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I said, my eyes full of understanding, "Ken, I have nothing that needs forgiveness from you. Please Ken, tell me what happened." With that, I grabbed his arm, and I stood on my tiptoes, and kissed him.
His eyes filled with happiness, and he said, "a- all right." With that, he began his story, as we walked away, arm in arm, from Nephlite's mansion.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FLASHBACK TO KEN'S POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
There I was, I saw you being taken away, and I yanked and pulled at my bonds, trying to get to you. I saw you being heaved up the stairs, and anger soared through my body. The outside door to my house slammed shut and I could hear you yelling and screaming, at the top of your lungs. Then I heard a sickening thud, and all went silent. At that crack, everybody froze. My heart stopped, and I stopped breathing. It sounded like Diamond had shot you. The room had gone deathly silent. No one noticed when I sank to the ground on my knees, including myself. The air started to taste like death, and I was drowning in it. Guilt was clouding my view of everything. I faintly heard someone coming down the stairs, but I didn't bother to look to see who it was. I felt myself being picked up and shaken, but I hardly took notice of it. Then I was slapped back to my senses.
Diamond had picked me up and yelled in my face, "Wake up, you bastard! I didn't fricken kill her!"
"Huh?" I said, when it didn't quite hit me. But I was just chucked back to the poles that you were once locked to. Someone took the bondings off my hands and locked my hands to the bars, and they all left, except for Diamond.
He said, "well, Ken, I'm amazed that you didn't put up much of a fight." He hit me square across the face, with a force I have never known. "ah, I've been wanting to do that for some time now. Too bad you can't fight back. But it's no wonder, cause your such a wimp! Well," he walked over to the bathroom that I had in the basement. I could faintly hear him turning the tub on. His shadow on the cement floor walked over to the sink and turned that on too. It straightened up, and I saw Diamond emerge from the bathroom with a self-satisfied smirk. He hovered over me, and said in a sickly whisper, with his eyes flashing red, "You know that when you join my ranks, you can't get out. If you try to back out, like you did, then its death. All my followers thought I was kidding when I said that though. Well, you'll be the first example of my power. You see, I have started all the water suppliers down here except for one." With that, he lit a match, and held it up to the sprinkler system that I had installed. Within five seconds, the sprinklers turned on. "Eventually the water level in here will rise significantly, and since you are firmly locked up, you shall die. And poor you, with no one to save you!" With that, he turned and walked up the stairs, and slammed the door shut.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Flashback to present Lita's POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"But Ken," I asked, "I've heard that people have gotten out of his ranks before. Why didn't he let you go?"
Ken looked ahead and frowned. "I guess... it was a grudge or something. Maybe I was the first to disobey his orders. Maybe that was just a rumor that you heard. I really don't know."
I glanced ahead. We were just at Nephlite's gate to his house. I turned to Ken and asked, "Where are we going?"
"Hmm," he said, "I don't think we should go to Diamond's house yet. We're not strong enough to take on thirty or so guys. I think the police would be the best place to go."
"Sounds good to me," I said, as we opened the gate, and we turned to walk to the police station. After a few seconds of silence, I turned to Ken and impatiently said, "Well?"
He looked at me with a confused expression. "What?" he asked. With a glance at my face, he realized that I was waiting for the rest of the story. "Oh," I said, and went on.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Flashback, Ken's POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Diamond had just left, and already the floor was starting to flood. There was at least half an inch on the floor. I looked around, panicky. I yanked on the handcuffs, furious with myself for not putting up a fight. I tried EVERYTHING to get them off, but they just wouldn't budge. As each second went by, I got colder, wetter, and more aggravated. After a long time of trying, all hope escaped my body. I flopped my head down on my chest, defeated. My eyes glanced into my shirt pocket when I noticed that there was something in it. By shifting my weight, I saw that it was the extra key that I had made. I groaned and reached for the key. I managed to grasp it, and I lifted it out of my shirt pocket. Carefully, I took the key and reached it over to the lock. I was less than an inch short. Rage builded up inside me as I reached as far as I could to unlock myself. After who knows how long of trying, I balled my fists up, furious.
