First Encounters - Page 6
by Tiffany Swartz

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It was night now, and Yuma was on the roof. She was filled with a different kind of pain now. Heartache. She loved Lupin, but she knew that Lupin could never love her like that, not ever. She was just too hideous. She howled a lone wolf howl. Again and again, she howled her agony from the rooftop, thinkng that no one could hear her. But Lupin could hear her. He couldn't get any sleep either, so when he heard her howling from the roof, he wondered what was wrong with her. "Oh, Lupin! If only you could understand! I love you, but you will never love me back the same way as I feel about you. It can't happen," she cried. Lupin snuck up onto the roof. Quietly he came up behind her as she confessed her love for him to the moon. She hung her head, and he could no longer take it. He wrapped his arms around her. She sat rigid for a moment. How much had he heard? He kissed her on the cheek and she turned to face him, her face a look of shear horror, afraid of rejection. He looked at her kindly and kissed her.
"Don't be frightened," he said softly, "It's okay now." Then he said five words that she had so longed to hear: "I love you, too, Yuma." She lay her head on his shoulder, he wrapped his arms around her, and they sat like that for the next half hour. "You're beautiful," he said softly, "That's what I thought from the very first time I saw you. You'll never be ugly to me, no matter what form you take."
They went back inside, and Yuma slept in Lupin's arms for the rest of the night, him stroking her hair until she fell asleep.
About an hour later, Yuma was asleep, when she let out a blood-curdling scream. Lupin almost jumped. "Yuma are you okay!" he asked.
"They're coming! They're coming to take me away!"
"Shhh, no one's going to hurt you, Yuma, not as long as I'm here."
It was morning now, and everyone had gone downstairs for breakfast, when a black van appeared in the drive. "Oh my God! It's them!" Yuma raced up to her room and hid. Lupin pulled his gun.
"Come on, Jigen," he growled, "there's something we need to take care of. Goemon, Fujiko, stay here and protect Yuma." Jigen and Lupin went downstairs. There was gunshots heard and the van squealing out of the driveway. Yuma looked out her window. Two dead men. Lupin and Jigen went back in the house. "Yuma?" he called, "You can come out now, it's safe." Yuma peeped out from behind the door to her room. Then she came downstairs.
"I want to get the institution back for what they did to me," she said angrilly.
"We will, baby," he said, "soon enough."
"Today. It has to be done today," she insisted, "We can't let them hurt any more people."
"Alright, babe. Jigen, everyone, get ready. We're going in today."
As the car drove up, Yuma cried, "I don't think I can do this!"
"Yes you can, Yuma," said Lupin, "You can do anything you set your mind to."
Soon they were in the center of the building. Lupin planted the bomb in there. They heard footsteps and they ran. The scientists were not that far behind. Yuma kept running with a dead fear in her heart. That was all she could do. Run. "Yuma!" panted Lupin, "Don't wait for me! Just keep running!"
"No! I'm not going to leave you behind here with these monsters!" Yuma suddenly realised that the only way she could save them was to morph. Suddenly the pain wrenched from her back and the wings and tail burst out from her body. She growled and the scientists backed off. Her eyes flashed and she let herself slip into bloodlust. Within a matter of seconds, the first one was dead, a wound straight through the heart with her claws. The second ran in terror, but Yuma focussed her mind and he burst in flames. Yuma was still in bloodlust. She needed a new target. She growled at the gang.
"Easy, babe," he whispered, "it's just us." Recognising the voice and the faces, she realised that she had nothing to fear. She gave a growl of submission and lay at his feet. He stroked her hair and smiled. "The bomb!" he yelled, "We've gotta get out of here!" Yuma ran on all fours ahead of the gang like an animal. Climbing the wall, she broke the window and climbed out. She used her sharp tipped tail as a spear and broke the lock. Soon, Lupin and the gang were out of thereand walked away as the building exploded in flames.
It was two weeks later that Lupin and the gang had gone back to Tokyo. Yuma had reconnected with her parents but had decided to live with Lupin. Lupin, after figuring out that the Bane was what kept Yuma's morph in check, had gone to Black Jack about the situation and he had medicated her on a limited amount of Dragon's Bane. Everything was going well, and Lupin was planning his next great caper.
Yuma came up behind Lupin and wrapped her arms around his neck. "Hi, Yuma!" he grinned.
"Lupin?" she asked.
"Yes?"
"When's our next caper?"
"Soon, babe, real soon," he smiled, "I know you're anxious, but you'll have to wait."
"I hope it comes soon," she said, kissing him.
He just smirked. "I must be the luckiest man on earth.

THE END

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Created 3^rd October 2001

Last Modification 3^rd October 2001