A/N: I'm back with the second re-written chapter. It is pretty much the same as the previous one, but some notable changes has been made. More details are added and I made Razel less OP compared to her previous-self. Do enjoy the chapter!
Grave Two: Order Of Abduction
~ What's The Meaning Of This? ~~
A blonde figure breathed out heavily as they ran on the dark streets of the city. Even though their face was covered by a hood of a completely soaked cloak, rain drops still managed to get through and getting her hair and cheeks equally soaked. Not even wiping of their face with their arm could help them. The clothes started to get heavy.
Razel stopped to catch her breath for a second scanning her surroundings. The girl looked both right and left making sure that she wasn't being followed by anyone. Finally the girl continued her way, crossing a crossroads and then turned right on the next corner.
That was a big mistake.
The girl dashed against something soft and was thrown back by the impact of it. When coming to her senses, Razel realized that she had ran right into the hands of her enemy. "She's here! I found Rapunzel!" A male shouted and charged towards her.
Razel found the time to take a step back and he only managed to grab hold of her cloak. He had thought he finally caught her, but he had underestimated the blondie. The man had completely ignored the fact that Razel had been in this kind of situations ever since the death of her parents. Having been personally trained by Ayzel himself, she knew exactly what to do in a situation where her life depended on.
The blonde loosened her cloaks ribbon around her neck and threw it at the adult man in suit. It covered him completely making him unable to see anything. "YOU LITTLE PIECE OF SHIT!" The man struggled to take off the cloak. Razel didn't let this moment slip by. She used it to escape.
The young girl dashed away, running as fast as she could. She prayed from all of her heart that she had enough time to hide herself before the man was back in the game again. If she didn't manage to escape this time, then it was the end of it. She had no powers to go against them for another round. Razel had finally reached her limit.
Her plan backfired her and the worst happened. The man got the cloak off a lot faster than she had originally assumed, and he was able to get a glimpse of where she was heading for. He took his gun from the belt that was tied around his waist.
He pointed the gun at Razel, who was still in his vision and aimed carefully to make sure that the bullet wouldn't hit any vital parts of her body. The order had been to bring her back alive. Finally the man shot.
The blonde girls' expression fell as she heard the noise that had become really familiar. This was bad, she hadn't expect this to happen. And just when she was about to escape from their hands. Well, at the moment she had no time to think about it.
Without any second thoughts Razel made a quick turn to the right to avoid the bullet. She planned out hiding behind the large human statue that was placed in the middle of a park. Yes for her worst luck, she was even in a really open space with particularly no places to hide.
Razel just barely managed to hide behind the statue, but the bullet still scratched her left arm, tearing apart her skin and triceps brachii. The girl cried and unbearable pain filled her body and the signal reached her brains. But now wasn't the time for tears. She had no seconds to lose. Razel knew she couldn't stop before she had found a safe place.
And so the girl dashed from her hiding place, supporting her wounded arm with the other one to make sure she wouldn't lose too much blood. Advancing and moving hurt so bad Razel was barely able to hold back her tears. It took all of her powers to keep her thoughts away from the pain.
Finally after what it seemed to be an eternity, the blonde found quiet back street and entered the valley. She leaned against the wall and stopped for a second to calm down her breathing. Her vision was getting blurry and she was barely conscious. Accompanied with heavy breathings, the girl took her hand away from the wound, checking it.
It was bad one. Her triceps brachii had been teared up so badly she was barely able to raise her arm up. Razel made a painful looking movement and closed her eyes for a second to listen to her surroundings.
It was quiet. Aside from the pounding in her head and her slow any heavy breaths she could barely hear anything. Only the rain drops falling on her and the street accompanied her. It was almost too quiet to her liking.
The blondie took a deep breathing and with painful movement placed her hand on her left arm. She had only little powers left and she concentrated all of her remaining energy to the palm of her right hand. It started to glow brightly and the blondie started to sing.
Just like in my dearest memories of that day…
Her words were interrupted as a wet cloth was suddenly shoved onto her face. The girls' eyes widened in shock and out of startle she breathed in. Someone had added morphine into the cloth and in the matter of seconds Razel's mind went blank and she lost her consciousness.
