Confessions
Randy then paused the game. "I think I heard something coming from Rachel's room." Randy said. Howard looked over at the hallway. "Rachel Are You Alright!?" Howard called out. Randy stared at him. Rachel moaned quietly from the headache she know had and the fact Howard just yelled wasn't helping. "I think so... I fell off the window bed and hit my head and possibly saw my dark assassin self through the window but you know, I'm perfectly fine." she replied with a bit of sarcasm.
Randy and Howard quickly went to Rachel's room to see what happened. She was moaning softly from the pain steering through her head. She was still on the ground. Dark Rachel continued to watch her. Randy saw Rachel on the floor and helped her up. Howard stood by the door. "thanks." she mumbled slightly, still dazed from hitting her head. Dark Rachel watched her. No matter how hard she tried she couldn't kill Rachel. "You're welcome." Randy replied and gave a quick glance at the window. Dark Rachel's eyes glistened and disappeared. Randy's eyes slightly widened and he lead Rachel away from the window. "So she's there? Howard asked. "Maybe..." Randy replied. Rachel backed away from the window with fear in her gaze. Dark Rachel vanished.
She hid from their view. "Don't worry, we will be alright." Randy tried to reinsure Rachel. "Yeah, but for how long?" Howard asked quietly. Randy looked at him. "Howard you're not helping." he replied. Rachel nodded slightly. Dark Rachel watched closely. Randy let Rachel sit down. Rachel was trying to make her headache go away. Dark Rachel had been trying to make her snap and lower her guard. Rachel was trying to calm herself. Howard watch them, as if something terrible was about to happen. Rachel looked at her window then sighed. "I'll be fine. I'll call you if I need help." Rachel said as she sat on the bed.
"Ok sure. We'll be over there." Randy replied and the two boys left. Rachel closed her door quietly. She climbed onto her bed and was trying to relax and strengthen her guard but it was only growing weaker. She saw her locket glowing a dark blackish light. Randy and Howard went back down stairs. Rachel was trying to keep under control but she suddenly blacked out and was breathing heavily. Randy looked back and sighed. "Come on, don't worry. If that Wacko wanted to hurt her, she won't be hiding." Howard said without much thought.
When Rachel came to she had sharp short claws that if she just lightly ran then across someone's arm it would leave a deep gash. She had slight fangs and was stronger than she was a moment ago. If she held onto someone's wrist and they tried to pull away she would break their hand. The color in her eyes were almost gone and were a deep blue almost black. Howard got tired of waiting for Randy to reply so he went to get something to snack on. Rachel growled and went over to the door. She opened the door. Dark Rachel watched from the distance. Randy heard the door open and went closer to if Rachel was coming down.
Rachel heard footsteps approaching her and hid in the shadows. Randy stopped. "Rachel?" he called out calmly. Rachel watched him slightly and slowly got behind him. She leapt at him, tackling him to the ground. Randy was about to attempt to escape but stopped when he got a look at who it was, well he kind of got an idea who it was. Rachel growled at him her claws digging into his shoulders. "Ah Rachel?!" Randy said as he yelped in pain and then kicked Rachel to get her off of him. Rachel fell off of him but made the gash a little deeper in the process. She quickly recovered and growled at him. Randy flinched as he crawled away from her as far as possible. Howard heard Randy and quickly went to see what was going on. He froze in his tracks when he saw Rachel.
Rachel snarled at him. She looked between the two of them and leapt at Randy again. Randy tried to get out of her way while Howard picked up the closets object and threw it at Rachel. Rachel turned her attention to Howard and snarled at him. Her cat ears perking up and her tail lashing back and forth. Howard back away. "Cunningham I think it would be a nice time for you to go ninja." he said. Randy painfully put the ninja mask on. Rachel looked between the two and snarled angrily. Randy mustered up some strength to get up and get Rachel away from Howard. Rachel growled at him angrily. The ninja took of a pair numchucks to block Rachel's attacks and tried to figure out what made her became stank.
