OK!!!!! Yes i know how VERY late this is but it is here! I have updated! Hoorya! Thank you to those ppl that cheered me on:
Thank you Kikyouko for the review and even thought it was a long wait, you don't have to wait anymore!
Thank you MeDrakNeutralLight! I doubt it very much that I'm a better writer then 'cause you were writing stories years before me! Anyway you can keep your cookies! Qicksilver Fxx gave me some!
Thank you Qicksilver Fxx for the review and the cookies! I'm making it a happy endding for Kish, I'm just not sure how 0.o. anyway it WILL be happy! Oh yes, I seem to be have a cookie problem where Pudding and Tart keep stealing them but I'm SURE they won't this time evil grin. It's probably just a phase.
Tart and Pudding: tied up and hanging over mini pool of boiling… something
Thank you littlefox1227! Yes I know my writing is a little slow paced, I'm trying to stop that but it seems to be my way of writing. Hopefully I'll change for the better though. And I know that Ari and her friends are odd but hey, that's life. They're slightly based off my friends from time to time so that may be why they're weird.
Disclaimer: I don't own TMM or cookie and Dark, Neutral or Light. But I do own Rasa, Laura, Ari, and Joe! Woo hoo!
Anyway you can now read the 5th chapter! Enjoy!
A Wake-up Call
Looking through the trees he searched feverishly to find that which he had been sent to find. It was 1:52 a.m. and everything was dark. Pushing deeper into the forest and disturbing a robin, he nearly tripped over a rock. It was indeed a good thing that he could see very well in the dark, better then most.
The night was cold and it felt hollow, the opposite of what it had been earlier that day. An owl hooted in the night somehow emphasizing the emptiness of the woods. A raccoon scampered past him, well there seemed to be a lot of animal life in the forest even at night.
Coming into a clearing he saw a partly charred area and a rough hole through the foliage as if something had been pushed or blown back through there. There was a steep slope going down and at the foot of the hill there was a small brook.
He remembered this place, she must be here! Plunging into the tree a little further he was suddenly tripped. Getting up with many curses said, he looked behind him to see what had caused him to fall. There was a leg twisted in an abnormal position. He walked calmly over to the limp limb and started brushing away leaves and bush branches. After a little while he uncovered what seemed like a sleeping girl.
'Well this can't be to good' he thought to himself 'wonder what else is amiss with her. I sure hope she's still alive' he quickly looked over her spotting a sprained arm, broken leg, multiple scrapes and cuts, some very deep, a big swell on her head and her left shoulder and part of her back, as well as pussy and bleeding from a very bad burn. Oddly enough her shirt was still pretty much intact.
He raised his fingers to her throat and then her mouth. She still had a pulse and she was breathing. Tapping her cheeks lightly he tried to revive her. She would live if he got her to medical treatment as soon a possible. He looked down and saw a large ruby lying next to the girl.
"Ah! Dere ya are. Dad was getting worried dat he might have lost ya, Natasha." He bent down to pick up the ruby that he had addressed as Natasha. Raising her high she shone a brilliant shade of red in the moonlight. He had found that which he had been sent to look for. Just then noises close to a whimper came from the unknown girl at his feet.
"Wakie, wakie" he said smiling down at the now conscious girl. 'How did she get this beat up? And that burn. What happened ta her?' he thought as a pair of weak green eyes fluttered open.
Ari screamed, being scared and alone all while she was quite, being content and surrounded by friends. She was in the worst pain ever but could feel nothing. Floating nowhere with mixed feelings beyond belief, Ari desperately awaited the moment she would wake from her torment and torture.
She was numb all over yet she felt the slightest thing. Cold rushed over and through her even though she was in an oven. Her ears popped from the pressure of being at the top of a mountain when she was at the bottom of the sea.
A gentle touch brought her out of her pain and into reality. She felt something warm on her cheek. A voice was in her head and someone was calling out to her. "Oi... last time I go to a picnic." Ari mumbled through a mouth that wouldn't seem to work properly.
"Ah! You're awake, good. Took ya nearly 20 minutes since I got here for ya ta come to. By da way, what happened ta ya? Fall off a tree? How 'bout dat burn, how'd ya come by it?
"Hmmm? Oh no I didn't fall off a tree..." looking up, a thoughtful expression came over her face "or at least I don't think so" now that she thought of it she only remembered talking to some people at a picnic about the evils of violence. Suddenly she realized something. No matter how hard she looked up all she could see was black! She rubbed at her eyes but she still couldn't see a thing!
"What time is it? I can only see black!" she said franticly. 'I don't want to be blind! Please God, don't let me be blind!' she prayed.
"It's 2:18, but ya should at least be able ta see something under da moonlight." The boy sounded worried "Maybe ya just need some time ta get better. Here let me try something, I think it'll work." He took her head in his hands, putting his thumbs on the pressure points on her head he pressed down hard. Pain shot through all of Ari and time stretched out.
