Is That You? By: OtakuSailorV
Chapter 7: Pixie?!
Genki stopped, his eyes wide, nearly larger than his face.
Holly gasped and covered her mouth with her hands. Tiger and the other monsters merely stared at the glowing box in a mixer of shock and awe.
Hikari leaned forward and turned up the volume so that the others could hear it.
The newscaster was still pointing to pictures while holding her microphone in her hand at the same time.
The humans and the monsters that could fit in the doorway crowded forward to watch the story unfold on the TV.
"Earlier today, a strange creature was seen flying around downtown Tokyo. What at first appeared to be an avid otaku in cosplay, turned out to be a vicious monster that attacked when the police units came too close. Shots were fired, but no word yet as to if the creature was apprehended yet. . .in other news. . ."
Hikari turned the TV to a different station, the same story was showing, with the headline: "Monsters attack".
"Earlier today, there was an attack on downtown Tokyo by a flying, bat-like creature. The creature did not show any threat, until the police arrived. The beast was fired at, but no word on if the creature was hit."
Hikari made a face and changed the channel again. *click*
On this station though, there was actual footage of the police colliding against Pixie.
Everyone gasped, and paid more attention to the pictures on the screen than the words being said.
Pixie brought back her arms and shot out a blue energy attack, blowing up a police car, and seeming to injure some of the policemen.
Holly gasped as she saw the gun, and heard its shots being fired. The Monsters winced and stared at the metal thing that had been shooting seemingly nothing at Pixie.
Pixie, however, winced once on the camera and covered her shoulder with her hand before turning about and taking off over a building.
A helicopter started to follow, when the film cut off, the blinding blue flash striking nearby.
Hikari turned off the TV and turned gravely to the others.
Genki had already whisked back out of the room, heading toward the opposite cabin at a rapid pace.
Holly and the others simply stood in the doorway, shocked.
"W-what was that thing that went boom, chii?" Mocchi asked, shaking slightly.
Hikari's darkened blue eyes fell on the shivering Monsters and girl. "That is what we call a gun, and the things that were coming out of it are called bullets. They are dangerous and can kill."
Genki arrived back by them, his trademark blades on his feet.
"Genki?" Holly asked, staring at him.
The others stared as well as Genki got his breath back. "I-I'm. . .I'm going. . .to. . .help Pixie. She might be hurt. . ."
Genki leaned forward, his hand on the frame of the door, his eyes watching Hikari.
Hikari nodded, stood, and grabbed hold of a small pocket radio on the desk next to her.
"I guess I'll come with you, but only if the others are going as well, I don't want to leave anyone here on their own." Hikari eyed the others who merely nodded at her.
Holly set her face hard. "We will all go."
Hikari and the others nodded.
They all started out the door again, when they stopped. "Wait! How are we all going to get there in time?" Hikari asked.
"We won't all go the same speed, and. . .none of us has wings or can fly. . ." Hikari looked thoughtful.
The others stared at each other, this had just occurred to them as well.
"Genki can ride Tiger ahead of us to the city, and we'll go the long way and get there as fast as we can without anybody seeing us." Holly said, pointing from Genki to Tiger, to the woods.
Hikari nodded with the others. "Let's do it then."
* * *
Hikari gave them directions to the city, pointing and telling them which places to avoid. "It's still pretty early for folks around here to be up and about, so, don't worry about taking off down the main street, that the fastest way anyway. Just don't let anybody see ya ok?"
Genki hopped on Tiger's back and nodded. "Right, gotcha." With that, they took off, a blue streak against the graying dawn.
Holly already sat atop Golem's shoulder, and Mocchi in her arms.
Hare had his satchel swung over his shoulder by the time Hikari had locked everything up.
Hikari started toward the forest at a fast pace, hearing the heavy footfalls of the rock giant behind her.
She moved all the way to the right as she got to the line of trees, and pushed aside a large branch, showing a road that was large in size, but Golem would still have to bend to make sure he didn't cut through the top canopy of the trees.
Holly and Mocchi climbed down so that Golem wouldn't have to worry about them falling off if he leaned forward too much.
Hikari sucked in a deep breath of the forest, it smelled of water, fresh and clean. She smiled to herself and pointed ahead of them. "Come on, maybe we can get there before Tiger and Genki."
* * *
Meanwhile, the said pair stuck their heads out from a bush that they had hid in when a car had passed along the road.
Tiger took another step, looking this way as Genki looked that way. "All's clear." Tiger mumbled and Genki made a noise of agreement.
"Hold on." Genki gripped the lean body of the wolf as he tore from the bush's and headed down the road again.
