He/She struck again. If you don't know what I'm talking about, I'll remind you. I'm talking about the guest 'Some helpful tips' which really should be 'some hurtful comments' this person, I mentioned back in chapter 2, hit the story again, and review chapter one again saying "Oneesama? Grow up." And then something that was like 'your stories suck, you're sad' and then he/she had the nerve to say "your brother is a joke" I mean really. You can hurt me and be mean to ME as much as you want, but don't you DARE insult my brother. Anyway, the chapter will begin.
Ichigo's POV
I froze in place. I knew that the voice had come from behind me so I wouldn't be able to see him, but the other three could.
"Well, are you going to explain yourselves or not!" he sounded impatient, I decided to chance turning around. It was an alien like I had thought, but no one I knew, and he seemed young, about the same age as the little blonde girl.
"Who are you?" I asked. His golden eyes narrowed.
"I don't have to answer that, but I do want to know who you are"
"I am Ichigo" I told him
"So you're the hag, my cousin keeps mentioning. Hardly worth the efforts he goes to, to keep you." He spat, oh so he must be the cousin of my bozu, the only likeness they shared were their eye colour. His hair was a soft brown while my Bozu's was a pine green.
"Hey! That's not nice!" exclaimed Pudding, she seemed to have either ignored the fact that he was an alien or had forgotten it.
"Hey, watch how you talk to me little girl" rage seemed to build in her eyes
"Don't you DARE call me little, especially since you're probably the same age as me and the same height too!" she exclaimed
"How old are you?" he questioned
"Fourteen!" she exclaimed "And my height's five foot two, and my weight is ninety-two pounds"
"I don't care about your height or your weight, I just wanted to know your age silly girl" he said
"Well I already told you and I can't un-tell you" she said sticking out her tongue. The kid alien seemed angry, but amused
"What's your name, and who is your bozu?" he demanded
"I am Pudding Fong and I am Bozu-less!" she exclaimed
"How come your in the holding pens then?" he asked with force
"Because I'm too good for any of you stinky aliens!" she said angrily. The brown haired alien looked extremely angry, but Ringo cut in.
"Look, alien-kun, don't be upset, Pudding is just a bit angry because… she was rejected again" her soft tones seemed to ease the aliens temper
"And I tried really hard to be good this time" Pudding muttered sadly.
"Alright, I see what has happened, though you have no right to talk to me like that, and if you do that again you will be punished, and I still haven't gotten the reason for the destruction of the wall." He said somewhat diplomatic
"I was getting lonely, more friends are always better right?" she said beaming.
"And you two did nothing to stop her?" he asked to Berry and Ringo
"Well, we tried but…" Ringo started "…But Pudding is one of those unstoppable forces in life" finished Berry. The boy sighed
"I had a feeling that was the case." He turned to Pudding "Tell you what, I'll take you on, and see if your really as bad as they say. In exchange, you must" he went up to her and whispered in her ear, she seemed to get more excited, she nodded vigorously "Alright, I promise!" she said holding out her pinky finger
"What's that for?" he asked
"You put your pinky in mine..." she directed and took his hand and put his finger in hers and linked them together "…and then the promise is secure, it's a pinky promise" she told him. He seemed a bit overwhelmed, but happier too. Pudding seemed to be a good influence for anybody.
"Now, about the wall…" he started
"Oh just let it be Tart" came my Bozu's irritatingly familiar voice.
"Besides" he added "It would let our little pets be more happy right?" Tart rolled his eyes
"Why is it that I'm more mature than you when I'm younger?" he asked
"Haha you might think your more mature, but you aren't little cuz" he said ruffling his hair. For this one I agreed with Pudding's new bozu, Kish was very immature about most things.
"Anyway no more wall destroying" said Pudding's Bozu. She nodded
"What happened here?" Came an angry voice; the familiar mop of purple hair came into view. It was Lettuce/Zakuro's Bozu, he was one to look out for.
