My eyes slowly opened and, everything was blurry to my vision.
" Am, am I in the hospital?" I said in a whisper.
I heard someone say,"She's waking up, should I put her back to sleep?" "You should,and be careful" the other man said.
I saw him come close to me with a needle in his hand. But before he injected me though, I grabbed his wrist and twisted it by reflex with my right hand cause he was at my left. I stood up on my left knee gazing into the face of the man.
"Are you afraid?" I told him
"N...No, and you can't make me" he replied in a frightened tone.
"Oh really?" I said
I twisted my body inward, as my right leg slid across the table. I pulled his arm over my left shoulder and broke it as I threw him towards the other man, who didn't seem to relatively notice anything. Both men fell and all I heard was the crashing and breaking of glass.
" Well, that could have gone better,(a piece of glass fell and broke) and wiith less niose" I said to myself.
All of a sudden, I heard an alarm go off,and one of the men shouted,
" Security come quick!!"
"What the hell did you do!" I exlaimed confused.
In a panic I grabbed the closest weapon I could find, which at this point was a needle injection. I then ran towards the door put my hand on the scanner and opened only half of the door opened because it got jammed. I sqeezed myself through, and looked down the all in both directions. To my right, a girl with black hair wearing reddish hot pink heels, and a black-and-navy version of a Abaete' minidress . But towards my left a dozen men in navy uniforms, were quickly coming my way. So I did what any sensible person would have done and went for the girl. I ran towards her, and jumped over her while spinning in the air. I grbbed left and right arm with my left, and came in closer to her body weilding the injection in my right hand to her throat.
"You better tell me who you are and where I am before I inject you with 50 cc" I told her serious, but bluffing.
"My name is Hitomi, and your in the hospital Kani"she replied a bit frightened
"How do you know my name?No one here should know I exist." I said shocked.
A voice then called out to me, and I knew it.
"You know you're suppose to always go for that sexy,hard to get sort of look, not a deppresing hooker about to kill the paying for you."
I tuned around and an extatic/shocked expression just slapped onto my face. I released Hitomi completely and I ran towards him, my best feminen friend,
"Brute!,(I hugged him so hard that I barely gave him any air)I can't beleive your actually here" I told him with joy.
"Okay,I know you've missed me, but taking the air uotta me won't help the cause you know"He said suffacting
" I'm sorry" *sniffle*I said with tears running down my face.
" Don't cry Kani, I'm alright really, there's no need for tears, honest."
"Right, *sniffle* am just real exited to see you that's all."
"It's alright"
He hugged me closer and I stood by his side feeling the warmth of his body against mine.I felt feeble next to Brute almost all time when we weren't holding any type of weapon, and becouse he was about a head taller than me, but I always felt safe near him, I don't know why but I did.
"I'm sorrry I wasn't here on time Hitomi, this probably wouldn't have gone so far if I was here" Brute said.
"Don't worry about it, I'm already used to it bacause of Deunan"she replied.
"Deunan's here?!, How about Briareos is he here too?" I said curiously and a bit surprised."Hitomi tell me,are they here?" this time more anxious than curious.
"Kani, you should calm down, too much exitement is bad for you right now, you just got out of bed." Brute told me sweetly
(sigh) "I'll keep that in mind." I retorted
"So, how long has Kani been out cold Hitomi"Brute asked
"About twelve hours" she replied
"Twelve hours?!" I shouted confused. "How the hell did that happen?!"
"Either you were really tired or you were given too much tranq." Brute said said with a bit of a laughter in his tone.
" Well, within all that time you didn't take a look at the city without me did you?" I asked Brute.
Hitomi stared at Brute as though he had done something wrong.
" Brute" a said in a child's irratant voice"
"Well, I may have took a look around with Hitomi"he replied a frightened
I punched him in the arm and said,
"How could you, and without me too, Brute that's wrong" I said while folding my arms across my chest.
"I'm sorry, but before you get any more upset, I want you to know, you have your own condo and I had them set up everything the way you liked it"He said scared
" Oh really" I said
" I can never not think of you Kani, you've been my best friend since the second grade." He said rather quickly
" That is so sweet, but if you ever do something like that again I will publicly humilate you in front of many people you don't even know, and probably neither will I" I told him in a sweet,but ccool tone.
" You scre me sometimes you know thatT-T" he said back to me calming down
" Yeah, I know, but o'well" I replied in a smart attitude
Hitomi stood watching us and mine and Brute's head turned towards and back at each other. I started to lauh a bit, till I got serious and asked,
" Hitomi, when can we leave?"
She replied " As soon as you get dressed, then I can tell you about our Utopia, Olympus."
The two men from earlier, just then got out of the room and were limping towards security. So in my mind I figured, what the heck.
