Blood, Sex & Metal - Episode 2 Cut Bits
This first draft of my series has about a page's worth of writing I did that won't be in Episode 2. Figured I'd post it to show progression though.
The scene with Simon and Bacon will get cut.
The scene with Amber will get cut.
Chishi was high above the rocky mountains below, in a lovely sky of orange. The breeze was magnificent as she rode upon the back of a long black dragon. His wings flapped slowly through the air as he stayed aloft, and she held her arms out with a smile on her face.
Suddenly the world began to wretch and contort. She looked around in confusion as a loud buzzing sound tore apart the very fabric of the clouds in the sky. The horizon convulsed like a heart monitor as she threw her hands over her ear-holes with a groan.
Her tail finally lashed out and smacked against her wall-mounted clock, shutting the alarm off. She slowly sat up in bed with a groan, and looked at who was in bed with her. It was Vincent, that tiger she had met the day before, but instead of waking up to her alarm he simply rolled over. As she thought about whether they had any action last night or not, she saw his pants still on, and her towel was loosely hanging around her hips. Shaking her head, she put her feet to the carpet and stood out of bed, dragging her feet to the bedroom door as her towel fell to the floor somewhere along the way.
She opened the door and shielded her eyes for a moment as the light from the living room flooded her. The throbbing in her head was still there, and it definitely wasn't because of too much beer. After the light became bearable she trudged to the kitchen, where Simon was making some form of breakfast.
He looked up as he saw her entering and nodded. "Morning, Chishi." His spatula met the pan as he made a simple offering. "Bacon?"
She sat down at the table in the kitchen and put her forehead upon it with a grumble. "I feel like shit, Si'."
He slid a few strips of bacon off the pan and onto a paper plate. "Yeah, you don't look well. Maybe you should call off." He carried the plate over to her and put it only inches from her forehead. "Bacon." Then he turned and went back to the stove, slipping a few more strips onto the skillet.
"Yeah, right. I already got my 'get here or you're fired' ultimatum." She lifted her head from the table with a groan and stared at the bacon before her. She whispered to it, "Soon."
"Sounds like a good reason to forget about your personal health and just make sure you keep your job," Simon sarcastically stated.
"That's what I was thinking." Chishi completely missed the sarcasm in his voice and slowly sat up at the table. She threw her arms behind her and stretched against the back of the chair until she heard her spine pop. "Ahh~!"
He shook his head and kept to his cooking. "You want anything else?"
"Nah, I don't normally eat breakfast anyway."
"You don't normally wake up to your alarm!"
She picked up a piece of bacon and pointed at him with it. "Good point, Si'. Probably has to do with my unplanned nap." Then she stuffed it in her mouth and smiled. "Nice 'n' chewy."
He slipped his breakfast onto a plate and carried it over to take a seat at the table. "So I guess it wasn't what you expected with Vince?"
"You usually don't wanna hear about that." She sighed and played with her strips of bacon. "Alright, well, for once nothin' happened." She lamented with a growl. "Those thugs left me too beat up to go all out. It was a real killjoy."
He listened and nodded. "I'll bet." With that, he pulled out the newspaper and rested it on the table as he flipped through the pages.
She sighed and devoured the rest of her breakfast before taking the plate to the sink. "Guess I'll get an early start. I can take the walk slow today."
Simon gave her a 'thumbs up' as he read the paper. "So what do you think I should do about Vince?"
"Come on, you boys are buddies, you can get him up and out after I leave." She winked at Simon and pranced out of the kitchen, leaving him with a scowl. She went back into her room where Vincent was still peacefully asleep. Knowing she needed to get him out, she took her towel off from her waist and threw it at his head.
Vincent shouted and scrambled to get up. "We're under attack!" He looked around the dim room and rubbed his eyes. "Oh, yay. Where am I?"
Chishi had herself in a pair of white panties before he could clearly see her, and she turned to him innocently. "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to wake you." She approached the bed and crawled over him with a seductive smile. "I really have to thank you for keeping me warm last night."
The sleepy tiger rubbed at the back of his head with a dumb grin. "Why of course! Anytime, Chishi."
She put her hands on his bare chest and straddled him with a sly grin and a chuckle. "As for right now..." she slowly leaned down and put her lips inches from his. "You need to go."
The words took a short pause for him to process them, and his eyes opened up as all that came out of his mouth was "Huh?"
She suddenly rolled off to one side, and with a quick spin around, she dug her claws under his side and flipped him off the side of her bed closest to the door. "'Cause me and Si' gotta get to work!"
He hit the ground face-first with a loud crash. As soon as he rolled over, he got hit with his work belt. "Damnit woman, couldn't just ask me nicely, huh?"
She rolled her eyes and reached into her dresser, pulling out an Iron Maiden t-shirt and throwing it on. "Come on, get dressed. I don't wanna be late for work 'cause of you."
