One Last Breath
~By: Lauren~
C O N F E S S I O N
"Psst!! Aaron, are you ready over there?" Marie whispered, motioning with her hands at the young boy for his attention.
"Almost! Just hang on for a second." He mouthed to her.
"What?" The teenager shot him a confused look. She wasn't a genius at reading lips.
"I said...Almost! Just hang on for a second!!" Aaron strained to keep his voice hushed. "Ok, all set!" He crouched down behind a pile of old cans, couches and other random accessories. It was obvious he was trying to keep from gagging. The smell around the area was horrendous.
"Have you spotted Tammy yet?" Marie questioned Aaron when he finally reached her, ducking behind other various items.
He shook his head sorrowfully no.
Out of no where, a voice spoke up. "So I guess we'll keep looking around her. Be careful where you step and we'll meet back here in...let's say...fifteen minutes." Tony was suddenly by their side, speaking. They three kids nodded before they separated into different directions.
~*~
Everyone, which was Asuka Jr., Seira, Sawatari and Lina, sat about in a circle. Seira had invited them for a fresh breath of air and to discuss what was on their minds. She could tell something was up, especially with Asuka Jr. and with the recent appearance of Meimi, Seira was going to find out. After receiving the calling card from Saint Tail, Asuka Jr. was full of excitement and was ready to tell everyone about this event but when they arrived, he found himself unable to. It was something special, between only him and Saint Tail. They were by the park, sitting near the lake under the cherry tree with the tinier tree next to it. A tense silence blanketed the group for some unknown reason.
Asuka Jr. suddenly looked up and decided to break it. "I really wish I knew what was going through Meimi's head the day she left...years ago."
Seira looked at him and said in a wise tone, "When your life has fallen apart and you believe you're the cause, a lot of things can go through your mind that no one really understands."
Lina crossed her arms over her chest and gave an annoyed huff. "That's no excuse for her to be treating everyone like they're the lowest scum of the universe."
Sawatari shot a glare at her. "Lina, something happened to Meimi and no one has any idea what she was thinking. Even her Aunt couldn't figure it out. This is probably something no one can handle. Right Asuka?" Sawatari looked over at Asuka Jr. who was sitting in the grass. He was looking at the dirt and it seemed like he didn't hear him. "Asuka? Hey are you okay?"
Asuka Jr. was mumbling something repeatedly. Seira got up and walked over to him.
"Asuka, is there something wrong? Come on, you can tell me." The nun tenderly questioned the detective.
Asuka looked up at her, tears beginning to spill out of his eyes. "I ran away." His voice was so low they could barely hear him.
"What are you talking about? You haven't ran away before." Lina snapped.
"Yes I have!!" He screeched, trying to force back more tears. "I ran away when Meimi needed me the most! I was with her when she ran in front of the car! I was with her at the funeral and what did I do?! I ran off! I didn't even try to help; I just ran all the way home. I could have done something to help her but I didn't know what to do. I was just so scared."
"She ran in front of a car?" Lina gave him a confused look. "I thought you said you were chasing Saint Tail, not Meimi..."
Asuka Jr. suddenly realized his mistake. "NO! No...it wasn't Saint Tail. I had been following Meimi because I uh...wanted to talk to her but she got scared because it was dark out and she started to run."
"Right." Lina gave him a suspicious look.
"Asuka, I don't think Meimi would blame you for something like that. You were just scared like you said." Seira said as she tried to help comfort her friend by wrapping her arm around his shoulder. "And that explains a lot." She murmured to him so no one else heard her.
"No!!!" He broke free of Seira's arm. "You don't understand! I saw the look in Meimi's eyes when I was doing nothing to help her, to comfort her. They were crying out for help and when I didn't answer they looked so hurt and sad, I couldn't stand it. Those eyes haunt me in my sleep. I really never blamed Meimi for how she treated me afterwards. I deserved it." The detective slammed his balled fist into the ground.
"But Meimi, the Meimi that we knew back then isn't the Meimi that's here now." Sawatari murmured.
