ALRIGHT!! IT'S A LOVE AND HATE SPECIAL EVENT!! WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP!!
Hehehehe! I love it! Anywho, we're gonna take a break from the whole
storyline, and go back in time!! Isn't that exciting? *looks too see two
in the crowd clapping* Uuum.......Right! ^^() Well, maybe there'll be
more of an audience? *crickets chirp, the two audience members stare
blankly* Tough crowd, tough crowd. Wait..........What crowd? *sighs*
Anywho, I don't own anything except the few alternate characters, thank
you. You get to learn ALOT about Ashley Nonaka! C'mon, isn't that the
coolest thing to know? *the two audience members claps happily*
Shinigami, I really have to get a bigger audience....-.- *suddenly perky
again* ^.^ Okay, now on with the special event
No Need for Zero
"Mommy! Sarah took my dollie again!" The youngest sister, Maria, cried, tripping over a few words in her native tounge, Ukranian.
Sarah grinned, her green eyes were gleaming brightly, she then got tired of the whining so she handed the doll back to her younger sister, and all was quiet once again.
Ashley stumbled out of her room, she had just woken up, and was half asleep, she was the oldest, she was five whole years old, Sarah was four, and Maria was three.
"Hi." She mumbled to them. (REMEMBER! They are speaking Ukranian unless I say otherwise! So there! XP''')
~*~
After a rather uneventful morning, and everyone was dressed and wide awake, there was a pounding on the door, Ashley wasn't anywhere to be found at the moment, she was probably in the back yard.
Her mother began to waddle over to the door, her large body caused her to waddle a lot, she was also very hunched over from all the weight she was carrying. When she opened the door, she began to argue with whoever was there, then was shot dead, the German soldiers were finally here in their village.
After a long arguement, everyone but Ashley, were dead. (I know, this is goin' a bit to fast, but, I want to get to the trainin' and stuff, so, yeah.)
The little blond girl wandered in to be greeted by the soldiers, and the bloody mess, her eyes widened, but, she watched the soldiers talk to each other in German, they appeared to be arguing over the small girl's life, finally, the one with black hair and purple bangs, picked up the very frightened girl, he gently rocked her in his arms, and carried her out of the house and to the truck. Once she was placed in the back, she saw she wasn't the only kid there, there were a whole bunch of them. One of them was wearing tight jeans, a baggy shirt that reached his knees, and a red jacket over it, his blond hair was matted down and his gray eyes starred at the newcomer. He smiled, then the truck bgan to move forward to God knows what destination.
"Hey there." The boy smiled, "I'm Joey Fitch, who are you?"
Ashley didn't respond at all, she just remained quiet, all she did was look at him with blank eyes.
"Didn't ya hear me?" He asked her, a curious look on his face.
She nodded silently.
"What is your name? Or do you not want to tell me. Or you just don't want to talk at all."
Again, she nodded.
"Why are you like that, I bet the same thing happened to you and me." He said.
The blond girl shook her head.
"Whaddya mean no, wasn't your family killed to?"
Her eyes went wide, she then nodded.
"Were you really close to them?" He asked, again, he recieved a silent nod. "Don't worry, I'll be your family now, I'll watch out for you. What do you say to that?"
Ashley smiled at that, but she said nothing, she just nodded.
"That's great to hear!" Joey grinned.
After a long journey for five hours or so, the truck came to a screeching halt, the door of the truck was opened and the kids were led out to a camp of some sort, all the kids there were ages five to fifteen, the only adults were anyone in the army.
"I wonder what they want with us here." Joey thought aloud, Ashley shrugged.
"Get in line right now!" A commander shouted at them, the new kids quickly got in line. They went down the line asking each kid for their name, which each gave obdiently, until they got to Ashley.
"Kid, name." Was all the commander ordered, he just recieved a silent stare, "Didn't you hear me kid, what's your name?!" The blond girl remained silent, pissing the commander off even more, "Tell me your name now!!" She still refused to give her name, she continued to look at him. Finally, the commander raised his hand, he balled up his hand into a fist, then swung it at the girl, she narrowed her eyes, and dodged the oncoming blow, the commander growled in frustration, and he managed to kick the girl in the gut, causing her to fall to the ground in pain, holding her stomach. "NOW!! TELL ME YOUR NAME!!"
