A/N: Sorry for the long wait and thanx for the reviews. You're all very wonderful! .
Disclamer!: I DON'T OWN ANY OF THE KLONOA CHARACTERS!! I ONLY OWN HOLLIS AND ANY OTHER OF MY OCs
Chapter 9: Warrioress
It stood about ten feet, looming over everyone and everything and casting its shadow over the ones it stood above. It had a mane of deep purple around its neck and down it spine spiking at the tip of its black scaled tail. Roars inserted into the townsfolk's' ears and along showing its many rows of sharp teeth.
The crowd of people were quiet for a moment but was interrupted by someone who just realized the situation and screamed bloody murder and soon many others fallowed suit. People scattered in many directions trying to avoid getting killed. Several younger children were either left behind by accident or on purpose and most of them sat on the ground crying for their parents and soon got trampled on by the panicking crowd.
The huge monster stomped around and sometimes squashing a few people and product, spitting fire and laser beams at random objects and people.
Hollis, who had accidentally got separated from Pango and Popka, noticed that one of the young children was about to get crushed by the monster. She automatically leapt into action. She ran in break neck speed to get to the young victim in time. When she was directly under its rather large foot she spring at the young child pushing him out of the way, just as her body escaped under its foot it stomped its foot down hard.
An agonizing pain shot up Hollis' spine and spreading through out her body, the pain felt dreadful. It felt as if she was going to die right then and there. She came to the conclusion that she must somehow still be under the monster. Hollis then felt someone grab a hold of her and abruptly literally rip her out from under it. That didn't help much for the pain worsened in a matter of seconds.
She saw the white gloves and red jacket to obviously know it was Guntz as he pulled her away from the beast. When they had gotten in front of a store Guntz angrily shoved her away from him. He looked seriously pissed at her: Hollis noted to herself mentally. And he looked like he was ready to explode at any moment by now and he was going to in a minute or so.
"What the hell were you doing?! No just what the hell were you thinking, running straight under that foot?! Are you trying to kill you're self?!" Guntz yelled his questions at her while she stood watching as the child that she had saved quickly being grabbed by his mother.
Guntz' voice broke back to Hollis as he roughly grabbed her by her shoulders with one arm while the other shot at the large monster as it began to come closer to them both. Guntz, who still held Hollis, saw that the beast was going to strike them with his tail started running but was caught short because he had to drag the fiery vixen that didn't seem to realize that the beast was going to hit them.
Guntz was about to open his mouth to yell at her for her stupid stubbornness when they both were flung into what seem to be a bar. They landed at the end of the bar where all the alcohol was kept. Several bottles had shattered around Hollis and Guntz.
Hollis looked around them and when her eyes landed on her own body she saw something she never quite thought of before. It was her tail. It seemed to be that two inches were cut short of it and it was still bleeding but only a little. She couldn't help but scream out of shock at her new discovery.
She felt rage boil in the pit of her stomach as she looked across the bar and out the window at the giant monster, ruining everything of the town's folks' property. She looked over at Guntz to see that he was knocked out from a bottle that landed on his head and shattered everywhere around him.
Hollis stood and gathered Guntz in her arms trying hard to get him over to one of the chairs to rest him in. She sat him as gentle as possible so he wouldn't fall and wake. She needed him to stay knocked for the stupidest thing she's ever going to do. 'I hope this will be the stupidest thing I'll ever do.' She thought hopelessly.
She took one of Guntz' guns out of his holster to find it surprisingly heavy, it had only looked like a toy to her. She never expected it to be so heavy. Another idea struck Hollis' brain. Wouldn't she need the holster too, just in case? She took the holster off of Guntz and wrapped it around her waist while she still had the gun in her hand. Hollis heaved it up closed to her chest as she walked out of the saloon.
She walked quickly out of the bar to get outside to the monster. Hollis saw it getting ready to smash a building that had a lot of people hiding in. She did the first thing that came to her mind. She picked up a rather large rock and threw it at him. She was really aiming for its head but since she didn't have a very good throwing arm she missed and it instead hit its shoulder. This didn't faze to the creature so Hollis did it once more and this time it hit its target. It had hit exactly where its eye was.
The monster roared and it stepped a bit back from the building. It opened its good eye and looked around to try and find the person who had done thrown the rock. But he found no source in stead he got hit once more and he saw who had done it. It crouched down in a pouncing position and roared at Hollis.
Hollis had to step back for the monster's roar cause the wind to be harsh and push her back some. She looked up at the angry monster as it was about to pounce at her and take her life. Hollis started to run in the opposite direction of the monster but she had some difficulties with Guntz' gun still in her hand and she had completely forgotten about the holster.
Hollis had a plan. She was going to try and get the monster out of the village and destroy it herself. Unless Klonoa and Pango had somehow found her and defeated it before she had a chance. 'Speaking of Klonoa and Pango, where are they? Shouldn't they have been fighting this creature already?' She thought, 'well that doesn't matter at the moment the main problem here is trying to out run this thing!'