"As true as that is, we could have done something about it." Seira replied, sighing. Just then they heard a motorcycle buzz by. They all knew what that meant because not many people owned motorcycles in that area and not many were about this early in the morning. Everyone rushed to the street and it seemed that their suspicions were right. It was Meimi, riding off into the morning fog.
A determined Asuka Jr. turned around to face the three. "I have to help her more now than ever. And I have to do it alone."
Everyone looked at him and then Seira spoke up. "Yes, Meimi has never abandon us when we needed her, so we won't abandon her!" Sawatari nodded in agreement.
"Thanks for understanding!!" Asuka Jr. called to them as he raced down the street in the direction of the motorcycle while a protesting Lina was held back.
~*~
If she had felt anything at the sight, Meimi would have prayed for anyone there, but all her emotions were bound into a small, tight knot in her heart. If she prayed, the knot, and her heart, would go to pieces. Her heart hurt so much that she thought there was something actually physically wrong with her. She'd never felt this bad, not even when her grandmother had passed away. There was Tammy, strapped to a chair with dried blood and dirt smeared all over her skin and staining her clothes. Her skin was a ghastly pale and her head hung limply forward, letting her ragged chocolate hair fall into her face. She couldn't see anything else for the hair covered most of Tammy's face. Out of the corner of her eye, the red head spotted a tiny figure sneaking around about eight feet away from Tammy. It was Marie. Meimi smiled as she thought, "I like this. There's a whole invisible system for helping out others that you'd never guess was there. The way Tammy has Tony, and Tony has Tammy, and Aaron has Marie and everybody has Aaron. And on and on. On there own, they would just barely get by, but put them together with others that care, and they can work miracles." She frowned after she finished the thought. What were they up to? She didn't want them to be in danger...
! BOOM !
Well, that scared the crap out of Meimi. She tumbled back behind her cover of an old TV. "What was that?" She murmured to herself while peeking her head over to look. Sure enough, from the far left of Tammy there was smoke rising into the air. Down below, three people were scrambling about in array of bafflement.
~*~
"Stupid Rei...making us take that girl. He's just begging for trouble." Joey muttered to himself while buttoning up his jacket. The young boy had woken up having to go to bathroom and he was now returning to the others. Suddenly, something caught his attention. There was some kind of silver material glinting in the morning sunlight. Maybe it would be his lucky day and it would be a quarter or a silver dollar.
"What-?" He bent down to examine it closer before he pressed his finger against it and began to pick up the silver thing. But something was attached to it. Something that looked strangely similar to fishing line.
The next thing Joey knew, he was colliding with the ground as he was sent tumbling backwards while smoke seemed to veil him from the outside world. He felt his mind fill with confusion as his vision grew dizzy before he was sent into the black dream world.
~*~
Tammy's head jerked up at the noise, bringing her out of her coma-like state of mind. She didn't have the energy to move so she merely assumed it was her imagination. Apparently she was wrong.
"What the hell was that?!" Rei tripped over his own feet, crashing into the dirt. After a string of curses, he was back up, glaring all around for anything that moved. Behind him Zoey had appeared.
"Where's Joey?" The teenage girl called over to Rei, giving him a warm yet worried look.
"Don't ask me! I've been asleep up until now." Rei snapped back before surveying the area a second time.
"What was that explosion?" Zoey nervously fidgeted, causing Rei to only grow more annoyed and uncomfortable.
"HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW?!" He yelled at her angrily. "Why don't you go check it out, ok?" He spoke slowly as if he was talking to a slow child.
"Fine, maybe I WILL!" Zoey snarled, glaring at him before disappearing into the mess of garbage.
Tammy groaned, feeling the wire around her wrists re-open her fresh scabs. She winced in pain as a hand gripped her hair roughly, pulling her face upward.
"You're my ticket to freedom. You're my life insurance. As long as you're in my hands, they can't touch me." Rei began to laugh, chuckling madly while he cupped her chin in his hands.
"Take your filthy hands off of her before I come over there and beat your ass into a pulp." A voice filled the air, hissing with anger.
"Oh, is little Tony here to rescue his princess?" Rei didn't even need to turn around, for he knew who it was.
