Me again...nothing to say but here it is and enjoy.( pleaaaase review!) LOL Now let's begin...
a week later.
"Li you up?"
Li looked at the door. Yugi stood there. She had moved into the guest room and yugi had his room back. He was dressed in all black.
"You ready to go?"
She nodded. Her black shirt clung to her and her skirt did too. She felt so weird. She had never been to a funeral before. Her hair was down and she looked at yugi.
"It feels so weird." she said quietly.
He nodded.
"It's just us. He isn't coming." he tilted his head towards a shut door.
"Are the cops coming?"
"I dunno."
Li laughed for a moment. That was there joke. The cop seemed to be everywhere else those days. Yugi and her went out the door and went to the graveyard. it was a cool day. Li breathed in the fresh air. It filled her lungs. it felt good to breathe. She had just started going back to class a few days ago. Life was getting back to normal. They got there. A crowd was there. No family of hers. The only family she had was her parents. Now all she had were the moutos. And the cops. Matt came over to her. His hair spiked up and in a black shirt and pants. He gave her a hug.
"You alright?"
"I will be."
It wasn't open casket. it was just a few nice words about a work-a-holic and her alcoholic husband. co workers and friends talked about what good people they were. Li knew half of what they said wasn't true. Her parents may be dead but they weren't the nicest people. Her dad was mean and got kind of freaky when he drank. Her mom was always stressed and tiered. But they were all Li had. Now they were not there. Finally the priest said some final words and the burial began. Li walked over to the 2 large holes in the ground. 2 caskets. 2 wholes in the ground. 2 wholes in her heart. She took the white lily she brought with her and threw it on her moms casket. Things seemed to sow down a bit as she did like she was watching it from somewhere else. Then a voice came from behind her.
"They were your parents?"
She turned around. The red haired guy?
"Yeah."
"Im sorry. I lost my family when I was a kid."
"Really?"
"Yeah. It hurts for a long time then things just move on. You heal. Life goes on. For a long tie it feels like your all by yourself and you forget abut the friends around you. I forgot how many of my friends where behind me."
He looked away for a moment.
"But--"he said. "--there there. If you ever need any thing Li Im here. I know where not the best of friends but I know what your going through. Trust me. Ive lost a lot in my life. I know all about pain."
"thanx--Im sorry. What's your name?"
"Kurama."
"Well thanx kurama."
She went away from the holes and went by matt. She felt tears go down her face but she took them away. Not there. Matt hugged her. His warmth traveled into her arms and she felt like she was loved.
Becky stared down into the holes. It reminded her of something so long ago. Her moms accident. Her father left them. But she and Sam were alright. How could you miss parents that were never there? Then she felt somebody's eyes on her. She looked behind her. The red haired man was there watching her.
"hi." she said suddenly shy.
"Hi."
Becky wasn't very good at talking to guys. Its not like she didn't got to. Guys were usually all over Becky. She was very pretty, but she never liked them. Becky was shy when it came to that.
"did you know them?" he asked getting closer to her.
Becky nodded.
"for most of my life." she said quietly.
"li looks like shes taking it well."
Lis a good actress."
He noded.
"its not easy." he laughed."Im sorry. I didnt introduce myself. Im suichi kurama. your--rebeccah right?"
"You can call me Becky. Only my mom ever called me rebeccah. I hated it."
"Yeah. Nobody ever calls me suichi. I like kurama."
"So kurama-- you knew lis parents?"
"No. but I heard at class about what happened and wanted to see for myself. I don't know Li very well but it always feels good to have somebody show they care...right?"
She nodded. She shivered as a cool wind blew by. It was like ice prickling her skin. She rubbed her arms with her slightly numb hands then blew into them and repeated the process. kurama watched her.
"Here."
He took off his jacket and gave it to her. She put it on. It wasn't like anything shed put on before. It warmed her entire body and left her with a war-not-too-hit feeling.
"thanx." she said as she looked into his eyes. She had the weirdest feeling about him. He looked like somebody she had met before. Like they were friends--or at least people who talked everyday. if only she could remember.
