Um, did you guys like the profiles? I'm so sorry that I haven't even started this! Okay, so this is the first chapter :)
Oh yeah, you guys might not like me when you're through reading the first two chapters :D
Oh, the profiles are an optional choice to read if you want to. You don't need to read them, but it would make a bit more sense if you did, so...
... I don't own anything that belongs to Get Backers! I wish I did *pout*
A Different and New Life
Chapter One
Within A Hunt Is Another
A crack sounded, almost making everyone in the room flinch. The girl on the floor had long dark red hair and pale skin. Her back had a dozen or more red welts, seen by the rips in her coat. The blood slowly dripped into the pool underneath her struggling body. Another crack resounded, and a thump followed immediately after.
"One more, my dear," A man cooed from behind the girl, holding a cat-o'nine tails loosely in his grip. "You'll be finished with your punishment." His grip tightened around the dangerous whip, held it over his shoulder, and brought it down on the poor girl. She finally collapsed onto the floor, not having the energy to get back up. The man smirked and straightened his tie, throwing the whip to the side. "Alright everyone, let's go." He then turned to two men holding back two other women.
"You can let them go." The women knocked back both of the men and ran toward the woman on the ground. "Make sure they don't leave this room." THe two men nodded, followed the man out, and shut the door behind them. A small click echoed through the room.
"Come on, wake up!" One of the women, this one with blond elbow length hair, turned the girl on her side to check to see if she was breathing.
"Is she breathing?" The woman with long black hair stepped forward and knelt next to them, looking the redhead over.
The blond one sighed. "She seems to be, but," She began wrapping the wounds with gauze. "she needs serious medical attention if she keeps this up." She then stood up and straightened her punk red and black skirt, the chains rattling as she did so. The one with black hair looked at the bloodied girl on the floor and gritted her fanged teeth. She turned and punched the concrete wall.
"GOD DAMMIT!" The crater on the wall was deep as she took away her fist, only to have the other do the same as the first. "Why does she have to fucking stand for us?" Her growl ripped through her body, but was stopped by a deep sigh. She then slid down on the wall and plopped there. "We have got to get out of here..." She groaned.
"We should, but how? The guards are all over the damn place!" The blond one yelled, approaching her breaking point. She sighed and looked over to the redhead, only to see her not in the same place as before.
They heard a scoff and looked to the wall on the far left of the door. The redhead was glaring at them, while standing in front of a dark hole. A tile was placed to the hole on the left. Their eyes widened. "When and how long have you known about this, Kiri?" The blond asked the redhead, now known as Kiri.
Kiri scoffed. "Ichigo, if you knew me at all, you would know that I love exploring, even if it's my own death room." She glared at them both. Kiri then smirked. "So, you coming or not?" She then jumped down into the hole not even waiting for an answer.
"Hey, wait for me, Kiri!" Ichigo ran to the hole. She looked over her shoulder at the other woman. "Come on, Luna, we can't be left behind." She then looked down into the hole, clenching her fists. "This may be our only chance to get away from this god awful place." Ichigo then jumped down into the hole. Luna sighed and looked to the only window in the hate-filled room. The full moon casted a shadow onto the floor.
She smirked and stood up. Luna then looked down into the hole. The door burst open, men with machine guns filling the room. Luna turned, her trench coat flowing out behind her. The same man who whipped Kiri walked to the front of the men, who had their guns rained onto Luna. He smirked and stomped out a cigarette that he seemed to be enjoying before he came into the room.
"Now now, Luna, what are you thinking?" He swept his hand across the room, as if trying to make a point. "This is your only home!" He yelled at her. She frowned. "This was never home to me." The man frowned deeply, but then smirked, coming onto something that he was sure that would let him keep his greatest treasure out of the three. "Well," Luna glared at him and got into a fighting stance. "Let me ask you something, Luna Nightroad, do you want to stay with weak pathetic specimen as them, do you?"
