Hey people. Silver here. I've had one hell of a busy week, so I haven't been able to update as fast as I like.... but bear with me, people! I guarantee that I'll try to update faster after this.
Hmmm...
To the Review Cave!
VGuyver (and I hope I've gotten your name right, my internet's on the fritz at the moment): Wow! A new reviewer. Good to have you aboard, laddie! Thanks for all your comments and notes- they are quite helpful. I agree on the "rushed" chapter, but I couldn't figure out a way to lengthen it, so it ended up as it was. Your notes are quite good and very helpful.
By the by- I hate Hudson's "canon" history. I've decided to screw with it on my own.
A Front Mission 4? (begins drooling) I loved Front Mission 3. It had one of the greatest storylines in the world, and the choice you make at the beginning of the game (the "go with Ryogo or not" one) is actually an extremely creepy choice. If you don't believe me, think about this: That one, single decision completely decides whose side you are on. It changes the very course of history in the game. And you know what? That's realistic. Because a single choice can and will decide your entire life, even if it seems like a completely irrevelant, everyday thing at the time. A great, great turn-around from our old friends at Square.
Besides, I love giant robots.... :)
As for Busuzima and Shenlong- Busuzima's character never really fit with his supposed place in the story. If the SOB had actually managed to invent Zoanthropes, wouldn't he be a cold, stone-hearted scientist and not a weird goofball? I personally think that would be the case. As for ol' Shenlong, he is the most "gray" character in the game to me (and not just for his fur) and so I'm trying to write him like that. Interesting how you say I've switched them... didn't notice it myself, but I guess I have.
Thanks for the compliments on my literary skills and my general level of intelligence. I love to read, and it has been a big help to me in my writing.
One more thing- don't bash Yugo, I love the wolf! (whimper in background) Poor guy. Everybody hates him but me.... he's actually the character I fight with in BR3 tournaments, and so far I've kicked the ass of everyone I've met (with the exception of a Jenny player and a Long player, both of whom beat me once). His in-your-face fighting style (and the very fact that you are using him at all) completely throw people off balance. You'd think someone would like him....
Tiger5913- Don't worry, my friend. The next chapter is up! And as for Kenji and Uriko- they were going out, but neither of them really opened up that much to the other. They were more like best friends than boyfriend/girlfriend, but had greater depths of feeling for each other than either of them realized.
To all my other reviewers: Thanks and kudos to everybody! Sorry, but the 'net's on the fritz, and I'm not that up to date on my reviews.
Ah well. Time to get on with the show.
"SHOWTIME!"
Chapter Seven
The Hunter
Room 350, Our Holy Mother Medical Hospital, near both Ohgami and Nonomura households. 2:30 a.m. Night of the Mark.
Uriko and Kenji have separated, realizing that if Yugo or Alice walked in that the moment would be ruined in their memories, and the separation came not a moment too soon. Alice walks in, followed by Yugo, who is suddenly extremely up and awake. He attributes it to the coffee he holds in his right hand, which is admittedly black (so black, in fact, that it looks more like oil than coffee). As Yugo and Alice walk in, both stop and look at Kenji for a moment, taking in his tear-streaked eyes and ruffled hair, the needles pulled out of his skin, the haunted look in his eyes. Alice walks calmly over to him and switches to her nurse personality, as she likes to call it; all business and no more compassion than must be shown to ease her patient into a cooperative mood. This personality is the only one she has that can actually deal with all she sees in a day; without it, she would be unable to continue working at the hospital, for her sympathetic nature would overwhelm her with tears for the fallen.
" Kenji," she says softly, " I have to rehook the needles now. You've... lost a lot of blood."
Kenji merely turns his face away from her and nods his head the barest bit. Alice begins rehooking the needles (astutely ignoring the small amount of blood that has dribbled onto the floor from them; we keep waiting for someone to step in it or at least notice it, but no one does). Kenji's eyes squint slightly as each needle enters his skin, but is otherwise silent.
It is Yugo who breaks the silence, as he almost always does. As Alice finishes hooking the last needle into Kenji's skin, Yugo's voice comes out, weak and broken, completely unlike the joker's boom he usually uses.
" Why?" he asks. " Why'd you do it, Kenji? What happened?"
Inside his mind, Kenji hears Bakuryu (who surfaced the instant Uriko let go) and his mocking answer:
[ Oh, nothing. Kenji's just nuts.]
