Chapter Eighteen – Tragedy Strikes
This is going to be sad, I know it, listen to the title! It's gonna suck but i have to do it now if I ever want to finish this story X.x
Chapter Eighteen – Tragedy Strikes
One Week Later
Kriss barged through the door. She had to find it! How could she be so stupid as to lose it? Stupid tooth…
Kriss ran upstairs and looked on her desk. It wasn't there either. Knowing her life, Marik had it and was hiding it from her.
"Oh NYAR!" Kriss screamed. She was proud of the word that she just made up.
The phone rang. Kriss snatched it off the receiver.
"Yo," She greeted.
"Oh my god, oh my god! Kriss, I didn't mean too! It was an accident!" Rex started.
"Hey! Hey! Slow down!" Kriss ordered.
Rex took a deep breath on the other end and started over.
"It was an accident, I'll start there! You're mom like, find out my number and I accidentally told her that you lost it…" Rex explained.
Kriss looked horrified.
"Rex! You idiot!" She yelled into the phone. She slammed it down and feverishly started looking again, this time with more urgency.
There was a knock on the door. Kriss stared at it. Thorn came downstairs. Kriss beckoned for him to be quiet. She had to do something. The window? Yeah, yeah, that might work.
Kriss started upstairs very, very quietly. The fifth stair creaked; very loudly.
Carmen knocked again,
"I know you're in there Kriss."
"No I'm not!" Kriss shouted back, "SHIT!" Kriss smacked her forehead.
"Aha!" Carmen quickly picked the lock and was in the house.
"Oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit!" Kriss said as she ran past Carmen and out the door, followed by Thorn.
"Hey! Get back here!" Carmen yelled, transforming and chasing after Kriss.
Kriss ran quickly to get somewhere where Carmen couldn't reach her. Carmen leapt and landed on Kriss. Kriss flailed as Carmen bit and scratched her. Kriss had cuts everywhere now and finally had enough and kicked with all her might, sending Carmen flying into the house wall.
Kriss was in a state of disbelief. She held her arm that was bleeding the worse as she reviewed her options. She had nothing! Nowhere she could go, nothing she could do… wait a minute! Kriss smirked as she lifted her heavy army boots and drew her knife out from within.
Kriss spun around and threw her knife at Carmen who was trying to get up. Carmen froze as the knife came towards her. It hit her on the shoulder, pinning her to the wall.
Kriss smirked as Carmen transformed back into her human form. Carmen glared at her and pulled something out too. Something more dangerous.
A gun.
Kriss froze, afraid to move and get shot. She waiting as Carmen loaded the gun and took aim. Kriss dove as the bullet went whizzing above her. Thorn ducked and it missed him too.
Kriss got up before she could shoot again. So she got smart finally. Now this was going to be a hard fight. She was now defenseless. The only thing that Kriss had was her brain and her body, but she wasn't dumb enough to get close enough to Carmen to punch her while she had a gun.
Thorn knew that it was up to him. He needed to do something to help Kriss. He ran out in front and growled at Carmen. Carmen took aim again and shot. Thorn quickly dodged out of the way. Kriss dashed over and grabbed him around his middle, diving as another bullet flew by.
They needed to get a plan quick. They dove behind a dumpster and waited. Carmen took the knife out of her, freeing herself from the wall.
Kriss knew that there wasn't much time. It was quickly running away.
Wait, time! In a few minutes her dad was going to get home from whatever he did all day. Kriss knew that she could buy enough time for her dad to get home and stop this whole mess.
Kriss told Thorn to stay put and she ran out and zigzagged back and forth to ensure her safety from the gun. Carmen quickly caught on and fired another round. It got Kriss in the arm.
"Yowch!" Kriss bursted. It seared like fire.
Kriss collapsed to her knees. Of all her fights, she had never been shot before. It was painful and she needed some time to recuperate. Carmen seized that time to aim carefully. This was it. The end of the war. Kriss looked over and sluggishly tried to move out of the way.
Carmen shot. Thorn ran out to protect his friend. It got him instead.
"NO!" Kriss screamed.
Her friend. Her family that cared, was lying on the ground, the blood was pooling around him, staining the grass crimson.
