Okay, in answer to a question I was asked. Yes, they can get hurt. Let's say they broke their leg, or something. They would still feel the pain, and everything, and it would take them as long as anyone else to heal. Now, if they chopped their limbs off, or something, they would just…regenerate them…I guess!
~*Once upon Forever part 4*~
~*Joe's point view*~
I shivered. Not only from the cold. But from fear, as well. Not that I'd ever admit just how afraid I was to the others…but oh, Lord…I was afraid. And with very good reason, too! I mean…God…look what was happening…
I shook my head…Stop thinking about it, Joe! Stop it, stop it, stop it! But it wasn't exactly that easy.
Luckily, I was good at concealing my feelings…my emotions. Oh, I didn't used to be able to do that…to think things without showing it…but I've had plenty practice over the last little while…
I just didn't know what to do…almost didn't know what to feel…relief at the fact that, no matter what, I couldn't die…or fear, at the fact that I could be tortured for all the rest of my life. God, what a terrible idea…One time at near torture was enough…more than enough…
~*Flashback*~
"Please don't let them find me, please don't let them find me!"
As I heard myself muttering these words, I quickly and firmly shut my mouth. I couldn't take a chance on being heard…on being found…
God, I wished I could see…my glasses had slipped from my face in my scramble to escape my almost-captors. But better the glasses than my life. I sure wasn't about to give my life up to torture.
But, oh, if only I could see!
Groping around with one out-stretched hand, I pulled myself to my feet, peering ahead of me into what seemed like blank space.
I couldn't see…but I walked anyway. I could only hope that I walked away from the danger…and not towards it.
"Joe!"
Upon hearing my name, I whirled around, anxiously trying to see through the distance. Though all I could see was blurry shapes, I did recognize the voice. It was that of Mimi's.
"Joe! Over here! A little to the right!"
This time, the voice was that of Matt. I did as I had been instructed, veering slightly to the right, until I finally became close enough to be able to see their faces. Without a word, Matt grabbed one of my arms and dragged me through the door of a house. I recognized the building as his father's house.
"Have you seen the other, yet?" Mimi threw the question in my direction.
I shook my head. No.
"Have you?" I returned the question. This time, it was Mimi who shook her head.
"Well, we can't just wait here, can we?" Matt asked impatiently.
Couldn't we? Wouldn't it be safer than to be out, wandering the streets?
"I agree," Mimi replied softly. She thought for a moment. "Sora's house is the nearest from where we are, right now. I suggest that we check on her. Maybe she's in her house."
Matt agreed with Mimi, though he did not say the words. I knew that he would agree with her. So it seemed that I had no choice other than to follow them. Unless I wanted to stay here alone. Which I didn't.
I didn't know the way to Sora's house. It was a good thing that Mimi did. She led us up one street, then down another. It seemed to take…seemed to take forever. But I knew that, in reality, it only took a matter of about ten minutes.
We were lucky. No one had spotted us. Maybe because we all had large, floppy hats pulled down over our faces. It had been Matt's idea.
So, after those ten minutes that seemed like forever, we finally reached Sora's house. Mimi rang the doorbell.
No one answered.
"Maybe she's not here," Matt suggested.
"Um…yeah," I agreed. "And…maybe we should…you know, get out of here? Before we get captured and tortured forever?"
Matt turned towards me. "I have an idea," he said.
"What?" I asked.
He glared at me. "Why don't you just shut up?"
I turned from him. Fine! If he wanted to spend the rest of his life having his limps ripped from him, then FINE!
It was then that I noticed I was alone. The door which I stood before swung back and forth on the breeze. Mimi and Matt had obviously given up on waiting and had walked right in.
I glanced around cautiously, then shrugged my shoulders, and stepped inside, as well. At lease it was safer in the house.
The house was silent…oh, so very silent…until I heard Mimi's startled cry, followed by a profanity from Matt.
I hurried forward, and skidded to a stop as the scene before me came into view. Sora lay sprawled out on the floor of a closet, dried blood smeared over one side of her face. Mimi hung onto the door of the closet for dear life, looking about ready to faint. That's how I felt, too. I never had completely gotten over feeling faint at the sight of blood.
Matt was knelt down beside Sora, checking for a pulse, even though it was useless. No doubt, it would be there. She was obviously alive, for a relieved look crossed onto his face. But, of course she was alive. He stood up and reached for Mimi, helping her to stand up straight. "She's alive," he assured her. "It's okay."
"NO, Matt! It's not okay, can't you see that?" she was crying. I couldn't really blame her. This whole thing was just beyond terrible, beyond horrifying. It was just so…apocalyptic.
I was so deep in thought that I didn't see the looks of horror cross onto my friends' faces. It was the banging on the door that broke me from my deep thoughts.
