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Chapter 3
The Merovingian leaned back in his chair, Vlad was gone, intent on avenging his death. He felt sure the Vampire would succeed this time in killing off the family. He sighed, remembering Kit.
"Cain."
The Lycan jerked to attention and looked up from his book, surprised by the Mero's sudden outburst sitting at a table near the Frenchman.
"Go and find Tiger, I have a job for him." the Merovingian said and took a sip of his wine, he watched the Lycan walk away.
He leaned back in his chair, deep in thought; memories of how annoying Kit had been when she had stayed in his chateau came to mind. He wanted to know exactly what Vlad had in mind for her, but HE had been left to watch over her. She needed to be taught a few things.
Kit sat silently in her room on the Neb, staring into the mirror. Her reflection was weak, almost see-through, she looked like a ghost. She shook her head, dark thoughts were clouding her mind, and she felt hungry. These feelings mixed were not good.
She got up out of her bed and pulled some boots on, she wore a tattered red top and black trousers with holes ripped in the knees, She walked out through the door and made her way to the kitchen, she sat down on one of the benches, thinking things over. It was cold, but she didn't feel it as much as she used to.
Neo walked into the room, he saw her and said a hello before helping himself to some of the grey goop known as 'food'.
Kit looked slowly up at him; she smiled "What's the time?"
Neo looked at her strangely "Kit, no-one knows what the time is."
"In the Matrix."
Neo nodded, in silent understanding, "It's about Two A.M."
Kit put her head down on the table, breathing deeply.
"Is there something wrong?" Neo asked politely.
Kit looked up at him hungrily "Everything's fine." she said smoothly and got up, walking around the table towards him.
"Are you hungry?" he asked.
"I am..." Kit replied, she stood in front of him.
Neo sighed, he handed her his food. "Eat this then go to sleep, you look sick."
Kit's mind cleared enough for her to nod solemnly, it seemed she was less of a Vampire outside of the Matrix. She could control herself in the real world; she took the food and watched as Neo left the room. She sat down at one of the metal benches and ate the goop to keep up appearances.
Tiger stood before the Merovingian Le Vrai, he waited for the Frenchman to say something.
"I have a job for you, Tiger." he looked up at the Vampire, leaning back in his chair "You know of Kit, yes?"
Tiger nodded.
"Vlad sired her but left, he must have forgotten. She knows nothing of what she is, I'm leaving it to you to teach her, to control her."
Tiger smirked "Yes sir."
The Merovingian took out a mobile from the inside pocket of his jacket, he handed it to Tiger. "There's a number in there, the number for the Nebuchadnezzar, use it, ask for Kit, they should let her into the Matrix."
Tiger took the mobile from his master "How do you know the number?" he asked.
The Merovingian grinned, "It is my business to know."
Tiger nodded "Where should I tell her to go?"
The Mero handed the Vampire a key which he gladly took. "Meet her in Camden in London, England, she likes it there." he smiled.
Tiger nodded "It's as good as done. When do you want me back?"
"I'll send you a sign, you'll know." The Merovingian smirked.
The Vampire nodded and walked briskly away.
"Tiger" the Merovingian called.
The Vampire turned.
"Don't kill her"
Tiger saluted the Merovingian sarcastically and left the restaurant, heading for the chateau.
"Operator"
"Is Kit there?"
"Who is this?"
"A friend."
"A friend? ...Hold on a moment."
Link got up out of his seat and ran down to Kit's room, she was asleep in her bed, he walked in and shook her arm, she woke up and looked up at him.
"What?" she asked sleepily.
"Someone is asking for you, they called the ship." Link replied.
Kit thought for a moment, she got up "Did he give you his name?"
"No, he just said he was a friend."
Kit nodded "And he's waiting to talk to me?"
Link nodded.
"Then why are we still standing here?"
They both made their way back to the deck; Kit put the headphones on and spoke into the mic "Hello?"
"Is this kit?"
"Who wants to know?"
"A friend of Vlad's," there was a pause "He told me to teach you a few things, he's away at the moment."
