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Link · #3 [ ] 01-24-2008, 02:21 PM

Chapter 3: The Ice Dogs

The snow and sleet stopped falling from the sky, and the road was clear again. This was good and bad for Jendei, as now the oncoming travelers could see him. He quickly had his hood on in a flash and kept walking. His next stop would be a town called "Kasei-kono" or, in English, "Land of the ice dogs" Jendei had encountered ice dogs before. They come over to you looking like a regular white wolf, growling and all. They give you the impression that it is just a wolf, and nothing else. Then when you attack, they transform into something that is not a wolf. They turn into what you fear the most, and attack you head on. There is no way to get away. You can either let it devour you, or fight it. Fighting one is difficult, as it turns into the thing you mostly fear. But if you stay strong, and fight it, it should be no problem. Last time wasn't so easy, Jendei thought. How was he going to get through a whole town where they lurk? He tucked his hands into his pockets, one hand holding a knife in case, and put his hood on.

The white sleet spread apart as his feet connected with the ground. A brisk wind connected with his face and sent shivers down his spine. This was definatly a ice dog HQ. No doubt. He started to walk through the gate of the town. People were walking along doing their own thing. Some people were chatting, and discussing the daily news. He walked to the street corner and saw his face on a poster. "Eh, you reckon that guy will come here?" Jendei turned around a little to see a man talking to a friend. "Nah..." Said the other. "If he were stupid enough to come here, he would be dead. The ice dogs would get him first, wouldn't they?" The first man looked convinced. "Yeah, no one in their right mind would come here if they are on a wanted poster..." Both men crossed the street into a department store. Jendei layed his eyes on the wanted poster. It said that he was wanted dead or alive for a 20,000 Ronj award. He had to get through this town quick, but first he needed to get a drink. He saw a bar across the street. He entered.

The room was warm and littered with smells like vomit and beer. Perfect. He was in a pig bar. He walked to the bar tender and said "One beer please..." and the bar tender sent him one. The bar looked rather dirty. It had stains on the wall that looked like blood stains, and some that looked like nothing he had seen before. Across the room some guys were talking about politics on what should be enforced in the law, and what shouldn't. There were some people just sitting doing nothing, and that occasional table where there is that unlucky guy who just lies his face in his own sick. He heard a bang and a woman came running out and yelped as a big drunk man came running toward her. "Hey pretty lady... Why don' yeh give meh a kissss... mmmmm" he smacked his lips. She stared at him for a second and smacked him across the face. "YAH FILTHY LIL ASSH-OLE! HOW DARE YOU!" The man bellowed. He grabbed her by the arm and brought his fist up and began to swing when...

SLICE!

His hand started bleeding. One moment, Jendei was sitting in a chair, the next, right next to him with a knife in his hand. The room went silent, everyone who was doing something, anything, stopped to see what was going on. Jendei looked around quickly, no one saw his face, good. He looked at the man next to him who was now bleeding from his wrist. "I wouldn't do that..." muttered Jendei. The man looked at him, frightened and angered, then said, "WHY YEH...! YAH CUT MEH! YAAAAH CUT ME! GAAAAAH!" He ran at Jendei, readying up a head butt. He was almost there when...

BAM!

Jendei stepped out of the way and tripped the man. The man went tumbling to the ground, in the process, smacking his head on a bar table. Everyone was still silent. His friends, who were not drunk, stared angrily at him. One of the men ran out with a knife and raised his arm to stab him. "This is too easy.." Jendei thought as he grabbed the man's wrist, bringing it down, and slamming his other arm into the man's arm, between the point where the two bones in his arm met. This broke the man's arm. The man yelled and fell limp. Other men started to come out and fight with knifes, bar stools, anything that could kill Jendei. Yet, he always dodged, conquered, and destroyed each man after each attempt. After all the men were down, he stood and stared. They could have left him alone, but no, they had to get their butts handed to them. He started to walk back to the entrance of the bar when he felt something very familiar press against the back of his head. A gun barrel.

"You little ****. You think you can just come here, injure all my customers, and then walk out? You make me sick..." It was the bar tender. He sounded very angry. Jendei was about to attack, when...

WHACK!

He felt the gun barrel leave his head. He turned around to see the girl before, holding a stool leg. "Nice fighting you did there..." She laughed a little. "Teach me sometime?" From outside, Jendei saw a police officer look at him. Crap. The police officer looked at the wanted poster and then Jendei. "IT'S HIM!" He cried. "IT'S THE KILLER! HE'S WITH A FRIEND! GET THEM!" The police officer blew his whistle and ran after them. Jendei grabbed the girl's hand and dragged her. "Come on! Their after you too!" He yelled over the whistling. "Alright!" She replied. Jendei looked around. He threw some tables over to hide them quickly. He saw a back door, he and the girl ran to it. Locked. "Well, not for long..." Muttered Jendei as he reared back, and crashed it open with his foot. They ran outside and saw a ladder, they climbed it. Same way as before, the police officers climbed too. Once they were on a roof, he saw a gap between rooftops. "We'll have to jump over!" He yelled to the girl. "At the count of three!" The police officers were reaching to top of the ladder now. "ONE! TWO! THREE!" They jumped, and almost slipped off. "Come on! Lets keep jumping, I see the way out of town! Lets go!" Jendei said to the girl. She nodded. They continued jumping, until they reached the end. They saw a ladder, and quickly climbed down it, and ran out of the gates. They kept running until they were sure they were safe.

"So, what's your name?" Jendei asked the girl. The girl looked at him. "What's MY name? What's YOUR name?" Jendei looked at her too. "I'm Jendei." He muttered. She looked at first frightened, then excited. "JENDEI?! THE JENDEI?! THE NIGHT HUNTER?! OH MY GOD!" She looked very excited. She started staring at him more than usually now. He felt a little uncomfortable. "Umm... So, I told you my name, what's yours?" She hesitated for a second, as if she didn't have a name. "Well, my name is Siemo" She said. She blushed a little. She must of not liked that name. "Siemo..." repeated Jendei. "What language is that?" He asked. She stared at the starry sky for a second. "It's Yumonian, for 'Bringer Of Smiles.' " She chuckled then smiled a little. "You think it fits me?" She asked him. He looked at her for a second, then the sky. "Well, it brought me smiles when you took out that bar tender." He laughed. She laughed too. They both looked at the sky. "Well, we should get going..." He said finally. He and Siemo got up and began to walk. Then, the unthinkable happened.

There was a growl of a Ice Dog.

Jendei turned around quickly, as the ice dog walked over. It looked furious. Jendei took out his knife and prepared...

Because as he wielded his knife, the ice dog began to transform into something Jendei always feared all his life, ever since he was born,

It transformed...... into.......

Jendei.... A mirror image of himself.