Here's part two of the prologue for Julie-su's mini series. Enjoy!!
~Rebecky-mo~
Lengthening shadows part 2: Mind Games
{~CRREEAAKK!!~ The soft, crisp sound stopped the young
echinda dead in her tracks. As she looked around to find the source,
she heard it again, thanks to her cybernetically enhanced dredlocks.
This time, she knew exactly where it was coming from. She looked up
to see the cables hanging by the support beams break free with a
loud *SNAP!!* as the huge piece of metal fell to the ground, too
fast for anyone to escape...}
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"
The former legionaire sat upright in her bed as she
awoke from the nightmare, her body covered in a cold sweat.
Her surroundings lost to her for a moment, she glanced
around the room in fear, then slowly her breath slowed, and
she buried her face in her hands. *The dream again..only it's
not a dream.* Julie-su rose to her feet, forcing her legs to
regain thier composure. *Why can't I get through the
memory?!?* She looked at the alarm, it's fluorecent numbers
blinking 10:00 pm *I won't go back to sleep tonight.*
This was how it had been for the past few weeks,
these dreams--no--memories, had been haunting her sleep. A
part of her wanted the dreams to stop, yet another part
wanted them to stay, but at least finish the recollection.
Her memories were slowly coming back to her, one by one
through her dreams, and her more depressing memories were
the first to return; the first few nights had concerned
her last time seeing her father before he disappeared.
Now, it was her mother's death that played while she slept,
only at that one spot, it would suddenly end, as if her
subconcious didn't want to see it. Julie sighed and looked
at the deep circles under eyes that were forming.
*It's time to see her...*
Dark clouds hung overhead as Julie-su once again took
on her now attainable goal; to find the truth about her destiny.
Her cycle was broken, so this was the perfect oppertunity to try out
her invention, the Sky Board. She took the small disk from her belt,
pressing the button in the center, which unravelled the snowboard
look-alike, and hopped on, taking off into the air.
It was four days ago that she had written in her personal
journal concerning her meeting with Simon and Floren-ca, and after
much thought in the matter, decided who the next person she should
talk to should be: Kommisar. Julie knew there was a great risk in
seeing her half-sister in the Echinda Security Prison, but
considering Kragok was trapped with no way to speak to him, and
seeking Dimitri was plain stupid-he wasn't even around, plus he was
among the Legion- she was really her only choice.
She reached the doors of the prison late that afternoon.
She quickly returned the board to her belt, and entered the
building, where Constable Remington stood waiting. He was just
about ten years older than herself, 26 at least, and his hat
covered most of the dark black hair on his head, and shadowed the
deep brown fur and blue eyes of his face. "Are you sure you want
to do this, Julie-su? She doesn't seem too fond of you."
The two echindas walked down the long corridor to the cells,
"Very sure, Constable, and thanks again for arranging this. Never
thought I'd ever come back here willingly again." Remington chuckled
"Well, you have to admit, you deserved it the first time. Remember,
I'll just be outside the cell door; if you.."
"Um, Constable?" The former legionaire stopped him
mid-sentence, "if you don't mind, I'd rather do this privately.
No offense, but this is...personal." *This again?!* He thought
recalling how the guardian had asked the same thing mere months
ago. His first instinct was a definite 'NO', but he could tell
this meant alot to the young girl, so he agreed. *Besides* he
laughed to himself, *I get the feeling someone else will be
watching anyway....*
********
"PLEASE, Sojouner?!" Knuckles pleaded with his great
grandfather and former guardian. "I gotta know what goes on
in there!" The ageing echinda turned from the moniters and
glared at him; this stubborn boy had been bothering him
for five minutes about checking on Julie at the prison.
"You know the moniters aren't to be used like that; they're for
surveillance, not spying on girlfriends." "One, she's not EXACTLY
my girlfriend, and two, I'm not spying; she can have a temper,
and I wanna make sure she stays outta trouble in there."