Ignoring his alter, Kenji says nothing. There is nothing to say.
" Kenji," Yugo begins, searching inside himself for anything he can say that will make it easier for Kenji to open up to them. " Please.... tell us what's wrong! Is there something we can do?"
[ Yeah, drive me out,] Bakuryu says amiably. Again ignoring his alter, Kenji continues to say nothing.
" Please," Yugo begs, his voice on the verge of tears now. He is edging quite close to a full-blown breakdown, and it is the sound of his voice more than anything that makes Kenji open up.
" You.... don't understand..." Kenji says, stammering it out into the room as Bakuryu's presence pulls up a metaphorical chair and plops down to watch the proceedings with great amusement, " what I am.... what I've done..."
Uriko fears a repeat of the tales he told her, but before that can occur, a nurse runs into the room. She almost slams into the door, she is running so fast. All eyes (including our own) turn to the door. As she fits the key card into the slot, she runs in.
" Alice," she says breathlessly, " I have bad news."
" What?" Alice says, frightened. We, believing we know what it is, wait for confirmation from this nurse. We get up and spread our wings. It is almost time to fly.... almost.... not yet....
" Some of your friends are here."
Ah, that's our cue. We pick up our wings and fly.
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Emergency Room, Our Holy Mother Medical Hospital, Tokyo. 2:38 a.m.
We left Alice and the nurse and so didn't catch the rest of the conversation, but can be reasonably confident it was a quick summing-up of the way our favorite felines look. We can even guess, reasonably, what she said. Probably something along the lines of "bad".
And as we fly through the hallways (and walls if they happen to be in our way) we eventually come into sight of them. In the extremely bright white room that serves as the entrance to the extensive Emergency Care Unit of this hospital, we see Long and Gado being wheeled into various rooms where they will be treated for extreme electric shock (no surprise there). Shina, whose cuts and bruises are almost entirely healed, is quickly explaining to the nurse at the receiving office a story she cooked up on the way here. We hear part of the explanation as we swoop over her.
" My father, Gado, and my friend, Long, were checking the fuse box in our house -it's a huge fuse box, connected to almost everything in the house except a generator we keep for emergencies- and something happened. Maybe they forgot to pull a switch or a fuse didn't blow in time... whatever happened, they both got fried. The lights flickered and I got nervous, so I ran down to the back room where the fuse box is located. They were both being fried...."
The head nurse nods her head, having heard stories like this before. She thinks nothing special of this case- this day alone, a little boy's head was sawn off by a lawnmower blade that had freed itself of it's hinges and flown out, like some death blade of Hell, and cut into his neck, an old man had fallen over thirty stories when he'd tumbled out his window trying to water his hanging plants, and a girl of sixteen had born triplets right here in this waiting room. There is very little that surprises or shocks a nurse, and the less spectacular something is, the less likely it is she shall remember it later. Which is good for everyone involved; if she remembered, she might recall that the two men were not burnt as badly as they would be if the entire electrical system of an enormous house like the Mansion de Leo had actually been hooked up to them, even for a short amount of time. It takes less than a third of a second for a man to be killed when that amount of electricity is coursed through him, and the victims always end up looking like charred corpses. But the two men seemed to have suffered only a mild shock.
It is good that the nurse will not remember these things.
As Shina finishes up her story (detailing how she threw the main breaker switch, which was located a short distance from the fuse box, when she saw them suffering) we flap our wings and take off. There is much we do not know and are not allowed to see, but we know what Shina will do in the next few minutes. She will rush through the hospital to where her father and her boyfriend (though not lover; Shina is as cold about that as she is about most other things) and make sure they are all right. Then Alice will catch up to her, running to beat the devil, and more explanations will ensue, detailing both of the women's experiences tonight. As we take wing and fly, we even know the exact words they will use, though we will not hear them with our own ears. Though almost all of the future is a free and wild thing, made by our choices, there are times when certain choices have far-reaching effects that cause part of the future to be cast in stone.
A good thing too. Saves us a lot of time.
We take wing and fly.
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Tokyo Sky, flying towards Stun's hideout in an abandoned warehouse. 2:45.
We wing our way through the air, passing before the white moon without making the slightest mar on it's light. We fly through the air, and our presence is unknown to all but us. As we fly, we search with our minds throughout this place... and find what we are looking for. Stun, the insect Zoanthrope who holds in him more pain- and more promise- than any other Zoanthrope on the planet. As we wing through the sky we sense him, and veer off to put in our physical sight what we see with our minds.
