Happy Thanks Giving!
In honor of this holiday, I bring you an early chapter.
Thanks for all the responses to the character pole, my favorites to write would have to be Rin, Oliver, Lapis, and IA. The arguments between Rin and Oliver are just so much fun to create! ^^
Anyways happy Thanks Giving minna!
Thanks to reviewers:
Human At Heart, zhane 17, XxKingArthurlllxX, xXIchigoAngelXx, Lolly 1o1, awesome dt, Crazed King, ownitlikeaboss, InsertStupidNameHere, and AriaScarlet
~Tiruneko ;3
X~29~X
"Someone start talking. Miki do you know them?" Oliver interrupts loudly, stopping what was starting to turn into a confrontation. Behind him stands Rin, arms folded over her chest, head bent down slightly, an expression of mild irritation. Behind her stands Len, looking like a coiled up snake ready to lunge, with Miku almost cowering behind him, looking as if she's about to begin to scream.
"N-n-no not p-personally, but I'm sure they know of me. After all, they have those eyes." Miki blurts out, stuttering and sloshing her words together, sounding like a train wrecking in slow motion. Her body is still pushed flat against the wall, her red eyes still wide in terror. Oliver stands in between the groups, his amber brown eyes very, very confused.
"Know of you?" Rin scoffs. "Modest much?"
"Rin this is serious. Look." Len points out, pointing his hand towards Miki's eyes.
"Red… Wait you've gotta' be kidding me-" Rin gets abruptly cut off by the annoyed blonde boy with the eye patch in the corner.
"What the hell does eye color have to do with anything?"
"More than you would think… red eyes, otherwise known as demon glare. That's what they are." Miki responds, not breaking eye contact with Len across the room.
"W-wait, you know about it?" Miku unexpectedly chirps in, instantly, as soon as every pair of eyes in the room fall upon her, she recoils into her scarf, pulling up the top to try and hide her blushing face.
"Know? What do you mean know?" Miki spits angrily at Miku.
"She means-" Len says, stepping in front of Miku defensively. "She means, none of us do. We don't know why we have the red eyes, or why we… are what we are. We don't know. All we know is that the Crypton Corp. and a bunch of others are hunting us down and that we don't… you know."
"I don't believe that for a second. And if they're tracking you, like you say, you've just brought them right to me! I want you all out. Now!" She screams at the top of her lungs, causing IA and Yuki to come running back down the stairs, peeking their heads around the corner, and causing Miku to instantly recoil into a squatting position on the floor, covering her ears and closing her eyes.
"We haven't seen them in days. I swear. Please, if you know something tell us." Len begs, stepping forward slightly until he is abruptly stopped by Oliver.
"Miki, what are they talking about tracking you? Are you wanted or something?" Oliver asks.
Miki and Rin both respond at the same time, Rin responding with a sharp, "Stay the hell out of this eye patch!" and Miki with a, "You could say that…"
"Lenny…" IA whimpers, running forward and gripping his right arm, holding it like a life preserver. The little girl hovers there, Yuki watching still from the stair case.
"I finally lost them… I finally managed to lose them, and then you show up. You just had to show up… I have people now. Real people, normal people, I have a normal life now… and you show up to ruin it. I'm going back… Oh god I-I-I'm going back!" Reduced to tears the panicking red head falls to her knees, her vision blurry with gripping fear and adrenaline. Yuki pads over softly, putting a hand on her older sister's back and whispering something to her. Miki shrugs off her touch, but still the child remains next to her.
"Going where?!" Oliver cries loudly. A long lingering silence follows. Len stands still, stoic and as strong as a statue, holding his gaze with the crumbled red eyed girl on the floor as IA still clings to his arm. Rin had slowly and discretely managed to shift her position so that within moments if needed she could leap into a fighting stance and Miku, lastly, regained her composure and had slowly resumed her position behind Len. The small mouse-like noises of Miki's crying are the only noise in the room filled with those with red eyes.
"Maybe you should go." Oliver finally says with stern intonation.
"Wait- please. Let us talk to her. Please." Miku interrupts, moving forward only slightly as she speaks, her silky voice strained. Miki nor Oliver make any physical response, nothing indicating a no, or a yes, so Miku begins. "Please, give us a chance. None of us, or at least me, have ever seen anyone else with the eyes. If they're real, and you're really one of us, you must feel our pain, if not fully maybe just a little part of you sees it. We're tired, hungry, scared. I've slept in a car for the past two weeks, maybe three, I'm not much of a counter you see. Everything is so much scarier in the dark, not knowing anything, that's the dark. Len, and everyone else here has taught me slowly to look for the light in the dark, to make things not so scary anymore, and if you have a part of that light, if you know anything, anything at all, please, let us see that light, so we can make the dark brighter. Because no one deserves to live in the dark."
Over the course of Miku's speech Miki had slowly ceased crying and slightly straightened up, but still hasn't lifted her head.
"Prove to me… prove to me you-you really are who you look like you are. If your eyes are really red, and you really are hunted by them, you should be able to do it, no problem. If each of you show me, I'll show you too. And… and I'll tell you everything."
"Slow down there little-miss-red-riding-head, you can't possibly expect us to kill ourselves in front of you. IA is seven for Christ's sake!" Rin butts in loudly, lunging forward as she shouts.
"Kill yourselves?" Oliver nearly jumps out of his skin.
"You want what I have to say, show me. I can't just trust you, you're absolute strangers." Miki states simply, almost coldly. Oliver opens his mouth to protest then, with a grunt, turns to leave the room, too annoyed to continue having this confusing conversation.
