Street Kids

Kira looked at Devin as he killed the man who murdered Zack. She hugged Zack tighter as she sobbed her eyes now closed. She looked back at Devin as he gave her a look. She looked at Zack and then slowly pushed his dead body off of her. Her heart felt like it had been torn out of her. She struggled to get up and she wipped the tears from her eyes as she took a few steps forward. She had seen another person she cared about die right in front of her. Shot in the head like her parents. The feels bound her legs and she fell again. She had to push it back. She looked at the guards, she had to get away. She swallowed it and her eyes turned to Devin. She nodded, she could cry later. She got up once again and then started running again. She pushed it away, she pushed all of it away. Her inner strength helpped her to run. Her eyes cleared as she stopped crying.
 
Her hand in May's, Sheena stands stock still, frozen temporarily. She had looked back at Kira's shriek, and seeing her on the ground, cradling Zack in her arms, she cannot bring herself to move. She had not known Zack, but she can see Kira's pain clearly...the gunshots are pulling her back in time in her mind, again affecting her so she cannot bring herself to breathe, let alone move forward to escape or backward to help Kira. She watches without really seeing as Devin kills the man who had killed Zack and nudges Kira to her feet, but still she is ashen, trembling, and small ripples run through her spine, her bones shifting and then reforming back into their human spinal form beneath her shirt, noticeable but not yet beginning in earnest. She squeezes May's hand tightly without realizing, and it is not until May tugs her along that she can bring herself to move with the others.


She can still see the blood all over Zack, can smell it heavily lingering in her nostrils on Kira, can still hear the echo of the shot in her mind.
 
Jason shivered as more noises came from in the door. Shouts, screams, gunshots. He could see much too well in his mind the people in their ragtag bunch slipping on spilt blood, perhaps the blood of one of them.


But he couldn't do much more than grip the steering wheel aimlessly and stare at the doorway. Even if someone raced out, what could he do? Drive, maybe. But someone, anyone older, would certainly take the wheel from him. He had always been idealistic... And whenever he thought of something like this, something blatantly "wrong," he always wanted to help. Sitting on the sidelines, just watching, made him feel horrid. Killing could only be countered by killing...


Then again, the world wasn't idealistic, was it? If it was, blood would be nothing more than a crimson fluid that rushed through the body and was taught to kids about in science class.


As a signal, maybe, just as a sign to the people inside that the outside world still existed, Jason honked the car's horn.
 
As they are heading out the door, Sheena still tightly gripping May's hand, Jason sounds the horn, scaring her so badly she gasps and freezes again, her skin briefly rippling as fur shoots out, then skins back into smooth human skin. She takes shallow breaths as she slowly realizes what the noise must have been, then, saying nothing, continues to follow them out.
 
Before Hood could react and turn fully toward where Sheena had gone, a loud and powerful shot rang out, lifting his form from it's feet. As he hit the ground, he stumbled and turned toward his attacker, a larger man with a HUGE shotgun. The Hood-thing let out a many-voice cackle and tore forward, taking a few steps against the left wall before sideswiping the attacker and one other shooter next to him. He pounced on them and began to tear them into pieces, tearing the throats out with his rows of razor teeth. "KIIIIILLL!" roared the creature, hundreds of voices calling out at once from the impossibly-wide mouth.


More shots rang out, staggering him slightly. He moved to attack, then stopped, seeing the others. A guttural snarl twisted forth from his maw and he waved a rotten looking claw of black and bone toward the door. "GO! We will... catch up soon!" the voices spat before turning back toward the shooters. He would focus only on them, driving as many as he could further away from the group as he continued to attack violently, form moving unnaturally. It was a jerky and fluid movement all wrapped into one and, if one watched for too long, they would find it almost gave them a headache.


He did not see the death of Zack, nor did he pay any mind to the various squabbling of the others. He was busy tending to the rest of the shooters when the honk of a horn snapped him out of the bestial-like state he was in. Throwing the remaining guard at a few others, he began to make his way back toward the outside, towards the smell of the others. As he did, he began shifting back, blackness finally pulling away from his flesh or into it. His shirt had torn to ribbons and his pants were now torn into shorts, but the look almost seemed normal after what he'd looked like moments ago.


