Chapter 8
This chapter is kinda strange…I wrote it when I was real tired but I just couldn't put down my pen!
Morning came. Samantha had slept surprisingly well, considering everything she had on her mind. Shin, her parents, the syndicate, and who to find to tell her about her parents! She looked over at Shin's bed. He was already gone. Miaka walked into the room. "Samantha, you're finally awake. Did you sleep ok?" she asked. "Yeah, I did" Samantha said getting out of bed and rubbing her eyes. "I don't really have anything for breakfast…and if you want Shin said he could drive you home so you could get a shower, clean clothes, that kinda stuff" she said opening a window. "Okay" Samantha said running her fingers through her hair. Miaka walked out. Samantha followed her into the living room and sat down. Shin was on the phone again. He was still dressed in his syndicate clothes, a black pair of pants, a black shirt, and a black cape. He looks good in black…Samantha thought to herself giggling. He hung up the phone and walked into the living room. "Today's the day we bring down the syndicate, once and for all" he said. Samantha snapped out of her daze. "How are we going to do it though?" she asked standing up. "I'll explain in the car, I'm gonna take you to your house so you can change and stuff like that" he said grabbing the keys. "We'll be back later Miaka!" he yelled walking out the door. Samantha followed him, still rubbing her eyes. "Do you think the syndicate would attack in the daytime?" she asked getting into the car. Shin lowered the top. "Probably, so we've gotta be careful" he said pulling out the driveway. They drove down the road to Samantha's. "I'm sorry" he said. "About what?" Samantha asked looking at him. "About you having to go through all this, it pisses me off that the syndicate is doing this to you" he replied. "It's ok.. I just didn't expect for all this to happen so quick" Samantha said. Shin nodded and pulled into Samantha's drive way. "My grandma must have gone to the store…" Samantha said getting out of the car. She pulled out her house key and opened the door. "It feels good to be home" Samantha said. "I'm gonna go up and get a shower, are you gonna stay here or what?" she asked brushing her hair out. "I'm gonna stay here" Shin said sitting down on the couch. "There's food in the refrigerator if you want anything…" she said pointing to the kitchen. "Ok, thanks" he said. Samantha walked upstairs to the bathroom. She quickly got undressed and into the shower. She smiled as the hot water hit her head. She put some shampoo in her hair a hummed.
Meanwhile downstairs…Shin picked up the phone and dialed a number. "We're attacking the syndicate today" he said when the person answered. "Where should we meet you?" the person on the other line asked. He gave the person Samantha's address. "Be there by noon" he told the person. They hung up.
Samantha got out of the shower. She wrapped a towel around her and went to her closet. "Hm…" she said looking through her clothes. She pulled out a pair of black leather pants and a matching shirt. The shirt was pretty low-cut, but it would be ok. She put on some black eyeliner and some boots, and then went downstairs. Shin looked at her. "You look so much like your mom" he said laughing. He glanced at the clock. 11:40am. "I've got some friends meeting us at noon here, they're gonna help us with the syndicate" he said. Samantha nodded and grabbed her sunglasses. "Hold on a minute" Samantha said walking to the basement. She pulled out the box she had looked through the other day, the one with all the pictures and such. She took it upstairs. "I was wondering if you knew who all these people in these pictures were" she said sitting the box down on a table. Shin picked up one of the pictures. "I didn't know there were anymore of these pictures left" he said. "What do you mean?" Samantha asked sitting down by him. "Along time ago, when Vicious found out about Julia and Spike, he burned all the pictures he had of them all, and I was there" he said closing his eyes. He remembered the day.
*Flashback*
Vicious held a picture over an open flame of a candle. "Vicious, why are you burning all those pictures?" a young Shin asked. "Pictures are just memories trapped in a time warp, and I don't need to be stuck in time forever" he said coldly.
*End Flashback*
Shin put down the picture. He took out the small music box and wound it up. The same beautiful tune that lead Samantha to the box filled the air. "I remember the name of this song…Julia's the name of it…" he said thinking.
*Flashback*
The night air was cool and moist. The stars shone like diamonds. Young Shin walked along beside Julia and Vicious down the cold streets of Mars. The three entered a small bar on the corner. "Children don't belong in bars" the bartender said as he cleaned a few glasses. Vicious looked at the man. His eyes were like daggers, waiting to plunge into the bartender. "He's with me" he said, his icy voice sending shivers down everyone's spine. The bartender went back to cleaning his glasses, still shaken up from Vicious's cold voice. A man with long purple hair played the saxophone on stage. The music was beautiful, like rose petals floating through the air.
*End Flashback*
Shin looked at the clock. "They should be here any minute…"he said. There was silence, and then gun shots rang through the air.