Authors note: I killed my project in wood tech @_@. yep, it's pretty
dead. Stupid nailgun wouldn't work... Split the back of my shelf... but
Mr. Crawford (The wood tech teach.) said that we could probably bring it
back to life... save the poor thing... Just thought I'd let you know since
I don't have much else to say except thanks for the reviews!
CHAPTER 15
"Did all go according to plan?" Sin asked his new recruit, who had just returned from the Waterfall base.
"Like clockwork." The recruit answered.
"Good." Sin moved another chess piece, another pawn, "You may leave now and go rest."
The recruit turned to leave, but stopped when Sin continued, "Oh, and tell the Demi-human I want to see her please."
Nodding, the recruit walked through the door, and it shifted shut behind him. He walked down the hallways, heading toward the Chaos-sin's cockpit, where Gabrielle usually was. He took the main elevator, the one that led strain to the cockpit, and was not surprised to see Gabrielle waiting on the other side of the door. She cursed when she saw him, and they both wanted to kill each other right there on the spot.
"Sin wants to talk to you." The recruit stated coldly, not leaving the elevator. Gabrielle cursed again and shuffled in next to him, pushing him out of the way slightly and pressing the button that led to Sin's floor. She turned to face the recruit, "Aren't you leaving?"
"Im going to my room." He answered as the elevator doors closed, "And you know just as well as I do that this elevator is the quickest and closest one."
Gabrielle seemed to growl, "Fine. You room is on the second level isn't it?"
"Yes."
"Good. Then you'll grace me with your leave soon." She spat, not hiding the venom in her voice.
The two stood in silence for the most uncomfortable few minutes of their lifetimes. Neither one could stand to be near the other, and now they were stuck in an elevator together. Each of them had their own thoughts of killing, hurting, obliterating, massacring, and any other painful thought they could have about the other.
Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, but was only about two minutes, the elevator dinged and the door opened to the second level, and the recruit stepped out. He shoved past the demi-human, who hissed at his back as the door closed.
"Stupid demi-human..." The recruit muttered to himself, as he gripped at his forehead, "Make my damn head hurt worse..." He walked over to his room, and typed in the access code on the doors control panel. It opened with a small beep, and he walked in. Throwing himself onto his bed he reached over to a bedside table and picked up some aspirins that laid there. Gulping them down with no water, he pulled the pillow over his head and tried to fall asleep, despite the pounding of his head.
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The rain continued to beat down hard, never ceasing, only getting worse. All the adults, save Chris, were suddenly reminded of the night twenty years ago, when Luke used Rain to attack them. This storm, the one that was tormenting them now, seemed almost exactly like the one back then. It was completely nerve racking, and it was the reason the adults were perhaps a bit more angry and pushy that they would have normally been.
They had all gotten into the hover cargo, deciding that it was safer than piloting their zoids back to the base. The parents of the four "escapees" were busy dragging the kids to the main room, either shouting their lungs out at them, or being deathly silent. To tell the truth, the four kids already knew that they were in deep trouble.
Chris just followed everyone as they made their way up to the main room, slightly smiling in amusement as the four teenagers, who were all staying quiet as their parents dragged them, were being forced down the hallways. He could tell that these parents were being a bit more forceful then they normally were. He didn't know why, but he could tell that they were very uneasy about something. The door to the main room opened, and Doc looked solemnly at the four nervous teens, then silently turned his gaze to the new man with them.
He nodded his greeting to Chris, who nodded back as the others pushed their way past them and to the couches. Chris sat in a chair that was out of the way, and watched the scene play out, deciding he wouldn't cut in until the time was right.
Cloud was the first to reach the couches, shoving Nadia gently onto the biggest one in the middle, and standing back, his arms crossed. Hiro stood next to him, unsure of anything to say to his daughter.
"Sit, Ayane." Ryuji said calmly, and watched as his only daughter took a seat next to Nadia silently.
Bit was next, and was by far the most rough, forcing Rion next to Ayane, his angry features clear on his face.
Last was Zack, who pressed Jessie onto the couch on the other side of Nadia. Jessie winced slightly, knowing he would get quite an earful before they reached the base.
It was silent... for all of about three seconds. Then all hell broke loose and Cloud cursed a little more loudly than he meant to, "What the HELL did you think you were DOING?!"
Doc walked over to the hover cargo controls, deciding to stay out of it. Even though Rion was his grandson, and he was quite angry, he knew that his son-in-law would give the boy a good tongue lashing.
