Chapter 10 Dreams
Written by: Atikkin
Author note: I apologize for being gone for so long. Life is a bit slow for me, but every now and then I'll chapter up for one of my stories. I hope everything is going well with this story. Some of you were really demanding to get this one another chapter going, so I grant those few their wishes.
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Relena opens her eyes to a new place. She rose herself from the ground and observes the vast desert around her. For once it is calm and not wild with roars and war; however, it is too quiet. It bothered Relena.
Slowly, she gets up from where she was and found herself in that dress once again. She begins to walk through the desert until she saw something from afar. She gazes at it carefully when she realizes that is a large edifice. Relena stares at how large it is. She never had seen a building like this before. It's built with a strange structure. It almost looked reptilian like, but its pigmentation is black.
Relena turns around and suddenly finds herself surrounded by a number of his buildings. She stares at the ground. Vine like tendrils spread around the ground and lead towards an underground railway. The structure looked so foreign to her, but strangely she felt as if she had seen something like before. Shewasn't so where. Following her instincts,Relena slowly begins to walk towards the dark tunnel ahead.
The darkness surrounds her without the help of a single light to help lead the way. Relena closes her eyes and reopens them to see what she must see. All around her are broken lambs, dented hallways, and a couple of human corpses. Tilting her head slightly, Relena knelt down to her knees and examines the body carefully. He appears to be male. His body is completely crushed as if something very powerful really took him down. He was also surrounded by some sticky substance.
"What is this?" she muttered. She pressed her hand against the ooze yet solid material. It felt almost bone like. Relena sniffed it. She jerked away and thought 'smelled as if it had been burnt or something.'
Relena thought she heard something from the distance. She turns around slowly, and through her vision she thought she caught sight of something not human. It hissed out at her with razor blade fangs.
Relena, not fearing this thing much, raises a brow. 'And what t hell are you?' she thought. The creature comes at her with speed.
Relena jerks out of her sleep. She looks around and found herself outside. She rose herself off the ground and looks around carefully. She's in an alley way. Relena gets up from where she is and starts to walk towards the open street. She carefully wraps the large blanket around her head, so that no one sees what kind hair she has.
She took a step out into the open street and starts to walk around there. She didn't know where was going. She had no where else to go. People are chasing her, calling her murderer. Her brother disowned her as family. Heero had rejected her for someone else. Everything is seriously out of hand, and Relena has no control of getting her life back together, for it is in pieces.
She suddenly stops when she heard gunfire. She turns around shaking. There, in a building, Relena heard someone screaming. She sniffs and caught the smell of blood, lust, and death. Relena felt her fingers crack loudly. She gazes at all these people passing her. Do they not hear what is going on? She twitches from all this neglect; however, something else is going on in her mind. Something began to scream powerfully into her hear 'Take it.'
Relena curves her eyes towards the building and slowly walks towards the entrance. "Shit happens," She said before she busts the door down.
Duo kept a good track of Keyes. The man seems to keep moving from place to place as if he were chasing after something. Duo notices his strange like of behavior as he stares at the screen of his computers. His watch is in the USB port, recording and tracking to wherever Keyes is going. Duo pauses from his work and turns to the kitchen where Heero explains the death of Pagan.
"We were sitting there until he was shot. Someone, about fifty kilometers away, shot him with a Micro-UZ; a perfect weapon for a professional," Heero explained.
"You've got to be kidding me," Millard said, walking around the kitchen.
"What did he want?" Trowa said.
"He said he had information about Relena. Quatre's looking into it now."
"Good," Noin said.
"Those soldiers had guns. Do you think they were planning to kill her?" Wufei said.
"Everyone who doesn't believe that peace is an answer to all our problems would do anything to kill Relena. But right now, I think the situation is more serious. I don't think this has anything to do with Relena being the pacifist now. It's different. They're really trying to kill for something else."
"You know Pagan tried to tell us something about your Mom, Millard."
"My Mother," Millard said.
"Yeah, he did. He also said that she died from a heart attack?"
"No," Millard said. Duo and Heero glance at him.
"What do you mean no?" Heero said.
"My mother died from a stroke. Our family never had many problems with heart disease."
