Scarlet became aware far before her body did. All she felt was a numbing sensation within her entre body, begging her not to move. She couldn’t open her eyes just yet, but she could sense. She wasn't on a beg or couch, or anything like that... the ground was cold and rocky. The warm sun shone down on her. 'I got drugged...' Scarlet remembers, forcing her body to become aware, checking for any signs of damage. “I wasn't used for anything... my entire body is intact.... no signs of scars or broken bones.... why would I get drugged, only to be left out in the open?” She thinks to herself.

She slowly opens her eyes, not moving any other part of her body. She could see plenty of tropical trees, a pathway into what looks like a decent sized building, and the crystal blue sky above her.. 'I'm in the tropics? Just how long was I out?' She asks herself. She slowly gets to her feet, trying to fight off the last effects of the drugs. She was still wearing her dress and heels, too. She looks around the area, confirming that it wasn't some tourist place... it was quiet. There didn't seem to be anybody around

She begin to walk down the pathway and over towards the building. A quick once over showed nothing suspicious... but there was a camera hidden in a tree behind her. 'I'm being watched.' She noticed, and continued her approach down to the building.

“ You two, huh?” Came a male voice, and Scarlet stopped, leaning into the wall to listen.

“Uh-huh.” Came a feminine voice. “Do you know where we are?”

“No, I don't think any of us do. “ Came a different voice, sterner than the last. “I had just been watching tv when suddenly I tasted a dirty rag... next thing I know, I'm here.”

There came a few different voices, all saying things like' Yeah, Same here' or' Me too!” Scarlet blinked, momentarily confused. 'I wasn't the only one these people abducted? What's the deal with this? Either way... I guess I need to make my presence known...”

She stopped as her eyes caught something on her wrist- a plastic clear bracelt. “Hm? What is...?” She asked, looking it over. It looked to be like a watch or something, but no display or anything like that. It was clear as day... and it was welded tight... there would be no removing this thing. 'Intriguing...'

She looked around one last time, and walked into the build.

There were multiple people in the room, and they all went quiet as they saw her walk in. A few men.: One looked rather dimmwitted, a giant jock of some sorts, and a few people that held a posture as if the were gods gift to women. There were three green haired women- two of which seemed to be twins, the third dressed in a nurses outfit. 'Right, I need to act like these people do... I need information.' “Oh um...hello there..” Scarlet asks, looking around with a worried look and a shy, concerned tone.”Umm, does anyone here know where this is?”

“Oh gods, you're beautiful!” Came one of the blue haired people, running up and grabbing her hand. “What a delightful sight for sore eyes! Don't worry, Shido will protect you!” He says with a bright, cheeery smile.

“Oh umm... that's...nice of you!” She says, trying to keep up her smile. 'I'm going to kill this man...' She decided.

Shido gives a man swoon, until the twins ran up and punched him out of the way. “Don't worry, he was like that to us to.” One of them said. “Truth is, none of us know where this is. We all woke up around here.”

“I did too! Last thing I remember was finishing a date, then I suddendly had something over my mouth, and I passed out.”

“Don't worry, it happened to us to. I'm Lea, and this is Rhea.” She says with a smile. “The one in the Nurse's outfit over there is Maria... you met Shido already.” She says with a huff at the playboy. “The kind one over there is Percym and Mr. Macho over there is John.”

“You all showed up here when drugged?” Scarlet asks, They all nodded. “Great... what's going on around here, exactly?” She asks, giving a worried look 'Yes, do tell me who's behind this, so I can a few choice words with the punks.'

Wallace awoke to a numbed body and blind sight. He felt that his eyes were open and he didn’t feel anything placed up against his head so that ruled out the blindfolding. He certainly wasn’t back in his room due to the fact that he was lying up against something. Finally a little bit to go off of; his vision of darkness blurred out to a green and blue. As all the senses slowly came back into Wallace’s body he realized that he was most assuredly far from home. Grass, trees, and blue skies were in his direct line of sight in the position he awoke from. That position as it were, was placed up against a tropical tree as if he had only dozed off beneath it and awoke to this new life.

Oh god, did that woman drug me…? Then as he scavenged through his memories for the last things of the night he remembered the men crashing through his doorway and smothering his face with a rag. Come on, what did I even do? It’s been months since the last burning. As he pushed himself off of the tree he had been laid to rest on he jumped immediately at the sight of a girl which apparently had been standing there to the left of him for some time – or at least he assumed so because he didn't hear her approach him.

With a heavy breath due to the scare he spoke “Goodness, I didn't even notice you there. Been there long- know what, never mind that. Where are we?” Wallace spoke with a few waving hand gestures and now ended waiting for the response.
She stood about four inches shorter than him with dark hair and in a school uniform. The uniform was black and red and seemed to be a bit tattered though and she looked a bit of a mess at the moment which led him to believe that she was in the same exact predicament he was in. “I don’t know,” she stated quite simply and made it sound like it was an idiotic question for him to ask. “Building there though that’s worth a shot,” she pointed to a decent looking structure that had the same tropical trees surrounding it. It was indeed worth a shot, since the other ways that he looked to proved to be nothing promising. When she put her hand down from the pointing she began walking towards it without giving Wallace a second thought in her mind, the man simply nodded and followed behind her.

