Suzzaki laid next to Tenchi for a while, listening to her softly breathing through her sleep. He watched her chest slowly rise and fall over and over again, her angelic face centimetres from his chest. Blood was still smeared across her forehead and cheeks, but past all that she was a pretty looking child, child? She was a year older than him, another year and she would be an adult, she would have left her teens, and there was him calling her child.
He grinned to himself in the darkness, Tenchis little hand began to swerve closer to him, slowly moving upon his chest, slipping in between the buttons of his shirt, there the hand rested, but Tenchi mouth opened and she began to mouth words, words like "help" and "no do not go, don't leave me." He didn't know what to do; Tenchi began to jolt in her sleep.
Suzzaki placed a hand around Tenchi waist and on top of her shoulder and moved her closer towards him. This was a wrong move, her sharp fingers dug into his stomach, Suzzaki held back a yelp, trying to remove her snake like fingers from digging deeper. He held her hand softly in his own and slowly rubbed it. He let her hand flop back onto his chest.
Tenchis mouth closed, her face was nudging into the side of his chest, like a dog nuzzling into its owner. Her legs twitched, and quite suddenly her hand clench with a fist full of Suzzakis shirt and skin, Suzzaki silently yelped again and tried to release her grip when her fist flew up hitting him on his chest. Suzzaki wheezed as he placed her hand back on his chest, trying to keep her still.
He rubbed his chest with his spare hand before replacing it back on top of Tenchis. Her face calmed down but her mouth still moved, on and on, almost like a pray, soon the song began to fill the air again the soft beautiful tune slowly beating around him, but each line she whispered silently in the darkness the sleepier Suzzaki got, he soon found himself unable to stay awake and drifted off into his own dreams.
Tenchi was still running away from the ancient tribe of mongooses but they seemed to be slowing down, she could see the light ahead of her, nearly there, she jumped through the hole and fell into the light. Then she fell, further and further down she was so scared, she was going to die Tenchi closed her eyes and prayed.
A loud crack and a pain in the face woke her up. She opened her eyes to see she had smacked her chin on a protruding rock beside her. The pain seared through her like electric through a wire. She sat up and rubbed the sore spot.
Looking around she saw Suzzaki on the floor beside her, his beautiful red dyed hair was ruffled just as she had met him. And his dark brown eyes were closed. His lips were tightly pierced together and he was laid on his back one arm out as though it had been under her when she had been lying down. And the other holding a blood stained part of his shirt on his tight stomach.
Tenchi could hear the soft twittering of birds and the refreshing sound of water. The sweet taste of blood lingered sickly in her mouth like a reminder of the night before. And she could smell the morning dew and the plants that grew on the island.
Tenchis chin was banging with pain; she got up out of the cave, head towards the nearby water in search for something to clean her mouth of the taste, and to numb her chin. When she reached the water source she began to rub the cold water onto her aching chin, then she washed a little of her body to get rid of the lingering smell. After the small wash she gulped down a few handfuls of water and swirled them around before spitting it back out.
Tenchi looked down the stream, the land and stream suddenly stopped about 10 meters to her right, and She looked back and could only just see the tree, which Suzzaki and she slept under. Tenchi wondered down to see what it was. The stream was getting faster and the noise was getting louder with each step she took.
When Tenchi reached the edge she found herself on the edge of a tall waterfall. She looked down between the moss-covered boulders sat little pink, purple and blue flowers with diamond shaped petals. At the bottom of the waterfall, at the end of the reservoir where more trees leading to a large brown house.
Tenchi began to slide down the boulders clinging onto them; she got to a small ledge that was about one fourth of the way down. This was going no-where, she looked down into the dark waters below her. That was deep enough for her to jump into wasn't it? Even if it was god new what was in there.
She thought to herself for a moment gross creatures in lakes only exist in fairy tales and scary movies, not here not in reality. Tenchi took a step back, tightened her hair and ran forward. At the last second she jumped into the air and head first dived closer to the bottom.
She zoomed past the boulders towards the big dark puddle below her, Tenchis head pierced the still surface of the water, as soon as she had penetrated into the water she began to swim quickly towards the sloping bank, Her head resurfaced and she walked up the shallows, her wet feet slipping across the slimy stones.
When Tenchi finally go to sore she looked around, her soaking hair dripped onto her soggy cloths. Tenchi shook her hair so the water sprayed everywhere; she grabbed bits off her coat and began to ring them out, not taken them off in the middle of this large clearing. She took off her shoes and stockings and ringed them out too. In about ten minutes she was nearly dry again.
The warm sun spread warmth across her face as she walked towards the trees. She stepped into the shadows and walked amongst the trees and bushes towards the brown house. The front door was closed, bits of the window where broken and there where roots sticking out of every crack. Parts of the plaster had fallen off and revealed the stone underneath,
Tenchi stumbled across the rumble around the back of the building looking for an entrance. The back door was boarded, A fallen tree led up to a broken window on the second floor, a perfect entrance. Tenchi squabbled across the rocky floor towards the base of the tree.