Ashley looked up at him, her eyes glaring in pain, "You killed them." She finally said darkly.
The commander, "JUST GIVE ME YOUR GODDAMN NAME!!"
"No." Was all she said.
"FINE! I'll give you a name!" The commander shouted at her, "We'll call you Zero, looks like you've got nothing going on in that puny dumb brain of yours." He took one last look at her, then continued asking for names down the line, which he got.
~*~
In the cafeteria, Zero, formally known as Ashley Nonaka, sat by herself eat what they called food.
"Hey you." Someone said brightly as they sat down across from her.
Zero looked up at the person, it was Joey Fitch, she smiled a bit.
"That was cool of you for standing up to that guy, your one tough cookie Zero, I like you, you know that?" Joey was grinning at her.
She nodded grinning as well.
"That's good." Joey took a forkfull of the 'food', as soon as it was in his mouth, he spit it right back out, "What is this crap they call food?"
The blond girl shrugged.
"Your right, who knows." Joey said, "But, hey, it's food." And he basically forced himself to eat it, Zero did the same. Joey looked over to the officers table, "Look at them, they're all the same, they get decent food, and they get respect. What more could they ask for?"
The table was filled with at least twenty officers, one of them caught Zero's attention, for some reason, she felt he was different, somehow.
~*~
A group of kids gathered in their assigned room, about twenty kids were in the room, including Zero and Joey. Standing at the front of the room were the officer the blond girl had spotted at lunch, she would finally see if she was right.
He smiled at the group, he had long dark brown hair that almost reached his elbows, he also had a rather fuzzy beard to match. He stood around six foot two. Zero noted the goggles sitting on his head. His amber eyes seemed to twinkle happily along with his smile.
Joey snickered, "Since when are girls allowed to be officers?" He asked Zero.
The officer looked at Joey, glaring slightly, "I am not a girl, I'm a man, and if you want to survive my training, I dare you to make another comment like that." The officer decided to change the subject, "You all are here to become soldiers, you have been selected because you can learn things faster then I can because of your young minds. You are the best, and will always be the best. We'll start with names."
After getting everyone's names, he came to Zero. "What's your name?" He asked her, llike the commander, he got no response.
"Her name is Zero, that's what one of the commanders decided to call her, she didn't give him her name either." Joey told the officer.
"Did I ask you?" The officer snapped at Joey, he turned back to Zero, "Is that your name?"
Zero nodded silently.
"You're not going to tell us your real name are you?"
She shook her head.
He gave her a concerned look, "Here, tell you what, I'll give you my name, and you give me yours. My name is Kurt Bishop, and you are?"
"Zero." Was all the blond girl murmured.
"No, what's your first and last name your parents gave you?"
"Zero." She repeated.
"Why won't you tell me?"
The blond girl glared at him, then turned her back on him, and started to walk away from him.
"Wait, can you at least tell me your first name?" Kurt wasn't going to just give up so easily on the girl.
"Ashley, but don't call me that, Zero works." She growled, and walked out of there.
~*~
Kurt slumped on his bed, he needed the sleep tonight, that group was going to be tough training to become perfect killers, it boggled his mind that those kids would probably never know anything else but how to kill, they wouldn't know how to play games or anything like he did when he was a kid at their age.
He shook his head, and finally laid down with a very heavy sigh. She listened to him for some reason, that Zero, Kurt didn't understand why that girl didn't seem to like to talk very much, seemed like the less words she said, the better. 'Maybe she could tell that I'm not as blood thirsty as the other people in charge here, just maybe.' After a while of thinking to himself, Kurt eased into a deep sleep.
~*~
Zero continued to stare at the ceiling, she had gotten the top bunk, and she couldn't get to sleep very well, she was too busy thinking about her parents and family who were taken away so quickly, then she was sent here. She felt salty tears sting at her eyes, one left a wet trail down her cheek onto her pillow, which on that note, was pretty hard, as was the mattress.
She shifted to her right side and tried to get comfortable again, it was futile, but, it was as close as she was going to get. She sighed, after a while, she fell into a light sleep, no dreams came to her that night, only the dark night could be seen in her sleep.
