Chapter Forty Seven: Getting To Know Each Other
Black's POV
Everyone stared at me with widened eyes as I walked in slowly and steadily through the front wooden door of our hideout with a warm, pleasant smile plastered across my face as I held the sleeping, blood soaked Sapphire in my sore, soft arms. They all paused, frozen like statues in funny positions as I slowly walked into the large grey concrete room, looking over my left shoulder to see the others behind me. I looked forward again, walking to the right of the small circle they were in and slowly and gently dropped down to my knees before placing Sapphire down on the cold hard ground. I slid my hands away from her warm body, smiling softly as Diamond kneeled down and placed her right hand onto her sister's stomach with hope. I guess that's over.
"B...Black?! You're alive?!", The boy exclaimed aloud in pure utter shock from behind, echoing twice as I chuckled and span around before sitting down beside Sapphire's head as Lizzo and Phase stood behind me shyly. "How did you survive the night?!", He asked in shock as he dropped his half eaten chocolate bar onto his lap.
I widened my smile and raised my right hand behind my head, scratching my scalp deep underneath my silky soft, jet black, long hair and answered, "It's a long story. I'm surprised myself".
Oh... Ahh... That's where my ear is... It feels so good... Huh! Damn, I can't get off track!
Lowering my right hand down to my right thigh, Nikolai cleared his throat loudly, making me turn my full attention towards him, staring happily at him with my light red and light blue eyes. He hit his chest with the back of his left clenched fist before saying something.
"Impossible. Surviving the night alone is unheard of", He mumbled to himself in utter disbelief as his eyes trailed off down onto the ground where his sandwich sat idly... I know what he means... I had one of the hardest times trying to take them on. I'm glad they're back safe and sound... "But I had a feeling that maybe you could do it. I don't know why, but my brain keep telling me that you can do many things", He claimed... I see... So he had hopes for me. That's nice...
"I thought you were going to die", The doctor chuckled, making a few of the others snap out of their trance and laugh with him. I sighed... Just cause I'm a girl... Huh?
"I knew you would come back without a doubt!", The boy by the name of Mess claimed loudly, wanting to prove his point as he stared at me with a smile of confidence which shot chills down my spine... Haha... I guess he has a liking towards me. There's no doubt... Damn... White won't be happy when she finds out. Hehe.
Lizzo's POV
Oh cool! This clothes store's still intact?! Wow... Haha. Free clothes! I stood beside my 'sister' picking out clothes from the surprisingly spotless shelves, holding two skirts in my left hand the same way a waiter holds their towel and three shirts on top of that. The shelves were wooden and had a nice fragrance emitting from it, calming my nerves down and making me forget about what the outside world was like.
"We should at least get two pairs of clothes", Phase mumbled to Black as she held a yellow shirt up in front of her face from sleeve to sleeve, raising an eyebrow in somewhat confusion. "And not something flashy".
"Definitely", Black sighed as she held two black shirts and two black shirts on her left arm, smiling softly whilst she continued to search the shelves for more clothes... Hehe... Her taste in fashion is strange but I can't blame her... After what I saw last night, I'm convinced that she's a FrostBitten. I wonder if I'm one as well. "So I'm sticking with black clothes", She claimed, making me turn to the right with my entire body and give her a small nod, causing her to chuckle a little and turn a slight cherry red before I said something.
"I got it! Let's look like each other!", I exclaimed as I heard the lady of the group click her tongue in what sounded like annoyance from far up ahead. Black sighed, shaking her head left and right, making her beautiful long black hair dance to her soft movements before she blankly blinked... She was about to say something, but the shattering of glass abruptly filled the calm air and replaced it with terror and anxiety. I gasped, spinning around as the others called out for each other and got positive replies. I took a step back, standing nervously in between Phase and Black as unknown footsteps stormed the building, causing me to shiver in fear. Phase too was in fright but Black seemed pretty calm and serious about it... Her eyes trailed off to the left. Huh? Me?
