AN: Sorry I haven't updated.
Anyway finally chapter 4 is up for anyone who cares. R&R
Disclaimer: Kiss it. I already said I don't own anything.
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*Chapter 4 :*Civilians and angry little sisters*:
She spotted her target, a tree with twisty roots and climbable bark.
Carefully she ran fast as she could at the tree and jumped, clinging her arms to it
and pulling herself up the tree. She looked down. The tree was so high that she could
see the road they walked down but manticore was out of sight.
At reaching a high stable branch, she rested her muscles and looking at the
forest from birds-eye view. From this point she could see a road in the south eastern
direction. As it drove closer, she saw two figures riding inside.
They weren't doctors or instructors, and they were defiantly not soldiers.
They were smiling. A woman with curly red hair and in purple. Her daughter
with long blonde hair and in pink. It was hard to see them but Max could make it out with
her super sight. The two ordinaries were laughing.
Definitely not Manticore* Max thought, relaxing her back on the tree. She loved this.
Being in a high place, the feeling of safety covering you like a warm blanket.
Not to safe, thats not fun, but perfect.
And those people, they were so different!
*This must be what people are like outside of Manticore, or I hope.*
Max glanced down at the cabin, resting on the ground almost beneath her. Hopefully
Zack and the others were still asleep or to busy to notice her departure.
She didn't want to fight now, especially with Zack.
She slowly started her way down and again placed her feet on Mother Earth's raw dirt.
She peered inside the window; everyone still in place. She decided to continue exploring,
after all, if she wanted to find out more about this forest and how to get out of it easy,
might as well advance her tracking skills up a step and take a look around.
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Max looked on the backside of the cabin, where logs laid in piles. She wasn't stupid,
she new what they were for, fire. But they were so old, patches of grass grew all over it.
She heard chirping too. A small brown gray bird sat behind the logs protecting herself
against Max. It reminded her of Jace. She took a seat on top of the log pile.
Little Jace, older than Max but not stronger. She liked birds alot, she could imitate them
better than anyone but didn't try to be popular and show off at the 'nightly' get togethers
and imitate accents of foreign doctors or animals. She was shy but determined. She, like
Brin, wanted to be best. The favorite. Jace was to scared to leave, so she stayed behind. Max
frowned as she fell in deep thought for her lost sister, not wanting to think what they were
putting her through for being part of the rogue X5 unit.
"Max?" Zack's worried voice came out from behind her.
Max still wore a frown from the thought but tried to smile. It didn't work.
"What are you thinking about?" He asked sitting down beside her.
"Jace." She said sternly trying not to show weakness and sorrow in her voice.
Zack tried to remember but he couldn't. He didn't know what happened to Jace after the
escape, he could just looked back at her for an answer.
"She...Jace, stayed." Max looked up at the tree she climbed.
"How did you know I was outside." She tried to change the subject.
Didn't help. "She was too scared." Zack to looked to a tree in the distance.
"Yeah. I um, tried to tell her it was okay. But..." Max looked back to Zack.
"I see. You tried. You're a good soldier...and little sister." Zack looked back to her eyes.
Max smiled. She couldn't help it. But she tried to change the subject again.
"How are the others?"
"They're healing fast. Really sore, probably a few head aches, and a couple of bruised
bones.."
"Thats good." They were obviously trying to avoid talking about the loss of a family
member, talking quick, looking away, changing subjects. Still though, they needed to talk
about it.
"Eva." Max said, with no emotion.
"Eva." Zack repeated, knowing the talk of Eva would come up sooner or later. If not by Max
and Zack, it would have probably have been the story teller, Ben, the one with answers for
everything.
"She was...brave." Max smiled.
"Yeah, could have been the SIC if you and Brin didn't fight so much to get the title first.
Zack almost smiled too.
