Sorry it too long again, it cant be helped. Me not having a great time at
the mo, so I am being very slow. Though the only thing I could do was the
poems, which almost killed me..don't ask why. The plot for the vampire
story should be up shortly. So hopefully you can give suggestions and all
that, bi bi 4 now hope to c you soon. Xxxxx
Yuri: Oh crap I think she's dead
Kieth: Nahhh she isn't, shes a vampire she cant die that easily
Yuri: Vampire?! Ahhhhhhhh *runs off screaming like a girl*
Kieth: heh heh heh
Chapter 4
Bite the bullet
'Lu, Lu, LU!!' Ben shook her harshly, he was worried. His skin was pale which contrasted dramatically with his dark hair. He stopped when she opened her eyes. 'Bloody hell, you scared the life outa me. Geez!'
Lubeana breathed heavily, her lungs and muscles aching. Her skin was devoid of colour, almost as if the hue had been drained leaving the minimal tone. She felt guilty and shamed, what had brought her to the conclusion she could not tell; most likely it was her frail frame of mind because of her weakening.
She looked down at her lap not returning his gaze but what she saw was worse. In her hand was a black rose. All the memories and pain re-awoke in her and she screamed, what else was she to do when the man who had almost killed her called her one of the same?
Ben knew something bad had happened, but what was so grotesque about a rose? Lu was hardly breathing now, possibly from shock or the loss of energy. This worried him even more, surely there wasn't anything dangerous around here anymore. Ben asked no questions, he knew Lu well enough to know that if she didn't want to tell someone something, then she wouldn't.
He stayed silent, as not to startle her anymore, she looked really ill. He must take her back home and let her recover, but what had caused this? Gently he clasped his hands around her waist to pull her up on to her feet; it wasn't a difficult task as she was quite light. To his amazement when he held her she seemed to respond. She embraced and pulled him closer to her as if he shielded her from some unknown force.
'Come on now, I'm gonna take you back home. You need rest. You cant stay out here, you need some life to be put back into you.' When he said this she shook her head vigorously.
Ben sighed, she obviously didn't want to go back into the house and be worried about again. He could see where she was coming from, he hated when people fussed over nothing. But he supposed they had good cause to in the long run, especially if you had been fighting giant flame-throwing zombies.
He remembered the weird bottle a traveller had given him just before he arrived at the village. He pulled it out of his pocket and offered it to her. She looked at him blankly, slightly dazed, and then back at the bottle. It was giving off a gentle light, though it was only a glass vessel, it was definitely glowing.
'It's to help you, and bring a bit of colour into your cheeks.' He presented it to her again and she accepted it gingerly, still clinging to Ben for support. Lu drank the silvery-purple liquid and breathed hard after consuming the last drop. A horrible thought passed through Ben's mind, what if it was harmful to her? Would she got worse because of it? Shit! He should have paid attention to that.
When she started to cough, he jumped out of his skin and muttered obscenities in concern. Lu laughed at his anxiety and smiled. She felt a warming sensation pulsing through her body, which made her let go of Ben and put the weight back on to her own feet, and balanced herself steadily.
Lu coughed again and smiled weakly at him. 'Thank you. I went a bit weird there didn't I?' Ben nodded, his eyes not leaving her.
'What happened, Lu?' It worries me.' He said this almost shyly. Lu knew that she would have to tell someone, should she trust him? She went over these things in her head. Could he understand? After a moment she decided yes he will have to understand.
Lu motioned Ben towards the path in which they had unknowingly started walking, he got her meaning and strolled slowly and quietly with her.
'As I left you in the house, a dream came to me. It was one I had over ten years ago and as usual with most of these they become very detailed and intricate. So I sat down by the tree where you found me and let the dream flow through my mind...'
******* Alice sat quietly thinking to herself while the men beside her discussed the creature that had attacked Lu.
'Do we have any idea who would send it? Do you think they were after her?' Zhuzhen shrugged his shoulders, if he could answer the questions he would have, but he had no suggestions to give because he simply didn't know.
Alice stirred, talking in her gentle voice. 'Do you think that it could all start up again after all this time..are we so sure we killed it?' Her voice was troubled and it wavered slightly.
