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"The Story of Amneshire"

Hi.

I've got an absolutely enormous story in my head. It's been there, for a long, long time.

I really, however, need to get it out onto paper/topic. Writing it alone is difficult... but writing it out here is dangerous, because then the idea could be stolen. So I'm going to copyright all my entries into this topic, I hope SR don't mind... :0) Or, I'm going to at least try. :0D Could always ammend it later.

So, this topic is going to be a chapter based story, that I'm going to try and write in whenever I can. Please, please, please don't add to this... but comments will be fantastic, but make them in another topic, please. I just need to write, that's all... but it's going to be really, really difficult to write. Must do it though.

And you may recognise one or two characters in this... :0)

That's all. Ta. And now you get to know my name because I love this story so much. :0D

--poncy serious mode, but hey, could be worth it--

All ideas, stories, characters and entries into this topic by the Special Reserve forum user "Grix Thraves": © Darren Williams 2002

--end poncy serious mode--

Right, I'll start writing. :0)

CHAPTER TWENTY ONE -

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Grix woke, and gazed at the broken browned tiles that covered part of the wall facing him... it was only a few seconds later that he realised he was in a bath.

The next thing he noticed was that he was still in pain... then he remembered what had just happened...

He put his hand up to his neck... and found a cotton wool bandage wrapped around the scarring... he touched his face, and again, there was something soft stuck to his face, over where Renna had teared his skin.

"You ok...?"

Grix turned, hurting his leg and legs a little... Renna was standing against the wall, looking down at him with sad eyes.

"Renna..." Grix tried... his throat hurt to speak... "Please, please don't worry... I forgive you, you thought I was the other one... it's ok, really."

"But it isn't." Renna said, looking at the floor, and sighing... "You see... this world works a little differently to yours."

Grix narrowed his eyes, and looked at Renna.

"If you scar in this world, the scars will heal... you'll be exactly like you were born... but only if you forgive those scars, and you let them die. Otherwise... they stay."

"But..." Grix didn't even need to concentrate to take stuff like this in anymore... he almost knew it before they told him... "I... I'm used to the outside world... my mind has grown to... please, it's just going to take a little while for my mind to get used to this, even though I think it already is... oh christ... I dunno..."

"Grix, please... just sleep for the moment, you need the rest." Renna moved and sat on the edge of the bath... she looked dreadful...

"How long have I been asleep?" Grix asked.

"...I'm not sure." Renna said... "I really don't know, I'm sorry."

"Was it very long?"

"I don't know, I'm so sorry."

Then Grix realised. "Oh... God... you've been awake all this time... you poor thing, you must be feeling really bad..."

"I..." Renna tried, but just started crying again... "I didn't know what to..."

"Please, Renna... thank you... thank you for the dressings..." Grix touched his face, and at that point realised that there were dressings on his legs too...

"You wouldn't stop bleeding, I was so scared." Renna said, through her tears.

Grix pushed himself up in the bath, and hugged Renna around her waist. She cried more, leant down and hugged him back. She tilted Grix's head up, closed her eyes, and kissed him on the lips.

"I'm so sorry." She whispered, with her eyes still closed. Grix kissed her back...

"I want to hold you so much..." Renna said... "But I'm afraid of hurting you at the moment... you need to heal..."

It was only at that point, that Grix noticed that the pain had gone. He felt his face, pressed against it... but no pain. His legs and neck were fine too.

Grix peeled away the dressing on his face... "Is it ok?" He asked Renna.

She bit her lip, smiled, and nodded.

Grix pulled off the dressing properly, and rubbed his fingers against his cheek... there was no blood, but he could feel small scars...

Renna smiled, and sighed gently to herself. She pulled herself into the bath... Grix lay back, so she lay on his chest, and closed her eyes.

Grix suddenly felt very sad... he stroked her fur gently, and noticed that Renna herself had many, many scars... ones that haven't healed.

"Renna?"

"...Yes...?" She said, breathing deeply.

"What... why were you... why were you on the streets?"

Renna said nothing, but he felt her hold him tighter... "I just want to hold you at the moment... please don't worry... I'll talk about it later..."

Grix kissed her on the forehead, and Renna fell asleep on him.

He felt like crying.

