Game?
Okay, I'm having real writer block with my other ShizNat story. So, as I was trying to think of the next chapters plot I came up with this.
I will not be abandoning my older story but I just had to get this idea written up before I forgot it. This will be updated when I have the time but if people like it then I will update it more often.
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It was cold, way too cold to be up this early in the morning. It didn't help that the person up, at this time in the morning, was not really dressed for such a cold weather. A lose fitting navy blue hoodie that was really baggy on her, black jeans that were held up by a dark green belt and dark green chequered converse.
It also didn't help that she was running at top speed on a really windy day in October and that she had already stepped into several puddles. But, that didn't matter because right at the end of this street was her goal, the thing she had been waiting for months Ø.
In the distance, she could see it. She sped up almost slamming into several people along the way. Eventually, she bumped into them slightly and suddenly the line was much closer than she had remembered. She skidded to an abrupt stop about one centimetre away from coming into a nasty collision with the people in front.
She shivered from the coldness of the gust of wind that blew on them; she pulled the hood up over her head and pulled the hoodie closer to herself. Clutching her arms and running her cold hands up and down Ø trying to warm them up. Cupping her hands round her mouth, she breathed on them then stuck them in her pockets. Looking around, she could see others doing the same; some others Ø were bundled up and others dressed like her. As she looked around, she did small jumps on the spot to warm her up, she peeked round the corner of the line and her face fell, it would be a long morning.
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About half an hour later, the girl was nearly at the front line. She was battling for her place in the line from people who thought it was okay to just push their way to the front of the line. She batted her way to the front pushing through and throwing herself at the shop's counter.
She slammed down the money on the counter, the man behind it didn't even need to ask what she wanted and opened the draw behind him to retrieve it. But before he went, she grabbed his sleeve and drew something out from her jean pocket passing it to the man. The man looked at the name on the bottom of the paper "NATSUKI KUGA" written in capital letters. He looked up at her, she passed him her bus pass.
The man looked at it and smiled his business smile; he reached under the counter and pulled it up. Its cover gleamed up at Natsuki who could feel her eyes getting wet.
This was what she had been waiting for; it was finally out, finally. OTOME 3 the most brilliant game of the century (in Natsuki's book). Not only were the graphics amazing but the story was epic, the music was legendary and the gameplay was awesome.
Underneath the heading were the words: limited edition and master version. Master version was only for the hardcore fans who after learning about it, had forgone any social life and set their sights on winning a ticket.
Natsuki had spent hours poring over information that may have won her one of the fifty tickets that were available.
And after days of hard work, she had finally got one. After that, she waited for its arrival. Every day when she got home from school and found the ticket was not there, her soul died a little.
The day it came, Natsuki had thanked the heavens above as she had clutched the ticket to her chest squealing in happiness.
Then came the long hard wait. Days, hours, weeks had rolled by so slowly it seemed as if time had stopped for Natsuki. Every day, the computer became her lifesaver delivering information about the game, without it she felt she might, as well, die…..Okay that was a little dramatic even for her. But still!
This morning, Natsuki had woken up at the crack of dawn; threw on some cloths and had run out the door. Not caring about breakfast as she hoped that she would be out for only a bit.
As Natsuki was given the game, the smile that had plastered itself onto her face was spreading. She thanked the clerk, grabbed her change and bolted through the door.
As she sprinted through the streets, all her thoughts were on the game about what it would be like. Her feet were drenched and so were her jeans. She pelted thought the doors of her house, kicking off her shoes. She was about to reach the stairs when a firm voice reached her ears, she paused then sighed her shoulders slumping. Turning back around, walking into the kitchen leaving small puddles of water from her jeans.
As she walked in, she was met with the annoyed face of her mother "Hi mum. What's up?" she said nervousness in her voice; she knew perfectly what she had done.
"I think that's what I should be asking you. Waking up at four am in the morning, slamming doors and waking me up as well, you know this is my day off" Natsuki flinched at her mother's voice. Her excitement had got the better of her. She looked down shielding her eyes from the harsh gaze of her mother.