Yuri raised an eyebrow at her, almost in disgust. She imagined the things he would say; 'Of course we killed it, I was there to bump it off. I always finish the job' But he stayed silent and Alice erased the thought from her mind.
'So who is it?' Alice asked trying to get the annoying look off Yuri's face. None answered, they were back in deep thought again. Alice wanted to know more about the girl, surely the old man wont clam up about that. 'Zhuzhen. do you know what Lu can do?' He looked at her not understanding her question and she rephrased it. 'She has such an aura about her which I don't comprehend, do you know the extent of her "talents"?' He understood that time, it must be his old age.
'She has brilliant fighting skills, her reflexes are sharp and her magic skills are exceedingly good -if she would just practice- and one which I am not too sure of. I have not seen it before.. She can lift and lower objects, shut doors and move things. She can call items from the other rooms in the house and they will come to her..'
Yuri looked at him almost horrified, 'She can lift objects without even touching them?!' Zhuzhen nodded.
'Hmmmm, does she do this without noticing?' Alice smiled sweetly and Zhuzhen signalled that it was true. She thought and grinned at herself attentively. Telekinesis....
************
'So that's why you screamed, that was some nightmare, huh?' Ben looked amazed. What an evil dream.
'But that's just it, it wasn't a dream!' He stopped, he couldn't quite understand what she was saying. Though so far he was doing well- for a man. He had been so kind to her, she had told him all the things she felt and thought and it had been met with kind gestures and words. Lu felt for the first time she had a real friend.
'Well if it wasn't a dream what the hell was it? I mean its not every day your dreams become real is it?' Ben started to laugh at the end of the sentence. Who talks about dreams coming true? Not in this day and age anyway.
Lu smiled. 'Who knows what it was? Though the answer to your remark.. I didn't think that you were real when you popped into my head did I? And then there you were as real as..err..as..'
'Trousers'
'What?!' Ben started to laugh again, she liked his laugh, she liked listening to his voice. Stop it.. You sound slushy, but in fact his voice was rather nice.
'Well trousers are real are they not?' Lubeana stared at him for a moment trying not to giggle, he laughed idiotically while walking backwards and tripped over a protruding root. This was the last straw. They roared with laughter and it took a while for them to stop.
The young couple stopped by the river, still giggling quietly. They leaned on the bridge wall and looked at the sun that had almost disappeared waiting for the entrance of its fellow moon, they talked a little more and gazed at the horizon.
'Lu are your dreams really that intense?'
'Yeah.. sometimes its a real pain. They wont go away once they start. It really pisses me off sometimes. Like that dream I had when you appeared that was really weird.'
'But that's different you were unconscious ...I heard what you said, when I was leaving.' She turned bright red, and averted her gaze. 'Hey don't worry I found it funny. Ahh come on.stop blushing I was having a laugh' Ben put his arm round her shoulder and gave her a friendly smile but removed it when she got even more embarrassed.
Then Ben came out with a question, he didn't mean for it to come out but it just happened.
'Lu why did you act so funny about my dad? Do you hold anything against him, you know for what he did?' Lu looked at him not wanting to answer, but she would have to one day, besides she wanted to talk about it, well sort of.
Slowly she sighed and began.
'It was lovely that day, the sun had been shining and the weather warm. I had just come back from my tutoring lesson with the mage of the village, I had just said goodbye to my best friend, Cara and I was walking back to my house. As I came towards it I saw that non of the lights were on and the door was unlocked.
'This was weird because mum was always in, usually tidying up, cooking the meal or reading one of her books. But no-one was there. As I walked in the door I could sense that something was wrong, very wrong and I couldn't understand it.
'The sun had gone down and it was getting really cold and I found that I was shivering. I looked round the room and everything was messy and upturned as if someone had been looking for something. I stood there I couldn't move, there was a horrible air about the place, and I felt scared.scared stiff to be exact.
'I heard someone at the door, they scrabbled at the handle as if having trouble and then they entered. I would have screamed but the sound died in my throat..It was my mother followed by my father, though it wasn't really them. I could tell that just from looking at them.