As they entered the doorway some multitude of voices came from the inside. They were clearly not afraid to let anyone know they were here so his first thoughts didn't exactly pose the voices to be the men who had taken him in the first place. Alas as they entered there were a variety of men and women before them looking as confused as they both were. Wallace noted the few folks with green hair, a big strong man, and a few others who seemed to be more drawn away from the bigger crowd of the questioning strangers. The girl he had entered the building with walked right up to the first person she had the chance to, a green haired man with a brown heavy jacket and glasses, and demanded to know what he had found out about the place. He looked a bit startled of her existence for one since he had not even been looking in her direction at the time and he answered pitifully with an “I have no clue.”

Simply shaking his head at the situation Wallace left the doorway and went off to join the multitude in the middle. He walked to the biggest man who introduced himself as John and asked hopelessly, “I assume you haven’t the foggiest idea of where we are either, do you?” He only replied with a shaking of the head and then didn't much speak due to the fact that he was eyeing the women around them. Well this is wonderful. Just wonderful. What were we just placed here to talk to each other?

Scarlet kept a close eye on the people that began filtering in. From the lookcs of it, there seemed to be a rough mix of boys and girls. “Nineteen people total.” She looks around, counting everyone around. “That's quite the crowd.” She says in a slightly shy voice, giving a slight smile. She thinks for a second, checking her reflection in one of the guys glasses. 'My contacts... looks like there'll be no hiding my odd eyes.' She thinks. Most people would probably be creeped out by this, if they weren't so worried about their situation.

“I guess we should go around introducing people. “One of the bossy ones says. “My name is Rika, everyone, starting talking.

A few of the toeers said their names. Lea, Rhea, Martin, Oliver, John, Erik, Eren... so many people, and Scarlet could teel a different thing about them. When it was her time Scarlet tilted her head, gave a small wave, and smiled. “My name is Scarlet. Um...it's nice to meet you all!” She says

After everyonebody gave a round of introductions, there was a round of silence. Shido grabs Scarlet's hands. “Say, beautiful, why don't we go explore this place all on your lonesome? Just think about it. You, me, our time together on a beach, scared for our lives- w!”

One of the twins punches him. “Creep.” They say. “But he has a good idea. Want to go check this place out, see what we can figure out?”

Scarlet gives a smile and a nod. “That's the best idea i've heard yet...maybe I can at least find a decent change of clothes.

“I'll come with.” The priest guy...Percy, was it? Said, following the three girls out the door.

As the leave, Rika sighs. “They're heading out in such a deadly and unknown situation? What idiot....”

Maria blinks. “But...umm...weelll.... shouldn't we get as much information as we can?” She asks with a very shy manner

“I guess we should go around introducing people." called out the little girl from before. “My name is Rika, everyone, starting talking."

As the names went round the place from the burliest to the green haired ones it came upon Wallace to sound out his own. "Wallace," he stated plainly and simply without the bother to add in his last name. People then begun to form little groups and a smaller one of four (three girls and one guy) left the bigger room to investigate. Others talked of following them or not and also the degree of safety of searching further. Wallace walked past the group debate and called out with a gesture "Not finding anything out standing around making noise," and so he too followed behind the four with the others slowly trickling behind him. After a minute or two he had caught up with the priest and the girls. "Well? Anything of interest?" he asked the lot of them.

After leaving, Scarlet had just chosen a direction and stuck with it. "It's best to see just where we are, if we're near any villages or something like that, it should become obvious, shouldn't it?" She reasoned out with the others.

"That's as good an Idea as any." Lea agreed, though it could have been Rhea. "I mean, this place looks pretty summery, doesn't it? All tropical and the like?"

AFter a while of walking, they stopped. It was mostly forest, though there were plenty of clearings that seemed man made. Other than that, there seemed to be nothing around for a while. "WEll, where on earth are we? A rainforest?" Rhea asked.

"Aren't rainforests pretty dark, though?" Scarlet asks. "I think I remember something about how trees can block out the sunlight there...or something along those lines." She said with a look around.

There came footsteps behind him as a man in the suit... what was his name, Wilbert?... No. "Wallace, right?" She asks, looking around. "WE've been walking for half an hour, and absolutely nothing in this direction... i would guess this place is uninhabited but... "

"But we were in that building. Rhea protested.

"I think that's what she means." Lea said. "Hey, i can see a clearing up ahead. There seems to be something there.

Curiosity got the better of them, and they looked forward, to where a pretty big wall was formed and, on the other side, buildings. "ALright, we found a cityu!" Lea and Rhea shouted, highfiving each other and dashed off ahead.

Scarler looks at Wallace with a slight smile. "WEll, that was amusing." She said. Shen then noticed that people from the building were coming in behind him. "Oh my, the Cavalry joined us." She said with another slight laugh

"Wallace, right?" asked the girl in the dress. Wallace nodded to confirm that guess. "We've been walking for half an hour, and absolutely nothing in this direction... i would guess this place is uninhabited but... "

The two twins by her exchanged a few words as well, and the only part that Wallace really caught ear of was "...a clearing up ahead. There seems to be something there."

