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S.M.K Fighters
Chapter 1
Two figures walking down a dark alleyway, too dark to see the faces. A small, almost toy like figure, hovered behind at head height. Then, a nearby voice, hissed at the girls from another side alley.
"Hey girls," said the boy in a voice that would make any girl melt in his arms.
The girls stopped and turned slowly.
"Did you get it?" said a girl, slightly taller than the other one, with short hair up to her shoulders. "You'd better have it," she hissed "or we could both loose our lives, you know that as well as I do."
"Don't you trust me any more?" said the boy in a smooth, yet cheeky voice, as he held out a small package. The shorter girl walked forward and took the parcel out of his hand and walked closer till their noses almost touched.
"Madison," The boy whispered.
"Li," Madison whispered as they kissed passionately. The toy and the other girl both rolled their eyes and turned the other way. The couple finally broke it off and Li backed into the alleyway so no one else would see him and Madison walked back to her friend
"You should really find some one for yourself, Sakura, hmm?"
"I don't need mushy love in my life, unlike some people...?" said Sakura, obviously gesturing toward her friend. "Now, the package. Check it so that if it's the wrong one, I'm still close enough to run back and kick him in the privates." Sakura said menacingly, obviously meaning it.
"If it's not, ill go back for you," said Madison slyly.
"Oh no you don't!" said Sakura glaring at her partner "ill go. If you go and come back within any longer than 10 minutes and your hair is all ruffled and your lipstick is smeared any more than it is I-I-I'll ...well, let's put it this way you will no longer have a boyfriend!"
Madison almost laughed at this. Sakura was very protective of her friends and had taken to boxing in her spare time, around about the age of 12.
Now she, Madison, and the floating 'toy', better known as Kero (if you call him a toy or even cute you may end up only able to count to nine on your fingers!) who was now hovering in front of the girls, all stepped into a nearby streetlight. Sakura was wearing a tight full body length leather suit showing off her perfect hourglass body with black sneakers. Her auburn hair was tied up and she wore her silver rimmed sunglasses, not showing her emerald green eyes. Madison was also in leather, but instead of a full body suit she wore a tight, short – very short – black skirt with a black shirt and jacket down to her knees with matching black leather boots with heels. Her hair, a silky, crow black, hung down to almost the end of the jacket. She also wore sunglasses, purple rimmed. Kero was wearing a mini matrix-style leather jacket that Madison made him and some black-rimmed glasses that Sakura stole from her cousin's Barbie doll. They were the only ones she could find that weren't too big for him!
Madison carefully unwrapped the parcel, showing very obviously that it was delicate. When opened, they found a beautiful diamond necklace. Sakura took out a small telescope and examined it. As she did, Madison tried creeping backwards towards where they last saw Li. She had only taken a few steps when Sakura growled "oh no you don't!" and a hand grabbed Madison's wrist and pulled her towards their van.
"Oh Sakura, you're no fun at all." Madison huffed as she got in the back of the van to get changed with Sakura.
After about 5 minutes they came back in ordinary clothes. Sakura wore jeans with slight flares, white casual sneakers and a white shirt that looked 3,4 sizes too big for her. Her hair was tied at the back with a red hair tie that had bobbles attached, a few bangs hung down at the front. Madison wore her hair back in a high ponytail with it wrapped around twice so that it looked like her hair was only about mid waist length and tied it with a pink ribbon. She wore a pink tank top and a pink leather skirt, like the last, just a little bit longer with a matching pink bag. She wore red heels, but only because she couldn't find her pink ones! They had left the jewels in Madison's bag.
"Kero...KERO!" Sakura called.
"Hold your horses, I'm comin' hold on," said Kero grumpily. Throwing his sunnies into the back of the van he yawned flying over to flop down onto Sakura's shoulder.
"Where to now, Sakura?" Madison asked while expertly putting on her lipstick and blush.
"We have to go find the boss," said Sakura "and give him the jewels."
Of course Sakura's remark would've sounded better if Kero wasn't snoring so loudly! They got in the van and sped off toward the hideout.
In the misty dark alley a manly voice whispered "good luck, girls," and ran down the alley towards his sports car, hopped in, and sped down the alley to run his next errand.
In the far off distance, in a dim sewer, two girls walked...
"Are you sure we're going the right way, Sakura...Sakura...SAKURA!?"
"Huh? Oh, yeah ahemsorry." The girls had left Kero behind by the van, just incase.
"It REAKS down here," said Madison holding tight to her nose.
Sakura stopped still...she sensed something, behind her.
"...Hey Sakura ooffwhy'd you stop, Saku-mumph
"Ladies, this is no place for two beautiful girls like you, he he he,"
"Let Go of my friend," said Sakura turning slowly to three punks. The leader kept Madison submissive with a hand over her mouth and a knife to her throat. Madison had gone pale from fright and was breathing heavily trying not to struggle. The two guys at the back, one of them had num-chucks, the other with a club came slowly around the boss, (so as not to fall off the ledge into the sewerage,) towards Sakura. Sakura stood with one leg behind the other, her left hand forward ready to battle (Matrix style!).
The boss whispered to the one with the club "Your turn," and started to back away with the now struggling Madison.
