Chapter 12: The Savior revealed.

The man who attacked Rain ran straight for his attacker. The other guy dodged his fist while (let's call him bill, for lack of a better name) Flew forward, lost his balance and fell sharply to the ground with a thud. "You bastard!" bill screamed as he stood back up. Coming face-to-face with a small pistol. "Whoa now buddy. Hold your fire. I'll leave." He opened his mouth to say something else but was cut off abruptly by his attacker swiping a knife and slitting open his throat.

The young man walked over to Rain's limp body and lifted up her face and lightly slapped it to try and wake her up. After a minute he heard someone shouting for her from down the alley. It was Irvine and the others. He slowly put Rain down and walked into the shadows. Slowly shadows blue eyes disappeared into the darkness. "Rain? Rain? Hey Rain, wake up?"

"Huh, uh, where am I?" She asked as she slowly opened her eyes to look into a pair of crimson red eyes. "Fiona?"

"Hey." Fiona replied. "We're at a hotel. Were going to stay here for a few nights. The colonel told us that we get a few days off till you heal."

Rain slowly sat up letting out a sigh of pain. She looked down and saw a clean pair of bandages wrapped around her waist. "What happened?"

"I don't know really. I just know that…"

"Fiona! Come on." MoonBay yelled from the hallway. "We need to get to bed, and Rain needs her rest, come on."

"Coming. Hey Rain. There are a few sets of new clothes sitting in the bathroom if you want to take a shower or something. All we could afford were two double room and two singles. You have a single and Thomas has a single. He's right across the hall if you need anything. Me and MoonBay are down the hall, two doors down and on your right. Good night Rain."

"Good night Fiona. And tell everyone else night for me too."

Fiona nodded and left the room slowly shutting the door behind her. Rain let out a slow sigh as she stood up groggy and stumbled over to the sink and splashed some cold water on her face. She looked around the room for a bit and gave a slight smile. They musty have wanted to stay here in style. There was a huge bed, bathroom, TV, balcony, and a closet. "This place is pretty nice." She said as she looked around a little more. "Uh, what happened tonight?" She asked herself rubbing her head.

"You don't remember?" A deep voice said from the balcony. "You were attacked by some guy."

She turned to face the voice and let out a small gasp that caught in her throat. "Raven?" She finally choked out before she fell to the floor with a scared look on her face. "What are you doing here?"

"Is that any kind of attitude to give your savior Rain?"

"Savior? You mean, that? That was you?!"

"Of course. Who did you think it was? That stupid Flyheight?"

She stood back up slowly and walked over to him. "What are you doing her?" She asked him as she started to get a little tipsy and dizzy.

"Hey Rain? You ok?" He put his hands on her shoulders only to get them quickly slapped away as she sat down on the bed. "Rain, what's wrong?"

She wrapped her arms around her stomach and looked up at him with a cold stare. "You've changed Raven. Since when have you ever cared for someone other than yourself?"

"What are you talking about?"

"You are suddenly being nice to me. You know that my reason to go near you is always to kill you. Now your acting like that never happened." She stood up so she could look him the eyes. "Do you even know that Reese is dead?"

"I know she died. I saw them cleaning up the mess from her zoid, than I saw them carry her lifeless body to a fire pit along with Specula's. But why should I care. I never liked or loved her."

He looked back down at her to notice that she had turned away from his face with tears lacing her eyes. But not falling. He reached a hand to touch her face but it was also quickly slapped away right before she walked past him. She stopped when she was a few feet away from him but still refused to face him. "Why are doing this Raven? Why? Do you like me? No, what am I saying? You've always hated me. Ever since we met you couldn't stand to see my face because I'm friends with Van."

Her breath caught in her throat when she felt a pair of strong arms wrap around her shoulders and a warm forehead press against her cheek. "How can I hate someone who treated me like I was a friend, not an enemy?"

Rain turned around in his arms to face him, when she saw his eyes she quickly pushed him back and walked over to a wall and leaned up against it and looked everywhere but at his face. "I'm still you enemy Raven. We can't change that. Van would kill you if he saw you here right now than shoot down my pride for even talking to you."

Raven walked over to put both arms on each side of her, blocking her from escaping. "Look at me Rain." She slowly looked up with a very cold stare. He felt a chill go down his spine but didn't let it bug him. They heard someone walking around outside and he started to get worried about being seen. "Rain, listen to me. Holding your defenses up like this never helps. Please, at least let them down and tell me what's wrong."

They heard a soft knock on the door than Fiona's tired voice. "Rain, you need to take you pill or you'll never get to sleep tonight."

"Pill? Rain, why are you taking pills?" Raven asked right when she shoved him in the closet and walked over to the door and opened it. "Just give me the pill so I can back to sleep Fiona."

"Here it is. Rain, you look sick."

"Thanks, I love hearing the polite way of telling me I look like shit." She replied to her with a smirk. She tossed the pill Fiona gave her in the air and caught in her mouth. "Night Fiona."

"Night Rain."

She shut the door and Rain walked over to the sink and started to cough till the pill landed in the sink. Than she looked over at the door and squinted her eyes. Right than the door clicked as it locked. She reached in the sink and picked up the pill and was about to throw it away till a strong arm caught her hand. "Swallow that pill."

"Give me a break Raven. I tolerate pain better than anyone I know, I don't need pain pills."

"Pain pills? Well take it anyway, humor me." He said as he handed her a cup of water. "What do you need pain pills for?"

