1 Time for a new chapter...I hope this one turns out better then the other one. That one I didn't really like that much...it was rushed and a bit humorous which I didn't want. So this next chapter I'm gonna try to gore it up a bit...the key word is "try" anyways...I hope you people enjoy it and please, please, please, try to review...I really miss those...well ENJOY!
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"I can't go on anymore...just leave me here." Kuwabara muttered flopping to the ground exhausted from the walk. It's been two days of just walking and running, we've clearly run out of ammo and have nothing except our own personal powers to save our ass's which has also dangerously depleted. We've been ambushed about eight times and its very frustrating having to fight demons and humans bare handed...although we try to avoid the humans as best as we can cause they are the ones that are armed with the killer guns.
"Alright...five minute break men...then we must continue." Hiei announced. We all just fell to the ground tired and also starving. Krew took his boots off and winced when he did...his socks had been cut through from the rough fabric of his boots. They looked like Swiss cheese and his toes were raw and bleeding. The boots also had holes on the bottom of the sole. Thief took off his own shoes and socks and handed them to Krew. He told him that it was ok...that he could take them when Krew questioned him.
"I'm better off bare-footed...besides my skin is thicker then yours...so I'll live." Krew just thanked him and after Kurama bandaged up his feet, he put the shoes on. I watched all that was happening around me trying to ignore my stomach which was growling loudly and painfully.
'God...so damn hungry.' I moaned in my mind. I looked around in the bushes hoping to find anything like a rabbit or even berries. Nothing. 'Man were in the middle of a damn forest and there isn't one animal or edible plant anywhere!' I sighed and winced a bit when my stomach gave a painful growl. "Hey why can't we find any animals and such?" I asked anyone that would answer. Krew answered.
"I think because there were demons in this part of the woods before us. They probably cleaned this whole area dry of every living thing." he told me while he put on his shoes and tied them up tight.
"Well great, now we don't just to worry about being shot and killed, now it's also starve to death...just fucking great!" I shouted. I was about to shout some more, but I felt something hard hit me sharply in the head. I grunted loudly grabbing the back of my head.
"You better shut your large trap solider," Hiei told me tossing a rock up and down in his hand. "You never know what might be hiding behind the trees and such." I looked at the ground and saw a large rock about the size of my hand and as thick as my fist. It had a bit of my blood on it. I stayed quiet, understanding what Hiei meant. Anything can literally pop out of nowhere and kill us, I would know it happened to us about five times already. And that's just in the last hour, it's strange. It's as if were being hunted down, but why?
Five minutes went by very quickly and we were back on our feet walking through the forest once again. Since Krew's Laptop got fried by the electric shock we have to use a normal map that he had also brought with all his other electronics. We walked for about twenty minutes, when suddenly a huge blast rang out behind us. My ears were still ringing from the sheer loudness from it that I could barely hear Hiei's orders for us to scatter. I had just began to run when another blast hit the spot where I was just standing, I glanced back to see what it was that was trying to hit us. In the crater that it left was a young girl with strange wires sticking out of neck and traveling down her back into a strange looking container. It was pumping some kind of red liquid into the wires. 'Wait those aren't wires...their tubes. Is it keeping her alive?' I thought to myself. I didn't have long to think cause she leapt into the air her hands glowing with some strange dark power. She roared loudly slamming her fists into the ground uprising it underneath our feet making us fall to the ground. I quickly brought myself to my feet and looked at the girl. Her eyes were glowing evilly and she was drooling the red liquid from her mouth, also I had just noticed that she was wearing the same exact BDU we were wearing. Was she from our squad?
"You...will...DIE!" she screeched leaping into the air. She grew claws from what was once her hand, but now It looked decayed and rotten. She aimed for Krew who was still a bit stunned from the fall. She raised her hand ready for the slash, Krew couldn't dodge so he crossed his arms over his face ready for the strike, but Thief got in the way and took the hit. She slashed at his face and the force sent him flying to the side. In that same instant Hiei used the intense speed that he had and kicked her in the side with his steel-covered boot. She clutched her side and screamed with pain. He slammed his fist into her head and I could hear her skull crack, she didn't scream at this though. She reacted quickly and swung at him with her claws, Hiei dodged easily. He lifted his leg and this time kicked her right under the chin, and at the same time gathered all the spirit energy he had left in one fist and punched her in the stomach. She flew back and slammed in a tree. The container that was pumping the strange liquid in her smashed when she hit the tree. It spilled onto the grass and evaporated quickly, she screamed as she tried to grab whatever was left of the liquid. "Damn...you...how dare...you." she growled. "You...will..." he voice changed from evil to strangely soft. "Please...help me...please." but it didn't last long. "...pay...I will...kill you."
