Hello all once again, I'm here with yet another chapter of Love and Hate.
Consindering how bad the last two lemons were, there will no more lemons in
this series. I may write them later on, long after the series is finished.
This may be a nice break for all of you who didn't quite enjoy chapters 8
and 10. Anyways, this is chapter 11, this one is going to be a trip with
all the chaos and all, so, I hope you all will enjoy it. Once again, I do
not own Tenchi Muyo, it belongs to it's respective creators. Thank you.
Now, on with it. It's shocking, it's got blood, it's got more chaos then
the Romans fighting the blue people, it's
No Need for Surprises
Ashley still couldn't believe what had happened that night, she woke up and didn't remember all too well. She had shrugged it off as a dream when she got up to an empty bed, but she noticed that she was sleeping naked, she never did that, never. She looked around the room, nothing looked too familiar, then once she thought about it, it really did happen, last night wasn't a dream. She felt a sick lurch in her gut. Ashley closed her eyes, and it passed.
Something smelled good coming from the kitchen, someone was making breakfast. She quickly found her clothes from yesterday on the floor, she quickly put them on, she didn't mind that they were wrinkled.
When she reached the kitchen, she saw that there was scrambled eggs with toast and juice sitting at the table. She looked around and didn't see Mihoshi or Justin around. She decided to leave the food there and find them first.
After a while of searching around, she spotted them sitting on the porch. She went out to see what they were talking about.
"Morning." She said to them, sitting down between them.
"Hey sleepy head." Mihoshi said brightly, she seemed overly excited about something.
The short-haired blond looked at Justin, he looked nervous, or just kind of like he did something wrong or something.
"What's going on?" Ashley finally asked.
"Well, you see...." Justin looked as if he was trying to figure out how to word something.
Mihoshi decided she was going to break the news to her, "I might be a daddy." She grinned brightly at Ashley.
Ashley's jaw dropped, "Wha-wha-what? How?"
"Well, you see, I didn't exactly pull out when I climaxed." Justin murmured just loud for Ashley to hear him.
She glanced at both of them, "Bu-bu-but there might be a chance I might have not gotten pregnant."
"True, but, there's still that chance." Mihoshi seemed to be too happy about this whole thing.
"Oh God." Ashley moaned, she felt tears already staining her eyes, 'Why me?!' She cried in her mind, 'Why does this have to happen to me?!'
The girl quickly blinked back her tears, she couldn't cry about this, she couldn't, no matter what. She stood up and walked into the house, she knew Mihoshi and Justin were following her to make sure she didn't leave again, but, in the shock Ashley was in, she couldn't leave. Especially now that she might be with child.
~*~
Mihoshi and Justin sat at the kitchen table, Ashley had locked herself in a room for a while. They both sat in silence, Mihoshi was still smiling as happily as ever, as for Justin, he still looked kind of worried.
"Do you think it'll be a boy or a girl?" Mihoshi grinned brightly.
"Well," Justin began, folding his hands on the table. "Ashley does have a point, she might not be pregnant."
The blue-eyed girl's happy mood did not change in the least, "Still, if she is, do you think it'd be a boy or a girl?"
"Well, what do you think?" Justin asked her.
She thought for a second or two, "I think it'd be a girl."
"But, I guess we'd have to just wait and see what happens." Justin smiled sadly at her.
~*~
The phone started ringing, Kyle rolled over and put a pillow over his head, hoping it would kind of go away. Which it stoped, but then it started up again. He finally answered it.
"Hello?" He said in kind of sleepy voice came.
"Kyle?"
"Yes." He answered sleepily, rubbing his eyes. "Who is this calling at this ungodly hour?"
"It's Ashley." She responded.
"Oh, hey Ash, what's up?" Kyle yawned slightly into the mouthpiece of the phone.
"Alot, you wouldn't believe it."
"Such as?"
"That I might be pregnant."
There was a long pause from Kyle's end, finally he said, "Who did that to you?"
"Justin." She simply answered.
"He didn't force you did he?" Kyle sounded worried for his teammate.
"No, it was all willingly, Mihoshi was involved as well." She explained to him.
"I hope it all goes well for you." Kyle yawned again.
"Yeah." She thought for a minute, "How's everything there?"
"It's okay here, but, we miss you Ashley. Everyone does." Kyle told her.
