Chapter Eleven
Awake
Back at the hospital Herod still lay there, in the small dark room the machine still beeping monitoring his heart. As the machine beeped, his fingers began to twitch a little, then his lips, his deep sleep was starting to cease.
Within his unconscious mind he could see images and hear voices, all of the events that happened before he was shot, the last words he saw and the last images he saw:
Flashback
"What the fuck!" shouted Billy, Angel then looked up "Billy" he snarled "we meet again…" "Huh?" cried Penny, Angel then lifted his head, "remember me..?" he spat. "NO!" cried Jerry "it can't be!" "YES!" said Angel, "Angelous the Hedgehog!" "ANGEL!" cried Tilly. Herod and Kimas gasped.
Angel then drew his sword, "you evil bastards! Looking for me? Why?" Billy took out a small handgun, "to find you and kill you! Then bring your body to Razor so we can join his gang due to his previous gang members being slaughtered by you! He'll be proud to know that his gang members's killer is brought before him so we can join him!" Angel could feel his anger boiling up again.
"Join Razor.." he snarled "join Razor…" he looked up as his eyes glowed white, "you'll see the blade of my sword pass through your bodies before you join Razor!" Billy held up his gun, "come on then you freak!" Angel snarled, the slashed the sword. He then ran towards Billy who ducked as Angel swung the sword over his head.
Billy then dived towards Angel making him fall, Angel turned to see Billy holding his feet, then lifting the knife as if about to stab him in the legs to attempt to disable him. "YOU WILL NOT STOP ME!" screamed Angel, he pulled one of his legs free then kicked Billy in the face to get him off. Angel then leapt to his feet and pulled out his gun.
As he did, Penny, Jerry and his gang pulled out guns and Jerry pulled Herod close to him, making him act as a shield. Herod struggled in Jerry's grip. Angel then pointed his gun at Jerry "YOU FUCKING BASTARD!" he then fired his gun……
End Flashback
Herod's eyes shot open, his eyesight was blurry at first, all he saw around him were bright lights shining down on him and a bare ceiling. He tried to move his arms but he couldn't, he then tried his legs, but he had no luck.
As he tried to move his limbs, memories began flooding back into his head, he saw everything, all the memories and the nightmares, from his parents murder, to when he was at the orphanage, to when he was shot in the chest….
"NO! NO! Leave her alone! You bastards!" "Stop! Stop! No!" "Mom? Dad?" "MURDERER! MURDERER!"
"Mum....Dad.....No....."
"It's all gonna be ok Herod, we'll look after you"
"Hi! I'm Tilly!" "And I'm Kimas!" ……"It's a comfort knowing we all share the same pain"
"They were murdered by Razor the Wolf….Two years ago"
"Angel? Are you alright?"
"Leave him alone Jerry! He's just a defenseless Chao!"
"We just wanted to thank you Angel!"….."I hope we meet again"
"Leave her alone! Leave my best friend alone!"
"ANGEL!"
Herod's eyes widened as he remembered everything, "No!" he thought, he looked around the hospital room still trying to move his arms and legs but to no avail. "What am I doing here!" he thought in his head, "where are my friends? Where am I? Help me!"
He felt his emotions and fear strangling him in the throat, he felt his blood boiling as he remembered everything that happened, he saw the image of Angel shooting him in the chest again, his white eyes flashing as his anger was controlling him. As he replayed the image in his head he felt his anger get stronger, he could help but let out a loud scream.
As he screamed his clenched his fists, the machine monitoring his heart beeped more rapidly as he heartbeat got faster and stronger. He had never felt so much anger, after being plagued by dreams and nightmares showing his life before he was shot, now it had exploded like a nuclear bomb!
As he screamed the doors opened and several doctors and nurses ran in, "He's awake!" cried one doctor, Herod saw the doctors surrounding him and began to cry out even more as the people around him scared him. Among them with the white Cat nurse "Oh my!" she cried "he's awake! He woke up!"
"He's in a state!" cried another doctor "we have to tranquilize him!" the doctors then pulled out a syringe and a small bottle of clear liquid, another doctor ran to Herod's head and tried to calm him down "it's ok Herod" he said "it's alright just calm down!" but Herod wouldn't calm down, he still yelled and tried to move his arms and legs even though they were still in entropy and unable to move, his mind was filled with the images of his past and the of the last sight of Angel shooting him in the chest.
The doctor with the syringe then appeared tapping the syringe to get rid of air bubbles. "Clear the way!" he shouted he then grabbed Herod's arm and injected the liquid into arm. Herod yelled more then his yells turned to muffles then he went silent. The doctors then spoke soothing words to him as he calmed down.
"Now he's awake, we better get in touch with Susan from the care Home he was in, and also with Detective Neilson, the chameleon needs time to recover, we'll book him into therapy" the other doctors nodded and began to leave the room whilst the doctor with the syringe stayed with Herod.
WOW! Herod's awake from his coma! And with disturbing images playing in his head! But what will happen when he recovers from being in a six month coma?
Note: Herod belongs to Neros Urameshi.
