Chapter 7: The journey: Part 2

"Did you have to say that?" He said while trying to hold back his nausea. "I thought Flyheight was in love with the zoidian girl."

"Not a chance." She said rising and walking out in front of him, still a little tipsy. "Van also loves Irvine."

Raven stood up to face her. She backed up a little bit and started to fall backwards. He wrapped his arms around her to stop her fall but it was to late. She took him down with her. He landed on top of her, his face less than an inch from hers. They sat there like that for a few minutes until rain felt his hand on her back and she started to freak out. She started to squirm until she crawled out from under him and curled herself up in a corner. He walked over to her and stared down at her. "Why don't you want anyone to touch you? What are you so scared of them finding out?"

She stood up to face him. "I'm not scared of anything Raven."

"Yes you are. You're scared of getting close to someone, aren't you? You're scared that you'll lose them or something."

"What do you know about me? Nothing at all! And why are you… Uhh? Shit!"

She grabbed Raven and threw him on the ground, she got on top of him and rolled them under a nearby shelf. "What are you doing?" He asked angrily.

She cupped a hand over his mouth and put her mouth to one of his ears and started to whisper. "Shut up Raven. Someone's here, and it isn't Reese. Trust me. Stay still and quiet."

After a minute Raven started to squirm a bit until Rain pushed her elbow in his chest and gave him a deathly glare. He stopped moving after that. Suddenly three grown men walked into the cabin. One a big man with a scar down the left side of his face, kind of an ugly man. The other two were a bit smaller and they looked like twins. They were holding chains and dragging something into the cottage. Rains grip tightened on Raven's shoulder when she saw that the things on the end of the chains were Willow and Shadow. "Hey boss?" One of the men asked. "What do you want done with these things? Can we kill 'em?"

"Not yet Toro." The big man replied. "We first need to find their owners. And the owner of that huge zoid outside."

"Sir." The same man replied. "I'm not Toro. I'm Tu."

The bigger man turned around and hit Tu in the head with a loud thud. The smaller man fell to the floor in jumbled heap. "I told you never to talk back to me!" He yelled at the top of his voice. Staring at Toro waiting for him to move. When he didn't the man pulled of a rod that was attached to his back and extended it. He walked up to Willow and Shadow and hit them with the stick, sending huge volts of electricity throughout their bodies. Rain gave up on hiding and jumped out and jumped in the air and kicked the bigger man in his face knocking him back on his ass. "GET HER!" He screamed as he fell.

She ran up to Willow and wrapped her arms around her neck. "Are you ok?" Willow gave a small growl and Rain smiled. She turned around and faced Toro, Tu, and their boss ready to fight. "I know you now. You're the dragon master. You have a 30,000 bounty on your head."

"A bounty hunter?" Dragon master replied. "A scrawny one at that. And all alone too."

It took Rain a minute to notice that Raven had stayed hidden under the shelf. (That heartless bastard. That was his organoid that was in that electrical field too.) She turned back and faced the three men. Tu ran at her and tried to hit her. When he missed she drew her elbow up behind his head and hit him in the back of the head, knocking him out. "Come on. Who's next. I may be small but I'm not a weakling. I grew up fighting." She said while started coaxing them forward.

Toro was the next to go at her. He came up and punched straight in the face. Rain bent in that direction but counterattacked by bringing her right leg up and nailing Toro in the back of the neck. She stood back up gently rubbing her face with a slight smirk on her face. Waiting for the boss to come at her next. When he did she tried to dodge his attack by ducking. But he brought his other fist up and punched her in the gut. Her grasp tightened on his arm until she lost consciousness. "I admit. You have spunk girl. But a female bounty hunter will never survive on her own." He laughed as he kicked his henchman to wake them up. For some reason Willow or Shadow couldn't interfere with the fight. Like they were frozen in place.

The dragon master picked up Rain's limp body and turned her back to his stomach and brought a hand up to her chin. He smirked knowing at her lifeless face.

