It's me again! I've just recently been very inspired to keep writing chapters. ^^ I hope you keep reading them, though. ;
In any case, I'm kinda getting sick of Gyanza. xD; I really don't like him and how long it takes for Train and co to beat him. D: But oh well...I hope you all can still enjoy anyway.
Black Cat (c) Yabuki Kentaro
Ese (c) Me
Hiro (c) Katrine
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Black Wings
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Hit Eleven: Vision Eye
Strangely, even though it took a burst bullet to finally draw blood, Gyanza ran off, under the sewers. Not that Ese was complaining but she figured he'd want to stick around to knock Train some before leaving, but he ran off as quickly as he could. Sven came over to her and Eve and kneeled down. "How is she doing?"
Ese looked her over...she could still hear her heart beat, smell her blood..."She's fine. That flick really didn't do any damage except to her forehead...no broken bones."
Sven sighed as relief crossed his face. Train kept his distance from the three of them...
"Eve," Sven called, "Hey! Eve!"
Eve groaned out a little and rolled over to open her eyes. "Huh?"
"You okay?" Sven asked.
"Oh...Sven...where is he?"
"He went down that hole..." Train started, "he's hiding underground again. That bastard...as soon as he got hurt, he got all cautious. He's probably planning on using the sewers to attack us from below...be careful."
It was strange, but it seemed that Train was only talking to Sven and Eve. She was about to say something but he started to talk again. "What now, Sven? With Eve to worry about, the situation's a bit complicated."
Sven wiped off the blood on Eve's forehead and Ese held her up to a sitting position. "I know that." Sven said, grabbing his eye patch. He started to pull it off...
"The time to get carried away is over, Gyanza," He growled as his right eye was exposed to Ese. She stared, very intrigued...his right eye was a lime yellow in color and the pupil was very faint.
"Sven..." she asked, "Why is your right eye so different from your left?"
Sven gave a tight smile; "it's...special. My vision eye."
Ese wanted to know more, but once again Train started to talk. "It's been awhile, Sven, since you've had to use your right eye..."
Accordingly, Eve was just as shocked as Ese was. Both girls stared at him in amazement; a vision eye seemed like a gift that was almost impossible to be born with.
"Sven-san's special too..." Ese murmured under her breath.
Eve stood up, but a sudden tremor had her back down on the ground again. "Th-the ground...?!"
The tremor got worse as the ground's shaking increased. "Sven! Aren't you ready yet!?" Train hissed, turning to his partner. Sven was standing still, keeping his balance and composure. "...be patient. This ain't easy."
Ese felt a strange aura flow off from Sven...like something was concocting within his body. The feeling was strange but needlessly, if it was going to help she wasn't going to complain about it. Without even turning to look, Sven suddenly shouted, "Train, jump back!" Obediently, Train jumped and just as he did, a huge, monstrous arm blew out from the ground. Ese stood up and stepped back; no way could that be Gyanza's arm...but to her horror, it was. Train flipped in the air, and landed, gracefully, on his feet sliding. He crouched and grinned, "Heh! All right!" Quickly he brought up his gun. But before he could shoot, Gyanza was back underground again.
"Bastard!" Train shouted, "How 'bout I throw a bomb down the hole!?"
"Don't," Sven started, "he's got plenty of places to hide in the sewers. If we're not careful, he'll get away. Anyway, what kind of bullet were you gonna use just now?"
"Huh?" Train replied, "The burst, why?"
"The burst's no good. It won't do much damage against his armor of muscles..."
Ese nodded, "And it looks as if he's gotten bigger," she added. Train scoffed, muttering 'no one asked you,' under his breath.
"Instead of using a bullet to knock him down," Sven continued, "you should use one to immobilize him. In all of those special bullets I gave you, there should be one with a blue tip."
"...yeah." Train mumbled.
The ground started to tremble again, getting rougher. Sven sighed and opened his right eye. "It's pointless, Gyanza. I can already see you with...my vision eye."
The ground gave upward as Gyanza popped out for a swing; needlessly, because of Sven's 'vision,' he missed.
