Selves Inserted
Disclaimer: We do not own Trigun, Slayers, or Sailor Moon. Please do
not sue us.
Chapter Three
---
Tannim yawned sleepily as he sat up in place, a skill borne of long
practice sleeping on couches, where one not able to sleep without
moving about routinely fell onto the floor. A second yawn popped his
ears. Finally, he opened his eyes to find his familiar world
completely changed.
The quick adrenalin surge was not reflected in Tannim's reaction to
the situation, which was to simply not move. A few more seconds of
careful reflection revealed to his sleep-clouded mind the memories of
exactly why things were the way they were.
Oh yeah. Got sucked into an anime world. Kinda forgot about that.
---
A quick shower, and a change into some normal-looking clothes later,
found Tannim standing in front of Kagato's door and knocking on it.
"C'mon, Kagato, we've got to get going if we're going to see Pluto."
Kagato had debated taking a shower, then shrugged, and teleported a
couple feet away while making sure he left the dirt and dust he'd
gathered over the past evening was left in his original position.
With a grin, he opened the door and stepped out, closing it behind
him.
"I wouldn't go around calling Setsuna by her 'other' name, just yet,
Tannim. She might have a bad reaction... and I don't want to be on
the receiving end of a Dead Scream if I can help it." Kagato turned
towards the elevators, but right before walking into the closed doors,
he disappeared.
Tannim smacked himself upside the head. "Right. Gotta stop doing
that."
Kagato's voice, from nowhere in particular, happily says, "Since this
is the first time I've heard you do it, I'll let it slide..."
Tannim eyed the surrounding area warily. "Since when did I answer to
you? You're not my boss."
"Heh," was the only reply.
---
Tannim was unsurprised at seeing Kagato standing calmly by the
elevator, obviously waiting for him. The smirk was starting to get
irritating, though.
Kagato's smirk grew into a grin, almost as if he could sense Tannim's
irritation. Then Tannim realized: he probably 'could'.
Kagato waited for Tannim to move again. Once he did, they walked over
towards a couple benches conveniently located so that one sitting
could watch the desk man and the door.
A moment later, Kagato spotted Setsuna walking towards them from his
vantage point on the astral plane. She wasn't physically there, as
Rei (as Sailor Mars), had been last night, but there was obviously
something magical spiraling her astral presence.
A few moments later, she reached the building, climbing the steps
quickly.
Tannim perked up as he spied Setsuna slide in through the front door.
In a flash he was over by her side, hands clasped in a supplication of
prayer, eyes gleaming wetly with unshed tears.
"Oh, I'm so happy to see you again!" he gushed.
Setsuna removed any indication of emotion from her face. Inside, a
myriad of emotions played within her, struggling for domination.
Finally, she settled on suffering annoyance.
"I hope you are prepared for your first day of school," she said,
voice carefully controlled.
Kagato felt something crawling down the back of his head, and a second
later, he realized he'd just sweat dropped. His grin drooped a bit,
and when he saw (in more ways than one) Setsuna's smug attitude
increase as she watched him recover, his grin shrank even more.
"School? Already? I thought we'd at least have one or two days to
get used to actually being here. What, with the time change, and new
location, and... umm... other stuff that makes for good excuses..." he
turned to Tannim, hoping he'd join in.
Tannim's eyes were burning with an inner fire as he stared deeply into
Setsuna's eyes, mere inches from her face. "My first students?
Teaching new things to them they have not learned before? It shall be
an honor and a privilege to do such a thing!" He clasped Setsuna's
hand to his chest. "Let us go right now to the school so that we may
help teach these young and able minds!"
Letting go of Setsuna's hand, Tannim dashed out the front door, fist
held high in determination.
A few moments later, he came back, grinning sheepishly.
"I forgot I don't know where the school is from here... heh heh."
Kagato just stared at his demented tutoring partner, and sighed. "Lead
the way, Sai-" he caught himself, and covered it with a cough,
"SEtsuna." He grinned at her, and waited for her to lead them towards
the school.
Setsuna glanced at Kagato with an inscrutable gaze, and then looked
back at the sheepishly grinning Tannim. She appeared to debate
something in her mind for a few moments, before turning toward the
door and walking out it.
"I guess we follow," muttered Tannim.
---
As they approached the school, Kagato began to worry. Sure, he'd
applied for this job in his world... but now that he was here, how was
he going to handle being asked questions by people who spoke a
language he couldn't even understand the basics of?
