Authors note: Hey everyone. Thanks again for all the great reviews!
Himeko you can call me which ever name you want but I think Luna sounds better than Chantel ^_^
I just downloaded a bunch of Inuyasha songs... I love all the music in Inuyasha, my favorite song would probably be My Will but I also really like Do as Infinity, and Change the World too. So I'll be listening to Inuyasha while I type this chap!
Anyways, on to chapter 6!
CHAPTER 6
~*~*~A figure stood surrounded by smoke. Flames blazed up behind this figure as it turned it's cold green eyes to look down on something... a woman with long silver hair. She lay in a pool of her own blood, unconscious.
The figure just continued to stare, it's eyes filled with all kinds of negative emotions... mostly hatred and anger. The woman just lay their under the figures stare.
The hate filled eyes shifted as the figure drew a long, flame colored sword, and pointed it down at the unconscious woman... the figure then swung and... ~*~*~
Rain screamed and sat up quickly, tears streaming down her cheeks. She ached all over, and it felt like her ribs were broken. Her head hurt and she was confused at first about where she was.
"Rain!" Hiro burst into the room followed by the others including the kids and the Blitz team. He rushed up to Rains bed, and looked her over, worriedly.
"H..." Rain struggled to stop crying, "Hiro?"
"Yeah," Hiro ran a hand through Rain's long silver hair.
Rain looked around weakly at her surroundings. She very quickly recognized them as the infirmary at the Water Fall base. She thought back and slowly remembered winning the fight with the Blitz team... but she was still confused to why she was in the infirmary and why she was hurt so bad.
"What happened?" Rain demanded, wincing as she shifted her weight to look at the group. All of them looked pretty worried and sad about something... she also noticed that Zack and Koh were not present.
Nobody answered, most of them just looked down at the floor. They seemed to upset and worried... maybe even scared to tell Rain.
"Tell me what happened!" Rain demanded again. This time Hiro answered.
"We were attacked and you were shot down..." Hiro stated quietly, "By some one who knew about the demi-humans."
Rain held her breath as her heart seemed to skip a beat. No one... not even Nadia and Koh new about the demi-humans... then a thought struck her and she began to feel fear well up inside of her, "Where's Koh!?"
"Whoever it was took him. He was shot with an arrow and before any of us could reach him he just disappeared." Hiro answered, still quietly.
"What!?" Rain felt tears well up in her eyes, "How can someone just disappear!?"
"I don't know..."
Rain began to cry again, feeling both despair and anger. She tried to calm herself but couldn't. She only thought of Koh over and over... and couldn't get his face.
Cloud sat at the end of his sisters bed. He felt pure anger at whoever this "Sin" person was that took his nephew. But at the same time his entire soul felt filled with pure guilt at not being able to stop him, "We saw a WhaleKing... everyone began to go after it but it had a force field. When Zack hit it sent electricity through both the Bahamut and him. He's still unconscious in the other bed."
Rain looked over at the other bed to see Zack. He had bandages wrapped around his forehead, chest, and arms... some of which were blood stained. He had burns along his arms and his hands were bandaged and the palms were blood stained where he had been holding his zoids controls.
The blood reminded Rain of something... now she remembered something from the battle. She remembered laying in the sand looking up at someone weakly, "I saw some one..." Rain whispered, now thinking about both her dream and the battle.
"What!?" Hiro asked.
"I remember waking up now..." Rain said slowly, "There was some one standing in front of Kaiser's cockpit..." She thought about it and the figure slowly became more and more familiar in her mind... but she still couldn't quite place it.
"What did they look like?" Izumi asked, walking up and sitting next to Rain. Goji Bit, and Leon all turned around and ushered all of the kids out of the room. Reluctantly they left.... all except Nadia who refused to leave the room.
"I..." Rain thought hard while placing her face in her hands... which only seemed to make her head hurt more, "I... don't know. It seemed so familiar..." She concentrated on the image of the figure in her mind... "I can't remember..." She looked up as tears fell from her eyes. She felt like she was in a never ending nightmare... every time she turned a corner in life something terrible happened.
