Seeking Salvation

Chapter 13: A fateful reunion

Author's note: Lyric's Katey Perry Unconditionally. Also the end starts to get gory, moving into some brutal fight scenes.

Oh, no did I get to close.

Oh, did I almost see.

What's really on the inside?

All you insecurities.

All the dirty laundry

Never made me b link one time.

The night had gotten muggy as they neared the sea, the air was thick with both salt and the clinging moisture of threatening rain. The storm that had been hanging around the horizon back in Tokyo that evening was slowly closing in over the coastal city of Mirua. A modest city of fisheries and tourism that resembled the modern sprawl of Tokyo. With it's commercial towers of glass and steel, giant billboards of neon in its entertainment districts and the constant hustle of life always moving through out the streets. The outer fringe of the city was a quiet accent of middle class neighbourhoods. It was everything Tokyo was but on a smaller scale, close to many beaches and protected by severe weather thanks to its location at the tip of the peninsula. The secure paradise it offered had drawn many people, the local population was now growing a bit out of control. People seeking a slower, less stressful life away from the chaos of the mega city, took their chances here. With the sudden rise in population there was also a rise in criminal activity. This once sleepy commuter town now bursting at the seems with the influx of families and young people. All seeking to attain that perfect life promised them through the T.V screens and advertizements they grew up on. Over the last decade the slow, peaceful life of Mirua was forever changed by progress.

Tiger's eye eased Serenity off the side of the last train car, leaning over on his furry stomach as she hung onto his wrist. Dropping as silent as a ghost into the deep shadow's of the small train yard. She never waited for him, knowing he could keep up to her in the dark quite easily. Years of fighting having honed her abilities to sense another's pressence when she couldn't count on eyesight alone to spot them. Dashing behind the last parked train, ducking and weaving through the backends of the two cement side terminals. Seeking to remain anonymous as she searched for their connection.

Miruakaigan was a humble, affair. A small seaside train station that only dealt with two trains both from the Keikyu Kuihama line, one coming in from Tokyo, the other heading out to the islands just off the coast. So blending in wasn't really easy, in such a small crowd of traveller's.

Serenity found herself trapped behind a cement pillar out on the connection platform, surveying the hand full of commuter's and vacationer's with unease.

Tiger had remained hunched behind the last train car down in the ditch before the cement platform, watching Serenity with his beastial yellow eyes. She was as pale as white rice paper, the blue veins now clearly visible under her thin, almost transparent looking skin. The vibrancy of her eyes had started to dull along with her hair. That now looked thin and hanging limp down her back and around her shoulder's.

"Serenity...your dieing." Tiger spoke bluntly, his voice soft and somewhat guttural.

"I can smell the stench of decay clearly upon your skin?"

"Yes." She acknowledged, in a hiss. "Thanks for the update, Tiger! What a pretty picture! You make it seem like I'm a walking corpse already." She tossed back sarcasticly. Debating if she could slip into the last train car as everyone boarded.

He sniffed with irritation, "How?" He growled.

Serenity cast him a frustrated somewhat impatient glance.