This is Part 2 of Another Child. It goes directly from Part 1, so if you're confused as to where she is and so on, just read the last paragraph in Part 1 and you'll understand.
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Disclaimer: Inu Yasha, his brother Sesshy and Rin and all the characters involved in the manga and T.V show Inu Yasha do not belong to me. Pandora, Ray, the Blader idea, and all of the world in which I put Sesshy and Rin does belong to me however, so don't touch it.
Flicking the chip in her ear, she said very quietly. "Ray, I'm gonna go in there, do not tell the Council until after you know I'm out. Understand?"
The voice at the other end was silent for a long moment, then deciding he valued his life Ray said quietly. "Undestood, Panther."
Pandora clicked the chip again and crouched by the door, her back to the wall, analizing the sounds within.
Though she was listening she saw the silver haired man walk silently towards the side of the building, ignoring her existence for the time being at least.
Not even allowing herself a frown in his direction, she turned and peeked over her shoulder into the darkened warehouse, and heard the first sign that the child was all right... or at least alive. Whimpers.
Taking a deep breath, her eyes seemed to grow hazy and she stood slowly, flicking the safety latch off the gun with her thumb before slipping into the darkened warehouse and out of the burning summer sun.
She crouched just inside, beside the doorway, eyes scanning the dark, adjusting quickly to the lack of light in a disturbing manner simular to a cat.
The warehouse was enormous, darkened with no windows or lights. There were three floors, and an arena where you could stand in the middle of the building and look straight up towards the dark ceiling and rafters above. Boxes were down on the floor too, so high that they reached the second floor railing. There were men on rafters above, moving boxes which she could only figure were either illegal explosives, or illegal drugs...
This however did not matter much to her, she saw the girl being roughly dragged towards a metal door at the very back. The child was being held up by the collar of her shirt, her hands were at her neck, trying to loosen the cloth around her wind pipe.
Pandora bit back a growl and watched as the she was thrown into the room and the door was slammed shut with a rather heart wretching slam and a small scream of distraught from the girl.
Letting out a very soft breath the Blader in the shadows began to stand, lifting her arm to aim at the man nearest to the door...
A flicker of blue caught her attention once more out of the corner of her eye and she was roughly slammed in to the wall, the metal tubes and wood dug into her back, shooting pain through her spine. She gasped slightly and felt her throat contract and close around a scream that had begun to rise there.
Biting back several angry curses, she found her feet hovering over the ground due to the silver haired man holding her by the throat, pushing against the wall, eyes narrowed.
"I said to stay out." He hissed.
Angry thoughts that would make any good mother faint sprung to life within the Panther's mind, she held his gaze with her own burning green eyes. She was just wondering if she could make him burst into flame and die when something caught her attention.
She looked away quickly, locating the man at the other end of the warehouse who was looking around suspiciously. Quiet though her attacker had been, he had still been too loud.
"Moron." she stated through the pain in her throat, pulling her arm back and punching him squarely in the face.
Grunting they both ended up falling down, narrowly avoiding several bullets that drilled into the metal of the warehouse wall where they had been having their little chat.
The man looked up at the bullet holes and then glared death at her, pushing himself quickly to his feet.
Pandora ignored him and grabbed her sword, too irritated to even bother giving him an excuse to say anything.
"They're there! Right there! Two of them!" Voices, shouting, dark men coming from the higher floors, guns being cocked and fired.
The Panther was panting slightly, side stepping as a trail of bullets ran across the ground making the sandy material on the floor flare up leavind dust in it's wake. She coughed slightly, squinting through the material to see the man running across the other way, to the right. Growling she took the left.
She sprinted behind the building material and the boxes, panting slightly. Several men slipped in her way, lifting up guns.
/No time to think/
She dove, knocking one over and then the rest like bowling pins. With a small grunt and a push she was flipping to her feet.She spared them a quick glance and a wave of her hand, eyes narrowing.
"Sleep." she stated, and they stopped trying to get up.
She resumed running, listening to the gun fire all over, her mind adding up equations from where the sound was coming.
/move to the right, fifteen feet above, vertical angle-/
Breathing heavily she finally got near the metal door and froze, seeing a mountain of a man step in her way. He was easily twice her size. She slid to a stop on the sandy ground, gasping for breath, her hands tightening around her blade.
"Insolent wench-" he grunted, his deep voice droning so loudly she nearly felt the vibrations on her skin. With a growl he launched at her, fist clenched. She side stepped easily, bringing her sword down onto his forearm, blood splashed across the ground and over her clothing. She ignored it and kicked up, making his jaw seem... a little out of sorts.
While he began to scream she ran around him just in time to see the silver haired man still at the other end of the warehouse, flicking that whip of his... but he had the bigger concentration of men to deal with, he wouldn't get to the girl in time...
Turning towards the metal door she threw her full weight against the sword, digging it into the steel, grunting softly.
A cry from within told her the child was awake and aware of the instrusion. "Get back!" Pandora snapped, pullng the sword out and putting her hands lightly on the metal, she needed only to concentrate a moment before the metal began to melt and she could see the girl, staring at her wide eyed from within.
