GUESS WHAT? I NOT DEAD!
Thank you to those of you who were concerned (And I know none of you were) but I'll be nice and post the chapter.
The chapters might get shorter because I have no one helping me.
I shouldn't take all the credit for this story. My good friend Meli has been behind me the whole time giving me ideas and encouraging me and stuff… (Actually…now that I think about…it was more like she was threatening me so I'd finish the story).
But now that I have moved thousands of miles away from her and my other friends (I mean another country!), It's hard to stay in touch so I'm basically by myself. But I'll try best to give the same quality or better for future chapters.
Chapter 4: Shadow Stalker and the MutantBunny
A shadowy figure stood outside a girl's window watching her intensively. Kana was running around her room looking for the other foot of her school shoes.
"Where is it?" Kana shouted.
She threw various books and objects that were in her path; although, this was not doing much to help but she continued this to let out her frustration.
She finally decided to stop and take a breath. A light breeze floated in through her window. This calmed her down.
Kana walked over to the window to see the beautiful scenery.
Everything seemed peaceful for once in along time.
The sun was shining, the birds were singing but for some reason Kana had a usual feeling…
…A feeling that made her restless and on edge…
…Like all that was happening was just the calm before the storm…
…It was like someone was playing a trick on the world and she was one of those poor fools.
Of course she didn't like this feeling and intended to get to the bottom of it all.
It was just then when she was lost in thought that she saw something strange. It was a shadow moving on its own.
The shadow seemed to be tailing a man that was walking his dog, but that was impossible. Maybe it was just the man's shadow and the direction in which the sun was coming from. She leaned further out the window to get a closer look.
Then a strange thing happened, even though the man kept walking the shadow stopped, then as if it sensed her staring it looked up at her and she felt a strange connection as if she knew this 'thing'.
But out of the corner of her eye she saw something…
…something she had long forgotten…
…The other foot of her shoe! Kana picked it up and quickly forgot about the impending doom.
'I really need to lay off the sugar; I'm starting to see things now!' Kana thought to herself.
But oddly enough, it seemed as if her shoe was placed there to distract her from the 'bigger picture'.
Of course none of this seemed to bother her and she quickly put on her shoe and skipped out the door humming happily.
-
Kana was walking silently on the way to school. She had a lingering feeling that someone was following her.
She kept quiet so that she could focus on any sounds of foot steps behind her but all she heard was the sound of someone jumping from tree to tree at a really fast speed, or was it just the wind blowing.
Then she heard it, the sound of foot steps.
Kana's heart started to thump. Thought of last weeks encounter with a space alien filled her mind.
'It's the space aliens from last week. They've come back to get me because they know that I know that they are secretly planning to take over our world and suck out our brains through our ears using a straw,' Kana thought.
She began to walk a little faster.
'I should pretend that I don't know that they are trying to attack me. That way, when the time comes, I'll have the advantage.
Even so, she began to pick up speed. Nervousness filled her body, then as if it came out no where, she heard her name.
"Kana! Kana! Hey wait up!" the voice shouted.
Without even thinking that it might have been someone she knew, Kana started to run at top speed.
She could hear the 'alien' gaining on her.
Kana ran straight across an intersection, hoping that this would hinder the 'alien' long enough so that she could get away, forcing many other cars to come to a sudden halt.
The first car stopped another hit it in it back and it went on like this for eight cars.
At the street that was facing her, a car stopped so suddenly that the other one tried to swerve out but ended up sending the car flying and crashed into a nearby shop.
The car just barely grazed Kana's hand. If it had been any closer then the car would have taken her whole arm off.
But the one that was the most dangerous was the car to her right that didn't seem like it was going to stop. She heard the screech from the car's brakes and turned around in time to see the car hit her.
Kana went flying through the air and landed on the ground ten feet away from where she was standing.
The frightened driver quickly jumped out of his car and within a second he was by Kana's side.
"Hey girl! Girl!" The driver called out to Kana.
'Please don't be dead! Please don't be dead! But what if she really is dead, then what? Dude make a run for it? What if the police put me in jail?'
"Wake up, please wake!" The poor man pleaded.
Then as if nothing had happen or as if she had suddenly remember something important that she needed to do she got up an ran off leaving some of the startled people in a daze and other honking their horns and cursing (words that I dare not mention, some of which you probably wouldn't or shouldn't know) loudly at her.
Kana ran as fast as she could, ignoring the cut on her arm.
She could still sense the 'alien' on her. The intersection didn't seem to do anything to hinder the 'alien', the only thing it did do was to cause the biggest car crash that the city had ever seen.
She ran down a dark alleyway, dodging object that seem to appear out of nowhere. She was sure no one would be able to follow her but she was wrong. Who ever this person was he was persistent. (Or is it a she?).