Eva was exactly like a female Zack. She was the oldest girl. She wasn't really motherly like
Tinga, but wanted to make sure everyone was safe. She was really strong and smart too. But
also like Zack, she'd try not to show any emotions and wear an iron mask. If it wasn't for her
red hair and emerald green eyes and love for the forest's rocks, her large collection
hidden safely; She'd be like an impersonator.
"We better go in before they wake up." Max said, hopping down.
"Yeah." Zack jumped down and followed Max back into the cabin.
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It wasn't to long after they came in, the others woke up. Although in pain Zack knew he
had to move his unit to a different terra and find food. Slowly he got up and searched the
room; making sure everyone from yesterday was still present today.
Max was about to go talk to Tinga and Ben when all the sudden Jondy popped out from
nowhere, like always.
"Where were you?" She asked her eyes narrowing and smiling wanting to go outside too.
"Nothing pass you, huh?" Max said smiling and tilting her head.
"Nope. What's up?" Jondy pulled her arm and they sat, Max looking back in Ben and
Tinga's
direction.
"Oh, nothing. Fresh air." Max said looking back to her favorite sister.
"Oh." Jondy said getting up. "Hey, Everyone is awake, guess will be moving soon."
"Excited, Jondy?" Max asked her jumpy sister.
"Are you?"
"I guess."
"Me too." Jondy smiled and walked off to Syl who was laughing in the corner at
Zane and Krit arguing. Max shook her head but grinned. Now she could converse with Ben,
Tinga, and Zack of plans for what to do next.
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"Now all we have to do is, one find away out of the forest, and two, move out far away."
Tinga stated in the conversation the four of them were having. Brin was obviously pissed
that she was not concluded in their little group and baby sister Max was. Brin sat with an
angry face by the window.
"One is covered." Max spoke, all other eyes on her, questionably wondering how she'd
know.
"I climbed a tree and from the high view I saw some civilians in a car, they were heading
south." Max continued. Brin was taking advantage of her sister's explanation to hopefully
lower Max's moral. If that could be done.
"And just who was out there with you? You know if someone spotted you out there you
could have completely risked our hiding zone and possibly our lives." Brin rolled her eyes
and walked over to them. She was very short but still older then Max, Brin didn't really
understand why Max got so much attention from everybody, especially Zack, when she was
so reckless.
Max almost couldn't respond, she turned around to face her sister and opened her mouth, but
didn't speak. Zack did.
"Actually, I was out there with her too." Zack looked down to speechless little Brin.
"Oh. Well, I guess thats a little better." Brin didn't know what to say. If Zack let Max go out
side and look around then it wasn't really bad, the C.O is the one who makes usually makes
decisions and if he agreed, then well...oh well. Brin silently nodded and slowly walked back
down to her window space and looked back outside.
"Anyway. Are you sure they weren't Manticore?" Ben asked as all of them turned away and
ignored Brin.
"Yes. It was a woman and a little girl. With only that information it would seem suspicious
but I have more. They were colorful and happy. The exact opposite of Manticore." Max
informed then almost smiling when she remembered how different and unusual the sight
was.
"Well, you've convinced me." Tinga admitted.
"Me too, Maxie." Ben said and the they all looked to Zack for an answer.
Zack hesitated and then finally nodded.
"Okay. I guess were going south then."
After the group dispersed, Max walked passed Brin who was red in the face and still
maddened. "Someday little sister..." Brin whispered to herself so low that Max couldn't make
it out.
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Zack stood at the door in front of a few others who were watching the others slowly get up.
It seemed like forever had they been there, but at the same time it felt like the escape
happened yesterday. Now they were leaving, by Zack's order. Alot of them were relieved.
Although they were still in pain, they could find civilization out there and hopefully find
food.
"Come on, soldiers." Zack urged as the last few soldiers made it to the end of the line.
They were paired up, and in a somewhat line formation for stronger look outs in the front
and back for more protection. .
As the unit moved out Max took one last look at the cabin. Then she moved out with the
rest.