Kit sighed "Alright, where are you?"
"Stables Market, Camden, outside Cyberdog."
Kit grinned; "I'll see you soon." she hung up.
Link looked at her like she'd gone mad. "You're just gonna' go in, aren't you, even though you don't know this guy."
"He's a friend of a friend, you gotta' trust me." Kit replied, she couldn't wait to get back to her favorite place in the whole of the Matrix and she loved Cyberdog, the stylized clothing always left her drooling.
"Just so you know I'm totally disagreeing with this, but don't see how Morpheus could have a problem with it, it's only Camden after all." Link said and began preparing for Kit to jack in.
Kit laid down on one of the chairs, she was tired but exited "Take me into the construct, there's no way I'm wearing any of that stupid PVC stuff." she complained.
Link nodded "Alright, whatever you say." he said and put the plug into the back of her head.
Kit entered a white room, no walls, no ceiling, no doors, no windows, just never-ending white. That's alot of paint.
She looked down at herself; she wore plain black trousers and t-shirt.
"Alright..." she thought for a moment "The Black Rose, red dress, black straps, bunched up fabric... You should be able to see It.," she said. Her clothing changed to the dress, she grinned "Alright, now... black and red stripy socks, New Rock buckled boots with red flames on the toes, hair tied back, eyeliner and black lipstick."
Her RSI changed, she looked herself over again. "Okay, last thing." she looked around. "Guns."
A rack of guns zoomed by and appeared in-front of her, she looked it over and took off a small pair of pistols that she attached to her thighs, she pulled her dress down over them so they weren't visible.
"Alright, now find the closest phone box to Cyberdog as you can."
Kit closed her eyes, when she re-opened them she saw the Matrix, London, how she had missed it. She walked out of the phone box and onto the street, few cars went by, it was six am. She walked for five minuets towards Cyberdog; she hung around the corner just by it, looking around. She couldn't see anybody.
A chill ran down her back, she turned around to face Tiger, he grinned down at her.
"Kit." he said and walked around her, looking her up and down.
"Uh... Vlad's... friend..." Kit said unsurely.
Tiger smiled "He chose well, you're very pretty."
Kit blushed, the red of her cheeks standing out on her pale skin.
"My name is Tiger," the Vampire told her, "I'm here to teach you a few things..."
Kit nodded "What's first?"
"Walk with me." Tiger said.
Kit grinned and walked by his side, past Cyberdog, Swear and The Black Rose, they walked through Camden easily, blending in, like it was their home.
Tiger told her all about her powers, like her speed, agility, balance, but also her weaknesses, Crosses, holy water, sunlight, steaks, and he told her never to lose her head.
"Sunlight won't kill us, it'll just make us weak," he explained "So many people these-days think that us Vampires can't stand sunlight, when in reality we're walking among them. Just remember, night is our friend, it's when we can move around the easiest."
"So all those films about Vampires bursting into flames when they get hit by sunlight, they're just fiction?" Kit asked.
Tiger nodded "We don't burst into flames. Another thing, we can regenerate. Any injuries we get heal faster then normal humans or normal programmes." he grinned.
Kit nodded "What about blood?"
"We don't have to eat often if we don't want to. Have you got any plans as to how you're going to get away with drinking people's blood? I bet your captain wouldn't be too pleased with you if you tried killing the One."
"We have bags of blood in the medi-bay, I could probably sneak a few out of there without anyone noticing..."
They walked around for a few more hours, the streets and market filling slowly with people, the atmosphere was buzzing.
"Senses." Tiger remembered as a gentle breeze picked up around them.
Kit looked up at him "huh?"
"Your senses are heightened, you can hear, see, smell, taste and touch better than you ever could before, what you have to learn is how to control these senses, otherwise you could end up hurting yourself, of course you should have already noticed these thing by now."
She nodded, she concentrated, trying to control her senses, she could hear the click the traffic lights made when they changed colour three streets away, she dulled her senses down, Tiger was saying something."
"This will all come naturally, of course." he smiled.