With a sigh, he resigned himself to having to cram, and learn as fast
as he can, so the students, HIS students, wouldn't think he was
ignorant, or uncaring.
After he'd realized he'd gained all the powers (and, he annoyingly-
noted, weaknesses) of a Mazoku, he had worried he would loose his
humanity to it. So far, however, he'd felt the urge to be evil,
sadistic, and generally unpleasant, but it hadn't been a Need. Some
days back in his world, he'd felt more inclined to do wrong than he
did now. So, either the change was only physical, or he'd been a
Mazoku mentally since he'd been born.
Glancing over at Tannim, however, worried him that the effects might
advance to affecting him mentally at some future point.
'Well,' he thought, 'I'll burn that bridge when I get to it....'
Setsuna lead the two men into the area where the teacher's desks were
located. Several teachers were in here, preparing for the rest of the
day during the lunch hour. Computers were at most of the desks. She
pointed to a small space, empty of a computer. "That'll be your work
area, where you two can store and grade papers. You'll share, since
we don't have much available space." She pointed at a balding middle-
age man, hunched over at one of the computers. "This is Yoshieda-
sensei, the English teacher. You'll help grade the papers, and
provide tutoring after school. You'll follow his instructions."
Kagato just nodded, before walking over to the English Teacher. After
a moment of uncertainty, he decided to bow a little, like everyone
does on TV. Then he extended his hand, hoping to make a good
impression.
Yoshieda-sensei smiled as he saw the two young men. He bowed slightly
and shook Kagato's hand. In halting English, he said, "It isu my
preasure tou meet you."
Setsuna gave a small sigh. "As you can see, we needed English tutors
badly."
Kagato blinked, but returned the smile. "This... ought to be
interesting. I'm looking forward to working with you all... and am
hoping that, as I help the students with their English, both the
students and you can help me with my Japanese."
The teacher looked a bit lost at Kagato's speech, but quickly nodded
anyways. "Yes. Ou course. Prease, the hirst crass is desu way."
Grinning, Tannim glanced at Setsuna carefully out of the corner of his
eye. His mind searched for answers to the question: why? Why were
they qualified to teach here, by her standards? They apparently
already had some sort of background in this world. What was it?
Tannim shrugged. He supposed he'd find out sooner or later.
Following a few feet behind the teacher, Kagato glanced at the clean
halls, many doors, and the students who were currently outside; they
were on their lunchtime break from learning. Not too many were
feeling much other than boredom.
The small group entered one of the classes, and the teacher sat down
the book he was carrying. He motioned to the two men to sit down in
some nearby seats at the head of the class. The bell rang to single
the end of lunch, and the students filed back into their classrooms.
Kagato watched each student on the astral plane, but kept his mortal-
projection oblivious-looking. A few moments later, he saw someone
come in with a magical aura similar to the one he'd seen on Ami and
Setsuna. Opening one eye a crack, he realized it was Makoto, and she
was staring at Tannim and him; unlike the other students, who would
glance, shrug, and sit down. A moment later, she turned and sat down,
trying to act uncaring, but keeping an eye on them as much as she
could.
Tannim was waving cheerfully as the students entered, gleefully
smiling all the while.
The young men and women settled in as usual. The class leader led the
students in bowing toward the teacher. Yoshieda-sensei motioned
toward the two young men, and said in Japanese, "These are Tannim and
Kagato, some new tutors from America. Please show them proper
respect."
Kagato just nodded at the class, smiling, eyes closed, and watching
Makoto on the astral plane.
Tannim leapt up from his seat, eyes blazing and fist clenched. "It is
on honor to be here!" he proclaimed. "I shall make it my personal
goal in life to make sure every student within my care is happy and
knows how to speak English! This I swear to you!"
Everyone stared blankly at Tannim, as he had spoken in rapid-fire
English, and most of the students couldn't follow along past the first
few words.
Kagato face-faulted.
Climbing back to his feet (not wanting to teleport and freak the
monster-wary class out) he stared at Tannim, before sitting back in
his chair. How he'd managed to fall on his face while he was leaning
back was beyond him, but he shrugged it off, and wondered what the
class would have thought of Tannim's stupid speech had they understood
it. Thankfully, almost all he could detect from them was confusion.
Thus began Kagato's and Tannim's first day of teaching.
---
Both men had different styles of tutoring. Tannim, despite his
initial outburst, seemed to have an infinite amount of patience as he
carefully gauged each student, noting who would need extra tutoring.
