Tyranny: Onwards

Chapter 122- Gen

So...I guess now there's another person here...on the ground next to us? I don't even know how to react or what to say now, seemingly no one else does either, not even the stranger. The persons pants are black and slightly baggy and are tapped at the ankles cleanly; likely to prevent catching and tripping, the shoes are tight and hardly have a sole. This odd person also has the tape around their waist at the top of their pants and bottom of a black baggy shirt which is tapped at their wrists.

Genesis snatches the skewer of rabbit from the hand and huddles next to me, she seems to feel slightly offended still. She is un-phased by the odd appearance. I glance up and see the person has thick black hair pulled back into a clean pony tail, making them appear just like the stereotypical ninja from books and movies.

"Um...okay...who are you?" Phoenix is still wide eyed.

The form moves in their defeat and sits up. It is the locks of hair loosely hanging by her face, the shape of the face, round and soft, the unique smile, thin yet sturdy build, and, when her eyes open, they remind me of someone who was so very important to me. Someone who is supposed to have died years ago, because of me.

Her eyes are no longer the hazel filtered with gold, but now a deeper darker hazel, why the eyes have changed I do not know. But, can this really be her? How?

"Nichele?" I whisper so lightly no one but Genesis hears it and with the memorable name glances up and stares at the face, sniffing the air constantly, then resorts once more to a confusion, as though she cannot decide.

"Heh, well I'm called Genevieve, but I guess just call me Gen." Such a statement makes me wonder if she thinks she will be travelling with us.

"What are you doing...here?" no one seems to be comforted by knowing her name and I am still utterly startled by how she can appear almost the exact same as Nichele but not be her.

Nichele was my instructor and teacher in my early years, she was also the one who was to supervise and grade me on my first mission, the one I always went to for things; despite the rarity of such. She was the one we all viewed as a caring mother, yet she was hard on us, we all knew it was to give us the strength we would need though.

She was the one I was closer to than any of the other children, she would teach me more than the others when I asked later at night and taught me of the world because I was so curious and wanted the knowledge to grow and learn as a person. On the night of my very first mission, she came, and was supposed to merely sit in the shadows, she was not to interfere, even if I was going to die. However, the mission I was sent on, turned out to have been part of a bigger plot and the whole thing was a disaster.

My target came to pick up a package, I was to kill the receiver after he got the package and take the case, then return and give it to another instructor at the bamboo school away in the mountains.

However, what actually happened, was the two men came, one with the case, gave it to the other, I followed the receiver of the case until we were away from people, then I got ready to move in. Turns out, both ends, the person giving and the person receiving the case, had people armed in the shadows, right when I went out, they started shooting from the nooks and Nichele had realized too late. She came right as a sniper took a shot and hit her right in the heart.

How we both were unaware of the men in the shadows, I do not know, but my instructor didn't know about the bigger line in place clearly;

I remember the blood oozing out all over me and how I dragged us both away with the help of Genesis, within seconds, and it did not take long for us to find our way back to the mountains base. Nichele's head I held in my arms as her blood grew cold and her skin pale and purple, as her lips forgot breath and her skin touch.

The hole in her chest eventually stopped leaking blood into her shirt and onto the ground below her. Previously green lush mosses were stained rusty red and I waited, watched as the crimson running liquids soaked up and changed to the rusty shade. With this, I left and Genesis heaved the body with me until at last we returned with no case and a dead body.

I snap back to the present and realize Hester has come to along with Dagwood and Blaze who are wondering now how long they were asleep for this to all have transpired.

"Um, guys, uh, this is, Gen.." Phoenix introduces and the four newly awoken all seem to think they were put into some kind of coma and happen to waking were they first fell asleep and during another storm.

"So, how long was I asleep?" Hester inquires quite spooked.

"You and Rin weren't out for even an hour," Phoenix says and scratches the back of his head, also baffled still.

"So me and Dagwood haven't been asleep long either then?" Blaze checks and Aegis nods. We all sit and stare at Gen.

"And why are you here again?" finally Aegis asks in an unsure voice.

"Why I was watching you all of course!" this new person who reminds me of my dead instructor whom I considered my true mother, acts as though it is so very obvious and that there is no reason for explanation.

"Right...why, were you following us again?"Aegis scratches the back of his head, growing more and more concerned and bewildered by the word.

"I say no more until I get some food and water, and don't pretend you can't! I saw how you made it all appear like that!" the demand is stern and her voice..it is a perfect match for Nichele's.

However, when she spots Hester for the first time, something happens. Something shifts, Hester is not even touched, she clearly knows nothing of this person, but Gen apparently knows Hester somehow.