Story three
Part four
(Jim's POV)
It didn't take too long for Gilliam to discover where the girls had gone. Suzaka was hunting down this man about half-block away from the port, while Aisha and Melifina were at a mall just down the street. Both were pretty close to here, but the problem was which one would Hanmyo go after first.
"Mel?" I thought out loud as I ran out the door. "Suzaka and Aisha could probably take care of themselves, but what about Melfina?" My choice was obvious as I grab my gun and ran out the door. All I could do now was hope that I wasn't too late.
(Hanmyo's POV)
"Ha, Ha!" "This is going to be so much fun!" I scream as I jump effortlessly from one building to another. It was a lovely day since the artificial sky was blue, and the people below didn't bother to notice us as we cleared another building and quickly race to the end of this one. Mata and Kemi were just behind me as they tried to calm me down.
"Hanmyo, you're being too obvious again." Mata cried out as he landed with cat-like grace on the other building and continued our mad dash.
"We should've waited until dark there would be less witnesses." Kemi cried as she changed her pace and easily ran up beside me. My two guardians weren't too happy at how many witnesses we had had to kill last time, and was trying their best to keep me from repeating the mistake.
"Oh don't worry, the person we're going after is more than likely to be alone when we get there, and if not I'll just wait until they are." I smiled down at the black bundle of muscle as she released her claws in responds.
Then we made the final leap upon the roof of an old run-down bar and waited as we analyzed our surrounding. Something I had been taught to do every since I could remember.
"This is a great place to battle," Mata replies as he looks at the area around us. The place was upon first glance an abandon-shipping yard, but with a closer glance it was relieved to be a black market. This is a place where stolen and illegal merchandise is sold and brought. A great place for a murder, since the people around here normally kept their noses out of other people's business.
"What a great place for a last stand," I smirk as the light of sun warmed me heart and soul, which in a way prepared me for what I was about to do.
(Jim's POV)
"Melfina, Aisha," I cried out as I ran around in the mall like a chicken with its head cut off. There were just too many people here. I was just trapped in a sea of them, and no matter how hard I swam I just couldn't make my way to shore. Suddenly when I was about to lose hope and just decide to wait outside, I was bumped into the back of a slender young-lady. She was covered from head to toe in a black cloak, which meant that I couldn't see her face. And I probably would had thought that she was Hanmyo if it wasn't for the fact that she was way taller than me, while Hanmyo had been taller than me by just a few inches.
"Sorry," I smiled as I help her to her feet.
"Well, you should be," the voice splat back. "Such a beautiful flower as myself should never be man-hand by one such as you."
I immediately recognized who is was after the woman had said that and quickly responded," Good-afternoon, Aisha."
"Good-afternoon, Jimmy-boy, so what brings you to the mall," Aisha questions since she knew that neither Gene nor me like the place.
"I'll tell you later Aisha, where's Mel?"
"Oh, she still in the shoe department," Aisha signs," and she promised that we would go out to eat the minute she was done."
"So what's the problem?" I asked as I watched her ears' droop. Being that Aisha is a Ctral-Ctral, she had ears and tails like a cat, which changes position with emotion. Ears' drooping was a sign of sadness, and I knew that only one thing in the world could cause Aisha to be sad, but yet I asked anyway.
"That was at least an half-hour ago, and she still hasn't come out of the store." Aisha pouted as she sunk to the floor in front of a huge man with shoeboxes in his hands. Aisha never knew what hit her as the man trip and fell right on top of her.
I burst out laughing as Aisha began to scream and curse with the man on top of her. She was pin to the floor with her head on the ground and the man across her back as he tried as he may to get up without touching her. I felt like I was going to die laughing, but my laughter was short lived as I heard a scream from inside the store. A hysterical woman ran out of the store screaming about a dead body in one of the back rooms.