CHAPTER TWENTY - Outside in the Rain

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Leon sat with his fist on his forehead, staring at his glasses which lay on the floor... Seiyo was still sleeping, peacefully.

To be utterly fair, Leon felt like crap. He could hardly keep his eyes open, but he was afraid if he fell asleep, and Seiyo woke, he'd go crazy. He loved Seiyo so much... but... he found it so hard to cope... it was... upsetting...

He blinked and stretched his eyelids... God... he hoped Grix had found Renna... maybe, maybe he could forgive him if he came back with her... but...

Leon closed his eyes and sighed. She was dead. She had died a long time ago... just like so many. He hated this place... he hated it so much... sometimes... sometimes he just felt like trying to end it all...

Because, after all... he was just...

Seiyo turned on the floor, and groaned...

"Seiyo?"

"Urggh..." He replied back, pushing his face into the floor. "I... feel... really bad..."

Leon smiled.

"Where's Grix?" Seiyo asked.

"He's gone to find Renna... he's gone to get her back." Leon said, fluently.

"What...? Really?" Seiyo said, and turned up to look at Leon.

He nodded back. "Yeah."

"Renna..." Seiyo said. "I miss her. I miss her a lot."

"Yeah, me too." Leon said, his eyes beginning to feel puffy.

"But... when she comes back, it'll just be like old times again..." Seiyo said, closing his eyes. "We can play cards... I'm so looking forward to playing cards again... and we can sit and watch the sunset, and we can travel the world, like Grix said we could."

Leon didn't say anything... a lump had built in the back of his throat... he couldn't say what he wanted to... not to Seiyo... not to Seiyo...

"Yeah." He said, fighting back tears. "Everything's going to be alright. It'll just be like old times. Renna and Grix will be back soon, and then everything will be ok."

Seiyo smiled, and fell asleep again. Leon started to cry, walked out of the tent, and tried to light a cigarette... but he kept shaking, and he couldn't light it...

He threw his lighter down on the floor in anger, fell to his knees in the rain, and started crying into the grass.

CHAPTER NINETEEN - Unacceptable Love

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Grix spent the next few hours waiting, as the blue skies vanished, the light that shone from nowhere diminished, and ironically, it rained. Quite heavy too, much more than it did outside the town.

If... if what he guessed was true... Grix was beginning to worry... why should someone wait out in the rain...? Unless she was quite desperate...

Grix shook his head, and tried to get the thoughts out of his head. It was probably jus**t a cute name for her, and animals only came out in darkness, because that's when all the people slept... easier to get around then...

Grix looked down an alley, watching as the cardboard boxes that lay around soaked up the pouring rain.

And there s**tood a small white cat... but... she was wearing...

Grix didn't know what to say. She hadn't seen him yet... he'd spent so long trying to find her, he hadn't once thought of what to say, or do...

"Renna?" He asked, quietly.

The cat turned, and Grix saw her properly for the firs**t time... she wore an open demin jacket, and a white bra... a small demin skirt covered her too... she had... chris**t...

"Grix?" She said, shielding her eyes with her paws from the rain.

Grix walked out, not knowing what to do.

Renna ran at him... and before Grix knew what the hell was happening, she swung her claws across his face, ripping his skin. Renna pinned him agains**t the wall in the small alley, put her paw down his trousers, and dug two claws deep into the side of his legs... he cried out in pain, so she pushed his mouth shut, and dug her claws into his throat.

"Bad move, you bas**t**d." She screamed. "You were s**tupid to come back."

Grix tried to say he was sorry, but with the claws agains**t his throat, he couldn't do much.

"After what you did... you took advantage of me, I know who you are now, you f**king bas**t**d. Give me one good reason why I shouldn't kill you right here. I'll rip your d*ck off, you ***t."

"I'm... sorry..." Grix managed to say.

"Yeah, we're all sorry. We're all sorry for something... you fake. You're nothing. You're nothing to Grix."

Something hit Grix, so he spoke again. "No... I'm... him... real Grix..."

"What?"

"I'm the real Grix." He said quickly, muffled from the claws piercing and squashing his windpipe.

"Yeah, sure you are." Renna said, watching the blood drip down his face, trying to convince herself it wasn't him... "Prove it."