"Lizzo, stand back", She said, gritting her teeth as suspense beat me up. I immediately obligated, standing behind her as she twisted her body to the side and stared at the walkway in front of her where the footsteps grew louder and louder... "Whatever you do, do NOT panic. I have a feeling that this person will fire at us if we do"... Huh?! How does she know that?!... Woah... Her right eye is glowing... "But I'll get the drop on whoever it is", She claimed and without a second to lose, she literally charged forwards with everything she had, clenching her fists as tightly as possible as she reeled her right hand far to her sides. Whoever walks around that corner is going to get killed...
"Idiot... Lizzo, your sister has the tendency of ALWAYS judging a book by it's contents. Not the cover", Phase sighed and slapped her face with her right hand in a depressed fashion as I watched Black from behind, hearing her loud footsteps stomp across the hard white tiled floor... Hehe... She's still holding onto her clothes... Gwah! I blushed a hard red the moment her skirt uplifted for a split second, just faintly seeing her amazing behind and her black tight, boxer-like underwear. Only was it for girls... "Rawr. Am I the only one who saw that?".
"N...No", I stuttered in embarrassment... "I saw it as well".
"Hmm? Why are you red?", She asked me and leaned up against my face, making me then to face her with an even more redder face due to the embarrassment that strangled me with a noose.
"B...Because her skirt lifted and..."... I was too embarrassed to finish. My heart ached like a raging animal wanting to be freed from it's cage as Phase gave me a strange look followed with a depressed sigh.
"I'm talking about the white strands of hair that was on the other side of the shelf... Pervert", She said... Ahhh! My heart shattered! "You two may look the same, but there's a clear line that separates you both. Pe-er-ver"... She's... Going to drive me nuts!
"Hyaa! Black?! That hurt dammit!", A girl who sounded so familiar, that all you had to think about was the city in it's current state exclaimed making my eyes widen a tenfold... Chaos is here! That must mean... Milk is too!
"WHAT?! When the hell did you guys get here?! And why do you all look ready for war?!", Black cried aloud.
"Oh, we happened to be passing by!", White exclaimed... She's here too?!
"Damn... The love birds...", Phase sighed...
Black's POV
It's really them! Her! White! Haha! I've missed her so much! And Ruby too!
"She's... killing... me...", Frosty choked as I wrapped my arms around her and hugged her as tightly as possible, feeling her amazing warmth invade my body as her heart beat against my chest like it wanted to jump right out and enter my body. Ahh! I've missed them all! It's a dream come true to meet them all up in a place like this! "Guys... I'm gonna die... I'm gonna-".
"Cheerful as always", Milk laughed from my right as I crushed Frosty in my bare arms, hearing her desperately try to breathe in air. Ahhh!
"When she's killing someone, yes", Chaos said too loudly behind his future wife Milk, making White and a few others giggle as they all watched me strangle the life out of Frosty with a cheerfully smile plastered across my face. I can't control myself!
"H...Hey... I'm really going to die...", Frosty croaked her last words before suddenly, I released her and took a step back, holding my hands behind my back as I watched her place both hands onto her knees and begin to hyperventilate like a machine. "I really thought you were going to kill me... I'm so glad I was wrong".
"So Black, do you know these people?", The doctor asked me casually from behind, making me smile and turn around to give him a strong positive nod before I spoke.
"Yep! They're all my friends!", I exclaimed and spun around to the front, making my hair flutter behind me beautifully as I locked my eyes onto White's amazing bloodshot red ones to the right of a pair of light blue ones which belonged to Milk. She stared at me with a grin across her white face, looking both terrifying and friendly.
"Wow... Hey! Then what's with the swords?!", Mess asked aloud in what sounded like fear and shock as he took a step back in fright, pointing out his index finger straight at Milk's waist. I blinked, inspecting her closer to see her silver katana dangling off to the right of her steadily and battle-ready... They better not leak out a single word about ANYTHING!
"Oh...ahaha! Self defence! A Corrupted nearly killed us last night", Milk said smoothly... If she says- "We defeated it"... Idiot...
