Authors note: This story does not and will not contain any of the original characters of the Inuyasha Anime/Manga. It has been placed in this category because it uses a lot of the themes and certain details about demons and other features used in the series. It may have hints towards the feudal era later on in the story and even possible character references but none of the original characters will make an appearance in this story. Please read and reveiw because i greatly need some openions and maybe some advice about the direction of this strory. Ide really like to know what my readers think about my story.

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There are times when an event so startling, so sudden, so shocking rocks the foundation of our lives. These events cause heartache, joy, sadness, pain, hatred, happiness, anger… we'll never understand why these things happen the way they do. We can only hope to handle the repercussions the best we can. They can be horrible atrocities or wonderful occasions. Sometimes they become both. But when they become painful to only those of which you love, and not yourself, what is it? A blessing that you survived the torment, or a curse that you feel nothing for their suffering? You do your best to withstand your hurt; you are blind to everyone else. All we can do is try to handle our problems and just move on with our own lives…

But what if we can't…?

What if the past still haunts you…?

What if you can't fight your fear… and have to run…?

Alone, frightened, ashamed, lost…

With no one to help you, because you gave up on their problems… on their needs.

You focused on your own, to heal yourself. But you can't… not alone. You know no other way to live than to be absolutely independent, with nothing to hold you back except yourself. A monster, a shell devoid of the life that you once had… no more…

Maybe you try to fight it. The change… the transition into a creature not yourself. Was it hard? Did it destroy you? Or did you win? Become who you were, the hero. The savior to your friends, the one they loved. Or did it win, and uses your very existence? Manipulates you in a way that makes you wish you were dead… wishing that it had destroyed you?

This is a gruesome tale of such events….betrayal, pain, darkness….death…..

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'I'm going to be mauled' the young man thought as he drove down the long, lonely highway. 'It's been a long time since I've seen all of them; I can't wait to get there'. As he approached a house on top of a steep hill, he began to slow down to make his turn. 'I just hope nothing has changed too much since I've been gone.' He drove up the hill into the front yard, already littered with parked vehicles from, what he hoped was, all of his friends. His eyes caught a young teenage girl with long dirty blonde hair talking to a boy about her age with short red hair.

The two teenagers shielded their eyes from his bright lights.

"Travis!" the girl yelled giddily as she ran toward the car.

"Jessy!" Travis yelled sarcastically, making fun of the small teenage girl as he stepped out of the car and closed the door. Jessy suddenly jumped from a few feet away, straight towards him, and he instinctively caught her.

'Wow …' he smiled inwardly, 'I've gotten much stronger since I left for the war'

"Check it out, Travis has grown some muscle," the red haired boy stated.

"Ya, a war will do that to you, Joey." Travis said sarcastically. Travis suddenly realized he still had Jessy in his arms and he set her down gently. "So who's all here right now?" he looked around at all the cars that he recognized so well and instantly knew the answer.

"Well lets just go in and see" Jessy was giddy with anticipation because she knew how excited everyone would be when she announced Travis's arrival. "Look who's here!" she yelled and instantly she could see Zach's face light up and a small blonde teenager ran into the other room. Before Jessy went outside, she could remember that Zach could not talk about anything except how he couldn't wait to see his best friend for the first time in almost a year. He had come home for two weeks for R&R about four months into the deployment but two weeks isnt really that satisfying as he originally thought it would be.

Jessy made sure the blonde girl was out of site before she signaled for Travis to come in.

Travis jumped through the door and yelled "Ta-Dah!" as he made a strange motion with his hands.

"Travis!" Zach yelled as he jumped up, ran over to Travis and scooped him up in a huge bear hug.

"Midget!" a long armed, lanky, teenager with long black hair yelled from his position on the floor.

"Ok, Zach, your crushing me" Travis choked out.

"Sorry." he apologized as he put down his small friend. Travis was the shortest one in the room and the height difference was extremely apparent when he stood next to Zach, Zach standing at 6'3 while Travis a mere 5'2. Zach was dumbstruck when his body suddenly lifted off the ground and he felt an enormous pressure around his midsection. Zach looked down and was surprised to see that Travis was actually giving him a bear hug back. He looked around at all the other surprised faces in the room.

"Holy crap" Joey exclaimed in surprise as he passed them walking through the door.