'Their posture was slumped and their feet dragged along the floor. They looked like marionettes tied to the stings of the puppeteer, they talked in possessed voices. They couldn't be my parents, I knew that, but I didn't know what else to think.
'They started to advance, I backed away and they told me to come with them and I would be safe. I wouldn't believe them, then suddenly a force stopped me moving. I struggled against it but it was too strong. In the end I got tired of the fight and the only thing left to do was scream.
'I cried until my throat was hoarse, it was then that I accepted my fate. if I was to die then I would do it fighting. I started shouting again, my screams were so high pitched they hurt my ears. But the screams of a child are always worst kind.
'Then someone stormed in, his coat out behind him and his hair a torment of hazel. I stopped screaming then, I stood still totally in awe of him. A girl came in shortly after, her skin was pale and her expression was anxious. The man shouted at my parent puppets, I'm not sure what he said because its all to vague now. But they went for him and he started to fight with them.
'The force did something and pulled my energy out of me and I fainted. Even though I was unconscious I could still see what was going on. The woman came towards me and picked me up, but the weird force did something to her. She almost fell but she steadied herself and put me on the chair beside her and she fought it too. And that was the last thing I recall.
'I cant remember how long I had been sleeping but when I woke I was in an old house. I had been washed and changed, but I ached all over. I gently walked over to the door and into the next room. There was the man and the woman who had saved me and there was another person. He was old and looked very wise.
'When they realised I was there they made me sit down so I didn't fall over. My head was filled with images of the night before, I knew that mum and dad were dead. They had been killed. I could tell, it could have been that my telepathy ability had awoken or it could have just been the way they looked at me.
'I sat in between Yuri and Alice and felt a love that I would only understand now, I held on to them both and wouldn't let go. This was the first time I had seen a man cry, I don't know why he did maybe it was guilt or something else, I was not sure. The old man had no emotions on his face except for the occasional tear that ran down his cheek.
'All to soon they left, and I stayed with the old man. I was taught everything I needed to know of the world and I buried my feelings deep down hoping that they wouldn't rise again. Years passed and my fighting skills strengthened as well as my telekinesis and telepathy. I thought nothing in the world could go wrong. Then came that bloody 7ft zombie and everything else you know.'
Ben stared at her, she had been through a lot, all in that little space of time. She had seen his dad cry, one thing that he himself had not experienced. What was he supposed say? She had told him everything that she had probably never told anyone else in her whole life. He decided to put his arm round her and she responded by putting her hand around his shoulders. This was her comfort and he wouldn't ever know how much that it meant to her.
They had been silent for a few minutes, Lu heard something rustle and a twig snap not far from them. She turned round but saw nothing.
'Did you hear something?' Ben shook his head and looked back at the distance. She must have been imagining things.
Just as he was about to say something a shot rang out. It sounded like a gun and it was very near to them. Lu turned in the direction of the noise and raised her hand and extended in front of her chest. With her other hand she reached up and gently moved it across and away from her. Ben stared bewildered. He heard a thud by the tree and watched Lubeana, who's face looked as if it was made of stone and devoid of emotion.
She lowered her hand and walked a few steps forward. Gently she took the shiny object which floated in the air and looked at it and rolled it between her index finger and her thumb. She handed the tiny commodity to Ben and he saw that it was a bullet.
Lu walked to where the noise had sounded, Ben was speechless and his mouth open. He followed slowly half in surprise and curiosity.
When she got to the tree, she saw a figure on the floor. She kicked the individual, she didn't do it hard but it was firm. She stood there with crossed arms looking very menacing. Well wouldn't you if that person had just tried to kill you?
'That really hurt.' The voice was that of a female, it had a gravelled tone to it. It sounded that of a person in command of herself and others but the situation didn't seem right. Lubeana said nothing, which made her stature and air to be very controlling.
Ben stared at Lu, she seemed to be concentrating very hard, after a moment of silence. The woman got up stiffly and looked face to face with her. None of them flinched or even moved, until the girl slowly put her hand in her pocket and pulled out a blade.
She was halfway though the thrust to stab her opponent when Lu held out her hand and the blade was wrenched out of the woman's palm and fell neatly in Lubeana's. Her hand raised and the girl was thrown into the tree which she had just fallen out of. She moaned again and Lu looked pleased at herself, she had mastered much.