After what seen like forever but was really only seconds the pain left and Ari began seeing slightly shapes. Blurs came to her and colours swirled in her head as the figure of a boy her age came into vision. Dark brown hair, brown kind eyes, a red T-shirt with the logo of Nike on it, and shorts also came to her view.
"Hi! My names Ari" she raised her hand to shake his but stopped suddenly as pain shot through her whole body. Crying out in agony, Ari looked over to find her left shoulder burnt.
"Human French-fry?" Ari asked trying to regain her sense of humor but feeling to miserable she gave up. "How did this happen? What else is wrong with me?" a set of pleading green eyes met the boys as if the answer would be found there.
"What happened?" the girl, Ari, looked around her as if tying to find the missing clue that would solve the mystery and answer all her questions.
"Ya mean ya don' know what happened?" he whispered completely surprised "No' a single idea?"
Shaking her head she then winced as she found another of her disorders. She had been at a picnic talking to another boy about her point of view on violence. It was so faint though like a fading dream, she couldn't really remember it. everything was blurry and she couldn't remember very well. The more she tried to focus and think of what happened the harder it was to see. It was like waking up from a dream that you immediately started to forget. One thing that she knew was that she didn't know those people. So how had she got there? Oh yes. The fall down the steep hill, that would explain a lot... but still not enough.
"Well, being as this happened I probably erased the memory because something bad happened."
"Erased ya memory? How'd ya do dat?" the boy questioned
"I get bad marks in French and people always ask what they were. I didn't want to lie saying they were better then a 72 or 64 so I tried erasing the memory of the mark once I looked at it, that way I didn't lie to people when I said I couldn't remember. When that started working well enough I started erasing bad things that I saw, things I didn't want to remember. So," she said with a smile, as if what she had said didn't really mean much "something I didn't want to remember probably happened at that picnic and then I erased it. There's just one problem, when I erase memories I also lose some that I didn't want to. Even if I didn't tell myself to erase the event that this happened to me, I still lost it. Not like it would help me anyway. Oh, I never got your name, what is it?"
"Me name? It's Joseph, but only me mom calls me that so ya can call me Joe. But right now we should be worrying about how to get ya ta da hospital, not me name. Do ya have a cell phone? Me dad has mine right now."
"Joe..." Ari said thoughtfully "Oh yes! I do have a cell phone! Umm, I can't really get to my bag right now but I think it's just over there a bit. You'll be able to fine my cell in the front pouch."
Joe got up and wandered through the trees a bit until he found a lime green and bleu backpack. Every zipper had I different object hanging off it. There was a fuzzy, yellow smiley face, a small plastic dog and cat, 2 thick neon coloured string braids, a miniature globe, a key chain and a plastic card saying 'friends forever'. 'Dis girl sure is weird' Joe thought pulling at a neon braid, trying to get the front pouch open. In side he reviled a bright yellow cell-phone with fuchsia pink buttons, reading bleu numbers. They were multiple signatures on the back of it, which he guessed were her friends. Picking up the backpack he walked back to Ari dialing 911.
RING, RING! RING, RING!
The phone rang in cookie's house at 4:30 in the morning. Joan was still asleep but slowly waking up because of the noise. Tossing the covers off the bed she rummaged through the mess on her floor trying to fine the phone.
"Wha... mffmm. Huh? Someone phoning me...?" looking at her watch cookie saw that it was 4:32 "hmmm... 4:32... huh hu r." finely finding the phone cookie picked it up still half asleep.
"huuhhh? Umm who is it? yawn Hello?" cookie asked into the phone, trying to be as well mannered as she could be at 4:32 in the morning.
"Oh hello!" an unfamiliar boys voice said through the phone "umm, ya don' know me but I'm phoning for—"he was cut off by cookie.
"huh hu r... Oh, yawn Tele-marketing...? At this hour... mffmm? Sorry." Cookie said still lying down on her bed. "No, no! Not dat, I'm phoning for—"again the persisting boy was cut off by a very much asleep cookie.
"Mmm...? Sorry, but I don't want to yawn buy anything. Mffmm..." cookie said about to hang up and get back to sleep. "No! Wait, I'm phoning for Ari! She's in da hospital and would like ya to know so ya don' worry 'bout her.
"HOSPITAL?! When did this happen? And who are you, how do you know her?" cookie said now fully awake and sitting up right.
"She don' know how it happened ta her, and I know her 'cause I found her." he said simply as if all should be understood "Maybe if ya came to da hospital and talked to her you'd understand."
"You FOUND her!" cookie asked in complete outrage and shock "you bet I'm coming over there!"
RING, RING! RING, RING! The phone rang at Rasa house at around 4:50 in the morning. But Rasa didn't pickup.
RING, RING! RING, RING! The phone continued to ring being as Rasa had already be told by Joan and had left long before Joe could get through. Ari's friends may be mean to her sometimes but they were very good friends to her. Joan and Rasa had already split the money for a cab and were going to the hospital.
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