Heero and Duo exchange glances. "That's why Pagan said that hewasn'tso sure she died from a heart attack."
"You think my Mother died from some other way?" Millard asks.
"Yes," Heero said.
"Oh great, more dirty work," Duo said. "Let me guess, one of us has to find out what happened to Queen Peacecraft."
"You wouldn't have too," Quatre said. "These disks have data about her."
"What….?" Millard said.
Everyone came towards to computer and see the image of Queen Peacecraft. Numerous images flew all around.
"Can you find the cause of death in here?" Heero asks.
"Give me some time," Quatre said.
"All right," Heero said. "Duo, what's up with Keyes?" Duo glances at him laptop, and he grew a stern look.
"What the….?" He said.
"What it is?"
"He's moving into the city and fast man. Looks like something just caught his attention?"
"Is it Relena?" Wufei said.
"I don't know, but I'm going to find out what's going on?" Duo said.
"I'm coming with you," Heero said.
"All right then," Duo said.
Two men carried assault rifles and were heavily armored with bullet proof vests. Against them are a small family of two women and three small children who were no older then six and one who appeared to be in her teens. They sat there with looks of fear and sorrow, for the man of the house lied dead some where in the next room of the small apartment.
"Please, don't hurt us," the mother said clutching her daughter to her. The man above had a smirk upon his face. Without a single thought he drove the base of his rifle into the mother's face. The daughter made a shrill scream, but was silenced when the other end of the rifle face her at close range.
"Shut up," the man said. "How many times do I have to tell you?" He grins evilly at her. The young woman thought she saw the devil in him. He moves the rifle slightly, gesturing her to move somewhere. When she didn't move, she was struck in her face. She cried out to the ground. Her youngest brother launched at the man; unfortunately, the little toddler met his end by being shot through in his chest.
"No. Arthur, please God, no. Oh Arthur. You miserable bastard, he was just a child!" She said.
"Does it look like I give a damn bitch? Now get your miserable ass in the fucking bedroom. I have an appointment with you. Now move!" He said.
"April, don't go," the other children said.
"GET MOVING!" He said.
"Let go. He won't hurt anyone if you let go," she said. She slowly gets up and walks towards the doorway leading towards the bedroom.
"Watch the rats," the man said to the other. He shoves the girl inside the room and closes the door behind him. The man began to shed his clothing while ripping hers. The made small screams, but not loud enough to make someone in the next apartment hear her cries.
He pulls her small form towards his and began his torturous performance of rape and abuse. The girl, April, began to whimper out, crying. The pain was agonizing for her to bear. The man above her only howled with pleasure as he felt himself reaching to point where he must meet an end to all of this. But that didn't stop him. He flips the girl upon her belly, so he can continue this painful scheme.
"Ready for more, bitch?"
"Please, don't…." she whispered.
"What did you say?" He said, chuckled. He force himself within her again and made her scream. Tears dripped upon her face. "I said what did you say, bitch. Answer me."
"You know, I heard her from here. And she said, no. What are you….fucking deaf?" a new voice said.
The man spun around and met face to face with a large set of fangs and other incisors. The man didn't have time to scream. The sound of skin ripping, bones gashing, and blood dripping echoed in the room; eventually, an awful smell dampened the room.
The girl, April, rested upon the bed while staring at blood stained sheets. She didn't know who came into the room without her acknowledgement but she knew that the newcomer had indeed, killed her rapist. She slowly turns around and sees a pair of yellow eyes glancing at her. She also saw blood matted upon the stranger's mouth and chin. She takes a glance at the corpse. Her jaw dropped. She shook but couldn't scream out, for the man no longer had a face.
"Hey Patrick," the man called out. He received no answer from his partner in the next room. Strangely, he did not hear him screaming out to the dawn of pleasure. He knew he was quite the screamer when he made other women barely that girl's age scream their hearts out. He grew frustrated when he didn't hear howls coming from the room. But he heard different sounds-sirens echoed through out the neighborhood, and they were growing stronger. The man rushes towards the window and gazing outside, seeing police vehicles parking in front of the building.
