'Knives and Sickles'
Chapter Seven
By: Reki-Chan
"Nny...Devi...! It's my friend, L; she's in trouble! Gurase is going to do something to her!" He raced up to his two 'parents' and looked at them, his eyes hard. "Please, you have to help her! They're going to ruin her mind to make her into –"
He was cut off by Nny, "L? Is this the same girl that was here with that doll?" His eyes narrowed a bit, somehow the name 'Gurase' was familiar to him...
"Yes, it is her! And the doll has control of Lashee...Nny! Please help!" He looked pleading up at the faces of Nny and Devi. "At least give me a knifes, Nny. I need something to destroy Gurase and anything else that might be part of this plot..."
Devi blinked those dazzling green eyes of eyes in confusion, "Wait, back up, Squee. Turn her into what? You said they were going to turn her into something...what is it?"
"Into the next flusher, what Nny is! You see, I was supposed to become it...but when you guys became my parents, that changed everything and they had to get a replacement! She's the replacement, and when she met up with me again it turned out that she might have a future after all, so Gurase is destroying her future by rotting her mind..." He said in a rush, the boy was scared for his friend. He had never known anyone to treat him with such a respect, like an equal. He had always been made fun of and treated like a scapegoat, so it hurt to see his only real friend turned into one.
Nny and Devi both stared in amazement at what they had just heard, the next flusher was a...girl? Not that there was anything wrong with a female flusher, it was just that L was a girl, not even out of her teens. Far too young for such a responsibility. Nny nodded slightly, "Yeah, I'll help, and I'll give you a blade, but the question remains, how can you help her before her mind rots?"
"I'll, we'll, just go to their home and get her out..." He hadn't really considered how he would save her, he just knew it had to get done.
"Without a plan of some sort, Squeegee? Honestly, I thought you to be more wise then that! Listen up, I'll help, but you'll have to do what I tell you do to, okay?"
Squee nodded, and followed Nny as he walked towards where the where Nny kept his store of weapons. He came to the room, and searched about for the store box, ah there it was! He went over to the box, and opened it. Nny rummaged through the box until he found something that satisfied his liking, a set of knives. He threw the knives at Squee, who caught them with ease. He grinned, and took out a dagger for himself.
"Well, Squeegee, let's get ready to go! We can't stand around here all day..." He chuckled a bit, and straightened. He led Squee out of the room, looked down at the boy. He had certainly grown a lot these years; "You can count those knives as your birthday present for this year. After all, your birthday is only in a few days." He patted the boy on the back.
Squee nodded, "Yeah, thanks, Nny, I hope they'll come to good use." He sighed a bit, he wasn't quite sure he was ready to do this...But a friend was in trouble, and he decided he was going to help. "Hurry, it's going to take a while to get to the house, even in a car."
"Yeah, yeah...I'm hurrying..." The two were at the door, and Devi had come to bid them farewell. Nny grinned slightly, "Don't worry about anything, Devi, we'll be back soon..."
Devi rolled her eyes, "Oh, I know you'll be back. You always do..." And then she grinned, "Just make sure you come back clean, and not covered in blood. Got that?"
Nny chuckled, and nodded. He waved to her, and the two left the house, boarding Nny's car. He started up the car, and drove off.
The adventure was about to begin.
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She lay on the floor of a room, her body stretched as if she was a cat. Her soft brown hair flowing over her features...She sniffed a bit, and slowly opened up her brown eyes. The girl blinked a bit, and looked about the room...acorns...everywhere. She grinned slightly, and scampered over to the nearest pile, and plucked it up, and caressed it lovingly. Such a sweet thing. Still holding it close, she stood up, and crept out of the room. She was hungry and she smelt Gurase's dinner. Surely because she had been so well behaved that Gurase would give her a special, yummy, treat? Maybe even some more of those spirits...She had gotten addicted to the taste of it. She giggled slightly, she sure hoped so.
The female sneaked down the spiral stairs of the house, and over towards the dining room where none other than Gurase sat, eating. She giggled, and slipped over towards her, and looked at the woman with pleading eyes, "Please, G-Kun...I'm really hungry, aye, and because I was so well behaved, aye, I was, aye...well...I was wondering if maybe..."
