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 Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 10:47 pm
Cross dropped to his knees as he felt himself fainly be able to move, He hadn't heard Kard enter or speak to him, He was still in shock to what had just happened. His eyes burned as they streemed with tears. his hands fell limpy in his lap. He was spaced out in his thaughs
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Arch slowly opened his eyes to a dark room, Where was he? still coming off the medication He dozily tried to sit up, As he did a sharp pain stabbed at his side, he grunted. That wound it was still there. That didn't stop him from wanting to sit up. But as he tried to raise, he felt something tight around his wrist that wouldn't Allow him to get up farther. He made a frustrated grunt as he tried to focus his eyes on what was binding him. As his eyes finely focused he noticed that two leather straps held him down to a hospital bed. What was this, he wasn't crazy why would they tie him down. letting out a aggreated sigh he flopped himself back on to the bed. he must have tired to leave early or knocked out one of the doctors. The braces where the only thing that kept him leaving the room anyway, so that's what he figured.
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 11:03 pm
Kard rushed over to Cross's side with a gasp. This was the first time in a while Kard had actually panicked over what to do. Machines were easy, but a little kid?
"Charlemagne? What's wrong?" He spoke quickly as the words were the only thing that would pop up in his head.
Hesitantly he placed a hand on his shoulder and shook him gently.
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Rei had been up for hours, just starring at the curtain in a trance like state. Her sides stung as if a wild animal were constantly scratching her with its brutal claws, but she paid it little mind. The pain was all she had to cope with her deep thoughts. The sound of liquid dripping through the IV was the only noise in the room aside from her breathing. It only made the dark room seem more dull.
That man popped up in her mind several times. He was injured too... and in the same building.
"Run red warrior... it's all you have left... " she whispered to herself.
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 11:19 pm
As Kard shock Cross, it to say the least woke him up, from his trance. He looked like a small animal frozen in the head lights of a car. He blinked as the sight of Kard registered in his mind.
"She....it...That thing, killed my, my....Parents" He manged as the tears fell down his face faster,, though his voice was quite and angry.
"-My family..." he swallowed he seemed to be talking to Kard as he looked down but he was speaking to himself.
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Arch, let out a annoyed growl as he yanked on one of the braces that binded his wrist. He wanted to get up, and do something anything, but lay here in pain and to cope with his thoughts and worst of all, memories. That growl seemed to brake the sicking silence of the darkened room.
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 11:39 pm
Kard dropped all of the envelops on the floor. One of them slid open as it fell upside own. The contents spilled out in a mess of pictures on the floor. The one on the top was of a shadowed zoid with pricing red eyes. A loud noise rang out from those pictures. It was like a screech of a mountain lion and a horse mixed and warped together. The effect was the same as a person scraping a chalk board with iron nails, or a knife across a ceramic plate.
Kard, oddly, did not hear this noise. He figured this memory suddenly came crashing down on Cross like a one ton elephant on a small dog.
He was left speechless and searching for something comforting to say.
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Rei looked over at the wall. She could hear frustrated grunts coming from that direction. It had to be him. Without a second thought she ripped the IV from her wrist and begun to sit up. The pain only got worse, but it was no where near stopping her. She gasped to try and relive some of it and continued to move.
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 11:53 pm
Cross' eyes moved to the pictures that had spilled on the floor, A loud noise Ripped into his ears as he did.
"Ahaa" Cross' hands darted to his ears as the sound seemed to increase. He grabbed at his head, his hands clasped to his head. He remembered that beast, He Curled in to some sort of a ball as he was on his knees the sound was painful.
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Arch sighed heavily as he flopped himself once more on to the bed, The beds weren't even comfortable to lay on. He shook his head as he looked up and stared at the ceiling. He thought that he could hear something, sighing he brushed it off as just his mind.
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Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 12:14 am
Kard looked at Cross than the pictures, and than back to Cross. Quickly he shuffled them back into the envelope and tossed them aside.
"Hey, What's going on?" He spoke softly and begun to run the kid's back.
It was the only thing he could come up with.
