Chapter seven: "Misterious wound."
"Oh man.....I hope the police don't stop me! That will ruin everything! I wouldn't be the least bit surprized if they did. Nothing eles has been going right lately....."
So naturly I skated to the park. And naturly I didn't think I needed to say that, How eles would I get from point A to point B?
"Peww!"
I whiped A drop of sweat from my forehead.
"Welp. I'm here."
I walked up one step when suddenly, A creepy wind blew through my hair that stoped me in my tracks. Two leafs, cumpled, brown, and old rolled away from my feet. "Are two leafs really suppose to scare me?" Bomyow! "AHHHH!" A lighting bolt, bolted across the sky and erupted in A mighty white flash. I looked up. "HHHAAAHHH!!!" The sign "Hantuck Park" Was slanted to one side and painted black and white. Two, huge black crows were perched on the sign. The crows had small, beady green eyes which was unusel. They had long beaks with teeth that hung out of there bills. But of course, That was unusel too. They each spreaded there mightly wings and took flight. They each gave A frightning crow, Which sounded like they were lauphing. Lauphing and trying to say, "Harr! Harr! Heh! Your going to die today! Your going to die today! Meh hah hah hah!"
"Lousy crows! Wait A second wasn't that sign orange and green earlyer? COME ON! THIS ISN'T A HORROR MOVIE! WHAT'S WITH THE SPECIAL EFFECTS? At least....It's not A horror movie yet.....DDDOOOHHH! I'm not scared! Not one bit! Wait A second....Why are my pants wet? I didn't wet myself did....Hum?.....BBLLAHH!" DripDrip Small splaters of blood driped from my shirt and fell on the ground. Pain and fear struck me. I didn't have any cut wounds on my stomach. Did I? Hiei didn't use his sword. I rolled up my shirt to find A huge X shaped cut on my stomach. It was odveiously, As I said had blood pouring from it.
"What the.....Ooooo.......Drat! I've come to far to back out now!" I steped forward agin. "I SWEAR IF HIEI ISN'T THERE I'M GOING TO GET REALLY TICKED!" I kicked my skates off and made A run for it.
"Come on. Come on. Which way was it?"
"I'm telling you Kurama were wasting our time!"
"Don't treat Hiei she should be here shortly. Five-ten minutes at the most."
"Kurama it's almost midnight! The coward won't come!"
"Hmmmm."
Kurama crossed his arms and closed his eyes for A moment. He then pulled A golded pocket watch out of his pocket and opened it.
"11:58......59.....12."
"Heh."
Karen: "Konnichiwa."
Hiei: "What?"
Kurama: "Right on time."
Another flash of bright lighting and it started to rain. I stood the right hand to A tree, Left hand on stomach. Painting hard and breathless. I thought I could either sufficate, Or die on the spot. It was harder than it looked. Running in such pain.
Kurama: "Tell me, Why do you reack of fresh blood?"
Raindrops fell from the ominously dark grey sky. They piterpadered on my head and made an annoying melody. There was another bright flash of lighting and another booming blast of thunder. Hiei eyed my left hand on my stomach, And with that the blood that was leaking through, Pouring over my hand.
Kurama: "How did you get that wound?"
"Uh...."
I couldn't tell him. I didn't know. What would he say in return? Only one way to aproch it.
Hiei: "You don't have to tell us if you don't want to. Just don't say you got it from Hambuger, Musturd, Ketup and Hotdog like you've been doing."
"Ahah." I couldn't help but to forse A lauph. {He made me lauph. Maybe he's not A yokai after all}. "You gave it to me. Remember?"
"Don't be A fool. I punched you threw A tree. I didn't cut you with my sword."
"What makes you so sure?"
"What makes me so sure? When I inflict pain on someone I remember the exsact place, severity and type pain I inflict. I know for A fact I didn't inflict that type of pain on you."
"Oh okay you caught me. I'll be honest. I don't know....Honestly I don't. It appered when I entered the park and I desided I had come to far to just give up life. Look whatever it is I came here for let's get on with it! I got my own life to live and things to do with, just get whatever it is i'm doing here over with. I wanta go home!!!"
Kurama and Hiei looked at each other. Hiei takes A step forward,then another,then another. They were slow, heartpumping steps. He came closer and closer and closer. Untill I thought I was gonna die of suspense. He was three steps away from me. He then unsheathed his sword and pointed it at my head.