The twins expressed their excitement of the find - a walled in city. Then they both high-fived and ran off in that direction. The girl that had answered Wallace before turned to him and smiled. "Well, that was amusing." She said. Shen then noticed that people from the building were coming in behind him. "Oh my, the Cavalry joined us." She said with another slight laugh

Wallace looked back as a few others came by, following in the twin's footsteps. "Seems they saw no point in just sitting around." he replied to the girl, whom he finally realized had two different colored eyes. Being that she probably noted him looking at them he thought he might as well comment, "I like the colors," he complimented with a slight smile, gesturing to his own eyes to make his point clear. I mean, not every day you see eyes like those. No point for me to lie about that. After putting his hand down from the gesture he nodded his head toward the city, "Might as well follow, yeah?" Not that I like the idea of wandering into a walled city with a bunch of completely random people in some land I have no idea about, but hey, why wait out here?

"Hm, do you now?" Scarlet aid, giving a sweet reply. "Most people would be terrified at them I usually wear contacts, but they seem to have disappeared.

"Shall we, then?" She says, and begins to follow the twins to what appears to be the gate to this place. "It won't budge!" The twins shout in tage, trying to pry and push the door open in a multitude of ways "This thing's gotta be electronically sealed or something!"

"Lea, let's do it!" Rhea said, lowering her body and cupping her hands. Lea nodds, gets a distance, then runs, using momentum to vault over the fence. Midway in air, she meets an electric cackle, and is repelled. "Owie!" She says, as a few of the peopl3e surround her, examining her.

'A force field?' Scarlet blinks in complete surprise. She goes to a tree, snapping off a branch, and throws it at the fence. It goes through cleanly. 'Bioorganic? I thought that was an imprecise art still...no, it must be electromagnetic.... she must have something on her that didn't agree with it.' She thought

"Well, now what? It's obvious we aren't supposed to go this way." Oliver says, looking at the place. "Should we rregroup? We never really checked that building out throughly?"

"Oh, you didn't?" Scarlet asks. "Maybe there's someway to unlock this gate from there." She says. She then notices the one thing they have in common...they're all wearing those plastic bracelets. "Hey guys... does anyone know what these bracelts are?" She asks as the walk back to the building continues."

"Hm, do you now?" Scarlet aid, giving a sweet reply. "Most people would be terrified at them I usually wear contacts, but they seem to have disappeared." An odd thing to do to a kidnapped girl. Don't see much point in that personally. Maybe to keep her from seeing as well? As he mentioned going toward the wall she answered, "Shall we, then?"

As the scene unfolds before the group of the "shocking" field Wallace stood in his distance watching the scene. Bio-organic wall, he noted to himself out loud. When Scarlet asked the group about the bracelets - which they all seemed to have on - a couple people in the crowd just muttered a few negative responses. Upon a glance at them they really didn't seem to special. "I do think one or two of us stayed at the house to look around," came the voice of a young guy named Hiro.

As Wallace looked around he did notice that there was one or two of the whole missing. "Well from what we've done here so far," Wallace addressed to the people around him. "It looks like we won't be getting past that wall. Do we want to check back on the others, or have a further look around this thing?" he gestured to the whole of the wall with the field of electromagnetism looming about it.

"I can't imagine we'll get around that zapper," said Clara, a girl in a hoodie. "My vote goes toward the building." Without further votes to determine her way, she started her walk back.

Wallace kept his eyes and mind on the city's wall and surroundings. "Well I'll stick around for another moment and see if I can tell you anything else about this." His own steps went toward the wall where the twins were, and Hiro followed in his footsteps. Realizing that some will in fact be sticking around himself Wallace voiced himself once more, "We'll meet up back at the building in just a bit. We shouldn't be long. There's only so much to figure out here."

Scarlet watched Wallace for a few seconds. "Alright then, I'll go on ahead." She smiled, turning and following a path down. Along the way, she chatted with some of the people. most notably Maria and Eve. Maria worked as a full time Nurse in the hospiralnear where Scarlet lived. Eve didn't really have a job, she lived life day to day. According to her, it was so she and a lot of people could go have some fun' all day. 'I bet I know what kind of fun too...people like her are worse than scum.' Scarlet thought behind innocent eyes.

When they returned to the building, Scarlet looks around. "Well, we all woke up here, so shouldn't that mean we're all supposed to gather here?"She asks

"That's a good point." Maria said. "So, should we split up to look around, or...?"

"As much as I would like my privacy...who knows if those stalker people are nearby." Eve said. "We should probably stick together while we search."

"I can agree with that." Scarlet said with a smile. "Shall we then?"

They found Eren on the next floor, which seemed to be a massive library of sorts. "Oh wow, I've never seen so many books. "Eve said with awe

'That's because you're too dumb to read' Scarlet held back, keeping that smile up. "Any good books in here, Eren?

"Oh yes, plenty of books...even some long thought to be destroyed. There is even a police archive in the back, completly up to date.

'Up yo date police information?' Scarlet thought, her eyes narrowing in thought. 'That narrows the list of suspects way down. Case Files are classified information... only higher ups in the government, and some criminal organzations could have that kind of acces. "That seems pretty strange, aren't all those files , like, supper secret?" She asks aloud.

"Hey, she has a point." Eve said. She must have realized it by now, thanks to that. "No way, is this some sort of goverment crap? That's totally not right!"

"Hey guys, check this out! I found something!" Came a shout from upstairs... that was... Leo? Scarlet looks at everybody, who goes up to meet him

There is a classrom like building upstairs, each with their own media center, and in the middle, a giant tv screen. "It looks like those behind the scenes for a media event." Scarlet says out loud.