"Hey Brian get over here." Zach exclaimed excitedly as he pounded his chest with his fist and smiled at Travis who smiled back and repeated this gesture. Brian jumped up and ran to stand between them, forming a triangle as he copied the gesture. They all threw their hands out and into the triangle with their thumb, index, and middle fingers extended, locking all their hands together. They then all simultaneously pulled inward, slamming all three of their bodies into a triple bear hug.

"What the hell was that?" Niki exclaimed, chuckling at her three goofy friends and how funny Travis looked standing so close to the two tallest people in the room.

"You guys are such dorks." Jessy called out to them "its kinda like a secret hand shake but they hug at the end." she explained.

The three boys pulled out of the hug and laughed. "Wow its been a long time since we've done that." Brian smiled down at his small friend. "It just didn't feel right to do that without you, buddy." Travis lifted Brian from the ground and attempted to crush the life out of him before Brian could return the favor. Brian then lifted Travis off the ground and began to squeeze affectionately.

"I've missed you dude." Travis said playfully punched Brian in the chest and smiled up at him.

"Missed you to, man" Brian returned the punch in the arm and pushed him a little with his fist. Brian walked back to his seat and noticed that the whole room was watching their odd display of affection. "Hey we have known each other since the fifth grade so don't be a bunch of prudes."

Travis looked around to examine all his friends that he hadn't seen in so long. From left to right he scanned the room. Joey retook his place back on the one-seat elephant chair that he was always sitting in every time he went to William's house. 'At least that hasn't changed' he thought. Joey's seat hadn't changed but he had, his hair was short now and his eyes contained much more sadness than the fun-loving Joey he used to know. He turned his attention toward the love seat in which sat Jackie and Nikki. Jackie's long black hair had grown longer and Travis had forgotten how goofy Jackie looked with his buckteeth and huge glasses. Nikki hadn't changed at all, her jet-black hair still only went down to her shoulders and her dark complexion still complemented her brown eyes. He then looked on the floor right next to the love seat and there sat Guy, stretched out on the floor using his arms as props holding up his torso. Guy, of course, hadn't changed much either except that his hair had gotten a little bit longer, besides that, he was still the same man as before. He still wore those small glasses on his face he still had that long skinny body and neck that made him slightly look like a giraffe. Travis then turned his attention toward the couch in which sat William and Brian. William hadn't changed much except that he was slightly more muscular, his brown hair had gotten shorter and his blue eyes still contained the same goofy William and, just as before, they masked a lot of pain. Brian was still the same skinny man as he was when Travis had left, same green eyes, same long died-black hair, just the same old Brian. Then, there's Zach he was the same down to the very last detail, from his green eyes too his curly brown hair, it was all the same.

Travis looked down at him self 'I've gotten much bigger than I used to be but I'm still pretty much the same person' he thought as he saw all the changes that went on while he was fighting in the war.

"First things first, I've been fight in a war for the last 7 months and I haven't had a drink in over a year so I'm going to go raid the fridge for a drink of something very strong." Travis said as he began to walk into the kitchen.

"Wait a minute" Jessy yelled "um…. don't you want to…uh… say hi to everyone else, nobody but Zach and I have gotten hugs from you yet" she said nervously, obviously trying to keep him away from the kitchen.

"Jessy?" he said suspiciously "what are you hiding from me?"

She shifted her eyes back and forth in a suspicious manner, "nothing" she giggled slightly as she spoke.

"Ok then, I guess its fine for me to go get a drink then." Travis bolted toward the other room but Jessy tripped him before he could get there and bolted into the kitchen. Travis quickly got back up and ran after her.

Travis stopped dead in his tracks by the site that awaited him once he entered the kitchen. There was a blonde girl standing there in front of Jessy but Jessy had her hands over her eyes so she couldn't see him.

Travis could not see enough of the blonde girls face to tell if he knew her or not. "And, just who is this lovely young lady?" Travis said in a curious, yet intrigued, manner as he noticed her voluptuous figure.

"Travis?" the girl being blinded questioned.

"Yes?" he answered with hesitation as he tried to figure out where he had heard her voice before.

The blinded girl suddenly began struggling furiously to get out of Jessy's strong grasp. The blinded teenager began elbowing Jessy in an incredibly furious and brutal manner but she was tough enough to stand the pain, she was not going to let a little pain ruin her big surprise for Travis's party. Then the girl suddenly grabbed Jessy's arm and slammed her head backward into Jessy's nose. Jessy instantly let go of the smaller girls' eyes and grasped her own nose. The blonde girl instantly dropped, turned around, and threw her open palm into in the middle of Jessy's chest which slammed her against the counter.

