Disclaimer: *evil* We all know who is not mine...So stop bothering me....It's one in the fsking morning. So don't ask me again. I own the Daijin, Naza, everything related to that. Zaibach and all incorporated is not mine. Comprendes?
A/N: WELCOME! To part 2 of "Don't leave me alone". Hope you like this chapter better than the last. As I mentioned, it's 1:00 am. So why am I typing? Cuz I'm such a NICE PERSON!!!!!!
Dedication: This chapter is for everyone in the class of 2005. I'm feeling very school-spirity-ish at the moment. Deal with it. ::skips off to look at pictures from last year's walkathon. . .at one in the morning. Thus leaving the dear readers to believe that Kira is a psycho case::
Other: The BGM for this chapter is "Hero" by Enrique. WHY THE HELL IS THAT?! Because, dear reader, I am a loser and I'm boycotting my local alternative radio stations. WHEN WILL THEY LEARN TO PLAY THE GOOD MUSIC!?! GAWD!
*ahem*
And also, the assassins are NOT there to kill Rai. They're like the Naza form of the Slayers. Got it?
And lets get something clear:
"..." = talking
/.../= thinking
... = talking (in another language than English)
[....] = author's comment (not too many of these)
**********
Rai woke up slowly. She knew her assassins were near her. She supposed they had carried her to her to her quarters on the warship after she had blacked out. Rai felt so alone. Habitually, she pushed her hand out from under the covers. Her hand searched for the chair that was always at the head of her bed whenever she was feeling disturbed. Her hand searched for the comforting hand of the only one who truly understood her.
"Toshi..." she muttered into her pillow. "Where are you...."
Rai opened her eyes and the memories slammed into her. Toshi was dead. Zaibach was
responsible. He wasn't there to put the pieces back together. Rai's spine stiffened. She felt suddenly as if the walls of the room, and the sheets on her bed, were closing in on her. She threw the covers off of her back, and lay shivering on the bare mattress. The four assassins watched their captain from the doorway. A fifth man stood in front of them.
"Let me go to her," growled Kazu. He looked up at the fifth man.
"You can't. She has to get through the first night on her own. It's the only way she will be able to get past this," the man replied.
"What would you know?" Ringo hissed. "You were never there for her before when she was like this."
"Don't question me, I know what I'm talking about."
"Let us comfort her," Makoto strained to get past the man.
"You don't know anything about her! You don't know what's good for her." Kou spat.
"Leave her alone tonight."
"You'd better be right, Shinyo." Makoto leered at the man. "If this hurts her..."
His threat was cut off by a blood-curdling scream. The five men snapped their heads around to see the girl in question holding herself and screaming, with wild, unseeing eyes. She rocked back and forth, and screamed. It took all of Shinyo's strength to keep the assassins from going to her.
"I tell you again," he muttered in vain, "She must get through this night alone. She was like this in the very beginning. When I first found her. If you go to her now, she'll kill you."
"She would never kill one of us!" Kou cried indignantly.
"She would never knowingly kill one of you." Shinyo warned him. "But she won't know you now. She could kill you all in under a minute."
"This is because of what they did to her before you found her...?" Ringo left the question hanging. Shinyo answered with a nod. "Shit...."
***********
"Dilandau-sama!" Gatti and the rest of the slayers stood, or kneeled, rather, as Gatti was the only one standing, at attention in front of the general. "Sir, the slayers are here as requested."
"I can see that," Dilandau snapped at the head dragon slayer. He was pissed today, but the reason as to why was not evident. No one had done anything to get underfoot yet. But it was Dilandau. He was allowed his random temper tantrums. "What is your report?"
"Naza has joined Daijin for any confrontations that we will present," Gatti told him calmly. "However, neither of the legendary warlords will fight. They have someone new to lead the Naza Assassins and the Daijin Warriors. This should be easy."
"That takes the fun out of it," Dilandau growled. "Slayers dismissed."
"Thank you, Sir!" The group of Slayers sounded like one voice.
