana stopped her from punching her lights out. San didn't care, now that Tobey would be ok, she figured she deserved whatever Sue did to her.
From listening quietly Sue figured out what had happened. She immediately connected San to Kong Li! San exclaimed, "Look it is working – the purple is fading. His pain should be gone in a few more seconds.
Sue sat on San while they anxiously watched Tobey and sure enough, the purple on his arms and legs faded. Nana told him to stick out his tongue and he did, almost happily. It was back to its healthy pink color.
Nana checked him over again. "That was the purple death recipe. How did Tobey get it in his system – and how did you know about it and bring the antidote?"
"I'm so sorry – I'll explain. Ami and I were kidnapped from the orphanage. Our lives were threatened if we didn't cooperate – but if we did, we were promised that we would be adopted by a loving father and would never have to go back."
Sue looked really angry and clenched her fists.
San continued. "We were told to kill Sid and Tobey first, just because we would easily have more close contact with them. I'm so sorry, but we desperately want a family, and we were scared. He said he'd kill us if we didn't cooperate.
"What was to happen after you killed Tobey and Sid?" Nana asked calmly.
Tobey added, "Yeah – and couldn't you have found a less painful way to kill me? That really hurt!"
"Tobey!" Sid growled.
"After the boys were gone and you and she were grieving for them we were to take you out and find some cookbook. I don't know what's so important about a cookbook for four lives, but we were afraid and desperate! I'm so sorry - do whatever you want to me – but please save my sister. She would be better off back in the orphanage than where we are now."
Sue squished San down harder on the hardwood floor really wanting to tear her apart. "You will be in jail for what you've done, you almost killed Tobey!"
Sid added, "And for planning to kill us all."
San twisted and with a flick of her wrist sent Sue rolling off of her. They both jumped up and took their stances, Sue in her Dragon, and San in a stance very similar to Sid's Tiger stance.
"No Sue! I don't want to fight you. I give up." San went back down to her knees and looked over at Tobey.
Tobey had relaxed and closed his eyes while he listened to them talk. Without opening his eyes, he asked softly, "What does your father look like?"
Nana answered him before San could. "He looks just like Kong Li. I recognized the poison as one he knows – and who else would target us like this?"
Just then the door slammed open. Ami was standing in the doorway.
"You SAVED HIM? And you TOLD them everything? Why? Don't you ever think! This was our one chance for a normal life! And now father will kill us instead."
"I couldn't kill Tobey, I love him. I can't stand it, I caused him so much pain – and just on the promise of us having a better life. You know it wasn't a fair trade – even if you won't admit it right now."
Tobey smiled when he heard her say she 'loved' him.
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Alright then you two must know where Kong Li is and what he's up to – and he doesn't yet know that you've turned on him. You can help us take him down.
"All he told us was that he's working on taking down some barrier, and he went to the tallest building in Chinatown to do it."
"That will be enough information to find him, and stop him." Nana rallied her troops.
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They set out after Kong Li. They all knew which the tallest building in Chinatown was. It had just been on the news. A perfect place to try and attack the shield Nana put up.
Sue, Sid and Tobey got ready to take their bikes. Tobey went wearing only his white tank top complaining that he was still too hot. Ami started to get on her bike, but stopped as she remembered something kind of important.
"Stop Sid! Wait!" he stopped and looked at her. She still had a wrench in her back pocket and took it out as she went over to Sid. He watched with interest as she tightened his handlebars.
"Sorry, Kong Li said Tobey and Sid." She couldn't remember ever feeling so bad.
Sid shivered and his mind went back to his exciting trip down the hill. He knew without asking. Ami went back to her bike. San used her skateboard down he hills, and ran uphill just as fast.
They all stopped across the street from the building. Nana was there first, although no one saw how she got there so fast. Kong Li had created columns of colored mist. A side effect of what magic he cooked up on the roof.
They all started off again to ran up the steps of the tall building. It had been locked for the evening and Ami picked the lock quickly to let them in. Tobey complained a little – wishing they could have taken the elevator, but Nana felt it would be too easy for Kong Li to trap them all in an elevator.