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Rei slowly opened the door to Arch's room. None of the nurses walked the halls, so she was able to make it there with the only trouble being her wounds. She held onto the wrist where the IV needle had been to prevent blood from spilling to the floor. It was a futile attempt, but she held on anyways.
Upon entering she frowned to see his strapped to the bed. Her crimson eyes faintly glowed in the dark room, and her pure white skin gave her the appearance of a ghost. Equally white hair hung over her face obscuring many details.
Scars littered her arms and legs, they were dull pinkish grey gashes no shorter than an inch and some were long enough to wrap around her limbs several times. The end of some vanished under her white gown.
"...were they able to fix your side wound?" She whispered as she crossed the floor.
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Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 12:30 am
the screaming seemed to stop as the pictures where stuffed away. Cross slowly looked up as he uncovered his ears, What was happening. He looked up at Kard,
"She came...." Cross spoke softly, it was the only thing that could come out off his mouth, he was still in shock.
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Arch looked from the ceiling to the door as the lighting on the wall change. Looking to the door he couldn't believe who he saw, it was that woman. What was she doing out of bed? They didn't tie her down? well she probably didn't struggle. Unlike Arch, how you had to do such to not get him to leave. He looked away and back at the ceiling
"What are you doing up?..." He answer softly as he tried to make his voice sound caring, but it was obvious that he was annoyed, at not being able to get up him self.
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Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 12:50 am
"Who is 'she'?" Kard placed his other hand on Cross' other shoulder and he tried to speak calmly.
The first thing that popped into his mind was that it could possibly be a ghost, of his Mom maybe. The memories must be paying with his mind. He suddenly felt very bad for asking who "she" was.
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"I am leaving this place. I do not wish for it to come to ruin." Rei shiverd as she whispered.
"But I wanted to thank you before I left."
The sentence was finished just as she reached the side of the bed. Her eyes focused on his eyes and his cross scar, without blinking once.
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Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 1:12 am
"The monster that, Hurt Arch and Killed MY Family!" He answered with despising taste. It wasn't meant for Kard. He felt bad for saying it so rudely. It wasn't right of him. Arch had-yes, Arch, had taught him better.
"I'm sorry Hiro," He apologized after he realized how rude he was.
"...I don't know..." he shook his head as he looked back down. "I don't know if she was even here," He mumbled to himself.
"You didn't see her, did you?" He looked back up at Kard, his eyes burning. He wanted to cry, but he fought back tears. He wouldn't cry. He thought, he was being such a cry baby; and he needed to stop.
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Arch own crimson eyes looked back at Rei's as she approached the bed.
"That's foolish..." he answered, knowing full well that he couldn't get up and stop her. The judge seemed to be out for his life as well as her's, so it was foolish to leave when it wasn't appropriate. If the Judge really wanted to bring down the building with them in it. She would have done it already.
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Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 10:29 am
Kard shook his head. He had seen no one in the halls of the estate. He removed his hands from Cross' shoulders and pressed a button on his watch.
Two snake-like minis slithered up exactly three feet from each other. Both stopped five feet from Cross and Kard.
"Access surveillance from the last ten minuets." He commanded the two.
The two snakes faced each other and opened their mouths. The screen looked like a COM-link inside a zoid. The image started up just as Kard had left the room and all the Minis looked at Cross waiting for something. Everything was normal, no lights flickered the temperature remained the same. The Minis did back off, but they didn't retreat under the bed, they all just continued to do whatever it was before the attention command. It looked as if Cross was having a nightmare, and acted as if something creepy was there, but the screen showed that Cross remained alone throughout the time. The video stopped just as Kard returned to the room.
Kard wasn't sure what to make of this.
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"She wishes to kill my family... My brother and I are the last." She placed a hand on the strap closest to her.
"Foolish, maybe, but we are both marked and she will hunt us down."
As she continued to speak she begun to undo the strap on his wrist.
"You should think about leaving as well. Her attacks are not at random, the perfect time is selected... everything is set up weather by her own hands or by fate."