She shot out at the other end of the alleyway with the person following behind her.
When Kana looked up she saw a park and it gave her an idea. One that she thought would help catch the 'alien leader'. (Notice the change from alien to alien leader. She really is delusional).
Kana ran into the park and then disappeared…
-
The 'alien' ran in after her but she was nowhere in site. He walked around bit.
It really was a beautiful day. He could see that some people had take the liberty to take the day and go on a picnic but it looked to him that it was mostly couples though.
After walking around a while he sat down under a very big oak tree. He took a few easing breaths to calm him down. He heard the wind rushing through the treebut he could feelany wind. But just by chance he looked up and saw something that struck terror in his heart.
It was the site of Kana fourteen feet above him ready to jump down and she did.
Now, its luck for the 'Alien' that he had fast reflexes so he could dodge the falling Kana.
Unfortunately for Kana, when he moved she was already in mid-air and now she had nothing soft to land on and that left only the cold hard ground (contrary to her original plan).
She watch the ground come closer and closer until she was face down in the dirt and pain shot through her body and then everything went black…
-
Kana opened her eyes slowly. She was trying to get her eyes to adjust to the light. When she sat up and looked around she could see a very large lady in a nurse's uniform.
"Err… where am I?" Kana said looking around. She could see many other beds beside her and the place smelt clean like a doctor's office.
"Why, you're in the nurse's office, dear" she replied.
"How did I get here?"
"That nice boy brought you in" the nurse said
"You mean my alien stalker"
"I know he's kind of strange but calling him an alien is going too far"
"Then what's his name?"
"I think it was…konnmitsu…or Conmittu…or something like that…"
"Oh you mean Kunnimitsu. That little pervertedboy with the weird hair and the frumpy looking girlfriend?
"Ya, that's him" the nurse said, "he's suppose to be waiting for you"
"Can I go through the window?"
"I suppose so but if you get anymore injures I'm going to have to restrain you. It's the fourth time you've been here this week and it's only Wednesday."
"Okay" Kana said before climbing up on the windowsill.
"Really children these days do the weirdest things…" Kana heard the nurse mutter to herself.
The shadowy figure watched her struggle to climb on to the windowsill without hurting herself. He chuckled to himself (Or least I think it's a he, lets just refer to it as shadow stalker).
"Kana! Kana!"
Kana was so surprise that she her head at the top of the window.
"Owwww, owwwww" Kana said before losing her balance and fall out the window into some bushes.
Kunnimitsu ran up to her.
"Are you okay?" Kunnimitsu asked her
"I've been better," Kana said to him with a sour look.
"Mr. Avalon is looking for you" he said
"Why?"
"I don't know. He just asked me to call you"
"So that's why you tracked me down at my house, stalked me, made me believe that an alien was after me, so that I got hit by a car, and jump out of a fifteen feet tall tree. Not to mention the fact that I just fell out a window because you surprised me!"
"Yeah pretty much and the tree only looked fourteen feet to me, anyways I was suppose to tell you yesterday but I forgot"
Kana just looked at him.
"Why does he need me?" Kana asked.
'Oh crap he must have found out around the S.G.S, the Secret Gambling Society' Kana thought
"I don't know" Kunnimitsu answered. The bell rang and Kana and Kunnimitsu went their separate ways.
- After school-
Unfortunately Mr. Avalon was Kana homeroom teacher.
She slowly approached the door and stuck her head in to see if he was there.
Mr. Avalon was seemingly harming children with his geometry instruments.
"Sir your encouraging violence in school!" Kana shouted wagging her finger (I say that to my math teacher almost everyday. He recently ran Meli out of the classroom).
"You may leave class," Mr. Avalon said.
You'd be amazed to see how fast the classroom cleared out. Kana made and attempt to walk out of the classroom coolly and calmly. Until…
"Ms. Taishio not you"
'Aw, dang' Kana thought
"It was worth a try," Kana said. "You wanted to speak to me?"
"Yes" he said getting up and walking towards her, "It's about the up coming midterms.The school board has decided that you are going to take the midterms in a separate room, further more all instruments that are needed will be provided for you so there will be no need for you to bring anything and you will have a full body search so to make sure you have nothing with you. This is to minimize any of your chances of cheating…"
But that was all Kana heard be fore she went into a daze. She had this strange feeling that some was watching…waiting from the shadows.
Her eyes caught something. And even though it was moving very fast she could tell it was someone with a human shape.
"Taishio-chan are you listening?"
"Huh, what…yeah, yeah, yeah, I was listening" she replied
"Really then what did I just say?"