They all rushed out on the roof with Ami and San out first.
A sinister voice echoed in the night. "How dare you girls turn against me – I will have you begging me to let you go back to the orphanage – but you won't live long enough."
They spread out and attacked him, everyone but Nana and Sue, who went to destroy what he had been cooking. He had even conveniently left the recipe by the pot.
Sid leapt over San and landed a strike in the middle of Kong Li's chest making him back up a little. Kong Li retaliated with a round kick and slammed Sid against an electric panel. He continued with a second kick and Ami landed behind an air conditioner unit and never came back out. She had hit her head and didn't move at all for a while.
All Tobey could see of her, were Ami's feet lying motionless, but he had to fight Kong Li off before he could go to her. His kick drove Kong Li back another step and Tobey ran toward Ami. Sid jumped up and joined him.
San's turn, she ran in and landed both palms against Kong Li's stomach and chest and knocked the wind out of him. He fell back, but his staff still connected with San's back on her follow through.
San landed dangerously close to the edge of the building. Before she could get up, a well-aimed lightening strike from Kong Li's fingertips blasted her over the edge. Instead of screaming, she gritted her teeth and reached for the ledge.
Her fingers barely touched the first ledge, but caught the next one, a floor down. She got her other hand up and just hung by her fingertips for a moment trying to catch her breath. Tobey saw what happened and hurried to look over the edge. He saw her hanging below, way out of his reach.
Without thinking, Tobey started over the edge to find a way down to help her. Nana appeared out of nowhere and stopped him. She handed him a cookie and told him to break it – quickly! He did and he turned into a flying monkey!
"Yes!" he exclaimed and dove over the edge after San.
As she came into his view he saw she was hanging on to the edge of a ledge about a floor down. Tobey hovered near her so she could climb over and hang onto him but she freaked out when she felt the air current from his wings and turned to look at him.
"Ahhh a monster! Come here – let me kick your ass!"
"No San! It's me - Tobey! Grab On – I'm here to save you!" he held out his hands to her.
"Oh-ok" she was a little embarrassed.
"And I'm not a monster - I'm a flying monkey!" When she looked again, she could see that it really was Tobey! White forelock and everything!
San reached for him and caught his white tank top with one hand, he had his hand on her arm to guide her, but her fingers slipped from the ledge before she had a good hold on him. She had the front of his shirt, but it only slowed her down a little as it tore and came off of him in her hand!
She grabbed for him again and missed before she fell. It was all so unexpected, he missed too when he tried to grab her.
"San!" Tobey dove after her. He flapped hard to pick up speed straight down, and then he folded his wings to freefall when he caught up to her.
He pulled her up tight in his arms, pressing her to his bare chest - bare, but for a soft coat of monkey fur. San's temporary fear made her grab handfuls of his fur and hang on so tight it made him whine softly in the back of his throat, but he didn't try to make her let go.
He spread his wings out as far as he could to slow and turn out of their fall. The force of the turn caused his hands to slip down her body, but he still had a tight hold on her belt with both hands. And she still had wads of his fur in her fingers. They had fallen through a patch of fog that made it difficult to see where they were – or how close the rooftops were already.
Even with his great effort to pull out of the dive in time, they crashed through someone's TV antennae and since San was on the bottom, she screamed as her back took the damage.
San muffled a scream through gritted teeth when the ends of broken aluminum polls tore through the flesh down her back.
"San! No!" Tobey heard her muffled sounds of agony and fought to go higher, but barely managed to stay in the air at all. At the same time he pulled her back up to wrap his arms around her tighter instead of hanging onto her by her belt. San buried her face in his furry monkey chest.
"Sorry! San! Are you . . . b-badly hurt?" He spoke breathlessly, breathing hard and fast from the over exertion of flying with the weight of two. When he got no answer he pulled her up tighter and shook her gently while he avoided two chimneys in a row by weaving around them.
"Dammit! San! Answer me!" with little control as they shot through the fog, and his attention on San, they flew over another rooftop and out over the bay.