Sam looked at her sister and kurama talking. A flash of deja vo passed over her. It was just like the dream she had had. She looked around. Matt and li were talking. Just like the dream. She looked up. Somebody had just arrived. She was in an all black dress that was right above her knee. Her face was hidden by a veil. Sam couldn't really tell but she looked pretty. Her figure at least. She looked like the girl from the dream but--no. It wasn't her. it couldn't be. They looked different. Sam looked away and made her way over to where tea and tristian stood talking.
a month later.
"Come on li the guys are waiting." yugi called to li as she put on her favorite chocker.
"Im coming. sheesh.:" she went down the stars and waved good bye to grandpa and the new guy who worked at the store Ted. she and yugi made there way downtown. the guys were waiting at the arcade. That's how they had been spending there weekends those past few months. it helped li get her mind off thing grandpa got them out of the shop Ted got to work in peace and yugi got to go to the arcade.
"Hi guys." yugi said happily as they came up to there friends who were already at the machines.
"Hey yug. How's Ted?" Joey asked.
:"he's good. Grandpas giving him a hard time."
"Poor Ted. Hey li."
Joey grinned at her.
": hi Joey."
"Wanna play air hockey?"
"Sure."
She and him over to the table as yugi went to where matt and Monica where having something to drink.
"Matt. Monica. What's up?"
"Matt put down his drink.
"I beat tirstians high score on galactic avenger 5."
"Where is he now?"
"Still at the machine. He's trying to get his title back. Of course he's been there for the last hour and a half."
Monica laughed.
"Its true sadly." she said.
Yugi nodded.
Then suddenly a weird voice piped up.
"Hi matt."
yugi and matt and Monica looked over and saw Christy standing there. she had on a black shirt and a pair of capris. She wore the hat she stole form matt at summer camp last year on her head to hide her messy brown hair. Matt looked at her and sighed.
"Hi Christy."
"Wanna hang out?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Im with my friends."
"Were friends aren't we matty?"
"No."
"What? After all I did for you. I hang out with you at summer camp. I call you on the phone. I talk to you on the computer. I go to your locker and your house. I sit with you at lunch and were not friends?"
"no. not really."
Christy puffed her cheeks out and looked at Monica and yugi.
"So youd rather hang out with these losers then with me?"
"There not losers and Id rather hang out with a cat with rabies then you."
"yeah." Monica said. "So go away."
"Make me."
"fine." she got up always ready for a fight.
Christy backed up a few steps then took a step towards her. Monica was a few good inches bigger then Christy and could easily crush her. Christy opened her mouth to say a comment on how the fight wasn't fair because it was obvious Monica weighed a few good hundred pounds then take off but there was an odd silence. Like the kind before it rains. Everybody froze. Joey looked up from the game.
"What's going on?" he asked.
Nobody answered. the whole arcade grew quiet. It was almost like they were the only living things in the room. Everybody besides yugi and his friends were frozen. the kids at the quarter machine. The girls getting food at the restraunt. The guy who was always complaing Joey rigged the air hockey machine for free games. The kids who were laughing at tristian because of his attempt at the game. Everybody. Monica looked at them.
"What the?" she asked unable to find the right words.
yugi shrugged just as surprised as her.
Joey put down his air hockey tool and looked at li.
"What did tristian do?" he asked.
"I didn't do anything." he said as the machine beeped game over."
Yugi looked at tea.
"This is weird."
Then suddenly the doors flew open at the end of the room. A pair of robed men stood there looking at them.
"Get them. Don't harm the girl." the taller man said in a low rusty voice like he had a scratchy throat.
Li backed up to the back of the room. There was an emergency exit like any good place should have. She grabbed the doorknob and pushed it open slightly. She felt the outside breeze tug at her hair as if begging her to come. She looked at Monica and matt were crouched behind a pair of ping pong games and Joey and the others were on the floor. Everybody was hiding except Christy who stood there like a moron staring at the on coming men with an annoying scene of curiosity. Matt looked at li who looked at the door. Matt nodded and mouthed: "wait you go. Ill follow." she nodded and went through the door and into the frozen place. Groups of people were frozen in place.
"oh my god." she whispered.
Her feet led her to Becky's house. A cute squirrel and chipmunk were frozen in there spots on the front lawn. She went through the front door to see Sam on the sofa frozen.
"Sam wake up." she yelled. "Don't be frozen Sam."
Then Sam moved.