"You. Don't an inch."
My legs, arms and life went numb. And then, as if in slow motion he stabed the sword into the ground, I heard A scream but I was yet to tell if it were my own or something eles. However I was more sure when blood flew every which way. I gasped, only to look down with with both my legs bathed in my blood. Hiei then pulled the sword from the ground and his sword was waxed in the red paint it driped drop by drop of the peice of sharp medal. I shrilled, only to relize that....I felt no pain?
"That was close." Hiei said.
"Wha....What?"
I looked beside me and there was a small looking thing to the right of me. There was no telling what it was and it didn't matter at all. It was dead now. Dead, never to live agin. I stood up, my legs shaking and my heart felt as if it would burst from my chest on command. I just had to say the word or let off the smalled amount of restriction I held and....It would.....Just fly. I took many, many deep breaths and swollowed. Of course it hurt to swollow, it even hurt to spit, hurt to move, hurt to see blood. I shivered agin.
"What the heck..../Gulp/ "Whatwasthat?"
"That." Kurama awnsered. "Was one of the most dangerious insects known to either side of reality. Most yokais know of it. Is called the Shalo and it is highly posines. The posin immiditly enters the blood stream and attacks the heart instantaniosly, cutting off all blood circulation. The person would die in aproxinitly seven minutes."
"Wwwoah." I gasped. "That strong?"
"It is very rare and will, on contact, attack any living creature it see's. Only A handful of these cretures exsist on either side of humanity."
"Is....is there A cure?"
"No. There isn't a cure and even if there were it would do little good; The person would be dead before the antidote could ever reach it's destanation."
"Well....well...Shoot. That was scary."
I looked at Hiei and gave a small smile.
"Thanks Hiei. I really owe ya man."
"Don't mention it." Hiei growled as he slid his sword back in his sheath.
"How can I repay you?"
"Like I just said. Don't mention it."
"Okay." I said. "I guess I just won't mention it then." I sighed. "So what now?"
"Now." Kurama reviled. "We need to talk."
"Talk? About what?"
"You are tweleve years old, correct?"
"Yeeeah."
"When will you turn thirteen?"
"Wwwhhhyyy?"
Hiei: "A question Karen, is intterogative and it requires an awnser. Not another question. You should know that from grade school."
"Oh shut up greaser I was gonna tell."
"Good. Call me greaser agin and you will feel something out of this world....."
"WHAT?? DID YOU REALLY JUST SAY THAT?!?!?!"
"SAY WHAT? WATCH IT FOOL, I MEANT I WAS GOING TO STICK MY SWORD THOUGH YOUR STOMACH! WHAT THE HECK DID YOU THINK I MEANT???"
"Uh...." I stutered. "I thought you meant....Dah....heh ha. Eww....nevermind."
"Eahooohh....Errr....on second thought I don't think I want to know."
"Heh. Yeah."
Kurama: "If you two are done, Shall we continue?"
"Sure." I replyed. "I will turn thirteen on April 26th."
Hiei: "See? That wasn't so hard you fool. I know some questions require more thought then others but please, just try and use your brain. I know that's not your style and sounds hard for you to do but you'll have to try, otherwise you won't make very good money and you'll end up on the streets. Not that you don't belong there though."
I started to throw another insult at his face when Kurama wisely inturpted.
"I'd also like to clarafy your birthstone, eastern zodiac sign, western zodiac sign, flower and element."
"Uhh.... Lemme thing....Birthstone, white topaz, eastern zodiac tarus, western zodiac sign sheep, Flower daisy and element earth."
Hiei: "See? You can do it."
"THAT'S IT BUDDY! SAY ONE MORE WORD AND I'LL...."
"You'll what? Annoy me to death?"
"Wha...."
"Oh that's right. Better not give you any ideas."
"Alright.....I.....I'm just gonna stay right here under this nice pretty tree where it's safe. Yes. Nice tree. Very, very nice tree. Did you see the pretty marking in it's bark? Yes....Nice tree...."
Hiei gave an annoyed chuckle but didn't smile.
"So. I guess you are A little smarter then I first gave you credit for. Now if you only could act HALF your age."
"THAT'S IT! KURAMA, HIEI'S PICKING ON ME!!!!"
