Authors note: Grrrr. I hate my mom for getting me sick... Can't breath...
stuffy nose. I had a headache yesterday, but that's gone so I guess Im
getting better. Just got a stuffy nose.... (I hats stuffy noses.)
I brought my wood-tech project back to life (Yay) and it's almost finished.
Himeko: You don't have a wood-tech class in your middle school? Mine had one, cept it was just called Tech. I took it in 8th grade because it's not open for 7th graders. I didn't really want it this year, but we have like, the largest freshmen class that the school's ever had (I go to a really really big school) and most of us didn't get a choice in our electives this year because there just wasn't enough room for everybody. (I wanted art, but.... didn't work out)
Anyways, I've been kinda busy (My mom's making me draw some pictures that I really don't feel like drawing for her friend at work @_@) And I've been slightly (Not too bad) sick. My sister has had the computer for every day within the last week. Oh, and I've been working on an original Anime story that I plan on posting soon.
Ok, enough babbling on, here's the next chapter.
CHAPTER 16
Will groaned slightly bringing an unsteady hand up to his closed eyes. He rubbed them as he turned onto his stomach, feeling the cold stone floor underneath him. Coughing slightly his eyes fluttered open, revealing a dark, tourchlit room, 'Or dungeon' he thought. He pushed himself onto his hands and knees, and looked around. His vision was a bit fuzzy, after all, he didn't have his glasses on, but he could tell that there were three other people lying in the room, each one he guessed was unconscious.
Slowly he shuffled over to the first person, and recognized her immediately as Hikari. He shook her shoulder gently, "Hikari. Come on, wake up..."
The young fourteen year old moaned as Will continued to shake her. She opened her eyes and looked up at his worried face, "Will?"
"Yeah. Are you ok?" He watched as she sat up, rubbing her sore head. It was hard for him to tell in the dark, damp room, especially since his vision was blurry without his glasses, but it looked like a nice bruise had formed on the side of her face.
Hikari nodded as she looked around, a bit confused, "Will, where are we?"
"I don't know." Will replied, shuffling over to the next body. Hikari went to his side and nodded, "Shiro."
"You wake him up, I'll try to wake up Kristen." Will stated, going over to Kristen.
Hikari nudged Shiro carefully, and he showed an immediate reaction by coughing and saying something that sounded very much like a very naughty curse. He slowly pushed himself to his feet just as Will got his reaction from Kristen.
"God, Damn it!" Kristen mumbled, brushing her dark blue hair out of her face. Her hand had a bruise along the knuckles, and she winced as she flexed her sore fingers, "What the hell's going on?"
"I don't know..." Will replied, "But those people came, remember?"
"Yeah..." Shiro added, "And our parents locked us in the room, so that we wouldn't get hurt."
"Then those people got in anyway..." Hikari said, "Then I blacked out..."
"Oh yeah!" Kristen smiled slightly, "I got one of them good in the jaw... And I think Shiro managed to break one of their noses."
Shiro grinned, "Yep. But there was too many of them and I remember being hit in the back of the neck by something." He rubbed his neck.
"So where are we?" Kristen asked, looking around the dark chamber.
"Probably captured by that Sin guy..." Will answered, "I think I heard one of them say something about him, and how some plan was going smoothly or something..."
Shiro and Kristen both cursed in unison. Hikari sighed and Will rubbed his eyes again, wishing he had his glasses. Now they remembered. Sin was going to use them as hostages to get Cloud.
"Well not anymore..." Shiro replied, "We're going to get out of here. Lets find the door."
The teenagers nodded and spread out into different directions through the darkness. After a few minutes Hikari called, "Over here you guy's, I found it."
The others ran up to her and quieted down, just as they heard a pair of voices outside the door, "Sin wants us to check on them and see if they're still unconscious..." One of the voices stated.
"Shhhh." Kristen brought a hand to her lips as she turned to Shiro. He nodded, realizing what she wanted to do and pushed past Will and Hikari to get on one side of the door. Kristen got on the other and the two pressed their backs against the wall. She motioned for Will and Hikari to get out of sight and they complied, disappearing into the darkness of the room.