He paused for a moment, letting what Ashley had told him sink in. Not at all surprisingly, it wasn't sinking in at all. Somehow, he was putting two and two together and getting eleventy-billion. There was something about this turn of events that just did not make sense.
"So, Kyle, what's up with Ashley?" Jared asked, noting his teammate's worried expression.
"You know Justin Perinthal, right?" Kyle stated.
"Holy Crap! Lovely Death himself?!?!" Jared shrieked, totally shocked. "That's a name you don't use unless someone's going to die. I mean, crap, Perinthal has over six-hundred kills to his credit. He's a frickin' Raven man. A real fucking Raven!"
"Well, apparently now he's the father of Ashley's child." Kyle said nervously.
"Ashley... Child... Perinthal?" Jared's mind had ceased functioning.
"My reaction exactly." Kyle replied weakly. "I mean, him, Victor Dementile, and Raid Alpha were the men you hired not when you needed a man killed. They were the men you called if you needed genocide."
"It's frightening to say the least." Jared finally said, shaking his head. "That man's hands are permanently red. As crimson as his score."
"They say he's remorseless. They even say the man will gladly kill with his bare hands. That he likes to see his victim's eyes as they die."
"He's a predator for sure." Kyle agreed. "And that he is involved with Ashley and Mihoshi is unsettling. I think we have to go there and check this out."
"Check what out?" Ryoko chimed in, floating down from the ceiling.
"Jeez, knock or something." Jared said. "We have to go to Germany."
"Why might that be?" Washu asked poking her head out of her lab.
"Where'd you come from?" Hollered Kyle.
"So, why is it we're going to Germany?" Ayeka asked mildly, walking in from the living room.
"Can't I finish before someone else gets here?" Jared shouted.
"What'll I need to pack?" Sasami chimed in merrily.
"Damn IT! Doesn't ANYONE realize that Mihoshi and Ashley are in serious danger because they're living with a man who has killed over six- hundred people in cold-blood?!!" Kyle shouted at the top of his lungs.
"WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY SO?" The girls all asked at once.
Kyle sighed heavily, he then went back to Ashley, "Don't worry Ash, we'll all be there soon, so, just hang on."
"But-" Before Ashley could finish, Kyle hung up the phone to get everything ready to go.
~*~
Ashley looked dully at the phone, listening to the dial tone, it was a bit before she actually hung up. She sighed, "Mine as well find something to do."
She started to head out the door, when she was stopped.
"Where are you going?" A perky voice musically sounded.
"Out." She simply answered.
Mihoshi smiled rather brightly, "Why don't you get tested to see if you really are pregnant."
The short haired blonde gave her a rather annoyed look, "Look, I'm probably not even pregnant."
The blue-eyed woman kind of pouted sadly at her, whimpering slightly.
"Don't look at me like that." Ashley said kind of pleading.
Adding a sniff or two, and watery eyes, Mihoshi was not giving up that easily.
"Alright fine! I'll go, but I won't like it." She mumbled.
"OH THANK YOU!!" Mihoshi cheered, hugging Ashley tightly.
~*~
Ashley's throat tightened, her eyes welled with tears, but she held them back. She couldn't believe it, all of these emotions were running through her mind at the same time, but, these feelings of anger and sorrow combined brought back a memory that Ashley had buried in the depths of her mind, maybe it was buried even deeper when she met Justin, like it was something bad.
"Congratulations to you and the father!" The nurse who had given her the test smiled cheerily at her.
She managed a grunt.
"Don't worry deary, the first one's the hardest, but, you'll come to find that a child is the most wonderful thing anyone can ask for." She told her.
"You had a kid too?" Ashley asked her rather curiously.
"Just one? Heaven's no! I have four!" She smiled at her.
At this note, Ashley gave her an odd look.
"Yes, they are so nice to have around, and they just are so wonderful, it's somthing you'll understand soon enough deary. Hope the father is happy for you." The nurse started to wave good-bye to her.
"I hope he is." Ashley said kind of drooping, but, waved good-bye to the overly joyed nurse and started to walk off.
Then it hit her finally as to what the memory was, and she had good reason to forget it.
~*Flashback*~
The war was still going on, and Germany had decided to invade England, this also marked Ashley's first battle at age ten. Also her first encounter with him too. Him, being Justin Perinthal.
