#haci

Me and who?~~~~

“I got her, I got her!”

Everything was loud, and it was much too much. She would rather sleep. She’d rather be anywhere but here.

Gosh, it was so cold. Someone had her, but she shivered. The hands wrapped around her felt like sunlight but it wasn’t enough. Her head was wet, and her very consciousness seemed to float in and out of her control. She just wanted to open her eyes.

But goodness, it was just so loud. Who was yelling?

“Tr—Traci!!” The voice closest to her called out. In the very distant corner of her mind, Hana could just make out the distinct sound of hooves, thundering against the metal floors, like it was shaking all the thunder loose from heaven. It only grew closer.

Was she asleep? Something pained her. She ached all over- she was cold, and wanted nothing more than to go home- than to go back to Asagao.

“Put the human down!” someone had commanded. “Surrender now, the both of you- no one else has to get hurt.” There came a slamming noise- sharp and sudden. The voice gave the signal, and the slamming noise came again. And again. And again.

“Hana, can you stand up?” Mai whispered gently to her, then cursed, pulling her closer.

It was so dark. She parted her lips to respond, but she just couldn’t. Her brain was barely processing words coming let alone allowing her words of her own.

“Traci, we cant transport her like this, shes loosing too much blood. We’re not going to make it though.”

A defiant snort left the large majestic creature standing besides the red-head, before it angrily stamped it’s front too hooves into the ground, striking the metal below it relentlessly.

“Same here.” Mai said with a chuckle. “Hana, they’re not going to hurt you.”

“Not going to…” Hana breathed out, and slowly opened her eyes.

There, holding her close, was her closest friend, giving her the biggest smile she had ever seen in her life, though tears and bruises, cuts and dirt seemed to cloud her bright face. “There you are. You took a hell of a nap.”

Hana blinked slowly as she gently turned her head enough to greet Traci, who had bowed her head, pressing it to Hana’s with a quiet whinny. The unicorn then turned to face the door as the slamming noise continued. Even in her full unicorn form, she was showing the ware and tare of the scientist treatment. She snorted again, and faced her body to the door before looking back at them both.

As if they shared some conversation Hana completely missed, Mai gave one short nod, and began to gently, but quickly move Hana. She (being the super powered being hat she was) simply hoisted her up, and moved her back further into the large storage-room type warehouse, laying her down on a pile of scrap stuffing of some kind that was probably for insulation or something, but made for a good last second bed. Mai looked around, then quickly started stacking boxes around her.

“Mai—“ Hana made out, making her first movement since she had come to and almost instantly regretted it. Pain shot up her leg and she was now aware that her side had been, for the most part fixed up but was still very slowly bleeding. She whimpered, and laid back.

“Don’t move, not unless we come for you.” Mai said in a hushed whisper. “We’re getting out of here- all of us, you got it? Me and Traci have to clear a path.”

Slam. Slam. Slam.

Surely the door wouldn’t hold much longer. All Hana could do was nod.

She could see though bits of the boxes how Mai had placed it, and she couldn’t help but be shocked to see the Valkyrie pull the golden pin from her hair, letting her hair flow behind her. The whole time Hana had known Mai her hair was always up in a bun or in braids or something of the like, but it was never just down like this.

And the way she strode forwards, she had almost shifted into another being. Mai stepped forward, her shoulders firm, her back straight- If it wasn’t for her dingy and ripped patient outfit, she would have looked like a model queen out of a magazine- Clearly, someone of royalty.

She walked up to the unicorn with hair and hooves as black as her body was white, certainly rearing and ready to go. She neighed noisly before glancing behind her.

Mai swung on to Traci’s back with ease, and grabbed a handful of black mane before Traci rose up to her hind legs, neighing noisily quite again. She landed back on all four hooves with a definite slam of defiance, and took aim at the door to the room as it finally slammed open.

“Dearest Odin, please accept tonight that I will send no men home to you.” Mai said aloud, for everyone to hear. “I assure you none of these men would ever come close to deserving it.” From… nowhere, would be Hana’s only guess, Mai pulled a sword, kissing at it’s hilt before turning around, pointing at the offending small crowd of scientists that now blocked their only exit.

Traci tossed her head once more before breathing out dangerously though her nose.

“Then, Traci?” Mai asked. “Let this be war.”

“Hey Hana!”

She glanced up, confused, only to be blinded by a flash oflight. She brought up her hand much too late, and silently cursed the heavensonce she heard the resulting giggling.

Traci had caught her again.

“Nooo…!” Hana exclaimed, reaching over and nearly fallingout of her chair as she tried to reach for Traci’s camera, only to miss her byinches as she pulled away. The giggling continued, and Traci’s face lit up.

“Oh Hana this is a cute one!!!” She turned the small screentowards the pink haired girl, showing her what Hana would have thought to bethe worst picture of all time.

Not only did she just look tired as hell, the picture showedconfusion slowly filtering through her face as she had just started to turn herhead after hearing her name, a trap Traci frequently laid for unexpectedpictures.

Not to mention- “Was I drooling?!” She had just sat up a fewseconds before the accursed picture-taking after drifting off to sleep for…maybe a few minutes and hopefully not more than that.

“No, I don’t think you are.”

“Let me see it, I can’t see it-“ Hana reached again, missed,and collapsed dramatically back in her chair with a sigh. It was no use- her homeworkwas undone, she drooled in front of her girlfriend and said girlfriend got iton camera. It was truly the end of the world.

“Okay, okay, look.” Traci held out her camera, then scootedin close to her to hold it at a better position. “You look really thoughtfuland only a little confused. And there’s no drool to be seen. Would you like todelete the picture still knowing that?”

“Yes, please. I’ll take a better one.”

“I highly doubt it could get better than this, but I’ll takeyour word for it.” She clicked a couple of buttons, then showed the deletedscreen on the camera. “Goodbye, sweet picture of a great person. You’re justtoo good for this world, I guess.”

“I really appreciate it.” Hana said gently, then held herhand out for a camera. “Let me see it.”

Traci placed the camera in Hana’s hands with a wary smile. “Areyou going to take a selfie with it? Its not that easy with that kind of cam-“

FLASH.

“Uh-!” Traci blinked, and rubbed at her eyes. “What—“

The camera flashed at her at least two more times.

“Hey!! No pictures of the photographer!!” Traci exclaimedinstead, and reached for the camera.

Hana couldn’t help but giggle herself, scooting back in herrolly chair and hopefully getting a few more pictures of Traci coming afterher. “Well this can be sort of like… behind the scenes, right?”

Their hands met (collided, really) as they both reached for the syrup in the middle of their turquoise table in the light colored kitchen.

“Oh, Miss Mizuno, you know I’m married.” Traci covered her mouth with her other hand as if in shock, though a sly smile was obvious on her face by the way her eyes brightened.