It was a couple days after the curing of kid that the next leg of the journey started. By now the activities at gallows manor had returned to usual.
The trio were sitting at the dining table, eating. Or at least, Liz and Kid were. Patty was making her food into little giraffes.
"hey kid?"
"Yes, Elizabeth?"
"Did you ever catch that green-haired guy's name?"
"…now that you mention it… no."
"weird. Patty, have you learned his name?"
"that's a no, nee-chan!"
"strange. He's lived with us for, like, a week and a half, and none of us have learned his name. I think im gonna go and ask him real quick. I'll only be a min."
"im a generous shinigami. Have 8 minutes."
Liz rolled her eyes as she walked up the stairs to green-hair's room.
At first, green-hair had refused to take a room. As time went by, however, and green-hair got more comfortable, he eventually took one of the 5 guest rooms. (combined with liz, patty, and kid's rooms, this, of course, made 8 bedrooms.)
As Liz walked down the hall towards green-hair's room, she heard the crackling of static, coming from his door. She walked over to his room and opened the door just a tiny bit.
To see a scene straight out of "Poltergeist".
Green-hair was kneeling at the foot of his bed, in front of the 36-inch flat screen hdtv which occupied the room. He had both his palms on the screen of the TV. His good eye was closed, but his black-yellow eye was doing something bizarre. A small, blue, ghostly cord connected from it to the center of the TV. Green-hair was doing a bizarre, unearthly chant.
As liz watched, though green-hair continued to chant, she swore she heard… words. In her head. One was green-hair's voice. The other, a voice in a bizarre language. It was definitely female.
No… no…
Gurren lagan. Dinoas mikkarne liyonos.
How… how did you…
Rekkton drinos. Karans makano lalayso.
No… I won't let you…
Dektronia. Dalk ba lmenos chkarne.
You… you wouldn't… you can't…
Kao malk.
Im….. im never going back… im happy here… I have found… friends…
Kra ka ka ka ka ka! Joo skarne nego fraine.
No… you're wrong… you're wrong…
Skarr mess. Lectron kenoar bekare lamo. Felo daiy.
Burn in hell, you heartless bitch.
At this last bit, Green-hair removed his hands from the TV. The static stopped, he stopped chanting, and the cord from his eye disappeared.
He turned and saw Liz for the first time.
"ah! Liz! What're you doing there? I mean… when did you arrive?"
"um… I opened the door just now…" Liz lied, thinking it was best not to reveal that she had heard the conversation. "Is something wrong?"
"oh, heavens no! I was just… surprised to see you." Said green-hair, becoming happy. Liz strongly suspected it was a false front, for something within him. "is there something you require"
"um… oh yeah." Liz had nearly forgotten the reason she had come up in the first place. "I just wanted to ask you… what's your name? I never learned it."
"really?" said green-hair, looking shocked. "how thoughtless of me! I apologize, sincerely. My name is-"
KRA-KOOM!
Green-hair was interrupted by a huge explosion. It sounded like it came from about a quarter mile away, somewhere in death city.
"what was that?" said Liz.
Green-hair's good eye went distant, and he paled. "no… already… it couldn't be…"
Ignoring liz, green-hair spun around and shot to the window, throwing open the curtains.
They both gasped as they saw what lay outside.
A huge tripod loomed over death city.
Its huge feet slammed down mercilessly. Countless lasers shot from turrets on its underbelly, obliterating buildings.
"no… NO!" Shouted green-hair. "THIS ISN'T HAPPENING!" he ran over to liz and put his hands on her shoulders. "Liz, I have to stop this. For the love of god, do not follow me, or attempt to fight that thing, no matter what happens."
He ran back to the window, and, tucking his arms and legs so that he formed a ball, he barreled through it. Then, as Liz stared, his arms shot out, and formed bat wings. He grew talons on his feet, and grew purple fur all over. Green, pointy ears shot up on either side of his Mohawk. He flew to the tripod, and engaged it in combat, circling it and diving at it, slashing with his talons. He unleashed sonic screeches from his fanged maw, blasting the tripod, which staggered, but did not fall. It turned its turrets towards green-hair, and began to fire at him. Green-hair also staggered in midair, but did not fall.
As they fought, Liz realized that she couldn't just sit here. Green-hair fought fiercely, but he wasn't a match for the tripod, which was slowly but steadily wearing him down.
She sprinted down the quaking hall and stairs to the dining room, where Kid was desparately, futilely trying to keep the paintings in place. Patty was pouting because her food-girrafes had fallen over.
"guys! Death city is under attack!"
"who cares?" said Kid. "my paintings will fall over!"
"dammit kid! The entire city will fall over is we don't do something!"
"the city can be rebuilt! These paintings are perfectly calibrated and symmetrical, placed exactly so-"
Liz came up with an idea. "the symmetry of the city and buildings will be thrown off too! All those buildings, ruined…"
Liz blinked. Kid was no longer protecting his paintings, but jumping at the door impatiently, patty in hand.
"HURRY UP LIZ! WE NEED TO SAVE THE CITY!"
smirking, liz transformed, and leapt into Kid's hand, who wasted no time whatsoever in sprinting out the door towards the tripod.
cliffhanger time!
Hope you guys like this chapter.