Again Lu walked towards and stared at her with a cold smile that Ben never knew she had.
'I didn't do anything, it was shooting practice. You were just in the way.' The woman said, what made her say that? Lu hadn't said anything yet. But still she stared silently.
'I am Yelena, and the rest is no business to you.' Ben tapped Lu's arm, she turned and smiled, it was a different smile; one of calm and happiness.
'She's going mad! She's answering questions before you ask them.'
'How do you know that I am not asking her questions?' She smiled cheekily
'How are you....'
(Its amazing what you can do when you put your mind to it)
Ben jumped. 'You speak in her head?!' Lu's smile widened at his acknowledgement.
(Don't you remember me talking about my telepathic powers?)
It then dawned of him about what she had said and Lu proceeded but spoke out loud to Yelena.
'Why did you try and kill me?' Yelena stayed silent but looked to be going though two minds.
'I was sent, he wanted to get rid of you and after I was finished I was meant to put this with you.' From a small package she drew a black rose. The rose again, why a rose? 'I am truly sorry'
The Young couple looked at her with surprise, why would your assassin apologise for trying to kill you? This was all too weird. 'I was a cadet in the new armed forces and I "had promise" supposedly and this man came in looking for an assistant from our ranks, and he chose me. I have been following you for months in hope that you would lead me to the girl.'
'A spy?' The girl nodded
'I had no idea that I was meant to kill you, I just thought that it was a stake out mission, you know just to watch your movements. Then I got a message when I was nearing this village that I was to kill you as soon as I got the chance. I never thought that I would be faced with actually killing you.'
Lu sighed quietly. Why had everything that had happened been about someone killing her? She decided to leave the girl alone, she had seen into her mind and there was no malice there at all, she hadnt really want to kill her. Though that man , who the hell was he? Why did he want to kill her? It didn't make sense at all.
'Right, I think we should go and have a talk with Yuri's parents and Zhuzhen. Maybe they would be able to work things out.' She set off towards the house. ben looked uneasily at Yelena.
'You trust her, she tried to kill you lu, what the hell arte you thinking.'
(she's harmless)
'Listen to her. you may even learn something.' Yelena's gravelled tone again sounding quietly and she followed lu.
'L..lu.LU!!! Wait!'
Chapter 4
Bite the bullet
'Lu, Lu, LU!!' Ben shook her harshly, he was worried. His skin was pale which contrasted dramatically with his dark hair. He stopped when she opened her eyes. 'Bloody hell, you scared the life outa me. Geez!'
Lubeana breathed heavily, her lungs and muscles aching. Her skin was devoid of colour, almost as if the hue had been drained leaving the minimal tone. She felt guilty and shamed, what had brought her to the conclusion she could not tell; most likely it was her frail frame of mind because of her weakening.
She looked down at her lap not returning his gaze but what she saw was worse. In her hand was a black rose. All the memories and pain re-awoke in her and she screamed, what else was she to do when the man who had almost killed her called her one of the same?
Ben knew something bad had happened, but what was so grotesque about a rose? Lu was hardly breathing now, possibly from shock or the loss of energy. This worried him even more, surely there wasn't anything dangerous around here anymore. Ben asked no questions, he knew Lu well enough to know that if she didn't want to tell someone something, then she wouldn't.
He stayed silent, as not to startle her anymore, she looked really ill. He must take her back home and let her recover, but what had caused this? Gently he clasped his hands around her waist to pull her up on to her feet; it wasn't a difficult task as she was quite light. To his amazement when he held her she seemed to respond. She embraced and pulled him closer to her as if he shielded her from some unknown force.
'Come on now, I'm gonna take you back home. You need rest. You cant stay out here, you need some life to be put back into you.' When he said this she shook her head vigorously.
Ben sighed, she obviously didn't want to go back into the house and be worried about again. He could see where she was coming from, he hated when people fussed over nothing. But he supposed they had good cause to in the long run, especially if you had been fighting giant flame-throwing zombies.