Kagato's methods were a bit more forced, as he didn't know any
conversational Japanese. Still, he corrected people where he could,
and tried to pick up as much Japanese as he could while he tutored.
After their rather loud introduction, the teacher had asked Kagato and
Tannim to take each student aside one by one, and compile a list of
people needing their tutelage, or able to assist the tutors in their
tutoring.
Kagato managed to get to Makoto before Tannim, though he'd noticed
that Tannim had managed to get Naru. Kagato briefly wondered when
they'd see Umino... or the other Senshi attending the school. While
evaluating the students, he was surprised to learn that, even with Ami
and Minako as close friends, Makoto's English was awful.
Classes came and went, Kagato managing to talk to Minako, while Tannim
helped Ami smooth out her English, and spent a considerable amount of
time with Usagi trying to get her to say 'this is a pen' correctly.
As with all things that begin, the school day eventually ended.
---
Kagato, at the end of the day, grinned as he walked home.
Actually, he intended to walk out of eyesight of the school and its
students, before teleporting home.
Still, he figured he could reflect on the day's activities as he
strolled along. Meeting Minako and Makoto was weird, but kind of
interesting. He'd tried baiting Makoto into saying "lightning" since
he knew she knew that word, but her poor grasp of English (and his
even poorer attempts at saying something in Japanese) killed that
idea.
Minako, on the other hand, spoke fluent (though accented) English.
After establishing that, they had conversed until the teacher called
out that class was almost over. Before she left, Kagato had put her
name under the "helper" list, and let her know. She'd nodded happily,
before moving back to her desk.
Kagato glanced over at Tannim, who'd had a long conversation with Ami
earlier that class period, and gave a 'that-was-interesting' look,
complete with shrug.
Kagato realized he'd managed to walk halfway back to the Apartment
building while reminiscing. Frowning at his lapse of attention, he
teleported back to his place, and sat down, staring out the window.
Tannim wasn't walking so much as floating along. On his face was a
large, goofy grin, and he absently hummed to himself as he strolled on
his way toward his new home. He barely registered when Kagato left
him alone.
"Sensei! Tannim-sensei!"
Tannim turned toward the voice to spot Naru waving at him from across
the street. He raised a hand in response, finally taking in his
surroundings. It was a wonder he hadn't noticed it before; Naru's
family jewelry store was right on his way to his apartment.
"Naru-san! Konnichi-wa!" responded Tannim.
"Matte, sensei!" waved Naru as she began to jog across the street
toward him. Tannim stopped moving and waited for the girl.
Without realizing it, Naru had stepped in front of a huge truck. The
driver was having some troubles with home, and had brought a bottle of
sake with him to work. The reduced reaction due to the alcohol caused
the driver to run a red light and head on a path right for Naru.
Naru only had time to stare in horror as the truck bore down on her.
She was frozen to the spot, unable to move; fear locked her limbs in
place.
From his place twenty feet away, Tannim acted.
In the span of micro-seconds, Tannim's specially-treaded shoes dug
into the ground as the young man moved at speeds that wouldn't be
possible for a normal human. Half a second passed, and he was already
three-quarters of the way there; another half a second and he had
reached Naru and scooped up the girl into his arms. Despite this
incredible speed, it still wasn't enough.
Then the truck hit.
Tannim had all of a quarter-second to toss Naru away from him as his
right side was impacted. Breath rushed from his lungs as the force of
his body slamming into the grate caused the metal to bend.
The driver finally had the presence of mind to slam on the brakes, but
by then it was too late.
Tannim was flung fifteen feet from the force of impact. Due to his
momentum while being hit, he had traveled at an angle, and was sent
crashing through a nearby store's window. He ended up bloody,
bleeding, and in a tangle of clothing and mannequin parts.
Coughing up blood, but still clinging onto consciousness somehow,
Tannim managed to croak out two words.
"Well.... Shit...."
Then the world went dark.
---
Chapter Three End
Authors Notes:
Tannim: Well, the chapters seem to be getting shorter and shorter...
and the times we can get these out seem to be farther apart. Oh well.
I hope you enjoyed this installment of the story. Please, send C&C.
Kagato: Wow.. I atually managed to get some work done. Feel special..
or.. something.. maybe.. umm.. I'm just going to go over here now...
.. And I'm spent. literally.. I'm TIRED. So no smart-ass comments,
really. I've gota get some sleep I have to work tommorow.
