The Dream: Luci's Destiny Chapter Sixteen
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Chapter Sixteen: What?
First Person- Luci's Point Of View:
Come on, I can take this... I'm a swimmer. It's just a pool of water, nothing to be scared of. Just pretend, I'm doing a twenty-five underwater kick...no breathing... Just keep kicking...just keep kicking, kicking... holding my breath... just keep...not breathing?
...I'm still alive...
...this...is just a nightmare I'll never wake up from...it's the reality of a nightmare...
I'm drowning...what's happening... am I going to live?
I can't remember anything,
Can't tell if this is true or dream,
Deep down inside I feel to scream,
This terrible silence stops me...
I can't breathe...I can't see...I cannot move... all that I see is...
Darkness imprisoning me
All that I see
Absolute horror
I cannot live
I cannot die
Someone...anyone...please help...I can't survive this any longer...
Am I truly alone now? Have I been abandoned for real now?
If I had arms I'd kill myself...
If I had legs I'd run away...
If I had a voice...I'd call for help...
Am I...crying? It's not possible to cry in water...is it?
I really can't breathe...it's...
Suddenly, I felt warmth... and then all went blank.
Hiei's POV:
Yukina... she was all that I really cared about at the moment. She had an icy grip...but it was still warm...
Because of Yukina I found myself reentering the fortress of that pathetically obese man (He had a quadruple chin to be specific).
I was going to save that girl—Luci. Why? I found it rather impossible to believe... but I was somehow developing a bond with her. No, not an attraction, not at all, it was just a bond. Was it her attitude? She was different than any other human—woman I had ever met before... even if everything had to go her way. She was—like a princess...all delicate...yet rough... like a rose...with the thorns on the inside.
This time when I entered, I found an alternate route. I simply grabbed a frightened soldier whom led me to the "inner area," as he called it. There was a big surface with many things piled on top of it, one of which was my katana. I grabbed a few treasures that I found interesting and then turned back to the frightened soldier.
"Where's the girl?" I asked him.
"S—she's—what girl?"
I hated people like that... such weaklings.
"What are you called?" I said.
He seemed puzzled.
"What are you called? I will only ask you once."
"I—me—"
"Do you know how to speak normally?" I said.
"I—eye—the..." He pointed to his forehead. So he was scared of my Jagan, hmph, what a loser.
Then I remembered. What was I doing? I had a job to complete.
"I don't have any time! I don't care about your name. WHERE IS THE GIRL?" I hadn't spoken so loudly since...a good while.
"Sh—she's in th—there." He pointed to a door on the right. I suppose he thought I was going to release him...not a chance.
I dragged him along with me to the door on the right and was about to force him in there when he cried, "Don't make me go in there! There are zombies in there. The girl's in there! Please don't m—"
I was tired of his pathetic whining. That was when I kicked him in the stomach and knocked him out.
I opened the door. The first things I saw were a cubic shape with a screen on it, a chair, and lots of cylindrical figures. When I realized what the figures were, I could have sworn that I might have been disgusted near to death. There were bodies inside—yes, I have seen and slain plenty of bodies... but these were all different colors. They all had frightened looks on their faces.
Some were bloody while others were brown. Human specimens... that's just pitiful.
Then I spotted Luci. She was regular colored (...thank goodness...)...but she unlike the others, she looked depressed. She didn't look frightened or in pain...just sad...
I drew my katana and was about to slice open the pod of water when a voice boomed on the speakers.
"You will not touch my specimen. I have your sister as a hostage."
What? He caught Yukina again?
"You're bluffing." Then I heard it. It was Yukina's voice.
"Hiei! Oh, brother. Help me!" It was her same sweet voice.
"What do you want?" I sneered at him.
"We will face off. If you do any damage to anything, I will have my man back there will kill your sister."
That was simple enough. As soon as he came out for real, I would kill him.
Wait a second. I need to be more careful. He is not a simple adversary. Think of all the times I've been misled...
Then he came out. He looked nothing like he did on the screen. He was tall and skinny, but he had the same hideous voice.
"So, Hiei, I suppose we finally face off. People are not always as they seem, I guess. So ...are you ready?"
"What are your terms?" I asked him.
"Ah...thinking the smart way. You cannot harm me in any way, or your sister will die."
What? That was the most outrageous thing I had ever heard.
I need to calm down...think of this in another point of view. What if he doesn't have Yukina? People are not always as they seem... if he could changed his appearance...then he can surely change voices... Hiei! Oh, brother. Help me! Does that sound like something she would say? I'm willing to take a chance...
"You have forgotten that I can read minds."
Dammit! How could I have forgotten? What a weakling...using such methods... I would have to play it smart if I was going to win.
Normal View (Reader's Point of View):
"Hn, let's go." Hiei jumped up and then landed back on the ground. He had a plan. He needed to use this mind-reading power of Yoshiro's to his advantage.
"Why are you stopping?" Yoshiro asked.
"That's because you're a weakling. I'll let you have first hit."
"You'll regret that," Yoshiro said. He charged and punched Hiei in the stomach.
Hiei spat out some liquid and fell onto the ground. I've lost...Hiei thought. There's no way I can win. I should surrender now. I'm too weak to move.
"You know you've lost, Hiei," Yoshiro said. "Hah, and I didn't even try." Yoshiro's flamboyant expression disgusted Hiei in every way possible.
Yoshiro walked up to Hiei and stuck his tongue out at him. Suddenly and a flash of a second, Hiei had twisted one of Yoshiro's arms behind Yoshiro's back and had his katana at the man's neck.
"I don't believe that there is some 'man of yours' back there with Yukina. No man would hold such loyalty to you, but if such a scoundrel does exist, I'm telling you right now, if you do anything, I swear, I'll kill you and this bast—"
"Don't hurt me," Yoshiro gasped. "There's no one there. I promise just let me go!"
"Hn, fine, go." Hiei released his grip.
Then a wicked smile spread onto Yoshiro's face. "You'll regret that. Now I'll k—ugh..." Hiei had kicked Yoshiro very hard in both legs, breaking them both. Now he could be sure that Yoshiro wouldn't escape.
Hiei walked up to Luci's pod and then struck the glass with his katana despite Yoshiro's wailing ("NOOOOOO! MY MASTERPIECE!"). Water poured out as Hiei caught Luci. He felt for her pulse, but she didn't seem to be breathing. He gently set her down and then went back to Yoshiro and picked him up by the collar.
"What have you done? She better not be dead."
"S—she's not...just out a little and—"
"How do you cure it?"
Yoshiro was frightened by Hiei's angry looks.
"I said HOW DO YOU CURE IT!" Hiei tightened his grip angrily.
A shuddering Yoshiro replied, "Uh—I—CPR."
"What?"
"CPR."
Now Hiei was really confused. What in the world was CPR?
Hehe...another chapter finished.
A/N: I'm very sorry. I'm not Christian or anything, that's why I chanted Luci's name to what it is now because lots of people are Christian.
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