"...You could have some of my meal?" The woman finished, her voice dripping with honey and sweetness. She looked warmly up to the girl, Lashee, who's face brightened at the prospect of food. Lashee nodded madly, indicating this was what she desired. Gurase smile broadened even more, such a pretty smile. "Why yes...Of course, except there's one little thing," and here her mood changed at once, her smile gone and her voice fill with a vicious malice, "You shan't have any because it's you fault this mess even got started!" And with that, she stood up, delivering Lashee a harsh blow, send her towards the door to the room where L was. "You sniveling little, dog! You think you can just come here, begging for food and get it? You have to earn it, which you are far from doing!" She walked over to her, and stood towering before the whimpering Lashee, "Now, get out of my sight...!"
She whimpered a bit, and watched as Gurase turned, and went away, abandoning her dinner. But Lashee knew better than to take any of it. She sniffed, and ran up the staircase again, but this time she raced into the room that once belonged to L. The girl looked about wildly, where was it? Ah! There it was! She found what she was looking for, a short handled sickle. The girl pounced on it, and wrestled with the object for a moment or two as if it was fighting back. She sniffed it, and then pressed a button on the side of the blade that caused the handle to lengthen. She grinned a bit, and stood up, swishing it about. She, of course, was too scared to form a revolt against the terrible Gurase, but she still liked pretending that she was fighting with her. The giggled a bit, and then touched the button, snapping the handle back to being short again. She crept into her own room again, snickering still. The girl then grabbed an acorn out from one of the many piles, and stared at it hard.
And then something strange occurred, she began having what looked like seizures. She dropped to the ground, rolling about having this 'attack'. Her eyes rolled about showing their whites...And then as suddenly as it started...It had stopped. The girl sat up, and sighed in relief. "I'm free..." She muttered softly, she stood up, and threw the acorn out the window. Or should I say she threw K.C. out the window?
The girl narrowed her eyes a bit, "Now to get pay back..." Her hands gripped into fists, "G-Kun, Gurase, whoever you truly are...Be prepared! I'm coming for you!" A grin crept across her features, her mind freed, at last. It was such a feeling, much the way L had felt once she had been freed, that she was getting almost drunk off of it. She giggled slightly, and crossed the room, staring at herself in the mirror. Her eyes widened a bit, "I'm so...Old..." Of course it had been a long time since she wasn't under control of the doll, nine years to be exact, since she was seven years old. L had only been under K.C.'s rule for seven years. She stared at her face in wonder, "But I'm...So pretty!" She giggled a bit, and blushed at herself.
The girl continued staring at herself...Never knowing what was going on below...Where L was being kept.
~*~
She continued to just hang limply, but her eyes were moving about wildly. She was scared, an emotion she had not felt in ages it seemed. The room was still filled with dolls, and the fact that she was all alone made the dolls have voices. She shut her eyes, scared. She didn't want to be controlled again! No! No! No! She tried to move, and pulled against the chains. She didn't want to be a toy anymore...She wanted to be free. She pulled, and let out an angry sound of frustration. "G-Kun! Come here! Let me choose my own destiny!" She hung her head, and stopped her struggling. She no longer had a reason to fight. If anybody cared about her, they would have come and helped her by now. But they didn't. No one seemed to care about her. She whimpered pitifully, and continued to at least try to hold the raging voices off.
~*~
The car swerved sharply, stopping about a block or so away from the house. Both Nny and Squee exited the vehicle, and began running towards the house. It would have been too conspicuous of them to just park there, obviously. They soon stood before the house, and they each glanced at each other, hands gripping tightly onto weapons. Now for the hard part, how to enter?
Squee was tempted just to throw the door open, but he knew that if he did that Gurase would know he was there at once and would attack. But before he could plan any further, they were saved by Diene who had just seen them from the window above. She waved to them, indicating where she was.
"So, looks like we're just going to have to climb up the window, Nny," Squee grinned at the other man, remembering briefly how Nny had done so in his own childhood.
Nny chuckled a bit, and then took a jump, grabbing the overhanging part over the porch. He indicated Squee do the same, and he scrambled onto the top of it. Squee followed in suit, and soon the two were right in front of the window where Diene was waiting. She grabbed hold of them, and pulled the two males into the room quickly.
"Be quiet..." Warned Diene in a soft voice, "You must get Alexis first, and then get Gurase, understand? It will take more than you two to fight her, and Alexis is good with a sickle..." She nodded a bit, and then led to two out of the dark room.
The two soon found themselves in a long hallway, before a fleet of stairs. "She's in the room on the bottom floor...Good luck..." She turned to leave.
"Wait! Aren't you going to help us?" Asked Squee, his voice quivering slightly.
She sighed, and shook her head. "I'm no fighter, but Lashee might be willing to join." She smiled a bit.
"But she's under a sp—"
"No, she's not, not any more at least. She'll help if I ask her to...Now go!" And the woman slipped down the hall and into the room where Lashee was.
