Linna woke up late in the morning laying flat on the couch with a blanked draped over her.
"Josh?" She said sitting up and looking around the room.
On the table in front of her was a note.
'Linna I didn't want to wake you up you looked to peaceful so I left this note. I hade some things to do so I had to leave early I'll be at the pit most of the day. See you soon.
Love Josh.'
Linna stood up and took a shower and dressed in her best outfit and headed over to Syila's.
Silky Doll.
Linna walked in the door and caught the attention of Nene almost immediately.
"Wow don't we look nice today any special reason?" Nene asked.
"What can't I dress nice every now and then?" Linna asked.
"Yea you got a point." Nene agreed. "Josh is in the pit."
"Thanks." Linna said with a smile.
She walked past Nene and into the elevator. Josh was sparing with Mike to sharpen their martial arts.
"Come on Mike you swing like an old lady." Josh said dodging every blow Mike sent his way.
"I'm fucking tired." Mike panted.
"Well then I'll just end this right now." Josh said and gave Mike a spinning back kick sending him flying across the floor right past Linna.
"Oh I bet that hurt." Linna said stepping over him.
She walked up to Josh and gave him a quick kiss.
"Hi." She said with a smile.
"Oh shit." Mike groaned getting back to his feet. "Damn man that hurt. I'm gonna go back to my room and cry now later."
"I'll be right back." Linna said digging in her locker and heading into the dressing room. A minute later she came out in her skin suite.
"Whoa now that's a tight outfit." Josh said looking at her.
"Its called a skin Suit." Linna said stretching.
"The name fits." Josh said. " What are you doing?" He asked and Linna stepped in front of him and took up a fighting stance.
"You seem good lets just see how good." Linna said and was on the move before Josh could object.
Linna moved in to fast for Josh to act and landed an elbow into his mid section.
"Ooof!" He grunted as the wind was knocked out of him.
"Your gonna have to move faster than that if you want to beat me." Linna said.
"Oh now your gonna get it." Josh said regaining his balance.
He came in with the same spinning back kick that he did on Mike but he only hit air Linna was at his side and drove a hard right fist into his ribs.
"AARRGG." He grunted holding his ribs. "Ok that's it now I'm playing for real." He said taking off his shirt for better movement. "Stop this."
He moved in with a melee of fists that caught Linna by surprise. She blocked the first few punches but she could not keep up with him and soon se was taking powerful hits to the stomach and ribs (Not her injured side). Linna moved back out of the range of the punches to collect her thought.
'Ok he is fast with his fists but not his feet so I need to stay out of punching range so he has to use his feet.' She thought bringing her guard back up.
Silky Doll Living Room
Priss and Leon walked in the doors and looked around for any
signs of the spies and for her friends.
"Lets go down to the pit and see if any one is there." Priss said heading for
the dressing room.
"Shouldn't we try the upper part of the store like the living room?" Leon asked.
"We will I just have a feeling about the pit." Priss answered.
They entered the elevator and went down to the pit. When the door opened they saw Linna in her Skin Suit fighting a man with only his pants on.
"What the hell is happening?" Priss demanded loudly.
Linna made her only mistake by turning her head when she heard Priss's voice.
"Priss?" She said lowering her guard.
Josh who didn't hear Priss took his only chance to win. "Ha got you." He said and delivered Linna a powerful round house sending her flying back into Priss and Leon.
"You son-of-a-bitch." Priss yelled and rushed Josh full force with her fist back ready to strike.
Josh countered the blow by grabbing her arm and throwing her across the room and into the wall. Priss fell to the floor unconscious. "Leon seeing his wife fall to the ground ran up behind Josh and tackled him into the wall next to Priss with a small streak of blood running down the wall from where Josh's head had hit. Josh wrapped his arm around Leon's waist and threw him off and rolled on top of him. Josh raised his fists and with 2 hard hits Leon was bleeding from his nose and mouth. Linna ran to the wall and hit the intercom button.
"Mike, Kenny, Terry, Nigel, Mackey get down to the pit now." She yelled into the intercom.
Mike and Kenny ran out of their rooms and nearly collided in the hall way .
"What's going on?" Terry asked as Kenny and Mike ran past her.
"I don't know but lets get down there." Mike yelled.
"Lets go lets go." Nigel yelled from the elevator.
Mackey ran in just before Mike, Kenny and Terry did.
They ran out of the elevator as soon as the doors opened and found Josh Fighting with Leon with Linna trying to separate them.
"Help me get them apart." Linna yelled and the others jumped in.
Linna, Nigel and Mackey pulled Leon away and Mike, Terry and Kenny pulled Josh away and threw him to the ground.
"Terry in my bags there are some zip ties bring me 2 now." Mike said flipping Josh on his face and pulling his arms behind his back.
Terry reached for Mike's bag and pulled the ties out and handed them to Mike who used them to tie Josh's hands behind his back.
"Now what in the hell is going on here?" Nigel asked as he finally got Leon to calm down.
