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Panther
Jun 21, 2006 17:17:33 GMT -5
Post by Nina Moore on Jun 21, 2006 17:17:33 GMT -5
Prologue
“Zoe, do you think that you could help me?” Cody asked as he lifted a box off the ground. Zoe ran over to help him just as a car pulled up in the drive way, anda man stepped out. He looked about twenty-five he wore baggy pants and a long leather coat underneath you could see his white tank top.
“May I help you?” Cody asked as he stepped up to him the man seemed unimpressed as Cody asked andtried toact tough, “Names Ace, you know like the card.” More directed to Zoe than Cody, “May I help you sir?” Cody asked again. This time firmer.
He took another step forward hopping the man would back off, he didn’t.
“I’m here to offer you a job Carston,” he said stepping to the left dodging Cody, “Well maybe you should tell me what kind of job you would like to offer,” she said.
Surprise ran over his face as she said these words, “Surprised you saysomething to me,Zoe ,after all that happened. I thought you’d be running for the hills,” he said she was surprised. Sure she didn’t remember anything past last week but there was a reason. And even though she didn’t remember, she knew that this man was trouble.
“Devilend requires your services.”
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Panther
Jun 21, 2006 17:18:05 GMT -5
Post by Nina Moore on Jun 21, 2006 17:18:05 GMT -5
Maybe it was just the lack of fresh air, but something was making her thinkcloudier then she had in weeks. “You’re not going to take the job that he offered you, are you Zoe?” Cody said in his innocent voice. And she knew where he got it too. Playing pranks on his dad he had to practice on his innocent voice more than once in his life.
“I don’t think so, but I’m just not sure yet Cody it’ll take some time.” She said sitting next to him on the sofa. She knew what was coming she would have to talk too contacts and worst of all him. She looked over at Cody he had gotten up and moved to the kitchen and was now trying to do some sort of cooking but wasn’t really doing well. She watched as he stretched his leg out and switched off one of the burners using his toe, she couldn’t help but giggle. He looked up from his work and smiled at her, “Thank you for helping me move,” he said as he wiped his hands with a towel.
She smiled as if to say ‘you’re welcome’ but she remained silent. She didn’t want to speak, to Devilend, or any one for that matter but she knew that she would have too sooner then later. And she knew it would be sooner not later. She knew how Devilend worked and she wouldn’t wait around for him to come crawling around with a knife giving her options, she knew what would happen then.
“Zoë are you okay?” Cody asked, “You seem really at a daze.” She looked up to see Cody standing over her with a steaming pot of something in his left hand, “Oh, I’m fine just a little tired, I think I should go.”
She stood and walked out the front door she could see her convertible across the street she ran across not looking either way. ‘I can’t do this again, I left that life already I am not going back!' she thought as she drove down the street. She couldn't help but have the feeling that she was being followed.
She looked in her rear view mirror too see a black unmarked car following her, "Yeah, and for good reason." She said to herself; she flipped on her signal and pulled over. She looked over her shoulder too see that they were doing the same. She turned around and faced the front of her car, "Hey there black panther I heard you was wantin' to join up with the Devil."
A man said as he walked up to the side of her car, "Shoo fly don't bother me," she said wryly.
It didn't even faze him, "Maybe you should check the papers lately this here town don't belong to you no more it belongs to the snakes." He said hissing with the 's' he made a gesture toward himself that’s when she realized that she recognized him. "The only reason that might even be some what true is because when we made a band together you decided that it was you who was the boss. But if I were you I would watch my back Devilend be lookin' for ya'll."
"Say all ya want Carston but I'm already on his good side it's you who should be worried," he said then began to walk away "Catch ya on the flip side baby."
She watched them drive away as the pit in her stomach grew enormous, then she noticed something, "What the heck is the flip side?"
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Panther
Jun 21, 2006 17:18:41 GMT -5
Post by Nina Moore on Jun 21, 2006 17:18:41 GMT -5
"There is no way I am going back to working for Devil, my Panther days are over!" Zoe yelled at her older brother David, "Yeah, well from what I hear you don't really have a choice. I mean if you refuse then I'm sure he'd send some one after ya and then even with your training you would not be able to get out a’ that!" he said taking a sip from his coffee.
"Yeah well I'll think of something I can't go back to being Panther I just can't," "You're really starting to creep me out by talking about 'Panther' as if she were a whole different person. The things that you did as Panther weren't pretty but it was still you not someone else you were an expert killer trained in the art of war, you could still do those things if you wanted to."
"I don't want to David! all those things that I did... can't be fixed you're right but I've moved on. I don't want to go back to that, and please don't try to make me. I made up my mind, andI am not going to do it!" she said and with that she turned and ran up the stairs. "I am not getting back into the gang banger world I just can't do it, like I said I am not going back to Panther."