"Yeah, but check this out... there are boxes with our names on them. Leo said, holding a oc with his name around. He looks around. "YOur last name is Katryiana? That's a weird name for such a sexy lady."

"Shut up!" She said."It means 'Frozen Snow'! It's a great name!" Scarlet says, catching the box and opening it. "A PDA?" She asks, looking at it. The others seemed to have gotten one of them, looking through it..

On the welcome screen was a folder, and on it was two files. One said 'Read Me First' and the other said 'Your motivation'... what was all this crap about?

As most of the others went on ahead a few - being only Hiro and Martin - stayed behind to possibly figure something useful out of the structure. The three talked amongst themselves to try and make sense of something going on here. Hiro being a technology whiz had a go at trying to figure out the bracelets on each of them each of them seemed to be the same in just about every way, minus the color. Hiro also had come to the same conclusion of it being the fault of these things as for the escape to work successfully from the walls. With any attempt in any way or direction of them trying to leave it would only end up with a zap, so they all figured it best to give up trying to figure it out themselves and head back to the main group in a more promising place.

Once back they told everyone it was a futile attempt and that nothing more was discovered. The decision soon came to investigate the building as a whole group and to head on up to the second floor where some creepy guy had apparently been reading for quite some time now since this whole thing had even started. This library they entered though was in fact the biggest collection of books Wallace had ever laid eyes on. When the mention of up-to-date police files came up, that's where his attention stuck. Scarlet had even mentioned aloud that this kind of information is usually kept secret from the public eye. A bit odd indeed... so it seems a government is involved with this business. Who knew they were into kidnapping so much. Police files as well... wonder if I would be in there. Probably best I didn't mention my last name then. A shout sounded out to them all by one of those godforsaken perverts that they had ended up with here. At least they were proving useful so far.

A classroom that held large television screen and many boxes were seen when he entered the room along with the multitude of others. With Leo and Scarlet discussing, Wallace heard only the important bits that he listened for as usual. It seemed that her last name was "Katryiana" (or "Frozen Snow" as she mentioned to the man) first of all, but what really intrigued him was that he knew that by the name on a box in here. Sure enough as he wandered though the packages he read; Martin Banks, Hope Oaks, Percy Swan, Wallace Green. He immediately grabbed his own when it caught his eye and looked to see if anyone else had already opened their own. It seemed to be a mechanical device.

Upon unpacking his own little present he saw it to be a PDA with two files already in place. One read 'Read Me First' and the other 'Your Motivation'. Percy, the priest, asked what some of them all were surely wondering. "You all got the same two files on here, yeah?" Wallace answered with a yeah himself as well as a few others in the room.

Wallace added in his own remark, "it seems someone wants us to play their little game."

Scarlet was checking the pda, turning it over as if looking for a bug or something, then shrugs. "Guess it can't hurt to"

"That's right pumpkin! Aren't you ready to play a fun little game at that?" Comes a voice...not male, but not female either. It was defiantly mechanical. "Whose there!" Rika shouted out

There didn't seem to be anything at first, then from the shadows jumped a figure, landing on top one of the desks...a mechincal grey and white tabbym only one of his eyes were red. "Pukukuku. Hello. Konichiwa, Hi, Hola, Bonjour?" The cat asked, tiliting his head... ah, it was a mechanical cat..

"What the...." John asks, blinking, and Scarlet couldn't help but agree with that feeling

The cat licks his mechanical clup, then stands up on two feet. "Yes yes, I'm a mechnical cat. Deal with it." He says. "I am the director of this island. YOu may call me Mr. Fuzzy."

There was a moment of silence, and no one was quite sure to respond to that. "YOu're...te director? Percy asked, blinking.

"YOU brought us here?" Oliver says. "I don't remember some weird cat at the scene."

"It's obviously remote controlled." Scarlet pointed out. "Well, you brought us here, now how do we get out?"

The tabby cat looked at Scarlet, giving a mechanical laugh. "YOu want to escape. That's good! We WANT you to escape! Really, we do! But well, there's something you should probably know about those bracelets your wearing."

"So there IS something to them." Eve says. "This is hardly a pickup accessory...what the hell are these things for?"

"I think our green haired friends learned that for themselves." He says, looking at the twins. "I went easy on you that time because you hadn't read the rules yet, but there's a special electro field all around this place, if you go somewhere you aren't supposed to...or try to leave altogether..."

The cat laughs. "I'll kill you did. Spark! Buzzz! Ahh, im dead!" He says

"Is that even possible?" Leo asked, shouting at the cat.

"...It is." Maria said, taking a step back. "The human heart can only handlyt a joule of eletricity... a single stream across it, and we're dead... it's certainly possible to set up something that could trigger that."

Mr. Fuzzy does a triple front flip, landing on the ground. "She's right, you know! Those things are your reminder. As long as you got them on, you belong to me." He laughs. "There are threee ways to get out of this place, porkchops. The first is to survive an entire year here, alone." Hey says , "After that, you're free to go, but i bet you all have issues with that.

There was a general shout of dissent. "Of course, even then, only the team that does the best gets to go free, but never mind that...the second reason is better...why, you could leave today, if you have the skill!"