"The wall was torn down between these two cells, but we have dealt with it." Explained my bozu
"How was it that you've let this happen?" he asked with his usually gentleness… the kind that would kill small animals.
"We did not know about any of this until tonight, as it was the other group who broke into this group's pen." Tart told him.
"I see. Well then, what are you waiting for? Make them rebuild the wall." He said
"We figure it might be a better idea to just let it go, as I have decided to make this one" -he motioned to Pudding- "My own"
"We will see if this works, if not then the wall goes back up." He said harshly. I was surprised though, it was the most leniency that he had ever given. 'He must be happy' I thought.
"Oh my!" exclaimed Lettuce as she carefully walked up, she must have just woken up.
"What the hell happened here?" asked Zakuro
"We have new cell-mates" I told them. They nodded.
"Come here, both of you" demanded Pai, Zakuro came confidently, and Lettuce insecurely.
"Zakuro, I want you to come with me after we are done here, and Lettuce, I have decided to forgive you because I am so very gracious, so you will see me later." With that he took hold of Zakuro's hand, and disappeared from sight.
"Huh, he's kinda mean isn't he?" commented Pudding, I almost strangled her for her naivety.
"Pudding, you are supposed to say things like that… it will get you killed" I told her
"Well said kitty-cat" My bozu told me "Shall we go?" he asked
"Like I have a choice" I told him half jokingly
"Ah but I know you like it" he said teasingly
"Whatever you say… my lord" I said kneeling and taking his hand to my mouth kissing it, he laughed
"You're a funny one aren't you?"
"Oh, but anything for you" my patience seemed to be great today, maybe because of the forgiveness towards Lettuce, or the meeting with Pudding, but I felt like I was able to goof of and deal with anything.
"Get a room" said Tart
"Ah Tart, your young mind is too overwhelmed by love?" he teased
"Get a life Kish" my bozu grinned, and pudding spoke up
"Well Taru-Taru do you wanna hang out too?"
"WHERE THE HECK DID YOU GET THE NAME 'TARU-TARU' YOU ARE TO CALL ME YOUR BOZU!" he shouted angrily
"But, your name is Tart so your nickname must be Taru-Taru!" she said, he suppressed a sigh
"Whatever, come on" he tentatively took her hand and left, it was just Berry, Ringo, Lettuce and me now.
"Kitten, should we go now?" asked my Bozu,
"What about Berry and Ringo?" I asked knowing Lettuce should be safe for now.
"Oh, don't worry Ichigo, we may be 'on hold' but it's only been for a few days we still got a week left before we're carted off" Berry told me, I looked at her questioningly
"W-we shared the same Bozu" explained Ringo "And well, he got tired of us…"
"Which is fine by me, I can't wait till I can see my boyfriend again" said berry seriously
"But berry, what if they try to but you in… the other system?"
"I think my virginity will be spared for another few years, don't you worry Ichigo, besides, Tasuku will always love me no matter what" she told me dreamily "We got together three years ago, and even though we have been separated for two years, I just know he will wait for me. Because I would wait for him forever." She said. I was amazed at the trueness of their love, and the fearlessness of Berry.
"How old are you at the moment?" I asked
"Eh? About sixteen, I've been marking the days off on my wall, I got quite a few calendars made up already, see?" she pointed to one of the walls in their cell, on it in neat boxes, days had been marked down, all of it was etched into the stone with another
"My birthday will be in week actually, what about you?" she asked, I scratched at my head ashamedly
"I haven't really been keeping tack of time, what day is it?"
"It's Thursday June 30." She told me
"Oh! My birthday is in a month, I think, I mean it's been so long…"
"Yeah I know." She commented, Kish made a coughing noise
"Ah! I'm so sorry!" I exclaimed going up to him
"Its fine, but I don't have infinite free time sweetheart, and I made a special trip just to see you so if you don't mind…" I nodded and went into his embrace, he teleported us out of there. We arrived at his house in seconds. When we got there, I saw an unexpected sight; it was that blonde boy Ryou or something like that.