He remembered the weird bottle a traveller had given him just before he arrived at the village. He pulled it out of his pocket and offered it to her. She looked at him blankly, slightly dazed, and then back at the bottle. It was giving off a gentle light, though it was only a glass vessel, it was definitely glowing.
'It's to help you, and bring a bit of colour into your cheeks.' He presented it to her again and she accepted it gingerly, still clinging to Ben for support. Lu drank the silvery-purple liquid and breathed hard after consuming the last drop. A horrible thought passed through Ben's mind, what if it was harmful to her? Would she got worse because of it? Shit! He should have paid attention to that.
When she started to cough, he jumped out of his skin and muttered obscenities in concern. Lu laughed at his anxiety and smiled. She felt a warming sensation pulsing through her body, which made her let go of Ben and put the weight back on to her own feet, and balanced herself steadily.
Lu coughed again and smiled weakly at him. 'Thank you. I went a bit weird there didn't I?' Ben nodded, his eyes not leaving her.
'What happened, Lu?' It worries me.' He said this almost shyly. Lu knew that she would have to tell someone, should she trust him? She went over these things in her head. Could he understand? After a moment she decided yes he will have to understand.
Lu motioned Ben towards the path in which they had unknowingly started walking, he got her meaning and strolled slowly and quietly with her.
'As I left you in the house, a dream came to me. It was one I had over ten years ago and as usual with most of these they become very detailed and intricate. So I sat down by the tree where you found me and let the dream flow through my mind...'
******* Alice sat quietly thinking to herself while the men beside her discussed the creature that had attacked Lu.
'Do we have any idea who would send it? Do you think they were after her?' Zhuzhen shrugged his shoulders, if he could answer the questions he would have, but he had no suggestions to give because he simply didn't know.
Alice stirred, talking in her gentle voice. 'Do you think that it could all start up again after all this time..are we so sure we killed it?' Her voice was troubled and it wavered slightly.
Yuri raised an eyebrow at her, almost in disgust. She imagined the things he would say; 'Of course we killed it, I was there to bump it off. I always finish the job' But he stayed silent and Alice erased the thought from her mind.
'So who is it?' Alice asked trying to get the annoying look off Yuri's face. None answered, they were back in deep thought again. Alice wanted to know more about the girl, surely the old man wont clam up about that. 'Zhuzhen. do you know what Lu can do?' He looked at her not understanding her question and she rephrased it. 'She has such an aura about her which I don't comprehend, do you know the extent of her "talents"?' He understood that time, it must be his old age.
'She has brilliant fighting skills, her reflexes are sharp and her magic skills are exceedingly good -if she would just practice- and one which I am not too sure of. I have not seen it before.. She can lift and lower objects, shut doors and move things. She can call items from the other rooms in the house and they will come to her..'
Yuri looked at him almost horrified, 'She can lift objects without even touching them?!' Zhuzhen nodded.
'Hmmmm, does she do this without noticing?' Alice smiled sweetly and Zhuzhen signalled that it was true. She thought and grinned at herself attentively. Telekinesis....
************
'So that's why you screamed, that was some nightmare, huh?' Ben looked amazed. What an evil dream.
'But that's just it, it wasn't a dream!' He stopped, he couldn't quite understand what she was saying. Though so far he was doing well- for a man. He had been so kind to her, she had told him all the things she felt and thought and it had been met with kind gestures and words. Lu felt for the first time she had a real friend.
'Well if it wasn't a dream what the hell was it? I mean its not every day your dreams become real is it?' Ben started to laugh at the end of the sentence. Who talks about dreams coming true? Not in this day and age anyway.
Lu smiled. 'Who knows what it was? Though the answer to your remark.. I didn't think that you were real when you popped into my head did I? And then there you were as real as..err..as..'
'Trousers'
'What?!' Ben started to laugh again, she liked his laugh, she liked listening to his voice. Stop it.. You sound slushy, but in fact his voice was rather nice.
'Well trousers are real are they not?' Lubeana stared at him for a moment trying not to giggle, he laughed idiotically while walking backwards and tripped over a protruding root. This was the last straw. They roared with laughter and it took a while for them to stop.
