Japan

Dozens of people packed into a small underground chamber, waiting for a speedy metal tube to whisk them away to their desired destination. Just another morning for Zane. He smiled cheerfully, head nodding to the music blaring on his iPod as he waited for the train to arrived. San Francisco may have been known for it's cable car system, but the subway was just as convenient, if not better. He preferred it, personally; it was a great way to get from his apartment to school to work and then back home. The cable cars were always so slow and packed with tourists; this was just easier.

Too bad the company couldn't have been a little better. He kept getting knocked into by people as he stood at practically the very edge of the platform. Whether the nudges were intentional or not was up for debate. His appearance wasn't exactly what on would call "subtle," with the dyed hair, raver-esque outfit, and multiple piercings. He wouldn't be too surprised if that drew a little animosity. Not that he really cared, of course; individuality never hurt anyone.

That wasn't exactly true, as he found out after a particularly harsh shove. With a yelp, Zane found himself falling, landing roughly on the ground. The college student groaned, glaring up at the small group of his classmates laughing their asses off. "Oh, real mature, guys," he yelled back, straightening out his headphones. Didn't they realize that little stunt could've killed him? For one thing, there was the electrified third rail that he could've fallen on. Actually, the fall itself could've caused some kind of injury. And of course, that wasn't even mentioning the obvious issue of the--

It wasn't until then that Zane noticed the ground was shaking. What was it, an earthquake? No, this was different somehow. Then a thought struck him. A scary one. Heart pounding miles a minute, he turned around, eyes widening in horror.

The last thing he saw was a train heading straight for him...


"GAH!" Zane sat bolt upright, eyes wide and unseeing with fear. It took a moment for him to realize that he wasn't in any danger. God, that'd been one Hell of a dream. The teen groaned, rubbing a hand across his face. "I have got to stop drinking Mountain Dew before bed." Hoping to get a few more hours of sleep in, he let himself fall back onto his bed. Only to yelp in pain when he realized there was no bed under him, just a hard floor. "Ow! What the--?" This time when he sat back up, he froze on the spot, actually getting a good look at his surroundings.

This wasn't his room. In fact, it didn't even look vaguely familiar. The room looked like part of an apartment, smaller than his (and that was saying something). It was pretty barren, save for the huge black sphere sitting int the center of the room. That was...odd. Zane blinked in confusion before standing up, looking around warily. "...Hello? Anybody home?" This was beyond weird, closer to downright creepy, actually. How the heck did he get here? Was this a dream? No, he'd just woken up from a dream. ...That had been a dream, right? Oh, God, what if it hadn't been?! Was this what the afterlife was like? The college boy groaned, leaning back against a wall as head pounded with too many questions. He was scared, really and truly afraid of what might happen next. "What's going on here?"

The day was peaceful, sunny and bringing a sense of hope and joy to the world. However not for Teito, he sat in one of the large rooms, a depressive face held up only by the palm of his hand. A woman stood at the front blabbing on about something, he just didn’t care about anymore. It was a few days after his mother’s funeral and his father hadn’t even said 3 words to the boy since then. He was always ‘too busy’.

Once the woman had finished, Teito was excused from the room, though he decided to actually take a tour outside. Sitting on a park bench just watching the world go by, he didn’t feel like learning today, he didn’t feel like doing anything. Something seemed to catch the young boy’s attention, a few kids playing. Well one of them was sitting on the freshly cut grass with a grazed knee, crying. As soon as it had happened, two adults came rushing over along with some more kids. His mother and father had smiles on their faces as they were attempting to make the child feel better. The kids were also joining in, doing silly things which evoked laughter from the boy.

Teito found himself feeling even worse now, a small tear welling up in the corner of his eye as it ran down his pale face. He wished, oh how he wished he had a family like that. Sure…he had everything, everything a kid could ever dream of. But that didn’t include a loving family. It broke his heart to see everyone else so happy with their families, even when his mother was alive, they weren’t like that. But she was the closet thing he had, but now.

Gone.

Murdered by some idiot driver. It sickened Teito to know that the driver of the vehicle which caused her death, was still alive, walking around somewhere without the guilt weighing down on his shoulders. There was no way he’d feel guilty, no way he’d even care that he ruined many lives by the death of just one woman. The man was too drunk, too idiotic to feel such feelings, he probably did it quite a bit and there was no law to put the man behind bars. It was just…'an accident'.

Teito rose to his feet, staring up at the cloudless sky, blinking away the tears he found himself unwillingly shedding. He wandered along the empty pathways, keeping his head low and his cap pulled over his face so that no one would recognize him, not that they even knew the wealthy politician Ryoichi Valdez, even had a son. Teito was just locked away inside the house all day being force fed useless information by some up-tight and overly-paid old woman.

Teito stopped when he came to the over-pass, looking down over at the rushing cars for a minute. He would come here to think, the noise of the cars passing by gave him assurance and a calming sensation. Strangely enough, it didn’t make him angry, it should have done, due to the ‘accident’ his mother was in. No. He found them calming, relaxing and tranquil, a sign that he was still alive.

The idea had then dawned on him. Looking up at the sky he smiled, wiping the tears away on the black fingerless glove. He stepped onto the edge of the over-pass, the barrier which ensured that no one would fall accidentally. He sat down on it, kicking the air gently with his dangling feet, looking down at the rushing traffic below, the busy people getting on with their lives, without a single care in the world.

He smiled.

And jumped.

Though he should have been dead, if not run over by the car, then from the sheer height of the jump, but instead his feet landed on the floor. The floor belonging to that of an apartment. He fell forward and caught himself with his hands, his white cap falling off of his head and to the wooden floor beneath him. His head lifted up ever so slightly to stare forward at the ominous black sphere, seemingly floating.

He scrambled to his feet, picking up his hat as he did so and stuffing his hair back inside of it. There were two others in the room, one who was seemingly older, he had black hair with purple dye in the form of hightlights, it was a strange thing to come across but for some odd reason Teito liked it. It was defiant and showing that the person was not just another one in the world, but rather an individual.

The other was female, she had long white hair and magenta eyes, she was beautiful in a sense of the word. Though Teito felt his head drop at the sight of these two, he had no idea what to say to them but the questions he had kept buzzing around his head and just wouldn’t quit. He gulped slightly, bowing his head so the brim of his cap and his brown fridge would obscure most of his face. Well that was the plan anyway.

“Where is this?” he mumbled, either to himself or to the other two, it was unknown, he just had to speak out the question which was in his mind. He should have been dead. He jumped from a bridge, so how did he land here? How was it even humanly possible?

The bell echoed as it rang through the long halls of the school that Sunkyu Lee attended. Chattering students crashed into the halls and started to make their way out of the school. Among those students, was Sunkyu Lee. A bright, optimistic and tiny girl of age sixteen. She was excited for the weekend. A bag on her shoulder and a few books in her arms, she started towards the doors of the school. Sunkyu was greeted by the cold snow. She giggled, and pulled a piece of her sweater over her nose. She loved the snow, but it was unusual for it to snow at this time of the year. Whatever, she didn't mind.

"Sunny! Oh Sunny!"

Sunky turned around and rolled her eyes. "What? What do you want now?" She said, annoyed. It was a group of boys who just loved to bother her. Every day they would ask her for something, weather it was her homework, some money, her lunch, or even her virginity. She just wanted them to go away.

The boys crowded around her and one started to play with her hair. One said, "Can we have your homework?"

Sunkyu shot them a dirty look. "No. Leave me alone." She said.

The boys laughed. "Oh come on. You're so smart. It's too bad you make bad decisions." One boy said.
"Yeah. Such a big head and nothing in it." Another taunted.

Sunkyu scoffed and started to walk away. When she did, one of the boys pulled a knife on her and smiled. Sunkyu's eyes went wide.

"C'mon, Sunny. Don't be that way..." He said, grabbing her hands and pulling her behind the school.

"No! No! Let me go! Yah!" She screamed, tears streaming down her face. She dropped her books as he pulled her. When they were behind the building, he pushed her onto the floor. The boys then started to beat her up. Then they tried to have their way with her, but she fought back. The boys got angry at this, and out of anger, they slit her throat, threw her into the nearest trash, and closed the lid.