Kurama: "/Sigh/ One more question. On the time and date of your birth, just how high was the moon and was it A diffrent color, was the moon clear as fresh glass or was it srounded in fog, clouds, mist and mistery?"
Karen: ???????? Whaaa....I don't get where your going with this."
"Just awnser the question."
"Let's see.....{How in Barney's organs name am I sapose to know this? "} I rolled my eyes. {"What A stupid question. How high was the moon and what color was it....What's next? Do I eat mustered with my ice cream on dates my science teacher? Crimady!}"
"Well?"
"Uh....I have absalotly no idea what so ever what that has to do with anything nor do I have any idea the awnser and Kurama quite franquly I think your way to vauge and need to stay away from any and all shakespear writing because it is making you incrdably diffacult to have an intulectuel conversation with for your accsent is way to advanced and foreign an off the wall and how do you exspect to get A girl friend with that kind of attatute huh chicks nowdays don't go for the medivel acceent but the cool smooth accsent you really should look less into biology and more into other stuff"
Kurama: "Yes and I think you need to get A new . key. I think yours if broken; and as far as my accsent goes you have no room to talk."
Karen: "Merhah!" I fliped my eyelids inside out and stuck out my tounge.
/Sigh/ "I didn't think you would know. The point of the matter is....."
Zzzzoooommmm!!!! Out of no where an giant yellow sphere blasted towrd me, it was yellow, incredably bright and skyrocked an incredable speed.
"Oh....."
Hiei: "WHAT IN HADES ARE YOU DOING??? MOVE!!!"
I then jumped aside and the blast barely skined me on my side and skyrocked once more across the sky. There was A huge exsplosion or yellow light.
"Woah....What waz that?"
"An energy blast you fool! What eles would it be?"
"I don't know! You tell me!"
":So as it appers the cut didn't make her return home as I thought it would. Very clever, very brave. For if you did I would have the pleasure of distroying your mother and father as well, but I guess just you and your friends will do for now.:"
"You'll get it now, human trador!"
Hiei: "I'll keep it short. Kurama still isn't back yet, Bakura and Shipo are still relearning life and i'll say it once. Read and reveiw. Happy now?"
"Oh man.....I hope the police don't stop me! That will ruin everything! I wouldn't be the least bit surprized if they did. Nothing eles has been going right lately....."
So naturly I skated to the park. And naturly I didn't think I needed to say that, How eles would I get from point A to point B?
"Peww!"
I whiped A drop of sweat from my forehead.
"Welp. I'm here."
I walked up one step when suddenly, A creepy wind blew through my hair that stoped me in my tracks. Two leafs, cumpled, brown, and old rolled away from my feet. "Are two leafs really suppose to scare me?" Bomyow! "AHHHH!" A lighting bolt, bolted across the sky and erupted in A mighty white flash. I looked up. "HHHAAAHHH!!!" The sign "Hantuck Park" Was slanted to one side and painted black and white. Two, huge black crows were perched on the sign. The crows had small, beady green eyes which was unusel. They had long beaks with teeth that hung out of there bills. But of course, That was unusel too. They each spreaded there mightly wings and took flight. They each gave A frightning crow, Which sounded like they were lauphing. Lauphing and trying to say, "Harr! Harr! Heh! Your going to die today! Your going to die today! Meh hah hah hah!"
"Lousy crows! Wait A second wasn't that sign orange and green earlyer? COME ON! THIS ISN'T A HORROR MOVIE! WHAT'S WITH THE SPECIAL EFFECTS? At least....It's not A horror movie yet.....DDDOOOHHH! I'm not scared! Not one bit! Wait A second....Why are my pants wet? I didn't wet myself did....Hum?.....BBLLAHH!" DripDrip Small splaters of blood driped from my shirt and fell on the ground. Pain and fear struck me. I didn't have any cut wounds on my stomach. Did I? Hiei didn't use his sword. I rolled up my shirt to find A huge X shaped cut on my stomach. It was odveiously, As I said had blood pouring from it.
"What the.....Ooooo.......Drat! I've come to far to back out now!" I steped forward agin. "I SWEAR IF HIEI ISN'T THERE I'M GOING TO GET REALLY TICKED!" I kicked my skates off and made A run for it.
"Come on. Come on. Which way was it?"
