Chapter 14
Lina: Day one, 14:00
Lina woke up in a house that she fell asleep in, it was quite a large area and she hadn't seen it before in her life when they came to the village. She looked around and Kathy was no where in sight.
Lina stood and walking into a hall only to swiftly go back into the room she was previously in. She opened a closet and hid in it, since a shibito inside the hall she just came from was heading toward her and there was almost no way around it.
Lina came out after three minutes when the shibito passed since there seemed to be no more around. She crouched and walked while doing so making sure the shibito outside the rooms didn't see her, and walked to the stairs when the shibito wasn't looking. When on the top floor, Lina opened the first door she could find and closed it so she could relax for a moment.
"That person wasn't there before from what I remembered, and Kathy is gone. Where'd she go? Guess I mean's she's on her own or dead," Lina said, a tear forming.
Lina walked out and opened the door across the hall. Once done she walked out an opened door there onto a balcony. Lina then climbed her way down to the ground and looked around; the fog wasn't thick around the house it was like there was no fog. She just kept walking ignoring the facts before her.
Suddenly a voice came from the entrance as a shibito came up and said, "Kiki, please come to mommy." Lina backed away and looked hastily for any type of weapon she could use. The shibito called mommy turned to see Lina and held up a small sickle in its hands.
Lina grabbed a board of wood and had a nail through the end that was opposite of the one Lina held. She slammed the nail in the wood into the mother's skull, then pulled the wood and nail up watching as blood splattered everywhere and screaming came loudly. Lina just ran with the board of wood in her hands.
The shibito stood and the wound in its head regenerated to become normal. It starred where Lina went and started to follow her, "Take me to Kiki…" she said not realizing Lina was far gone.
Chapter 15
Jun: Day one, 11:00
Jun helped the girl in the stall, Kiki, to her feet and they started out into the hospital hallways. Jun gulped feeling fright from seeing how insane some of the remaining people were. Kiki just followed Jun since she was an adult.
Jun walked through the halls watching the darkness that filled the hallways, but felt the darkness that filled the souls of the dead. She couldn't understand anything that was going on, there was red water, dead people that will live forever, and a crazed wacko in the same place she was at that moment.
When the two reached the downstairs Kiki asked, "Why were you here? Are you an angel like the ones that fly in the sky's on the second day?"
"I'm not an angel, but I will protect you from those things and that boy," Jun said as they kept walking on down.
"Well then, who are you?" Kiki asked.
Jun responded, "I'm a local priestess at a Christian church that opened up four years ago. So where is your mommy?" she then asked. Kiki looked at her, then looked down without a response. Jun got the overall idea.
Jun then escorted Kiki into the courtyard which they would have to cross to get to the front door. She stopped when she saw a statue in the courtyard had been moved. Jun went down and Kiki followed her until they reached a room, and then Kiki covered her eyes, but Jun went wide eyed and backed up.
Jacob was in the room with the Ashley shibito tied up, but one foot short which was in Jacob's hand wiggling around. "They can move without nerves, it's amazing just like Miyata said…" Jacob smiled putting the foot on the footless leg watching it attach itself back. The Ashley shibito was on the table screaming from the pain that Jacob put the shibito through. Blood was everywhere on her and the room.
Jun screamed, "You, you're insane! What the hell led you to do this." Jun then grabbed Kiki and they ran back up.
Jacob walked out of the door and watch them leave, "You'll see, I wanted to see if there was one other way to kill them, but it looks like there was only one way to kill them." He then walked back to the room.
Jun ran out of the hospital with Kiki holding tightly onto her hand. Kiki was crying but Jun was just panting. "He's insane… what is wrong… with him?" she asked aloud.
Chapter 16
Jacob: Day one, 20:00
Jacob fell through the door from the courtyard into the building holding up his gun looking around. His palms and face were sweaty and his eyes were showing fear. Jacob held the gun toward the darkness of the courtyard and then slammed the door shut. He ran to the second story and went into Miyata's office closing the door and locking it.
Jacob then shot open the window in the room and jumped into the courtyard and thought to himself, 'She should have gone inside by now…' and went toward the entrance of the hospital.
Jacob was five feet away from the front door when the emergency stairwell door opened next to the front doors and the Ashley shibito stepped out of them with a spade in her hands. "You'll die with the rest of us…" she said then started to laugh. Once done doing so she stumbled hastily toward Jacob. He held up his gun and took down Ashley in five shots then reloaded.
