Chapter 2: Raspberry Swirl
Lucy walked toward the city at a suprisingly fast speed for a goth girl in doc martins. She kept humming "Enjoy the Silence" and wondering what happened to that teacher Mr. Whats-his-name and Terra. She hated being alone. Alone was the worst feeling in the world. She suddenly paused for a moment to think. What if these people didn't even speak english? What if they weren't even human?? She'd be screwed! A sound made her turn around.
When she looked behind herself she saw five men. She eyed them and wondered what the hell they where doing behind her. Then she wondered what the hell she was doing here. "Can I help you?" She said in an unemotional tone. Wow! She was on automatic. Her eyes shot the men a icy glare and her arms automatically folded across her cheast.
The men looked at eachother and then back at her a few times and nodded in agreement. The biggest and uglyist of the bunch picked Lucy up and slung her over his sholder. The suddeness of it hurt her stomache and she made an "ooof" sound. When she was out of shock she started to yell. "WHERE DO YOU IDOITS THINK YOUR TAKING ME??" Can you say mad? I can say angry! The men didn't answer though, they just laughed and kept walking. She struggled, but after about fifteen minutes she gave up. Never once did she cry though, she would give them the satasfaction.
"Oy! Neechan! What do you think your doing with that little girl?" A man's voice boomed. He stood infront of the pack, with his hands on his hips. He was about 6'1", thin, form what Lucy saw his hair was a dark black color and pulled back in a braid.
The men looked around eachother and then laughed. "Where do you think we're taking her?" They laughed agian and just kept walking. The other man had something else in mind. He derooted a tree and hit the one standing next to the one with Lucy in the back and sent him soring. The others turned to face him.
Now that he was closer Lucy saw he was topless, but wore a pair of black baggy pants and pesant style shoes. There was a strang tatoo on his left pect, it was glowing. She was intruged.
In a whirl of motion Lucy felt a new serge of pain. This time it was in her back. She could see the sky from where she laid. 'I'm no longer on his shoulder?', she thought. She sat up and cried out in pain. It hurt sooo much. She laid back down and let the tears roll down her cheeks.
Joey sat in his math class doing problems and all of a sudden his back hurt. He screamed out in pain and then toppled over. 'What the hell is going on??', he wondered. It was not like him to have back spasims like this. His math teacher ran over to him and aksed what was wrong. Tears fell from his eyes and the only thing he could say was, "I don't know."
Nuriko's eyes widend when the girl screamed out. Inside he felt something ping. Why did he care if she was in pain. He didn't have time to wonder, he lept from where he was standing and started to wail on the man that was holding her only moments before. He didn't stop until he heard the pleasent, fermiller sound of bones and teeth breaking. He heard the other men run away and a small gasp. He didn't know who gasped, but he heard it.
Lucy was finally standing agian. She saw the man that saved her killing the man that, what was the term, oh -- yeah, tried to kidnapp her. She slumpped onto the tree behind her and wacthed in amazement. 'Why is he doing that?', she wondered. It made her sick to see this so she shut her eyes and let her hand clasp around a madalion that hung from a necklace. 'Joey' she instantly thought. She wondered how he was. She missed him already.
When she opened her eyes the man with the glowing tatoo was walking towards her. She trembled with fear. 'Is he going to kill me, too?', she wondered shaking. Her mind told her to run, but her stupid body wouldn't listen to her.
"Are you okay?" He asked. His voice was calm and soothing. Thankfully he had stopped about three feet from her and crossed his arms across his bare chest.
"Umm-humm." She mumbled and shook her head. She was still trembling with fear and it felt as if her heart was going to explode any second now.
Seeing this Nuriko put his hand out in a kind gesture. "I am Sou,Koyoshu." He grinned at her and waited for her responce.
She took his hand with her small pale hand and it stopped tremebling. His was very warm and comferting. It was stange to her. "I'm Lucy Nevermore." Her voice came out small and alittle shaky. She made her eyes meet his. She loved his almond colored eyes. They where so beautiful.