The small girl charged around the battle field, shooting people, watching them fall in agony, before they finally died, she stayed alert of the falling bombs that exploded too, sending the English soliders flying through the air. But, she noticed a group of three not to far away, killing a bunch of people, like it was the easiest thing in the world. She watched on in particular, he didn't appear much older then her, about four years older, the others looked around five years older. But, for boys at their age, they were killing like they had done this all their lives.
She felt a sharp pain in her shoulder, she grasped it pain as she fell back to the ground, she looked up to see the guy with long brown hair holding the smoking weapon, his eyes looked almost if they weren't his own, like he was possessed by some God or demon that was helping him kill. But, he then picked up the small girl, then signalling to the others with a twitch of their head, the darkest haired one followed immediately, while the other finished off a kid that was the same age as Ashley, and then followed.
~*~
They arrived at a base not to far away, but, far enough away from the battle field.
"So, what is up with them using small children for battles?" The lightest haired one questioned, sounding rather annoyed, he added, "And why did we leave, I was really getting into it!"
"Well, if we want to get an answer to your first question, we mine as well ask one of the kids." The darkest haired one said in a matter of fact voice.
"Alright, so, once we're done questioning him, can we kill him?" The light haired one said hopefully.
"This is not a him, Raid." The brown haired one stated.
"Huh?" Raid gave Ashley and the brown haired one a hard stare.
"If it's not boy, it's a girl." The dark haired one said slightly irritated, he then added, "And you never tell them that your going to kill them anyway, because then you won't get anything out of them. Shall we begin?"
"First, maybe we should tend to her wound perhaps?" The brown haired one suggested, setting the girl down on a metal table.
"First maybe you should let me go!" She shouted at them, hopping off the table, reaching for her weapon, but, as soon as she did this, she had three guns pointed directly at her head.
"You will let us treat your wound, and question you, and if you give us your up most cooperation, maybe you will live." The brown haired one told her.
"What are you insane Justin?!" Raid said rather alarmed at this fact.
"I said maybe." Justin responded, emphasizing the maybe.
~*~
After treating her wound, they gathered around her to ask her questions that they wanted to know the answers to.
"Why are they using children?" Raid was the first to ask.
The girl gave them all death glares, and said nothing.
"Dammit!" Raid glared back, pulled out his gun, and pointed it straight at her head. "WHY!?"
"Lower your weapon Raid." Justin said calmly, with that, Raid reluctantly obliged.
~*~
Kurt looked around the base entrance through a pair of binoculars, the battle was pretty much over, and the other kids that had lived in his group were safe on their way home, except for Zero. (AN: Remember Zero was Ashley's nickname during this time in her life.)
After noting that it wasn't heavily guarded, he quickly went over to it and entered it with no trouble at all.
'Now to find Zero.' He sharply thought to himself and started on his way.
~*~
"Victor, any intruders to report on?" Justin asked the dark haired one.
"Yeah, he appears to be a person of much importance." Victor responded after studying the camera screens.
She smiled, "Mr. Bishop!" Then she grew very silent as all three of the teens looked at her.
Justin grinned rather sadisticlly. "So, you know him?"
Ashley quickly shook her head.
"Grab her and we'll go down to meet this Mr. Bishop." He still had a rather large grin on his face, which grew only a little wider when he pulled out a large knife.
"No!!" Ashley screamed at them as Raid grabbed her and followed Victor and Justin to Kurt.
~*~
The little girl continued to kick at Raid, hoping to find a spot at which he would drop her.
"Give it up now, or else you won't have any energy to get away." Raid said rather irritated.
"Why don't you drop me when I'm kicking the crap out of you?!" She shouted at him, her kicks and punches slowing down.
"I'm an android, I feel nothing." He plainly replied.
"You've got to be kidding me!" Ashley said awed by this.
"No."
"He should be around this corner." Victor informed the rest.
"Let her see this, maybe we'll get her to talk, but, then again, it doesn't really matter." Justin grinned. "Victor, let me borrow one of your knives. Better yet, give me the girl's knife."
With that, Victor reached into one of the girl's pockets, and on the first try, pulled out the knife.
