Fear the wraith of a bored god!
"Sup class. My name is Zinc , and yes my parents named me that. I'm a native American with beautiful looking golden hair." He says as he runs his fingers through his sleek hair." And I came to Japan mostly because-"
"That's enough Zinc." Takao Hiyama says, with impatience in his tone."Now pick your desk."
Zinc slumps his shoulders, and his face became a bit saddened by his teacher interruption. He looks over to him and shoots out his arms to show his palms to him. Trying to plead to him to let him continue to speak. "But I didn't even get to tell my reason for coming here."
"No one asked for it." He says as he glares at him. " Now sit."
Zinc sighs."Fine." His head bows down a bit , and he puts his hands into his blue school pants pockets and looks at the class for a seat. He notices everyone in the class seems to blend into one boring mix of grey. The boys all wore the same white school shirt and blue pants with no jackets, accessories, or anything to differentiate each other from the rest. They all have side swept black hair just like every other guy in the class. The girls wore a centre virtual bouffant haircut, so they could all look like cute high school girls . Of course they didn't want to stick out, so they all wore the same white shirt and blue skirt with nothing else at all. Their expressions were split evenly between the sexes. The boys were all bored and the girls were all busy talking about Zinc's hair. He felt bad a first, but then lightened up when he realized he stuck out from the rest, but not as much as she did.
A girl sitting all the way in the back stuck out like a madman screaming at the top of his lungs in a quiet restaurant. Her hair, her most distinctive feature, was a long braided bright blue ponytail that hung off of her chair, almost going to the floor. It had 3 purple ribbons going all the way down it. She covers her school shirt with a black winter jacket with purple buttons going up the middle. She also wore gloves that matched her hair, even though it is too hot to wear anything like that. She wore the school's regular blue skirt except she painted snowmen on it to match her light blue stockings. Her shoes are black and pointed at the tip and she wore a white cat pin on her chest. She was staring at Zinc the whole time he was talking but when he looked at her she averted her eyes. " A shy student sitting all the way at the back. Would be clichéd if she didn't stick out so much." Zinc thought. He decides to sit next to the strangely dressed girl.
He sits down in the desk and glances at her. She busies herself with her cell phone and writing on a piece of paper, trying to cover it so no one could see, but she did a poor job at it. Zinc decides to not be nosy and begins to think of how he could break the ice. "Ask her about her hair? No, I'm not interested in the details. Ask her about videogames? I bored the crap out of the last girl I asked that to. I should just go in simple, ask her name and classes."
Zinc turns in his desk to face the busy girl and reaches out to tap her on the shoulder. As soon as his hand gets in her vicinity, she raises her hand for the teacher and asks to go to the bathroom. Mr. Hiyama allows and she quickly leaves the room. Zinc's dismay causes him to withdraw his hand and turn back into his desk."Ok, ok I'll just try to talk to her when she gets back." he says in his head.
"Can someone in the class take the attendance?" Takao asks.
A student raises her hand to do it and he picks her. She gets up in front of the class to take the attendance, then something that Zinc couldn't notice earlier came in to his field of view. The student who was calling out all the names of the people in the class had wide hips that carries a large backside under it. It contradicts her skinny upper exterior. "Damn she would make all the black girls back home jealous ." Zinc whispers to himself, so that no one can hear his lewd comment.
A student to the left of him chuckles and covers his mouth so to not laugh to loud. Zinc looks over to him and is surprised he didn't notice him earlier. The laughing kid haves blonde hair in a mess that looks like it just got out of bed. His tanned skin stuck out from his white shirt. He must of had his head down earlier, so Zinc couldn't notice him.
"That's pretty funny." He says.
Zinc chuckles in response to someone laughing at his comment. Both of their expressions are wide smiles spreading from cheek to cheek. They both covered their mouths, and hid their heads from everyone, trying so hard not to laugh too loud and attract attention. The two are kindred in their humor, since both of them enjoyed the sex joke way too much. They pick up their heads from their desk and greet each other.
"I'm Loax and that girl you were about to talk to is Nia. You should, um, probably stay away from her.
"Why? She doesn't seem mean. Besides, I can't ignore a girl with interesting hair like that."
"B-but if you socialize with her then people are gonna pick on you even more. I mean you already have-"
Loax gestures with his hands but doesn't say anything as to not point out the obvious.
Zinc smiles in one direction on his face. He shines his white teeth as his eyes open up more to show his confidence. This was his cocky smile."Sounds more exciting to hang with someone who looks interesting, and I'm sure she is, then be friends with someone who just blends in."
Loax had thought Zinc would just agree with him and try to blend in just like how every other new student would. His expression turns to shock, which Zinc saw and felt even more confident.
"Well she's probably not going to be back until lunch time. She does that a lot because she knows Mr. Hiyama doesn't care. I guess he just sees her as a lost cause."
" Loax Aichi." The wide hip girl in the front of the class says.
"Here" Loax extends his hand up to make sure she sees him in the back.
Zinc folds his arms and frowns while looking at Mr. Hiyama. The teacher sits at his desk at the front of the class, detached. He stares at the window while the student calls out the rest of the class. "Well that's pretty lazy. What happened to no kid left behind. He should be pulling her out the bathroom right now." Zinc says.
Loax shrugs "maybe, but with forty students ,it'll be hard to try to help out each one like that."
"Zinc-" the girl is quickly interrupted by Zinc before she got to say his last name.
"Anyway, I'll just talk to her at lunch." Zinc says.
The whole class period goes by without Nia coming back. When the bell for the next period rings Zinc instinctively gets up and leaves for his next class. Only to come back blushing later when he remembers that the teacher is suppose to leave. The whole class laughs at his mistake and he puts on a nervous smile as he sits back down.
The next class period went agonizingly slow because of their teacher. A woman named Mrs. Morooka,who was so strict she didn't want any talking in her class and absolutely loathed speaking out of turn. She spent the whole class lecturing the students on her unending list of rules. No speaking while she's talking, no drawing while she's talking, no nothing. Except breathing and sitting. She went on for another thirty minute lecture about how none of them will be able to go to the bathroom in her class. Ironic since one of her students is already there. Once the bell ranged for lunch the whole class sighed in relief.