A deep sigh sounded throughout the room. Looking back up into her mother's tired eyes she felt guilt setting in. Trying to look away she caught sight of something on the table, a ripped envelope, next to it her report card lying on the table. Wide eyed and panicking she made herself look back.
She could read disappointment in the woman's gaze. Her mother motioned to the chair and that sent a very clear message to Natsuki, she pulled the chair back slumping down into it.
"Would you mind explaining this?" She asked pointing to the marks on the card. Natsuki shrunk in her seat. "Oh and while I'm at it explain to me why your teacher thinks that you're disruptive, uninterested and half the time have your head in the clouds or are sleeping throughout lessons."
Natsuki clutched the game even tighter to herself fiddling with the packaging. "Natsuki? Are you even listening to me?"
"I- I'm sorry mum." she said sheepishly. Her mother looked at her with soft eyes "I know that games are your hobby. But I'm afraid it might become your life. You don't eat dinner or talk with me anymore, you're not interested in hanging out with friends. And you're always in your room" Another large sigh came from her mother's mouth "Is there anything wrong? You know that I'll listen. I'm always here if you need to talk-"
Then the familiar sound of her mobile ring tone resounded thoughout the room. No. Natsuki thought as Ø her mother looked at her apologetically then placed the mobile on her ear as she talked. You're never here to talk. You don't understand. Natsuki stood and made her way slowly to the door gripping its handle tightly. I don't eat dinner with you because you're never here to eat with. Natsuki opened the door. I don't go out with friends because I don't have any to go out with. But you wouldn't know that, would you? Looking back at her mother with hurt eyes she closed the door behind her.
Natsuki's hand fell from the handle. She hugged the box to herself, looking at the stairs she walked up them. She opened the door to her bedroom and fell on the bed. Looking at the packaging, she rolled on to her back and smiled up at it.
Well…. No need to get depressed. Sitting up she rolled off her bed. She hastily ripped off the packaging fumbling with the disk, dropping it twice. She picked it up and rubbed it on her hoddie. Placing in the console she then got up and started rummaging through her wardrobe for some dry clothes to wear.
Grabbing a plain black t-shirt, another hoodie and a pair of jeans she threw them on. Then, she scurried towards the machine picking the controller up and sitting down on her bed.
As the title screen flashed on the TV, Natsuki's hands shook with excitement. Natsuki pressed start and selected 'New game'.
The screen turned dark for a second before music began to play in the background, smirking Natsuki thought. As expected. The soundtrack is awesome. Squeaking slightly in excitement she watched as a voice sounded throughout the room.
I…c..ca..n't….fo…muc…lo….you….n…nee…d..t….fin…it….l…ook….fo… it. Then the screen turned blue.
The words were all scratchy and broken. Is it scratched? Or have dust on it?
She tensely reached out for the console, flinching away slightly when she received a shock. Her face looked at the console with a glare on her face. Did they give me a dud? Those sons of a BITC-…
Then the TV glowed with bright white light. She looked questionably at the screen with a hopeful gaze. Reaching out and touching the screen, the light grew until she had to hide her eyes.
She shuffled backwards and bumped into… nothing. Natsuki's eyes shot open to be greeted with pure white.
She scrambled up on to her feet, looking around Ø mouth agape, eyes wide.
"W-w-what the hell?" she whispered, it echoed through the endless space.
It was an endless room, Ø no room just white, no walls, no roof, no nothing. Natsuki wasn't even sure she could even call it a space.
Then a burning sensation came from the lower left side of her back. Grabbing hold of it she hissed in pain. She lifted the material and stared at the burning red mark that appeared on her body.
If I remember correctly this mark is..
Just then a rumbling sensation appeared below her feet. She lost balance and fell. But she didn't hit the floor. She just kept on falling until the white broke.
Darkness was falling on her gaze as she slowly lost consciousness.
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That sound… Is it birds? And this is….. Stone? Or is it just a big rock? There's grass as well.
Where the hell am I?
Natsuki blinked, her eyes coming into focus. She covered her eyes with a hand and sat up. Removing her hand she looked around. This is… ruins. There's grass growing out of the cracks between the stone. Whatever this is it's not in use any more.