"Huh?! Impossible! A Corrupted can't die!", The lady exclaimed aloud in disbelief, slamming her fist against a wooden shelf in anger... "Kids can't fight! You lot can't even take on an unarmed old man even!"... She's taunting...
"T...That's right! You guys shouldn't joke about that!", The doctor scolded at them, making my smile face a little as I clenched my fists to the new introduction of this eerie and painful atmosphere we all breathed in...
"Exactly!", Mess backed them up. "Don't you think so as well Black?!". Don't get me started... Right after having a blast I'm getting this worked up?... Dammit.
"Shut up everyone! Just forget about this and let's all calm down!", White exclaimed, making Diamond and Lizzo jump in fright as a piece of glass shattered from my far right, making me turn to the front of the store where the broken windowpanes sat to see a red laser flash and blind my eyes painfully. Argh! I took a step back, gritting my teeth as I shut both my eyes as tightly as possible to the pain. I smashed my back against the wooden shelf, making it croak and thud as the others gasped and made a whole ruckus around me... Red laser? Someone's pointing their gun at me... Not on my watch!
"BLACK! GET DOWN!", Lizzo screamed out at the top of her lungs as my vision came back to me vividly, making everything look so bright before it settled down back to normal as I heard a distinct click emit from far up ahead just outside of the shop through the windowpanes... Instinctively and without hesitation, I stepped to the left as fast as possible, staring dearly up ahead at a fucking two inch sniper round rocketing its way towards my stomach. It rippled the air as if it was water, giving it a magical effect that ceased immediately right after it penetrated through FIVE shelves behind me, causing splinters of wood to explode and hinder our vision as well as our smell. That bullet... That was one hell of a giant bullet! Two fucking inches!... What gun uses bullets like those?! No, what kind of SNIPER would use that?!...
Ding ding ding! A fucking 50c!
Immediately my right wrist was grabbed by Milk underneath me who lay prone on her stomach, tugging on me with tremendous force which made my organs turn like a tumble dryer as I hit the ground hard with my bare knees. I grunted in pain, but I endured it as much as I could before she tugged once more and got me prone. Everyone was silent, or tried to stay silent. One of the girls from Nikolai's group started panicking like crazy, unable to bear the fact that we're under attack and possible about to die... I don't blame her. Heck, if I hadn't gone through various deaths, then I'd have skid marks on my underwear! Haha! I laugh at death! It makes gets me excited... In both ways somehow... Hehe!- I can't get carried away! If I get battle crazed then the Humans here will know just who I am!... And why the hell does Nikolai look so familiar and sound familiar?!... Wait a second... Wait a fucking second... I've seen him before at school! Same as those two kids! And that doctor... He's part of the medical centre in the school! But that lady and the old man are unknown...
"I think we hit her!", Someone yelled from up ahead as my breasts pressed hard against the cold stone floor, making me then a slight red as I licked my dry lips and tried to listen for any I identified movement. We're all in the same row, meaning that any movement outside of this boundary is hostile. "Contact is showing no body temperature through thermal! But there's a couple more hiding behind the fifth row at the woman's clothes section!"... I have no radar on thermal? Thinks keep on getting interesting!
"I bet on thermal I'm a fireball", White chuckled to herself, making me look a bit to my left just over Milk's beautiful blonde head hat smelt like roses at White. My vision blurred out a bit, then focused a split second later onto her. She sat on the ground with her erect back plastered against the shelf. Her arms were crossed, meaning business as she smiled warmly at me... What's she up to? She really needs my blood... It's strange seeing her this way. But it surprisingly suits her! "Same goes for you Ruby. Think we can take them on?", She asked with a confident smirk... Hehe... My battle mode is being fuelled!
"Take them on?! Are you fucking nuts?! White! If I remember correctly, you are probably the fourth most famous in the year because of your clear mind! But now, you're thinking like a maniac!", Mess hissed in a loud whisper angrily from my far right, making White's smile broaden dangerously as she licked her pink, soft lips with her slimy red tongue... "They have GUNS! What do you have?! A mere sword?! Don't tell me you can deflect bullets!"... Hehe...