Sunkyu took deep breaths in, even though she could hardly breath. She looked up at the lid and saw a dim light.
There's always a light in the sky..
The light got brighter,
Let it guide you..
And closer.
"Guide me..." Sunkyu said.
"Jebal..."

. . . . .

Sunkyu's eyes suddenly opened, and she took a sharp, breath in and sat up. The floor was wooden and hard, it looked like she was in an apartment building. She scanned her surroundings, she looked like she was inside some sort of appearment. Her eyes looked towards the windows.. It looked like she was in Japan. Feeling a little weird, she looked again, and saw a big, black ball. Just sitting there in the middle of the room. She jumped, and crawled away from it. There were a few more people in the room, but she didn't say anything. She just stared at the ball. "Is this a dream?" Sunkyu said quietly to herself.

((Jebal - Please.))

Alexis sat in the brake room as the sirens approached bringing him to attention. "What a busy day." He sighed to himself, getting up and throwing with his coffee into the trash. A screaming man was willed by quickly heading strait to the surgery room, making Alexis have to sprint to catch up. He grabbed the chart off the end of the bed and read it, still running to keep up. "The patient has severe chest pains, which is that to caused from the fresh deep gash on his chest." Alexis noticed gang tattoos on the mans arms "I wander." He mumbled to himself while pulling out his Stethoscope and putting it to the mans chest. He listened the best he could over his own panting from the running. *Thump, Thump, Tick, Thump, Tick, Thump.*

"Tick?" Alexis mumbled, He listened for a second more before his eyes got wide. "TICK?!" He yelled making himself fall in his panic, the other doctors leaving him behind. "Stop! Hey?! Stop you idiots!" He yelled but to avail. The others had intentions of stopping, after all Alexis was the only German doctor in the hospital, if not the only German in the whole city. "Your jealousy is going to get us killed you idiots." He mumbled getting back to his feet and running to catch up to them in a full sprint. *Faster! Run faster!* He thought speeding up his pace and bursting into the room where the X-ray machine was already humming to life. "No!" He screamed jumping through the air and hitting the emergency stop button making the machine instantly power down. "Are you all idiots?!" He yelled looking at all the angry and confused stairs. "There is a bomb in his chest! If any of you would have bother to list..." He was cut off by one of the doctors screaming and running out, the others looked around for a moment then started to panic and run away too, leaving Alexis all alone.

"Fine! Run you cowards!" He yelled thinking it would bring at least one back but instead it just got him flipped off. A sigh escaped his lips as he walked back into room with the man who was in shock. "A...a bomb? A bomb?!" the man yelled and started to cry. Alexis put on a kind smile walking over to man. "Hey. I'll get it out. and if I don't at least it want hurt." He grabbed the forceps and opened the wound slowly, looking down into it. *There it is.* He thought slowly moving another pair of forceps down to the bomb, the sweat building on his eyebrow and sliding downward towards his nose but by the time he noticed it was to late.

The tiny drop of sweat fell downwards strait towards the bomb and landing on a wire port, there was a tiny spark followed by detonation. Alexis let out a scream as the bomb exploded and he was swallowed up in the flames.Alexis was still screaming as he appeared in the apartment room. He was stuck in a state of shock and continues screaming for a moment before snapping out of it. He looked around at the people with an embarrassed look. He then smiled a big smile "So this is hell?" He asked.

Ula smiled out at the world before her, musing at how the people below were running about, rushing themselves through their daily lives. "Det påminner mig om Sverige." ("It reminds me of Sweden.") she smiled to herself. She turned to look back at the low-quality hotel she had decided to stay in to save money. She made her way to the bathroom, looking at the mirror in it and noting the large vertical crack down the middle of it. Raising a hand, she ran her finger along the crack, wondering why they hadn't fixed it. The hotel had plenty of guests who were in favor of a cheap place to stay - surely they had money with all those guests staying multiple nights? Her mind raced, thinking out completely unrelated things just a moment later. Bored of the mirror, she made her way back to the window in the other room.

She leaned against the window, looking up at the sky. The sky was blue with many fluffy clouds floating up high. Ula made shapes out of the clouds, finding that one looked like a muffin, another looked like the letter L, and another looked like a dragon. Her magenta eyes slowly drifted down to the many towering buildings. It was like the buildings in Stockholm, Munich, or Berlin, but these were decorated with letters that she couldn't understand. She spoke no Japanese, her manager taking care of that and hiring a translator. As she looked down at the streets, she noticed a dog down below. It was tan and white with a curly tail and beady black eyes. Taking interest, she leaned herself more against the glass. That was when Ula heard it. It was a snapping noise. 'B sharp,' she thought immediately, realizing it's pitch before feeling the sensation of falling. The front of her hips were pushed painfully against the low windowsill as she tipped forwards, the bottoms of her boots rising off the cheap carpet of the hotel. Her silver hair was wildly tussled as the wind blew through it. Her eyes widened and she screamed at the top of her lungs, the ground coming closer then it had been from her view from the fourth floor. The dog ran away from her screaming, dashing down the street as she hit the sidewalk with a sickening half splat half crack noise.

Ula winced, finding herself lying on a wooden floor. Her eyes were shut tightly and her hands in tight fists. She lay on the floor for a moment before realizing that she did not feel any pain. Slowly, her eyes opened and she sat up, glancing around. Was there anyone here? Scanning the room with magenta eyes, she soon found nothing in the room, but she did spy, though the doorway, a large, black ball. She reasoned it might be worth calling out and seeing if anyone answered. Maybe there was someone in that room that was out of sight? Perhaps there was even someone in another room? "Hello?" she called, in English, more people spoke English then Swedish or German after all. "'s anyone here?" She called out, somewhat quietly, her voice laced with a heavy accent, not quite Swedish but not quite german.

More and more people seemed to come into the room by the same way too, a laser slowly materializing their body. Though their insides were clear enough to see as it happened, not the most attractive sight in the world, but what could Teito do? He only looked away as he started to see it happening. A female with brown hair, then two males, one with short brown hair and he was wearing a lab coat, obviously a doctor or scientist of some kind. The other was an older male with white hair, Teito had recognized him as someone who was running against his father to become the governor of Japan, though his name escaped Teito. What’s he doing here? Teito thought.

He disappeared into a room and a few minutes later a naked woman burst out, running to the door which was apparently locked. Not that Teito had tried, he was too busy worrying about the people in the room to try and escape. Teito flushed in the face, pulling his hat down and looking at the floor, he had never seen a woman naked before and he felt it rude to look at her.

The woman ran past Teito and hid behind the ominous black sphere in the room. Teito looked to her seeing that her lip was bleeding, he only looked at her face and no where else. He grew a little angry at the way she seemed to of been treated by someone who wanted to be Japan’s next governor. He turned to face Yasuo and glared at him, walking up to him and having to look up to see his face.

His hair was obscuring one of his sea-green eyes, but he was glaring at him none-the-less. “You shouldn’t do that to women, it’s not nice!” he yelled, probably drawing everyone’s attention to the kid. He was 15, but being the height of 5”2, he could have easily been mistaken for a 12 year old. Teito of course was wondering about the room too, but it seemed obvious that no one else knew about it, so he didn’t feel like asking any questions.

"Damn, Mellissa! I thought you were making me money!"
"Not anymore! I've lost my value." Mellissa Cheong snapped back. She was having an argument with the man that supposedly 'owned' her. She secretly hated it, but in fear of being killed, she never said anything.
"What do you mean 'lost your value'?!"
"Back when I was like, eleven, and new, people paid a lot of money for me, no? Well now that I'm thirteen, and aged, not a lot of people pay for me anymore. I'm just like everyone else, but I get more attention then them, right? So why are you freaking out?!"
The man took a deep breath. He paced back and forth once, and then turned to Mellissa and smiled.
"I'm sorry. I overreacted. I'm just upset because you were my best seller.." He reached for her face, but Mellissa slapped his hand away.
"And I'm damn tiered of you claiming me! I don't belong to you!"
"Who picked your dirty butt off the street? Who's paying for school, and for your clothes?!"
"That doesn't mean anything! You don't own me! I want to quit!"
The smacking sound of a hand making contact with a face echoed through the dirty, poorly kept building, and Mellissa fell to the floor. Her eyes were closed, but she felt the weight of the guy on top of her and heard the sound of a zipper being undone.
"No!" She said, kicking him off of her. He rolled a few times, and Mellissa got up and ran for the window, but the guy pulled out a gun before she could make it...