Tony's heart broke at the sight of Tammy. It hurt just like it did the day he had found her. His expression gentled for a brief moment, directing it's gaze straight into her eyes. "I'll get you out of here." He softly spoke to her, sending as much love and tenderness into his voice without even realizing it.
"And how do you propose to do THAT?" Rei rolled his eyes in exasperation.
"Why'd you set me up? Don't you think you've caused us enough damage? You've already killed Celeste, why kidnap Tammy and blame the robbery on me?" Tony persisted. He needed Rei's confession on tape or else he wouldn't be able to finally get the Lost Souls off his back.
"I didn't do any of that." Rei replied, smirking devilishly. He reached back, resting his hand on Tammy's cheek.
Tammy mustered up all of her energy, which was very little, and she spun her head around to clamp her teeth down hard on Rei's hand. You couldn't blame the poor girl, she hadn't had any water, food or sleep in more than a day.
Rei jumped back, nursing his wounded hand angrily while steam seemed to rise off of him and his face turned different shades of red. Tammy thought he would just burst into flames, the way he looked. "You wench!!" Rei reeled on Tammy, back-handing her across her face. By now Tammy was used to the throbbing pain so she winced, her eyes held tightly shut while a trickle of blood left the corner of her mouth and began to dribble down her cheek.
Tony had to fight every single cell in his body to resist the urge of running up and beating the snot out of Rei. But he had to get the confession. He just had to or else even Celeste's death would go unavenged. "Don't touch her." He gave Rei a warning. One more little comment or action and the boy was gone.
"And what are you going to do? Whip out your pocketknife and slash me? If I recall correctly, you tried that last time to save Celeste and I still killed her any ways. It doesn't matter; you don't scare me little boy. Celeste cried out Tammy's name when she died. She was such a pitiful girl...she thought all of you would save her. How funny!!" Rei burst into another fit of laughter, ignoring the now-sobbing Tammy and the smirking Tony.
All he had to do was get Rei to confess to the robbery and he was off the hook completely. "If I'm such a little boy then why are you wasting your time with me? Why kidnap Tammy so you can blame the robbery YOU did on ME? Huh?"
Rei sighed with frustration. "Your more ignorant than I thought. I did it so I wouldn't be blamed. You'll take the heat for me and we'll be free to create as much chaos as we want."
"Got it." Tony thought to himself while he cracked his knuckles. He was ready for some fun. He prepared himself to lunge at Rei, equipped with his knife, a few cherry bombs, which were a curtsy of Aaron, and other miscellaneous things. He took a deep breath and dove at Rei, aiming the blade for the boy's arm. He didn't want to kill him, only leave him immobile for a while.
"Stay back." Rei leapt behind Tammy, using her as a shield while she cried out to Tony to be careful.
Tammy was afraid she was going to cry, or worse. That she would throw her arms around Tony's ankle like some lady in a ridiculous old movie and refuse to let him go. For once, she was partly glad her hands were tied to her back but the pleasure was quickly erased as she realized she wouldn't be able to help. She'd only be in the way. When tears did come to her, it was a relief, that it was only tears.
Tony towered over Tammy protectively, slamming his fist into Rei's mouth. A moan broke the now-silent air but it was quickly replaced with a snarl as Rei produced a razor sharp knife out his pocket. Rei lifted up his leg, kicking Tony brutally in his chest. The Italian boy flew back, crashing on his butt painfully on the ground. Rei instantly dove behind Tammy, pressing the cold metal against her neck. "One move and she dies." He hissed at Tony, who was preparing to dive again at Rei. A thin line of crimson blood stained the blade then made a tiny river down her pale neck. "Funny..." Rei continued. "That Tammy would die with the same weapon that was used to kill her sister." He pressed the blade harder, causing Tammy to gulp with fear as silent tears trickled down her cheeks.
~*~
Meimi couldn't watch any longer. At first, she was reluctant to allow her friends to handle the situation on their own but it now appeared that it was getting out of hand. They needed her help. She had to do something before it was too late. Shutting her eyes tightly in hope her magic wasn't too rusty, she whispered out loud. "One...two...three!!"
