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Chapter One~ The sky
The day is June third and seniors' graduation day. Kati, Ashley and I were planning a special celebration sleepover for the occasion. That is until Ashley had to cancel because her family wanted to celebrate in their own way you know family stuff. Well we decided to still have the sleepover anyway. First mistake, not having a weapon or something to defend ourselves. Second mistake, when you see writing in the sky that seems odd and just shrug it off something's bound to happen.
Well I guess it's a matter of fact to know that it did.
Walking down the street we could see the street sign for Bandit Street, which is where we were headed. But as we were half way to around the corner I could have scorn I smelled something that I didn't recognize. It was kind of like smoke but reminded me of licorice in the after taste sense. Well when I looked around for the source I couldn't find it. Until I saw a piece of what looked like rock candy fall to the ground. Kati hearing the sound looked at it and then looked at me, but all I did was shake my head and look up at the sky.
"Kati!" I turn to look at her and I find her looking at the sky as I had.
"I know, lets just get inside I don't like this feeling I'm getting right now." I nod but I brush off the words.
~I see You!~
Walking we noticed the everyday sounds but we didn't feel them. It was as if we weren't there, just out of touch. Dead, that word leapt into my mind of it's own accord. My hands and all of me were shaking but I kept going hoping that it was just a sick twisted prank. As we reached the street where Kati's home is I couldn't help but feeling this over whelming pain in my chest, like it almost a last warning of some sort. As it went from my chest to my entire body I noticed it was mainly centered in the base of my neck and at the top of my skull. But I still ignored it like a masochist prodding his fingers with thorns.
Then it vanished. I felt nothing so I kept going, as I believed I should, since I could. What blew my mind is what happened next
Surrounded in the same purple smoke that had contained the message earlier I felt my head spinning and I fell to the ground unable to keep my feet under me.
"Kati?!" I croaked out despite my lungs being choked by smoke. Somehow I knew that she was still there and we were alive but without any idea when the smoke would clear or if it ever would I stayed low to the ground and felt around for Kati finally I found her hair and thus her. Feeling her pulse I could tell she was alive, out cold but alive.
Gaining not really strength but the will to do so I pulled her over my back like in those westerns where the bad guy or whoever is passed out thrown across his saddled horse to carry him wherever the other people intended. My intentions of course were getting Kati out. Realizing the smoke was really getting to me and that Kati's wasn't getting lighter I stopped supporting my weight on my head. I ripped a good length of cloth off of my shirt from my midsection and tied it to my head and kept going.
That is until I passed out… it was only for a second but I woke to the soft whisper of footsteps by my ear. I felt lighter suddenly then I hear a voice.
"Leave her here she's just going to be in the way" it sounded like a familiar voice but I couldn't tell from where I knew it. Fighting to regain control of my limbs I suddenly reach out grabbing someone's ankle.
"Kati," I croaked out, "where is…" I felt a sharp pain in my hand and it fell to the ground in something wet and sticky. I grabbed him again with my other hand this time instead of trying to stop him from going anywhere I tried to pull myself up. "I'm not going to quit."
My leg almost gives out and I scream but gritting my teeth I pull up harder forcing my leg to take it. "Dang it keep it together Meri." I get to where I am standing on my own not on him anymore but my eyes still aren't open. "That's my friend you have there."
"What will you fight to take her back?"
"I can try"
"News flash you are weak I doubt even if you survive it out of here that you will make much out of yourself. So go back to the playground with all the other little kids."
"Is that what you think that I am a kid? I may be short but I sure as hell am not a kid."
"Idiot." I hear him move his foot and I concentrate on the sound as a reference to where he is. I'd open my eyes but for some reason I can't, must've been the smoke. Anyway I shift my weight to see if it would hurt. It did. Grinding my teeth I sent my mind around my body trying to figure out exactly where the problems were. Lets see about one for my every joint as if pins were put in place wherever I felt pain.