Bang! Bang! Bang!

She fell to the hard wooden floor, but she felt fine. She gasped, and scrambled to her feet. That was when the naked lady ran out... Maybe she was still in the prostitute house after all. She watched as it all happened, with an innocent, confused face. Then she finally turned around and said the question everyone had on their mind.

"Where is this? Hell?"

--

Everything that had happened seemed to overwhelm poor Sunkyu. The naked lady, the crazy person who she saw on the news one day, the random people fading into the room, the big black ball, what the hell was this?! Wasn't she supposed to be dead?! She felt her neck for the cut, there was none there. She had thought about going towards the door, but after seeing a few people try to open it and fail, she shrugged that idea off.

"Where is this? Hell?" Somebody finally spoke up. Sunkyu looked up at her. "Well, I see a politician, who's probably trying to do something sick to a woman, so.. yep. This must be it." She got up, "Dunno what I did though..."

Aleksandra sighed while resting her chin in her hand and gazing out the window of the black sedan. Mother and Father were talking about wonderful Tokyo was and how beautiful the architecture seemed, though of course it could never compare to a traditional Russian building. Her parent's pride in their home country brought a small smile to Aleksandra's lips. It was a comfort to hear them chatter back and forth about trivial things. They were always so serious and discussing the next possibility for her career. Aleksandra just wanted them to relax and enjoy life for a moment. After all, Mother and Father deserved it. Shifting in her seat to sit in the middle, Aleksandra placed a hand on each head rest in front of her. Her head poked between the front seats and the girl smiled beautifully for her parents.

"You two should smile for me," she said to them which drew both of their attentions to their adopted daughter," I love you both, so much. I just want to see you ... happy ... " Aleksandra's parents smiled and began to laugh. Father took a hand off the steering wheel to run those strong fingers through his daughter's silky hair. Mother had reached over to caress a perfect cheek.

Aleksandra saw it first as she was turning her delicate face to see Mother's smile. A car on the highway was swerving back and forth, attempting to pass up another vehicle. Her eyes went wide with surprise and shock. Why would someone be driving like that? Didn't they know that it was dangerous to pass cars in the opposite lane?

"You're such a beautiful girl, Aleksandra," Mother said, touching the girl's cheek.

"Yes, yes. You shall be the most famous model in all the world," Father added with a nod of his head and gave a grin to his daughter.

Aleksandra's eyes fell from happy into something frightened and nervous. Her hand reached out and the girl pointed a single finger towards the other car who was now heading directly for them.

"Papa ... that ca—," Aleksandra's statement was cut off as she screamed. The car's tires squealed as Father attempted to dodge the oncoming car. It almost seemed that they were going to get away by the skin of their teeth. However, the driver of the other vehicle was not of his right mind; drunk and inebriated just like the alcoholic they were. The other car swerved at the last second with an acceleration in speed as the driver mistook the gas pedal for the brake pedal.

The two vehicles slammed into one another. Metal ground against metal as the two machines twisted and conformed into a metallic monster which slightly resembled what they had been before. Glass flew forward and twinkled in the air like a millions diamonds, lacerating Mother's and Father's face. Skin began to droop from their faces, blood poured forth in a cascade, a sickening pop went unheard as Father's kind eye exploded when a rod had penetrated through it violently until it embedded into the back of his skull and into the headrest behind. The steering wheel had crashed into Father's chest and embedded deeply into what had been the man's ribcage, turning heart into nothing but chunks of pumping muscle.

The car continued to crunch together, contorting and crushing into itself. Mother's neck had snapped from the airbag exploding in her face, and then her waist was crushed by the console until her body had been pinched into two parts. A body flew forward from the other car, legs being ripped off of him by the sheer force of the high-speed crash, creating an arc of blood through the air, and crashed into Mother's fresh corpse.

Aleksandra had put her seat belt on after shifting from the left side of the back seat to the middle. The invention was supposed to protect the wearer. However that was not the case as the emergency crews would find out after the event had transpired. The young renown model was throw forward during the initial impact. Aleksandra had gasped in surprise before a harrowing scream tore from her throat. Then the pressure against her mid-section increased before she felt it slicing clean through her body in one smooth action. Entrails followed after the first portion of her body as Aleksandra flew forward out of the windshield, and smashed her cranium against the hard pavement of the road. It rolled a few feet only to be crushed by a car which was attempting to avoid the wreck. Fingers twitched twice ...

Gray eyes opened to a lit room, and blinked a few times. Her face and palms were pressed against something. A floor? Slowly the girl lifted herself up from it, sitting back on her legs. Raising her hands, Aleksandra looked at them.

"I'm alive ... ?"

The girl flinched violently and peered around the room with a heavily confused expression on her well-known face. It would have been hard to not recognize one of the most famous young models of the year. Aleksandra then spotted the conflict which was taking place between a naked woman and some man. She looked up at Fukuda in utter horror and attempted to scramble backwards but a boy had been shoved into her, possibly leaving him to tumble to the floor. Aleksandra wouldn't really see the outcome of the action for the fact that she just screamed and covered her eyes with her arms.

Alexis was standing ready to brake up the fight that was about to take place, well not brake up but treat the kids injuries afterwards. Cheerful music then started to fill the room leaving Alexis confused. "What in the world is going on here?" He asked looking at the black ball and see the music was coming from it. "Well that's odd." He mumbled walking over to it and examining all around it. He was crouched down when a drawer shot out of it hitting him right in the face and knocking out a blade less sword. "Interesting. Very interesting." He picked it up and examined it carefully, then looking up reading the screen. He read through the details. "This is a game? Oh My God! Were going to Disneyland!" He yelled sounding like a kid in a candy store.

Alexis looked at the nude girl who was now in some sort of cos play suit. He looked down at a suitcase with his name on it, grabbed it and opened it. "One for me too huh?" He undressed and put it on, putting his white coat back over it. "Hey this thing feels pretty cool!" He said with a huge smile. "There one here for everyone too!" He yelled out to the others. "Hey short stop it would look cool on you." He said looking at the kid who just almost got beat up over the nude woman. He looked over at her watching her get beamed away, then feeling it was happening to him too.

Alexis slowly appeared next to her in the amusement park, with a disgusted look on his face. "That creeps me out hell out." He said remembering seeing his own insides. He snapped out of it and looked around at the rides and vending stalls. "Now were are those bumper cars?" He said to himself, walking over to one and grabbing some cotton candy. "You want some?" he asked with his mouth full and offering the girl from before some of the cotton candy.

"Nice to meet you Mitsuko. The name's Alexis Zaphyl. He said smiling and shaking her hand. "I think I'll call you Mits." He said with a laugh, walking behind the vending stall and fixing himself a drink. "Now were are those bumper cars." he said starting to wander off but going back not wanting to leave the girl alone. He sat down sipping on his drink and looking around at all the fun that could be had. "I think I like this game." He said with a smile then went back to drinking.

"Lex. I like that." He smiled looking up at the stars, then looked back as she said "I died." . "Yep I did too Mits. I was blown up actually, burned like hell too." He laughed a little. "This whole situation makes no sence to me but we might as well enjoy the ride right Mits?" He said with a care free smile. "Have you guys seen that Alien thing?" He heard from behind him looking back to see short stop stand there sword in hand. "Nah, its probably a laod of bull, or just some guy in a suit that jumps out and says BOO or somthing." He laughed at the thought of a short guy in suit jumping out and saying boo. "This is probably a T.V. show or some kind of game in heaven. Don't take it so seriously, I mean we already died right? What can happen we die twice?" He said laughing and running out of drink.

