The Break: Met a Stranger 2.7
Posted by myg
Continued from What would wolves do? Met a Stranger 2.6
_________________________
Should I make a break for it?
I went with the Nekos back to some alley hangout where they felt safer, all the while wondering what my next move should be. I still felt weak in my legs, I guess from whatever spell those digital ghosts had put me under. But I wasn’t sure the Nekos had my best interest at heart either. They bickered in hushed tones, glancing–agitated–in my direction.
I gripped the paper–the one from the specialty dark knowledge shop with the odd book title on it–and thought, “sanator, sanator . . . what did that mean?”
Timothy noticed and ripped the scrap from my hands.
His cat eyes widened. Then he spat at Akakage and Axiom. “I told you she was going to be a problem.” He handed the paper to Akakage. She looked at it and shook her head.
“Yeah, but, JellyBean said . . .”
“JellyBean?” It was a name I hadn’t heard in years. “JellyBean Madison?”
“You know JellyBean Madison, Myg?” Axiom asked.
“Well, I know of her–”
“I told you, Tim,” Axiom said.
“Told who what?” I said. “What the hell is going on?”
Akakage shook the paper in my face. “This is a title on demon pathology–what’s your interest?”
I gulped. I wasn’t prepared to answer any questions on the subject and sure as hell didn’t want to go into my bizarre run-in with my ex-demon-psychotherapist with these cats. My silence didn’t help the tension.
“We should do her,” said Timothy. “She’ll have the damn demons crawling all over us. Why else do you think the ghosts were life sucking her?”
“No, Timothy,” Axiom said. “If JellyBean said to bring her that’s what we do.”
“JB doesn’t have to know we ever found her.”
“Come on you two,” Akakage intervened. “Let’s not get crazy.”
That was all I needed to hear. I quietly opened up my inventory to search for my Topgol landmark and hastily hit teleport. Nothing! Damn the weekends–how are you supposed to get out of a bad spot when your basic tech functions don’t swing?
“I’ve got a way to get rid of her–nobody will ever know,” Timothy said. “Not if we don’t tell them.”
“Now come on–” I started to argue.
“If we help her, she’ll lead the demons straight to us and we don’t want that happening. JellyBean said the Marvelosas were planning an offensive and we have to be ready for that. If they find us running recon in this sector we could lose the element of surprise.” His whiskers twitched.
“We’ve already lost surprise,” said Akakage.
I wasn’t going to be listened to, so I tried to slink out of sight while they were distracted.
“We’re taking her to JellyBean,” Axiom said.
“The hell we are.” Then Timothy noticed me crawling away. He pounced like he was gonna rip my intestines out. I was stunned.
“Get up, Timothy,” Axiom said in a deadly calm tone. It’s easy to be calm, I suppose, when you’re so fashionably armed.
“Axiom, don’t toy with me,” Timothy said. “You know I’m right.”
“I know that if JellyBean wants us to bring her back, that’s what we’re gonna do,” Axiom said.
Akakage drew her guns, too. This wasn’t going to be a good scene.
Timothy rose and shook his head. “You’re both so wrong about this.”
Thinking it might be my last chance, I ran. He swatted me hard on the side of the head. “You’re not going anywhere!” he growled, grabbing me by the throat. “I’m telling you we’ve got to get rid of her–you’re both out of your heads if you think we won’t pay for this with multiple lives!”
“Let her go, Timothy!” Axiom shouted. But he just started to squeeze, the hollow empty look of instinct in his eyes as I tried to pull his claws off my throat.
I was fading fast but heard the first shots as he threw me down and jumped. Axiom fired and Akakage lunged.
“Don’t kill him!” Akakage yelled.
“Move, Aka!” Axiom said.
The three of them battled and I ran again. But it wasn’t long before I heard shouting and footsteps. I ducked into another alley and tried to think fast.
With teleport not working, I had to find someplace close where I could hide.
______________________
.::Met a Stranger Season 2 Navigation::.
- Beginning | Previous | Next -
- Go here for the Season 1 Index -
_______________________
Hey Met a Stranger strangers!
Don’t forget to join us at Clockwork tonight for another set with DJ keTchUp!
6pm SLT freestyle, 7pm (n)eXt with all new music.
then at 8pm catch an hour of totally partyable grooves by Esteban aka Roach of the Scripts!
oooh the mistery of the book is starting to be clearer. i wonder if that book could be use to make a virus that could kill all demons. would be useful for the nekos since they seem to be planning against one of them.
poor myg
shes been pretty rough up recently, hopefully her next hiding spot will be somewhere comfy ^^
*licks Myg’s scratches to clean them*
Mmm…Myg has a flavor.
Into the dumpster with her, I say!
*reveals his evil self now *
/me casts a wary eye over at Miss Madison. How things are finally starting to come together… I had often wondered how she spent her time during the day while I am at work. Sure the stray ammo clip laying around here, the red smudge on the edge of the pillow, or the random bruises should have clued me into her double life, but I still had no idea…
Myg looks so miserable. If only there were something I could do to help!