My pity party grew and grew, till I realized that I was only just beating myself up. I felt a little better after that spiral was cut off, and attributed the pushy emotions to the large amount of stress I had had to deal with lately. I felt a little hungry too.
Screams and shouts filled my ears as I rounded a corner. A bunch of rather large human ran towards me. They sort of slowed down when they noticed the foot difference in height was growing, slowed a little more when I popped my knuckles ready to release some pint up energy, they turned and ran when I pull a 2 foot long blade out of my wrist.
I heaved a great push and bounded down the hallway at the suckers, my blade severing the spinal cord of the first with a quick slash, the blood spurt from the wound onto my set down-turned mouth. I brought the arm back in a large arc and left a huge gash in two more humans. I finished the last with a lazy throw that found the blade in the back of his head. Red covered the walls in swipes of dark red ooze. I looked around and with my claws snapped the cords of a littler halfer that had gotten caught. I pick my knife out of the last guy’s spinal column, smiling as his whole body twitched for the action.
I burst into a large room, blade still in hand, a body in front of my face. The body filled with elephant tranks with sickly green glass syringes. Those darts didn't to have much the same effect on me, though they got me pretty high in the past. I took a huge sniff, and though the bloody mess in front of my face obscured the scents a bit I now knew what was what again. My mind mapped out where the sources of stale sweat and the metallic smells of guns and blood. I was in the lobby, and the large swathes of bloody hallway behind me were nearly devoid of life of any human being.
My knife lashed out as I felt a stunner touch my skin. I was in half-bear form now, and the fat tissues absorbed most of the shock and trauma but every time it had a chance of knocking me into cardiac arrest. But I had to find her. It was Vana, it had to be. No other hunter with this much resources used nonlethal forces. That bitch hasn't learned yet, it's time someone made a mark that she wouldn't forget.
I could smell her, far off on the hill in front of me. The masses of bodies grew as a fought and ambushed in that open room. I removed the top of one guys head and blocked a shot with one downward swipe of the blade. I dropped to the floor and left a huge gash on another braves souls legs before grabbing his head and with one yank breaking his neck. On the floor I watched a wolf halfer be torn from a doorway. It was the one-of-a-kind one, echo. I threw my knife and it arced into the back of the trailing carrier. The other man sensing the pure danger he was now in picked up the entire body and tore out of the building. I stopped before I went out the doorway. This was Giovanna; she wouldn't be stupid enough to forget the snipers unlike some dead hunters I could mention.
I roared in anger, and the volume of the roar echoed through the hallways of the resort. I looked at my knife; the black obsidian was a thousand points of refection. Shit, I had to do it.
I looked back behind me, the hall were now empty. A grimaced as I saw the halves and thirds of people piled and stacked around the red pooled on the floor. A modern day hell unfolded before my eyes.
I couldn’t believe in a place called harmony, it just couldn’t be. A place where halfers and human co-exist? To me that is the greatest load of bullshit ever told by an unsuccessful hunter, and therefore the greats lie a halfer ever believed. The sight of the bloody battle in front of me blew away any wishful thinking that any lie could conjure up. The pain in my stomach was starting to build, so I started what was to be a long walk.
Harmony did exist, but before you think I’m contradicting myself listen further. Harmony is not a place to me, it is a moment. It is a sweet moment when all the differences between two people are put aside and they just help one another. No one being perfect, this moment was never to last. But it could be cultivated, at great cost.
Echo and the others taken needed some harmony, and by hell they were going to get it, and even if my dead body was strewn over her I was going to get Giovanna.
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Zar’s on the warpath, who wants to join?
~Zoey~
We have been in our room for a while..... sitting in silence.
"Hey, I wonder where Jethro went running off too..... Anyone know?" I ask the group, who are either sitting on a bed (like me) or the floor.
My brother, Zack, is sitting on the opposite bed. Belk is next to him. Colette and Lucy are on the floor.... looking up at us.
"Humph," Colette says. " Who cares about that mutt??? I sure don't!"
"Wasn't he being chased by Kari???" Zack says, pushing his glasses up on his nose. I think he looks really intelligent when he does that. :D
I was about to answer when we hear what sounds like doors slamming open. I run into the hallway, and am shocked at what I see. A bunch of muscular, bodyguard looking guys were all over the hotel!!!!! And, from where I am standing, not a single one of them is good-looking.
"Oh my gosh," I hear Belk whisper from where he stood behind me. I turn and push him back into the room, and lock the door behind me.
"Whats going on?" Lucy says when we walk in. She looks concerned, and Zack is scared out of his wits. It's not that you can tell by LOOKING at him, but I'm his twin, so I know the sorts of things.
" Uh.... they're are strange people inside." Belk says, looking at each of us in turn. "I think we're under attack." Immediately Colette springs up, ready to take action.
"Okay! Now, this is what we're going to do....." Shes a fast thinker, and starts to explain her plan. I only hope what she wants to do will work, so that all of us will be safe. Even though I should listen to the plan, my mind drifts off to the thought of Jethro, wondering if hes safe.
~Jethro~
"So, now will you say it?" Kari looks at me, her Aqua eyes gleaming.
I smirk, unable to help myself.
"Hmmmm..... will I, or will I not?" I say, slowly standing up and moving around her. She has her sword up, but I'm pretty fast, so I think I can dodge if she decides to swing at me.
"Yes, I think you will." She says back, raising the sword a little higher. I glance at Claudia, who rolls her eyes at me. I then take as step back in the direction of the banister, as Kari steps forward.
"Say it, mu......" She gets cut off by a commotion downstairs... I smile.
Hmmmm, this is my chance. I'm ready to blow this joint, and I know just exactly how to do it. And hey, it'll save my life, right?
