MQ: WELL...Just sitting in my room...nothing else to do but write chapter 12 of this story!!
Blitz: You mean, I'm actually going to have to do something this week??!?!
MQ: Yep!!! Cause it's spring break for me sa, and I'm bored beyond all reason!!!
Blitz: Crap...I was good with just sleeping.
MQ: You can go back to sleep AFTER you do the disclaimer.
Blitz: Ugh...*cracks knuckles* We own nothing, cept the charas that obliviously aren't in DBZ, yadda yadda yadda...
MQ: You so got that from Seinfeld.
Blitz: Shut up.
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I scanned through the darkness, trying to balance even though Pheonix and JT were clinging onto my arms for dear life.
"What was that?!!" Pheonix squeaked at me, her one useable arm cutting off the circulation to my right arm.
I griped my crutches tighter, still franticly looking through the blackened lab. My heart thumped against my chest, threatening to jump out my throat at any given moment. I gritted my teeth, beginning to feel a sudden dizzy spell coming on and I shook my head as hard as I possibly could.
"Jess!" JT shook my shoulder to get me to stop panicking. I just kept shaking my head, tears stinging at the corner of my eyes. I wanted to wake up, wake up from this nightmare; I wanted it to go away. I wanted to go away, I wanted to go home...
"GO AWAY!!!!"
I shouted on the top of my lungs, struggling free of my two best friend's grip. I stumbled backward on my one foot, trying to see through my tears that built up to handicap my vision even more than the darkness all ready had.
"Jess?!?! Where did you go!??!?!" I heard JT stutter from somewhere, but I couldn't see where. My friends voices echoed in my mind, but I couldn't find them.
"Where'd you go?" I mumbled, hitting a wall behind me and I tried to keep myself up-right. I began shaking my head again.
Wake up!!! WAKE UP DAMN IT!!! It's not real, none of this has been real. IT'S NOT REAL!!!
I began to bang my head against the cold metal of the wall.
WAKE UP!!!
Something tugged at my left crutch.
WAKE UP!!!
I let out a smothered cry, using my healthy foot to gain some pull against whatever was trying to take my balance away. It just kept yanking at my crutch, unwavered to my weeping.
STOP IT!!! IT'S NOT REAL!!! WAKE UP!!!
It finally gained victory over my fighting, stealing my crutch from beneath my left arm.
I shrieked shortly before I hit the hard, tiled ground on my left side. I bit my lip to try to stop my crying, rolling onto my back and forcing my eyes to close.
I waited for the nightmare to pass.
IT'S NOT REAL!!!
"RAAA!!!!" Pheonix powered up, the red light from her ki shedding some light to the dark lab. It slithered along the smooth floor...
Before it went out.
She screamed and skidded across the floor, her head making a clanking noise against whatever large, metal object she hit.
NONE OF THIS HAD BEEN REAL!!!
"JENNIFER!!!" I heard JT screech, "JESSICA!!!"
SMACK!!!
That the last I heard of JT's voice before another loud thud emitted from somewhere in the lab.
Silence.
I held my breath. My heart beat quickened. I could feel it thudding loudly in my ears. I kept my eyes clenched shut.
I waited for the nightmare to pass.
PLEASE!!! SOMEONE WAKE US UP!!!
Not a sound could be heard in that dark lab. Not a footstep, not a exasperated breath. Not a single sound. Nothing.
I held my breath. I didn't move a muscle. A footstep sounded right next to my ear. It rippled through the air, ringing in my ear.
WAKE UP DAMN IT!!!
A shadow drew itself over me. Even though it was pitch black, I could still see it through the inside of my eyelids.
IT'S ALL ONE BIG NIGHTMARE!!!
I could feel a tear slide down my cheek.
"It's not real...wake up..." I mumbled to myself, hoping this would pull me from this horrible slumber.
I forced my eyes to open, ready to face it. But all my eyes consumed was bleakness.
"Yes. It's all one big nightmare! You just go ahead and think that, little one."
PLEASE!!!
"Vegeta...your scaring me...stop it."
I felt his cold hand wipe my fresh tears away from my skin. It felt lifeless; so uncaring.
I then could feel his fingers dig into my cheeks. He forced my head to turn to where he was. But I couldn't see him.
"Yes. It's all a nightmare, you little slut! It's one you'll never escape from," his voice ripped into my hearing. He kneeled down to whisper menacingly into my ear...
"You'll never wake up."
Cool night air gently swayed through the trees, making them lean faithfully, bowing to the darkness. The rustled rythmaticlly to their own song, swirling to their own dance. Some of their leaves escaped, weaving themselves through each gust of wind. Each one gracefully waltzed in the air, slowing down and twirling beautifully before reaching their final resting place; the frigid earth below.