"What does Sin want with a bunch of useless kids anyway?" The other voice asked, as the small beeping of someone inserting an input code into a control panel came through the door and to the two waiting teens ears.
"Who knows. Maybe he wants to use them like he does that other one..." The first voice answered, "Ah damn, what's the last two numbers again?"
'Other one?' Shiro thought, 'They must mean Koh!' He looked to Kristen who was obviously thinking the same thing.
"7 and 0." The second voice replied, "That other one is creepy... His room is on the second level right? I always try and stay clear of him.... he makes me more nervous that Sin does."
Kristen and Shiro exchanged confused glances at this statement, wondering what it could have meant. The sound of two last numbers being imputed into the control panel met their ears and they backed up a few steps, waiting for the door to open.
The door shifted open, and in walked the first guard. He wore a dark blue vested uniform, and a black helmet. He was unarmed, and totally unprepared.
Shiro tackled the man as soon as he walked through the door, taking him to the floor easily. Shiro was quite strong, taking after his father in that aspect, and was a bit bigger than the guard who had decided to come in first. One swing to the gut rendered the man unconscious.
"What's going on in there?!" The second called, unable to see much in the dark room. He saw his comrade taken down and immediately dashed in, his gun drawn.
Kristen smirked as she stuck her foot out, catching the second guards shin. He tripped and fell face first, and she kicked at the side of his head with her boots, which were mettle tipped and could cause a lot of damage. The mettle of her boots met the mettle of his helmet... He was out cold in a matter of seconds.
"Ok, you can come out you two..." Shiro said into the darkness. His two friends that had hidden themselves in the shadows suddenly seemed to materialize, stepping into the little bit of light they had.
Kristen knelt besides the man she had taken out and grabbed a set of card keys that were hanging from his belt. She also found a handgun, and a small dagger.
"Here." She said, handing the dagger to Will, "I don't know exactly, but just in case we need to use it..."
"Will come here." Shiro said, "His vest is too small for me. Put it on. I have a plan."
"What?!" Will asked, walking over to Shiro.
"Just do it." Shiro paused and turned to Kristen, "Can you fit in his?"
Kristen looked it over, "Yeah. I can manage..."
"Wait a second, why me?" Will asked.
"Listen, I won't fit in either of these guys' uniforms... Im too big. And Hikari is too small. so that leaves you and Kristen. Put on their vests, and get their helmets on. I have a plan."
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"Cloud... calm down!" Tyra pleaded, just as the angered Light-Feather punched another hole in the wall.
"Calm down!?" Cloud yelled, "Damn it Tyra! I should have been here! Sin has Rain! And the others!"
"What would you have done!?" Ryuji said, walking up besides Tyra. They were in the main room of the base, the injured were all resting in the infirmary... All of them would live, thank God, but they were each hurt pretty badly. None of them would be able to pilot their zoids any time soon.
Izumi was the only one that had woken up, and had told them that Sin had a new recruit that kept his face hidden behind a cloak. This recruit, along with some of Sins own men, had stormed into the base and opened fire. She had stalled them while the others had gone to protect the kids. When it was discovered that they had no chance Brad had punched out the controls to the kids bedroom door, so that it wouldn't open. Unfortunately, after a while they still managed to get in and take them.
"Ryuji's right Cloud..." Zack stated, as calmly as possible, "What would you have done? If you would have been here, they probably would have killed us all and taken both you and Rain."
Cloud punched another hole into the wall and let his arm stay half buried in the plaster. They were right, "But... I could have at least helped..."
"No, you know that's not true..." Tyra replied. She sighed and brushed a bit of her hair from her face... Why did this always happen to them?
"He's going to use her..." Cloud sobbed, still facing the wall. He let his head rest against it, "I just feel it..."
"Now we don't know that for sure...." Doc said. He, Ayane, and Chris were sitting on one couch. Ayane was silent, and Chris was just sitting there, still unsure about some things.
