Hiya I'm back! And GCSEs are officially over, YEAH!! Cough, Yes well now I have more time for my fics and I have a lot of ideas from over the months I've been working on and stuff so more chapters will be coming, but readers must be patient. Please and thank you x.
The Escape
Fresh dew was laid across the park. The busy streets of Tokyo were thriving with life and cars. Buses dragged themselves from the stations as, lorries travelled down the motorways in the rising sunshine of noon. Workers walked into buildings from their lunch hour whilst others clambered from offices far up in the towers to eat.
In the large park however, toddlers ran with their friends and mothers conversed with one another about meaningless topics such as healthy food and the dangers of television. Prying herself from the dense forestry, the girl from the night before gradually awoke. As a shade should, she hid away from the eyes of the public and noiselessly made her way further into the park through the undergrowth. Using the tops of the trees, she slowly grabbed the upper branches for balance and security. Leisurely walking from one branch over to another in the opposite tree. A group of elderly pensioners sauntered along the pathways below her and chattered of the young hoodlums that raced through the city after school.
Eventually she dropped from the branches of the upper canopy and smoothly landed on the path. Her hair scraped along her face and her right hand was placed on the ground for more balance as, she crouched there for a moment. As if waiting for something, her eyes gazed through the thick strands of hair and carefully scanned the area for any civilians or witnesses. Finding none she stood straight with her arms at her sides and turned roughly to head deeper into the park.
Thinking only of her duty to stay out of site, she walked cautiously in the surrounding greenery. Her appearance would be easily spotted while hiding behind the vegetation. The flora was colourful and full of life where as, she radiated pain, grief and could practically smell the death that she seemed to reek of. Her hair was a deep shade of an unnatural black. To obtain such a colour naturally one would had to have stayed in a windowless boxed room for most, if not all of their existence.
The flowers of the park were different shades of pink, blue, orange and many others of the rainbow. Green however, seemed to be the most popular colour in the park. Though, then again she had not seen this specific park for quite some time. Being in headquarters of the institute did certain things to ones social life.
Having no life and being almost invisible to any other free human was inevitable. It was like she was some kind of extinct dolphin that had suddenly just flipped its way down the streets. Anyone that saw her would pass her by without a second thought and then do a quick double take to make sure of that they really saw her. It was as if they had never seen anything like her before and this troubled her.
If the normal and insolent humans could tell the difference between her and themselves then it wouldn't take long for the others to find her.
"Hey kitty cat!" she heard from the right of her position on the pathway. The voice was sly and seemed to hold hidden intensions behind it. Curious as to the conversation she decided some eavesdropping wouldn't hurt.
Moving thorn bushes from her view, she eyes came upon a group of strange people. Hanging from a tree was what appeared as a girl in yellow with small furry ears. She dangled from the tallest branch with her light brown tail, which worried the shade. Was she seeing things? Attempting to move closer she spotted more of the strange beings. Just like the young child each girl was accompanied with her own tail. Whether it was long or short, all four had one. A girl in green however, looked as though she was an animal that belonged to the sea rather than to the land.
On further inspection she also noted that there were five males in the area. Three were floating and the other two were shouting to the girls as, they fought a monster of immense power and velocity.
"Come on Ichigo get that thing before it destroys the whole park!" the blond shouted to the cat girl in bright pink. She gave the impression of being under lots of stress. Her face was red and the other girls were panting with exhaustion and fatigue. The hovering male in purple was grinning sardonically at the group as, the childlike one that was obviously the youngest of the three laughed and taunted the girls in yellow, blue and green.
"Hey squirt you can't talk I mean come on we may be losing, but at least we're not tiny!" the girl with blue wings shouted to the flying kid. His temper got the better of him and he pulled a small parasite from his bag. Shade grimaced as, the boy plunged the translucent creature into a nearby squirrel. It grew bigger until it reached the size of the treetops and its fangs changed to the colour of rust. The thick fur fell from the mutants back and the spine could clearly be seen breaking through its skin.
Joining the other creature that somewhat resembled a bird with freakishly sized wings and a beak that would be able to cut glass in half, the two parasite enhanced animals paraded towards the girls. Holding a special hatred for chemically enhanced creatures and creations such as these, Shade jumped ungracefully from her squatted location on the ground and sprung into action.
Immediately the creatures slowed their charge when seeing Shade in between themselves and their prey. Growling in frustration they headed for her and the brightly coloured girls ran to stop her. Bracing herself for impact, Shade stood stock still, a frown placed on her face. Concentrating on the things around her, Shade was able to slow down their reactions and for a moment that would never be seen by a human, time froze.