Knux muttered. Sojourner sighed and flipped a few switches
"Fine." he couldn't help smiling though; he knew what the boy
was going through.
"Great! She hasn't gone in yet!" Knux watched as the door
to the cell opened and Julie-su stepped inside, being greeted by
a cold, sarcastic voice...
********
"Well, well, if it isn't the betrayer"
Kommisar was laying on her small cot, glaring at
her sister, giving Julie-su a chill up her spine; the
Dominatrix-like woman had always given her the creeps,
although she wasn't sure why. She had earned her reputation
in the legion and her position in it by going through typical
soldier training and winding up top of the class, and her
ruthlessness was best shown in her cold, crimson eyes that
matched the fur not covered by the black leather outfit and
thigh-high boots. Crimson eyes, as if the blood in her body
had collected thier and the rest of her body was no longer alive.
Finally, Julie-su regained her voice "I know the truth,
Lein-da. That definitly got the woman's attention, and a sneer
curved her lip, looking as if she were about to jump her at
the sound of her true name, then closed her eyes and smirked again.
"So, you know we're related, hmmm? Is that the only reason you
came to see me, because I really don't-"
"WHY?!?!?" The tension in Julie's voice reverberated on
the hollow walls, showing the anger and confusion within her mind;
all this only making Kommisar laugh.
"My, we're testy today!" She got to her feet and looked
directly at her younger half-sibling, barely ten feet between them.
"Honestly, brat, Kragok and me wanted nothing to do with a runt
like you. You had nothing to offer us but annoyance; we didn't
think you had what it takes to be one of us. We only let you live
so you can serve us like you were meant to do..just like your
half-wit mother!!"
Kommisar's cackle sounded like nails on a chalkboard to
Julie-su. *THAT DID IT!!!* In a split second, she had been
slammed into the wall behind her, Julie-su's hand in her throat
holding her a few inches off the floor, while the other held a fully
powered blaster, aimed for the center of the-crimson witches face.
"Kommisar, you just made a BIG mistake!!" her finger pressing
lightly on the trigger.
For some reason, this only served to make the witch grin
again, despite she could hardly breathe "You can feel it,
can't you, brat? Go ahead, you know it's want you want; kill me."
Julie-su blinked, she was telling her to pull the trigger and
kill her, along with the dark voice in her mind.
"You CAN feel it!" Kommisar laughed as she felt the
ground just beneath her, she could breathe better now, so she
could talk. "The feeling of adrenaline, the need to fight, to
go in for the kill!" Julie pressed hand hand deeper into her neck
hearing her wheeze "I guess--we were wrong--brat! You are--one--of
US!!"
Julie-su body shook, and finally let go of Kommisar,
letting her sink to the ground, gasping for air and clutching her
neck. Her heart was pounding, and the voice inside her had changed
it's mantra.
[ONE OF US, ONE OF US, ONE OF US!!!]
*STOP!!* Julie's mind was throbbing, but the voices
wouldn't stop, they kept getting louder, until she felt like
screaming aloud, but before that happened, she opened the cell door
and spoke to the woman still glaring at her on the floor, "I'll be
back, and then I better get answers." After she closed the door,
she ran. Fast, hard, past the surprised Constable, until she reached
the outside, where the soft rain had begun. Without stopping, she
kept going, until she was outside the city limits, and still she ran,
her mind screaming along with her burning lungs...
Kommisar watched the girl leave, and the door close behind
her, leaving her alone again. *You may be back, brat* she smirked
*But I won't be here!!* She pressed a small button on her glove;
it was time to go.
********
Meanwhile, in Haven, Sojourner sighed and shook his head
"That didn't go well at all did it Knuckles? Knuckles??" He turned
to see the sliding doors close, a red tail just fitting in between.
Knux practically flew down the corridors towards the exit.
Something had hit home with Julie she didn't like, she didn't wanna
hear; and if he was right on what it was, he knew where to find her...
