Chapter Ten
Kolya whirled and promptly fell on his face. The ceramic tiles ground his nose into a painful snub and his skull bounced lightly making a faint echo.
"Very graceful." The voice sounded very young and highly contemptuous. He heard the click of toenails on the floor as the stalker drew closer. Terrible visions ran through his head of strange, mutated creatures that were going to tear him apart. He was too weak to defend himself.
"You don't look very good." The creature observed. Kolya decided the voice was definitely that of male, perhaps a child? Except the words and tone didn't match. Children didn't talk like that, did they? Kolya remained silent and shuddered as a paw was brushed across his poisoned skin. A faint burning sensation trailed after the probing touch and he winced unintentionally.
"I'm sorry. I didn't realize it hurt that much, but you shouldn't be in here. No one is allowed in here and where is your collar? Forgive me, obviously you can't answer." The voice answered itself and paused. Suddenly Kolya felt himself being dragged back toward the door. The insistent tugging on his tail convinced him it might be better to walk out under his own power.
Struggling to his feet he gritted his teeth as he accidentally jarred his shoulder. Opening his pale eyes he stared into a pair of warm chocolate colored ones. They were round and youthful, but shadowed by deep pain. They were set in a slight pudgy, tan furry face. The eevee looked perfectly normal with a tan coat, shaggy cream ruff, and black lined ears. He had all his body parts and no extra ones. He was perfectly ordinary. Except, Kolya knew, he wasn't. Nothing in here was what it seemed.
"Oh, so you're okay then. Good, I was worried." The eevee didn't seem worried in the slightest as if the words were just merely a periphery token given in passing. He studied Kolya mildly neither hostile nor fearful. "You should leave. I don't know how or why you're here, but if Master finds out you'll be in big trouble."
Master?
"He is in charge of this place." The young one replied mildly discreetly herding Kolya back toward the door. He seemed so unassuming and bland.
I didn't…didn't mean to come.
"That's quite alright. I don't get company much." The eevee replied lightly, but hidden deeply under his pleasant facade was fear. Kolya could sense it.
Trouble? Kolya questioned and watched as the pleasant expression melted off the younger eon's face. It took on a sharp cast and his eyes narrowed suspiciously. Kolya berated himself internally and took a different track. It was too difficult to think, but he couldn't help sparring with this eevee. He wanted some answers. My name is Reidar.
"Denzel, pleasure to meet you."
You lived here long? How cruel of him to ask that! Mentally he smacked himself and unbidden an image of Karis came to mind. Abruptly he shoved it away and tried to focus around the ringing on his ears.
"My whole short life." A simple statement not meant to offer more than Kolya so obviously knew.
The doorway loomed closer and he could make out some blobs. With a sinking feeling he realized he was in some serious trouble. And knowing Tynan, he would blame it all on Kolya, never mind that the espeon was too weak to be out of bed.
"Reidar?" Jo's worried voice rang through the spacious room warping and echoing off the glass tanks.
Here. He whispered willing his voice to carry all the way to them.
"You're friend is unhurt." Denzel offered as the two of them came closer.
"For now." Damon vowed in an extremely livid voice. His eyes were like flecks of volcanic rock and his mouth was set in a grim line.
"Reidar, you're alright!" Karis said in glee and eyed Denzel curiously. She showed no recognition of the laboratory and no fear. Kolya realized that neither had Tynan. The umbreon had known where it was, but he didn't fear it. Not like he should. Not like Jo claimed he should. He had willingly lead Kolya here and had cheerfully tossed him in like living bait.
Then it smacked Kolya. Of course! Tynan wanted to know what was cooking and Kolya had no collar. So he convinced the espeon with innocent gestures to come and spy.
"Hurry, you all should leave." Denzel said suddenly extremely nervous. He flattened his ears and glanced around in a paranoid fashion. "Master will not be pleased to find you here. No he won't."
"Master?" Karis inquired but by then Denzel had shoved Kolya bodily through the lasers.
He stumbled and was braced by Jo. He was never so glad to see her. She pressed her warm, furry body against his and muttered something about dead weights. Also there seemed to be a few choice words about Tynan's behavior.
