My Morphine
Ch ten: Deceit
Meara awoke, bound with sheets to the post of a pink- linen-ed canopy bed. She looked around, swallowing the lump of fear in her throat.
/Where am I…?/ She thought to herself as a petite fair-haired girl stepped into view with that sickeningly sweet smile on her face.
"Good Morning."
"You! Fucking bitch! Lemme outta here or I swear I'll--" She hissed, struggling against the sheets.
"You'll what? Hm, you can't transform like that, since you'll be left vulnerable for a few seconds, you can't set them on fire since you'd burn too, and you can't use your staff like that, though It'd be funny to see you try." She giggled.
Meara glared at her, muffling a frustrated shriek. /Uh! How could I have been so careless?!/
"Now, just be a good girl and look into my eyes." Fiona cooed.
"Not a chance." She growled, looking down and squeezing hers shut.
""Be a good girl and it won't hurt, promise."
"Fuck off!"
The flaxen haired Zoidian sighed, having lost her patience.
"Naughty girls like you get punished bad." Her hand clamped around her throat, her fingers pressing into her jaw.
Meara struggled, trying to lash out at her and failing. She kept her eyes shut though she felt everything begin to spin.
"Just open your eyes for me." Fiona Elise Lynette said above her dry coughs.
Reluctantly, as she grew even more lightheaded, her eyelids slowly rose up, exposing her dark green irises.
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Reese turned over, expecting to snuggle into her lover, but met only sheet and pillow. She slowly stirred to no Meara and she got a bad feeling.
"Mea?" She said, hoping she hadn't gone. She stepped from the bed to the other side, noticing her nightclothes crumpled on the floor. She glanced at the clock. /7:23? It's way too early for her to be even conscious…/ She tiptoed all around the house, hoping she was just awake, hoping to find her curled up in the loveseat with a book or the television on. But there was no trace of her, save the back, sliding glass door open a crack, letting in the cool morning air.
She stood outside Raven and Thomas' room and knocked quietly and anxiously since the door was locked. All she got was a groan the three times she tried. Reese closed her eyes and used her powers, penetrate her way into Raven's head, blushing intensely at some of what she stumbled on.
//Raven!!// She screamed in his mind, pulling out quickly as she heard a yelp from the black haired pilot, followed closely by a string of curses.
"What the fuck…it's only 7:30...Reese I swear I'm gonna…" he mumbled as she heard the lock click and the door open. Raven stood there looking only half-awake, blushing furiously, his hair a fluffy mess, covered only by a sheet from the bed gathered around his waist, showing numerous hickeys and love-bites scattered across his neck, chest and shoulders. He shot her a sluggish death-glare.
"What!?" He hissed as Thomas rolled over.
"Mm…Raven come back to bed…it's cold…" he purred as Raven coloured moreso.
"Meara's gone!" She blurted out, twisting her hands nervously.
"What?" he said, now fully alert as she repeated. "What?! Oh, Fuck!" He yelled, turning to get dressed, then turning back to Reese. "Wake Mizuno and prepare to move out in less than half an hour."
"R-right!"
Raven shut the door and dropped the sheet accidentally, he shrugged, and moved back to the bed, gathering his clothes.
"Raven? What's going on?"
"Meara's gone." He answered, pulling up his pants.
"You're not serious." Thomas said in disbelief as he shook his head.
"I swear, I'm gonna kill her!" he nearly shouted as the curly blonde kissed him quickly and smoothed his hair.
"Shh…I'm sure everything's okay….just think positive and stay calm."
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"Thomas! Do a complete scan of the area; Mizuno, can you sense her magic anywhere?; Reese, her mind?" Raven asked quickly, pounding his fist on the panel of the Geno-Breaker. "Damnit! This is like trying to find a piece of hay in a haystack! She could be any animal we pass by!"
"Calm down, Raven…" Thomas tried to comfort him, looking to his Link to Mizuno. The blonde looked distressed and had gone even paler than usual, making him look deathly ill.
"Mizuno, can you sense her?"
"No…" He said quietly, shaking his head.
"What about you, Reese?" he asked as she wiped away her tears.
"N-no, not at all!"