"Damn it," he said. He rushes towards the door and starts to knock hard against the wood. "Patrick, we got to go, cops are here. Whatever you want to do; do it, take the money, and let's get out of here." Still-no answer came from the room. "God damn it, Patrick," the man said knocking again, and this time the door opened. From that moment, the man really wished he hadn't opened the door. A pair of yellow eyes stared at him.
The boy sat there, eye-boggling, when they saw her. Their mouths almost dropped open as she stepped out of the room, drenched in blood, presenting a set full of razor blade incisors, and a lethal pair of hands waiting to choke a neck.
"Hi," Relena said with a sweet tone. "Do you mind telling me why rapists pick the youngest of the young? And why they always, always, and always again carry guns?" she asks. Almost viciously, she grasped the man's chin and forced him from his feet. He drops the weapon from his hands and felt the pressure in his face continuing to increase from pain to absolute agony. "Do you want to know something?" Relena asked. She pulled the man close to her visage. "I hate guns," she whispered. Opening her mouth, Relena send her jaws to work by building blood on the wall.
Heero and Duo stop at the corner of the street. Seeing a group of SWAT members, police vehicles, and the FBI scattering all over they assumed they have found the right place. Duo's transmitter even made their approval of knowing more satisfying. Getting out of the car, the two comrades observe the situation.
"Looks like there are over a hundred men out there, maybe more," Heero said. "They even have assault weapons with them."
"Not to mention an RPG," Duo said.
"What…" Heero said in disbelief.
"That's what my specs tell me," Duo said reading out the captions of his sunglasses. "They even have siren waves on board. What the hell would they need with those; calling all dogs in the world or something?"
"Siren waves….they're like mines, right?"
"Yeah, last I checked," Duo muttered. He turns this gaze towards the building. The specs picked up nothing, but then something caught the specs' sensors for just a slight moment. 'What the…' Duo thought. He turns towards the very spot where the sensor had picked up that last frequency; strangely, it was gone. 'That was strange,' Duo thought. He lowers his vision, and there sitting with his comrades is Keyes.
"What do you see?"
"Keyes," Duo said. "Relena's got to be here if he's here."
"Relena," Heero said. Duo glanced at his friend. Through that cold look, he could still see that empathic gaze.
"Still feeling for her, pal?"
"That's not part of the situation now," Heero said. "On my lead, let's go."
"Any sign of her?" Keyes asked the commander.
"No sir, I'm afraid we haven't found within the premises yet. We also haven't been able to trace Daniel."
"Daniel…." Keyes said. "No one ever saw him lurking around the last site?"
"Not a single trace. He's like a ghost," the commander informed. Keyes huffed in frustration. No only does he have to worry about Relena, but he has to worry about Daniel. He may be the only man in this world who would dare kill her. He started to think that he might be around the streets just waiting for the right opportunity to take Relena out.
"I want you to search the perimeter and be sure no one enters or leaves this building. Is that understood?" Keyes said.
"Yes sir," the commander. "All you twisted low lives, get moving," he said to the troops who now entered the building in a rush.
Daniel stared out from the distance. He places a pair of binoculars upon his visage and gazes at the building. Recently he had heard shots coming from the inside. He figured that this is what Relena be, for her sense of hearing is far greater than a regular human being. Violence attracts her and it made him very concern for the safety of some of the residence of the city.
"Damn it," He said. "If this keeps up she'll turn everyone to skeleton," he said. "Or will she?" He asked himself. Knowing that Relena is different from some of the others, she might show some hint of human compassion. The problem is that she might not display any hint of it, and would cause some serious mayhem.
"But she's not the only problem we all got," He muttered to himself. He knows that 'they' are also out there, waiting to be unleashed and hoping to destroy all those who are like Relena. He bit his lip. Perhaps negotiating with Relena may be the best action to take instead of having to attack her. Attacking her would be a very bad idea.
"Here goes nothing," He said.
April held onto her brother closely to her. She observes this stranger vigilantly as she paces back and forth across the living room. The sirens from the outside alarmed her. Her amber eyes are glued to the window as she looks down, seeing hundreds of patrol cars, men with armored weapons, and heavily equipped with other sorts of weaponry that may come to effect to her.