Rei, Goji, and Hiro sat on another couch, each pondering his own thoughts. Hiro was angered at himself, just as much as Cloud was for not being there... and he hated Sin for what he had done. First Sin takes Koh, his son... Then Rain, his wife...
The third couch was occupied by Nadia, Jessie and Zack. Nadia was crying, Jessie was silent and Zack was arguing with Cloud at the moment.
Rion, Bit, and Jemie were in the infirmary. Jemie was doing everything he possible could to keep himself from breaking down with worry over Orihime. Rion and Bit were devastated over Leena.
"I do know it Doc!" Cloud sighed, "He's going to turn her into a Demi- human again... I can feel it..."
Nadia let out a sob and Jessie tried to comfort her as much as possible. She pushed herself away from him and jumped up, dashing quickly out of the room and out the door.
"Nadia!" Jessie was about to get up and chase her, but Zack grabbed his arm and held him back.
"She won't go anywhere..." Zack stated. Jessie shot a very quick look of annoyance at his father and pulled away, shuffling out the door behind Nadia.
Everyone was silent for a while, and finally Cloud turned around and faced the group. His arm was cut and bloody, and was dripping down over his even worse knuckles. He had wet streaks leading from his eyes down his cheeks, and his face was covered in a look of despaired.
"I know where those coordinates are." He stated quietly, "Im going. I know what he wants."
"Cloud!" Rei yelled, "Be reasonable!"
"Shut up Rei!" Cloud yelled, his eyes flashing.
"Cloud, we don't know what he really wants." Goji stated.
"Yes we do." Cloud replied, "You all know just as well as I do what he wants."
Everyone was silent for a few moments, and Hiro looked up. Yes, they knew.
"The Demon..." Cloud whispered now, his head hanging low and facing the ground, "The Tenshi..." He paused, clenching his fists causing even more blood to run down his arm, "And The Ryuu..." With this he brought a hand up to his heart and felt for the beat. Ever sense then... ever since that time when he wasn't a human, and wasn't a zoid... it had felt different. His heart beat had felt hollow... uneven... and different.
After some time Cloud looked up, his hand still on his chest and said, "Im going. I'll make an exchange. He'll have to set the kids, Ori and Naomi free if he wants me."
"Cloud!" Hiro stood, walking up to his brother-in-law, "You can't go. We can save them... the kids, Ori, Naomi..." He paused, "And Rain."
"Hiro, listen to me." Cloud stated coldly, "Im going. You aren't stopping me."
"I can try." Hiro replied.
Cloud actually smiled for a brief second, looking Hiro in the eyes, "Now I know why Rain loves you so much..."
Hiro was confused for a brief second, unsure by what Cloud meant, "Cloud... Im going with you."
Cloud shook his head, but was stopped from saying anything by Hiro.
"I know exactly where those coordinates lead." Hiro added.
"Yeah. I figured you would." Cloud replied.
"So where do they lead?" Goji suddenly cut in.
Cloud and Hiro looked at each other briefly, "Luke's old castle..." The stated in perfect unison...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~End of chapter 16~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Authors note: Oh my God... I just remembered!
I have Finals next week! NOOOOOOOO.
Monday is a full day, where all the teachers review...
Tuesday is half a day, when we take our 1st and 2nd hour finals...
Wensday is a half day, and we take our 3rd and 4th hour finals...
And, Thursday.... You guessed it, is a half day where we take out 5th and 6th hour finals...
But then on friday we have no school...
Im gonna cry... I don't wanna take either of my 1st or 2nd hour finals... 1st hour is science, and most of the Final is going to be on Astrology. Damn. We had so much confusing crap @_@ and second hour is Gym. I hate gym. We have a few written exams on the games we've played... and then the dreaded running (An endurance test damn it!) I hate running... And there's 100 of us in there taking these tests at the same time! Man... I don't wanna run... I hate it sooooooooo much.... 15 minutes is to long to have all 4 gym teachers yelling at you to keep up the pace... (I hate that too. My Gym teacher adds more time to our running if we slow down. I swear I've almost passed out more then once because a bunch of preps walked and she kept adding time... @_@ One poor girl did black out and get sick.) I mean come on... Im thin, but still kinda out of shape... to much running...