"Okay." Damon nodded sharply to Denzel acknowledging his uneasy. He whirled crisply and snapped in a dangerously short-tempered voice, "Jo, you and Karis get him back to where he belongs. Tynan and I will take separate routes from your straight path. If anyone asks claim he's delirious and was wandering down the halls out of his mind from the poison. He practically is anyway. Well, rejoin and discuss this matter thoroughly."
Kolya winced at the way he said discuss. He wouldn't be surprised if some the discussing came to blows. Damon seemed equally pissed at both Kolya and Tynan. Sparks were dancing over his coarse, wiry coat and his spikes were sticking out. His black eyes were flat with disapproval. For some reason that made Kolya want to cringe. Tynan, on the other hand, was sedately pacing down the hall in the opposite direction. He didn't seem to have any difficulty in turning his back to a furious superior.
"C'mon buddy." Jo said encouraging. Her normally teasing emerald eyes were muted with concern and he could tell she was berating herself for not watching over him. He wanted to reassure her that it wasn't her fault. He should have been able to take care of himself. He claimed he didn't need a babysitter, but then he turned around and proved that he did!
"You'll be okay." Karis reassured mistaking his sudden tenseness for fear. "Damon wouldn't hurt you. He's just really, really mad right now. By the time we get back he'll have cooled down some."
"Or else torn Tynan a new one. That bastard deserves it!" Jo hissed infuriated. Her body heat started rising and soon Kolya was squirming with discomfort. Not that it mattered since she wasn't paying attention to him anyway. Karis didn't seem to notice the sudden temperature increase, or if she did she was being very discreet.
The trip back blurred into a half conscious haze. Although the two female eons were doing their best to be gentle they weren't matched well in size and speed. He ended being bobbed back and for between the two. One side was cool and the other was uncomfortably hot. One was smooth as silk, the other was furry as wool. Polar opposites.
Shaking his head he tried to clear it of such nonsense. Who cared if they were opposites by nature? The poison was clouding him up so badly he wanted to knock his head against a wall or two. Hard. Instead he gritted his teeth and contented himself with growling at himself mental. He was sure Damon would solve the head knocking problem quite nicely.
Once back in the medical room he sprawled out his pale eyes closed in the bliss the cool tile afforded his sore and flaming skin. Small gasps filled his lungs, large ones hurt too much. He shouldn't have moved. All the circulation was only spreading the poison faster. He could feel it stinging and burn through his circulatory system. It had obviously reached his pulmonary system as well by the way his breath caught and his heart twanged. He only hoped it wasn't tearing up his insides as badly as it felt.
"You okay hon?" Jo asked quietly with an under note of guilt. He had to get rid of that.
Fine. He replied although he felt like shit. Darkness swarmed to greet him and he embraced it willingly.
"What in the name of the god of the fucking underworld was going through your trashed out mind Tynan!" Damon thundered bringing Kolya back to the world of the living. He could tell he had been shot up with some sort of painkilling drug. His whole body felt numb and fuzzy. Carefully he tried to get up from where he was sprawled in a messy heap. Karis pushed him back down hastily and whispered not to draw attention to himself. He complied realizing how close he had just become in getting a taste of the hot lashing Tynan was about to receive.
"You stupid bastard, you know perfectly well what you fucking did! I should tear you to bloody tatters." Damon raged and Kolya assumed Tynan had flashed him a particularly insolent smirk. "That's the fucking last straw! You hear me bastard? That's it. I'm filing a removal on your plotting ass. You have crossed the line once too often you stupid dark type. You can't claim fucking insanity as an excuse when you've got that smirk pasted to you pointy muzzle you son of a bitch. I'll see you hang, mark my bloody words!"
"And you!" Damon continued not even drawing a fresh breath. He glared at Kolya not at all put off by Kolya's sad acting skills. The espeon struggled to a semi-upright position and did his best to focus on what was being said. Assuming Damon didn't get so incoherent that all he shouted was fuck.
"You were incredibly and unforgivably stupid! You directing disobeyed your fucking orders to stay in this bloody room." Damon fumed, but he seemed to have calmed down slightly. He sat down and only then could Kolya see the great gouges his blunt, black claws had tore into the floor. He suppressed a shiver with the realization that that could have just as easily been him. Gathering his remaining strength he tried to apologize. It wasn't something he did well. Or for that matter all that often, but it seemed to be necessary. The other option wasn't quite so appealing.