"The bitch is gone! Praise the lord, thank you!" Zinc says as he and Loax stood up and stretched.
"Yea she was pretty mean, and loud and mean."
"You said mean twice."
"She was really, really mean."
"True that."
The two pick up their bags and head out of the class into the hallway. They passed several kids going in the opposite and same direction as they walked down the hall towards the staircase.
"So you wanna do anything for lunch? We could go eat out at a Ramen shop or maybe so you could feel more at home-"
Zinc is flabbergasted by Loax comment. He quickly turns his head over to look at him and says, "Wait ya'll can eat outside of school for lunch?"
"Yea." Loax nonchalantly answers
"Dang, gonna be even harder to find her in the city.
"You seriously gonna look for her in the city? We don't have that much time for lunch it's going to be impossible to find her."
Zinc puts on his cocky smile and lays his arm on Loax's shoulder.
"That means I have to do this even more." Zinc waves his hand in front of Loax as if trying to show him a big picture."If I do this now that means in the future nothing will be impossible for me, because I've just accomplished the impossible today!"
"um your confidence is way too big."
Zinc takes his arm off Loax and he begins to hold his head up high. imagining the things he can do after this day.
"Yup, I know it is. Plus she's cute so I gotta try"
"Well you don't mind if I tag along on your crazy mission do you? I don't have anything else to do."
"Of course not man, thanks!" Zinc pats him on the back. Happy that he can have some company in his search.
Zinc and Loax walk down the stairs at the end of the hallway and see a big crowd of girls gushing at this tall muscular boy at the entrance to the school. He wasn't wearing his school shirt, just a muscle shirt, while he flexed. His smile shined the expression of the luckiest boy on earth, he had the undivided attention of about twenty girls.
"Man his lucky. If I had a body like that then I could probably get a girlfriend." Loax says as he pouts.
"Please I have better muscles than that guy."
"You do?"
"Well that's what I'm gonna be saying in the near future."
"Near future" Loax says in disbelief.
"Ok maybe like the far, far future."
All of a sudden the lucky boy starts to hold his side, grunting in pain. His smile contorts into a expression of agony and the girls around him questions him.
"Just move!" He screams. Then the crowd around him open up a path for him. He rushes out like a dog off a chain and runs past Zinc and Loax. He accidently bumps Loax to the ground in his mad dash.
"Ouch. Jerk." Zinc offers his hand to Loax and picks him up. Loax dusts off the dirt from his sore derriere.
"Maybe he had diarrhea. I would rush like that too so I don't shit myself in front of a bunch of cute girls." Loax shakes his head and completely agrees.
The two exit the school and start their crazy mission to search for Nia. They walk around the city looking, and talking about where they could find her. They ask several students and citizens if they had seen her, but they all replied no. They look into restaurants and conveniences stores and even clothing stores. After a while, they sit on a bench across the street from a bank.
"Wow, can't believe it's only been ten minutes. Feels like it's been a whole day already." Zinc says as he checks the watch on his left wrist.
"Yea, my feet feel like they just ran a marathon. It's gonna feel sore tomorrow."
"I feel perfectly fine. Maybe you should work out more."
"I would, but my dad is always hogging the gym."
The two sit there in silence while they observed the scenery around them. Cars whizzed past them each second, racing to get some food before the lunch rush. All types of citizens past the two sitting on the bench. Kids, grannies, moms, dads, even a clown, who they took a picture with because they couldn't resist. There was no cloud in the sky and the noise was relatively low for a city. It was peaceful and Zinc and Loax felt even more relaxed because of it.
"I think we only have thirty more minutes to find her." Loax says as he hangs his head back in the bench.
"Ok we need to expand our search. Let's split up and look for her ourselves. If you find her then call me."
They exchange cell phones and put each other's numbers into it. They trade back and relax more.
"Thanks again for helping me on my crazy mission, but I gotta ask,why are you helping me."
Loax plays with his messy hair as he answers.
"Well, um, mostly because I was bored and you seem so confident in finding her so I didn't want to see you fail."
Zinc grins as he sits more erect in the bench."Even though I just met you, I can definitely call you a friend. Only a friend would help me this long just to find a girl."
"So would I be a dick if I just left right now."
"Yea, a big one."
Zinc and Loax share a hearty laugh together. They Ignore all the people walking by them looking at them oddly, as they crack up unconstrained. The loud laughs calm down to low snickers after a few seconds and are then interrupted by police sirens.
The cars stop in front of the bank and several policemen rush out of their cars into it, guns out.
"Holy crap! Come on we gotta see this." Zinc says as he and Loax rush over to get a closer look. The people around them run over as well and more police come and stop them from getting any closer. Everyone forms a big crowd that stood in the middle of the street. Police stop the traffic from coming in and hitting any one and from interfering. The people behind the traffic lines complain, but the cops do their jobs and ignore them. Several people in the crowd jump and stand on tiptoes and sit on shoulders to get a better view of the bank inside.
They see a man with a black ski mask holding a machine gun. He shoots up one of the cops and makes him jitter as more and more holes are put into him .The crowd outside gasp in response to this, but only a few run away from the scene. Another cop shoots the gun out of his hand and they begin to move in closer to him. The criminal then pulls out a knife in his boot and stabs a cop in the gut then uses him as a shield for the gun fire from the other cops. The bystanders inside the bank cower and scream as they see the cop head shot right through. The criminal is then hit on the back of the head with a nightstick and falls down. The police, enraged from losing their comrades, begin to beat the hell out of the man. Hitting him with nightsticks and stomping on him too. When their rage subsides, they pick up the man, who is black and bloody now, and take off his mask. They read him his rights. He tries to struggle out of their grip and doesn't say anything. One of the policemen hit him on the head again and screams to him if he understands. The man silently agrees and they take him outside to the cars.
When he is taken outside of the bank he looks up to the crowd and screams.
"God damn it Kurusu! Where are you! You can't just leave me here! We were a team you bastard!"