Relena felt her vision change as she caught sight of weapons that appear so familiar to her. She touches the side of her head as a slight migraine invaded her thoughts. To her it felt as if something inside her cranium began to move around vigorously, creating a dreadful headache. Closing her eyes, she could feel her mind slipping into a deep sleep.
Roars echoed through out the deep forests. The environment is filled heavy vegetation. Animal life that posse's rare beauty, yet is also dangerous to the touch of man. The humidity was immense.
These poor men and women who serve the law and military force themselves into this mess. The mission is simple, or so they think. They have all ready lost two to three men by unknown causes. They were also unable to find the missing body of one of their comrades who they consider deceased. They only found the remaining of each man they had lost. One had missing limps bunched up near a bush with his body hanging from a high tree. The next man was found burnt from head to toe. The last man was never found, but his weapons were found near the site where had disappeared.
Two soldiers walked side to side, holding their weapons tightly while traveling through this jungle. The heat drove them mad for hours. They were also very concern about what might be out there destroying their comrades.
"What are we going to do? There's something out there and it wants us dead."
"What did the doc say to use against it?"
"That siren thing," the other soldier said.
"Then get it out and use it-"Suddenly a red laser imprint appears upon his chest. He didn't have to think before something of great power melted away his back and imploded his chest cavity. The soldier before him drops to the ground as the corpse falls upon her.
"Oh Jesus," she said. She turns and sees the siren before. She grabs it and presses a red button before some large being came upon her. The siren was such an intense sound. The creature roared out violently as it backed away from her. She blinks and observes the creature that suddenly appeared before her. Her eyes expanded by the sight of the strange being. She stares at the siren.
"It worked."
Relena snapped out the images from her mind. She opens her eyes to reality and figured out that they were out to get her, and apparently take her in alive. 'The siren will damage me,' she thought. 'It might affect me greatly if I don't get my ass out of here,' she thought.
She turns to the family behind her. She glances at the two children and then at the elder sister. Tears still stream down her face. Relena could see the great pain washing all over her body. Relena knows that face very well. She made that face herself once. 'Being raped isn't a pretty picture.'
A noise caught Relena's attention. She curves her eyes to the front door. She glares hard and her vision changes into that dark sight where she could see only the heated bodies of man. She moves away quickly.
The door is knocked open, alarming the family upon the floor. Men dressed in black and armor walked inside, carrying assault weapons and gas masks. They observe the room cautiously; however, they fail to see any sign of their target.
"Get these kids to the bottom floor," one of the ordered. Two soldiers pick the family up and push them out the door violently. The other men glance in the next room and see the bodies of two identified men. One man had a missing face and a crushed skull. The other man had a missing head, a torn spinal cord, and missing limps from the interior. Something had really cut right through the poor individual.
"Dear God what did this?"
"Now you will die," a metallic voice echoed through the room. One soldier spun around and saw a hand coming for him. Blood splattered across the wall as his head rolled across the floor.
Heero and Duo appear from the corner. They see no one coming from the stairway. They also didn't hear men from the upstairs. The silence began to disturb them both. Duo quickly hustled towards the stairs and climbed up. He peeks to see the upper floor. He only saw a single door open. He slowly made his way up. Slowly he walks towards the door, but felt something grasp his arm. Duo nearly jumped out of his skin when he glances down to see a young woman with tears pulling him away.
"Please don't. Please don't," she said.
"Wow, easy Miss," Duo said. "Heero get your ass up here," he said. Heero appeared at the top of the steps. He glances at the young girl and the two boys hiding at the far end of the hall way.
"Please don't. They're all dead."
"All right lady just calm down," Duo said. He pulls her towards the end of the hall. "Heero check it out." Duo turns caring to the traumatized family.
"Mission Accepted," He said.
Heero grabs a gun from behind his pocket and loads it. After snapping a single ammo cartridge inside the slot of the gun, he heard something from the room. Heero slowly turns his head to see what was inside. To his horror, Heero saw bodies all over the place. Blood covered the walls, dripping and oozing everywhere. The heat made the smell of the room turn from fresh to rotten.
"Good God, what did this? Relena," he said. "Where are you?"
"Jesus," Duo whispered in panic.
"Where are the girl and those kids?"