"I," One step back. "Think," another step back. "not!" I go into a back flip, right off the second floor. My landing gets messed up though, 'cause some pea brained moron was right below me. He was dressed in all black, and completely knocked out. I'm not that heavy!!! then again, I did jump off the balcony....
"Get back here, Mutt!" Kari screams as I take off. I snort. Yeah, like she really thinks I'll go back and get murdered by her? I think not.
"No way in heck sister!" I yell back, running towards the door. I'm about to leave when I see an unfamiliar face.
"I am Ren Kohei and I'm a shark halfer." I hear him say. I make a detour, facing him instead.
"Dude! You don't just run into some place and say that!" I say while grabbing his hand. I yank him toward the door, and the two of us make a break for it. I head for a nearby tree, and he follows.
"Ya'know, Ren?" I say. "Its really dangerous for us halfers... we can't just waltz into some building and be all like, 'Hey, I'm a halfbreed."" Its basically inviting someone to kill us!"
"Oh.... Well, I knew you were halfers, so I thought it wouldn't matter." I smile, and he grins back. There's a tree right above us, so I go ahead and hoist my self up into it. Ren follows my movements, then sits on the branch next to me.
"Anyways, I'm Jethro, a German Shepard halfer. Nice to meet'cha." I hold out my hand and he shakes it. We laugh, and I have a feeling me and him are going to get along. :D
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I posted!!!!
The whole thing with Kari will have to wait for later, since Jethro just bailed and we have a whole bunch of (not good-looking) bodyguards attacking the hotel. :)
I REALLY hope I got everyone right, and if I didn't, you can shoot me and demand I fix it. :D
The peeps used in this post:
*Belk
*Colette
*Lucy
*Zack
*Kari
*Does Claudia count???
*Ren ( Hey, I think its way cool to have a shark.... they're awesome)
AND.......... *Drum Roll*
THE DUDE DRESSED IN ALL BLACK THAT JETHRO LANDED ON!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
-Continue Please?? I know Natsu (Can I call you that, Lapaperninja?) wanted someone to continue on her post.... so I guess I kinda did that???
~xoxoxoxo,
Balletninja and the gang. :)
¥•Ren•¥
I Continued to walk the snow storm as furious as the first day it had started. I sighted just a few days ago I had smelled a few halfers like myself but the stupid snowstorm had to let me lose track of them.
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~Shadow~
Ice's face was falling away from me. Changing into my human form I tried in vane to grab the side of the cliff. Ice was out of sight now. Suddenly a sharp pain filled my body as I heard the bones in my shoulder crack and brake with the force of my landing.
My eye's shot open. Somehow the storm we had trudged through had drug up old memories. I sat up, and looked around the hotel room.
Echo seemed to be having a nightmare. She was tossing and turning at the foot of the bed.
Now that I thought of it my shoulder was realy throbbing. I got up and went to the rest room.
I polled off my jacket and tee-shirt. Looking at the scars that covered my shoulder in the mere, I shuttered. What would Echo think if she saw my shoulder? Would she still like me? I jerked my shirt and jacket back on.
A scream sounded from the rest if the room. I burst out of the room to find Echo shaking violently. "Echo wake up!" Grasping he shoulders I shuck her awake.
Her eyes opened suddenly. "Echo, are you okay?" I burst out, not caring if my concern showed or not.
"It's okay; I just had a bad dream that's all." She panted, looking kinda weak. "I just need some air..." She slipped out off of the bed and put on her boots.
"Just wait I'll come with you." I said jumping off the bed. My body protested this but I didn't care, I didn't want Echo to go alone.
She turned to me and put her hands on my chest. "No I'm okay, Shadow, really; just stay here and rest."
I wanted to say no, that I wasn't tired, but I knew she wouldn't buy it. "If you're sure...just don't do anything reckless." I sighed, trying to stifle a yawn and failing.
"I won't, I promise; just get some rest." She said back to me as she tied her boots.
I stared after her as she left the room. Somehow it felt wrong to let her go on her own.
Suddenly a group of men barged into the hotel room. I stood up to meat them. The one in the lead tried to grab me.
As soon as I saw his hand coming I dropped back. Darting out of reach and grabbing an arrow out of my bag. I reached back in and grasped the case with my tips in it. Quickly I switched the tip to a hunting tip while I dodged another hand.
The next man reached for me, and found the arrow stabbed through his hand. I polled it out, doing considerable damage because he wasn't going to let me do it properly, and held it in a defensive position.
Just as suddenly as they had shown up the men dispersed. Leaving me standing there with the bloody arrow in my hand.
I was safe, but what had happened to Echo?
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I'll post again soon, but for now, this is good and probably to long.
((I have another post that I will add that is being worked on, that will probably end up happening in the past, but on request I am moving on with the plot~))
~Vana
Through binoculars, I saw lights turn on, and then go off. No more loud yelling and such reached my ears. Smirking, I took my lollipop out of my mouth.
"It's time~" I sang to the guy next to me.
"Yes ma'am!" he soluted. He spoke quick orders into the walky-talky, and I saw troops running from every side at the building.
"Come out, come out my precious pets!" I laughed. Men burst into the building from all doors, while others kept the place surrounded for any outcoming wanderers. A dramatic pause of silence, then what souded like all of hell breaking loose rose up to my ears. Screams of men, shocked outbursts of halfers, and several loud swears. Already, I could see halfers being dragged out to the trucks. Some escaped, some put up fierce fights, but still were unable to fully resist. I just stood there and giggled with delight.
~Fai-Hana-Vana~
Hey, Poochy? Just asking, but can I make another character? He'll come in later as someone previously taken by Vana~
