**The storyline is taking quite an interesting turn, well, at least I think so! I hope you're all enjoying my sequel, because I'm enjoying myself writing it for you.
Read on, and Enjoy Chapter 8! :)**
Chapter 8: Invisible Wound
We all waited on Nina's signal.
She had changed into her child-like form, and began scouting the maze, looking for an opening for us to slip in...
She popped her head up.
"Alright, we're all clear!" She said.
"She is just such an adorable child!" Shisuta cooed, while climbing the hedge.
"No, really. She's impossible to stay mad at, especially in this form."
I still had a hard time wrapping my head around it...
Nina as a child?
(Well, I couldn't stay mad at her... Child or not...)
Ah! Stop it! Stop it Kahn! I should not think such frivolous thoughts at a time like this...
(Yes, like when she beat me at chess in merely four moves... Where was my mind then? Not on the board, that's for...)
No. No, stop it! Just climb the stupid wall Kahn, you idiot...
(Did I just refer to myself as an idiot? In the third person...?)
Oh, just shut up... There's a first time for everything... I suppose.
I shook my head, and began climbing the wall with the rest of them.
Except for Boh and No-Face. All Boh had to do was turn into a mouse, and No-Face could just phase through the hedges.
Kuhn had a sustained look of immense worry on his face.
"She'll be fine." I told him. "They both will..."
He sighed. "I hope so Kahn... I hope so."
He didn't look very reassured.
...
Linn was sitting beneath the shade of the tree.
No Leviathans seemed to be roaming around. Well, they better not be.
"If... If I see another I'll-"
She began coughing violently. She knew what had happened, in fact, she felt it the moment she was struck. She had the taint, but this time, it was a different kind. A kind that she would half reject, like Kamachi and the normal taint.
She had snagged some of Shisuta's explosives when she wasn't looking.
She smiled. "I have an idea... Let's just walk in the front door, and blow their lobby sky high. That should cause enough commotion for them to escape... Yeah, I should-"
More coughing. She was beginning to feel really tired, and she knew that meant this would happen soon. She would never let herself turn into one of those monsters...
...Never.
If it meant endangering everyone she knew?
If it meant Kuhn would have to remember her like that?
Hiro... She could not see her mother as a monster.
No. She'd rather die and have to leave them, then let them suffer like that.
She stood, and walked toward the front.
"No... I'll mess up the damn lobby on my own. Then I'll find where they're running this place, and blow captain asshole's head off!"
She walked into the front door...
And all was chaos.
...
I was searching through every hedge wall, and every part of the maze. So far, no Hiro, and no Eiji.
"Kahn, I have a question." Kuhn said.
I looked at him. "What is it brother?"
He looked down. "I understand what you said about the fall from the window. There would be a lot of blood had she just fallen. You said the Leviathan's left carnage... How is that possible, when our bodies dissapear?"
I sighed. "Just be grateful it didn't happen to her. When a pure blooded Leviathan kills its pray, it eats half of it. The other half is left mutilated, and in a state of death. A state in which they are stuck in their corpses until they rot away... The victims can feel every second of it."
Kuhn went pale. "Th-That's horrible..."
I looked down. "Yes. It is very horrible..."
There was a commotion sounding near the lobby. People were screaming things like, "Who the hell is she!?" and, "Get that crazy broad away from me!" With a dash of. "I'm begging you! Not the other testical!"
Linn. It was definitely Linn.
Kuhn gaped, obviously catching on.
"Dammit! I told her not to move! ...Linn? What the hell...?"
I shook my head. "If she's causing that much damage, I'm sure she's fine."
"No, I'm not so sure." Said Kuhn. "She may have a temper, but she's not rash. Especially when it comes to Hiro."
"We cannot worry too much on that now." Said Shisuta.
She dragged us into a hedge wall. A child ran by, another followed, chasing him with a knife. They passed, and we were able to begin searching again.
"This is taking too long!" Karo exclaimed. "And I, for one, am very worried about Linn."
"I'm with Karo on this one." Said Haruka. "At this rate, we'll never find them."
"Well, we can't be seen!" Nina exclaimed. "We're outnumbered, and currently... Outclassed. What? Are we supposed to just confront an army of well armed men, children, and Leviathan's? Yeah, we'll just say, 'Hey, that kid belongs to us!' All threatening like. I'm sure they'll be cooperative and just peachy!"
"Hey!" Karo yelled. "I'm tired of your attitude! And why do you have to be such a BI-!"
"Don't finish that sentence." Shisuta said calmly, but quickly. She'd rather no one be fighting right now.
"Nina has a point. We can't just face them head on, or we'll all die. That means Hiro dies too. This is how Nina and I have always done this, and it IS effective."
"Fine..." Karo grumbled. "You're lucky that Shisuta actually makes sense."
He left it at that.
We continued our search. It was getting much later now, and even I was beginning to lose my composure.
We all searched, listening in silent dread as commotion rose within the building.