Zombie: -cackles- I return!
Johnny: Zombie doesn't own any of the characters other than Hannah, Toshi and Dai, Ghost belongs to herself, and she doesn't own Beyblade…thank god.
Zombie: What's that supposed to mean? And why have we started doing disclaimers now? We haven't done one for ages.
Johnny: That's the point, you need one.
Zombie: Spoil Sport.
"Mou…" Hannah looked at herself in the mirror, "Why do I need all this stuff?" The bloodied t-shirt and shorts had been replaced with a black all-in-one suit, reminding her of a cat suit but with a hood at the back, with a sleeveless dark green jacket over the top, a metal belt slung around her hips complete with a holster. A pair of buckled combat boots on her feet, her hair swept up into a high ponytail and a communicator strapped to the front pocket of the jacket. "I feel like I'm in the army"
"This suit is of the latest technology" Kenny filled in. "When you walk you'll make no noise…"
"She doesn't make any noise anyway, Chief." Tala grinned at the brunette.
Kenny coughed, remembering his shock earlier, "As I was saying, no noise, the suit is formfitting so it can't catch on anything, making entry though small spaces easier, the holster can hold stun guns and that strap on your thigh holds stakes, so you'll be prepared for anything you may meet"
"And the communicator is for you to keep in touch with us and guide us through the place" Kai supplied. Kai, Tala, Johnny and Rei were each dressed in black slightly baggy trousers, a black shirt and a green jacket over the top, each with a communicator pinned to the pocket. All of them had the combat boots and weapons strapped to them too.
"Kenny will be staying here with Dizzi, we can contact him through these, and he can keep an eye on any thing that could cause a problem within the house. He'll keep us updated" Rei said while pushing a stun gun into the holster on his hip, he looked up at the dark haired girl.
Hannah nodded slowly, letting the situation sink in fully. "Are we ready to go?"
Tala nodded quickly, "We can take you through the sewers, the closest we can get you to the house is about 25 meters away, and you'll have to make your own way from there on"
Hannah smiled, "I can make it" She told them, "But you'll have to distract the dogs when I need you to get to the house, or they'll be upon you in a second"
Tala nodded slowly, "Ok, Johnny you can set up the distraction"
The flame haired boy hand flew up in a mock salute, "Already on it!"
"Let's go!" Kai spoke up and promptly disappeared down the manhole and into the sewers, closely followed by Johnny and Rei.
"After you" Tala said with a smirk on his face, gesturing towards the dark hole. Hannah climbed down the steps and was immediately swallowed by the darkness, she listened to the scraping sound as Tala pulled the grate shut somewhere behind her.
There was a fizzing sound somewhere up in front and the tunnel was illuminated by a low green light, a flare held in Kai's hand. "Come on people," He said loudly, "Move out!" and started to walk along the edge at the side of the dank, putrid sewer water, home to rats and other creatures. Hannah walked along silently, following the flickering green light.
Ghost awoke with a start, she was still in the gym, she hadn't known she had fallen asleep. She moaned and pushed her hand against her eyes, and then pushed it backwards, sweeping her long hair away from her face.
She felt something, a sudden chill in the air around her. Someone else was in the room. Leaping to her feet, she looked all around her, seeing no one, she rushed out into the corridor, the door had been opened slightly, the source of the draft.
She looked all around her warily, "Stop hiding from me!" She yelled.
"Why are you so wary, Ghost" Toshi's voice echoed around the room, "We've known each other for so long, we're friends. You know I won't hurt you unless you force me to"
Ghost almost choked, "Friends! Any friendship between you and me was lost long ago!" Ghost stared at him incredulously, "How can you even THINK that things are as they once were!"
Toshi didn't say anything, just leaned against the wall and looked down the corridor absently.
"Any ounce of respect I had for you disappeared the night you killed Dai!"
Toshi turned to look at her sharply. "You're STILL sore about that little runt?"
Ghost bared her teeth and let out a low growl, "He's no runt…" She hissed, the colour of her eyes shifting uncontrollably.
Toshi scoffed lightly, "Not a runt? He was a weak human, compared to you, weak hearted, I wasn't going to let you become the same as him, letting your humanity take over your body"
"You were a prime fighter, I trained you myself, a cold hearted killer, just as I always wanted you to be. I wasn't about to let one puny human ruin all my hard work" He stared directly into her whirling eyes. "His death was inevitable"
"You think I like what I am?" Ghost muttered darkly, her hair shadowing her eyes completely. "You think I enjoy taking lives in order to sustain my own existence!" She flew at him, raining punches down on the man's body at an inhuman speed. Toshi, taken off guard, took a step backwards.
"Do you think its fun watching the other kids grow up and live their lives" She swung her fist towards his face, "While I stay the same age forever!"
Toshi blocked her attacks, "You should feel honored, Ghost! You have what humans can only dream of, eternal youth!"
"You don't understand!" Ghost screamed as she lashed out on the older man, "I don't want eternal youth! I want a normal life! I want to grow old and die just like everyone else! I hate you!"
Toshi smirked, and continued to fend off the flurry of angry fists and attacks flying at him from all angles. "Come on, hit me, Ghost! Let that pent up anger take over!"
"Shut up!" She wailed and slammed her foot into his chest, knocking him off balance. "Just shut up!" She rocket her fist skywards, catching the bespectacled man under his chin, the moment lifting him off the ground and sending him crashing backwards.
Ghost stood in the middle of the corridor, her fists still raised in a fighting stance, but her breathing heavy and labored through exhaustion.
Toshi sat up slowly, supporting his body on one hand while he lifted the other and wiped away the small dribble of blood running down from his split lip. "Nice punch, Ghost" He said cheerfully. "You have been practicing"
Ghost watched him get up slowly, and brush the dirt of his clothes.