"It's okay, we'll find her…" Thomas said optimistically.
The Dibison, Geno-Saurer, Geno-Breaker and Mizuno's Gunsniper kept on in the general direction of Red River till Beek let out a shrill whistle.
On the horizon stood a tall girl with long, flowing brown hair in a ponytail, dressed in all black and barefoot.
"Meara!" Mizuno and Reese cried out, jumping from their Zoids and running to her, Raven and Thomas in tow.
"Meara!" Reese cried dashing to her, then halting suddenly.
The brunette's eyes were slightly clouded and angled down.
"Meara?" She said again, taking tentative steps to her. With a flash, Reese jumped back from Meara's staff that had been swung at her.
"Meara! What are you doing!?" Mizuno scolded as she rose in the air and Raven focused on her to make the painful realization.
"Fiona has her." he said softly as her bother looked to him.
"What?! Are you sure?" Raven nodded. "Well, we can't hurt her!"
"We will if she leaves us no choice." The dark haired Maverick said as Meara went nuts, sending fire-balls every where. Mizuno stepped up quickly revealing his Time Staff.
Out of no-where the skies turned black and thunder crashed, rain began to pour down, drowning out her fires. Her hollow emerald eyes shifted to the blonde who'd canceled out her magic. Within an instant she was on the ground, swinging her staff violently.
Mizuno laughed hoarsely, catching her strikes, the two rods clanging loudly.
"Ah! Die! Die! Die!" She yelled furiously, unable to land any kind of damage upon her opponent. The blonde countered again and sent her staff flying into the dirt. She hissed and scrambled for it, but Mizuno beat her to it.
Raven took the initiative to pounce onto the possessed girl. He grunted as she kicked him in the leg and jumped up, hissing at him. She charged, kicked, punched, slapped, scratched, unwilling to give in. Raven jumped aside with her attacks on Mizuno's calls.
"How do you know what she's going to do?!-"
"I grew up with her, now imagine this as a three-year old!" He said, looking up from dispelling her staff.
Raven sighed and managed to wrap his arms around her.
"Got you!" he said as Mizuno chuckled.
"Oops, watch out, she's a biter!" He announced a little too late as she sunk her teeth into his forearm.
"O-Ow!" He cried out as she clambered away. She crouched down and let out a long, earsplitting shriek.
Her brother laughed again, rubbing his ear softly as all the other three covered their ears wincing.
"See what I had to put up with?" He stated cheerily, swinging her now dispelled staff over his shoulder. He took his own and drove it's end into the soil.
"Elise Lynette, I bid you to come out of my sister, this instant."
Meara's voice changed to something more sugary. "No! I won't let you reach me! It's my world! Mine! You can't have it!!" She screeched as the large garnet jewel on the crest of his staff glowed and shot a beam of light at her. The brunette slumped and fell backwards, sprawled out on the dirt.
[To be continued …]
Short chapter, ne? Oha minna, only two days left of vacation. I have math homework I need to do. *sighs* I'm freaking out, I'm not gonna pass the hugely major test in January which is soon! *pulls hair out* But yeah… One thing about Fiona and her powers, when she's manipulating someone like that, how she was with Meara it'd be like playing a video game, The character won't work right if you don't know how to play them. ^^ So She had Mea scrambling for her staff instead of using her powers, get it? Yeah, some Mea and Mizuno Humour in there. Writings gonna slow down since I'm not too sure what I'm gonna do next after the opening of chapter eleven. ^_^ I'm watchin' Nightmare Before Christmas. I wub that movie and I know all the songs and lines. Big grin. Hai, but I have the DVD from the library and they have some other Tim Burton works on there Like "Vincent" which is just so cool and twisted. ^^
Oh and the answer to Where is Mizuno's staff from, is it's Sailor Pluto's from Sailor Moon, the Time Staff. ^_^ Whee.
Peace & Love,
-Naomi Hun†er
Disc: Meara is owned by Naomi Hun†er, Mizuno is owned by author Aqua Rhapsody, Naomi Hun†er owns the plot and the Time Staff is owned by Setsuna Mieou and moreso Naoko Takeuchi, Zoids is owned by TOMY et cetera et cetera….
