stealth2

STEALTH
chapter 2:mistake

After my discovery of myself and what I truly was, I became isolated. no longer the
faceless civilian, but suddenly the faceless freak, the loner. When someone discovers you
can enter their minds, they hate you. They don't want anything to do with you. and so i
was alone in the world, save for the librarian and a few members of the resistance group
who all treated me like a delicate science experiment that would break at the slightest
mention of my past.

At first it didn't bother me. it wasn't like I needed the companionship of some human who
could never understand me. But when you realize you're alone, that no one cares, you
wish there was someone like you, so you wouldn't be alone anymore. And it slowly kills
you. that's probably why I worked for the resistance group as a trained assassin. that's
what I was, after all. a trained killer.

As the best of the assassins that the resistance group had, I was always given the most
difficult assignments. i won't say they were easy to pull off, but I did it better than anyone
else could at the time. I completed my missions without asking questions. the less you
know about someone, the easier it is to kill them. But I finally got a mission that was more
than I could handle, and it almost killed me.

My mission was to kill a guy named Korshire. I thought it would be no big deal, just
another military hotshot that deserved to die. In essence, that's what he was. but,
unfortunately for me, he was a little more than his bio said he was.

I went in, as usual. watching him for a few days to pick up his routine, to see when he
would be most vulnerable to attack, and when there would be no one to see who killed
him. I found his weak link, and planned around it. I broke into his apartment, charted all
the possible escape routes, and didn't leave any trace that I'd been there.

And finally, it came time for me to finish him. I was actually looking forward to finishing this
one, because I learned that Korshire had played a major role in the eradication of the
Gaizelions. Of course, no one bothered to tell me he was a cyborg with modified parts. I
simply thought he was just a military bad ass.

It turned out to be bad. Worse than bad. He knew I was coming, he was waiting for me
even. Because when I entered his room, he was there, sitting in a large chair, drinking a
cup of tea. would you like some? He offered. I could have said, why thank you, I think I'll
wait to kill you until after I've had a cup of your tea that's probably poisoned. Instead, I
took the faster approach.

sorry, I can't .I said, I have to kill you now. and I swear, I would have done it. i was
about to. I was reaching for my weapon when I realized he wasn't sitting in the chair
anymore. I heard a noise above me, and looked up just in time to see his hulking form
hurtling right at me. no time to think, only do. I rolled out of the way, just before I would
have been squished. I pulled out a knife and threw it at him, and it would have killed him if
he wasn't a stupid freakin' cyborg,but of course I didn't know that. I learned it soon
enough, because my knife sliced away a layer of synthetic skin to reveal a network of
gears and technology that i didn't even know existed.

before I knew what hit me, he threw me clear across the room, and at this point I'm
thinking I'm pretty screwed, and truth be told, I was. He soon discovered what I was,
because in my desperate situation, I tried to get inside his mind. And he immediately knew
what I was, and started beating me with a new motivation. That was my one mistake. I
knew I could never show myself in public again, if I lived through this. if i escaped, he
would hunt me down, and dying here seemed to look like a brighter option. Anyway, I was
on the brink at this point, and I was sure I would die. But, I guess destiny had other
plans, because right before korshire delivered his killing blow, someone broke in. I don't
know how this happened, but Korshire suddenly went flying across the room, far away
from me.

The intruder walked over to me, not saying a word. I must have looked terrible, because
he simply looked at me, and picked me up, leaving Korshire behind. I could feel his
emotions, though they confused me. why did he care? How did he know I was in trouble?
and most importantly, who the Hell was this guy anyway? My questions would have to
wait, because I blacked out.

When I woke up again, I was in a room. Ayako, the librarian, was sitting beside me,
cleaning up one of my various cuts. And there was someone else in the room. It was the
guy who saved me. ah, I see you are awake, Ayako said. you're very lucky, you know.
When Shade brought you in, we thought you wouldn't make it through the night. But you
made it, no small thanks to your gaizelion blood. I think you'll be back to yourself in a few
days

So his name was shade. I knew that wasn't his real name, but he sure didn't talk a lot.
maybe he was a mute. Maybe he couldn't tell people his name because he was a mute. I
could feel his mind. I could feel ayako's too, but I already knew what her's was like. And it
was strange, because Shade's mind wasn't vulnerable like the rest of the human
population. His mind wasn't silent, unable to reply to my mind. No, he was different. He
had the same gift as I did, the ability to share minds, although he was not Gaizelion.

And he opened his mind, his soul to me, as I opened mine to him. It was something I could
never explain, like finding a part of you that you never knew existed. it was then that i
discovered what a soul mate was, and I knew we could never be separated.

when I recovered, I never left shade's side, as he never left mine. He was a telepath, but
in exchange for his gift, he had not voice. He could not communicate with anyone else. We
have never said a single word to each other, I know it may seem strange. But our minds
are linked together, and that link will never be broken. We live simply knowing that we
were meant to be, and that is enough.

I was happy, but I knew that korshire was still out there. It was only a matter of time
before he began hunting me. But it didn't matter. I was with Shade, and nothing bad could
happen when I was with him. My story is far from over, but I must leave it at that for now.