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Final Note: This is short and probably has several grammar mistakes, but just wait for
chapter 5,
I'm already working on it too. Like I said before, R&R
Anyway finally chapter 4 is up for anyone who cares. R&R
Disclaimer: Kiss it. I already said I don't own anything.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*Chapter 4 :*Civilians and angry little sisters*:
She spotted her target, a tree with twisty roots and climbable bark.
Carefully she ran fast as she could at the tree and jumped, clinging her arms to it
and pulling herself up the tree. She looked down. The tree was so high that she could
see the road they walked down but manticore was out of sight.
At reaching a high stable branch, she rested her muscles and looking at the
forest from birds-eye view. From this point she could see a road in the south eastern
direction. As it drove closer, she saw two figures riding inside.
They weren't doctors or instructors, and they were defiantly not soldiers.
They were smiling. A woman with curly red hair and in purple. Her daughter
with long blonde hair and in pink. It was hard to see them but Max could make it out with
her super sight. The two ordinaries were laughing.
Definitely not Manticore* Max thought, relaxing her back on the tree. She loved this.
Being in a high place, the feeling of safety covering you like a warm blanket.
Not to safe, thats not fun, but perfect.
And those people, they were so different!
*This must be what people are like outside of Manticore, or I hope.*
Max glanced down at the cabin, resting on the ground almost beneath her. Hopefully
Zack and the others were still asleep or to busy to notice her departure.
She didn't want to fight now, especially with Zack.
She slowly started her way down and again placed her feet on Mother Earth's raw dirt.
She peered inside the window; everyone still in place. She decided to continue exploring,
after all, if she wanted to find out more about this forest and how to get out of it easy,
might as well advance her tracking skills up a step and take a look around.
~~~~
Max looked on the backside of the cabin, where logs laid in piles. She wasn't stupid,
she new what they were for, fire. But they were so old, patches of grass grew all over it.
She heard chirping too. A small brown gray bird sat behind the logs protecting herself
against Max. It reminded her of Jace. She took a seat on top of the log pile.
Little Jace, older than Max but not stronger. She liked birds alot, she could imitate them
better than anyone but didn't try to be popular and show off at the 'nightly' get togethers
and imitate accents of foreign doctors or animals. She was shy but determined. She, like
Brin, wanted to be best. The favorite. Jace was to scared to leave, so she stayed behind. Max
frowned as she fell in deep thought for her lost sister, not wanting to think what they were
putting her through for being part of the rogue X5 unit.
"Max?" Zack's worried voice came out from behind her.
Max still wore a frown from the thought but tried to smile. It didn't work.
"What are you thinking about?" He asked sitting down beside her.
"Jace." She said sternly trying not to show weakness and sorrow in her voice.
Zack tried to remember but he couldn't. He didn't know what happened to Jace after the
escape, he could just looked back at her for an answer.
"She...Jace, stayed." Max looked up at the tree she climbed.
"How did you know I was outside." She tried to change the subject.
Didn't help. "She was too scared." Zack to looked to a tree in the distance.
"Yeah. I um, tried to tell her it was okay. But..." Max looked back to Zack.
"I see. You tried. You're a good soldier...and little sister." Zack looked back to her eyes.
Max smiled. She couldn't help it. But she tried to change the subject again.
"How are the others?"
"They're healing fast. Really sore, probably a few head aches, and a couple of bruised
bones.."
"Thats good." They were obviously trying to avoid talking about the loss of a family
member, talking quick, looking away, changing subjects. Still though, they needed to talk
about it.
"Eva." Max said, with no emotion.
"Eva." Zack repeated, knowing the talk of Eva would come up sooner or later. If not by Max
and Zack, it would have probably have been the story teller, Ben, the one with answers for
everything.
"She was...brave." Max smiled.
"Yeah, could have been the SIC if you and Brin didn't fight so much to get the title first.
Zack almost smiled too.
Eva was exactly like a female Zack. She was the oldest girl. She wasn't really motherly like
Tinga, but wanted to make sure everyone was safe. She was really strong and smart too. But
also like Zack, she'd try not to show any emotions and wear an iron mask. If it wasn't for her
red hair and emerald green eyes and love for the forest's rocks, her large collection
hidden safely; She'd be like an impersonator.