"Really what did I just say" she said answering his question
"No, before that"
"Taishio-chan are you listening"
"No, before that. Oh never mind. You kids nowadays think you're so smart," he said sighing and taking off his glasses and rubbing his eyes.
Kana wasn't quite sure why he was doing that because he looked pretty young to her. He looked late twenties to early thirties. All the girls seemed to find him quite attractive.
"Why do I have to take the test all by my self?" Kana complained.
"It's to make you don't have any temptations"
"What do mean by temptations?"
"I mean there will be no cheating"
"But I don't cheat"
"End of discussion. The decision has been made by the school board"
"Oh, one more thing before I forget.The school board thinks that youare not getting enoughresponsibilities" Avalon said.
What are you talking about? I have plenty of responsibilities at home," Kana said.
"Really" He said rising an eyebrow "like what?"
'I have to make sure my lies don't catch up with me, I have to make sure I keep my test scores up by cheating, I also need to keep all my gambling spots in tact, I need to make sure that I have alcohol in my fridge AND I have to wash my face and brushes my teeth. I don't want to get any cavities' she thought
Mr. Avalon chuckled almost as if he heard what she had said in her mind.
"I waiting Taishio-chan"
"I…um…wash….the um….dog?"
"If my mind serves me right you live in an apartment complex and they don't allow dogs"
"What are you stalking me now!"
'So he's the one that has been stalking me' Kana thought
"Your file or should I say files are in the teacher's lounge and you're in the black book everyday"
"Well, I… wash… my face and brush my teeth"
"That's not the type of responsibilities I was looking for"
"Well… I… go to school…on time"
"Actually your always late"
"That's because I have… responsibilities"
"Enough beating around the bush"
"What bush? I don't see any bush. And as far as I'm concern you can't beat a bush"
"Taishio-chan it was a figure of speech"
"Well… you might wanna tell a girl that before you start ravening about beating bushes"
"Taishio-chan the school board and I have decided that you need more responsibilities so we're giving you this"
Avalon handed her what appeared to be a shoebox with holes in it.
"So you're giving me a box. Ya that's gonna work" She said sarcastically while shaking the box. Something squeaked inside.
"You might want to open the box"
She opened it. The animal inside seemed as if it could be related to the rabbit family'. It looked like a small furry bunny animal with big round red eyes, big soft like ears, a big fluffy tail short arms and big feet with pink pads and was about eight inches tall.
"You're giving me a mutated rabbit," She said raising a brow
"It's not a mutated rabb-," He said before being cut off by Kana
"You're going to make it bit me and then I became spidergirl and shoot webs out of my hands and climb on walls"
"Taishio-chan spiderman was bitten by a spider"
"Then I'll become bunnygirl. I'll eat carrots in one second, jump tall buildings in one leap and have super thumping power" She said while thumping her foot on the ground.
"You have a very active imagination. If you would only use some of that energy you have then you would be the number one student in academics"
"Ya right. That will be the day"
"The school boardexpects you to you to take good care of it" he said handing it to her "His name is wiz and he hates to swim but loves strawberries''
"Everything has been decided by the damn school board hasn't it?"
"Well they are quite aware of your record"
"Wow… A mutant rabbit just for me…" She said sarcastically, "can I go now?"
"Yes"
-
Kana walked down the hall staring at the animal in her hand.
"What am I supposed to do with you?"
"Kyuu" it said as if trying to answer her question.
"Yea whatever" she said rolling her eyes.
"What's that?" a familiar voice asked.
She looked up to see that it was Kurama.
"Apparently it's my pet"
"Really where'd you get it"
"Mr. Avalon gave it to me. He said I needed More responsibilities or something like that I wasn't really listening"
"Can the school do that?"
"I don't know but he just did"
They had finally reached outside when they saw a large crowd.
"What's going on?" Kurama asked approaching a boy.
"It's scramble, a game"
"Huh what's that?" Kana asked
"It's a game where money it placed in the center of a crowd and no one is allowed to touch it until the word scramble is shouted out. The aim is to be the person that gets the money but you have to watch out because the other plays are allowed to kick you if you get close to the money."
"So basically it's gambling" Kurama said
"Yea" the boy replied
"Violence and gambling, me like" Kana said
"I really don't think that you should play. A lot of people go home bleeding from head injuries"
But Kana had already made her way to the center with wiz on her shoulder.
"Can I play?" Kana asked before the games started
"NO!You can't, they'll practically eat you alive"
"They would never kick a girl" Kana said making an innocent face
"No really, I mean they'll kill you"
"I don't think so. Do you have any idea who your talking to? If you don't, let me refresh your memory. I'm Princess Kana Utai Masaru from the twenty-fourth galaxy in the year twenty-twenty-o-one Taishio the Third but you can call me …Mistress Kana"
"Okay then, somebody's has been jacking up on the sugar. Anyways you still can't play"
"Well watch me and I'll win the money too," Kana said pushing her way back in to the circle.