Meanwhile back at the base. Reese had gotten in a fight Colonel Shuebaltz, Irvine, Van, Thomas, and some of the other GF members. "WHERE IS RAIN!" Irvine screamed as he dodged one of her attacks. "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH HER?"

"She's safe." Reese replied smoothly. "And she's mine." She charged up the charged particle gun to make a blast at Van. "Now die Flyheight." She shot the blast right when Van out up his shield and ran straight for the blue geno saurer. He passed right through her beam and shoved one of his blades into the gun that was in the geno saurer's mouth. Making the zoid blow apart. "What? NNNOOOOOOO!"

The blade liger and Van were pushed back from the explosion. When the smoke cleared they saw there was only a few bits of the geno saurer lying around. They looked a little further and they found Specula lying a few feet from the rubble. Irvine walked up to the organoid and pride her chest plate open. When he got ti open he was shocked to find that Reese wasn't there. "Van! Look for the geno saurer's cockpit! Reese isn't here! And I think Specula is dead."

They walked around a little bit more till they found what looked like that cockpit. After they got it open they didn't like what they saw. "Raven is going to be so pissed." Van said in complete Shock. "He isn't going to take this lightly." In the cockpit was Reese's body. She had hit her head on the computer screen and the glass that was shattered from the force of her head had been lodged stuck in her head. Reese was dead.

"I think I'm going to be sick." Thomas said as he jumped off of the heap of metal and started to throw up. "That isn't right. Why'd you kill her Van?"

"I didn't mean too!" He said throwing his arms up in defense. "I was trying to save our hides!"

"Yeah." Irvine finally decided to speak up. "But she was the only one who knew where Rain was. Thomas was in a trance the way there and back. Now how do we save her?"

Rain started to get her consciousness back when she felt someone stabbing something into her stomach. "Wake up Bitch. The boss has something to say to you." She looked down and saw a man in front of her. "Hey boss. She's waking up."

"Good. Thank you Toro." He said as he turned her around to face him. "You care for those organoids, don't you girl?" When she didn't answer him he just smirked and tossed her to the floor. "Toro. Tu. Restrain her." They did as he said as he walked up to Willow and Shadow holding out the rod he used on them before. "Now I wonder which one is your favorite. I guess it would be this purple one since it was the one you hugged earlier." He got a little closer to them but for some reason they didn't move. "Oh, and did I tell you that this rod sends pulses through anything electrical. Those pulses can paralyze a zoid. I wonder what it would do to an organoid. That's the reason why they didn't help you earlier."

He reached out the rod and pressed it against Willows throat and pushed a button. She was surrounded in an electric field. You could hear Willow not just growling, but screaming. "WILLOW! YOU BASTARD! LEAVE HER ALONE!" Rain cried as tears went streaming down her face. "LEAVE HER ALONE! PLEASE!" After a few minutes Willow stopped screaming and went completely silent. "Willow? WILLOW!"

He turned his pulse rod and walked away. Willow's body started to turn to stone. "Oh I'm sorry dear. It looks like I killed your organoid." He said while laughing. "Now should I kill the black one?"

"You leave Shadow alone!" Rain screamed out through her sobs. "You'll regret it if you touch him!"

"Oh really." He asked in amusement. "Maybe I should leave it alone than."

"Hey boss." Toro said smiling. "Why don't you kill her first. Or just shoot her and let her die slowly while she watches you kill the other one."

Their boss pulled out a gun and pointed it at Rain. All she did was close her eyes and let more tears spill down her face. She heard a gun shot but no pain. (What happened? Did he shoot me yet?)

TBC

Rain) I know I know. Another cliffhanger. But I love doing those, sorry.

Kena) Well did he shoot her or not?

Raven) How about you leave her alone so she can wrote the next chap so we can find out you enigma.

Kena) What did you just call me. I'm no enigma!

Rain) Kena? Do you even know what an enigma is?

Kena) Well, yes. It's a, uuhh, it's a…

Rain) He's gonna be awhile. See you on the next chap. The Journey part 3. Later.