"And that way is what exactly?" Percy asks

There comes another chuckle. "HehhehhehKIKIKIAHAHAHAHAA. Maim, stabbing, strangulation, poison, slashing, blunt force trauma starvation despair... the garunteed way to escape is by killing, my dear Sacrificial Sheep."

A mechanized voice called out to Scarlet from one end of the room which nobody had gone to yet, and out jumped a being onto a desk near Wallace. It was more or less a robotic cat, it was grey/white and one eye glowed red. It greeted them with a variety of languages and tilted its head in a cat-like manner. Oh what the actual fuck is going on here... The cat then licked itself, stood on two feet, and introduced itself as Mr. Fuzzy the director of the island they were on. "Director?" What exactly are they planning for us here. A director of what exactly? Nobody really spoke for a moment or so because, well, what do you even say to that. Percy and Oliver both questioned the thing and Scarlet pointed out for the less intellectually capable of the group that it was in fact remote controlled (and that certainly was obvious, yes, but thank you Scarlet for helping the dimwitted). Finally came the question that they all wondered, and Scarlet asked, "Well, you brought us here, now how do we get out?"

The looked at her, laughed in its own mechanical voice, and answered "You want to escape. That's good! We WANT you to escape! Really, we do! But well, there's something you should probably know about those bracelets your wearing."

"So there IS something to them." Eve says. "This is hardly a pickup accessory...what the hell are these things for?"

"I think our green haired friends learned that for themselves." He says, looking at the twins. "I went easy on you that time because you hadn't read the rules yet, but there's a special electro field all around this place, if you go somewhere you aren't supposed to...or try to leave altogether..." The cat laughs. "I'll kill you did. Spark! Buzzz! Ahh, im dead!" He says Leo then asked if that were in fact possible, which Maria answered for him and which Wallace already knew the answer to. There is apparently rules for being here, okay then. So he literally wants us to play a game here or else he will kill us. Very very weird thing for a government to do.

Mr. Fuzzy did an impressive flip and landed on the ground, still not quite far from Wallace. "She's right, you know! Those things are your reminder. As long as you got them on, you belong to me." He laughs. "There are three ways to get out of this place, porkchops. The first is to survive an entire year here, alone." Hey says , "After that, you're free to go, but i bet you all have issues with that.

The crowd murmured at that, and Wallace himself let out a mumble of disapproval. The cat continued; "Of course, even then, only the team that does the best gets to go free, but never mind that...the second reason is better...why, you could leave today, if you have the skill!"

"And that way is what exactly?" Percy asks

There comes another chuckle. "HehhehhehKIKIKIAHAHAHAHAA. Maim, stabbing, strangulation, poison, slashing, blunt force trauma starvation despair... the garunteed way to escape is by killing, my dear Sacrificial Sheep."

Okay that's enough, time for my own questions to be heard... "Whoa whoa now," Wallace gestured to stop the cat from talking anymore nonsense for a moment. "Okay so we all know that you are pretty batshit crazy, but three things: what rules, what teams, and what makes you think we're just going to kill each other?" Sounded like pretty reasonable questions to him.

A small girl beside him also squeaked out a question; "And why us?" the girl named Hope asked. "Why were we all picked for this?"

The cat just turns his head all the way around to his back to look at Wallace...which was kind of creepy, actually. "Hm? The rules? You have those lovely little devices, don't you. It's marked 'read me first' in bold letters...or do you not read English?"

Scarlet blinked, looking at her pda, and hit the app on it. There was an annoying picture of Mr. Fuzzy, then a somewhat decent length of rules. 'Let's see. Rule Number 1: Do not attack the direct. Number 2 : Don't destroy property. Number 3: Don't steal from other players. Number 5: No losing or breaking yours or another's person's PDA.... what's with all this crap?' She asks.

'Well. the teams will be decided in just a few moments." Mr. Fuzzy said with a smiile... or was it a smile? Scarlet couldn't really tell... and the cat began to do a tap dance. "If you don't want to kill each other, You have to remain here for a year... and even if you all do that, at least 3/4ths of you will die anyway." It said. "So whether you want to chance or not is completly up to you... oh, i DID give motivations as to why you want to kill on your phone's though, so please take a look at it at your earliest convenience."

"This is BULL!" Eren said, looking at his PDA. "You think I'm just going to sit here and let you get away with THIS?!"

The cat blinked. "Well...yeah, actually."

He cursed, charging at the cat and grabbing him by his throat. "Let us out RIGHT now, you stupid cat, or I'll crush this ridiculous toy!"

"Oh no. I'm in danger. Save me." Mr. Fuzzy said in a monotone voice, so it was obvious he wasn't threatened in the slightest. "But hey, this works out, now I can show you all how serious I am! Thanks for breaking Rule 1, there, Eren My boy."

Eren blinks. "Wait, wha-" He said. ?There was a beep from his wrist...and he collapsed to the floor. Everyone took a step back for a moment, then Maria approafched him, checking his pulse... her faced turned white, and that's all anyone needed to know.

As Wallace's questions begun to be answered he followed the instructions of the demented cat and opened the file reading along the rules. Before he could move on to the next file the young man who had been sitting in the library before, Eren, lunged forward and grabbed the cat by the neck and threatened it. It was certainly not threatened, and just a matter of moments later Eren lay dead on the floor with the nurse girl above him. Well. We certainly all do know now that he's pretty damn serious. Wallace simply did as a few other were doing and took a seat on one of the tabletops that the boxes had been on. I mean, the death part wasn't that bad; been there done that. He was more of just getting tired of standing for so long, and getting a little tired of this place as well though he now knew he was going to be staying here far too long than he had hoped when he woke up.