"That's one crazy chick," Ryu said to his self.
One of the boys looked up and laughed.
"I don't think you play, cause I wouldn't want to mess up that pretty little face of your, darling"
"How much ya have?" another boy asked
"Five yen" she said ignoring the first boy
"No baby girl, we're gambling way more than that"
"NOMERCYRED SKIRT" she heard someone shout out.
This made her even more determined to play.
"Just run the game" Kana said throwing her money in the center. Some other boys threw in money as well.
"Scramble" Kana heard someone shout out.
Immediately the push and shoving started. She could see that some boys already got kicked. One poor boy got pushed to the ground and curled up into a ball and I bunch of boys were kicking him none stop.
Someone from behind push Kana and she fell to the ground but no one saw. She took this advantage and quick crept to the money and grab it all at once. Then she got up and ran off.
From a distance she could still see the boys pushing and kicking.
"Wait! Wait! The money, it's gone!" A boy shouted out
"Where's the girl?" another asked
"She's gone too" the first boy answered
"I told you I could play" Kana said with a smirk
All the boys looked her with amazement.
"Alright fine we'll see about the next time the boy said" the boy said
"Scramble!"
The pushing and kicking started again but this time it wasn't as easy for Kana to get the money. The boys kept a close eye on her and every time she got close to the a foot would swing out of nowhere and she would have to retreat to dodge.
At one point she was crawling on the ground and wiz jumped off. One of the boys kicked at her and she had to retreat by doing that she got separated from Wiz.
Shadow Stalker watched Kana get down on her hands and knees and try to crawl on the ground. He chuckled at her attempts to get the rabbit.
"You. It. Whatever you are, come here." Kana said trying to get the rabbit's attention. It turned to face her. Its large red eye seemed to study her.
"Good. Now come here." Kana shouted to it.
Wiz walked over to the money and used his ears to pick it up and carried it to Kana.
She was surprised to see that this bunny animal could do something like that.
"You are more like me. Okay here's what we do…" Kana said whispering the plan to wiz
Wiz followed her orders and jumped out of her hands and crept into the center of the circle where he picked up all the money and brought it back to Kana.
"Hey there's no money there" One the boys shouted out.
"Where'd it all go?" Another boy shouted
"In my pocket" Kana replied
Everyone stopped and looked at her.
"Prove you have the money," A girl that was watching said
"Okay" Kana said while pulling the money out of her pocket
This went on until all the boys ran out of money.
"Great what do we do? Now we're all out money" a boy said
"The girl got it all" another said
"How bout you gamble some of the money you have" a boy suggested to Kana
"No way! If I do that I'll lose money because none of you have any money to gamble. I'm not an idiot" Kana said walking towards Kurama.
"You're really dirty" Kurama said
"Well that's what happens when you crawl on the ground" Kana said looking down on her dirty hand and clothes, "at least I'm not bleeding and I made a lot of money"
"How much did you make?"
"A hundred and ten yen including the five yen I had before"
"What are you going to do with the money?"
"I'm going to buy a katana" Kana said plainly
Kurama's sweat dropt
"Yea… I think we should go home now" he said
"Anyways I'm hungry"
As they began to walk in the direction of the orange and gold setting sun , Kana noticed that Hiei was standing on a branch looking down at her. But that wasn't the strange part Kana could sense another presence one that was hidden in the shadow's.
"What's Bob doing here?" Kana whispered to herself
"Is something wrong?" Kurama asked
"No I just need to get home and have a bath" Kana said yawning, "and maybe take a nap"
The pair started to head home. Kurama also noticed Hiei but didn't say anything because he found Hiei presence weird and would plan to ask him later what was wrong.
Little did the pair know that from now on things were about to change and many adventures, unpredicted friendships, enemies and dangers were to come…
Things to think aboutfor next time:
Who is Shadow Stalker?
Why is he stalking Kana?
What is wiz?
Can the school really give you a pet?
Doesn't Kan have any parents?
Why is she still alive after getting hit by a car?
What about those poor people in the car accident?
Can shadows really move on their own?
What is 'the bigger picture'?
Why was Hiei at Kurama's school?
What news did he have?
Who's watching from the shadows?
What is going to change?
What new friends will Kana make?
What new enemies will she find?
What dangers will she face?
And will this bring certain doom for everyone?
This chapter took a long time to write. Sorry about that, most of it was out of my control. Thanks for waiting.
Peace I'm out 'til next time,
Shadow Skillz