Disclaimer: We do not own Trigun, Slayers, or Sailor Moon. Please do
not sue us.
Chapter Three
---
Tannim yawned sleepily as he sat up in place, a skill borne of long
practice sleeping on couches, where one not able to sleep without
moving about routinely fell onto the floor. A second yawn popped his
ears. Finally, he opened his eyes to find his familiar world
completely changed.
The quick adrenalin surge was not reflected in Tannim's reaction to
the situation, which was to simply not move. A few more seconds of
careful reflection revealed to his sleep-clouded mind the memories of
exactly why things were the way they were.
Oh yeah. Got sucked into an anime world. Kinda forgot about that.
---
A quick shower, and a change into some normal-looking clothes later,
found Tannim standing in front of Kagato's door and knocking on it.
"C'mon, Kagato, we've got to get going if we're going to see Pluto."
Kagato had debated taking a shower, then shrugged, and teleported a
couple feet away while making sure he left the dirt and dust he'd
gathered over the past evening was left in his original position.
With a grin, he opened the door and stepped out, closing it behind
him.
"I wouldn't go around calling Setsuna by her 'other' name, just yet,
Tannim. She might have a bad reaction... and I don't want to be on
the receiving end of a Dead Scream if I can help it." Kagato turned
towards the elevators, but right before walking into the closed doors,
he disappeared.
Tannim smacked himself upside the head. "Right. Gotta stop doing
that."
Kagato's voice, from nowhere in particular, happily says, "Since this
is the first time I've heard you do it, I'll let it slide..."
Tannim eyed the surrounding area warily. "Since when did I answer to
you? You're not my boss."
"Heh," was the only reply.
---
Tannim was unsurprised at seeing Kagato standing calmly by the
elevator, obviously waiting for him. The smirk was starting to get
irritating, though.
Kagato's smirk grew into a grin, almost as if he could sense Tannim's
irritation. Then Tannim realized: he probably 'could'.
Kagato waited for Tannim to move again. Once he did, they walked over
towards a couple benches conveniently located so that one sitting
could watch the desk man and the door.
A moment later, Kagato spotted Setsuna walking towards them from his
vantage point on the astral plane. She wasn't physically there, as
Rei (as Sailor Mars), had been last night, but there was obviously
something magical spiraling her astral presence.
A few moments later, she reached the building, climbing the steps
quickly.
Tannim perked up as he spied Setsuna slide in through the front door.
In a flash he was over by her side, hands clasped in a supplication of
prayer, eyes gleaming wetly with unshed tears.
"Oh, I'm so happy to see you again!" he gushed.
Setsuna removed any indication of emotion from her face. Inside, a
myriad of emotions played within her, struggling for domination.
Finally, she settled on suffering annoyance.
"I hope you are prepared for your first day of school," she said,
voice carefully controlled.
Kagato felt something crawling down the back of his head, and a second
later, he realized he'd just sweat dropped. His grin drooped a bit,
and when he saw (in more ways than one) Setsuna's smug attitude
increase as she watched him recover, his grin shrank even more.
"School? Already? I thought we'd at least have one or two days to
get used to actually being here. What, with the time change, and new
location, and... umm... other stuff that makes for good excuses..." he
turned to Tannim, hoping he'd join in.
Tannim's eyes were burning with an inner fire as he stared deeply into
Setsuna's eyes, mere inches from her face. "My first students?
Teaching new things to them they have not learned before? It shall be
an honor and a privilege to do such a thing!" He clasped Setsuna's
hand to his chest. "Let us go right now to the school so that we may
help teach these young and able minds!"
Letting go of Setsuna's hand, Tannim dashed out the front door, fist
held high in determination.
A few moments later, he came back, grinning sheepishly.
"I forgot I don't know where the school is from here... heh heh."
Kagato just stared at his demented tutoring partner, and sighed. "Lead
the way, Sai-" he caught himself, and covered it with a cough,
"SEtsuna." He grinned at her, and waited for her to lead them towards
the school.
Setsuna glanced at Kagato with an inscrutable gaze, and then looked
back at the sheepishly grinning Tannim. She appeared to debate
something in her mind for a few moments, before turning toward the
door and walking out it.
"I guess we follow," muttered Tannim.
---
As they approached the school, Kagato began to worry. Sure, he'd
applied for this job in his world... but now that he was here, how was
he going to handle being asked questions by people who spoke a
language he couldn't even understand the basics of?