I let the rage out by yelling, "DIAMOND I HATE YOU, YOU FUCKING BASTARD!!!" Every emotion soared through my body, and my energy was picking up. It was as if I was going to explode. To make matters worse, the water level had reached the bottom of my chin. I could see flashes of my life soaring through my mind, as I tried to get myself out. Soon the water had covered my mouth, and then my nose. I tried to swim up, and it worked for awhile, but I got really tired of trying to stay up at the top. The water level kept rising, and I took my seemingly last breath of air. I could hear some vague shouting, but nothing was clear to me. After I had taken my breath of air, a thought struck me. Acting quickly, I stuck the key in my mouth, and reached it to the keyhole. With a quick turn, it unlocked. I took the key out of my mouth and unlocked the other hand. I swam through my basement, with my lungs almost dying because of the lack of air, and reached the stairs. I reached the top of the stairs, gasping for air, and I swam in-between consciousness and unconsciousness. The door flooded with light, and I thought for sure that my time had come. Two sets of hands grabbed my arms and pulled me up and out, and settled me on a chair. As the air filled my lungs, I got a better view of what was going on.
"Gosh darn it all Ken, would you snap back to life?" I could recognize that voice anywhere!
"Chad...?" I asked feebly.
"Damn straight." He replied back.
"Don't forget me, Ken!"
"Oh, and Andrew!" I exclaimed, as my vision perfected again. A blanket was thrown across my shoulders, in the attempt to warm me up. I looked to see who had put it over me, and saw none other than the fiery priestess and her bubbly friend. "Hi Raye, Mina."
They smiled in return. Then Raye frowned and demanded, "Where is everyone? I've got bad vibes about all this, so tell me now!" She started to yell, "WHAT HAS BEEN GOING ON?!?!"
My eyes opened in shock, and responded with, "Wish I could tell you. I think that they're all being held at Diamond's house. Why don't you call him or something, though I don't think you'll get much information out of him." Mina walked over to the phone, and dialed his number. She put the receiver to her ear, and listened. The longer she listened, the deeper her frown turned. She hung up the phone.
"It seems that the lines are dead," Mina said, and sat on a chair in a huff. Andrew walked over to her and put his hand on her shoulder, and she leaned against his arm. My heart jerked, and I thought to myself, "that could have been me and Lita."
I asked, "what should we do now?"
Everyone looked at me as if I was crazy. "Duh," Chad said, "We're going to Diamond's house," then he said hastily, "that is, if you're ready. I mean, you just went through a horrible ordeal."
I stood up and looked out the window. "Its time." I said, and walked to the door. With a glance back, I saw that no one was following me. "Aren't you coming?" I asked.
Andrew gave me a look. "What's the plan, then?"
I looked back, and said, "were going to Diamond's house, we just went over this!"
Andrew looked taken aback and then he frowned. "Whatever you say, sherlock." We set off outside, and into the pouring rain, and all of us broke out into a run. As we reached his house, we took a quick glance around the house. There was no one outside, thankfully. Unfortunately, there were no windows that were lit inside that we could see through. We went to the front door, and opened it. One by one, we filed into the house, being extra careful. I was in front of the group, and I slipped into a small hallway, when I heard people shouting behind me. I took a glance back, and saw Raye, Mina, Andrew and Chad fighting eight total guys. They had seen me, and were trying to get past the four of them.
I started to run up to them, but Andrew yelled out, "For Pete's sake, Ken, get out of here!" So, I turned away and ran through the hall out the back door.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FLASHBACK TO PRESENT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"That's when I saw you hanging off the roof of the next house. I called out your name, but my efforts were lost in the rain," Ken told me.
I laughed, and said, "And I thought that you were a gang member. If I had known it was you, I would have dropped down into your arms. Anyway, go on."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FLASHBACK TO KEN'S POV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I started running all along the houses, trying not only to get away from the gang, but also mainly to follow you. I saw you start to climb down a tree, when someone took a cheap shot on me. Some guy nailed me in the back, totally knocking the wind out of me, and dragged me over by the feet to some ditch. I looked up and saw long brown hair. Nephlite. In the ditch there was a small tree in which he tied me up with some orange cloth, probably from some pj's. *AN: when Nephlite was on the show, ya know how in the last episode in which he died Molly fixed his arm with some of her pajama outfit? Well, it's the same here.* He quickly wrapped the cloth round, not doing such a good job of it though. After some time of heavily scraping the cloth against the tree, I got free. Using logic, I guessed that he had taken you to his house, and I took off for his house at once. I got there and rang the doorbell, and pounded on the door, demanding entry. He finally opened the door, and I socked him one right across the face. He fell to the floor, and I enjoyed the sickening thud. I picked him up by the collar and demanded, "Where is Lita?!?!" He just stared. I socked him across the face and asked him again, "Where the hell is LITA?!" He was fazing out, and he grimly pointed to the basement, and I took off, thinking that he probably told me a lie, but to give it a shot anyway.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FLASHBACK TO PRESENT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"And that's it. That's where we met up," Ken finished, with a sigh. I looked at his face. He was trying to conceal something, but I thought it better not to say anything.
