Chapter Eleven –Regresan (They Return)

Sorry it took me so long to update, my two loyal fans. I've finally installed ZT2 and I've been waiting since like Christmas to play it, so I was like really excited. So I've playing around with that, plus, I had no plot ideas .

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Chapter Eleven – Regresan (They Return)

Two Days Later

Kriss walked to Rex's apartment; now very responsible of her duties after forgetting the first time. Jayvee was actually mad at her and still is. Never get on the wrong side of a cat.

Kriss went up the usual flights of steps and took the key out of her pocket. She inserted it and opened the door very quietly. If Jayvee heard her than he would constantly follow her around and trip her until she left.

The very first thing that Kriss noticed after she shut the door when Thorn came through was that there was a bag in the hallway.

'I though he'd be gone a week…' Kriss thought, confused. "Rex?" she called.

The bedroom door to her left opened and Rex stepped out, Jayvee at his hells.

"Hey Kriss," He said.

"I thought you'd be getting back in a few days more," Kriss told him.

"Oh, uh, yeah, that…. Uh….. About the tournament," Rex stuttered.

"Yeah?" Kriss asked, waiting for Rex to think of the right words.

"I uh," He looked at Jayvee who was at his feet, "How'd it go with Jayvee?" He asked, changing the subject completely.

Kriss narrowed her eyes. Jayvee arched up and hissed at Kriss.

"Rawr to you too!" Kriss yelled at the cat.

Rex raised an eyebrow.

"Like that."

"I see that," Rex responded.

Thorn walked up to Jayvee and glared at him, while standing in between him and Kriss.

"What happened?" Rex asked.

"I forgot the first night and he's been mad at me ever since," Kriss explained.

"Oh, yeah, you can't do that," Rex said.

"I noticed." She growled tonelessly.

Rex gave a weak little laugh, than gave up and sighed instead.

"That cat needs to learn how to forgive," Kriss said, after Rex did all that junk.

"I know……. He takes after me….." Rex said.

"No he doesn't, you're nicer," Kriss said, glaring at Jayvee who returned the cold stare.

"Thanks," He smiled at his friend, then he noticed that he still had his bag out in the hall, "Oh, I have to finish unpacking…" he stated.

"That's cool, I'll go back to my bro's," Kriss said.

"You have a brother?" Rex asked.

"Apparently."

"Odd….. So this guy just showed up? Randomly?" Rex asked.

"Yeah, pretty much," Kriss agreed, "We're trying to work things out, and it's not working."

"Why not?"

"He has this annoying friend named Dixie, girly girl."

"And that's bad?"

"No Rex, it's good!"

"You know, you could learn a lot from her."

"Oh please, she's as stupid as a brick."

"My, how nice you are."

"Thank you! I practice!"

"Really?"

"No."

Rex went over to his lonely bag in the hallway and carried it over to the couch with him.

"So. That was weird," Rex stated.

"Yeah, I'll go now," Kriss said as she went over to the door.

"Okay, see you later then," Rex shrugged.

Kriss and Thorn walked out the door and went down the stairs. Luckily, Jayvee didn't interfere, so the trip to the front door was nice and safe.

"You know Thorn? Rex isn't that bad when you get to know him, I guess that's the hard part," Kriss told the canine.

Thorn kept his eyes looking ahead. Kriss noticed this.

"What's up pal?" She asked, concern in her voice.

Thorn shook his head.

"Fine, if you don't wanna talk about it, that's fine with me," Kriss shrugged.

While walking back, Thorn suddenly acted very weird and ran down the street that led to the alley.

"Where are ya goin'?" Kriss asked, chasing after him.

Thorn rounded the corner and snarled ferociously.

Those stupid street punks were back.

Kriss caught up and saw them immediately. She smirked. If they wanted their asses kicked again, that was fine with her.

"Hey! There she is!" One of them pointed.

"Get her!" another shouted.

Kriss changed her mind about the ass-kicking and turned and ran, her guitar glinting in the twilight sun. Thorn was right there by her side.

They flew around the corner and sped down the street. Not long after the chase had started, the punks were right behind her! 'What the hell? Since when were they so fast!' Kriss thought, a little impressed by their sudden improvement. She shot a glance at Thorn who returned it with confusion.