Genki felt his heart lift at the thrill of riding his friend again, he had not ridden this fast on anything in months. He wanted to let out a whoop of laughter, but for fear of being heard, he bottled his excitement up inside until he was about to burst.
Tiger's feet barely touched the gravely road below him as he sped down the highway, making sure to keep his mind on running so that he would not slow down. He could sense Genki's infectious happiness though, and he let himself smile slightly as he raced ahead.
* * *
They had been fighting through the forest for at least an hour by the time they heard Hikari pipe up again. "So, when we get to the city. . .I guess we'll have to leave the monsters hiding somewhere, while we look for Pixie?"
The monsters didn't seem to mind the idea, and Holly nodded.
"What part of this 'city' was it that you said that you thought Pixie might be in?" Holly asked.
Hikari gestured with her hands, not having a map to show the exact location. "It looked like she was heading toward the East side of the city, but I'm not sure, since it appears that she destroyed the camera that was video taping her."
Holly made a noise and nodded slightly.
"Here, let's see. . ." Hikari pulled out the radio and turned the knob. There was clicking and whirring as the tuner tried to pick up the signal, but nothing came through over the wires but muffled, static-y voices.
Hikari growled something about the inefficiency of things nowadays when she pocketed the radio. "Hmph, looks like we have to wait until we get out of this dense forest."
Suezo mumbled something to himself before jumping off ahead of them.
* * *
Tiger had had to stop once again, when they heard voices and saw someone coming along the opposite side of the street.
Genki dismounted his friend and walked along, whistling, while Tiger crept along in the bushes beside the road.
The people didn't seem to notice him as he passed them, whistling to himself and eyeing them nervously.
Tiger felt everything go rigid when one of them looked his way, but she didn't seem to see him, and she turned back away.
When they had gone, Genki beckoned his friend back out of the bush and mounted again, darting down the road at a renewed speed.
It wasn't long after that that the city came into view on the horizon, a great, gray mass against the blue-ish-gray background of the sky.
"Do you're cities always look so dreary?" Tiger asked as they approached.
Genki shrugged. "I suppose they do, I never paid much attention to it until now. I wonder if my mom's calling Grandpa right now?" He added the last part as an understatement that was not meant to be heard.
Tiger heard him, but didn't say anything, thinking it was something Genki wanted to ponder about on his own.
Tiger kept up his speed until they were on the city's limits.
Genki gripped Tiger's horns and turned his head slightly in the direction away from the bridge that crossed the river to his city.
Tiger looked up at him questioningly. "We should go the round-about way, if we take the bridge, someone's bound to see us. They have cameras on those things ya know."
Tiger, unsure of what a camera was, took the advice and steered toward the opposite side of the bridge.
"There's a way to get across that kids use more often than walking across the bridge, right. . .there." Genki pointed out the small, rickety bridge that swayed above the river dangerously.
Tiger ran across the bridge, the boards, breaking, creaking, and swaying under his paws, the bridge had not seen such speed for years.
Genki felt nervous as the bridge buckled and swayed below them, tossing and jolting from Tiger's immense speed.
But, they go across fine, with only some broken boards and the bridge still buckling and swaying below them.
Genki dismounted again, patting Tiger in a form of thanks.
Tiger and Genki headed straight for the road above.
Genki heard a car pass by, and immediately he remembered Tiger's horns. No one would think he was a dog with horns. It would be hard enough passing him off as a dog with the fur he had.
Genki looked around and saw a tattered old blanket. Grabbing it up, he tossed it over Tiger who began to protest.
"Hold on, you can take it back off later, but no one's going to think you're a dog with this fur and horns."
Tiger immediately stopped struggling and let Genki place the blanket on him.
"But I want it back off soon." He grumbled as he felt the dirty thing envelope his clean fur.
Genki laughed and patted the bag. "It'll be off before you know it, I promise."
Tiger made a noise and followed the boy up the steep incline until they were at the road.
His eyes went large at the site of all the metal monstrosities around him.
The growled and made loud beeping noises at each other, and they started to jolt forward but stopped. And the only thing that seemed to control them were the humans inside, and another creature that blinked red, green, and yellow.
Genki paid no mind to the cars though, and went on walking, only looking back when he didn't hear Tiger following.
"Tiger, hey, Tiger!" He whispered, snapping the monster from his trance.
Tiger shook his head and started to follow the boy again. How very strange this world of Genki's was.
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Yo! Got to cut it short there, sorry. ^_^ I hope you all like so far, I'm trying to get the character's personalities right, so, tell me if I get them wrong or not. I want to make sure that I'm not making them go OOC in this story. ^_^ Thanks to all my lovely, beautiful reviewers once more. Ja!! ^_^
Review!!!!