~*~
"Joey!!! JOEY!! WHERE ARE YOU?!" Zoey screamed at the top of her lungs while she frantically searched the vague area that she saw the smoke emerging from. "What the...?" She paused as she stared at what lay before her.
Joey's hair had been dyed an outrageous color of barf green and neon green, in strips, while purple and pink eye shadow caked his eyelids. A thick blush circle filled each cheek and bright red lipstick topped it all off. His feet and hands where bounded together behind his back and he was shirtless, left only in his pants. On his chest, in lipstick, it said, "Ha- Ha Girly Boy! Operation Cheese is undergo. We will win. This one's for Celeste and Tammy."
"What the heck...?" Zoey stumbled over to his unconscious form. "Who did this to you?" She said out loud. Zoey froze. Someone was grabbing her arm. Spinning around, she kicked and punched at whoever was there only to met air.
"Don't try to resist, it's futile." A serious voice stated. It suddenly relaxed and chuckled. "I've always wanted to say that." Aaron laughed, smiling innocently at the teenager.
"Oh and how do you plan on stopping me?" Zoey rolled her eyes at the shorter kid. He plainly didn't know whom he was messing with.
"Like this." Aaron held up a spray can towards Zoey and pressed down on the tab, sending white foam and liquid into her eyes and over her face.
"AHH!!" Zoey screeched as she covered her eyes with her hands in a sorry attempt to block off the attack. Within minutes, she was laying on the floor, unconscious.
"What did you do to her?" Marie strutted over next to Aaron, holding a bag of make-up and hair dye.
"Pepper spray mixed with a stunning gas. I made it all by myself." Aaron smirked in triumph. "Guess all those science magazines sure paid off."
"I need to get me some of that stuff..." Marie muttered to herself before sitting down next to Zoey so she could get to work.
~*~
Every time one makes a mistake,
One just knows the blue of the blue sky.
It looks that the path continues to no end,
But these arms can hold the light.
~*~
Lauren: Yeah! I got to write because I have today off! Professional Growth Day rocks! What do you think of the new chapter? Hehe, I got to have some fun with it. Thanks for all the support and enjoy!!
~By: Lauren~
C O N F E S S I O N
"Psst!! Aaron, are you ready over there?" Marie whispered, motioning with her hands at the young boy for his attention.
"Almost! Just hang on for a second." He mouthed to her.
"What?" The teenager shot him a confused look. She wasn't a genius at reading lips.
"I said...Almost! Just hang on for a second!!" Aaron strained to keep his voice hushed. "Ok, all set!" He crouched down behind a pile of old cans, couches and other random accessories. It was obvious he was trying to keep from gagging. The smell around the area was horrendous.
"Have you spotted Tammy yet?" Marie questioned Aaron when he finally reached her, ducking behind other various items.
He shook his head sorrowfully no.
Out of no where, a voice spoke up. "So I guess we'll keep looking around her. Be careful where you step and we'll meet back here in...let's say...fifteen minutes." Tony was suddenly by their side, speaking. They three kids nodded before they separated into different directions.
~*~
Everyone, which was Asuka Jr., Seira, Sawatari and Lina, sat about in a circle. Seira had invited them for a fresh breath of air and to discuss what was on their minds. She could tell something was up, especially with Asuka Jr. and with the recent appearance of Meimi, Seira was going to find out. After receiving the calling card from Saint Tail, Asuka Jr. was full of excitement and was ready to tell everyone about this event but when they arrived, he found himself unable to. It was something special, between only him and Saint Tail. They were by the park, sitting near the lake under the cherry tree with the tinier tree next to it. A tense silence blanketed the group for some unknown reason.
Asuka Jr. suddenly looked up and decided to break it. "I really wish I knew what was going through Meimi's head the day she left...years ago."
Seira looked at him and said in a wise tone, "When your life has fallen apart and you believe you're the cause, a lot of things can go through your mind that no one really understands."
Lina crossed her arms over her chest and gave an annoyed huff. "That's no excuse for her to be treating everyone like they're the lowest scum of the universe."