"Shut up"! A policemen yells as he hits him on the head again.
They shove him in the car and the police men in front of the crowd starts asking people to move and make a path for the cars. People start to back up and look at the criminal , who is sulking in the back seat, grinding his teeth. The police zoom out and turn on the next street and the crowd disperses and start to talk about the incident individually with each other.
"oh...my...god." Zinc props himself up on his knees and his head sinks down. He starts to breathe irregularly even though he didn't do anything physical. His eyes bulge out and his legs start to feel wobbly.
"That's the first time I've seen someone die." Zinc says quietly, feeling all of his energy leave him.
Loax stood there and looked at the people around them. Some looked exactly like Zinc and some even worse. There were couples trying to ease their mate's pain of seeing this. People in cars who were to sullen to drive off. Loax could even hear the cries of kids in the distance from parents who ran away earlier. A terrible feeling sinks into Loax's gut and he starts to grab and shake his head. Why wasn't he feeling as bad as everyone else he questions himself.
"Zinc you need to get this out of your mind. You don't want it to stay in there, trust me."
Zinc shoots up from his position and screams " how the hell am I gonna do that?" People around them turn their heads but, they didn't look surprised.
"What the hell possessed me to go and look at that anyway?" Zinc thinks to himself.
Loax expression turns to worry as he says "Let's just go look for Nia. You'll be too busy to even think of this while looking for her."
Zinc sighs, bows his head again, and puts his hands in his pocket. "Sure."
Loax puts on a phony smile so he could try to cheer up his friend "and don't worry about calling me if you find her. I wouldn't want to cock block you."
Zinc looks up and a slight smile appears on his face. Alleviating some of his stress.
"Yea, so hopefully I won't have to see you 'til I get back to school."
"I don't want to see you either."
The two dap off and split up to find Nia.
Zinc's passion to find his interest died at the scene of the crime. His friend's effort to try to busy his mind didn't work at all. Zinc walks around the city solemnly wishing he didn't have to see that. He walks around with his head low and his hands in his pockets, depressed. The only solace he had from his regret was when he starts to wonder who that criminal was yelling for. After a few minutes, Zinc ends up next to a rundown shop.
From the outside any one could tell that the place had nothing of interest. The little amount of items you can see through the dust on the windows looks broken. The shelves inside were unmaintained and covered in spider webs. The door leading to this abandoned building is completely rusted. Zinc backs up to get a better look at the whole building and notices it has a big back room.
"There's no way she could be here, but stranger things have happened. "
Zinc walks up to the door and pushes it open. It takes a lot more force than he had expected. The chimes on top of the door were so old it didn't even make any noise when the door was pushed open. The aisles Zinc saw as he strode down each one held a variety of merchandise. Hairspray, mangas, brooms, microwaves, etc. Of course all of them were too old, and dusty to be used. The only thing that was seemingly in good condition was a guitar. When Zinc picked it up and strummed it a horrible sound was emitted from it. "Damn, that sounds worse than a thousand dying cats." He placed it back on the shelf and went over to the counter at the back of the store. There was a bell on it but when he pressed it no sound came out. Zinc saw a door behind the counter and when he walked up and opened it, a hallway was revealed. He walked down and at the turn he saw Nia in a small room. Candles provided the only light in the completely stone room. She had various items that must have come from the store scattered around. She was crouched while looking at something on the floor. Zinc stood in the hallway trying to pep himself up.
"Ok, ok kinda weird she's in this place. Well more than kinda, but that oddly turns me on even more. I'm so weird. But anyway, I should just pretend I don't know her name and walk in nonchalant. Just don't ask what she's doing or why she left unless you want to get bitch slapped." Zinc takes a silent, deep breath. "Here goes."
Zinc turns and sees Nia standing right beside him. He bounces back and flails his arms in surprise. His eyes pop out and he is absolutely speechless for a moment. The girl that he was looking all around the city for with his friend just heard him say that, does he even stand a chance anymore?
"Speech inside your head this time idiot, and think of a segue out of this."
The two continue to stand there in awkward silence. Nia continues to stare at him from behind the wall. Inching her face closer and closer each second as if inspecting something. Zinc just stood there holding a weird pose thinking that if he doesn't move, then maybe she won't notice him and he can start again. Finally, the weird moment that no one would want to be a part of, finally ended when Nia asks.
"How'd you get your hair like that?"
Zinc came down from his pose and assumes a more natural position. He looks at her with more relaxed eyes now.
"It's natural."
Nia steps from behind the wall and walks up to Zinc and starts to inspect his hair. Touching each strand of it to try to get the whole picture behind it.
"Are you sure? Did you use some sort of magic or dyed it so much it's stuck like this or did your parents surgically remove-"
"No , no it is one hundred percent natural. See even my eyebrows are the same color so that proves it." Zinc says as he grabs Nia hand from his head, annoyed. He then runs his hand through his hair.
"You could have done anything to make your eyebrows the same color. So what was it you did?"
"I was born and then my hair grew like this."
"So you was born that way. So does that mean your parents messed with your hair while you were still a fetus?"
Zinc was flabbergasted by the girl's question. His mouth stood a gap and he just looked at her oddly for a few seconds. Nia, who had a very quizzical, and interested look on her face, turned sad when Zinc started to look at her like that. She looked down at the floor with a sorrow countenance, reflecting on how many times she received that look in the past. Zinc notices this and immediately breaks out of his surprised phase. He puts his hand on her shoulder and apologizes.
"I'm sorry. It's just- your questions kinda surprised me. No one has ever asked me a-." He pauses for a moment. "unique question like that before." She picks up her head and gazes at him with her big puppy dog purple eyes.
"So has your parents done anything you while you were still developing"
He moves his hand away from her shoulder."I don't know. I'll have to ask them."
He wraps his hands around the back of his head and shows a slight smile."Ha I should be asking you the same questions."
"That's kinda a sore topic, sorry." Nia says while gloomy playing with her hair.
Zinc feels her sadness in his gut. He definitely knows if he asks anything else about her hair he will get bitch-slapped.
"But it is unnatural." Nia says.
