BLOOD WARNING BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP No, like, slashing people, just lots of blood. :P
Yay, I got this chapter out today! It's pretty long. I just keep writing and writing, can't stop. Until the end of the chapter, anyway. Then I go read the bible and talk to God. :)
By the way, Silver, my laptop, is (I think) dead. She just won't wake up, and I think God's saying to me that she's gone. Oh well. :( So I'll be using slowing computers from now on.
If you wanna see an awesome video, go to Youtube and search "Morro Tribute Monster". The top result is the best. It's an awesome song and fits Morro perfectly.
Review replies:
Kairocksrainbow: Spooky. I'm wearing green, and my sister is wearing orange. Orange and green and white. But she likes Cole the best. :P Oh well. She was wearing black but the skirt she was wearing had a hole in it. I'm gonna have to fix that... Uh, no, bad call, he loves his tea. (AVENGERS REFERENCE FTW) Jay's screwed. xD
Angel: VIOLENCE ACK Probably Ming will figure it out soon. Everything Tara has done is building up, and soon it'll fall over and crush her. Bansha is glad you like her. MORE VIOLENCE ACK I'm not exactly sure how that will work out, probably Alex'll start beating one of the good guys up and then the rest will be like, "NU TARA'S EVIL" and he'll be like "WOT" and they'll explain and... well, I shouldn't give away the plot. Mwahahahaaa...
Windy: I know, I like Alex too. :D He's really sweet, you'll see. I know. I can play the piano a little, but I havn't played for a while because I had finger surgery earlier this summer and you kinda need fingers to play the piano... heh. Y'know why Tara liked his music so much? Snakes are charmed by flute music, and she's a snake! *maniacal laugh* Feel free to kill Tara at any time! Just not with a knife. Like, a chainsaw or something. ^ ^ Lloyd's okay. Like Indigo, he's just wrapped up in a dream. I'm wearing green too, for both Lloyd and Morro (who isn't exactly a ninja but who cares lol). :D See ya next review!
AwesomeDisneyWolfChild: Aww, thanks so much! O/u/O
Guest: You'll just have to wait and see... *mysterious grin*
Breana: Glad you like him! :D Tara totally deserves it. *nods wisely*
Wow, an actually semi-short A/N... oh wait, not really. Bleh, whatever. Well, I gotta go do schoolwork, so I'm handing this over to Lloyd.
Hey everyone, Lloyd here. FFF told me not to make this Author's Note too long, so... yeah. Hi.
Chapter 27
Indigo blinked slowly as she woke up, the relaxing dream she'd just had fading into a view of the greenish sky. After a few moments of staring at the clouds, she noticed that her arm left was throbbing dully with pain. Glancing down at it, she was surprised to see her forearm wrapped in a reddish bandage, and the rest of her , as well as the ground around her, covered in the red liquid as well. She frowned, wondering what could've happened while she was asleep. She tried to move her head to look around, but she grew dizzy instantly, most likely a result of blood loss, and gave up. She groaned softly. Why did everything always happen to her? What had happened to her, anyway?
"Indigo?" she heard Morro's voice from her left, and titled her head a tiny bit so she could see him. He was sitting on the other side of Lloyd, who was asleep and stained with her blood as well. "Are you alright?" Morro asked.
"No. I'm covered with blood and my arm hurts and if I move I get really dizzy. What happened to me?" Indigo asked, looking back down at her blood-soaked clothes. Morro shook his head in the corner of her vision.
"I don't know. Kayson says that you gashed your arm on the rock there," he pointed to a bloodstained rock just above her head. "but the cut looked too smooth for that. More like a knife wound. Besides, it's in the exact same place that the gashes in the other's arms... are..." Morro trailed off and Indigo looked back at him. She saw him staring at his arm wordlessly. He held up his arm so she could see it, and she saw a thin line on his arm, slightly darker than his skin.
"Is that a cut?" Indigo asked in shock. When he nodded, she continued. "How can you have a cut!? You're a ghost! Ghosts can't get cut?"
"I-I don't know." Morro's voice shook slightly, caught of guard by his discovery. At that moment, Lloyd stirred beside them, waking up. He sat up, stretched, and opened his eyes before noticing the blood everywhere.
"Whoa!" he reflexively jerked away, hitting his head on the rock wall. "...ow. What happened?" he asked, rubbing his head with his non-bloody hand.
"Something cut me while I was asleep and Kayson thinks it was a rock but Morro thinks it was a knife and Morro as a cut on his arm even though ghosts can't get cut!" Indigo said in a rush. "And my head hurts." she added a moment later. Lloyd blinked.
"What?"
"Morro and I got cut." Indigo said again. Lloyd turned to Morro.
