R.D.D.G: here is chapter 3; numero tres etc. I hope you all have
been enjoying it so far
-…though sometimes my writing is not
the best…enjoy.
The psycho lady begins terror
The store manager began to laugh. Norten not too far behind. "Tentacles from the planet X." Norten said sarcastically. "It's a lie you know."
"It's a pile of shit." Another man agreed. The store manager rolled his eyes.
"It's a lie. Of course it's a lie. It's lunacy, from the looks of it. The tentacles are coming out of the beer cans."
"For the last time." Neji snapped. "We don't drink!"
"Me, Vancha and Crepsley can't drink." Darren said adding in a small lie. "We have very sensitive stomachs, alcohol could hurt us. So, you calling us liars? Cause you can go see for yourself that we're not lying."
The store manager and several other people looked at each other then followed the group back towards the loading dock. As they walked in they saw Mr. Crepsley right behind the door. Seeing them, he nodded and walked into the back, grabbing flashlights and handing them towards the group. They all took one and moved towards the boxes. Shining their lights on the floor they saw pools of blood scattered about. And two sets of streaks, leading towards the door and leading under it. And the store manager moved the light around the edge of the door until the light came to rest on the tentacle.
"What in God's name?" he said as the group walked towards it. One of the men picked up a pole and poked it. It flinched, making the entire group jump back. Then it began to smoke and dissolve into a strange liquid. They watched it until it was lying in a pool of its own blood. They looked at Crepsley.
"You think we're lying now?" he asked folding his arms against his chest. The group shook their heads. "Good. Let's go back and tell the others." They nodded and walked back. Once they passed through the door all eyes were on them. The store manager walked ahead of them.
"It appears we may have a problem of some magnitude." He said.
Shikamaru rolled his eyes. "This is too troublesome." He said. "I knew I should have stayed home and watched the clouds."
"And miss all of this?" Evra asked bewildered.
"Still too troublesome." Evra shook his head, and then looked at Naruto.
"Is he always like this?" he asked. Naruto nodded then grinned.
"Yup. He may be lazy, but he is a ninja genius. A master of strategy." Naruto said.
"He's…that…good?" Harkat asked, looking back at Shikamaru. "He…doesn't look…like much."
"Don't let looks fool ya." Ino said, smiling. "I'm on his team and he may be a lazy, whining excuse of a ninja. But he's actually pretty tough."
Choji nodded in agreement while snacking on potato chips.
Naruto smiled then looked at Sasuke who still looked a bit out of it. Concerned for the younger boy, he walked over. "Hey Sasuke. You okay?" he asked sitting beside him.
"I can't believe she slipped through my fingers." Sasuke said sadly.
"It's not your fault Sasuke." Naruto said gently, while wrapping an arm around Sasuke. "We don't know what we're dealing with. It could be like Kyuubi or something worse." Sasuke chuckled weakly.
"What can be worse?"
"A moody Gaara." Naruto joked, making Sasuke chuckle in response.
"Yeah. That is pretty bad." He said. Naruto smiled.
"There ya go." Naruto said. "Let's keep a smile on for awhile okay?" Sasuke shrugged.
"Hey come on you lazy asses!" Draco shouted from the front. "Come help us put dog food bags over the windows."
"Coming." Sasuke called back and the two stood up and walked over to the front. The people in the store worked hard and with great haste, to put the bags up, and duck tape over the cracks in the windows. As Hinata, Sango, and Hermione walked to the back to get some more bags and tape they heard someone talking in the woman's restroom. They moved towards the door to listen in.
"Hey Sango. What do you want me to do?" Shippo asked walking over. Sango quickly placed her finger to her mouth and checked to see if the person was still talking. She was, so Sango looked at Shippo.
"Why don't you go keep Billy company." She said quietly. "it's been awhile since you've seen anyone your age." Shippo nodded and walked off. Then she placed her ear back at the door.
"let me." the woman said. "help…these..people. let me…let me preach your word. Let me shine your light. At least they're not all bad, they can't all be bad. Some of them can be saved can't they?"
Hinata, Sango and Hermione looked at each other.
"who's she talking to?" Hinata whispered.
"it sounds like she's praying." Hermione whispered.
"to who?" Sango asked quietly. "Buddha?"
Hermione shook her head. "no, to God."
Hinata and Sango looked at each other, with confused looks, then to Hermione. "who?"
Hermione rolled her eyes. "just listen." She whispered. And they went back to listening.
