Chapter 20: Last resort or A different view of perspective
I have been following this pretty creature for quite some time now. I've never seen such a pretty human in my entire life. It has this beautiful long fur which would dance around its behind when it moved which it did quite a lot.
I admit I'm enamored. But you know when you live in this terribly cold and unfriendly world as long as I, a pretty sight is appreciated easily. What an exceptionel human being! A rare addition to my collection. I better let it not out of my sight. Maybe I can keep it and bring it to my other new pet.
Sniffing the air I wrinkle my snout. The human smells strange for a female. It smells rather like a man. But no this cannot be. He had learned that human beings can be distinguished easily by their smell and their fur. Well, it must be the dirt in this crabby place. This bloody scientist had ruined my good nose. When I get my paws on this crazy old man again I will bite him in his wrinkly ass. Humans are so difficult.
I watched the tall human again. He was kinda sneaking around like he was expecting an attack at every moment. How silly! Didn't he figure out that we were pretty much alone in this bloody district? He also kept throwing me glances. Boy, he didn't really expect me to jump and eat him! I'm such a cute and nice dog. Well, that's at least what the little cub, my other pet, called me. Nobody called me cute yet. You should see the little thing. He's adorable. (Never thought I'd actually say this about a human one day. But hey, my new pet is just half a portion. That doesn't really count.)
The rest of my collection had run for the day as this annoying blue gang would be coming soon. They are really annoying. They are responsible for the absense of my everybody around for the next few miles. Who's going to feed me like that? I'm an intelligent creature enhanced by several treatments but that still doesn't mean I can care for my own food. Not when it was prepared for you your entire life. Anyway that's beside the point. The human is taking too long with his way of advancing into the corridors. Can't he smell that there really is nobody around? Geez. What good use do have humans anyway? I run forward in front of the human and sit on my legs staring into his eyes willing to understand me. I go for telepathy. You never know what kind of talents are hiding in you if you never try it out. So here we go.
Listen human. The blue gang will be here shortly. Follow me to my hideout.
I turned around and ran off. But glancing behind me I didn't see the human following me. No, instead he was yelling at me again. He should really learn how to behave himself in good company. But not one to be intimidated quickly I turned around, ran up to him and made for a big jump. Being the expert I am I managed to land with my paws directly on his chest, resulting in his fall. While he was cursing and wildly swinging his arms not to mention his legs I grabbed his cap with my teeth swung it in front of his face only to sprint of with it firmly secured in my muzzle. If I could have grinned I would as I heard him running behind me yelling obscenities I've never heard before in my life – and my other pets have quite the creative language. I made a turn to my right when I smashed into something soft.
Oooops. Now I kinda bowled over the cub I have adopted for my collection a few days prior. I hope he's still in one piece. I let the cap drop and pick him up by his dirty clothes and he starts clinging to my neck right away. That was what I have feared. This little human really has one damn tight hold on you. It actually feels like he's trying to squeeze your insides out.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhh! You freaking monster! What are you doing with Kenji! Stop eating him! Spit him out!" The human is yelling now at me.
What the hell! Is this human insane? Didn't he ever hear of dogs having a more sensitive hearing than humans? And just why the hell would I eat my pet? That's barbaric.
I feel the little one let go at the voice of the other taller human. "Duo?" The little guy walks around me to see my newest pet. I really think they would go well together. So much cuteness should be prohibited. What an eyesight!
"Duo! Up! Up!" As quick as his little legs would carry him the cub ran over to 'Duo' to attach himself firmly to his leg wailing for Duo to pick him up.
"Kiddo! You're un-fucking-believable! Just how do you manage to always get me into trouble! You could have been killed. What would I have told the others? Jesus!"
Boy, just how stupid can this idiot be! Can't he bloody well see that the cub is actually happy to see him! If he makes the little one cry I will bite him in his butt. For the cubs tears and my ear drums.
I was ready to bite when I saw the taller human soften. He picked my pet up and hugged him.
"Sorry Kenji. Don't cry. You see I was just really worried. Usually I don't have to worry about someone since there is no one I need to worry about. But now there's you and you really scared me, okay!"
Duo looked at the cub. The little ones eyes were dry so I decided to let the taller human live a little bit longer. It really would be a waste to bite him anyway. Way too pretty!
"C'mon Kenji. We'll get out of here now. The raider troops could arrive any minute now."
The little one nodded and latched onto a secure hold in Duo's arms.
They want to leave? But who's going to feed me then? And just how do they want to get out of here? Is that even possible? It irked me that there might be a way to get off this planet and maybe I even might get back to my master. So when Duo, the tall human, ran, I followed him hot on his heels.
I smelled him before I heard him.
"You should head up to the main level my friend. It looks like your comrades are already waiting for you." A shadow lurked on one of the old containers we were passing just now. We were back in one of the bigger halls. I had smelled this odor quite often in the past but never seen a face. No difference this time. Anyway the tall human seemed to trust the voice and we started to look for a working escalator.
It was a sign that the guys in blue were about to arrive. The energy was always switched back on before their arrival. I could imagine their smell and it make me run faster. If they would find me I would suffer just like everybody else. I mean usually the just shot everything that moved.
Duo ran up the already moving escalators. I really hate those. Moving stairs. It feels weird. The human had no difficulty with them though.
"The raid troops will land on the highest point of the building and then move downwards in the complex. That must mean Quatre and the others have a small agile jet. Otherwise it would be impossible to fly so low between the buildings." Duo explained to nobody in particular.
