Disclaimer: I don't own the Gorillaz, except for the plot.
And this chapter will have more of Noodle so I'm trying to speed this up as quick as I can!
"CASSIE!" Noodle struggled to get up and run over to her friend but kept tripping on the slippery wet ground, a sure sign that it was going to snow soon.
"C-Cassie", she shrieked again this time just crawling over to her, giving up on steadying herself as she quickly ran on her knees and hands to Cassie who was struggling to sit upright on her knees.
The person who had fired the gun meanwhile had ducked out of eyeshot and vanished without a trace. Cassie shuddered at the blood of puddle dripping below her and squeezed her eyes tight in pain while trying to support herself with her free arm which was shaking terribly from the loss of fluids over her stomach, her other arm and shirt were painted fresh of it now. "Cassie wha-" Noodle tried speaking in clear sentences but the words stuck in her throat. All that came out was a form of a sentence ending in trembling stammers and on the verge of breaking down. The brunette female slowly raised her head and her white chalky face, no longer the warm light tan that it used to be but now ghastly, almost made the Princess want to cry.
"Don't move", a cold voice ordered clicking a weapon. Noodle stiffened her spine at the command. "I want you...to step away from her", the voice continued continuing to cock her weapon at her, "Or I shoot you both".
Silently obeying, Noodle slowly stood up, able to balance herself now with her hands up in the air and backed away from the injured victim on the ground.
The monster smiled in triumph and came in closer to the light hovering above, "Good girl...Noodle". Looking up now, Noodle realized who it was that was threatening her...Paula!
"What are you doing?" she demanded trying to keep her voice calm while the whore held the gun aiming to her heart. "To get my revenge", Paula grinned nastily and paused while she took a long drink from a glass bottle and then threw the thing away when she chugged it down to the last drop.
"You're drunk", commented Noodle catching the label of the drink before it smashed to pieces in the woman's hands. "Paula...you don't want to do this".
"Oh but I do Noodle", Paula hiccuped with danger in her cold gray eyes approaching her slowly still holding the gun to Noodle's heart.
"I'm tired...of waiting for that dolt of a boy-toy of mine to c-c-come", she slurred the last word while blinking out of focus and stopped when her foot ran into Cassie's knee.
"If...I can't get rid of you by seducing him", She hiccuped staring down at Cassie with an animal instinct of rage while the victim began to tremble over the loss of blood. "Then I'll do it by shooting you instead". WIthout warning, she shot the gun...
But something amazing happened...the gun flew out of her hand before the whore even made a clear shot and the weapon clanked heavily to the cold slippery ground out of Paula's reach.
"Step away from the victim", a hard core voice growled at Paula followed by a loud click in the air, "And no one gets hurt you got me!"
Noodle and Paula's heads snapped over to the voice's direction on their left and a stranger in a black hooded sweater and baggy blue jeans came towards them in slow steps, holding a gun as well, aiming at Paula's heart now.
"Who the...hic...bloody hell are you?" demanded Paula swaying a little, almost giving way. The stranger's eyes glinted, "All in good time my friend", the dark one said.
Noodle couldn't make out the face since this one was in a Zorro like mask and had a hood drawn over her head. It hadto be a female, the voice didn't have a low tone of a guy and the lips were a dead giveaway. They were thin and slightly pink in the dim light, but they were curled up into a snarl.
"Now...are you going to leave, or am I going to have to hurt you", the woman whispered at Paula cocking her gun to threaten her, "the bullet to the gun was just a warning...the next time will be you're head if you don't bounce".
Paula hesitated. Cassie meanwhile began to topple over and...it wasn't a good sign. "Go!" The masked woman growled firing a warning shot into the air.
That scared her loud enough for the whore to run away, tripping over herself in the process as she dashed into the corners across the street and vanished out of sight.
Cassie was already on her side...her bloody hand now to her face wile lying down into a pool of blood. "I should've come sooner", the woman stranger muttered in a soft tone putting the gun away in her pocket and quickly ran over to the poor girl's aide.
"Wait a minute", Noodle snapped finally coming to sense and came over bravely to the armed woman, "Who the hell are you and why did you save us?"
The woman looked up from Cassie's wheezing and a strange glint played around her steely brown eyes. "I've been called many names durning my time here", she said reaching a hand up to her masked eyes. "But I go by the name Jay".
And with that, she removed the black mask and the hood revealing her identity to Noodle.