The young couple stopped by the river, still giggling quietly. They leaned on the bridge wall and looked at the sun that had almost disappeared waiting for the entrance of its fellow moon, they talked a little more and gazed at the horizon.
'Lu are your dreams really that intense?'
'Yeah.. sometimes its a real pain. They wont go away once they start. It really pisses me off sometimes. Like that dream I had when you appeared that was really weird.'
'But that's different you were unconscious ...I heard what you said, when I was leaving.' She turned bright red, and averted her gaze. 'Hey don't worry I found it funny. Ahh come on.stop blushing I was having a laugh' Ben put his arm round her shoulder and gave her a friendly smile but removed it when she got even more embarrassed.
Then Ben came out with a question, he didn't mean for it to come out but it just happened.
'Lu why did you act so funny about my dad? Do you hold anything against him, you know for what he did?' Lu looked at him not wanting to answer, but she would have to one day, besides she wanted to talk about it, well sort of.
Slowly she sighed and began.
'It was lovely that day, the sun had been shining and the weather warm. I had just come back from my tutoring lesson with the mage of the village, I had just said goodbye to my best friend, Cara and I was walking back to my house. As I came towards it I saw that non of the lights were on and the door was unlocked.
'This was weird because mum was always in, usually tidying up, cooking the meal or reading one of her books. But no-one was there. As I walked in the door I could sense that something was wrong, very wrong and I couldn't understand it.
'The sun had gone down and it was getting really cold and I found that I was shivering. I looked round the room and everything was messy and upturned as if someone had been looking for something. I stood there I couldn't move, there was a horrible air about the place, and I felt scared.scared stiff to be exact.
'I heard someone at the door, they scrabbled at the handle as if having trouble and then they entered. I would have screamed but the sound died in my throat..It was my mother followed by my father, though it wasn't really them. I could tell that just from looking at them.
'Their posture was slumped and their feet dragged along the floor. They looked like marionettes tied to the stings of the puppeteer, they talked in possessed voices. They couldn't be my parents, I knew that, but I didn't know what else to think.
'They started to advance, I backed away and they told me to come with them and I would be safe. I wouldn't believe them, then suddenly a force stopped me moving. I struggled against it but it was too strong. In the end I got tired of the fight and the only thing left to do was scream.
'I cried until my throat was hoarse, it was then that I accepted my fate. if I was to die then I would do it fighting. I started shouting again, my screams were so high pitched they hurt my ears. But the screams of a child are always worst kind.
'Then someone stormed in, his coat out behind him and his hair a torment of hazel. I stopped screaming then, I stood still totally in awe of him. A girl came in shortly after, her skin was pale and her expression was anxious. The man shouted at my parent puppets, I'm not sure what he said because its all to vague now. But they went for him and he started to fight with them.
'The force did something and pulled my energy out of me and I fainted. Even though I was unconscious I could still see what was going on. The woman came towards me and picked me up, but the weird force did something to her. She almost fell but she steadied herself and put me on the chair beside her and she fought it too. And that was the last thing I recall.
'I cant remember how long I had been sleeping but when I woke I was in an old house. I had been washed and changed, but I ached all over. I gently walked over to the door and into the next room. There was the man and the woman who had saved me and there was another person. He was old and looked very wise.
'When they realised I was there they made me sit down so I didn't fall over. My head was filled with images of the night before, I knew that mum and dad were dead. They had been killed. I could tell, it could have been that my telepathy ability had awoken or it could have just been the way they looked at me.
'I sat in between Yuri and Alice and felt a love that I would only understand now, I held on to them both and wouldn't let go. This was the first time I had seen a man cry, I don't know why he did maybe it was guilt or something else, I was not sure. The old man had no emotions on his face except for the occasional tear that ran down his cheek.
'All to soon they left, and I stayed with the old man. I was taught everything I needed to know of the world and I buried my feelings deep down hoping that they wouldn't rise again. Years passed and my fighting skills strengthened as well as my telekinesis and telepathy. I thought nothing in the world could go wrong. Then came that bloody 7ft zombie and everything else you know.'
Ben stared at her, she had been through a lot, all in that little space of time. She had seen his dad cry, one thing that he himself had not experienced. What was he supposed say? She had told him everything that she had probably never told anyone else in her whole life. He decided to put his arm round her and she responded by putting her hand around his shoulders. This was her comfort and he wouldn't ever know how much that it meant to her.