With a sigh, he resigned himself to having to cram, and learn as fast
as he can, so the students, HIS students, wouldn't think he was
ignorant, or uncaring.
After he'd realized he'd gained all the powers (and, he annoyingly-
noted, weaknesses) of a Mazoku, he had worried he would loose his
humanity to it. So far, however, he'd felt the urge to be evil,
sadistic, and generally unpleasant, but it hadn't been a Need. Some
days back in his world, he'd felt more inclined to do wrong than he
did now. So, either the change was only physical, or he'd been a
Mazoku mentally since he'd been born.
Glancing over at Tannim, however, worried him that the effects might
advance to affecting him mentally at some future point.
'Well,' he thought, 'I'll burn that bridge when I get to it....'
Setsuna lead the two men into the area where the teacher's desks were
located. Several teachers were in here, preparing for the rest of the
day during the lunch hour. Computers were at most of the desks. She
pointed to a small space, empty of a computer. "That'll be your work
area, where you two can store and grade papers. You'll share, since
we don't have much available space." She pointed at a balding middle-
age man, hunched over at one of the computers. "This is Yoshieda-
sensei, the English teacher. You'll help grade the papers, and
provide tutoring after school. You'll follow his instructions."
Kagato just nodded, before walking over to the English Teacher. After
a moment of uncertainty, he decided to bow a little, like everyone
does on TV. Then he extended his hand, hoping to make a good
impression.
Yoshieda-sensei smiled as he saw the two young men. He bowed slightly
and shook Kagato's hand. In halting English, he said, "It isu my
preasure tou meet you."
Setsuna gave a small sigh. "As you can see, we needed English tutors
badly."
Kagato blinked, but returned the smile. "This... ought to be
interesting. I'm looking forward to working with you all... and am
hoping that, as I help the students with their English, both the
students and you can help me with my Japanese."
The teacher looked a bit lost at Kagato's speech, but quickly nodded
anyways. "Yes. Ou course. Prease, the hirst crass is desu way."
Grinning, Tannim glanced at Setsuna carefully out of the corner of his
eye. His mind searched for answers to the question: why? Why were
they qualified to teach here, by her standards? They apparently
already had some sort of background in this world. What was it?
Tannim shrugged. He supposed he'd find out sooner or later.
Following a few feet behind the teacher, Kagato glanced at the clean
halls, many doors, and the students who were currently outside; they
were on their lunchtime break from learning. Not too many were
feeling much other than boredom.
The small group entered one of the classes, and the teacher sat down
the book he was carrying. He motioned to the two men to sit down in
some nearby seats at the head of the class. The bell rang to single
the end of lunch, and the students filed back into their classrooms.
Kagato watched each student on the astral plane, but kept his mortal-
projection oblivious-looking. A few moments later, he saw someone
come in with a magical aura similar to the one he'd seen on Ami and
Setsuna. Opening one eye a crack, he realized it was Makoto, and she
was staring at Tannim and him; unlike the other students, who would
glance, shrug, and sit down. A moment later, she turned and sat down,
trying to act uncaring, but keeping an eye on them as much as she
could.
Tannim was waving cheerfully as the students entered, gleefully
smiling all the while.
The young men and women settled in as usual. The class leader led the
students in bowing toward the teacher. Yoshieda-sensei motioned
toward the two young men, and said in Japanese, "These are Tannim and
Kagato, some new tutors from America. Please show them proper
respect."
Kagato just nodded at the class, smiling, eyes closed, and watching
Makoto on the astral plane.
Tannim leapt up from his seat, eyes blazing and fist clenched. "It is
on honor to be here!" he proclaimed. "I shall make it my personal
goal in life to make sure every student within my care is happy and
knows how to speak English! This I swear to you!"
Everyone stared blankly at Tannim, as he had spoken in rapid-fire
English, and most of the students couldn't follow along past the first
few words.
Kagato face-faulted.
Climbing back to his feet (not wanting to teleport and freak the
monster-wary class out) he stared at Tannim, before sitting back in
his chair. How he'd managed to fall on his face while he was leaning
back was beyond him, but he shrugged it off, and wondered what the
class would have thought of Tannim's stupid speech had they understood
it. Thankfully, almost all he could detect from them was confusion.
Thus began Kagato's and Tannim's first day of teaching.
---
Both men had different styles of tutoring. Tannim, despite his
initial outburst, seemed to have an infinite amount of patience as he
carefully gauged each student, noting who would need extra tutoring.