Sawatari shot a glare at her. "Lina, something happened to Meimi and no one has any idea what she was thinking. Even her Aunt couldn't figure it out. This is probably something no one can handle. Right Asuka?" Sawatari looked over at Asuka Jr. who was sitting in the grass. He was looking at the dirt and it seemed like he didn't hear him. "Asuka? Hey are you okay?"
Asuka Jr. was mumbling something repeatedly. Seira got up and walked over to him.
"Asuka, is there something wrong? Come on, you can tell me." The nun tenderly questioned the detective.
Asuka looked up at her, tears beginning to spill out of his eyes. "I ran away." His voice was so low they could barely hear him.
"What are you talking about? You haven't ran away before." Lina snapped.
"Yes I have!!" He screeched, trying to force back more tears. "I ran away when Meimi needed me the most! I was with her when she ran in front of the car! I was with her at the funeral and what did I do?! I ran off! I didn't even try to help; I just ran all the way home. I could have done something to help her but I didn't know what to do. I was just so scared."
"She ran in front of a car?" Lina gave him a confused look. "I thought you said you were chasing Saint Tail, not Meimi..."
Asuka Jr. suddenly realized his mistake. "NO! No...it wasn't Saint Tail. I had been following Meimi because I uh...wanted to talk to her but she got scared because it was dark out and she started to run."
"Right." Lina gave him a suspicious look.
"Asuka, I don't think Meimi would blame you for something like that. You were just scared like you said." Seira said as she tried to help comfort her friend by wrapping her arm around his shoulder. "And that explains a lot." She murmured to him so no one else heard her.
"No!!!" He broke free of Seira's arm. "You don't understand! I saw the look in Meimi's eyes when I was doing nothing to help her, to comfort her. They were crying out for help and when I didn't answer they looked so hurt and sad, I couldn't stand it. Those eyes haunt me in my sleep. I really never blamed Meimi for how she treated me afterwards. I deserved it." The detective slammed his balled fist into the ground.
"But Meimi, the Meimi that we knew back then isn't the Meimi that's here now." Sawatari murmured.
"As true as that is, we could have done something about it." Seira replied, sighing. Just then they heard a motorcycle buzz by. They all knew what that meant because not many people owned motorcycles in that area and not many were about this early in the morning. Everyone rushed to the street and it seemed that their suspicions were right. It was Meimi, riding off into the morning fog.
A determined Asuka Jr. turned around to face the three. "I have to help her more now than ever. And I have to do it alone."
Everyone looked at him and then Seira spoke up. "Yes, Meimi has never abandon us when we needed her, so we won't abandon her!" Sawatari nodded in agreement.
"Thanks for understanding!!" Asuka Jr. called to them as he raced down the street in the direction of the motorcycle while a protesting Lina was held back.
~*~
If she had felt anything at the sight, Meimi would have prayed for anyone there, but all her emotions were bound into a small, tight knot in her heart. If she prayed, the knot, and her heart, would go to pieces. Her heart hurt so much that she thought there was something actually physically wrong with her. She'd never felt this bad, not even when her grandmother had passed away. There was Tammy, strapped to a chair with dried blood and dirt smeared all over her skin and staining her clothes. Her skin was a ghastly pale and her head hung limply forward, letting her ragged chocolate hair fall into her face. She couldn't see anything else for the hair covered most of Tammy's face. Out of the corner of her eye, the red head spotted a tiny figure sneaking around about eight feet away from Tammy. It was Marie. Meimi smiled as she thought, "I like this. There's a whole invisible system for helping out others that you'd never guess was there. The way Tammy has Tony, and Tony has Tammy, and Aaron has Marie and everybody has Aaron. And on and on. On there own, they would just barely get by, but put them together with others that care, and they can work miracles." She frowned after she finished the thought. What were they up to? She didn't want them to be in danger...
! BOOM !
Well, that scared the crap out of Meimi. She tumbled back behind her cover of an old TV. "What was that?" She murmured to herself while peeking her head over to look. Sure enough, from the far left of Tammy there was smoke rising into the air. Down below, three people were scrambling about in array of bafflement.
