Damage

Chapter 4: The Cruel and The Hurt

The story in my opinion, is getting a little better the more I write. Please will you read and review?? Please?

Disclaimers: *sigh* I live on a small farm. ^^; So I'm not rich, which means that I don't own anything MK! (except a copy of the series!)

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Ikhny laid deadly still as Kizna watched her through tear-stained eyes. Her best friend's life was fading slowly away.

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::FLASHBACK::

Kizna watched Zero's figure slowly fade away into nothingness. She hesitantly reached down to the blood-covered white floor to at least do the courtesy of taking Ikhny's ID tag with her, instead of leaving it lying there for the whole ship to see. She put her hands around it, feeling warm blood sink into her gloved-fingers. For it was sitting in a puddle. 'Too warm.' She thought, and examined the blood closer. It was, 'MAROON!' Her mind screamed. It was not Ikhny's blood, it was, she gulped at the word, "Victim." She winced, her eyes becoming unfocused. She brought herself strait when she made a mental note that she was going to save Ikhny, and this brought her one step closer.

"That Victim was hurt." She stated the facts aloud to let them seep into her at-the-moment crammed brain.

Kizna stood up strait gathering her thoughts, and made conclusions one by one, when Rill came rushing down the hall, pushing a stretcher. She stopped in front of Kizna. "Are you hurt?" Dr. Crawford asked gasping for air.

"No," Kizna's ears pricked at the question. 'They knew someone would get hurt?' She thought staring dumbly at Rill.

"What's this?" Rill's voice screeched will she pointed to the blood behind Kizna. "Hmm, this doesn't look right." Rill reached into her pocket and pulled out a test tube and an eye-dropper. She took a sample of *victim's* blood. "So, then, do you have any idea who was injured?" Rill asked a simple question breaking the odd silence between them, while sealing the test tube.

Kizna thought for a second. "I believe repairer #87 was here at one point." She said. "I went looking for her without permission." She paused and went on. "I found this," Kizna handed Rill the ID tag. "In the middle of *that* mess." She squinted under the Doctor's gaze.

Rill spoke up. "Then we need to find her!" She placed the test tube securely in one of her many pockets. "Come on, she should be somewhere on GOA!" Rill started to run off with the stretcher again, and Kizna followed swiftly behind her.

'Ikhny could be alive!?' Kizna thought. 'I hope she is. I can't bare to loose her.' A single tear rolled down her face. After minutes of running, they started to see trails of blood. Kizna tried to keep her eyes off of the floor, but then there was the maroon blood too, and she was slightly interested in the *injured* Victim. The drops of blood were becoming larger as they ran.

Rill suddenly came to a halt and jogged about six feet in front of the stretcher, then kneeled down on the floor to check for a pulse in the limp being.

Kizna stopped next to her and gasped, "Ikhny, no!" Ikhny was lying curled up against a corridor wall bleeding from horrible deep cuts in her legs, and she also had slight burns on her face and neck.

"She's still breathing, but barely. She is currently unconscious." Rill started to straiten out Ikhny's body so that she laid flat on her back. "Here, help me put her onto the stretcher.

Kizna choked out an "Okay," while still looking at Ikhny's wounds. The expression on Ikhny's face clearly stated that she was in pain, even though she was unconscious.

After Ikhny was on the stretcher, Rill put an oxygen mask on her, and bandaged her wounds the best that she could to stop the blood-loss. "We need to get her to the Infirmary quickly, if she is going to make it." She said, so Kizna helped by taking part in pushing the stretcher also.

::End of Flashback::

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Kizna slowly came back to her senses and raised up her head off of Ikhn'y bed. She slowly opened her eyes, hoping with all her heart that Ikhny would be awake and well. She wasn't. Ikhny was breathing slow and a little harshly, as if she struggled to hang onto her fading life. Kizna let a few tears fall down her cheeks, as she rubbed Ikhny's bruised hand.

Ikhny was the only person in GOA, that she could count as a true friend, save maybe Zero. Kizna sat by her side for days it seemed, though it probably was about an hour or two, maybe. 'How could you? You promised."

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Azuma took Rill's advice, and went to see Kizna, rather interview her. He slowly opened up the door, not really knowing what to expect. Ikhny's condition or Kizna's. He walked in seeing that 88's Repairer didn't realize that anyone had entered. He stated firmly, "Repairer #88."