"I see so that's what's causing it… how mortal kombat-ish I can't help but feel I know this place though." Gathering what little strength I had I pulled one out of my arm, "I thought it might be needles." When I moved my arm it felt much better as though I had just pulled out a bone stone or something. Well anyway I kept on now using my good arm to pull out the other needle in my other arm I kept pulling them out one by one. "Almost done." Grabbing another this one in my foot I pulled it out finally having gotten them all out of me I felt far better than I had before like my entire body was made out of warm flames licking my wounds. "I think I might just be able to do this…"
"Able to do what?" I could hear his near disgust at me. About time I showed him I'm no little kid.
"Fight you of course." When I heard him make a noise between a snort and a laugh I shifted into a back kick. Knowing he'd probably dodge it I listened for him to change his footing. When I heard it I spun and did a leg sweep.
"Well if you could see maybe you'd have better luck" he said but I knew he was taunting me to make me angry and I didn't want it to work. So I didn't let his plan work. Shifting I breathed in and struck out as I breathed out. "Shame, either I kill you or incapacitate you…" he pauses and I swear I can almost hear him licking his lips, "I'll let you live for now just so I can really enjoy killing you later hah what an excellent prize you'll be too."
"You're forgetting one thing." I said dodging his near hit to the base of my skull. I grabbed his sleeve as I dodged and tried to use his momentum against him but it backfired when he pulled up on me and lifted me off the ground throwing me a good three to ten feet. This wasn't good since I landed on my head and got knocked out, and that's how the bad guy won. By knock out.
When I came to I was in a hospital bed. Sitting up slowly I moved my fingers and then my toes. "Well," I thought, "at least I'm not dead or paralyzed. That means I can still go after that guy who took Kati. Wait how come I'm in the hospital don't tell me that was all a dream and I just hit my head in a fall and I was in a coma until just now. That would suck." I look around slowly being careful not to bother my aching head, which was clearly wrapped in bandages from what I could feel. "that's funny last time I checked hospitals had fluorescent lights. Oh well all the better for my headache. Oh right where's that nurse call button it's got to be around here somewhere," I start to feel around the sides of the bed trying to find the darn thing and wouldn't you know it's not there.
So there I was in this hospital without a nurse call button and no idea where I was. You know most people more often then not would choose this time to freak out. Well you know what when in Rome do as the Romans would. In my case this was screaming my lungs off until I almost passed back out. I figured it'd help me vent and probably call a nurse if they had ears here. Hope the nurse isn't deaf. Now wouldn't that be lucky? Laying back for a bit until my head recovered again. I sit up getting ready to scream again this time to heck with staying conscious when the door opened and agape I stared because there was no way on earth this was real. Unless somehow I'm unconscious still and my mind is keeping me from being bored with Naruto there is no way.
"Just great either I'm passed out again or dead no way this is real." The nurse just stands there and blinks causing me to sweat drop. Nope no way this is real I recognize that insignia on her uniform and it's not looking like my sanity is holding up. Guess I need to prove I'm not dead. Pinches. "yea-ouch! well guess that proves it Dorothy you're not in Kansas anymore and alone now to boot."
"I take it you're feeling better?" a man walks in through the door.
"How long have I been out?" I ask grabbing at the sheets slightly
"You want that in days, months, or hours Miss?"
"Mari T. Meroi, and I hope I haven't been in here for months have I, umm?"
"Doctor Kyoshi Minamara and you've been out for about three days give or take depending on how long it took them to find you."
"At least I'm not pushing daisies that's not the way I'd want to go out either anyway." I sighed and lied back focusing on the ceiling. "I have someone I need to find I can't stay here long."
"Of course most people don't like hospitals anyway." The nurse tried to console me.
"Well things could be worse right? I mean that guy who took her could've killed me, guess I was heck'uv lucky" I kept staring at the ceiling. Things could only get so much worse right? I fell asleep. I think the nurse distracted me so the doctor could med me to sleep. Oh well.