~Five Years Later~
The loud trumpeting announced that it was time for everyone to get up. Zero and her group were ready for their first battle, no one was nervous, they had been changed. When they first started, they were innocent children, now, they were cold hearted soldiers, at only the age of ten, it was the minimum age to fight in the army.
Joey smiled at Zero, "Ready?" He asked her as they walked toward battle, guns ready.
The blond girl nodded silently, this is the day she had been looking forward to for the last five years, it was finally time to prove her skills in the battle field, that she was a worthy soldier.
Suddenly, Zero was shaken from her thoughts by sudden gunfire, she too, got in there and started shooting. Hundreds fell to her gun, fathers, brothers, cousins, husbands, boyfriends, uncles, whatever, they were the enemy, and they had to be destroyed.
A sharp pain shot through her right shoulder, she had been wounded, she wouldn't be able to fire back, but she was going to fight the pain, and she continued to fight against them, the enemy.
~*~
After a long battle, only five out of the twenty kids were left, Zero and Joey were two of the five, they were lucky.
~Five Years Later (again)~
Zero began to pack up what little things she had, which were: some old clothes that Kurt had gotten for her, a knife, and a hand gun. The war was over, it was time to move on, she didn't know what to do, most of the people she had known were killed off, Kurt was one of them. The only other person she knew that survived was Joey Fitch, she almost thought they would be friends forever, but he had taken off as soon as the war was over.
The blond girl began to think for a minute, "Maybe I should take back my old name instead of going by Zero." She thought aloud as she walked out of her cabin, bag in hand. She nodded at the thought, "Okay, I'll be going back to the name Ashley Nonaka, at least it's something to remind me of where I came from."
~*~
Little is known about Ashley's life between the age fifteen to eighteen, it was said that she just wandered the streets, somehow surviving, some say she worked as an assassin for hire, no one knows. All that is known, is when she was eighteen, she joined Team Middle Hell. And the rest, is history.
Chapter Four Complete
I know, this one was shorter then the other ones, but, we WILL be back to the storyline in the next chapter! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE ONE REVIEW!! *squeals happily* NOW I KNOW MORE THEN ONE PERSON IS READING THIS ^^ I'M SO HAPPY!!! WHEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! Okay, I am calm *grinning happily* Otay, that's all for now!! This is your authoress saying, If everything tastes like chicken, then what does chicken taste like?
Shinigami Forever!!
Carol 'Minion' Maxwell
No Need for Zero
"Mommy! Sarah took my dollie again!" The youngest sister, Maria, cried, tripping over a few words in her native tounge, Ukranian.
Sarah grinned, her green eyes were gleaming brightly, she then got tired of the whining so she handed the doll back to her younger sister, and all was quiet once again.
Ashley stumbled out of her room, she had just woken up, and was half asleep, she was the oldest, she was five whole years old, Sarah was four, and Maria was three.
"Hi." She mumbled to them. (REMEMBER! They are speaking Ukranian unless I say otherwise! So there! XP''')
~*~
After a rather uneventful morning, and everyone was dressed and wide awake, there was a pounding on the door, Ashley wasn't anywhere to be found at the moment, she was probably in the back yard.
Her mother began to waddle over to the door, her large body caused her to waddle a lot, she was also very hunched over from all the weight she was carrying. When she opened the door, she began to argue with whoever was there, then was shot dead, the German soldiers were finally here in their village.
After a long arguement, everyone but Ashley, were dead. (I know, this is goin' a bit to fast, but, I want to get to the trainin' and stuff, so, yeah.)
The little blond girl wandered in to be greeted by the soldiers, and the bloody mess, her eyes widened, but, she watched the soldiers talk to each other in German, they appeared to be arguing over the small girl's life, finally, the one with black hair and purple bangs, picked up the very frightened girl, he gently rocked her in his arms, and carried her out of the house and to the truck. Once she was placed in the back, she saw she wasn't the only kid there, there were a whole bunch of them. One of them was wearing tight jeans, a baggy shirt that reached his knees, and a red jacket over it, his blond hair was matted down and his gray eyes starred at the newcomer. He smiled, then the truck bgan to move forward to God knows what destination.