Kit looked around, the sun was rising. It was winter, and cold, but still she couldn't feel it. Soft snowflakes began to fall from the sky, pushed gently by a gentle breeze; they swirled around the two Vampires and began to settle on Camden Market.
Tiger looked up at the grey clouds "I should go, I'm needed elsewhere."
Kit looked up also "What? The clouds told you that?"
"Something like that." he winked and began to walk away.
"Wait, isn't there other stuff I should know?" Kit asked desperately after him.
"If I can think of anything else I'll call you." he said and disappeared into the crowd.
Kit stared after him with an un-happy expression on her face; he'd dropped her, just like that.
She blew a stray strand of hair away from her face and looked around, the snow was already building up. She decided to go somewhere else; Covent Garden was a nice idea. She walked to the train station a few blocks away and got on the underground, traveling towards her target. With all the snow they were about to get she figured she could make a good snowman, all she needed was a place to build one.
She missed having a normal life, if it hadn't been for the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar she would be with her friends, not on her own, about to make a snowman and knowing that she'd have to go back to the cold, gun metal grey ship that she lived in, always fighting for survival.
Kit sighed and leaned back in her seat, a cute Gothic boy a little older than herself sat in the seat in front of her, she looked up at him, realizing that anyone on the train could transform into an Agent at any moment. She pulled the band out of her hair, the silky locks falling about her face.
The boy looked up at her and smiled, she smiled in return. She missed moments like these.
The train reached the station she needed to get off at, she left the station and walked up out of the underground into the chilled air, she looked outside before stepping into the street, the pavements were already covered with snow and it still came down from the sky.
People were scarce, obviously avoiding the cold weather; they probably listened to the weatherman that morning. Kit hadn't counted on snow.
She reached the gardens a short while later; looking around she found a large patch of un-trodden snow. Children played close by, she could hear their screams and shouts of joy, their parents watching over them.
Kit made a snowball and began rolling it across the ground; it quickly picked up more snow. Soon it came up to about her knee, she rolled it to the center of the clear patch, stepping backwards to admire it, not aware that she was being watched.
Tiger sat on the top of a building a short distance away, wondering why she was making a snowman. It puzzled him why humans spent time making these things when they'd get destroyed anyway, they served no real purpose, and he couldn't fathom how rolling a ball of snow around could be fun.
He watched as she made the next snowball, she placed it atop the first one, making the middle section of the snowman.
Kit finally made the last stage, she rolled a smaller snowball and placed it on top on the last, she smiled and looked around for sticks and stones. She found a few small rocks and put them into the top snowball, making a smiley mouth and two eyes. She then looked around for two sticks.
Tiger rolled his eyes at her, really, a snowman. It was something he never expected to watch, the 'Two', the back-up savior of the human race... making a pathetic little snowman.
He watched a little more closely when he saw three boys walking towards Kit who seemed to be totally un-aware of their presence.
It was still snowing heavily, Kit looked down at her hands, they were pink and started to sting a little, she shrugged it off and looked back to her snowman. Three boys walked toward it, grinning wickedly.
She recognized them as Trendies, a different social group. A social group that, as a whole, disliked Grungers, Goths and anyone else that got in their way.
"Hey Gothic Freak, this your snowman!"
Kit didn't reply, she just watched them, not wanting to draw attention to her-self lest Agents appear.
"He asked you a question bitch!" the boy on the left shouted.
Kit noticed they looked a little older than herself; they wore baseball caps with their hooded coats over the top, tracksuits bottoms and white trainers with the socks pulled over the bottom of their trousers. Kit sighed, typical.
One of the boys kicked at the bottom of the snowman, grinning, "This thing doesn't look very stable."
Kit wanted to say something but knew she couldn't, she couldn't risk it.
The boy kicked harder at the snowman, it wobbled.
"Aren't you gonna' say something!" the boy on the right shouted.
The boy on the left kicked the snowman, putting all his energy into it.
The snowman toppled and smashed onto the ground, Kit's senses heightened a little, anger took ahold of her. "HEY!" she yelled.
The boys walked over towards her.
