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Koborechi-hen

"Darkness"

"What should I do?" The former goddess mumbled to herself, trying to find an answer to why she was surrounded in pitch black darkness.

She remembered going to sleep after listening to Rika preach about how happy she was for everything that they had gone through for the past hundred years to be over. She had been happy for her friend's salvation then…Now she was scarred and confused as to where she was now.

This must be a dream she thought. Where else could she be where nothing but darkness surrounded her. She thought of what she was dreaming about but couldn't understand what was going on around her. She thought of waking herself up but then…

"Hehehehe…"

Laughter. She was certain that she had heard laughter just now. The sound had been uttered so quietly that she couldn't tell.

"Is anybody there?" Her words echoing throughout the seemingly empty space…No response.

"Hehehehe…"

She heard it again. It was a bit clearer this time. Clear enough for her to have a brief understanding of where the laughter had come from. She proceeded to walk towards where she thought the laughter was coming from.

"Hehehehehe…"

As she got closer to the sound she could tell that the laughter was coming from a boy but as she continued to approach the laughter started to send chills down her spine, a sense of anxiety beginning to build up in her.

"Hahahahahaha!"

She didn't like the sound of the laughter. It sounded sadistic…insane even.

"Hello!" She called out again, still receiving no response.

She began to walk faster towards the sound, each step heightening the sound of the ominous laughter coming from the mystery boy. She was about to stop and demand the person reveal themselves, but then something caught her eye… A light. From the continuous darkness a light had appeared before her. She thought of how if she went into it she might die and leave the world she had worked so hard to achieve with her new friends behind. She had experienced death once before. She didn't enjoy the thought of going through it again. But this was a dream wasn't it? She chose to go into the light and find the source of the laughter which had become constant now.

"Alright," she said to assure herself of her choice of action, and walked straight into the light.

There was a quick flash before the light disappeared. She now opened her eyes which she had forced herself to close upon seeing the flash before the light dispersed. But her eyes weren't the problem now. She became aware of a deafening laughter slamming into her ears like a hammer.

She covered her ears and took in her surroundings. She spun slowly in a circle taking everything in. Most of which was the same darkness, but one thing stood out.

Upon making half a rotation she saw someone lying on the ground some feet away from her. She squinted to get a better look at the person through the darkness. The person had fair brown hair wore a reddish dress shirt and-

"Keiichi!" She yelled, her voice nearly overcoming the laughter that barreled down on her. She ran over to see why he was on the ground, but stopped a few feet short.

"Keiichi what are you-? " Her voice catching in her throat upon getting a clear looks at the boy she new quite well. What she saw horrified her. The shirt that he was wearing wasn't a red dress shirt. It was formally his white one, but had seemingly been dyed red by what looked to be his own blood. She saw numerous holes in his shirt where something had pierced him, over and over again. Despite all this, what shocked her most was that he was still moving…He was still alive…

"Keiichi what happened?" She repeated over and over again seeking some response from the battered body that used to be her friend.

"Gahh…" Was all the boy could manage. His eyes, once violet, now bloodshot, sought her own but he couldn't quite look at her. She watched him lift his head up ever so slightly and convulsed over the painful movement, sending a spray of blood towards her and covering the front of her shirt.

"Don't move." Was all she could say. She tried to think of something comforting to say to him but as she contemplated the words she became aware of two things. One: The laughter that had been so deafening moments earlier had stopped. Two: She felt a menacing presence behind her.

She spun around to confront a trembling, bloody figure looking down on her.

Her words failed her. It was too much. The person looking straight at her had a crooked smile on his face, or what was left of it. His eyes were the color of mist, with thin lines of red forming jagged cracks in his eyes. The bloody mess that was his hair drooped slightly over one of his eyes and let a single drop of blood fall from the tip to the ground. As she looked to the rest of his body, she noticed him clutching a knife in both of his hands, blood seemingly flowing from the tips of each.

"Hehehehe…"

That same laughter as before except now it was coupled with the creature emitting it. She had decided to refer to the person standing before her as a creature or thing, to her it no longer resembled anything that could be human. She watched now as it proceeded to lift one of its knives above its head.

"What are you and what have you done to my friend?'" She said standing up to confront the thing in front of her, a hint of crimson forming in the center of her eyes. Despite her sudden burst of confidence she found herself trembling and fighting to maintain what composure she could.

The thing only looked at her, its eyes widening and its smile expanding with each passing second.

Whatever it was it wasn't talking. She thought of asking the question again when the silence was broken by the thing's now shrieking laughter.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

She was taken aback by the sudden response but before she realized it, the thing swung the knife which it had seemingly suspended above its head down towards hers.

"DIEEEEE!"

It was the only word she had heard the thing say up until this point. It was hoarse, deafening and it was probably going to be the last thing she heard. This was the last thought she had before the thing brought the knife down on her. She was aware of a brief cutting sensation as well as the things laughing before everything went black.

Author's Notes

I'm pretty satisfied with the way this first chapter went considering it's my first writing. It's going to set the stage for the rest of my story and I'm quite content. Thanks for reading. If it suits you right me a review if not…meh.