Akane by S. Coop

Author:S. Coop [Coop, S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kinfolk Books
Published: 2017-10-13T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

It Ain’t Easy Being Mean

John heard movement in and among the trees, and Pony came in sight. She was walking hunched down, using her sword for balance.

“Pony!” John yelled, his voice cracking while running toward her as she collapsed. He looked at her smoking kimono and blood on her katana. He snatched her up and carried her to the house.

He slammed the shoji door open with Pony laying in his arms.

“John, what’s happened?” Mari’s voice shook. “Bring her in!” Mari watched in shock as John sped to his room and laid Pony on his bed. He took her blade and rested it against the wall.

“Who would do this?” Mari asked, examining Pony.

“I … I don’t know, Mom!” He frantically tussled with the kimono, trying to take it off of Pony. “It’s like it’s on fire but it’s not burning me.”

Mari helped him strip Pony down to her underwear. She examined Pony’s skin, which was riddled with silver shards. She ran out of the room and retrieved tweezers and a bowl of hot water, a towel, and some gauze pads.

“What are you doing?” John yelled.

“We need to take these things out of her. They are killing her!”

“Wait!” John yelled.

Pony screamed as Mari removed one of the shards. Once removed, the wound started to heal. Mari removed another one, a big one lodged in Pony’s bellybutton. Pony howled in pain, her teeth protruding, revealing razor sharp incisors.

“We need to remove them all,” Mari said. “Hold her down.”

John held Pony down as Mari removed 32 silver shards from her body. Every time Pony screamed, John felt his heart breaking.

When Mari was done, she wiped down the already healing wounds and placed gauze in the wound in Pony’s abdomen.

Pony smiled, said “thank you both,” and fell into a deep sleep.

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