Abyss: I finally posted (thanks Rose!)
~Kari~
I got dragged into somewhere, some place that seemed annoying. As I walked/got dragged, I thought of something that may help me with my own
emotional turmoil, or just make it even worse.
I laughed as he tickled me. He was also laughing as we sat under the tree, just friends—or that’s what I thought.
“Kari,” he started as I hummed something that wasn’t a known song.
“What is it?” I asked. The breeze blew, carrying my voice. “What is it?”
I repeated, just louder this time.
“I have to tell you something,” he said with a small smile.
I was somewhat suspicious. “What is it?” The hill that we resided on did not seem like a good place to be. The trees seemed to loom over me, making sure I never escaped. The wind seemed ready to push me over, ready to kill me if I was not ready to meet his demands. The grass seemed to turn into blades, ready to stab me if the other two failed at their job.
“I wanted to say that I—“
“KARI!” Claudia ran up to me, grinning as she brought some food to us. “THEY GAVE ME THIS FOR NO REASON!”
I cautiously picked up the food and took a bite. It didn’t seem to be rotten or poisoned, so I continued to eat the food. I had forgotten about him until he spoke up once again.
“Kari, I wanted to say that I would like to date you.”
“What?!” I spat out the water I was about to drink. “Date?!” He was a good friend, but we—me and Claudia—were going to leave soon.
“I said, I would like to go out with you.” He seemed like he really wanted this, but Claudia and I had to keep moving, unless we wanted to be captured.
“I’m sorry, but I can’t date you,” I said, though I thought it might have been better if I had accepted. I could have a relatively normal life, but Claudia would have to stay here, in our hometown where we swore we would never go back to after this.
His demeanor seemed to change as I replied. “Then, from this day forth, you will be my enemy! Mark my words, cat, I will have my revenge.”
I jumped back as his fist tried to hit my face—he must have really wanted to date me. I pulled Claudia, and we ran into the forest. I never saw him again, but I knew he was after me.
When we entered a town, people would start to chase us.
So when Sky and Abby found us, I was suspicious of them, along with the bear I met.
Those moments of terror, of fear, never left, but it seemed to disappear when I was with Prince. Maybe I was thinking too much about it.
He wrapped his arms around me, which earned him a kick to wherever my foot landed—though I had an idea of where the target was.
He fell to the ground, and I was planning to slap him, but he was on the ground, so I just satisfied myself with kicking him once again.
“You pervert!” I snapped, my face red as I replayed what he said. “I would never kiss you, so don’t tell me I’ll do that!”
I stormed off, away from this preppy school. Next time there was something that involved her going to this school, I think I’ll skip.
“Kari!” I turned to see another guy running to catch up—what was with these guys? I mean, there were at least twenty trying to talk to me—and one pervert who doesn’t understand the word no.
“What do you want?” I was in no mood for someone asking me out—or worse.
“I just wanted to walk with you.” Before I could respond, he ended up right by my side. “Do you want a tour of your new school?”
“Sure.” I needed to learn about this school, and I thought it was nice of him to offer. We walked around this huge school—I hate my parents who are rich and want me to continue their legacy of…actually, I don’t know what it was!
“So, that ends this tour,” he concluded near the parking lot. He smiled sweetly and I smiled back—I was sure we could be good friends.
“Thank you,” I said, feeling sincere.
‘But as time went on, he tried to get us to be more than friends.’
I thought that it was somewhat cruel, but I didn’t say anything against it, not until I got beaten up for dating “the hottest guy in the school.”
I sighed as someone approached me, trying to comfort me. “Do you think I love you?” That question came out of nowhere.
“No, I don’t think you do,” I answer carefully.
He pinned me up against the wall. “Well, you’re wrong.” He grinned, and I closed my eyes—I wasn’t going to kill him.
“I don’t think you will do that,” I responded. “If you love me, you would let me go so I could find the person I love.”
He released me. “I guess you’re right, as always. This is why I liked you—you seem to understand me the most.”
I nodded at him; I wasn’t going to fall in love with him.
“I guess we can just be friends.”
And then, they shoved me in.
~Claudia~
I looked at Prince’s …artistic ability. “Wow Prince, I just LOVE your drawing technique!” I said sarcastically.
"Shaddup! Do you really think this is the time to be talking about that?! Plus, it’s hard to draw in cedar!" He seemed to be trying to cover up his wonderful talent.
He talked about a plan which I ignored, and when they got ready, I was stuck with the dog. “Pally~” She didn’t respond to the nickname. “Pally~” She seemed hell-bent on ignoring me. “Fine, it’s your loss anyways.” I turned away from the horrible cedar drawing, and headed out. But before I made it out of the room, something grabbed my leg.