Continuing to follow the trail of the others, he hoped he wouldn't hear the van start up and leave without him before he reached them. Not that he could not track them, but the vehicle would serve as a quick get-away from the facility.
 
Kira looked to see if hood was behind them yet. She did not smile, for her dear partner had been shot and killed. She got in the van and then looked watching hood. She set a gentle hand on Jason signaling for him to wait for hood. She looked at to see sheena and the others following not to far behind. She closed her eyes and then grabbed a hand gun and loaded it. She started shooting at a few guards heading for the van. She let out a sigh as everything got slower to her in her mind. She opened her eyes a d continued to shoot at them. Aiming not to kill, still she knew that if hood and the others didn't hurry they would do some damage.
 
Sheena continues to half run, half stumble towards the van, eyes wide, trying to focus her attention on reaching it and nothing else. She can see Jason through the window and is vaguely relieved that he seems to be okay. But as she reaches the van, she jumps again as Kira begins to shoot. This is entirely too much of guns for her to take in one day, and she almost leaps into the van, wedging herself down on the floorboard and covering her head with her hands, nearly hyperventilating. Shudders rack through her for several moments as her bones painfully twist and writhe within her skin before settling back into her human form; she is not able to successfully shift. She waits with pained anxiety for the others to join her and most of all for Kira to STOP SHOOTING already.
 
Jason was relieved to see Kira rush out, open the passenger door, and vault in. "Kira!" he said, unable to control the slight jerk as she laid a bloodied hand on his before turning to shoot. He was worried about her for a moment, as blood plastered her frame, but she seemed fine as she battled the attackers. He was worrying about the wrong thing; "Where- where are the others?" He turned in his seat to look over the girl, and winced as a man went down with a spurt of blood. And they kept coming, and kept falling; but he noticed few were actually killed. So this is what they had been fighting inside, simply men, with guns.


He heard and saw guns firing on the van, and ducked his head back down. The others needed to get there quick, before someone got a good shot into the car's hood!


But Sheena was already coming, jumping into the back. "Sheena!" said Jason, twisting back in his seat. God, they were all splattered with blood. But Sheena seemed much worse than Kira, going into the fetal position on the floor of the van. "God, Sheena, are you all right?" he asked, gripping the edge of his chair. He, after a moment, reached over past her and shut the door she had leaped through. He could open it again for Hood....
 
Kira looked at Jason. "Don't worry the others are fine." She said setting the gun down. She looked at around it seems for a moment there was a pause. She looked at herself and then looked down. "Zack...." She whispered with much pain. She looked at Sheena and then got on the floor beside her. She set a hand on her back. "Hey....it's ok." she whispered although for her it was not. Tears were streaming down her face with the image of zack dieing playing over and over in her head. She closed her eyes. "When the others get here....there will be one more joining us..." SHe choked when she said one. She had hoped it would be two. No, zack was dead, her ear still stinging from the bullets pass before hitting zack.
 
Jason was surprised when Kira stopped shooting. Sheena did seem to need comforting... But the men...


Looking out the window, he saw that they had indeed stopped coming. The only one he saw in the doorway was Hood. "Thank God," Jason muttered, sitting back in his seat. The sooner it was over, the better.


A man suddenly leaped from out of his view, behind some obstruction; he held a pistol in one hand and a knife in the other. Jason yelled as he dropped down to the floor of the car, possibly saving his life, and heard bullets whistle. Before he knew what he was doing, he grabbed the gun Kira had left and fired out the window. There was a thud.


After a moment, he crept up onto the seat and looked down at the floor outside the window. The shot had been point blank, and it had gone right through his chest. The blood seeped out onto his clothes.


Trembling slightly, he looked at the gun. Safety off, he thought to himself.
 