"Shhh," Hiro wrapped his arms around Rain carefully, as not to hurt her. He to had tears in his eyes but he refused to cry. Rain buried her face in his clothes, still trying to focus on the figure in her mind.
Nadia sat quietly, she had cried all her tears and was now focused on her mother. Absent mindedly she fiddled with the necklace that Koh had given her. Suddenly she had an idea, "Mom. You said the figure looked familiar right?"
Rain looked up at her daughter and nodded.
"I'll be right back." Nadia said, running out of the room and surprising everyone. She raced down the hallway and into her room, rushing over to her desk. Grabbing a few sheets of paper, a clipboard and a pencil, she raced back to the infirmary.
She was just about out of breath when she burst back into the room, carrying the supplies she had in her hands over to her mother. She set them down on the bed and said, "Maybe if you try and draw the figure you or the others'll recognize it... It always works for me when I can't remember exactly what something looks like."
"That's a good idea." Tyra said. Everyone sat around the bed, or on it, and patiently waited as Rain picked up the drawing supplies and began to sketch. The sketch soon began to take shape as Rain began to remember more and more things about this figure... and then it hit her. She finaly recognized the figure in her mind. She gasped and dropped the pencil, "I... I know who it was!"
"Who!?" Cloud asked, gazing at the drawing.... Rain was right, the figure did look familiar... but he couldn't place it either.
Rain quickly picked up the pencil and continued to draw, and the others began to see the same familiarity that Cloud and Rain felt. It wasn't until Rain added something that they recognized it, but when they finaly did it shocked them. It shocked them because it was someone they hadn't seen in about twenty years.
The figure was thin and had long hair... it was a woman with piercing eyes and a cruel smile.... but that's wasn't what made them recognize her... it was the fact that she was a demi-human. A demonic demi-human with blade like wings and claws.
Cloud felt like his heart stopped beating. It was almost completely silent in the room except for the sounds of the infirmary machines running in the background. The 42 year old Light-Feather looked down at the drawing, "Gabrielle." He quietly whispered.
Nadia was confused... the person in her mothers drawing didn't look human. She looked like she was part zoid and part human... but that was impossible wasn't it. Then she thought about it... she had heard her parents and the other adults use the term demi-human quite a bit within the past day, but she didn't know what a demi-human was.
"It can't be..." Cloud continued, "I saw her fall..."
"We all did." Bit whispered.
Cloud shook his head, "I had just taken care of Luke when I saw both of you fighting... I saw that her wings were torn and broken... so were yours. Then..."
Nadia became confused... what were they talking about? 'Her wings were torn and broken? And so was moms?' she thought, she sat quietly and listened, deciding to ask questions later.
Cloud swallowed, remembering everything so vividly tore at his heart. He closed his eyes and whispered, "Then she stabbed you and you fell..."
Orihime continued for him, "you grabbed onto Gabrielle before she fell, and you both went off the cliff, neither of you able to fly..."
Rain nodded, "It was the only thing I could think of... I pulled her off with me..."
Everyone now remembered the night vividly... the one night that they had agreed to never talk about again. But here they were, reiterating everything that had happened.
"Cloud landed on the cliffs, then ran and jumped after you..." Lavender said. Everyone now had their eyes closed remembering exactly what happened.
"We all ran to the edge of the crater and watched..." Rei added, "Until we couldn't see you anymore... then we decided to climb down...
Goji opened his eyes, looking over at Nadia, who had a look of pure confusion on her face. He decided it wasn't a good idea to talk about what happened next in front of her... If she were to find out... he cleared his throat and everyone looked up at him... some of them had tears in their eyes. He cocked his head toward Nadia and said, "Perhaps now is not the best time to talk about this. The point is, we all saw Gabrielle go off the cliff, and she couldn't fly so she couldn't have survived the fall."
Rain looked over at Nadia, realizing what Goji was getting at, "Sweet heart... can you please go and sit with the other kids please?"
"But..." Nadia stood, looking at her mother. The others all looked at her, and she sighed. She turned silently and left, her long silver hair swiping out from behind her as she quickly left.