"yes. Some can be brought to Heaven's holy gates, through your grace. I have to believe that, though some will swim in the lake of fire forever. If I can save a few…even one, then will I have counted for something. I will have pulled my weight, I will have earned my place at your side…"
Then Hinata accidentally pushed the door open.
"oops…" she said blushing. After a moment the psycho lady stood up and stared at them.
"what?" she asked.
"oh…um…sorry…but we had to use the restroom…" Hinata said, quickly making up an excuse.
The Lady looked at Sango and Hermione for confirmation and the two quickly nodded.
"fine. Have at it." She said then began to walk out of the restroom before Sango stopped her.
"um…excuse me ma'am." The psycho lady turned around. "we can understand completely that you're scared. And well we think that we should band together so, if you know, you needed someone to talk to then…"
"I already have someone to talk to," the psycho lady said, narrowing her eyes at the three. "God above is the only friend I need, and you know what I talk to him everyday." She pointed a finger at the three. "don't you dare condescend me."
the three looked at each other. "umm…excuse me?" Hermione asked.
"don't you dare mock me." the Psycho lady said again.
"why would we?" Sango asked. Hinata nodded in agreement.
"you haven't done anything that we would dare mock you of." She said.
"one day. You just might." The lady said than with a huff walked away.
the three stared after her for a moment before looking at each other.
"what was her problem?" Sango asked.
"seems to me like she's an extremist." Hermione said thoughtfully. "we might wanna watch our backs."
"why?" Hinata asked. "all she was doing was praying to her God. Why should we be careful?"
"did you see the look in her eyes?" Hermione asked. "it was loathe, and possibly she knows about us."
"what do you mean?" Sango asked.
"she might have figured out I'm a witch, and you two are not of her religion." Hermione said. "and she could also know about the others as well, though I don't know what's wrong with Crepsley, Vancha and Darren. They seem normal."
"but why?—"
"not a lot of religious extremists are as accepting of others that believe differently than them." Hermione said. "they may go to extreme lengths to do away with all those who are different. we'll just have to keep an eye on her." the three nodded before they went to different stalls.
"we might as well go warn the others so they're prepared." Sango said after a few minutes.
Hinata nodded. "we have several people who are demons, and then there's your group Hermione, and then there's Evra and Harkat."
After they washed their hands they went to go find the rest of their groups. Being since they were different than a lot of the locals they considered themselves to be a group of allies. Hermione found Sasuke, Darren, Crepsely, Harry, Draco, Severus, Inuyasha, Neji and Koga listening in on Norten as he talked to the others.
"what's going on?" Hermione asked. Sasuke placed his finger on his lips to tell her to be quiet as Norten spoke.
"Maybe you do believe this. Uh, maybe they're not lies or illusions or whatever. But the fact of the matter is the evidence is flimsy. Bordering ludicracy…"
"hey this isn't a courtroom." David said. "you're not arguing your case and you're causing nothing but trouble talking the way you are."
"and you can throw as much cow cud as you want, you're still not fooling anyone." Norten retorted.
"huh. Now a days you can't convince someone there's a fire even though their hair is burning. Denial is a powerful thing." Ollie said to David as he walked away.
"hey believe what you will. But I will have no part of it. Neither will any sane, thinking person."
Before Darren was going to snap at him. they heard the psycho lady say, "think what you will, Mr. Lawyer. There is no defense against the will of God. There's no court of appeals in hell."
"what's hell?" Inuyasha asked.
Hermione shook her head. "another time." She murmured as they continued to watch.
"there's even no defense here, even with all the fertilizer in the world. You can stack them as high as you can, but they're still just bags of…Shit isn't it."
"me, Sango and Hinata are going to need to talk to you and the rest of the pack." Hermione whispered. "we may have a slight issue on hand."
"let me guess it's got something to do with the psycho lady over there." Darren said indicating towards said lady.
"Darren." Larten chastised quietly.
"not my fault if she is." Darren mumbled.
"uh, those of you who want to discuss this thing rationally, and finding a means of rescue are welcome to join me. those of you who want to stack dog food, knock yourselves out."
the group sweat dropped.
"great, we're already splitting into groups." Neji said. "that's not the smartest thing to do right now, particularly since there are younger children here. and I have a feeling, pretty soon, we're going to be the outcasts."
Severus nodded. "I agree. We'd better lay low for a while and find a way to get help from the Ministry."
"how are they going to help us, Severus?" Draco asked. "if you cannot even cast a simple protego charm with this fog around, what makes you think the bloody ministry can?"