Raid adjusted the girl so she could see what was going to happen, which she did, perfectly clear too. It seemed to all happen in slow motion, Kurt came around the corner, then Justin took the knife and rammed it in about where Kurt's heart was, then twisting the blade, Justin got a look in his eyes that kind of glowed with a kind of pleasure in them, while Kurt's screams of agony seemed to only add to the fire. Finally, Kurt dropped the ground, his eyes wide open, far more open then they should have been.
"Raid, drop her, and let's go order a pizza." Justin said, heading back to the main room, Victor in tow.
Dropping the girl, Raid followed as well, the girl got back up, and started hitting at Justin, kicking him, but stopped when guns were once again pointed at her.
"Go on with your life, right now." Justin said coldly.
"I'll get you back for this! You'll see! You'll pay for this in the worst way!" Ashley yelled at him, she turned around toward Kurt, pulled her knife out of him, and continued running out.
~*End of Flashback*~
Justin sat back in his chair, pondering that thought, who was that little girl back then? Did she kill Vera? Then a thought came to him, "I know someone who can help get this solved." With that, he picked up the phone.
~*~
The guy with the goggles waited outside Justin's house with a laptop with a special program that could take the description of someone who was younger, and age them to the current times.
"Ah, thank you for coming over on such short notice." Justin smiled at his friend.
He smiled and said in his best Scottish accent, "That's what friends are for."
The two of them entered the house.
~*~
Ashley opened to door to see the guy with the goggles about to walk out, with a brief convorsation, the two went their seperate ways. Ashley looked around to see Justin looking rather happy at the kitchen table.
"What's got you smiling?" Ashley asked.
"Soon I may find out who killed Vera." Justin smiled, "Then I can get revenge for her."
"How? You don't even have a clue on the person." Ashley said kind of dully.
"The guy with the goggles that just left here has a program that can age a person from the time that they were remembered, to the present time. I remembered this one girl who planned on getting even with me, but, I'm not sure if she did it or not." Justin explained.
"How long will it take?" She questioned.
"About a year." He told her, "It takes that long because this one really needs to be as accurate as possible."
"Alright, I'm happy for you Justin." Ashley smiled, going over to him and hugging him tightly.
"What's on your mind?" Justin asked her noting her worried expression on her face.
"I think Mihoshi should be over here to hear this as well." Ashley finally said after a moments silence.
It didn't take long for the blue-eyed girl to come bounding over.
"Well, I don't know if it's good news or bad news just yet." Ashley started off. "I'm officially pregnant."
Mihoshi gasped happily before hugging Ashley, "That's so wonderful!" Another pair of arms wrapped around both girls, Justin also had a smile on his face.
"This is good news, don't worry, we'll get through this." Justin said softly, then kissed her forhead.
~*~
The night fell quickly, but, Justin and Ashley were still awake, Ashley was going through Justin's book collection on the shelves in his room. She picked up a book, but, still not being able to read well, she crawled next to Justin in his bed.
"Yes dear?" He smiled at her.
"Justin, can you read this to me?" She asked kind of hopefully.
"Ah, this was a good book, I rather enjoyed it." He told her, quickly reading over the cover and the author.
"What's it called?" She gave the cover a hard stare, she didn't recognize the word at all.
"The book is called Earthbound by Danielle Noxwell." He told her. "I have an idea, we'll take turns reading it, alright, you start." He smiled, cracking open the book to the first page.
"In the battle of he-he-he." Ashley started.
"Heaven."
"Heaven and Hell, the grrr-rrreat-eeeessst battle occurred that alll- alll." She gave Justin a look.
"Altered."
"Altered the cooo-cooooou-course of hiiiii-hissss-tooor-y!" She mangaged to get out.
"Very good, you got the first sentence!" He smiled brightly at her.
While they read to each other like this, Mihoshi watched them from the door, it was like Ashley was a five year old, and Justin was her dad, Mihoshi smiled, once the baby was born, Justin would make a good father, indeed he would.
CHAPTER ELEVEN COMPLETE (finally!)
Sorry that this one wasn't completed sooner! *avoids a rotten vegetable* But, I simply had run out of ideas, and after watching Children of the Corn V, I seemed to be able to finish this chapter, go figure. But, I should be started on chapter twelve soon enough! *hit by a ton of rotten vegetables, and manages to get to the top of it.* Har har har.
Random voice: HARLOCK!