Tyra, Rei, Jemie, and Goji all decided to sit on the other side of the room, opposite the side of Chris, and watch. They were silent through the whole thing.
"Well, we..." Nadia began after a few seconds but paused, trying to figure how to word her sentences.
"WHAT?!" Cloud yelled. Nadia cringed defensively. Her uncle was extremely uptight today, and she didn't know why. Her father also seemed way too upset.
Jessie saw how nervous Nadia was and spoke up, "Lay off. She went for the knife."
Cloud looked over at him and sighed angrily, the events of the past few days, and the remembrance of 20 years ago getting to him.
"And you went with her!?" Bit yelled, "You all went!? How stupid of an idea do you think that was!? With Sin running around and all," Apparently the events were getting to him as well.
Chris looked up at Bit, maybe he would get a few answers now.
"You have the nerve to leave that early in the morning, and run out to the battlefield," Bit continued, he was cut off.
"When GABRIELLE is out there somewhere!" Cloud added, "Do you know how worried we were!?"
"Or scared!?" Ryuji put in, a bit calmer than the two, that had so far carried the conversation. He was still quite angry, "You don't know how dangerous Gabrielle is!"
"Is she as dangerous as you were!?" Ayane snapped back, unable to hold it in any longer. She was scared, upset, angry and she wanted answers. As soon as she released what she had said she closed her mouth and cursed at herself inwardly.
Ryuji was taken aback... gasping he could feel tears surfacing, but he held them back as best he could. The shock of what his daughter, the one thing that he loved more than life itself, had just said hit him full force. His mind was screaming it's hatred to Copper, who, of course, was gone. So it was more like he was hating himself. He knew that it wasn't his fault Copper had hurt, or even killed so many people... but... in a way.
Ryuji turned away, his face pale and thoughtful. He walked over to a chair and plopped down into it, looking down at the ground as if he had found it interesting.
"Oh my God," Ayane cursed, looking down, unable to look at the shocked faces around her, "Dad..." She closed her eyes, wishing she could take it back, "Im so sorry..."
It was silent for a while, the argument seeming to be over. Finally, after quite a bit of time Ryuji dryly asked, "Did you get it?" He still looked at the floor, unable to lift his gaze, "The knife I mean... Did you find it Nadia?"
Nadia sighed, "Yeah... Mr. Fly-Height had it..."
"Who?" Hiro asked.
"Me." Chris spoke up, his eyes scanning the room, "I found it when I arrived on the battlefield to pay my last respects to the Ultrasaurus."
"Fly-Height, huh?" Doc asked from the controls, "I knew you looked familiar, aren't you the leader of the ZBC organization?"
"Yes." Chris answered.
"So your ancestor is Van Fly-Height." Doc continued, "It is a pleasure to meet you of course, I am sorry you had to listen to this conversation."
The others nodded in agreement, the kids staying silent and not averting their gazes from the laps or the floor.
"When I saw the knife on the ground I recognized it from the broadcasting. It was the one that the boy had used against the woman. I picked it up." Chris explained, "Then when I saw her," He pointed to Nadia, "She reminded me of the boy, so I asked her if she was related. She told me she was, and I gave the knife to her."
"I see." Cloud said, "So, I suppose you want some kind of explanation?"
"That is part of the reason why I decided to follow them." Chris nodded, "That, and me and Zeke wanted to make sure they would get home ok, storm and all."
"Zeke?" Doc asked, "Isn't that the organoid?"
"So you know about organoids? Not many people do anymore..." Chris smiled slightly, "Yes, Zeke is an organoid, the same one from my ancestors time. He's stayed as part of the family ever since then."
"Yeah, we know about organoids. We have one ourselves." Cloud said, "He's back at the base. His name is LightStrike."
"I see. I thought Zeke was the only one left..." Chris replied, "May I ask a question?"
"Shoot." Bit said, sitting with the other adults.
"Do you know exactly what's going on? Because the ZBC has no clue. We aren't supposed to tell the public that, but hell, we need answers."
Cloud sighed, looking over at a small clock, "Well... we have time before we reach the base, especially with the storm...."
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By the time they neared the base, Cloud had explained things in a nutshell, from the MCME, to Luke, to the Demi-humans. He had, thought with one glance at Ryuji, left out the parts about Copper. God knew that Ayane's blow had hurt Ryuji enough already.