The blondie squinted her eyes once she regained her consciousness. Razel cursed for being so careless. Everything had gone to well and she almost managed to escape but then something like that had to happen. Just when she was able to see Ayzel and her brothers again. Tears started rolling down her cheeks.
The girl got startled when she suddenly heard voices from the other side of the room. She quickly returned to her previous position and closed her eyes. It was better to pretend that she was still sleeping and observe the enemy, than attack head on. After all she had no idea what she was up against.
Finally the door opened and someone entered the room. "Could someone please remind my why are we doing this?" Razel heard a female voice speaking. She sounded very displeased or least to say, angry. But if she had managed to hear it right, there was at least one more with her.
Another voice spoke. "Because Aiko asked for it?" A slightly cracking voice of a teenage boy answered to her with a question, sounding doubtful about the origin and reason for their mission. So, one girl and a boy. Given the light voices, they were both still teenagers, not much older than her.
"Aiko this and Aiko that! DAMMIT! Why it always has to be about her!?" The female suddenly started rampaging. She stormed around the room like a madman which made hard for Razel to concentrate anymore. The young girl then slowly opened her eyes and peek at the guys in the room.
A sigh was heard. "There she goes again…" One more voice; a voice that also belonged to a teenage boy. Two boys and a girl. If a battle was to break out she would surely lose. There was no way she could go one on three and win.
But Razel decided not to make any hurried decisions just yet. Their mentioning Aiko had peaked her interest. It seemed that they were acquaintances with here. That's of course if they were talking about the same Aiko she knew. Okazaki Aiko, to be precise.
"Are the two of you really friends? Somehow it's hard to believe." The latter boy then sneered sarcastically, and as a result the room was filled with a long and heavy silence. Razel could see from her position as the girl was glaring at the red-head with a darkened face.
"Say, what are we supposed to do with the girl?" an icy-blue-head boy questioned. Razel gulped upon the topic changing to her and quickly hid under the blacked she had while closing her eyes, pretending to still be asleep. Her eyebrows moved nervously when she heard steps approaching her.
"Sato Razel… You really have a beautiful hair…" The girl finally spoke. The blondie could literally feel as something was coming closer to her… especially her golden-colored hair. As unknown hand was about to touch her head, she finally snapped.
"Don't touch!" Razel yelled and backed off towards the wall. No one was going to touch her hair without permission. Never.
From the blurry images she could get by quickly scanning the whole room, she could see a buff-haired girl with emerald eyes staring at her with widened eyes. Also the two boys of red and icy-blue hair seemed to be surprised for her to be awake.
Razel's back then hit a wall and she felt great pain on her left arm. More like, she finally remembered the pain that had accompanied her the whole time she had been unconscious. She had to close her other eye of the sudden pain as she wined in pain.
Her right hand automatically moved to the wounded place of her left arm, only to be welcomed by an unknown fabric. Razel looked her left and noticed that there was trying-to-be-a-bandage around her would near her left shoulder.
A light smile escaped from her lips and then she started to take off the bandage. "Wha- What are you doing?" The buff-haired girl asked, when she saw what Razel was going. After all the trouble they had went to put it on, she dared to take it off.
The blondie ignored her words completely and continued taking off the bandage. The wound itched lightly as Razel then placed her right palm on it. She was glad that it didn't bleed as much anymore.
Razel concentrated her powers to her right hand and closed her eyes. The trio in the room stared at her with widened eyes as Razel's hair started to float in the air and her palm glowed.
Just like in my dearest memories of that day,
the shower of pure white light showed me tomorrow.
For I don't want to be parted from you,
I give you this feeling hidden by my tears.
Razel then stopped singing and revealed the place her wound had been. Now there was nothing there anymore. The blondie smiled and raised up her left arm. It was easy to move it around, and the muscle and the skin around it had been healed. What's the best, no scar had been left on the arm.
The buff-haired girl stared at Razel with her mouth wide open. It was obvious that she was sincerely amazed. After all it was her first time witnessing something like his. Finally, she let out an amused laugh. "So this is the power of Sato Razel… Wow, you really are amazing one…"
This time it was Razel's time to look surprised. How come these people knew her name? And how did they know about her powers? Where they really connected to Aiko somehow… Was she the one who had told them about her?