Picking herself up she dusted herself off. "Okay. O-kay. This is not real. No, not real at all. I mean that's insane." She said as she started pacing. "That's right Natsuki, you're just having a dream, a realllllly odd one but a dream. And now you're talking to yourself. Shut up. Ohoh-kay….. What?". She stopped dead as she came face to face with a real skeleton. Only it was an odd one. It had two horns coming from its head. On instinct she yelled out and jumped backwards. She tripped over a chain, located in Ø the middle of the room and attached to the horned skeleton.
"I-it was a prisoner?" She questioned. "Yeah, he was probably for a long bloody time." Natsuki jumped about two feet in the air then whipped around to face the voice.
Sitting in the corner was a girl no older than fifteen. She had red hair that looked devilish. Her body was thin and looked malnourished. She was wearing thin clothes that consisted of a worn tattered dark green tunic, brown dirty trousers and tattered long army boots that reached right up to where her knee was. In the beams of light that fell from different parts of the room her eyes seemed to glow with green and yellow. Attached to her left leg was a chain, it was rusted and looked like someone had tried everything to get it off.
"Oi, you stop staring. Speak. I haven't talked with anyone since the old man died. And I deserve an apology for almost blinding me with that fancy light magic thing you did." The girl said weakly.
"W-well I uh…um. W-what the hell is going on? Where is this? And who the freaking hell are you? Also what do you mean by "Fancy light magic thing?" That I did?"
"Well, obviously when you see someone suddenly appear in a room in a flashy light show, it would make any normal person think "ah magic", don't you think?" she said sarcastically, with her scratchy voice "And, it's not as if you fell out the ceiling"
Natsuki's face was a mixture of awe, unbelieving and fear. "Th-that is impossible, magic doesn't exist!" the girl took one look at Natsuki's face and burst out laughing "Oh, "doesn't exist" of course it exists stupid. Boy, are you retarded or what?" the girl laughed huskily for a good minute as Natsuki's face was getting redder and redder. Soon after ,the girls laughing collapsed into a coughing attack.
"If it does exist show me!" the girl looked surprised then a tied grin spread over her face "Okay. But I can't for long, I haven't got much left or the energy to use it" the girl mumbled something and a small flame flicked within her open hand.
Natsuki stumbled even further backwards again falling over the chains, sending the girl into violent laughter which followed in with pained coughing. She leant back against the wall.
Natsuki picked herself up again slowly, making her way towards the girl. "Are you okay?" the girl looked up "Honestly. No. If I stay here I won't live for much longer."
"Can I help? Um….."
"Nao. Nao Yuuki. And I wanted to say you dress weird" The girl said.
"Oh right, I'm Natsuki. Natsuki Kuga. And uh thanks I guess"
Natsuki looked at her "So can I? Help that is"
"Sure, if you can break chains" Said Nao. Natsuki looked at the chains, they looked strong but they were very rusted and old.
"Don't get your hopes up" Said Natsuki walking over to the chains. She picked them up, surprisingly they were light.
"Okay, let's see…" She started to pull on the chains. They trembled and made creaking noises before cracking and breaking. Natsuki stumbled backwards, lost her balance and landed hard on her butt.
Nao took one look at her and laughed a laugh that ended with hacking and coughing. Bur even through the constant cough she still made fun of Natsuki. "I think that, that is the first time I've ever seen someone falling over three times in the space of five minutes."
"Oh, would you just shut up?" shouted Natsuki completely forgetting the fact she had just broken some quite strong chains, something that no normal human could do. A small clink from them dragged her back. She stared down at the broken chain in awe.
"What the…? How did?" she dropped the chain and backed away from it.
Then the sounds of heavy footsteps echoed throughout the prison, they were getting closer and closer.
"Hide. Quickly" Nao harshly whispered. Nastuki panicked, eyes wide spotting a pile of rubble, she dived behind it. Pushing up against the wall, she could feel her heart beating at a rapid rate. The prison door creaked painfully as it was forced to open. Natsuki leaned upwards so she could see through a crack in the rubble; two well-armed soldiers stood in the door way both wearing black armours.
Nao closed her eyes and fell backwards against the wall. The two men walked into the room, even from where she was hiding Natsuki could feel their scornful gaze. She peeked through a gape in the rubble, where she got a full blown view of them.
