Zombie: hey all! I'm back again! Making up for lost time!
Johnny: blinks I didn't expect you back for weeks
Zombie: im faster than you think
Hannah woke up with a throbbing at the back of her head. She groaned and rolled over onto something hard and cold. She cracked an eye open, the floor, she was lying on the floor. Pulling herself upwards into a sitting position, she held her head with both hands, trying to ease the dull throb at the back of her skull.
She snuck a glance around the room, a single window, bars on the outside, and several pallets on the floor, metal door, again bars over the glass panel. Her companion was still out cold on another pallet on the other side of the room, breathing silently.
"Ugh…what hit me?" She spoke to herself and tried to stand up; her legs were unstable and felt as though they were made of jelly, the gloopy kind. She hauled herself upright using a thin wooden rail on the wall about half way up. She stumbled her way over to the door toppled forwards as she lost her grip.
She shut her eyes tight and grabbed onto something above her head, opening one eye slowly, she found her nose a hair's breadth away from the metal door, and her hands wrapped around the metals bars over the panel.
Only there was no panel there, sure there used to be one, now only the metal bars covered the space. Pulling herself upwards, she looked over the edge of the hole, her feet no longer touching the floor.
She glanced around the room, there seemed to be no one there. "Hello?" she called quietly. "Hello…?"
She pouted, "Mou, why is no one around?" She banged her fist against the door, listening the it echo throughout the room, her lips split upwards at the source of entertainment and she gave the door another mighty smack, reveling in the shattered silence.
Ghost frowned in her sleep as she murmured out of the blue, "Stop breaking things, Hannah…" and promptly rolled over and went back to sleep.
A young boy came running into the room, looking all around him, panicked expressions flitting across his face, "What the!" He stopped dead when he saw the dark haired girl watching him from the gap in the door, her arms pushed out through the gaps and hanging downwards. "Oh, it was only you."
A happy expression on her face as she smiled at him and gave him a little wave, "Hi there!"
The boy glared at her, "Don't you know what time it is, Vampire?" he asked in a clipped tone.
The girl's smile seemed to widen, "Is it not now past then, young boy?"
The boy gave her a look usually seen when looking upon a stark ravinglunatic, "Yeah…whatever"
"Daichi? What's going on out there?" someone called sleepily from another room.
"Nothing to worry about Kai, somebody better tell Tala that his pet is awake though" The boy called back, pushing a few rebellious strands of red hair away from his face.
"Daichi…" the girl said slowly, rolling the word around on her tongue, "You have a pretty name, my name is Hannah, let us be friends?" She held her hand out towards Daichi.
Daichi rewarded her efforts with a disgusted look, "I'll never be your friend, Vampire!"
Hannah let her arm drop back to where it was against the door, the smile was gone, replaced by the hurt and lost expression of a scolded child. "I am…rejected…" she said woefully, and dropped down from view.
Another boy walked into the room, with sleep mussed red hair and blue eyes. Tala stifled a yawn as he walked towards the younger boy. He grinned and ruffled up the smaller boys hair, "Morning, shrimp"
"Taaallaaa!" Daichi wailed and pushed Tala's hand away from his precious hair, "Don't call me that!"
Tala merely smiled and laughed at his friend's antics. "Anyway, you have something to report?"
Daichi rubbed his head ruefully, "Yeah I do, that prisoner of yours is a total nutcase!"
"Yeah, that I already knew…" Tala rubbed his side thoughtfully as a twinge swept through his body, "A nutcase with good aim too"
"Yeah anyway, she's awake, and making noises, and I'm too tired to deal with her mumbo jumbo! She's all yours!" Daichi ran back into the room from whence he came, back to his warm bed.
Tala walked over to the cell door and looked through the bars, he could only see the white and green haired girl, still dozing peacefully where they had left her. No sign of the other one. He bent down and released a latch about half way down the door, a thin layer of the door swung away on its hinges, leaving a sheet of very thick glass to do its job.
"Well hello there" Tala said as he saw the other girl huddled at the foot of the door, her head buried in her knees. She raised her head at the sound of his voice and looked back at him with frightened eyes.
"The Daichi creature does not like me" She said sadly, pushing her hand against the glass and making invisible patterns with her fingertips.
Tala crouched down on the other side of the glass, "Well what did you expect? Milk and cookies? You aren't visitors here you know? You're prisoners. Anyway, now that I'm awake, may as well feed you and your friend, don't want you wasting away on us"
Hannah turned her head away from the glass, "I'm not hungry"
"Yes you are" he argued back "I can hear your stomach growling!"
She turned to face him, "I'm not hungry for anything you can give me, unless you want to offer me your neck? But I don't suppose that's on the menu is it?"
Tala's face set into a stony gaze, "No" he said quietly "No it isn't" He got up and walked away from the door and into the 'kitchen' section of the base. Hannah's eyes followed him around the room.
A groan from behind her diverted Hannah's attention and she crawled over to her friend.
"Ugh…what happened?" Ghost moaned and pushed her white and green hair from her eyes, "Where are we?"