"Pleased to meet you Lucy-San." He let go of her hand and bowed. She had a intersing first name. 'Nevermore' he thought and chuckled to himself. 'What a wierd first name.' When he stood up and looked into her eyes, his breath caught in his throat. She had brilliant sapphire eyes. He had never seen eyes her color before, only the royal gems. And now that he thought about it, her hair was the color of the emperors golden crown. She was a really cutie, her cloths though where something else. She wore males cloths and all in black, her shoes where very different. They weren't like his, his where small and just covered his feet, hers were very big and clunky. 'How does she walk in those?' he wondered.
She walked from the tree and looked toward the city. She though about Mr.O'Neil and Terra. Her eyes started to haze up. She'll never see them agian. 'Maybe their in the city.' The thought tessed her and danced across her mind like a leaf in a wind storm. When she looked up she saw Koyoshu looking at her with amazement in her eyes. She blushed and looked toward the sky. 'He's so handsome,' she thought to herself and grinned a small bit. "Did you happen to see a tallish man with a bald head, blue jeans, and a dress shirt untucked?" If she could find O'Neil she could find Terra.
Koyoshu looked puzzled."No, I don't think I have.." he let his voice trail off and looked at her. He liked her face, really liked it. He never liked any females face the way he liked hers. "Who is that man your looking for?" 'Please say it's her brother, cousin or maybe father...Please Suzaku!!' his mind pleaded.
She looked at him very stuned. 'Why does he care?' "Umm.. He's my math teacher." Her tone was not a warm friendly tone, it was more of a small and 'why-the-hell-are-you-asking-anyway' tones. "If I find him, then I find my chica Terra." She added quickly.
"Well if there here, they'd be in the city." He said with joy and mirth in his voice. He smiled while her staired into her shappire blue eyes, he was almost swimming in the pools."I can take you there if you like." He added with a grin and moved toward her slightly.
She moved up to him and didn't say a word. They walked across the desertish-type land scape towards the town. It was really hot and she was in all black, it wasn't fair.
* * *
Terra looked at Mr.O'Neil and then around the room and then back to Mr.O'Niel. "WHERE'S MY LUCY?????" She screamed out. She didn't know how to study let alone live without Lucy, she was like her mother.
"I have no clu--" He stopped mid sentence. 'The book'. He flipped to the first of the book and re-read the first page twice. "She's........She's in the -- What?!?! She's in the book??" He didn't even believe it.
"Let me get this stright. My.Lucy.Is.In.That.Book.?" She asked with an anger that was going to eript anyminute. She normally wouldn't be so aggressive to a guy that she was crushing, but this was one of those times when she couldn''t help it. She needed her mother and she needed her now.
He looked terrified. He gulped. "Yes.." He said in a small voice.
He suddenly looked very small and Terra's head became quit large. "HOW DO WE GET HER BACK?!?!?!?!?!?!?" Her words where like flames and burnt his face.
"I-I don't know." He stammered.
"WELL! FIND OUT!!"
He stumbled through the book. All the other pages where sorta blankish. How the hell?? He looked up at Terra who now had tears in her eyes. How was he suspose to tell her that he didn't know how to bring Lucy back?
* * *
The town looked really cool. Lucy loved it. The smells where all so overwhelming, she loved the way all the people got along. Smiling, laughing, talking. No one really better then another. The Cult would love to live here. She looked over to Koyoshu and saw the way his eyes looked around at all the town and the market place. He looked so at peace here. When she finally tore her eyes from him she saw it. People where stairing, pointing and giggling at her. Instead of being pissed off she just broadend her shoulders, held her head high and fixed her gaze stright ahead, then it REALLY started. People started asking Koyoshu where he baught her and if he would sell her. Lucy balled her small, white hands and moved her gaze to those that asked him questions. She put on the best what-you-just-say-fool look in her eyes and watched with a dismail delight when those idiots looked away in fear.
"What did you just do?" Koyoshu asked her in a low tone so others wouldn't hear him.
"I jus' did my thing." 'Simple enough right?' she added in her head.
Koyoshu rasied a eyebrow to her and then asked very casually, "Are you a witch?" It was like he asked her if the grass was green or the if the sky was blue.