"What you gonna' do about it?"
Kit was quiet again, she looked down.
The boys walked right up to her; the boy on the right pushed her backwards.
Kit refrained from growling feraly; she stumbled back but regained her balance.
"Stupid Gothic freak, can't even fight back."
Kit swore under her breath, one of the boys heard her whisper and pushed her backwards, she lost her footing and hit the ground with a dull 'thud'. One of her pistols fell out of it's holster, sitting innocently in the snow under her dress. Kit, in her anger, hadn't realized.
The boys smirked and walked away, Kit looked up, her hair falling away from her face. She made up a snowball and threw it at the boy on the right as hard as she could; the force she put behind it knocked the boy over.
Kit's eyes widened.
Tiger watched happily, trying to hold back laughter. It was like watching an episode of Charlie Brown.
The boys turned around and glared at kit venomously.
"That was a big mistake." the boy on the right spat as he pulled himself off of the floor.
Kit stood up quickly and was about to bolt when one of the boys shouted.
"She's got a gun!"
Kit looked down; she picked up the pistol and lifted up a side of her dress, re-holstering it. When she looked back up the boys were making weird faces. She was confused for a mili-second until she realized the boys were actually changing, their RSI's were being taken over by force. She watched in horror as they morphed into Agents, their black suits contrasting with the white snow, their black ties contrasting with Kit's messy red and black Gothic dress.
"Miss Raven, we haven't seen you in a while." the middle of the three said, smirking.
Kit took a step back.
"You can't out-run us miss Raven, you should know better than that."
Tiger was wondering why he hadn't brought popcorn. He sobered up, it was Kit's turn to show him how much she'd learned, if he'd taught her right she could easily evade the Agents.
Link watched her on the screen, realizing he hadn't given her a mobile. He looked for the nearest phone box and rang the phone, hoping against all hopes that she could hear it.
The phone box was two blocks away. Everything looks smaller when you're looking at it from a different angle.
Kit looked around; she could hear the faint ringing.
Tiger grinned; it was loud in his ears.
The Agents followed her gaze, wondering why she was looking away from them. An electronic buzz filled their ears, they looked back at Kit.
"It's too far away miss Raven, you'll never make it."
Kit looked back at them one last time and took off running, becoming just a blur to their eyes, they caught a glimpse of her as she turned a corner, then she was gone.
Tiger shook his head, her first mistake. She'd used her Vampiric powers, and now the system knew. He stood up from his sitting position on the edge of the building. The Agents looked up at him, he waved them a good bye and disappeared just like Kit had done, the system already knew of him, and he was late to meet with the Merovingian, he wouldn't be happy.
Kit opened her eyes, the plug was pulled out of the back of her head, she sat bolt up right and patted herself down.
"I'm okay, I'm alive, I'm still here." she looked up at Link "How far away were they when I picked up the phone?"
Link stared at her "About two blocks."
"What?" Kit asked, surprised.
"You ran really fast Kit." Link told her.
Kit understood, she had to make up something on the spot "Must just be another part of being the Two, I guess." she shrugged.
Link nodded, easily falling for it.
Kit got out of the chair "I need to sleep, I'm really tired." she said quickly and left the room.
Link watched her go, he shook his head "Time to speak to Morpheus" he sighed.
There was a knock on Morpheus's door, the captain pulled it open and came face to face with a worried looking Link.
"Sir, there's something I think you should know."
Link told Morpheus everything that he had witnessed, explaining the facts. "I'm worried about her sir, I think she's ill, she sure looks it."
Morpheus nodded "I think she's slipping, she's been in the Matrix a lot this week. We'll head back to Zion now to have a nurse check over her, they're a little more experienced than we are there."
"We're going back right now?" Link asked.
Morpheus nodded, lost in thought.
"Great, that'll make Zee happy, she hasn't seen me in weeks." Link smiled.
Morpheus sighed, "If there's something wrong with her she might have to stay in Zion."
Link looked up at his captain "Zee?"
Morpheus raised an eyebrow "Kit. By the sounds of things, this could be serious..."