With In The Shadows

By: VampiresTears

Chapter Three

Memories worth

Forgetting..

Ryu soon found his self with the emptiness of the star less night and the desert night wind whispering memories he believed was worth forgetting. The sound of his footsteps seemed to fade into the past as time slowed for only a moment remembering things he tried to push from his thoughts.

It was my all my fault, that there isn't anyone around. I could have saved them! But damn it I hesitated. The wind yelled as he continued to walk into the colder winds. He did not shiver as he continued to walk, pushing up his sunglasses once again.

I couldn't! I didn't want her to die in my arm. I couldn't save her! I'm a lousy person, I could save her, I should be over this by know! He said, finally pushing those thought out of his head with one swift shake.

"I wonder how many cities are left to search? What happens if I don't find anyone in the end? No, I shouldn't be thinking like that! "He yelled out knowing there wasn't any reason to be quiet.

The wind soon came to him with a ominous words that his mind couldn't fight off.

" Please! Don't leave me alone! I can see everybody out there, so free, but why am I stuck to this fate. Is this a punishment for something that I've done wrong or am I just to different to live freely among them."

Ryu shook as he listened to the winds continued, unable to stop listening to it's, as if a hypnotic song that drew him in and wouldn't let go. Every breath he took tightened in serge's of unwavering pain.

That's my voice, those are my words, why can I here what I say?! Am I going insane or am I truly the last person alive to hear my own words. He thought as he began to run into the winds cold embrace as his mind ran scattered trying to hide his thought from his own eyes.

"Stop it! Damn it! I refuse to listen to my past! I can't save myself! I still have to do things, for the future of this planet and my fate. I'll be damned if I'm gonna let the wind tell me it's over even before I begin to fight!" Ryu yelled trying to pull his self back together as he continued on his way.

It was so lonely in the dark. People didn't care they stared they knew I could see them no one ever just talked to me or tried to listen to my screams as the walls closed down upon me and my mind called for someone to save me. I'm not gonna let anyone suffer what I had, they don't deserve this fate! He thought as he came upon a desert village with building the size that you would only be able to see in a big city. The kind of building that could draw lines in the clouds as the past above.

Vines grew over the buildings and over flowed through the shattered windows, with beautiful flowers blossoming in a silky blue color that was the only thing that had color in the city, were grey clouds seemed to choke everything. Ryu stood and watched the city as the wind danced through the empty streets and returned to him.

"1061022467...0610224671..6102246710..1022467106.."

Ryu listens quietly as the voice repeated the numbers in a different formats over and over again.

Is that a machine or a human. I could use my eye but I think I want to beat the crap out of something today. He thought as he walked slowly to the entrance of the city, which seemed oddly familiar to him but he didn't exactly know why either.

The shadows here where celebrating some kind of holiday that everybody seemed to be enjoying so much. He continued to walk down the main street till something caught his eye. A park that had a big rock like box in the ground with words carved into it. Ryu eyed the box as he stood there then started to read the inscription that seem to make him cold, as he stood there sick to his stomach.

Here lays a powerful unworldly creature. The demon of sheer power and strength shall no one speak to this demon, as he watch's awake for all eternity hoping for someone to be foolish enough to break were he lays. Let his soul...

The rest had been broken off but that didn't stop ryu from saying the inscription as if in a trance.

"Let his soul remain awake to suffer. The last request of the last retaliation to stop ryu rampaging acts upon the people and city." Terrors laid on his face were everyone could see. The shadow seemed to had disengaged

from their celebration to watch him in hate.

Ryu could feel the cold stares on the back of his neck and the hate arising from these shadows.

What! How is this possible this isn't my city! Why do I know what those word are going to be, when they aren't even there! This city is trying to trap me! What is this city! What is its title. I'll kill this cities machine how dare it try to trap me with such a horrible trick. He thought as he looked for the city's title to restore him power that so lovingly belonged to his thoughts.

He started to walk again looking at the road sign that were all over the ground, rusted and old. The wind started to blow, whispering as he tried to calm his mind.

"Huh?" The whisper quickly reached his ears as his heart raced climbing as high as it possibly could.

I'll find it. Just got to get moving. I'm just so tired I can't give into these illusions or else it will be my end. What's with those flowers? They seem familiar. The blue flower they're blooming blue! When there is no oxygen but that shouldn't bother me. ?!What!? They also bloom when there is a highly concentrated sleeping agent in the air? Ryu remembered as his eyes slowly closed as his body crash to the ground with ease. As he laid there a beautiful dream played in his mind, it was full of hope and fear. Then there was apart where he couldn't be with people, they were all alive. The dream soon changed, as a memory played like an old black in white movie only for him to see.

He was with in the box once again watching the people pass and he couldn't close his eye, soon a young girl came up with a bundle of flowers at the middle of the night she set them on the box. They were the same blue as the flowers that were over taking the buildings. Her lips moved trying to speak but the only thing that he could hear was her scream as the city folks beat her to death, cause she was speaking to the monster entombed in that forsaken box.

"7642201601... 1..1..2...2..4..6..7..0..0"The voice said as he opened his eye with all his will, to see that it had only been a few minutes since he fell.

He pushed his self to his feet as he moaned in pain, pissed as if someone would have hit you over the head when you were dreaming. He got to his knee picking up his sunglasses putting them on slowly as he took a deep breath.

"I'm coming for you." He said almost with a devilish grin on his face. "I know you've been calling me and I'm coming but, would you just shut up for a second!" He yelled as he walked quickly down the street, turning into an alley to see a huge machine.