********
#SH-RACKT!!# The head of Dimitri's statue was completely
decimated by the blast of Julie-su's gun. The vioces still speaking
to her [ONE OF US, ONE OF US...] "LEAVE-ME-ALONE!!" She cried,
blasting separate parts of the statue at the old base where she'd
reunited with Simon. #SH-RACKT! SH-RACKT! click click click#
Realizing she was out of ammo, she threw down the blaster
and collapsed under the charred piece of stone, her hair wet and
flat against her despite the rain had stopped, holding her head
between her arms and knees. God, what was she doing?...
"Julie-su?"
The voice snapped her out of her thoughts, and she jumped
to her feet, ready for a fight; she didn't need this right n--"Knux?"
The guardian was holding something under his arm, his face visibly
worried. He took a step forward "Hey girl, you alri.."
"Don't!!" Julie took a step back, and turned away. "Don't
come near me, please!" Now Knuckles was terrifid for her; this
wasn't the girl he knew. He stood his ground, but didn't move back
"Julie-su, Kommisar's wrong about you. You're nothing like her, or
Kragok."
"You don't get it!" Julie-su spun on her heels to face
him again. "I ENJOYED it! I had the opportunity to kill someone,
I could feel Kommisar's pulse in my hand, and and I liked--no, I
LOVED the feeling! I'm, I'm not like her; I'm even worse." Her
legs felt like jello, and sat down on the statue again, fighting
back tears, just as her conditioning had told her,
*'no emotion', 'no emotion'*...
Before she could move, Knux slid in behind her, wrapping
them in the blanket he'd carried from Haven. He pulled her close
to him, and it was as if his warmth seeped through the brick wall
inside her, as warm tears fell down her cheeks "I can't believe
I'm doing this.." she croaked, her voice cracking to keep from
sobbing. Knuckles stroked her hair as she kept crying, neither
of them noticing the darkness enveloping them...
(AN:Geez, this definitly fits the drama section!! Well, One
more prologue piece to go, then it's time for the main event:
Julie-su: Guiding Lights!!! I dunno how long before the next part
though; gotta study for my Driver's License!! C ya! )
~Rebecky-mo~
Lengthening shadows part 2: Mind Games
{~CRREEAAKK!!~ The soft, crisp sound stopped the young
echinda dead in her tracks. As she looked around to find the source,
she heard it again, thanks to her cybernetically enhanced dredlocks.
This time, she knew exactly where it was coming from. She looked up
to see the cables hanging by the support beams break free with a
loud *SNAP!!* as the huge piece of metal fell to the ground, too
fast for anyone to escape...}
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"
The former legionaire sat upright in her bed as she
awoke from the nightmare, her body covered in a cold sweat.
Her surroundings lost to her for a moment, she glanced
around the room in fear, then slowly her breath slowed, and
she buried her face in her hands. *The dream again..only it's
not a dream.* Julie-su rose to her feet, forcing her legs to
regain thier composure. *Why can't I get through the
memory?!?* She looked at the alarm, it's fluorecent numbers
blinking 10:00 pm *I won't go back to sleep tonight.*
This was how it had been for the past few weeks,
these dreams--no--memories, had been haunting her sleep. A
part of her wanted the dreams to stop, yet another part
wanted them to stay, but at least finish the recollection.
Her memories were slowly coming back to her, one by one
through her dreams, and her more depressing memories were
the first to return; the first few nights had concerned
her last time seeing her father before he disappeared.
Now, it was her mother's death that played while she slept,
only at that one spot, it would suddenly end, as if her
subconcious didn't want to see it. Julie sighed and looked
at the deep circles under eyes that were forming.
*It's time to see her...*
Dark clouds hung overhead as Julie-su once again took
on her now attainable goal; to find the truth about her destiny.
Her cycle was broken, so this was the perfect oppertunity to try out
her invention, the Sky Board. She took the small disk from her belt,
pressing the button in the center, which unravelled the snowboard
look-alike, and hopped on, taking off into the air.