Panther
Maybe you can go back if you really wanted too but I guess you don't you say it's the killing the horror of what you've seen. But it's not you know that Devilend could give you something to forget about it but you choose not too take it. You chose not too you wanted to remember the look on their faces the feeling that you felt when you were in charge you know you want too take the job.
"SHUT UP!" she hurled a pillow at the wall she began too take deep breaths, "That was the creepiest dream ever." She said to herself, "Everything okay?" David said as he burst into the room he looked panicked but some how calm at the same time.
"Yeah what’s up with you?" she asked as she stood from the bed and walked over to David, "Nothing, I just heard some one yell and I thought that some one had broken in... or something."
She seemed unconvinced she glanced over at her clock, "Why are you still up? it's two o'clock in the morning and you don't look like you've been asleep." She looked him up and down but saw no sign that he had been sleeping he looked just like he had when she went to sleep. "Mr. Carston I would like too get this meeting over with," a voice said from down stairs, a voice she knew all to well.
"Is that who I think it is?" she whispered he nodded as she heard foot steps on the stairs, and then within a matter of seconds Devilend was standing behind David.
"Hello there Zoe I trust that you have considered my job offer." He said pushing his sunglasses that he always wore further up on his nose. "I must say when you left so abruptly I thought that we had done something wrong but then Ace said that you were back in town."
"I have considered your job offer, and I refuse to take the job."
She could see the shock on David’s face as she said it, "Well if I were you I would change my mind you know the power I have and what things could happen to you here, no one would even care that you went missing not even dear old David."
"Is that a threat?"
"Of course," he said standing up a little straighter, they had fought before but they never really met face too face until she worked for him. But that was back when Panther had been something good, something that you would want to be but then Devilend came along and threw her out of the agency. She wished she could go back, but there were things that had to be done first.
"You know I heard that the dogs bark is worse then his bite," she said raising her left eyebrow at him he didn't seemed fazed by this but kept going, "Oh yes but I am no dog, and I do not bark."
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Panther
Jun 21, 2006 17:19:17 GMT -5
Post by Nina Moore on Jun 21, 2006 17:19:17 GMT -5
Zoe strode down the hall, gun drawn, waiting for any moving target, "Panther, code red the building is a setup I repeat the building is a set up! Get out of there now!" A voice shouted over her com.
"White Tiger, repeat," she said into her com as she turned the corner, but it was too late she was face to face with none other then the Devil himself.
"Panther, I've been waiting for this for longer then you'll ever know."
"And does he say what he's been waiting for?" Dr Flanter asked as he scribbled down what she had said, she shook her head. No. She continued to stare at the roof, "Close your eyes, please."
He took a step forward holding out a bracelet, a black and red bracelet, it sent shivers up and down her spine it wasn't the color though that did it, it was the demon carved in the side of it. "What’s the matter don't you want to come back?" he asked shrugging.
"I don't remember." She said taking a step back,
“Well we’ll have to make you remember, whether or not you want too.” She began too panic as men from all corners of the room began too move in on her.
“Zoe stay with me,” Dr Flanter said.
She could tell that she was hyperventilating but she couldn’t stop “W-what are you talking about?” she took three steps back hopping too get away but it didn’t work.
“well then you must at least try too remember,” Devilend said as he stepped to the left too reveal a door it was a steel door nothing fancy but something about it sent shivers up her spine. And she couldn’t figure it out.
“Zoe, try telling me what’s on the door,” Dr Flanter said as he stood over her trying to get her too stop hyperventilating.
“I can’t, I can’t,” she began too struggle in the seat.
“Zoe, try too stay with me here, now what do you see on the door?” He grabbed her shoulders in a futile effort too make her stop struggling.
“No! Please don’t! Please!” she struggled out of his grip and nearly fell off the couch.
“Please don’t,” she backed up another step as her back bumped into the wall
“You should want to go back, why don’t you want too?” this time it was a new voice, one that she didn’t know, but remembered. She looked up to see a young man around twenty-one his bleached spikes on the top of his head gave him a sharp edge that added to his soft blue eyes. “Zoe come back, you know that you have too.”
“She’s coming back, hand me the stethoscope,” a doctor shouted from one side of the trolley as she opened her eyes. The most she could make out was the white walls that were zooming past her that’s when Cody’s soft features floated over her face.
“Zoe, if you can hear shut your eyes.” She blinked twice hopping that he would get the message he nodded as the trolley ran down the hall.
“Sir you can’t go in there” one of the nurses said as the trolley went into one of the operating room. He breathed a deep sigh and sat himself in the chair next to the door. It wasn’t long before he leaned his head back and drifted off to sleep.
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Panther
Aug 2, 2006 18:04:22 GMT -5
Post by nine on Aug 2, 2006 18:04:22 GMT -5
I love this so far! Please continue I can't wait to read more!
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