I was surrounded by darkness, I walking in the middle, or what seemed to be the middle of it, and came upon more still darkness. My stomach burned in pain and I could hear distant voices. I felt myself distant from everybody.
It was quiet, but I could hear screams in the back of my skull, and then it dying. Wait a second... Just where was I?
"You. I thought you still lived," I heard a voice call to me, my head whipping to where the voice was directed. Dad? Oh God, it was him.
"I don't know, Father," I replied to Dad as he walked, I think, over to me. The scene around me changed to my den, my old room. Where I had killed my father.
"Well, well. Nice to see you again, Moon. What happened to you? Finally died?" My dad laughed as he pawed himself over to me, laughing, the scars on his neck and stomach glittering.
"How am I supposed to know? You're dead. I thought you would know," I spat back at him as I walked to the back of my den, holding my stomach slightly, and went to where my bed was, standing over it.
"Well, yes, I know where your fate lies in this world, Moon. How memorable to having me let you live. I would love to kill you, as I tried when I was alive, but that's not allowed. You have a choice. Stay alive, or go dead. I already think I know what your choice was," Dad laughed as I sat down near my bed and rubbed the tiger fur that was my bed. I knew my choice.
"Let me live," I told him as I spun my body to him, and what came so close to my face was his paw, hitting me on the forehead.
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My eyes slowly opened to the scenery I was in. The cave, still, but the fight was over, with halfers healing each other and helping each other out. My stomach burned alive as I felt a cloth against my wound, which was apparently my shirt. I winced, and apparently, Kasumi, who I guessed saw me earlier, saw me wince.
"Moon!" She exclaimed, smiling. I groaned as I felt the bullet being taken out of my stomach by Tamotsu, and then gauze being wrapped around my body. I winced more as I tried to keep a straight eye on Kasumi.
"W... Where is..." She cut me off. She knew who I was talking about.
"Gone. She escaped, the little traitor," Kasumi hissed as she looked over at the dead hunters that were scattered on the floor. My hand clenched into a fist.
"Dammit," I hissed as I once again, winced in pain as Tamotsu slowly sat me up so that he could get all of the gauze around me.
I knew we needed to get out of here before the leftover hunters that had escaped came back with reinforcements, and I knew a place not far from here where we could camp for the night. Not many people knew about it, though. I would have to guide them, even though that might not sit with the situation at the moment...
"Where... Where's Sky?" I asked Kasumi, I turning my head towards her.
"I'm right here. What's up, Moon?" I heard a voice say from within the crowd of halfers, and Sky come out of the crowd over to me.
"We ne... need to get out of here before reinforcements come... I know of a place... Do you trust me?" I asked, my voice cracking at the end. It was extremely hard to keep an eye on everybody without my eyes going somewhere else.
"Yeah, of course. You've kept with us this long, not like Rika. You helped us fight the hunters. Yeah, we trust you," Sky nodded happily, with everybody nodding along with her. It made me smile a little.
"I'll need to lead you, if that's alright, just as long as somebody helps me walk," I nodded to Kasumi, and she nodded back.
Kasumi helped me up, and we headed out of the cave, the injured slowly following, I included, but we went at a steady pace to where we could all catch up at. We slowly went through trees, to where I was directing to everybody and we soon got a bit far away from the cave to where we came upon a waterfall and river, herbs in the grasses to where we could slowly heal.
"Wow!" I heard one voice say from the group as Kasumi helped me over to the river so that I could get some water.
"I'm fine for now, Kasumi. Thanks for helping me," I told Kasumi strongly and she smiled as she went back over to Tamotsu and the group so that they could help heal everybody.
I scooted over to a tree that was next to the river after I took a desperate drink from it, and slowly drifted off into sleep.
~Moon
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Hope this is alright, and I hope I got Kasumi and Sky right! ^^ I kinda just got to a place where we could all rest up, and I hope that's okay! ^^
~Io
The Shiori girl came up to me and asked what she could do. How was I supposed to know? I sighed.
"I think... I think right now you should leave." I started. She looked at me in shock. "It's not that I don't like you, but haven't you caused enough damage. We wouldn't be here in this mess if you hadn't sunk that boat. Nobody would have been hurt and nobody would have died. All we want is some peace and I'm starting to think God has something against us. Kasumi has the key to harmony right in the palm of her hands and we cant even look at it. If we can't find harmony, we should make it. Make it for our damn stinking selves and I don't think anybody should stop us! But what's the point? Everyone here believes that this, this magical island will solve all our problems. What's the point in arguing when I cling to that very same hope myself. That all this isn't just a dream, that harmony is out there somewhere and we're going to find it! You hindered us from finding the answers we crave, the answer I know you crave as well. So either stay with us now, and work with us, that means no more reckless violence and man slaughter, or you leave. We want peace and romping around putting on flashy shows of 'Fear me for i is halfer!' isn't going to help us. Make your decision Shiori, Peace or Turbulance."