We catch up to him eventually, in another hideout of his, this time in an abandoned warehouse. It has none of the mystique of the factory, however; unlike that labrynthine maze of metal, machines, and gears (plus the strange spinning rushing aura of the place, that feeling of running when you are standing still, of whirring machines in silence) and merely feels like what it is; an empty metal shell, devoid of everything except a group of hobos by the entrance and two Zoanthropes in the back. The hobos are asleep near a small fire, and so did not see either Zoanthrope enter.
As we flit in, Jenny has mostly recovered from the terrible pain of the Mark and is talking with Stun about it. They sit around no campfire, needing neither warmth or light. As we approach, they talk.
" Should we tell the others?" Jenny asks, propping herself up against the wall and slowly moving her body, feeling her way through it to make sure nothing is broken (and to make sure nothing is going to flare up in pain again). " It might be some strange mutation they need to know about..."
Stun nods, but something nags at him. " Jenny.... did you take any drugs recently? Anything at all, even something like a Tylenol?" Tylenol is not the exact word he used- this is Japan, after all, and they are speaking Japanese- but it is close enough for us to understand the general idea.
" You think it's a reaction to something, maybe?" Jenny asks, catching on to what he means.
" Maybe," he says. He really can't say for sure; just as he did in college and as a scientist, he is checking for all the possible answers. It's the way his mind works: search for every possible explanation, and when all other answers are gone, consider what is left the truth- impossibilities are merely improbabilites looked at in a different light.
Very Sherlock Holmes-ish. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would have been quite pleased.
Jenny thinks for a moment, and as she continues her struggle to stand up, she says, " I did take one thing earlier today- a sleeping pill. Sometimes I have trouble sleeping. But I took that hours ago." Much like her beast counterpart, Jenny sleeps most of the day.
" Hmm... what was the dosage?"
" Dosage?"
" The milligrams of the drug..."
Jenny merely gives him a blank stare, then says, " I don't remember. I don't usually read anything on pill bottles other than their name, you know."
Stun grins despite himself at this reminder that not everyone else has a photographic memory- or reads everything in sight. " Okay, okay. Let's do this the simple way. How big was the pill?"
" Real small.... maybe this big?" She squinches up her right hand's pointer finger and thumb to make a very small shape about a quarter of an inch big.
" It's not big enough to have caused this, then," Stun says, putting his fist under his chin. With his callused pointer finger, he taps his chin thoughtfully and says, " Hmm.... the pill was too small. It would have dispersed throughout your body long before now. If it had been the cause of the mutation, we would have seen it before now. Anything else? Did you eat or drink something out of the ordinary today? Or any food or drink that smelled strange or tasted funny?"
Jenny thinks for a moment, then shakes her head. " No."
" Damn. I can't think of anything else at the moment... let's head to Alice's house. She might be able to think of something I can't."
" Is that such a good idea? It is rather late in the night, Stun. I doubt they'll want to get woken up.... can we wait a few hours?" For some reason, Jenny received very bad vibes when she thought about going to Alice's house.
Stun stares at her for a moment, not having really caught what she'd said (he had still been lost in his mind, thinking about Jenny's situation) and says, " What?"
" I don't think we should go to Alice's," Jenny says, wondering even as she says it why she doesn't want to go to her friend's house. " I just get these bad feelings when I think about it..."
Stun looks at her, and says, " Bad feelings? What do you mean?"
" I just feel bad... it's stupid, I know, but I don't think we should go to Alice's tonight."
Why does she not want to go there? What could she be thinking? Try as we might, we can get no more out of her mind than she herself can; a confused half-sense of danger at Alice's and a feeling of safety where she is.
" If you're sure..." Stun says, his eyes narrowing as he ponders this new development. " I guess we'll stay here, then. Unless you want to head to Gado's?"
" No," she says, " I want to stay here."
" Alright..." Stun is obviously wondering about his friend's overall sanity, but he will obey her wishes and stay put. As confused as he is about Jenny's reluctance to leave, we flap our wings and fly. Our destination is the Nonomura house, where a freak of both biology and cybernetics is currently searching for a blood trail....
One that will lead him straight to Kenji Ohgami and more importantly, Bakuryu.
