Hope and I walked into the bank and a detective stopped us. She had auburn hair in a ponytail and a black trench coat. "How did you get into this cri scene?"
"Pete let us through after shooting several dozen tis," I said.
She got a confused look on her face and then talked into her radio. "Pete, what the hell is this? You can't let civilians onto a cri scene!"
"Calm down, Lisa," Pete said. "You know how monsters are real now? Well he's one of them. Apparently they're monster cri investigators or sothing."
"You really believed that? Anyone can say anything Pete. You of all people should know that," Lisa said.
"I shot him in the face multiple tis. He's the real deal, Lisa," Pete said.
"The magician has many tricks at his disposal, but never the assistant," Lisa said, sliding over to Hope. She pulled out her gun and aid it under Hope's chin. "What about her Pete? Is she the real deal? Let's see if she bleeds."
Lisa lowered the gun and aid it at Hope's chest. She took the safety off. "Have I called your bluff, yet?" She said to . "Can we end this song and dance? Just admit you're a charlatan, and get the fuck out of my face and off my fucking cri scene, and I won't shoot your girlfriend."
"Are you really going to shoot my girlfriend for wandering onto a cri scene? Is that even legal?" I said.
"It doesn't matter if it's legal. What matters is what I say happened. I didn't sleep at all last night, thinking about this case, and the last thing I need is so asshat trying to tell how to do my job!"
"You can't be serious," I said. "Just shoot , if you want soone to shoot!"
"Maybe you are the real deal," she said. "Maybe you really are a bulletproof monster, but she isn't. I can tell by your reactions that if I shoot her, she'll die. And all I'd have to say is you both attacked . You being a monster, makes that all the more believable."
She pointed at a nearby cara in the corner of the room. "You see how there's no red light? That ans it's not recording. We had to take them offline to review the footage. And we three, are the only people in this room."
I shielded Hope with my body and created a circular blood shield in the direction of Lisa so she couldn't shoot Hope.
"You think a shield's going to stop ?" Lisa said. "What happens if I do this?" She put her gun against the blood shield and shot it.
The shield blocked the shot, but the shot weakened the shield montarily in that one spot, and Lisa was pushing her gun against the shield, so her gun barrel slipped through the shield.
She tried to aim at Hope, around the side of my body and she fired her gun. I was luckily quick enough to move my body so I took the bullet, but this woman was dangerous. And smart. Eventually she would get a good shot and hit Hope.
I looked at Hope and said, "Hope. Your bracelet. Take it off!" I didn't fear for my life, but I feared for hers. I should have thought about this back at the dragon complex. Experience tales at My Virtual Library Empire
Because of the humanizing bracelet, she was vulnerable, but if she just took it off or turned it off, she'd be invincible. I honestly couldn't understand why she hadn't taken the bracelet off herself yet. She had to have known.
Hope looked at with sad eyes and said, "But you won't like the way I look anymore. You'll never not see as a monster." She was starting to get real tears in her eyes.
Wow. I didn't realize looking human was that important to her, that she'd risk her life multiple tis for it.
"Hope, I'll like you regardless of how you look, and I'll like you a whole lot less if you're dead, so take off the fucking bracelet!" I yelled at her.
I can't believe I yelled at her. I never yelled at my girls. I may have raised my voice at Ophelia a bit, but I never yelled. But this was life or death. I hoped she understood that I yelled because I cared.
"Fine!" She said, "I'll take off the stupid bracelet, you asshole!" She ripped the bracelet off her wrist. It clinked when it hit the ground.
Lisa's gun clicked as she cocked it. She pressed it against the back of Hope's neck. She had just walked around behind Hope while Hope was arguing with . I couldn't focus on both things at the sa ti.
"It might be hard to explain bullets to the back of the neck, but that's a risk I'm willing to take," Lisa said. She fired her gun 3 tis into the back of Hope's neck, right against her spine.
Hope still looked human. Her skin hadn't changed yet. I tensed up, worried we were too late. Hope was giving this blank eyed stare, and I couldn't tell if that ant she was dead or just in shock.
Hope's eyes stayed blank for almost 10 seconds, but then they blinked. And they got angry. Her eyes turned into diamonds first, then the skin on her face and neck and body. She started to get bigger, and I got knocked off her, by the speed of her growth.
Her clothes were torn to pieces because she grew too large for them. Her skin turned blue and crystallized in a wave pattern. Geotric shapes erged from her skin and her joints beca visible geotric junctions.
She grew to 3 ters tall and crystals grew out of her back and shoulders. Her body ended up as a feminine, vaguely humanoid combination of different geotric patterns. She still had a face, but it was incredibly angular and segnted. Her arms didn't even end in hands anymore. They ended in sharp points.
Hope turned around to face her attacker. I watched the three bullets fall from the back of her neck. She had transford in ti. Lisa stared in utter shock and horror at Hope's form. She stepped back and tripped falling onto her back.
"Monster! Get back! Stay away from !" Lisa scrambled backwards on the ground, aiming her gun at Hope. She fired it several tis into Hope's chest, but the bullets flattened and did nothing.
Hope stood looking at the scared pathetic woman on the ground and eventually turned away, back to . She made crystalline tinkling noises as she moved and her body had a prismatic effect on the light shining on her.
"Now, do you see, Dylan? Why I would rather die than have you see this way?" She put her spikes for hands up to her face and I saw tears form in her eyes that fell to the ground as diamonds.
I looked past Hope at Lisa. "Now, look at what you did! You made her cry you monster! We're not the monsters here. You are," I said.
I put my hand out and blood shot out of my wrist and went to the door to the outside. The blood ford into a wall of moving knives that would cut her to pieces if she tried to escape outside.
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