Chapter Eight

Poisoned

A/n: I'm so sorry for not updating for a long time (for 21 days to be exact)!! There's school and there's homework...and hopefully I've squeezed out some time on this weekend to carry on with it. Thanks for the reviews!!

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Aerosmith: note to self Finish my homework before Sunday.

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Ocean mess: Thanks for the advice! Well actually Hitomi and Lei Fang were a bit stupid in Chapter Seven, having forgotten everything about the hurricane. It's supposed to be a part of the plot, but you can see that it's poorly made. I just had a bunch of facts in my head and wanted to put them all into a chapter at the time, so you see...

'I really saw her!'

'You're not even sure about it.'

'I AM! And you can see for yourself next morning.'

'He's not even here.'

'Well who else would be wearing a Chinese outfit and gel his hair like that? It must be him.'

'Look, Hitomi's innocent. There is no way she can be with Lee. They don't even have any relationship! They're complete strangers with each other!'

'Shh...'

The frantic whisperings of Lei Fang and Helena awakened Christie. Now she was lying on her bed, staring at the ceiling, trying to catch the fragments of words they were saying next door. So the whisperings I heard after the Truth of Dare game that night were actually Lei Fang and Helena...I wonder what they're up to. She thought. But the whisperings had died down already. She almost kicked herself for not paying attention. She would've got some information out of them if she had continued to listen. Hitomi and Jann Lee? Having an affair? It simply didn't make sense.

She glanced at her digital alarm clock. Six in the morning. Quite a normal time to knock on someone's door without leading to suspicion. She knocked on Lei Fang and Helenas' door. Without waiting for a reply or something, she opened it herself. Funny enough though, they were standing right in front of it, as if that was the best place to share secrets without anyone eavesdropping. Their jaws dropped.

'What are you doing here?' Lei Fang blurted out, a bit impolitely.

'The question is what you both are doing here.' Christie said.

'Why, preparing ourselves for breakfast!' Helena came to Lei Fang's aid.

'That's silly.' Christie replied. 'Lei Fang, we need to talk.'

'Sure.' The confused girl joined her in the corridor and shut the door behind her. 'What's up?'

'I've been thinking...have you noticed anything...strange about Hitomi recently?'

Fang's eyes widened. 'Like...what?'

'Like...her nose bleed attracted the sharks?'

'You can't control a nose bleed.'

'Yeah...and the plane didn't have any survivors on it when we approached it.'

'They were on the rescue ship!'

'Even the rescue ship came a bit earlier than normal...we didn't even hear any voices. Isn't that strange? Let's talk inside.' Christie opened the door to her own room, went inside with Fang, turned on the sound proof shield (just kidding) and locked the door.

'Well...I've thought of that, but it isn't that important...' Fang muttered.

'That shark almost killed us. We could've died.'

'Hey don't talk like that. We're lucky we survived. This is a tropical island. The coast is bound to have sharks in it!'

'Really? Then Tina doesn't know about it. She swims every day on Bass Island...'

There was a thoughtful pause between them.'

'Okay...I admit that Hitomi is a little ev-' Fang quickly covered her mouth.

'What did you just say?' Christie grinned.

'ALRIGHT SHE'S EVIL!! SHE SLEPT WITH JANN LEE!!!!!!!!' Lei Fang pounded her fists on Christie's bed.

'Shh...she can hear us.'

'I hate her...I want to kill her!!!' Fang clenched her fist and punched the air.

'Tell me...how did this happen?' Christie acted innocence.

'It was just after the Truth or Dare game that night. I wanted to get a drink so I headed to the drinks machines and told Hitomi to go back to her room first. We intended to stay in our own rooms because we were too tired to watch TV in her room together, like we normally do. Just when I got back to the hotel, holding two drinks in my hands, I went to Hitomi's to give her one. Strangely, she didn't open the door. I thought maybe she was listening music with her headphones on, so I went back to my balcony. I peered over at her balcony which is right beside mine, and looked through the window to see what she was up to. And...' Fang squeezed her eyes tight and two tears streamed down. 'She was lying on the bed with Jann. They were holding each other....oh...' She sniffed and began to sob.

'I see...are you sure about what you saw?'

'Yes. Positive.'

'Did Hitomi know about you and Lee?'

'Of course she knew, that btch! I told her all my deepest secrets to her and she betrayed me...'

'She's ruining our lives. First she betrayed you and then she intended to kill us.'

Fang knew where Christie was heading.

'You want to...get rid of her?' She said, choosing her words carefully.

'What else can we do? Paradise is no paradise with her in our lives.' Christie decided.

'Sure I hate her, but I don't want to...kill her.'

'I never said I wanted to kill her, although the idea sounds much appealing.'

'No, we can't do that! It bends the law of the whole universe!'

Christie looked at her as if she were insane.

'There are billions of lives on Earth. It doesn't hurt to kill one.'

'But you're an assassin! Of course you've killed many people. I can't.'

'Again, I never said you have to join in. Do you really want Jann back?'

'What do you mean, back? He's already mine!'

'You're looking it from the wrong direction. If Hitomi had the nerve to seduce him, why would he fall for her? He must have feelings for her in order to lie on the same bed with her.'

'He didn't...no...Jann is mine......'