Instead, I turned toward him and looked at him straight in the eye. "Now Ken," I started, with a firm touch in my voice, "You know, you saved me. Diamond was a pig, but I think that Nephlite was the biggest pig I've ever seen. Who knows what could have happened..." I let my voice trail off, and I shivered. "Anyway," I continued on, "what you did, was amazing, and Ken," he had looked away, and I looked back in his eyes, "Ken... I think I love you." His eyes widened in shock, and happiness flowed out of his body like a waterfall. He smiled such a smile that made me melt, and my knees feel like putty. I leaned forward, ever so carefully, and grasped his lips with mine. It was the most simple kiss, yet, the most meaningful. It started to drizzle again, but the kiss lasted on. I was caught in the rain, but I was glad I was.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THE END ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
AS IF! MUWAHAHAHHAAHA!
Ya I know its not much of a cliffhanger, but its all good. I was gonna write more, but I thought that this was a cute way to end the chapter. Anywho, I'm gonna respond to the comments this time! ^_^
Brie: hee hee I laughed when I read your comment, mainly cause it was something like what I was planning. But you didn't hear that from me. ^_~ Oh, and the suggestions that you made rocked!
Ry: thanks for the suggestions! Well, the ones online. Ah, you know what I mean!
For everyone else: I'm SOOO glad that all of you guys liked the last chapter and the story so far! It makes me happy that you guys review too!
SUGGESTIONS ARE VERY MUCH WELCOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I said, my eyes full of understanding, "Ken, I have nothing that needs forgiveness from you. Please Ken, tell me what happened." With that, I grabbed his arm, and I stood on my tiptoes, and kissed him.
His eyes filled with happiness, and he said, "a- all right." With that, he began his story, as we walked away, arm in arm, from Nephlite's mansion.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FLASHBACK TO KEN'S POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
There I was, I saw you being taken away, and I yanked and pulled at my bonds, trying to get to you. I saw you being heaved up the stairs, and anger soared through my body. The outside door to my house slammed shut and I could hear you yelling and screaming, at the top of your lungs. Then I heard a sickening thud, and all went silent. At that crack, everybody froze. My heart stopped, and I stopped breathing. It sounded like Diamond had shot you. The room had gone deathly silent. No one noticed when I sank to the ground on my knees, including myself. The air started to taste like death, and I was drowning in it. Guilt was clouding my view of everything. I faintly heard someone coming down the stairs, but I didn't bother to look to see who it was. I felt myself being picked up and shaken, but I hardly took notice of it. Then I was slapped back to my senses.
Diamond had picked me up and yelled in my face, "Wake up, you bastard! I didn't fricken kill her!"
"Huh?" I said, when it didn't quite hit me. But I was just chucked back to the poles that you were once locked to. Someone took the bondings off my hands and locked my hands to the bars, and they all left, except for Diamond.
He said, "well, Ken, I'm amazed that you didn't put up much of a fight." He hit me square across the face, with a force I have never known. "ah, I've been wanting to do that for some time now. Too bad you can't fight back. But it's no wonder, cause your such a wimp! Well," he walked over to the bathroom that I had in the basement. I could faintly hear him turning the tub on. His shadow on the cement floor walked over to the sink and turned that on too. It straightened up, and I saw Diamond emerge from the bathroom with a self-satisfied smirk. He hovered over me, and said in a sickly whisper, with his eyes flashing red, "You know that when you join my ranks, you can't get out. If you try to back out, like you did, then its death. All my followers thought I was kidding when I said that though. Well, you'll be the first example of my power. You see, I have started all the water suppliers down here except for one." With that, he lit a match, and held it up to the sprinkler system that I had installed. Within five seconds, the sprinklers turned on. "Eventually the water level in here will rise significantly, and since you are firmly locked up, you shall die. And poor you, with no one to save you!" With that, he turned and walked up the stairs, and slammed the door shut.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Flashback to present Lita's POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"But Ken," I asked, "I've heard that people have gotten out of his ranks before. Why didn't he let you go?"