The two of them stand there in the concrete hallway surrounded by silence for what feels like to Zinc forever. He hears the quietness as if it's a person yelling at him to speak. Say something, anything ,even if it's stupid. He ponders in his head several different topics he could ask her about , but in the end, comes up blank. While he's feeling like this Nia feels perfectly fine. Happy even. To have someone pay attention to her feels like a blessing, but she can't shake the feeling of curiosity. She needs to know why Zinc is so interested in her.
"Hey Zinc." Nia says, breaking his train of thought.
"Yea?"
"Why did you spend your lunch time looking for me when you could have spent it eating or talking to cuter girls or-."
He cuts her off in mid sentence." Because you're so different, in a good way. I like girls who defy normal and express themselves. The girls who just dress and act like everyone else to fit in bore the crap out of me. Besides you are cute, long blue hair turns me on."
Nia couldn't help but laugh. She felt as if a thousand weights have been lifted from her frail body. The amount of joy she felt couldn't be expressed in words , pictures or anything. It was too much, so much in fact that she couldn't hold it to herself and spread it to Zinc causing him to laugh too. Even though he had no idea why he was.
"Aw man your laugh is contagious." He gets cut off by his and Nia's guffaw. "it's too much."
After a couple of tears and hurt sides the two stop. Zinc thinks for a moment that they should get out of this trashy building. They could go out to eat and then go back to school. While he thought that, Nia looked back into the room she was in. Regretting what she had almost done.
"Hey we should get out of here and grab something to eat before we have to go back to school."
She agrees and they walk out of the hallway. When they appear behind the counter to the store they see a fat old man wearing a fine black suit. He wonders down the aisles with his dress shoes clicking on the wooden floor. He picks up a snow globe that's broken open and twists and turns it while looking at it. He strokes his beard that must have been shaved a few days ago with his fat hand. Blonde-grayish hair leaks out from underneath is black, white striped hat in strands.
"You know I was pretty flabbergasted when my phone woke me up from a nice sleep this morning and told me I was gonna die today."
Zinc tenses up from hearing the word die but is also confused about the man's statement about his phone. Nia grabs Zinc's hands tightly and tenses up as well.
The man puts down the cheap snow globe and slowly walks down the aisle, towards them, while gripping his golden, jewel studded cane in his right hand
"When I saw that, I was expecting to die in a gunfight, or some elaborate plan involving a undercover cop. You could imagine my surprise when I come here and see that my killers are a doujin(black slur) and a cracker jap(Caucasian/Japanese)."
Zinc's puzzledness, and fear grew as the fine dressed man continued to speak. Zinc had no idea why he accused Nia and him of being his killers or why the man was expecting to die in a gunfight. He also wondered in the back of his head what a doujin was and how that man got that cane he's holding
"Zinc when I tell you to duck and run do it." Nia whispers to Zinc.
"Ok." He nervously replies.
The man comes to a stop a few feet in front of them and raises his cane.
"I'm a better fortune teller than my phone 'cuz I know I'm not gonna die here today."
"Duck!" Nia yells as the man shoots from his cane a powerful bullet that shreds through the concrete wall behind and the preceding rooms.
"Run!" Zinc and Nia begin to run in a crouch position. They start running normally when they got past the medium size hole in the wall made from the cane's bullet. Then they went into the room Nia was in previously. The cane wielder hops over the counter and starts chasing them.
"Holy crap! This guy is really trying to kill us!" Zinc says as they burst through the door in the back of the room. It leads to another hallway, this time made of brown wood, that has multiple doors in it.
"Come on, through here." Nia says while still clutching Zinc's hand, trying her hardest to lead him away from danger. They enter the door in the middle on the left of the wooden hallway and close it from behind. They enter a large storage room with plenty of boxes stack in aisles on top of each other. The boxes reach the bright light bulbs that hanged at the top of the building 50 feet in the air. There were plenty of moving equipment in the storage room as well. Truck lifts, forklifts, etc. The duo went in and try to find the right aisle to hide in. During their search Nia notices that the boxes had the names of the items inside and their combined weight. They stop and began to catch their breath at a stack of large boxes halfway into the room on the right.
Meanwhile, Yuki and Yuno watches them in their fancy room outside of the universe. They sit at their throne together with two seats very high up from the ground. Murmur sits on the white arm rest right next to Yuki.
"Finally the killer is loose! This is getting really interesting." Murmur says.
"Yea, but I hope it ends soon. I'm ready to give the speech for the survival games already. It's been so long since we picked all the contestants and gave them their future diaries." Yuki says.
"I wouldn't want this to end fast. I want it to be as long and bloody as possible." Yuno gleefully says.
"one hundred thousand years and you still haven't lost that sadistic side to you yet." Yuki says.
"Yea but that's why you love me so much huh?"
"It sure is."
Yuki and Yuno share a passionate kiss together, to Murmur's dismay. She turns her head away from them, sticks out her tongue and makes a gagging sound. They stop their tender make out session and stare back at the screen, but then Yuki is stopped by a thought that just occurred to him.
"Murmur, did you pass out all the future diaries?"
She flies up to his front and puts her hands on her hip.
"I feel offended that you even asked that question. I am your servant who worked her butt off giving everyone their phone."
"Then why hasn't Zinc used his yet?" He says while pointing at him.
"Maybe he doesn't know how to use it."
"Maybe you didn't give it to him. How could you pick him and not give him his future diary?!"
"Fine I'll give it him." She says as she raises her hands above her head to show her annoyance. She begins to float over to the portal to the world but is then stopped by Yuno.
"Wait, let's see what he can do without his phone."
Yuki snaps his head over to Yuno's direction."But Yuno, he could die."
"Yuki he has someone who has a diary with her already, he'll be fine."
Yuki slumps his shoulders and relaxes. " Yea you're right."
"Besides , it'll be interesting to see how he gets out of this without it."
Murmur teleports over to Yuno and hugs her face.
"That's my favorite god. You're a lot more interesting then that stick in the mud over there." she says, playfully teasing at Yuki.
Back in the action, Zinc and Nia stand behind the stack of boxes plotting their next move.