When they reached the base the adults immediately knew something was wrong. It was a feeling each of them shared... something wasn't right. After all their ordeals and hardships it seemed they had learned to sense when something was wrong. And it scared them.
Without realizing it Cloud dashed out of the hover cargo, the others not far behind. The storm was still raging, and lighting illuminated the small group that ran across the oasis, and towards the waterfall.
Chris followed at a distance, along with the four teenagers and Zeke. They all neared the waterfall, and a feeling of dread came over them.
'Something's wrong!' Cloud thought to himself, not bothering to take the long way around for he was already wet, he dashed strait through the cold waterfall into the dark cave beyond. The others followed, and it took some time for their eyes to adjust... Cloud saw it first.
"LightStrike!" Cloud dashed across the hard rock floor, toward where the fallen organoid laid. On top of him was an electric impulse net, rendering him completely helpless. The organoids eyes were dim.
Not caring about the pain that surged through his hands as he touched the still active net, Cloud ripped it off the organoid with tears in his eyes, "Common buddy..." A sudden realization hit him... if LightStrike was damaged...
"Rain!" Cloud jumped up suddenly, running into the base with everyone hot oh his heels. He stopped dead in his tracks as he saw a pool of blood on the ground, the dark liquid running down the hallway.
Everyone was scared now. They dashed down the hall, faster than they ever had run before and flung into the pitch black main room, some of them tripping on the stairs. Cloud could smell it. As could everyone else.
Blood. The entire room ranked of it... but they couldn't see. It was dark. Jemie turned on the light and gasped...
Rei cried out first, "Izumi!" he jumped over the couch to where Izumi lay, her long black hair curled in a pool of her own blood. She had a gash down her shoulder, and all down her arm. Her head had a large cut running from the edge of her hairline to her ear, and her temple was bruised.
Gently warping his arms around his wife, Rei made no attempt to stop his tears. Her blood stained his own clothes, as he pulled her closer, a small trickle escaping from her partially open mouth. Her cold skin brushed softly against his, sending shivers down his spine. He quickly shifted his grip so he could check her neck for a pulse...
And found one. It was faint, but there was definitely a pulse.
"Thanks god..." He cradled her closer, gently lifting her head out of the pool of blood that had formed beneath her.
Her eyes fluttered open softly, scanning Rei's terrified face... she quietly whispered, "The...others..." She coughed slightly, "The others.... are... " She lifted her good hand towards the hallway, where the kids room was, "They... took.... some of..."
"Oh my God..." Jemie was the first to realize what she was saying. He took off like a bullet and the others followed. Rei, Zack, the four teens and Chris stayed behind with Izumi.
Izumi had tears streaming down her cheeks, "We... we tried to stop them..." She coughed again, "They... took them" She gasped as he picked her up as gently as possible, and headed down the hallway towards the Infirmary. Zack, the kids and Chris followed. Zeke had been instructed to stay behind with the other organoid, and inform the group if something came.
What the others saw when they reached the kids room horrified them... four bodies laid sprawled in front of the door, blood running all down the hallway. Hand prints of blood were just above the broken control panel and the same crimson liquid that stained the floor was running down the wall. The smell reached everyone, making them each retch as they saw their loved ones.
"Leena!" Bit dropped to his knees, checked for a pulse and was pleased to find one. her chest had a gash that sent hot blood flooding onto Bit's jacket as he lifted her off the ground and took off towards the infirmary.
Goji, saying nothing, picked a battered and blood covered Lavender up off the floor, her obviously broken arm hanging limp at her side. She had been shot in the side. He followed Bit without saying anything or doing anything except checking for a pulse.
Tyra sobbed aloud as she kneeled next to Leon, who also had a pulse. The left side of his face had a long gash, and his clothes were torn at his chest where another gash graced his skin. Blood everywhere.
Brad was the last one, his temple was bruised and he had blood coming from his mouth. Two bullet holes found themselves in his shoulder, and his knuckles were bloody. He was obviously the one who had punched out the control panel for the kids door. Jemie checked him out just as Goji and Bit came back to help carry Brad and Leon.
Jemie then dashed through the open door and into the kids room finding it empty.
A yell of anger was heard coming from Cloud down the hallway, as well as something crashing.
The group ran to Rains room, where Cloud was standing, his fists pounding into the wall. Something was written above him, in blood.
It read, "We have the others. The Tenshi is in our possession as well. If you want them back... we want The Ryuu." Below the message was a set of coordinates, "Come here, and turn him in."
