Chpt 4-Unseen savior
Once again her day dragged on. After awakening to her usual morning gloom, Rini plasted on her fake smile and proceeded to manuver her way through her daily activities. Now she strode down a large, rather crowded street in downtown Tokeyo. Flanked on either side by her best of gal-pals she payed no heed to what they were saying as her head bobbed slowly to her newest CD which was being played through her headphones. While walking she came to the sudden conclusion that this was her new favorite CD. The world around her faded slowly away as she sunk into the reveling words of Evenecesnce and continued to bob her head slowly up and down in beat with the music. Suddenly, surprising even herself, Rini's instinct caused her to snatch at the air over her left sholder. Firmly placing her grip on the arm found there, nearly about to grab her, she twirlled around gracefully and met the face behind her. The face belonged to Janett, one of her friends. The tall brunet looked rather confused at Rini's sudden act of hostility and slowly removed her hand from the smallers grasp.
"Chill girl," she said to Rini, "I was just gonna tell you that we all have to turn here to get home, you gonna be okay goin alone from here?"
"Sure," Rini replied hastily, "It's only a few more blocks to the house and nothing exciting ever happens around here anyway..."
She left the sentence to hang in mid air as her friends all agreed half-heartedly before continuing on thier separate ways. Finding herself alone at last Rini let out a small smirk at the thought of finnally ditching those preps. Why she even bothered to hang out with them anymore was a total mystery to her. She guessed it was only her attempt to make things look like they normally would that kept her from breaking all ties to them. The way they had looked at her as she retrived the CD she now carried from the shelf only proved that their was even less between them than ever before. At one point in her life she would have easily joined in on the pointless chatter over the latest boy band or the newest gossip about only God knows what poor soul from their school. She was glad to be rid of them now as she traveled alone, though somewhere deep inside the back of her mind the though came and went in the blink of an eye, 'do I really just want to be alone?' The thought had little time to blossom into anything of importance though as the world around her suddenly turned into a mass of swirling images. A sudden blow to the back of the head left her nearly unconcious as she stumbled forward, blinded by a searing white pain hidden somewhere behind her eyes.
Slowly her vision cleared itself and she looked around for the source of teh blow only to find a plastic bag lazily floating by in the wind. Moving as to return to her trek homeward she found the way toward her house blocked by a young boy. He looked to be nearly her age, in fact she was certain that she had seen him at school before, but he was much larger than her and appeared to be rather full of himself in this situation.
"Did you think you were goin somewheres" He stated, the smirk apparently plastered on his face shifting to become a full fleged smile.
She didn't know exactly what it was he wanted with her, but by the obvious look on his face it wasn't good and she was guessing that he figured he had already won this fight. To bad for him he didn't know who he decided to get himself into a fight with. Her hand clenched tightly over the heart shaped locked on her breast as she prepared to battle. The shift in her stance caused the other boy to take up his guard as well. Removing one of his arms from behind his back she caught a glint of sunlight off silver as he reviled a small knife. Holding the blade before him, he stood unaware of the brutal punishment he would soon recive for placeing himself in the way of Mini Moon. In her past she would have done all in her power to remain secretive about herself but as of the past few months she cared not who knew as long as she had the chance to do some harm, and it seemed that chance had finally arived. Preparing for her transformation Rini would be caught off gaurd for the second time in one day as the youth across from her suddely made the first move, lunging toward her with the knife held before him, as if to shield him from danger. She braced herself for the impact of the oncomeing child, closeing her eyes in the process. Yet she felt no impact, infact she felt no pain at all. Instead she heard a loud scream followed by an equally as loud curse and the clinking of metal upon cement. Opening her eyes Rini saw, to her amazment, that the boy before her no longer wore the look of cocky winner upon his face but instead a look of horror and pain. His right hand which had previously held the blade now was the owner of a deep gash cut into the back of his palm. The crimson liquid dripping from his arm to the ground splatterd randomly around the silver impliment which he had wielded only seconds before.
Rini stood, dumbfounded by all that had happened in the past few moments gawked onward at the other youth, now nearly in tears. The features of his face contorted with rage as he looked at the young girl before him and the words he spat out were venom covered and filled with mallice.
"I don't know how you did that, but next time I'll be sure to watch my back."
Watch his back? what could he have been talking about she muttered to herself. There was no recognition in her mind of the fact that the other boy had retrived his blade and darted from the scene. She stood, rooted to the spot at which she was at when suddenly her eyes caught sight of something she had not noticed before. There, lieing between her feet was a single white rose. It's stem was thrust hard into the cement leaving is blossom in midair as it bent gently in the slight breeze that blew by. Dumbfounded my it's sudden appearence on the scene, Rini bent and gently plucked it from it's resting place amoung the concreate. Rising back up to a normal posture, realization hit her and her eyes snapped quickly to nearby rooftops and allyways. From the roof of a nearby home she spotted the movement of a loose piece of cloth such as a sheet blowing in the wind as it quickly moved away.
