Chick P felt her limbs go as cold as the chains wrapped around her. Her neck throbbed in burning pain from the friction of the rope.
"CHICK P!" that was the last time she heard someone yell her Chop Socky name until darkness stole her vision.
Joe's mind was only set on saving his friend, as she hung from the rope around her neck.
K.O prayed Chick P didn't suffer the same fate as her parents. The second he was on the stage he untied the rope around her neck. Her skin felt deathly cold and lifeless in his arms. "No, Chick P. No!" Joe whispered as tears clouding his vision, he carried her back inside the mall which was completely empty all the stores had closed signs hanging on their doors with shutters and bars swathing the windows.
He pulled off the chains and placed her gently on the ground, ignoring the clamour of screams, cries, bellows, yells and abuse outside.
"Chick P! Please! Wake up! Don't leave me and Chuckie! Please!" Joe begged holding her head protectively. "Please Chick P! Don't leave us like this!"
He placed his finger on her neck, searching for a pulse. Too his dismay, her heart was beating so slowly it was hardly detectible. Tears finally splashed down his face; he didn't have something in his eye. He had an excruciating hole above the place of his heart where it had been gashed out by that cruel, malicious, vindictive, merciless, heartless, despicable, wicked Piranha.
Chick p felt as though she was floating in an open place. As her eyes opened the corners of her mouth turned into a jubilant smile. Right in front of her were her parents smiling, exactly the same as she remembered them.
"Mom! Dad!" She cried hurrying towards them.
"Chickadee! Our little Chickadee!" Mr Pao whispered as the family of three embraced each other.
"We missed you so much darling." Mrs Pao said soothingly, stroking her daughter's hair.
"I don't understand I let the family honour down. Wasabi has the property now. I chickened out to him."
Her parents pulled away and looked at her with tear filled eyes. "Chickadee, the land never held our honour, you do. Having you as our child is the greatest nobility any family could ask for." Mr Pao said, wiping away Chickadee's tears.
"You never coward out to Wasabi, you signed the deed to save a friend. He's waiting for you and we think it's time you wake up now." Mrs Pao suggested.
"Wake up? But I-"
"You're not dead Chickadee; Joe saved you seconds away from death."
Her parents kissed her on the forehead.
"We'll be watching over you, Chick P." They smiled.
Chickadee smiled back and closed her eyes...
Chick P felt her senses recovering from the numbness.
She heard, what sounded like, Joe's voice in cracked whispered.
Slowly opening her eyes, she saw Joe weeping. "Joe." She whispered delicately.
K.O looked at her with a gleam of happiness in his eye. "Chick p!" He cried.
They embraced each other tightly as more tears of joy slid down their faces.
"I thought I was too late."
"We're the Chop Socky Chooks, K.O. We stick together, no matter what!"
Joe pulled away, "Why don't we help out the crowd outside? And see what Chuckie and Cleo are up to."
Chick P grinned "Wouldn't miss it for the world."
They both got up and ran out the mall. The crowd that protested their death sentences were in deep trouble with the ninja chimps. Bubba and Wasabi were still in a deep sleep caused by Cleo. Sensory bots were arresting innocent people and shooting red hot lasers and electric tasers at even the youngest citizens of the mall.
Chick P spotted Cleo helping some children from a shooting robot, throwing blue, green and pink pouches of dust. The sensory bot collapsed into rusted pieces as Cleo ushered the children to find their parents. Chuckie appeared jumping at the top of the crowd kicking to ninja chimps as he did.
"The chook girl!" (:-/) A ninja screeched from behind them. "She lives!"
Chick P spun round just as the minions came at her. She kicked and punched them down as Joe fought a few sensory bots coming up behind them.
"Chick P! K.O Joe!" Chuckie appeared beside them just as another Chimp came hurtling towards them. "Cleo and I had almost lost hope!"
"So did we, Chuckie! Where's Cleo?"
"She is helping some infants find their parents. She is safe."
More Ninja chimps came at them but were knocked down as Chick P, back to her old self, flung her fans at them knocking them all out.
Cleo appeared next to them as if by magic (;-D). "It's good to you back to your old self again Chick P." The two smiled. "The rest of Wasabi's minions have retreated and taken their bosses with them. He won't remember anything about your real name or the deed and..." She pulled out a piece of paper from a pouch. "I believe this belongs to you." She handed Chick P the paper.
As she opened it, Chick P's eyes lit up again. "The deed! Thank you Cleo!" She said exclaimed hugging her friend.
"Don't mention it." Cleo replied grinning.
Two weeks later
Wasabi world was back to normal. Chickadee was free to wonder the mall again and do her shifts as an engineer. She and Cleo no longer needed their disguises to go up top anymore.
Wasabi hadn't remembered anything about Chick P's real name or her family property.
When he did his weekly announcements he sounded like he had a bad case of the flu.
"He'll get over it in a couple of weeks." Cleo shrugged leaning in her chair at the cafe she and Chick P were having lunch at while Joe and Chuckie were off doing who knows what.
"Can I tell you something Cleo?" Chick P asked.
Her friend nodded while drinking out of a straw.
"After I went unconscious after I hung from, you-know-what, I saw my parents,"
Cleo grinned with bright eyes, continuing to listen.
"They said they were proud of me for saving Joe and that the property wasn't holding my family's honour. It was me."
"Of course it was you." Cleo closed her eyes and her smile grew wider. "I can see them; they were going to tell you...don't lose your life to Wasabi...even if you lose the land...you still honour the family." She opened her eyes and the two burst out laughing.
"If I only knew that from the start!" Chick P whined playfully.
"Don't blame yourself." They continued laughing as they left the cafe.
Cleo sighed, "As much as I hate to say it my friend but I must continue on my travelling soon."
"I'm going to miss you Cleo."
The two hugged each other.
"I'll come back and see you, once a few months at the least."
Chick P smiled, "I'll be looking out for you."
Cleo grinned back as they hugged again. A single tear dripped down Chick P's cheek.
That was the last of Chickadee's tears.
End.
Okay, that was probably the crappiest piece of the story. I thought of killing of Cleo but I decided Chick P had suffered enough and I didn't want fan-of-freedom to kill me! :D
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