Hesitantly, she took a step toward the redhead. "Nanami?"
Nanami turned to the hybrid and sneered at her. "Get away from me!"
Kodachi stepped back. "What… what's wrong."
"I was wrong before!" Nanami sneered. "I would have rather DIED. At least then I would have ended my life as a HUMAN BEING and not some… some… ALIEN FREAK!"
Kodachi shook her head. "You wouldn't have wanted to die…"
Nanami glared at her. "Don't pretend you know what I'd want."
"I know what its like to die," Kodachi said in a soft, sad voice. "You… wouldn't have wanted that."
Nanami blinked. "What?!"
Kodachi closed her eyes. "I… I remembered my death… it was so frightening… monsters and the chaos… the pain… of the pain… then it was cold, dark… empty…"
"Wha…?"
Kodachi slowly began to change from. The armor plates visible under her skin softened and faded, her ears rounded, her tail slowly withdrew, and her clawed digits softened into normal fingernails. Kodachi opened her now human eyes and looked into Nanami's.
"I wonder… would dieing of the T-virus be any different? Do you really even die, or is your mind trapped inside the zombie, a passenger doomed to slowly go mad?"
Nanami sighed. "Kodachi?"
"Yes?"
"How did you turn back?"
Kodachi blinked and looked at her hands. "I'm… not sure. I just thought back to how I was before and I changed."
She closed her eyes and morphed back into her hybrid form.
Nanami bit her lip and began to concentrate. "Human… human… human…
Nothing happened.
"Great! All I wanted to do was go back to being human and it doesn't even work. What the hell… am I broken or something. See yourself as human you say… that full of…"
Nanami's skin and hands shifted back to normal.
She blinked. "Okay, maybe I was wrong about that… Where's Ranma anyways?"
Kodachi pointed her tail at the door.
"Standing guard."
Nanami nodded. "I see… where are my things?"
"Well," Kodachi began, "The weapons you took exploded, but that rifle was apparently acid proof. I put it under the sink while you were rinsing off and only the pain was melted."
"How many bullets?"
"The number on the side says 23…"
She sighed. "Oh boy… my coat?"
Kodachi looked toward a pile of while cloth at the side.
Nanami stood up and went over to fish through the pockets.
"Well, my keys melted, but the other magazine is still intact and T-Virus vaccine was in glass do it just needs to be washed off… my other bags?"
"Your body shielded them."
Nanami scoffed. "Lucky me."
She walked over to the sink to retrieve her weapon and blinked as she saw herself in the mirrior.
He skin was still red and enflamed and her eyes were puffy, but what really caught her attention was her top. It her shirt was dripping wet and had been heavily splattered with acid. Between the massive holes in the top, her wrecked bra, and the fact that it was make out of thin white fabric it did absolutely nothing to preserve her modesty.
"Say, Kodachi, did you bring my bag in?"
"Yes?"
"Grab me a new shirt, could ya?"
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(Posted Sun, 12 Sep 2004 10:29)
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