The ones missing were Orihime, Naomi, Will, Shiro, Kristen, Hikari., and...
Rain.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~End of Chapter 15~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Long chappy. Sad Chappy. Took a long time to write. Read and review please!
CHAPTER 15
"Did all go according to plan?" Sin asked his new recruit, who had just returned from the Waterfall base.
"Like clockwork." The recruit answered.
"Good." Sin moved another chess piece, another pawn, "You may leave now and go rest."
The recruit turned to leave, but stopped when Sin continued, "Oh, and tell the Demi-human I want to see her please."
Nodding, the recruit walked through the door, and it shifted shut behind him. He walked down the hallways, heading toward the Chaos-sin's cockpit, where Gabrielle usually was. He took the main elevator, the one that led strain to the cockpit, and was not surprised to see Gabrielle waiting on the other side of the door. She cursed when she saw him, and they both wanted to kill each other right there on the spot.
"Sin wants to talk to you." The recruit stated coldly, not leaving the elevator. Gabrielle cursed again and shuffled in next to him, pushing him out of the way slightly and pressing the button that led to Sin's floor. She turned to face the recruit, "Aren't you leaving?"
"Im going to my room." He answered as the elevator doors closed, "And you know just as well as I do that this elevator is the quickest and closest one."
Gabrielle seemed to growl, "Fine. You room is on the second level isn't it?"
"Yes."
"Good. Then you'll grace me with your leave soon." She spat, not hiding the venom in her voice.
The two stood in silence for the most uncomfortable few minutes of their lifetimes. Neither one could stand to be near the other, and now they were stuck in an elevator together. Each of them had their own thoughts of killing, hurting, obliterating, massacring, and any other painful thought they could have about the other.
Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, but was only about two minutes, the elevator dinged and the door opened to the second level, and the recruit stepped out. He shoved past the demi-human, who hissed at his back as the door closed.
"Stupid demi-human..." The recruit muttered to himself, as he gripped at his forehead, "Make my damn head hurt worse..." He walked over to his room, and typed in the access code on the doors control panel. It opened with a small beep, and he walked in. Throwing himself onto his bed he reached over to a bedside table and picked up some aspirins that laid there. Gulping them down with no water, he pulled the pillow over his head and tried to fall asleep, despite the pounding of his head.
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The rain continued to beat down hard, never ceasing, only getting worse. All the adults, save Chris, were suddenly reminded of the night twenty years ago, when Luke used Rain to attack them. This storm, the one that was tormenting them now, seemed almost exactly like the one back then. It was completely nerve racking, and it was the reason the adults were perhaps a bit more angry and pushy that they would have normally been.
They had all gotten into the hover cargo, deciding that it was safer than piloting their zoids back to the base. The parents of the four "escapees" were busy dragging the kids to the main room, either shouting their lungs out at them, or being deathly silent. To tell the truth, the four kids already knew that they were in deep trouble.
Chris just followed everyone as they made their way up to the main room, slightly smiling in amusement as the four teenagers, who were all staying quiet as their parents dragged them, were being forced down the hallways. He could tell that these parents were being a bit more forceful then they normally were. He didn't know why, but he could tell that they were very uneasy about something. The door to the main room opened, and Doc looked solemnly at the four nervous teens, then silently turned his gaze to the new man with them.
He nodded his greeting to Chris, who nodded back as the others pushed their way past them and to the couches. Chris sat in a chair that was out of the way, and watched the scene play out, deciding he wouldn't cut in until the time was right.
Cloud was the first to reach the couches, shoving Nadia gently onto the biggest one in the middle, and standing back, his arms crossed. Hiro stood next to him, unsure of anything to say to his daughter.
"Sit, Ayane." Ryuji said calmly, and watched as his only daughter took a seat next to Nadia silently.
Bit was next, and was by far the most rough, forcing Rion next to Ayane, his angry features clear on his face.
Last was Zack, who pressed Jessie onto the couch on the other side of Nadia. Jessie winced slightly, knowing he would get quite an earful before they reached the base.
It was silent... for all of about three seconds. Then all hell broke loose and Cloud cursed a little more loudly than he meant to, "What the HELL did you think you were DOING?!"
Doc walked over to the hover cargo controls, deciding to stay out of it. Even though Rion was his grandson, and he was quite angry, he knew that his son-in-law would give the boy a good tongue lashing.
Tyra, Rei, Jemie, and Goji all decided to sit on the other side of the room, opposite the side of Chris, and watch. They were silent through the whole thing.