"But unfortunately for you, I know your every move" Toshi smirked down at the red eyed girl. "And I am stronger than you" And with that he smashed his fist into the girl's stomach. She let out a choked sound, as the blow knocked all the air from her body and sent her tumbling backwards.
She landed on the floor, hard. She lay on the floor, curled up into a tight ball, desperately trying to get her breath back. After a few moments her breathing calmed and slowed down, he slowly opened her eyes.
Toshi was already gone. Left her laying there amongst the debris of broken ornaments and shattered glass from a mirror she'd managed to swing her fist into. A small fragment of glass has made a small nick on her forearm.
Her hair fell across her face as she pushed herself up on one arm; she placed her hand over the small cut and wiped away the blood. She sighed heavily, she had done exactly what he wanted. He'd wanted her to get mad and fight him, he'd gotten her so riled up.
"Stupid, stupid, stupid!" She berated herself. How could she have been so blind as to not see it?
Her head fell to the floor in exhaustion, and from blood loss. But the blood that surrounded her body was from a much larger threat than the small nick on her arm. The blood was flowing freely from an open wound on her back, having gone unnoticed by the sleeping girl.
"Ok, Hannah, this is as far as we go" The dark haired girl felt a hand on her shoulder. That flare had died out a while ago, and so they had to feel their way along in the dark. The boys knew the sewers like the back of their hands, and so knew where and where not to put their feet. Hannah didn't have this advantage and had stumbled around a lot, even almost fallen in the sewer water, had it not been for a firm grip on the back of her belt.
Hannah couldn't even see her own hand in front of her face, it was so dark. Light flooded into the sewer pipe as a man hole above them was pushed up and to the side. Hannah winced at the bright light and held her hand up to her eyes.
"Up ya go!" Hannah suddenly found herself hoisted up into the air, she instinctively gripped onto the nearest thing to her.
"Ouch! Do you mind letting go of my hair?" Tala's slightly peeved voice came from below her.
"Do you mind giving me a bit of warning next time?" She shot back. "I'll see you again soon" She pushed herself upwards and scrambled out of the manhole and into the daylight, pushing the cover back behind her.
"And now we wait" Rei said quietly, after the tunnel had been plunged back into darkness.
Back on the surface, Hannah was hiding behind a hedge, she could see the small window clearly and it was only a short distance away. She just had to wait for the security camera to sweep around again. As soon as it did, she raced across the lawn, past several garden ornaments, and crouched down next to the tiny opening.
"Here goes nothing" she sighed and pushed her feet into the small gap. She twisted and pushed herself into the small room up to her waist.
"Shit" She said out loud as the camera started to swing back around. She pulled her stomach in as far as she could and pushed hard. She slid quickly through the window, to land with a hard bump on the floor inside.
"Ouch!" She hissed sharply, and pressed a button on the small black box fixed to her jacket. "I'm in" She said quietly into the microphone.
Kai's slightly distorted voice buzzed through the small box. "Ok, now find us a way in"
"Ok!" Hannah said back into it and took her hand off it. She picked herself up off the dusty floor and brushed herself down. She pushed the door open a fraction and peered down the well lit corridor outside. There was no one there, so she pushed the door open and slipped out into the corridor.
After about five minutes of wandering the corridors and avoiding security cameras, the strong smell of blood hit the small girl. Following the scent, she rounded several corners, wondering what form of torture had been used to spill so much blood from a victim.
She let out an audible gasp when she stumbled across the source of all the blood. She ran to the side of the girl soaked in her own blood. Ghost's white hair was mostly red from the liquid all around her, and her clothes were stained with it.
Hannah shook her friend by the shoulder furiously, "Ghost! Wake up!" She hastily lifted her hand to the communicator and fumbled with the buttons. "Hello? Hello! Is anyone there!" She called frantically into in receiver.
"What is it? What happened!" Johnny's voice called loudly back into the speakers.
"Ghost's hurt! Pretty bad! We need to get her out of here now!" Hannah choked back a sob; it was hard to see her best friend like this.
"Find us a way in there now!" Kai's voice said loudly and commanding down the intercom. Hannah just nodded, and said back into the box, "Get Kenny to guide you around to the back door" She switched the box off and leant down so her mouth was close to the other girl's ear.
"I'll be back soon, Ghostie, I promise. No dying on me thank you very much" She said half heartedly, even thought she knew the girl couldn't hear her. Laying the wounded girl's head back down on the floor gently, she got to her feet and took off down the corridor. No longer stopping to wait for the camera's to turn away, she just streaked past them, moving through the blind spots whenever she could, merely a dark blur across the camera screens.
She got to the back door and flipped the latches, flinging the door open to the boys on the other side.
"Follow me!" She said breathlessly, and turned to start running again in the other direction. She hadn't gotten two steps before she was yanked backwards by a firm hand on her belt.
"Hey!" She cried indignantly, "What are you doing!" She hissed at Tala who was holding her off the ground by her belt. "Put me down! We have to go to Ghost!" Her legs flailed wildly in the air.
"What's the situation first!" Tala gave her a shake. "We can't just go barging into a place like this!"
"There're no guards around! I haven't seen anybody! Now put me down right now before I bite you!" Hannah hissed angrily, and as a result was dropped abruptly onto the floor, rolling to the side to avoid falling on her injured arm. She scrambled quickly to her feet and took off down the corridor. The four teens struggling to keep up with her inhuman pace.
As Hannah flew down the corridors and slipped and slid around corners, one thought crossed across her mind.
'Please be ok, Ghost…'
Zombie: -gasp-
Johnny: You're evil…
Zombie: I know…REVIEW PLEASE!