"Hell no. I'm not watching you psychos kill yourselves. God what's wrong with you people?" He mutters bitterly turning to walk away. As he had been talking, Rin had already drawn a gun out of her bag, causing Miku to jump, Yuki to suck in a gasp of air, and IA to cringe. The loud boom that followed stopped him from leaving.
Within a mere instant blood exploded out the back of Rin's head, flying through the air and painting the ground violently and mercilessly, coating the white walls and hard wood floors with the crimson liquid. Rin's body thuds loudly on the floor as she falls like a sack of potatoes or a backpack being thrown aside after a long day of school. Miki had managed to turn away Yuki from the scene moments before Rin had done it, but Oliver wasn't that lucky. He watched it. All of it.
Sputtering like a dead car battery Oliver begins to try and comprehend what happened with a series of, buh-uh, ne-heh-eh and tst-ehs.
"H-h-how can you just stand there! She just- she- she- oh my god-she just- she-she-"
"God dammit that hurt like a bitch!" A loud and boisterous voice calls from the floor. Rin slowly moves, forcing her aching body into an upright position and holding her head in her hands. "God dammit Len why didn't you stop me?" She yells angrily.
"Stop you! I'm sorry when did you think that was going to happen?" Len yells back.
"About around the time I ya' know, pulled out a g-u-n. I thought you were going to be the heroic, self sacrificing one that leapt up with the refusal to let his little sister shoot her brains out on the floor."
"You offered." Len seethes at her.
"Miki! The hell is going on?" Oliver practically screams.
"God would you shut your mouth already, Blind-ie the One Eyed Pirate?" Rin taunts angrily, standing and rubbing the back of her head.
"That's it!" Without further warning Oliver lunges at Rin, catching her off guard and punching her so hard in the jar that she flies backwards, falling right back into her own blood.
"Rin don't you dare-" Len tries to warn, but Rin had already rocketed back up, and kicked Oliver in the stomach, so hard that he spit up all over the floor, the vomit mingling with the crimson blood. Oliver regains himself quickly, coming back around with another uppercut. Rin moves to dodge, but is caught off guard by what he really intended to do, knee her in the side.
"Gha-ak!" She sputters out, falling to the floor and rolling out of the way of Oliver's boot, covering the few parts of her clothes that weren't already splattered with blood and vomit. With a strong burst of energy Rin slides under Oliver's legs, popping out on his backside and literally leaping on top of him and beating relentlessly on his back until being thrown off by Len. Still the eye patched boy comes back around, still swinging at full force the two brawl, unable to be separated by the desperate pleas of Miki, Len, or Miku.
"Stop you two!" Miki screams as Oliver punches Rin brutally in the rib cage.
"That's enough Rin!" Len yells as Rin takes a sharp kick into Oliver's left leg, sending him skidding across the floor.
Miku wraps her small, stick like arms across IA's shoulders, pulling her away slowly from the fight scene. Slowly, panting on the floor, sweat dripping off her hair like rain Rin staggers to her feet and swings a kick at Oliver but is stopped abruptly in the air by Oliver simply grabbing her ankle, and pulling her to the ground.
"I win." Oliver declares bitterly as he stands over Rin's unconscious form on the ground. Under normal circumstances it would have been a stalemate, but mal nutrition and exhaustion and dehydration will leave a person a little off their game.
"Oh god!" Miku cries, running over and bending down beside Rin. "Rin, Rin!"
"Come on, let's take her upstairs and wash off some of the blood…" Miki speaks up, walking over very slowly and cautiously.
Oliver and Len both pick up Rin under the arms, and with much difficulty drag her up the stairs and into Miki's bedroom, where they flop her down on the girl's immaculate bed sheets. Miki comes in shortly after holding an assortment of rags and a bucket of warm water. She motions for Oliver to take Len out, and slowly begins to mop off the sweat on Rin's forehead.
"What made you change your mind?" Miku asks suddenly from her position in the shadows of Miki's bedroom. Upon hearing her voice Miki jumps noticeably, cringing at the sound of her smooth voice.
"God, I forgot you were there." She grumbles in response.
"So? What made you change your mind?" The teal haired girl asks again, slowly seating herself into Miki's desk chair in the corner of the room.
With a sigh the red head replies, avoiding eye contact at all costs. "Look, when I saw this girl fighting Oliver, I saw how desperate she was, how desperate you all are. I was almost angry at Oliver in a way for not letting up when he was fighting her, but unfortunately, how he sees it is if you can't handle how he fights, don't fight him."She laughs to herself. "He's a little bit… volatile, you see. But anyways, what made me change my mind, was seeing the look on her face. That pure desperation and anger. That, I get."
"Thank you. I-I-I uh never got your name." Miku asks, sinking slowly into the comfortable seat.
"Miki. You?"
"Miku. The girl on the bed is Rin, her brother is Len and the little girl is IA."
"The boy with the eye patch is Oliver, the little girl is Yuki. Look, before I do anything else to help you, I need to tell you this, right here, right now. I will not ever do anything that risks Yuki coming into danger, I will not ever do anything that risks them coming after us, most importantly, I will never go back there. I would rather die a thousand times than be taken back by them. By the corporation. You got that?"
"Yes, of course, Miki."
"Good, now help me mop some of this vomit of, because it reeks."
Okay, here it is! The favorite character pole!
Remember you can change your vote(s) anytime, this is for my reference to what part of a character is appealing to you guys, so I can make all my characters as good as they can be! ^^
IA- 2
Kaito- 1
Lapis- 1
Len- 2
Miku- 3
Rin- 3
Thanks for reading, have a great Thanks Giving!
~Tiruneko ;3