"What?!?!?" That suprised her majorly.
"Do you use magic to make people do what you want them to?"
"NOOOOOOO!!!" She stopped to look at him and her eyes showed that she was deeply hurt.
"Sorry," he started to scratch his head, "I didn't mean to hurt your feelings."
"It's alright."
The rest of the way was walked in silence. Lucy searched the crowd with no sign of either of her people.'Where are those to idiots??' She wondered. She already missed Terra terrably and she needed to hold her and cry. She was in a strange city and didn't know anyone, well except Koyoshu. This was all to tramatic to her, all to crazy.She now had the sudden urge to curl up in a ball and cry for hours. This was not her type of stress, she wasn't good at coping with this.
It seemed like hours before they finally stopped at a vender and ordered something weird looking, and sounding but rather tastey. It was like steak, but not. Lucy knew better then to ask if she wanted to keep it down. As she chewed her thoughts fell on something different. For the first time since her arival she noticed how much she missed her boyfriend. She remembered that today was his birthday and she was supose to pick him up after school and spend the night with him. Her eyes took a saddend look. She wondered if he'd be made that she wasn't going to make it.
"...cy...Lucy--" The voice broke through her thoughts. "Are you there??"
Her eyes snapped up to meet Koyoshu's worried gaze. 'Why would he care?' she wondered. "The lights are on, but nobodies home." She manged with a small bit of cheeryness. Even though her voice was full of mirth, her eyes where the ultimate windows to her troubled soul.
"What's wrong?"
With those words the rock shed a tear. This was all to much for her and she wanted to go home. Koyoshu raced to her side, threw his arms around her and held her close. The words to Raspberry swirl came to mind. She didn't quite understand it either.
* * *
" 'The strange girl began to weep in the arms of her rescuer. The man didn't know what to make of it. The only things he understood her say was "I am not from your tribe"'" Kirk looked at Terra with confusion, but Terra understood. The girl was Lucy and she wanted to come home badly.
[Que F.Y end theme, end of Chapter 2 ^.^]
Lucy walked toward the city at a suprisingly fast speed for a goth girl in doc martins. She kept humming "Enjoy the Silence" and wondering what happened to that teacher Mr. Whats-his-name and Terra. She hated being alone. Alone was the worst feeling in the world. She suddenly paused for a moment to think. What if these people didn't even speak english? What if they weren't even human?? She'd be screwed! A sound made her turn around.
When she looked behind herself she saw five men. She eyed them and wondered what the hell they where doing behind her. Then she wondered what the hell she was doing here. "Can I help you?" She said in an unemotional tone. Wow! She was on automatic. Her eyes shot the men a icy glare and her arms automatically folded across her cheast.
The men looked at eachother and then back at her a few times and nodded in agreement. The biggest and uglyist of the bunch picked Lucy up and slung her over his sholder. The suddeness of it hurt her stomache and she made an "ooof" sound. When she was out of shock she started to yell. "WHERE DO YOU IDOITS THINK YOUR TAKING ME??" Can you say mad? I can say angry! The men didn't answer though, they just laughed and kept walking. She struggled, but after about fifteen minutes she gave up. Never once did she cry though, she would give them the satasfaction.
"Oy! Neechan! What do you think your doing with that little girl?" A man's voice boomed. He stood infront of the pack, with his hands on his hips. He was about 6'1", thin, form what Lucy saw his hair was a dark black color and pulled back in a braid.
The men looked around eachother and then laughed. "Where do you think we're taking her?" They laughed agian and just kept walking. The other man had something else in mind. He derooted a tree and hit the one standing next to the one with Lucy in the back and sent him soring. The others turned to face him.
Now that he was closer Lucy saw he was topless, but wore a pair of black baggy pants and pesant style shoes. There was a strang tatoo on his left pect, it was glowing. She was intruged.
In a whirl of motion Lucy felt a new serge of pain. This time it was in her back. She could see the sky from where she laid. 'I'm no longer on his shoulder?', she thought. She sat up and cried out in pain. It hurt sooo much. She laid back down and let the tears roll down her cheeks.