"We... sat on the beach once... and you kissed me..." He said.

Renna's snarl lowered slightly... then raised, and she dug the claws in deeper into his thighs. "You got that from his memory, you bas**t**d. You got that from his memory..."

She looked into Grix's eyes, and Grix s**tared back at her... his sad eyes shivering, closing and opening... her eyes relaxed, and she found his.

"Grix?" She asked, relaxing her grip on him...

She looked into his eyes again, and she s**tarted to cry... She said "Oh God..." and whipped her claws out of him... Grix collapsed on the floor. Blood trickled from his throat and face... his legs were in so much pain...

"Oh... God... God I'm... I'm so sorry... I'm so sorry..." She said, watching blood from Grix's face mixing in the rain. She saw his pinny tied around his wais**t, undid it, ripped it into a small cloth, and held it on his cheek, to s**top the bleeding.

She pulled down Grix's trousers, and a pair of blood s**tained boxers faced her.

"Oh sh*t... sh*t... I'm so sorry... I'm so..." She tore up more of the pinny with her claws, and tied small s**trips around his thighs, over the claw holes...

"It's... ok... I unders**tand..." Grix said, finding it difficult to s**tay awake all of a sudden. "We've got to get back..."

"Back where?" Renna said... "Back where Grix? Grix? Speak to me, please!"

"Leon... and Seiyo... they're waiting for us..." Grix said, and blacked out.

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - Welcome to Judgement

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The rain bet down through the trees, a fading hope that only spoke to Grix in one phrase... for every pitter and patter that hit him, that touched his nose and dripped to the floor... all he could think of was that this was a prelude.

Leon was right. Renna was dead... but no, the hope that still swayed inside him forced his legs onwards further, a blink and a breath to fight back, a confidence that seemed pointless but pure.

And then the trees opened out... The rain stopped, and Grix saw nothing but blue skies.

The town that stood before Grix scared him. White panel boards that calmly covered the insides of houses that lay only in one direction, like an old western town, but all the homes had gardens, all the same with white fencing to keep them all in. Each garden trimmed neatly, small purple flowers that lined the paths to fly-mesh doors of the repetitive houses.

Beyond the homes, lay a small shopping centre... a pub, a newsagent, butchers... all the needs of a small quaint town.

"Hello there sonny!" An old woman's voice called. "You're soaking wet! Where on Earth have ya been there?"

Grix turned around, to find the source of the aged voice, a white haired woman was knitting under a small balcony... "Ah, just a small accident with the plumbing this morning..." He said.

"Ho ho ho!..." The old woman chuckled... "Bet you called on old Dave Stewarts, eh?" She said, and chuckled again.

"No, wasn't that bad, thankfully." Grix replied... "Could you spare a moment of your time though? I'm looking for someone, and I'm not sure where to start."

The old woman chuckled. "There ain't too many people that Ol' Winfrey don't know about... go ahead dear."

"I'm looking for a... a large white cat, she's female... she's called Renna..."

The old woman stopped talking. "I don't think it's best you be talking about stuff like that now dear. Don't get involved in that stuff. No sire." She said, and stopped looking at Grix for the first time.

"Please... I know how... I just need to talk to her."

"You're asking the wrong person." She said, and turned her entire attention back to her knitting.

"You said you knew everyone..." Grix tried. "Help me, please."

"You're asking the wrong person." She repeated.

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Grix sat in the bar, and watched as the male, and ONLY the male inhabitants of the town drank the evening away.

Grix tried to listen in on a few conversations... nothing of real interest... football on Thursday, wife wants the house redecorated, one man thought his son was gay, crying into the half full pint glasses.

"White fur, yeah, all over."

Grix flinched.

"No... well, kinda, yeah." Another man said.

Grix butted in quickly. "Sorry... err... hi."

Three men looked up at him, a fat balding one sat on the left, a skinny old man with stubble sat in the centre, with a much younger man with well cut hair sat on the left.

"I'm looking..." Grix decided to lower his voice, he didn't know what would really happen if everyone heard him... "I'm looking for a white cat... her name's Renna..."

The man in the centre smirked. "You mean the Sex Kitten?"

Grix didn't say anything... but he felt his heart start beating... "Maybe... where can I find her?"