They were tall and looked strong. Their armours were shiny and looked very tough, there were small cracks in the armours from overuse and they had a crest imprinted on their arms. Natsuki could tell however, intimidating as they were, brains were not their strong point.
They had strength but their footsteps were heavy and sloppy and they looked very nervy around Nao. Even so, Natsuki could not stop herself from shaking. Her hands griped the rocks tightly to avoid noticing the trembling of her hands, and she had her body pressed up against the rubble, her breathing was low and trembled with terror of thoughts of what they might do if they found her.
Then the air got heavier. Natsuki swore she could feel the very ground tremble beneath her. Natsuki peaked at Nao, she looked paler, she had closed off her eyes which were clenched shut and her body shook slightly.
Then a third person entered the room.
"Right then" It said. That's right IT. Natsuki didn't know what other than "it" she could call it. It had a deep voice that sounded as if someone had just scratched their nails down a black board. Its armour was pretty much the same as the other two, however, it was much larger due to the large size of it and there were many more cracks in it.
"Boys, this one is…?" It asked pointing at Nao.
"P-prisoner 124, sir!" One said straightening up. "Right." Its eyes looked at Nao hungrily. Natsuki could feel dread grip her through her confusion even she could tell what that look meant.
"Give us some… alone time, will you boys?" The men looked at each other fear in their eyes. "B-but sir this prisoner is-"
Its eyes focused on the boys, its glare shock them to their core. "R-r-right sir. We will leave" They spoke quickly as they sped out of the room. Its eyes returned to Nao "Well, then prisoner 124.…" he bent down lifting Nao's face and leaning closer "Now that the children are out of the way…." He got closer. Natsuki's eyes clenched, her hands covered her head and a feeling of venerability took over. There is nothing I can do. Nothing. Nothing. The word resounded in her head over and over again.
Then she heard a pained grunt and her eyes snapped open. She looked wide eyed through the gap. At the last moment Nao had brought her knee up effectively kneeing it in the solar plexus, knocking the wind out of him. He stumbled backwards in pain, collapsing on the floor. And Natsuki couldn't help but think. Go Nao.
This thought was, however, blown from her mind when it received its second wind and made him to grab for his sword, unsheathing it.
It brought the sword high above its head, madness and rage in its eyes. Nao would never be able to move out of the way in time. Natsuki threw caution to the winds and grabbed a large rock from where she was hiding and threw it at the big lugs head.
It hit its target dead on, on the top of the head. Just as predicted he looked up. This drew his attention away from Nao for just long enough for Nao to gain all of the strength she had left and kick the sword from his hand.
It landed on the opposite side of the room, clanging as it hit the wall chipping the rock. Silence entered the room building, tension as Nao fell to the floor exhausted.
The silence was broken by a raged scream and the sound of its fist making contact with Nao. Natsuki gathered her courage and was about to jump from her hiding spot when the door opened and a few shoulders filtered into the room leaping on to the huge thing and begging for it to stop.
"Please sir, this prisoner is a sacrifice. If you kill her we will all be slaughtered by the captain." One yelled desperately.
The struggle continued for a while until the thing finally admitted defeat. "FINE. THE BITCH IS GONNA DIE ANYWAY. BUT LET ME TELL YOU NOW." He lent down to Nao "I'm going to enjoy seeing your soul get ripped to pieces" He let out a pig like squeal, maddening laughter. Then turned and made his way from the cell, the soldiers walked out slowly after it relief on their faces.
The door squeaked shut and the soul reaching sound of locking followed after. Natsuki leaped from her hiding place and ran to Nao.
"Yuuki was it? Are you okay? No, of course you're not" Natsuki looked at the cuff of the broken chain on her leg "I will get this off you, okay, just hang on." She said. She wasn't sure if Nao heard her, she had a broken look on her face. Getting up Natsuki looked around for something to get the cuff off. Her face lit up when she saw the sword glinting in the sun light.
She ran over to it and lifted it, it was really very light. She then ran back to Nao and placed the tip of the sword over the cuff. Biting her lip she lifted it a little and brought it down shattering the cuff.