They continued bolting down the street with the punks on their tails. After a few blocks they started to slow down. Kriss smirked; she knew they wouldn't last long. But the thing was, she could see that they were plotting back there. They were talking with all the breath that they could spare. Kriss quit watching as they were catching up more 'cause she was looking backwards.

Kriss slowed down too, just so she could see what they were up to. Suddenly with a burst of speed they caught up to she and the big one soared through the air in a tackle.

He landed on her with a thud.

"SHIT!" Kriss screamed, flailing her arms in a bleak attempt to get him off. It also just so happened that they caught her when they were right in front of Duke's game shop! WOW! How convenient!

Kriss curved her fingers and slashed the air, making contact with the punk's arm, tearing through his sleeve, and ripping his flesh.

She then took the time off when he was howling in pain, drawing looks from the few houses that were near, to kick him off. Kriss sat up and witnessed the damage that she had caused. Four parallel, three inch gashes running down his forearm bore proof that Kriss had no further need for growing her nails.

The other two goons just gawked as who they thought was their leader writher in pain and blood flowed from his arm. Kriss was just staring in disbelief of what she had done. She looked at Thorn, who also wore the same expression, and smirked. She got to her feet, chuckling to herself.

"I guess I shouldn't be underestimated huh?" She asked smugly.

"No way! He can still tear you apart!" She heard the one behind her say.

She took a deep breath and spun around in a complete circle, 'claws' out but she knew the length, even from that one experience, and kept them a centimeter back. The result was that they passed right in front of his nose. He yelped and scooted back, very scared now.

She smirked again.

"Now, I'd appreciate it gentlemen, if you would kindly leave me alone, that's your last warning," Kriss threatened darkly.

The one with the slash mark took that opportunity to steal her spin move and knock her clean off her feet.

"Holy shit!" Kriss said, as she fell back onto the cold pavement.

The kid got up and was about to kick her in the side, but she was already up.

"Asshole." She growled.

He took his hand off of his precious arm for a second to punch her in the face. Kriss was completely unprepared and didn't think that he would take the most obvious way out. The punch shocked her, as it was pretty hard. It had made a direct impact on her nose and blood immediately greeted his knuckles. Kriss was momentarily stunned, but it was enough time for her to fulfill another appointment with the ground.

Her nerves were having a hard time reacting as she tried to get up before he could strike again. Unfortunately, they move fast enough. All of her speed, all of her skills were shattered in one blow, Kriss couldn't believe it. She had to give him at least some credit now.

He grunted as his foot now made contact with her ribcage. There would have been a lot more damage if not for Thorn. He stopped the other two from helping their friend. Thorn was snarling and snapping at the two teenagers. They were frightened of him, but thought that he could be brought down as easily as his friend. But fortunately for Thorn, they weren't fast enough.

Kriss thought that her brain would explode as pain erupted in her skull. The fist made a sound against her head that sounded to Kriss as if it had shattered within itself. Blood leaked slowly from the cut that his ring had made on her head as backed off to check his wounds; thinking that she was through.

But she wasn't.

After thirty seconds of recovery, Kriss' eyes opened; awakened by the short rest. Her eyes were ablaze as she shakily stood. The street punk looked at her in disbelief. He had her down. She was just a girl. She couldn't still be raring to go! There was no possible way!

"No way…" He said softly to himself.

Although it was greatly decreased, Kriss still heard it and responded with a glare. Her sight was also fuzzy, but she could manage, she beat him up once before, why not again?

A pair of headlights, along with blue and red flashing lights illuminated the scene. Deep within herself, Kriss was grateful, but not much. She knew that she could get a rest in jail until she was ready to get out again.

The blue and white stopped and a cop stepped out.

"What's been going on here?" He asked.

"A fight! What's it look like?" Kriss yelled at him.

He pulled down his shades and looked over them. The cop stared at the girl that stood before him. One word came to his head; tomboy.

"I'm not stupid you know!" He told her, "I think you four better come down to the station right now."

Thorn growled to tell him that he wasn't going back.

"You too!" The uniform pointed, he then reached into his car and radioed for back-up. He had the teens sit on the ground while the other squad cars came. He needed to make sure that, a; they didn't run away and b; they got some medical attention.

This lasted for about ten minutes. Then two more pulled up and the cops inside got out.

"What this time? Whoa!" He exclaimed as he spotted the wounds.

"Miss Sanchez," The other smirked, looking in Kriss' direction.

The three boys and Kriss spun around immediately.

"What? Where?" Kriss yelled, looking back.