"We better go in before they wake up." Max said, hopping down.
"Yeah." Zack jumped down and followed Max back into the cabin.
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It wasn't to long after they came in, the others woke up. Although in pain Zack knew he
had to move his unit to a different terra and find food. Slowly he got up and searched the
room; making sure everyone from yesterday was still present today.
Max was about to go talk to Tinga and Ben when all the sudden Jondy popped out from
nowhere, like always.
"Where were you?" She asked her eyes narrowing and smiling wanting to go outside too.
"Nothing pass you, huh?" Max said smiling and tilting her head.
"Nope. What's up?" Jondy pulled her arm and they sat, Max looking back in Ben and
Tinga's
direction.
"Oh, nothing. Fresh air." Max said looking back to her favorite sister.
"Oh." Jondy said getting up. "Hey, Everyone is awake, guess will be moving soon."
"Excited, Jondy?" Max asked her jumpy sister.
"Are you?"
"I guess."
"Me too." Jondy smiled and walked off to Syl who was laughing in the corner at
Zane and Krit arguing. Max shook her head but grinned. Now she could converse with Ben,
Tinga, and Zack of plans for what to do next.
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"Now all we have to do is, one find away out of the forest, and two, move out far away."
Tinga stated in the conversation the four of them were having. Brin was obviously pissed
that she was not concluded in their little group and baby sister Max was. Brin sat with an
angry face by the window.
"One is covered." Max spoke, all other eyes on her, questionably wondering how she'd
know.
"I climbed a tree and from the high view I saw some civilians in a car, they were heading
south." Max continued. Brin was taking advantage of her sister's explanation to hopefully
lower Max's moral. If that could be done.
"And just who was out there with you? You know if someone spotted you out there you
could have completely risked our hiding zone and possibly our lives." Brin rolled her eyes
and walked over to them. She was very short but still older then Max, Brin didn't really
understand why Max got so much attention from everybody, especially Zack, when she was
so reckless.
Max almost couldn't respond, she turned around to face her sister and opened her mouth, but
didn't speak. Zack did.
"Actually, I was out there with her too." Zack looked down to speechless little Brin.
"Oh. Well, I guess thats a little better." Brin didn't know what to say. If Zack let Max go out
side and look around then it wasn't really bad, the C.O is the one who makes usually makes
decisions and if he agreed, then well...oh well. Brin silently nodded and slowly walked back
down to her window space and looked back outside.
"Anyway. Are you sure they weren't Manticore?" Ben asked as all of them turned away and
ignored Brin.
"Yes. It was a woman and a little girl. With only that information it would seem suspicious
but I have more. They were colorful and happy. The exact opposite of Manticore." Max
informed then almost smiling when she remembered how different and unusual the sight
was.
"Well, you've convinced me." Tinga admitted.
"Me too, Maxie." Ben said and the they all looked to Zack for an answer.
Zack hesitated and then finally nodded.
"Okay. I guess were going south then."
After the group dispersed, Max walked passed Brin who was red in the face and still
maddened. "Someday little sister..." Brin whispered to herself so low that Max couldn't make
it out.
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Zack stood at the door in front of a few others who were watching the others slowly get up.
It seemed like forever had they been there, but at the same time it felt like the escape
happened yesterday. Now they were leaving, by Zack's order. Alot of them were relieved.
Although they were still in pain, they could find civilization out there and hopefully find
food.
"Come on, soldiers." Zack urged as the last few soldiers made it to the end of the line.
They were paired up, and in a somewhat line formation for stronger look outs in the front
and back for more protection. .
As the unit moved out Max took one last look at the cabin. Then she moved out with the
rest.
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Final Note: This is short and probably has several grammar mistakes, but just wait for
chapter 5,
I'm already working on it too. Like I said before, R&R