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 1:56 pm
Cross Watched the screen with unbelief. He couldn't believe what he was watch, Nothing, Nothing seemed to have happened. Cross' face crunched with a aggregated scowl of confusion, Ripping his eyes away from the screen to look up at Kard.
"I'm not crazy..." He said in a defensive voice. "That's not what happened..." before he could stop the words from coming out of his mouth he looked down, -It did happen, didn't it?....I felt, It was there....it happened...right?- Cross lost himself to thought as he rubbed the back of his head, wondering, if it just wasn't his mind. What if? He really was just....Crazy, schizophrenic.
Does a crazy person know that they crazy...Cross tried to depict this in his mind. He couldn't have been Crazy. No way.
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Arch's eyes moved from her's, to the same cross-like mark she bore on he face. It was, in the situation he was in; regretfully the best rout and it was safer for others to leave. And Cross was no longer safe with him and....wait. Brother? Arch looked away as he put every suspicion together about Cross and his 'lost' family, the necklace everything.
"Cross. I have to see him first..." Arch spoke softy, it was a obvious answer in agreement to leave, he didn't like it here anyway; But he wouldn't drop off Cross, without nothing and in a place he didn't like. But he would leave him in a place he was welcomed and it was in his best interest.
Arch looked back up at the woman as he felt his wrist become free.
"After, that...I'll leave," He added as he searched for her eyes, past her long hair.
"But, it still foolish for you to go off on your own. Your still injured and you don't even have a partner, from what I see." He continued, referring to a Zoid. And even as far fallen Arch was, he still looked in to other's best interests before his own. it was funny he hadn't talked that much in one sentence, in a long time.
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 8:22 pm
Kard stared in disbelief. Nothing had happened, yet this boy was convinced that there was something there. He must have had such a rough time.
"Maybe they messed with the camera system..." He spoke hesitantly and rubbed the back of his neck.
Kard was unsure if he should support the story that Cross had given him.
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"Cross..." She repeated with a soft whisper as the strap was finally undone.
The name was familiar, but didn't ring up any bells.
She turned her head slightly toward Arch. The pale crimson glow from her deep crimson eyes faintly peered through her long white hair.
"I have no choice. I have no Zoid of my own and I do not wish to keep you in more danger than you are already in."
She backed away from the bed a little. The shadow once again fell over her eyes.
"I know she will peruse me first because of her promise... it will give you time to flee from here."
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 8:40 pm
Cross made a soft sigh though from it's tone you could tell he was upset. He remained Silent, still contemplating if he was crazy.
"I felt her touch, I heard her words...It was real..." He mumbled to himself, as he rubbed his swollen eyes. -It had happened? didn't it.....Hiro must think I'm crazy...maybe I am...-
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"I don't care about that..." He growled softly as he moved over to Undo the other strap on his wrist. Feeling a sharp twinge at his side, as he rolled over more too fiddled with the binding.
"You wont make it that far from here on your own..." He grunted as he almost had the binding undone, knowing that she could leave at any given moment.
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 9:00 pm
Kard placed his hands gently on Cross' shoulders. His mind raced as the thought of something to say to the little boy. The only thing he could come up with was a quick change in subject. It worked with his Dad, sometimes.
"Did you find a mini you wanted?"
Of course he felt stupid after speaking for not being able to help or stick with the problem.
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Outside the door footsteps echoed trough the hallway. It sounded to be just one plump nurse making her rounds.
Rei rushed over to the bedside and begun to help remove the rest of the straps.
"How can you hope to care for others if you do not care for yourself as well?" She whispered to Arch without looking at him.
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 9:20 pm
Cross dropped his hand from his face as he could tell that Kard was trying to change subjects, Arch did that a lot. And it would be for the best. Cross looked back at Kard forcing a weak smile.
"Yeah..." He managed to speak out loud as he pushed him self off the ground to a stand.
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"Retribution..." He quietly responded as he managed his other wrist free with her help. Hearing the footsteps Arch stopped moving and remained perfectly still, tough it was uncomfortable in the position he was in
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