"PLEASE HELP ME!" she shouted. Her eyes kept changing colors, from black to green. I understood what was happening.
"She's being controlled...we have to help her." I said to the guys. Kurama nodded and so did Kuwabara, but Hiei shook his head. "What...why not?"
"Because I already killed her. When I hit her head I cracked her skull open on the outside and the inside. Whatever that liquid is, it's what's keeping her alive right now...or for the next moment. It's best that I finish her right now." he unsheathed his sword when he finished speaking and walked to the girl. I looked at her and saw that blood was starting to spill out of her mouth, ears, nose, and eyes. I knew what Hiei meant...but I was still hoping that we could help her. The girl kept changing back and forth to her normal self and the evil thing that tried to kill us. It made me sick to my stomach hearing her scream at Hiei. Threatening and begging for mercy at the same time.
"I...dare...you...(please don't!)...you don't... have... the guts...(I'm begging you...please!)...hahahahahaHAHAHAHAHA!...(NO!)" that was the last thing heard from the girl. Hiei brought his sword down over the girls neck and ended her life.
"What the hell was wrong with her?" Kuwabara asked. Krew looked at the girl curiously after bandaging up Thief, who was standing next to him like if nothing happened. Krew walked over to her dead body, he freaked out a little when he saw that her eyes where still open. He kneeled down and covered her eyes with his hand, some of her blood stained his hand. He was about to wipe it off, but then he stopped.
"What, what is it?" I asked him. He put his hand to his nose and smelled the blood.
"This isn't blood." I stared at him confused. Kuwabara did the same, only Hiei, Kurama, and Thief said and did nothing its like as if they knew..like they could smell it.
"What do you mean that isn't blood?" I asked him.
"This is a strange mixture of chemicals and herbs, I recognize the smell from the chemicals I had once in my lab. That was when I was trying to bring a dead plant back to life...whoever got to this girl is messing with life itself. But how could they get the formulas right, its to complicated and there are to many risks for it to be done properly." he muttered. He was about to touch the blood on his hand, but it turned to dust and blew away with the wind. "I thought so...the liquid Is to delicate to be exposed to oxygen."
"What the hell are you talking about Krew?" I asked him not really understanding what he had said.
"Whoever did this to the girl is bringing the dead back to life. This red liquid has to be pure...in other words no other liquid or ingredient can touch it. Look the liquid that I thought was her blood fills her entire body...now the only way I can imagine that possibilty is if you drain the entire body of all bodily fluids. Which some say is impossible...so the girl had to be dead for it to be done properly." he explained.
"So the girl was dead to begin with...but what about the evil voice..you know the one that almost killed you and if she's just a human how could she have that kind of strength? And that dark power?"
"That I don't know. They probably enhanced her powers through the liquid." when he finished speaking we heard distant voices like yells and hollers.
"We've been in this one spot to long...come lets go." Hiei said sheathing his sword and walking ahead of us. We followed him, saying nothing. Thief complained a bit, saying that his face hurt and all. Night time soon came and we had to stop. We stopped in an open field where luckily the demons hadn't gotten to yet. We found food and ate. I lied on the soft grass with a full stomach and feeling better even though we've been through so much already. I stared up at the sky.
"Wow, look at all the stars." I said to whoever would listen. The stars were beautiful, they looked like little diamonds sparkling in the sky. There were millions of them...I had never seen something like this.
"Neat...they really do light up the sky." Krew said throwing in a few more sticks into the fire. He grabbed a spare one and poked at it. "Hey...do you think we'll make it out of here alive?" he asked. Hiei reached over to him and smacked him upside the head.
"Don't say things like that, you'll only put yourself down." he told him as he also lied down too.
"I'm just asking, noone had asked that yet so I thought I would ask it."
"Don't worry we'll all survive." Kurama told him.
"Hopefully." Krew sighed. Everyone was quiet for a while, nothing could be heard except for the wind. I thought I had to break the silence.
"So noone has any interesting stories to tell?" they all just stared at him. I looked away feeling stupid that I had asked that.
"I remember that one time I went to Egypt," Thief said. "You remember don't you Krew...when I stole that hundred year old wine bottle."
"Yea I remember, the one that still had wine in it and you drank it anyways." Krew laughed. "You got so sick that night."
"Hey I thought that since I was older then it maybe I could beat it, but that was a stupid thing." he laughed.
"Wait... "older then it". How old are you Thief?" I asked him. He looked at me and answered.
"I'm 156 years old. I thought you knew that."
"Damn that is old...how can you be alive that long?"
"I'm a racoon demon...were known to have long life spans."