Suddenly there was a huge door which led us into some kind of circular room. Through the windows on the sides we could see that a balcony was lying right behind the other door. After checking it – it was apparently locked - Duo sat the little one down and clambered some pointy things out of his hair. A really neat trick. Too bad I only have a lot hiding places but no hands. Really unfair! Suddenly I picked up footsteps. They were coming. I got restless and ran up and down. I walked up to the Duo and pushed him with my head. You have to hurry they are almost here. And they know exactly were we are. Somehow they always knew exactly where someone was hiding in the building and I knew what happened to those who were found. I pushed the human again so he'd work faster on whatever he was doing with the door.
"Goddamn it, you freaking monster. Let me work in peace or I'll make dog food out of you." He through me an angry glare and went back to work.
Before I even had the chance to consider biting him now for real it made swoosh behind us. A door opened. Unfortunately it was not the one Duo was working on. I sucked in my smelly doggy breath fearing the worst but before I could even think about it, the black clad human was running past me and jumped at the single human who had broken through our locked entrance. He sliced its throat with a dagger before the other even knew what was going on. Taking the dead man's equipment with all the calm in the world Duo walked back to the door and now managed to open it quite easily.
I have to admit I am impressed. I really underestimated this pretty human. Luckily I never carried through with my bitehimintheass plan. All three of us sprinted outside onto a kind of balcony and the stranger of before really was right. Somebody was waiting for us. It looked like a black bird. It even had claws on it. Boy, I just knew who could built tricky things like that. Today turned out to be my lucky day if I wouldn't get shot before. I realized with rising panic that the rest of the troop had found out about the death of their colleague and by now we had bullets flying around our ears.
"Fire! Just shoot them already!" Duo screamed and a black haired and spiky haired youth followed suit. Duo jumped with Kenji in his arms into the jet. I followed him without attracting attention.
As soon as we were in, the jet rose into the air. A blonde was flying it as far as I could see it from my hiding point. The cub was stuffed into a chair and everybody else seemed to fire like crazy at everything that moved beneath us on the balcony. Boy, was I lucky to be in here and not down there.
Duo stopped firing when they were out of range refreshing his stock of weapons. "The real problem is still ahead of us. We need to get past the main ship which is waiting for us on the roof of the complex."
The black haired man shook his head. "Don't worry everything is taken care off. J has given us the jet and G had installed an invisibility cloak like in Deathscythe."
But Duo shook his head. "Once you're out of that modus you are back on their radar and even if you switch on the cloak now. With our steady rising upwards it's absolutely easy for their computers to calculate our position and shoot us down. I just feel in my bones they are just waiting for us to rise over the roof rim to shoot us."
"What!" Yelled the blonde. "But we are only about hundred meters away."
The long haired youth looked to the cockpit. "Listen. Just do as I say Quat. Right before we will pass the roof you will switch on the cloak. This will throw off the computers of our airway for at least a minute. Maybe even longer."
The spiky haired teen looked with a frown at Duo. I felt something big was going on.
"You don't really plan on doing this Duo, right! This is suicide!"
Duo threw his head back and laughed. "C'mon Tro. This is war. We could die any minute. And it's better me than you guys. This is my home colony and I know exactly what I'm in for."
"Duo, this is b-"
"Save it Quatre. You can turn it as you want. I'm going out there and distract them namely trying to shoot down the crew."
"But you'll never get this far." Argued the black haired teen looking very worried.
Duo put on the last of his weapons – he had found some nice equipment in the jet. Then he smirked at his comrades. "Just you wait and see. I have a feeling I won't be alone out there."
Then Duo kneeled down by Kenji's side. "Look kiddo. I have to do my job and kick the bad guys asses. You'll be good and stay with the guys alright! And no funny business this time, ok!"
Kenji looked tearfully at him. The past few days had been horrible being separated from the only people he knew and trusted so far away from his family. I remember him whimpering into my fur in his sleep. The poor kid.
"Don't go Duo. I want you to stay. Don't leave me alone. I want you to come back." Kenji said tearfully.
That should teach those idiots to talk about serious stuff in front of kids. They do have ears and quite an outragous fantasy. It's clear that this produces some kind of horror scenario in my cubs mind.
Duo looked at Kenji's chubby face and those deep blue eyes who stared so innocently back at him. Before he even knew what he did he took off his cross and put it around Kenji's neck. He could feel the unbelieving stares of the others on his back and felt the need to explain. "It's my most prized posession. Guard it for me and I will come back for it. You have to take good care of it, ok! Promise me!"
Kenji grabbed the cross with both hands. "I promise."
Duo smiled, gave Kenji a quick kiss onto his soft hair and then everything went really quickly. They reached the roof and they went into invisible mode. Before the soldiers could even consider to shoot into the clear air Duo dropped out of nothing and started shooting everything what was in his path. Over the confusion of where the teen suddenly came other bullets joined Duo's finding their path into the flesh of many hated raider police officers. Within seconds Shinigami wasn't alone but surounded by the likes of him. And together they brought enescapably death.
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Hi guys. Sorry, if I didn't answer your reviews yet. I will tomorrow. I still don't have a new computer. It totally sucks. I might get a laptop soon. It's pretty late and I'm tired. I hope the chapter is not too confusing and that I didn't make any plot mistakes. I have no spell check programm on this borrowed laptop. So I'm sorry for my spelling & grammar mistakes. Please bear with me. Anyway I consider the next chapter as my last chapter of this arc. Finally! Btw, in case you didn't figure out the narrator of this chapter. It was the big dog Duo was so scared of in the last chapter. Thx for reading & reviewing!