She began to claw her way on top of the roots then stumbled up towards the window. Her feet slipped and slided over the surface of the smooth bark, Tenchi reached the window and peered into the dark depths. The interior would have been beautiful if the room had been kept, the deep red walls, with huge windows at on one side. The windows light would have reflected into the large square mirrors on the other side of the room.
The grand chandelier and the beautiful furniture must have been stunning in its day, but now all lay broken, scratched and chipped. The walls were cracked with more vines slithering along them. The mirrors mostly broken with their remains scattered on the floor. Small reminders of the previous inhibitors posed all around the room, a bottle, sat on one of the grand coffee tables, books and sculptures sleep in an old cabinet at one end.
All the room lay in dust, except small spots on the floor, which had been recently made, the holes shaped like footprints two sets, some of the items had the dust whipped away in places like someone had cleared the dust to read. Tenchi steeped onto the footsteps trying not to make more prints. There where footprints leading towards the door, but none leading back, the people that had made these either killed each other in the house, found another way out or where still here.
Tenchi looked through a pair of double doors, the next room had a high ceiling that pointed in the middle, the biggest bed Tenchi had every seen sat in the middle of the wall opposite and a grand fireplace faced the window. This was one classy house, the engravings on all the wood was so detailed and even through the dust she could see the brilliant colours of the room, Tenchi stumbled out into the hall parts of the roof had caved in and now lay as rubble on the floor.
Tenchi automatically followed the footprints down the hall. She followed them down the corridor seeing how both sets of footprint go around a little inside each room and exit through the same door. She walked past the grand staircase, the giant steps with their old moth eaten carpets, the four giant chandeliers gripping the ceiling and the odd bit of wooden furniture spotted around.
No one was downstairs, Tenchi new this because there were no smudges within the dusty covered floor unless they came from a different entrance. There was only one door on the other side of the stairs and the footprints led right into the room. Tenchi sneaked up to the door without making a sound. She could hear voices from inside the room.
Tenchi leaned her ear against the door, from what she could hear there where two people in here. One was defiantly a man, and Tenchi suspected the other to be a woman. The voices stopped, had they heard her? Tenchi was about to go in and fire when she heard more sounds coming from behind the door.
Tenchi didn't have time to listen she heard a something move from the stairs. There where no other doors. Tenchi opened the door and slid inside, holding her hands up and closing the door behind her as quietly as she could. Before she realised what was before her.
The room she had entered was as grand as the others, with a giant double bed in the middle. The double bed was beautiful, but it was what was on the bed that shocked her. The people inside had both been men. One of which was currently stand at the edge of the bed. His pants around his ankles looking at her.
The other was laying on the bed, his leg where over the others shoulders, his pants discarded on the floor, his mouth was open and he stared at her. Tenchi put her finger to her lips and pointed to the door. Then she walked over and picked up the pants on the floor and gave them to the one laying down. Then she searched them for anything they could hurt her with and signalled for them to hid behind the bed.
She realised now the reason they choose this room was because there where no windows for people to see them through. But now that wasn't such a good idea. Tenchi waited by the door. She heard footsteps walking towards the door.
Tenchi was terrified no one had a gun or a weapon on them. She looked around for something sharp. There was a poker by the fireplace, she crept over and grabbed the poker, there was also a pair of tongs and a spade and She took the tongs and spade and passed them to the two boys.
Tenchi then returned to the door and stood waiting, the footsteps stopped in font of the door, Tenchi signalled for them to hide behind the bed. The door opened up and footsteps walked in. they stopped on the other side of the door. Tenchi got ready to ram the door shut. Suddenly two shots went off, the first one flue past her head the second one scarped her cheek.
Tenchi didn't wait for the next shots to go off, she slammed the door shut, it was halfway closed when it hit something and bounced off, Tenchi swung the poker around and jumped around the door, swinging it into whoever was there. Two things dropped to the floor, a gun and something square and black both fell behind her.
A young girl with long black hair which was raised in ponytails kicked the poker out of Tenchis hands and raised her fists ready for a fight. Tenchi was ready for this, she had kept herself in top condition, before she came in here. That was how she spent her spare time alone.
A fist came flying towards her, Tenchi ducked and kicked her in the chest. The girl fell backwards onto the floor. Tenchi turned around and grabbed the gun. When she turned to kill the girl, she was gone.
Tenchi ran out into the landing. She could hear quick pass down the steps. She ran along the staircase shooting the gaps, the she fled out of a broken window in the hall. Tenchi returned to the room on the end, the boys where standing there amazed and scared.
Tenchi bent down to pick up the black thing. It was some electrical equipment. There were lots of little dots moving around. Tenchi began examining it when one of the boys shouted "lookout." Tenchi turned around to see something big head her way before she could do anything she was knocked out.
Tenchi fell to the floor she could hear movement around her. Some one was laughing above her. Then she heard a smash of breaking glass. Whoever had been laughing was now shouting something but Tenchi couldn't understand. Something was moving towards her, she heard a gunshot a thud and a scream.
Something went over Tenchi, she could hear a voice shouting at some one then another gunshot and silence. There was a moment of silence and then a sudden shuffle, not far away she could hear gunshots.