Chapter 7: Pixie?!
Genki stopped, his eyes wide, nearly larger than his face.
Holly gasped and covered her mouth with her hands. Tiger and the other monsters merely stared at the glowing box in a mixer of shock and awe.
Hikari leaned forward and turned up the volume so that the others could hear it.
The newscaster was still pointing to pictures while holding her microphone in her hand at the same time.
The humans and the monsters that could fit in the doorway crowded forward to watch the story unfold on the TV.
"Earlier today, a strange creature was seen flying around downtown Tokyo. What at first appeared to be an avid otaku in cosplay, turned out to be a vicious monster that attacked when the police units came too close. Shots were fired, but no word yet as to if the creature was apprehended yet. . .in other news. . ."
Hikari turned the TV to a different station, the same story was showing, with the headline: "Monsters attack".
"Earlier today, there was an attack on downtown Tokyo by a flying, bat-like creature. The creature did not show any threat, until the police arrived. The beast was fired at, but no word on if the creature was hit."
Hikari made a face and changed the channel again. *click*
On this station though, there was actual footage of the police colliding against Pixie.
Everyone gasped, and paid more attention to the pictures on the screen than the words being said.
Pixie brought back her arms and shot out a blue energy attack, blowing up a police car, and seeming to injure some of the policemen.
Holly gasped as she saw the gun, and heard its shots being fired. The Monsters winced and stared at the metal thing that had been shooting seemingly nothing at Pixie.
Pixie, however, winced once on the camera and covered her shoulder with her hand before turning about and taking off over a building.
A helicopter started to follow, when the film cut off, the blinding blue flash striking nearby.
Hikari turned off the TV and turned gravely to the others.
Genki had already whisked back out of the room, heading toward the opposite cabin at a rapid pace.
Holly and the others simply stood in the doorway, shocked.
"W-what was that thing that went boom, chii?" Mocchi asked, shaking slightly.
Hikari's darkened blue eyes fell on the shivering Monsters and girl. "That is what we call a gun, and the things that were coming out of it are called bullets. They are dangerous and can kill."
Genki arrived back by them, his trademark blades on his feet.
"Genki?" Holly asked, staring at him.
The others stared as well as Genki got his breath back. "I-I'm. . .I'm going. . .to. . .help Pixie. She might be hurt. . ."
Genki leaned forward, his hand on the frame of the door, his eyes watching Hikari.
Hikari nodded, stood, and grabbed hold of a small pocket radio on the desk next to her.
"I guess I'll come with you, but only if the others are going as well, I don't want to leave anyone here on their own." Hikari eyed the others who merely nodded at her.
Holly set her face hard. "We will all go."
Hikari and the others nodded.
They all started out the door again, when they stopped. "Wait! How are we all going to get there in time?" Hikari asked.
"We won't all go the same speed, and. . .none of us has wings or can fly. . ." Hikari looked thoughtful.
The others stared at each other, this had just occurred to them as well.
"Genki can ride Tiger ahead of us to the city, and we'll go the long way and get there as fast as we can without anybody seeing us." Holly said, pointing from Genki to Tiger, to the woods.
Hikari nodded with the others. "Let's do it then."
* * *
Hikari gave them directions to the city, pointing and telling them which places to avoid. "It's still pretty early for folks around here to be up and about, so, don't worry about taking off down the main street, that the fastest way anyway. Just don't let anybody see ya ok?"
Genki hopped on Tiger's back and nodded. "Right, gotcha." With that, they took off, a blue streak against the graying dawn.
Holly already sat atop Golem's shoulder, and Mocchi in her arms.
Hare had his satchel swung over his shoulder by the time Hikari had locked everything up.
Hikari started toward the forest at a fast pace, hearing the heavy footfalls of the rock giant behind her.
She moved all the way to the right as she got to the line of trees, and pushed aside a large branch, showing a road that was large in size, but Golem would still have to bend to make sure he didn't cut through the top canopy of the trees.
Holly and Mocchi climbed down so that Golem wouldn't have to worry about them falling off if he leaned forward too much.
Hikari sucked in a deep breath of the forest, it smelled of water, fresh and clean. She smiled to herself and pointed ahead of them. "Come on, maybe we can get there before Tiger and Genki."
* * *
Meanwhile, the said pair stuck their heads out from a bush that they had hid in when a car had passed along the road.
Tiger took another step, looking this way as Genki looked that way. "All's clear." Tiger mumbled and Genki made a noise of agreement.
"Hold on." Genki gripped the lean body of the wolf as he tore from the bush's and headed down the road again.