"Ok he's going to eventually find us so we need a plan on how to kill him." Nia said, then checks her phone for diary entries. While she did this, Zinc felt uneasy about killing someone. He starts to imagine the scene at the bank. The criminal who killed two cops by stabbing them and shooting them. "Am I going to have to kill someone like that? Or is it going to be even more graphic? I don't want to do that!" The thought was harmful to Zinc's psyche and he grabs his head in a panic. He bent over putting his chin closer to his chest and starts to shake. His eyes bulge out and he starts to repeat in his head over and over, "NO I WON'T DO IT!"
"Nia , I can't do this." He says as he gets out of his panicked state.
Nia puts her phone back into her pocket and looks at Zinc with worry in her eyes.
"Can't we just knock him out or just run away. We don't have to kill him." He says, quickly.
"He's just going to come back for us. We have to kill him now."
"Why would he come back? He's just a fat old man he will probably forget about all of this after we leave."
"Zinc I know you are afraid of killing someone , but he's not. He pointed a cane-gun at us and attempted to kill us. You still want him to live?"
Zinc is at a loss of words for a moment. Thinking about what Nia just said and how to respond to it. Before he could though, she continues.
"If he had you at gun point then you wouldn't hesitate to kill him right?"
"yea." he answers in a whisper.
"Well this is like the same thing. You need to kill him."
Zinc lowers his head and puts his hands in his pockets. For a moment, he didn't say anything and Nia just looked at him with worry still in her eyes. He then picks up his head and rubs his hair with his hand and sighs.
"I guess I could live with killing one person so I can get out of this situation."
"That's the spirit!" Nia smiles and takes out her phone and quickly went through the messages again so she could formulate a plan. Zinc passes the stacks of boxes they hid behind and notices the man finally found the storage room they were in. He shuts the door behind him and starts to look for them through the aisles of boxes.
"He shouldn't find us for awhile, we have plenty of time to come up with something." Zinc says to Nia.
Nia gasps and Zinc quickly turns over to see what happened.
"I got the perfect plan." She says.
"What is it?"
"All we gotta do is distract him and then the other one just stabs him in the back. He won't see it coming."
"Pretty simple, but one problem. None of us have knives."
"We don't need one they have some right here." Nia points to a box behind them labeled kitchen knives, 450 pounds.
"How convenient ."
Nia puts her hand on her lip in a puzzled manner. "We just need a way to open it."
Zinc stretches out his arms before him and cracks his neck in a cocky fashion. "Let me do this. I did things like this for a living back home."
Zinc crouches down to the box's height and starts to look for a taped part. He finds it along the side of the box and sticks his finger through it and tears it open. He then reaches in and pulls out two knives.
"Why two?" Nia asks.
"If all us fails, always be prepared. Hopefully it won't though.
He places the butcher knife in her hand and puts the other one in his own pocket.
"Well, um , you could be the distraction. I can stab him in the back."
"Na uh." He says, then precedes to put on his cocky smile. " A gentlemen wouldn't let a lady do his work for him right? Besides, you couldn't put a knife in someone as big as elephant man back there with your tiny hands."
"Well I'm glad you have your confidence back."
Zinc begins to leave the aisle and find the fat man. "It never left." he says as Nia starts walking with him.
As they crept closer to him, while constantly peeking around corners to make sure of his location, Zinc became more nervous. He starts to think his show of bravado earlier was false. That when the time comes, he may be too weak to drive the knife in. His heart starts to race , even though he was just walking. Meanwhile Nia felt fine. She was happy to have someone on her side to kill this man.
They finally got close enough to execute the plan. Nia went out first screaming obscenities at the old man to draw his attention. Zinc got behind a stack of boxes away from them and peeked to the corner for his chance to strike.
Nia and the cane-wielding man stood in an aisle a few feet away from each other. He stood there glaring at her still mad about what she said about his hat and she waited there for him to lower his guard.
"For people like you who have the moxie to make fun of my clean, clothing I have something special. A extensive, drawn out, violent death just for you. Because you've done pissed me off!"
The man raised his cane and begins to sprint, slowly, because he was too fat to move fast. Zinc saw his chance to strike and took it. He ran straight down the aisle for the guy, knife ready to plunge. He tightens his grip, stiffens his arm, bows his head and closes his eyes, then sticks his arm out straight for the man's back and he slightly pokes him in the spine. When the man feels this he stops his slow sprint and instead turns around to face Zinc, who still has his face down and his arm out.
"You call that a stab?" The man says.
Zinc opens his eyes and realizes that he made the biggest mistake of his short life. He receives a surprisingly strong blow to the face from the man's cane and is sent flying back a couple of feet. His back slid and scrapped across the concrete floor. He is then finally stopped in his flight by a forklift, that he slammed his back straight onto.
"Uh no, Zinc! Why didn't my phone tell me this?I have to help him!" Nia's whispers to herself. She then pulls out her knife and rushes towards the old man. He anticipates this by looking at his cell phone and smacking the knife out of her hand. He grabs her by the throat and picks her up from the ground.
"Bout time this thing came in handy." He says while looking at his phone.
Nia tries to struggle to break free. Bit his hand, kicked his stomach spat in his eye , but to no avail, other than pissing him off.
"Don't worry I'm not gonna let you die un entertained." The man says with a malicious smile spread wide across his ruffled face. He walks over to the fallen boy, who is holding his scratched and lumpy back in pain, the man then precedes to entertain Nia.
He slams his jewel encrusted cane right on Zinc's knee cap, leaning his heavy body on it for added pain. Zinc's scream of agony spreads far past numerous aisles.
"NO STOP IT!" Nia yells as she starts again to struggle more.
"I told you I'll entertain you, now let me finish."
He starts repeatedly banging Zinc's knee with his heavy cane. Turning it into a black and blue mangled mess that resembles a balled up piece of paper more than a knee.
"NO ZINC!" Nia yells to the top of her lunges for the poor boy as tears stream down her face, onto the man's hand. Zinc's screams start to fade more as the pain takes away all of his energy to do anything. All the screaming, crying, and pain makes the psychotic man happy. His twisted smile just grows bigger and bigger the more he hits him. Finally, he stops.
