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Bloodbath
Chapter 19
Nana stared at the gun, trembling.
"Either tell me within the next thirty seconds or I won't hesitate to pull the trigger," Bando threatened.
Nana took a deep breath and recomposed herself. "I'd like to see you try. Even if there were a hundred of you, you still couldn't kill me."
Bando raised an eyebrow. "Oh, really?"
"Yeah!" She struggled to come off as confident.
"You must be that bitch's companion or something," Bando said with a laugh.
Nana frowned, then began to walk away from him, only to hear him pull the trigger. She cried out in surprise as she fell to the ground, looking at the mark the bullet had left on her leg.
"This is a special .50 caliber tungsten round. It's not light like the 9mm ones, meaning that you can't deflect them." He walked up to her. "At that range, it'll only graze you. But from this range," he said, stopping in front of her," it can blow you to pieces."
Nana stared at the gun, then at him.
"So, are you gonna answer me or not?" He pressed the muzzle of the gun to her head. "Better hurry up. Your time's running out......"
At Takuya's house
"Hey, you found her!"
Takuya, Zoe, and Courtney looked up to see Tommy running towards them, a huge smile on his face.
"Yup, about time," Takuya said happily.
As Tommy reached them, Zoe moved forward and pulled Tommy into a tight embrace. "Hug!"
Tommy laughed, hugging her back. "Happy to see again."
"Don't we get any hugs?" J.P. half-joked.
Takuya thought for a moment, then shook his head. "Nope, you're not special enough."
"Well, excuse me!" J.P. stuck his tongue out.
"So, where'd you find her?" Kouji asked.
"You know at the cemetary there's a small temple? Well, we found her there," Takuya said.
Courtney smirked. "Yeah, it was raining so Takuya let me borrowed his jacket. And caught me so that I wouldn't fall down the steps."
Zoe's eyes darkened a shade, though no one noticed.
"Yeah, but you ended up falling down a few seconds later anyway," Takuya said with a laugh.
"It wasn't my fault! Something pushed me!" Courtney insisted.
Kouichi raised an eyebrow. "What's she talking about?"
"Courtney fell down the steps and said that something pushed her. But there wasn't anything or anyone behind her, so obviously she just lost her balance," Takuya told them.
"It did. But whatever, don't believe me." Courtney scoffed.
Kouji rolled his eyes. "Yeah, just like the time I stole your diary and you didn't believe Takuya when he said that he didn't take it."
Takuya rubbed his head in painful memory. "Yeah.......please never attack me with a hot iron again."
"That was different!" The redhead screeched. "And I believed you..........later..........."
"Yeah, like one hospital visit later," Kouji said, chuckling.
As the two began to bicker, Takuya's mind flashed to the bloody mess in Professor Kakuzawa'a office. Should he tell them about the decapitated body? Or maybe about the information he had learned? And what about Zoe? Should he tell them about the disease? His head was filled with so many questions, yet no answers. He finally decided that he would try to figure out more pieces of the puzzle before he jumped to any conclusions. Besides, it would probably be better if they didn't know. For now at least.
Tommy was having his own battle. He wanted to tell them about his encounter on the beach with that soldier. However, if they found out that he had said Zoe's name without thinking, they might be furious. He didn't even know why the man was looking for her in the first place. The fight he had witnessed between Zoe and Nana still played in his mind, yet he was in denial about it. It was only a dream, he thought. Zoe wasn't capable of anything like that, whether or not she had her memory. For now he would keep it to himself.
Back at the beach
"So, are you gonna give me an answer or not?" Bando was still pointing the gun to her head.
"I'm assuming that you mean Zoe," Nana replied.
Bando smirked. "So, you do know where she is. Where is that bitch hiding?"
Nana shook her head. "No, I don't know where she is."
He pulled the trigger, sending a bullet past her head, barely missing her. "Do you want to die?"
Nana looked down. "Papa told me not to fight anyone. He told me that if I was a good girl he would come back for me."
"Oh, really?" Bando said sarcastically.
Tears began to run down her face. "I didn't do anything wrong......I don't want to fight......."