Kizna's ears sub-consciously twitched and she stood up quickly saluting him. "Yes." She answered as under control as she could manage.

Azuma's voice changed to a conversation-like tone, to make Kizna feel relaxed while telling him details. "Tell me everything that you can manage in your point of view since the lights went out until now." Kizna stared blankly at her instructor for a few seconds and then took a seat, seeing that Azuma did as well. Then she started talking saying everything that she could without breaking down into tears.

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Hiead lifted his head up from where it rested in his hands. It took him only a few seconds to recall where he was, helped by nonstop snoring near him. He glanced coldly over at Zero, then smirked. Zero was helpless to his anger, which was boiling up in his veins, while he was sleeping. Hiead craved pain, suffering, something tearing into pieces at the moment. He gave an evil little laugh to himself, he was bored, he knew it.

Zero continued snoring. Hiead rubbed his fingures. 'Odd' He thought. They were clammy and sticky. Did he run laps today? 'Odd' He thought again. He couldn't remember anything that happened today. He shrugged his shoulders, his whole body was sweaty. He raised an eyebrow slightly. He didn't have a dream. He couldn't recall anything at all, even waking up. He looked over at the clock, curious.

Hiead sighed in annoyance. The stupid thing wasn't even plugged in. It flashed, 12:00, over and over, when he plugged it back in. He then got out of bed and went to the bathroom for a quick cold shower. He sure needed it, but first he glanced at the tiny clock on the sink. Help him, it was 5:40pm! He resisted the urge to slam the clock against the floor and break it into many pieces when he thought of Zero being strangled senseless.

Hiead locked the door and took off his training uniform, which was practically stuck to him. 'What did I do?' He wondered, as he stepped into the shower. He was relaxed in the cold, which many would cringe at. He smiled timidly, running his fingers through his silk silvery hair, and soon after, thinking that he'd fall asleep, stepped out of the shower feeling a lot better. He then decided to put fresh clothes on, so he shook his hair fairly dry with his towel, and then put the towel around his waist, and walked out of the bathroom. He glanced Zero, making sure that he was sleeping, and he was; (loudly) Before speed dressing.

Hiead was practically bored. Why couldn't Zero just wake up or something? Hiead decided to leave, though the door was locked, and wouldn't allow his leave. 'What the?' He cursed under his breath, heading in Zero's direction. "Enna." He stated rather loudly. Zero kept snoring peacefully.

Hiead raised an eyebrow, and swiftly grabbed Zero's ankle and jerked him off of the bed. Zero awoke just as his nose met the floor. He had a nose bleed, and the most annoying feeling was swirling in it. Zero hazily got up, to see what happened. Hiead was smirking approvingly. "HIEAD!? YOU!" He screeched holding his nose.

"Did that hurt, Enna?" Hiead smirked his evil grin again at Zero. Zero's eyes turned from anger and revenge, to pity? Was Zero actually trying to die here? 'Maybe he knows something though.' Hiead figured. Hiead could hurt Zero and get some answers out of him at the same time. "Stop." Hiead stated. Zero was giving Hiead pitiful looks. 'He is giving me, Hiead Gner, pity?' Hiead smirked at the thought.

"Stop, wha?" Zero was still clenching onto his nose, uneasily calm.

"STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT!" Hiead roared in anger. How stupid could you get? Hiead growled. Zero didn't stop, it just got worse.

"Hey, it's okay if you're upset. I'll leave you alone." Zero stated simply, his voice steady and serious.

'Zero? Serious? Naw,' Hiead thought, looking into the deep ocean-blue eyes. "Get a life, Enna. I'd think you'd be the one upset." Hiead sneered, slightly amused in his pathetic conversation.

Zero looked at him, now wiping the dried blood off of his nose with his arm. "Yea?" Zero was getting madder, and Hiead was getting more amused. Zero countered, "Well, I wasn't the one breaking down!" Zero paused looking into Hiead's dead crimson eyes. "Did I hit you're sensitive spot?" Hiead's eyes narrowed, making his death glare more effective. Zero burst out laughing.