Kagato's methods were a bit more forced, as he didn't know any
conversational Japanese. Still, he corrected people where he could,
and tried to pick up as much Japanese as he could while he tutored.
After their rather loud introduction, the teacher had asked Kagato and
Tannim to take each student aside one by one, and compile a list of
people needing their tutelage, or able to assist the tutors in their
tutoring.
Kagato managed to get to Makoto before Tannim, though he'd noticed
that Tannim had managed to get Naru. Kagato briefly wondered when
they'd see Umino... or the other Senshi attending the school. While
evaluating the students, he was surprised to learn that, even with Ami
and Minako as close friends, Makoto's English was awful.
Classes came and went, Kagato managing to talk to Minako, while Tannim
helped Ami smooth out her English, and spent a considerable amount of
time with Usagi trying to get her to say 'this is a pen' correctly.
As with all things that begin, the school day eventually ended.
---
Kagato, at the end of the day, grinned as he walked home.
Actually, he intended to walk out of eyesight of the school and its
students, before teleporting home.
Still, he figured he could reflect on the day's activities as he
strolled along. Meeting Minako and Makoto was weird, but kind of
interesting. He'd tried baiting Makoto into saying "lightning" since
he knew she knew that word, but her poor grasp of English (and his
even poorer attempts at saying something in Japanese) killed that
idea.
Minako, on the other hand, spoke fluent (though accented) English.
After establishing that, they had conversed until the teacher called
out that class was almost over. Before she left, Kagato had put her
name under the "helper" list, and let her know. She'd nodded happily,
before moving back to her desk.
Kagato glanced over at Tannim, who'd had a long conversation with Ami
earlier that class period, and gave a 'that-was-interesting' look,
complete with shrug.
Kagato realized he'd managed to walk halfway back to the Apartment
building while reminiscing. Frowning at his lapse of attention, he
teleported back to his place, and sat down, staring out the window.
Tannim wasn't walking so much as floating along. On his face was a
large, goofy grin, and he absently hummed to himself as he strolled on
his way toward his new home. He barely registered when Kagato left
him alone.
"Sensei! Tannim-sensei!"
Tannim turned toward the voice to spot Naru waving at him from across
the street. He raised a hand in response, finally taking in his
surroundings. It was a wonder he hadn't noticed it before; Naru's
family jewelry store was right on his way to his apartment.
"Naru-san! Konnichi-wa!" responded Tannim.
"Matte, sensei!" waved Naru as she began to jog across the street
toward him. Tannim stopped moving and waited for the girl.
Without realizing it, Naru had stepped in front of a huge truck. The
driver was having some troubles with home, and had brought a bottle of
sake with him to work. The reduced reaction due to the alcohol caused
the driver to run a red light and head on a path right for Naru.
Naru only had time to stare in horror as the truck bore down on her.
She was frozen to the spot, unable to move; fear locked her limbs in
place.
From his place twenty feet away, Tannim acted.
In the span of micro-seconds, Tannim's specially-treaded shoes dug
into the ground as the young man moved at speeds that wouldn't be
possible for a normal human. Half a second passed, and he was already
three-quarters of the way there; another half a second and he had
reached Naru and scooped up the girl into his arms. Despite this
incredible speed, it still wasn't enough.
Then the truck hit.
Tannim had all of a quarter-second to toss Naru away from him as his
right side was impacted. Breath rushed from his lungs as the force of
his body slamming into the grate caused the metal to bend.
The driver finally had the presence of mind to slam on the brakes, but
by then it was too late.
Tannim was flung fifteen feet from the force of impact. Due to his
momentum while being hit, he had traveled at an angle, and was sent
crashing through a nearby store's window. He ended up bloody,
bleeding, and in a tangle of clothing and mannequin parts.
Coughing up blood, but still clinging onto consciousness somehow,
Tannim managed to croak out two words.
"Well.... Shit...."
Then the world went dark.
---
Chapter Three End
Authors Notes:
Tannim: Well, the chapters seem to be getting shorter and shorter...
and the times we can get these out seem to be farther apart. Oh well.
I hope you enjoyed this installment of the story. Please, send C&C.
Kagato: Wow.. I atually managed to get some work done. Feel special..
or.. something.. maybe.. umm.. I'm just going to go over here now...
.. And I'm spent. literally.. I'm TIRED. So no smart-ass comments,
really. I've gota get some sleep I have to work tommorow.