I watched their ceremony intently, my eyes trailing their path. My hand twitched slightly at the cool touch of one of the many leaves. I turned my head to it as it laid in my hand. I clenched my fingers shut, encapsulating it. I could hear it crumble and crack beneath my grip, the little pieces took harmless stabs at my cold flesh. I unlocked my grasp, the segments of leaf taking flight yet again and disappearing into the deepening night.
My head tilted back up to the sky above my. The stars seemed to glaze exceptionally that night, glinting at the obscurity of their surroundings. They fought the darkness, and shone their victory in glorious brilliancy, standing out while the night stepped back into the shadows.
"Am I dead?"
"Not yet."
His voice sent a chilling startle into my soul, but I was unable to move. I boggled my head around through the immense forest, looking for the claimer of this unearthly sound.
"How did you know what I was thinking?"
"I know more than that."
He appeared at my feet, looming over me, arms crossed and that crooked smile plastered onto his face. He stalked over to my left, gliding down to my side, "I know all about you. Your thoughts, your dreams, even your worst fears."
He moved a piece of stray, reddish brown hair out of my view, tucking it behind my ear, "I know everything."
He all of a sudden pinned my hands to the dirt above my head, entangling his fingers in mine and pushing them down as hard as he could.
"Your two friends are all ready dead."
He squeezed my hands even harder, and I wiggled beneath his grasp, "Yes. I killed them very slowly. I first cut off their fingers, one by one, as slow as I could possible manage. It was a joy to hear screams of horror again."
He grinned morbidly, and I could feel the tears creep out of the corners of my eyes. I began to choke on them, trying to look away from the eyes that held my gaze, but their mastery was too strong.
"I then took a dull surgical knife I had taken from the lab, and I began to gouge out their eyeballs..."
"N-no...y-y-you d-did-didn't," I tried to tell myself. He wouldn't...no, he wouldn't...please Kami say he didn't...
"...it was hilarious to see the look and Jennifer's face...she looked like a dear caught in the headlights when I took out that knife..."
...please Kami, he's lieing...he didn't do it...
"...and Jessica....I accidentally cut her upper eyelid along with her eye...it just wouldn't come off..." he showed a look a frustration, like a child stuck on a hard arithmetic problem.
...he wouldn't do that to them...Kami no...
"...then I took off all their clothes, and left their blood drenched bodies in the forest, for the scavengers to pick off to the bone..."
"N-n-n-oooo..." I cried, "Y-y-ou...y-you di-did-didn't..."
He snarled into my ear, his breath tickled at my neck, "You don't believe me? You don't believe that I would do such a thing? What in the hell do you think I did for the thirty years I worked under that fucking lizard?!?!!?" His voice rang in my ears, and I began to weep, turning my head away from him.
Kami...please Kami no...
His chuckled and nuzzled his head into the place between my neck and collar bone, still laughing murkily, "Guess who's next?"
He didn't...please Kami, tell me he didn't...
"I saved you for last. Ever since you appeared her a couple of months ago, you've been making me become more and more agitated with you and your fucking friends..." he nipped at my neck and I shuddered in-between my sobs, "...and it's all your fault. It's your fault I tortured them two to death, it's all your damn fault! If it weren't for you, I probably wouldn't have had to do this. Now the only person to blame for this tragedy is you. IT'S ALL YOUR FUCKING FAULT!!!"
His howl riveted through the forest; it trembled at the loud repercussion, shaking it's essence as birds flew from it and other animals screeched and squawked from it's innards.
I cried freely now, shaking my head uncontrollably again...
Waiting for this nightmare to end.
"Kami no..." I stuttered out, trying to escape from this horrid place.
"Yes," he forced my eyes to meet his again. He had let go of my hands, but I made no attempt to try and free myself. I just stared blankly into my killer's eyes. His onyx depths swirled without a single hint of mercy. They held within all of the tortured souls he had destroyed, each whirling inward to that dark void of no return. They each cried out their pleas of help, beckoning me to become his next victim of many.
"Ready to die?"
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Blitz: *blinks* damn and I thought I was morbid...
MQ: *smiles triumphantly* I try.
Blitz: You on something?
MQ: *shrugs* hell, it's..*looks at the clock* 12:11 am...I'll probably wake up later, read this and wonder that exact same thing!
Blitz: OK, someone's has over exceeded their caffine limit...
MQ: Probably. *blinks* Yeah...I'm even freaked out now. With the combination of writing this and watching Identity, it'll be a while before I'll be able to sleep tonight...
Blitz: Nice Job.
MQ: Oye...
Well, g2g, and stay tuned for the next chapter!!!
MQ n' Blitz