Ken looked ahead and frowned. "I guess... it was a grudge or something. Maybe I was the first to disobey his orders. Maybe that was just a rumor that you heard. I really don't know."
I glanced ahead. We were just at Nephlite's gate to his house. I turned to Ken and asked, "Where are we going?"
"Hmm," he said, "I don't think we should go to Diamond's house yet. We're not strong enough to take on thirty or so guys. I think the police would be the best place to go."
"Sounds good to me," I said, as we opened the gate, and we turned to walk to the police station. After a few seconds of silence, I turned to Ken and impatiently said, "Well?"
He looked at me with a confused expression. "What?" he asked. With a glance at my face, he realized that I was waiting for the rest of the story. "Oh," I said, and went on.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Flashback, Ken's POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Diamond had just left, and already the floor was starting to flood. There was at least half an inch on the floor. I looked around, panicky. I yanked on the handcuffs, furious with myself for not putting up a fight. I tried EVERYTHING to get them off, but they just wouldn't budge. As each second went by, I got colder, wetter, and more aggravated. After a long time of trying, all hope escaped my body. I flopped my head down on my chest, defeated. My eyes glanced into my shirt pocket when I noticed that there was something in it. By shifting my weight, I saw that it was the extra key that I had made. I groaned and reached for the key. I managed to grasp it, and I lifted it out of my shirt pocket. Carefully, I took the key and reached it over to the lock. I was less than an inch short. Rage builded up inside me as I reached as far as I could to unlock myself. After who knows how long of trying, I balled my fists up, furious.
I let the rage out by yelling, "DIAMOND I HATE YOU, YOU FUCKING BASTARD!!!" Every emotion soared through my body, and my energy was picking up. It was as if I was going to explode. To make matters worse, the water level had reached the bottom of my chin. I could see flashes of my life soaring through my mind, as I tried to get myself out. Soon the water had covered my mouth, and then my nose. I tried to swim up, and it worked for awhile, but I got really tired of trying to stay up at the top. The water level kept rising, and I took my seemingly last breath of air. I could hear some vague shouting, but nothing was clear to me. After I had taken my breath of air, a thought struck me. Acting quickly, I stuck the key in my mouth, and reached it to the keyhole. With a quick turn, it unlocked. I took the key out of my mouth and unlocked the other hand. I swam through my basement, with my lungs almost dying because of the lack of air, and reached the stairs. I reached the top of the stairs, gasping for air, and I swam in-between consciousness and unconsciousness. The door flooded with light, and I thought for sure that my time had come. Two sets of hands grabbed my arms and pulled me up and out, and settled me on a chair. As the air filled my lungs, I got a better view of what was going on.
"Gosh darn it all Ken, would you snap back to life?" I could recognize that voice anywhere!
"Chad...?" I asked feebly.
"Damn straight." He replied back.
"Don't forget me, Ken!"
"Oh, and Andrew!" I exclaimed, as my vision perfected again. A blanket was thrown across my shoulders, in the attempt to warm me up. I looked to see who had put it over me, and saw none other than the fiery priestess and her bubbly friend. "Hi Raye, Mina."
They smiled in return. Then Raye frowned and demanded, "Where is everyone? I've got bad vibes about all this, so tell me now!" She started to yell, "WHAT HAS BEEN GOING ON?!?!"
My eyes opened in shock, and responded with, "Wish I could tell you. I think that they're all being held at Diamond's house. Why don't you call him or something, though I don't think you'll get much information out of him." Mina walked over to the phone, and dialed his number. She put the receiver to her ear, and listened. The longer she listened, the deeper her frown turned. She hung up the phone.
"It seems that the lines are dead," Mina said, and sat on a chair in a huff. Andrew walked over to her and put his hand on her shoulder, and she leaned against his arm. My heart jerked, and I thought to myself, "that could have been me and Lita."