"Hey there." The boy smiled, "I'm Joey Fitch, who are you?"
Ashley didn't respond at all, she just remained quiet, all she did was look at him with blank eyes.
"Didn't ya hear me?" He asked her, a curious look on his face.
She nodded silently.
"What is your name? Or do you not want to tell me. Or you just don't want to talk at all."
Again, she nodded.
"Why are you like that, I bet the same thing happened to you and me." He said.
The blond girl shook her head.
"Whaddya mean no, wasn't your family killed to?"
Her eyes went wide, she then nodded.
"Were you really close to them?" He asked, again, he recieved a silent nod. "Don't worry, I'll be your family now, I'll watch out for you. What do you say to that?"
Ashley smiled at that, but she said nothing, she just nodded.
"That's great to hear!" Joey grinned.
After a long journey for five hours or so, the truck came to a screeching halt, the door of the truck was opened and the kids were led out to a camp of some sort, all the kids there were ages five to fifteen, the only adults were anyone in the army.
"I wonder what they want with us here." Joey thought aloud, Ashley shrugged.
"Get in line right now!" A commander shouted at them, the new kids quickly got in line. They went down the line asking each kid for their name, which each gave obdiently, until they got to Ashley.
"Kid, name." Was all the commander ordered, he just recieved a silent stare, "Didn't you hear me kid, what's your name?!" The blond girl remained silent, pissing the commander off even more, "Tell me your name now!!" She still refused to give her name, she continued to look at him. Finally, the commander raised his hand, he balled up his hand into a fist, then swung it at the girl, she narrowed her eyes, and dodged the oncoming blow, the commander growled in frustration, and he managed to kick the girl in the gut, causing her to fall to the ground in pain, holding her stomach. "NOW!! TELL ME YOUR NAME!!"
Ashley looked up at him, her eyes glaring in pain, "You killed them." She finally said darkly.
The commander, "JUST GIVE ME YOUR GODDAMN NAME!!"
"No." Was all she said.
"FINE! I'll give you a name!" The commander shouted at her, "We'll call you Zero, looks like you've got nothing going on in that puny dumb brain of yours." He took one last look at her, then continued asking for names down the line, which he got.
~*~
In the cafeteria, Zero, formally known as Ashley Nonaka, sat by herself eat what they called food.
"Hey you." Someone said brightly as they sat down across from her.
Zero looked up at the person, it was Joey Fitch, she smiled a bit.
"That was cool of you for standing up to that guy, your one tough cookie Zero, I like you, you know that?" Joey was grinning at her.
She nodded grinning as well.
"That's good." Joey took a forkfull of the 'food', as soon as it was in his mouth, he spit it right back out, "What is this crap they call food?"
The blond girl shrugged.
"Your right, who knows." Joey said, "But, hey, it's food." And he basically forced himself to eat it, Zero did the same. Joey looked over to the officers table, "Look at them, they're all the same, they get decent food, and they get respect. What more could they ask for?"
The table was filled with at least twenty officers, one of them caught Zero's attention, for some reason, she felt he was different, somehow.
~*~
A group of kids gathered in their assigned room, about twenty kids were in the room, including Zero and Joey. Standing at the front of the room were the officer the blond girl had spotted at lunch, she would finally see if she was right.
He smiled at the group, he had long dark brown hair that almost reached his elbows, he also had a rather fuzzy beard to match. He stood around six foot two. Zero noted the goggles sitting on his head. His amber eyes seemed to twinkle happily along with his smile.
Joey snickered, "Since when are girls allowed to be officers?" He asked Zero.
The officer looked at Joey, glaring slightly, "I am not a girl, I'm a man, and if you want to survive my training, I dare you to make another comment like that." The officer decided to change the subject, "You all are here to become soldiers, you have been selected because you can learn things faster then I can because of your young minds. You are the best, and will always be the best. We'll start with names."
After getting everyone's names, he came to Zero. "What's your name?" He asked her, llike the commander, he got no response.
"Her name is Zero, that's what one of the commanders decided to call her, she didn't give him her name either." Joey told the officer.
"Did I ask you?" The officer snapped at Joey, he turned back to Zero, "Is that your name?"