Featured:
Prince
Paloma (Pally~)
Sky (mentioned)
Abby (mentioned)
Random guys that like Kari *shot*
~Jake
I felt like shit. My head pounded as I felt myself being rattled around in a cage then moved. I swear, I was going to be the biggest cat here... unless they had a bear or some kind of big ass animal.
The wounds weren't helping either. I swore one had opened up, but apparently, with how much this stupid girl owner wanted us to be in good condition, I really not being one, they wrapped it up and just re-wrapped the wounds. They knew they would get their throats ripped out.
Then we were brought in front of the girl who wanted us to be pets. I could hardly feel the stupid collar wrap around my neck as she looked over all of us.
"Oh, look! A big kitty!! I just love him!!" At least, that was what I thought I heard. I knew not to protest, as did I also know these people could kill us in an instant. If you acted good, you figured out a way to find the weaknesses and open spots in the place.
Many people were able to get out, but they were just put back in their cages. I hardly think they noticed but when they tried again, I spoke up, even if I wasn't to do such, I knew I needed to. If we could figure out a plan, we could get out. That simple. And then I get to rip out throats as much as I could to these hunters.
"You know, that's kind of useless. You've seen it happen before. You just get put back in. If you really want to get out, wait until sundown and talk to me. It's easy to figure out a plan when it's dark and silent," I quietly but almost yelled so that they would listen. The wolves stared at me.
"How would you know? You're a stupid lion! You're that guy who attacked Pierce and all of those other guys! How can we trust you?" One of them demanded and I turned my head and looked coldly into their eyes.
"I've been in this kind of situation before and... let's just say... I like to rip out throats and it'll be these guys when we have the chance. You have an advantage if you listen, or you don't. Your choice. Just wake me up later."
And so, I just fell asleep, hoping I wasn't trying to sound like a complete idiot and hero at the same time. I hated being the hero. They always freaking died.
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Finally got Jake's post up!! No, I don't want him to be the hero or anything, I just want him to help out and somehow get into the storyline ^-^;;;; I hope that's alright with you guys!! ^_^;;;;;
I'll try to post up Moon and Luna's side soon!!
Featured in this post:
Vana
Jake
Some wolf (Whoever you guys want it to be)
~Anime-chan
~Ice~
Seeing that the situation with Kai had been settled I changed back into my human form. It would be easier to restrain Shadow without hurting him like this. I wasn't altogether sure that Shadow hadn't gone on ahead. Surprisingly Nanuke was still holding him, he was growling and giving those around him a death glare, but otherwise the same old Shadow.
Pierce was making the hunter talk. I looked over and cot Kai's eye, he looked away. He seemed different, what had Pierce said, "Kai...You were never a halfer."? Ya, that was it. My blood boiled, that was the third halfer I had met that was originally human, and the second made through experimentation. From Shadow I knew not all humans were like that, but the cruelty of some humans still infuriated me.
I took my anger, my hatred for those cruel humans out by kicking a mound of snow.
It's not that I hate all humans, Tie and Andy saved my brother, I felt a certain fondness for them. What had happened to me, all the things humans had done to me, my family, and Kallik, I could have hated them, I could have hated them for what they'd done. Kallik was born a human, orphaned at birth even. They had used her and other human orphans to learn how to turn humans into halfers. They had used there own kind for something like that. Kallik didn't know, I had made sure of that. Yet humans had there good side to, Tie and Andy had saved Shadow, they had known he was a halfer, but they had still treated him as there own.
I didn't know what to think any more. Whenever I thought of humans as cruel beasts Shadow reminded me that they had saved me, whenever I thought of them as kind my mind reminded me of what they had done to me, to Kallik. After they were done with her they had thought she would die. When she didn't they left her in the woods to fend for herself as no more than a blind baby. What was it about humans that they were so cruel, yet so kind.
My mind raced back to Thunder, he wasn't human, but he was cruel. Was cruelty everywhere? Could anyone ever escape it?
Now I thought that hating any one animal was wrong. We could all be cruel. Even so, I hated hunters more than anything else.
"Ice, you coming or not?" Pierce's voice drew me back from my thoughts.
"Ya, I'm coming," I sighed and truged on through the snow in the direction of the abducted halfers.
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A look into Kallik's past, She doesn't remember any of it, and Ice made sure it was hidden from her. Man he can be deep.
In post
Ice
Pierce
Kai
Nanuke
Shadow
Kallik(in the memory)
Pierce -
I trudged through the snow quickly, occasionally gently urging along some of the weaker looking-halfers as they tumbled in the snow. We would get through this quickly.
We had all decided that we needed to track down the rest of our group. We knew what direction they were in, and the rest, we could tackle by sent. Rika seemed to be the one organizing the group while Ringleader Sky was away(catchy nickname, eh?).