Alexis patted the girl on the head with a smile. "It'll be ok. I promise." He smiled at her. "Don't get to worked up ok? You'll make yourself sick." He then got up and fixed another drink. He walked back and sat down next to girl giving her the drink. He looked around a little worried *What if there are aliens here? Would we have to kill them, would they kill us?* he thought to himself. "What am I thinking? Aliens? Really." He chuckled softly so as not to be heard.

"Shh there, there. Thats it let it out." Alexis pulled her into a hug and stroked her face. "It'll be ok." He repeated, consoling her. He was starting to loose feeling in his arm from her squeezing it but ignored it. "My mommy! I lost my mommy!Help me find her big sister! Please!" Alexis looked up seeing a seemly lost child running to them and clinging to the girl crying. "Hey there little guy. We'll help you find her ok?" He said with a smile. *I'm a nanny now.* He thought trying to console the boy now too.

*What is he doing here at night anyway?* He thought suspiciously, keeping his free arm within reach of the useless sword instinctively. He continued to try to calm them both down. "Here little guy." He offered the little boy the cotton candy he had gotten.

He had a bad felling about the girl and boy both getting his attention and hes right. "I'm not your big sister, Go away." Her tone was angry and cold. "Now now don't be mean, that never solves anything. He said patting her on the head. He knew she didn't want to share him with the boy and it would turn into bickering. He tried not to fear out as she crawled into his lap. *What in the world is this kid doing?* He asked himself rather confused, looking down at her and seeing she was staring up at him. "Let someone else help him, Please don't leave me alone!" Her eyes and voice were begging him. " Please don't leave me alone!" She said in a helpless tone, tugging at his heart a little like he was her father.

Alexis let out a sigh as the kid spit up on them, taking off his jacket and cleaning it off of there laps quickly. *filthy, filthy, filthy!* He through to himself while doing it. He sighed again when the kid went back to whining. *Why me?* He thought looking at the two of them, knowing a squabble was coming up some time soon.

Things had happened way too quickly. Before they knew it, both Mellissa and Sunkyu were in these suits, and both had a weapon.. Now they were in Disney Land..

"Well, at least I know what happened..." Sunkyu said, toying around with the small gun she had picked up, but being sure not to shoot it off. This pill was going to be hard for her to swallow, but at least now she could comprehend the situation better. So she was really dead? Those guys really killed her? The light she saw.... Did it guide her? Was she where she was supposed to be? Sunkyu had been following everyone else, but seemed to get lost in her thoughts, and now she was lost entirely. She looked around, seeing none of the people who had been with her, or were wearing the same thing as her, and on top of that, it was dark.

Maybe it was just something in her head, but she heard footsteps. "Hello?" She called, taking a few steps forward. Hopefully it was one of the people in the group walking around.

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Mellissa just followed everyone. She didn't feel like talking to these people she didn't know, or fiddling with anything. She just wanted to know what was going on. Hopefully the conversation about that would start soon, so that she could eavesdrop and figure it out.

Alexis swallowed hard again at the feel of her breath on his neck. *This is so not right* He thought, raising his hand and slapping himself when her lips touch his neck. He saw the kid run off with Mits following it into the shadows. "damn it." He mumbled getting a bad feeling. He gripped tightly on the handle of the sword. "that kid. Something is wrong with picture." He mumbled to himself. The girl then pulled away slightly letting her meet his once again, a smile on her face. "Let's go do something. It is my birthday after all. Oh," She looked somewhat embarrassed Alexis thought looking at her confused.

"I'm Sabine," "I'm Alexis, Sabine. Thats a nice name." He said smiling as she stood up, His view was blocked by her legs. Looking just a few inches upwards would make him look indecent but being the idiot he was he looked up towards her face. His got horribly red and his nose bleed slightly, he turned away his head quickly mumbling "Polka Dots?" to himself and slapping himself once more *Stop being an idiot!" He thought taking her hand and standing.

"C'mon. Let's go," She said with the prettiest smile he had ever seen. *to bad it was such a sin.* He thought smiling back but worrying about Mits. "We should go check on Mits. I have a bad feeling about this. Why is a boy here at at night anyway?" He sighed to himself thinking on the subject. *Wait if he lost his mommy why did he say Lets go meet her?* He questioned. "Were going to back up Mits. This is just to fishy." His voice was stern as he took Sabine's hand with his free hand and the sword in the other.

Alexis drug Sabine behind him. "But Alexis, he said he was taking her to meet his mother. She'll be fine," "Exactly. He didn't know where his mother was five seconds ago. Something just doesn't add up." He said with a serious look. "I protect those who matter to me, So Mits and especially you don't need to worry." He smiled and patted her on the head, Feeling her cling to him once more. He squeezed her hand in reassurance. "It'll be ok, but if anything happens I want you to get a safe distance away." He smiled down. "Promise me you want get hurt because of me?" He asked in a darker tone, his smile died as he looked around the area. "Mits? You ok?" He yelled then listened for any sound, any movement.

"Alexis, please. I don't like this. We should just go. I just want to go home. Let's go home, Alexis. Please," he looked down at her when she said that and patted her on the head. "I know you do, but I don't think we can just y." He was cut off along with her by the sound of the howling. His muscles froze in place and his eyes widened as he looked around for the cause of the sound. "Alexis, please ... take me hom—" He heard her say followed by a scream as children seemed to pour out of the shadows around them, grabbing at her.

"Sabine don't hurt them! They seem to just playing!" He yelled just a few seconds to late, seeing her shove on of them. They all went silent and stated to change, there bodies mutating into the 'aliens' they were sent here to hunt. "What the hell?" His said his eyes widening as they grew taller then him. He stood there in shock as they started to attack. Sabine screamed his name causing him to snap to attention, instinctively grab her up and run all in one swift motion. His leg muscles seemed to bulge out of the suit along with his arms, she seemed as light as the air in his arms as he ran back towards the group others from the room. "Get to the ferris wheel!" He screamed.

Zane glanced around nervously, remaining silent as he had since this whole mess had started. It wasn't normal for him to be this quiet. Then again, nothing was normal about his current situation. He was walking around with a group of strangers hunting aliens, for crying out loud! At this point, he'd probably be better off having been squashed by that subway train. Shoving that thought away, he looked around at his companions. All in all, they seemed alright. Well, except that one creep who'd tried to do something less than pleasant to that girl, Mitsuko. Good thing Teito had stepped in.

The college student glanced over at the other boy inconspicuously, hoping there wasn't a blush on his face. He wouldn't lie: he'd really been impressed by the guy's bravery. Not many people would stand up for someone they didn't know. That took some guts. Zane shook his head, shifting his gaze to the gun in his hands. This was so not the time to be developing a crush, even if it was just an admiring one. Not only was he probably ruler straight and could have just about any girl he wanted, but they kinda had bigger problems at the moment.

Like, for example, the fact that something was heading right towards them.

Bolting around, he cocked his X-gun, ready to shoot the first thing that moved. Lucky he managed to wait, otherwise he might've shot one of the many children that started running towards them. Zane sighed in relief as he lowered his gun. "It's just a bunch of kids!" Maybe that freaky ball thing had been wrong about the aliens being here. Maybe they'd left just before he and the others had arrived. Those thoughts became less certain, however, when the little brats started attacking them. "What the-- Hey! Get…OFF!"

Swinging his arm, he accidentally sent one of the kids flying a good few yards away before hitting the ground with a thud. Zane blinked in shock, looking at his arm. "Whoa. Guess these things really do work." Filing that away for further notice, he looked up to see it the kid was okay, only to find something decidedly NOT a human kid in it's place. As Zane watched in horror, the children mutated into the very aliens they were supposed to be hunting. Okay, so maybe that creepy ball hadn't been wrong. Snapping out of his terrified stupor, he didn't need Alexis to tell him twice before he started running, too scared to even consider using his gun. "Wait up!"

While Sunkyu was walking along, playing with the gun, minding her own business, she felt a sudden weight crash upon her. Before she knew it, she was on the ground.

