#3, The Girl or… Second Wave
We all sat there in shock just watching the thing slowly look about itself to all the unconscious men about it then look up in our direction.
"Uh, uh, its looking at us guys," Angela started to say in a rather high pitched manner that got my hand tightly clamped over her mouth. "Shhh. Maybe it hasn't actually noticed us yet. Be quiet." She nodded her head quickly and I slowly took my hand down from her mouth. "But, but, bu.t.." she started to stammer but the sound of me moving again quickly shut her up.
Looking back again I heard Kite let out a long breath, he'd obviously been holding it most of the time as we got our real good look of the thing.
"What is it then O smart one?" I hissed in his direction, "You seem to be the resident expert."
He didn't make a sound as a movement from the yellow thing caught all our attentions fully once more. The majority of the glow about it had dissipated but it still stood out like a sore thumb in the darkness of the area. The sun was setting then and it really wasn't helping the thing very much to hide it. If it had been day it probably would have been a little less noticeable with the glow and all as white on white is harder to see than white on black.
It was fairly nervous and twitchy as it stood there, ears flicking about to every single noise that was made by the men as some occasionally went into a spasm as high electrical volts passed though out their bodies. Keeping them in the dark world of unconsciousness for the time being.
A pinch to my arm got a quick, "Oww" of response from myself as I looked at Kite.
"Shh," he whispered again to me and motioned to look in the direction of the building the black dressed men had originally come out of, "Look, there's movement in there and a red light keeps on flashing."
"Yeah so?" I looked at Kite again and he sighed. "Think Dew. What flashes red?"
I just stared at him blankly, "Alarms you idiot," he answered for me.
"Ok..." I still hadn't clued in at the point.
"Dew, you idiot, alarms mean that someone is going to come in response to it. And I don't really think it'll be the police."
I swore. Probably not as quiet as I should of either.
"Well what are we meant to do now? If we run someone's going to see us, even if it isn't that."
Kite just looked forwards, "Look. It's moving."
"We don't even know who the good guys are here!"
Both Angela and Kite hissed a, "Shut up," at me then, huffing as I did I did what they said and shut up watching the yellow thing once more.
At the time I couldn't think of what it reminded me of. I was never really good at distinguishing the different pokemon, I was at the bottom of the class when ever we did any tests on the subject. Oh well. Probably if you asked me now I'd be able to answer more correctly, but that doesn't really matter.
The thing was looking in our direction again and seemed really unsure of what to do now, it was becoming even more and more edgy as it moved about with its motions becoming jerkier.
"Maybe we should help it?" I queried to the others. Angela just gave me a look at Kite didn't do anything as he kept his gaze to it. "We shouldn't get ourselves into this," was the closest I got to a reply from either of them. "Ok, so what ARE we meant to do then? Just sit here till they all just disappear? We'll probably be discovered where we are if we do that!"
I looked at both of them but neither said anything and Angela only gave me a look as Kite couldn't seem to take his eyes off the yellow thing. I tapped him in the side but he still didn't move, shaking my head I sighed and gave up, well if we do get caught it's not my fault.
A flash to the corner of my vision and I turned about to see what it was but I couldn't see anything. I shook it off as my imagination as I turned to look forwards again but another flash of white stopped me from moving as I tried to scan over the darkness to the side of us where we had come from originally. Nothing happened again so I turned back once more to see the yellow thing having moved out of the circle of fallen men and slowly edging its way in our direction. In my mind this wasn't really the best thing and we all seemed to be holding our breath as it came closer and closer.
It only had fifteen or so meters of dry dirt before it came to us and it was already halfway across that distance. Another flash of to the side and I realised it was metallic off of something black. I gulped down a thought and hoped I was wrong as I kept my eyes in the direction only moving them a little to take quick looks at the thing as it came ever increasingly closer. Worry was starting to grip my chest. Something wasn't right.
A click to our right and all four of us looked in the direction.
Eyes went wide on all of us as a sudden rush of black and more than one exploding sound came from the direction. Angela, Kite and I all dropped to the ground holding our ears from the noise of the bangs. I could here a chattering noise coming from Angela's direction as her teeth clicked against each other and I quickly moved a hand out to try and still her jaw. I didn't want whoever had made the loud noises to find us because of chattering teeth!
Kite had sat up behind me and was looking over the edge again to where the yellow thing was being swarmed by more of those men in black that appeared from both sides. Those flashes that I had seen had been of the firearms they were holding whenever the yellow things glow glinted off of them.