"Gatti, stay," Dilandau commanded the tall young man, as he was walking away. Gatti stopped with a questioning look on his face. Dilandau walked up to him, and examined the teenager's face carefully. Dilandau smirked, before smashing his fist into the slayer's jaw. "Don't tell me things I already know."
"Y..Yes sir!" Gatti stood perfectly still. Dilandau smirked, and walked away.
"We move in for our attack at nightfall. Have them ready." He called back over his shoulder.
Gatti grinned broadly. The man he respected most in the world was bestowing him with such an honor....
************
Rai paced through the darkened hallways of the warship. She had been awake since dawn. Zabach would attack today, she knew. She could feel their thirst for blood. Her own blood lust was growing stronger. She needed to kill....
Rai was suddenly aware that something was wrong. The whole ship was deathly silent. Everyone was waiting. Rai's heart skipped a beat. She knew exactly what was going to happen.
"Shit...." her eyes grew wide, and she sprinted through the hallways of the ship, screaming for the assassins and warriors to hear. "ASSASSINS! WARRIORS! Suit up!!! Get to your guymelufs, Zaibach attacks!"
The twenty Daijin warriors and four Naza assassins were prepared to fight in less than a minute, as they too had been expecting this tonight, but it wasn't fast enough. Zaibach meluf units were attacking from each side.
"Warriors take hold of the barriers! Assassins, flank right, flank left, formation as usual!" Rai shouted through her guymeluf's intercom system. "Kazu, Mako, fall right! Ringo, cover Kou! Toshi, back me up!"
The assassins winced. Rai had a tendency to forget things when she was fighting.
"Toshi, cover me!" Rai cried again through the intercom. She deflected a blow from the front by a Zaibach meluf unit. A second unit smashed into her from behind. Her voice crackled through the intercom. "Toshi!"
"Oh, crap...Warriors, fall back! Hold the perimeter!" A third, brilliantly red meluf came from Rai's blind side, and slammed its sword into the side of Rai's face plate. Black dots distorted her vision. "Assassins!! Watch out!"
The red guymeluf smashed the hilt of its sword into Rai's guymeluf again, shattering the armor. Rai was hurled against a wall inside her meluf, and was immediately consumed in darkness....
************
When Rai awoke, she felt like she had spent the last eighteen years of her life with her head nailed to a concrete floor. She tried to push herself into a sitting position, but there was a body draped over her stomach. She blinked a few times, trying to adjust her eyes to the dim light. Something was wrong, though. Her eyes couldn't detect any light. She blinked again.
"Don't bother, girl," a voice came from somewhere on the other side of...wherever. "You can blink as many times as you wish, you won't be able to see anything for a while. Maybe never again."
Rai whipped her head from one side to the other, trying to see something, anything. The voice that had spoken laughed mechanically. Rai's breathing became quicker, and her heart leapt into her throat. She began to shake slightly.
"Who the hell are you!?" Rai screamed into the darkness. She finally got herself into a sitting position. "What do you want?! Where am I?"
"You have so many questions," the voice smirked. "For a blind prisoner...."
"Coward! You're afraid to fight me!"
The body that had covered Rai's stomach shifted slightly. A voice Rai knew very well groaned slightly, and the body sat up.
Word, home girl.you okay?... The man's voice was strained, but Rai could hear a smile in the way he talked. Just like...
"TOSHI! Doko da?" Rai cried, and stretched her arms out to find her lost assassin. Toshi, where are you?
Here, yo... the assassin's voice grew farther away. I'm watchin you....so keep your madd courage....
Toshi? Where are you? Where are you?! Toshi! Where are you going?? Rai's voice grew frantic. "Don't leave me here Toshi!"
"W...what?!" The voice who had taunted her was back. /What the hell is she yelling?! She's not speaking any of the languages from Gaea.../
"Where is Toshi?!!" Rai had pushed herself to her knees, and was trying to stand. "What have you done with him?"
"Who?" The voice was confused. "Who were you talking to?!"