Brad went and made sure Nadia didn't have her ears pressed to the door. Seeing everything was clear he walked back over to Rains bed and said, "Goji's right Rain... Gabrielle couldn't have possibly survived the fall... could she have?" he turned to Cloud.
Cloud thought for a second, then shook his head, "No... At least I don't think so..." He closed his eyes, "I don't think even one of us demi-humans could have been strong enough to survived a long fall like that without anything to break it."
"She did hit the water though... didn't she?" Leena asked, "after all, her body wasn't down on the ground when we got their... Maybe the water broke her fall..."
"Then she definitely wouldn't have lived." Jemie stated simply, "She fell from too high up. The water would have crushed her bones... it probably would have crushed her armor too."
Cloud nodded, "She did land in the water, I saw her."
"Then she's dead. She couldn't have survived." Naomi stated.
"That's who I saw." Rain stated, "and Im not saying she had to survive... after all, I didn't survive, did I?"
Cloud held his breath and looked down at his hands and arms. He quietly whispered, "No... you didn't..." He continued to look at his hands, remembering everything that had happened that night. Rain had asked him to sing her their mothers song... then... he began to tremble slightly as he whispered, "You died in my arms..."
Rain nodded, "And I came back because of LightStrike..." She paused, "Where is he anyway?"
"In the other room with the kids," Goji answered.
Rain cringed... with the kids... all of them except Koh. She began to feel tears well up in her eyes again. But she decided that she had to be strong, and no matter what, they would get Koh back...
"Who was the man who spoke to us on the battlefield?" Lavender asked, "He said his name was Sin..."
"I don't know..." Rain stated, "But... I came back to life." She sighed, "What if Gabrielle did too?"
~~~~~~~~~~End of chapter 6~~~~~~~~~~
Authors note: Hope you liked it. Eventually the story will shift more over to the kids, but none of the original characters will be forgotten! I promise!
Oh, and for those of you who are wondering... the tarantula IS still on the loose... ^_^
(Inuyasha Rules!!!!!) lol, please review!
Himeko you can call me which ever name you want but I think Luna sounds better than Chantel ^_^
I just downloaded a bunch of Inuyasha songs... I love all the music in Inuyasha, my favorite song would probably be My Will but I also really like Do as Infinity, and Change the World too. So I'll be listening to Inuyasha while I type this chap!
Anyways, on to chapter 6!
CHAPTER 6
~*~*~A figure stood surrounded by smoke. Flames blazed up behind this figure as it turned it's cold green eyes to look down on something... a woman with long silver hair. She lay in a pool of her own blood, unconscious.
The figure just continued to stare, it's eyes filled with all kinds of negative emotions... mostly hatred and anger. The woman just lay their under the figures stare.
The hate filled eyes shifted as the figure drew a long, flame colored sword, and pointed it down at the unconscious woman... the figure then swung and... ~*~*~
Rain screamed and sat up quickly, tears streaming down her cheeks. She ached all over, and it felt like her ribs were broken. Her head hurt and she was confused at first about where she was.
"Rain!" Hiro burst into the room followed by the others including the kids and the Blitz team. He rushed up to Rains bed, and looked her over, worriedly.
"H..." Rain struggled to stop crying, "Hiro?"
"Yeah," Hiro ran a hand through Rain's long silver hair.
Rain looked around weakly at her surroundings. She very quickly recognized them as the infirmary at the Water Fall base. She thought back and slowly remembered winning the fight with the Blitz team... but she was still confused to why she was in the infirmary and why she was hurt so bad.
"What happened?" Rain demanded, wincing as she shifted her weight to look at the group. All of them looked pretty worried and sad about something... she also noticed that Zack and Koh were not present.
Nobody answered, most of them just looked down at the floor. They seemed to upset and worried... maybe even scared to tell Rain.
"Tell me what happened!" Rain demanded again. This time Hiro answered.
"We were attacked and you were shot down..." Hiro stated quietly, "By some one who knew about the demi-humans."