They had been silent for a few minutes, Lu heard something rustle and a twig snap not far from them. She turned round but saw nothing.
'Did you hear something?' Ben shook his head and looked back at the distance. She must have been imagining things.
Just as he was about to say something a shot rang out. It sounded like a gun and it was very near to them. Lu turned in the direction of the noise and raised her hand and extended in front of her chest. With her other hand she reached up and gently moved it across and away from her. Ben stared bewildered. He heard a thud by the tree and watched Lubeana, who's face looked as if it was made of stone and devoid of emotion.
She lowered her hand and walked a few steps forward. Gently she took the shiny object which floated in the air and looked at it and rolled it between her index finger and her thumb. She handed the tiny commodity to Ben and he saw that it was a bullet.
Lu walked to where the noise had sounded, Ben was speechless and his mouth open. He followed slowly half in surprise and curiosity.
When she got to the tree, she saw a figure on the floor. She kicked the individual, she didn't do it hard but it was firm. She stood there with crossed arms looking very menacing. Well wouldn't you if that person had just tried to kill you?
'That really hurt.' The voice was that of a female, it had a gravelled tone to it. It sounded that of a person in command of herself and others but the situation didn't seem right. Lubeana said nothing, which made her stature and air to be very controlling.
Ben stared at Lu, she seemed to be concentrating very hard, after a moment of silence. The woman got up stiffly and looked face to face with her. None of them flinched or even moved, until the girl slowly put her hand in her pocket and pulled out a blade.
She was halfway though the thrust to stab her opponent when Lu held out her hand and the blade was wrenched out of the woman's palm and fell neatly in Lubeana's. Her hand raised and the girl was thrown into the tree which she had just fallen out of. She moaned again and Lu looked pleased at herself, she had mastered much.
Again Lu walked towards and stared at her with a cold smile that Ben never knew she had.
'I didn't do anything, it was shooting practice. You were just in the way.' The woman said, what made her say that? Lu hadn't said anything yet. But still she stared silently.
'I am Yelena, and the rest is no business to you.' Ben tapped Lu's arm, she turned and smiled, it was a different smile; one of calm and happiness.
'She's going mad! She's answering questions before you ask them.'
'How do you know that I am not asking her questions?' She smiled cheekily
'How are you....'
(Its amazing what you can do when you put your mind to it)
Ben jumped. 'You speak in her head?!' Lu's smile widened at his acknowledgement.
(Don't you remember me talking about my telepathic powers?)
It then dawned of him about what she had said and Lu proceeded but spoke out loud to Yelena.
'Why did you try and kill me?' Yelena stayed silent but looked to be going though two minds.
'I was sent, he wanted to get rid of you and after I was finished I was meant to put this with you.' From a small package she drew a black rose. The rose again, why a rose? 'I am truly sorry'
The Young couple looked at her with surprise, why would your assassin apologise for trying to kill you? This was all too weird. 'I was a cadet in the new armed forces and I "had promise" supposedly and this man came in looking for an assistant from our ranks, and he chose me. I have been following you for months in hope that you would lead me to the girl.'
'A spy?' The girl nodded
'I had no idea that I was meant to kill you, I just thought that it was a stake out mission, you know just to watch your movements. Then I got a message when I was nearing this village that I was to kill you as soon as I got the chance. I never thought that I would be faced with actually killing you.'
Lu sighed quietly. Why had everything that had happened been about someone killing her? She decided to leave the girl alone, she had seen into her mind and there was no malice there at all, she hadnt really want to kill her. Though that man , who the hell was he? Why did he want to kill her? It didn't make sense at all.
'Right, I think we should go and have a talk with Yuri's parents and Zhuzhen. Maybe they would be able to work things out.' She set off towards the house. ben looked uneasily at Yelena.
'You trust her, she tried to kill you lu, what the hell arte you thinking.'
(she's harmless)
'Listen to her. you may even learn something.' Yelena's gravelled tone again sounding quietly and she followed lu.
'L..lu.LU!!! Wait!'