"Ow.." she mumbled, sitting up and rubbing her head slightly. "Geez, you should watch where you're-" She looked up and saw the creepy old politician man from earlier.... and he brought along a bunch of kids. They jumped on her and pulled at her hair, laughing, and giggling. Then Sunkyu remembered how annoying little children were.
"Hey! Get off!" She cried out, trying to pry one off of her. Her attempts were successful when they all fell silent. The child that was on her simply got off, and the others did the same. The silence was almost like a high-pitched ringing in her ear. She hated silence.

"H-Hey... Are you alright-" Suddenly, Sunkyu was cut off by a howl. She went wide eyed as the child started to mutate into this terrible, seven foot monster. It grew, and grew, and popped and cracked and made weird sounds, and during all this, Sunkyu started to back up. She backed up into Fukuda, and then got up and backed up some more. The thing before her was horrific. A seven foot alien, with short legs and huge arms. Then it attacked. Sunkyu screamed and quickly avoided it's attack-- thank goodness for older brothers who liked to jump on you!
She ran away, but she didn't get too far before Alexis. He yelled at them to get to the ferris wheel, and that she did. She ran as fast as she could towards it, but still took a last glance back.

- - -

Mellissa unleashed a string of curse words as a bunch of children barraged her and knocked her to the floor. She hated little children, even though she was one herself. She found them incredibly annoying. She pushed a few off of her, and after yanking one off of her by the hair, the children fell silent. Mellissa looked around suspiciously, and then she heard a howl, and a scream shortly after. She went wide-eyed, and then heard a growl. She screamed as a hand hit the pavement next to her, hard. She then scrambled up and started running in the direction everyone was going in.

Teito called after Mitsuko as she ran off with the child, though he didn’t follow her. That would have been stupid, she wanted to help the poor child to find its mother, though something was off about the child, something Teito just couldn’t place. Why would a child be here this late at night, when it was so long after closing time? Why would the park security not take care of him?

Then another child, pestering the white haired girl, dragging her into the darkness. It was all too strange and Teito gripped the handle of the sword tightly, he was tempted to run in after them. But that would have been stupid, no one could see in the thick of the darkness.

Suddenly children everywhere surrounded them, there wasn’t any escape now, they encircled those who had just waited, him and Zane mainly. The howling was appalling, head splitting to say the least, just a constant noise and Teito bent over and gripped his head and covered his ears and-

Then silence.

He rose his head in time to see, in front of him, the child’s body splitting releasing a sickening sound of cracking and popping. It grew to about 7 feet in the air, green and mutated because there stood the Alien they had to kill. The one the black sphere had shown them. And it wasn’t just the one, it was all of them. They were surrounded by the green monsters, towering over them…

And they attacked.

Teito immediately gripped the handle of his sword, though the blade had yet to show itself. He had a serious and brave look about his face, he wasn’t the type of person to let pressure or fear affect him, that would only hinder his progress. Without a suit on though, he was next to doomed, but at least he wouldn’t go down without a fight. He swung the handle of the sword at one of their legs, but that didn’t do a lot, unmoved was the alien. Then the blade appeared, slicing through both of the legs of it, causing it to fall to the ground, blood oozing everywhere from the wounds and splashing Teito, its legs just rolling off to the side, enraging the other Aliens to see their comrade injured in such a way. The charged towards him with great speed but Teito dodged them all, skidding across the floor under their legs. He stood up swiftly when he came to a halt and the sword extended as it was sliced through the air, cutting through the Aliens.

But there was too many and they surrounded Teito again with no real way out, they were angry- furious even. Teito gripped his sword and held a defensive stance, though he was trapped in a near-hopeless situation.

Alexis carried Sabine running as fast as he could to to Ferris wheel. "Alex, please don't let me die. I don't wanna die. I want to live. I want to live with you," He smiled down at her. "Your not going to die don't worry." He said patting her on the head and putting her in the Ferris wheel. He looked behind him to see short stop was cornered with some other guy and he had the sword out. "Wait here I'll be right back. You'll be safe here." She smiled at her once more before running full sprint towards Teito and Zane.

Alexis jumped up into the air grabbing one of the aliens heads and smashing it against his knee. The muscles in his arms and knee seemed to bulge as the alien's head exploded in his hands from the impact. He dropped in front of them pulling out the sword handle and standing there a moment waiting for it's blade to come out. "Shit. Really? Come on! Activate! Grow! Power on!" He yelled hitting it against his hand. "Extend! Do something damn it!" He yelled squeezing the handle and making the blade come out. A few strands of hair fell to the ground as he stared at the blade that just nearly took his head off. "Well now were in business." He laughed slightly at his joke and almost re-death.

Zane wasn't much of a fighter, but he was definitely a runner. You kinda had to be when you're constantly being chased by homophobic jocks who want to beat you to a pulp. Running away was just a natural reaction, as cowardly as it seemed. When it came to his fight of flight response, the latter always seemed to take over. The college student was halfway to the Ferris Wheel, trailing right after Alexis, when something occurred to him that caused him to stop dead in his tracks. Where was Teito? He hadn't been one of the one's who'd gotten dragged off, but he wasn't headed for the Ferris Wheel, either. Which meant...

Bolting around, he saw just what he'd expected to see: Teito taking the beasts on single-handedly. Zane groaned, slapping a hand to his head. "You have got to be kidding me." He was starting to think that this dude had some kind of hero complex or something. Now, he had two options: keep running to safety, or turn around and try to help. Obviously, the second option would be much smarter. However, he couldn't very well turn around and leave knowing that he was leaving one of their own to his death. Especially one he'd inexplicably taken a liking to. Already regretting his decision, the teen gripped his gun and raced back toward the fray, not having a clue as to what he was doing.

Before he could even get close, one of the aliens stepped in front of him, effectively blocking his path. Zane skidded to halt, frantically trying to use his X-gun. What kind of idiot made a gun with two triggers?! "Aw, screw it!" With the creature just a foot away and reaching out to grab him, the teen final just aimed and pulled both triggers, hoping the weapon wouldn't explode. To his shock and awe, blast of energy shot out of the gun, the throwback sending him to the ground. Zane barely managed to shield his face as the alien in front of him literally exploded, sending extraterrestrial gore flying. "Ewww..." He grimaced at the creature's remains, resisting the urge to vomit. Better than being ripped limb from limb, that was for sure.

He didn't have a whole lot of time to enjoy his first kill, though (not that he'd have really tried, anyway). The teen screamed as he found himself grabbed around the neck, dropping his gun as he was lifted. Zane clawed at the creature's hand desperately, gasping as he grip on his throat tightened. Unfortunately, the struggling was doing little more than wasting precious oxygen. To his horror, he found his movements slowing, vision blurring at the edges. 'God, please don't let me die. Not like this.'

Technically, Zane had already died once already. It wasn't really a process he wanted to repeat, especially not in a slow, painful way. It didn't l look like he had a lot of choice in the matter, though, seeing as he was currently having his windpipe crushed by an giant alien. By this point he'd stopped fighting back, all of his strength focused on trying to breathe as his eyes watered from pain and terror. That wasn't working out too well either. It scared him, really. To think that he'd escaped death once just to be thrown back to it in a significantly less pleasant way.

Just as his vision had started to black out completely, a number of things happened at one. There was an explosion. Something sticky and foul-smelling splattered him. And he suddenly hit the ground with a thud. Zane reacted as soon as the grip on his throat released, coughing and gasping as he tried to get air to his starved lungs. Ugh, he felt like he was going to be sick. And when he realized he was covered in alien guts, he almost was. Zane shuttered, wiping the gore from his face. What the hell had happened? One minute he was at death's door, then next he was sticky with extraterrestrial innards and still very much alive.

Struggling to his hands and knees, he noticed he wasn't the only one in this state. Aleksandra was next to him, and he recognized his own gun near her. Had she... Shakily rising to his feet, he made his way over and helped her up, grabbing his gun. "Hey, you alright?" He was still trying to grasp the fact that anyone had helped him. Him. The kind of person others looked down on like dirt and spat at in passing. It was quite the change of pace, and certainly not an unwelcome one. "Guess I owe you one now, huh?" he chuckled weakly, throat still pretty sore from strangulation. "Thanks."

