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Alright, here's the second half of the mission chapter(s). Again, this is a little short but I split it in half. And if you read chapter 7 2 or 3 hours after I posted it, I'm Sorry for the confusion. I uploaded Chapter 6 again instead of 7 but I do have all of it fixed and again I'm sorry for the confusion. And again, if you have any questions, comments, or anything else about the story please let me know. So, please read and review and let me know what you think.
Chapter 8: Numbing
"I warned you, Cooper," the Phantom's menacing voice fill my hears, "I told you if you interfered with my wedding then a disaster would happen." He thrust the sword upwards and I gasped for air and pain flowed through my veins, "I was right, wasn't I?" even if I could only see the floor, I could tell he was smirking as he pulled the weapon from my abdomen. While he walked away to another part of the sewer, I slowly slunk down and flopped on the ground and clutched my wound in an attempt to slow the bleeding. Time seemed to creep by at a snails pace and it gave me a chance to look at how far the Phantom had gone out for his wedding. Even if it was a sewer, it was filled with candles, flowers, music was playing when I first came in but it died away a while ago, and the altar was small but like the rest of the room, it was painted in gold due to the candle light. I kept my breathing slow and steady in an attempt to keep my heart rate down so I would loose so much blood. But I could tell that wasn't working. The gash was too big and too deep and I was running out of time before things went from bad to worse. I glanced down to the gash in my stomach and saw that the wound was still gushing blood, my shirt and gloves were covered in the red liquid, and there was no one here to help me out. Bentley was in the hideout, Ramona still thought I was a stalker and wouldn't help, and the police refused to even come down here.
I felt a pair of paws quickly push my paws against my wound and I saw Ramona keeping them in place. She was frazzled at the sudden actions of her fiancé, who had disappeared to somewhere in the sewer and I could feel my fingers and toes start to get cold while I was surprisingly calm, probably due to shock. She was shaking herself and frantically trying to look for something to stop the bleeding.
"Ramona," I said quietly, "What are you doing?" the pain from the stab wound had stopped and was now nothing but a dull numbing feeling.
"Not letting you bleed out at my wedding," she muttered while ripping a strip of fabric off her dress, "Even if you've stalked me," she glanced up after securing the cloth around my stab wound, "I won't let you die." My ears perked when the sounds of yelling and Carmelita's loud voice could be heard coming to our location. I guessed that Bentley had gotten the police on our side and now they were here and ready to make arrests. Even though she had selective amnesia, Ramona was still a wanted criminal and would be arrested. After going through all of this I figured being arrested was the last thing she needed and she needed to get out of here.
"Get out of here," I muttered quickly, "The police will arrest you if they find you, get out of here. Now!" she shook her head.
"No," she applied more pressure to my abdomen, "you're going to the hospital." Even with amnesia, she was still stubborn and I'd have to figure out how to get her to go home. I grabbed the side of her head and pulled her face towards my own. My breath was starting to get shaky and just about every part of my body was getting cold.
"Go…home, Ramona…Go home." I managed to breathe out before I started seeing black spots in my vision. I was almost out of time and there would be no way I could get to the hospital for a blood transfusion before I bled out. I decided that I would pull one last move before the rest of my blood left my body. I quickly leaned up and kissed her. She tried to pull away but I didn't let her. If this was going to be the last time I would ever going to see her, not to mention kiss her, then I was determined to make it last. I pulled away and her face was full of confusion but she was still determined to get me out of here.
"Get out of here." I pushed her away in an attempt to get here out of here before the police burst through an entrance. She still refused and she knew I wasn't going to get up on my own, I felt her try to lift me up herself. I was a lot heavier than she could pick up and I was cutting my time close. I felt another pair of arms come and wrap around my chest behind me and Ramona and the unknown person lift me. I was shifted to their shoulder and I learned the other person was Carmelita. I was still bleeding profusely and I was getting light headed along with everything else. I didn't have enough energy to move my feet and I knew I was being dragged by the two females up some random staircase. I couldn't feel anything from my waist down and that feeling was starting to slowly creep up into my chest. My breathing was becoming labored as I was dragged and my vision was starting to get blurry and my hearing was starting to fail me. I felt myself be transferred to two of Ramona's brothers who worked for Interpol and they moved me up the stair faster than the two females. I glanced around for Ramona and noticed she was heading back down the stairs with her sister.
"Ramona!" I shouted as the dark spots in my vision got bigger and my eyelids started to droop, "Ramona, don't go back to him! Ramona!" shouting her name was the last thing I remember before my eyes closed and I felt my body go limp.
This is a reply for S.R.J.S. Fangirl from P's review. To be honest I've never been a big fan of Sonic the Hedgehog and I've never really played Jak and Daxter but I do like the games. Even though when I was a kid a friend of mine would come over everyday and play either that, Ratchet and Clank, or Sly Cooper. That's how I got started on Sly Cooper and Ratchet and Clank but I've never really cared for Sonic. And I say that because when I was a kid I always played Crash Bandicoot and the two competed with each other when it came to sales and I preferred Crash. And I'm not sure what stories you've read but I actually have the characters from that game incorporated with my OC (mainly as siblings or enemies) And Sly Cooper isn't the one favorite game that I write about or enjoy. Like I just mentioned, I love the Crash games. But I write mainly for Sly Cooper because I like to incorporate romance into a lot of my stories and since I have Crash and those characters set as my OC's siblings, you can't really do too much romance between siblings, that would be incest. Just stating. And then for the game news you sent, yeah I think that would be a pretty awesome. Even if I don't care for Sonic it has a lot of games that I do play/enjoy watching if I don't play them. So I think that if that does happen it would be pretty interesting. So I hope that answered your questions. And I had to put my answers on this chapter since you sent a review anonymously and I couldn't PM you the answers or give you an e-mail reply. So, I hope that helps. Thanks.