-R and R please! And the next chapter will be up soon. How soon is an unknown at the moment- but I guarantee that this story will receive special treatment in the oncoming days! See you later!
Hmmm...
To the Review Cave!
VGuyver (and I hope I've gotten your name right, my internet's on the fritz at the moment): Wow! A new reviewer. Good to have you aboard, laddie! Thanks for all your comments and notes- they are quite helpful. I agree on the "rushed" chapter, but I couldn't figure out a way to lengthen it, so it ended up as it was. Your notes are quite good and very helpful.
By the by- I hate Hudson's "canon" history. I've decided to screw with it on my own.
A Front Mission 4? (begins drooling) I loved Front Mission 3. It had one of the greatest storylines in the world, and the choice you make at the beginning of the game (the "go with Ryogo or not" one) is actually an extremely creepy choice. If you don't believe me, think about this: That one, single decision completely decides whose side you are on. It changes the very course of history in the game. And you know what? That's realistic. Because a single choice can and will decide your entire life, even if it seems like a completely irrevelant, everyday thing at the time. A great, great turn-around from our old friends at Square.
Besides, I love giant robots.... :)
As for Busuzima and Shenlong- Busuzima's character never really fit with his supposed place in the story. If the SOB had actually managed to invent Zoanthropes, wouldn't he be a cold, stone-hearted scientist and not a weird goofball? I personally think that would be the case. As for ol' Shenlong, he is the most "gray" character in the game to me (and not just for his fur) and so I'm trying to write him like that. Interesting how you say I've switched them... didn't notice it myself, but I guess I have.
Thanks for the compliments on my literary skills and my general level of intelligence. I love to read, and it has been a big help to me in my writing.
One more thing- don't bash Yugo, I love the wolf! (whimper in background) Poor guy. Everybody hates him but me.... he's actually the character I fight with in BR3 tournaments, and so far I've kicked the ass of everyone I've met (with the exception of a Jenny player and a Long player, both of whom beat me once). His in-your-face fighting style (and the very fact that you are using him at all) completely throw people off balance. You'd think someone would like him....
Tiger5913- Don't worry, my friend. The next chapter is up! And as for Kenji and Uriko- they were going out, but neither of them really opened up that much to the other. They were more like best friends than boyfriend/girlfriend, but had greater depths of feeling for each other than either of them realized.
To all my other reviewers: Thanks and kudos to everybody! Sorry, but the 'net's on the fritz, and I'm not that up to date on my reviews.
Ah well. Time to get on with the show.
"SHOWTIME!"
Chapter Seven
The Hunter
Room 350, Our Holy Mother Medical Hospital, near both Ohgami and Nonomura households. 2:30 a.m. Night of the Mark.
Uriko and Kenji have separated, realizing that if Yugo or Alice walked in that the moment would be ruined in their memories, and the separation came not a moment too soon. Alice walks in, followed by Yugo, who is suddenly extremely up and awake. He attributes it to the coffee he holds in his right hand, which is admittedly black (so black, in fact, that it looks more like oil than coffee). As Yugo and Alice walk in, both stop and look at Kenji for a moment, taking in his tear-streaked eyes and ruffled hair, the needles pulled out of his skin, the haunted look in his eyes. Alice walks calmly over to him and switches to her nurse personality, as she likes to call it; all business and no more compassion than must be shown to ease her patient into a cooperative mood. This personality is the only one she has that can actually deal with all she sees in a day; without it, she would be unable to continue working at the hospital, for her sympathetic nature would overwhelm her with tears for the fallen.
" Kenji," she says softly, " I have to rehook the needles now. You've... lost a lot of blood."
Kenji merely turns his face away from her and nods his head the barest bit. Alice begins rehooking the needles (astutely ignoring the small amount of blood that has dribbled onto the floor from them; we keep waiting for someone to step in it or at least notice it, but no one does). Kenji's eyes squint slightly as each needle enters his skin, but is otherwise silent.
It is Yugo who breaks the silence, as he almost always does. As Alice finishes hooking the last needle into Kenji's skin, Yugo's voice comes out, weak and broken, completely unlike the joker's boom he usually uses.
" Why?" he asks. " Why'd you do it, Kenji? What happened?"
Inside his mind, Kenji hears Bakuryu (who surfaced the instant Uriko let go) and his mocking answer:
[ Oh, nothing. Kenji's just nuts.]
Ignoring his alter, Kenji says nothing. There is nothing to say.