"Sitting in the hall way with some neighbor," Duo answered. He glances down at a corpse. His entire chest is exposed with limbs hanging out from his rib cage. Duo shivered. "What is this, the Twilight Zone?" Duo said.
"I think it's far worse than that," Heero said.
"Thanks for reminding me. Now I can sleep much better at night," Duo muttered.
"Put your guns down," a new voice said. Both comrades turn around to see someone standing there in the door way, carrying a flat object in his hand and staring elsewhere in the room. "If she sees those she'll kill you."
"And just who the hell are you?"
"Do it now," he said.
"He asked you something," Heero said.
"Daniel," he said. "Now put them-GET DOWN!"
Heero and Duo twisted to the floor and saw one of the men swinging a knife at them. But in a flash his entire body crushed into nothing. Both men sat there staring at the body. Duo quickly made a loud gulp. As for Heero, he felt something besides Daniel standing over him. He turns slightly and saw someone dressed in a paramedic's uniform and drenched in blood. Heero also caught sight of the strange looking hair. 'What….' He thought.
Duo turns and gazes at the stranger. Even though he was staring at the person upside down he immediately grew concerned at the body structure of the stranger, including the hair, clothes, and the way Daniel was staring.
"Are you going to make me deaf with that thing?"
Heero listened to the voice over and over in his mind. He recognized that voice! He turns over his stomach and gets up. Duo got up seconds later and gazes at the stranger. He turns to his partner whose face appeared to have seen a ghost. He never had seen that look on his face before. 'Did I miss something?' he thought.
Daniel stared into those yellow orbs. Those eyes are far worse than the last he had to deal with. These eyes said 'murder, hunter, and killer.' That was all that said upon them. But then he thought about her question. Daniel grew a concerned look upon his face. Last he checked, 'those freaks' never asked questions to someone's motive. They just do what they do. Relena on the other hand, asked. The other thing that bothered him was how she knew the device.
"How…."
Suddenly she grabbed a hold of his jaw. He gasped feeling the pressure upon him. He drops the device to the ground and felt himself being lifted from the ground. Relena pulls his face towards hers.
"Move," she demanded. She throws him into the hallway and he crashes against the nearest wall which obediently crumbled. Relena rushed out the door with inhuman speed.
"Holy shit," Duo said rushing out the door. Heero ran out right after him. He turns to the hall way and turns to look up at the next flight of stairs. He heard loud steps stomping upon them, echoing through out the building. Quickly the Gundam soldier rushed up the steps.
"Hey you okay, man?" Duo said.
"Never mind that," Daniel said, getting up. He felt for his chest. "One or two fractures but I'll live, Maxwell."
"How did you-"
"You're not the only soldier in here," Daniel said. He pushes him aside and grabbed the device from the ground.
"Who was that?" Duo said.
"I think you know. We better go after her before those men outside do. Come on," Daniel said running towards the stairs. Duo followed. 'What the hell is this guy's story?' he thought.
Heero finally reached the top of the stairs and charges out through a door. He appears upon the roof top of the building. He gasps for air. For once he's tired from running. Strangely, Relena ran at a speed that could top the greatest athletes in the world. 'What the hell is going on?' he thought. He kept imaging Relena in the apartment. Why did she look so different?
He turns towards the side and walks towards the ventilation chambers. He peeks pass them and sees nothing. Could Relena really be hiding?
"Relena," Heero called out.
No answer came from her.
"Relena, I know you're here. Come out."
Heero still received no answer from her.
"Heero," Duo said. Daniel appeared by his side, still carrying the device.
"She's hiding. That's common if she's hunting," Daniel said.
"What are you talking about?" Heero said.
"None of you have weapons on you, do you?"
"Yeah, of coarse," Duo said.
"Throw them away or she'll-"
"Freeze…!" someone said screaming into Daniel's ear. Another recruit pushed Duo to the ground. Heero on the other hand pointed a gun at them. "Drop your weapon or I'll shoot your friends here."
"What makes you think I give a damn what happens to them?" Heero said coldly.
"PUT YOUR WEAPONS DOWN, SHE'LL KILL YOU!"
But a shadow crept over them, ready to kill.
Chapter 11When Shit Happens
Cliffhanger…
The next chapter is about to get bloody.