The tender moment would have to wait, though. The other aliens clearly weren't too happy to see one of their own blown to bits. Already the beasts were closing it, circling the two alien hunters. "Shit. These guess don't give up, do they?" Standing close to Aleksandra, he raised his gun, ready to fire at the first creature that came at him.

Teito's eyes darted around looking at each one of the Aliens to see their movement, he knew he was going to die, there were way too many of them, but he wouldn't give up hope just yet. His breathing was heavy, taking short and fast paced breaths between head movements. They were all too close now. It was a hopeless situation, Teito realized that now, he took in a small breath to calm his nerves. Closing his eyes and just hoping the death would be quick and painless. The confidence and hope he had before...

Gone.

Suddenly a sticky liquid covered his face, his eyes gradually opened and he blinked twice, looking at the decapitated Alien. Only thing was, his head had been exploded by just a knee-to-head kick. The Aliens seem to want to go after the new threat now, the rather tall and idiot doctor. Teito smiled at his confusion with the sword, it was amusing to see something like that going on in such a grim situation. Following suit, Teito raised his sword and sliced down the back of one of the Aliens which was the closest to Alexis. Teito panted heavily, looking at Alexis as the Alien fell to the floor in front. "Thank you," he bowed, bending over to take in a few deep breaths before standing up again. There were a few Aliens left which surrounded them, many of them had gone off to surround two other people, who Teito couldn't see over the tall Aliens. Alexis would be fine, he had a suit, though the powers of the suit were unknown, but he seemed to know what he was doing. "You can handle this right?"

Teito didn't wait for the reply before sprinting towards the others. "Get down!" he shouted to whoever was trapped between the aliens. Teito waited for a while, to ensure his orders were followed, his katana then extended and he swung it, cutting the heads of about three of the Aliens, drawing the attention of them all. "Run away now, get somewhere safe!" he shouted, now seeing the two people as Zane and Aleksander, though he didn't know of their names, but recognized them. He nodded once to them before taking a defensive stance to the oncoming Aliens.

Zane barely dodged another wave of alien gore as several of he beasts were suddenly beheaded, falling lifeless to the ground. Who else should he have expected to save their butts than Teito? The college boy blinked, shaking his head vigorously when he realized there was a light blush on his cheeks. The hell?! Okay, seriously, what was up with him? He was nineteen years old and getting all starstruck over a kid who was probably barely in high school! Even for a gay guy, that wasn't exactly, well, normal!! Snapping out of those thoughts, he considered the boy's command. "Run where? We're completely blocked off!" It was true. Everywhere they looked, seven-foot-tall aliens were closing in on them, and no matter how many were killed, more always seemed to appear.

The teen yelped in surprised as Teito was suddenly decked by Alexis, not entirely sure who the sickening crunch had come from. Before he could offer any help, though, there was another problem he had to deal with. Nearby, one of the girls (Melissa, if he remembered right) was about to be torn limb from limb like a rag doll being fought over by a pair of toddlers. Hoping she wouldn't mind being splattered with alien guts too much, he aimed for both of the monsters' arms, severing them from their bodies. "Ooooh, that's gotta hurt," he mused aloud, flinching. It was then he saw exactly what they needed; there was one route leading away from the Yokaishi, a gap in the circle they were surrounded by. "Guys! I think I found a way out." He raced over to the tangled forms of the two males, carefully moving one off of the other. "You guys alright?"

"Let go of me! No!" Mellissa yelled. She could feel her arms being almost ripped off by these two, gross monsters. That was when she realized, she probably wouldn't make it out of her alive. It was no use even trying to resist, it hurt her more than it did to not do anything. She cursed in her mind, and continued screaming. "Let go! Let go! It hurts! Please!!"
'I wonder if they even understand English..' Mellissa thought bitterly to herself. After one final tug, she heard and felt something weird, and then the aliens released their grip on her arms. She dropped to her knees, and then looked at her hands, wide eyed. "Wh-What the hell is this?!" She screamed, desperately trying to get the guts off of her, squealing a little. Mellissa didn't even know what had happened, or who to thank, but she was thankful, anyway.

She looked up and saw about three more running towards her. Apparently, they were very defensive of their own kind, seeing her covered in the thing's guts made them upset. She screamed, and backed up some more, but they continued to come towards her at full speed.. Where the hell was that gun?! Mellissa searched frantically but found nothing, not on her waist, or anywhere nearby. And then it hit her... The alien of course. With one hit, she was knocked out, and then they jumped on her.

- - - -

Meanwhile, Sunkyu had her own problems. She had ran to help Mellissa, but ended up being pinned to the ground by a alien. When she hit the floor, she grunted, and her gun slid away from her. Her eyes were closed for a second, and when she opened them, she saw the alien on top of her. Her eyes went wide eyed. The alien took the form of the boy that killed her... smiling.. being a pervert. "Yah!" She screamed, trying to wiggle her way out of the pin.
"Yah! Get off!" Sunkyu screamed again. She couldn't even reach her gun, and this seven-foot-tall alien was a little different than a five-foot-something kid at her school. She just couldn't pry it off. "Get off!" she screamed again, tears rolling down her cheeks. She couldn't save herself this time.. She was just a girl... A really tiny one, at that, and this thing was a.... whatever it was. Suddenly she felt a sudden strength in her, and she felt herself making progress, but it still wasn't enough to get her away from the alien. "Help! Help!" Sunkyu screamed, as the alien tried to grab her neck.

"Well this isn't good." Alexis said looking around at the aliens that had surrounded him. "In fact this has the potential to really suck." He stood there pondering the out come of different attacks for what seemed like hours, though it was only seconds. His hand gripped tighter on sword as it grew longer and a smile appeared on his face. "This changes everything." A grin appeared on his face, looking around at the aliens. Suddenly he spun the blade around himself as fast as he could, the aliens that had been around falling into pieces around him. "Well that was easy! Hey you guys o-" He was cut off by a fist hitting him directly in the face, making him drop his sword.

He was knocked flat on is ass and dazed for a moment. "That was a cheap shot! Unfair!" He yelled getting back onto his feet and balling up his fists in front of him, the alien doing the same. "Come on lets see what you got, Big Ug-" He was knocked onto his back again by the alien. He let out a long angered sigh. "Ok now I am mad." He was back on his feet in an instant, his foot connecting with the aliens knee. There was a load crack as its knee snapped inwards sending it falling to the ground. It barely had enough time to make a sound before Alexis foot smashed into it's head sending grey matter all over the ground.

Alexis hear a sream just as he had stomped the aliens head, he turned to see Sabine being thrown to the ground as her spine being broken. "Shit! Sabine no!" He yelled grabbing up the sword and throwing it. The sword flew through the air and right into the aliens head, sending it falling to the ground beside her. He ran up to her checking out the damage. *This isn't good.* He kept thinking to himself as he ripped of the sleeves of his jaket and wrapped up her arms. "It'll be ok." He kept say as he held her in his arms and stroked her face. "Why didn't you say where I left you?" He said as he started to cry.

Alexis wiped away her tears softly. "You did good Sabine...You did very good." He said kissing her forehead. "I'm proud of you." He continued to stroke her face gently and lovingly, crying as he did so. "Am I going to die?" "Shhh don't cry. Your not going to die, walk on the only hand...I'm not sure." His voice was full of sorrow and uncertainty as he spoke. "I failed you Sabine. I'm so sorry. I...I shouldn't have left your side. This is my fault." He said stroking burring his face in he neck.

Alexis held her tightly ignoring the struggling sounds around them, his focuse only on her. "I always liked the name Sabine more than Aleksandra ... " He looked at her kind of confused as she said that. "Everyone knew me by Aleksandra ... They feared the name because I'm famous. They thought I was better than them. I've never had a true friend before. I hate modeling but my parents wanted me to have a good life like them. They said I was beautiful. They weren't even my real parents. I loved them ... " He smiled at her, a soft loving smile. "I'll still call you Sabine. I've never realy had time to keep up with the coluter so I hope this doesn't make you sad but Ive never heard of you." Her smiled as her eyses met his and she continued.

