(Brandishes flag of inexperience.) For this reason you are not allowed to flame at me for the possible badness that permeates this entire story. Well, you're asked not to... Well, you're politely asked not to... Eh, here's the next chapter.
It was much softer than before. That was the first thing Diva noticed as she woke up again. That was because this time she was lying in a bed as opposed to on the ground.
The window let in the last traces of light that came from the sun, and Diva could tell she hadn't been asleep long.
"Where am I?" She thought. It was a room she was unfamiliar with. The floor looked like wood while the rest of the room had a crème coating on it. Except for the also wooden door which now opened.
Saya walked into the room, as did Haji. He, as usual, held the same expressionless face he always did. The strange thing was that Saya held the same expression. Something Diva had never seen her do.
Saya sat down in a chair near the bed that Diva was lying in, and Haji stood silently beside her.
Diva made no noise as she lay there trying to understand what was going on. She opened her mouth to speak, but Saya interrupted her.
"Whatever you're going to say, don't. I'm not sure how I feel about this, so it would probably be in your best interests to stay silent."
Her mouth closed.
Diva tried to move in her bed, but an extreme pain in her back kept her from doing so, and made her cry out slightly.
Terribly embarrassed at the unwanted sound, Diva's gaze flickered up to Saya, who, despite the short speech not a minute before, seemed somewhat concerned.
Then she looked away, down at the bed again.
"Are- You should be careful. I had you brought up here gently, but the wounds you got when you… fell, are still untreated."
"Saya…" Haji spoke up quietly.
"…I noticed a cabinet downstairs that seemed to contain some medicine. If you want, I can go see if there are some painkillers, or perhaps some bandages in it."
For a second it sounded like Saya was going to tell him to go get the supplies, but then she gave an indecisive, but angry scoff.
"That won't be necessary, Haji." She said, seemingly upset.
"…I understand Saya."
Then he was silent.
Though internally there was a part of Diva that wanted to attack Saya for her reluctance to help, Diva decided that she should just be happy she was alive at all. Now that she was completely human, there were more dominant parts of her personality overriding her previous attitude. However, she was still upset enough to decide that she needed those supplies even if she didn't have her sister's permission to get them.
"Then I'll get them myself." She said defiantly as she struggled out of the bed.
But her foot got stuck in the sheet and she fell down face-first. This didn't stop her though, and she got up, holding what must be a bruised rib and started making her way down the stairs that led up to the door of the bedroom. When she got downstairs and turned a corner though, Saya and Haji were already there.
"There are only two reasons you're still alive, Diva. The first is because I saw you cry, and felt sorry for you at the time. The second, and main reason, is because now that you're human you can't do much damage to anyone. Still, don't think that means I'll let you just disappear and start killing again."
"For the elder twin, you sure don't hear so well, dear sister. I said that I was going to get those supplies. Not that I was leaving."
"Get back up in your bed." Saya said like she was a little girl trying to escape bedtime.
"I don't need your permission to do anything, Saya. And aren't you being a little cruel?" Saya's eyes flared, and she struck Diva on her face, knocking her back onto the steps.
"You're lecturing me on being cruel!? I've never tortured people, or scared them to the point of fright and killed them! How about you?!"
Diva was starting to feel somewhat satisfied at her ability to make her sister angry.
"I won't be doing that anytime soon though, will I?" Diva asked in a teasing manner.
Saya calmed down somewhat.
"No. You won't."
Then she grabbed Diva and pulled her, stumbling, over to a closet. Saya opened the door and threw Diva in. Before she could even get up, Saya slammed the door and locked it.
Diva got up and started banging her fists against the door desperately.
"Let me out! I can't stand the dark!" There was no response. In fact, she could swear she heard Saya walking even further away from the door.
Diva could feel something wrapping around her; tendrils belonging to one of her many childhood-imagined monsters. There was some kind of laughing, though she didn't know if it was real or not.
"Nothing to help you now, Diva. No singing, no chevaliers, no powers, no light. Nothing to help you."
She cried out as she banged harder futilely against the door.
"You're ours now, Diva."
For those of you that have played "The Darkness" I admit, I was under the thrawl of it's creepy and yet cool voice. I didn't intentionally try to incorporate something like that into this but... I wanted to work on it and couldn't come up with anything original. Also, I've created various things about Diva and others that probably aren't true in the actual anime (Diva is afraid of the dark, etc.)