~*~
"Stupid Rei...making us take that girl. He's just begging for trouble." Joey muttered to himself while buttoning up his jacket. The young boy had woken up having to go to bathroom and he was now returning to the others. Suddenly, something caught his attention. There was some kind of silver material glinting in the morning sunlight. Maybe it would be his lucky day and it would be a quarter or a silver dollar.
"What-?" He bent down to examine it closer before he pressed his finger against it and began to pick up the silver thing. But something was attached to it. Something that looked strangely similar to fishing line.
The next thing Joey knew, he was colliding with the ground as he was sent tumbling backwards while smoke seemed to veil him from the outside world. He felt his mind fill with confusion as his vision grew dizzy before he was sent into the black dream world.
~*~
Tammy's head jerked up at the noise, bringing her out of her coma-like state of mind. She didn't have the energy to move so she merely assumed it was her imagination. Apparently she was wrong.
"What the hell was that?!" Rei tripped over his own feet, crashing into the dirt. After a string of curses, he was back up, glaring all around for anything that moved. Behind him Zoey had appeared.
"Where's Joey?" The teenage girl called over to Rei, giving him a warm yet worried look.
"Don't ask me! I've been asleep up until now." Rei snapped back before surveying the area a second time.
"What was that explosion?" Zoey nervously fidgeted, causing Rei to only grow more annoyed and uncomfortable.
"HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW?!" He yelled at her angrily. "Why don't you go check it out, ok?" He spoke slowly as if he was talking to a slow child.
"Fine, maybe I WILL!" Zoey snarled, glaring at him before disappearing into the mess of garbage.
Tammy groaned, feeling the wire around her wrists re-open her fresh scabs. She winced in pain as a hand gripped her hair roughly, pulling her face upward.
"You're my ticket to freedom. You're my life insurance. As long as you're in my hands, they can't touch me." Rei began to laugh, chuckling madly while he cupped her chin in his hands.
"Take your filthy hands off of her before I come over there and beat your ass into a pulp." A voice filled the air, hissing with anger.
"Oh, is little Tony here to rescue his princess?" Rei didn't even need to turn around, for he knew who it was.
Tony's heart broke at the sight of Tammy. It hurt just like it did the day he had found her. His expression gentled for a brief moment, directing it's gaze straight into her eyes. "I'll get you out of here." He softly spoke to her, sending as much love and tenderness into his voice without even realizing it.
"And how do you propose to do THAT?" Rei rolled his eyes in exasperation.
"Why'd you set me up? Don't you think you've caused us enough damage? You've already killed Celeste, why kidnap Tammy and blame the robbery on me?" Tony persisted. He needed Rei's confession on tape or else he wouldn't be able to finally get the Lost Souls off his back.
"I didn't do any of that." Rei replied, smirking devilishly. He reached back, resting his hand on Tammy's cheek.
Tammy mustered up all of her energy, which was very little, and she spun her head around to clamp her teeth down hard on Rei's hand. You couldn't blame the poor girl, she hadn't had any water, food or sleep in more than a day.
Rei jumped back, nursing his wounded hand angrily while steam seemed to rise off of him and his face turned different shades of red. Tammy thought he would just burst into flames, the way he looked. "You wench!!" Rei reeled on Tammy, back-handing her across her face. By now Tammy was used to the throbbing pain so she winced, her eyes held tightly shut while a trickle of blood left the corner of her mouth and began to dribble down her cheek.
Tony had to fight every single cell in his body to resist the urge of running up and beating the snot out of Rei. But he had to get the confession. He just had to or else even Celeste's death would go unavenged. "Don't touch her." He gave Rei a warning. One more little comment or action and the boy was gone.
"And what are you going to do? Whip out your pocketknife and slash me? If I recall correctly, you tried that last time to save Celeste and I still killed her any ways. It doesn't matter; you don't scare me little boy. Celeste cried out Tammy's name when she died. She was such a pitiful girl...she thought all of you would save her. How funny!!" Rei burst into another fit of laughter, ignoring the now-sobbing Tammy and the smirking Tony.
All he had to do was get Rei to confess to the robbery and he was off the hook completely. "If I'm such a little boy then why are you wasting your time with me? Why kidnap Tammy so you can blame the robbery YOU did on ME? Huh?"