*dull look* Ooookay.....Well, until the next chapter, this is your authoress saying: Your God was my co-pilot, but then we crashed in the mountains, and I ate him.....Good times, good times.....
SHINIGAMI FOREVER!!!
Carol "Insert Cool Nickname Here" Maxwell
No Need for Surprises
Ashley still couldn't believe what had happened that night, she woke up and didn't remember all too well. She had shrugged it off as a dream when she got up to an empty bed, but she noticed that she was sleeping naked, she never did that, never. She looked around the room, nothing looked too familiar, then once she thought about it, it really did happen, last night wasn't a dream. She felt a sick lurch in her gut. Ashley closed her eyes, and it passed.
Something smelled good coming from the kitchen, someone was making breakfast. She quickly found her clothes from yesterday on the floor, she quickly put them on, she didn't mind that they were wrinkled.
When she reached the kitchen, she saw that there was scrambled eggs with toast and juice sitting at the table. She looked around and didn't see Mihoshi or Justin around. She decided to leave the food there and find them first.
After a while of searching around, she spotted them sitting on the porch. She went out to see what they were talking about.
"Morning." She said to them, sitting down between them.
"Hey sleepy head." Mihoshi said brightly, she seemed overly excited about something.
The short-haired blond looked at Justin, he looked nervous, or just kind of like he did something wrong or something.
"What's going on?" Ashley finally asked.
"Well, you see...." Justin looked as if he was trying to figure out how to word something.
Mihoshi decided she was going to break the news to her, "I might be a daddy." She grinned brightly at Ashley.
Ashley's jaw dropped, "Wha-wha-what? How?"
"Well, you see, I didn't exactly pull out when I climaxed." Justin murmured just loud for Ashley to hear him.
She glanced at both of them, "Bu-bu-but there might be a chance I might have not gotten pregnant."
"True, but, there's still that chance." Mihoshi seemed to be too happy about this whole thing.
"Oh God." Ashley moaned, she felt tears already staining her eyes, 'Why me?!' She cried in her mind, 'Why does this have to happen to me?!'
The girl quickly blinked back her tears, she couldn't cry about this, she couldn't, no matter what. She stood up and walked into the house, she knew Mihoshi and Justin were following her to make sure she didn't leave again, but, in the shock Ashley was in, she couldn't leave. Especially now that she might be with child.
~*~
Mihoshi and Justin sat at the kitchen table, Ashley had locked herself in a room for a while. They both sat in silence, Mihoshi was still smiling as happily as ever, as for Justin, he still looked kind of worried.
"Do you think it'll be a boy or a girl?" Mihoshi grinned brightly.
"Well," Justin began, folding his hands on the table. "Ashley does have a point, she might not be pregnant."
The blue-eyed girl's happy mood did not change in the least, "Still, if she is, do you think it'd be a boy or a girl?"
"Well, what do you think?" Justin asked her.
She thought for a second or two, "I think it'd be a girl."
"But, I guess we'd have to just wait and see what happens." Justin smiled sadly at her.
~*~
The phone started ringing, Kyle rolled over and put a pillow over his head, hoping it would kind of go away. Which it stoped, but then it started up again. He finally answered it.
"Hello?" He said in kind of sleepy voice came.
"Kyle?"
"Yes." He answered sleepily, rubbing his eyes. "Who is this calling at this ungodly hour?"
"It's Ashley." She responded.
"Oh, hey Ash, what's up?" Kyle yawned slightly into the mouthpiece of the phone.
"Alot, you wouldn't believe it."
"Such as?"
"That I might be pregnant."
There was a long pause from Kyle's end, finally he said, "Who did that to you?"
"Justin." She simply answered.
"He didn't force you did he?" Kyle sounded worried for his teammate.
"No, it was all willingly, Mihoshi was involved as well." She explained to him.
"I hope it all goes well for you." Kyle yawned again.
"Yeah." She thought for a minute, "How's everything there?"
"It's okay here, but, we miss you Ashley. Everyone does." Kyle told her.
He paused for a moment, letting what Ashley had told him sink in. Not at all surprisingly, it wasn't sinking in at all. Somehow, he was putting two and two together and getting eleventy-billion. There was something about this turn of events that just did not make sense.