It was four days ago that she had written in her personal
journal concerning her meeting with Simon and Floren-ca, and after
much thought in the matter, decided who the next person she should
talk to should be: Kommisar. Julie knew there was a great risk in
seeing her half-sister in the Echinda Security Prison, but
considering Kragok was trapped with no way to speak to him, and
seeking Dimitri was plain stupid-he wasn't even around, plus he was
among the Legion- she was really her only choice.
She reached the doors of the prison late that afternoon.
She quickly returned the board to her belt, and entered the
building, where Constable Remington stood waiting. He was just
about ten years older than herself, 26 at least, and his hat
covered most of the dark black hair on his head, and shadowed the
deep brown fur and blue eyes of his face. "Are you sure you want
to do this, Julie-su? She doesn't seem too fond of you."
The two echindas walked down the long corridor to the cells,
"Very sure, Constable, and thanks again for arranging this. Never
thought I'd ever come back here willingly again." Remington chuckled
"Well, you have to admit, you deserved it the first time. Remember,
I'll just be outside the cell door; if you.."
"Um, Constable?" The former legionaire stopped him
mid-sentence, "if you don't mind, I'd rather do this privately.
No offense, but this is...personal." *This again?!* He thought
recalling how the guardian had asked the same thing mere months
ago. His first instinct was a definite 'NO', but he could tell
this meant alot to the young girl, so he agreed. *Besides* he
laughed to himself, *I get the feeling someone else will be
watching anyway....*
********
"PLEASE, Sojouner?!" Knuckles pleaded with his great
grandfather and former guardian. "I gotta know what goes on
in there!" The ageing echinda turned from the moniters and
glared at him; this stubborn boy had been bothering him
for five minutes about checking on Julie at the prison.
"You know the moniters aren't to be used like that; they're for
surveillance, not spying on girlfriends." "One, she's not EXACTLY
my girlfriend, and two, I'm not spying; she can have a temper,
and I wanna make sure she stays outta trouble in there."
Knux muttered. Sojourner sighed and flipped a few switches
"Fine." he couldn't help smiling though; he knew what the boy
was going through.
"Great! She hasn't gone in yet!" Knux watched as the door
to the cell opened and Julie-su stepped inside, being greeted by
a cold, sarcastic voice...
********
"Well, well, if it isn't the betrayer"
Kommisar was laying on her small cot, glaring at
her sister, giving Julie-su a chill up her spine; the
Dominatrix-like woman had always given her the creeps,
although she wasn't sure why. She had earned her reputation
in the legion and her position in it by going through typical
soldier training and winding up top of the class, and her
ruthlessness was best shown in her cold, crimson eyes that
matched the fur not covered by the black leather outfit and
thigh-high boots. Crimson eyes, as if the blood in her body
had collected thier and the rest of her body was no longer alive.
Finally, Julie-su regained her voice "I know the truth,
Lein-da. That definitly got the woman's attention, and a sneer
curved her lip, looking as if she were about to jump her at
the sound of her true name, then closed her eyes and smirked again.
"So, you know we're related, hmmm? Is that the only reason you
came to see me, because I really don't-"
"WHY?!?!?" The tension in Julie's voice reverberated on
the hollow walls, showing the anger and confusion within her mind;
all this only making Kommisar laugh.
"My, we're testy today!" She got to her feet and looked
directly at her younger half-sibling, barely ten feet between them.
"Honestly, brat, Kragok and me wanted nothing to do with a runt
like you. You had nothing to offer us but annoyance; we didn't
think you had what it takes to be one of us. We only let you live
so you can serve us like you were meant to do..just like your
half-wit mother!!"
Kommisar's cackle sounded like nails on a chalkboard to
Julie-su. *THAT DID IT!!!* In a split second, she had been
slammed into the wall behind her, Julie-su's hand in her throat
holding her a few inches off the floor, while the other held a fully
powered blaster, aimed for the center of the-crimson witches face.
"Kommisar, you just made a BIG mistake!!" her finger pressing
lightly on the trigger.