" Kenji," Yugo begins, searching inside himself for anything he can say that will make it easier for Kenji to open up to them. " Please.... tell us what's wrong! Is there something we can do?"
[ Yeah, drive me out,] Bakuryu says amiably. Again ignoring his alter, Kenji continues to say nothing.
" Please," Yugo begs, his voice on the verge of tears now. He is edging quite close to a full-blown breakdown, and it is the sound of his voice more than anything that makes Kenji open up.
" You.... don't understand..." Kenji says, stammering it out into the room as Bakuryu's presence pulls up a metaphorical chair and plops down to watch the proceedings with great amusement, " what I am.... what I've done..."
Uriko fears a repeat of the tales he told her, but before that can occur, a nurse runs into the room. She almost slams into the door, she is running so fast. All eyes (including our own) turn to the door. As she fits the key card into the slot, she runs in.
" Alice," she says breathlessly, " I have bad news."
" What?" Alice says, frightened. We, believing we know what it is, wait for confirmation from this nurse. We get up and spread our wings. It is almost time to fly.... almost.... not yet....
" Some of your friends are here."
Ah, that's our cue. We pick up our wings and fly.
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Emergency Room, Our Holy Mother Medical Hospital, Tokyo. 2:38 a.m.
We left Alice and the nurse and so didn't catch the rest of the conversation, but can be reasonably confident it was a quick summing-up of the way our favorite felines look. We can even guess, reasonably, what she said. Probably something along the lines of "bad".
And as we fly through the hallways (and walls if they happen to be in our way) we eventually come into sight of them. In the extremely bright white room that serves as the entrance to the extensive Emergency Care Unit of this hospital, we see Long and Gado being wheeled into various rooms where they will be treated for extreme electric shock (no surprise there). Shina, whose cuts and bruises are almost entirely healed, is quickly explaining to the nurse at the receiving office a story she cooked up on the way here. We hear part of the explanation as we swoop over her.
" My father, Gado, and my friend, Long, were checking the fuse box in our house -it's a huge fuse box, connected to almost everything in the house except a generator we keep for emergencies- and something happened. Maybe they forgot to pull a switch or a fuse didn't blow in time... whatever happened, they both got fried. The lights flickered and I got nervous, so I ran down to the back room where the fuse box is located. They were both being fried...."
The head nurse nods her head, having heard stories like this before. She thinks nothing special of this case- this day alone, a little boy's head was sawn off by a lawnmower blade that had freed itself of it's hinges and flown out, like some death blade of Hell, and cut into his neck, an old man had fallen over thirty stories when he'd tumbled out his window trying to water his hanging plants, and a girl of sixteen had born triplets right here in this waiting room. There is very little that surprises or shocks a nurse, and the less spectacular something is, the less likely it is she shall remember it later. Which is good for everyone involved; if she remembered, she might recall that the two men were not burnt as badly as they would be if the entire electrical system of an enormous house like the Mansion de Leo had actually been hooked up to them, even for a short amount of time. It takes less than a third of a second for a man to be killed when that amount of electricity is coursed through him, and the victims always end up looking like charred corpses. But the two men seemed to have suffered only a mild shock.
It is good that the nurse will not remember these things.
As Shina finishes up her story (detailing how she threw the main breaker switch, which was located a short distance from the fuse box, when she saw them suffering) we flap our wings and take off. There is much we do not know and are not allowed to see, but we know what Shina will do in the next few minutes. She will rush through the hospital to where her father and her boyfriend (though not lover; Shina is as cold about that as she is about most other things) and make sure they are all right. Then Alice will catch up to her, running to beat the devil, and more explanations will ensue, detailing both of the women's experiences tonight. As we take wing and fly, we even know the exact words they will use, though we will not hear them with our own ears. Though almost all of the future is a free and wild thing, made by our choices, there are times when certain choices have far-reaching effects that cause part of the future to be cast in stone.
A good thing too. Saves us a lot of time.
We take wing and fly.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tokyo Sky, flying towards Stun's hideout in an abandoned warehouse. 2:45.
We wing our way through the air, passing before the white moon without making the slightest mar on it's light. We fly through the air, and our presence is unknown to all but us. As we fly, we search with our minds throughout this place... and find what we are looking for. Stun, the insect Zoanthrope who holds in him more pain- and more promise- than any other Zoanthrope on the planet. As we wing through the sky we sense him, and veer off to put in our physical sight what we see with our minds.