"So, Kyle, what's up with Ashley?" Jared asked, noting his teammate's worried expression.
"You know Justin Perinthal, right?" Kyle stated.
"Holy Crap! Lovely Death himself?!?!" Jared shrieked, totally shocked. "That's a name you don't use unless someone's going to die. I mean, crap, Perinthal has over six-hundred kills to his credit. He's a frickin' Raven man. A real fucking Raven!"
"Well, apparently now he's the father of Ashley's child." Kyle said nervously.
"Ashley... Child... Perinthal?" Jared's mind had ceased functioning.
"My reaction exactly." Kyle replied weakly. "I mean, him, Victor Dementile, and Raid Alpha were the men you hired not when you needed a man killed. They were the men you called if you needed genocide."
"It's frightening to say the least." Jared finally said, shaking his head. "That man's hands are permanently red. As crimson as his score."
"They say he's remorseless. They even say the man will gladly kill with his bare hands. That he likes to see his victim's eyes as they die."
"He's a predator for sure." Kyle agreed. "And that he is involved with Ashley and Mihoshi is unsettling. I think we have to go there and check this out."
"Check what out?" Ryoko chimed in, floating down from the ceiling.
"Jeez, knock or something." Jared said. "We have to go to Germany."
"Why might that be?" Washu asked poking her head out of her lab.
"Where'd you come from?" Hollered Kyle.
"So, why is it we're going to Germany?" Ayeka asked mildly, walking in from the living room.
"Can't I finish before someone else gets here?" Jared shouted.
"What'll I need to pack?" Sasami chimed in merrily.
"Damn IT! Doesn't ANYONE realize that Mihoshi and Ashley are in serious danger because they're living with a man who has killed over six- hundred people in cold-blood?!!" Kyle shouted at the top of his lungs.
"WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY SO?" The girls all asked at once.
Kyle sighed heavily, he then went back to Ashley, "Don't worry Ash, we'll all be there soon, so, just hang on."
"But-" Before Ashley could finish, Kyle hung up the phone to get everything ready to go.
~*~
Ashley looked dully at the phone, listening to the dial tone, it was a bit before she actually hung up. She sighed, "Mine as well find something to do."
She started to head out the door, when she was stopped.
"Where are you going?" A perky voice musically sounded.
"Out." She simply answered.
Mihoshi smiled rather brightly, "Why don't you get tested to see if you really are pregnant."
The short haired blonde gave her a rather annoyed look, "Look, I'm probably not even pregnant."
The blue-eyed woman kind of pouted sadly at her, whimpering slightly.
"Don't look at me like that." Ashley said kind of pleading.
Adding a sniff or two, and watery eyes, Mihoshi was not giving up that easily.
"Alright fine! I'll go, but I won't like it." She mumbled.
"OH THANK YOU!!" Mihoshi cheered, hugging Ashley tightly.
~*~
Ashley's throat tightened, her eyes welled with tears, but she held them back. She couldn't believe it, all of these emotions were running through her mind at the same time, but, these feelings of anger and sorrow combined brought back a memory that Ashley had buried in the depths of her mind, maybe it was buried even deeper when she met Justin, like it was something bad.
"Congratulations to you and the father!" The nurse who had given her the test smiled cheerily at her.
She managed a grunt.
"Don't worry deary, the first one's the hardest, but, you'll come to find that a child is the most wonderful thing anyone can ask for." She told her.
"You had a kid too?" Ashley asked her rather curiously.
"Just one? Heaven's no! I have four!" She smiled at her.
At this note, Ashley gave her an odd look.
"Yes, they are so nice to have around, and they just are so wonderful, it's somthing you'll understand soon enough deary. Hope the father is happy for you." The nurse started to wave good-bye to her.
"I hope he is." Ashley said kind of drooping, but, waved good-bye to the overly joyed nurse and started to walk off.
Then it hit her finally as to what the memory was, and she had good reason to forget it.
~*Flashback*~
The war was still going on, and Germany had decided to invade England, this also marked Ashley's first battle at age ten. Also her first encounter with him too. Him, being Justin Perinthal.
The small girl charged around the battle field, shooting people, watching them fall in agony, before they finally died, she stayed alert of the falling bombs that exploded too, sending the English soliders flying through the air. But, she noticed a group of three not to far away, killing a bunch of people, like it was the easiest thing in the world. She watched on in particular, he didn't appear much older then her, about four years older, the others looked around five years older. But, for boys at their age, they were killing like they had done this all their lives.