"Madison," Sakura screamed and tried to get past 'batboy', but he blocked the way. "You 'aint goin' nowhere missy, no' wivout a fight," said the ogre like creature with the bat and swung it at her head. Direct hit. Sakura fell to the ground automatically curling up like a ball with shock, after a few seconds Sakura reminded herself that she needed to fight for Madison; she quickly got up and got back in her position. She had a cut on the side of her head where blood was running down her face. Her hair tie had fallen into the sewage. She was shaking slightly and you could have heard her breathing from a mile away. The batboy lunged forward to attack Sakura again, but missed. Sakura had ducked down and had swung her legs around so that he fell over backwards almost crushing his partner flat. Sakura tried to jump over him towards the direction that Madison was taken in, but batboy caught her leg and threw her back. Sakura got up quickly and ran straight for him with punches high and low, but batboy blocked them all. Then with an unexpected kick in the...down below, he was left sprawling on the ground.
"My turn, and I'm not as weak as the last guy," said the other one. This one had a mask on so Sakura couldn't see his face, but she could tell that voice from a mile away.
"And MY name," said Sakura, running up at full speed with a hard punch that made the masked villain end up on the floor, "is already familiar to you."
He had gotten up quicker than she thought he would "Hang on, hang on. Look I don't want to fight; I can he-"he was cut off by a sharp blow to the chin. Sakura ran behind him and got him in headlock.
"Where has he taken her, TELL ME, NOW!" Screamed Sakura.
"Please, don't hurt me, I can help you, if you let me go Sakura,""That's fine with me, Li." She ripped off the mask. "So Li, tell me now, or I'll be calling the cops," she brought out a mobile phone from her back pocket, but it had been smashed from when she had fallen before. "Damn it," she screamed and let go of Li.
"You could just let me show you the way you know," Li said, quite annoyed by now, standing up and dusting off some imaginary dust.
"Come on," Sakura dragged him down the sewer as fast as she could. "which way do I go?"
"Turn on your first leeeeft" said Li as he was dragged sharply around a corner. He stuck out his hand so that he grabbed the wall and Sakura, because of her speed, was thrown to the floor. But in front of her was a line of arrows that had just been shot down from the ceiling. "You know, he's not stupid enough to just let you walk up to him without setting any traps," said Li "he's smarter than that. And I know where they-"he ducked expectantly while a wrecking ball flew over his head and nearly hit Sakura who was brushing dirt and creases from her shirt "where they all are. Watch your step." Sakura glared at him, but followed because he was her only hope.
In the next few minutes nothing had happened -trap wise- so Sakura started to think, about allot of things. Like what it would be like to have a boy friend, like Madison and Li... Li. It all made sense. Li was working for the man that took Madison away, the one they were trying to find. But one thing didn't make sense, why did he block the way when the boss backed off and she had tried to save her, if he had really loved her? Why would anyone do such a thing? Why? Suddenly she heard Li scream out her name, but it was too late. An arrow shot deep into her right arm. Sakura was so stunned that when she tried to scream, all she could say was "help" in such a tiny whisper. She fell into Li's arms on her back as he caught her.
"Sakura," Li whispered, "are you ok?" He knew that was a pretty stupid question, but what else could he have said? Li lay her down on the ground and had a good look at the arrow. It had gone right through her right arm and was bleeding. The arrowhead poked its way out the other side and had sliced a hole in Sakura's bloodstained shirt. Li gently picked up Sakura's arm, but before he could even put his hand fully around it, Sakura let out a deafening scream of pain as tears started to roll down her cheeks.
"Don't touch me," Sakura said, pushing his hand away. Sakura winced as she tried to sit up, her arm hung limply at her side. She didn't want help from HIM...
Sakura felt dizzy from loss of blood. She closed her eyes and put her left hand to her head in hopes to make it stop. Li noticed.
"Sakura?" He didn't want to hurt her anymore. He just wanted to help. "Sakura, I think you need a doctor, they'd be better help than me-"
"Just bugger off," Sakura screamed, "I don't...argh, need any help..." Sakura gripped her head tighter. She let out a short scream and fell back into Li's arms unconscious. Li stared at her for a moment, wondering if she would just snap out of it, but she stayed that way.
"Sakura, Sakura," Li whispered in her ear as he shook her, but nothing happened. He shook her one last time and gathered her up in his arms. "I'm taking you to a doctor, and that's final." Li was surprised at how light she was. He ran past the arrows, past the wrecking ball; back out into the sewer pipes. Li raced down the sewer with Sakura in his arms, which was surprisingly fast, till he got to the end. It was a full-mooned night so Li had no trouble seeing where he was going. He raced around a corner, past some cats rummaging through a bin for food, past some rats with red, glowing eyes, till he got to his sports car. He opened the passenger seat door and gently lay Sakura down and did up the seat belt. Then, Li sensed something. He turned around and screamed out "Keroberose, SHOW YOURSELF!"
Kero came out from behind a small bush, with a red and angry face.
"What, happened...TELL ME," Kero was furious that this kid (as he called him) didn't take good care of his master.
"Sigh she walked into a trap and got shot right through her arm." Li sighed as Kero shot past him into the van to see Sakura.
"Well, what are you waiting for? Lets go!" Kero yelled at Li as he got into the van.
"Er, right," Li sped off towards the hospital...
Viking-Ulf: Sooo, what happens to Madison? The more reviews, the sooner I will get the next chapter up!!! LOL! As this is my first long story, I wouldn't mind some advice too!?!