A/N: the second part! enjoy! Please review
Prawn Speech
Dingane was woken early in the morning, just as the glints from the rising sun that escaped through the little gaps in the wall hit his sensitive eyes. He groaned as he rolled over, pressing his hands to his head as the pitches clashed inside of his head. The Mothership was on its way. Very close now.
"Get up, lazy bones!" cried a happy girl's voice, and Dingane groaned, rolling over again to see Kagiso's smiling face watching him from the corner of the room. She had quick reflexes, he noted to himself.
"Why should I? I'm quite comfortable." Dingane exclaimed, settling further into the dirt, his scales collecting the debris from the floor.
"You promised we would go out today!" she exclaimed, laughing. Dingane got up, shaking himself quite like a dog would, dirt creating a cloud around him. His mandibles clicked together as he spotted the figure in the corner watching them.
"You said Big Papa was to be turned off." He grumbled, tidying up the shack as the girl followed behind, her bare feet scuffing in the dirt.
"He didn't want to miss anything with his two favorite people." She said, and she walked over to the mechanical prawn, patting him on the arm. The mechanics groaned as Big Papa sank down to warbled something into her ear.
"You don't say. You would do that for us? She asked, and the mechanics groaned again as the suit turned, looking over at the area the other prawn was in. He paused, turning slowly around as if her felt he was being watched. He turned around just as slowly, his large amber eyes locking onto the girl's.
"What does he want?" he asked, looking from her to the suit. The girl laughed, looking from Big Papa to Dingane.
"He'll watch the house for us, now lets go!" she said, and she danced over, tugging lightly on Dingane's arm. Dingane paused before they left, picking up…something. Kagiso couldn't really see what it was, but Dingane walked out, pulling Kagiso behind him as he did.
As they left , a Prawn walked past them. Dingane noticed his unusual coloring, a deep red color on his shell. He nodded to Dingane, but his eyes locked onto Kagiso, making him pause. Kagiso balked, not walking pas the other prawn as Dingane's grip on her arm was loosened by her thrashing.
"NO! she said, and the prawn looked startled but her was grinning. Dingane looked at Kagiso, startled, and when he looked for the other prawn, it was gone. Kagiso started crying, her knees giving out as she gave into her fear. Amazingly, she hadn't shown any signs of her transforming into her prawn form. Dingane looked around quickly, noting that no one cared. They were used to one human…well, half human…..girl hanging out. They were all sick of being stuck here. They all could hear the mother ship.
"Kagiso?" Dingane asked. She looked up, wiping tears away. She got up, leaning heavily on the shoddily built wall behind her. She shook her head, moving closer to him.
"Shall we get moving?" she asked. Dingane nodded, and they moved forward, walking into the crowded 'streets'. There were so many prawns that they struggled to stay together. A figure followed them, tugging lightly at the girl's ratty clothes, slowly separating her from her companion. Kagiso didn't notice until she was in an alley. A darker alley, that had absolutely no one in it. She heard someone behind her, and she turned to see a familiar figure behind her. She backed into the alley, her breathing labored.
"No. Not you!" she screamed, and she backed further into the alley she had ducked into. In front of her, a prawn stood tall, clicking angrily as he stalked forward. In her mind, everything she had learned was tucked away as pure terror filled her mind. Adrenaline rushed through her body, quickening the transition from human to prawn. Not a trace of human was left, and she sat, clicking quietly in fear as the other prawn walked forward.
"I didn't think you would remember me. I'm flattered." He said, and he continued to stalk forward, his eyes glowing with a predatory light. From behind him, a prawn called her name, but from the faintness of the call, her would be savior was a long ways away.
"Leave me alone!" She said, but her voice shook, and she tried to press herself further into the wall behind her. The other prawn just laughed, bending down so that he was in her face. Her eyes locked onto his as he straightened slightly, the glint of metal in his left hand.
"Now why would I do that?" he asked, and she shook her head, trying to squirm away as he pinned her to the wall. He leaned on her slightly, the metal object nearing her neck, towards the separation of scales there. She panicked, flailing her arms around and effectively knocking the needle onto the dirty ground beside her. The other prawn's eyes flashed, anger building in their amber depths.