Rain held her breath as her heart seemed to skip a beat. No one... not even Nadia and Koh new about the demi-humans... then a thought struck her and she began to feel fear well up inside of her, "Where's Koh!?"
"Whoever it was took him. He was shot with an arrow and before any of us could reach him he just disappeared." Hiro answered, still quietly.
"What!?" Rain felt tears well up in her eyes, "How can someone just disappear!?"
"I don't know..."
Rain began to cry again, feeling both despair and anger. She tried to calm herself but couldn't. She only thought of Koh over and over... and couldn't get his face.
Cloud sat at the end of his sisters bed. He felt pure anger at whoever this "Sin" person was that took his nephew. But at the same time his entire soul felt filled with pure guilt at not being able to stop him, "We saw a WhaleKing... everyone began to go after it but it had a force field. When Zack hit it sent electricity through both the Bahamut and him. He's still unconscious in the other bed."
Rain looked over at the other bed to see Zack. He had bandages wrapped around his forehead, chest, and arms... some of which were blood stained. He had burns along his arms and his hands were bandaged and the palms were blood stained where he had been holding his zoids controls.
The blood reminded Rain of something... now she remembered something from the battle. She remembered laying in the sand looking up at someone weakly, "I saw some one..." Rain whispered, now thinking about both her dream and the battle.
"What!?" Hiro asked.
"I remember waking up now..." Rain said slowly, "There was some one standing in front of Kaiser's cockpit..." She thought about it and the figure slowly became more and more familiar in her mind... but she still couldn't quite place it.
"What did they look like?" Izumi asked, walking up and sitting next to Rain. Goji Bit, and Leon all turned around and ushered all of the kids out of the room. Reluctantly they left.... all except Nadia who refused to leave the room.
"I..." Rain thought hard while placing her face in her hands... which only seemed to make her head hurt more, "I... don't know. It seemed so familiar..." She concentrated on the image of the figure in her mind... "I can't remember..." She looked up as tears fell from her eyes. She felt like she was in a never ending nightmare... every time she turned a corner in life something terrible happened.
"Shhh," Hiro wrapped his arms around Rain carefully, as not to hurt her. He to had tears in his eyes but he refused to cry. Rain buried her face in his clothes, still trying to focus on the figure in her mind.
Nadia sat quietly, she had cried all her tears and was now focused on her mother. Absent mindedly she fiddled with the necklace that Koh had given her. Suddenly she had an idea, "Mom. You said the figure looked familiar right?"
Rain looked up at her daughter and nodded.
"I'll be right back." Nadia said, running out of the room and surprising everyone. She raced down the hallway and into her room, rushing over to her desk. Grabbing a few sheets of paper, a clipboard and a pencil, she raced back to the infirmary.
She was just about out of breath when she burst back into the room, carrying the supplies she had in her hands over to her mother. She set them down on the bed and said, "Maybe if you try and draw the figure you or the others'll recognize it... It always works for me when I can't remember exactly what something looks like."
"That's a good idea." Tyra said. Everyone sat around the bed, or on it, and patiently waited as Rain picked up the drawing supplies and began to sketch. The sketch soon began to take shape as Rain began to remember more and more things about this figure... and then it hit her. She finaly recognized the figure in her mind. She gasped and dropped the pencil, "I... I know who it was!"
"Who!?" Cloud asked, gazing at the drawing.... Rain was right, the figure did look familiar... but he couldn't place it either.
Rain quickly picked up the pencil and continued to draw, and the others began to see the same familiarity that Cloud and Rain felt. It wasn't until Rain added something that they recognized it, but when they finaly did it shocked them. It shocked them because it was someone they hadn't seen in about twenty years.
The figure was thin and had long hair... it was a woman with piercing eyes and a cruel smile.... but that's wasn't what made them recognize her... it was the fact that she was a demi-human. A demonic demi-human with blade like wings and claws.
Cloud felt like his heart stopped beating. It was almost completely silent in the room except for the sounds of the infirmary machines running in the background. The 42 year old Light-Feather looked down at the drawing, "Gabrielle." He quietly whispered.
