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« on: December 16, 2012, 06:41:50 am »
((I'm going to do something! Hurray!!
Sorry for inactivity had a lot of homework been feeling sick went to see the Hobbit, the works. Also been mostly chatting with friends on my phone. You Americans are pretty awesome. Well, some of you are. See, I got accepted into a magnet school for people interested in the same sort of stuff I am so everyone's pretty awesome. The downside is that they work us like.....like....things that work hard.
Oh, and Happy Holidays. I celebrate Chanumis/Christakuh. That's Chanukah-Christmas.))
As Scythe was examining the walls, she simply gave up and walked away to retrieve her goggles so she could go out. Of course, she had no idea where she was headed, but she just needed to go for a walk and think about a few things. She wished now that she had lingered longer when Tamah and Nat had still been hanging around so she could've asked a few more questions. She still wasn't completely sure was going on.
Scythe intended to return after an hour or two. Her nose caught scent of Tamah and Natalie in a rather close room, but also a new scent. Definitely a female, but they were probably occupied at the moment, and not interested in speaking with her. However, the red-head did want to meet the new girl, but decided she would do so in her own time. Her combat boots clanked as she strode across the metal threshold, the sound echoing throughout the chamber. She made her way back to her room, and grabbed her box. However, she began to get a strange feeling, a chill up her back and she felt the urge to bite someone. She pushed off the feeling, dismissing it as killer instinct as she grabbed her rucksack and stuffed her box inside, after emptying the bag of its contents.
She slung it over her shoulder, tying her hair back with a band she always kept around her wrist and and placing her googles on top of her head gingerly. Scythe clanked out of the room, ears pressed down by her goggles and out of sight to anyone without the ability of X-Ray vision. As she passed through the weapons hall again, a pair of twin machine guns caught her eye. They appeared lightweight, and easy to carry. Plus, they were fast, and Scythe would love the protection ranged weapons would offer. Scythe quickly collected them, along with a couple rounds of ammo and twin holsters. She took a while trying to figure out how to properly hold the guns, not bothering to try and not even attempting that strange way that Death the Kid holds them. She fired a couple of bullets at a dummy, and although her aim was nowhere near perfect, she didn't want to waste any ammo, so she placed them in her holsters and walked out the door.
It was sunset, the bottom of the sky dyed shades of red, yellow, and pink with the twilight sun. She quite liked this time of day, she thought as she walked through the forest that surrounded the small wooden shack. Scythe strolled to the top of the hill and pondered where to go next. To the west, where the sunset lay were the suburbs. To the East was the school, an it was slightly more urban over in that direction. To the South was downtown, and to the North it was more rural. She decided to head towards the suburbs.
Scythe rummaged in her pockets, searching for a phone or something with a built-in GPS. There was, in fact, an iPhone. The redhead would've preferred a Samsung Galaxy S3, but she would settle for this. She pressed the home button in the center, and it came across her to look at her contacts. Maybe something in there would jog her memory of the people she knew. Was she popular? Did her family miss her? For some reason, the thought just made her cringe, but despite this, her curiosity got the better of her. She clicked on the contacts, and was surprised to find it completely empty. She shrugged and pressed the home button again, and clicked on the map icon.
Apparently, she was in a remote city in California that was rather mountainous. If she continued to travel east past the school, she would probably reach the mountains in a few days time-on foot, of course. If she continued west past the suburbs, she would probably reach the Northern Pacific Ocean. However, she did not want to go too far from the Base.
Scythe had yet to arrive to the suburb when she found herself cold and shivering, despite the thick coat she was dressed in. Her breathing was short and shallow, and she began to cough a little. Her teeth chattered, and her muscles ached, the blood pumping in her ears. Or was that blood at all? She stumbled forward, and managed to make it to a house on the edge of the town. It was near some apartments, but separated by a dense patch of woods consisting mainly of tall, branchy pine trees that toward above her head, yet their trunks were rather slim. She admired them for a moment, and decided to climb it so she would have a good vantage point. However, her legs were buckling under her, teeth chattering more violently. She finally got a hold on a branch, but a piece of bark poking out scratched her hand, and she pulled it back instinctively, falling down onto the grass. The wind was knocked out of her chest, and she felt too weak and pained to get up, but she knew that if she fell asleep here, she would be in all sorts of trouble if anyone found and searched her bag. Not to mention noticed her guns and wonder why such a young girl would have a dangerous weapon.
Scythe slowly and steadily rose to her feet, muscles exclaiming in pain. Suddenly, her sight began to blur, walls of blackness closing in around her.
Am I.....dying? she thought to herself, as her mouth began to foam with sickness, blood dripping from her mouth. No, this is different...
The door creaked open, and with Scythe's last amount of energy she screamed at the top of her lungs. It was a coarse, raspy scream, that echoed around the canyon. It was a proper echo, too. Not the kind that simply reverberates, but the one that repeats over to you a couple of times before fading away, like Scythe's consciousness.
((No, she's not dead. She's just sick. This is based off kind of how I feel right now, but I'm forcing myself to write DX<. Oh gawd, I'm dyyyyyying. It's like 2:00 AM where I am and my head hurts and my legs hurt and my throat hurts and I didn't get to go to soccer or basketball (still can't get used to the word 'soccer' It's FOOTBALL. You play with your FEET. OK, i'm going to bed now before I die.))