"What? li Im sleeping? li? What're you doing here?" she asked as she went up.
"Sam. The arcade--everybody was frozen."
"Why? Li --there frozen?"
"Yeah. Where's Becky?"
"In her room. She was playing some video game last time I checked."
Li went down the hall and into the blue room that was Becky's. The walls were covered in rock band posters and pictures of Becky's friends. in the middle of it all was Becky who was sitting on the floor with a video game on.
"Becky." said li as she went over to her friend.
"Hi li what's up?"
"Come outside." she lead the sisters outside and showed them the frozen animals on the lawn. Sam looked around in disbelief.
"What the--wow."
Then there was the sound of heavy footsteps coming towards them.
"Did she come this way?" asked a voice. it was deep with a weird accent under it.
"yeah." a rusty voice responded.
Lis heart stopped. Those were those men...they were looking for her. she went to the front door of the house and jiggled the doorknob. it was locked.
"Sam." she yelled. "Tell me you have a key."
Sam stuck her hand in her pockets and shook her head.
"No why?"
Li said to them what was going on. Sam showed her the underneath of the neighbor's car. Li went there and stayed low. Becky and Sam acted like they were frozen. the men came around the corner. There hoods hid there faces as they searched the yard for li. li could feel her heart beating as they got closer and closer. She tried going farther under the car but if she did shed come out the other side. Then she felt something grab her foot. She looked back and saw a robed man looking at her.
"Hi."
She tried to get free but he was too strong. He pulled her from underneath the car and to her feet. He took over to where the other man was.
"Found her." he said proudly showing her off like she was a prize.
The other man nodded.
"Now tell me where are your friends?" the man asked looking at her in the eye.
He sent a chill down her spine. They were the color of dried blood. A creepy blackish red color. She broke away from them and looked at Sam and Becky who were both completely still. They were in drama and were trained to do that. Something in her said she couldn't say anything. If the whole place was frozen why weren't she and them? That had to mean something. Li started to lye. She was in drama too.
"I-I dunno." she said. "I lost them when we left the building."
The man looked away.
"Your coming with us." he said sounding more like an order then anything.
The other man grabbed li tighter. She tried to pull away but she couldn't.
"No let me go." she yelled pulling on the man.
There was a strong breeze. li moved her head to avoid it. Sam and Becky looked at each other without moving there heads. There eyes watered form the wind. Then the rusty voiced mans hood flew back. li let a scream stop in her throat. The mans face was covered with horrible skin that stretched just to cover his face. His mouth was slightly twisted and his horrible eyes were like a pair of scratches. There was no hair on his head with the exception of colorless fuzz that spotted parts of his disfigured scalp. Then there came a yell. the men looked and saw Sam. she had a look of something on her face. The men looked at her then the ugly man pulled up his hood.
"Get them." he ordered.
"Sam. go." li yelled breaking free of the mans grasp and taking off.
Becky Sam and li all went different ways.
"Good luck guys." li though as she went far away form Becky's house. The place seemed so different when nothing moved. Familiar trees and houses were different and confusing. welcoming sights and sounds came to her as cool and unfriendly. The world seemed a darker place. The man wasn't far behind her as she went around the corner. She could hear him coming. footstep after footstep. Soon all she could hear was her deep breathes and the beating of her heart. Her legs hurt as she pushed herself to keep going. Then the footsteps stopped. li stopped and looked behind her. He stood there with a gun in hand. It looked like the kind she saw hunters with. Her heart froze. Before she could go or yell he aimed. A dart whizzed at her stomach and hit in the center. She went over. The pain tingled. Then she felt a slight tingle. Her eyelids grew heavy. She fell over on the ground. Lis world went dark.
The man went over to lis limp body and picked her up. He pulled a walie talkie out of his robe and began to talk.
"I have the girl." he said. "Master odion--what about the others?"
"Well take care of them later. The master requests we bring her in immediately."
"Well I might just wanna have my fun. She's a very girl odion."
"The master wants her now Oro. You know the plan so stick to it."
He clicked off the walkie talkie and made his way to the meeting place. It wasn't the smartest idea to keep the master waiting.
well taht's all for now folks! Please review...if you don't I woun't write another! Please review...I dedicate this story to my good friend Victoria! Hi! Until next time.