"The right eye of mine is a cornea transplant...from a clairvoyant, a close friend, who died...though it's only a few seconds ahead, I can glimpse the world where time has passed."
Ese gasped; that's the power of the right eye. He can see a few seconds into the future.
"What nonsense..." Gyanza grumbled, his maddened face lolling at Sven. He had gotten much, much bigger, looking like a monster from one of Eve's story books. Before he could turn on Eve, Sven and Ese, Train held up his gun.
Gyanza grinned, "You gonna shoot those bullets? Go ahead. Shoot." His crazed laughter filled the empty air as he continued, "Even if this arm gets cut off, as long as I have my other arm, I can still rip you guys into pieces!"
Gyanza swung around quickly, his fist in the air, ready to hit Sven and Eve. Ese crouched and barrel-rolled to get out of the way as Sven, holding Eve, dodged the attack. Eve clung to Sven, terrified, but he only said to her, "Don't worry, Eve...I can already see his defeat."
A bullet suddenly struck Gyanza and ice started to spread all over his arm. He fell to the ground, screaming, "My body's freezing! What the hell is this!?"
"If you keep trying to move," Train said, walking calmly to the shrinking convict, "you'll shatter your body. 'Cause that's compressed liquid nitrogen. Think of it as the vengeance of all the people you killed!"
Gyanza groaned and laid down on the lip of the hole he made. Sven sighed and smiled, setting Eve down. "So that's cleaned up...your wound's okay, Eve?" he asked the little girl.
Eve touched the mark on her forehead and nodded, "Fine..."
Sven sighed once again, "oh...good." And collapsed. "Sven!?" Eve cried, taking a step towards him. Train walked up to him, grinning, "Sure...go ahead an' rest easy." Sven barely nodded and sat up to wrap his eye back up in the eye patch, only to slump right back down on the ground. "Sven!" Eve called. "It's okay, little princess," Train continued, "using his right eye uses up a bunch of his body's strength. After he uses it, he sleeps for 6 or 7 hours so he can recover...that's why he doesn't normally use it." Ese stood up to walk to Train, but a girl suddenly appeared. "Awesome," She said. "You're so cool to beat a Tao user with just a gun."
Ese gasped...she knew that girl. It was the girl...Kyoko, that was talking to Gyanza earlier. "Hello there," She said when Train turned to look at her.
"This guy makes me sick," she continued, "since you've taken care of him, I feel much cleaner." She was walking towards Train with a strange look in her eye. Ese started to walk over to the two. Kyoko grabbed Train's face and puckered her lips, "So...here's your thank-you kiss..."
Ese made it and smacked the girl in the head, standing between her and Train. "Leave him alone," she growled, hiding him with her wings. "He doesn't need a thank you. He did it for the bounty money, not for you, you wench."
Kyoko rubbed her head where Ese hit her. "W-what's that for!?"
Train pulled down Ese's wing, "That's my line...with you suddenly appearing out of nowhere. What are you," He stepped in front of Ese, which made her mad but she allowed it, with a close eye on Train. "How do you know about Tao?"
A flash of black appeared next to Kyoko, "The ones that Gyaanza legit received his 'Tao' powers from...were us." Ese stared as the top-hat man was standing next to Kyoko, taking off his hat and bowing. "How do you do, Black Cat. We are members of the revolutionary army commanded by Creed Diskens...'The Apostles of the Stars." At the sound of Creed's name, Ese hissed and fluttered her feathers, her eyes staring to burn. She considered killing the two who worked with Creed but if she did, Train might scold her...so she stayed quiet and mentally imagined breaking them in half.
The top-hat man saw Ese's rage and stood back up, "Oh no, please don't misunderstand," he replaced the hat back to his head, "The reason we came wasn't because we have any business with you."
"What!?" Train hissed.
"Just..." The top-hat man continued, "I think we're here to confirm that his death is close at hand." He finished, looking at Gyanza.
Suddenly, Gyanza stood up, despite being frozen. "Wha-what the hell?! M-my body's shri-shrinking..." Surely enough, any source of fat or muscle was slowly shrinking, exposing bones and joints. Ese stuck her tongue out in disgust.