Joey sat in his math class doing problems and all of a sudden his back hurt. He screamed out in pain and then toppled over. 'What the hell is going on??', he wondered. It was not like him to have back spasims like this. His math teacher ran over to him and aksed what was wrong. Tears fell from his eyes and the only thing he could say was, "I don't know."
Nuriko's eyes widend when the girl screamed out. Inside he felt something ping. Why did he care if she was in pain. He didn't have time to wonder, he lept from where he was standing and started to wail on the man that was holding her only moments before. He didn't stop until he heard the pleasent, fermiller sound of bones and teeth breaking. He heard the other men run away and a small gasp. He didn't know who gasped, but he heard it.
Lucy was finally standing agian. She saw the man that saved her killing the man that, what was the term, oh -- yeah, tried to kidnapp her. She slumpped onto the tree behind her and wacthed in amazement. 'Why is he doing that?', she wondered. It made her sick to see this so she shut her eyes and let her hand clasp around a madalion that hung from a necklace. 'Joey' she instantly thought. She wondered how he was. She missed him already.
When she opened her eyes the man with the glowing tatoo was walking towards her. She trembled with fear. 'Is he going to kill me, too?', she wondered shaking. Her mind told her to run, but her stupid body wouldn't listen to her.
"Are you okay?" He asked. His voice was calm and soothing. Thankfully he had stopped about three feet from her and crossed his arms across his bare chest.
"Umm-humm." She mumbled and shook her head. She was still trembling with fear and it felt as if her heart was going to explode any second now.
Seeing this Nuriko put his hand out in a kind gesture. "I am Sou,Koyoshu." He grinned at her and waited for her responce.
She took his hand with her small pale hand and it stopped tremebling. His was very warm and comferting. It was stange to her. "I'm Lucy Nevermore." Her voice came out small and alittle shaky. She made her eyes meet his. She loved his almond colored eyes. They where so beautiful.
"Pleased to meet you Lucy-San." He let go of her hand and bowed. She had a intersing first name. 'Nevermore' he thought and chuckled to himself. 'What a wierd first name.' When he stood up and looked into her eyes, his breath caught in his throat. She had brilliant sapphire eyes. He had never seen eyes her color before, only the royal gems. And now that he thought about it, her hair was the color of the emperors golden crown. She was a really cutie, her cloths though where something else. She wore males cloths and all in black, her shoes where very different. They weren't like his, his where small and just covered his feet, hers were very big and clunky. 'How does she walk in those?' he wondered.
She walked from the tree and looked toward the city. She though about Mr.O'Neil and Terra. Her eyes started to haze up. She'll never see them agian. 'Maybe their in the city.' The thought tessed her and danced across her mind like a leaf in a wind storm. When she looked up she saw Koyoshu looking at her with amazement in her eyes. She blushed and looked toward the sky. 'He's so handsome,' she thought to herself and grinned a small bit. "Did you happen to see a tallish man with a bald head, blue jeans, and a dress shirt untucked?" If she could find O'Neil she could find Terra.
Koyoshu looked puzzled."No, I don't think I have.." he let his voice trail off and looked at her. He liked her face, really liked it. He never liked any females face the way he liked hers. "Who is that man your looking for?" 'Please say it's her brother, cousin or maybe father...Please Suzaku!!' his mind pleaded.
She looked at him very stuned. 'Why does he care?' "Umm.. He's my math teacher." Her tone was not a warm friendly tone, it was more of a small and 'why-the-hell-are-you-asking-anyway' tones. "If I find him, then I find my chica Terra." She added quickly.
"Well if there here, they'd be in the city." He said with joy and mirth in his voice. He smiled while her staired into her shappire blue eyes, he was almost swimming in the pools."I can take you there if you like." He added with a grin and moved toward her slightly.
She moved up to him and didn't say a word. They walked across the desertish-type land scape towards the town. It was really hot and she was in all black, it wasn't fair.
* * *
Terra looked at Mr.O'Neil and then around the room and then back to Mr.O'Niel. "WHERE'S MY LUCY?????" She screamed out. She didn't know how to study let alone live without Lucy, she was like her mother.