For some reason, this only served to make the witch grin
again, despite she could hardly breathe "You can feel it,
can't you, brat? Go ahead, you know it's want you want; kill me."
Julie-su blinked, she was telling her to pull the trigger and
kill her, along with the dark voice in her mind.
"You CAN feel it!" Kommisar laughed as she felt the
ground just beneath her, she could breathe better now, so she
could talk. "The feeling of adrenaline, the need to fight, to
go in for the kill!" Julie pressed hand hand deeper into her neck
hearing her wheeze "I guess--we were wrong--brat! You are--one--of
US!!"
Julie-su body shook, and finally let go of Kommisar,
letting her sink to the ground, gasping for air and clutching her
neck. Her heart was pounding, and the voice inside her had changed
it's mantra.
[ONE OF US, ONE OF US, ONE OF US!!!]
*STOP!!* Julie's mind was throbbing, but the voices
wouldn't stop, they kept getting louder, until she felt like
screaming aloud, but before that happened, she opened the cell door
and spoke to the woman still glaring at her on the floor, "I'll be
back, and then I better get answers." After she closed the door,
she ran. Fast, hard, past the surprised Constable, until she reached
the outside, where the soft rain had begun. Without stopping, she
kept going, until she was outside the city limits, and still she ran,
her mind screaming along with her burning lungs...
Kommisar watched the girl leave, and the door close behind
her, leaving her alone again. *You may be back, brat* she smirked
*But I won't be here!!* She pressed a small button on her glove;
it was time to go.
********
Meanwhile, in Haven, Sojourner sighed and shook his head
"That didn't go well at all did it Knuckles? Knuckles??" He turned
to see the sliding doors close, a red tail just fitting in between.
Knux practically flew down the corridors towards the exit.
Something had hit home with Julie she didn't like, she didn't wanna
hear; and if he was right on what it was, he knew where to find her...
********
#SH-RACKT!!# The head of Dimitri's statue was completely
decimated by the blast of Julie-su's gun. The vioces still speaking
to her [ONE OF US, ONE OF US...] "LEAVE-ME-ALONE!!" She cried,
blasting separate parts of the statue at the old base where she'd
reunited with Simon. #SH-RACKT! SH-RACKT! click click click#
Realizing she was out of ammo, she threw down the blaster
and collapsed under the charred piece of stone, her hair wet and
flat against her despite the rain had stopped, holding her head
between her arms and knees. God, what was she doing?...
"Julie-su?"
The voice snapped her out of her thoughts, and she jumped
to her feet, ready for a fight; she didn't need this right n--"Knux?"
The guardian was holding something under his arm, his face visibly
worried. He took a step forward "Hey girl, you alri.."
"Don't!!" Julie took a step back, and turned away. "Don't
come near me, please!" Now Knuckles was terrifid for her; this
wasn't the girl he knew. He stood his ground, but didn't move back
"Julie-su, Kommisar's wrong about you. You're nothing like her, or
Kragok."
"You don't get it!" Julie-su spun on her heels to face
him again. "I ENJOYED it! I had the opportunity to kill someone,
I could feel Kommisar's pulse in my hand, and and I liked--no, I
LOVED the feeling! I'm, I'm not like her; I'm even worse." Her
legs felt like jello, and sat down on the statue again, fighting
back tears, just as her conditioning had told her,
*'no emotion', 'no emotion'*...
Before she could move, Knux slid in behind her, wrapping
them in the blanket he'd carried from Haven. He pulled her close
to him, and it was as if his warmth seeped through the brick wall
inside her, as warm tears fell down her cheeks "I can't believe
I'm doing this.." she croaked, her voice cracking to keep from
sobbing. Knuckles stroked her hair as she kept crying, neither
of them noticing the darkness enveloping them...
(AN:Geez, this definitly fits the drama section!! Well, One
more prologue piece to go, then it's time for the main event:
Julie-su: Guiding Lights!!! I dunno how long before the next part
though; gotta study for my Driver's License!! C ya! )