"What did you do to Toshi!?" Rai took a blind step backwards, and stumbled in her
confusion. She fell, and hit her head against something. The voices faded away again.
*********
WHAT happened!!!??? Shinyo roared at the cowering assassins. Tell me again...WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?!
F...forgive us, Shinyo-sama! The four young men bowed their heads to the floor.
How could you lose her? Shinyo ran his hand through his black hair in frustration. She's just a little girl. I trusted you four would watch over her.
Forgive me for speaking out.... Ringo said slowly. But Samu-chan isn't a child. And she's the best warrior we have....other than you.
She is a child, Shinyo sighed. She is a fourteen year old girl stuck in an eighteen year old body.
Because of.....? Shinyo nodded to the unspoken question.
Damn it! Makoto slammed his fist into the ground. I'm going in after her. Zaibach can go screw itself. No one's gonna hurt Samu-chan!
Kazu raised his hand. "Kazu agrees."
Shinyo took a deep breath, before telling them, If you're going, then I'm going. I'm not going to let you mess up again. Rai is my responsibility. I won't let her hurt.
But what about your girl Shoe? Kou asked cautiously.
I know.... Shinyo sighed. I'll have to trust her to her sister and the elders. You four really messed up this time. Toshihiro would have never let this happen. He would have never left Rai's side.
Shinyo glared, and the assassins sulked. They knew it was their fault, but no reason to rub it in....
**********
end part 2
Kira: Hope ya liked it!
Gatti: It sucked! *happy*
Kira: ::bashes Gatti into a wall::
Gatti: Itai....;___; You're not supposed to be mean to your husband.
Kira: Husband or not, no one talks bad about my stuff and gets away with it. Less it's me, course...
Gatti: *grr* I could take you, girl. I'm not scared of your wrath.
Kira: Whatever you say
Gatti: Bring it!
Kira: Fine, but you'll lose.
Gatti: What makes you so sure?
Kira: Look who's got the keyboard. I get to decide everything that happens.
Gatti: Wha...we...awww, shit...
Toshi: hahahaha....loser.
ANYWAYS! Review. Kay? ^___^v
LUV YOU ALL!!!!!!!
~Kira
A/N: WELCOME! To part 2 of "Don't leave me alone". Hope you like this chapter better than the last. As I mentioned, it's 1:00 am. So why am I typing? Cuz I'm such a NICE PERSON!!!!!!
Dedication: This chapter is for everyone in the class of 2005. I'm feeling very school-spirity-ish at the moment. Deal with it. ::skips off to look at pictures from last year's walkathon. . .at one in the morning. Thus leaving the dear readers to believe that Kira is a psycho case::
Other: The BGM for this chapter is "Hero" by Enrique. WHY THE HELL IS THAT?! Because, dear reader, I am a loser and I'm boycotting my local alternative radio stations. WHEN WILL THEY LEARN TO PLAY THE GOOD MUSIC!?! GAWD!
*ahem*
And also, the assassins are NOT there to kill Rai. They're like the Naza form of the Slayers. Got it?
And lets get something clear:
"..." = talking
/.../= thinking
... = talking (in another language than English)
[....] = author's comment (not too many of these)
**********
Rai woke up slowly. She knew her assassins were near her. She supposed they had carried her to her to her quarters on the warship after she had blacked out. Rai felt so alone. Habitually, she pushed her hand out from under the covers. Her hand searched for the chair that was always at the head of her bed whenever she was feeling disturbed. Her hand searched for the comforting hand of the only one who truly understood her.
"Toshi..." she muttered into her pillow. "Where are you...."
Rai opened her eyes and the memories slammed into her. Toshi was dead. Zaibach was
responsible. He wasn't there to put the pieces back together. Rai's spine stiffened. She felt suddenly as if the walls of the room, and the sheets on her bed, were closing in on her. She threw the covers off of her back, and lay shivering on the bare mattress. The four assassins watched their captain from the doorway. A fifth man stood in front of them.
"Let me go to her," growled Kazu. He looked up at the fifth man.