The two looked at each other, shrugged, and then sneaked down the stairway, being as silent as they could be. In good time they reached the bottom, and found the room that Diene had spoken of. They carefully crept to the door, and opened it, finding another flight of stairs to go down. Once again they went down these stairs, to come to a dark room filled with...
"...Dolls..." Whispered Nny in a hushed voice, "Look at all of them, this Gurase person must be mad. Now where is that girl?" But he soon found L's limp body hanging by what looked like chains to the wall.
Squee's eyes winded, and he rushed to her, shaking the girl a bit, praying her mind was still sane. "L...L...Get up, get up!" He shook her a bit more, and sighed in relief as he saw her brown eyes slowly open. The girl looked so tired...And weak. "Don't worry, I'll get you out of here." He smiled a bit, and used his knife as a picklock to get her out from the chains that held her. With two clicks, each lock came free, and a tired L fell forward. He caught her with ease, and then gently laid her down. He stared at her for a moment, and then spoke, "It looks like you won't be helping us fight Gurase after all..."
Hearing this, she slowly raised her head, "No, no...If you're going to fight her, let me do it! I need to fight her!" She struggled to sit herself up, and then continued after taking a deep breath, "I must. She...She ruined my life. She tried to turn me into one of her mindless puppets...To be.…A flusher. I want revenge! She killed my parents, she hurt my friends, my life...Squee, I want this more than anything! And I don't care what, I'm going to fight her!" She looked at him, her soft black-brown orbs full of passion created by her deep hate for the woman. "Understand...Please?"
He smiled and nodded, "Yeah...I do."
"Very well said...Bravo...Bravo..." Came a feminine drawl from at the top of the stairs, followed by a sarcastic clap. The woman smiled a bit, and all three stared up at hers face. Gurase!
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Oooh, things really heatin' up! xD! There, see, I left you hanging! Next chapter is gonna be short, cause um, it's gonna be a fight...So uh...Yeah! n.n; Oh yes, and PLEASE read my new fic! 'Tour Stop', a Gorillaz and JtHM crossover! xD! It's funny...o.-;;
Disclaimer: Jhonen Vasquez owns ALL JTHM chars, I just own G-Kun, D-Kun, L, K.C. and Lashee...Yay!
Chapter Seven
By: Reki-Chan
"Nny...Devi...! It's my friend, L; she's in trouble! Gurase is going to do something to her!" He raced up to his two 'parents' and looked at them, his eyes hard. "Please, you have to help her! They're going to ruin her mind to make her into –"
He was cut off by Nny, "L? Is this the same girl that was here with that doll?" His eyes narrowed a bit, somehow the name 'Gurase' was familiar to him...
"Yes, it is her! And the doll has control of Lashee...Nny! Please help!" He looked pleading up at the faces of Nny and Devi. "At least give me a knifes, Nny. I need something to destroy Gurase and anything else that might be part of this plot..."
Devi blinked those dazzling green eyes of eyes in confusion, "Wait, back up, Squee. Turn her into what? You said they were going to turn her into something...what is it?"
"Into the next flusher, what Nny is! You see, I was supposed to become it...but when you guys became my parents, that changed everything and they had to get a replacement! She's the replacement, and when she met up with me again it turned out that she might have a future after all, so Gurase is destroying her future by rotting her mind..." He said in a rush, the boy was scared for his friend. He had never known anyone to treat him with such a respect, like an equal. He had always been made fun of and treated like a scapegoat, so it hurt to see his only real friend turned into one.
Nny and Devi both stared in amazement at what they had just heard, the next flusher was a...girl? Not that there was anything wrong with a female flusher, it was just that L was a girl, not even out of her teens. Far too young for such a responsibility. Nny nodded slightly, "Yeah, I'll help, and I'll give you a blade, but the question remains, how can you help her before her mind rots?"
"I'll, we'll, just go to their home and get her out..." He hadn't really considered how he would save her, he just knew it had to get done.
"Without a plan of some sort, Squeegee? Honestly, I thought you to be more wise then that! Listen up, I'll help, but you'll have to do what I tell you do to, okay?"
Squee nodded, and followed Nny as he walked towards where the where Nny kept his store of weapons. He came to the room, and searched about for the store box, ah there it was! He went over to the box, and opened it. Nny rummaged through the box until he found something that satisfied his liking, a set of knives. He threw the knives at Squee, who caught them with ease. He grinned, and took out a dagger for himself.