'I know that move' Travis thought 'but it cant be, can it?' the other girl spun around, still kneeling, and shot forward, wrapping her arms around his neck in an abnormally firm hug.

"I've missed you so much" she tightened her grasp around him and pulled him even closer toward her, pressing him hard against her own body.

'I know that voice' Travis thought, still not believing his own thoughts. "A… Ariel?"

"Aw" William yelled sarcastically from the living room.

Travis pulled her away to get a good look at her face and his expression changed to a look of pure shock. His face began to turn pale, as if he had seen a ghost, and his mouth dropped open. He couldn't believe that she was actually here standing in his arms.

"Shocked or just surprised?" Zach asked with a sly tone and a cocky half smile krept across his face, as he leaned, arms crossed, against the rims of the doorway.

"But… but how?" Travis was still dum struck by the site of his first and only love.

"Does it matter?" Ariel gave him a comforting look as if to say that everything would be all right.

"Oh my god!" Travis said with tears in his eyes as he grabbed Ariel and wraped his arms around her in a crushingly firm hug that would have bruised a weaker woman.

Ariel was a girl that Travis met when he was only six years old. She was his only friend back when he was a much darker and cynical minded person than he could ever dream to be now. Travis had grown dark and cold from years of abuse from his stepfather and his drug-addicted mother. She gave him hope and turned him from a cold hearted demon to a regular child and they eventually became more than friends, but Travis moved away, never to return.

They found each other again, four years after he moved away from her, and they where closer than ever, especially since they where both in the beginning stages of adolescence and there hormones where at there peek levels. They lost touch again when they where both fourteen because not even a year earlier she moved to North Dakota. Travis decided to end the relationship for good because he thought he would never see her again, but here she was, in his arms once more, and he couldn't believe it.

"What the hell was that?" Jessy chocked out as she tried to catch her breath. "Oh my god I think I'm bleeding!" she said as she grasped her nose and felt all the blood pouring down her face. "What is your problem, you freaking psycho?"

"Hey, you should have let me go." Ariel said as she pulled away from Travis and looked back at Jessy "Wow I guess I hit you harder than I thought." she said with a devilish smile across her face.

"Oh, my god!" Zach yelled as he rushed to Jessy's aid, being the always helpful and loveble teddy bear that he was.

"What happened?" Brian yelled as he ran into the room. "Jesus christ!" he yelled as he noticed Jessy and the small puddle of blood beneath her. "Zach, what did you do!?"

"Me?" Zach said with shock and amazment. "Don't look at me; look at Travis's she-devil of a girlfriend!"

"Dang, you two are already going out?" Brian asked the couple who were still squeezing the life out of each other.

"No!"

"Yes!"

They both gave opposite answers in unison. They pulled away from each other slightly, but just enough to look one another in the eye while still keeping a strong hold on the other. They gave one another a strange look.

"Did you say yes?" asked Travis.

"Yes" she answered "did you say no?"

"Yes" he replied.

They both gave the same funny look to the other one and stared at each other for a moment in silence.

"Wow" Brian said, knowing full well that he had just brought up a bad topic for the two and possibly started an argument. "I'm going to go back into the other room now" he ran out of the room, trying to avoid getting in the middle of it and Jessy and Zach followed close behind.

"I thought that you wouldn't want to jump in so fast without talking about it first?" Travis explained.

"I thought that we could just forget about all that because it happened in the past?" Ariel rebudled.

They stared at each other quietly yet again, neither of them enjoying the awkward silence. Ariel finally decided to break the tension by saying something.

"Hey, how about we talk about this later, we have a party to get too." she said as she lay a comforting hand softly on his cheek.

"Deal" he quickly agreed. Travis grabbed Ariel's hand and they walked into the other room to join the rest of their friends.

"Ok, I'll talk to you later, bye." Zach said into his cell phone, he then closed the little phone and shoved it into his pocket.

"Who was that?" Travis asked Zach as he walked into the living room, keeping a firm grip on Ariel's hand.

"His new girlfriend" Jackie teased giggling goofily.

"Hey she's not technically my girlfriend yet, we are just talking for now." Zach explained.

"Oh, shut-up Zach, you know that the first time she actually comes over you two are going to end up making out." William joked.

"Pretty much, but she doesn't know that yet." he laughed.