She then bent down to look Nao in the face "Yuuki. We've got to get out of this place. Do you know anything? A tunnel, a little crack in the wall, anything?" There was no answer, just a broken gaze.
Natsuki's heart clenched in anger, desperation and sheer confusion at the situation. She knew for a fact she wouldn't survive ten minutes in this prison without Nao.
"YUUKI! Listen to me! This isn't the time for this. Any longer in this place and you will die. I need you to live. If you stay then you will be sentencing both of us to death. So, Yuuki please. Please." she said desperately.
There was no answer at first, she sat Ø holding on to Nao for at least four hours. Then a small smile came to Nao's face. She sat up slightly smacking Natsuki in the head.
"Ouch! What was that for?" Natsuki winced rubbing her head. "For making that really lame speech" Nao smirked at her.
"W-well, next time you need saving or comfort go somewhere else." Natsuki turned away an embarrassed angry look on her face.
"Thanks." Said Nao. Natsuki turned around, eyes wide "N-no problem"
"So…. Any ideas on how to get out?" Natsuki asked "No, it's not like I've had a tour of the place."
"Then what do we do?"
"Well" said Nao "All we can do is to wait for nightfall and break out" Nao then looked away "But…. You may have to leave me behind"
"What! Why?" Natsuki said panic stricken. Leaving Nao behind would mean leaving a potential friend, and god knows if this is in fact not a dream. If she was in fact stuck here she was going to need a friend.
"That ass hole when he hit me, he got my legs. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to walk at the moment."
"Then I-I will carry you."
"Huh. But-" Nao started "No buts. We are both getting out of here" Natsuki said.
The sound of sniggering filled the room. "You know it's crazy but I think that we might actually make it out of here. That and you're a corny little bugger, aren't you spouting lines like that?"
"S-Shut up, you stupid uh…. Thingy" Nao looked at her for about a minute before laughing so hard she started crying.
Nightfall
It was so Ø dark in the prison that you could barely see your hand in front of your face, let alone the floor. The sound of the wind was howling against the old temples walls. It was cold, so Ø cold both Natsuki's and Nao's breath came in puffs of cloudy white like what it would look like on a winter day.
Natsuki wrapped her arms round herself rubbing to keep warm. Nao didn't seem to be too fazed by it but that was probably because she had spent so much time in this place.
Natsuki had broken the door's lock with the sword and had used her belt to strap it to her waist. Now they were trying to find a way to carry Nao easily.
"How about a shoulder carry?" Natsuki suggested. "No way. It'll hurt." Nao rejected
"Okay…. How about piggy back ride?"
"Dunno what that is but…. Okay show me"
Natsuki bent down and picked Nao up her arms wrapped around her neck tightly chocking her. "Okay….. Nao… A l-little too…. Tight" Nao's arms loosened and she muttered an apology in a bored tone.
Slowly they made their way through the maze of tunnels. Natsuki's eyes became accustomed to the dark and she could now see slight shapes and outlines of anything within the tunnels.
Gradually, the tunnels widened and became brighter. They came across an extravagant hall but the sounds coming from it were anything but extravagant, pained screams, moans and the creaking of "instruments" doing their work.
Natsuki dared not look over the side of the drop. Instead she looked to the task in front of her. The room was separated by a huge drop. Just like something out of a game. There were a few broken beams that seemed to be holding any lighting for the picture of hell down below.
"Well Kuga, looks like that's our way forward." Nao stated "Well, have fun getting over there and finding a way of getting me across."
"Wait a minute. There is no way I'm gonna climb over that. That's at least a 200ft drop. I'd die." Natsuki protested harshly.
"Look. It's either you climb over that, or we wait here to get found and die. If you fall then you're gonna die but if you don't fall and find a way of getting me over their you're gonna live. If we stay we're gonna die no matter what, so what option sounds better?"
Natsuki looked at Nao for a minute then at the huge gap. Her shoulder's dropped and she let out a sigh. "Okay. I get it. I'll do it."
"Have fun~"
"Not very good at the whole comforting thing, are you Yuuki?" Natsuki deadpanned. As she neared the edge the overwhelming stench of burning flesh reached her nose, with the unique scent of fresh blood. It was enough to make her gag and stumble backwards.
