Miashara wrote:
Chapter 4
Tokyo Hospital, Central.
"Did you hear about the mugging?"
Two nurses were working at a small alcove in the ICU section. One, a
gentleman,
Nice. I went with the stereotype and automatically assumed they were both
women.
Seeing he had his audience captivated, he took a sip of his drink
before resuming. "The hero is some kind of insane martial artist. He's
got this sword out, and he's moving so fast he's barely more than a
blur. My cop friend swears, he swears, that with his own eyes he saw the
rescuer dodge bullets."
Well, all except the ones that hit him.
"There's only one problem."
"Oh?"
"Colt .45s have seven bullet clips."
magazines, actually. But since since this is in idle conversation, I can
see how he would make the common mistake.
"Yep. Last words before passing out were 'I'm going to get myself. He
must suffer.' They're thinking of taking him to a head shrinker when he
wakes up."
Not that it would do any good. :)
***
Tuxedo Kamen took a few quick bounding leaps and disappeared behind
some tall buildings. The Senshi, Jupiter and Moon carrying Mars, fled
through the artificial canyons of Tokyo, and
don't think you need the comma.
"He's back!" Usagi wailed. She began to bawl, tears streaming down her
face.
Rei, usually the first to jump on her when she began to weep, just
shuddered in empathy.
'sympathy' would be better, I think.
There was something absolutely terrifying about
this man.
that man.
The five girls whirled around, hands leaping to henshin rods. Standing
in the doorway, black jacket hanging to the floor, Cyanide leaned
against the wall. He was idly tossing and catching a knife in one hand.
That he caught the blade by letting it impale his palm was of no
consequence.
"Wasn't the full purpose of my arrival but
arrival, but
"Um, yes." Topaz had succeeded to the possession of the Prince's favor
favorite
In the hallway outside, Onyx briefed Topaz on Cyanide's new status.
"A class seven? I though
thought
"No. The scale does go to seven, it just hasn't happened in eight
hundred years that anyone's been that wanted. It's considered an act of
treason not
treason to not
"His highness wants Serenity alive. Keeping Cyanide alive long enough
to turn him over to the Prince could be considered an act of treason."
"Wow."
That is pretty harsh.
It had been a fairly productive meeting. Cyanide had left about two
minutes after he showed up, and in his absence the Senshi had held a
quick, but serious discussion of what needed to be discussed. Mainly the
fact there was now another mechanical assassin.
'assassin after them' sound better to me
Pearl was still out
their somewhere, doing bad stuff. And this new guy who melted was trying
throwing
Very brief, this chapter was. But it set things up for later chapters. Nice
work.
D.B. Sommer