She felt a sharp pain in her shoulder, she grasped it pain as she fell back to the ground, she looked up to see the guy with long brown hair holding the smoking weapon, his eyes looked almost if they weren't his own, like he was possessed by some God or demon that was helping him kill. But, he then picked up the small girl, then signalling to the others with a twitch of their head, the darkest haired one followed immediately, while the other finished off a kid that was the same age as Ashley, and then followed.
~*~
They arrived at a base not to far away, but, far enough away from the battle field.
"So, what is up with them using small children for battles?" The lightest haired one questioned, sounding rather annoyed, he added, "And why did we leave, I was really getting into it!"
"Well, if we want to get an answer to your first question, we mine as well ask one of the kids." The darkest haired one said in a matter of fact voice.
"Alright, so, once we're done questioning him, can we kill him?" The light haired one said hopefully.
"This is not a him, Raid." The brown haired one stated.
"Huh?" Raid gave Ashley and the brown haired one a hard stare.
"If it's not boy, it's a girl." The dark haired one said slightly irritated, he then added, "And you never tell them that your going to kill them anyway, because then you won't get anything out of them. Shall we begin?"
"First, maybe we should tend to her wound perhaps?" The brown haired one suggested, setting the girl down on a metal table.
"First maybe you should let me go!" She shouted at them, hopping off the table, reaching for her weapon, but, as soon as she did this, she had three guns pointed directly at her head.
"You will let us treat your wound, and question you, and if you give us your up most cooperation, maybe you will live." The brown haired one told her.
"What are you insane Justin?!" Raid said rather alarmed at this fact.
"I said maybe." Justin responded, emphasizing the maybe.
~*~
After treating her wound, they gathered around her to ask her questions that they wanted to know the answers to.
"Why are they using children?" Raid was the first to ask.
The girl gave them all death glares, and said nothing.
"Dammit!" Raid glared back, pulled out his gun, and pointed it straight at her head. "WHY!?"
"Lower your weapon Raid." Justin said calmly, with that, Raid reluctantly obliged.
~*~
Kurt looked around the base entrance through a pair of binoculars, the battle was pretty much over, and the other kids that had lived in his group were safe on their way home, except for Zero. (AN: Remember Zero was Ashley's nickname during this time in her life.)
After noting that it wasn't heavily guarded, he quickly went over to it and entered it with no trouble at all.
'Now to find Zero.' He sharply thought to himself and started on his way.
~*~
"Victor, any intruders to report on?" Justin asked the dark haired one.
"Yeah, he appears to be a person of much importance." Victor responded after studying the camera screens.
She smiled, "Mr. Bishop!" Then she grew very silent as all three of the teens looked at her.
Justin grinned rather sadisticlly. "So, you know him?"
Ashley quickly shook her head.
"Grab her and we'll go down to meet this Mr. Bishop." He still had a rather large grin on his face, which grew only a little wider when he pulled out a large knife.
"No!!" Ashley screamed at them as Raid grabbed her and followed Victor and Justin to Kurt.
~*~
The little girl continued to kick at Raid, hoping to find a spot at which he would drop her.
"Give it up now, or else you won't have any energy to get away." Raid said rather irritated.
"Why don't you drop me when I'm kicking the crap out of you?!" She shouted at him, her kicks and punches slowing down.
"I'm an android, I feel nothing." He plainly replied.
"You've got to be kidding me!" Ashley said awed by this.
"No."
"He should be around this corner." Victor informed the rest.
"Let her see this, maybe we'll get her to talk, but, then again, it doesn't really matter." Justin grinned. "Victor, let me borrow one of your knives. Better yet, give me the girl's knife."
With that, Victor reached into one of the girl's pockets, and on the first try, pulled out the knife.
Raid adjusted the girl so she could see what was going to happen, which she did, perfectly clear too. It seemed to all happen in slow motion, Kurt came around the corner, then Justin took the knife and rammed it in about where Kurt's heart was, then twisting the blade, Justin got a look in his eyes that kind of glowed with a kind of pleasure in them, while Kurt's screams of agony seemed to only add to the fire. Finally, Kurt dropped the ground, his eyes wide open, far more open then they should have been.
