The five who escaped. The four who perished. Memories of the school, of that merciless hell, still fresh in everyone's minds. At least its all over. Yet nobody believed that. "H-hello!?" Ayumi cried, trying to find someone, anybody, with no clue of how she was back. Back in Heavenly Host. She ran, as fast as she could, down the dimly lit corridor, with no idea of where she was going. Just had to escape. Just had to... She nearly ran straight into the wall before her. Blood dripped from it, creating a puddle of gore, while something, or rather someONE, was splattered against the wall. Bones jutting from the 'thing' that resembled no human, one fearful eye still intact, appearing to be staring down at the ground below, the flies crawling over smashed organs and rotting flesh... The smell was sickening and Ayumi had to turn away, gagging, to keep herself from throwing up. "Suzumoto..." she whispered, tears filling her eyes as she watched the unrecognizable body that was once her friend. Again, running, desperate to get away, with no idea of what was going on. Why was she here? Why was she back? Panting, she ran through a door to her left, not even bothering to read the sign that said 'Bathrooms'. She gasped. Three dank stalls. Two sinks with a strange liquid inside. A cracked mirror that showed no reflection. Silence. Yet Ayumi sensed another presence. Nervously, she pushed open the end stall. Empty except for an old toilet, the walls decayed and peeling. She tried the middle. And screamed. A body was swaying gently back and forth, a frayed rope around its neck. With glassy eyes, it stared at Ayumi, seeing nothing. "Ah! Sh-shinohara!?" shrieked Ayumi, recognising her once cheerful classmate. Too late. She was long dead. "This... Makes no sense..." Ayumi told herself, "Shinohara's body was moved. Why's it here?" Unable to answer her own question, she ran again. It wasn't even as though she wanted to run. It was like some mysterious force pushing her along, directing her to places she REALLY didn't want to be. Still sprinting, she heard a scream emitting from one of the cracked windows. "Morishige!" she cried, reliving his suicide where he jumped out of a window, driven insane by Mayu's death. Yet she didn't stop. She couldn't despite how much she wanted to. "Where am I going!?" she yelled. "Follow me~" a child's voice sang. Tokiko appeared, her jaws chattering creepily as she giggled, shimmering an eerie blue. Ayumi had no choice but to follow the ghost child skipping along in front. Everything happened very fast. Ms Yui stood before them, smiling brightly at Ayumi. "Yui Sensei!" Ayumi cried but before anyone could react, a sudden tremor in the ground caused a giant beam to fall onto the teacher. Ayumi screamed, falling to her knees as the head of her teacher lay inches away from her, the sweet yet sinister giggles of the four ghost children loud in her ears. All Ayumi could do was scream. Ayumi woke in a cold sweat, completely unhinged from that constantly recurring dream. How many times had she had it now...? "It feels as though it means something..." Ayumi thought. "Like there's something i have to figure out..." It has been four months since the horrors of Heavenly Host and none of the five had gotten over the trauma. And Ayumi had that same dream each night ever since... "What could it mean?" she asked herself, preparing for school that day, still shaking from seeing her friends die over and over... "Hey Satoshi," Kishinuma said, nodding in the direction of his brunette friend. "Hi," came the rather gloomy reply as Satoshi made his way to the school grounds. Yoshiki, not one to make conversation, simply shrugged at his best friends negative aura. "Hi Kishinuma, Satoshi," smiled Naomi, approaching the two, seeming somewhat happy. Kishinuma smirked at Satoshi as he perked up immediately. This was the first time in ages they'd seen Naomi so happy. Ever since Seiko... "Hey Nakashima," Yoshiki said. "Hi Naomi," Satoshi smiled at his crush. "Why are you so happy?" Yoshiki asked, causing Satoshi to eye his friend annoyedly at how blunt he could be. Naomi, ignoring Yoshiki's thoughtlessness, quickly glanced around the school grounds, checking that everyone else was occupied, then stepped closer to Satoshi and said "Seiko talked to me." There first reaction was to sigh sadly at the shorter brunette but the spark in her eyes caused them to feel sorry for her. "Y-you don't believe me?" she whispered, feeling betrayed at the hasty glances the two boys shot at each other. "Well..." Satoshi begun but was cut off by the blunt Yoshiki. "No. Nakashima, she's gone, okay? It kills me to say it but all of them are so there's no point kidding ourselves." Satoshi glared at Yoshiki. "Naomi... We just think its a little unlikely. I mean, after all this time, why would she-" "Its fine. I get it. I just thought you could help me out a little but i guess Shinozaki will understand,". Naomi shrugged, determined not to show how hurt she was that her friends didn't believe her. "What was that about Shino- OW!" Yoshiki begun, cut off by Satoshi punching his arm. "Naomi, what do you mean?" he asked desperately, sensing some truth in the girls words. Instead of answering, she simply turned away and began to walk home. Satoshi ran up to her. "You can't miss school Naomi..." He tried persuading her, only really wanting to know what she was talking about. "Sato-" Naomi was cut off by Shinozaki's appearance. "Shinozaki," Yoshiki said, approaching her, as greeting, suddenly nervous. "Hi Kishinuma, Mochida, Nakashima," she said, walking towards them all. "What's wrong?" Yoshiki asked, noticing the way Ayumi constantly ran her fingers through her blue hair. "B-bad dream." she said dismissivly. "Heavenly Host?" Naomi asked gently. Ayumi nodded. "We need to talk, Nakashima." Naomi followed her off, understanding. The two hurried to a lonely corner of the school. "What's up with those two?" a confused Yoshiki asked. "I don't think Naomi was lying..." Satoshi whispered, deep in thought. "Somethings going on, Yoshiki." "Yes. And we will find out after i eat some food," Yoshiki sighed, starting to walk into school with everyone else. Satoshi was left to wonder if the events of Heavenly Host were really over.