She growled at him and yanked the numchucks out of his hands. "Whoa easy Rachel I don't want to hurt you." Randy said to her taking a step back. Rachel swung her claws at him after snapping the numchucks. "Sorry Rachel but you don't leave me much of a choice." Randy explained and then punched her in the jaw. Rachel whimpered and growled at him then grabbed his wrist. "Juice, why are you stank'd?" Randy muttered in pain and threw a flash bomb at her face. She hissed and let go of him and stumbled. Her locket was a darker shade of silver. Once her eyes readjusted she growled at him. Randy finally spotted the slight oddness of her locket and took it from her. She just grew stronger when the stank left the locket. She swung her claws at him.
Randy unfortunately fell down the stairs when getting away from her. Rachel followed him down and tackled him. Randy was only able to move and fight back with the help of the ninja suit, Howard stayed away from the two. Rachel swung at him again. Flare watched quietly. Howard walked up to Flare. "Well your helpful." he said to her while Randy was trying to de-stank Rachel. "He needs to be careful, Rachel isn't in control and she's almost killed someone like this once." She said. Howard's eyes slightly bugged out. "What, how did you stop her?" he asked. "Her locket but it seems to have broken free from its grasp on it." she said. Rachel clawed Randy's cheek. Randy jumped back and rubbed his cheek sorely. Howard looked at her. "Come again." he asked. "The locket was like its prison but it has grown strong and dark Rachel lowered Rachel's guard, allowing it to break free." she replied.
Rachel grabbed his wrist and flipped him over. "Uh..." Howard said quietly as he saw that Randy wasn't doing well at all and not moving. "Can you do anything?" Howard asked absentmindedly. "Other than watch and hopes she snaps out of it then no." she replied sadly. Nomi and Nicki appeared and saw what was happening and Nicki drew her attention away from Randy and was fighting her. Nomi went to check on Randy. Randy was just lying there. "I'm ok..." he said meekly. Nicki was dodging her attacks. "Are you sure?" Nomi asked. Rachel swept her claws at Nicki who jumped out of the way. Rachel saw Nomi trying to help randy and dashed at them. "Nomi! She's head your way!" Nicki said and Nomi just air fisted Rachel backward. Rachel hissed at him and leapt at randy who Nomi had stepped away from him to fight Rachel.
Randy took a deep breath before he did a barrel roll away from her. Rachel leapt at him again. Randy fell on over to his back and kicked Rachel over himself. Rachel hit the wall and snarled. Nicki held her down until Rachel tossed Nicki over herself and knocked her unconscious making her turn into her book form. Nomi quickly scooped her up. Rachel dashed at Randy. "Aw man." Randy squeaked. Nomi couldn't do anything to help. Rachel pinned him down and growled at him. 'No don't hurt him!' Rachel cried in her mind. She just growled back at herself. She was fighting with herself for control. She pressed her hand down on Randy's chest, her claws scraping him. Randy trying not to cry out to loudly in pain but he couldn't believe how sharp Rachel's claws were.
Howard quickly looked for her locket. Rachel was fighting with herself and she pressed a little harder. Howard face palm. "Cunningham, use the locket!" he called out. Randy kind of looked at the locket and opened it up. Rachel saw it and growled. "I'm not going to be locked away again!" it snarled angrily smacking it out of his hand. Randy watch it tumble away then looked back at her. Howard grabbed a chair. Rachel saw Howard and pressed on Randy's chest harder. "One wrong move and I'll kill him." she hissed. Howard stopped and Randy closed his eyes in pain. 'No! Please stop! You can have control as long as you don't kill or harm him any farther!' Rachel cried and she lightened her pressure a little. 'No.' it replied and it growled and pressed harder. Rachel was trying to gain control. She was trying to raise her guard. 'Flare, get Randy the necklace.' she said and Flare grabbed it and dropped next to his hand. Randy peered over at it and grabbed the locket bringing it closer to Rachel.
