Heh, heh. Come on guys, I would never be THAT mean and leave you hanging until Thursday for the end of the fight scene! I havn't had time to edit this one yet, I'll be pretty busy today and wanted to get this out this morning to you guys, so expect some errors.
Thanks to my on going supporters, InsertStupidNameHere, and awesome dt.
A response to a review from Guest:
1. As a response to the first point you made, yes of course they are going to be worried about dying because it really, really hurts. They feel the pain of death all the same, but they don't die from it, which makes it worse because there is no immediate relief afterwards, its an agonizing process to come back and it takes a lot of energy. So of course they are going to be afraid of dying again.
2. You were right about this one, I wen't and checked back on this and I will fix it. Thanks for pointing that out.
Thanks for reading as always~!
~Tiruneko ;3
Previously:
Miku stands inside her cell and watches in horror.
Len staggers to his feet and darts into Miku's cell, grabbing her wrist and tugging her out of it. But the door is slammed in his face, by Shion.
"RIN! THE DOOR RIN OPEN IT!"
A gun shot echoes throughout the hallway. Followed by moments of silence.
The two wait, not breathing or moving, but hoping. Hoping their only chance for freedom isn't gone. They hope it hasn't vanished up into the air.
The two wait, not breathing or moving, but hoping. Hoping their only chance for freedom isn't gone. They hope it hasn't vanished into the air.
X~7~X
"Len…" Miku whispers, clinging to his arm.
Len stands focusing on the door. Come on Rin. Please. Please Rin.
The heavy stone door barely creaks open. Len lunges forward to open it. Standing on the other side is IA.
"IA!"
The small girl grabs Len by the wrist and pulls him out into the hallway, Miku timidly follows.
Meiko and Rin are fighting over a pistol laying on the floor, most of the guards lay in a pool of their own blood thanks to Len.
Kaito is clutching his leg in the corner. A long bladed knife is plunged into it.
Len breaks free of the child's grip and runs forward, jumping on top of Meiko, knocking her to the ground and rolling her.
"Go Lenny!" IA cheers with a light hearted giggle.
Rin stands and rushes to the aid of Len. She lands a punch directly onto the brown haired woman's eye. Rin grabs her arms and twists them painfully behind her, she then slams her into the ground and places her foot on the back of her head.
"Knock her out." She orders to her brother, who kicks Meiko in the side of the head with all of his might.
With a loud cry the woman goes unconscious. Rin leaps off of her and takes off down the hallway.
"Before more guards show up!" She calls behind her. As she races by she grabs Miku by the wrist, forcing her into a sprint.
Len scoops up IA in his arms bridal style and he darts over the bodies of guards and comes to the body of Kaito Shion.
"You lost." Len says coldly, and the blonde boy continues to run.
"Lenny…" IA says staring up at him.
"Y-yeah?" He answers with shortage of breath.
"Duck."
Four guards armed with clubs appear at the end of the hallway. Len ducks just in time not to run straight into one of the long metal clubs.
He keeps running, feeling as if his legs are about to break off of his body.
Len spots his sister and Miku at the end of the hallway, trying to pick left or right.
"Go right!" Len calls forward, remembering his entrance into this building vaguely. When him and his sister were first dragged to this hell hole the assistants had killed them both enough times to make sure they were unconscious, but Len had just begun to wake up as they entered the building. He remembered the paths they took figuring this day would come eventually.
Rin half drags Miku down the next hallway.
"Pick up your legs already!" She cries at her.
"I- Oomf!" She starts to explain but trips over her own feet. Rin stops to pick her up, allowing Len to catch up.
"They're coming!" Rin screams as echoing footsteps are heard down the hallway.
The group keeps running.
"Were not gonna make it!" Len cries as the exit comes slowly into view.
"We're so close just come on!" Rin protests, tugging harder on Miku. She trips again.
"I can see the door!" Len yells.
A bullet barely misses Len's head, and goes flying past his ear with a loud and piercing whizz.
"We're so screwed." Rin screams.
More bullets fail to hit them, and they begin to run in zig zags so they aren't hit.