"Not me, but someone here can", She claimed, making my heart skip a beat as I heard shuffling and a sudden skid emit from far up ahead. White glared her teeth out and clenched them, revealing the many razor sharp jagged white spikes horrifically. "And I think she should act soon. On my mark". Rodger that! I won't let anyone get hurt on my watch!
Slowly, I pressed both my palms onto the cold white tiles of the shop and pushed myself up to my knees, making a few of the others gasp and stare up at me as if I was crazy. Haha! I'm insane! My hair dangled down, coiled and tangled on the floor beside my arms that held me up on my knees as I stared down at the tiles, gritting my teeth, focusing hard on their movements... It's so hard without using my ears properly.
"H...hey! Black! What are you doing?! There's no way you'll survive against these people!", The old man claimed, fuelling me even more as a smile broke on my face... Haha... I'm battle ready now. "You can't be serious!".
"She's serious. Watch her and you won't believe your eye", White laughed. I stood up, holding my right arm in front of my face with my fist clenched and positioned horizontally as I focused and summoned my blade forth... I don't know why, but I was fired up this time. Powerfully fired up. "Mr Nikolai, you remember Black Heart, right?"...
"Huh?! She can't be!", He exclaimed and at once, my blade materialised into my right hand as the footsteps drew nearer and neared from dead ahead and behind, making me smile warmly and look cheerful. "No way... It's HER!".
"Watch closely", White chuckled... "It's show time!".
I nodded and slashed the air in front of me with lightning speed diagonally from the bottom right to the top left, emitting a strong sonic boom that kicked up dirt and the clothes up into the air, showering us briefly which acted as a little diversion to confuse whoever was about to turn the corner just six metres away from where I stood... The presence of the ones behind all moved up to the front for a simple reason that made me giggle to myself cutely, throwing the others off entirely. They don't want to get hit by their own friendlies. Easier for me.
"Everyone get behind me. Or else I won't be able to protect you", I said and at once, everyone but White ran past me in a hurry. She just stood to the left of me, holding onto my left hand with her warm, right, soft hand which made me turn a slight red... They turned the corner. Five of them. Each equipped with dangerous sub machine guns that looked like the M5K spray painted a fine jet black. They all wore anti riot equipment. Just without the shield.
"There she is! Open fire!", One of the screamed and at once, White took a quick step back and let to of my hand before they all pulled the trigger of their twenty round magazine silenced guns, beginning the barrage of death. Haha! If there's one thing I know, these bullets have low velocity because of the silencer and their mechanics, meaning that they move slower in the air! More slower than Melody's arrows charged to the max!
I began my work, hacking and slashing their bullets with a dance that consisted of me spinning, jumping and pulling off all sorts of crazy stunts that allowed me to shred their bullets like paper. Literally. It's THAT easy! Their shells sprinkled from the sides of their guns, showering the tiles loudly and painfully up until the last bullet was fired... Heavy smoke emitted from the front end of their guns, surprisingly not activating the smoke alarms as they panicked and rushed to grab another magazine from their vests... Not if I can help it! As fast as I could, I dashed at them all and delivered a non-lethal takedown with my blade that sliced their knees barely, just enough to keep them down in agony. They dropped immediately, their blood spilling the white tiles that we stood on right before I immediately spun my attention to the right as an infamous suppressed shot was made. As hard as I could, I slashed at the two inch bullet with the blunt side of my sword which literally reflected the bullet back to it's sender where ever they were... Ricochet at it's finest! Haha! I'm pumped up for more!
"Woah... She... Actually did it...", Mess whispered in pure utter awe as I turned to face them all with a cheerful smile plastered across my face. "Awesome!".
"Unbelievable! This is a fucking dream! It has to be!", The doctor cried in disbelief as my smile broaden along with the others calming down and standing up onto their feet to the new calming atmosphere quietly... Hehe. Well, for me it's calming. I don't know about the rest of the guys... Especially those humans AND for Lizzo... I think I may have over did it. But still, it was a life or death situation.