"You know, you really need to learn how to kill right." The man stays while looking at the battered Zinc. "Maybe you need a demonstration, on how to make someone really die." He moves away and places Nia on the ground and puts his fat foot on her chest to make sure she doesn't move.
Zinc lays there watching Nia squirm and scream, while telling him to close his eyes. The man enjoying every bit of this. Rage starts to build up in Zinc. Rage from what that fat old man did to him. Rage from his failure to kill him earlier. Rage from having the man torturing him like this. "I'm not gonna let this happen!" Zinc screams to himself in his head. He looks at the knife still in his right hand and clutches it tightly. He rolls over to his side to pick himself up. He puts pressure on his okay knee and unfortunately on his mangled knee too. The pain is overwhelming to him. It floods his mind and body. Every part of him is saying no but what he is thinking is, "Screw the pain." Instead of holding him back, he made the pain push him forward. He ran for the guy, knife ready and held in both hands, and stabbed it straight into his spine. Nia moves as soon as she felt his weight off of her. Overtaken by rage, he yanks the knife back out and stabs him again and again and again. He keeps stabbing him in the back until all of his passionate energy is gone and he falls to the floor right next to the bloody pool that the deceased man made.
"Bastard." Zinc says while panting on the ground, dead tired.
Nia lifts his upper-body from the ground, hugs him, and thanks him profusely.
"I knew you could kill him." She says gleefully.
"Yea but I fucked-up. I should of killed him earlier-sorry."
"Everyone's first kill isn't easy. Don't be so hard on yourself."
"I'm sor-."
All of Zinc's energy finally leaves his body and he passes out in Nia's arms.
The sweet smell of bitter melon wakes Zinc up(no not really it smells awful!). He jolts awake and finds himself completely drenched in it. "What the hell?!" he yells.
He finds himself in a small light purple room with only a bed in it that matches the purple walls and white ceiling and floor. The only person that he is accompanied with is a little demon he doesn't even know.
"Hi." Murmur says while holding a bucket behind her back.
"Hi? that's all you gotta say you just threw a bucket of bitter melon at me." a drip of the atrocious drink gets in his mouth and it immediately makes him spit it out and wipe his tongue clean of the filth.
"I didn't throw this at you someone came in here and just tossed it on you and ran."
He looks at the her in disbelief. Glaring at her from across the room in the bed where he laid.
"So someone just walked in here and tossed bitter melon on me." He shot his arms out for emphasis for this "Why?"
"So they could wake you up."
"Why not just use water!" He yells and then got more of the horrible tasting drink in his mouth.
"I- I mean they didn't have enough water close by so they just used the closest thing."
Zinc sighs and says. " at least there wasn't something worse nearby. Although this is pretty horrible."
He looks down at the covers where his knee is and notices that it feels completely fine. He pulls up the sheet, and while he does this Murmur throws away the evidence, and sees his knee doesn't look banged up at all. He pulls his head from under the covers and asks Murmur who did this.
"It was that girl you was with. She's also probably the one that threw that on you."
He ignores her last comment and asks where Nia is at. Murmur then points to the door leading outside of the room. Zinc got out of bed and walks to the door.
"Oh yea almost forgot, Here. " Murmur hands him a black and white memo pad.
"Why are you giving me this?"
"There's no time you gotta go now."
She pushes him straight out of the room .The light outside blinded him for a bit, and when he could see again he notices that he is in a completely different place. He stands on a circular platform with twenty two other people standing on one as well, forming a big circle. Of course Zinc felt confused and had a lot of questions on his mind but they were quickly answered by Yuki.
"Finally everyone is here." Yuki gets up from his seat up top his throne that stood over all of them." Welcome to the cathedral of time and space. I am your god Yukiteru Amano, and this is your goddess Yuno Gasai."
"God?!" Zinc says
"Goddess?" Nia says. When Zinc hears her he looks to the left and sees her standing on the platform right next to him. He could only see her form since her features were shrouded by purple haze. She gazed up at the two with curiosity.
"We have chosen all of you to compete in the survival games. Now here are the rules. You have all been given a future diary that will predict your future in a unique way fitted to your personality. You must keep these diaries protected because they are linked to your lives. If it breaks, then you die. If it predicts your demise then you will have to do whatever you can to prevent it. Also you will all be given partners that you will have to find on your own like this."
Yuki and Yuno pull out their phones and bump it together at the top. The phones then shine a faint blue light together.
"So go find your partners before you kill anyone, because they are very important. If you kill your partner, even if it's an accident, then you will die." They withdraw their phones."The two last remaining people will be given a wish for anything, except more wishes. So any questions?"
Zinc quickly went through his previous experience in his head. All the pain he had to go through he has to go through again. He has to kill someone, again. "but why?" He asks himself as he balled his fists in rage."Why do we have to do this. If it's just a wish then what point is there to have to kill each other.
Yuki flew over to his platform with a calm look on his face and his hands folded behind his back.
"Simply put , because were bored."
Miss Murmur behind the scenes: A whole New game?
Yuki and Yuno edition
Yuki sits in a bar in Russia with a cold beer in his right hand. He is dressed in his usual black and white attire that he wears when he visits this part of the world. White boots that go a bit past his black jeans. A big black coat around him that reveals the white shirt Yuno made for him. On it, it reads ,"God of the Husbands" in red letters with hearts around the words. In the rest of the bar, everyone is overjoyed. Men are having little parties for their friend who just made the legal drinking age. A brave man is going up to a raving beauty with the intent of getting her in bed with him , and so far he is on his way to do it. Drunkards are playing darts with high accuracy (surprisingly) in the corner of the bar. Even the gays and lesbians are open and having fun with the other patrons. Everyone is having fun, except Yuki.
The beer in his hand is instantly chugged down and slid across the wooden countertop towards his other sixteen empty drinks.
"Hey Vlad, get me another one." Yuki says without any slur in his voice.
The bartender takes a empty glass he just recently cleaned and pours another drink in , and slides it towards Yuki's hands.