Kite's eyes were glittering as he watched the men converge on the thing like a swarm of Beedrill. A scream from two places got both Angela and I looking towards Kite and the thing. Angela to Kite and me to the thing.
I couldn't close my eyes. For what I was watching my eyes just didn't want to close and as I heard a gasp beside me Angela had obviously just looked to the thing as well. The men were backing off now, standing uneasily a few feet off from it. It's glow now had all but disappeared but we could see like as if it were clear as day anyway.
Red was everywhere about the creature. Its hands, the tips of its hair as it keeled over and gripped its chest, but most of all around where its body was held over the ground there was a small pool of it that was gradually getting larger and larger with each passing second.
You know for a moment I don't think any of the black men actually noticed us though now the three of us were standing and probably in clear view if it weren't for the fact of nearly no lights. But we were less than five feet away from them so it shouldn't of mattered the most.
The yellow thing noticed us.
As her head lifted her eyes were nearly held totally closed in pain and her whole face was distorted with the same feeling. She blinked back tears and she wasn't speaking a sound or even moaning though she obviously was wanting to. Her lips were pressed tightly together and her jaw line was tight showing that her teeth were probably clenched. She took a hand from her chest, dripping with her life and pushed her hair out of her face as she just stared forwards at the three of us with eyes so dark they must have been totally black. I don't think the men around her had noticed that she was looking at us. They probably thought she was just staring forwards at nothingness.
Her face was so human, but yet, so animal with that fur that covered over her entire body and that small black nose and red cheeks, even those long pointed ears out the top of her head. If you took those factors away and the wounds and made her fully human she would have been one of the prettiest people I had ever seen in my life. The expression held upon her features was not one of defeat, which I didn't understand and I don't think anyone else did either. More along the lines of triumph. A willy grin held tightly and she didn't seem willing to let go of it as she looked about her at the men standing about holding her in the small area she had. Though I don't think even she thought she was going anywhere now.
Some of the men started talking to each other but I couldn't understand, it was in a language I wasn't very sure of and I could only understand a few words and I wasn't even really sure if those were right. I was basically taking a blind step into the darkness. From the few words I could tell they were talking to some important person, ok fine, I couldn't tell that, but you'd think that wouldn't you? Anyway, they were definitely talking about doctors and The Center because I kept hearing those three words quiet often.
The slightest shake of the girls head and her smile loosened its grip to her face. She coughed a few times and spat out a couple of mouthfuls of blood onto the ground right in front of her that got a few of the men jumping back, one of which kicked some dirt up in her face. Kite growled beside me and I grabbed his arm and squeezed it a little trying to tell him to keep quiet. He shook my grip off and the whites of his eyes flashed as he turned to me and hissed something I didn't quiet catch.
The girl bent her head down closer to the ground as her back arched and she went into a further coughing fit, the small puddle below her mouth and face quickly growing in size as more was added to it. I grabbed Kite's arm again as he was about to run forwards and help but I wasn't willing to let him do so. I knew he couldn't help and also somehow, though against all the bones in my body that he shouldn't either. It wasn't like as if I enjoyed what I was watching or anything, if I had had the choice I would have been out of there as quickly as I could. I didn't want him to help because she didn't want help. The way she looked at those men and us she didn't want help, it was visible in her gaze. She knew what she wanted and what was happening was just that.
My stomach was doing flips inside me as I gripped into Kite's arm tighter even though he wasn't trying to move forwards anymore. One of the men growled in a harsh voice and three of the other men to either side of the girl started edging forwards. A flash of sparking yellow electricity from the girl's face that zipped through the air in moments lashed around her entire body keeping the men at bay for the time being as they yelled and jumped back in surprise. The man who had given the order growled into a receptor of some kind and he told the men to back off as they stepped back and muttered things under their breath. Probably curses or something because the girl smiled that smile again and if it could have been probably a little wider as well.
The men looked to the one that I'd figured was the one in charge and waited for orders of some kind. The man said a few words then nodded his head to a man that was standing pretty much just in front of Angela, which was a good thing, because she couldn't see what was going to happen. Or at least, what was meant to happen.
The man lifted some sort of large rifle up and levelled the nozzle to the girl's head at pretty much point blank range. I knew what was going to happen and so did Kite, Angela had a fairly good idea but couldn't see properly as the man stepped fully in her line of view and she wasn't willing to move and gain any notice to where we were standing. The next few moments and seemingly a hundred things happen at once in super slow motion, at least, that's how it felt at the time.