"What's up?" I asked
"I think he knows something about your sudden transformation." Kish explained. I looked at the boy curiously
"Well?" I prompted; he hung his head in shame
"Yeah, I know something about it… I was the one who changed your genes."
"How." I said tightly
"With the liquid I injected you with the other day" he explained
My Bozu spoke up "How did you come across the materials to make that liquid anyways?"
"You see, when I was brought to you earlier, I had missed two days of quota for mining, remember?" My bozu nodded
"I remember, I was going to punish you for your lack of work, but you had medicine for Ichigo" he nodded
"Yes, well you see, on those two days, when I hadn't filled my quota I had found a pocket in the ground that led to an underground cavern, the walls of this cavern were lined with luminescent crystals of seven different colours. I took one of the crystals, a pink one, and discovered that it was easily breakable, so I carefully ground it into a fine powder, and mixed it with some of my water ration. When I did the whole liquid shone with a pink colour, and then faded to a sparkling blue.
I then carefully tasted some of it, I was sick for the rest of the day, I knew there was something special about it, I discovered what it was when my cat came up to me and drank some of the elixir during my sickness, she wasn't affected at all, so I tried to give some to a fleeing animal, to see of it was only for animals, but the animal I had given it to also rejected it, hence why I warned you about cats when I first gave it to you. The other colours, well I wasn't sure what they did, but I had decided to make elixirs of some of the other crystals, but each colour seems to be gene-specific to different animals. The one that you received for your friend was the green crystal's potion." He finished his explanation
"So you skipped two days of work for a chance of experimentation, then decided to use, Ichigo, and her cell-mate as guinea pigs to your potions!" Exclaimed Kish in a fit of just rage; I was pretty pissed too.
"What if something happens and Lettuce or me dies!" I shouted
"Obviously you are not going to die, as you have the correct genes to accept the elixir of the pink crystal, but I have no idea about that friend of yours."
"You mean you would be just fine if she died because of gene rejection? You would be fine taking an innocent life!" I asked accusingly.
"Well… uh… I mean…" he stuttered unknowing what to say
"You mean you hadn't even thought of that? You are evil, how could you disregard a life so?" I was getting so worked up that I was surprised to have my bozu pat me on the head and say "Calm down, your tail is lashing pretty hard"
I took a breath, and tried to calm myself, but then Pudding and Tart came into view
"Yo, Kish some pretty freaky shit is happing back at their cell with that green haired chick" tart reported, I shrieked with fury and attacked Ryou, I slashed at him with my ragged nails until I drew blood, then I stood up and took the bell from my tail I was about to perform my attack, but Kish tackled me to the floor
"What the hell do you think you're doing!" I hissed so blinded by rage that I nearly tore into him.
"Stop it Ichigo, you're going to kill him" he warned
"Good" I said, and struggled to get back up, but he was too strong.
"Ichigo. Stop. It." He demanded I stopped moving but I was breathing hard and adrenaline was flowing fast through my veins
"Before you try to kill anyone else hag, why don't we go check on her? she looked pretty odd when we went there" Pudding's Bozu said, I nodded with clenched teeth, my own bozu teleported us back to our cell, I immediately went to lettuce who was in the floor withering in pain, she screamed, and her eyes rolled back into her head.
Hey folks, I listened to two different Avril Lavigne albums, "The best damn thing" and "under my skin" while writing this, I don't know when this'll get posted... but I hope you will all enjoy it, especially after what 'some helpful tips' said, cuz it really hurts, and my bro BTD VS TMM isn't a joke, his stories are pretty great, I love 'em especially his newest one 'the hidden life' he got me to edit his first chapter a bit for the grammar, but it's all his, and it's so great. His first ones 'Btd vs. Tmm' series is awesome because it's just too funny, it's a bit hard to follow and you need to know about the computer game bloons tower defense 4 to really get it, but it's pretty amazing. Gawd I don't like mean people like that, amplified because I think that this story is one of my best, but this person is totally trying to ruin the feeling for me… anyways see you all next time!
~Ambercatlucky2