"Thanks" Yuki says while still sitting there looking bored. His eyes were fixed on the figure before him. It was a figurine of a man with a beer gut , drinking a barrel of beer. Underneath it was the time, Seven p.m. Yuki looked at it while not really thinking about anything significant. He just counted the minutes since he was last entertained by something.
"Why so glum , chum?" Vlad the bartender asks in his deep voice as he grabs another cup to clean. He saw some red lipstick on the rim and couldn't help but imagine what gorgeous woman left that. Then he went on to think of the things he would do to her for hours and hours and hours...
Yuki saw him lost in his thought "Jokes on him , the person that left that was a dude." He thought.
The bartender got out of his trance and continues to speak. "My favorite customer, you should be overjoyed and drink more. Today marks the 15th anniversary of when Russia finally kicked those smug American asses off their throne. " Vlad spreads out his arms to form a Y with his body , so he could convey his happiness to Yuki.
"I haven't been overjoyed in 15 years, 6 months , 128 days, 400 hours, and 1616 minutes." The clock changes to 7:01."Now 1617 minutes.
"You should buy a whole kiloliter of beer. It will wash away all of your boredom once you get hammered."
Yuki chugs down his seventeenth drink and gently crashes it into the rest. "Alcohol hasn't affected me in a while."
"Exactly, you come in here and drink enough to intoxicate two whole armies and then leave as if you were drinking water, and always filling up my bank account too. Never get tired of seeing that." The bartender slides Yuki his eighteenth drink.
"I don't drink that much Vlad. My record is only at fifty. That could get roughly about one army."
"Speaking of your record , it's about to be beat by that lass over there."
Yuki turns his head to the left towards the entrance and sees Murmur sitting at a table drinking two beers at the same time. She is in her adult form and has a big crowd around her cheering for the next drink , which is drink number twenty.
"Murmur." Yuki whispers under his breath and then walks over to the table she is sitting at. "What are you doing here?" He says as he places his hands on the table. She finishes her twentieth drink and wipes her mouth clean with a nearby napkin.
"A little birdie told me that this place had the best beer in the world, so I just had to come."
"And who was that?"
"Yuno."
Yuki waved his hand in a horizontal way and instantly everyone in the bar was frozen in time, except him and Murmur.
"Just fess up, you followed me here didn't you." He says as he slams his hands on the table for emphasis. In response to that, Murmur puts her hands up in a defense manner.
"Ok, ok, you got me, but I only followed you here to see where you were going. I was going to leave but when I found out you have a record here I had to stay and beat it."
"Ok one, don't tell Yuno about my hiding spot ." He points up his index finger for one and his middle finger for two. " and two, no one is going to beat my record except me."
The two got all up in each other's grill, putting their best game face on. "If you can keep your record from being snatched away by me, then I won't say a word."
"Deal."
Yuki waves his hand again in the same pattern and lets everyone continue what they were doing. He then pulls up a seat to Murmur's table and yells to Vlad to get them some more drinks. He sees his opportunity to make a lot of money and gets them their drinks immediately.
"Let's go!" Murmur says as she starts drinking beer after beer, one by one. Yuki joins her, except faster, finishing off a drink and getting another one each second. He is now catching up to her with twenty five drinks to her twenty seven. Murmur sees this and puts on a determined face. She starts to resume what she was doing earlier and pours down two drinks every five seconds. Now she has beaten Yuki's previous record of fifty and exceeds it by nine. Yuki is close behind her at fifty seven. The crowd is evenly split between the two. The people right behind Murmur are chanting her name in unison and are waving their signs they just made (somehow) of her. Yuki's crowd stood behind him with painted faces on (again somehow) and roaring for a new record. Vlad had to get them drinks so fast he had to get people from the crowd to help, luckily for him, he didn't have to pay them.
"Yuki, if you give up now I'll try to ask Yuno to only punish you half as much." She chugs down her sixty ninth drink after delivering her taunt to Yuki.
"I hid here from Yuno for a loooooong time. So I've learned how to handle my alcohol." Three filled drinks are then grabbed and chugged by Yuki all at the same time, passing up Murmur at seventy two, and the crowd goes wild!
Since that was the first time Yuki has ever drunk that many beers at once , he didn't expect the reaction his body would have. He burped at a tremendous volume and accidently caused a small earthquake with his god powers, but nobody cared. They were too hammered and excited to anyway.
"I think you're starting to get tipsy. A sober god wouldn't make the place shake like that." The seventy third drink by Murmur is placed on the table , and then she goes for the next.
Yuki swings his free hand at her, denying her claim, but he does begin to speak with a slur. "Psssssshaw, I'm god!" He says loudly." This can't- *hiccup* affect me."
"Did he just say he's god?" A man in Murmur's crowd asks to a person beside him.
"Yea, he must be pretty drunk. You got this in the bag!"
"I already had it." Murmur sips her eightieth drink confidently. She sits there grinning, watching Yuki swaying back and forth and hear him talk some drabble about his hiding spots. " I guess I know where to go after this." She thinks.
A man from Yuki's side of the crowd starts shaking him to his senses. " Come on man. You're not just gonna let someone new beat your record are ya?" Yuki responds to his fan with a slurred no." That's the spirit! Now drink up." He pours the seventy third beer down Yuki's throat and yells to someone to get him another.
"Were all out!" The man yells back.
The crowd lets out a aw in unison and falls quiet for a minute. Yuki begins to think about the situation he is stuck in. If he doesn't beat Murmur then she will tell Yuno about his hiding spot. But if he stays here any longer and gets more tipsy then Yuno is bound to find him. He begins to imagine what she will do if she finds him. She would begin by lighting the bar on fire with a huge fireball. Then mow down each patron one by one as she gets closer. Then she would force him back home kicking and screaming. THEN the punishment...
Yuki then decides to do what any man in his right mind would do.
"Fuck it. Free beers for everybody!" Of course he doesn't, he is now completely drunk.