"That was going to help you." He said, and she kicked out at him, but he caught her leg before it could make contact with him. She managed to push her way up, forcing him back a few feet, but he threw her to the ground, and she hit her head pretty hard. Her vision went fuzzy as she felt hands trailing over her body, in places that she didn't want to be touched. There were a lot of strange noises and she felt herself tear up as the pain overwhelmed her, driving her into unconsciousness.
Dingane ran as fast as he could, intent on reaching Kagiso before something bad happened to her. He knew that that prawn from before meant nothing good for either of them. He could almost tell that he was out for her; by the way he was always watching her. It was almost like they knew each other from before, the way he freaked out Kagiso.
"Kagiso!" he called as loud as he could, struggling to find her in among the scattered shacks and trash. He didn't know how they had managed to be separated, but he wanted to make sure that she was okay. District 10 was a scary place when you didn't know what you are doing.
"Left!" said another prawn, from a corner he darted around. He nodded his thanks, running towards the shrieks he heard. He knew Kagiso's prawn voice almost as well as he remembered her human one. He stopped a few shacks over, trying to hear what was going on. He wanted to make sure that he didn't make an already bad situation worse.
"Time to take you back." Said an unfamiliar prawn voice, and Dingane walked closer, his antennae twitching. There was the sounds of a prawn carrying something as Dingane walked around the corner to see the prawn from earlier carrying Kagiso in her prawn form. He stopped, his eyes hardening as the other prawn also stopped, looking him over.
"Give her to me, grotto." Dingane said, watching the other prawn as he tried to find a way out of the alley. The other prawn laughed, shaking his head as he cradled her closer to himself rough enough to make Dingane wince.
"She's mine." He said, and Dingane walked forward, his hands curling and uncurling into fists. The other prawn also walked forward, glaring at Dingane as he walked forward.
"She was mine first. I want her back." Dingane said, and the other prawn laughed again, shaking his head no.
"She and I go way back." He said, and he leaped to the roof of one of the shacks making the alley, running with Kagiso in his arms. Dingane furiously followed him, his footsteps heavy with anger. There were shouts from the prawns that owned the shacks as they ran over the roves, leaping from one shack to another like rocks between rivers. The prawn stopped running suddenly, looking down at the gathered crowd beneath him. He turned towards the one that was following him; a smug look on his face as he took a neat step backwards towards the edge of the roof with every step that Dingane took towards him.
"I will take her with me." He said, and Dingane laughed, looking towards the gathered crowd behind the other prawn.
"Where will you go? They will rip you to shreds for wrecking their district." Dingane said, and the other prawn sagged suddenly, letting Kagiso drop from his arms as he turned towards the crowd.
"One thing to remember; my name is 87146B." the other prawn said, and with that, he bent down, laying Kagiso down on the roof and disappearing. Dingane left the others to take care of him as he saved Kagiso from rolling off the roof. She was battered and bleeding from a nasty wound to the head, and he wanted to make sure that she was going to be okay. He looked over the gathered crowd absentmindedly, distracted by what the prawn had said. He walked off of the roof, landing hard and cradling her closer as the impact from the ground rocked through his thin frame. He walked quickly back to his shack, his antennae twitching with worry and fear. This riot would cause more MNU agents to comb through the District. He was more worried about Kagiso then ever.
"Dingane?" Kagiso asked, her light prawn voice barely audible. He looked down at her, seeing the pain and the blood from the head wound. She shifted slightly, curling further in on herself as she groaned in pain. Dingane looked her over as she gripped her abdomen. He noticed then that she hadn't of changed back into her human form. Something was wrong. Very wrong.
"What's wrong, Kagiso? What did he do to you?" Dingane asked, looking her over. It was when she groaned again that he noticed some of her scales were ruffled in bad places. Dingane's thin frame was shaking in anger by the time he walked into his shack. He set her down on the bed as Big Papa walked closer, scanning her. He rumbled in anger, his mechanics running smoothly for the first time Dingane had seen him recently.
"YOU KNOW WHAT HE DID TO HER." Big Papa's voice thundered through the air. Dingane jumped, looking at the suit, before he sighed, then punched a wall in anger, knocking off a panel of scrapped aluminum.
"Yes." He said, and he turned to the shivering form on the bed, watching her as the sun slowly sank below the horizon.
A/N: Well, that was interesting....please, tell me waht you think!