'Whatever you say now makes no difference! They love each other. If Hitomi's gone, such cold people like Lee wouldn't even miss her. He only wanted her, physically.'

'I bet that slut seduced him so much that he couldn't refuse...' Fang sniffed.

'What we need...is something that will make Hitomi disappear for a while, long enough to make Lee forget about her, also preferably long enough to let her miss the fourth tournament!'

'There isn't any fourth tournament. The last one's called DOA Ultimate, a combination of DOA 1, when we turn into ugly square characters and DOA 2, which you aren't in. Hitomi isn't in DOA 2 either. You have to unlock her.' Lei Fang said wisely.

'You have to unlock her? Oh. So hmm, does she like strawberries?' Christie said, steering the subject away from her disappearance at DOA2.

'Yeah. I always bring a bowl of strawberries and cream with me when we hang out at the beach. She only likes the cream though. She never touches the strawberries.'

'Oh. I see. What about we poison the strawberries, you force her to eat one, and she flies away by plane to the nearest hospital and recovers for a long time?'

'Uh...sounds great! And it wouldn't even kill her.'

'I've got the poison. I'll give it to you later in the afternoon; you sprinkle it on top of the strawberries, and give her one. Force it into her mouth if you need to. Deal?'

'Deal.'

If you want to know what happens next, see my sister alennademi688211's Death by Strawberries. Actually she made the story first, but then I added it to mine just to get rid of Hitomi.....naughty me. Here's the

Have fun reading it!

The plane zoomed off to the distance while Christie and Fang tried hard not to smile. Kasumi, Ayane, Tina, Lisa and Helena finished waving at the plane and headed back to their rooms.

'That sure was easy, wasn't it? Pity there wasn't any blood. I had a type of poison that could've made her spit blood, but that would've been suspicious.' Christie said with a note of happiness in her voice. Fang sighed.

'What do you want to do next?' Christie asked. 'Invite Jann to the island? Spend some nights with him? I can do a few days without volleyball.'

'I'm your partner now? Great! And thanks so much for giving me the poison!'

'As for the assassination fee, it's twenty thousand eight hundred seventy two and fifty seven cents. Payment in cash is most welcome.' Christie recited.

'Huh?!?!' Fang screamed.

'Wait a sec, the poison I gave you is high-class poison ash, a tree only found in the remote West Indies!'

'Oh, alright then. I'll give you the check later. But just because I'll be broke after that, I'll be spending the whole day pool-hopping and playing volley to earn money.'

Christie grinned. The poison was not in fact poison ash, but simply an easy formula of the Lysol and liquid soap in her bathroom, two easily found and cheap materials that are poisonous.

Days passed quickly without warning. Lei Fang spent most of her time with Jann, Christie heard, and Jann had given her a lot of cash to 'buy swimsuits'. Christie herself pool-hopped through the day and immediately saw, as a result, her legs becoming stronger. It wasn't until the last day of her vacation that she decided to pay Lei Fang a visit. She hadn't seen her since Hitomi left, as she feared she would disturb Lei Fang and Jann Lee...

She knocked on her door. When no reply came, she went in herself. The room was a complete mess. The bed was unmade, clothes were everywhere, the TV was on, bits of food were spread on the ground. Lei Fang was sitting back-face to Christie in front of her vanity desk. Beside her was a box of tissues.

'What's going on?' Christie gasped. 'Where's Jann and why...?'

Lei Fang sounded as if she had been crying.

'Go away, you...'

'Wh-why?'

'GO AWAY!!!'

'What the hell's going on? Tell me!'

But there came no reply. After waiting for five painstaking minutes, Christie left and asked Helena about it.

'Didn't you know? She called Jann a few days ago, ze day Hitomi left in fact, but eet turned out zat Jann really did love Hitomi, and blamed Lei Fang for her illness!' Helena explained to Christie an hour later at the cafeteria. The place was buzzing with the sounds of clinking utensils and chatting.

'Then what has she been doing in the past few days?' Christie asked.

'Crying. Sleeping. She hasn't been eating at all. I had to send her some food every day to make sure she eats properly.' Helena said pitifully. 'And...' She lowered her voice. 'One more zeeng...'

She took out videotape.

'Zis is ze tape I put into your VCR. Eet eez a copy.'

'You...you put it there?'

'Oui! I wanted you to know zat Kasumi eez...evil.'

'Then Ayane...?'

'What about Ayane? She's just a leetle beet naughty, zat's all.'

Everything clicked in Christie's mind.

'So Kasumi set the rescue ship? She set the sharks? And she did...everything?'

'Yes. She has zee power to do eet. She knows spells and things.'

'Then Hitomi...'

'Hitomi? What about her?'

So Hitomi was innocent.

'Oh, I know what you're talking about.' Said Helena. 'Jann seduced Hitomi, and not ze uzzer way round.'

The door to conclusions was open. Everything was clear. Christie cannot control the speed of her mind connecting the facts and conclusions. It was all too quick. And it was time to go.

They aboard the plane, all except Kasumi, who had probably magicked herself back to Japan. The plane ride was exhausting.

A/n: OK YOU CAN ALL KILL ME NOW. I know it's absolute CRAP. And it's the ending. Phew. I'm writing some short stories now...