Sorry… He trailed off and slumped down completely drain. Inside he was furious with himself for being so utterly weak.
"Damon, you know it wasn't his fault!" Karis protested shielding him physically with her lithe body as if she could protect him from the larger, more powerful jolteon. Perhaps she could. Damon indulged her in a similar fashion to that of a father and daughter. "He got dragged along. In his condition there was no way he could resist. The blame rests squarely on Tynan and no one else."
Kolya was surprised to hear her come out and say that. She was rarely so aggressive, more of a peacemaker. That she would boldly condemn Tynan must mean she was truly unhappy with is actions and was enough so that she was saying so. Usually she smoothed things over, made excuses in petty matters. It made things more livable between several cranky, powerful eons. A true asset.
"I know that!" Damon lashed out his voice dripping with scorn. He whirled on his heel and called over his shoulder, "Jo, you stand watch this time. Karis, relieve her in three hours. I will relieve you after that. Obviously he must be protected."
The last sentence was so acidic it might have melted the surrounding walls. With that he stalked off to carry out his threat.
Pheonix Rising: When isn't he? Poor guy. Being naive sucks. Still, no one is allowed my characters. He could probably use a trainer -.-;;; if he didn't try to eat them.
Coffee Luv: Does it though?
Paladin Dragoon: Yes, I don't have any interest in being flayed, I like my skin. Hehe, the lab seems to creep people out. Yup, that's what I meant, balut ^^ At least I semi-remembered it, I watched that show like a month ago. See, I'm just curious as a kitten (a severly deranged kitten O.o it seems).
Zero_CHan: That's good. I have strange taste in characters also, but I have a rule: If they are my character they all get treated equally, no favorites. My fav. anime characters usually have something wrong with them -.-;;; I almost never like the main characters. Eep, thanks for pointing that error out *grumbles* I thought I fixed that, guess I forgot.
Joeyz girl: Yes, the poor pokes. Everyone thinks my lil sis looks like that girl from the Ring. He's stuck at the door, because he has that collar on and can't come in.
Kolya whirled and promptly fell on his face. The ceramic tiles ground his nose into a painful snub and his skull bounced lightly making a faint echo.
"Very graceful." The voice sounded very young and highly contemptuous. He heard the click of toenails on the floor as the stalker drew closer. Terrible visions ran through his head of strange, mutated creatures that were going to tear him apart. He was too weak to defend himself.
"You don't look very good." The creature observed. Kolya decided the voice was definitely that of male, perhaps a child? Except the words and tone didn't match. Children didn't talk like that, did they? Kolya remained silent and shuddered as a paw was brushed across his poisoned skin. A faint burning sensation trailed after the probing touch and he winced unintentionally.
"I'm sorry. I didn't realize it hurt that much, but you shouldn't be in here. No one is allowed in here and where is your collar? Forgive me, obviously you can't answer." The voice answered itself and paused. Suddenly Kolya felt himself being dragged back toward the door. The insistent tugging on his tail convinced him it might be better to walk out under his own power.
Struggling to his feet he gritted his teeth as he accidentally jarred his shoulder. Opening his pale eyes he stared into a pair of warm chocolate colored ones. They were round and youthful, but shadowed by deep pain. They were set in a slight pudgy, tan furry face. The eevee looked perfectly normal with a tan coat, shaggy cream ruff, and black lined ears. He had all his body parts and no extra ones. He was perfectly ordinary. Except, Kolya knew, he wasn't. Nothing in here was what it seemed.
"Oh, so you're okay then. Good, I was worried." The eevee didn't seem worried in the slightest as if the words were just merely a periphery token given in passing. He studied Kolya mildly neither hostile nor fearful. "You should leave. I don't know how or why you're here, but if Master finds out you'll be in big trouble."
Master?
"He is in charge of this place." The young one replied mildly discreetly herding Kolya back toward the door. He seemed so unassuming and bland.
I didn't…didn't mean to come.
"That's quite alright. I don't get company much." The eevee replied lightly, but hidden deeply under his pleasant facade was fear. Kolya could sense it.