The machine had its coils wrapped around a fragile looking girl how didn't seem to be acting so fragile as she was kicking it as hard as she could.

"You damn machine let her go! That way I can rip your frick'n wiring out piece by piece." He yelled pissed off as he punched the ally's wall causing it to crumble with ease.

The coils loosened it grip on the young girl letting her fall to the ground like a doll. She seemed to be struggling to get up as her brown hair was cling to her blood cover clothing. The girls hand seemed to be walking it self as if searching for something.

Ryu walked over to the machine with the grin still looming on his face as the machine suddenly disappeared into the shadows mass. He knew he should probably be chasing it, but the girl looked pretty badly beaten up and needed to really get out of this area.

"Hay girl can you get up?" He asked as he stood there watching her.

The girl found the wall as she pulled her self to his feet. "Who the hell are you?" Her voice was like an attack dog protecting it's own house.

"Let go we better get you out of here. How did you get in here anyway?" He asked shaking his head.

"Don't tell me what to do your not the boss of me! But for the last question you asked I'll give you, your answer. It's NONE OF YOUR DAMN BUSSINESSES!" She yelled angrily as she started to search the ground near with her foot as if a radar. Till she bump against something with the edge of her foot. Her face went from pure angry to sad as tears streamed down her face.

"Shadows, dead!" She said whimpering as she fought back the feeling of her world coming to an end as it was crashing down upon her.

"Hay? You okay? Your pet seem to be.. Gone. I will help you out of here." He said kindly trying to be nice to only get hit when he walks close to her.

"I don't need your damn pity! I might be blind, but I'm no damn idiot! The only thing that dangerous here is you! The machine never attacked before, till you showed up in this town today."

"How long have you been here?" He asked not being able to stand the girls ignorance.

"Four month and I haven't been attack till now! And it's all your damn fault! Shadows dead because of you!" She yelled.

"Can't you hear that people! There souls are stuck here because of that machine! And so will you, if you chose to stay here!" He said looking at her handkerchief that was tied over her mouth to use as a mask to protect her self from the sleeping agents.

"There's no one here beside you and me! I'm not moving from this spot and there no possible way you can make me move either!"

"Fine." He said as he grabbed her quickly lifting her over his shoulder walking out of the alley, down the street.

All the shadows seemed to whisper and stare at them. The young girl stopped squirming for the second as she heard the whispers.

"Help monster! Pervert, Murder! Someone help me!" She screamed as she kicked as hard as she could trying to get free.

"They're not real there all shadows even know you can't see them their, there. They actually can see you which mean the machine is gonna be coming soon. See what happens when you yell and draw a crowd." Ryu said angrily at her as he started to run toward the entrance to the desert to only be stop by an even bigger machine.

Ryu looked at the machine very closely, as it's massive coils blocked their way.

"Hay you were yelling too!" She yells to him.

"Shh." He said as he shook her a little trying to find a good balance, as he would be able to jump over the huge monster of a machine.

As soon as ryu tried to jump the young girl started to kick her feet in panic nailing him straight in the forehead causing to go backwards falling over her as he tried to quickly get up.

"Stop squirming! For crying out loud! Unless you want that damn monster to find us!" Ryu yelled at her as she used him as a wall to stand her self.

"Shh... Your the on that told me not to yell and hear you screaming at me! What kind of hero are you suppose to be!" She whispered to him not letting go of him.

"I'm not a stupid hero! I'm a guy that feed up with have to listen to the silence!" Ryu yelled again trying to get her off of his arm.

The machine struck with it long coils hitting ryu. Dirt went flying everywhere causing a smoke screen effect.

" Now I have two food sources.. "The machine spoke in a long forgotten language that sound worse with it's communication chip broken.

"Are you dead too!?" The girl asked panicked trying to figure what was going on.

The dirt screen soon settled to reveal ryu still standing there, blocking the coil with the back of his hand.

"Fine I guesses we want to do it the hard way then. Girl my name ryu. In case you have to scream for help. Yell my name! I'm gonna have to leave you here for a second, so you have to just be quiet!" He ordered as he left her there.

The machine quickly retracted it's coil away from him as he took off his sun glasses and through them frivolously into the girls open hand. How seemed to be confused about what they were exactly.

"What are these?" She yelled curiously.

"Let me ask you a question miss. Do you like eating?" He sounded happy, as he stood there in front on the monster.

"Yeah?"

"Then you better not let my sun glass get a scratch or break why I'm fighting or else your not getting food!" Ryu yelled as he charge the machine, leaping on top of its attacking coil with ease. He raced up then, with the footwork of a kendo fighter, swift, flowing with power. He went straight after the machines brain will all his strength as his eye changed once again as he broke the monster protective armor open with one kick.

Yet with in all the excitement he forgot to leap away, as he was watch the young girl standing there. The machine landed straight on him with a big thud that could be heard miles away.

"Ryu! You won. Ryu?" She yelled happily standing there waiting for ryu to respond.

"Damn machine!" Ryu yelled as he slipped out from under the machine cover in oil from head to toe.

"Ryu you okay. The names rika. What happen you broke the machine all by your self." She said looking from side to side trying to find him.

"Rika.. Don't worry how I was able to beat it the only important thing is that my sunglasses aren't broken and we have away out for you." Ryu said trying to wipe the oil off his clothing as it streamed from the robot under his feet.

"Rika. I wouldn't call you human at all." Ryu said looking up at her as her hair blew in the wind.

To be continued..