Kira jerked up and looked at Jason worring, she grabbed Jason's shoulder tightly, her consern was almost killing her. "Are you ok?!" SHe asked and then gently reatched for the gun. She looked at Jason once again and then looked at Sheena. The last thing Sheena needs is for someone else to be hurt by a gun. She closed her eyes and then sighed wipping her eyes even though the tears kept coming. Her heart ached but she had no time for it. She had to protect the others.
 
Sheena has moved into a state of numb fear that she cannot yet draw herself out of, and shows little reaction to the continued shots firing around her. Continuing to cover her head with shaking hands, knees drawn to her chest, her eyes are open wide, tears choking her throat but not standing in her eyes.
 
May is about to get in the car when Devin grabs her wrist and spins her around, her back lightly hits the side of the car as he gets a few inches away from her and she looks up at him, shock and anger in her eyes. "I told you to stay behind." He looks at her, intensity coating his eyes, "And I told you I'm not letting you go again. I lost you once, I won't lose you again." She ripped her wrist from his grip and swung the door open, glaring at him, "I was never yours in the first place Devin. Don't get in the car." She leapt into the car and before she could close the door Devin held it open and then leapt in beside her, she glared at him, "Do you ignore everything I say?" He smirked at her, "Of course not beautiful, only stuff that I don't like." She rolled her eyes at him,


"Stop with the nicknames."


"Want me to call you Siran?"


"No."


"Then what can I call you?"


"May."


"How about gorgeous, hot, sexy, Lust?"


"No, no, no and NO."


"But Lust was your name at Calius's."


"Don't mention that place again."


He opened his mouth to respond but then May's eyes caught onto Sheena. "SHEENA!" She dropped down beside her and wrapped her arms around her instinctively, taking one glance at her she knows what is happening. A break-down. A total and complete mental breakdown. She rocks her lightly, like a baby. "Sheena, Sheena. It'll be fine. It's fine. We're all fine." She soothes her, stroking her hair in the way she knows helps herself. "Breathe, just breathe Sheena."


Devin watches silently, he also knew what was happening, for he had dealt with May having one of these. He looks up now, noticing the boy in the front. He frowns, "You okay kiddo?" He looks at the gun and then Jason, "Killing someone isn't such a big deal. Death happens all the time." You can see May roll at her eyes at Devin, before she carries on helping Sheena. Hugging her tightly.
 
Kira gets up and then punches devin right in the face. She glared at him and then swung her hand a bit from the pain. Her eyes were full of anger and saddness. "..." She looked at May and then at Sheena. "Try to keep her calm...we have to wait for Hood." She looked at Devin. "As for you...that was a warning. You may have killed the man who murder Zack but you were the one who set off the alarm." She said and then looked at May. "I'm glad you're alright...let's hope Hood is too." She said and then sighed deeply.


--- Merged Double Post ---


(You need to reply to me on Fighting academy!!!!!!)
 
Devin was grinning up until her fist hit his face, his eyes instantly darkened and his mouth set in a firm line. His nose stung a bit and some blood trickled to his lip, she punched hard, but besides that he was fine. His bones shook slightly and he made a sound deep in his throat like a wolf growl. He spoke sharply, his bright blue eyes suddenly a dark, sapphire colour, "A warning?" He spoke in a dangerously low tone, a tone too quiet to be anything other than extremely peed off. In an instant his hands shot out, grabbed Kira's wrists in a extremely tight grip and slammed her against the side of the car, her back roughly hitting the window. He pinned her wrists to the window and glared at her, you could see his muscles tensing and untensing, as if willing to shift. "You know how much it hurt to lose your 'Zack'. I hit that button so that I didn't lose my May." At this point May looks up, at hearing her name, just in time to see Devin had Kira pinned against the window, he pulled Kira forward, then slammed her hard against the window again, it cracked slightly. May's eyes widened and she moved a bit so she could grab his arm and pull him away from her. Her tug caused him to move to the opposite side of the car seats and she quickly pulled Sheena up onto the seat beside Kira and moved herself beside Devin, so they were in a row now and neither of the two could get to eachother without hurting either May or Sheena. She heard Devin mutter to Kira, "And that was your warning." She glared at him, "Stop it!" She looked to Kira briefly, but her tone was much gentler, "Both of you." She glanced at Sheena as she spoke, "Everyone is feeling like s**t right now. Some more than others. So can we just try and get along or at least be civil. Or else we will end up with a few less people in this car." She looked to Devin on her last sentence, he glanced at her then out the window, his fists clenched. She looked back at Sheena and re-wrapped her arms around her in a hug, leaning her head against Sheena's shoulder. She didn't entirely know why she had a mental lapse, but she was here for her.