"Same place as you always can, the backstreets, after dark."

"Wouldn't know where exactly though." The young one said.

"Nope, not at all." The fat one added.

Grix half smiled, said, "Err... well, thank you." and left the pub.

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - Difference of Opinion

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There was a calm breeze of goodness that kissed Grix as he left the hospital. Felt oddly nice on his skin... a cool refreshing taste that shocked him to see how real it actually was.

He hadn't recovered fully, but it didn't matter... he had pulled a few... strings, and managed to get back out into the world.

Interestingly, it wasn't quite as he expected.

"38, Harbour, Lane." Grix said to the driver, like a parrot.

The cabby drove off, and Grix watched out of the window the whole time... children played in fields, one lay on the grass crying and clutching his head... old women that sat on benches and just stared out at the world, small dogs on leads... an old man walked out in front of the taxi, stopped and looked at the driver, who beeped his horn and motioned for him to move.

"This is a very simple world..." Grix said to the cabby. "Everything seems so pointless."

"Heh, I get like that sometimes." The taxi driver said. "You know, get a little depressed and all. But you've got to keep your chin high, you know, take each day as it comes... hell, you just came out of hospital right? What happened?"

"I changed my mind." Grix said, still staring out dazily at the colours and lives that span around him.

"Oh... right." The taxi driver replied.

"Hmmm... very difficult, takes years of work." Grix said, watching birds flying in the sky. "Out of interest, if I wanted to see something really special, where would you suggest I go?"

"Christ... err..." The taxi driver thought, checking his mirror and looking around to make sure the roads were clear all the time through. "There's an art gallery near here... err..."

"No... I want to see this world, I want to travel, not spend my hours looking at the poor attempts of mock-geniuses to explain themselves."

The taxi-driver laughed and coughed. "Well, go to a travel booking place, holiday stuff... loads of places to go, sure you'll find something you like."

"You have to pay to go on those sort of things though, don't you?" Grix said.

The taxi driver turned and looked at him, then looked back at the road. "Man, you sure you were ok to be let out of hospital?"

"Where can I get a job?" Grix asked, ignoring the driver.

"You want me to take you to the jobcentre?"

"...Sounds good, yeah, lets go there."

CHAPTER SIXTEEN - The Image By The Sea

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-EIGHT YEARS AGO-

Grix's uncle had taken him to the beach... it was a nice day, sun was shining high over the sea. Grix was sitting behind a wall, watching the sea... his uncle lay sleeping on a rug up somewhere in the middle of the beach, far from the sea, and far from Grix.

Seiyo and Leon were finding flat pebbles, and skimming them into the sea... Leon was trying to teach Seiyo, showing him the 'correct method' of throwing the stone, making sure you spin it just right.

Renna was sat next to Grix, sunbathing with him, and smiling.

"Don't you want to go down and skim pebbles too?" Renna asked, turning over and looking at him.

"No..." Grix replied. "I'm tired, just want to lie here really."

"Aww." Renna said, and moved up and sat by him. "Sun getting to you?"

"Kind of, I think." Grix replied. "Just... I'm happy here, really."

"Hmmm... good." Renna said, smiled, and hugged him. She laid her head on Grix's shoulder. He smiled, and stroked the side of her arm gently.

"Mmmm..." She said. "That's nice." Renna started to purr gently, and closed her eyes.

They were silent for a few minutes, and just held each other and watched the sea. Grix smiled as Leon watched gobsmacked as Seiyo managed to skim the stone a hell of a long way. Seiyo put his fists on his sides, and grinned at Leon.

Grix smiled to himself, and stroked Renna's arm a bit more.

"I love you." Renna said, and rubbed her head against him. She turned around, and looked into his eyes...

Grix smiled, and said, "I love you too." Renna smiled, and looked at the sand...

She breathed in, climbed over onto Grix, closed her eyes, and kissed him softly on the lips... she stayed there for the moment, and breathed in and out, sitting on top of him.

"I'm sorry..." She said. "I just needed to do that."

Grix closed her eyes, and kissed her on her lips in return. He smiled, and hugged her. She hugged back.

"Never leave me. Please." She said, and stroked her cheek against his... Grix smiled, tickled by her whiskers.