We all sat there in shock just watching the thing slowly look about itself to all the unconscious men about it then look up in our direction.
"Uh, uh, its looking at us guys," Angela started to say in a rather high pitched manner that got my hand tightly clamped over her mouth. "Shhh. Maybe it hasn't actually noticed us yet. Be quiet." She nodded her head quickly and I slowly took my hand down from her mouth. "But, but, bu.t.." she started to stammer but the sound of me moving again quickly shut her up.
Looking back again I heard Kite let out a long breath, he'd obviously been holding it most of the time as we got our real good look of the thing.
"What is it then O smart one?" I hissed in his direction, "You seem to be the resident expert."
He didn't make a sound as a movement from the yellow thing caught all our attentions fully once more. The majority of the glow about it had dissipated but it still stood out like a sore thumb in the darkness of the area. The sun was setting then and it really wasn't helping the thing very much to hide it. If it had been day it probably would have been a little less noticeable with the glow and all as white on white is harder to see than white on black.
It was fairly nervous and twitchy as it stood there, ears flicking about to every single noise that was made by the men as some occasionally went into a spasm as high electrical volts passed though out their bodies. Keeping them in the dark world of unconsciousness for the time being.
A pinch to my arm got a quick, "Oww" of response from myself as I looked at Kite.
"Shh," he whispered again to me and motioned to look in the direction of the building the black dressed men had originally come out of, "Look, there's movement in there and a red light keeps on flashing."
"Yeah so?" I looked at Kite again and he sighed. "Think Dew. What flashes red?"
I just stared at him blankly, "Alarms you idiot," he answered for me.
"Ok..." I still hadn't clued in at the point.
"Dew, you idiot, alarms mean that someone is going to come in response to it. And I don't really think it'll be the police."
I swore. Probably not as quiet as I should of either.
"Well what are we meant to do now? If we run someone's going to see us, even if it isn't that."
Kite just looked forwards, "Look. It's moving."
"We don't even know who the good guys are here!"
Both Angela and Kite hissed a, "Shut up," at me then, huffing as I did I did what they said and shut up watching the yellow thing once more.
At the time I couldn't think of what it reminded me of. I was never really good at distinguishing the different pokemon, I was at the bottom of the class when ever we did any tests on the subject. Oh well. Probably if you asked me now I'd be able to answer more correctly, but that doesn't really matter.
The thing was looking in our direction again and seemed really unsure of what to do now, it was becoming even more and more edgy as it moved about with its motions becoming jerkier.
"Maybe we should help it?" I queried to the others. Angela just gave me a look at Kite didn't do anything as he kept his gaze to it. "We shouldn't get ourselves into this," was the closest I got to a reply from either of them. "Ok, so what ARE we meant to do then? Just sit here till they all just disappear? We'll probably be discovered where we are if we do that!"
I looked at both of them but neither said anything and Angela only gave me a look as Kite couldn't seem to take his eyes off the yellow thing. I tapped him in the side but he still didn't move, shaking my head I sighed and gave up, well if we do get caught it's not my fault.
A flash to the corner of my vision and I turned about to see what it was but I couldn't see anything. I shook it off as my imagination as I turned to look forwards again but another flash of white stopped me from moving as I tried to scan over the darkness to the side of us where we had come from originally. Nothing happened again so I turned back once more to see the yellow thing having moved out of the circle of fallen men and slowly edging its way in our direction. In my mind this wasn't really the best thing and we all seemed to be holding our breath as it came closer and closer.
It only had fifteen or so meters of dry dirt before it came to us and it was already halfway across that distance. Another flash of to the side and I realised it was metallic off of something black. I gulped down a thought and hoped I was wrong as I kept my eyes in the direction only moving them a little to take quick looks at the thing as it came ever increasingly closer. Worry was starting to grip my chest. Something wasn't right.
A click to our right and all four of us looked in the direction.
Eyes went wide on all of us as a sudden rush of black and more than one exploding sound came from the direction. Angela, Kite and I all dropped to the ground holding our ears from the noise of the bangs. I could here a chattering noise coming from Angela's direction as her teeth clicked against each other and I quickly moved a hand out to try and still her jaw. I didn't want whoever had made the loud noises to find us because of chattering teeth!
Kite had sat up behind me and was looking over the edge again to where the yellow thing was being swarmed by more of those men in black that appeared from both sides. Those flashes that I had seen had been of the firearms they were holding whenever the yellow things glow glinted off of them.