She hissed and pressed harder. "I will not go back!" it snarled and was fighting with Rachel again. Rachel was getting close to taking over when, out of anger it managed to pull the mask off of Randy, tossing it out of his reach and clawing him across the chest. The sudden change hit Randy hard but he tried to put the locket on Rachel before he pass out. Rachel was busy fighting with herself and so it wasn't paying attention to Randy or the locket, but once it noticed it was already around its neck and it slashed at Randy again. Rachel seeing how it was weaker got it away from Randy after it had slashed at him, and locked it away. She passed out for a bit. Howard stared at them and walked by Rachel using the chair as a shield. Randy was still breathing but it was a little hard to tell. Rachel was starting to come to. She had returned to normal. When she woke up she moaned slightly. Randy was now semi wake as Howard tried to fix up his wounds.
Rachel looked around and when she saw Randy she stepped back. "No..." she thought to herself. Howard looked at her. "Hey don't leave I need some help here." he said to her. Randy coughed. Rachel wasn't sure. "I-I..." she stammered slightly. Nomi approached and was assisting Howard while Nicki came up to Rachel. "Are you alright?" she asked and Rachel pulled away from her frightened. She shook her head and ran off. Howard looked over his shoulder and noticed Rachel leaving. Randy was too weak to move. Rachel ran outside and towards the forest. Nomi was trying to heal Randy. He wasn't want to do the art of healing unless it was life and death matter. They used it too often. He wrapped Randy's wounds carefully. Nicki watched Rachel leave with sad eyes.
Randy glanced around. "If you are looking for Rachel, she left." Howard said unhappily. Randy just looked at him. Rachel was in the forest crying. "No...Not again..." she cried. Randy sat up. Howard resided on eyebrow at his friend. Nomi carefully pushed him back down. "You must rest." Nomi told him. Rachel kept running through the forest. Randy gave a short sigh. "...What about Rachel." he thought. Rachel could hear her stank'd form talking to her in her head. "Just leave me alone!" she cried. Randy sadly laid there, thinking about how the whole fight went and that he really needed to be careful. Rachel finally couldn't run anymore and fell to the ground crying. Howard went to the other room. Nomi looked at Randy. "Are you worried about her?" he asked. Randy quietly nodded.
Nomi looked down for a minute thinking. "Do you like her?" he asked. "Well yeah uh...I mean." Randy tried to find the right words. "...She's my friend." he said and squinted his eyes slightly. Nomi looked up at him. "is that all?" he asked. Rachel was trying to ignore the voice in her head. "...ok maybe a little bit more." Randy said quietly. Howard walked up to the door way but out of sight. Nomi smiled slightly. "a little? How much is a little?" he asked. Randy looked at him but wouldn't look him in the eye. Howard walked in. "...Bro I hate to say this and break your delusional dreams but it's so Obvious." Howard said. "It is?" Randy asked. Nomi gave a small nod. "It kind of is but I don't believe she has noticed though." he said. "Oh." Randy replied. "What but you two spend so much time together!" Howard said sounding little grumpy. "Well they are both ninjas." Nomi replied. "You may go look for her just be careful." Nomi said.
Howard looked at the two. "You mean him right?" he asked. Randy set up. "Yes, Randy may go look for Rachel." he replied and turned to randy. "Just be careful." he said. "I will." Randy replied and went looking for Rachel. Rachel was in the forest crying. She had almost killed someone twice now and one of them being Randy; it upset her and scared her. Randy was now walking through the forest, doing that Nomi had told him to do "Be careful." Rachel was crying. Randy heard someone crying nearby. "Rachel." he said and went to see her. Rachel was crying and mumbling to herself. Randy stopped when he saw her. "There you are." he said as he quickly walked up to her. Rachel's head shot upward at the sound of his voice and she quickly stood up and turned around. She took a step back. "P-Please, S-Stay b-back. I-I d-don't w-want t-to h-hurt y-you..." she stammered.