"This son-of-a-bitch hit Linna then he threw Priss into the wall." Leon said.
"Leon its ok this is all a misunderstanding Me and Josh were sparing full contact and when Priss distracted me he took that moment of weakness and exploited it." Linna said. "And when Priss went at him all he saw was someone attacking him and he defended himself."
"Is she ok?" Kenny asked.
Terry got off Josh and went over to where Priss was laying.
"She is unconscious. Mackey go get my bag its upstairs next to Nene." Terry said.
"Ok I'm on it." Mackey said and ran to the elevator.
"I got some ammonia in my bag that will wake her right up but first Mike hand me some of those restraints if she has a concussion she may fight." Terry said.
By the time Mackey came back with the bag Priss was restrained
"Here is your bag." Mackey said running up to Terry.
"Thank you." Terry said taking the bag and pulling out a small plastic vile of ammonia and snapping the top off and waving it under Priss's nose.
Priss didn't react at first but after a few passes of the vile she started to come to. She shook her head from side to side then opened her eyes.
"Oh shit what happened?" She asked sitting up. "And why are my hands tied behind my back?"
"Its ok Priss they wanted to be sure you didn't have a concussion and fought when you came too." Linna said.
"All I remember is some guy kicking Linna across the room and I was running at him." Priss said. "What happened after that?"
"Ho countered your hit and threw you into the wall." Leon said.
"And what did you do?" Priss asked.
Leon just put his hand up to his nose that was still bleeding.
"I tried but he kicked my ass too." He said.
"Who was he?" Priss asked.
"I would ask you the same thing if I didn't have someone sitting on me." Josh said trying to shake Kenny off his back.
"If we cut you loose are you gonna behave?" Mike asked.
"As long as no one attacks me I will." Josh answered.
Mike reached down and cut the cords that were holding his hands behind his back he threw Kenny off and stood up.
"Now who are you two?" He said touching a shiner under his left eye.
"Josh this is Priss Asaragi McNickle." Linna said.
"So this is the famous Priss that destroyed Galatea." Josh said reaching for his shirt.
"And this if Leon McNickle." Linna said pointing at Leon.
"We've meet." Leon said trying to stop his nose from bleeding.
"Priss these ate the Crimson Knights that Syila told you about over the phone." Linna said.
"That's nice can you untie me now?" Priss asked still sitting on the floor.
"Terry?" Mike asked.
"Yea she will be ok." Terry said.
Mike reached down and cut the ties around Priss's wrists.
"Ok now lets go up stairs and we can start to explain every thing that has happened in full detail.
"Only if I can get some ice for the back of my head." Priss said. "And some aspirin."
"Ill take some Ice for my nose." Leon said.
"I need 2 1 for the back of my head and 1 for my eye." Josh said raising his hand.
"Ok Ice all around." Linna said and they all headed for the elevator.
Linna put her arm around Josh and he put his around her as they stepped in.
"You know if Priss didn't distract me I would have won," Linna said as the doors closed.
"Oh dream on I was just about to make my move." Josh laughed giving her a small squeeze.
Once they were all in the living room Linna started to tell Priss and Leon what had happened from the first Boomer to the 2 Boomers at her work and what happened after.
"You kissed him after less then 2 days and you kissed him?" Priss asked her jaw almost on the ground.
"Well I didn't know what else to do he saved my life 2 times in 2 days." Linna said.
"So you don't love him?" Priss asked.
"If you asked me then I would have said no but now." Linna said and put her arms around him. "I do."
"You never did make sense just 3 days ago you were trying to pass off the bouquet and now you have a boyfriend." Priss said.
"It did kind of move fast it took me by surprise too." Josh said.
"Lets get this straight right now I still don't trust any of you for all I know you are spies." Priss said.
"That's fine I don't expect you to trust us especially after what happened today." Josh said.
"Ok well we just got off a 20 hour flight and I think we both need to get some rest so we're gonna head home. We'll be back later." Leon said and helped Priss to her feet.
"I'll call you tonight." Linna said as they walked out.
"Man they must be tired they didn't even go say hi to Syila." Nene said watching them leave.
"Yea they must be." Mackey agreed.
"Well I've had enough fun for one day I'm gonna go to my room and get some rest." Josh said standing up.
"Don't go to sleep." Terry said.
"Why?" Josh asked looking at her.
"If you have a concussion like I think you do you shouldn't go to sleep for at least 4 hours otherwise you may not wake up." Terry said.
"Oh that just great." Josh said walking into the hall way.
"Hey Josh wait up." Linna said running after him.
They walked into the room and sat on the bed.
"I'm sorry you had to meet Priss like that." Linna said. "She is really a good person once you get to know her."
"She seems like it" Josh said laughing a little.
Linna leaned over and put her head on Josh's shoulder and he put his arm around her.
"You know I really do love you.L Linna said looking up at him.
Josh looked down and smiled. "I love you too." He said and kissed her.