"You can't. She has to get through the first night on her own. It's the only way she will be able to get past this," the man replied.
"What would you know?" Ringo hissed. "You were never there for her before when she was like this."
"Don't question me, I know what I'm talking about."
"Let us comfort her," Makoto strained to get past the man.
"You don't know anything about her! You don't know what's good for her." Kou spat.
"Leave her alone tonight."
"You'd better be right, Shinyo." Makoto leered at the man. "If this hurts her..."
His threat was cut off by a blood-curdling scream. The five men snapped their heads around to see the girl in question holding herself and screaming, with wild, unseeing eyes. She rocked back and forth, and screamed. It took all of Shinyo's strength to keep the assassins from going to her.
"I tell you again," he muttered in vain, "She must get through this night alone. She was like this in the very beginning. When I first found her. If you go to her now, she'll kill you."
"She would never kill one of us!" Kou cried indignantly.
"She would never knowingly kill one of you." Shinyo warned him. "But she won't know you now. She could kill you all in under a minute."
"This is because of what they did to her before you found her...?" Ringo left the question hanging. Shinyo answered with a nod. "Shit...."
***********
"Dilandau-sama!" Gatti and the rest of the slayers stood, or kneeled, rather, as Gatti was the only one standing, at attention in front of the general. "Sir, the slayers are here as requested."
"I can see that," Dilandau snapped at the head dragon slayer. He was pissed today, but the reason as to why was not evident. No one had done anything to get underfoot yet. But it was Dilandau. He was allowed his random temper tantrums. "What is your report?"
"Naza has joined Daijin for any confrontations that we will present," Gatti told him calmly. "However, neither of the legendary warlords will fight. They have someone new to lead the Naza Assassins and the Daijin Warriors. This should be easy."
"That takes the fun out of it," Dilandau growled. "Slayers dismissed."
"Thank you, Sir!" The group of Slayers sounded like one voice.
"Gatti, stay," Dilandau commanded the tall young man, as he was walking away. Gatti stopped with a questioning look on his face. Dilandau walked up to him, and examined the teenager's face carefully. Dilandau smirked, before smashing his fist into the slayer's jaw. "Don't tell me things I already know."
"Y..Yes sir!" Gatti stood perfectly still. Dilandau smirked, and walked away.
"We move in for our attack at nightfall. Have them ready." He called back over his shoulder.
Gatti grinned broadly. The man he respected most in the world was bestowing him with such an honor....
************
Rai paced through the darkened hallways of the warship. She had been awake since dawn. Zabach would attack today, she knew. She could feel their thirst for blood. Her own blood lust was growing stronger. She needed to kill....
Rai was suddenly aware that something was wrong. The whole ship was deathly silent. Everyone was waiting. Rai's heart skipped a beat. She knew exactly what was going to happen.
"Shit...." her eyes grew wide, and she sprinted through the hallways of the ship, screaming for the assassins and warriors to hear. "ASSASSINS! WARRIORS! Suit up!!! Get to your guymelufs, Zaibach attacks!"
The twenty Daijin warriors and four Naza assassins were prepared to fight in less than a minute, as they too had been expecting this tonight, but it wasn't fast enough. Zaibach meluf units were attacking from each side.
"Warriors take hold of the barriers! Assassins, flank right, flank left, formation as usual!" Rai shouted through her guymeluf's intercom system. "Kazu, Mako, fall right! Ringo, cover Kou! Toshi, back me up!"
The assassins winced. Rai had a tendency to forget things when she was fighting.
"Toshi, cover me!" Rai cried again through the intercom. She deflected a blow from the front by a Zaibach meluf unit. A second unit smashed into her from behind. Her voice crackled through the intercom. "Toshi!"
"Oh, crap...Warriors, fall back! Hold the perimeter!" A third, brilliantly red meluf came from Rai's blind side, and slammed its sword into the side of Rai's face plate. Black dots distorted her vision. "Assassins!! Watch out!"
The red guymeluf smashed the hilt of its sword into Rai's guymeluf again, shattering the armor. Rai was hurled against a wall inside her meluf, and was immediately consumed in darkness....