She gulped down her fear and sloppily clambered up on to the wooden structure. Okay. Okay I can do this. She took a step forward, her feet shaking, another step then one more. Looking back she gulped, she wasn't even halfway along the first beam. Okay, Natsuki. You are Ezio Auditore. You're Desmond and Altair… all in one. Yeah. You won't fall, you won't fall.
"Don't look down now." Said Nao sarcastically. That Yuuki. doesn't she care that people are getting killed down there? The smell is disgusting.
"Thank you Yuuki." Natsuki whispered harshly back. Natsuki turned her back to Nao and focused through the smoke and steam coming up from the place below. It clouded her senses, she wanted to cover her face but the fear of loosing her balance and falling to her death stopped her.
She had thought of going on her hands and knees, god knows she'd feel safer, but the thought of being closer to that stench made her stomach clench in disgust.
As she reached the half-way point, the heat had become almost unbearable. It was humid, the smoke and steam was so thick now that it looked like a building on fire. She gripped the middle wooden pillar tightly, the wood was slippery and slimy. She could no longer see Nao nor in front of her.
She wrapped her arms tighter around the beam and shifted slowly around it. She placed her foot round on the other side of the beam.
All of a sudden the beam started to crack; Natsuki slipped sliding down the beam, gripping it for dear life. As she slipped, she caught her face on a nasty piece of sharp wood leaving a deep but short scratch underneath the eye on her left cheek bone. She hissed in pain, her arms scratched and her chest hugging painfully to the sharp splinters of wood sticking out from where the beam had fallen.
As she watched the beam hang on itself by the splintered broken pieces of wood, she looked to both sides seeing another broken beam, however, it was one she could reach…. If she jumped. She looked beckoning the beam, willing it to come closer. It didn't.
Just my luck. She swung lightly hissing again from the scratching sensation of the splinters. Then she leaped. Time seemed to slow down. Her body flying in slow motion, then it speeded up. The beam was suddenly close up. She made a mad reach for it and grabbed it. A sense of relief filled her. Then she slipped again and let out a startled yelp. This sound resounded throughout the walls echoing.
Although it was only one hand that had slipped, Natsuki had almost fallen again within the space of a few minutes. She was not sure if her heart could take much more. Her hand found its way back to the other and together lifted her up on to the beam. She was certain now that the guards must have heard; she had to find a way round and quick.
She didn't care about the smell anymore and swiftly made her way across the beam looking around frantically for a way out or round.
Her hands were blistered and sore as she was not wearing gloves as she climbed, her feet hurt. Everything hurt. Surely, after all her hard work there must be a way out.
She rushed around on the beams untill she finally saw it. A crack in the wall. She rushed over to it, it was small but the bricks around it looked lose.
The only problem was the fact it was rather high up on the wall, again she would have to climb.But, if this is a way out then…. Her hands clenched she looked up determined.
She climbed. Up and up. When she got to the crack she kicked the stone with all her might. Eventually she broke through. It led her to outside. But it was the side of the building. The wind whipped around her, freezing cold and bitter.
The feature of the people was large enough to hold another two people. It reached right round the hall like a domed shaped roof only part of the roof had been take off or collapsed. Whatever was inside was using it like a large chimney and smoke was pouring out of it.
She ran along the structure to see if she could find another opening. She could see some guards running around the place. Must have found out that Yuuki's gone.
With this thought she sped up. Nothing was there. No cracks in the wall or any sort of gape. Natsuki could feel panic raise within her. If she could not find a way in then Yukki would die.
She threw out a punch to the wall next to her. It crumbled away like dust, leaving a big hole. Natsuki stared at the hole quite literally shocked. Natsuki looked at her still clenched fist and despite the situation she couldn't help but think two words. Whoa awesome.
She poked her head through the hole, dust cleared and sure enough a little way to her right and on a small drop sat Nao.
They looked at each other for a minute before Natsuki let out a sheepish laugh. "You could have told me you could do that." Scolded Nao. "I'm sorry but I didn't even know I could do it."