The lacerations down her back stung like someone poured alcohol over them and she couldn't even breathe for a few moments. Now they were flying over water and Tobey was trying to make it to a pier just ahead.
"I'm fine," she finally moaned into his neck keeping her jaw tight, resisting the urge to scream.
"You don't sound fine, I'm SO sorry!"
"It's so totally NOT your fault Tobey! You saved me – and when we get out of this I'll thank you properly."
She couldn't see the huge, goofy smile he had on his monkey face as he imagined how she might thank him. But his smile faded when a gust of wind blew them sideways.
He gritted his teeth and flapped twice as hard to get flying straight again. "Don't worry I'll get us down safe!"
He was still flapping hard just to stay in the air – "Shit San! I didn't think you'd be this heavy!"
"Heavy!" San repeated. Tobey was holding her so tight she couldn't move her arm enough to slug him properly for calling her 'heavy', so she went for the only tender spot she could reach with her teeth. She nuzzled in his monkey fur until she found his nipple!
She gently pulled it between her teeth and pinched just enough to get his attention, without letting go of him, she said "don't call me heavy, or I'll bit it off." He yelped and agreed, before she let him go. She spit out the monkey fur she got in her mouth.
Tobey found it hard to keep his mind on flying when he felt the goose bumps caused by her bite running all over his skin. They lost a little more altitude before he meant to.
With San's skin laid open down her back he really wanted to keep her out of the water. Infection, bacteria, pollution, debris – Jellyfish! The dangers in the water were numerous.
Though exhausted, Tobey managed to flap twice more and barely made it to the edge of the pier. He pulled San as close as he could, turned over in mid air so he would hit first, put his head down over her's and held on tight.
San tried to flip them back over so she would hit first and could protect him, but his wings gave him the advantage in the air.
They were heading straight for a forklift left on the pier after work hours. There were two large coffin-sized crates on the forklift blades. Tobey slammed into the deck on his back crushing his wings. He screamed in pain, sounding just like a screeching monkey, but never loosened his grip on San while they rolled three times before his arms covering her back smashed into the side of the forklift.
He protected her body, but San's leg struck the corner of one of the large crates and smashed through the wood. Besides the breaking wood, she could hear her own leg bone crack and gritted her teeth as the broken wood pieces scraped the skin off the back of her leg. It felt like it cut all the way to what was left of the bone.
They hit the forklift so hard they bounced back a couple of feet before they landed on the deck. Tobey ended up face down on top of San with his face in her hair. His limp wings fell down around both of them like black satin sheets slowly falling to the ground.
"Tobey! I think my leg is broken – are you ok? Tobey? . . .Tob?"
"I guess he's not ok!" she found herself staring into his neck and couldn't see his face.
San gently slid sideways out from under his light frame, not moving him anymore than she had too. Once out from under his body she scooted down to get out from under his wing. She felt his monkey neck for a pulse. She thought it was very fast and weak, but since he was a flying monkey she didn't know if that wasn't normal.
San tried one more time to wake him up with no luck and then patted herself down looking for her phone, but couldn't find it. She took a small flashlight out of a pouch on her belt and used it to search Tobey for his phone. She patted down his back pockets with no luck finding the phone, but smiled as she patted his pockets one more time, just for fun.
She looked down at herself to assess the damage to her body with the flashlight. The back of her pants leg was bloody and could see the front of her shirt was covered with blood. She could feel the cuts on her back, but had to lift her shirt to check her front. That stain was not her blood – Tobey must be bleeding somewhere!
San aimed the flashlight at him again and started to fold his wing to see more of his side and arm, but felt the bones in his wing rubbing together. She stopped. "I think I'm about to get a course in 'flying monkey' first aid!"
Without moving him anymore than she had to, she put her cheek on the deck to look under his wing with the flashlight. She found a wound that looked like hamburger with the end of a broken bone sticking out. And blood was still dripping into a puddle on the wooden deck.
"Oh man! That's gotta hurt, maybe its better he's unconscious."