"I'm telling you Kurama were wasting our time!"
"Don't treat Hiei she should be here shortly. Five-ten minutes at the most."
"Kurama it's almost midnight! The coward won't come!"
"Hmmmm."
Kurama crossed his arms and closed his eyes for A moment. He then pulled A golded pocket watch out of his pocket and opened it.
"11:58......59.....12."
"Heh."
Karen: "Konnichiwa."
Hiei: "What?"
Kurama: "Right on time."
Another flash of bright lighting and it started to rain. I stood the right hand to A tree, Left hand on stomach. Painting hard and breathless. I thought I could either sufficate, Or die on the spot. It was harder than it looked. Running in such pain.
Kurama: "Tell me, Why do you reack of fresh blood?"
Raindrops fell from the ominously dark grey sky. They piterpadered on my head and made an annoying melody. There was another bright flash of lighting and another booming blast of thunder. Hiei eyed my left hand on my stomach, And with that the blood that was leaking through, Pouring over my hand.
Kurama: "How did you get that wound?"
"Uh...."
I couldn't tell him. I didn't know. What would he say in return? Only one way to aproch it.
Hiei: "You don't have to tell us if you don't want to. Just don't say you got it from Hambuger, Musturd, Ketup and Hotdog like you've been doing."
"Ahah." I couldn't help but to forse A lauph. {He made me lauph. Maybe he's not A yokai after all}. "You gave it to me. Remember?"
"Don't be A fool. I punched you threw A tree. I didn't cut you with my sword."
"What makes you so sure?"
"What makes me so sure? When I inflict pain on someone I remember the exsact place, severity and type pain I inflict. I know for A fact I didn't inflict that type of pain on you."
"Oh okay you caught me. I'll be honest. I don't know....Honestly I don't. It appered when I entered the park and I desided I had come to far to just give up life. Look whatever it is I came here for let's get on with it! I got my own life to live and things to do with, just get whatever it is i'm doing here over with. I wanta go home!!!"
Kurama and Hiei looked at each other. Hiei takes A step forward,then another,then another. They were slow, heartpumping steps. He came closer and closer and closer. Untill I thought I was gonna die of suspense. He was three steps away from me. He then unsheathed his sword and pointed it at my head.
"You. Don't an inch."
My legs, arms and life went numb. And then, as if in slow motion he stabed the sword into the ground, I heard A scream but I was yet to tell if it were my own or something eles. However I was more sure when blood flew every which way. I gasped, only to look down with with both my legs bathed in my blood. Hiei then pulled the sword from the ground and his sword was waxed in the red paint it driped drop by drop of the peice of sharp medal. I shrilled, only to relize that....I felt no pain?
"That was close." Hiei said.
"Wha....What?"
I looked beside me and there was a small looking thing to the right of me. There was no telling what it was and it didn't matter at all. It was dead now. Dead, never to live agin. I stood up, my legs shaking and my heart felt as if it would burst from my chest on command. I just had to say the word or let off the smalled amount of restriction I held and....It would.....Just fly. I took many, many deep breaths and swollowed. Of course it hurt to swollow, it even hurt to spit, hurt to move, hurt to see blood. I shivered agin.
"What the heck..../Gulp/ "Whatwasthat?"
"That." Kurama awnsered. "Was one of the most dangerious insects known to either side of reality. Most yokais know of it. Is called the Shalo and it is highly posines. The posin immiditly enters the blood stream and attacks the heart instantaniosly, cutting off all blood circulation. The person would die in aproxinitly seven minutes."
"Wwwoah." I gasped. "That strong?"
"It is very rare and will, on contact, attack any living creature it see's. Only A handful of these cretures exsist on either side of humanity."
"Is....is there A cure?"
"No. There isn't a cure and even if there were it would do little good; The person would be dead before the antidote could ever reach it's destanation."
"Well....well...Shoot. That was scary."
I looked at Hiei and gave a small smile.
"Thanks Hiei. I really owe ya man."
"Don't mention it." Hiei growled as he slid his sword back in his sheath.
"How can I repay you?"
"Like I just said. Don't mention it."
"Okay." I said. "I guess I just won't mention it then." I sighed. "So what now?"
"Now." Kurama reviled. "We need to talk."
"Talk? About what?"
"You are tweleve years old, correct?"
"Yeeeah."