"Raid, drop her, and let's go order a pizza." Justin said, heading back to the main room, Victor in tow.
Dropping the girl, Raid followed as well, the girl got back up, and started hitting at Justin, kicking him, but stopped when guns were once again pointed at her.
"Go on with your life, right now." Justin said coldly.
"I'll get you back for this! You'll see! You'll pay for this in the worst way!" Ashley yelled at him, she turned around toward Kurt, pulled her knife out of him, and continued running out.
~*End of Flashback*~
Justin sat back in his chair, pondering that thought, who was that little girl back then? Did she kill Vera? Then a thought came to him, "I know someone who can help get this solved." With that, he picked up the phone.
~*~
The guy with the goggles waited outside Justin's house with a laptop with a special program that could take the description of someone who was younger, and age them to the current times.
"Ah, thank you for coming over on such short notice." Justin smiled at his friend.
He smiled and said in his best Scottish accent, "That's what friends are for."
The two of them entered the house.
~*~
Ashley opened to door to see the guy with the goggles about to walk out, with a brief convorsation, the two went their seperate ways. Ashley looked around to see Justin looking rather happy at the kitchen table.
"What's got you smiling?" Ashley asked.
"Soon I may find out who killed Vera." Justin smiled, "Then I can get revenge for her."
"How? You don't even have a clue on the person." Ashley said kind of dully.
"The guy with the goggles that just left here has a program that can age a person from the time that they were remembered, to the present time. I remembered this one girl who planned on getting even with me, but, I'm not sure if she did it or not." Justin explained.
"How long will it take?" She questioned.
"About a year." He told her, "It takes that long because this one really needs to be as accurate as possible."
"Alright, I'm happy for you Justin." Ashley smiled, going over to him and hugging him tightly.
"What's on your mind?" Justin asked her noting her worried expression on her face.
"I think Mihoshi should be over here to hear this as well." Ashley finally said after a moments silence.
It didn't take long for the blue-eyed girl to come bounding over.
"Well, I don't know if it's good news or bad news just yet." Ashley started off. "I'm officially pregnant."
Mihoshi gasped happily before hugging Ashley, "That's so wonderful!" Another pair of arms wrapped around both girls, Justin also had a smile on his face.
"This is good news, don't worry, we'll get through this." Justin said softly, then kissed her forhead.
~*~
The night fell quickly, but, Justin and Ashley were still awake, Ashley was going through Justin's book collection on the shelves in his room. She picked up a book, but, still not being able to read well, she crawled next to Justin in his bed.
"Yes dear?" He smiled at her.
"Justin, can you read this to me?" She asked kind of hopefully.
"Ah, this was a good book, I rather enjoyed it." He told her, quickly reading over the cover and the author.
"What's it called?" She gave the cover a hard stare, she didn't recognize the word at all.
"The book is called Earthbound by Danielle Noxwell." He told her. "I have an idea, we'll take turns reading it, alright, you start." He smiled, cracking open the book to the first page.
"In the battle of he-he-he." Ashley started.
"Heaven."
"Heaven and Hell, the grrr-rrreat-eeeessst battle occurred that alll- alll." She gave Justin a look.
"Altered."
"Altered the cooo-cooooou-course of hiiiii-hissss-tooor-y!" She mangaged to get out.
"Very good, you got the first sentence!" He smiled brightly at her.
While they read to each other like this, Mihoshi watched them from the door, it was like Ashley was a five year old, and Justin was her dad, Mihoshi smiled, once the baby was born, Justin would make a good father, indeed he would.
CHAPTER ELEVEN COMPLETE (finally!)
Sorry that this one wasn't completed sooner! *avoids a rotten vegetable* But, I simply had run out of ideas, and after watching Children of the Corn V, I seemed to be able to finish this chapter, go figure. But, I should be started on chapter twelve soon enough! *hit by a ton of rotten vegetables, and manages to get to the top of it.* Har har har.
Random voice: HARLOCK!
*dull look* Ooookay.....Well, until the next chapter, this is your authoress saying: Your God was my co-pilot, but then we crashed in the mountains, and I ate him.....Good times, good times.....
SHINIGAMI FOREVER!!!
Carol "Insert Cool Nickname Here" Maxwell