Rei sighed with frustration. "Your more ignorant than I thought. I did it so I wouldn't be blamed. You'll take the heat for me and we'll be free to create as much chaos as we want."
"Got it." Tony thought to himself while he cracked his knuckles. He was ready for some fun. He prepared himself to lunge at Rei, equipped with his knife, a few cherry bombs, which were a curtsy of Aaron, and other miscellaneous things. He took a deep breath and dove at Rei, aiming the blade for the boy's arm. He didn't want to kill him, only leave him immobile for a while.
"Stay back." Rei leapt behind Tammy, using her as a shield while she cried out to Tony to be careful.
Tammy was afraid she was going to cry, or worse. That she would throw her arms around Tony's ankle like some lady in a ridiculous old movie and refuse to let him go. For once, she was partly glad her hands were tied to her back but the pleasure was quickly erased as she realized she wouldn't be able to help. She'd only be in the way. When tears did come to her, it was a relief, that it was only tears.
Tony towered over Tammy protectively, slamming his fist into Rei's mouth. A moan broke the now-silent air but it was quickly replaced with a snarl as Rei produced a razor sharp knife out his pocket. Rei lifted up his leg, kicking Tony brutally in his chest. The Italian boy flew back, crashing on his butt painfully on the ground. Rei instantly dove behind Tammy, pressing the cold metal against her neck. "One move and she dies." He hissed at Tony, who was preparing to dive again at Rei. A thin line of crimson blood stained the blade then made a tiny river down her pale neck. "Funny..." Rei continued. "That Tammy would die with the same weapon that was used to kill her sister." He pressed the blade harder, causing Tammy to gulp with fear as silent tears trickled down her cheeks.
~*~
Meimi couldn't watch any longer. At first, she was reluctant to allow her friends to handle the situation on their own but it now appeared that it was getting out of hand. They needed her help. She had to do something before it was too late. Shutting her eyes tightly in hope her magic wasn't too rusty, she whispered out loud. "One...two...three!!"
~*~
"Joey!!! JOEY!! WHERE ARE YOU?!" Zoey screamed at the top of her lungs while she frantically searched the vague area that she saw the smoke emerging from. "What the...?" She paused as she stared at what lay before her.
Joey's hair had been dyed an outrageous color of barf green and neon green, in strips, while purple and pink eye shadow caked his eyelids. A thick blush circle filled each cheek and bright red lipstick topped it all off. His feet and hands where bounded together behind his back and he was shirtless, left only in his pants. On his chest, in lipstick, it said, "Ha- Ha Girly Boy! Operation Cheese is undergo. We will win. This one's for Celeste and Tammy."
"What the heck...?" Zoey stumbled over to his unconscious form. "Who did this to you?" She said out loud. Zoey froze. Someone was grabbing her arm. Spinning around, she kicked and punched at whoever was there only to met air.
"Don't try to resist, it's futile." A serious voice stated. It suddenly relaxed and chuckled. "I've always wanted to say that." Aaron laughed, smiling innocently at the teenager.
"Oh and how do you plan on stopping me?" Zoey rolled her eyes at the shorter kid. He plainly didn't know whom he was messing with.
"Like this." Aaron held up a spray can towards Zoey and pressed down on the tab, sending white foam and liquid into her eyes and over her face.
"AHH!!" Zoey screeched as she covered her eyes with her hands in a sorry attempt to block off the attack. Within minutes, she was laying on the floor, unconscious.
"What did you do to her?" Marie strutted over next to Aaron, holding a bag of make-up and hair dye.
"Pepper spray mixed with a stunning gas. I made it all by myself." Aaron smirked in triumph. "Guess all those science magazines sure paid off."
"I need to get me some of that stuff..." Marie muttered to herself before sitting down next to Zoey so she could get to work.
~*~
Every time one makes a mistake,
One just knows the blue of the blue sky.
It looks that the path continues to no end,
But these arms can hold the light.
~*~
Lauren: Yeah! I got to write because I have today off! Professional Growth Day rocks! What do you think of the new chapter? Hehe, I got to have some fun with it. Thanks for all the support and enjoy!!