"Guys!" Piko cried out into the eerily still air. Just moments before the place was seething with gunshots, yells, and grimm attacking any human in sight. "Kaito! Gakupo!" with a satisfying click and whoosh, the five foot long staff shrunk into a six inch pole which was promptly returned to its holster. "Luka! Gumi!" Piko looked down when his foot got caught on something, and immediately cringed before moving his boot encased foot away from the rapidly decomposing corpse on the rocky ground. "Miku! Len! Rin!" Piko called out as he desperately searched for any signs of the group he was traveling with.
"I'm here." Piko seemed to jump ten feet into the air when Len dropped down onto the ground beside him.
"Any sign of your sister?" Piko asked worriedly asked he looked up to see the branch that Len had evidently perched himself on top of during the duration of the fight.
Len pushed his glasses back up before answering, "no."
"Your sister's passed out behind that bush over there." A third voice devoid of any emotion stated before jerking a thumb to point to the bush.
"And you didn't think about helping her?" Len demanded as he rushed over to the bush, but not before he threw a cold glare at Miku.
"I obviously didn't." The teal-haired woman replied.
"Have you seen anyone else?" Piko asked.
"No. The others probably ditched us because we weren't pulling our weight. Correction, you Len and Rin aren't pulling your own weight." Miku responded as she returned her bow to it's holster.
Piko gave Miku a confused glance before running to Len to check on their unconscious friend.
"Rin! Rin!" Len harshly slapped his twin sister's face in an attempt to wake her up.
"Are there any wounds?" Piko asked.
"I've got this alright!" Len snapped, "I don't need you to help me with everything." Len also gave Piko a glare before returning to his sister.
"I'm just trying to be helpful." Piko hesitantly defended as he picked up Rin's discarded giant fan.
"Well I've got this." Len responded deliberately. "Rin wake up! I've got some oranges for you."
"Hmm? I heard something about oranges." Rin asked sleepily as she blinked her eyes and squinted against the light.
"See. I've got this. I don't need your help." Len said pointedly before standing up and brushing the dirt off his shorts. "Miku. What should we do? We've apparently lost Kaito, Gakupo, Luka, and Gumi, and are now stranded here in the middle of nowhere." Len turned to the more experienced huntress for advice.
"How am I supposed to know? I just know how to deal with myself. Not myself and three dead weights." Miku responded scathingly.
"Wait. We've lost everyone else?" Rin asked quietly as she rubbed her head. "You mean to say that all of the other, more experienced, hunters and huntresses are completely lost?" her voice quickly raised into hysteria.
"Well, technically-" Len began but was cut off.
"Yes." Miku answered bluntly. "Deal with it." That sealed the deal and the bow wearing woman burst into tears.
"Your tears are the worst thing that has happened all day." Miku said, "so be quiet before I make you."
"Miku. You're not helping." Len said fiercely into the taller woman's face. "We need to find the others or else get killed by the grimm out here, and to do that, we need a leader. Since Miku isn't making any effort to help any of us survive. I appoint myself."
"No." Rin stated immediately as she ceased her intense crying.
"And why not?" Len crossed his arms across his chest and looked suspiciously at his twin.
"Because you're a horrible leader. You'd much rather stay in your room with all your computers and geek stuff then lead a group of people!" Rin replied hotly, but her eyes were still red and puffy and her cheeks had the remains of her tears, which caused Len to dismiss her as 'still emotionally unstable'.
"So you think Piko would make a better leader?" Miku asked.
"Yes!" the blonde cried out.
"Why?" everyone else demanded.
"He's the worst candidate for a leader! Probably worse than Voldemort himself!" Miku retaliated, "he's got absolutely no self-esteem-"
"Frankly. I think he was peer pressured into being a hunter-" Len said.
"I don't have any experience!" Piko yelled out.
"Well, he's better than Len, Miku, or I." Rin sniffled.
"I agree with the better than Miku or her." Len stated, "and I don't think Miku really cares about the outcome of our lives." Len glanced over to Miku and the fact that she had already walked away from their group into the forest proved his point.
"Third party voter!" Rin called out fiercely, "I vote Piko!"
"That doesn't count!" the pony-tailed blond shouted. "It's one vote! And frankly, you're biased."
"Miku!" Rin called out in a last minute attempt to gain support.
"I vote the one with the more useful semblance or random weird skill in the case of both of you." Miku called out.
Len began a vehement staring contest with Piko who quickly looked away.
"Which would be?" Rin prompted Miku.
"Piko." Miku said simply before stalking even further away.
"Ha! Len, you can't fight with that!" Rin crowed, "suck it!"
"No." Piko said suddenly.
"What? Why?" Rin asked as she paused from her triumphant cheering to look at Piko with confusion written all over her face.
"Because I'm not a qualified leader. Everything Miku and Len said about me is true." Piko argued.
"Well. Since apparently this is a democracy, you're stuck with that position." Len said snarkily. Clearly he was still bitter about losing to Piko.
"Len." Rin said in a warning tone. Spending twenty-one years with her twin lead her to knowing exactly what would set him off.
"You know what? No. Don't you dare 'Len' me. Piko won, there's nothing I can do. You clearly don't support me, and I don't need those types of people in my life. So, if you wouldn't mind, I'm going to go over there, and you aren't going to bother me!" Len yelled back in fury.
Rin sighed, Len definitely took that minor loss to heart, and just like normal Len, he proceeded to blow up in everyone's faces. "Len, couldn't you at least try to be a happy supportive person?"
"Look where optimism has got me." Len said darkly, "absolutely nowhere." He then stomped angrily away from Rin and Piko.
"Please! Piko! You have to do this." Rin begged as she got down on her knees.
"Okay." Piko stuttered as he put his hands out in front of him, "I'll do it."
"Thank you!" Rin cried out.
"Hey Rin?" Piko asked dizzily as his eyes crossed and he swayed on his feet.
"Yeah?" Rin responded.
"Since when did you have a giant white spider on your head?" Piko asked woozily before his body collapsed unforgivingly onto the harsh ground.