"watch your tone Malfoy." Severus snapped. Then a scream caught their attention.
They quickly looked around to See Ino being pulled into the mist.
"INO!!" Sasuke and Neji yelled as they rushed to save their companion. But before the two could reach the blonde koinichi, Crepsley and Severus held them back.
they could still hear her screams. The whole store turned quiet as the young girl's screams died down into total silence once more.
"what the hell just happened?" Norten asked.
"apparently that girl was trying to leave." Someone replied. "she must have been trying to find a way out of here."
"or she was just signing her pact with the devil, to join him in the fiery pits of hell." The psycho lady said.
"YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT INO!!" all the ninja exclaimed.
"she was a strong teenager." Shikamaru said. "strong willed, and she was determined…though granted she was a bit annoying and a little egotistical. Who isn't? why do you think she belongs in your hell?"
"she did not follow God's word." The lady replied simply. "she followed a path of darkness."
"Lady, don't mean to be rude but, we're of the Shinto faith or Buddhists! How is a peaceful religion a path of darkness?" Sasuke snapped. "just because we don't believe in your "God" you would Demonize our culture? Do not judge us based on your ignorance!"
the lady just glared at him. "I have nothing more to say to you, Demons of hell."
"you…YOU IGNORANT, JUDGEMENTAL BITCH!!" Lee yelled, surprising all of the ninja. Tenten and Neji looked at their teammate with wide eyes, as Tenten placed her hands on her hips.
"wow Lee, I didn't know you had it in you." she said in amazement.
Neji smirked. "now I wonder what Gai-sensei would say about it." Just before Lee could shout anymore, Vancha showed up and covered up the young shinobi's mouth.
"not now lee." He said.
"it's not that we don't respect your religion." Hinata said to the psycho lady quickly. "you have every right to believe how you want to believe, but all we ask is that you respect our religion." The psycho lady turned up her nose turned away from them.
Kiba put a hand on Hinata's shoulder. "come on, Hinata." He said, then looked at Shino. "Have your Kikaichu, keep an eye on these people." Shino nodded as the pack moved away from the rest of the people in the store.
As they walked, Darren heard his stomach growl. It has been three weeks since he had last had blood, and he was starting to grow hungry.
"Mr. Crepsley, I need blood." Darren whispered to Mr. Crepsley. Larten nodded and looked at Vancha who also nodded, they too needed their usual dose of blood.
"we'll have to ask to feed off one of the members of our pack." Vancha said.
Crepsley nodded. "you ask a member of your group, and me and Darren will ask a member of ours." Vancha nodded as they met up with the rest of the pack, near the back of the store.
Once all the pack members were accounted for Hermione said. "now I'm sure most of us have noticed the "psycho" Lady's behavior. Sango, Hinata, and I think that she will become a huge problem in the future. She already knows that a lot of this group are members of a different religion. What I'm not sure of though is if she knows about the rest of us. I mean you heard her talk, I don't think she's going to react well if she finds out that three of us are Demons, and one of us has a demon in him. nor do I think she'll be thrilled with the fact that there are four wizards and one witch." She looked at Vancha, Crepsley and Darren. "I'm not sure what you three are, but I highly doubt she'll be thrilled either. Then there's also Evra and Harkat to worry about." Evra and Harkat looked at each other worriedly.
"let them try to touch my friends." Darren growled. Crepsley smiled at his apprentice, while Vancha looked at the cub prince with pride.
"I could just send my friends after her and finish the problem right now." Shino suggested. Neji shook his head.
"no, that would point more fingers at us." He said.
Hermione looked at the two. "friends?" she asked.
"all members of my clan are beetle masters." Shino explained. "once we are born we are given to the Kikaichu insects. They live inside of us and feed off our chakra, in return they obey our commands."
Naruto smirked. "hence the reason why we call him buggy." He said. Shino ignored him.
"this lady is like a spider and if remained unchecked she could spell the end for us."
"yeah, she could use us as a scape goat or something." Miroku said then looked at Hinata.
"um…miss Hinata…"
"yes?"
"I was wondering if you'd…" Sango hit him hard over the head with her Hiraikotsu.
"don't even think about it monk." She snapped at him. Inuyasha and Shippo shook their heads.
"what an idiot." Shippo said.
"Heh, and you would've thought that the lecher would learn." Inuyasha agreed.
The pack looked at the four strangely.
"you don't want to know." Shippo said. The others nodded in agreement.