Trouble? Kolya questioned and watched as the pleasant expression melted off the younger eon's face. It took on a sharp cast and his eyes narrowed suspiciously. Kolya berated himself internally and took a different track. It was too difficult to think, but he couldn't help sparring with this eevee. He wanted some answers. My name is Reidar.
"Denzel, pleasure to meet you."
You lived here long? How cruel of him to ask that! Mentally he smacked himself and unbidden an image of Karis came to mind. Abruptly he shoved it away and tried to focus around the ringing on his ears.
"My whole short life." A simple statement not meant to offer more than Kolya so obviously knew.
The doorway loomed closer and he could make out some blobs. With a sinking feeling he realized he was in some serious trouble. And knowing Tynan, he would blame it all on Kolya, never mind that the espeon was too weak to be out of bed.
"Reidar?" Jo's worried voice rang through the spacious room warping and echoing off the glass tanks.
Here. He whispered willing his voice to carry all the way to them.
"You're friend is unhurt." Denzel offered as the two of them came closer.
"For now." Damon vowed in an extremely livid voice. His eyes were like flecks of volcanic rock and his mouth was set in a grim line.
"Reidar, you're alright!" Karis said in glee and eyed Denzel curiously. She showed no recognition of the laboratory and no fear. Kolya realized that neither had Tynan. The umbreon had known where it was, but he didn't fear it. Not like he should. Not like Jo claimed he should. He had willingly lead Kolya here and had cheerfully tossed him in like living bait.
Then it smacked Kolya. Of course! Tynan wanted to know what was cooking and Kolya had no collar. So he convinced the espeon with innocent gestures to come and spy.
"Hurry, you all should leave." Denzel said suddenly extremely nervous. He flattened his ears and glanced around in a paranoid fashion. "Master will not be pleased to find you here. No he won't."
"Master?" Karis inquired but by then Denzel had shoved Kolya bodily through the lasers.
He stumbled and was braced by Jo. He was never so glad to see her. She pressed her warm, furry body against his and muttered something about dead weights. Also there seemed to be a few choice words about Tynan's behavior.
"Okay." Damon nodded sharply to Denzel acknowledging his uneasy. He whirled crisply and snapped in a dangerously short-tempered voice, "Jo, you and Karis get him back to where he belongs. Tynan and I will take separate routes from your straight path. If anyone asks claim he's delirious and was wandering down the halls out of his mind from the poison. He practically is anyway. Well, rejoin and discuss this matter thoroughly."
Kolya winced at the way he said discuss. He wouldn't be surprised if some the discussing came to blows. Damon seemed equally pissed at both Kolya and Tynan. Sparks were dancing over his coarse, wiry coat and his spikes were sticking out. His black eyes were flat with disapproval. For some reason that made Kolya want to cringe. Tynan, on the other hand, was sedately pacing down the hall in the opposite direction. He didn't seem to have any difficulty in turning his back to a furious superior.
"C'mon buddy." Jo said encouraging. Her normally teasing emerald eyes were muted with concern and he could tell she was berating herself for not watching over him. He wanted to reassure her that it wasn't her fault. He should have been able to take care of himself. He claimed he didn't need a babysitter, but then he turned around and proved that he did!
"You'll be okay." Karis reassured mistaking his sudden tenseness for fear. "Damon wouldn't hurt you. He's just really, really mad right now. By the time we get back he'll have cooled down some."
"Or else torn Tynan a new one. That bastard deserves it!" Jo hissed infuriated. Her body heat started rising and soon Kolya was squirming with discomfort. Not that it mattered since she wasn't paying attention to him anyway. Karis didn't seem to notice the sudden temperature increase, or if she did she was being very discreet.
The trip back blurred into a half conscious haze. Although the two female eons were doing their best to be gentle they weren't matched well in size and speed. He ended being bobbed back and for between the two. One side was cool and the other was uncomfortably hot. One was smooth as silk, the other was furry as wool. Polar opposites.
Shaking his head he tried to clear it of such nonsense. Who cared if they were opposites by nature? The poison was clouding him up so badly he wanted to knock his head against a wall or two. Hard. Instead he gritted his teeth and contented himself with growling at himself mental. He was sure Damon would solve the head knocking problem quite nicely.