Running from her stance, she swiftly jumped at the mutant squirrel and forced her way passed it. She bounded onto its back and pushed off. Shade lifted her feet into the air and kicked the childlike alien. His ears were pointed and unearthly, thus the alien idea that formed in her mind. They couldn't be of Earth. It was impossible and there was never more than one project per experiment in the institute so they couldn't be experiments that had gone wrong and escaped for all three of the afloat beings were adorned by pointed ears.
Time caught up on her and as the alien boy soared to the ground with a deafening crunch, she landed on the grass and rolled out of the way of the mutant bird's swipe. It fluffed its remaining feathers along its back and hawked out a screech of fury. Trying to dodge its attacks, Shade heard the girls fighting from behind her. Light flashed. Screams echoed in the back of her mind and harsh memories surfaced. Inside her, Shade felt the pulse of her heart, the throb of pain up her spine. In agony she dived for the bushes to flee from the clearance. Then nothing, but darkness and silence… it was peaceful.
"Minto now!" Ichigo screamed above the bird's screeches as, the mysterious stranger in black and grey ran from view. Her heart pounded in her head and the noises were hurting her sensitive ears, though she was sure she wasn't the only one suffering. Ichigo could tell that Zakuro was having trouble adjusting to the high-pitched screams as well. Why would the mutants be screaming like that though?
Minto fired an arrow with all the elegance and grace that she could muster while limping on her right leg. It wasn't bleeding thankfully, but she had hurt it when attempting to climb down from the tree she had earlier been thrown into like Pudding. The arrow flew far and true. The bird's throat swelled up and bled.
Droplets falling to the floor, Ichigo took her chance to exterminate the chimera anima. Pouncing into the air, Ichigo twirled powering up her strength. When she had enough she shouted, "Ribbon Strawbbery Check!" as the others combined their powers together with hers. This created a surge of power and extinguished both chimera animas.
Pai's frown deepened and he muttered something incoherantly that sounded like 'Back to the computers'.
Tart blinked in confusion after unblocking his eyes from the excess of light that the teams' weapons had given off. Pouting like the child he was, Tart shouted, "Yeah well… We'll get you next time you hag!" Ichigo scrunched up her face and replied by sticking her tongue out at him and clenching her fists together repeatedly.
"Oh yeah Ichigo, very mature for someone your age." Minto said notchently. Ichigo switched her murderous glare to Minto. It had no effect however, so she turned back to the aliens.
Her temper rising quickly Ichigo and said in a low tone of voice, "Get out of here before I decide to hurt more than just your ego." Pai straightened up from his slouched appearance and disappeared along with Tart. Kishu wasn't too far behind, but he was glaning from the bushes to Ichigo and back again.
Sighing visually, Ichigo sat down on the ground. A new headache was coming and she had just gotten rid of the one that Ryou had caused earlier that very same morning. His constant orders were starting to get to her mentally. Slave work was not Ichigo's idea of fun on a saturady afternoon either.
"Well come on we better get back to the café and open up again. Afterall it is noon so we'll be pretty busy real soon." Ichigo and Minto groaned at Ryou's voice.
Keiichiro and Zakuro started the long track back to the café, "You know you two should suck it up a bit more. Sitting around won't get your jobs done or make you any money." Zakuro's ever so rare, calm and controlled voice drifted back towards the group. Ichigo changed back to her original form and picked herself up from the ground. Her head bowed in misery.
Pudding and Lettace were muttering to each other beside the bushes that Kishu had found rather interesting, "Yeah I know she needs help Pudding, but she's a stranger too you know." Lettuce said politely. Ryou turned back to them and walked over to the thorn bushes slowly with a stern look until he noticed what their attention was focused on.
"Is that the girl from earlier?" he asked curiously.
"Yep! We found her here." Pudding said hyperactively.
Following his lead Minto, Ichigo and eventually Keiichiro wandered over to them. "It would seem she's been badly hurt. You think we should help her?" Lettuce asked uncertainly. Still a little wary of the stranger that was Shade she took a step back and let the others get a better look.
"It doesn't matter if she's a stranger or not. She tried to help remember and she did until this, ah, accident." Keiichiro said while rubbing his neck and laughing a bit as, he stumbled over his words. Ryou muttered about the effort it would take to get the girl back to the café, but like Zakuro had said before 'Sucked it up' and picked the stranger off the ground.
Well that's all for today folks! Hope its okay and I tried to make it longer to make up for the short first chapter, bye x.