"I don't think they loved me back. I guess not being able to walk now is a good thing, right? I won't have to disappoint them by quitting modeling. They'll never believe me if I get to tell them. If they are alive. I remember dying in the car crash. It was terrible, Alex. I don't know how I survived because ... I—I... didn't. I died. Is this Hell? Did I do something bad? Why is this happening to us, Alexis ...why?" No this isn't hell, your to kind and pure to be in hell. We are very much alive." He stroked her face and neck resting his hand on her cheek. "I'll never leave your side again." He said learning down and giving her a soft short kiss. "Even if I have to carry you around here in my arms."

'Well this sucks ass.' Sunkyu thought, as she continued to try and free herself. The Alien had it's hands around her neck, trying to choke her, and was successful for the most part. Sunkyu could feel the air escaping from her lungs and not returning, it was the worst feeling in the world.. other than slowly getting your neck slowly cut open. Her hands desperately searched the floor to feel for the gun she had. Finally, after getting wiggling out far enough, she finally found her gun.
'Yes!' She thought, grabbing it. She held it up to the alien, and pulled the trigger. That didn't work. She pulled the other one, that didn't work either... What the hell was this? As the last bits of air escaped her lungs, she pulled the two triggers at the same time. A wave of energy came from the gun, and Sunkyu closed her eyes.

The next thing she knew, she was being covered in some sort of wet gooey substance. She took a deep breath in, and sat up, looking at her arms and seeing the entrails of the aliens all over them. Her eyes went wide in shock and horror, and she wiped her face and looked around. All this time, Sunkyu has heard screaming that had recently stopped. Looking in that direction, she saw three of the aliens crowding around something.. or someone! She shrieked and shot at all three of them. They all basically exploded, covering the dead body of Mellissa with the same substance she had been covered in. Sunkyu fought off tears and covered her mouth with her hands at the sight of the thirteen year old girl, a large slit in her stomach reveling every gut that was in that area. She scrambled to her feet, only to hear all of the aliens howling. She looked towards the ferris wheel. And she saw it all... Oh, she saw it all... Maybe they really were in hell. Maybe this is how they die a second time before they get to hell. Sunkyu just stood there, paralyzed by shock and fear. She didn't know what to do now, she was lucky to have made it this far unharmed...

Maybe she should just let herself die.

Teito held the sword firmly in his hand ready to take anything which came at him and attempted to attack the others. Though he was almost immediately pushed onto the floor by impact from something really heavy, heavy enough to cause a sickening crack and Teito to shriek in pain. It was a human, Alexis from before, he had been propelled into Teito, thrown by one of the Aliens. Zane managed to pull Alexis off of him which Teito was thankful for, though standing up proved to be a chore. He eventually rose up only to stumble forward, clutching his side in anguish. It was hard for him to breathe, about three or four of his ribs had been cracked, bruised and broken, causing some extreme pain and difficulty in breathing.

Teito took short breaths and irregular and fast paced intervals, it wasn't helping the pain at all, it just happened to be a natural reaction his body was going through. He took his hand away for a minute to reveal blood seeping through his white clothes and something sharp piercing through his skin. One of his ribs. His hand bled mainly because the bone had pierced his hand as he placed it over the wound, it wasn't a nice sight at all and Teito turned away to not show anyone. It was amazing that he was still standing, still gripping the sword in his unharmed hand, he found strength in protection and he wanted to protect everyone at all costs. He would probably die from blood loss, but until that happened, he would protect everyone as best as he could.

He had his back to the others and came face to face with Fukuda, who was standing just a few feet away, gun at the ready. Teito cursed under his breath, he couldn't dodge it, he wouldn't be fast enough, so he merely closed his eyes and accepted his fate. After around five seconds, nothing seemed to happen, so slowly his eyes reopened to see Misuko on the ground, she had taken the shot for him. He wanted to run to her, to see if she was okay but he legs wouldn't move, he stood in shock from the other creature, a much larger one with spider-like features. It fought hard with Misuko, at one point it seemed as if she won, but the celebration came all too soon for Misuko was ripped apart by the mother-alien.

He wanted to scream, really he did, but nothing came out. His mouth hung open and his eyes wide at the horror in front of him, the same sweet girl who had saved him, now a pile of blood and guts. He held back the urge to vomit, his badly damaged chest didn't seem to allow it, neither did it allow him to speak, but it did allow him to shed a tear. A hand rose up to touch it, looking at the small droplet of water in his hand, he had only cried when his mother died before, so why was he crying now? "No..." the word escaped his lips as he saw the mother alien approaching, he couldn't do anything, someone had died and it was because he wasn't strong enough to protect them. The sword clattered to the ground as he gave up, falling onto his knees, the pain shooting through his body due to his badly damaged ribs.

He would die here, that was obvious to him now. But he didn't mind. He didn't deserve to live, not now that he couldn't even protect one person. The same person who had protect him and fought for everyone and here he was, a pathetic mess, not even able to stand properly.

There was a loud explosion from the right of Alexis followed by a crashing sound. He looked up to see Mits fighting a strange spider alien, ripping one of it's off and driving it into its heart. "Yeah go Mits!" He yelled with a smile but the smile soon died as saw her being cut into a bloody mess. "no..." He mumbled under his breath, his body shaking from greif and rage. He let out a scream grabbing his sword tightly *I'll kill that bitch!...I'll...* He calmed himself knowing a full on charge would only get him killed, enstead walking over next teito. He looked down to see one of his ribs sticking out *This is going to hell in a ham cart fast.* He thought looking around and seeing no one with suits on and Mits...poor Mits.

((Figures. I'm gone for two days and suddenly everyone's posting like nuts))
Zane's eyes widened as he saw that Teito was not, by any meaning of the word, alright. "Oh, God..." He kneeled down next to the younger boy, wide-eyed and frantic. The only thing on his mind was a panicked mantra of "What do I do?" Yes, he was CPR certified, but that sure as hell didn't help him here. He could see the kid's bones, for God's sake! And the blood...God, there was so much blood. He thought for sure he was going to be sick. "J-just lie still, don't move. It's alright, you're gonna be okay." Lies. There was nothing remotely okay about the situation right now. And it was only make less okay when he looked up to see the older man, Fukuda, pointing his gun right at the injured boy. Had he lost his mind. Fearing for Teito's life, he got up and stood in the line of fire, ready to take the shot. Yeah, it was a freaking stupid thing to do, but Teito had his whole life ahead of him, and probably more to offer the world than some gay arts student who was disowned by his homophobic family. To his shock, though, he wasn't the one to take the hit; Misuko was. He flinched as the blast sent her flying, though her suit seemed to take the bulk of the impact.

And then, impossibly, things got worse. Zane's heart jumped into his throat at a very loud, very angry sound behind him. It stopped completely when he turned to see the source of said horrible noise was a huge (and this was not an exaggeration in the least) creature that looked like a cross between a human and a spider. Needless to say, he was downright petrified. It just had to be a spider, didn't it? It couldn't be a snake, or a bat, or some other scary animal. Of course, it had to be the one thing he was deathly afraid of. For the life of him, he couldn't decide whether to run away or curl up in a ball and pretend it was all a bad dream. So he just sat there, watching helplessly as Misuko was forced to fight the monster woman alone. For some reason, he couldn't bring himself to look away. Not even when the woman was ripped to pieces like a rag doll.

Shaking his head in denial, he fell to his knees, tears forming in his eyes. This couldn't be real. It had to be some kind of horrific dream, all of it. He clamped his hands over his ears, trying to drown out the howling of the Yokaishi, Teito's pained moans, Alexis' angry shouts, everything. It didn't work. No matter how much he wanted to pretend it wasn't, this was reality. People had died, people were dying. So the question remained: was he going to sit there crying for the people he was unable to help?