"Crawl through." Pandora stated, and then heard the click of a gun.
She spun around and threw a shield up, but the girl was already out. The bullets hit the barrier she had created, digging into the black material hovering in the air, but they didn't go through. The child was sobbing, Pandora turned sharply towards her. Growling she snatched the girl and began running, using the boxes of things to get to the second floor, the girl crying in her arms.
/Damnit! the sword/ she glanced over her shoulder at the weapon laying forgotten by the now melted door and cursed softly under her breath.
The child suddenly screamed. "Look out!"
Pandora turned sharply and saw the men at the bottom aiming. /No time.../
The gun shots went off and she threw the child hard, making her fly and hit the second floor made of metal with a loud thump and a cry.
The miniature metal pieces dug into her skin from too many angles and sides for her mind to even register half of them. She could take bullet wounds... but... not that many...
She crashed into the boxes, curling up into a tiny ball and lay there, gasping for breath and shivering from pain and feeling her warm blood spilling from within her. The men were running up the stairs, heading towards the girl. She saw the man with the silver hair heading towards her too moving a lot faster than any human possible could.
He'd get there...
She stopped, seeing dark shadows in the corner of her eyes. /What? Oh... damnit./
The man snatched up the girl, having gotten there, just as she'd figured he would. "Rin-" he began, but the girl was screaming.
"The Lady! That girl!" she cried, pointing towards Pandora who felt like saying something sarcastic but was haivng trouble coming up with something.
Another gun shot rang out and she felt a burning feeling spring to life on her back, along with a lot of sudden anger. She turned slowly to look over her shoulder, ignoring the blood pumping out of the wound on her shoulder.
"Rot in hell you idiot humans." She hissed, her hands lighting up with power.
Something sane in her mind said using energy would result in something bad... but she didn't care, she was so angry...
She tossed the sphere in their direction and watched with satisfaction as the men watched the glittering light that was actually quite beautiful... Until it exploded.
The explosion threw most of them burning to the walls. Pandora flung her arms over her head and lay there, feeling the heat spread around her and then die away, no more sounds of bullets, just the dying cackle of fire..
She sighed softly and peeked through her arms, not feeling at all like getting up. She knew the boxes were starting to sag do to the blood pumping out of the sudden holes in her body... that wasn't good. She closed her eyes and lay there a moment before reaching up to click the chip in her ear.
"...Ray?"
"Pandora! Oh my God- your heart rate- What happened! Your energy levels are at a-"
"Shut up..."
She sighed, hearing him take a deep breath. "I think the girl is okay... I dont think the Asian cult will do much more either..."
She couldn't open her eyes... lids too heavy. /Bother.../
"Amanda! Your heart rate! It's-"
"Don't call me Amanda." She muttered, and decided sleep wasn't so bad an idea...
Rin peeked past Lord Sesshomaru's arms, blinking through the dust and smoke that was slowly drifting away.
"Lord Sesshomaru! The girl!"
"Quiet, Rin." he murmured, putting her down lightly, eyes scanning the room. He caught sight of the girl against the wall, she wasn't moving... and there was an awful lot of blood.
Silently he walked to the edge of the upper level and started to climb down. He finally reached the crumbled dark form of the girl, laying in a pool of her own blood. She looked deadly pale, but he couldn't figure if that was because she was naturally that pale or the blood loss was fast enough to effect her skin tone...
He squinted slightly at her breathless form. She wasn't alive, there as no way.
"Weak mortals..." He murmured. Rin struggled down on the boxes, climbing as best she could, sniffing back her tears. "She's... she's..." she stuttered.
Sesshomaru looked over at the child, wondering briefly why she was so frightened of someone dying. She had seen many a death already.
"Come Rin." he murmured, turning around to get out. Rin stuttered for a moment more, looking at the girl, before swallowing and following her lord.
Rubbing her tears away as best she could, Rin sat down on one of the boxes and turned to climb down, her eyes flicking to the girl and then she froze.
The woman's body was still for a long moment, then her chest rose and fell as she took a deep breath and then let it out softly, starting to steadily breath in and out, though her eyes didn't open. Rin gasped.
"Lord Sesshomaru!" She squeaked and he turned sharply, following her gaze to the now moving breathing woman. He frowned.
/...what.../
"She's breathing! Lord Sesshomaru! She's breathing!" Rin cried, scrambling up the boxes towards the girl.
"Rin..." he started slowly, knowing well what would come later.
"Please Lord Sesshomaru- Please!" she cried, turning her tearful eyes to him. He stared a very long moment, fighting within himself. If she was breathing she could take care of himself- why did he have to go and-
"Please!"
He sighed, irritated and bent down to pick up the girl, grimacing as the blood got on his hands. He shifted her form slightly in his arms. She was lighter than he had expected. Most of the weight seemed to be made up of the blood soaking into her coat. He glanced at Rin, who was now grinning and said thinly.
"Come." and started away.
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-White Scribe