"so what should we do?" Grubs asked. "we have to help these people out…despite the crazy psycho lady."
Deverish nodded in agreement with his nephew. Darren looked at Crepsley with a look that said, 'we need to tell them now.' Crepsley sighed and looked at the group.
"there is something me, Darren and Vancha must tell you all." He said. "for it would spell the end for us if we don't. you see, we are vampires."
"that would explain why you have the smell of the livin' dead." Inuyasha said. "so what's up?"
"we need to take a little bit of blood from someone. We may be vampires, but we do not kill the people we feed from like our cousins the vampaneze. And we don't drink as often. Vancha and I only have to drink about twice a month while Darren here, who's only a half-vampire, needs to feed once a month."
"why couldn't you feed off of one of the people in the store?" Tenten asked.
"we could but then people would spot us, and we would be doomed." Vancha said. "that and if we had a willing donor, they wouldn't cause fright if they woke up while we gathered blood. like Crepsley said, we don't take a lot when we feed. Just a little bit."
Darren looked to the ground. "so…we were wondering if, well…one or two of you could be our willing donors while we stay here. we won't drink often." Sasuke smiled and stepped forward.
"I can be a donor for Darren and Crepsley." He said.
Naruto looked at his teammate before too stepping up. "I can be a donor for Vancha." The three smiled.
"thank you so much." Crepsley said.
The two boys shrugged. "it's nothing." Sasuke said. "we need to stand by each other if we are going to make it out of this alive."
Naruto nodded. "exactly, and besides that, you guys are pretty cool, I'm glad to help. believe it!" he said patting Darren on the shoulder. "so when do you guys need to feed?"
"we are going to need to feed about now…if it's not too much trouble." Darren replied. "we're already beginning to feel the effects of not having blood." the two nodded.
"then let's go." Sasuke said. "we can go into the loading dock. It's dark, so if someone walks in it would be hard for them to see anything."
The three vampires nodded. Deverish smiled. "well, while you five are doing that, we are going to help out with the bags. Let's go guys." The rest nodded and followed the Disciple away. Crepsley and Vancha looked at the two young shinobi, and smirked.
"let's go, before someone notices us." He said and they quickly walked into the loading dock, making sure to hide in the darkest corner there. Naruto wrapped his arm around Sasuke's shoulders and knew that the young Uchiha was still freaked about the sudden loss of Ino.
"its okay, Sasuke." Naruto said gently.
"when is this going to end?" Sasuke asked. "every single time I hear someone scream in fear or agony, that night plays inside my head."
Naruto pulled the uchiha closer to his side. "I'll be there with you, all right. I'm not going to leave you." Sasuke smiled at Naruto before Vancha, Darren and Crepsley stopped.
"this place should be good enough." Crepsley said. Then Vancha and Larten motioned for Naruto and Sasuke to step forward. The two complied, and the two vampires breathed out their knock-out breath. The boy's eyes began to droop as they lost consciousness and fell limply into Vancha and Crepsley's arms.
Darren watched the two ninjas. "you know, I'm beginning to think that these two love each other."
Vancha stared at him. "what makes you think that?" he asked.
"haven't you noticed how Sasuke behaves whenever Naruto is around?" Darren asked.
"yeah, it's the same way Harry acts when Draco is near him. slightly shy, and a blush on his cheeks." Vancha said, shrugging his shoulders as he used his nails to make a small cut on Naruto's arm.
Darren nodded as Crepsley did the same with Sasuke. "yup, exactly." He said. Crepsley rolled his eyes as he moved the arm away from his mouth.
"I know that tone, Darren. Don't go trying to play matchmaker." He said, before returning to feeding. Darren smiled.
"My dear Sire, why would you think I would do that?" he asked. as Crepsley finished.
"I've been with you for about six years, Childe. I know when you're planning something." He said as he wiped the blood from his chin. "now get your fill." Darren nodded and pulled out his syringe. Finding a vein in the leg, Darren stuck the needle in and drew the blood into it. After that was done, he grabbed a cup he took from one of the aisles and poured the blood into it. While Crepsley used his healing spit to close up the wounds. After checking that there would be no scars, Crepsley and Darren used cloth and cleaned off the blood from their faces and the young Uchiha. While Vancha cleaned off his face and Naruto's arm.
"you know we should probably come up with a cover story, just in case." Vancha said. Crespley nodded and picked up several bags of fertilizer and handed them to Darren.