Luna's glare deepened, but listened to what he had to say. "You wouldn't have to worry about them, and you won't have to share with anyone." His eyes began to seem like they were smiling with triumph and delight. "And the best part, you won't have to hold back in battle." Luna seemed to be seriously contemplating the offer.
"LUNA!" A cat-like voice screamed from within the abyss of the hole behind Luna. Everyone looked behind Luna, including Luna looking over her shoulder with wide eyes. Behind her, with a pissed off look on its face, was a white Siamese cat with sky blue eyes holding a golden bell on her tail. "CATCH!" The cat threw out the bell, and when it connected with the ground, smoke exploded in the area. Luna felt the cat bite into the collar of her black trench coat, pulling her back into the chute.
"You're choking me!" Luna cried out. They then splashed into a sewer's waters. Luna and Ichigo emerged from the water, spitting out water and shaking it out of their hair. Luna twitched before turning to Ichigo and yelling, "You nearly choked me, you damn cat!"
"Well, it's not like I had a choice!" Ichigo pointed to Kiri, who was surrounded by cats, a wolf, and a white snow owl. "She threw me up there! I didn't have a damn choice!" She turned to glare at Kiri. Kiri was standing there impatiently, waiting for the two.
"Well, you didn't want to leave Luna up there either, now did you?" Kiri said, looking at them both with a pointed look. They both were silent before Ichigo whispered, "Damn you..."
Kiri smirked. "I thought so." She then turned and started to walk down the right side. Luna and Ichigo looked at each other, sighed, and went to catch up to walk beside the only Fuyuki that they have ever liked.
"So," Luna started. "Where do we go from here?" The three have been walking for an hour in the maze-like sewers they were currently trapped. Kiri looked back at her, wondering the same thing.
Kiri sighed and looked away. "We stay away from him, I guess. There's not much else we can do..."
"Except for get out of here." Ichigo finished, petting a small black purring cat in her arms. The cat was the only one that decided to stay by her side when he others started to leave. "So how did you find this, Kiri?" Kiri gave Ichigo an 'are-you-kidding-me' kind of look. Ichigo rolled her eyes and gave up on asking, again.
A whirring sounded in from behind them. They all turned to see that there was a huge machine gun headed their way, with many soldiers coming at them as well. Kiri's eyes widened. "Run like hell!" They all took off down the sewers. The owl screeched and flew on ahead, while the wolf by Kiri's side ran with them.
Shots began to rain down on them, but they only grazed them or missed their targets completely. "You people shoot as if you've never held a gun in your lives!" Ichigo yelled back at them, not missing the chance to make the soldiers mad.
"Ichigo! Now is not the time!" Luna yelled at her.
"Oh, like you didn't want to say that either!" Ichigo shot back.
"Guys, not now!" Kiri yelled back at them, dodging another bullet aimed at her. "We need to get out of here before we're injured!" Kiri turned back to the front and continued to speed up. Luna and Ichigo, determined not to be left behind, sped up also. A light began to expand in front of them, signaling that there was going to be an end.
They sped out, only a blur to the people walking by the tunnel. Nothing else came out. Kiri slowed down, trying to catch her breath from running so long and hard. Luna was barely breaking a sweat, and Ichigo was used to this kind of running. "You really need to get in shape."
"I am in shape, Ichigo! I just don't like running!"
"Well, you need to start." Ichigo and Kiri turned toward Luna, wandering what she was talking about. Luna was staring into the crowd, gazing at something intently. "We need to go. Kiri, pick a place." Kiri blinked and looked around. She soon spotted a tall building in the distance. It had little lines sticking out of it, and it looked like it could've been built with blocks by the look of the outline. Yet, it wasn't the look of the building that drew her attention to it.
It was something tugging at her heart, a little string that seemed to whisper, Come here, come here.
Kiri grinned and pointed at the strange looking building. "I want to go there!" Ichigo and Luna widened their eyes, recognizing the building that had turned them into what they were today. "Kiri!" They ran to catch up to the currently running redhead. "Come back!" Luna wondered on how that single building drew her attention; how, in one second, they were resigning themselves back to where Hell began.
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