Kite's eyes were glittering as he watched the men converge on the thing like a swarm of Beedrill. A scream from two places got both Angela and I looking towards Kite and the thing. Angela to Kite and me to the thing.
I couldn't close my eyes. For what I was watching my eyes just didn't want to close and as I heard a gasp beside me Angela had obviously just looked to the thing as well. The men were backing off now, standing uneasily a few feet off from it. It's glow now had all but disappeared but we could see like as if it were clear as day anyway.
Red was everywhere about the creature. Its hands, the tips of its hair as it keeled over and gripped its chest, but most of all around where its body was held over the ground there was a small pool of it that was gradually getting larger and larger with each passing second.
You know for a moment I don't think any of the black men actually noticed us though now the three of us were standing and probably in clear view if it weren't for the fact of nearly no lights. But we were less than five feet away from them so it shouldn't of mattered the most.
The yellow thing noticed us.
As her head lifted her eyes were nearly held totally closed in pain and her whole face was distorted with the same feeling. She blinked back tears and she wasn't speaking a sound or even moaning though she obviously was wanting to. Her lips were pressed tightly together and her jaw line was tight showing that her teeth were probably clenched. She took a hand from her chest, dripping with her life and pushed her hair out of her face as she just stared forwards at the three of us with eyes so dark they must have been totally black. I don't think the men around her had noticed that she was looking at us. They probably thought she was just staring forwards at nothingness.
Her face was so human, but yet, so animal with that fur that covered over her entire body and that small black nose and red cheeks, even those long pointed ears out the top of her head. If you took those factors away and the wounds and made her fully human she would have been one of the prettiest people I had ever seen in my life. The expression held upon her features was not one of defeat, which I didn't understand and I don't think anyone else did either. More along the lines of triumph. A willy grin held tightly and she didn't seem willing to let go of it as she looked about her at the men standing about holding her in the small area she had. Though I don't think even she thought she was going anywhere now.
Some of the men started talking to each other but I couldn't understand, it was in a language I wasn't very sure of and I could only understand a few words and I wasn't even really sure if those were right. I was basically taking a blind step into the darkness. From the few words I could tell they were talking to some important person, ok fine, I couldn't tell that, but you'd think that wouldn't you? Anyway, they were definitely talking about doctors and The Center because I kept hearing those three words quiet often.
The slightest shake of the girls head and her smile loosened its grip to her face. She coughed a few times and spat out a couple of mouthfuls of blood onto the ground right in front of her that got a few of the men jumping back, one of which kicked some dirt up in her face. Kite growled beside me and I grabbed his arm and squeezed it a little trying to tell him to keep quiet. He shook my grip off and the whites of his eyes flashed as he turned to me and hissed something I didn't quiet catch.
The girl bent her head down closer to the ground as her back arched and she went into a further coughing fit, the small puddle below her mouth and face quickly growing in size as more was added to it. I grabbed Kite's arm again as he was about to run forwards and help but I wasn't willing to let him do so. I knew he couldn't help and also somehow, though against all the bones in my body that he shouldn't either. It wasn't like as if I enjoyed what I was watching or anything, if I had had the choice I would have been out of there as quickly as I could. I didn't want him to help because she didn't want help. The way she looked at those men and us she didn't want help, it was visible in her gaze. She knew what she wanted and what was happening was just that.
My stomach was doing flips inside me as I gripped into Kite's arm tighter even though he wasn't trying to move forwards anymore. One of the men growled in a harsh voice and three of the other men to either side of the girl started edging forwards. A flash of sparking yellow electricity from the girl's face that zipped through the air in moments lashed around her entire body keeping the men at bay for the time being as they yelled and jumped back in surprise. The man who had given the order growled into a receptor of some kind and he told the men to back off as they stepped back and muttered things under their breath. Probably curses or something because the girl smiled that smile again and if it could have been probably a little wider as well.
The men looked to the one that I'd figured was the one in charge and waited for orders of some kind. The man said a few words then nodded his head to a man that was standing pretty much just in front of Angela, which was a good thing, because she couldn't see what was going to happen. Or at least, what was meant to happen.
The man lifted some sort of large rifle up and levelled the nozzle to the girl's head at pretty much point blank range. I knew what was going to happen and so did Kite, Angela had a fairly good idea but couldn't see properly as the man stepped fully in her line of view and she wasn't willing to move and gain any notice to where we were standing. The next few moments and seemingly a hundred things happen at once in super slow motion, at least, that's how it felt at the time.