Rin outstretches her free arm to push open the door. So close, so close, so close, so close… Her finger tip touches the door and then with a loud crash and whoosh, the doors fling open. Len follows right behind her.
The sunlight is blinding and Miku cries out and squints her eyes shut. Len jumps of the last few steps and they bolt down into the grass leading to the parking lot.
"What now!" Rin cries, realizing they didn't plan this far ahead.
"There!" Len screams pointing at a man getting into a car. The group rushes forward, Rin lets go of Miku and crashes into the man. Without hesitation she snatches car keys from his hand and they pile into the car. Len gently but hurriedly sets down IA in the back, and he gets in the driver's seat. Rin takes passenger and Miku grabs backseat.
"Were gonna die again!" Miku wails.
"NO we won't!" Len jams the keys into the ignition. The car comes to life with a hum just as an army of twenty guards run out of the front doors.
The car speeds and swerves out of the parking lot and pulls away onto the main road. It drives off into the distance just as a bullet smashes through the back window.
Loud shattering of glass and a shout of pain make Len jump and the car swerves violently. A rouge bullet soared through the glass and into the back of IA's head.
She lays like a rag doll, collapsed in the back seat.
Her body shudders and then re animates. She explodes into violent sobs, clutching her head as blood pours down her, staining her hair.
Miku instinctively wraps her arms around IA, and gives her a tight embrace, only causing her sobs to become louder and more frantic.
"Len what do I do?" She whispers as IA continues to sob. Rin twists around to look in the back seat only to see shards of glass lodged in Miku's shoulders and parts of her head. IA is a sobbing wreck enveloped in Miku's quivering arms.
"This is bad." Rin whispers. "Len they're bound to come after us in cars of their own any second now."
"You're the one with the plans Rin!" Len yells, swerving to avoid an oncoming car.
"We need to stop somewhere. We can't go into a city or out in public like this, but if we stop, they're bound to catch us."
"Ditch the car." Rin suggests.
With a sigh Len agrees, realizing sadly that this is their only option.
They pull into a gas station about five minutes later, and pile out of the car. Upon exiting IA crashes into Len, grips him, and begins to sob into his chest.
"Don't worry IA." He says with the most soothing voice he has, while stroking her soft hair.
"Let's hurry." Rin says nervously glancing around.
Miku stands near the car, staring at the sky with a look of peace.
"Miku… come on we're going in."
She stands in silence, letting her hair sway and dance around her in the wind momentarily, before turning to them with a nod.
The store is entirely empty, except for a janitor in the far corner and a woman working the counter who is too busy with her magazine to glance up. The group hurries into the unisex bathroom.
Rin walks over to the sink and starts running warm water.
Len sets down IA on the floor in the corner and begins to blot some of the blood clumped in her hair away with paper towels.
"Rin what about our clothes? We're practically wearing blood soaked paper."
"They're bound to have souvenir clothes or whatever out there, right?" She asks.
"Go check." He says, standing and walking over to Miku.
"Hold out your arms, I need to take out the glass."
Miku stares at the boy for the first time. He has shoulder length blonde hair, pulled into a high pony tail, that surprisingly doesn't look the slightest bit feminine. His eyes are the same piercing red as hers. He is pretty lean for his age, and is a few inches shorter than Miku because of his age.
He has a healing cut on his forehead, and a black eye. A lone trail of blood runs down his arm.
He's gorgeous.
Slowly he pulls out a shard of glass shaped like a puzzle piece out of her forearm.
"Ow." She winces at the pain.
Len submerges her arm in the warm water, making it sting.
"Sorry it hurts."
"Don't be. I kind of… like it."
"What?" He says looking at her confused.
"Reminds me I'm still alive. And more, that I'm free for the first time in my life." She smiles up at him.
"Then I guess it's not a bad thing." He says smiling back.
"I have nothing to be sad about anymore." She whispers, feeling the words dance off her tongue and lips, like air as a trail of crimson red blood rolls down her arm and drops onto the white counter top of the gas station bathroom.
And this is her happiness.