Genki felt his heart lift at the thrill of riding his friend again, he had not ridden this fast on anything in months. He wanted to let out a whoop of laughter, but for fear of being heard, he bottled his excitement up inside until he was about to burst.
Tiger's feet barely touched the gravely road below him as he sped down the highway, making sure to keep his mind on running so that he would not slow down. He could sense Genki's infectious happiness though, and he let himself smile slightly as he raced ahead.
* * *
They had been fighting through the forest for at least an hour by the time they heard Hikari pipe up again. "So, when we get to the city. . .I guess we'll have to leave the monsters hiding somewhere, while we look for Pixie?"
The monsters didn't seem to mind the idea, and Holly nodded.
"What part of this 'city' was it that you said that you thought Pixie might be in?" Holly asked.
Hikari gestured with her hands, not having a map to show the exact location. "It looked like she was heading toward the East side of the city, but I'm not sure, since it appears that she destroyed the camera that was video taping her."
Holly made a noise and nodded slightly.
"Here, let's see. . ." Hikari pulled out the radio and turned the knob. There was clicking and whirring as the tuner tried to pick up the signal, but nothing came through over the wires but muffled, static-y voices.
Hikari growled something about the inefficiency of things nowadays when she pocketed the radio. "Hmph, looks like we have to wait until we get out of this dense forest."
Suezo mumbled something to himself before jumping off ahead of them.
* * *
Tiger had had to stop once again, when they heard voices and saw someone coming along the opposite side of the street.
Genki dismounted his friend and walked along, whistling, while Tiger crept along in the bushes beside the road.
The people didn't seem to notice him as he passed them, whistling to himself and eyeing them nervously.
Tiger felt everything go rigid when one of them looked his way, but she didn't seem to see him, and she turned back away.
When they had gone, Genki beckoned his friend back out of the bush and mounted again, darting down the road at a renewed speed.
It wasn't long after that that the city came into view on the horizon, a great, gray mass against the blue-ish-gray background of the sky.
"Do you're cities always look so dreary?" Tiger asked as they approached.
Genki shrugged. "I suppose they do, I never paid much attention to it until now. I wonder if my mom's calling Grandpa right now?" He added the last part as an understatement that was not meant to be heard.
Tiger heard him, but didn't say anything, thinking it was something Genki wanted to ponder about on his own.
Tiger kept up his speed until they were on the city's limits.
Genki gripped Tiger's horns and turned his head slightly in the direction away from the bridge that crossed the river to his city.
Tiger looked up at him questioningly. "We should go the round-about way, if we take the bridge, someone's bound to see us. They have cameras on those things ya know."
Tiger, unsure of what a camera was, took the advice and steered toward the opposite side of the bridge.
"There's a way to get across that kids use more often than walking across the bridge, right. . .there." Genki pointed out the small, rickety bridge that swayed above the river dangerously.
Tiger ran across the bridge, the boards, breaking, creaking, and swaying under his paws, the bridge had not seen such speed for years.
Genki felt nervous as the bridge buckled and swayed below them, tossing and jolting from Tiger's immense speed.
But, they go across fine, with only some broken boards and the bridge still buckling and swaying below them.
Genki dismounted again, patting Tiger in a form of thanks.
Tiger and Genki headed straight for the road above.
Genki heard a car pass by, and immediately he remembered Tiger's horns. No one would think he was a dog with horns. It would be hard enough passing him off as a dog with the fur he had.
Genki looked around and saw a tattered old blanket. Grabbing it up, he tossed it over Tiger who began to protest.
"Hold on, you can take it back off later, but no one's going to think you're a dog with this fur and horns."
Tiger immediately stopped struggling and let Genki place the blanket on him.
"But I want it back off soon." He grumbled as he felt the dirty thing envelope his clean fur.
Genki laughed and patted the bag. "It'll be off before you know it, I promise."
Tiger made a noise and followed the boy up the steep incline until they were at the road.
His eyes went large at the site of all the metal monstrosities around him.
The growled and made loud beeping noises at each other, and they started to jolt forward but stopped. And the only thing that seemed to control them were the humans inside, and another creature that blinked red, green, and yellow.
Genki paid no mind to the cars though, and went on walking, only looking back when he didn't hear Tiger following.
"Tiger, hey, Tiger!" He whispered, snapping the monster from his trance.
Tiger shook his head and started to follow the boy again. How very strange this world of Genki's was.
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Yo! Got to cut it short there, sorry. ^_^ I hope you all like so far, I'm trying to get the character's personalities right, so, tell me if I get them wrong or not. I want to make sure that I'm not making them go OOC in this story. ^_^ Thanks to all my lovely, beautiful reviewers once more. Ja!! ^_^
Review!!!!
