AN: Heh, heh, now that school has started, I REALLY have a reason not to work on this. I'm sorry I'm so lazy, I'll try to get the next chapter out sooner! Enjoy! Oh! Did anyone notice I added angst to the genre? (what a contradiction: humor and angst...) You'll out why soon!
Disclaimer: I can never remeber to put these things on my stories! I've had to re-upload stories so many times simply because I forgot it! It's so pointless! It's so obvious that I don't own Gundam Wing!!
And the Pools were as Blood...
Chapter 4: And the Pools were as Blood...
By Fyerbelle
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The sun was shining, the breeze was gentle, and the water park was over-stuffed with babbling tourists and their annoying children. Amazingly enough, Reece and Ramona were quietly splashing around in a regular swimming pool, not fighting at all and Leon was watching them from his vantage point under a shady tree. Kami, however, wasn't having as easy a time with her own charge.
True to her prediction, Haiden couldn't seem to sit still. As soon as his feet touched the water of the kiddy pool, he made it clear that this wasn't what he wanted to do. Kami certainly couldn't read anymore, because every time she looked up, Haiden was gone.
I knew my peace wouldn't last...' Kami stopped walking as she suddenly felt a soft rumbling under her feet. What was that?' she wondered, looking up at the metallic sky, half expecting it to collapse or burst into flame. When nothing happened, she looked around for Haiden, but couldn't see him anywhere.
"Haiden, where are you? Come out, come out where ever you are!" she cooed sweetly. "Are you hiding behind the tr-AGHH!!" Kami felt herself fly forward as the ground shook violently. She picked herself up and watched as other tourists did the same, while the natives started waving their arms and running in circles.
"What's happening?" Kami asked a woman nearby.
"I don't know! There aren't such things as colony-shakes are there?" she asked.
"No...AGH!" Kami and the woman both collapsed onto the ground as it shook again, and this time, the sky darkened a bit.
"Fire! The locker rooms are on fire!!!!" somebody yelled.
"Is it a terrorist attack?" another person yelled.
"AGH!! Where's my baby?!?!" Kami screeched suddenly. "Haiden, where are you?? It's no time to play!!!!"
"It IS an attack! They're shooting!!" a woman carrying a kid over her shoulder screamed as she ran by. An explosion sounded and sent everyone standing up flying to the pavement again. And Kami could hear the gunfire. She started to panic.
"Haiden, stop hiding!!! Honey, come out! Please!" Tears streamed down her cheeks as she ran to the picnic area and looked frantically under the tables for any sign of her little boy.
He wasn't there.
"Kami!! Kami, where are you!" Kami whirled around and dashed towards her husband, who had both Reece and Ramona by the hands.
"Leon, I can't find Haiden!" She cried as she gathered her other children into her arms. They were both crying too, obviously scared out of their wits.
Leon scanned the area, taking in the flames and the rubble that was quickly becoming all there was left of the peace water park. As soon as he felt the first rumble, Leon had joined his children in the pool to make sure they didn't hurt themselves. When the explosions came, the three of them watched, horrified, as tourist toppled into the pool on the other side, staining the water with their own blood.
-That's- when he had decided to get out.
"Don't worry Kami, we'll find him!" Leon stooped down to hug his wife and children tightly before he stood up and darted away...surely Haiden was okay...he had to be!
He hadn't gotten very far when he noticed the soldiers. Men wearing dark military uniforms were standing at almost every entrance an exit, and they were firing guns. They were shooting at civilians. But why?
Leon turned around and ran back to his family. Kami hadn't moved an inch and her crying had intensified.
"Kami! Soldiers are shooting us! I don't think they even care that they're shooting at civilians! We gotta get out of here!" he yelled. Kami looked at him tearfully, but stood up, taking Reece with her. Leon grabbed Ramona and Kami's hands and steered them towards a tree. The tourists were running around in circles too now, but most of them had been shot down. Hopes of finding Haiden were next to impossible now.
"Leon, we've got to find Haiden!" Kami sobbed, pulling on Leon's hand.
"We have to take cover! I'll find him, Kami!" Leon yelled.
"Stop yelling!" Kami cried clutching Reece closer to herself.
"I'm not yelling!"
"Yes you are! You're scaring the children!"
"The fire is scaring the children!"
"And you're yelling isn't helping!!!!"
"Wow! They're fighting just like we do!" Ramona commented peeking around her father's legs to Reece.
An explosion went off behind the Yuy's, knocking everyone off their feet again, and Kami and Leon's argument was cut off as the shots rang out behind them.
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Did it stink? Is it a cliffhanger, or is it just way too obvious what happens? One more chapter to go! Thanks for reading! Fyerbelle =)
