Welcome To Travis County

Hi, everybody. This is my very first Elfen Lied fic that I'll follow through with. This is also my very first Texas Chainsaw Massacre fic. I hope you'll enjoy this a lot. I'm basically modeling this after the movie from the 70's. Read and review please.

A massive heat wave had rained over the country of Japan. Beaches were overcrowded with people, and the hustle and bustle of the city was too much to handle for three months. At a small inn on the outskirts of Tokyo, some people knew this as the Kaede Inn, five peop-le were hustling and bustling, mainly with packing and a whole ton of yelling.

These people were a college aged young man named Kouta, his cousin, Yuka, whose parents had given Kouta this inn as a home of his own, a young girl with raven black hair named Mayu, who had begun living with them after Yuka and Kouta insisted that she stay with them, almost like foster parents. They were definitely better than her mother and bastard stepfather who ruined her life. The two other residents were a young pink haired girl named Nana, who had become a new resident of the inn, as well as a worker, and was best friends with Mayu. The last, was an 18 year old redheaded girl named Lucy. Now, Nana and Lucy had an amazing quality almost no human had. They were of a mutated race called diclonius, who were basically human, except for the fact that they had small horns on their heads. These gave them control over invisible, and incredibly deadly arms known as vectors.

Lucy had started off as a sadistic, human killer, but over years and an emotional reunion, she had begun falling in love with Kouta, which is why she hated Yuka to the point of wanting to decapitate her in her sleep, but there was another thing. From a bullet to her head, Lucy had a different personality, due to physical contact. This was a sweeter, but not as intelligent version called Nyuu. All she could say was that word most of the time, and she had the innocence, and IQ of at least a 5 year old. 2 years old at the least.

Lucy had a habit of changing into Nyuu either when she slept, or when she was treated with care and love, and Nyuu would change into Lucy whenever she came into physical contact with her head.

But past the introductions. This was a very hectic day for all these people. A few weeks back, Kouta had earned free airplane tickets for five to anywhere in the world they wanted to go. After several day of serious discussion, they finally decided to see the United States Of America. Yuka had never been to the U.S., so she was naturally excited to see it, Mayu pretty much had the same reason. Nana wanted to see more of the world, so she wanted to see what America was. Nyuu had no idea what they were really saying, but if Kouta was going, she wanted to go there too.

And today was the day their flight was going to go. "Ok, does everybody have their baggage together?" Kouta asked in a rush as they all ran down the front steps and crowded for the airport bus parked in front of the inn. After a quick checkup of all their supplies, a relieving 'yes' came from everybody as they all crowded into the back.

One fifteen minute ride later, they were practically racing for the ticket booth for their plane. The heat was so unbearable, that if they missed this flight, they would make a raft and sail to the states, if it meant they could leave the country for a while. The crowd was so congested and so thick, that in order to keep moving, Nana was forced to use her vectors to push people to the side, luckily, everybody was so crowded close together, they didn't even notice.

To their relief, they came to a stop at the booth just in time. "Um, five for the flight to the U.S., please." Kouta panted out of breath as they all held out their tickets. They didn't even wait for the man to tell them to go ahead, when they were already running down the tunnel. To their surprise, the plane wasn't as full as they thought it would be. "Strange. Usually a lot of people go to America, right?" Yuka asked herself as they all crowded into their assigned seats. "Not really. A lot of political problems and government flaws are driving people away recently." Mayu addressed the older girl. "Wow. Since when did you become an international afair know-it-all?" she asked obnoxiously. "I didn't. It says so here in this brocheur I found under my seat." the little girl addressed as she held out the folded slip to Yuka. She simply frowned and remained silent for the rest of the trip.

7 hours later

Everyone looked in mesmerization as LAX came into view, the glittering lights of the faroff Los Angeles skyline shining over the horizon, illuminating the night sky. Within minutes, their plane finally came to a stop, and they all shuffled single file out of the plane and were soon finally in not-so-cramped quarters. "Ok. We have a reserved ride waiting for us out front to take us to our hotel room. In the morning, we'll start our official trip around America." Kouta announced to his friends and cousin as they grabbed their things off the conveyor belt (Nyuu noticing Kouta forgot one, and everything nearly developed into a tug-of-war fight with the machine at the other end of the belt as Nyuu was trying to yank it back out.)