He decided to break the deadly silence of the room right now. "We do know the cat's serious," he said lightly to the people around him. "So let's just see what this motivation is, and nobody else act too rash..."

Scarlet still isn't sure what to think as she sees the book junkie collapse, deader than dead. 'So he really means us to kill each other?' She asks, trying to hide her delight. 'That can be arranged, I suppose.' She thinks. She turns to Wallace as he shouts something out about seeing the motivations. ' I don't really need anyu motivation to kill, but I guess people will get suspicious if I don't look at it.' She thinks to herself, and calmly presses the button.

What comes up is a text message' Scarlet Katryiana is the Nightmare, and we have photographic evidence proving that.' Was what was written, following a sattelite image of Scarlet walking out of each of the buildings on the day of the goverment fire, followed by a picture of Scarlet, her hand bloodied after killing her latest victim. 'Survive, kill the others, and these won't be made public'

'They want to play rough, do they?' She asks with a smile 'Fine, that can be arranged.' She says

"Alright... so killing gets the things off?" Scarlet asks. "No special tric or anything to it?"

Mr. Fuzzy laughs. "I was getting to that, don't worry." The cat says. "See the back of your braclets? There's a little slot in there that contains a chip... losing that chip means you die...and if you insert six of them into your bracelet, it comes clean off!" The cat says

'So it needs six more' Scarlet thinks, doing the math '... only two people can escape with this method, the others will live... so at most, about 5 people can escape.'

"This is...crazy!" Shido says, looking at his pda."How could you pissubly have..." He says. Most of the other people are giving the same reactions

Tapping open the file on Wallace's personal PDA, a series of images showed up. The first was of a fire, a most familiar fire he thought, and there was a very clear reason why that was. This was his second attempt at arson which - he thought until now - succeeded much better than the first time when he was caught. A few charred bodies and a couple of clear shots showing himself in the scene of the crimes made it clear enough as it was. The text appeared as the pictures kept coming, "Win, survive, and you will not be sentenced. You will return home scott-free. Even a little bonus will be added to set you up with a nice little apartment. Of course the losing side will be dead, just to keep as a thought." Well I certainly don't want to be dead. On the flipside, a few of these folks here seem like just the kind of people to help in my own endeavors of escaping. Poor saps.

Looking up from the device he spotted a few horrified looks on people's faces, others seemed to have still been reading or listening to the cat talking. "See the back of your braclets? There's a little slot in there that contains a chip... losing that chip means you die...and if you insert six of them into your bracelet, it comes clean off!" Wonderful, math. Lets see that would be... two of us escaping at best. I suppose time to buddy-buddy with people here will pay off. Wallace eyed over the crowd a few quick times. The buff guy seems a good place to start. Aw, heck, I forgot. The cat thing said something about teams.

Sitting on the table waiting for others to finally look up or stop yelling some regard about their own "motivation," Wallace soon called out to the cat again. "So Mr. Fuzzy, what about these teams then? Do we get to pick?" he tried to sound the least bit worried or threatening as he did so.

Actually, Wallace brought up an interesting point... If teams were however they wanted, then the first person she would go for would be the nurse woman. Not only was she a sight for sore eyes, she was a nurse, who was probably the only sort of medical attention she would get in this place... her other choice would be the girl who looked like she knew her way around a sword...Rika, was it? The other prime choice for Scarlet would be that incredily buff guy who didn't look like he was very smart. They could win any physical challenge with ease, and Scarlet could handle any of the mental work, because it was fairly obvious that game was dumber than an incredibly big sack of bricks.

The cat blinks. "Oh, yeah, I hadn't started that yet... thanks for reminding me!" He says. "And now, magical lottery color g teams... GO!" The cat said. There was suddenly a bright color display, as everyone's bracelets began to flash different colors like a light show. Scarlet watched her bracelet go, stopping on a blue color. "All done! Whoever got the same colors.... there you go! Those are your teammates... just for ease, however, I'll also post the 'profile's section on your PDas... you should be getting them...now.

Scarlet's pda beeped. 'New App' was what showed on the screen, followed by the 'Profile' page. On it were everyone here, listed according to their new teams. On a hunch, Scarlet pressed Wallace's name. A picture of him showed, along with his first name. Everything else, like age and history, had '???' next to them. "Those'll be filled out once you learn more about them." Mr. Fuzzy explained.

Scarlet looked around for the two people on her team... lo and behold, she had the worst team imaginable. She got the pacifist looking priest and the girl that's seen one too many bedrooms. 'Why me?' She asked herself

"Well, I hope you like your teamates! YOu'll be stuck with them from this point on!" He says with a laugh. "With that out of your way... It's time for your first challenge! Everyone has their own room here, complete with keypad and a single key within their rooms... although for this challenge, you only need the keypad. In a few short moments, everyone will get a message with a riddle as to what their door is, as well as a riddle for the passkey... the team that finds all of their rooms the fastest wins! Any questions? No! Super!" The cat said with a laugh

A message appeared on Scarlet's PDA. ' Room number: don't bother eyeing this! Yiioiiiyiiiriioiiiioiiiimiiiniiiiiiuiiimiiiiiibiiiieiiiiiriiiiiiieqiiiiiiuiiiiaiiiiiiliiiiliiiiiisiiiitiiiiiiheiiiiiqiiiiiaiiiitiiiieiiiixiiifiioiiiriiiiaiiidiiidiiieiidiiibiiyiiiiwiiiioiiiin

Passcode: Death Death Muder"

"What the hell is THIS?!" Scarlet asks, blinking in annoyance

"Something wrong? No? Prfect! 3 2 1 GO!"