"You used too much power, Gyanza," Top hat continued, "When you use 'Tao,' the energy source you use is 'ki,' or soul...the power that keeps a person alive."
Gyanza started to flip, screaming and staring at his shrinking hands. His eye bulged, but Top-Hat continued on, "Since you ignored what we taught you and continued, day after day, to consume your strength...it's no wonder you've hit the bottom."
Gyanza screamed again, his body shrinking to the mere size of a skeleton; Ese thought it looked like someone pulled hide over a pile of bones.
"What awaits an old man who used up his life force," Kyoko said with a mischievous grin, "Is death."
Gyanza's eyes went blank and he fell forward, making a slight thud as his body hit the ground. Ese couldn't hear a heartbeat.
Eve turned to look at the dead body, looking a little sick.
The Top-Hat man continued to talk; "'Tao grants absolute power, but on the other hand, if it's misused, you invite upon yourself ruin...I thought he had been given that general knowledge.
"It seems that he didn't meet the requirement to become one of us from the very start." He finished.
A sudden noise caught Ese's attention. It sounded like wailing, not from a human, but from a machine, almost. Ese started to look around, wanting to find the noise.
"It appears that the police heard the commotion. We shall go...we have no more business in this town..." The man in the top hat finished.
Before he left, however, he turned to Train once more, "Black Cat, even if you are third-rate, since you beat a Tao-user, we will remember you."
Train scoffed, "You're arrogant."
The duo turned again, and merely disappeared into two flashes.
Ese was about to sit, but she figured that the party was about to move so she continued to stand. All she really wanted right now was to lay down on a surface that wasn't rock, that wasn't dirt and to put something cold against her still-aching head. She probably wouldn't have someone hovering over her to worry about, considering the only person who has was Train and it was rather apparent that he was ignoring her.
"The...bad guy...is dead?" Eve asked, standing up. Train turned to look at the little girl, nodding. "Yeah..." he muttered. "Well...we'll leave this scene to the police. Let's get back to the hotel; Sven needs to take it easy for awhile."
Eve nodded, looking very glum, very worried about Sven. "You're right."
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Sven was practically dead to the world on the couch. He slept peacefully, his hat resting on his head. Train dragged him in, but couldn't get him in the bedroom so he just merely laid him on the couch. Ese was sitting in the windowsill (although it was somewhat a tight fit...) "What's wrong, Princess?" Train asked Eve on the roof (Ese was listening quietly next to the window), "Why the long face?"
"I was thinking that...I was no use at all." Eve responded quietly. "Huh?" Train asked in return. "When the bad guy caught me...I may have been able to manage something if I used the transformation ability...but I was scared. My mind went completely blank...and I couldn't do a thing."
Ese heard silence. She too didn't do anything to help. Her little 'scuffle' barely made Gyanza flinch. A strange stinging feeling came to her eyes and her vision blurred...what was this? She wasn't sure...
"In the end," Eve continued, "I had to be protected by Sven...maybe...I don't have the talent...to be a sweeper."
"Ha! Ha ha..." Train laughed, "We warned you, a decoy's job is scary."
Ese was sick of hearing their conversation...she felt sick. She wanted Train to come and comfort her as he was doing Eve...but it looked as though he wouldn't do that. She reached out and closed the window, curling up into a tighter ball. Her blurred vision cleared a little when a tiny, warm drop brimmed over her eye and rolled down her cheek. Her nose became runny and she sniffed, as more and more warm droplets started to uncontrollably roll down her face. She hiccupped, and started to wail a little; she couldn't figure out this feeling, all she knew was that she felt lousy.
"E-Ese," Sven mumbled, sitting up. His hat fell from his face. "Wh-what's...wrong?" He continued, sleepily rubbing his eye.
Ese stared at Sven, worried that she woke up but instead, "I...I think...Train hates me."
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So.
Ese's crying for the first time since she's awoken and she doesn't even know wtf it is. __________
-insert dramatic soap opera music here-
So...planning to skip a head in the chapter I'm currently on in Black Cat. xD; I'm so SICK of Rubeck City! D:
So...thanks for reading. ^_________^