Zero nodded silently.
"You're not going to tell us your real name are you?"
She shook her head.
He gave her a concerned look, "Here, tell you what, I'll give you my name, and you give me yours. My name is Kurt Bishop, and you are?"
"Zero." Was all the blond girl murmured.
"No, what's your first and last name your parents gave you?"
"Zero." She repeated.
"Why won't you tell me?"
The blond girl glared at him, then turned her back on him, and started to walk away from him.
"Wait, can you at least tell me your first name?" Kurt wasn't going to just give up so easily on the girl.
"Ashley, but don't call me that, Zero works." She growled, and walked out of there.
~*~
Kurt slumped on his bed, he needed the sleep tonight, that group was going to be tough training to become perfect killers, it boggled his mind that those kids would probably never know anything else but how to kill, they wouldn't know how to play games or anything like he did when he was a kid at their age.
He shook his head, and finally laid down with a very heavy sigh. She listened to him for some reason, that Zero, Kurt didn't understand why that girl didn't seem to like to talk very much, seemed like the less words she said, the better. 'Maybe she could tell that I'm not as blood thirsty as the other people in charge here, just maybe.' After a while of thinking to himself, Kurt eased into a deep sleep.
~*~
Zero continued to stare at the ceiling, she had gotten the top bunk, and she couldn't get to sleep very well, she was too busy thinking about her parents and family who were taken away so quickly, then she was sent here. She felt salty tears sting at her eyes, one left a wet trail down her cheek onto her pillow, which on that note, was pretty hard, as was the mattress.
She shifted to her right side and tried to get comfortable again, it was futile, but, it was as close as she was going to get. She sighed, after a while, she fell into a light sleep, no dreams came to her that night, only the dark night could be seen in her sleep.
~Five Years Later~
The loud trumpeting announced that it was time for everyone to get up. Zero and her group were ready for their first battle, no one was nervous, they had been changed. When they first started, they were innocent children, now, they were cold hearted soldiers, at only the age of ten, it was the minimum age to fight in the army.
Joey smiled at Zero, "Ready?" He asked her as they walked toward battle, guns ready.
The blond girl nodded silently, this is the day she had been looking forward to for the last five years, it was finally time to prove her skills in the battle field, that she was a worthy soldier.
Suddenly, Zero was shaken from her thoughts by sudden gunfire, she too, got in there and started shooting. Hundreds fell to her gun, fathers, brothers, cousins, husbands, boyfriends, uncles, whatever, they were the enemy, and they had to be destroyed.
A sharp pain shot through her right shoulder, she had been wounded, she wouldn't be able to fire back, but she was going to fight the pain, and she continued to fight against them, the enemy.
~*~
After a long battle, only five out of the twenty kids were left, Zero and Joey were two of the five, they were lucky.
~Five Years Later (again)~
Zero began to pack up what little things she had, which were: some old clothes that Kurt had gotten for her, a knife, and a hand gun. The war was over, it was time to move on, she didn't know what to do, most of the people she had known were killed off, Kurt was one of them. The only other person she knew that survived was Joey Fitch, she almost thought they would be friends forever, but he had taken off as soon as the war was over.
The blond girl began to think for a minute, "Maybe I should take back my old name instead of going by Zero." She thought aloud as she walked out of her cabin, bag in hand. She nodded at the thought, "Okay, I'll be going back to the name Ashley Nonaka, at least it's something to remind me of where I came from."
~*~
Little is known about Ashley's life between the age fifteen to eighteen, it was said that she just wandered the streets, somehow surviving, some say she worked as an assassin for hire, no one knows. All that is known, is when she was eighteen, she joined Team Middle Hell. And the rest, is history.
Chapter Four Complete
I know, this one was shorter then the other ones, but, we WILL be back to the storyline in the next chapter! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE ONE REVIEW!! *squeals happily* NOW I KNOW MORE THEN ONE PERSON IS READING THIS ^^ I'M SO HAPPY!!! WHEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! Okay, I am calm *grinning happily* Otay, that's all for now!! This is your authoress saying, If everything tastes like chicken, then what does chicken taste like?
Shinigami Forever!!
Carol 'Minion' Maxwell