I, deciding to avoid this 'leading' business, was carrying the soundly sleeping Abby. I didn't like taking her in this weather, but we couldn't leave her.
I sighed, looking at the fog that was my breath and trying to move a little faster. Time was of the essence, and we couldn't risk wasting even a moment.
As we were hurrying along, I didn't notice we weren't alone until Rika cursed, and a low, annoyed voice rang out, "And where do you beasts think you're going?"
I stopped dead, looking up. Two more of the guards, these two actually looking like they had some wits about them. One had short, red hair, and the other wore an over-sized cap that covered his face--He was the one I would worry about. I felt it: he was trouble.
The redhead went on, sneering and elbowing his companion, who shifted away at the touch. Yep. Trouble. "Isn't this lucky? A pack of the freaks that we left at that dump!" he chortled, messily pointing his gun at us, threateningly.
I glanced around at our group, who were all in fighting positions, waiting to pounce. They were waiting for Rika's signal.
I tensed, one arm holding up Abby, the other on one of my wooden knives. As soon as Rika justified it...
The red-brat was obliious, "Can you believe these pitiful halfer-demons thought--" all of us froze as he was cut off, and a long brown tentacle snaked around his neck, squeezing.
"Shut. Up." a velvet smooth voice slipped from his companion, and the cap fell off, revealing long, shaggy, brown hair and piercing red eyes that gleamed in the faded light. The man's mouth was curved into a long, venomous sneer as he continued, "I don't accept rudeness, you know." The tentacle snapped back to the man's body, and returned to the shape of his arm, leaving big, bleeding circular welts where they had rested on the redheaded human's neck.
Some of the halfers stepped forward, but the dark-skinned man held up a calm hand, "Leave him. He's still alive, and a boy with such a big mouth must have a bigger will to live." The gentle voice was mocking, and it's familiar ring made my blood run cold...Where had I heard it?
Rika stepped forward, glaring, "You...You're a halfer, aren't you?" she stayed tensed, and ready to pounce.
The man rolled his eyes, both arms extending into tentacles and he stuck out his long tongue, "Nah, really? Are you suuure, Einstien?" he brought his arms back and smiled, holding up both hands in what could be considered surrender, "Yep. On your side, dear." he winked, and at that moment, he seemed to be the epitome of friendliness. More nostalgia. Why was it so...similar to something?"
Rika didn't back down, or calm down, and Moon walked up to stand protectively by her side, "Why are you dressed like the guards? Why are you with one if you're on our side?"
The man tensed a little, his eyes searching the group and landing on me. They narrowed, and his face twitched into a harsh, angry smile, he looked back at Rika and sighed, "I simply found one of those morons and dressed as one, dear. Then joined another so that I could search your group for an old...friend." his smile tightened, and he continued, "I used to be looking for two, but...I found her yesterday; the other one. You all reek of her, so I guess she was with you..." he looked back at me and his grin got tighter and more forced, his eyes became a more prominent red as he glared, "I found my other friend, though, so it's quite alright."
I blinked and had the time to gasp before a long, tentacle snapped out, wrapping violently around my neck, causing me to drop Abby. I vaguely heard her fall on the cushioned snow, and was glad that it wasn't a hard fall. That was all I had time to think about, though. I could only barely breathe as he dragged me to him, so that we were almost chest-to-chest. "Hello." he grinned hatefully, squeezing my neck tighter.
I think...maybe a few people called my name. Who's to know? I barely scraped out, "Wha...Who the...hell...are you...?"
He snorted, "You wound me. We used to be so bloody close, too." More people were yelling now, some my name, others simple, 'what the hell are you doing' comments.
I rolled my eyes, trying to look brave, "...You must...not...have been so...important, then...huh?" I coughed, trying to form a sentence.
His eyes narrowed, "Maki. She's gone. Dead. I know you know this, you ass." his eyes started to look more and more hurt, rather than angry, their red color turning more red-brown and sludge-ish. "I found her. Buried in the snow. What was it? Her illness? Or her wounds?" he continued frantically, "You let her travel. You let her fight. Such great protection..."
Protection. Maki. My eyes widened, "...K...ai...?"
Suddenly, a shrill shriek broke the tension in the air, and both Kai and I looked over, and as soon as we did, he was tackled. I couldn't tell who pounced on him, 'cause my lack of oxygen made my vision all but nonexistent, but suddenly he released me, and I fell in the snow with a dimmed thud, coughing and trying to regain my breathing pattern.
"Pierce!" I heard Ice call, and I looked over to see him, along with a few others on top of Kai, glaring down at him. Ice calle to me again, "Are you alright?!"
