Here is the requested story, or part of the story as soon as I have started and finished the next part which may be a while because I have lots of school work to do! Oh and the tittle is real neat cause it actually makes sense because in this story Sai is 'carving' out a new life, but its almost impossible to get the new life fully carved. If you know what I mean!
Story requested by: Sairus Illuminatus
Carving A Life Out Of Stone
by henred5
It had been almost a year since she had made the decision, the decision that enabled her to have a real life, a life with friends, a job, and even a boyfriend. Yet the path to that future she had once wanted so badly was quite bumpy and dangerous. Once or twice she had near death experiences and even doubted herself.
Sairus Illuminatus was forced to become a mere shadow in the wind as a consequence of leaving the Golden Tails for good. Her name was changed a great many times in her life, but she always insisted on keeping the first three letters of her real name.
Even now though, even now she was forced to be careful of where and when she stepped out.
No matter how much she would rather have her past staying secret even she knew it would be better to face up to it, it was time for her side of the story to reveal itself, it was time for her to face up to the past and confront her daemons.
It all started the day before the Festival Of Ages, a festival where everyone in Metropolis gathered together to remember the war that caused the deaths of so many innocents, the war that brought a plague of death upon every nation in the world!
She stood staring up at the towering memorial for the dead. Each dead person’s name was carefully scratched into the surface of the old marble. On the top of the memorial sat a large sculpture of a white dove, all set in its beauty and grace, taking off into the air, it signified the flight of the dead to the next world. That’s if there was one.
At 16 it was common for lost young adults to join gangs, it was common for them to die before there twentieth birthdays, but it wasn’t common for them to survive long enough for the police to learn about them. This was the case for Sai.
The gunfight she was pressed into joining was pretty vicious and cost many lives that cold storm filled night. People in nearby houses if you’d call them houses (they looked more like huts) covered their windows and blocked their doorways up with furniture. Not wishing to be caught up in the girl gang fight.
Her breathing was heavy as she reached in her pocket for the last round of bullets. Carefully she deposited them into the gun and waited, hoping to nail the one closest to her and the one up in the tree in the chest.
“Come on out Tails…no good bein a coward in your gang is it now?”
Sai stood her ground, able to refuse listening to the taunting of the rival gang members. She waited until there was nothing but silence; she could hardly hear the enemies breathing and could only feel the wind brushing at her strange grey hair.
“Perfect!” She thought, rising up with the gun and instantly shooting, sending a spray of bullets towards the large upturned crate. The victim let out a scream that could be heard for miles around before dropping out from her hiding place behind the box dead.
It was then she realised there were more of them then her, and staying out in the open would be suicide! She dived just in time back behind the wall that looked like it had been chewed on by a giant dog. Her eyes downcast, already the gun was out of ammo! She breathed out hard, rampaging through her mind looking for a plan or idea, anything that had a chance of getting her out of the currant situation.
Clink clank clinggggggg…5…
She knew that sound, those deadly sounds that in five seconds could kill her. She turned round to pick up the grenade hesitating for a second.
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A precious second but then summoning the inner strength to pick it up.
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She threw it up in the air, directing it at the crowd of Nikovara.
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She jumped over the wall and threw herself as further away from the grenade as possible, landing in a makeshift ditch with weapons sitting ready to be used in action. She had to admit, the Nikovara knew what weapons to use and how to hide them!
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There was a blast of a deafening proportion, at first her hearings was blocked out with a constant howling sound after effect of the grenade. She covered her ears in pain, screaming with out meaning to for help. Then something smashed into her, she felt something hard crush her, down further until she was face to face with the ground, and the rough stone filled ground! Her green emerald like eyes closed and her mouth shut as she lay her head down in defeat. She wanted to just sleep.
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She winced in her sleep from the touch; it was cold and almost unreal. She opened her eyes and almost screamed only to find someone’s hand held tightly over her mouth to shut her up.
“Keep it quiet!” She hissed, she peered down at the sleeping teenager and relaxed, realising she was like herself, locked away in a mad house without friends or family. “Sai? Is it really you?”
Sai blinked; carefully she brushed away the hand from her mouth and stared closely at the familiar face. “Lina?”
The fellow prisoner nodded and grinned down at her friend. “How did they get you?”
Sai winced as she sat up and shook her head painfully. “The usual…gang fight. So where am I…or should I say us?”
Lina put on a false smile and spread her arms wide, as if to gesture the space of the room. “Welcome to Happy Farm Hospital for the criminally insane!”
“INSANE? I’M NOT INSANE,” shrieked Sai in fury, she leapt up in anger only to feel pain develop around her, collapsing back onto the bed.
“Keep it down will you Sai! Shouting and screaming don’t get you any favours here.” The old friend sat beside her friend, putting a comforting arm around Sai’s shoulder.
“So where exactly in the desert filled world are we?”
“Approximately twenty miles outside Metropolis, surrounding the hospital is an area of artificially fertile land and outside the borders of the land and Metropolis there is desert, miles, and miles of sun scorching desert. No getting in and no getting out!” Lina made the gestures to go with the famous quote. “Kind of like Alcatraze back before the deserts started to appear.” She took in a deep breath before asking a question that had an obvious answer, “So what do you think?”
“Gee to make me more happy why not tell me that there have been plots of getting out but they’ve failed miserably and those who took part got tortured for a week,” replied Sairus sarcastically.
Lina shrugged, “sad to say that’s how the story goes here Sai, so any thoughts of an escape?”
Sai nearly laughed at the question. “There have been escape plans that have failed and in punishment people have been tortured for days on end and you still want to know my plan to escape?”
“Well dugh! I do have the supplies needed, or at least I can get them if needs be. Plus you are a strategist, not really a gangster fighter. I still remember back in the old days when you and I used to plan how to kick butt along with the leaders of the gang. Speaking of which is good old Spark still alive?”
“She died in the big gang fight last year, didn’t you hear?”
“Nope, news doesn’t get into this old place,” Lina tapped on the hard solid concrete wall just behind the narrow bed. “Shame, she was probably the best leader the Golden Tails ever had.”
“Right so do you want to see the plans for this place or not?”
Sai made a childish face at her companion only to receive a light cuff on the ear for the cheek. “I think I need something to eat first and a bit of rest.”
“A bit of rest? You’ve been sleeping for three days straight!” Lina stood up from the bed in shock at her friend.
“I have? Wow, well I still feel a bit tired.” She shrugged her shoulders in defeat to the sleeping urge.
“Well ok, but bright tomorrow morning you’re getting up so that we can get those plans and get out of here as soon as possible.”
“You make this place sound worse then torture!”
“It is torture! They constantly interview you about the so called ‘mental disorder’ only a few of us here are clearly sane people.”
“Really?” Sai raised her eye brows, pretending to sound interested and amazed but failing miserably, slowly she lay her head back down on the narrow bed and huddled closely to the wall for the little warmth it gave out.
“Get some sleep then Sai, tomorrow is the start of the great escape!” Lina smiled down at her friend and walked a meter away to the next bed in the small double cell room. She got in and turned out the light and got into her bed, dreaming of beyond the fields and deserts, dreaming of a different place to Metropolis, a place with no gang fights, no war, no disease, and no famine. A place of piece and harmony, or was it just the next place after death?
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