"Well, we..." Nadia began after a few seconds but paused, trying to figure how to word her sentences.
"WHAT?!" Cloud yelled. Nadia cringed defensively. Her uncle was extremely uptight today, and she didn't know why. Her father also seemed way too upset.
Jessie saw how nervous Nadia was and spoke up, "Lay off. She went for the knife."
Cloud looked over at him and sighed angrily, the events of the past few days, and the remembrance of 20 years ago getting to him.
"And you went with her!?" Bit yelled, "You all went!? How stupid of an idea do you think that was!? With Sin running around and all," Apparently the events were getting to him as well.
Chris looked up at Bit, maybe he would get a few answers now.
"You have the nerve to leave that early in the morning, and run out to the battlefield," Bit continued, he was cut off.
"When GABRIELLE is out there somewhere!" Cloud added, "Do you know how worried we were!?"
"Or scared!?" Ryuji put in, a bit calmer than the two, that had so far carried the conversation. He was still quite angry, "You don't know how dangerous Gabrielle is!"
"Is she as dangerous as you were!?" Ayane snapped back, unable to hold it in any longer. She was scared, upset, angry and she wanted answers. As soon as she released what she had said she closed her mouth and cursed at herself inwardly.
Ryuji was taken aback... gasping he could feel tears surfacing, but he held them back as best he could. The shock of what his daughter, the one thing that he loved more than life itself, had just said hit him full force. His mind was screaming it's hatred to Copper, who, of course, was gone. So it was more like he was hating himself. He knew that it wasn't his fault Copper had hurt, or even killed so many people... but... in a way.
Ryuji turned away, his face pale and thoughtful. He walked over to a chair and plopped down into it, looking down at the ground as if he had found it interesting.
"Oh my God," Ayane cursed, looking down, unable to look at the shocked faces around her, "Dad..." She closed her eyes, wishing she could take it back, "Im so sorry..."
It was silent for a while, the argument seeming to be over. Finally, after quite a bit of time Ryuji dryly asked, "Did you get it?" He still looked at the floor, unable to lift his gaze, "The knife I mean... Did you find it Nadia?"
Nadia sighed, "Yeah... Mr. Fly-Height had it..."
"Who?" Hiro asked.
"Me." Chris spoke up, his eyes scanning the room, "I found it when I arrived on the battlefield to pay my last respects to the Ultrasaurus."
"Fly-Height, huh?" Doc asked from the controls, "I knew you looked familiar, aren't you the leader of the ZBC organization?"
"Yes." Chris answered.
"So your ancestor is Van Fly-Height." Doc continued, "It is a pleasure to meet you of course, I am sorry you had to listen to this conversation."
The others nodded in agreement, the kids staying silent and not averting their gazes from the laps or the floor.
"When I saw the knife on the ground I recognized it from the broadcasting. It was the one that the boy had used against the woman. I picked it up." Chris explained, "Then when I saw her," He pointed to Nadia, "She reminded me of the boy, so I asked her if she was related. She told me she was, and I gave the knife to her."
"I see." Cloud said, "So, I suppose you want some kind of explanation?"
"That is part of the reason why I decided to follow them." Chris nodded, "That, and me and Zeke wanted to make sure they would get home ok, storm and all."
"Zeke?" Doc asked, "Isn't that the organoid?"
"So you know about organoids? Not many people do anymore..." Chris smiled slightly, "Yes, Zeke is an organoid, the same one from my ancestors time. He's stayed as part of the family ever since then."
"Yeah, we know about organoids. We have one ourselves." Cloud said, "He's back at the base. His name is LightStrike."
"I see. I thought Zeke was the only one left..." Chris replied, "May I ask a question?"
"Shoot." Bit said, sitting with the other adults.
"Do you know exactly what's going on? Because the ZBC has no clue. We aren't supposed to tell the public that, but hell, we need answers."
Cloud sighed, looking over at a small clock, "Well... we have time before we reach the base, especially with the storm...."
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By the time they neared the base, Cloud had explained things in a nutshell, from the MCME, to Luke, to the Demi-humans. He had, thought with one glance at Ryuji, left out the parts about Copper. God knew that Ayane's blow had hurt Ryuji enough already.
When they reached the base the adults immediately knew something was wrong. It was a feeling each of them shared... something wasn't right. After all their ordeals and hardships it seemed they had learned to sense when something was wrong. And it scared them.