"Ghost! You are awake at last!" Hannah cried
"Yeah, save the outbursts for a time they won't hurt my head"
"Sorry"
"It's ok, now where the hell are we?" Ghost sat up and rubbed her head.
Hannah shrugged and entertained herself by pulling long black threads from the long trailing sleeves of her dress, and wrapping them around her fingertips. "The wounded one may know" she said absently, plaiting some long black threads into her hair and tying them off with a black ribbon she pulled from the front of the corset. Ghost gave her a strange look, but soon caught sight of Tala sat outside the glass pane.
Ghost peered at the boy and then crawled closer to the glass, "Hey…I know you! You're that boy from the alley! Why aren't you dead?"
Tala shrugged and glared at the taller girl, "Just lucky I guess? The dwarf left a gaping hole in my side, but not enough to kill me"
Hannah let out an indignant squeak, "I'm not a dwarf!"
"Release us this instant!" Ghost smacked her fist against the glass, "You have no right to keep us here!"
Tala grinned a little, "temper, now"
Ghost growled at him, "Release us, you know that my friend and I could rip this room apart before you could move, I'm giving you the chance to save yourself the bother!"
He just shrugged at her, "You're welcome to try, it would be quite amusing to watch, just don't hurt yourselves trying"
Ghost glared at him, "Just watch me, Boy!" and slammed her fist into the wall, pounding it again and again until her knuckles were raw and bleeding. She pulled back, breathing heavily, "No way…"
Not even a scratch on the wall, there no sign that anything had even happened to it. Hannah just sat on the small pile of bed clothes she had woken up in, just watching the other girl rip a piece off her clothes and bind it around her abused knuckles.
Tala sighed and shook his head, "Don't say I didn't warn you, what are your names anyway? I can't just call you Vampire forever"
"Edward!" Hannah said instantly, pulling her head up to look out of the door at Tala. Tala raised one eyebrow questioningly, "I already know your name, I heard you talking to Daichi earlier"
"Then why did you ask?"
"Just being conversational" Hannah scowled at him and turned her back on him, clearly sulking.
"My name is Ghost" The said girl spat out, "And who the hell are you exactly?" Waking up with a headache behind bars had obviously done nothing to improve the girl's mood.
"My name's Tala, and in answer to your earlier question, you're in our base camp in the sewers" He flicked a strand of red hair away from his eyes.
Ghost gave him a strange look, "We're underground!"
A new voice entered the room, "yeah, so?" The owner of the voice walked into the room from one of the adjoining rooms. He was quite possibly the most gorgeous guy Ghost had ever seen. Reddish brown eyes, two tone grey-y blue hair, pale skin, two fin shaped markings on either side of his face, well muscled, tall. She shook her head to clear out all those kind of thoughts, reminding herself that he was the enemy.
"Morning Blue" Tala said to the newcomer.
"Morning, I see the guests are alive and well, Tala here been treating you nicely?" He leaned towards the glass pane, smirking down at the imprisoned girl.
"Shut it, Nemo!" Ghost shot back, immediately adopting the nickname, those markings on his face reminded her of shark fins.
Kai smirked and stood up straight, "I see we're onto name calling already" Tala just grinned and nodded in response. Another boy walked into the room, with long ebony hair and reached the back of his knees, and golden eyes slitted like a cats. He walked with the grace of a feline, stretching luxuriously as he moved.
"Good Morning" he said half way through a yawn, "how's the side?" he asked Tala, who merely patted his side gently.
"Healing, thanks again Rei"
The golden eyes boy just rolled his eyes and smiled, "You're making this into a routine Tala, this is the third time I've had to fix something you've broken. I want to change the dressing on it this morning"
"Ok, you're the expert" Tala said dismissively.
Rei laughed and nodded. "Damn right! And you'd better remember that the next time you come home dripping blood!" Rei stopped laughing as he noticed the two girls watching them from behind the glass panel.
He crouched down in front of the glass, and smiled, waving happily at the occupants. "Hi there!"
Ghost looked at him curiously, "…What's wrong with him?"
"I don't know…maybe he's broken?" Hannah offered, she looked at Rei with wide eyes. "Hello? What are you?"
Rei just laughed harder and sat down in front of the glass.
"I don't understand" Hannah said, clearly confused, "He has fangs like us, he is a vampire and yet he walks around with you, you hold him as a friend?" She looked over the hysterical boy at Tala.
"He's not a vampire!" Tala started laughing too, "Anyone would think you two have never seen a neko-jin before!"
Ghost just looked at Hannah, and Hannah looked back. "A..what?"
Rei slowly stopped laughing and wiped under his eyes, "There's a lot you two need to learn"
Zombie: Tadaa! Another chapter here for your enjoyment!
Johnny: You're only doing it so fast because for every chapter you write, Ghost writes a new one to hers...
Zombie: Ya so? I like her fic!
Johnny: I see
Zombie: Til next time folks! hits Johnny with spork
Johnny:
