The Winds of Change Ch3

From: "Dracahl Nailo"
Date: Sun Jan 19, 2003 5:39 pm
Subject: Mah Intro

(Vash) I was watching Tv in my Dorm, waiting for Fuko to get back with Pizza, I was slowley polishing my Gun, while watching Undergrads. Then the door opened and Fuko walked in.

"Hey Steel." She said.

"Hi Kirisawa." I said back.

"Pizza here."

"Well took you long enouph."

"There was this cute guy and well."

"OK OK, Give me pizza." I said getting up placing my gun on my desk. I walkd over grabbing one pizza box and returning to my seat. I opened it to find Pepperoni and Bacon thin Crust MMMMM my fav.

"Thanks Fuko, I'll get pizza tomarrow." I said starting on peace one.

"No prob Vash." She said plopping down in her chair. Then a knocking sound, So I went to the door. It was Rocco from the Alpha Alpha Frat.

"Hey Vash give me food." He said.

"We don't have any." I said closing the door on him.

"I smell food in there, you wouldn't be holding out on Rocco."

"No go away, I have a gun remember."

"Fine I will be back."

"Ya whatever." I said sitting down, how ironic that the anoying Frat guy from Undergrads is also named Rocco. I sat down and continued my food.

Then the door bursted open and my twin brother Knives walked in.

"Hey Bro, I need money, and OOOO pizza, and Helloooo Fuko nice to see you again."

"Fuck you Knives." Fuko said.

"Sausey, Yoink." He said grabbing a peace of Pizza.

"Knives I just gave you money yesturday, what did you do with it."

"Uhhhhh..... Alchohal for end of Term Party."

"End of Term isn't for 5 days."

"Well Pre-End of Term Party, and we drank it all yesturday."

"How they hell do you drink 500 bucks worth of Alcohal."

"I had help."

"Rocco and Brian..."

"And others."

I just shook my head.

"Well I don't got any cash right now."

"Damn, well thanks for the pizza, Fuko as Hot as always ya got any cash."

"Yes."

"Can I have it."

"No, fuck you."

"MMMM Spicy."

"Pig."

"I meant the pizza."

"Knives go away, you have a frat house go to it."

"Ya fetch boy." Fuko said tossing Two bucks out the door.

"Mine!!!" He said leaping out the door. I got up and closed and locked the door.

"My Brother is a fruit."

"You can say that again."

"My Brother is a Fruit."

"I didn't really mean say it again."

"I know."

"Bye Vash!!"

"Go Away Knives!"

"......ok....."

From: "shiningsun_820"
Date: Mon Jan 20, 2003 8:32 am
Subject: Time to Clock in.

I walked down to the old bus station in New Clareview thinking i could catch a shuttle to work. No such luck as it was late. So i was forced to run, and like the wind carried me i made for the Skyreach centre.

"Your late" Cried my boss, "I oughtta GUT you".

"Try it fat ass" i replied.

I walked out into the bright lights and loud music of the central battle complex, same old same old. My opponent tonight was supposed to be some tough guy from New Avalon(England).

The lights went dark and the ring lights began to glow. I looked at my enemy with a stern look but he lust grinned his cocky grin.

The huge monitors at the top of the dome began to show pictures of us in the form of a classic "Fight of the century" style. The announcer began walking over to me and i thought to myself, "Hurry up i need money".

"So Domoen, think you can take your 100th win in a row tonight"

"Screw off"

"Uhh....moving along, this fight is worth $100,000, what will you do if you win it?"

"Shove it up your ass"

"Fine im going" He angrily replied.

He walked to my opponent in his little robotic way.

"So as for you, Mr?"

"Call me T"

"All right then Mr.T, what is your prediction for this fight?"

"My prediction.............PAIN"

"WOW HE'S ALL FIRED UP FOLKS"

Finally the battle was ready to start, as i sighed a sigh of relief. We took our places in the ring as always and a loud "BONG" sounded signalizing the start of the fight.

He stalked towards me carrying his large mettalic club. I didn't move. He swung his club wildly as was to be expected from such a big dumb brute.

I Easily dodged his club, and grabbed the hilt of my greatsword, Unsheathing it. I blazed across the arena at such an inhuman speed he could hardly follow. I then Began to royally lay the smack down on his candy ass with the blunt end of my greatsword. Battered and bruised i left T to lay there dead as i always did to my opponents.

I walked out of the ring ignoring the cheering and announcers, i grabbed my prize money and i left. I took the picture of my sister out and stared at it again, then placed it back.

As i Approaced my house i noticed the neighbourhood had been encased with a thick eerie blue fog.

I thought this was very puzzeling.......