I nodded a little, then felt my throat. Blood. Yeouch, damn razor-tentacles. "Yeah. Peachy." I croaked back.
I looked at Kai in time to watch his dark brown hair fade into the old silver I was so used to. His tentacled retracted into arms and his eyes turned into their old black colour. "What the hell was that?!" someone demanded, probably Rika, but I didn't care enough to find out.
Kai looked away, not trying to fight his restraints, and looking vaguely guilty, "Sod off. It's a family affair." his voice was weak and insincere.
"You're related to Pierce?" Ice asked, suspiciously.
"Nope." Kai kept his eyes on the snow. "Maki. Maki was my sister."
The first response from Moon was, "What? You look nothing like her."
Kai looked up and glared, "When you're orphaned, you make your own family, cat-boy."
Rika took over, "So you attack Pierce? What reasoning is that?" she snarled.
Kai met her gaze evenly, his face looking guilty and sullen, and a lot like the sane, calm Kai I used to know, "After a few years in a laboratory, being prodded and tortured, you tend to have anger issues. Rampages, mindless reasoning...You would know about that, though, wouldn't you?" he raised an eyebrow, and as Rika gave him a startled look he hurriedly explained, "You reek of it. Chemicals. Blood. Science." he rolled his eyes, "You understand what I mean, don't you?"
My head was spinning, however, I sat up abruptly and looked steadily at Kai, "What happened, Kai?" my voice was rough but the concern was clear in it, when he looked away from me, I insisted, "Kai...You were never a halfer. What did they do?" every word was drawn out and a little angry. Kai was my past. Kai was alive. Kai apparently had been taken to a lab, and tortured. What. Had. Happened? I didn't matter what he had just done, because at this moment, I was looking at a long lost friend who had gone through hell and was being harassed for it.
Everyone looked at Kai as he looked up at the sky and sighed, "Experiments. They wanted a soldier to fight for them, a human-turned-halfer who would fight for them. They got a halfer-supporter with an attitude..." Kai looked at me, his eyes guilty and sad, "I had been looking for you two...I...I'm sorry. I didn't mean to hurt you, Pierce. I can't...control what they programmed into my brain, this...this thoughtless violence." his voice was so sincere it burned, "I'm so sorry, Pierce." he tried to smile, "I missed you."
Okay. That was it. I sighed, "Get off of him, please." I put up my hand as people tried to complain, and smiled a little, "Trust me? If it backfires, then it's all my fault. My problem. Don't sweat it."
Slowly, the halfers who had restrained him relented, backing up and leaving him, staring up at the sky.
I walked over and offered my hand to him, "'Missed you, too, psycho." I grinned, as he raised an eyebrow, but hesitantly took my hand and got up.
"...Pierce--" he attempted, eyes downcast.
"I mean, no. Reeeaally. I missed being strangled, too. I remember that was always a childish habit of yours, it's so fitting it would be your handy-dandy skill. " continued sarcastically, a grin playing on my face, "And the severe bleeding from my neck? Hey, don't sweat it! I mean, it's not like I have a life to live or anything." I gave Kai a withering look, "I want no grief from you. No crap about how guilty you are and how it kills you that you hurt me...--Don't bloody give me that look, you know that I knew you were gonna say that--no. I want one repayment, and one only." I smiled, and extended my hand, "You join us. If not for me, then for Maki. Join our group, and find Harmony with us."
Kai's eyes widened a little, and he grinned sheepishly, "'Kay, I'm cool with that, but you've gotta convince them." Kai's thumb jabbed at all of the halfers that were either looking at me like I was crazy, or snarling out their two cents on the matter.
I rolled my eyes, slinging an arm around Kai's shoulder and ruffling his unkempt hair, "Fine, I think I will, ya pansy." I looked at everyone, "We don't have time to argue about this. I want no complete and utter denial crap from any one you, because look at Rika." I paused letting them look at Rika, some of them actually did, "Now look at Kai. Rika...Kai. Everyone see 'em? Good. Rika turned out to be a good person. So will Kai...I hope. Don't act like any one o' ya are personally offended--I was the one attacked, and I can forgive and forget. So can you."
I sauntered over to the long-forgotten redhead guard. I lifted him by the collar of his shirt, "We have our free ticket to where our friends are. Let's use it and not argue." I met eyes with the guard and smiled my best crazy-Kai smile, "And, you, my poppet, shall tell us what we want to know."
The guard gulped.
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YES! Hope I didn't screw up. anything. I mentioned or involved,
Abby
Rika
Moon
Ice
The other halfers XD
KAI IS IN! XD
You guys can harass, pick on, insult, ect Kai all ya want, just don't kill him XD
God, this was sooo long. ><