"we can say that we were getting some more bags for the windows and the two fell asleep." Vancha nodded and grabbed several of the furniture pads and swung them over this shoulder as he picked up Naruto. Crepsley grabbed another bag of Dog food before, using one arm, settling Sasuke on his back.
"but what if the crazy lady strikes?" Darren asked. "she's not too thrilled with any of the ninja because of their faith."
"we can have Harkat keep watch over them, until they wake up." Crepsley said. "Harkat could deal with any of those humans easily." Darren nodded.
"I'll go get him when I drop these bags off to the front." He said, as the three walked out of the back. David saw them come out and walked over to them.
"what happened?" he asked noticing the sleeping boys.
"we went to get some more bags, and the two were tired so they fell asleep where they stood." Crepsley said. "all this shock would make anyone tired." David nodded in agreement as he took the bag away from Crepsley.
"yeah, no kidding. You can have them sleep by Billy." He said. Then he and Darren walked to the front to stack the bags up with the others.
The two vampires nodded and made their way over to where Billy lay with a couple of the ladies from the town. The elderly lady looked up at them and smiled.
"hello there." she said.
"do you mind if these two sleep here for a couple hours?" Crepsley asked.
"not at all, not at all." She replied cheerfully. "lay them down and we'll keep an eye on them."
"thank you very much ma'am." Vancha said as he laid down Naruto and placed a blanket over him.
"oh think nothing of it." The lady said. "the young ones need rest, now. Yet most of the adults keep throwing these fears onto their shoulders. Particularly Ms. Carmondy, and Mr. Norten."
Crepsley nodded as he laid Sasuke down next to Naruto.
"they need to learn to be silent." Crepsley said.
"well, not everybody is as understanding of others." The woman said. "I suppose situations like this bring out the true natures of people."
Vancha and Crepsley nodded. "the need for survival." Vancha said. "our animal instincts begin to emerge once more." The woman nodded.
"well, we'd better go help the other out up front." Mr. Crepsley said. "thank you again for watching them."
"no, problem." The woman said before the two walked towards the front. Then Darren walked over with Evra and Harkat.
"what's wrong?" Vancha asked.
"that…psycho lady…keeps looking…at us…funny." Harkat said. "I don't…like her…one bit. Can't wait…to get…away from…her."
"yeah, she keeps glaring at us like it was our fault the mist is here." Evra agreed. "just because we look different than everyone else."
Crepsley sighed. "all right. Why don't you two go watch over Sasuke, Naruto, and Billy. They're in the back with two ladies. One of them has short black hair, and the other is elderly." The snake-boy and the little person nodded and walked back.
"may I go too?" Shippo asked on top of one of the shelves. Crepsley nodded and Shippo ran off after the two.
Then Vancha, Crepsley and Darren walked towards the front, where Grubs and Deverish were trying their best to ignore Norten's rants.
"someone needs to shut that man up." Grubs said to Darren as he got on the other side of the ladder and helped putting tape over the cracks.
"he can't be much worse than the psycho lady." Darren pointed out. Grubs nodded in agreement.
"I quite agree." Miroku said. "that woman is driving me nuts."
"weren't you always nuts Miroku." Inuyasha said from his look out post.
"not the point." Miroku sighed. "all she ever does is preach."
"she still is." Shikamaru said from next to Inuyasha. Ron nodded.
"she's been at it for a little while now." The young wizard said.
The group went silent as they worked.
"is none so blind as those who will not see. Open your eyes. let the scales fall away, this has all been written."
"in her own mind." Grubs murmured to Darren who chuckled.
"Revelations, chapter 15; and the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power. And no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed."
The group sighed. "so what are you going on about lady?" Inuyasha asked. everyone stopped to listen.
"I'm saying that we should all prepare to meet our maker." The lady said in a choked voice. Inuyasha rolled his eyes then looked out the window again.
Authoress' note: okay ppl here's chapter 3. now if you've ever watched the movie you might have noticed that I gave some of the lines from the movie to one of the anime characters that are in this fic. Personally I liked those lines somewhat. And while I'm at it, I made Ms. Carmondy (AKA the psycho lady) the way she was, well because she is psycho and she probably would have acted like that. I've seen several extremists like her, I've been told off by people like her. (though granted I usually tell the others off in retaliation). I mean, in no way, shape or form, for the way Ms. Carmondy is portrayed, to be insulting. If it is, I'm sorry but I'm not changing her. she was an ass in the movie so she shall remain an ass now, why cause she scares me, and I don't like her.