From: "Delith"
Date: Mon Jan 20, 2003 10:47 am
Subject: Quota...

I sat in my cubicle at work, plugged inot hte network. I had already filed my quota of network adapters that were needed, and where, so I was basically just surfing.

Lucien....

I stopped moving on the system. Plugged in, you couldn't technically "hear" or anything. However, you could be attacked, so I drew one of my handguns, and slid the top back, then released it.

Lucien....

I spun, going to one knee, and leveling my gun. Nothing. I stood, and slipped down a virtual corridor, a blank space on the system. I was now in another part of the world, Japan or something close to there. I put away my weapon, and began to move around again.

I was looking on information about minotaurs. Having been attacked last night, I was curious.

LUCIEN!!!!!

I screamed, and then, I fell unconscious, sliding into a coma-like state, and I heard warning buzzers everywhere...

***LUCIEN POV***

I hit the ground so hard I felt it shake the entire wall. I stabbed Excalibur into the ground, and slowly levered myself up, while I heard Yami screaming at me.

This thing was tough.

It was some kind of magic resistant Golem, and it would not stay down. It spoke then, in Deus' voice. "Cease this vain battle, fools. Thou shalt never be rid of me."

I glared at the Golem, and lifted Excalibur in a two-handed grip. "I don't think so..."

Yami and I rushed the thing, Kai and Miyu not that far behind. We jumped at the same point, and hit it at the same time.

There was a shuddering silence, and then, the thing exploded, and I mean exploded, into hundreds of fragments...

***CARL POV***

I sat up slowly, and felt behind my right ear. The plug was there, but capped with a sustainer, something designed to keep a plugged in user from dieing when they lose themselves. I pulled it out, and slowly stood, while a few people helped me out.

"What...happened?" I asked.

"You screamed, and then went into coma."

"Coma?"

"Yeah, all vital's below 4%. Coma, right?"

"Yeah, that's coma. Look, I did quota toay, can I leave?"

"Yeah, go."

I slowly left the room, and then, as my strength returned, walked a little faster. I grabbed my jacket, and my floatboard. My floatboard looked like an old-fashioned snowboard, but with a shiny black bottom. That black surface held me suspended while I skimmed along through the air.

I went to the roof, and took a breath of clean air. Despite Zanarkand's size, it was amazingly clean. I locked my feet into my floatboard, and ran the cable up my leg, under my jacket, and plugged in. Now, the floatboard ran off my own awareness.

I jumped...

I fell, straight down the side of the office building, for almost thirty stories, and then I crouched, and leaned back, stopping my self, while still moving forward. It was a rush, to fall like that. Now, I was moving at 80 kilometer an hour, and I flashed by other buildings, some so huge that I wanted to stop, land and do it again, but couldn't.

I saw some flashing lights below me, and started to wonder what was up. I slowed, and floated down. I lifted my board so that it was in front of me, grabbed the tip, and unplugged, falling the last foot to the ground.

"What happened?" I asked curiously.

"Guy fell from the building. Dead on impact." a cop responded, hefting his pulsing weapon.

Along the weapon there were blue pulsing veins, and I knew it was a plasma weapon.

"Oh. Tough luck. See ya."

I plugged back in, and hopped up onto my board, my feet re-locking into place, and I was gone...

From Chys Lattes

After Class Marick POV

The same damn lecture. What is up with this? NO-I didn't flunk and have to do it over for credit-this guy is just ranting on about something he has already drilled into our heads last week. Oh, how boring! Bad enough I had recorded it and memorized the damn speech, phrase for...weeehl, you get the idea. I kicked back on the couch to relax, listening to the recording once more, and remembering exactly what he'd said the first time, only at a slower pace. I think it was just old age or something, but our teacher was losing it. Maybe his marbles, maybe his ajenda, I dunno, but whatever it was was gone by lunch hour.

Ran and I were sitting on the couch in the lounge at the college, scarfing down watered down burritos and trying to watch the little vid screen in the corner of the room, blaring something about Much more music, or some odd show, and keep up a healty conversation while studying for next classes tests. I hate when it's the testing time. There's nothing to do but study. Booorin'!

I could have been out somewhere, like the park or something, just enjoying my day, but nooo, I wanted to pass the tests so I had to plug in to my handheld and study fever. Ran didn't have his handheld with him, he decided he'd read the book instead. He being the 'catcher', was more informed of certain 'theoretical' side effects from the overuse of plugging, had decided to forego that for a while. Ran was going to take it mildly until the end of the day, then he'd plug in for a little time with Yuri and Ryu somewhere on the digital realm. Sometimes I joined them there, but I figured today I had better study, seeing as last night I had that little episode with a certain history chip and forgot to study...