I asked, "what should we do now?"
Everyone looked at me as if I was crazy. "Duh," Chad said, "We're going to Diamond's house," then he said hastily, "that is, if you're ready. I mean, you just went through a horrible ordeal."
I stood up and looked out the window. "Its time." I said, and walked to the door. With a glance back, I saw that no one was following me. "Aren't you coming?" I asked.
Andrew gave me a look. "What's the plan, then?"
I looked back, and said, "were going to Diamond's house, we just went over this!"
Andrew looked taken aback and then he frowned. "Whatever you say, sherlock." We set off outside, and into the pouring rain, and all of us broke out into a run. As we reached his house, we took a quick glance around the house. There was no one outside, thankfully. Unfortunately, there were no windows that were lit inside that we could see through. We went to the front door, and opened it. One by one, we filed into the house, being extra careful. I was in front of the group, and I slipped into a small hallway, when I heard people shouting behind me. I took a glance back, and saw Raye, Mina, Andrew and Chad fighting eight total guys. They had seen me, and were trying to get past the four of them.
I started to run up to them, but Andrew yelled out, "For Pete's sake, Ken, get out of here!" So, I turned away and ran through the hall out the back door.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FLASHBACK TO PRESENT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"That's when I saw you hanging off the roof of the next house. I called out your name, but my efforts were lost in the rain," Ken told me.
I laughed, and said, "And I thought that you were a gang member. If I had known it was you, I would have dropped down into your arms. Anyway, go on."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FLASHBACK TO KEN'S POV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I started running all along the houses, trying not only to get away from the gang, but also mainly to follow you. I saw you start to climb down a tree, when someone took a cheap shot on me. Some guy nailed me in the back, totally knocking the wind out of me, and dragged me over by the feet to some ditch. I looked up and saw long brown hair. Nephlite. In the ditch there was a small tree in which he tied me up with some orange cloth, probably from some pj's. *AN: when Nephlite was on the show, ya know how in the last episode in which he died Molly fixed his arm with some of her pajama outfit? Well, it's the same here.* He quickly wrapped the cloth round, not doing such a good job of it though. After some time of heavily scraping the cloth against the tree, I got free. Using logic, I guessed that he had taken you to his house, and I took off for his house at once. I got there and rang the doorbell, and pounded on the door, demanding entry. He finally opened the door, and I socked him one right across the face. He fell to the floor, and I enjoyed the sickening thud. I picked him up by the collar and demanded, "Where is Lita?!?!" He just stared. I socked him across the face and asked him again, "Where the hell is LITA?!" He was fazing out, and he grimly pointed to the basement, and I took off, thinking that he probably told me a lie, but to give it a shot anyway.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FLASHBACK TO PRESENT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"And that's it. That's where we met up," Ken finished, with a sigh. I looked at his face. He was trying to conceal something, but I thought it better not to say anything.
Instead, I turned toward him and looked at him straight in the eye. "Now Ken," I started, with a firm touch in my voice, "You know, you saved me. Diamond was a pig, but I think that Nephlite was the biggest pig I've ever seen. Who knows what could have happened..." I let my voice trail off, and I shivered. "Anyway," I continued on, "what you did, was amazing, and Ken," he had looked away, and I looked back in his eyes, "Ken... I think I love you." His eyes widened in shock, and happiness flowed out of his body like a waterfall. He smiled such a smile that made me melt, and my knees feel like putty. I leaned forward, ever so carefully, and grasped his lips with mine. It was the most simple kiss, yet, the most meaningful. It started to drizzle again, but the kiss lasted on. I was caught in the rain, but I was glad I was.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THE END ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
AS IF! MUWAHAHAHHAAHA!
Ya I know its not much of a cliffhanger, but its all good. I was gonna write more, but I thought that this was a cute way to end the chapter. Anywho, I'm gonna respond to the comments this time! ^_^
Brie: hee hee I laughed when I read your comment, mainly cause it was something like what I was planning. But you didn't hear that from me. ^_~ Oh, and the suggestions that you made rocked!
Ry: thanks for the suggestions! Well, the ones online. Ah, you know what I mean!
For everyone else: I'm SOOO glad that all of you guys liked the last chapter and the story so far! It makes me happy that you guys review too!
SUGGESTIONS ARE VERY MUCH WELCOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!