This Will Make Sense Later,
But something to keep in Mind:

~…~ = Taps/Morse Code
*...* = sign language
"..." = Speech
"/.../" = Mouthed
Italicized = Thoughts

~*~ Silent Love ~*~
Chapter 2: The Show Down... Don't Mess With Me!

Lea, or Leonani, and I ran for our dear lives down the street as a pack of four old guys chased us. We had arrived in a nearby town from the foster home we escaped from. *I can't believe you would do that,* she yelled at me. Well not exactly yell at me, but you get the basic idea. She was mad. -.- That's just like her. She can keep her pace when running, while scolding me with her hands. Stupid sign language, why does it have to be so complicated.

"I'm... Sorry," I breathed. Curse my lack of breath. I'm not a very good runner. I may have long legs, but Leonani's short legs are faster than mine. She likes to brag about it too. Sigh. "I didn't ex...pect... them to chase... us... and I thought... they were trying... to hurt you..."

"/Idiot/," she shook her head.

"Would you rather... me have left you... with them?!"

*No, but you didn't need to kick that guy in the face! Think things through, Alexia!*

Yep, that's me, Alexia Croswell. Pleased to meet you. I know I forgot to introduce myself properly last time, but that's okay. Now is as good a time as any; now that I'm running away from some sort of perverted gang chasing me and my sister. I think I decribled myself already, but as I said before I'm taller than my older sister and I'm pretty plain at that except my eyes. Without these funny color switchers my siblings and I have so that our eyes don't have red in them, (don't ask, I don't have time to explain right now) I'd have rich magenta colored eyes. Right now they're just black, real out there, right? I like to cover every inch of my body with clothing, sweaters, pants, hats, you name it. Actually I think that's the only reason I have pale skin, besides my mother. I can tan pretty good, but I don't normally show any of my skin. I think that's about it. Oh! I also learned a bit about little martial arts, and practice it. Lea isn't that good at it, she was better at mediating, but that's not surprising.

"/This is getting us no where!/"

"Mouse chase?" I asked.

*Mouse chase,* she agreed.

"Okay, when I say break..." I said slowing down a bit so that I was just one step behind her. "Break!" Leonani ran off in another direction as I stopped and twisted around so that I faced our pursuers. I was glad to have a quick breather, as I waited for them to catch up.

"Well, well," the one who seemed to be a leader sneered. "Did you finally give up girly?"

"Girly?" I repeated with disgust. And why not?! The only one who's girly in my family is Samantha. She's the only one that gets on my nerves. I don't know why, but there's always been something about her that I didn't like. "I'm far from girly," I glared at him. I ran toward him, making him smirk for some odd reason. Perhaps he thought he was going to catch me. But I know that stupid grin disappeared when I skid under him and ended up behind him.

I quickly jumped to my feet before he could recover and ran forward. Now you think I forgot about the other ones. Not a chance! I'm not that slow. I ran forward and the other one in front of the pack, well, I jumped up and used his head as step to jump over the other two, landing on my feet, and then started running again. You see I can jump up really high, I just can't run. It's a curse.

Well they stared at me dumbfounded for about a minute before they chased me. All I could think of was: Good, Lea's safe. I tried to lose them, and didn't really look back that often to see if they were following, but each time I did, they were getting closer. I was mostly looking for people in the streets, but not a soul was in those streets. Losing them was going to be hard, and I didn't know the city... erm... town. I was going so fast down one alley way that I nearly missed the sword stand that I passed with its shop keeper.

I didn't hesitate to grab one of the swords, unfortunately that gave one of the guys who had been following the opportunity to nearly catch me. I know I keep calling them guys, but hey, they all look alike to me. I used the sword, while it was in its sheath of course, as a shield to block his hands from coming near me. That wasn't working out too well because he grabbed the sheath, and I had to draw the sword out if I wanted some sort of protection.

I quickly gripped the blade drew a circle from my blood on the sword, transmuting it to a giant hammer type thingy. Well you get the picture. I brought it down on his shoulder, sending him to the ground. Two of the others came, but I had already transmuted the sword back to normal, so doing a roundhouse kick, I knocked the one into the other. Clumsy little oafs don't you think? They were all knocked out, but I whacked them each in the head with the sheath of the sword, just in case.

"Here," I said to the shop keeper, bringing him back his sword. "Sorry I got blood on it."

He looked at me with wide eyes kind of in a state of shock. He was sleeping when I grabbed the sword, so his awakening wasn't too pleasant. ^.^;;

"No, no," he said quickly, once he recovered. "It's okay," he pulled out some sort of first aid kit so I could bandage my now cut hand. I let him dress the wound. I wasn't doing it myself; it hurt terribly. "They've been terrorizing the entire town since they got here," he explained. "Especially the teenage girls. And this town is full of teenagers and kids. The police have been after them, but they couldn't seem to catch them. Somehow they always escaped. So everyone has stayed inside their homes lately. There. That should do it."

"Thanks," I flexed my hand. Gosh, did that hurt. Memo to myself: Never cut hand on a sword.

"I should be the one thanking you, young lady. You're quite skilled."

"Thank you. I appreciate it. You should call the police so they don't get away again," I said, but quickly turned around, just realizing something.

"Did you know there's a state alchemist who supposed to be here to help with this little problem?" The shop keeper asked not knowing I wasn't exactly paying any attention. "It's too bad that we won't need him anymore. Hope he isn't too mad about us wasting his time."

One, two, three, and my eyes grew wide. Where was the fourth? I could help but panic as I looked around. The fourth guy was never following me. He must have gone after Lea. All I could think of at that moment was to go help her.

"Miss!" the shop keeper said loudly. He must have been trying to get my attention. But I ignored him and took off running, in search of Lea. At that point, my only wish was that she was alright.