We catch up to him eventually, in another hideout of his, this time in an abandoned warehouse. It has none of the mystique of the factory, however; unlike that labrynthine maze of metal, machines, and gears (plus the strange spinning rushing aura of the place, that feeling of running when you are standing still, of whirring machines in silence) and merely feels like what it is; an empty metal shell, devoid of everything except a group of hobos by the entrance and two Zoanthropes in the back. The hobos are asleep near a small fire, and so did not see either Zoanthrope enter.
As we flit in, Jenny has mostly recovered from the terrible pain of the Mark and is talking with Stun about it. They sit around no campfire, needing neither warmth or light. As we approach, they talk.
" Should we tell the others?" Jenny asks, propping herself up against the wall and slowly moving her body, feeling her way through it to make sure nothing is broken (and to make sure nothing is going to flare up in pain again). " It might be some strange mutation they need to know about..."
Stun nods, but something nags at him. " Jenny.... did you take any drugs recently? Anything at all, even something like a Tylenol?" Tylenol is not the exact word he used- this is Japan, after all, and they are speaking Japanese- but it is close enough for us to understand the general idea.
" You think it's a reaction to something, maybe?" Jenny asks, catching on to what he means.
" Maybe," he says. He really can't say for sure; just as he did in college and as a scientist, he is checking for all the possible answers. It's the way his mind works: search for every possible explanation, and when all other answers are gone, consider what is left the truth- impossibilities are merely improbabilites looked at in a different light.
Very Sherlock Holmes-ish. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would have been quite pleased.
Jenny thinks for a moment, and as she continues her struggle to stand up, she says, " I did take one thing earlier today- a sleeping pill. Sometimes I have trouble sleeping. But I took that hours ago." Much like her beast counterpart, Jenny sleeps most of the day.
" Hmm... what was the dosage?"
" Dosage?"
" The milligrams of the drug..."
Jenny merely gives him a blank stare, then says, " I don't remember. I don't usually read anything on pill bottles other than their name, you know."
Stun grins despite himself at this reminder that not everyone else has a photographic memory- or reads everything in sight. " Okay, okay. Let's do this the simple way. How big was the pill?"
" Real small.... maybe this big?" She squinches up her right hand's pointer finger and thumb to make a very small shape about a quarter of an inch big.
" It's not big enough to have caused this, then," Stun says, putting his fist under his chin. With his callused pointer finger, he taps his chin thoughtfully and says, " Hmm.... the pill was too small. It would have dispersed throughout your body long before now. If it had been the cause of the mutation, we would have seen it before now. Anything else? Did you eat or drink something out of the ordinary today? Or any food or drink that smelled strange or tasted funny?"
Jenny thinks for a moment, then shakes her head. " No."
" Damn. I can't think of anything else at the moment... let's head to Alice's house. She might be able to think of something I can't."
" Is that such a good idea? It is rather late in the night, Stun. I doubt they'll want to get woken up.... can we wait a few hours?" For some reason, Jenny received very bad vibes when she thought about going to Alice's house.
Stun stares at her for a moment, not having really caught what she'd said (he had still been lost in his mind, thinking about Jenny's situation) and says, " What?"
" I don't think we should go to Alice's," Jenny says, wondering even as she says it why she doesn't want to go to her friend's house. " I just get these bad feelings when I think about it..."
Stun looks at her, and says, " Bad feelings? What do you mean?"
" I just feel bad... it's stupid, I know, but I don't think we should go to Alice's tonight."
Why does she not want to go there? What could she be thinking? Try as we might, we can get no more out of her mind than she herself can; a confused half-sense of danger at Alice's and a feeling of safety where she is.
" If you're sure..." Stun says, his eyes narrowing as he ponders this new development. " I guess we'll stay here, then. Unless you want to head to Gado's?"
" No," she says, " I want to stay here."
" Alright..." Stun is obviously wondering about his friend's overall sanity, but he will obey her wishes and stay put. As confused as he is about Jenny's reluctance to leave, we flap our wings and fly. Our destination is the Nonomura house, where a freak of both biology and cybernetics is currently searching for a blood trail....
One that will lead him straight to Kenji Ohgami and more importantly, Bakuryu.
-R and R please! And the next chapter will be up soon. How soon is an unknown at the moment- but I guarantee that this story will receive special treatment in the oncoming days! See you later!