Whirling around, I glanced frantically around for an escape route. They were here! They were HERE! Oh, God, what would happen to us?
The door flung upon. A spiky brown head poked through the doorway.
It was Tai! And behind him, Kari and TK, holding Izzy up, helping him to stand!
I saw both Mimi and Matt relax. Tai looked quite happy to see us, too.
Until his gaze fell onto Sora's prostrate form. Onto the blood that covered one side of her face. He looked about as sick as I felt.
~*End of Flashback*~
~*Matt's point of view*~
So. We were all here, now. Mimi and I. Joe. Tai, Kari, Izzy, and thankfully, TK. And even Sora, though she was still unconscious
What was going to happen to us? I wasn't exactly that frightened for myself. It was more of a fear of what would happen to my brother. To my friends. To my girlfriend.
"Hey, Matt? I could use some help."
Tai's voice brung me back to the present. He was pushing a table towards the front door. The one that they had just come through. He was obviously trying to barricade the door. I was about to tell him to get someone else to help him. Mimi needed me. But I realized that everyone else was busy. Joe knelt on the floor, tending to Sora. TK and Kari were helping a weak, and almost unconscious Izzy over to a couch so that he could sit down. And Mimi looked like she was about to pass out.
So, with a sigh, I grabbed a chair, throwing it against the table that Tai had drawn up against the door. With that, Tai moved to do the same to the back door, while I continued to pile up various pieces of furniture around the front door.
It wouldn't keep anyone out for long, but it might by us some time.
As soon as I was finished, I crossed over to where Mimi sat, enveloping her in my arms.
"We need a plan," Tai announced. Like we didn't already know that.
"We know," Kari responded softly. "But what?"
"I say we get our revenge," I stated, and the cold tone in my voice surprised me. "Make them pay for what they did to us. For putting us through all of this." I motioned with one hand around our group. Izzy lay propped up against one wall, as we had needed the couch for our barricades. His head dropped to one side. As far as I could tell, he was unconscious.
TK sat with Kari, trying to stop her trembling. They were talking softly, and Kari looked as if she were about to break into tears. This, of course, made TK look angry. Angry that anything would dare to make his girlfriend this upset.
Sora still lay on the floor. She was no longer sprawled out on the bottom of the closet. Joe had pulled her out, as well as cleaned up the blood, though I knew that he hadn't enjoyed it. She looked as if she were dead.
Joe sat with his head in his hands. I had always kind of had contempt for him…he was so afraid of everything. But this time, I didn't mentally deny him his fear. God, I felt the same fear. Not that I would have admitted it to anyone.
Tai stood by one window, hidden by the curtains, his fists clenching and unclenching, his jaw working silently. He looked about ready to burst. Yet I knew, that deep inside, even our courageous leader felt soul eating fear.
Mimi also sat on the floor, her head resting upon her knees. Her shoulders trembled, and I knew that she was softly crying. This was the one thing I couldn't stand. Seeing her so afraid. Seeing the mental pain that we was going through.
I gently sat down beside her, not knowing what to do to comfort her. God, I wanted revenge.
"Maybe we should just escape," TK suggested, trying to conceal his anger. "Get away. Go into hiding."
"We could just stay here. Maybe they won't come back. They obviously didn't find Sora. Maybe they think we're already gone." Joe didn't even sound hopeful in the least bit.
"Or maybe if we just explain that we shouldn't be feared, maybe they'll listen," Kari's voice still sounded quiet and soft.
Did she really believe that? No one would listen to us! They would capture us and try…try to kill us before we could get one word out!
"What do you think, Matt," TK turned towards me, the question showing in his eyes, as well as in his voice.
What did I think? What did I think? I didn't know. Our lives had been miserable because people had feared us so much…the past few days had been pure torture…more torture than all the rest of my life put together. It angered me so…
But the part that enraged me the most, was the sight of tears running down Mimi's face. The knowledge that she felt pain that was as immense…if not stronger…than my own. Oh, yes. I would have revenge. Revenge for myself…but most of all, revenge for Mimi.
I looked up, coldness radiating from my eyes…from my face…from my very being. I knew just how to answer. Knew just what I wanted to do. For a moment, I had second thoughts…maybe it wasn't as bad as I made it out to be…
But I quickly shook that thought out of my mind. Staring straight at my friends, my head held high, I answered.
"What do I think? Yes, maybe we should go into hiding. It would be the…the less violent way. Yes, we could just stay here. But what are the chances that they won't come back? And we know that no one would listen to us, were we to explain."
I took a deep breath. "Here's what I say. Let the guilty pay."
To be continued…
Okay, I know that this was really short, but the next part will be longer. I'm working on the 5th part, so it should be out soon, hopefully! Please review!
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