Oh God... WISH ME LUCK!
I brought my wood-tech project back to life (Yay) and it's almost finished.
Himeko: You don't have a wood-tech class in your middle school? Mine had one, cept it was just called Tech. I took it in 8th grade because it's not open for 7th graders. I didn't really want it this year, but we have like, the largest freshmen class that the school's ever had (I go to a really really big school) and most of us didn't get a choice in our electives this year because there just wasn't enough room for everybody. (I wanted art, but.... didn't work out)
Anyways, I've been kinda busy (My mom's making me draw some pictures that I really don't feel like drawing for her friend at work @_@) And I've been slightly (Not too bad) sick. My sister has had the computer for every day within the last week. Oh, and I've been working on an original Anime story that I plan on posting soon.
Ok, enough babbling on, here's the next chapter.
CHAPTER 16
Will groaned slightly bringing an unsteady hand up to his closed eyes. He rubbed them as he turned onto his stomach, feeling the cold stone floor underneath him. Coughing slightly his eyes fluttered open, revealing a dark, tourchlit room, 'Or dungeon' he thought. He pushed himself onto his hands and knees, and looked around. His vision was a bit fuzzy, after all, he didn't have his glasses on, but he could tell that there were three other people lying in the room, each one he guessed was unconscious.
Slowly he shuffled over to the first person, and recognized her immediately as Hikari. He shook her shoulder gently, "Hikari. Come on, wake up..."
The young fourteen year old moaned as Will continued to shake her. She opened her eyes and looked up at his worried face, "Will?"
"Yeah. Are you ok?" He watched as she sat up, rubbing her sore head. It was hard for him to tell in the dark, damp room, especially since his vision was blurry without his glasses, but it looked like a nice bruise had formed on the side of her face.
Hikari nodded as she looked around, a bit confused, "Will, where are we?"
"I don't know." Will replied, shuffling over to the next body. Hikari went to his side and nodded, "Shiro."
"You wake him up, I'll try to wake up Kristen." Will stated, going over to Kristen.
Hikari nudged Shiro carefully, and he showed an immediate reaction by coughing and saying something that sounded very much like a very naughty curse. He slowly pushed himself to his feet just as Will got his reaction from Kristen.
"God, Damn it!" Kristen mumbled, brushing her dark blue hair out of her face. Her hand had a bruise along the knuckles, and she winced as she flexed her sore fingers, "What the hell's going on?"
"I don't know..." Will replied, "But those people came, remember?"
"Yeah..." Shiro added, "And our parents locked us in the room, so that we wouldn't get hurt."
"Then those people got in anyway..." Hikari said, "Then I blacked out..."
"Oh yeah!" Kristen smiled slightly, "I got one of them good in the jaw... And I think Shiro managed to break one of their noses."
Shiro grinned, "Yep. But there was too many of them and I remember being hit in the back of the neck by something." He rubbed his neck.
"So where are we?" Kristen asked, looking around the dark chamber.
"Probably captured by that Sin guy..." Will answered, "I think I heard one of them say something about him, and how some plan was going smoothly or something..."
Shiro and Kristen both cursed in unison. Hikari sighed and Will rubbed his eyes again, wishing he had his glasses. Now they remembered. Sin was going to use them as hostages to get Cloud.
"Well not anymore..." Shiro replied, "We're going to get out of here. Lets find the door."
The teenagers nodded and spread out into different directions through the darkness. After a few minutes Hikari called, "Over here you guy's, I found it."
The others ran up to her and quieted down, just as they heard a pair of voices outside the door, "Sin wants us to check on them and see if they're still unconscious..." One of the voices stated.
"Shhhh." Kristen brought a hand to her lips as she turned to Shiro. He nodded, realizing what she wanted to do and pushed past Will and Hikari to get on one side of the door. Kristen got on the other and the two pressed their backs against the wall. She motioned for Will and Hikari to get out of sight and they complied, disappearing into the darkness of the room.
