Chapter 31: Confront
"Are you an idiot!?" Gou scolds at Bo at lunch at their bench.
"I am not. I got tired of him following us around so I scared him." Bo says bluntly.
"You think he's scared now? He killed tigers and fucking rhinos and you think he's scared of a little girl with powers?"
"Gou you are getting hysterical."
"No I'm saying that you've could have died last night because of how much of an idiot you are." Gou runs her finger through her hair.
"Well I'm fine at least."
"Doesn't make it better Bo. We need to confront him. He stalked me and my boyfriend yesterday. I CANNOT let that asshat follow around me, Makoto, or anyone else. He might hurt them in the process."
"I know Gou but how? How plans don't really go the way we plan."
"I don't feel him around. Do you?" she asks and Bo shakes her head.
"Then this is what we are going to do…" You starts telling Bo the plan.
At the Park…..
"Will this work?" Gou tightened her grip on Bo's arm.
"I don't know, this is your idea. Besides we are the baits this time instead of your brother."
"That's true…"
The girls wondered through the park as the sun went down. They came upon the fountain and stood in front of it, letting go of each other. They looked at the fountain and then to each other. They felt each other's fear and tension but did not said a word nor did anything to comfort each other. When they felt the presence, they nodded their heads and turned around.
There was the same man from the picture that Rin showed them. The man smiled and tipped his hat to the girls and bowed satrically.
"It's very nice to meet ya girls. It's honor really." he said with a thick Australian accent.
"You must be Shank." Bo said, crossing her arms.
"You already know love so don't act stupid." he said turning serious.
"You've been following us for awhile now. Do you know ours?" Gou asked putting her hands on her hips.
"Names are not important to me. Just know the man who is going to skin you alive's name so let's get started shall we?" he said taking out a hunting knife.
"Just to let you know, we are VERY different from your usual exotic prey." Bo said raising her hand causing water to flow out of the fountain. Gou waved her arms creating iced lances around her. Bo snapped her fingers and water instantly made snakes with electric shocks.
"Two little Japanese girls in school uniforms with "scary" powers. This is going to be hot and a challenge." Shank smirked and ran towards the girls.
Gou strikes the lances at Shank but he dodges quickly and tries to kick Gou. She blocked his attack and skids across the dirt. Bo attacks him with her snakes but misses. He ducks and tries to cut her but she jumps back and forms more electric water snakes.
"Oh scary." Shank said sarcastically. "It makes me want to cut you up even more, especially you Blondie." he said heading towards Bo again. Bo swings her snakes but he cuts them with his dagger. He suddenly changes his knife and gets out a syringe. Bo slings a snake but he sucks and sticks the syringe into her arm and injects the contents. She slams a snake into his stomach and sends him flying to the other side of the park.
"What the hell?" Bo looks at her arm and sees it glowing yellow and disappearing like it never happened.
"That's a gift from my boss." he said getting up. "I don't know what it is but the boss wanted one of you to have it!"
"Bo!" Gou cried out.
"I'm fine!" Bo called out as she cringes as she felt pain her arm. Her veins turned black and yellow and and reached up to the neck and disppeares but the pain became stronger. She slowly falls on her knees as she held her arm. She bit her lip trying not to cry out and slowly laid herself on the ground.
"Awe does it hurt?" Shank laughed. "Enjoy dying a painful death Blondie." he laughs Turing towards Gou. "Your turn redhead." he said twirling his danger.
You felt her knees give out and collapse on the ground in fear. Shank ran towards her about to stab her. She puts her arms up for self defense and shuts her eyes until a large grunt was heard, combined with crunching sounds. Gou slowly opens her eyes and sees Shank, off the ground, impaled by a large icicle. His tried to slide off the icicle but his body slowly slides towards the base of the icicle. Blood spattered everyone and some of his organs were we're exposed and slowly went into the ground. He slowly stopped moving and his body was split in half. Gou stared at the body unable to move.
"Gou we have to go…" Bo drags herself towards her.
"There's blood...on me…." she said in shock. She looked at herself and sees that her uniform was stained with blood and bits of flesh.
"Gou, don't worry about it. Lets go." Bo said grabbing her friend's arm. She pulled it gently but not affect.
"I've...killed a man...I've killed someone…" Gou mubbled not taking her eyes off the body.
"GOU!" Bo shouted at her bringing her back to her senses. Gou looked up at her with frightened eyes. "Lets. Go." Bo said slowly.
"Go…" Gou repeated blankly.
"Lets go!" Bo yelled again pulling her friend. "Go! Go! Go! Go!" Bo yelled repeatedly as You tried to get up. She stumbled as Bo pulled her repeating "Go". Bo dragged Gou out of the park ignoring the pain in her own body. As they quickly left the park, they didn't notice someone who was watching in shock and in terror.
…..
"Lets wash it off." Bo said ripping clothes off Gou and out them in a bucket of bleach. The liquid became red as Bo scrubbed the stains out.
"I...did that…" Gou mubbled and looked at her hand. They were not stained with blood but were covered in dirt.
"Hey did you know that reporter from a few months ago? Well she changed her mind about exposing us and decide to leave us alone. Isn't that great!" Bo tried to distract Gou from her thoughts. "We don't have to worry about her anymore. I forgot to tell you about it sorry." she said but there was no affect on Gou.
"I've killed a man Bo." Gou stared at Bo. No pulled her into her arms and rubbed her back. Gou began to cry and gripped onto her friend.
"I know. I know I know I know. It okay Gou, everything will be fine." No said shushing her,like a child and rocked her back and forth.
…..
Gou stayed at Bo's place and didn't bother going to school. Bo worried for her friend as she walked around the school by herself. She thought about last night wondering blankly. 'It's my fault. I'm not strong enough to help her. I didn't do anything to save her. I could have prevent that from happening but I didn't. I'm...a horrible friend.' she thought. She stopped and punched the brick wall. She didn't feel the pain from it and lean against the wall.
"Watanabe-san." she heard her name being out. She looked over and saw Rei standing there with such a scared look on his face.
"Not now. Leave me alone." she said harshly.
"Sorry I can't do that." he said not moving nor freaking out like usual.
"Why?" Bo asked as she stood up correctly facing him.
"Because…" he started to say. He balled his fist and then stared straight at Bo with a serious and scared look. "I saw it." he said in a low voice.
"...what do you mean?" Bo's heart stopped instantly.
"Everything that happened at the park last night. I saw...what Gou...did and...you guys can do." he said hesitantly. Without thinking, Bo grabs his collar and drags him away to a storage closet.