--- Merged Double Post ---


( Bah. Sorry. I just got really far behind and now I have NO idea what to post D: )
 
Kira growled loudly when he pinned her. She looked down feeling a lot of pain. Once he pulled back she fell to the floor. Her body was still sore from her being tortured. She looked at Devin. "That doesn't give you the right to sacrifice others..." She looked down and started crying, her body was in a lot of pain. "That was the second time someone died in my arms....only the first I was curled up against my dad listening him read me a story." She looked up at Devin. "The second time I heard a heart beat stop." She held her stomach feeling like she was going to throw up. "You were willing to kill us all for your own selfish fantasy?" She said and then looked back down. She looked at May. "..." She looked down her tears soaking her face.
 
In the circle of May's arms Sheena leans back into her, not responding at first, but then she lets out a shuddering breath, some color beginning to return to her face, and her eyes begin to focus, though she is still shaking. She ignores everything else going on around her, including Kira and Devin, as she concentrates on May's arms around her, her hands in her hair, then slowly turns to face her and embraces her back furiously, burying her face in May's shoulder.


She doesn't speak yet of any of the images of death flitting through her mind, of her own shaking hands covering the wound of the man she had long before indirectly caused the near death of. She doesn't describe her friends' screams and sobs, the hands pulling at her, all the pleading voices wanting her to do somethign, anything as the man's life drained away beneath her hands. She doesn't speak about how he had looked at her with tortured eyes and she had known very well that what she had done was wrong, and that what VV had done by shooting him was her fault. Her idea, her fault, and the man was innocent. He had deserved nothing. He had been kind to her...and this was the result.


She had never been able to get over it. She had never been able to forgive herself, and this self-hatred, irrevocably linked with guns and violence associated with guns, was enough to make her lose her understanding of herself as human now.


She wound her arms around May and held on tight, allowing herself to be comforted as she so seldom asked for or received.
 
Devin looked at Kira and his eyes were still hard, even as she began crying. His training had given him the ability to be able to sit and watch a girl cry, a teenage girl even, and not do anything about it in a kind way. He spoke stiffly, his eyes out the window, "I sacrificed no-one. I didn't shoot your beloved Zack. I didn't know your stupid friends were in the building with us. I knew they wouldn't have killed you, I wouldn't have let them touch May. And as for Zack, he was a guard who could have given an excuse or defended himself. I didn't know that your 'friend' Hood would be causing Guards to shoot in all directions." He spoke in the same tone throughout this, cold and unfeeling. There was a silence until he spoke once more, "Don't talk to me about your past. I won't show sympathy or empathy because I don't care to be honest. I've heard, seen and experienced more fu**ed up s**t than your little story so don't bother trying to get me to turn around and say, 'Oh no, you're crying. I'm suddenly extremely sorry and will you forgive me?' Because I won't." He used the same tone once more, and only changed to imitate a fake voice when he pretended to apologize. He carried on looking out the window.


May smiled in relief as Sheena responded, she was back. Not fully, but back. May carried on stroking her hair gently, noticing how it soothed her. As Devin ranted however, she glared, she couldn't see his face - for she was facing Kira's direction - but she heard his tone. "Devin. Shut up or get out. The guy Kira loves has, just this second, died and your talking to her like she's worthless, stop being such a d**k." May was finding it hard to keep telling him to go. She was fighting an internal battle, half of her saying he was no good, he needed to leave and was playing mind games with her. The other half was still the young teenage girl who had fallen head over heels for this wolf guy who had protected her from those creeps who went too far and comforted her when she couldn't see the value or point in life any longer.
 