"I'll never leave you. I promise." He said.

She smiled, and hugged him again.

"I've never kissed anyone before." She said, and smiled. "It's nice."

Grix laughed, and stroked Renna's shoulders... she grinned, and swished her tail in the air. She laughed, and pushed Grix back into the sand, and lay on top of him.

"Oi." Grix said, and smiled. She laughed, and then he did too. He could feel her breathing, her chest rising and falling... She smiled, slid off, lay at his side, put her arms around him, and closed her eyes.

Grix smiled to himself, stroked her ears gently, and fell asleep with her.

Leon and Seiyo came up later, to find Grix and Renna asleep.

"Aww... how sweet." Seiyo commented. Leon grinned.

CHAPTER FIFTEEN - A Small Pick Me Up

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Seiyo slept on the small rug in the tent... the last hour or two... Grix didn't really know... it seemed so short, but he knew it was long...

He had just been telling Seiyo that everything was alright now... he was back, and he would never leave him. Never. He promised him several times.

Grix left the tent, and sat outside in the rain. Leon sat down next to him. Grix took the cigarette out of Leon's mouth, and took a puff from it.

"I didn't know you smoked." Leon said, watching him.

Grix coughed, and handed the cigarette back to him. "I don't, and I don't think I will, either."

Leon smiled to himself, and took another drag. "So, what now?"

"Now?" Grix said. "I'm going to go and find Renna."

Leon sat silent.

"Grix... I... I don't think she's alive."

"No. She's alive." Grix said. "She's alive."

"How do you know?" Leon asked... "You haven't even been f**king here... how the f**k would you know..."

"Because I love her." Grix said, ignoring Leon swearing and looking up at the moon. "I know her. I abandoned you, and I'm sorry... I'm so sorry... I can only say it over and over, each time meaning the same thing... I'm... disgusted, to be honest... but... I'm... I was weak, I was young, what did I know?"

"You knew that you loved us. You wouldn't listen to yourself, only others." Leon said, and breathed. "That's why Renna's dead now."

"She's not dead." Grix said, and stood up. "I'm going to get her. Right now."

"F**ks sake Grix... it's getting late, I... what about Seiyo? What if he wakes up, and finds you gone? He'll start wrecking the place."

"Tell him the truth. I've gone to find Renna. It's the only thing he'd accept, and still believe that I'm going to stay here."

Leon said nothing, and just looked up at Grix.

"Please find her." He said, shiny eyes behind thin rimmed glasses.

"I will." Grix replied... "Which way is the town?"

Leon pointed into the trees. "Keep walking. You'll find it. And good luck. F**ks sake, good luck."

Grix walked off... he coughed, his cold getting worse. The rain felt good on his skin...

He just hoped Leon was wrong...

But he... he really could feel her alive... it... it wasn't... she was barely alive, but...

He'd find her, and he'll help her, and it'll be alright. It'll just be like old times again.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN - Dreams and White Horses

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Grix fell asleep quickly... his mind had taken a lot that day... or... God... whose ever mind he had now, anyway.

As he dozed, he fell into a hazy dream, and pictured Claire... he smiled, and walked up to her in the darkness.

"I... I just wanted to come and see you, that's all." She said.

"Thank you." Grix said, and hugged her.

"What the HELL is wrong with you?" Claire shouted suddenly, and pushed him away... "I love you! I love you so much... I can't bare to see you like this, it's hurting me..."

"What? What have..." Grix said, frowning... "I'm sorry this all happened... but please, Claire..."

"You're confused, you're ill..." Claire said back. "Just please, don't..."

"I'm sorry... I'm so sorry..." Grix said, and just looked at the floor.

"Grix, don't... Please talk to me... we can get through this."

"Claire, I am talking to you... I want to talk to you..."

"WHAT?" She shouted suddenly, shocked.

Grix was taken aback... "What? What did I say...? I just want to talk to you..."

"No!" She said... "Look, until you get your head together, you're not going to see me at all."

"I know we're apart... but I don't know what I'd do without you..." Grix said.

"I... shut up. I can't love you, not like this. Leave me alone." Claire looked away from Grix, and vanished.

Grix stood alone in the darkness.