She was a young light cocoa skinned woman with steely cat like brown eyes and hair that seemed unbrushed with the colorof golden brown.
"We need to get her to a hospital fast", she said bending over Cassie who was trembling less and her breathing was beginning to lighten and decrease.
"If the bullet went into her stomach, she doesn't have much time...I'd say 20 minutes I reckon".
"Then we have to hurry", Noodle said quickly getting out her mobile. "I'll call 911".
"You do that", Jay told her. "I'll try to keep her breathing as long as I can".
"But first..." Noodle whispered beginning to dial, "I have to call 2D..."
The phone at Kong studios rang loud and clear through the halls. 2D picked it up and answered, "Kong Residence, 2D-er speaking".
"2D!" Came Noodle's voice, "Cassie's been shot!"
"Wot?!"
"I have to take her to a hospital, please come and meet me there!"
"All right Noodle We'll be there", he hung up.
"Mates!" He ran to the living room where Murdoc standing by the door continued to fume at the girl on the couch. "Noodle says Cassie's been shot, we 'ave to meet her at the hospital now!"
"Wot abou' her", Murdoc jerked his thumb at Annie.
"She'll 'ave to come wit us I guess come on!" 2D pulled the bassist by the arm and led him out the room. Annie meanwhile sat on the couch for a long moment and paused before finally standing up.
Her sightless eyes scanned the room shiftily then slowly moved her foot forward (She was wearing no shoes). She could feel the vibrations of 2D's and Murdoc's clanky footsteps coming from the left direction and a smile lifted the corner of her face.
"I see you", she sang before grabbing her doll and leaving the room, using the wall as a guide down the hall.
They had arrived at the hospital and the nurses immediately took Cassie in by tray table and dashed to the emergency room where Noodle waited for the news. Jay had left quickly to go find something and that she'd be back shortly.
2D, Murdoc, Russel, and Annie had joined afterwards and immediately asked what happened and Noodle quickly explained the whole story from Paula to how Jay rescued them.
"That bitch!" snarled Murdoc with clenched fists, "Trying to sabatoge my reputaion now this?" He then rounded on 2D, "This is all your fault!"
"My fault?!" 2D whined pointing at his own chest. "If you hadn't kicked Paula out none of this wouldn't have happened!"
"Don't blame me, it was your fault too, you 'ad to go cheating wit her!"
"But you 'ad to go and sack her giving her the opportunity to go an' do someting stupid and she did!" Murdoc shot back spitting into 2D's face. The two were neck and neck now.
"Stop it you two!" Russel pryed them apart, "Can't you see this is a bad time to argue, we're at a hospital for God's sake show a little decency!"
2D snorted loudly and pulled away from Russel's grip. "I'll neva show any wit him around", he growled and went to join Noodle at the waiting booth.
Annie shook her head with a hidden smile as she sensed the tension in the singer's aura.
"The nerve of tha' bloke", grumbled 2D taking a seat besides Noodle. "Telling me it was my fault...I 'ave about 'alf a mind to quit!"
Noodle shook her head from the endless worry and blinked, "Leave?"
"Yes leave I'm sick of it", growled 2D slamming his fists into his knees. "He's always pushing me around I can' take it anymore!"
"You can't leave 2D", Noodle pleaded taking his tightly balled fist, "I have a baby coming soon and I-"
"W-w-wot?" he squeaked distracted by the sentence and the girl froze. "Wot did you say Noodle?"
"I...I said..." began Noodle with trembling hands over his tense ones but the door opened and a doctor with a bald patch over his head came over to the group with a grim expression.
"I...have some terrible news", he told them rubbing his eyes wearily. He came over to Noodle and took her hand as he bended over to her eye length, "We tried...but...the bullet was...she fought as hard as she could in there..."
He tried to make his sentence clear, but he didn't have to. Noodle knew well what had happened and slowly shook her head. "No..." she moaned tears beginning to well in her green eyes.
"Noodle", 2D whispered while the doctor stood up and left them alone to give them time to deal with the bad news.
"Don't tell me it's going to be okay 2D because it's not!" she jabbed angrily and tried to hit him but the singer caught her fists and held her in a tight hug.
She cried in his arms while Annie nearby watched blankly before leaving to join her stunned father and Drummer who were crying on the inside...all pained by the news. All grieved at the thought that continued to swirl in their minds.
The beloved Harmonica player, Cassie Sanchez...is dead.