The cat answered Wallace's question by shooting out a variety of colors followed by everyone's bracelets going out on a rave party with a roulette of flashing colors. When the colors finally stopped the cat announced that the same color meant the same team and that everyone's information and the like were now posted on their own PDA. Opening the file, eager to learn whom he had gotten, he let a faint grin show when he saw the names listed. John and Rika. Oh my oh my, I have won the lottery here folks. Only an instant later the cat announced the first task and everybody began to rush out of the room before he even knew what was happening. The mention of finding a room was enough, and everybody seemed to be looking at their PDA's once more and complaining. Now that was either because they despised their teammates or...

"Your hint: Phil asks his friend Steve when his birthday is. Steve replies that he was 32 the day before yesterday and next year he’ll be 35. When is Steve's birthday?"

Wallace was motionless for a moment, and then let out a clear and sounding, "What the fuck?" Putting the PDA at his side for a moment he jogged over to a doorway he was closest to. The small girl Hope was trying different doors while peering at her PDA every few seconds. This hallway must have also contained fifty doors until the end. The keypads on the doors all seemed the same, each and every one, as well as the doors. There were no room numbers that he could see on them either. Oh this is going to be a pain... Wallace then focused his mind on the riddle while walking slowly down the hallway.

Scarlet looked out in the hallway, returning to her PDA, The doors weren’t numbered, so how were they supposed to guess which door was right? Was it evens on one side, odds on the right? Was it numbered in sections? She had no freaking clue. ‘That makes it a logic game’ Scarlet realized. ‘So there was more to the puzzle than we thought… we have to puzzle out how the rooms are ordered, and make the fest amount of guesses to win?’ She though

“Got it!” Came the voice of Leo, who had managed to find his. “Luck always wins!”
Scarlet sighs… it’s always the perverts who get luckiest. She approaches him. “May I see your riddle for a second?”
Leo eyes her for a moment. “I don’t think we’re supposed to you know, do that. Rules and all.” He says, though from his gaze it’s clear he’s not look her in the eye.

“I’ll take this one.” Scarlet’s new partner, Evie said, tapping her shoulder. “Hey there, handsome. You don’t have to hand it over, just let her take a little peek? And maybe I’ll return the favor, hmm?” She says, latching onto Leo’s arm and gives him an over exaggerated wink. Leo flushes beat red, and shows Scarlet the message he had received

Leo: Your room number
. A man has to get a fox, a chicken, and a sack of corn across a river. He has a rowboat, and it can only carry him and one other thing. If the fox and the chicken are left together, the fox will eat the chicken. If the chicken and the corn are left together, the chicken will eat the corn. What is the minimum number of moves to complete this?
Passcode: You really are lucky if you best and land these!

Scarlet paused. She HATED math questions, but luckily this one was more logical bases… plus, it was a classic puzzle. “SO that makes this room number… six.” She says, the looks around. “This is the third door on this side of the hall….meaning it goes evens on one side, odds on the other.” She says. “Now that we have that, this becomes a lot easier.

“I think I got mine...part of it, as any rate” Percy said, who had been looking at his PDA, where a picture was: http://files.abovetopsecret.com/files/i ... 0d2f2c.png followed by the words (digital root)
Password: Total number of verses in the bible’

“The triangle is ancient jewish, but it essentially referse to the concept of the names of God in the triangle… the 72 names of god… I’m not sure what a digital root is, though.”

“Oh, I know this one, it’s 9.” Scarlet said. “We covered Digital Roots in class a while back.” She said. There was no point in hiding information from an ally, after all. “The verses thing seems even trickier, though..how is a normal person supposed to know:;’

“31,240.”Percy said, then took the looks from the other two. “…What? I’m a priest with a love trivia.” He says, shrugging. “Now, If Scarlet’s right…that puts my door right…here.” Percy said, entering the combination, and was rewarded with the door unlocking. He dashes in to get his key, smiling as he holds it up.

“That’s one down, two to go.” Evie says, kissing Leo on the lips and releasing him. “”What’s your puzzle, Scarlet?”
Scarlet shows her PDA to the group. “No eyeing this? What, like don’t look at it?” Evie says.

“You know, back at the old orphanage I volunteered at, they used to send coded messages so the nuns couldn’t figure it out.” Percy said. “There was always a picture of a tanuki instead of the eyeing business… but essentially, we crossed out any letter found in ‘tanuki’… so maybe try crossing out all of the I’s?’

Scarlet shrugged. It was worth a try. “Let’s see… your room number is atexfor added by one…? Well, at least it makes a comprehensive sentence now.” She says with a grateful smile to Percy. “…atexfor? …That makes no sense at all.”