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Grix woke to music. We Have All The Time In The World was being played... somewhere... he suddenly felt so relaxed...

"Wake up." Leon said, and kicked him in the side. Grix moaned and flinched... he opened his eyes. "You've been asleep far too long now."

"Muh...?" Grix said. "What time is it?"

"One o'clock. Get up." Leon said, and looked around. "There's someone I really think you ought to talk to, anyway."

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Grix and Leon walked into the big wooden hut... it was full of animal/human like creatures... dogs of all breeds, tigers, lizards, the odd goat...

And sat on his own, was a grey horse... well, he wasn't so much a horse... he had the head of a horse, the legs and tail... but his torso and arms were human. He was crouched over a table, half a pint of something sat in front of him... he was watching it, and twisting his head slightly.

"He drinks everyday. Hardly ever stops." Leon said, taking a puff from his cigarette. "Ever since..."

Grix didn't say anything. He just watched Seiyo pick up the glass, and tilt his whole body backwards.

"And before you even say... we've tried to stop him, but... you know how Seiyo is." Leon said. "He threatened to kill me with a chair once."

Grix just continued to watch... breathed out, and walked away from Leon, and sat in front of Seiyo at the table.

Seiyo looked at him through milky eyes... "Grix?"

"Hi."

"Griiixxxx!" Seiyo said, standing up and knocking the table away slightly... Grix held on to it... "Oh... no... I can't hug you... the last time I hugged you, you pushed me over... and then the time BEFORE, you vanished... and the time... be..."

Seiyo sat down.

"So I won't hug you, because you'll go again." Seiyo said, and looked at his glass. "Do you want a drink?... you can have mine." He pushed his glass towards him.

"No... it's ok, really." Grix said.

"Oh... no! No! I'm sorry..." Seiyo said... "Don't..." Seiyo began to panic... and wiped his hand across the table, smashing the glass onto the floor. He put his arms on the table, fell into it, and started crying.

"I don't know what to do anymore..." Seiyo said, through his crying.

Leon walked up to Grix, holding back tears. Grix stood up, and went around to sit with Seiyo. Grix hugged him, and Seiyo sat up, and hugged him back.

Grix made Seiyo stand, Leon pulled the table out of the way, and went to help him... they both helped Seiyo out of the hut.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN - Calm and Collected

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-ELEVEN YEARS AGO-

Four sat on a wall, watching all the other kids play in the playground.

"Now you see, there lies the problem." Leon said, and jumped off the wall. "Balance is all in the mind... all you have to do, is concentrate on one little bit on the floor... concentrate on it completely."

Leon put his arms out wide, and lifted up one leg. "See?" Leon stared straight at the floor, and moved his arms around. His body didn't move at all.

Renna and Seiyo got down too, as did Grix. Seiyo had problems at first, but seemed to grasp the idea, adjusting his hoof slightly... and, unsurprisingly, Renna didn't even need to concentrate on anything to do it, spinning around on one paw, smiling to herself.

And, as always, Grix couldn't do it. He concentrated on the ground... and found a little pebble that lay innocently there.

He stared at it, and closed one eye slightly. He put his arms out, and lifted up one leg... and promptly fell foward, and put his arms out to support him.

"Concentrate! Concentrate!" Leon said, in a Yoda voice. "Be at one with the force, and your surroundings."

Grix laughed, and tried again... but ended up bouncing around on one leg. Renna just laughed, and went to stand in front of Grix.

"Right." She said. "Stand with your arms at your side, and look into my eyes."

Grix stood with a smile, and looked straight into Renna's eyes, facing her.

"Right, put your arms on my shoulders."

He did.

"Now, keep looking into my eyes, and lift up your right leg."

Grix stared deep into her eyes, and lifted his right leg up slightly... and moved it out...

"Cool! I can do it!" He said, looking away from her eyes, wobbling a bit, so looking straight back and grinning.

She grinned back. "Ok, now, let go of me. Put your arms out."

Grix still looked deep into Renna's eyes, and put his arms straight out... he kept balanced... as long as he kept looking at her eyes.

"Wow." He said, and smiled.

Seiyo clapped and laughed... Leon made pretend grumbling noises at Renna. "Think you're a better teacher than me... pah."