"It takes forever to take her down," Jacob said fearfully loading the gun again and walked up the stairs toward Miyata's office once more and locked the door once more. "It doesn't take her that long to get back up either."
Jacob opened a drawer in the desk and pulled out some spare bullets inside before stepping out into the hallway. He turned right and found the Ashley shibito coming toward him. "You killed me," She screamed holding up the spade. Jacob shot her down again and ran down the emergency stairs.
Jacob came out onto a street and looked left and right. He turned and saw that Ashley had already gotten up somehow and was heading his way out the door. "Damn it, where to go?" Jacob asked himself. He made a quick left.
Ashley shibito was following close behind Jacob holding up her spade and kept saying stuff to Jacob. Jacob ignored it all and walked into a house locking the door and running for the back door. Ashley knocked the door down with two hits of her spade and kept in the direction of Jacob until she lost him.
Jacob made his way to the roof of the house he'd just escaped looking down at Ashley as she looked for him. He made no noise and stayed still until she was gone. At that moment Jacob sighed of relief and looked up at the stars. "Tomorrow comes the red rain, and even more danger. But I have to go back to the hospital, looks like I forgot something with all that research…"
Chapter 17
Josh: Day one, 17:00
Josh slashed one of the shibito's in half with his Machete and another next to him with the same weapon. He walked more through the forest looking at the trees and shibito that lurked around them. Josh couldn't remember anything but the bloodshed, and how much joy it brang him at the moment.
Josh walked further through until he reached a giant stone that the people of Hanuda referred to as the Mana stone. It was believed to have fallen from the sky from their god of paradise.
Josh walked to it and picked up a piece of the stone that had fallen off and put it in his pocket. Behind him two shibito came toward him, so he slashed them like he did any of the others. Blood covered his shirt now and most of his skin was stained the blood red color. All Josh did though was smile, smile and laugh. He was known as insane before, but even more gears were breaking now.
Josh walked on and heard screaming and running off in the distance. He walked toward it and looked at shibito walking around, but nothing seemed to tell him what the screaming was.
The sunset made the ground have a red color like the endless red ocean going around the village. Josh just didn't want to leave now though, everything just seemed so normal to him now.
Josh then looked to his right to see the shibito from the school calling itself a mommy of some Kiki. The shibito turned toward him showing some octopus fungus like thing on its head and in an odd mixed voice it said, "Where's my Kiki?"
Josh held up his machete and said, "Would you shut up about that Kiki?" then came toward her.
She held up a revolver but before the shibito could shot Josh, Josh had cut her in half vertically. Both sides fell to different sides and Josh smiled, "Finally she shuts up." He walked on in the fog and thought about the Kiki thing for a second. Was it fate to learn of the girl, or was it going to be more fun to kill the mother more?
Chapter 18
Kathy: Day one, 12:00
Kathy ran out of the house she and Lina were in since she didn't want Lina to get attacked from the shibito that saw Kathy. She looked behind her after she hit the streets to see the shibito stopped chasing her and let out a sigh of relief. Afterwards she walked on down the foggy wet path that was ahead of her.
Kathy was one of the nicest people you could meet; she cared about others more than her and would most likely sacrifice herself for a friend. Kathy just couldn't watch another friend go down.
Kathy kept going until she reached the forest and started to breathe in hastily. "I was just here with Lina not that many hours ago, what's going on. Why am I going in circles?" she asked panicking.
Kathy went backwards and then fell off a ledge that wasn't there before, and stood looking around. "What's… what's going on?" she asked standing quickly. Kathy went to the gated door and opened it, then looked around at the shibito around.
The area looked much like a mining zone, just with a lot of people with guns. There were three mines marked as one, three, and five. Kathy had the least of an idea where she was going, so she headed into the nearest tunnel, tunnel number one. She hid inside and looked around the darkness.
A shot came from the darkness and Kathy could feel a wound in her leg, and when she felt it everything went dark and she passed out. A shibito came by and started to drag Kathy down the tunnel still alive.
Chapter 19
Jun: Day one, 21:00
Jun and Kiki were in the abandoned house Lina and Kathy were in, Kiki was sleeping on the floor bed mat and Jun watched the door so it'd stay closed. Jun was somehow dedicated to protecting the girl for some odd reason; she knew that it was important to save another as it was important to save themselves.