Nadia was confused... the person in her mothers drawing didn't look human. She looked like she was part zoid and part human... but that was impossible wasn't it. Then she thought about it... she had heard her parents and the other adults use the term demi-human quite a bit within the past day, but she didn't know what a demi-human was.
"It can't be..." Cloud continued, "I saw her fall..."
"We all did." Bit whispered.
Cloud shook his head, "I had just taken care of Luke when I saw both of you fighting... I saw that her wings were torn and broken... so were yours. Then..."
Nadia became confused... what were they talking about? 'Her wings were torn and broken? And so was moms?' she thought, she sat quietly and listened, deciding to ask questions later.
Cloud swallowed, remembering everything so vividly tore at his heart. He closed his eyes and whispered, "Then she stabbed you and you fell..."
Orihime continued for him, "you grabbed onto Gabrielle before she fell, and you both went off the cliff, neither of you able to fly..."
Rain nodded, "It was the only thing I could think of... I pulled her off with me..."
Everyone now remembered the night vividly... the one night that they had agreed to never talk about again. But here they were, reiterating everything that had happened.
"Cloud landed on the cliffs, then ran and jumped after you..." Lavender said. Everyone now had their eyes closed remembering exactly what happened.
"We all ran to the edge of the crater and watched..." Rei added, "Until we couldn't see you anymore... then we decided to climb down...
Goji opened his eyes, looking over at Nadia, who had a look of pure confusion on her face. He decided it wasn't a good idea to talk about what happened next in front of her... If she were to find out... he cleared his throat and everyone looked up at him... some of them had tears in their eyes. He cocked his head toward Nadia and said, "Perhaps now is not the best time to talk about this. The point is, we all saw Gabrielle go off the cliff, and she couldn't fly so she couldn't have survived the fall."
Rain looked over at Nadia, realizing what Goji was getting at, "Sweet heart... can you please go and sit with the other kids please?"
"But..." Nadia stood, looking at her mother. The others all looked at her, and she sighed. She turned silently and left, her long silver hair swiping out from behind her as she quickly left.
Brad went and made sure Nadia didn't have her ears pressed to the door. Seeing everything was clear he walked back over to Rains bed and said, "Goji's right Rain... Gabrielle couldn't have possibly survived the fall... could she have?" he turned to Cloud.
Cloud thought for a second, then shook his head, "No... At least I don't think so..." He closed his eyes, "I don't think even one of us demi-humans could have been strong enough to survived a long fall like that without anything to break it."
"She did hit the water though... didn't she?" Leena asked, "after all, her body wasn't down on the ground when we got their... Maybe the water broke her fall..."
"Then she definitely wouldn't have lived." Jemie stated simply, "She fell from too high up. The water would have crushed her bones... it probably would have crushed her armor too."
Cloud nodded, "She did land in the water, I saw her."
"Then she's dead. She couldn't have survived." Naomi stated.
"That's who I saw." Rain stated, "and Im not saying she had to survive... after all, I didn't survive, did I?"
Cloud held his breath and looked down at his hands and arms. He quietly whispered, "No... you didn't..." He continued to look at his hands, remembering everything that had happened that night. Rain had asked him to sing her their mothers song... then... he began to tremble slightly as he whispered, "You died in my arms..."
Rain nodded, "And I came back because of LightStrike..." She paused, "Where is he anyway?"
"In the other room with the kids," Goji answered.
Rain cringed... with the kids... all of them except Koh. She began to feel tears well up in her eyes again. But she decided that she had to be strong, and no matter what, they would get Koh back...
"Who was the man who spoke to us on the battlefield?" Lavender asked, "He said his name was Sin..."
"I don't know..." Rain stated, "But... I came back to life." She sighed, "What if Gabrielle did too?"
~~~~~~~~~~End of chapter 6~~~~~~~~~~
Authors note: Hope you liked it. Eventually the story will shift more over to the kids, but none of the original characters will be forgotten! I promise!
Oh, and for those of you who are wondering... the tarantula IS still on the loose... ^_^
(Inuyasha Rules!!!!!) lol, please review!