Heeelllo there!
Um, before I say anything else, I know some of you might rage, or have your jaw dropped as your read through this chapter. I know I did. This was the first of many chapters in which we (reshiramgirl88 and I) were leaving each other in suspense and surprised. I was in shock. I couldn't handle it. Before we delve into this chapter, I'm going to inform you all, no one dies.
I repeat, no one dies.
You'll understand what I'm saying when you've read the chapter...
Chapter 8: Death, surrounds. My heartbeat slowing.
The dark blank night sky, slowly faded away to the orange of early morning sky. Leaf slept softly on the cold floor while I stood facing the window. I shivered slightly and rubbed my arms, I had already given Leaf my jacket, for I could not sleep a wink last night.
Leaf. I turned to look at her. She was still sleeping.
I let out a sigh. She was almost like Hilda.
No, Leaf and Hilda were two separate people. The girl that I met yesterday is completely opposite of Hilda. Hilda would never steal, from anyone! Let alone, kill anyone… Would she?
I pushed the thought aside and walked out into the light of the rising star.
The warmth of the rising sun burned on my bare shoulders. It felt, nice. I stared at the sunrise, it was my first.
"By the looks of it, this is your first time seeing the sun rise?" Leaf asked, walking up behind.
"Yeah." I confessed. "It is."
"You know N?" She punched me on my shoulder. "You are one strange dude."
I ignored her little comment and continued to stare at the sun. She said a few more things, but ignored it all.
"N? N?! Are you even listening to me?" Leaf said frantic, pulling at my arm. "I said we have to go! NOW!"
"HEY! THERE THEY ARE!" Another voice yelled.
I slipped back into reality, they were back. The store keeper and the police had found us.
Leaf tossed me my jacket and slipped her bag over her shoulder.
I stared at the police for a few seconds, something about them, seemed oddly familiar.
"N!" Leaf pulled my arm and we raced off in the other direction.
As she screamed my name, recognition shinned in the officer's eyes. Slowly a smirk appeared on their faces.
"GO!" I shouted, moving my feet as fast they would go.
"OH PRINCE N?!" One of the 'officers' chimed after us.
"Prince?" Leaf gave me a weird looked.
"Just keep going!" I yelled at her. "I'll explain later!"
We raced through the alleyways of Kanto. Unsure of where it would all take us.
Our chasers were right on our heels, almost as if they knew every street and alleyway of Kanto.
We took a couple sharp turns and we soon lost our chasers.
"Explain." Leaf demanded in-between pants. "Who the heck where those guys back there! Why did they call you prince N?! What aren't you telling me?"
She glared at me as I tried to catch my breath, finally I started. "They are former Team Plasma grunts."
"Team Plasma?" She said, making it sound like the name a curse. "You mean the evil team in Unova? The one that got disbanded like, I don't know, two years ago?"
"Yep, that's the one." I confirmed.
"Ok, what are they doing here in Kanto."
"That is an excellent question I myself do not know the answer to."
"OK, then why did they call you 'Prince N'?"
I let out a sigh. "If I tell you, you have to promise not to tell another soul."
She nodded, but remained quiet.
"I used to be the next in line to control after my…" I let out a sigh, not wanting to finish.
"After your what?" Leaf asked, totally oblivious to the war I was experiencing inside.
"In simple terms. A man that I thought I could trusted. One I thought that actually cared and loved me."
"So, like a father?" she asked.
I winced at the spoken word.
"What's so bad about having a father?" Leaf questioned.
"Please, can we just get off the subject of that family figure?!" I shouted at her, growing agitated.
She stared at me is disgust.
I soon realized why she asked such a question, she never knew her father.
"Leaf, look…." I tried to apologize.
"DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE N? YOU'RE HERE COMPLANING HOW YOU HATED YOUR 'DADDY' BUT GET THIS! SOME OF US IN THIS FORESAKEN WORLD NEVER HAD ONE! WE LOST OURS! SO QUIT COMPLANING ABOUT STUFF YOU HAVE! AND START BEING GRATEFUL FOR HAVING IT!" She screamed.
"NO YOU LISTEN HERE LEAF!" I screamed back. "MY ENTIRE LIFE UNTIL I WAS LOCKED UP IN A SINGLE ROOM! ONE THAT WOULD DRIVE YOU INTO INSANITY! NOT ONLY THAT! WHY NOT LET THE ONLY PERSON YOU EVER TRUSTED CALL YOU A FREAK! A MONSTER! AN ABOMINTAION AGAINST HUMANITY! WHY DON'T YOU TRY GOING THROUGH THAT?!"
She grew quietly as tears began to roll down her cheeks. "N…. I had no idea…"
"Just leave me alone…" I begun to walk away. Leaving the trainer I thought and knew behind.
"N…." Leaf said quietly. "N! LOOK OUT!"
I ignored her as my feet pounded on the black top of the road.
A horn blared from the side of me. I looked up, already too late.
Then all I could remember was vision falling to a black.
Pain shot throughout my body.
There were screams, cries, and then the sound of slamming doors and pounding footsteps.
"N!" a girl cried overtop of me.
I could feel something touching my cheeks, lifting my head up off the pavement.
"Someone call this guy an ambulance!" a man said, panicked.
I let out a moan.
Every joint in my body ached and screamed in protest.
Small droplets of water fell onto my face, someone was crying.
The wail of an ambulance siren pierced the air. It sound first far off, then become clearer as it neared.
Then the smell of burnt rubber filled my nose as the protest of tires against road screeched.
Footsteps pounded hard and fast as they neared.
"What happened her miss?" a soothing voice asked.
Two cold, soft fingers pressed against my neck.
There was a sob and a muffled reply.
"Miss. Please calm down, now tell us what happened.
The hands frantically pressed against my neck, not finding what they wanted. Then my right arm was lifted in the air, wrist up. The same two fingers pressed against my wrist.
There was a sigh of defeat then someone murmured. "I'm sorry miss. But he is dead...
Reminder: no one dies...in this chapter...