Once back in the medical room he sprawled out his pale eyes closed in the bliss the cool tile afforded his sore and flaming skin. Small gasps filled his lungs, large ones hurt too much. He shouldn't have moved. All the circulation was only spreading the poison faster. He could feel it stinging and burn through his circulatory system. It had obviously reached his pulmonary system as well by the way his breath caught and his heart twanged. He only hoped it wasn't tearing up his insides as badly as it felt.
"You okay hon?" Jo asked quietly with an under note of guilt. He had to get rid of that.
Fine. He replied although he felt like shit. Darkness swarmed to greet him and he embraced it willingly.
"What in the name of the god of the fucking underworld was going through your trashed out mind Tynan!" Damon thundered bringing Kolya back to the world of the living. He could tell he had been shot up with some sort of painkilling drug. His whole body felt numb and fuzzy. Carefully he tried to get up from where he was sprawled in a messy heap. Karis pushed him back down hastily and whispered not to draw attention to himself. He complied realizing how close he had just become in getting a taste of the hot lashing Tynan was about to receive.
"You stupid bastard, you know perfectly well what you fucking did! I should tear you to bloody tatters." Damon raged and Kolya assumed Tynan had flashed him a particularly insolent smirk. "That's the fucking last straw! You hear me bastard? That's it. I'm filing a removal on your plotting ass. You have crossed the line once too often you stupid dark type. You can't claim fucking insanity as an excuse when you've got that smirk pasted to you pointy muzzle you son of a bitch. I'll see you hang, mark my bloody words!"
"And you!" Damon continued not even drawing a fresh breath. He glared at Kolya not at all put off by Kolya's sad acting skills. The espeon struggled to a semi-upright position and did his best to focus on what was being said. Assuming Damon didn't get so incoherent that all he shouted was fuck.
"You were incredibly and unforgivably stupid! You directing disobeyed your fucking orders to stay in this bloody room." Damon fumed, but he seemed to have calmed down slightly. He sat down and only then could Kolya see the great gouges his blunt, black claws had tore into the floor. He suppressed a shiver with the realization that that could have just as easily been him. Gathering his remaining strength he tried to apologize. It wasn't something he did well. Or for that matter all that often, but it seemed to be necessary. The other option wasn't quite so appealing.
Sorry… He trailed off and slumped down completely drain. Inside he was furious with himself for being so utterly weak.
"Damon, you know it wasn't his fault!" Karis protested shielding him physically with her lithe body as if she could protect him from the larger, more powerful jolteon. Perhaps she could. Damon indulged her in a similar fashion to that of a father and daughter. "He got dragged along. In his condition there was no way he could resist. The blame rests squarely on Tynan and no one else."
Kolya was surprised to hear her come out and say that. She was rarely so aggressive, more of a peacemaker. That she would boldly condemn Tynan must mean she was truly unhappy with is actions and was enough so that she was saying so. Usually she smoothed things over, made excuses in petty matters. It made things more livable between several cranky, powerful eons. A true asset.
"I know that!" Damon lashed out his voice dripping with scorn. He whirled on his heel and called over his shoulder, "Jo, you stand watch this time. Karis, relieve her in three hours. I will relieve you after that. Obviously he must be protected."
The last sentence was so acidic it might have melted the surrounding walls. With that he stalked off to carry out his threat.
Pheonix Rising: When isn't he? Poor guy. Being naive sucks. Still, no one is allowed my characters. He could probably use a trainer -.-;;; if he didn't try to eat them.
Coffee Luv: Does it though?
Paladin Dragoon: Yes, I don't have any interest in being flayed, I like my skin. Hehe, the lab seems to creep people out. Yup, that's what I meant, balut ^^ At least I semi-remembered it, I watched that show like a month ago. See, I'm just curious as a kitten (a severly deranged kitten O.o it seems).
Zero_CHan: That's good. I have strange taste in characters also, but I have a rule: If they are my character they all get treated equally, no favorites. My fav. anime characters usually have something wrong with them -.-;;; I almost never like the main characters. Eep, thanks for pointing that error out *grumbles* I thought I fixed that, guess I forgot.
Joeyz girl: Yes, the poor pokes. Everyone thinks my lil sis looks like that girl from the Ring. He's stuck at the door, because he has that collar on and can't come in.