Rings of Fate:
Chapter 11: The Curse of the Jade Ring.
' blurry…. Fuzzy….. that…. Woozy faint feeling….. the world spinning….. the brown green things all around… what are they …trees?... yeah that's right…. Trees…. And…. A gray streak…. What? …. R…ro…. Ah… what…. What is it ….. a ro-oa…roa-ad…..road…..road….a road. Yes... Maybe?... Yes…. The can lead… lead home…. I need to go home…. ….i….i gotta…..at least reach for the road…..
Whoa…. M-my tire….it's … it's all shredded… ah!... my fender… wh-what?... Ah… this….this pain… this horrible pain!... it's….. it's not going away… why? Why isn't it going away!... it's just growing…..ah…. No!... No!... come on I can't black out now!... I need to get back!... I need to get home!... I need to tell him… I need…. i….i….'
She blinked a few times when her side was being shaken around without her control…
"Alice… you zonin' out on me. Are you alright?"
She blinked… Doc's clinic, broken picture frame, some glass on the floor…. She didn't move from the spot that she was in…. what… what the heck happened?
"Alice?" Doc stared, his eyes slightly going wide in worry. "Alice…?"
She just looked at him with distant eyes…. Her Jade Ring flashing in and out… almost pulsing in her violet eyes…. "D-Doc…." Her weak voice stuttered with her weakening speech…
Doc's eyes were concerned as he pressed himself close to her, almost ready to catch her if need be… "Alice, are you alright? Do you feel sick? Faint? What? Kiddo, you have to talk to me."
Her eyes just stared off on a random spot near Doc… Her ring flickering…..
' "Finally! After all of these years!..." Her venom voice hissed from the Hudson's crumpled side…. "I get to end this!"
The Hudson one eye was the only thing that wasn't crushed and/or disfigured from Her violent blows... a single tear overflowed in his windshield as his oil spotted, crippled bumper barely formed the word …. "w-why?"
The Plymouth fury stood proud and strong, as that evil smirk grew…. "You never cared about what I want! What I needed! You always messed things up and just got in the way! You and that crappy crew chief of yours! Both of you just wouldn't have my way…. And just like him, You butted into my personal business and have to tell me otherwise… and just like him….I have to take you out."
The Hudson's eye widened at her words, the old puzzle pieces finally coming together, "…it was y-you?…y-y-you're the one that killed…." A swift movement from the Fury caused the Hudson to stop dead in his weak speech…. His breath was caught short in his throat as he started coughing….gurgling….
The weak, beaten frame eased to the ground…..and landed…broken….. and cold….'
"Alice!" Doc held Alice close… fear started to slip into his voice….. her eyes… were so distant….. and her ring just wouldn't leave….
Alice's eyes were barely open…. As they weakly looked up into Docs…..
'"I…I can't…." She felt her faint words slur out of her mouth as she gasped for air. Pain hit her in waves with every knock and every fire her engine … pain…
She had to stop. She couldn't breathe! It was almost like the air was too thick for her little lungs to take in. she was suffocating… she had to stop… she felt like she was dying….she painted….her vision started speckling with black dots as a numbness started tingling through her body…. "No… No… I can't…." She tried to remain focused on staying awake as she started moving again…. "Not now…. Not for his sake…"
Him… the one that changed her life…. The one that saved her from death…. Is now fighting it….
She found herself swallowing hard, as her drive to keep moving forward strengthened, "Oh Doc please don't….." '
Her ring weakened a lil'…. As she was leaning heavy on Doc for support…. Her tires shaking slightly as Doc could only hold her burning frame close to him…. and wait for this wave…. To stop…. Whatever it was that she was fighting….
'The Figure snapped its head up at the sound of the watcher. The Red Brown eyes pierced her mind…making her heart stop… making her catch a breath…she'd been caught.
"You!" it rasped with venom heavy in its voice. The heavy engine revved richly as the figure rushed to her senses… the thirst of death in its features…
She froze, her heart stopped when those Reddish Brown eyes ate at her soul…'
She forced her eyes shut…..gritting her teeth….. focusing…. But…. It was so hard…. To focus….. she felt weak…. Dizzy…..
"D-Doc…. The visions….. are coming back…." Her frame shivered oddly at his side….. "i…I can't control it….. it's… so hard… to focus…"…
Doc gritted his teeth…. He wished he knew what he could do to help…. Anything with her ring…. Was out of the question…. He wished Kendal was here at his side… he wished she was here with him…. helping him…healing her… He was only a Doctor… not a miracle worker…. Not…. Kendal….
However, something in his gut…. feared… there was something… truly wrong…. With Alice… that had nothing to do..with her gift….