"Breaking down?" Hiead taunted Zero. He wanted the most information that he could get out of him. "No, no, Zero. . . You're going to break down after I'm done with you." He let a small smile of cruelness fill his facial features, and then he lunged at Zero, and pinned him to the floor. Zero gasped as Hiead put his cold hands around Zero's warm neck. Hiead had his arms pinned down with his knees, the pain felt stabbing-like.

Zero grunted. 'What's wrong with this guy?' "H-HIEAD! G-GET OFF O-OF ME-EE!" Zero said catching every breath with his life, struggling hard to get away.

"Why?" Hiead hissed coldly pressing his hands harder around Zero's tough neck. "Can't I remember today?" Hiead heard something like, "Can't Breathe," but Hiead didn't back down from his prey. Then he heard something like, "Ikhny. . . " He stopped strangling Zero, but kept his hands firmly around Zero, trapping him, though allowing him to answer his questions. Zero gasped for breath.

"What happened to my repairer?" His hissed close to Zero's face. She could've resigned, and for all he knows, poisoned him. He hoped that it was the first.

Zero caught his breath again, and then said simply. "Victim attacked." He paused looking thoughtful. Hiead kept glaring. "You witnessed it, you found it first and broke the news to Kizna and I." He stopped seeing that Hiead's eyes were slightly narrowing and the opening, then narrowing again. "Y-You don't remember? Do you have a fever?" Zero questioned, forgetting that he was an inch from death.

Hiead gripped all of the sudden extremely hard for a second, practically turning Zero blue; then out of nowhere, let go and got off of him. Hiead walked over to his bed, and laid down, looking blankly at the ceiling with his arms behind his head. 'How much longer am I going to be in this torture chamber, stuck with a nightmare goofball of a goddess?' He thought. As an after thought, he added, 'Do I have amnesia?' Hiead then drifted into a not-so-good dream.

//. . . Hiead's heart pounded in his throat as he ran for his dear life. He looked back while still running, he saw houses on fire, people screaming, and guns shooting. "VICTIM!" One woman shrilled at the top of her lungs, and then with a quick scream, nothing more was heard from her. He was running down a long dark alley, which he knew more than any other part of the colony.

Hiead turned his face back around into the direction that he was running, just in time to touch something scaly, but smooth. It's solidness knocked him over backwards, landing on his back. Everywhere that he had touched it, his cells burned. He grunted in agony and sat up to see what he ran into. The last thing he heard was sharp hiss-like breathing, and the last thing he saw, was great solid orange eyes. Only the eyes of a monster. . . \\

Hiead awoke suddenly gasping for breath, sweat pouring down him for no reason. "Yep, and you call that, -Not breaking down-?" Zero snorted from the distance. Hiead chose to ignore him. He quickly calmed himself down, to avoid Zero's comments. Zero giggled again.

The intercom cut on. 'I'm saved!' Thought Hiead.

"GOA is now safe and inspected,

Every hall and corridor have been checked.

Please report to your nightly activities."

Hiead raised an eyebrow. 'Safe from what? Oh well, at least I'm leaving this Hell Haven.' Hiead sighed and walked out the door, which was thankfully unlocked. He was getting hungry, and since he didn't have any classes at this hour, he would eat something in the Mess Hall and turn in for the night. 'Maybe tomorrow will be more normal than today.' Zero, to Hiead's aggravation, Zero trudged swiftly behind him, humming something. Hiead grunted.

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Kizna walked out of the Medical Bay a little relieved to tell someone her point of view, though saddened by how much Ikhny was not improving. It wasn't like she just died out of nowhere, she was suffering, every breath, you could hear her struggling. She was headed to the Mess Hall.

She then spotted Zero, and Hiead and decided that she'd just walk with them, and tell Zero about Ikhny's (bad) progress. She jogged to catch up with them, which only look about a couple of seconds.

"Zero!" Zero jumped hearing her voice. He wasn't expecting her to be here.

"I've got good and bad news, Zero." She said rather quickly. Hiead kept his ears open, curious on what the new was about. He was walking slowly in front of them.

"It's about, Ikhny!" Zero's eyes widened. "She's still alive! Though she isn't doing good though, she is barley living." Kizna's ears dropped. Hiead's eyes narrowed a little bit and he picked up his pace. Why couldn't he remember?

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This is about double on what I usually write on a chapter. . . Anyways I hoped you like it! I will continue, though you really don't know how comments help me! Thanks for reading!

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