"I'm talking about you girl!" The officer laughed.

"If my name is Sanchez, than I'm screwed," Kriss replied.

"Watch your language!" The cop yelled.

"Yeah, yeah," Kriss responded.

Then the door to the shop opened and Duke came out; he was in his normal clothes.

"Kriss! What did you do now!" He yelled, running up to her.

"You her guardian?" The cop asked.

"No, she doesn't have a guardian," Duke said.

"I didn't do it," Kriss said, looking away, Thorn still watching Duke.

"Well, where's she living?" The first one asked.

"With me, but it's only been a few days!" Duke exasperated.

"So you're considered her guardian; you family?" He proceeded.

"Yeah, half brother," Duke answered.

"Okay, you might want to come to the station with us then," he suggested.

"Okay," Duke said, as he glared at Kriss, who still avoided his look.

At the Police Station

Kriss sat in the part of the station set up for treating cuts and other minor wounds. She had already refused to take any pain killers, or to be put under any sort of sleeping medicine. The nurse kept looking at her funny; but didn't say anything.

The statements had already been made and now she was just waiting for Duke to finish the paperwork that would set her free. Even though Kriss could treat her wounds herself, she had nothing better to do and let the nurse do it for her.

A little while later, she was all done; finally there was no more blood coming from her head and going into her eyes, obscuring her vision. She hopped down from the counter and walked out of the word, leaving the nurse in shock that she didn't utter a sound. Almost all of her wounds, except her nose and various other cuts, needed to be stitched. But Kriss had lost most of her feelings as she was still smarting from that blow to the head and hardly felt a thing.

She wasn't alone in the hall for long.

"You are possibly the dumbest person I have ever met!" An angry voice flooded the hallway. Kriss turned to see Duke.

The nurse peeked out and watched; intrigued.

"Even dumber than Dixie?" Kriss asked.

"Don't get smart with me!" Duke huffed.

"Don't waste your energy," Kriss said coolly, turning and walking away.

"I'm not wasting my time on you, I'm wasting my life!" Duke said.

Down the hall, Kriss stopped; maybe something worthwhile would pop up.

"I never should have gotten in the middle of this thing that's going on between you and mom!" Duke said, "That was the dumbest thing I have ever done!"

"I thought that I did the dumbest thing you ever saw?" Kriss asked smugly.

"Don't fuck with me!" Duke yelled.

Kriss looked shocked. This wasn't her brother anymore. He'd been replaced by this… this…. Dude. She couldn't quite find the right words, but she kinda liked him better. The other Duke was too docile.

"I'm not," Kriss taunted, what was this New Duke capable of? She was gonna find out.

"Stop messing with me!" Duke shouted.

"Hey! I'm the one that got arrested! Not you!" Kriss told him.

"Well I had to do the paper work so there!" Duke yelled back.

The nurse leaned against the wall, interested in these two. They were obviously siblings; they fought enough to prove that.

"Well, well! Grr! I am capable of kicking your ass, so you better not piss me off!" Kriss threatened.

"I'm sick of your empty threats!" Duke shook his head, as though ridding himself of the thought.

"Empty? Empty? Did you not see what I did to those punks?" Kriss asked in disbelief.

"Did you see what they did to you?" Duke asked back, calming down.

"Like it matters," Kriss scoffed.

"It does matter! If you wanna stay with me, you've got to stop getting into all of these fights!" Duke said.

"Yeah, yeah. Did you bust Thorn out?" Kriss asked.

"Not yet," Duke answered.

"You idiot!" Kriss yelled at him.

"How am I the idiot?"

"You left him in the pound?"

"Uh, yeah."

"You have the most minuscule brain of anyone I have ever met!"

"Even more small than Dixie?"

"Don't get smart with me!"

"Ah, so the roles have reversed!"

Duke laughed softly.

"You stand there laughing and they could be destroying Thorn right now!"

"What do you mean?"

"They've been after him for years! They aren't just gonna let him live for three days ya know?"

"Really?"

"YES!"

"Oh, crap, let's go then!"

Kriss and Duke ran down the hallway, the whole time dodging the other members of the precinct. The nurse just shook her head and retreated to her office.

Well, that was loooooooooooong! XDDD that was fun. So, I've like, really got to move it along so I'm gonna skip them getting Thorn out and it'll start out at a different time, maybe the next day or something I dunno, I need plot ideas X.x