Now that she looked at the boys, they looked much like the ones Aiko had described. The first boy with red hair; he must be the one Aiko always spoke so much about. And the icy-blue-head… Could he be Yukiko's?
"Oi Light, we're running late." The icy-blue-head suddenly told, having glanced at his watch. The buff-haired girl's face suddenly fell and she turned to him while pouting in anger.
"How many times have I told you not to call me by that freaky name… It's…" Her words of manifestation were stopped middle way as the red-head pointed at his fist. The female turned to look at the clock and all of a sudden all the color from her face vanished into thin air.
"No, not this too! The plane in leaving in an hour!" She got a sudden panic attack and started aimlessly running around the room. Finally she turned to everyone. "Are you guys ready to leave?"
"Sure… but what are wer going to do about her hair?" the icy-blue-head asked while pointing at Razel's blonde colored hair that was covering almost the whole floor. They barely had any space to stand on as her hair was literally everywhere.
The girl rolled her eyes and then hit her face. Managing someone's hair the last things she wanted to worry about in that situation. "Well, I guess we have to tie it up somehow." She then exclaimed and turned towards the blondie.
Razel immediately retreated from her while gathering her hair into her arms. She then shot a murderous glare at the other girl, who shared the green eye-color with her. Surprisingly both of them were emerald.
The blondie wasn't planning on letting anyone to touch her hair so casually. Even if that person was a possible friend of her best friend. Still no. The two emeraldies kept of glaring at each other for a long moment, neither of them saying anything.
The mental battle would've surely lasted for longer, if Razel hadn't been so tired. The girl admitted her defeat and averted her eyes. She just stood there like a statue, giving the other girl all the rights to modify her hair. Razel just wanted to know what exactly was going on.
The buff-head narrowed her eyebrows with a doubting look and took hesitated steps towards Razel. As the blondie didn't seem to react to it, she then approached her and started combing her hair. "Whoa! Your hair is amazing. So silky and strong! I really envy you." The girl exclaimed amazed as she was brushing Razel's hair.
"Whatever you say…" The younger girl answered shortly. She felt extremely uncomfortable to let a total stranger touch her hair and wanted it to be over as fast as possible. "Where are you going to take me… with that plane?" Razel then continued with a question. She hadn't been in Japan for over two years and had still some troubles to pick up the right words.
It seemed that the other girl understood her perfectly as she smiled and replied to her,
"You'll see it soon."
"We're finally here!" The buff-haired girl exclaimed when she got out of the plane. She breathed in the fresh open-air and stretched her arms. It felt so great to have one feet on the ground again. There was only few things she hated in the world and flying was one of them. She felt helpless of not having her feet on the ground.
Razel yawned loudly, still trying to wake herself up. As a side effect of the morphine she had fallen asleep on the place. "Where are we going now?" She was wearing a cloak received from the three strangers. Her face was covered by its hood, in order to hide her identity from the enemy. They couldn't have them recognize her.
A smirk appeared on the buff-heads face. "To where they are…" She answered mysteriously, letting out a vibrating laugh. The three before her then raised their heads and Razel followed their example. From the sight of it, it seemed as if they had arrived on a small island.
The boys told her to follow them. They took a bus from the airport to the city center and then continued by foot. The passed quite distance and Razel was already getting impatient. For how much longer would they be walking? Finally, after what it felt like an eternity, Razel finally heard the red-head announcing. "We're here."
The blondie looked up from the ground and saw a humongous building opening before her. Next to it there was a soccer field. They saw players running on the field while others were standing near the benches.
The buff-haired pointed towards the benches. "Look there." She said and Razel immediately turned her head there. What she saw, was two indigo-haired girl – one of them on a wheelchair – laughing happily with other girls. A wide grin appeared on Razel's face.
"Aiko, Yukiko!"
A/N: Yes, the flow of the chapter is much better down. Even if I do say so myself. (haha). Please do leave a review about your thoughts of this chapter and the story. I would love to know them! See you guys again in the future chapters.