"Wait where did this new girl come from, when I left for Iraq you were still dating Rachael." Travis asked. A lot of things had apparently changed since he left for the war, considering Brian and Jessy were going out when he left, and Joey had a girlfriend named Crystal. Now, he hasn't seen Jessy or Brian even look at each other since he got back and Joey's phone wasn't always vibrating from Crystal's constant texting. "Speaking of changes… what the hell happened to you two" he said looking back and forth at Jessy and Brian "and Joey, I haven't heard your cell phone go off once since I've been here. Did you and Crystal break up?" with that sentence alone all the energy was sucked out of the room.

Travis didn't know what had happened while he was away but he did remember that Jessy and Brian were constantly fighting and Crystal was far too easily throne off the handle, and it had always annoyed Joey, but he did not think that they would actually break up.

The whole room sat there in an awkward silence for a moment before Zach decided to break it, as always.

"Hey, I'm going to go start getting the snacks and drinks ready." he said as he rose from his seat and made a 'follow me' gesture with his head. "Could you come help me, Travis?"

Travis quickly got the hint. "uh, sure." he let go of Ariel's hand and followed his friend back into the kitchen. He watched Zach pull some bottles of all kinds of different alcoholic drinks. He poured one of them into a glass and handed it to Travis.

Travis took a sip and his face clenched as the obvious strength of the alcohol seeped down into his stomach. "so, what's up?"

Zach poured a glass for himself as he spoke. "Well, Travis, a lot of things have changed while you were away defending my right to consume this, very potent, glass of whiskey." he took a sip, making the same face as his small friend as the drink got to him as well. "first of all," he began as he leaned against the counter. "If you would have gotten my letter then you would know that Jessy and Brian broke up and so did Crystal and Joey. You would also know that kristen has moved back to town, thats who i was on the phone with earlier."

"Hey, it isn't my fault, I cant help it if the mailing system in Iraq sucks." Travis took another sip of his drink and leaned against the counter next to Zach. "So, what happened."

"Long story short, she cheated." Zach answered with a sigh.

"Who cheated, crystal?"

"Nope, Jessy."

"Really? Wow, I knew her and Brian fought a lot but I never thought it would come to that." Travis took another sip of his drink. "Who was it with?"

"Joey."

"What?"

"Yep."

"Joey?"

"uh-huh."

"Really?"

"I know, I know, it surprised the hell out of me too."

"Wow, things really have changed since I left." Travis downed the last of his drink "So, you and Kristen, huh, when did that happen?"

"Well, I saw her online one day and we started talking, one thing led to another and now she is coming over next weekend to hang out and go to the movies." Zach finished his drink as well and began grabbing the bottles and some shot glasses."

"That's cool, hope it works out for you." Travis began to grab the ones Zach couldn't quite get. He looked up at Zach while he was holding the bottles and glasses and gave his famous cocky half smile. "lets party."

They walked back into the living room where William and Brian were arm wrestling on the table. "Ok guy's, enough of the display of male dominance. Lets drink." Zach laughed at his competitive freinds.

William slammed Brian's hand on the table and cried out in victory. "ha ha! Got you again! I am still the king, baby, yah!"

"Dam!" Brian yelled out in anger. He quickly moved out of the way and back to his seat as Zach and Travis set the drinks, along with the glasses, down on the table.

"So, what else happened while I was gone?"

"Well, me and Nichole broke up" Jackie's goofy smile was even apparent when he was telling bad news.

"Really, how did that happen?" Travis pried as he took a seat on the recliner on the other side of the door and Ariel followed by sitting on his lap.

Jackie shrugged his shoulder and his smile faded "she said that she needed a break for a while, to figure out her priorities, so we broke up."

"That sucks." Travis spoke in a reflective manner, as if he had heard it before.

"Nothing has changed for me." Guy threw in.

"Yep me neither, well, except that I told Josh to fuck off and that I wasn't going to talk to him any more." Josh was Nikki's ex-boyfriend. Her and Josh have had a long history together. They had been going out, on and off, for the last five years but they both had a lot of issues that got in the way.

Travis was awestruck by this sudden anouncment because he had thought that they would never get tired of each other's crap. "Really and why is that?"

"Well he was being a dick and I got tired of it." Nikki explained.

"Wow, almost everything changed after I left." Travis looked around again at all his friends and realized that William hadn't said anything to him since he had gotten there. "What about you, William, anything happen to you while I was gone?"

"Nope, nothing worth talking about." William never really went through a lot of changes. Ever since his dad died, he hadn't changed much. He has been the same ever since he and Travis had first met.