"Well, Squeegee, let's get ready to go! We can't stand around here all day..." He chuckled a bit, and straightened. He led Squee out of the room, looked down at the boy. He had certainly grown a lot these years; "You can count those knives as your birthday present for this year. After all, your birthday is only in a few days." He patted the boy on the back.
Squee nodded, "Yeah, thanks, Nny, I hope they'll come to good use." He sighed a bit, he wasn't quite sure he was ready to do this...But a friend was in trouble, and he decided he was going to help. "Hurry, it's going to take a while to get to the house, even in a car."
"Yeah, yeah...I'm hurrying..." The two were at the door, and Devi had come to bid them farewell. Nny grinned slightly, "Don't worry about anything, Devi, we'll be back soon..."
Devi rolled her eyes, "Oh, I know you'll be back. You always do..." And then she grinned, "Just make sure you come back clean, and not covered in blood. Got that?"
Nny chuckled, and nodded. He waved to her, and the two left the house, boarding Nny's car. He started up the car, and drove off.
The adventure was about to begin.
~*~
She lay on the floor of a room, her body stretched as if she was a cat. Her soft brown hair flowing over her features...She sniffed a bit, and slowly opened up her brown eyes. The girl blinked a bit, and looked about the room...acorns...everywhere. She grinned slightly, and scampered over to the nearest pile, and plucked it up, and caressed it lovingly. Such a sweet thing. Still holding it close, she stood up, and crept out of the room. She was hungry and she smelt Gurase's dinner. Surely because she had been so well behaved that Gurase would give her a special, yummy, treat? Maybe even some more of those spirits...She had gotten addicted to the taste of it. She giggled slightly, she sure hoped so.
The female sneaked down the spiral stairs of the house, and over towards the dining room where none other than Gurase sat, eating. She giggled, and slipped over towards her, and looked at the woman with pleading eyes, "Please, G-Kun...I'm really hungry, aye, and because I was so well behaved, aye, I was, aye...well...I was wondering if maybe..."
"...You could have some of my meal?" The woman finished, her voice dripping with honey and sweetness. She looked warmly up to the girl, Lashee, who's face brightened at the prospect of food. Lashee nodded madly, indicating this was what she desired. Gurase smile broadened even more, such a pretty smile. "Why yes...Of course, except there's one little thing," and here her mood changed at once, her smile gone and her voice fill with a vicious malice, "You shan't have any because it's you fault this mess even got started!" And with that, she stood up, delivering Lashee a harsh blow, send her towards the door to the room where L was. "You sniveling little, dog! You think you can just come here, begging for food and get it? You have to earn it, which you are far from doing!" She walked over to her, and stood towering before the whimpering Lashee, "Now, get out of my sight...!"
She whimpered a bit, and watched as Gurase turned, and went away, abandoning her dinner. But Lashee knew better than to take any of it. She sniffed, and ran up the staircase again, but this time she raced into the room that once belonged to L. The girl looked about wildly, where was it? Ah! There it was! She found what she was looking for, a short handled sickle. The girl pounced on it, and wrestled with the object for a moment or two as if it was fighting back. She sniffed it, and then pressed a button on the side of the blade that caused the handle to lengthen. She grinned a bit, and stood up, swishing it about. She, of course, was too scared to form a revolt against the terrible Gurase, but she still liked pretending that she was fighting with her. The giggled a bit, and then touched the button, snapping the handle back to being short again. She crept into her own room again, snickering still. The girl then grabbed an acorn out from one of the many piles, and stared at it hard.
And then something strange occurred, she began having what looked like seizures. She dropped to the ground, rolling about having this 'attack'. Her eyes rolled about showing their whites...And then as suddenly as it started...It had stopped. The girl sat up, and sighed in relief. "I'm free..." She muttered softly, she stood up, and threw the acorn out the window. Or should I say she threw K.C. out the window?
The girl narrowed her eyes a bit, "Now to get pay back..." Her hands gripped into fists, "G-Kun, Gurase, whoever you truly are...Be prepared! I'm coming for you!" A grin crept across her features, her mind freed, at last. It was such a feeling, much the way L had felt once she had been freed, that she was getting almost drunk off of it. She giggled slightly, and crossed the room, staring at herself in the mirror. Her eyes widened a bit, "I'm so...Old..." Of course it had been a long time since she wasn't under control of the doll, nine years to be exact, since she was seven years old. L had only been under K.C.'s rule for seven years. She stared at her face in wonder, "But I'm...So pretty!" She giggled a bit, and blushed at herself.
The girl continued staring at herself...Never knowing what was going on below...Where L was being kept.