"What does Sin want with a bunch of useless kids anyway?" The other voice asked, as the small beeping of someone inserting an input code into a control panel came through the door and to the two waiting teens ears.
"Who knows. Maybe he wants to use them like he does that other one..." The first voice answered, "Ah damn, what's the last two numbers again?"
'Other one?' Shiro thought, 'They must mean Koh!' He looked to Kristen who was obviously thinking the same thing.
"7 and 0." The second voice replied, "That other one is creepy... His room is on the second level right? I always try and stay clear of him.... he makes me more nervous that Sin does."
Kristen and Shiro exchanged confused glances at this statement, wondering what it could have meant. The sound of two last numbers being imputed into the control panel met their ears and they backed up a few steps, waiting for the door to open.
The door shifted open, and in walked the first guard. He wore a dark blue vested uniform, and a black helmet. He was unarmed, and totally unprepared.
Shiro tackled the man as soon as he walked through the door, taking him to the floor easily. Shiro was quite strong, taking after his father in that aspect, and was a bit bigger than the guard who had decided to come in first. One swing to the gut rendered the man unconscious.
"What's going on in there?!" The second called, unable to see much in the dark room. He saw his comrade taken down and immediately dashed in, his gun drawn.
Kristen smirked as she stuck her foot out, catching the second guards shin. He tripped and fell face first, and she kicked at the side of his head with her boots, which were mettle tipped and could cause a lot of damage. The mettle of her boots met the mettle of his helmet... He was out cold in a matter of seconds.
"Ok, you can come out you two..." Shiro said into the darkness. His two friends that had hidden themselves in the shadows suddenly seemed to materialize, stepping into the little bit of light they had.
Kristen knelt besides the man she had taken out and grabbed a set of card keys that were hanging from his belt. She also found a handgun, and a small dagger.
"Here." She said, handing the dagger to Will, "I don't know exactly, but just in case we need to use it..."
"Will come here." Shiro said, "His vest is too small for me. Put it on. I have a plan."
"What?!" Will asked, walking over to Shiro.
"Just do it." Shiro paused and turned to Kristen, "Can you fit in his?"
Kristen looked it over, "Yeah. I can manage..."
"Wait a second, why me?" Will asked.
"Listen, I won't fit in either of these guys' uniforms... Im too big. And Hikari is too small. so that leaves you and Kristen. Put on their vests, and get their helmets on. I have a plan."
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"Cloud... calm down!" Tyra pleaded, just as the angered Light-Feather punched another hole in the wall.
"Calm down!?" Cloud yelled, "Damn it Tyra! I should have been here! Sin has Rain! And the others!"
"What would you have done!?" Ryuji said, walking up besides Tyra. They were in the main room of the base, the injured were all resting in the infirmary... All of them would live, thank God, but they were each hurt pretty badly. None of them would be able to pilot their zoids any time soon.
Izumi was the only one that had woken up, and had told them that Sin had a new recruit that kept his face hidden behind a cloak. This recruit, along with some of Sins own men, had stormed into the base and opened fire. She had stalled them while the others had gone to protect the kids. When it was discovered that they had no chance Brad had punched out the controls to the kids bedroom door, so that it wouldn't open. Unfortunately, after a while they still managed to get in and take them.
"Ryuji's right Cloud..." Zack stated, as calmly as possible, "What would you have done? If you would have been here, they probably would have killed us all and taken both you and Rain."
Cloud punched another hole into the wall and let his arm stay half buried in the plaster. They were right, "But... I could have at least helped..."
"No, you know that's not true..." Tyra replied. She sighed and brushed a bit of her hair from her face... Why did this always happen to them?
"He's going to use her..." Cloud sobbed, still facing the wall. He let his head rest against it, "I just feel it..."
"Now we don't know that for sure...." Doc said. He, Ayane, and Chris were sitting on one couch. Ayane was silent, and Chris was just sitting there, still unsure about some things.
Rei, Goji, and Hiro sat on another couch, each pondering his own thoughts. Hiro was angered at himself, just as much as Cloud was for not being there... and he hated Sin for what he had done. First Sin takes Koh, his son... Then Rain, his wife...