Hollis then noticed something red out of the corner of her eye. She turned her head to the source and saw the Red Clan. A bright light bulb lit up above her head as she ran over to the red hover bike. She was so proud of herself but she knew she wasn't out of the woods yet. The young vixen jumped on top of Red Clan and started to put the hover bike into drive. And Hollis sped off in top speed, just as she was about to be eaten up by the monster.
As she finally got control of the Red Clan she quickly made the hover bike to slow down just a bit so she wouldn't lose the monster. Hollis looked over her shoulder at the monster to see it still behind her and ganging up on her just a tad, she looked ahead of her for a moment to see nothing in front of her. She then let one of her hands let go of the handle and grab the gun and try and aim it at the monster.
Memories of her soft ball practices from school quickly flooded her mind. They had taught her how to aim the ball at throwing or hitting it. She made a good grade in it too and she was one of the many students who were asked if they wanted to go the tournaments. And with her help her team won the game but unfortunately it was in the newspaper and her father found out about it. Apparently that was one of the many rules she couldn't do. She had gotten a beating for it.
And aiming this gun at the monster's head made most of the memories come back. She knew how to aim and she was using it. She had some more difficulty trying to lift the gun all the way for her to aim at the head. But she did finally get it to her full satisfaction.
When she shot the gun the force of it made her loose her balance and control over the Red Clan and she almost crashed into a giant rock. She quickly caught herself and made everything under her control. She breathed a sigh of relief.
She looked back over her shoulder to the monster to see that she had shot it directly at where its heart should be instead.
Both the monster and Hollis stopped at the same time. She watched as it coughed up greenish blood and spill over the ground. Hollis couldn't help but grimace. It was then giving off an awful smell like rotten eggs.
The monster thought that he still had a chance at killing Hollis. It charged head first at her. Just as he was about several steps for him to get to her when she was getting ready to shoot at the monster once more Hollis heard the childish voice of Klonoa,
"Hang on Hollis, I'm here for ya!" She then heard him yell something else but didn't quite catch what he said. She then saw a hammer of some sort appear in his hand as he jammed it down on its head and then jam it once more across the face.
A sickening cracking noise field both Klonoa and Hollis' ears. She never expected Klonoa to do something like that. He just seemed to be so child like and innocent she would never have thought-! 'No stop it! He's still the same person.' She thought angrily to herself.
Hollis ran over to Klonoa and gave him a tight hug. "Thank you Klonoa but I had it under control." She whispered in his ear. He looked at her with disbelief. "Really I did, I had shot it in the heart with Guntz' gun." It seemed as though Klonoa had turned into stone. "You used whose guns?!" He frantically asked. "Uh-Guntz'? Why whats wrong with that?" Hollis was completely confused. "Let's just say he won't be happy once he finds out about it." At what Klonoa said she just replied with a simple, "oh."
"Uh-one other thing, I sort of barrowed his Red Clan too," Klonoa just looked at her like 'do you want to get killed?' She sheepishly smiled at him and they both climbed on the Red Clan and headed back to Breezegale.
On the way there Klonoa had told her that Lolo wanted to speak with her, "What for?" Hollis asked. Klonoa just shrugged his shoulders he didn't know either.
Once they had made it back to Breezegale they were 'greeted' by a really pissed off Guntz. His electric blue eyes landed on Hollis as he advanced toward her. He grabbed the collar of her black turtle neck and lifted her effortlessly off of the Red Clan. Klonoa had already gotten off as he watched and just in case she needed him to step in.
Once he sat her down on the ground in front of him he pushed her away from him like he did after he pulled out from under the monster. He glared down at her, "I've asked this once and I'll ask it again. What the hell were you thinking running off like that and-?!" Guntz said stopping himself when he saw her having his holster and his gun around her waist.
"Wow Guntz I never thought you'd cared," Hollis voice broke his shock. He glared at her. Hollis was taken aback, "What?" Instead of answering her he just un-wrapped the holster and took it and his gun. He gave her another glare but this time it was a warning, "Don't you ever take my things ever again." And then he stalked off to be by himself but Klonoa quickly caught up with him.
"Guntz wait she didn't mean to take them like that. Besides it was only one gun and she was only trying to help destroy the monster. I saw it with my own eyes she led the monster out of Breezegale, far away from here!" Klonoa said trying to make him stop being angry so much at Hollis for doing such a brave task. But the only thing he got from Guntz was his icy blue eyes rolling in irritation. So Klonoa continued on.
"Don't be mad at her, Guntz! She's learned how to drive the Red Clan pretty quickly and she has real good aim too. But the gun was too fierce on her so when she shot the gun it made her fall and miss. But she did wonderfully and I think she would be great at combat so why not-!"
"Shut up!" Guntz barked harshly at him.
"Huh?" Klonoa blinked twice at the command.