"That doesn't surprize me." Travis suddenly remembered the girl who was leening against his chest. "Wait a minute....how in the hell did you get down here?" Travis asked as he looked at the beautiful girl that was now giving him the same devilish smile as before.

"Well I called your house during the summer and your brother told me where you were. So, I called Zach to find out what in the hell possessed you to go and join the Army, but he explained your reasoning. Then, we decided that it would be fun to surprise you" Ariel glanced over at Zach and he continued her story.

"Well that's where our other surprise comes in" Zach looked around at everyone in the room because no one but Ariel and Jessy knew about this surprise yet. "Well, my uncle who lives in Scotland died recently, and since he had no children, he left everything to me, including his twelve story modernized castle and his three hundred million dollar fortune." Everyone in the room was struck speechless. Zach paused for a second to let it all sink in before continuing. "So I used some of that money to get her a plane ticket down here and she just told her mom that she was going with one of her friends on a camping trip for two weeks."

"Yah, and she was so caught up in the divorce with my step-dad that she didn't even ask questions." Ariel added.

Everyone looked around at each other. All of them were struck speechless. Travis was struck by the fact that Ariel was going to be there for two weeks, Zach was struck by the fact that he had just caused every jaw in the room to almost hit the ground, but everyone else was struck by the words "three hundred million dollars" and "twelve story modernized castle".

Zack was the first to break the silence. "Well aren't any of you going to congratulate me?"

Guy followed soon after "Wow….I did not see that one coming."

"Wow" Brian exclaimed "three hundred million dollars…..you're going to let me come live with you right?" Brian asked with a goofy smile.

"Yah, Zach" William agreed "you've got a castle and three hundred million dollars so I'm definitely not living in this shit hole of a town anymore"

"Ok, fine. As long as you guys don't reck my castle, its fine by me" Zach answered.

"I don't know Scotland is pretty far" Travis contradicted.

"Oh shut-up" Jessy interrupted with a smile on her face and a small giggle trying to escape her mouth "you just don't want to be that far away from your girly."

"What the hell is a girly?" Ariel raised an eyebrow and looked over at Jessy.

"It's a Zach word that she jacked" Travis and Zach both said simultaneously.

"Its Zach's word for any girl who happens to like any guy in our group who's single." Travis explained.

"Who in the hell ever said you were single." Ariel violently pressed her lips against Travis's. His eyes widened as this action caught him completely off guard, but he quickly accepted this, closed his eyes, and began returning the kiss.

"Wow, I guess Travis wasn't lieing when he said that she was demanding with what she wanted." Zach said with a chuckle.

Ariel broke the conection her and Travis's lips had made and he was left speechless for a moment as he fully came to grips what had just happened. "Oh my god!" he let out with amazment in his voice. "That…..was…….awesome!!" he added with a look of pure pleasure on his face as he was smiling from ear to ear. It had been a while since Travis had even kissed a woman so it caught him entirely off guard.

"Was there ever any doubt?" Ariel asked in a cocky manner.

The room sat quit for a few moments as all the events that had just took place sunk in. a lot had changed since Travis had left for the war, he was reunited with the love of his life, plus Zach's new inheritance had shocked everyone. So, the room sat quit as everyone took a moment to bask in the glow of the good fortune, even Jessy and Brian were looking at each other in a new light, as if all could be forgiven.

"How could this get any better?" Travis questioned as he looked deeply into Ariel's eyes. Travis turned his attention to Zach who was looking at them both with a warm smile across his face "Zach, thank you for bringing her back into my life." he said with a content smile on his face.

"No problem Travis, but remember you owe me for this one." Zach said with a gleam of accomplishment in his eyes.

Suddenly, the door burst open, breaking the doorknob and ripping the door from its hinges.

In the doors place, was a small red ball of light floating in mid-air.

Everyone's attention turned to the red ball. Most were looking at it with a sense of inquisitiveness while others looked at it with a sense of fear, but all were looking at it with a sense of wonder.

Ariel sat all the way up and scooted forward to get a better look at the ball. "What the hell is…?" Ariel was suddenly interrupted by the ball shooting red beams of light at everyone in the room.

Everyone felt an intense pain flowing throughout their entire body as each individual red beam of light poured over them.

Travis and Brian were both already used to intense pain, so they weren't as affected as the others, but despite their high tolerence to pain, from the abuse they had to indure as children, even they were riving in agony.