...But something feels off. Terribly off.. Like someone else has their eyes on me... Haha! I bet it's just my mind playing tricks on me!
White's POV
Geeze. It was a strawberry cake for her to take out those men. I don't get why they're so shocked and surprised? Humans... They refuse to believe in the unbelievable and when it happens, they blind themselves... Pfft. Ah well! Too bad my other personality ain't like me! I would've taken Black a loooong time ago and probably had it my way at least seventeen times with each of her form! Hehe!... I think I want to stay like this for a while, just for leisure. This whole corruption thing is really a paradise in one way, and a hell in another.
"White, are you feeling well?", Lizzo asked me from my right as we walked down an empty road with the group in broad daylight, passing by many pieces of debris and scrapped cans of food which looked about a day's old. I turned to my right immediately with a smile plastered across my face, staring into Lizzo's dark brown eyes with my complete bloodshot dark red ones which send dangerous vibes down her spine. Her voice is almost like hers... Haha... I wonder if she has the same soft feeling of underneath! "You're not yourself right now. Did something happen?".
"Nothing. Nothing at all. I was just thinking about your sister", I said, looking dead ahead to see Black walking gracefully three metres ahead of me with her hair trailing far behind her like a shadow as the sun slowly began to set into the distant horizon. I looked straight at the tip of her head and made my way down to the brim of her black, brand new miniskirt to see her soft thighs bounce forwards and backwards. I turned a bit red and licked my lips, narrowing my eyes to catch a feint light blue... Haha! "She's wearing light blue panties, huh? You have an amazing taste Lizzo. You have my praise".
"Do you like her in a particular way?", She asked me innocently and curiously, making me smile more warmly.
"I've played with her in THAT way before. Gah! She moaned so much that night", Was my immediate reply, making Black jolt in fright and shock as she fastened her pace very slightly and cutely letting out an innocent gasp of embarrassment.
"Huh? I knew you two were close, but not THAT close", Chaos sighed painfully to my far left as I continued to peer at Black's miniskirt with my daring dark red, bloodshot eyes. "I mean... Wait, who exactly did you confess to? Frost or Black?".
"Frost confessed", I simply replied, making Lizzo gasp in shock as Milk licked her tongue and laughed at her reaction.
"H...He's a player!", Chaos exclaimed. I bet the humans are confused to our conversation. Well, except for Mr Nikolai for obvious reasons. "I can't believe he had the guts to actually confess to you! Black! Teach my your ways!", She said aloud with pure passions as Milk chuckled and Black jolted up again with electricity... Hehe! I love her so much!
"Wait a sec. Black is also a guy?", Mess asked from the furthest left in a confused tone of voice. I answered him immediately.
"Yes. Do you know who Frost Richtofen is?".
"Yeah... The guy who's sword fighting skills excel over everyone in the entire school but has a hard time against you. Also the same guy who has a club made specifically for him", Mess sighed in disappointment as the girl who stood to the right of him giggled... My eyes widened very faintly to what I had just heard... He has a club made just for him?! Black jolted in fright once again adorably. Hehe.
"Ooohhh! I wonder how many girls are after him", Frosty tainted Black cheerfully, making me laugh as Lizzo gasped, sounding like she was about to have a heart attack.
"Not as much as that Jace guy. Really, he could steal about a quarter of the world's women just by smiling! He's a real player when it comes to girls... Now that I've mentioned it, there's also a girl named Jace who hits on other girls only to have a girl with silver hair chase her around with a pink stick", Mess said... Her rapier... How does one not see that thing as a sword?... Humans.
I have many hatred towards them, but because of Black's presence, I seem to be able to conceal my anger... She's like a charm. A beautiful charm that belongs to me.
"I just got a strange chill", Black whispered to herself in a shiver. "We should head back right now. Once it hit night time, there's no way of telling what could happen to us".
"Coward", I teased, making her clench her teeth before telling out "Shut up!" in anger. I love her reactions.
"A Corrupted could come out at any moment you know that? And I already feel like someone's been watching us this entire time from far away", She sighed... Oh... So I'm not the only one. "I have a bad feeling about this".
