A deafening siren purged Meryl's ears as she fell to the dusty turf. Sharp pains pulsated through her thighs from landing roughly. Half of her derringers were missing and she couldn't see through the thick pillows of black and white smoke. Crashes and eruptions could be heard, thundering over their position. All she could think about was her friends.
'Kita..he has kita...'
Trying to climb to her feet, she collapsed again, tumbling over a dead civilian. She wanted to scream for Vash, but the words seemed to be stuck in her throat. Tears were streaming down her cheeks as the closing sensation of solitude brought the rest of her body to the ground in a heap. Silently weeping, she grabbed a fist full of sand and threw it in blind fury.
"KIIIIIITTTTTTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...VAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHH..."
As she lay in anguish, the smoke started to dissipate. A huge shadow towered over her, carrying a smaller shadow in it's grasp. The shadow seemed to be moving hastily and irregularly, as if thrashing about. Meryl brought her head up to get a visual on the figure, her heart jumping into her throat when she saw the owner of those shadows.
"KITAA!"
The young girl dangled from the grasp of the malformed, grotesque behemoth that was carrying her. Meryl tried hard to get to her feet, again falling into the sand and attempting to crawl.
"Let her..go!! LET HER GO!"
The beast paid no attention to her, and went on examining his meal. With a burst of adrenaline, Meryl managed to prop herself up with an arm. Her plan was to hastily look for a derringer that was loaded to distract the creature. As her eyes met Kita's, more tears formed from her helplessness. Kita tugged at the monster, beating it's clutch with her fists. She looked wounded about the neck, and was bleeding badly. As her eyes met with Meryl's, her heart sank. She knew she was going to die.
"Meryl...Go! Run away!!"
As Kita pleaded for Meryl to escape, the bulged mass of seemingly human flesh opened to reveal rows of teeth and a large gaping mouth. The fist kita was held captive in slowly made its way towards the opening. Kita turned her body sideways to face Meryl, her face glittering with tears.
'Don't let her see...please..'
"Meryl...go..now!! GOOO NOOOOW!! GOOOOOOOOOOOO!!"
Kita closed her eyes gently, accepting her defeat.
'You win this round, a*****e...'
Meryl turned, going into a full force crawl behind an assortment of rubble and mismatched boulders. She gathered her knees and held them against her chest, crying into the solitude of crossed arms.
'She's gone...she's really gone..he took her..'
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A prototype drawing of a scene I'm particularly and abnormally fond of. Yes, Kita is my Trigun OC, and yes she dies. She has no love interest in my fanfic. She is just a supporting character for Meryl. But she dies at the hands of a greedy science experiment gone wrong. D':
Hopefully I'll get better and fix it up later.
Drawn to the song:: I Don't Care -- Apocalyptica