"Sorry you guys! I didn't know that you were helping me, my bad!"
One of the men replied a bit annoyed
"You'll be forgiven when my arm recovers,or if it recovers for that matter"
" We'll, good luck with that man and let me know what happens to ya"
Both Brute and Hitomi stared at me, and when I asked "What?", Brute just looked at Hitomi and Hitomi gave me a look of concern. I usually didn't act this way, what happened to my respect and dicipline?
My right arm held my left, as though I was injured, and I looked down to the floor like a sad puppy, who wouldn't get any food because it didn't obey it's master.
I said in a low tone," I'm sorry Hitomi for not showing any respect in your presence.I guess that because during the war I hung around boys, that a bit of them stood with me, can you forgive me?"
" There isn't really anything to forgive Kani, I understand, and there was no need for you to say sorry. Besides, you act much better than the military used to around here" she began to smile, and for some reason it brightened up the mood.
"So,Hitomi do you have anything extra I can wear?" I said curious.
" I thought you'd never ask, come with me."
She grabbed my arm and started pulling gently toward the room I came out of. Both of us sqeezed throuh the door, and Hitomi led me towards a closet door. She grabbed something that was neatly folded and handed it to me, so I put it on no questions asked.
" How do you feel Kani?"
" I feel great Hitomi,why do ask?"
she replied,"Because you look great, I'm surprised the clothes actually fit you so perfectly."
" You really think so Hitomi"
" I know so."she said confident
Hitomi and I both stepped out of the room and into the hallway.
"Wow,Kani you look magnificent, I really wouldn't have thought you would wear something like that. You look great, but I hate to break it to ya"
"What?"I asked
"I look so much better." he said cocky
" Brute,( I said a bit decieved) we're being serios here, and we both know that you're not as gifted as me, to work this outfit" I said this time more in a smart attitude.
" That may be so, but that's why I wear the white tux."
Hitomi, Brute and I all started laughing in agreement. I wore a strapless Dolce & Gabbana dress with silver boning, two necklaces including a purple chocker to compliment my eyes and a long chain with a cross at the end of it which was silver. I also wore an 80 carat diamond and white gold cartier Love cuff, and finally for the shoes, I had on 2-inch high purple pumps, that were really easy for me to walk hair was up, in pinned curls, with my bangs out for the then it hit me like a bullet to my head,
" You guys where on Earth are we going all dressed up like this?"
Brute replied," That is an exellent question, but I won't dignify that with a response."
"Come on,(I said like a spoiled child)pleeeaaase, I'm begging over here."
" Say what you will, but I'm still not telling." Brute told me
" Aw man, that's not fair. I just got up from sleeping and you won't tell me a thing.H...how unwelcoming." I stuttered
One of the nuses came along, and told Hitomi," Visiting hours are over, you best be leaving now, oh and make sure Kani gets checked out."
"We'll do, thank you"Hitomi nodded
I don't know why exactly, but I had to say it,I guess because I was ecited.
"Well, you all heard the nurse, let's blow this joint!" I shouted
" Kani hurry up!"Brute shouted.
" Hey, wait up how the heck you get in front of me,I'm coming."
All three of us stepped out of the hospital, and we were walking towards the parking lot in the back of the was twenty-one,thirty-eight hours, or 9:38 p.m, and everyting was calm and cool. But I still wondered, where we were going. Hopefully home,or a place here I can call that. All the more because I haven't been 'Home' in a long time.
Hitomi was walking up front, while me and Brute were walking slower in the back. We began talking about what had happened to us on the battle field, and if anyone else had survived,but then all of a sudden when Hitomi stopped and turned around to face us, about to tell us something, a darked-colored large van just drifted in between us, and bullets just started flying all over the place. Luckily, Brute grabbed me and pulled me out of the way, behind him, so that I wouldn't get shot. All I heard then was screaming coming from Hitomi. When I looked over Brute's shoulder, I saw the van driving away and so I did the first thing that came to my mind and ran after it. When I ran about two minutes, one of my heels broke, and I fell to the floor, but I got up really really quick and took them off. I saw the van take a right, when I shouted,
"Hitomi!!!" to the top of my lungs.
I heard something honk behind me, and turned around. To my amazement it was Brute, in Hitomi's hot pink car, telling me
" Get in" in a serious tone.
I hopped right in, and told Brute,
" They took a right at the corner ahead, you think we can catch up,?"
" Coarse I do, I figured out a shortcut, so hang-on Kani."
With the force, I fell back into the back looked in the glove compartment, and found a passed it back to me, and told me to aim for the tires, no matter what.
" Like I didn't know that Brute, I'm not stupid you know."
"Kani, this is no time to argue, we're saving Hitomi remmember."
" It's not like I can actually forget."