"Hmm. Same here. It feels like the road just went downhill", Nikolai said with his purely Russian accent which I enjoyed hearing. "More downhill?". What?
"Huh?", Frosty questioned, blankly blinking as the sun slowly died and cast sharp, deadly shadows of us far behind us horrifically which darkened the eerie atmosphere. Corruption. This is Corruption territory no doubt. I'm no idiot when it comes to things like these... The landscape is only going to become more scarier... "It really is going down...", She gasped as the sun final died out entirely. At that moment, a bright green, star-shaped light flashed from dead ahead with the accompany of a massive explosion that echoed a million times, hurting all of our ears as if they were being cut off with blunt knives. I grit my teeth, holding I right hand to my far right as Black immediately summoned her blade with all her might and ran forward with lightning speed as she swung her blade upwards at the exact same time a dark purple energy bullet entered my field of view... S...She's unreal! Haha! I bet she expected it! There's no way she'd be able to pull that off without knowing!
"Black?!", Lizzo exclaimed in worry as we all stopped in our immediate tracks in pure shock and fear, hearing nothing but our dreaded heartbeats and breathing.
"That...", Black grunted and wobbled on her knees as if she lost the will to hold herself up, making my eyes widen as Milk brought out her two glowing fire orbs for light... "Was", She coughed, spitting out something that splattered all over the ground like paint... Huh?
"H...Hey! What was that?! Black?! Answer us!", Mess exclaimed in pure terror and anger, walking slowly up to her left side with an extended right hand that aimed to reach out for her shoulder. Everything in my vision was all a slight red tint thanks to Milk's orbs. But it's better than nothing. She wobbled again, slowly lowering her blade which made Mess's hand retreat slightly in hesitance to her condition...
"Is she alright?", Lizzo asked and quickly ran up to her, bumping into my right shoulder with her left and stood in front of Black slightly to her right with a strange look to her face... One that looked like as if she was looking straight into a corpse's eyes... I shouldn't be saying that... "Black... What happened?", She asked as Phase gasped to another bright green flash that emitted once again before us, this time much close which hurt our eyes and forced Black to engage at it with all the energy and power she could muster, sending a powerful downwards strike that made impact with the dark purple projectile...
"Ack... It's no use...", Black muttered to herself lowering her body as her knees wobbled some more. "A sniper rifle... Infused with Corruption is too dangerous to hit back... It hurts... So much..."... Sniper rifle... No... Don't tell me it's...
"Oh? So you were able to block two rounds of my sniper? My my. What are the chances of you surviving a third shot?", SINO said from far up ahead in a calm, demonic tone of voice which made me cringe and grit my teeth in anger as Black fought her body to retain complete control and composure, never backing down or giving in to the brutal pain. She's really something...
"If I go insane... We might have a chance... If I die, then it's all over for me", Black muttered to herself as I imagined a smile growing across her face, somewhat warming my heart which forced me to take a step forward.
I shook my head left and right with a soft smile, staring deeply at her amazing figure before I took in as much air as I could and exhaled.
"Hurting my Black is one thing, but beating her is another. I can't let anyone beat her on my watch. Only I'm aloud to win against her", I said proudly and took another step up towards Black, summoning my pale blade into my right hand, watching her turn her head around slowly over her right shoulder with a smile and teary eye lift red and light blue eyes...
"White... I have a plan... But try not to have heart attack", She simply said. Haha! Let's do this! "Chaos, Milk, Ruby, escape with the rest. Phase... I think I'm going to need your power now"...
"Hai!", Milk immediately exclaimed and without hesitation, she gathered the others and took off with them behind us loudly.
"I'll give you as much power as you need! I promise I won't let you down!", Phase yelled... Hmm. I wonder what she's up to. Black, your mind is strange. Very strange.
"Never Give Up Or Give In. Believe In Yourself And You Will Accomplish All".
"Pain Is A Thing, Agony Is Another, Grief Is Both".
"Don't Bite More Than What You Can Chew".