"She's too weak to fight. Can't you see that? The gun made her fall back because she's weak and she couldn't keep her ground. That's why I'm angry at her and that's why I don't agree with you!" Guntz said not looking at Klonoa at all, "She's too weak and that's why we must protect her from harm and her own stupidity." He finished off. His body soon had quit shaking from rage.
Hollis watched as Klonoa went after Guntz and she just stood there feeling horrible about herself. Why did she have to make rash dictions? Then again if she didn't she wouldn't have been out of that house of the damned. Hollis sighed from her own frustration. Even though she made all those good grades in school and even got to skip two grades she had to admit. She was pretty stupid.
"Hollis are you alright?!" Hollis heard Lolo yell. She looked in the direction of where she heard Lolo's voice to see her running toward her. When she finally made it beside her vixen friend she was wheezy from the long run she just had done. "Are you alright Hollis?" She said in between gasps for air. Hollis looked down at her friend's crouched position. "Shouldn't I be the one to ask you that?" After Lolo finished catching her breath she did a quick laugh. "But still please answer my question. I hate to have one of my friends injured."
"I'm very fine Lolo." Hollis said playfully rolling her eyes.
"That's good." Lolo smile sweetly up at the orange vixen, "Oh there's one other thing I want to tell you. The High Priestess wants to meet with you."
"She does? What for?" Hollis asked.
"Well she wants to meet you she says but there's one problem." She said as she sheepishly looked up at Hollis.
"What is it?" Wearily Hollis asked.
"You don't know how to act in front of such high grace and she wants to meet you tomorrow." Lolo grumbled the last part.
"You said there's one problem but that's two." Hollis' wiseass side kicking in said.
Lolo just cocked an eyebrow at her. "Hey you're right, ha-silly me!"
"Now about that shopping trip you promised." Hollis suggested.
"Oh yeah I forgot about that. Forgive me. Hey while we're on our trip I could teach you how to behave in front of the High Priestess." Lolo said as she led Hollis to the other side of Breezegale to the market place.
When they walked in the store Hollis' eyes grew wide with amazement. There were dresses, shirts, skirts and pants of ever color and style (surprisingly). There was jewelry as well and Hollis couldn't help be mesmerized by the shinny objects.
"Hi Lolo, I was looking for ya!" Popka called to his friend across the store. Lolo waved at him and signaled to him to come over to her.
"Hi Popka I'm shopping with Hollis but I think she's preoccupied with the jewelry and could please you go get her. I want her to try on some clothes I picked out." She asked her best friend. The yellow-dog-thing nodded and he went over to the jewelry counter to drag her away from it.
Lolo handed the clothing to Hollis, "Please try them on and let us see what they look like." She smiled her sweet charming smile that could melt even the hardest of hearts. Hollis obeyed Lolo's request and went into the dressing room.
It was very cramped in the dressing room and Hollis even wondered how she was going to dress in it. Deciding to not care about it at the moment and focused back to the clothes Lolo wanted her to try on.
She pulled out a red tank top that had hot pink ruffles at the edges. She took off her black sleeveless turtle neck and then slipped on the red tank top.
She rummaged through the clothes once more to try and find a matching pair of pants or skirt. She found a pair of black pants that flared at the bottom and had red ruffles going down the legs. She stepped out of the dressing room to show Lolo and Popka –she guessed- the out fit.
"Oh good they fit," Lolo said out of relief. She looked Hollis over to see what she had picked. "Those look very nice on you. Don't they Popka?" She looked over at Popka to see him awake up from his sleep. "Huh? Wha-Oh yeah they look nice on her. Whatever!" He said as he went back to sleep. Hollis glared at him.
Hollis turned back to the changing room to try something else on. She went through many clothes. She liked a lot but some she didn't. They bought a few of the clothes each girl wanted and off they went to get something to eat.
Lolo so far had taught Hollis how to bow to the High Priestess and how to address her self to her. The main rule was to be polite and speak only when spoken to. 'I hope I can do this.' She thought.
"So Hollis where are you and the guys staying for the night," It was an innocent question but it made Hollis choke on her hot tea. She coughed a few time before answering. "Uh, I don't know. They didn't tell me. Maybe they forgot." She said looking down at her tea.
A quick chill went down Hollis' spine. It felt as if someone was watching them. No watching her. She looked up from her tea to see that Popka and Lolo were now busy with their own conversation. She looked around her at the neighboring tables to see no one was watching her. Hell no one even seems acknowledged her exists. She went back to her tea, pushing the thought to the back of her mind.
A man dressed in a jet black cloak stood on top of one of the buildings in front of the café Hollis and her new friends were at, drinking their tea. He mainly watched the orange vixen who chattered with the two strange creatures.
The light from the moon had shown his face. He looked like the cross between a human and a bat. He held a hungry expression on his face. Since the first blood that escaped out of that fiery vixen, had awoken him instantly and he wanted her blood. And he was going to have her, even if it took all the monsters in the world to get to her.
A/N: Ooh who's this new mystiours new character? You'll soon find out! :p And nexpt chapter we learn something! YAY!!