Or was he going to do something to save those he could help?

His mind set, Zane stood up, wiping tears from his eyes as he glanced over at Alexis. "Get everyone as far away from the Ferris wheel as possible, alright?" Without giving any other explanation, he clipped his gun to his belt and raced off, straight toward the gargantuan Mama-alien. Looking around, he snatched a good-sized rock off of the ground, weighed it in his hand...and chucked it at she head with all his might. "HEY!! Down here, you oversized bug! Wanna know who killed your babies, huh?! Come and get me!!"

Alexis saw the kid stand, gun in hand. *Is he really going to fight that THING without a suit?* He thought seeing the determined look in his eyes. "Get everyone as far away from the Ferris wheel as possible, alright?" He looked at the kid in shock for moment before nodding, picking up Alek and placing Tetios arm on his shoulder to help him walk. "Don't you go dieing on me kid." He said watching him run away and throw a rock at its head. "Come on lets get you both out of here." He said as he stared to make distance from the fight that was sure to be destructive.

Alexis felt like his heart was being ripped out, hearing Alek scream in pain and seeing her cry. "Pain ... make it ... stop." She said struggling to get the words out. "It'll be ok." He said looking at her and holding her more carefully. He didn't want to move her, he knew the complications that could come from doing such a thing but he had no choice. "It hurts." She said once more, pain tearing into his heart once more. "I know it does. I'm sorry but it has to be done. I hope you can forgive me." The words seemed choked out from him holding his tears back.

Well, so far his plan was working. He'd definitely gotten the mother's attention. Now came the tricky part. Once he was sure the alien was following, Zane turned tail and made a run for it, heading straight for the Ferris wheel. Thankfully, Alexis had taken it upon himself to evacuate the others. Good, thing, too; he didn't want any more people hurt from what was about to happen. Before he could reach his destination, though, one of the monster's spider legs shot out, skimming his side right beneath the ribcage. The college student yelp, pressing a hand to his now bleeding side. 'So that's how you want to play, huh?" Clenching his teeth against the pain, he used his free hand to activate Teito's sword and slash and the spindly limb, severing it before forcing himself to keep running.

Okay, so this was going to be a little trickier now. The steady blood loss was slowing him down, and the spider woman was severely pissed and getting closer. It was a miracle that he managed to get to the Ferris wheel without being caught and ripped to shreds. He figured losing yet another of her legs has effectively slowed the creature down a bit, thank God. She was a persistent angry Mama Spider, that was for sure. Well, good. Zane needed her as close to the Ferris wheel as possible.

By the time he got to the supports of the giant metal wheel, Zane was winded and starting to get light-headed. Apparently, loosing large amounts of blood was not particularly fun. Who knew? Saving that little tidbit for later, he returned to the situation at hand, namely the giant Spider Queen who seemed dead set on killing him. Despite his physical weakness and sheer terror at being so close to anything even remotely like a giant killer spider, the purple-haired teen forced himself to stand his ground. 'Just a little closer...closer...' Finally, he deemed the alien close enough, raising his gun and firing. At first glance, you'd think he'd missed, seeing as the alien was still standing and poised to strike again. But that hadn't been his target. Forcing his body to move, Zane barely made it out of the way before the supports on the Ferris wheel detonated in a blast of metal and raw energy. The ride wavered for a moment, as if struggling to remain standing, before giving into gravity and crashing down. Right on top of the monstrous creature standing beneath it.

Watching the scene with grim satisfaction, Zane felt his knees buckle as the adrenaline in his veins evaporated. He was tired, achy, and bleeding from a nice gash in his side. Mostly tired, though. So very, very tired...

Sunkyu hadn't seen a thing that happened. Shortly after Mitsuko had... died.. She had ran away. She decided she didn't want to die, so she ran and hid somewhere. It wasn't long before the ferris wheel had come crashing down just inches away from her. She just stared at it.. And the next thing she knew, she was brought back to the room where this nightmare all started. The black ball started displaying little, funny pictures of the people in the room.. With weird names. Sunkyu's was first.
'that's supposed to be me?' She thought, squinting at the screen. It read;

"Sunkyu-SunScr3amx_X
16 pts
- too much nice-ness, not enough screaming.
- scream louder next time. i like that."

Too nice? That was weird. Sunkyu didn't feel like she was too nice.. Oh well. "This thing sounds like a pervert," She mumbled to herself, narrowing her eyes at the screen. Once all the points were done, they showed the pictures of Mellissa and Mitsuko, that then shrinked and blended into a colorful collage of thousands of tiny pictures... Then the rules were displayed, then there was a click. The door! Maybe she would be able to get home now! ... But wasn't this apartment overlooking Japan? How would she get back to Korea if she was really able to go back home? This had better have been some sick dream she was having.

"GAH! Giant spider!" For the second time in the past 24 hours, Zane woke up from a dream centered around him dying. Oh, wait; that'd been real. Right. He sighed, glancing around to find himself in the same room he'd woken up in before. "Okay, is this going to be a regular thing?" he muttered to himself, standing up carefully to avoid hurting his side any more than he already had. Wait. His side? It felt fine. Zane pressed a hand to his side, checking for the damage he knew had caused him to dose off. No cut, no blood, his shirt wasn't even ripped. "Well, that's a handy trick," he mused, looking over at the giant sphere with a smile. "Thanks."

The ball didn't answer, not that he'd really expected it to. It did, however, produce a screen with several lines of text. Ever curious, the college boy strode over and read through the writing. He couldn't help but giggle as he read over the code names. I mean, Dr. P3DO? jalapeno3ggroll? Come on, these were hilarious! When he finally got to his own review, though, he wasn't sure whether to feel insulted...or flattered.

Zane- fRUITPuNch(lol)
33 pts
- who knew fruits could kick ass?
- sixty-seven more points go.

Okay, so "fruit" was decidedly not the nicest thing that a guy of the alternative lifestyle could be called. But there was no denying that he had totally kicked ass out there. That was something to be proud of. He had to wonder that it meant with "points," though. Was this like some kind of video game, where if you got enough points you'd leveled up or something? He'd always thought video games were supposed to be fun, not lethal.

His expression fell when both Mitsuko and Melissa's pictures came up on the screen, shrinking to the size of postage stamps before joining what had to be a thousand other little thumbnails. "W-wait! Can't you bring them back? You saved me from getting crushed by a train, you fixed my side. I mean, come on! I know you can save them! You did it before." Irrationally angry, he kicked at the giant orb. It did more damage to his foot that the object, but it did sort of make him feel better. "You can't just let them die!"

Alexis saw Alek being transported right from his arms, he didn't want to let her go but was forced as she completely vanished. He let out a sigh and sat down wandering if it would happen to him too. He felt his head starting to do that strange thing and he got his answer as it moved down to his eyes. He saw her in Alek the room. "Thank god." He whispered to himself as his feet appeared and he could walk again. He practically ran over to her and started to check her injuries, a huge smile coming to his face. "There gone." He said in disbelief, pulling her into a hug as the score board came up.

Alexis- Dr.P3DO
24 pts
- excellent for a first timer.
- too much staring at ruZZian+i+z's panties.

Alexis' face blushed horribly as he read that. "I...I wasnting staring! I swear I didn't stare!" *Now I'm admitting to seeing them!* He thought getting up and laughing a nervous laugh. "I. umm. you see it was. umm." He fumbled with his words wearing a carefree smile but on the inside he freaking out. "Oh screw it." He said sitting back down a little distance away from Alek and pouting. "Im not a pedo." He said in a childish tone.

Higher than the tower of Tokyo, past the blanket of clouds that covered the night sky and among the stars that shined brightly in the darkness of space...they continued to come. Legions drawn to our planet like moths to a flickering flame. Creatures with monstrous appearances and unimaginable abilities fall to our soil like silent meteors, moving among us unseen...unheard. And like abhorrent factory the dead are brought back to life to hunt them. Each fallen soldier replaced by a fresh unsuspecting one who will be forced to fight the same fight or die.

Bbeware the empty room with the Black Ball. For when you awake in this room remember: