Zombie: -yawns- no energy today…
Johnny: You're lazy
Zombie: I prefer the term 'cba'
Johnny: …you nerd
Zombie: -shakes fist- RUN little boy RUN!
Johnny: yeah mate…review please!
She felt her way along the dark tunnel with one hand, gripping tightly onto Kai's with the other. The walls felt slimy and cold beneath her fingertips.
The slate haired teen walking in front of her, guiding her through the pitch black tunnels.
Ghost stumbled a few times, tripping over unseen rocks on the floor and other junk that had been thrown down into the sewers. Kai never tripped over anything, he was either lucky or had night vision.
Suddenly, his hand was gone, and she groped at the air in front of her trying to find it again. "Kai?" She said loudly, listening to her voice bounce off the cold hard walls and echo down the tunnel.
"Don't worry, I haven't left you" His voice came from directly next to her ear, he was so close she could feel his hot breath moving the strands of hair around her neck. The suddenness of it made her jump and take a sharp intake of breath. Whirling on the spot, she lashed out in the darkness, her hand connecting with something, hoping it was him she had hit and not the wall.
"Ouch!" His voice hissed. Yep, definitely him.
"Don't do that!" She snapped at him, glaring at the space where she thought he was.
"Sorry…" His voice sounded apologetic in the darkness, and it echoed slightly around her, disorientating her slightly and making her unable to pinpoint his exact position.
His hand found hers again and she took it gratefully, thankful for the help. She gripped it tightly, she wasn't going to lose her grip again. They walked on in silence for the next few moments.
"Kai?"
"Hm?
"What was that thing?"
He paused slightly, Ghost's ears picked out a small sigh from the other teen. "I don't know" he said finally, "I don't know what it is"
"It's huge, have you ever seen it?" She asked, "Up close I mean"
"Yeah I have" He answered shortly, his pace seemed to slow down too, and his grip on the white haired girl's hand slackened a little. He went quiet for a few seconds.
"It's horrible" He said simply, "I don't even know what animal I would compare it to…it's furry, scaly, has claws AND talons, razor sharp teeth, grinding teeth, wings…" He trailed off; clearly there were too many features to list. "It's like all animals rolled into one great creature"
Ghost was silent; she couldn't even imagine something that terrible. "You must have gotten pretty close to it to pull off a description like that"
"Yeah…I have" The grey eyed teen said slowly, "Several times in fact, I have a scar across my stomach from that thing"
"Oh…" She didn't know what she could say to that. "But, how can something like that move around and not get seen by the city folk?" She was confused, no matter how fast it was; surely it couldn't go unnoticed forever.
"I don't know that either…it only seems to appear at the worst time possible, when we don't want it to. When we go looking for it however…it's damn near impossible to find!" His voice had a raw edge to it, obviously talking about this creature brought up bad memories for the slate haired teen.
"What happened?" Ghost's voice cut through the still air quietly. She heard Kai breath in, filling his lungs.
"We were out on our regular rounds…say, about a year back now. Me and Tala that is. We were chasing some vampires, not long out of the grave, so they didn't really know what they were doing. We chased them down an alleyway, but by the time we got to the bottom, they were gone and that monster was there in their place." He paused to take a few breaths.
"Everywhere we turned, it was there" Ghost could feel Kai's hands tremor ever so slightly as the memories turned sour.
"It sliced me in one swipe! Rei said I was lucky to live apparently, Tala got backhanded around the face by it"
Ghost didn't say anything, just waiting for the other teen to finish.
"There's only one thing that bugs me about the whole situation though…"
"What's that?" Ghost asked quietly.
"That fact that no one has ever seen it but me and Tala, and now you. Whenever we go out on group missions it doesn't appear, but only when its just me and Tala."
"That's strange…" Ghost concluded quietly, she couldn't quite get her head around the whole thing, surely something that big couldn't hide! Let alone move so quietly!
"Oh…" She heard Kai say, a small laugh coming from him.
"What?" She asked him, tugging on his hand when he didn't answer.
"We stopped moving…" He said quietly. Ghost realized it too.
"Oh, when'd that happen?" She hadn't noticed it at all, and apparently neither had Kai.
"Come on, we're almost back" A slight tug on her hand made her start to walk along the tunnel again, replacing her free hand on the slimy wall.
"How can you even tell? I couldn't see my hand if I waved it in front of my face!" Ghost did that anyway, just to prove her point even though she knew full well Kai couldn't see her doing it.
Kai gave a small laugh, the sound bounced back along the tunnel sounding like there was more than one Kai. "Just trust me on this one, ok?"
She tightened her grip and allowed him to guide her on "Ok…"
"Ow!" The dark haired girl hissed over her shoulder at the black haired boy, "Not so tight if you don't mind! I'd like to be able to breath!"
The golden eyed boy grinned and loosened the white bandages around the girl's torso. "Sorry"
"I thought vampires didn't need to breath" the red haired teen in front of her teased. She was laid on her stomach on the living room floor, the Chinese teen was changing her bandages, because too much blood had oozed through the old ones, turning them a sickly pink colour that was sticky to the touch. Rei was just tying the bandages off at the small of her back.
She narrowed her eyes at the red head and growled at him. "Are you done yet?" She called over her shoulder, her voice laced with impatience.
With a final yank, the black haired boy gathered enough fabric with one hand and expertly twisted it and tied it off. Hannah pulled her stomach in with a gasp as the bandages tightened.
"Done!" Rei said proudly, standing up with his hands on his hips.
"Up ya come" Tala's hands gripped around her waist and lifted her clean off the floor, setting her down on her feet.
Hannah winced and glanced down at her body, the tight bandages pulling in her stomach. She let out a slow breath. "Almost as bad as a corset…" She mumbled.
"That a good or bad thing?" Tala said jokingly.
"Good, at least I can actually breathe in this thing…" The expression that passed over Tala's face was amusing, a slightly scared look, Hannah let out a small laugh.
"You're kidding?" Tala asked eventually, waiting for the small girl to stop laughing.
"Not at all, Boy" She smiled at him picking up the black jacket that Tala had leant her earlier off the back of the chair and putting it on. It was very big on the small girl and seemed to engulf her. Tala had offered to get her a smaller one, but she said that she was comfortable in that one.
Hannah twisted the upper half of her body a few times, stretching the bandages to make them a little more comfortable. "I'll be glad when these things come off…" She said loudly.
Tala laughed at her, she looked like she was in one of those aerobics classes. "That won't be for a while yet"
"Ne," Hannah said wordlessly, "Next few days I'd say"
"No way…you won't heal that fast, will you?" Disbelief showing on Tala's face.
Hannah stopped moved and regarded him coolly, "You saw how fast Ghost healed" She said matter-of-factly.
"Yeah but she said she's some kind of super being" Tala brushed the subject aside. He noted that Rei had left the room, leaving him there with the vampire.
Hannah didn't seem to hear him as she lifted both hands up into the air, her broken arm was almost healed, and so was out of the sling. She made patterns in the air in front of her with her fingertips.
"What are you doing, Hannah?" Tala went to stand behind her, trying to see what she could see.
"Painting" She replied simply, she kept glancing up from her 'work' to gaze out of the window in front of her, before moving her hands again.
Curiously, Tala stretched one arm out in front of him, pushing his hand through the air space that Hannah was working on.
Her dark brown eyes widened dramatically. "What are you doing? You'll ruin it!" She tugged at his sleeve, trying to pull his arm back.
Tala just twisted his hand through the air. "Look" He said, picking up one of Hannah's hands in his own and pushing it forwards to join him. "There's nothing there" Cupping her hand in his, he moved it in a figure of eight through the air.
Hannah's face twitched into a frown. Sliding her own hand from Tala's she moved it through the air quickly. "Where did it go?" She asked absently, looking all around her.
Tala laughed and tapped the side of her head. "In here. It's all in here" He said softly, Hannah's hand rose and she placed her palm against the side of her head.
"In here?" The frown deepened. Tala nodded when she looked at him.
"Hm…" Was the only thing that she said, her head dropped forwards and her dark hair fell in front of her face.
Tala pushed his hand forwards to brush some of the hair away from her face when her head snapped back up again, he pulled his hand back quickly.
"Ghost is back!" Hannah said loudly and ran through to the other room to greet her friend, Tala followed close behind.
Looking around the room, confusion flitted across the red head's face. "But there's no one…"
He was cut of by the scraping sound of the metal grate being pushed back. Moving towards it, he hooked a hand through one of the holes and helped it along the way by pulling it back to rest against the bar behind it.
A hand thrust up through the gap and grabbed onto the metal grate, pulling the body up. A head of slate hair appeared and a pair of shoulders. Once the grey eyed teen was all the way in, he reached back down and pulled the white haired girl up after him.
Tala looked at Hannah, "How did you know?"
She mere tapped the side of her nose mysteriously. "Hey Ghost! Hey Kai!" She greeted them cheerfully, grinning at the two teens.
Ghost just nodded at the shorter girl, dumping the stuffed backpack on the floor. Kai put the other bag down next to it and greeted the girl with a quick hello, before turning and dropping the metal grate home.
"Hey Tala?" Kai started, looking down on the slightly shorter teen.
"Hm?"
"The creature's back"
Zombie: -yawns- that took long enough
Johnny: lazy…
Zombie: …meh…cba
Johnny: -glares-
Zombie: Review please folks!