Alice tensed up slightly…. Her eyes widen…. Her ring strong in her eyes…. "I…. I gotta… do something…."…. She pushed away from him weakly staggering towards the door…. " I gotta know… I gotta see…."… her eyes slowly rolled over to Doc…. And that photo…. Of…. Doc and….his…..Crew Chief….
"Alice, don't do this…" Doc's weaken words softly spoke…. "Stay here… and rest…. You're not well."
"But I-I just gotta find out what happened….." Her rings flashed….. and…..her frame…. Started lighting up…. Bright….. almost as if a new sun was born inside the clinic, blinding Doc's eyes….. "Alice…. Alice wait!" He reached out towards Alice to ask her where she was going, to hold her back, to keep her safe….. But…..
She was gone.
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Alice opened her eyes to find herself falling…. Landing on loose gravel that caused her to slip down the unfamiliar terrain…. She felt her oil pump pounding against her hood when her tires caught traction on the gravel…. "D-Doc?"… she weakly called out to the Forrest of trees, her panic stricken features jetted around, trying to find that Hudson Hornet, trying to find the clinic… Trying….. to understand… where she was.
Her eyes caught something in the distance, causing herself to whip around to face it…. A faded tan house, barely standing out from the old willow trees that brushed up alongside it, the gentle wind blowing the hair like strands of the willow, grazing the open window…. With a single light on in the house…
She just stared…. "Déjà vu ." she whispered quietly to herself… and she slowly made her way closer to the house…. "this…is this…what I think it is?"…
She glanced over at the front of the house, veering off just slightly on her way to the open window to look at the mail box… "This is it… it's got to be it… it's just like how he described it."
Her eyes narrowed on the rough painted name on the side of the mailbox that read….264 Wattsmen
….. She Stopped dead in her tracks…. It was it… to the spot and date….. it was just like in her dream!
She started going over to the well lit window when her tires suddenly gave out on her causing her fame to crash on the ground, her Jade ringed eyes wanted to close out of pure weakness….. She was weakening fast….. 'Come on Alice… your better than this!'… She mentally couched herself, forcing her weight back on her shaking tires….
"Hey! What are you doing here?" the voice came from the window, causing Alice to run right under the window, to keep from being seen… " Don't you think you've caused enough trouble?"
'Did he see me! Oh shoot I'm dead, I'm so dead...' Her worried Ringed eyes looked up and into the open window. To her relief the blue falcon, from the picture Doc had in his office, wasn't facing in her direction at all. He faced towards the dark red figure.
"I should of done this a long time ago…" that familiar venom sound hissed at the Falcon who huffed at her dark edginess of a voice…. "And what makes you think you can come barging into my house?"
The Falcon sat taller, " You've done enough, you not only wrecked his life, but mine as well!"
The Figure rolled a little closer to the Falcon, her sharp red features bounced the light off of her hide…. Showing…. A Plymouth Fury.
The Fury Smirked sharply, causing her unnatural white teeth to shine in the light… her… unusually sharp teeth….
"Oh, I didn't wreak your life…." The Fury cocked her tire back in a throwing position….and launched something in the air…. The Mustangs ringed eyes widened as she quickly ducted down just enough for the projectile to scrap her roof and land with a thud behind her…
She turned a little to see the object tumble down and rested beside her tire…. " A brick?"
A loud crashing sound of broken glass caused Alice to jump back and lock her eyes on the window….the light… gone...
Violent noises…. Struggle…. The sound of crunching metal… the screaming… the pain…. The agony….the ….
Alice mindlessly whimpered… shaking slightly as she snuggled up close to the wall for some attempt at comfort… Memories… Nightmares…. Jack…. Ripping her from her mother's side…..the pain in her cry…
'Doc….m-mom…. I wish you were here right now….'….she closed her watering ringed eyes… as she waited for the horrible sounds to cease.
"I'm taking it."
Alice blinked a few times, causing her curious nature to peek over the windowsill and into the dark gloomy room… books everywhere… and the broken lamp littered the floor… and a blue crumpled figure….that was Mr. Wattsmen….
Her eyes widened. Tears pooled in her eyes and she knew far too well what was going to happen to him… if only she could help…..
"I knew it!" the crippled Falcon rasped through his shaking frame….. "you were no good…... you-."
The Plymouth Fury quickly took a sharp blade and shoved it right in the soft spot… right below the rocker panels….. Taking his last true breath away from him….
Alice winced at the sight… causing a slight gasping sound to escape from her lips…. Her eyes widened
The Fury's eyes shot up to the source of the sound coming from a single open window.
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Her frame crashed on the ground…. Her eyes… weakly opened….. ….. and see looked around…. Her tank twisted and sloshed funny…. As her ring faded from her eyes causing her shaking weakening body to fail against her will and her weakened violet eyes unwilling rolled to the back of her head…..
A figure waited in the woods….. smiling her crooked evil smile….. everything was going perfectly.