Travis looked around the room at all his friends suffering and hated it. Especially once he looked down and saw the woman he loved on the ground searing in pain. He knew he had to do something, so he pulled himself up from the recliner and slowly moved toward the open door way in which the red ord floated inauspiciously. As soon as Travis got to the door, he began clutching the rims of it in order to keep himself in place as all the orbs light was suddenly focused on him.

With this act, the whole room, excluding Travis, was suddenly releaved from all their own pain and anguish enough to regain a grip on their surroundings.

"What the hell was that?" Guy yelled, still clutching his pounding chest.

"I…..have……no……..idea" Brian said in-between gasps of air.

"Ahhhhhh!!" Ariel let out a high-pitch scream as she looked upon Travis as his body withstood all the punishment the orb was dealing out through the lights.

Travis's eyes began to glow red, his canine teeth grew and sharpened to fine points, and razor sharp claws bagan to protrude from his finger tips and into the rims of the door way.

"Oh my god!" Zach exclaimed as he instantly jumped from his position on the couch and wrapped his arms around Travis's torso. William quickly did the same and they both began pulling with emense strength on Travis's body in order to pry him off the door and away from the red orb.

"AHHHHHHH!!!!!!" Travis let out a blood-curdling scream that slowly turned into a dark and daunting roar. Red light began shooting out of his eyes and mouth and William and Zach where shot backwards by red lighting that surged throughout their entire bodies like poison.

"RAAAAAAAAAAAAGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!" Travis let out another terrifying roar that sent shivers down all of their spines. "HELP ME!!!" he bellowed into the air with a voice that sounded as if he was possessed by a demon. He suddenly shot backwards, with the same red lighting surrounding him, and slammed hard into the wall opposite of the doorway, breaking a few pictures hanging on the now cracked dry wall.

Travis's body fell limp to the floor, but before anyone could rush to his aid, the red orb began consuming all the inhabitants of William's living room with the searing red light once more.

Brian looked over at Jessy and couldn't bare the site of her on the floor, riving in agony. He instinctively leapt toward her and wrapped his long, but strong, arms around her, shielding her completely from the red light, but taking the punishment from both of their individual beams combined.

Jessy felt relief flow over her entire body and strange warmth surrounded her. She suddeny realized what had caused the releif and the warmth. She looked up at her savior, his face was twisted in anguish, but the warm embrace off his arms made her feel more comfortable and safe than she had felt in a very long time.

The red orb finally stopped beaming its light on everyone as it imploded in on itself, leaving no trace of it's presence in the doorway that it had just inhabited.

Brian collapsed to the floor and his breathing became very shallow.

"Brian!" Jessy screamed in concern.

"What?" Brian coughed out in a dry and raspy voice as he slowly sat up.

"Oh my god!" she wrapped her arms around him, knocking him back to the ground. "Thank god you're alright."

"Where is Travis?" Ariel began looking back and fourth frantically searching the room for him.

"Oh no." Nikki covered her mouth and tears began welling up in her eyes when she noticed Travis's pale form lay motionless on the ground.

"Someone call 911!" Zach rushed over to Travis and felt his pulse. "NOW!!!" he demanded violently.

William took out his cell phone and dialed the number as Zach pounded on Travis's chest and breathing into his mouth in an attempt to resuscitate his lifeless friend. The rest of the room could only watch as Zach tried frantically for twenty minutes to resuscitate the motionless body of his best friend.

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"NOOOOOO!!!!" Ariel screamed with large tears running down her cheeks as she tried to escape Zach's strong arms. She finally escaped Zach's grip and ran to Travis's lifeless body and collapsed on his still, lifeless, chest. She began sobbing loudly on his, already soaked t-shirt. The members of the ambulance crew pulled her off his body and dragged her back to Zach who held her deep in his arms. "NOOOOO!!!!" she screamed again as she watched the love of her life being zipped up in a large black bag. She tried to scream once more but the reality of it all hit her with far too much force and she didn't have the strength, or the breath, for another scream. She couldn't stand to watch it any longer and she dug her face into Zach's chest, muffling her loud sobs.

"Its going to be alright, just calm down Ariel" Zach lied while trying in vain to hold back his tears and loud sobs, as he held Ariel's head in his chest "please stop." he cried softly.

Nikki was sobbing uncontrollably into William's muscular shoulder. Jessy was digging her face deeply into Brains chest as her tears poured from her blood shot eyes. Everyone was standing on Williams lawn, watching the tragedy take place before them, tears pouring down their faces. Their tears mixed with the pouring rain as the ambulance turned of its sirens and faded away into the dark, rainy, night.