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To Be or Not to Be

Chapter 1

Run…run…faster…faster…quickly…please…please…get there in time!

I hear it like music to my ears, Ayako scolding and yelling at Bou-san for insulting her yet again.

Why is this darkened hallway getting longer?! The faster I run, the further I am away. The inky blackness that surrounds me is heavy and smothering. I must keep going.

There… I see it just ahead, a bit of light coming from an ornate set of doors. The doors would lead me to them, my surrogate family the other members of SPR. I can feel it, my heart is racing. Racing towards Naru, the one I hold dearest to me.

I can also feel "him"… the one being that threatens to take it all away.

I hear it like a funeral at sunset, like someone turned off the volume to my reality.

Suddenly I smell it, the metallic stench of blood.

Run…run…faster…faster…quickly…please…please…don't let it be too late.

With clammy hands I take the smooth golden knob and turn. The light pours out of the doors and momentarily blinds me. I am also shot with a heavier dose of the nauseating smell of blood. As my vision clears and eyes adjust I see him my dearest, like a beacon of light. I also see the other, and then all at once I am struck with intense fear. I dash forwards without thought.

My ears start ringing because of the immense pain. I look up into his deep azure eyes mirroring my pain. He is saying something I can not hear. He is shaking me. Then someone suddenly turns on the volume and I hear it…Mai!!