Chapter 20: Fear
Yue ran from her brother…no… from the thing that looked like her brother. It followed close on her heels despite her speed. She carried A in her arms which slowed her slightly. She tried to remember the exact location of where she was, glancing at the surroundings about her and noticed a small cut she had placed within the wall to mark the location. She rounded a corner and found herself at a dead end. She looked under a pipe which was close to the ground and noticed it lead to another hall. Kneeled down and could just fit under the small pipe. I guess being small has its advantages, she thought with a smile. She continued her frantic running when she heard the sound of ripping metal. She ran into the hangar and concealed herself inside a Vanship. As Ryu wandered the hangar, Yue pondered about him motives. Why would he attack A like that? He loves her too much. She looked down at her hand and sighed silently. She looked over the side of the ship and saw a clear path to a newer area. She jumped down and started down it and soon found herself in the main hall. She ran down it and saw a familiar face. It was Jing. She grabbed the sleeve of his shirt and pulled him along on the run. She heard frantic screams from him, some about the strange welcome and some about how she was being chased by Ryu. Yue dragged them into a side room and slammed the door. She locked it quickly and pilled various items in front of it. After this she collapsed and sighed lightly, staring at the ground. A was still unconscious and Jing soon realized that Yue was crying softly. He looked to the door and then back to her.
"Yue, what is going on? What is wrong with Ryu?" Yue couldn't stop. She just kept crying. She blurted out the words puppet and lifeless and that was all Jing needed to hear. He pushed them away from the door and waited. Before long a loud pounding began outside the door. Jing prepared himself for the worst. He looked down to Yue and shouted, "Yue, don't look!" upon hearing this, Yue quickly shut her eyes but this didn't stop A from waking just in time to see the door be blown down and Jing pull a musket off his back and shoot Ryu in the heart. His blood sprayed across the room, some hitting Yue and A but most hitting Jing's front half. He turned around to see A, with tears and blood flowing down her face. He stared at her blankly and then walked from the room. A grim day this was. A could be heard screaming throughout the ship.
Yue opened her eyes upon hearing A's scream. She felt the blood on her face and immediately knew what had happened even without seeing the corpse. Tears flowed down her cheek as she sat in the corner. She stood up and tried to walk out without seeing him but it was futile. His body lay right in the doorway, his face one of anger, hatred and pain with a bullet hole going through his heart. She placed her hand upon his face and noticed something strange but she couldn't place her finger on it. She heard footsteps from down the hall and straitened herself quickly. No one would see her like this. She ran down the hall quickly without stopping. She passed L and C, both running down the hall at full speed, weapons in hand. She heard L screaming and decided to go back. Yue ran into the blood soaked room to see L holding Ryu's corpse up to her body, crying her eyes out. C was standing in the corner, hunched over with his hand over his mouth, as though he would vomit. L looked over to Yue and tried to stop the tears but they refused to cease. They where like the tears of the goddess falling to earth. Yue walked from the room and cried alone once again, her tears silently falling to the floor. She couldn't stop the tears any longer. She cried for what seemed to be hours and fell asleep in her own tears and sorrow. She awoke and remembered the previous night. She cried for hours until she had no more tears to shed. She sat on the floor and basked in pain and sorrow.