Leaning into May, molding her self against her side, Sheena soaks up the feel of her fingers in her hair, regarding the others with slowly increasing awareness of what is going on. She doesn't budge from May when she finally speaks slowly.


"Who are you?" she says, looking at Devin. Then, more strongly, "Don't talk to her like that." She looks over at May, saying slightly softer, "Why is he here. Where is Hood." Then, still hesitating between each word, "We need to go. We have to go. I...hate guns."
 
Kira smirked and then looked at him. "Sorry but I was just tortured in there. If my body is still a bit sore then excuse me. I will kill you if you ever speak to me like I'm a weak girl. You are wrong...they would have killed me." She said standing up and then looked at May and Sheena. "Hood is a bit busy...I'm sure he'll be out here soon." She said grabbing her side.
 
Devin looked to Kira now, he chuckled without humour, "I won't speak to you like you're a weak girl if you don't act like one. And I don't mean physically, I mean mentally." He rose an eyebrow, "In fact, I don't know how you'd define how one would speak to a weak girl, because I would quite happily speak to a guy like that too. I have done before." He grinned now, "Although it is hilarious how you so quickly assume you could kill me. Don't make threats like that unless you KNOW you can." He then looked to Sheena, the joking twinkle returned to his eyes, "I'm May's boyfriend, Devin." He stuck out his hand and May speaks instantly,


"You are not my boyfriend."


"I was."


"Yeah, was. As in, no longer."


"We never broke up."


"Considering I haven't seen you for three years, I'd take that as us breaking up."


"Well I didn't."


"You should have done. Either way, I'm not your girlfriend." She spoke to Sheena before he could speak once more, "Devin is a guy I once knew. He's insisting on coming with us but I'm hoping to ditch him as soon as possible." Devin smirked at her, faking hurt, "Aw, Lust, that's just mean." "My name is May." "Sorry, habit." May ignored him and carried on, talking to Sheena, "Hood should be here soon. Want me to go find him?"


(I think we should wait for Mr. Grin and Nivrad.)


 
(I did nothing with Nick or James...look back a few pages and then reply PLEASE! I cry because my role play as died....)


Kira looked at Devin and then glares. She sits down and then leans back. "You want me to try then?" She said looking at May. "He's ticking me off." She said to her although she didn't show any anger towards her. She looked at Devin. "Let me ask you something...exackly do you know why Henry wants me dead? Or how I got involved with him?" She said rather calmly. She was under a lot of stress and she was trying to at least calm her anger towards him.
 
He looks to her, his eyes showing boredom. "All I know is you're a bounty hunter and a shape shifter. But quite frankly, you telling me that you are the most dangerous fighter in the whole of the world wouldn't at all change my mind or my opinion on what I just said. No matter how good you are." He smirked, "You still have no idea how good I can be." he glanced at May, but he kept his eyes on her back, his gaze protective.
 
Kira breathed in deeply. She looked at him and then smiled. "Fine then." She said and then looked at May. "I need to rest...I have had a...deadly day." She chuckled and then frowned a bit thinking of Zack again. She looked at her clothes. "..." She closed her eyes. "Maybe I should just leave..." She whispered to herself and then got to the back of the truck and laid down. Her emotions running high.
 
"NO." Sheena's response to May's offer to find Hood is instantaneous and carrying an edge of panic, and she grips her tighter, not yet willing to let her go. Her eyes slide to Devin and she regards him with slightly narrowed gaze, not liking the exchange between him and May. Not only because she doesn't trust him, because he is showing such low empathy for Kira, but also because she is vaguely jealous, without wanting to admit it. As Kira speaks, she hesitates, then, still hanging onto May, reaches out slowly to take her arm.


"No. Stay..."


Then out loud, and with continued anxious edge, "Can we GO?"
 
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