The third couch was occupied by Nadia, Jessie and Zack. Nadia was crying, Jessie was silent and Zack was arguing with Cloud at the moment.
Rion, Bit, and Jemie were in the infirmary. Jemie was doing everything he possible could to keep himself from breaking down with worry over Orihime. Rion and Bit were devastated over Leena.
"I do know it Doc!" Cloud sighed, "He's going to turn her into a Demi- human again... I can feel it..."
Nadia let out a sob and Jessie tried to comfort her as much as possible. She pushed herself away from him and jumped up, dashing quickly out of the room and out the door.
"Nadia!" Jessie was about to get up and chase her, but Zack grabbed his arm and held him back.
"She won't go anywhere..." Zack stated. Jessie shot a very quick look of annoyance at his father and pulled away, shuffling out the door behind Nadia.
Everyone was silent for a while, and finally Cloud turned around and faced the group. His arm was cut and bloody, and was dripping down over his even worse knuckles. He had wet streaks leading from his eyes down his cheeks, and his face was covered in a look of despaired.
"I know where those coordinates are." He stated quietly, "Im going. I know what he wants."
"Cloud!" Rei yelled, "Be reasonable!"
"Shut up Rei!" Cloud yelled, his eyes flashing.
"Cloud, we don't know what he really wants." Goji stated.
"Yes we do." Cloud replied, "You all know just as well as I do what he wants."
Everyone was silent for a few moments, and Hiro looked up. Yes, they knew.
"The Demon..." Cloud whispered now, his head hanging low and facing the ground, "The Tenshi..." He paused, clenching his fists causing even more blood to run down his arm, "And The Ryuu..." With this he brought a hand up to his heart and felt for the beat. Ever sense then... ever since that time when he wasn't a human, and wasn't a zoid... it had felt different. His heart beat had felt hollow... uneven... and different.
After some time Cloud looked up, his hand still on his chest and said, "Im going. I'll make an exchange. He'll have to set the kids, Ori and Naomi free if he wants me."
"Cloud!" Hiro stood, walking up to his brother-in-law, "You can't go. We can save them... the kids, Ori, Naomi..." He paused, "And Rain."
"Hiro, listen to me." Cloud stated coldly, "Im going. You aren't stopping me."
"I can try." Hiro replied.
Cloud actually smiled for a brief second, looking Hiro in the eyes, "Now I know why Rain loves you so much..."
Hiro was confused for a brief second, unsure by what Cloud meant, "Cloud... Im going with you."
Cloud shook his head, but was stopped from saying anything by Hiro.
"I know exactly where those coordinates lead." Hiro added.
"Yeah. I figured you would." Cloud replied.
"So where do they lead?" Goji suddenly cut in.
Cloud and Hiro looked at each other briefly, "Luke's old castle..." The stated in perfect unison...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~End of chapter 16~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Authors note: Oh my God... I just remembered!
I have Finals next week! NOOOOOOOO.
Monday is a full day, where all the teachers review...
Tuesday is half a day, when we take our 1st and 2nd hour finals...
Wensday is a half day, and we take our 3rd and 4th hour finals...
And, Thursday.... You guessed it, is a half day where we take out 5th and 6th hour finals...
But then on friday we have no school...
Im gonna cry... I don't wanna take either of my 1st or 2nd hour finals... 1st hour is science, and most of the Final is going to be on Astrology. Damn. We had so much confusing crap @_@ and second hour is Gym. I hate gym. We have a few written exams on the games we've played... and then the dreaded running (An endurance test damn it!) I hate running... And there's 100 of us in there taking these tests at the same time! Man... I don't wanna run... I hate it sooooooooo much.... 15 minutes is to long to have all 4 gym teachers yelling at you to keep up the pace... (I hate that too. My Gym teacher adds more time to our running if we slow down. I swear I've almost passed out more then once because a bunch of preps walked and she kept adding time... @_@ One poor girl did black out and get sick.) I mean come on... Im thin, but still kinda out of shape... to much running...
Oh God... WISH ME LUCK!