Jun prayed to god as she waited for Kiki to awaken. It was her nature to do so being a priestess and all, but anyone normal would pray to god in a situation like this. All Jun really wanted was to live.
Jun got up for a second and went to a TV, turning it on. All the showed and sounded from it was white noise, which was the most likely thing anyway. Jun turned it off and looked out into the dark foggy night. No birds of the night sounded, no animals were heard in the forests, it was as if the place was too empty for it's good.
Kiki awoke right about when Jun went to the window. She rubbed her eyes and looked up at Jun, "What are you doing?" Kiki asked.
Jun looked at her and smiled, "I'm starring at the stars, I tend to do it when I'm nervous," she told the girl, trying not to let the girl really know that she was looking for any source of life, but none turned up.
Jun and Kiki walked to the other end of the upstairs and then walked out onto the balcony. From there they climbed to the bottom floor and walked on toward the entrance.
Kiki bent down and picked up a locket on the ground. When she opened it, it showed a picture of her and her mother. Kiki then had to cry, the locket was her mother's. Jun held onto her and said, "I know it's difficult, but if you really want, I'll be your mommy…"
Chapter 20
Nadia: Day two, 3:00
Sarah and Nayma were now sitting on a bench feeling exhausted from all the running and no walking. Sarah started the talking, "Well looks like we'll be some good friends once we get out…"
Nayma just nodded still catching her breath. Nayma still kept a close eye out, because even though they kept evading that one shibito, it would some how find them. Then noise came from the bushes.
Nadia came from the bushes; it hadn't surprised Nayma since she saw her coming so she had time to move. Sarah was a whole other story. The spade in Nadia's hand came swinging down through her skull, like a piece of thin paper and scissors. One side of the half cut head went one way, and the other went the opposite. Nayma stood and just starred.
"Now we can be friends, forever…" Nadia said then looked at Nayma. "Want to join us?" Nayma just ran without saying a word.
Chapter 21
Lina: Day two, 1:00
"Leave me alone!" Lina screamed whacking a shibito that would not stop pestering her. Lina then ran into the nearby cafeteria trying to catch her breath. The fog was lifting little by little at the moment and the darkness just filled the village from the early morning time.
Lina made a sprint outside after the shibito got back up and walked away. She ran down into the side of the road thinking she could walk out and found an endless sea of some red water. "What the hell…" She said stressed looking as the road leading out was destroyed as if some giant beast had smashed it down. Lina just panted and walked back toward the cafeteria thinking their must be another way out.
On the road she saw Jacob wandering around the streets. She started for him saying, "Jacob?"
The boy turned and surely enough it was Jacob. "Lina… I'm so glad to see you living. I remember you saying you'd never make it out, of a situation like this…" He said laughing a little.
Lina looked at him, "Are you alright Jacob?"
Jacob walked to her and gave her some odd relic, "On the third day, climb the tower to the mirror pool and destroy the god…" Then he just vanished into the fog.
Lina starred at the relic and to where Jacob had vanished off to. "What the hell is wrong with him suddenly?" She asked.
Lina looked at the relic closely and found a small note Jacob wrote on it. "The second day it will rain with angels in the sky without the blinding fog of the devil himself. Then comes the third day, the shibito will build a tower that will lead to our world, climb it to the mirror pool and once done with what God has given the task to you of, then leave the mirror pool and climb the tower to the light of the real world…"
Lina didn't quite understand, but she understood that tomorrow was the only hope for escape so she'd have to live until then. The only problem Lina really had been those shibito and the fact that there was no way to sleep. Yet there was one more problem with Lina, she wished her friend was with her.
Kathy and Lina were the best friends that anyone could have ever meet, and it seemed like nothing would break them up. The only thing that had ever separated them was this incident and that alone.
Lina looked at the path ahead of her leading to just another area of the town she had most likely been to. "Well I'll have to live for another day I guess…" Lina then walked on the path fearing nothing now that she knew about an exit.
Chapter 22
Jacob: Day one, 23:00
Jacob looked at the hallways of the Hospital as he entered hearing the cries and laughter of the shibito trapped inside. He walked inside and to the trash chute. "Hmmm I need something heavy for this one. I knew those idiots would hide in the same place…" He smiled and walked inside looking around.