Bando gave her a sharp kick, sending her to the ground. "You're a monster and that's all you'll ever be. You will always be humanity's enemy and in this world, there is no place for a freak like you."
"You're wrong!" She started to break down in sobs. "Papa wouldn't lie to me......"
"Look around you." Bando motioned the surrounding area with his gun. "Don't see anyone else with horns, do you?"
"But there's no one here," Nana said.
Bando glared at her. "That's not the point! There's no one else with horns because they're all killed at birth. The only reason they kept your sorry ass alive was because you were used as a test subject."
"No! It's all lies!" Nana pounded the ground, feeling her prostetic arm jiggle from the blow.
Just then she remembered what Chief Kurama had told her. He said that Director Kakuzawa had ordered him to kill her, yet he chose to help her escape. Still, she couldn't argue with that information. The director saw her as only a disposable test subject.
Nana sighed, defeated. "Why was I born if I can't live in this world?"
Bando smirked. "You finally understand. There is no place for you and there never will be."
Nana slowly stood up. "Yes, it's clear to me now. I understand that the only way for there to be a place for me is if I elimintate humans....."
"What are you talking about?" Bando demanded. "Eliminate humans?"
"You said it yourself. I will never be welcomed in the this world by humans. So I guess I'll just have to start killing and start new." With that, Nana began to walk towards him, her eyes red.
"Good luck," the commando said sarcastically.
A moment later he shot her once in her left arm and twice in her left leg. However, since they were only prostetics, no blood oozed out of them. Bando quickly backed up, trying to put some space between them.
"At this distance, you can't reach me," he sneered, pointing his gun at her again. "But I can still shoot you in the chest and kill you."
Nana smiled and walked closer. Just as he was about to fire, one of Nana's prostetic arms flew forward and punched him in the face like a missile. He flew backward, dropping his weapon. Lying on the sand, he looked up to see Nana standing over him. Bando glared at her. He was in the same exact position as when he had the fight with Zoe, right before she had blinded him and cut his hand off. Not wanting to repeat the past, he grabbed a smaller gun off his belt and fired up at her. At that moment his robotic hand fell apart from the recoil of the gun.
Nana cried out as the bullet grazed the side of her head. She felt a warm trickle of blood run down her face and sank to the ground.
"It hurts....." She began to cry. "It hurts so much.........."
Meanwhile Bando was looking at his broken replacement hand. "Fuck!"
Nana looked over at him, clutching onto her wound. "What happened to your hand?"
Bando looked up, his eyes angrily boring into hers. "Your little friend did this to me. She fucking cut off my real hand, so now I have this one." He lifted his arm, showing her the broken metal with wires hanging out of it.
"Zoe's not my friend," she shot back. "She was the one who cut off my arms and legs. This is why I have these prostetics."
"So that's why you didn't bleed," the soldier muttered.
"I'm still getting used to these, though."
Bando gave a humorless chuckle. "Looks like we have the same enemy."
"I can sense other Diclonius, but for some reason, I can't sense Zoe." She thought for a moment, then smiled. "Hey, why don't we work together? It'll be a lot easier to kill her."
"Me work with you? I don't think so. I want to kill that bitch myself. However, if you sense her, give me a call." He slowly stood up, using his other hand to pull a card out of his pocket.
Nana took it, confused. "What's this? And how do I use it to call you?"
Bando sighed, yanking the card back. "Never mind. If you find her, I'll be at the beach."
"Papa told me not to bother trying to find her. But I'm still mad that she did this to me. Besides, if I do find her, I'm sure Papa will be so proud of me," she said, beaming.
"Yeah, whatever. Just call me if you find her. In the meantime, I gotta fix this shit......" He stared at his destroyed hand. "Only this time, they better make it stronger. Can't have it fall apart from the fucking recoil of a gun."
"Bye!" Nana ran off, leaving the man alone.
Bando smirked. "Maybe after I kill the blond one, I'll kill her too........"
okay, another chapter is done. yay, about friggen time. review please, and the chapter 20 is coming soon.