As if in response to her observation, Tobey moaned and tried to move, only just discovering the intense pain he felt. He screamed into the boards he was lying on and slowly lifted his ankles off the deck. His respirations changed from slow regular, to shallow and fast from intense pain. His whole body tensed and he started shivering violently making San think he was going into convulsions.
"No! Tobey hold still!" he kept moving his legs and his uninjured wing slapped the deck like he was trying to take off. San put her hand in the middle of his back between his wings to help keep him still. "Did you hear me? Tobey? It will help if you can make yourself relax."
He made a sound that might have been "Dammit!" His wing jerked involuntarily.
"Tobey? Hold still – do you understand?"
"Yeah San, I . . . Arrrgggh!" he kicked the deck again, before he was able to make himself lay still.
"If you didn't notice already, you're injured."
"Yeah, I guessed . . . are you ok?"
"Mostly, but I wish it was me instead of you! You saved my life just now about ten times in a row!"
He painfully turned his head so he could see her, "Glad I could help, – but as long as we're wishin' - I wish neither of us would have been hurt."
San gently smoothed his white bangs out of his eyes before she looked around. Where the long pier met the beach there was nothing but sand, trees and a tall fence! No buildings, no life of any kind. She couldn't even see streetlights from where they were.
Along the fence on one side was another parked forklift, a road grader and a man lift. We must be in some sort of temporary, secure construction yard. "I don't even see a guard shack."
"What?"
"Tobey, we're looking pretty screwed at the moment, but don't worry – I'll get us out of here." Beyond a chain link fence at the top of a steep embankment, she could see headlights.
"There's life just up that hill on the other side of a fence, but the chances of me getting anywhere for help with a broken leg . . . and a broken monkey – are pretty slim. We'll find another way back."
"Your leg's broken? You didn't tell me you had been hurt! San – I'm so sorry – I thought I could . . . I thought I had protected . . ."
"Shhhhh. You did, and I am fine, really – it's far from my heart!" She was still thinking about their situation. She never thought she'd find herself injured and trapped in a secluded place in Chinatown! She didn't think a secluded place existed in all of San Francisco.
There was another pier a couple of hundred feet away, and as the fog rolled through she caught glimpses of a small motor boat tied up about halfway to shore. It looked too old to still be afloat.
Looking back down the coastline, she could see the building where the fight was still taking place. Not everyone could have seen the magic energy that flashed and lit up the night sky. San could also 'feel' that her sister was in trouble; at least she could tell she was under some major stress.
San used her hands to painfully push herself up 'butt in the air first' without using her injured leg. Tobey saw her getting up – "You're hurt! Be careful - what are you doing? – You're not leaving me alone are you?"
"No Tobey, I'm not leaving you – you couldn't make me leave you - if you wanted me to." San tested her leg with a little weight on it, it hurt - a lot – but it supported her – kind of.
Her weight on one leg, she bent down and picked up three pieces of the thin, broken slats of wood from the crate that were all about the same size and shape. She used one of them to help pry the rest of the lid off of the crate to see what was in it.
"What are you doing?"
"Looking for something to make a splint out of, for your wing. Speaking of your wing – when did you become a monkey and why don't you change back?"
"I used a magic transformation cookie that Nana gave me so I could save you. This isn't the first time either. . ."
Tobey tried to move just a tiny bit so he could see her, but screamed out in pain and held still again. He panted. "I've been a flying monkey before, and a dog and cat – and even a Nian! Ahnnnn! It hurts so bad!"
Trying to distract him San kept talking, "Really, even a mythological beast! Cool! But how do you change back? It's your wing that's broken, and you're still bleeding. If you change back, you won't have a wing to be hurt. Maybe your injury won't even exist after that."
"I don't know I've never been hurt before while I was transformed. I will change back automatically after a while I hope. Nana's transformation cookies usually last an hour. But it was different the first time with this form. We had to perform another spell and use another cookie to get my human form back the first time."
"Well then, you still have at least an hour, we can't have you bleeding like that for an hour and we have to get back to the battle in a hurry." San started to mentally take inventory of what she had to work with.
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[Tobee continued . . .]