~*~
She continued to just hang limply, but her eyes were moving about wildly. She was scared, an emotion she had not felt in ages it seemed. The room was still filled with dolls, and the fact that she was all alone made the dolls have voices. She shut her eyes, scared. She didn't want to be controlled again! No! No! No! She tried to move, and pulled against the chains. She didn't want to be a toy anymore...She wanted to be free. She pulled, and let out an angry sound of frustration. "G-Kun! Come here! Let me choose my own destiny!" She hung her head, and stopped her struggling. She no longer had a reason to fight. If anybody cared about her, they would have come and helped her by now. But they didn't. No one seemed to care about her. She whimpered pitifully, and continued to at least try to hold the raging voices off.
~*~
The car swerved sharply, stopping about a block or so away from the house. Both Nny and Squee exited the vehicle, and began running towards the house. It would have been too conspicuous of them to just park there, obviously. They soon stood before the house, and they each glanced at each other, hands gripping tightly onto weapons. Now for the hard part, how to enter?
Squee was tempted just to throw the door open, but he knew that if he did that Gurase would know he was there at once and would attack. But before he could plan any further, they were saved by Diene who had just seen them from the window above. She waved to them, indicating where she was.
"So, looks like we're just going to have to climb up the window, Nny," Squee grinned at the other man, remembering briefly how Nny had done so in his own childhood.
Nny chuckled a bit, and then took a jump, grabbing the overhanging part over the porch. He indicated Squee do the same, and he scrambled onto the top of it. Squee followed in suit, and soon the two were right in front of the window where Diene was waiting. She grabbed hold of them, and pulled the two males into the room quickly.
"Be quiet..." Warned Diene in a soft voice, "You must get Alexis first, and then get Gurase, understand? It will take more than you two to fight her, and Alexis is good with a sickle..." She nodded a bit, and then led to two out of the dark room.
The two soon found themselves in a long hallway, before a fleet of stairs. "She's in the room on the bottom floor...Good luck..." She turned to leave.
"Wait! Aren't you going to help us?" Asked Squee, his voice quivering slightly.
She sighed, and shook her head. "I'm no fighter, but Lashee might be willing to join." She smiled a bit.
"But she's under a sp—"
"No, she's not, not any more at least. She'll help if I ask her to...Now go!" And the woman slipped down the hall and into the room where Lashee was.
The two looked at each other, shrugged, and then sneaked down the stairway, being as silent as they could be. In good time they reached the bottom, and found the room that Diene had spoken of. They carefully crept to the door, and opened it, finding another flight of stairs to go down. Once again they went down these stairs, to come to a dark room filled with...
"...Dolls..." Whispered Nny in a hushed voice, "Look at all of them, this Gurase person must be mad. Now where is that girl?" But he soon found L's limp body hanging by what looked like chains to the wall.
Squee's eyes winded, and he rushed to her, shaking the girl a bit, praying her mind was still sane. "L...L...Get up, get up!" He shook her a bit more, and sighed in relief as he saw her brown eyes slowly open. The girl looked so tired...And weak. "Don't worry, I'll get you out of here." He smiled a bit, and used his knife as a picklock to get her out from the chains that held her. With two clicks, each lock came free, and a tired L fell forward. He caught her with ease, and then gently laid her down. He stared at her for a moment, and then spoke, "It looks like you won't be helping us fight Gurase after all..."
Hearing this, she slowly raised her head, "No, no...If you're going to fight her, let me do it! I need to fight her!" She struggled to sit herself up, and then continued after taking a deep breath, "I must. She...She ruined my life. She tried to turn me into one of her mindless puppets...To be.…A flusher. I want revenge! She killed my parents, she hurt my friends, my life...Squee, I want this more than anything! And I don't care what, I'm going to fight her!" She looked at him, her soft black-brown orbs full of passion created by her deep hate for the woman. "Understand...Please?"
He smiled and nodded, "Yeah...I do."
"Very well said...Bravo...Bravo..." Came a feminine drawl from at the top of the stairs, followed by a sarcastic clap. The woman smiled a bit, and all three stared up at hers face. Gurase!
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Oooh, things really heatin' up! xD! There, see, I left you hanging! Next chapter is gonna be short, cause um, it's gonna be a fight...So uh...Yeah! n.n; Oh yes, and PLEASE read my new fic! 'Tour Stop', a Gorillaz and JtHM crossover! xD! It's funny...o.-;;
Disclaimer: Jhonen Vasquez owns ALL JTHM chars, I just own G-Kun, D-Kun, L, K.C. and Lashee...Yay!