"Ha that's nothing." Kurama said out of nowhere. "I'm over 300 years old."
"Wow...now your old. How have you been able to stay sane that long?" Kurama laughed at my question.
"Show off." Thief said. Krew just laughed.
"I remember this one time when I was little," began Kuwabara. "I stole from this small convenient store. I just stole a small piece of candy nothing much. The storekeeper got so mad at me that he made me work at his store."
"Hey I remember that...I would visit you sometimes and when the old man left we would steal the Jerky and drink from the slurpiee machine...from the nozzle." I laughed. Kuwabara laughed to.
"Yea I miss those days...hey did you know that old man died already?"
"What? Aw...that sucks."
"Yea, he died of a heart attack. That poor old goat." we all talked a bit more laughing and sharing stories. All of us except Hiei. I turned to him, he just lied there on the ground staring at the sky. Since I did a good job of getting everyone to talk I thought I would ask Hiei if he had any stories.
"Hey Hiei, do you have any good stories to tell us?" right when I asked that everyone went quiet I didn't know what I did...but then I remembered that I wasn't allowed to say his name. Hiei just lied there still staring at the sky. He had been tapping his foot on the ground, when I had said that he had stopped. I waited. After a few agonizing seconds he continued tapping his foot.
"This one time when I first joined the human army, I was treated like such a bastard cause I was the new one there. I was picked on and pushed around like a freshman in high school. But cause they were humans I couldn't hurt them the ay I wanted to, so I had to hold back. Well my commander was ordering us around and being mean to me for no fucking reason. I got so mad when he was yelling in my face that I punched him as hard as I could in the face." Hiei said smiling to himself. That was the first time I had seen him smile, and not counting the times he would smirk...he actually smiled. We all stared at him, but he didn't notice.
"Wait...so you were Short Bastard?" Kurama asked sitting up looking at Hiei.
"Ugh...I thought I had put that nickname behind me. Yes that was me." Hiei sighed covering his eyes with his hand. Kurama laughed.
"I had heard that someone had punched their commander, I didn't know it was you though."
"I didn't get that nickname till after I did that...also in my second year there in the army. I will never forget my nickname through my first year." Hiei sighed.
"What...what was it?" I asked interested in what he was saying.
"Fuck that, I'm not telling you guys anything." Hiei said. But then Kurama spoke.
"If I remember the name was...Short Bitch. I think I'm right..haha..ow." Hiei had grabbed a rock an had thrown it at Kurama. It hit him right in the head. We all laughed hysterically.
"Ah...shut up you no good sons of a bitches." Hiei growled.
"Sorry Hiei, but I had to say it." Kurama said laughing and holding his head. "We all had those embarrassing nicknames."
"Yea I was always called carrot top." said Kuwabara.
"Princess." said Kurama.
"Com nerd." said Krew
"I was called a Hoar a few times." said Thief.
"Why?" we all asked him.
"Oh, because of my job...you know a thief. I would sleep with women to get what I want."
"Yea you are a hoar." Hiei said. We all laughed.
"Hey how did you get all that steel on your right shoe?" Kuwabara asked. Hiei looked at his foot before he answered.
"The hide came off the shoe a while back. I'm wearing steel-toed shoes."
"Well that's not fair, why didn't we get some too?" I asked.
"Cause your just soldiers and you wouldn't know what to do with them." he chuckled.
We all talked for a few more hours, talking about nothing special. The fire had started to go out by the time we all finished talking. We all got comfortable and fell asleep after a while. For some reason I woke up, when I did I saw Hiei feeding the fire.
"Serge. What are you doing awake?" I asked him rubbing my eyes.
"Someone has to stay up and watch over you all." he said.
"Why don't we trade...I'll stay up and you could fall as.."
"Shut the fuck up solider. What kind of leader would I be if I let you do that? Now go to sleep or I'll knock you out so you can sleep." I sighed before I lied back down. It took me a while before I could fall asleep, but I did. The night went by real quickly. I woke up when I felt someone nudge me in the shoulder.
"Ugh...what the hell?" I asked opening my eyes. When I did I was staring into a gun barrel of a machine gun. I looked at the guy and he was wearing a BDU similar to ours but it was bade instead of green and brown. He was our human enemy.
"Get up you lousy piece of shit, or I'll kill you where you lie." he told me.
"Oh holy mother of Fuck."
Wow...what a long chapter...I really out did myself...phew...my hand hurts from typing. Okay this chapter had humor...whatever I still liked it. Well I hoped you enjoyed my chapter...please leave a review and come again. Oh also BDU stands for Battle Dress Uniform. Well...see ya next chapter...laters! Please review!