"Darien?..."
Once again her day dragged on. After awakening to her usual morning gloom, Rini plasted on her fake smile and proceeded to manuver her way through her daily activities. Now she strode down a large, rather crowded street in downtown Tokeyo. Flanked on either side by her best of gal-pals she payed no heed to what they were saying as her head bobbed slowly to her newest CD which was being played through her headphones. While walking she came to the sudden conclusion that this was her new favorite CD. The world around her faded slowly away as she sunk into the reveling words of Evenecesnce and continued to bob her head slowly up and down in beat with the music. Suddenly, surprising even herself, Rini's instinct caused her to snatch at the air over her left sholder. Firmly placing her grip on the arm found there, nearly about to grab her, she twirlled around gracefully and met the face behind her. The face belonged to Janett, one of her friends. The tall brunet looked rather confused at Rini's sudden act of hostility and slowly removed her hand from the smallers grasp.
"Chill girl," she said to Rini, "I was just gonna tell you that we all have to turn here to get home, you gonna be okay goin alone from here?"
"Sure," Rini replied hastily, "It's only a few more blocks to the house and nothing exciting ever happens around here anyway..."
She left the sentence to hang in mid air as her friends all agreed half-heartedly before continuing on thier separate ways. Finding herself alone at last Rini let out a small smirk at the thought of finnally ditching those preps. Why she even bothered to hang out with them anymore was a total mystery to her. She guessed it was only her attempt to make things look like they normally would that kept her from breaking all ties to them. The way they had looked at her as she retrived the CD she now carried from the shelf only proved that their was even less between them than ever before. At one point in her life she would have easily joined in on the pointless chatter over the latest boy band or the newest gossip about only God knows what poor soul from their school. She was glad to be rid of them now as she traveled alone, though somewhere deep inside the back of her mind the though came and went in the blink of an eye, 'do I really just want to be alone?' The thought had little time to blossom into anything of importance though as the world around her suddenly turned into a mass of swirling images. A sudden blow to the back of the head left her nearly unconcious as she stumbled forward, blinded by a searing white pain hidden somewhere behind her eyes.
Slowly her vision cleared itself and she looked around for the source of teh blow only to find a plastic bag lazily floating by in the wind. Moving as to return to her trek homeward she found the way toward her house blocked by a young boy. He looked to be nearly her age, in fact she was certain that she had seen him at school before, but he was much larger than her and appeared to be rather full of himself in this situation.
"Did you think you were goin somewheres" He stated, the smirk apparently plastered on his face shifting to become a full fleged smile.
She didn't know exactly what it was he wanted with her, but by the obvious look on his face it wasn't good and she was guessing that he figured he had already won this fight. To bad for him he didn't know who he decided to get himself into a fight with. Her hand clenched tightly over the heart shaped locked on her breast as she prepared to battle. The shift in her stance caused the other boy to take up his guard as well. Removing one of his arms from behind his back she caught a glint of sunlight off silver as he reviled a small knife. Holding the blade before him, he stood unaware of the brutal punishment he would soon recive for placeing himself in the way of Mini Moon. In her past she would have done all in her power to remain secretive about herself but as of the past few months she cared not who knew as long as she had the chance to do some harm, and it seemed that chance had finally arived. Preparing for her transformation Rini would be caught off gaurd for the second time in one day as the youth across from her suddely made the first move, lunging toward her with the knife held before him, as if to shield him from danger. She braced herself for the impact of the oncomeing child, closeing her eyes in the process. Yet she felt no impact, infact she felt no pain at all. Instead she heard a loud scream followed by an equally as loud curse and the clinking of metal upon cement. Opening her eyes Rini saw, to her amazment, that the boy before her no longer wore the look of cocky winner upon his face but instead a look of horror and pain. His right hand which had previously held the blade now was the owner of a deep gash cut into the back of his palm. The crimson liquid dripping from his arm to the ground splatterd randomly around the silver impliment which he had wielded only seconds before.
Rini stood, dumbfounded by all that had happened in the past few moments gawked onward at the other youth, now nearly in tears. The features of his face contorted with rage as he looked at the young girl before him and the words he spat out were venom covered and filled with mallice.
"I don't know how you did that, but next time I'll be sure to watch my back."
Watch his back? what could he have been talking about she muttered to herself. There was no recognition in her mind of the fact that the other boy had retrived his blade and darted from the scene. She stood, rooted to the spot at which she was at when suddenly her eyes caught sight of something she had not noticed before. There, lieing between her feet was a single white rose. It's stem was thrust hard into the cement leaving is blossom in midair as it bent gently in the slight breeze that blew by. Dumbfounded my it's sudden appearence on the scene, Rini bent and gently plucked it from it's resting place amoung the concreate. Rising back up to a normal posture, realization hit her and her eyes snapped quickly to nearby rooftops and allyways. From the roof of a nearby home she spotted the movement of a loose piece of cloth such as a sheet blowing in the wind as it quickly moved away.
"Darien?..."