"I have no clu--" He stopped mid sentence. 'The book'. He flipped to the first of the book and re-read the first page twice. "She's........She's in the -- What?!?! She's in the book??" He didn't even believe it.
"Let me get this stright. My.Lucy.Is.In.That.Book.?" She asked with an anger that was going to eript anyminute. She normally wouldn't be so aggressive to a guy that she was crushing, but this was one of those times when she couldn''t help it. She needed her mother and she needed her now.
He looked terrified. He gulped. "Yes.." He said in a small voice.
He suddenly looked very small and Terra's head became quit large. "HOW DO WE GET HER BACK?!?!?!?!?!?!?" Her words where like flames and burnt his face.
"I-I don't know." He stammered.
"WELL! FIND OUT!!"
He stumbled through the book. All the other pages where sorta blankish. How the hell?? He looked up at Terra who now had tears in her eyes. How was he suspose to tell her that he didn't know how to bring Lucy back?
* * *
The town looked really cool. Lucy loved it. The smells where all so overwhelming, she loved the way all the people got along. Smiling, laughing, talking. No one really better then another. The Cult would love to live here. She looked over to Koyoshu and saw the way his eyes looked around at all the town and the market place. He looked so at peace here. When she finally tore her eyes from him she saw it. People where stairing, pointing and giggling at her. Instead of being pissed off she just broadend her shoulders, held her head high and fixed her gaze stright ahead, then it REALLY started. People started asking Koyoshu where he baught her and if he would sell her. Lucy balled her small, white hands and moved her gaze to those that asked him questions. She put on the best what-you-just-say-fool look in her eyes and watched with a dismail delight when those idiots looked away in fear.
"What did you just do?" Koyoshu asked her in a low tone so others wouldn't hear him.
"I jus' did my thing." 'Simple enough right?' she added in her head.
Koyoshu rasied a eyebrow to her and then asked very casually, "Are you a witch?" It was like he asked her if the grass was green or the if the sky was blue.
"What?!?!?" That suprised her majorly.
"Do you use magic to make people do what you want them to?"
"NOOOOOOO!!!" She stopped to look at him and her eyes showed that she was deeply hurt.
"Sorry," he started to scratch his head, "I didn't mean to hurt your feelings."
"It's alright."
The rest of the way was walked in silence. Lucy searched the crowd with no sign of either of her people.'Where are those to idiots??' She wondered. She already missed Terra terrably and she needed to hold her and cry. She was in a strange city and didn't know anyone, well except Koyoshu. This was all to tramatic to her, all to crazy.She now had the sudden urge to curl up in a ball and cry for hours. This was not her type of stress, she wasn't good at coping with this.
It seemed like hours before they finally stopped at a vender and ordered something weird looking, and sounding but rather tastey. It was like steak, but not. Lucy knew better then to ask if she wanted to keep it down. As she chewed her thoughts fell on something different. For the first time since her arival she noticed how much she missed her boyfriend. She remembered that today was his birthday and she was supose to pick him up after school and spend the night with him. Her eyes took a saddend look. She wondered if he'd be made that she wasn't going to make it.
"...cy...Lucy--" The voice broke through her thoughts. "Are you there??"
Her eyes snapped up to meet Koyoshu's worried gaze. 'Why would he care?' she wondered. "The lights are on, but nobodies home." She manged with a small bit of cheeryness. Even though her voice was full of mirth, her eyes where the ultimate windows to her troubled soul.
"What's wrong?"
With those words the rock shed a tear. This was all to much for her and she wanted to go home. Koyoshu raced to her side, threw his arms around her and held her close. The words to Raspberry swirl came to mind. She didn't quite understand it either.
* * *
" 'The strange girl began to weep in the arms of her rescuer. The man didn't know what to make of it. The only things he understood her say was "I am not from your tribe"'" Kirk looked at Terra with confusion, but Terra understood. The girl was Lucy and she wanted to come home badly.
[Que F.Y end theme, end of Chapter 2 ^.^]