Without realizing it Cloud dashed out of the hover cargo, the others not far behind. The storm was still raging, and lighting illuminated the small group that ran across the oasis, and towards the waterfall.
Chris followed at a distance, along with the four teenagers and Zeke. They all neared the waterfall, and a feeling of dread came over them.
'Something's wrong!' Cloud thought to himself, not bothering to take the long way around for he was already wet, he dashed strait through the cold waterfall into the dark cave beyond. The others followed, and it took some time for their eyes to adjust... Cloud saw it first.
"LightStrike!" Cloud dashed across the hard rock floor, toward where the fallen organoid laid. On top of him was an electric impulse net, rendering him completely helpless. The organoids eyes were dim.
Not caring about the pain that surged through his hands as he touched the still active net, Cloud ripped it off the organoid with tears in his eyes, "Common buddy..." A sudden realization hit him... if LightStrike was damaged...
"Rain!" Cloud jumped up suddenly, running into the base with everyone hot oh his heels. He stopped dead in his tracks as he saw a pool of blood on the ground, the dark liquid running down the hallway.
Everyone was scared now. They dashed down the hall, faster than they ever had run before and flung into the pitch black main room, some of them tripping on the stairs. Cloud could smell it. As could everyone else.
Blood. The entire room ranked of it... but they couldn't see. It was dark. Jemie turned on the light and gasped...
Rei cried out first, "Izumi!" he jumped over the couch to where Izumi lay, her long black hair curled in a pool of her own blood. She had a gash down her shoulder, and all down her arm. Her head had a large cut running from the edge of her hairline to her ear, and her temple was bruised.
Gently warping his arms around his wife, Rei made no attempt to stop his tears. Her blood stained his own clothes, as he pulled her closer, a small trickle escaping from her partially open mouth. Her cold skin brushed softly against his, sending shivers down his spine. He quickly shifted his grip so he could check her neck for a pulse...
And found one. It was faint, but there was definitely a pulse.
"Thanks god..." He cradled her closer, gently lifting her head out of the pool of blood that had formed beneath her.
Her eyes fluttered open softly, scanning Rei's terrified face... she quietly whispered, "The...others..." She coughed slightly, "The others.... are... " She lifted her good hand towards the hallway, where the kids room was, "They... took.... some of..."
"Oh my God..." Jemie was the first to realize what she was saying. He took off like a bullet and the others followed. Rei, Zack, the four teens and Chris stayed behind with Izumi.
Izumi had tears streaming down her cheeks, "We... we tried to stop them..." She coughed again, "They... took them" She gasped as he picked her up as gently as possible, and headed down the hallway towards the Infirmary. Zack, the kids and Chris followed. Zeke had been instructed to stay behind with the other organoid, and inform the group if something came.
What the others saw when they reached the kids room horrified them... four bodies laid sprawled in front of the door, blood running all down the hallway. Hand prints of blood were just above the broken control panel and the same crimson liquid that stained the floor was running down the wall. The smell reached everyone, making them each retch as they saw their loved ones.
"Leena!" Bit dropped to his knees, checked for a pulse and was pleased to find one. her chest had a gash that sent hot blood flooding onto Bit's jacket as he lifted her off the ground and took off towards the infirmary.
Goji, saying nothing, picked a battered and blood covered Lavender up off the floor, her obviously broken arm hanging limp at her side. She had been shot in the side. He followed Bit without saying anything or doing anything except checking for a pulse.
Tyra sobbed aloud as she kneeled next to Leon, who also had a pulse. The left side of his face had a long gash, and his clothes were torn at his chest where another gash graced his skin. Blood everywhere.
Brad was the last one, his temple was bruised and he had blood coming from his mouth. Two bullet holes found themselves in his shoulder, and his knuckles were bloody. He was obviously the one who had punched out the control panel for the kids door. Jemie checked him out just as Goji and Bit came back to help carry Brad and Leon.
Jemie then dashed through the open door and into the kids room finding it empty.
A yell of anger was heard coming from Cloud down the hallway, as well as something crashing.
The group ran to Rains room, where Cloud was standing, his fists pounding into the wall. Something was written above him, in blood.
It read, "We have the others. The Tenshi is in our possession as well. If you want them back... we want The Ryuu." Below the message was a set of coordinates, "Come here, and turn him in."
The ones missing were Orihime, Naomi, Will, Shiro, Kristen, Hikari., and...
Rain.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~End of Chapter 15~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Long chappy. Sad Chappy. Took a long time to write. Read and review please!