************
When Rai awoke, she felt like she had spent the last eighteen years of her life with her head nailed to a concrete floor. She tried to push herself into a sitting position, but there was a body draped over her stomach. She blinked a few times, trying to adjust her eyes to the dim light. Something was wrong, though. Her eyes couldn't detect any light. She blinked again.
"Don't bother, girl," a voice came from somewhere on the other side of...wherever. "You can blink as many times as you wish, you won't be able to see anything for a while. Maybe never again."
Rai whipped her head from one side to the other, trying to see something, anything. The voice that had spoken laughed mechanically. Rai's breathing became quicker, and her heart leapt into her throat. She began to shake slightly.
"Who the hell are you!?" Rai screamed into the darkness. She finally got herself into a sitting position. "What do you want?! Where am I?"
"You have so many questions," the voice smirked. "For a blind prisoner...."
"Coward! You're afraid to fight me!"
The body that had covered Rai's stomach shifted slightly. A voice Rai knew very well groaned slightly, and the body sat up.
Word, home girl.you okay?... The man's voice was strained, but Rai could hear a smile in the way he talked. Just like...
"TOSHI! Doko da?" Rai cried, and stretched her arms out to find her lost assassin. Toshi, where are you?
Here, yo... the assassin's voice grew farther away. I'm watchin you....so keep your madd courage....
Toshi? Where are you? Where are you?! Toshi! Where are you going?? Rai's voice grew frantic. "Don't leave me here Toshi!"
"W...what?!" The voice who had taunted her was back. /What the hell is she yelling?! She's not speaking any of the languages from Gaea.../
"Where is Toshi?!!" Rai had pushed herself to her knees, and was trying to stand. "What have you done with him?"
"Who?" The voice was confused. "Who were you talking to?!"
"What did you do to Toshi!?" Rai took a blind step backwards, and stumbled in her
confusion. She fell, and hit her head against something. The voices faded away again.
*********
WHAT happened!!!??? Shinyo roared at the cowering assassins. Tell me again...WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?!
F...forgive us, Shinyo-sama! The four young men bowed their heads to the floor.
How could you lose her? Shinyo ran his hand through his black hair in frustration. She's just a little girl. I trusted you four would watch over her.
Forgive me for speaking out.... Ringo said slowly. But Samu-chan isn't a child. And she's the best warrior we have....other than you.
She is a child, Shinyo sighed. She is a fourteen year old girl stuck in an eighteen year old body.
Because of.....? Shinyo nodded to the unspoken question.
Damn it! Makoto slammed his fist into the ground. I'm going in after her. Zaibach can go screw itself. No one's gonna hurt Samu-chan!
Kazu raised his hand. "Kazu agrees."
Shinyo took a deep breath, before telling them, If you're going, then I'm going. I'm not going to let you mess up again. Rai is my responsibility. I won't let her hurt.
But what about your girl Shoe? Kou asked cautiously.
I know.... Shinyo sighed. I'll have to trust her to her sister and the elders. You four really messed up this time. Toshihiro would have never let this happen. He would have never left Rai's side.
Shinyo glared, and the assassins sulked. They knew it was their fault, but no reason to rub it in....
**********
end part 2
Kira: Hope ya liked it!
Gatti: It sucked! *happy*
Kira: ::bashes Gatti into a wall::
Gatti: Itai....;___; You're not supposed to be mean to your husband.
Kira: Husband or not, no one talks bad about my stuff and gets away with it. Less it's me, course...
Gatti: *grr* I could take you, girl. I'm not scared of your wrath.
Kira: Whatever you say
Gatti: Bring it!
Kira: Fine, but you'll lose.
Gatti: What makes you so sure?
Kira: Look who's got the keyboard. I get to decide everything that happens.
Gatti: Wha...we...awww, shit...
Toshi: hahahaha....loser.
ANYWAYS! Review. Kay? ^___^v
LUV YOU ALL!!!!!!!
~Kira