He grumbled in protest as he grabbed his socks, shoes, and shirt, and went out of her room to get dressed in the living room.
She snickered as he left and took a pair of knee-worn jeans to get into. Then she paused with her jacket half-way on. She stared at the closet for a few moments, wearing a look of contemplation. "If all goes well to and from work, I want to go to a club later... I think." She pulled her working cap from her dresser and got her boots on.
Simon was on his way to the door when Chishi came out of her bedroom. He waved a hand at her, jingling his keys. "Hey Chi', I'm going to take Vince to his apartment on my way to work. You be careful today, alright?"
She waved and smirked. "Who, me? I'll be fine. No more dodging into dead ends for me."
He nodded and closed the door as he left, and she could hear both of them walking away along the sidewalk. She flopped down on the couch for a few minutes, sprawling out with a groan. "Come on... I just need to keep positive and stay out of harm's way. It's a good thing I've got thick skin."
Chishi arrived at the sign-in desk about 10 minutes before her shift was to start. After clocking in and waving hello to the usual faces, she was pulled aside by the foreman.
"You've got some nerves to come back here." He scowled, and lit up a cigarette. Chishi watched him as he flicked away his match and took a long drag. He growled with an exhale, "I don't need any of my crew causing issues with my special customers , especially the big cat. Got that?"
She coughed and did her best to keep breathing out. She pulled her cap down. "I ain't lookin' for trouble, and you know it. I'm just lookin' to do my job."
"Keep it that way." He took another long drag, and blew it out his nose in her direction. "I don't care how strong a fighter you are, if I hear you roughed up any more of his boys, you're outta here."
She crossed her arms and glared at him. "Oh come on boss, they jumped me. I almost got awarded with a broken rib and jaw." She hissed and continued. "Why, if anyone was-"
"Enough, Chishi!" The foreman interrupted with a growl. "Either get to work or get outta here!"
With a growl she turned and headed out to the loading bays. She only stopped and turned for a moment, watching the foreman as he went to the office and sat down to make one of his important phone-calls.
It didn't sit right with her at all, but she wanted to keep her job more than she wanted to try and go to anyone about what was going on. She figured this Leonardo character had all of his bases covered.
The whistle blew, and it was finally time to go home. Chishi stretched and went the route home with Amber. Passing through Willow Park they got to see some of the families out at play. Chishi paused a moment to gaze, as her mind wandered over what kind of life she would have if she settled down.
"Hey," Amber snapped her out of her thoughts. "Somethin' wrong?"
Chishi shook her head. "No." She sniffed a moment and turned to Amber. "Hey, you wanna go to a club or somethin'?"
Amber yawned and stretched. "'Fraid not tonight. Got company comin' over. Gotta get some coffee in me before they come over."
Chishi snickered and shook her head. "That's fine. Look me up at The Dungeon then, if your company doesn't work out."
Amber nodded. "Sure thing. Never know, right?"
Once Chishi got home and into her apartment, she passed by the table and flicked on the TV with a push of the remote. Noticing that Simon left it on news she sighed and flipped through a few random numbers before just turning it off. "Forget it." She picked the stereo remote up with her tail and turned that on instead. She flipped through to her third disk and hit play.
"Out of the darkness, the Zombie did call..." she spoke with the little girl in the song as she went into her bedroom, cranking the stereo high enough to hear it from her closet. "True pain and suffering he brought to them all." She threw open her closet door and tossed her work hat off. "Away ran the children to hide in their beds..." she pulled down one of her wigs from the top shelf, and affixed a wig-cap to her head. "For fear that the devil would chop off their heads!" She giggled almost cutely as she put on a flaming red wig. The hair was short and spiked out in different directions, giving a very punky feeling. She grabbed a pair of black fingerless gloves from her dresser and pulled them tight as Superbeast began to play in the background.
She danced out into the living room and began to rock out to the music, dancing around and yelling out her " HELL YEAH!" with the song. Suddenly, there was a pounding on her door, and she stopped abruptly, blinking as if she came out of a daze. She scooped up the remote and turned the stereo off before coming to the door.
Cautiously she opened it, and on the other side was the neighbor lady. "Chishi! I know you like your music, but I have children who can hear your vulgar tunes."
Chishi nodded. "Right, sorry about that." She stepped out from the apartment and closed the door behind her. "I was actually just on my way out. Dunno what got into me."
The woman was surprised by the display of humility. This was not normal for Chishi. "Alright," she said, "Just be sure it doesn't happen again. I don't want to have to call the police on noise."
Chishi turned and locked the door quick before grinning. "Can't have that." Then she passes by the woman with a last comment. "I'd get in more trouble beating up the cops!"
Before the woman could think of a response, Chishi was around the corner of the building.