He watched her put it in her mouth and swallow it while staring at him with a very cold stare. "I got in a little bit of trouble last night, that's all."

She started to walk past him till her caught her and pulled her back. "Tell me the truth." He said as he held her in a tight hug."

"Would you let me go you…" Her voice caught in her throat when he pressed up against her and kissed her. Her eyes shot open and just stared at his closed eyes. After a minute she started to relax, for some reason, she liked the feel of his lips against hers. ("This isn't right, I shouldn't be doing this. But if it's so wrong? Why am I kissing him back? Why does it feel so right?") Those questions and many others ran through her mind as the kiss lasted for a few seconds more, she finally shut her eyes and started to feel weak in his arms.

He finally released her lips and smiled, she stared at him with a mix of confusion and anger written clearly on her face. "Sorry Rain. I couldn't help myself." He let her go and took a step back waiting for her to smack him. When the smack didn't come he was the one to wear the face of confusion. Rain walked over to the bed and laid down on her stomach and buried her face in a pillow. Raven unwillingly walked up and rested a hand on her back. He felt her shudder at the feel of his touch and he quickly removed his hand. She jerked up and propped herself on her elbows and looked at him. Her face was expressionless. "Sorry Rain."

"Don't be sorry. It's my fault for not letting anyone near me for all these years." She sat up and faced him, her face a little more solemn as she forced a smile. "You really have changed Raven. But do you think it's for the better?" He could see tears start to form in her eyes but she refused to let them fall, she just held them back and waited for his reply. When he sat silent she inched closer to him and shook his shoulders to see if he was awake. "Raven?"

"I wish it was for the better. But feelings are just a weakness. A dirty nagging weakness that will soon destroy you." He replied as he looked away from her face. "Hilts and Prozen would kill me if they saw me like this." It was her turn to put him in a warm embrace. She reached over wrapped arms around his waist and leaned her head into the crook of his. He shuddered as he her soft warm breath on his neck. He moved a little bit so he could look at her face. She was looking up at him with a small smile. He forced a crooked smile and helped her back up. "Thanks Rain." She gave him a weak smile and started to shake slightly. "Hey, are you ok Rain?" He saw her hand wrapped around her stomach and reached down and took her hand off of her side. She shuddered as he pressed his hand against her side. He grabbed her shoulders and laid her down on her back and lifted up her shirt to see what was wrong. All he found were a bunch of bandages wrapped around her waist with a slight tint of pinkish red on them. "Rain, what happened?"

She started to sit back up till she was forced back down. She looked up and saw Raven's worried expression. "That's why I take the pain pills Raven." Is all she could say before she passed out again.

"Rain?" He asked quietly. When he saw that she had passed out he took matters into his own hands. He lifted her shirt back up and slowly peeled away the bandages to take a look. All he saw was a long cut down her right side. He looked around for a pair of clean bandages. He found some near her clothes and walked back over to Rain with the bandages and a bowl of water. He washed her up and redressed her wound. He pulled her shirt back down and laid down next to her to wait for to wake up. A few minutes later her eyes started to twitch than slowly fluttered open. "Hey Rain." Raven said with a smile when she saw him. "Feeling better?"

The pain pill finally kicked in and she couldn't feel her side and nodded. "Did I pass out again?"

"Yes you did. But you're cute when you're asleep."

"Mmmm. I think I'm still tired though." She said as she pressed her head against the pillow and smiled.

"Than I'll let you get some sleep Rain." He said sadly as he started to rise. He felt her hand grab his as she pulled him back on the bed. "What Rain?"

"Can you stay till I fall asleep?"

He reached over and pushed some of her silver hair from her face. "If you wish. I'll stay as long as you want me too." He looked up when heard something on the balcony. Rain looked over and laughed when she saw Shadow sitting on the balcony. "Well, looks like he found me."

"Come on in Shadow. You can stay too." Rain said with a smile as she patted to end of the bed. Shadow gave a confused look and reluctantly padded in and curled up at the end of the bed. "Well Raven. It looks like you're staying here tonight."

He smiled as he wrapped his arms around her and pulled her closer. "Well it looks like your not scared to let someone touch you now." He said with a smirk. She just smiled playfully and poked him in the stomach. He jumped a little bit but settled back down and ran one of his hands through her hair. She finally wrapped her arms around his neck and snuggled even closer to him. She felt his hair tickling her hand so she reached up and started twirling his hair around her fingers. "Hey now, that's my hair."

"I know, that's why I'm playing with it." She said with a smile. She reached her face up and kissed his forehead while she sat up ad looked down at Shadow. Than looked at her shirt and noticed a small blood stain on it. She got off of the bed and stood up.

"Are you ok Rain?"

TBC

Rain) Hahaha/ I'm back again. I paid attention this time and started writing in regular without the bold n italic.

Raven) Just get on with the story Rain.

Kena) Yeah. Do I even come into this thing or not?

Rain) Shut up Kena! As Mael (yes, I'm mentioning u, thanks for the reviews Mael.J ) As it was put. You're a Dolt! Or in Raven's words. You enigma!

Kena) All right Rain! What the hell is an ENIGMA?!

Rain) Hehehe Later guys!

Kena) RAIN!

Rain) I don't own zoids! And I'll catch yah in the next chappie with Chapter 13: I can't let them see you. Catch yah later! The demon RainJ