But seeing as I had the damn lecture down, I figured I would pass the test, when said time came. Ran wasn't so certain. "You're too confident, Marick."

"No, that's why I am STILL studying, moron!" I slapped him alongside the head. He almost choked on his food. Oops...

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAH! KILL IT!" A scream ran through the 'female use only' dorms, (Ran and I called it the 'Witch's Hall') which were connected to the large Star Tech building by a covered walkway. I stood and tossed my burrito, the taste of which I really didn't care for anyway, into the nearest trash recepticle and ran to the hallway to see a woman racing, her high heels clicking loudly on the red bricks, from the women's dorms.

Ran came up behind me and grabbed her blue sleeved arm. She tried to get away, mumbling something about killing a giant monster, then finally calmed enough to let Ran hold her a moment. "What happened?" He asked.

She shook her head and pointed, covering her red lips with her right hand. She was crying a river and I really wondered what the hell had scared her so badly.

"It's in my room! Oh, how did it get there! Get rid of it! Now!"

"What is it?"

"It's a monster! That's what it is!"

'Well, it's probably a mouse.' Ran mouthed to me over her shoulder, then continued to hold her, stroking her hair to calm her.

"I can go look." I said. The worst I thought would happen was she'd have a squished mouse on her carpet when I got through with it. Ok, so I'd be nice and dispose of the rodent's corpse, but still, it would leave a squishy bloody mess...

"Room 325?"

She nodded. That was where she had come running from. I walked down the hall and into her room, slowly opening the door, so that if I scared the mouse out of hiding, I could stomp on it quickly and get this overwith before my next class. I walked in and didn't see a damn thing. Then I noticed the smell...that wasn't perfume... not hairspray... it wasn't even coming from the damn trash can. So what the hell was it?? I opened the door to her bathroom and thought I saw something moving under the sink. I switched the light on and gasped.

THAT WAS NO MOUSE!

Whatever the fvck it was, it was no rodent, that was for damn certain.

It was chewing on something in its claws. Yes, that's what they were, claws. Not feet, not paws, C-L-A-W-S.

This was no creature I had ever seen before. It really was monstrous, a body like a rat, but not, as it was as large as a small dog. It just about bumped it's head on the bottom of the sink though, as its neck was like a foot longer than the rest of its body, which, by the way, was covered in some sick looking green fur...

Well, no stomping of this creature... I pulled my gun from my pocket and aimed at the creature which was still gorging itself on whatever the hell it had in its massive claws. I clicked the safety off and it seemed startled, looking up at me through red, glowing eyes. It's long, scaled tail twitched and it began to hiss at me, guarding whatever it had behind it, I assume. I fired off a shot and the damn thing dodged it! I let loose another one and hit it through the skull. It collapsed against the bottom of the shower wall and slumped in a dead heap, blood oozing from its body like a little river. The walls were covered in blood behind where I had shot it. Looks like the girl would have some cleaning up to do...

I stepped forward an nudged it to roll it over, whatever it was, I dind't have a name for it. It looked like a rat and a lizard. Would love to have had one of those for a pet when I was little, that's for damn sure. Too bad I had to kill the thing, but I really didn't have the means to capture it right off hand... hmm... where there's one... is there more? I checked the rest of the room but didn't find any others. The rest of the apartment was clean too, well, in that sense of the word. There was a nasty trail of blood leading from the bedroom, under the bed, to where the rat-thing had died.

There was nothing under the bed, thankfully. Back to the bathroom- What the hell? It was gone! The body was gone! Ka-poof! Nothing there any more, but a wall and floor covered in blood. Wicked weird...wait, there was something under the sink still... oh, ok, that was the grossest thing I had ever witnessed, for absolute certainty. There was a human foot under the sink, with several teeth marks embedded in the bloody flesh. Sick, sick oh, I thought I was gonna hurl. I didn't, but I thought I would.

I went back out to the hall and found Ran leaning against the wall, the woman still in his arms, their mouths connected in a french kiss. Wonderful.

"Ran...yo, asshole!"

Ran looked up and gasped, then said, after parting, "Uh, yeah, you kill the mouse?"

"It wasn't a mouse...Ran, man, we gotta talk...someone died in there."

"Someone died?" The woman asked, brushing her auburn hair over her shoulder. "No one died, I don't have a roommate or anything, so it was just me in there."

"Well then, how do you explain the disembodied foot under your bathroom sink?" The woman paled and ran into her room, only to come out screaming once more into Ran's arms. Ran looked a little pale and began to stroke her hair again. While she had gone to check, I had told Ran EXACTLY what I had seen. He'd said 'I would have nightmares for a week or so.'

Well, shit.

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