They were soon out the front entrance and Yuka was the first to notice a man in black next to a real-life limousine, holding a white tablet with all their names written on it. "That's our ride." Kouta announced as they all greeted the mand and filed inside. By five minutes, they were off on the road. "This is so exciting. I've never been anywhere outside of Japan before." Yuka whispered excitedly as she tried to capture every detail flying past their windows. It would have been a hell of a lot easier if she remembered to get a camera. "Wow. It may be dark, but this place sure is beautiful." Nana mused quietly. "It's nighttime Nana-san. It'll be a lot better looking during the daytime." Mayu told her best friend reassuringly. Nyu could only respond to everybody, including her own, excitement with a loud "NYUU"! Yes, everything was going absolutely great for this amazing family of five. America practically greeted them with open arms, and they took the welcome. This was going to be a whole lot of fun, seeing the sights, looking back on the events of their first overseas vacation years from now.

But within five days, that would soon change.

5 days later

Yuka was calmly looking over all the photos they had taken from California to Nevada to Utah. Everybody was loving the trip so much, they had even debated which photo of themselves was their favorite, and what they would keep. Despite whatever Mayu read, America seemed so great to all of them. Everybodies all time favorite seemed to be when Kouta got just the right angle and took a picture of Mt. Rushmore, with Nyuu's head right next to Abe Lincoln's, making it look like she was a new head on Rushmore. Obviously, she didn't get the joke. Nana either. But the good times were too good to not laugh to.

At this moment, they were on the road just entering Texas. Kouta had described to everyone that Texas was the cowboy and Western capital of the world, bu obviously, hardly anybody understood what this meant. Upon entering Texas, one long stretch of highway was all that they could see. grasslands and steer scattered along the road length, followed by the occasional crossroad and forest, was all that they could see. Despite everything else about America being great to all five of them, there was something about this road, something about the scenery here, that held something of an empty plain, or a depresing atmosphere to all of them. It must have been the empty spaces, or the blurring yellow shine of the sun on the reeds of dying yellow grass.

"Yuka, do you have any idea how many miles we've travelled since we came into Texas?" Kout asked tiredly as the sun began to set underneath behind the flat plains of the grass fields. Yuka yawned tiredly and pulled a map out of the glove compartment. "Um...if I know the American measure system...I think we've travelled at least 217 miles." Kouta was astounded with this. "Wow. All that time, you would think we'd see even a small town by now." he whispered, careful not to wake any of the others. "Well, maybe you got lost on the way. If we find anyone, maybe we should ask them for directions." Yuka whispered naggingly, yet suggestively into his ear. Kouta didn't want to admit it, but his cousin was right. "Ok. But right now, maybe we should just stop off the road tonight. I'm too tired to drive much further. We'll keep going in the morning, alright?" he asked her tiredly as he pulled their rented car off to a stop at the side of the road. "Alright. Good night." she whispered in another yawn as she fell asleep, headfirst onto the glove compartment. Kouta soon followed suit, and once the headlights were off, they were all out like lights. What they had failed to notice, was the watching eyes of an unseen, maniacally grinning figure, hidden underneath the tall grass of the fields. In a heartbeat, the figure was gone, lurking through the gras once more.

Elsewhere that night

Hidden in the pitch black night, a large, grunting figure was roaming through a small cemetary outside what Texas locals knew as Travis County. Anyone who could possily be nearby, would have heard the scraping sound of a shovel digging, followed by a brief flash, and an eerie whining sound of a camera, a really old camera, rewinding. Whoever was in this cemetary, was not well. What it had was indeed a camera, and what it was taking pictures of, was decaying corpses. Travis County, for years, had been a dead, uninhabited town, so anyone who knew history of backroad Texas, would have wondered what someone would be doing here. Something was not right here, and five very unlucky people, would soon find out just what that was.