HEY THERE! I'm not dead! See! Anyways…I don't own Zoids, or Raven for that matter. But I do own Nocomi; she's my character. Blah blah blah. Enjoy this chapter!
Chapter 4: New Deal New Enemies
"So…" Thomas starts, while drinking from a fresh cup of coffee. He sits down at the table across from the imprisoned girl, studying her facial expression. She, now with her hands tied behind her, observed the dull room as if she has not been there for the last 4 hours. She took notice to the only window; small and had iron bars. Through it she could see the sun beginning to ascend over a large clearing.
"An escape route…perhaps." She whispers to herself recalling Thomas's present.
Thomas reads from a paper given to him before this questioning started. Then shortly looks back up at he girl. "Let us try this again. You said something about Raven; 'your deal' with him? Why don't you tell me about that?" He's voice blasted through the small room slightly irritated.
"Ah…yes. My deal for which I have not completed thus far. What about it?" Nocomi stated in a matter of fact tone glaring back at the male with the slyest grin. For just a moment she sat in silence. Then wanting to make the blonde mad, she kicked the table over and laughed.
"WHY WIL YOU NOT ANSWER ME!" No mad, Thomas snatched Nocomi by her shirt collar and elevates her to his eye level. "ANSWER!"
"There is no need to shout at her if she is not talking." With a guard close behind, enters Van. His eyes fixed on the girl like a hawk. "I'll take it from here Thomas."
Thomas sets Nocomi back down and storms off angry. Confused as Nocomi is about Van's look, she stares at Van waiting for his next move. Van gave a short hand signal to the guard. The guard untied her and quickly brought the table to a stand, then returning behind Van.
"You're not releasing me are you?" Nocomi merrily said rubbing her now free wrist.
"You are a smart young woman. But the reason I came is this." Van said seriously, holding up a silver tube with a red button on top of it in his hand, carefully. The girl froze in horror, taking a step back.
"Hey! How'd you get that?" She screamed with wide eyes.
"Found in one of your coat pockets along with lots of other little gadgets." Scared, Nocomi quickly looks at herself only NOW noticing that her coat was gone. Seeing her in fear, he began to play with it but being cautious not to press the button. "This one caught my eye seeing it has this switch. I started to thinking of what it does. But I said 'what the heck, let's ask the girl you owns it what's its function is.' "
"Please I beg you don't press it or drop it!" Nocomi pleaded him as she supports her back up against the wall watching the object.
"As long as you answer my questions…" She nodded in fear keeping her distance between her and Van. "Good then. First question: what's your name?"
"M-My name…is No-Nocomi…." Now pleased about getting an answer, Van sits himself where Thomas was once at. Still playing with the silver tube and watching the fear in the young girl's eyes, he begins to think of some more questions.
"Hmmm…tell me: why are you working with Raven? Is there something he's giving you?"
"Information. That's all I'm goanna tell you about it." She tried her hardest not to look worried. But you can see it; fear filled her eyes and as well as her voice.
"What if I make a deal with you? Give you something of better value then whatever Raven's giving you. Would you be interested?"
"There's only one thing you can give me and that's your life. Want I want you might not want to give. I want you six feet under. What I want is you dead Van Flyheight! "
"So you are interested in making this deal then?"
"Uhh...Sure…"
"Then what you want is reasonable."
"WHAT! Are you really serious? You are ….really going to die just to make a deal with me! You are willing to through your life away?" Now very much surprised, Nocomi steps closer to Van and pays close attention to what his deal really was about.
"Yes. But you'll have to keep you're end of the deal, understood?" She promptly nods wanting to hear what he wishes. "What I need from you is your help to capture and execute Raven. Only after that will I keep my word. But…if you do not want to make this agreement with me, then I have no other choose but to kill you along sit with Raven."
"What for! I haven't killed anyone?"
"From what I remember you TRIED to kill me." Van smiles a most wicked smile. A smile so evil it would have made the strongest men tremble. "That's good enough reason to kill you." The now stern expression on Van's face said it all; he was not joking about this, he was not trying to swindle her or anything…he really wants Raven dead!
"So…all I have to do is…help catch Raven and I get to kill you?" Nocomi wanted to clear it all up. All of this was way too much for her to consider.
"Whoa hold it…who said anything about WHO will be killing me?"
"How will I know then if you're truly dead? I'll be the one to kill you or no deal! Got that?"
"Well aren't you a hard person to make arrangements with?" He laughed and stood. Holding the silver tube, he stuck out his hand with the object to Nocomi. "Well….are we going to close this deal or what?"
"…fine…" The teen girl sighed under her breath while taking the tube. "Only because it's the only way to keep my deal with Raven…"
"GREAT! I willl tell the others and I'll talk to you in a little bit about how you'll be helping." Van happily said and signaled the guard again. As he was walking out he whispered to the young man, "Stay here with our new friend. Give her anything that she might need." Nocomi thought over what had happened and shuddered. Falling to her knees she yelled; crying of the irrational thing she had done.
"So…now the game of cat and mouse has changed?" Raven grinned and looked down at Shadow whom he was standing on. "Want to play a new game Shadow?" His friend growled with delight as his master jumped off of him. The two walked back to the well hided Genobreaker; both laughing.
Last Words: Look at that….my fourth chapter. What's even cooler is I did all this within a time limit. Since there's a crap lot of things happening to my life right now (best friend about to move away, mom having to go to the hospital, and me having weird stomach pains that would make anyone curl up and want to die), I'm happy I even got this chapter done.
But I have to thank all those who are reading this. Even bigger thanks to those who reviewed. You people keep me going. Along side 6 cups of ice tea, tons of Fruit Loops, no good sleep, and this hell-of-a-bright lamp my friend gave me. Those people are: 1) gabas 2) chcraven 3) ikari12 4) Luvz Fluffy-sama 5) stormKonigwolf BIG thanks to those people.