"How?" Lloyd asked, starting to touch Morro's arm but quickly yanking his hand back when he realized it had blood on it. "Does it hurt?"
"...no." Morro replied after a moment, looking up and meeting Lloyd's eyes. "It's just like the rest of yours." Indigo glanced at the healing scratch on Lloyd's arm and, sure enough, it matched Morro's perfectly.
"The one on my arm must be just like that too..." she murmured in a low tone. "Someone's doing this, but who?"
"Tara." Morro said without hesitation. "She's behind this, I can tell. Besides, she hates you the most, Indigo. That's why you have a deep gash instead of a light scratch."
"You're right." Indigo realized. "It has to be her. Although, the only reason she hates me so much is because I was trying to get her to hate me, so she would go after me and try to kill me. Which is another reason why being bait stinks." she groaned and closed her eyes.
"Sorry." she heard Lloyd say. "Speaking of which, if we're going to catch her, you're going to have to be bait again."
"What?! Really?" Indigo opened her eyes and glared at the green ninja.
"Even if we don't set you up, she'll probably come after you anyway." Morro pointed out.
"Right. But, why didn't she just kill me while I was asleep? I mean, I didn't even wake up when she cut my arm open." she shifted her arm subconsciously.
"True. Why didn't she kill any of us? I thought she was a crazy murderer." Lloyd frowned. The three were silent for a moment.
"...maybe she's... not as evil as we thought?" Indigo shrugged, then winced at the abrupt pain in her arm. "I mean, is there any other explanation?"
"Not really." Lloyd agreed. "So... what is Tara even doing here? Didn't Ming say she left?"
"Maybe they're working together." Morro said.
"I doubt it." Lloyd shook his head. "She seems too innocent for that."
"But, back in the mountain, when Indigo fell, Ming was the one who suggested that we cross like that in the first place." said Morro.
"Yes, but I volunteered." Indigo said. "And after I woke up Ming just kept apologizing to me over and over again."
"Still, we should keep an eye on her." Lloyd said slowly. "I don't want this to happen to anyone else." He then turned back to Morro, once again investigating the cut. "She must've used a Deepstone blade..." he muttered, shuddering as he was reminded of a dream he had experienced recently. "Ghosts can't die in the Cursed Realm, so apparently they can get hurt. Well, I'm not sure. You said it didn't hurt, right?"
"It doesn't, but I know I can feel pain because I was woken up by Indigo's blood burning me." Morro frowned at the memory. Indigo's eyes widened.
"I hurt you? I'm sorry! I didn't mean to!" she apologized, worried.
"It's alright. It wasn't your fault, it was Tara's." he said comfortingly. She gave him a small smile in return. "It doesn't hurt any more." he continued, glancing down at his side. Lloyd looked at it and winced.
"I should probably get everyone up." the Green Ninja said after a moment. "Indigo, can you walk?"
"I can't turn my head without getting dizzy, so, no." she replied.
"Alright. Morro, how do you feel?"
"I'm fine. I can carry her." was the ghost's short reply.
"Okay." Lloyd said, and, after hesitating a few more seconds, turned around and left to wake the rest of the party.
ReturnToTheCursedRealm
After everyone else was awake and had eaten a delicious breakfast of strawberries fried in sesame oil and milkshake, the question arose of what to do with all the blood. Lloyd had changed into a different shirt, since his old one was stained red, and Nya had helped Indigo change into some of Nya's spare clothes, since Indigo's were completely ruined and she didn't have any others. The blood on the floor of the cave was a problem for multiple reasons, though, because not only would it alert any ghosts that humans had been there, but Jessica, upon seeing it, had promptly fainted into Lloyd's arms. As Ming tried to coax Jessica back to the land of the living, Nya used her water powers to sweep the blood out of the cave and off the mountain path, into what appeared to be a jungle far below. Kai then turned the rest of the water (as well as any leftover blood) into steam by blasting it with a stream of fire. Soon after, Jessica had woken up but was still weak from her extreme fear of blood, so Lloyd consented to carry her. As they packed their provisions and left, none of them noticed a girl with a hood and a boy with snow-white hair watching them from on top of a cliff.
Hey. Still Lloyd. FFF is working hard on something about temperatures... Fahrenheit 555 or something. Anyway, Kai and I wanted to say that if anyone had any questions they wanted to ask us about anything, just ask in a review and we'll try to get back to you by the next chapter.
Hello! It's FFF, and I'm back. I was actually working on Fahrenheit 451, which is a dystopian story about a guy who sets things on fire. I'm writing a report on it. Anyway. Too much blood? I didn't think it was really bad, and no one mentioned it on the last chapter, sooo... yeah. Tara and Alex will get more screentime next chapter. Well, feel free to ask Lloyd and Kai questions, though I think they might be up to something... well, sayonara!
~FFF