Suddenly everyone's glass is filled with beer and the machine becomes over poured with it. So much, in fact, that there are people holding their mouths open right underneath it. No one questioned where the free beer magically came from and just drunk it. As soon as the last drop reached their lips, more came into their glasses. Everyone cheered and toasted one another for the free drinks.
"Everyone's getting wasted tonight!" Yuki yells as he stands up from his seat with arms stretched out to the ceiling. "and you're not gonna beat my-"
Boom! Fire engulfs the entrance to the bar and quickly spreads around. Everyone drops their glass and start running for the exit. Trampled bodies lay on the ground motionless from everyone's frantic running. Even though their life is in danger, there are people who take an opportunity when they see it, and loot all the beer they can carry. While all of this craziness is happening ,Yuki just sits there, completely scared of his wife.
"Thanks Murmur for finding him for me." Happiness spreads across her face like the fire on the bar. If Yuno wasn't in a rush, she might have actually stayed here for awhile.
Murmur reverts back to her chibi form and flies over to Yuno's side. The chair under Yuki slides back as he shoots up from his chair in surprise.
"Damn it Murmur you sold me out! For what?"
"For this."
Yuno hands Murmur the Shoujo manga she has been craving for years.
*Face palm*"Why didn't I think of that."
Like a predator who just caught their prey, Yuno walked her way to Yuki. Completely ignoring the fires, and falling debris around them because, you know, they're gods.
"Please Yuno I was just out getting a couple of drinks. I was going to come straight back." He says frantically.
"You left me alone to watch the whole world for two days." She says, a bit annoyed.
Yuki creeps back slowly away from Yuno, terrified of what she might do."But you want me home all the time. I need to go out and stretch my legs.
"Well now you can come home and stay, for the next thousand years."
"WHAT?!"
She instantly appears in front of him and grabs him by the shoulders, then all three of them teleport home.
They appear into their domestic living room. Slightly bigger than average but still smaller than rich. To them, this was the perfect size. Even though each room in their house outside of the universe leads to a bigger place that shouldn't actually fit.
Yuno whips out magical cuffs out of nowhere and attempts to lock Yuki here, but he dodges and attempts to persuade her.
"Yuno please don't lock me in here again. I only left because I was bored.
She steps closer to him as she speaks." You were bored because you left. So let me fix that for you." She tries to cuff him again and he evades her for a second time.
"I need some entertainment Yuno."
"And I need you home more Yuki."
"And I have an idea!" Murmur says as she jumps to get their attention.
"How about we start a new survival game. That way you can have Yuki and you can have some entertainment."
"Honestly, I was getting a bit bored too. Lighting that place up was the most fun I had in 15 years."
"Then this will be the perfect way to cure our boredom."
"Wait, wait, wait, we can't do this. We're not gonna give up our position of god to someone. We're not even close to dead."
"Good point. Hmm what should we do." Yuno taps her finger on her lip to ponder a solution for this."Oh! We can just give them a wish."
"What if they wish to be god? Then what."
Murmur flies up to Yuki face and says. "Not everyone wants to be god you know. I'm not rushing to you guy's spot."
"Good point, being god is a lot more harder than I expected, and a lot more boring. I still don't know if we should go through with this. War is bad, but this is a lot worse. I don't want to put people through this."
"Ok ,then you can just get locked up for another thousand years." Murmur says.
Yuki looks over and sees Yuno slowly trying to put the cuffs on him and then he bounces back.
"Ok games it is then." Yuki says.
"If we are going to do that then we should make it different this time." Yuno says.
The three toss out several ideas in the following minutes. A lot of Yuki's ideas get rejected because it lacks any fun to it. All of Yuno's suggestions made the other two look at her strangely because of how cruel it is. Eventually, they all settle on two new changes.
There will be twenty four contestants and all of them will be paired in groups of two, to kill everyone else and win. Now the only thing that remains is...
"Who should we pick." Yuki asks the two girls.
"I already have a whole hand picked already." Murmur magically makes seven cards appear in her hand out of thin air.
"Yea me too." Yuno says.
"How do you already have people picked?" Yuki asks.
"Watching the world gets boring sometimes, so I play a game where I pick who has the best chances of surviving the game."
"Is it the ones who are already madly in love with someone?"
"Of course, love is the best weapon."
"And the most dangerous. Anyway, I don't have an idea who I would pick." An idea suddenly pops into Yuki's head. "How about I recreate the last contestants."
"Booooooooooooring." Murmur whined.
"Well screw you, I'm doing it."
"At least take off one. If you remake all of them then I'll have to get rid of one of mines." Murmur says.
"Ok, ok I'll take out Minene. She was the second person I was closest to, wouldn't want to see her die again."
"I wouldn't mind seeing that whore Tsubaki die again, and again, and again..." Yuno goes off and keeps repeating those words while she pictures her dying by her hands in a variety of ways, and of course Yuno has the biggest smile on her face while she does this. Second only to imagining keeping Yuki locked up with her forever and ever and ever...
Yuki looks at her awkwardly and continues." Anyway, I'm gonna go and make the others. Should take a day so I'll see you two later.
Yuki exits the living room and went to the big area that looks exactly like Deus's place. Yuki didn't want to change this place since it felt so nostalgic to him. This was always the location he felt comfortable, while he talked to his "imaginary" friends when he was still human.
After a couple of hours, Yuki had each of the contestants inside a bubble floating before him. They had their usual clothes on and appear as if they were sleeping.
"Well I have all of their appearances down. Now I just have to put their memories in, but I don't have to be awake for that."
Yuki waved his hands in front of him as he sat in his throne and made the magic happen. He made a dark blue liquid ball that contained their memories. Each bubble then grew a clear tentacle and latched on to the orb. Sapping away the memories that belong to them.
"Should be done by morning." Yuki gets out of his seat and stretches. He then teleports out and leaves the room with only the ten bodies, and Murmur. She flew up, with her bag on her back, from behind the throne towards the big blue orb.
"I can't have Yuki making the games all boring by having everyone act the same." She sighs." That kid just doesn't know how to have fun." She then takes her bag and pours all the containments inside the orb, turning it bright purple.
"That ought a makes things more exciting."