"Well, whatever. Found a way through?" Nao asked impatiently it was clear she didn't like being there just as much as Natsuki. "There is a way round on the side of the temple. But it's high up and I found it in the middle so I don't know if it leads all the way round"
"As long as it gets me out of this room I don't care." Said Nao. You could see her face was getting paler probably from worry at the thought of the guards finding her.
Natsuki walked swiftly over to Nao and bent down then the sound of feet came, they froze. Their eyes wide with horror, they painfully turned their heads to the sound. And found about 12 armed guards staring at them with cruel eyes.
"Kuga. Run" said Nao in a low voice. Natsuki was frozen with fear; she couldn't move, her arms and legs wouldn't listen. "KUGA RUN" Nao screamed as the troops advanced on them.
Natsuki couldn't move, she just looked at the guards. Then she felt a pain on her cheek. Nao had slapped her. "Run now" she ordered. Natsuki lifted her with ease on to her back and sped to the hole in the wall clambering up and through it.
The next few minutes were like a blur. Natsuki had run for her life and at some point she had kicked another hole in the roof and jumped through. Her heartbeat was going out of control, her was breath heavy and tired but she kept running.
Through the halls of the temple climbing, ducking and jumping over and under obstacles. It was dark and the only light seemed to come from the sky. She couldn't say moon because she wasn't sure if they even had a moon in this world.
At some point they had come across a staircase going up and took it. It lead to a flat part of the temple roof. Natsuki dropped Nao who crumpled into a heap on the floor then ran around checking the sides for an escape route. There was none.
Slowly the roof started to fill with guards. Then the thing that had abused Nao came forward. Natsuki ran back to Nao's side and scooped the unconscious girl up bridle style.
"Well, look what we have here, a prison break, Prisoner 124 and a strangely dressed female who by looking at her is not a prisoner." He grinned as his blood shot eyes fell on them, he could see the girl shake in fear and stepped forward. "So tell me, how did you break into the temple? And who hired you to get this prisoner out of prison? She's not important just a soldier."
Natsuki kept quiet but shuffled backwards. Yet again the man took a step forwards. "Come now, don't be frightened. You give us the prisoner, come with us without struggle and we'll go easy on you."
"N-No" Natsuki stammered. Her grip on Nao got a little tighter as she shuffled back a few more steps, hitting the side of the stone railing that kept her from toppling over. She stared at the man as yet again he stepped forward a long confident big step.
"So, are you resisting arrest? Well, we can't let you go. Hmmm….. So, all that's left is we kill you." A mad grin came to his face as suddenly the guards surged towards Natsuki.
There were two choices get ripped apart by those people or jump. Natsuki lent over the side there was a river. It glinted in whatever light there was around. She looked back at the crowd of guards rushing at her and made her choice.
She jumped. With Nao in her arms she fell down. The air whipped around her face, making the cut on her left cheek bone sting. Then it came, sooner than she had realized. She hit the water almost knocking the wind out of her. It was freezing and the current was strong. Nao was sinking, she dived under. She grabbed Nao's tunic and hoisted her up.
She broke the surface of the water, and using the last of her strength pulled them to shore. She collapsed next to Nao on the sandy bank. Her vision was dark and blurry. The last thing she remembered was a small light, murmured voices and the light sounds of footsteps.
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Well, I think I broke my record this is the longest chapter I've ever written. Ever! I don't even know how it got this long. All I know is I had an idea and wanted to get it down before I could forget it. I got to five pages then thought oh I can add a few more got to seven and it didn't make sense so I wrote more next thing I know I'm up to ten pages.
This is another Shiznat story (because I love shiznat) not Natnao though I don't mind the pairing. It just sound a little like Natnao at first but Shizuru's got a big part later so don't worry.
The next chapter of just my way is coming soon I'm not giving up on it and I hate starting another fiction when I've not finished my other one but I loved this idea so… yeah.
Another thing is my exams have come up T.T so I won't be able to write the next chapters until after the 17th I think. But please be patient. My Mum and Dad think I'm studying so I'm being bad writing this.
Now this is only a test and I need reviews if I'm going to continue this sooooooo please write one.
Anyway I will see you guys later and wish me luck on my exams thanks.
Remember to R&R