I didn't even care that many eyes were focused on me as I waited for her reply.
~HV
SORRY TO BE A ME MONSTER!!!!!!!! AH I HOPE THAT WASN'T TOO WEIRD!!
(sorry for being so harsh yodely!)
~Shiori
A day went by since I saved Aditi from the water. It felt right again to be working with her... We were in the middle of dicussing what to do next when I heard very distant screams. The Cave! They may not like me much, but They were still fellow halfers.
"Aditi..." I started
"I heard it too."
I didn't know if she would follow but I took off at a run toward that cave where they were staying. I got there but the main cavern was empty. Gunshots could be heard from far off. My metal joints squeaked with protest as I urged them forward at full speed. I followed the echoes and heard a different set of steps, closer though. I turned and there was aditi running beside me as a horse. Obviously a much quicker sprinter. I hoped on her back and sailed through the cave.
By the time we got there, everyone was either dead, retreating, or helping others. With a quick transformation, I lept off aditi's back and gave a roar to scare of any stragglers. Becoming Human again, I pulled out my knife ready for any surprises. The dragon girl gave a snort as she became human again.
"We were fine without your help..." I heard her mutter. She went to check on a silver haired boy and his ... girlfriend? first, then a young man with wings. She also called out to her friend named Kasumi... I looked around. It appeared I was indeed too late, but who really cared, the glares were enough to tell me the answer.
I sheathed the knife and walked over to the dragon girl.
"Listen, I tried to come, I really did. Is there anything I can do to help?"
~Yodely
Vampy, I know Io doesn't like Shiori-chan so you can respond however you want to...
that alright?
Kasumi~
The present was blurred.
Rika had betrayed us all. Worse than Aditi and Shiori had done.
A fight broke out. Blood splattered everywhere.
Suddenly, my soul and heart were filled with a horrible yet energizing thirst for blood and battle.
I let that feeling of excitement and rage consume my whole being.
Who cared if I let loose? I stayed "good" for too long...
The real animal inside of me that had been carefully kept in chains had finally been released.
"HAAAAAAAAA!" I screamed with delight as I sliced off the nearest human's head with a swift twitch of my long nails.
The world was dyed in a magnificant scarlet when I fought as the animal I was.
I turned to find Tamotsu and saw him in a tree, armed with a deadly bow and arrows.
He shot humans down one by one with amazing accuracy. In a sense, he was a traitor himself. But he was a good traitor.
I smiled and bared my blood-red fangs at teh nearest man.
He seemed to hesitate for a moment but then raised his gun. Too slow!
I drew my sword, Anuklusmos, and stabbed him. The I spun around, slicing through two more.
Bullets flew, but I dodged them and countered with my nails, teeth, and sword.
Just to test mt strentgh since it had been dormant for so long, I sheathed my sword and grabbed the nearest hunter guy.
I grinned at him and then ripped his head off with my bare hands.
'Still got it!' I thought, satisfied.
"KASUMI!" a voice called out.
I looked up briefly and saw Tamotsu with a somewhat horrified look.
I saw him mouth say something but I couldn't hear anymore. All I heard was Moon curse Rika.
Whipping my head around, I saw him hit the ground, a bullet lodged in his stomach.
I growled viciously. Traitors weren't to be treated kindly by me, even halfers.
Unsheathing Anuklusmos, I danced around the battle and headed toward my target who still stood over Moon.
I came up behind Rika and hissed, "Die, bi-"
My curse was cut short by a bullet piering my back.
How could I have let my guard down?!
No matter. My head cleared a bit.
This was Rika. A fellow-halfer. Misguided.
I took my nails and stabbed her, missing the oragns but temporarily crippling her.
She gasped out in pain adn collasped next to
Moon.
I got down ont eh ground and picked Moon up.
"Moon? Moon?!" I could feel a slight pulse but he wouldn't last long. Stomach wounds were fatal.
"TAMO-"
"Here," Tamotsu knelt beside me before I had finished calling his name.
He rolled up Moon's shirt and began treating him with whatever odd medical gift he possessed.
I stood up and kept away bullets with my sword and nails.
When the bullets just about stopped, I reached back to find an arrow, not a bullet, lodged in my back.
Tamotsu. He had shot me to clear my head.
When I looked down, someone was missing. Rika had gotten away. Da**.
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WHOA! long post! sry! tell me if i got rika or moon wrong! and sry EoAA! i saw u had commented saying ud hav ur OC step in but i cudnt wait any longer to post^^' hope its k!
“Well. It’s been fun, but this is where it ends.” I went pale. Rika... I should've known. That scent that I had taken from her when I first met her should have alerted me more. I should have never had trusted her... Though... Sto...
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