"Melfina," I yelled as Aisha rose up knocking the man from her back and stared up at me as I sprint toward the store. As I ran it seems that the crowd of people had gotten worst as I tried to make my way to the store, and the people marching like a school of fish were in my way. So after a few shoves and rude gestures from some of the people I made my way inside the store.
"Melfina!" I called out upon entrée. I called out three more times in the swam of people as the manager tried to keep everyone inside calm. Suddenly I felt a soft hand touch my shoulder and without thinking I jumped away as I turn and found myself looking into the eyes of a young woman with short black-hair.
"Jim what's wrong," she asked as I ran up to her and hug her.
"Mel, you're alright," I smiled as I hug her tight. I was just so relieved that I didn't try to control myself and act like a mature young man. Instead I chose to act like a scary little boy whom had just thought that he had lost his mother, and in a way that is exactly who I am.
(Hanmyo's POV)
Kemi and Mata sat on the roof twitching their tails as we waited for the person to emerge from below. To them this was simple game of cat and mouse as they waited for their prey to emerge from the hole below. But for me this was madding, it had nearly been two full hours and I was starting to get restless with this. I mean how long does it take to kill a man.
We never heard her approach as she walk toward us with noiseless silences like a Owl in flight whom had just found a kitten that had stray too far from its mother.
"Hello, Hanmyo," the woman spoke surprising both of my guardians and me.
In a sad attempt to retain some dignity I spoke out trying to keep my voice from trembling," No one has ever manage to sneak up on us, Starlight Suzaka." I spoke her full name as I sign of respect for succeeding at such a deed.
"I take no pleasure in kill a little girl, so I suggest that you give up on Gene Starwind and go home." "I alone has the right to end his life."
"So they told you about our little challenge, huh," I smirked as I backed away from her. Mata and Kemi seeing my reaction did the same.
"No, but I follow them around at times when I see fit." She quickly unsheathes her wooden bokken. "And I knew that you would probably try to get rid of me and the others so that you could have the upper hand."
"What could you possible mean by that?" I smiled sweetly as Mata slowly begin to creep towards her. At the moment, she had me at a disadvantage, since I didn't have my weapons out. All I need was a quickly distraction so that I could whip my hands behind me and retrieve them from the pink bow behind me.
She then pointed towards Kemi whom was still beside me, but said nothing more. I understood what she was implying, but I didn't respond. This eerie pause was just what I needed, and so it still stood when Mata jumped at her claws extended as he tried to knock the wooden sword from her hands. But it was not to be as she quickly blocked the move causing Mata to reflect harmlessly off the sword. Kemi quickly tried to follow up on the attack as I swept my hands behind me and pulled out two steel fans. This was my favorite weapon.
"Reeeeow!" I had just taken my eyes off of her for a moment when I heard the cry as Kemi hit the roof hard and laid still. My heart stopped as Mata hung back and looking at his sibling for any signs of life, and the woman crotches low as she prepared herself for the next attack.
"Kemi," I spoke softly as the cat rewarded my words with a slow yet steady rising of her chest in an up and down motion.
"You should give up now, before someone else get hurt," Suzaka spoke without remorse in her voice.
"Nobody touches my cats, bitch," I responded her advice for me to give up.
"Then I will not be held accountable for my actions," she position herself with her back turn toward Mata.
"Nor I, Mata," I commanded him," stay out of this." I then place myself in one of my favorite positions with my bladed fans in front of me.
"But Hanmyo," Mata calls out.
"This is my fight, so get Kemi and leave." I kept my eyes on the women incase she showed signs of not accepting my proposition.
"As you wish," he signs in defeat as he trots in front of the lady with no sign of fear and gingerly wiggles his sister unto his back and then hops away.
"Now its just you and me," I smile at her as the wind picks up a bit and my short purple hairs swishes in responds.
Suzaka long black hair does the same as she narrows her eyes as a small glint runs up the side of her wooden sword.
Strange I thought to myself that in a time such as this that I find my mind wondering as to how such a thing is possible O-well, I guess that this will always be one of those unquestionable things that just happens in life