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The Red
Chapter 2
Gone
I wake up to extra rounds of snoring. I raise a brow and shift in the bed to land my leg around another and widen my eyes to turn to a snoozing Ikuto. "YAYHAYAHYYA!" I scream, falling onto the floor. "JSUS CHRST DUDE! I KNOW WE'RE DATING BUT WE'RE SO NOT HAVING SEX YET!"
Ikuto yawns and stretches with his cat ears and tail appearing. I roll my eyes and he looks down at me, smirking. "We're not, correct. I'm just resting next to my little kitten."
"And that's not called sex in any way, shape, or form?" I ask.
He shakes his head. "Sex is a whole different thing that…" he leans in. "Tends to make women groan out their lover's name."
I gulp and blush massively before thinking: why the heck are we even talking about sex? I shake it off and go to the closet to grab clothes and step in, locking it from the inside to change (okay, would you prefer me to strip for Ikuto?) and come out to a pouting Ikuto (…). I glance down at the white T-shirt and the torn jeans, the black combat boots I so love (haven't you people noticed they've been through every story?), and the chain that holds the Character Change/Transformation pendants. I grab the black American baseball cap and put it on my head backwards, my hazel hair straight down my back and my deep blue eyes sparkling with the new morning's sun. That's when I hear Nana, Vanessa, and Rosa scream. Ikuto and I snap our heads to the dresser and I follow their line of sight to that red glint. It's not just a glint. It looks like a 'X'. I yelp and jump back, my back colliding with the door and the 'X' Negative ice ring cracking. I glare at the ceiling and spread my arms out.
"Really? This soon? You at least give me half-way until some crp happens!"
"What are you talking about?" Ikuto asks. "Nothing's there!"
I point. "You do not see that?" He shakes his head and I open the window, sticking my arm out. "YOU DO NOT SEE THAT?"
He shakes his head again. "No matter how much you repeat yourself, you won't change my answer."
I grunt and look back. Suddenly the 'X' is ZA away from my forehead and I'm pushed back into my door and through, into the stair railing and my body slams down onto the stairs, the forehead landing on the edge of a step. I shake my head roughly and squint up. A black oval appears and the 'X' is on it. It's an 'X' egg, but why the heck…is the 'X' red? Kaki comes in and raises a brow at the egg. "What the…"
"Don't ask me," I sigh. "Ikuto can't see it."
"Maki are you okay?" Ikuto runs up.
"How can you not see that? It's the size of Hidu, Vanessa, and Cassie!"
The 'Red' 'X' egg screams and Ikuto can hear that, covering his ears. "What is that?"
"The…aw fck it," I mutter. "Nana!"
"Cassie!"
"Yes!" Nana and Cassie yelp.
"Our hearts: Unlock!" Kaki and I recite (so soon in the story? I mean come on life hates me!). "Character Transformation: Rose Positive!"
"Character Transformation: Yo Negative!"
I blink and stare at her, seeing her in Cassie's gear, but just staring. "Yo Negative?"
"Would you prefer 'stripe negative'?" she snaps. "'X' Egg here!"
"Ri-OOMPH!"
The thing slams into my stomach and I go flying out the door, flipping to land on my feet. A microphone appears in Kaki's hands and she yells 'Smack talk' into it, black shriveled notes smacking against the egg. "Ikuto," she calls, "get Yuki and Mack!"
He nods and runs out, kissing my head once and whispering 'live for me' before leaving. I blush and the javelin appears. I chuck it and it misses, but breaks into the two batons and slams into the egg's back, knocking it through the wall next to me and the batons returning to my hands. "Light Batons of the Javelin!" I recite. I turn a bit. "I swear we need to shorten it."
"Sorry," Nana apologizes inside. "Can't change it."
I curse and the egg flies back out and slams into my stomach again, this time flying up…
…and me with it!
Kaki manages to grab my ankle and we steer onto the roof of Yuki's house, sliding down and catching the frame of her window. Yuki, innocently reading Elfen Lied Manga, jumps and stares at us with wide eyes, turning to Annie and Character Transforming and jumping out, us jumping down. Mack rushes out of the house, panting and Jus hovering (the girl nurse a BOY got [can't let go of that]). "Jus!"
"Yes! Heal. Cure. Discover!"
Aw…why don't I get a cool three verse thingy for changes? I shake the thought out and the cross appears, needles appearing and Mack throwing the stun-liquid weapons at the egg. It jumps up and I growl, Hidu next to Mina and Quartz who are cheering us on. I jump for it and slash the 'X', but something happens. Blackness forms a cyclone around me and I gasp, the cyclone closing in on me and making my bones feel like absolute mush. I wince and I see a light. There are two twins…one has three and the other has two. They're both at least fifteen and there's a sixth character picking flowers next to the twin with two's ankle. I raise a brow and the one with three laughs to reveal none other than…
…you don't got it.
Fangs.
The cyclone spits me out and I slam into Kaki and Yuki. Mack rushes but the cyclone gobbles him up, spits him out, gobbles Yuki and Kaki and spits them out. I raise a brow and throw the batons, but they miss and head straight for me, slamming into my ice ring and the thing cracking until blood is leaking out and a vein droops. I swallow blood puke and Nana forces the ring to heal, so I jump up with the batons back in hand, slamming them together to form one javelin and batting the egg to Yuki who bats it to Mack who injects it with the needle and Kaki smacks to me, and I break javelin into batons and try the 'X' again.
The result is even WORSE.
It shatters alright, but into a massive red, 2-dementional hole that gives me the creeps. Wind is sucking us in and Kaki uses a microphone cord to wrap around my ankle and keep me there. Ikuto, in Black Lynx, comes up, probably having went to Mack's house and looking all over. "MAKI!" he screams.
Mack screams and is sucked in, Jus clinging to his shoulder. The cord starts to snap and Yuki is nearly sucked in. I grab the scythe before she can. Kaki injects the microphone base into the ground and the hole actually turns to suck her in and draws near Yuki and I. Yuki sadly looks at me. "Bye," she mouths. She lets go.
"YUKI!" I cry, falling to the ground.
She wanted me to stay…The hole looks down upon me and speeds for me, but Ikuto tackles me and he whispers in my ear, "I'll protect you, don't worry."
The whole takes us…
…and we're gone.
Two tunnels come up in all the red and black and something forces Ikuto and I to part, so I scream and he tries to grab my wrist, but we can no longer see each other. I go in further and eventually all is black. I shake my head and the black turns to light. I'm sweating and I bolt up. I raise a brow. I'm in a grass area, trees surrounding me and the sun bright enough to make me shield my eyes. Something is digging in the back of my lips and I groan, rubbing my head and looking around. I can't see anyone. I sigh and look down to see the outfit is the same, but only Nana is with me.
"Quartz?" I gasp. "QUARTZ? KAKI! YUKI! IKUTO! MACK!"
Nana looks around. "I can't feel Quartz anywhere!"
I scream and clutch my head, Nana hugging my right cheek. "What are we going to do?"
"I'm scared Maki-cha!" she cries.
Something cold shoots up my spine and I gasp, bolting onto my feet and Nana on my shoulder.
A gun muzzle digs into my forehead and cocks.
"Don't move," a dark voice commands, "…vampire!"
A.N: CLIFFY! Okay, so Dayfeather, I thought about your suggestion and yes, they will meet Elizabeth and Emma.
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