“Try separating it.” Evie said. “That ting about eyeing was a clue to get rid of the is… so maybe they stand for something else? If you read it 8 x 4… with the rest of it, it becomes a number problem…”

“You’re a genius, Evie.” Scarlet lied, still not liking her general manner…she hated girls like that, but she couldn’t deny she had been a big help in figuring the lay. “So it that’s true…that makes this…33.” She says, running up to the door, then pauses, tyring to figure out the combination.

As Wallace's gears spun in his head about his own problem he heard a the door open from down the way; Hope had figured out her door number and code. Wallace ran down to the door as she came out from it with her key, startling her. "Sorry, sorry," he huffed as he stopped a few feet from her giving her reasonable distance. "Please, could you tell me your room number?" She stared at him in silence trying not to make any eye contact with him. "Come now," he started again with a bit of a plead in his voice. "I don't want to be the one to die here, and I at least deserve a fair chance. A little help. Just the number, please."

It took a moment more, but then she held up her fingers in a triple number combination, lowering her hand after each number. 1-3-2. With a relieved breath he thanked her with a sincere smile and went back down the hall a way until he bumped into something. "Wally! Hey!" bellowed the large man named John. Oh god please don't be like this the whole time. "Figured yours out yet? I can't make any of mine out to be honest..."

"Hello John," he begun. "I think I have my first part down. The guy's birthday is on December 31st. The day they are on is January 1st so the... you know, you get it."

John stared dumbly at him and then laughed, "not a clue, but you seem to have it!"

As Wallace rolled his eyes at him and then thought for a moment more, So the girl's room is 132... shit, I must be in the wrong hallway. How do I even tell? He quickly ran to another hall telling John that he would be right back. Going through the middle room again where the whole mess started he almost ran into Rika. "Rika! Hey! Any idea where where I could find the 30's?"

She coldly stared at him and jabbed a thumb to where a few others were gathered around their own doors. "Just heard someone say that six was down that way. John have his yet?"

"No, he's a bit lost I believe. He's back the way I just came from. You found yours?" without even an answer back she walked away from him towards John. He only thought for a moment to comment on it but thought wiser of it. She's a team member, she's fine. Do as she pleases. Wallace ran - then walked quickly past the number of other in the hall like the priest without any eye contact - to where he counted as 31. Scarlet seemed to have gotten the door right by him, because he saw her at a door she said to be 33. Not bothering to say anything he held his hand out to the pad and swore to himself as he pulled out his PDA once again. Didn't even read my own!

Passcode: Second verse same as the first. (All numbers)

Leaning up against his doorway he stared at the two riddles as a pair. Second verse... same as the first... the second what is same as the first what... the second... answer. Is same as the first one? Worth a shot? He typed in 12-31 being that is asked for all the numbers, guessing that it would be December as 12 and then the 31st. Just as he pressed the last 1 the pad turned red for a split second and scorched his finger along with a game show's "wrong guess" buzz. With another swear and then sucking on his finger he looked at the problem again. Key words, key words... birthday? My birthday? He looked at the pad with much more hesitancy this time as he reached out for it with a good finger on the same hand. He entered in 03-05-1993. With a click and the unlocking sounded Wallace's face lit up and he went ahead inside.

“Any luck with your passcode?” Evie asked

Scarlet shook her head. “Still trying to figure it out. What about you? Do you have yours yet?” She asked. She noticed that Wallace person next to him, seems he was to be her neighbor, unless he was a total idiot. She watched as he looked at his pda, and entered a combination, only to be rewarded a schorched finger and a humiliating buzzer sound, and Scarlet tried not to laugh it out. She turns back to Evie. “Let’s see your’s, and we’ll try to figure it out while I consider mine.”

She nods, showing her message to her and Percy.

I started out on the journey from the badlands with a full tank of fuel, 12 gallons exactly.However, the moment I started out, the fuel tank sprung a leak. I travelled at 50 mph until I ran out of fuel exactly 4 hours later.I know that the car does 25 miles for each gallon. How much fuel had I lost through the hole?

Scarlet groans. “Enough with the math problems!” She says, burrowing her frow as she begins to ponder this question, She really hated math, but at least it was something she could puzzle out without too many hints, unlike her own door puzzle. If I’m right, Four.” She says. “What about the passcode.

Evie blinked looking away. “I-um, already figured that part out.” She says, running off to the room, and entering it after a few moments.
Scarlet nodded, returning to her own thought patterm. Alright, it’s obvious that this passcode equals a number, so the question is how death translates into a number… let’s seem for French, goes zero, un, duex, trois, quatre, sunq, six, sept, huit, neuf… can’t really see anything with that, though… Spanish? Uno dos tres cuatro cino seis siete ocho nueve… no… Japanese? Ichi-ni-san-shi … shi… shi-ni… shini means ‘death’ She smiles triumphantly. She pauses, entering in-42-42-564, and the door blinks and unlocks. :Annoying little cat.” She swears, going in and fetching her key… the rooms looked pretty nice actually, like a mini suite, complete with shower and Jacuzzi, so she really couldn’t complain. As she walked out. She stook a breath, and kicked her door at the bottom twice, creating two small dents to identify her room.

“Looks we all got it.” Scarlet said. “I’m rather hungry after that t
hinking though… let’s go check and see if that cafeteria has any food.” She said. The other two agreed, and they began to make their way downstairs..