"Err... guys..." Seiyo said. Grix put his foot down, and looked to where Seiyo was looking. Three boys, his age, were walking towards him. They stopped in front of Grix, and looked at him.

"What you doing?" Asked one.

"I was balancing." Grix said.

"Why you on your own?" Another asked.

"I'm not... I've got my friends with me." Grix said... the boys were all just staring at him straight in the face... he hated this... why couldn't they just leave him alone with his friends...

"You're crazy." One kid said... "There's no-one here! Just you!"

"No... my friends..."

The one boy that had said nothing so far, pushed Grix, and Grix fell over... he landed on his back, but it didn't hurt so much. Renna dropped down to his side. "See! Not that good at balancing are you!"

The boys all laughed, and the boy that pushed him said. "See! Told you I would do it."

"Go away! Leave him alone!" She shouted. "Go find someone else to let your frustrations out on!"

Grix looked up... Seiyo was walking towards the three boys... he punched the one on the left straight in the face, grabbed the boy in the middle by his hair, and punched him in the face too.

Grix got up... and as he watched Seiyo grab the third boy by the neck, kids started appearing from all over the playground, chanting "Fight! Fight!"

"Don't you EVER touch Grix again. EVER." Seiyo said, and the third boy looked back up at him, fear in his eyes like he'd never seen.

"Ok! Whatever! Let me go!" The boy replied, nearly bursting into tears.

Grix felt himself being pulled on the back of the neck by someone... he looked around, nearly stumbling over.

"What the hell is going on here!" The teacher said.

"He started it!" The first boy said... "He's crazy! He just punched us for no reason!"

The teacher sighed... he was getting fed up with this.

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Grix, Leon, Renna and Seiyo sat in the classroom.

"I didn't mean to. I'm so sorry." Seiyo said... he had been saying it for the last five minutes.

"Seiyo, please, it's ok." Grix said.

"No... no..." Seiyo said, looking at the floor... "It's just... I hate it when they pick on you... what the hell have you done wrong..."

Seiyo tried to put his head in his arms, but gave up, so just put his hands over his eyes. Renna put her arm around him, and hugged him. Grix and Leon stood awkwardly, not knowing what to do.

So they both sat around Seiyo and Renna, and they just all hugged eachother.

Two teachers stood by the window of the classroom door.

"See what I mean?" The first teacher said to the second.

CHAPTER TWELVE - As White As Snow

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Davis walked through the back streets of the town... where was she... it was late, this was her turf...

"Hey there... want some p***y?"

Davis turned, and there she stood, the short white... cat. Her fur was a bit matted... she had been beaten pretty badly at one point, it seemed. She wore an open demin jacket, revealing a white bra... she also wore a small denim mini skirt, although little else.

"You the Sex Kitten?" Davis asked.

"That's me, hunny... You up for anything?" She said, tilting her ears slightly... one housed a gold ring looped through it, and there wasn't much left of the other ear.

Perfect.

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The white cat unlocked the door of the small little hotel... a tiny little thing that had been built on the outskirts of town... Christ, it had only been built for the prostitutes, everyone knew that... it wasn't a hotel, it was a w***ehouse. Nobody used it properly.

"Where do want me?" She said, trying to smile... she had seen him before. Davis his name was... he was one of the ones that hated the animals with a passion. Obviously had something to hide, though.

And it wasn't as if she could choose her customers anyway. She needed the money... the struggle to keep alive since the last one had been... hard.

"On the bed, you stupid w***e." Davis said, shutting the door behind him, and undressing.

Davis lay on the bed, and Renna sat on him... she had difficulty keeping her claws in... she just wanted to pierce them down into his chest, rip him apart.

But that wouldn't do well for her reputation, and she needed as much help as she could.

Before long, Davis had Renna pinned down on the bed. She just closed her eyes, dug her claws deep into the bed, and drifted away.

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The cat slept on her back, half undressed. Stupid sl*t.

Davis leaned forward, fully dressed, and cut off some of the cat's white matted fur... he shoved it into his pocket, and went to leave.

Then he turned back, and found the cat's jacket on the floor. He emptied it of money, the money he'd paid, which was all that was there anyway. He smirked, and leaved, closing the door carefully.