STORY THREE
Part six
--Hanmyo's POV--
"Stupid, Stupid," I mummer to myself as I found myself staring down the barrel of a gun (ok, I wasn't stare directly down it since it was at least 15 feet away) in a very bad situation. Here I am, alone with Twilight Suzaka above me and Jim the pistol wielding boy beside me. "Well, I guess that leaves me only one choice," I laughed out loud as I watched my single fan fly back toward me. This was my last resort, but it was something that I had wanted for a long time. I wanted to be free, but yet, I knew that there was only one possible way for a murder like myself to achieve such a thing. But I had always been afraid of it, but now, for some strange reason that fear was gone.
--Jim's POV--
"She's gone nuts," I thought to myself as Hanmyo burst out laughing. I knew that I had this stupid habit of laughing when I was scared, but this was nothing like that. She was practically crying from her how hard she was laughing, and it was then that I realized why. I could faintly remember Gene explaining how a person could laugh himself or herself to death. He had said that the person didn't actually die of laugher, but instead they died laughing as they ended their own lives.
"But Hanmyo doesn't have a… weapon," I started as I notice a swift flash of silver. "HER FAN!"
The next few moments seems to slow down to me as I start to scream for her to duck, but she didn't so much as twitch as the blade drew closer to her. That was when, at the last possible moment, she caught the blade and tossed it at me in one fluid motion.
I found myself reacting without thinking as I dodge the blade by dropping to the ground, rolled, and then fired a single shot in that order. It wasn't until I heard a loud thump that it occurred to me what I had just done, and my heart went numb. "I had given Hanmyo her way out," I spoke to myself as I stood back up.
---Hanmyo's POV---
"I guess we were able to have our showdown after all," I cough out blood and then drop to the ground with a loud thump. "It was finally over," I nearly cheered, for you see, I had grown tired of being a part of the Anten Seven. I wanted to get away, I wanted to run, but the threat of death for trying to leave them stood over me and made me stay. Now, even if the boss himself stood before me, I wouldn't be afraid for there is nothing more he can do to me.
It was then as I slowly began to close me eyes that a single pink rose appeared to me. It was covered in the blood of my enemy, and it seemed to dance and jump at my thoughts of death. As I began to curse the bloody thing, its petals broke apart and it showed me myself. It was a different world, a different time, and a different me whom held Jim in her arms and cried as his soul slip from his body. She wanted him to stay and would have given everything and anything to have her wish granted, and it made me regret the path that I have now taken.
---Jim's POV---
I never saw it coming, I never heard the whoosh of the wind, or felt the coldness of steel as it slid into my back. All that I knew was the pain of the cut, and the weakness that followed as I hit the ground. Like a boomerang, the fan had return and like an idiot I had stood in its path.
I begin to laugh as I heard the quickening pace of footsteps, and I felt my body being lifted. I could see the tears in Suzaka's eyes and I knew that I wouldn't make it. So I left with her the one message that I felt need to given, because I knew that for my partner life was going to get a hell of a lot harder. " Gene, I'm sorry," I told Suzaka as a single pink rose appeared before me. The rose was strange in the way it was formed, for the petals looked as if they weren't truly there, and they whirled around in a quirky pace. Suddenly as if it understood my thoughts for it to stop, the rose petals broke apart, and I saw Hanmyo lying on top of me giving me her life energy. I saw her sacrificing her life for mine, and I wished that it hadn't ended this way for us. I wished for another chance to make things right for her and for myself.
---Hanmyo &
Amazing I thought as my last breath left me and I found my head dropping slowly to the side as my hand lost its grip on Suzaka's hand. Hanmyo will be the last thing I see. My eyes then begin to close as my head hung limply at an angle that allowed me to see Hanmyo's limp form on the floor.
---Author's POV---
"Why," Gene asked no one in particular. "Why, did this happen," Gene screamed as he drop to his knees. For the first time since his father's death, Gene Starwind broke down and cried. For Gene that was the beginning of the end as he lost the will to live and the will to fight. It was only a matter of time before the remaining members of the Anten Seven murdered him and the rest of the crew of the Outlaw Star.
Little did he know that he wasn't alone in this path as Kemi and Mata stood over the pathetic plot of soil Hanmyo's body had been placed under!
"She really is gone isn't she Mata?" Kemi asked her brother as her ears droop and her tail laid lifeless on the ground.
"Yes, but she will not be alone for too much longer," Mata half-smiled at his sibling as he rubbed his head against her neck. Mata and Kemi once they had heard of Hanmyo's death had both taken a slow acting poison. As their customs state, Hanmyo's guardian would follow her into death, and by the fall of night, both cats had left this world.
THE END
Okay, Okay, I know that these stories didn't have a very happy ending. Please don't hiss or boo me, but all types of reviews are very welcome.