A car pulled up and Marik got out with Ishizu and Odion. It took awhile for him to take in the scene.
Kriss ran into the house. She flew up the stairs, going three at a time. She threw back the covers. Surprisingly she found her wolf tooth. She threw it on and yanked the sheet off the bed. She transformed and as Glacier he ran out the front door with the sheet clamped in his teeth.
Marik had chased away Carmen and was leaning over Thorn. He backed off instantly when he saw Glacier coming. Glacier quickly transformed back and Kriss spread out the sheet.
Kriss gently lifted Thorn onto the sheet. He whined slightly. Kriss crooned as she quickly worked to gently set him on the sheet. When he was fully on she transformed yet again and grabbed the end and began to pull it into the house.
Marik could see instantly that it wouldn't work and he wrapped the sheet a bit more and picked up Thorn. Glacier panted as Marik stepped around him and went into the kitchen.
Odion ran past Marik and cleared the table. Marik set Thorn on it and Kriss ran up beside him. She saw the wound and put pressure on it to stop the bleeding.
Thorn whined and breathed harder. Kriss knew it was straining his energy but she had to if he wanted to live.
"Hong on buddy! Don't worry, I'll save you," Kriss reassured. She as the bleeding slowed she got some gauze from the bathroom and began wrapping it around Thorn's ribcage to hold off the blood. She felt his chest and felt a weakness in the ribs. Two were broken. Thorn whined louder as Kriss did this. She felt that his heart was beating, but barely.
"No!" Kriss shouted.
But it was too late. All Kriss could do was to watch sadly as the life slowly drained out of her best friend. Kriss eyes wet instantly but she refused to let them get in the way of her best friend's life.
Kriss racked her brain to think of anything that she could do. But she could think of nothing that could instantly stop someone from dying.
Thorn looked at her with sad eyes that held more fright than anger. Kriss looked back. Her eyes glistened as she saw him close his eyes for the final time. Kriss put her hands to his chest and started pushing against him to get his heart beating again.
"No! Come on Thorn! You can do it! Come back! Come back!" Kriss finally gave up and turned around and leaned against the wall.
Marik sadly took the sheet in his hand and folded it over Thorn's body.
Rex came skidding through the door. He saw Kriss against the wall, hiding her face.
"No! Not Thorn!" He cried out. Marik nodded slowly.
Ishizu started crying, Odion patted her back reassuringly.
"Kriss?" Rex asked tentatively.
Kriss got off the wall. She was oblivious to her own needs as she slowly started walking towards the ceiling door that led to the roof.
"Kriss?" Rex asked again, grabbing her hand.
Kriss looked at her hand and glared at Rex. She smacked his hand away from hers and growled,
"How does it feel to lose your best friend?"
Even Ishizu was too upset to yell at her. Kriss fled to the roof top. She transformed and walked to the very edge.
He sat down and just stared into the night sky. Glacier put his paws on the raised part that bordered the perimeter of the roof. The stars twinkled and the moon clouded over, matching Glacier's mood. As the sky darkened Glacier just sat. Not a muscle quivered. A slight breeze swept through the air, ruffling Glacier's fur. Memories of Thorn seemed to flash in the sky as Glacier remembered his friend. His ally who gave up his life for him. Glacier was now a rogue, a loner; for he was now alone in this unforgiving world that hated him as much as he hate it. As it got much later, Glacier soon lost all sense of time. He was too busy reminiscing about old times with his brother.
Glacier heard footsteps behind him and Marik's scent surrounded him. He looked at him and Marik stared into his eyes. Glacier's eyes had changed. They had lost their spark, their sense of life. They were cold and dark. Marik gasped slightly and backed off to continue to leave Glacier to his own time. Another breeze swept by, bring little needles of pain as they blasted Glacier's cuts and scrapes with and icy chill.
Glacier decided that he had spent enough time out on the roof. A final image of Thorn popped into his head. It was one of his favorite memories. The way that Thorn slept. He looked so cute. Glacier shook himself as if to rid himself of the image as he got up, a solitary year leaked out of his eye. The first of its kind.
Well, there ya go. The tragedy that struck. How will Kriss cope without her friends. Thorn is dead and she seems to have deserted Rex.