"When will you turn thirteen?"
"Wwwhhhyyy?"
Hiei: "A question Karen, is intterogative and it requires an awnser. Not another question. You should know that from grade school."
"Oh shut up greaser I was gonna tell."
"Good. Call me greaser agin and you will feel something out of this world....."
"WHAT?? DID YOU REALLY JUST SAY THAT?!?!?!"
"SAY WHAT? WATCH IT FOOL, I MEANT I WAS GOING TO STICK MY SWORD THOUGH YOUR STOMACH! WHAT THE HECK DID YOU THINK I MEANT???"
"Uh...." I stutered. "I thought you meant....Dah....heh ha. Eww....nevermind."
"Eahooohh....Errr....on second thought I don't think I want to know."
"Heh. Yeah."
Kurama: "If you two are done, Shall we continue?"
"Sure." I replyed. "I will turn thirteen on April 26th."
Hiei: "See? That wasn't so hard you fool. I know some questions require more thought then others but please, just try and use your brain. I know that's not your style and sounds hard for you to do but you'll have to try, otherwise you won't make very good money and you'll end up on the streets. Not that you don't belong there though."
I started to throw another insult at his face when Kurama wisely inturpted.
"I'd also like to clarafy your birthstone, eastern zodiac sign, western zodiac sign, flower and element."
"Uhh.... Lemme thing....Birthstone, white topaz, eastern zodiac tarus, western zodiac sign sheep, Flower daisy and element earth."
Hiei: "See? You can do it."
"THAT'S IT BUDDY! SAY ONE MORE WORD AND I'LL...."
"You'll what? Annoy me to death?"
"Wha...."
"Oh that's right. Better not give you any ideas."
"Alright.....I.....I'm just gonna stay right here under this nice pretty tree where it's safe. Yes. Nice tree. Very, very nice tree. Did you see the pretty marking in it's bark? Yes....Nice tree...."
Hiei gave an annoyed chuckle but didn't smile.
"So. I guess you are A little smarter then I first gave you credit for. Now if you only could act HALF your age."
"THAT'S IT! KURAMA, HIEI'S PICKING ON ME!!!!"
Kurama: "/Sigh/ One more question. On the time and date of your birth, just how high was the moon and was it A diffrent color, was the moon clear as fresh glass or was it srounded in fog, clouds, mist and mistery?"
Karen: ???????? Whaaa....I don't get where your going with this."
"Just awnser the question."
"Let's see.....{How in Barney's organs name am I sapose to know this? "} I rolled my eyes. {"What A stupid question. How high was the moon and what color was it....What's next? Do I eat mustered with my ice cream on dates my science teacher? Crimady!}"
"Well?"
"Uh....I have absalotly no idea what so ever what that has to do with anything nor do I have any idea the awnser and Kurama quite franquly I think your way to vauge and need to stay away from any and all shakespear writing because it is making you incrdably diffacult to have an intulectuel conversation with for your accsent is way to advanced and foreign an off the wall and how do you exspect to get A girl friend with that kind of attatute huh chicks nowdays don't go for the medivel acceent but the cool smooth accsent you really should look less into biology and more into other stuff"
Kurama: "Yes and I think you need to get A new . key. I think yours if broken; and as far as my accsent goes you have no room to talk."
Karen: "Merhah!" I fliped my eyelids inside out and stuck out my tounge.
/Sigh/ "I didn't think you would know. The point of the matter is....."
Zzzzoooommmm!!!! Out of no where an giant yellow sphere blasted towrd me, it was yellow, incredably bright and skyrocked an incredable speed.
"Oh....."
Hiei: "WHAT IN HADES ARE YOU DOING??? MOVE!!!"
I then jumped aside and the blast barely skined me on my side and skyrocked once more across the sky. There was A huge exsplosion or yellow light.
"Woah....What waz that?"
"An energy blast you fool! What eles would it be?"
"I don't know! You tell me!"
":So as it appers the cut didn't make her return home as I thought it would. Very clever, very brave. For if you did I would have the pleasure of distroying your mother and father as well, but I guess just you and your friends will do for now.:"
"You'll get it now, human trador!"
Hiei: "I'll keep it short. Kurama still isn't back yet, Bakura and Shipo are still relearning life and i'll say it once. Read and reveiw. Happy now?"