Coming Out

Goku slipped through via the trees into the temple, taking a window on the side and waiting to see if he went unnoticed. Goku wanted to go with Sanzo but if he did they’d be fighting for days, with no headway, the split meant someone might get there in time to find out what the asshole was up too. Goku also wanted to punch his face in, he had upset the redhead so much, brought the half-breed issue to the forefront once more and he’d not had a decent lunch!

Gojyo hopped over the broken wall and looked for a gap, he could see that there were several dark corridors and there was no indication where he would be. Gojyo sighed and looked around; he flicked the lighter open and watched shadows dance up the walls. It was cold and uninviting. In the end he finally chose to take the left, hoping it would lead further into the forbidden chambers.

From the safety of the make shift lab Jianyi listened as the fight started, he estimated he’d have around ten minutes to get the woman out of the cells and through the tunnel into the forest. Of course the stupid bitch would make it harder work, she wasn’t likely to move and being a demon it had meant binding her up with wards, just to keep her from attacking him.

“Better work, I need results and if I can’t get them you’re going to be the one I take my temper out on.” He yanked at her arm as she came around from the drug. “I told you if you play along you’ll get out of this alive, if not you’re just another dead and pointless experiment.”

The woman stumbled to her feet; long brown hair covered her face, masking the hideous scarring from a fire years beforehand. He’d found her in the town, locked up behind sanatorium walls and with the destruction wrought by the minus wave no one had thought to go near her. It was a perfect find for a man with little morals, besides… she would be a perfect test subject, as she had already been considered expired.

The woman stumbled as she was dragged; he’d subjected her to a humiliating round of experiments that had left her with filthy bloodied thighs. Jianyi had unceremoniously shoved a tube up insider her from the strange machine and continued through the night ensuring he’d made as many opportunities for it to work as possible. He’d had to work fast, he’d had to calculate carefully around the days and now he had done the best he could, but the fucking witnesses of his movements had led the irritating gang of “goodies” to him.

The demon’s he’d hired had proven to have very few morals, perfect really as he was going to require bloodshed to keep them at bay; he heard the pistol fire and knew they had to speed up their progress. He shoved the woman down the corridor, pulling down the unlit sconce to the left and dragging her with him, as he pushed the wall back, the hidden position might buy more time for him to get her out of the way.

Gojyo arrived into the centre of the temples altar, just in time to hear something click back into place but was then distracted by the sounds of the gunshots. Looking around he didn’t have a chance to spot much in the darkness, but running out into the corridor he came face to face with Goku. Goku nearly ran into him but skidded to a halt just in time.

“Where?” Goku snapped at him, they didn’t have time for pleasantries.

“Front.” Gojyo ran with him, they came up behind a gang of the throw-away thugs, just as Hakkai send a wave of bright chi through them all.

Goku and Gojyo shielded their eyes and turned around to see an ashen rain coming down. Amongst that rain was Sanzo, getting showered in the dusty left overs, pistol up and readied.  Gojyo ducked as one of the demons wildly threw a punch towards him, and then yelled out in anger as a dagger got his arm in a glancing blow.

“He’s stalling, what the hell are you doing here?” Sanzo barked at the two. “Go!”

Gojyo took a split decision to follow that order and grabbed Goku; Goku was pulled towards the prior room, looking around for the signs of where he had escaped. The fight continued to wage behind them but was showing signs of slowing down. They searched around, grabbing a lantern and lighting it, before spotting the signs that the wall had recently been moved.

“Guess we go down there?” Gojyo muttered as he began to search for the room’s secret switch.

“We don’t have time to do that.” Goku muttered and concentrating all his strength down the length of the Nyoi-Bo he brought it crashing against the wall. Rubble and dust exploded around them, with coughing as the dust hit their lungs they stepped over the threshold into the darker tunnel below.

Gojyo was the first through, the tunnel definitely led underground but at a gradient to suggest it was going to surface, not go into some dungeon or other complex. Goku pushed his way through and looked around, it didn’t look inviting and it didn’t look like it was ending with food so it had damned well better end with a good show-down. They began to pick their way down the tunnel carefully; Goku walked into the redhead a couple of times before they worked out it was a fairly straight event. Gojyo was also sure that he could hear the shuffling of feet in front of them.

Above them Sanzo was cornered by a group of the thugs, Hakkai was able to bring them out of his way but it was a difficult brawl as they crowded around them more and more. By the time they had the fight cleared out they had to pick their way through a variety of bloodied parts and mess, but at the very least they had allowed them time to start tracking down their enemy.