Randy stopped knowing she was scared he wasn't feeling that brave himself but he knew it wasn't safe being out in the woods. "No Rachel it's ok. We need to go back home." he replied. She shook her head. "I'm dangerous. I don't want to hurt anyone." she said, tears running down her cheeks. Randy walked forward. Rachel stepped back. "Please randy... It has broken free before and it did it again and I'm not sure if I could take control again if it breaks out once more." she said sadly. "What broke?" Randy asked not sure what she meant. "The monster locked away within my locket." She replied. "...How did that happen?" he asked.
She sighed. "When I first became a ninja, Nicki gave me a special locket. She said it would protect me. I never parted with it. When my parents were fighting and became stank'd I was an emotional wreck too. The Stank became trapped in my locket like every other bit of it that tried to possess me when I was young and continued it grow. One day, I was out in the park and someone asked if they could see my locket, so of course I handed it to them. The Stank left the locket and surrounded me and didn't know what was going on and it took control and I almost killed them...I never took it off again and isolated myself for a long time..." she said sadly. She was shivering. Not because she was cold but because of the memories and cause she was scared.
"I never knew that." he replied. Randy was shock to hear that but he knew the Sorcerer was responsible for, well most of the bad things that happen to her. "There's has to be some way to get rid of it." he said. Rachel looked at him. "As long as the sorcerer's alive I'll have this, this curse." she said looking away. "Well that is pretty shoobed up." Randy said trying to think of something. "Why are you here? You're hurt and if it gets loose again it will attack you again!" she said. Randy stepped back. "I...I came back for you." he replied. Rachel turned towards him. "You came here...For me?" she asked softly. "Yeah well I was worried about you..." Randy replied. Rachel blushed slightly. "I-I'm fine...I-I was worried about you." she replied.
Randy smiled softly. "Ha I'm ok. But you Rachel, you know everyone does care about you...I do." he said looking over to the side. Rachel turned and looked at him. She was quiet for a while, unsure of what to say. She blushed lightly but didn't turn away. Her eyes were soft and gentle. "Really?" she finally asked after a while. "Yes." Randy replied and blushed a little. She smiled softly. Not a smile she gave to hide the pain of her past but an actual smile. She looked down for a moment. When she looked back up she had a few tears streaming down her face.
"you don't know how much means to me...I've always hid my true self from everyone when my mother died...my father and brother tried to get to open back up but I hid myself deeper the more they tried. Eventually I locked everyone out from my true self. When I ran into you when we first met, I must have let some of me out...the closer we became as friends the more I revealed my true self..." she said softly. Randy then smiled kindly, he was happy because she was. "I'm glad we met." he said. "I am too." she replied smiling. "But what if it breaks free again? What if I can't stop it? I don't want it to hurt you..." she said.
"I don't know. There should be a way to send it back to the sorcerer, maybe the Nomicons know something?" Randy replied. She looked at him. "it my stank'd form so as long as he's alive it won't go away..." she replied, sadly. "Nicki has tried and only the locket worked." she said. Randy looked down in dismay and sighed. "Wait...um." he said quietly, almost to himself. "So the locket is the only thing that works." he asked. Rachel looked at him. "Yes, why?" she asked. Randy shook his head sadly. "I don't know." he replied. Rachel smiled sadly. "You said you care about me?" she asked softly. Randy snapped out of his thoughts. "...Yes." he replied and looked at her.
Rachel smiled. "I care about you too." she said. Randy then smiled back. "We should head home." she said softly, blushing lightly. She started to head home. "Good idea." Randy commented happily and walked beside her. Dark Rachel watched from the distance and left. Rachel walked inside when they got back. Her hair was down and lied on her shoulder. Howard was sitting on the couch and looked up at the two. "It's about time you two came back." he said. "It's not too late Howard." Randy replied. Rachel still had faint blush on her cheeks and she just went upstairs to her room quietly. As soon as she left Howard stared at Randy with a grin. "So what happen?" he asked. "We talked." Randy said walking to his room. "Aaand?" Howard asked again. "And I need to rest. You know, Nomicon's orders." he replied. Rachel was brushing her hair out in her room smiling. She braided it and went to sleep.
(End of part four)