Brute accelerated, and all you can hear was the vroom vrooming of the car.
"Brute,there's a ramp ahead, you can't be serious can you" I said with a terrified expression on my face.
" Oh, but I am, so buckle-up your seatbelt, because we're going airborn."
When Brute took the jump, gravity pulled me down, that is before we started to in the air, I saw a familiar van, criss-crossing through the high way like a maniac, and said to Brute,
"That's our theif, the white van there!" as I pointed.
" You sure!" he asked
" I'm almost positive!"
The car being able to levitate from the ground didn't come in as such a hard landing,but still a reckless one.
"Well, that's good enough for me, Hang-on."
"I'm hangin alright, I'm hangin"
When they saw us through the side-view mirror, they started to shoot at us. I pulled Brute's head down with mine for the moment, to keep us from getting shot in the head, but in doing so we lost some speed. I stood up on the back seat, because the car had no roof. I looked and aimed directly towards the back right tire, and fired one bullet that blew up the tire. But because I wasn't paying any attention to my surrounding at the time, a bullet that they fired just slid across my left cheek, and it started to bleed a bit. It burned really badly,like hot metal, because that's what it was.
" Are you Okay Kani?"Brute said witha bit of a scare
" I'm fine, but now that I think about it your advice about telling me not to get too exited, sucks. Brute,they've taken the exit, follow them will ya"
" Gottcha" he replied
Brute shifted from second to first gear, held the brake down and made a hard turn. One so hard, that I almost fell out for not sitting down. He then pressed the gas petal as hard as could, so in other words he floored it, and let go of the break. We flew so fast you would have thought we were the Flash, and he quickly changed to second to third gear. But what amazed me the most from all this, was the van was still moving even though the tire was blown out, and the fact that I let a guy who doesn't even have his linsence drive!
The van turned into an alley and tipped over on it's side for breaking to hard. Someone jumped out of the driver's side of the vehicle and looked all shiny when it started running towards us. Brute accelerated towards it and I jumped out of the backseat with my heels in one hand and Punisher gun in the other.
When I landed on the floor I rolled forward to soften my landing, and got up as fast as I could, but the dress was sort of tight on my legs, so I reached to the bottom of the right side of it and ripped it just below the point in which you could see my underwear. When I looked towards the van I held up my gun and pointed it towards the second 'thing' that was holding Hitomi like a rag doll. She was all tied up and bling folded with only a bit of dirt showing on her face.
"Who are you, and what do you want that girl!( I shouted)Answer me god damn it!!!"
All of a sudden the first one kicked the gun out of my hands and sliced it with some sort of whip. I turned my head towards it, but it sweep kicked me and I fell towards the floor. I turned my head up, and then (bang bang) it just collapsed to the floor. I got up without looking at what did it, and ran towards Hitomi. I took a quick glimpse to see that Brute was runing from 'it's' left side. I was thinking in my head,"Distraction,distraction what can I use for a distraction", and bingo, I threw one of the heels as I was running, and 'it' used steel whip thing and sliced it to little pieces. It then ran towards me completely ignoring Hitomi giving Brute some time to un-tie her. Yet then again, I was in a whole heap of trouble.
I threw the next shoe and it was also sliced. It came to me using the whip and sliced left and right at the floor. All I could hear right about now was my heartbeat, and everything around me just went in slow motion as I stood and braced myself for that thing as it drew jumped, and my eyes still followed it. I threw myself to the side and dodge-rolled as it landed and crumbled the pavement underneath. Then to my surprise, three heavy shots broke the cybernetic things arm and blew it's head right off. I calculated the angle of the fire and turned my head at the direction. It was an even bigger and greyer cybernetic thing, yet for some strange reason I told it,
"Thank you"
I turned my head and ran towards Brute and Hitomi who looked safe and sound.
" Hitomi,"I said exitedly
"Kani" she replied as she hugged me
" She's alright, as a matter of fact both of you seem to be."Brute said in an accomplished tone.
When I looked up to see the expression on his face when he said that, off the corner of my eye I saw a man on the roof of the side building aiming at the expression on my face largened in frightment, and shouted
"Get Own now!!"Demanding it.
I pulled Hitomi underneath my body as I dropped to the floor, and Brute covered both of us. I turned my eyes at the direction of the Grey man looking thing and saw it running in our direction, but then ( clink,clink) two shots fired and a massive explosion behind us happened and I shut my eyes closed and prayed none of us got hurt by the fire. I felt only a bit of heat, but I knew Brute felt it all, and a tear slowely crept down my face and hit the floor. Me worrying about him made me begin to cry, and the heat made me fall unconcious.
But I did hear a voice, it belonged to Briarios, and I remmember it well,his sweet, sweet voice. He shouted in concern
" Hold on...just hold on."