CHAPTER 12
DESPERATION
While Rouge limped down the white, narrow, empty hallway, she held her sides tightly as the blood continued to seep from her wounds. She was still out of breath and could barely walk. She had to lean against the wall for support. 'I...' She thought, 'I can't...' When she felt like collapsing onto the floor, someone had stood in front of her and caught her in their arms.
"Whoa, take it easy, bat girl", a weak voice had spoke.
When Rouge lifted her head to see who caught her from passing out on the floor, her eyes widened in shock. "Oh!"
Later, Jess was laying on the floor still conscious even after when Rouge practically beat her to death with her iron boots. The fox gritted her teeth and clenched her fists in frustration. 'I hate myself', she thought. 'If only...if only Sky returned his feelings for me. Then he'd...' Her thoughts trailed off as she shut her eyes and began to go back into her past.
On a gray and cloudy day at an elementary school, a young red fox girl sat on a swing fidgeting her fingers nervously. She looked around and saw the rest of her classmates play with each other on the playground. However, she could not keep her eyes off of a certain classmate of hers. She kept glancing at a male yellow wolf who was about to play soccer with his friends. As she watched him, she couldn't help but to blush. She had to admit to herself that she really liked him and was worried if he didn't like her back. There was only one way to find out. She finally gathered her courage and got up from the swing, slowly confronting him and his friends.
Before the wolf could play soccer with his friends, he was startled when a red fox girl approached him.
"Hi", she spoke in a shy voice.
He turned to her with an annoyed look. "Oh...hey, Jessica."
Before she could speak to him, she began to hear negative comments from his friends.
"Oh, no!", One irritated boy said. "It's that Maya girl!"
"I hope she doesn't ask to play with us", another added.
She tried to ignore their hurtful comments and focused on her crush. "I...I have something to tell you."
"What?" He asked.
He seemed really annoyed with her, but she decided to still ask him. To just see if he will return his feelings. "I...I really like you..." Once she had said that, she could hear laughter coming from his friends. She looked up at him and saw him blushing in embarrassment it seemed. As she tried to continue, droplets of rain began to fall from the grayish sky. "And I was wondering if...you..."
"Forget it!" The wolf shouted.
Once he said those words, it felt like her entire heart had dropped out of her chest.
"You actually think I like stupid ugly chicks like you?"
She tried so hard to hold her tears back, but she just wasn't strong enough. "But..." She began. "I thought..."
"You thought nothing! The only reason I was so nice to you when you first transferred here, was because I felt sorry for you."
"Sorry?" She repeated in confusion.
"Yeah! Sorry that you're so hideous!"
Before she could completely break down into tears, one of his friends had pushed her down into a mud puddle on the ground.
As it began to rain harder, the wolf's friends gathered around her and began chanting while she struggled to get out of the mud.
"Freak! Freak! Freak!" The kids had chanted while some of them slung more mud on her. They continued to call her names and throw things at her until it was time for them to go back into the school.
Jess lied on the muddy ground as the hard rain fell upon her body. She did nothing but lay there and sob as hard as she could. She knew she had made a complete fool of herself and was embarrassed and hurt about how simple crushes could end even in the most tragic ways.
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In the main lobby of the Silver Fangs headquarters, Kiba had confronted the team and introduced the newest member of the Silver Fangs detective team.
Everyone stared in amazement and curiosity at the goth red female fox with wavy black hair.
"Everyone", Kiba had spoken. "Meet our newest member. Jessica Maya."
Ace seemed to be the only one excited about her arrival. "Hiya! Welcome to the Silver Fangs, Jessica!"
"Please", she spoke in a low tone while her head was tilted to the floor. "Call me Jess." When she heard footsteps approaching her, she looked up and saw a male white bat with hypnotizing like ruby red eyes stand in front of her.
The bat studied her while not looking very happy of her arrival. "Tell me...why did you join the Silver Fangs?"
She had gotten so nervous in front of him because he was so gorgeous. She cleared her throat and began to reply. "I want to make a difference in this city. To help change it and for the better. Not only that...it all goes for myself as well. I want...I want people to admire me and look up to me as someone...someone important."
The bat looked over to their leader then back at the fox. He sighed and held his hand out towards her. "Good answer."
She looked at his hand in confusion. "Huh?"
"My name is Sky the Bat. I'm second in command of the Silver Fangs."
She then caught on to him and begun to shake his hand nervously. "Uh, yeah. I look forward to be working by your side."
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Sky was with Jess patrolling the cold night in Metal City together to keep an eye out for anything suspicious. While the two were standing side by side on the empty and silent streets, Sky had turned to her. "Jess", he spoke gently.
"Yeah?" She answered.
"You're cold aren't you?"
"A little." After she spoke, she saw him offering his white jacket to her. All she did was stare at it. "Uh, Sky?"
"Take it", he spoke. "I feel fine."
It was so nice of him to offer him his coat to her like that, but it still felt awkward to take his jacket and wear it. "But..."
"You'll catch something if you don't keep warm."
She sighed and gave up on trying to convince him not to give her his jacket. She took the jacket from him and put it on her.
Sky sighed heavily, walked up to her and zipped the jacket up on her. "Keep warm okay?"
She couldn't help but to blush and was surprised he cared so much for her. She made a nod and smiled. "Okay", she whispered. With him turning away from her with a warm smile on his face, she couldn't help but to slowly fall in love with him.
While still weakened from the battle with Rouge, Jess slowly got to her feet and stood from the floor, staring down the bright hallway in front of her.
Meanwhile, Tonya rolled onto the floor to dodge one of the arrows that Kuroi was shooting at her from the crossbow she had.
Kuroi walked towards the exhausted purple cat slowly while clenching her crossbow tightly in her grip. "You can't runaway that easily...Tonya the Cat!"
The cat's eyes widened in surprise and wondered how she knew her name. "How do you..." It then came to her. She thought that her and the rest of the Silver Fangs read about her profile on the disk. "Oh...the disk", she murmured.
Kuroi aimed the crossbow at her arm while she was on the floor and shot an arrow into her arm.
When the arrow sunk into her arm, she yelled in agony. She lied there on the floor, trying to pull the arrow out of her flesh while Kuroi walked around her with a devious smirk on her face.
"What a bad, bad kitty", the coyote spoke in a low voice.
Tonya glared at her as she circled around her.
"It's hard to believe such an innocent looking girl like you was once a actual slut."
The cat's eyes widened in shock. "Wha-what do you mean?"
"You know exactly what I mean", she said as she pointed the crossbow at her once again. "Another common street whore...I can't believe your boss had the nerve to allow such a slutty feline join the Chaotix."
Terror was seen in her eyes as painful memories began to fill her mind. She didn't want to hear, see, or think about it ever again. She wanted to stop it all no matter what. "St-stop!" As she began to get off of the floor, Kuroi shot another arrow into her arm making her fall back onto the cold floor.
She smirked and placed the weapon over her shoulder. "No", she spoke. "You're gonna lie there and die like all the rest of the filthy whores in this world!"
A/N:
Jasmine: An thus another chap is done! Whoot! Wonder what's up next?
Shadow: I'm gonna kick Sky's ass! That's what's happening next!
Sky: All talk and no action, Hedgehog! I'll drain you dry!
Kuroi: Hey! What about my intense battle with cat girl?
Tonya: Cha! It's gonna be intense all right!
Jasmine: You guys must be on that happy crack...