When Jacob went into a hallway he quickly went backwards and looked seeing Ashley with two crawler shibito around. "Damn it why does the never ending of Ashley have to still be here?" He asked himself quickly and quietly going the other way.
Once inside the new room he picked up something like a microwave and made his way out trying to stay quiet since her couldn't attack with the machine in his hands. Jacob almost made it when he stepped on some of the most brittle bones lying on the floor making them crack. Ashley turned with her blood teared eyes and started to laugh franticly.
Jacob quickly made his way out of the hallway heading toward the courtyard and looked behind him finding that Ashley was only three feet from him. Quickly once he entered a door he shut it and locked it. After doing this Jacob ran down the hall he was now in until he reached the courtyard which was empty.
Jacob shoved the Microwave into the trash chute sending the trash inside to the basement level. He went down the ladder that the statue had blocked earlier and looked around for the room where the trash went. "It must be inside the main building, that isn't good…"
Back inside the building Jacob walked toward the emergency stairs to find Ashley to make her way out again. "You killed me!" She said running toward him with the spade.
"Can't you use a larger vocabulary?" Jacob asked before shooting her in the head making her go down. Jacob then walked down the stairs into the basement and looked at the Room labeled trash. Jacob smiled and walked inside.
Once inside Jacob dug through the trash that he had let drop through the chute and pulled out two relics from it and smiled. "The two relics that end the shibito, and one to kill the god. Finally they rest in the hands of me, and soon belong to the ones who will use them," Jacob said laughing.
When he walked out the spade came down in front of him, barely missing him. Jacob pointed his gun and shot down Ashley before going to the entrance and running out. "She'll be back up soon; I'd better hurry and make it out…" Jacob told himself before running out of the nightmare hospital.
Chapter 23
Nayma: Day two, 5:00
Nayma ran through the wood and found herself back at the village like everyone else had. "This can't be! I was just here and I should be gone out of this place I ran through there!" She then ran to the nearest largest building at the moment, the school. The only way she got in was from upstairs which was oddly unlocked.
When she entered it was like the haunted houses they made at Theme parks only now you could die in one without any care. Ropes were tied from the roof to the balcony and to the ground. Shibito crawled on them as if they were spiders and the rope was their web. Nayma just walked on toward the balcony until she found stairs. She climbed down them and killed the two spider shibito things with her fire extinguisher.
Nayma made her way in from the gym she had exited and closed the door knowing the shibito would come back up if she hadn't. When she tried to go into the next hallway she saw some weird kid shibito all holding baseball bats and making sounds like they were crying. "Shit where am I going to go now?"
Nayma walked out and hit one with the fire extinguisher and then took the baseball bat from it hands. She walked on hitting the kid shibito and made her way to the second floor where she saw a kid drawing on the wall. Nayma walked toward her and he kid looked back, "Who… who are you?" The kid asked.
"I'm Nayma, what about you?" Nayma asked looking at the little girl.
"My names Kiki, My mommy dragged me here after I fainted I think…" The little girl said.
"Mo…mmy?" Nayma asked before seeing a shibito walked out from a classroom. Kiki ran and hide behind Nayma watching as the shibito she called mommy walk out. The octopus like thing was still on her head, and she held a revolver in one hand. Nayma ran up before the shibito had a chance and smashed it down then looked back to where the kid was to find her clutching Nayma.
"I don't wanna die, please help me…" Kiki said starting to cry. Nayma walked on but told the kid to follow close behind her. They made it downstairs and found that the door was barricaded, and the gym door was locked from the inside.
All the shibito lay on the ground now even though Nayma only attacked one or two really. She walked back up with the kid behind her and grabbed some keys from the almost dead shibito mom. Nayma then ran still having the kid behind her and opened a door leading to the fire exit.
Nayma made it out with the kid then, but the kid had vanished after a second of being out. Rain started to fall now, ad when Nayma was about to turn around, she was knocked out.
Chapter 24
Kathy: Day two, 7:00
Kathy ran through the town looking back as shibito followed her and wouldn't stop their pursuit. The shibito number got larger as she kept running through the roads. She quickly veered left, then right, and then right again and into a house that was unoccupied. Kathy looked as the shibito just walked by and let out a soft sigh.
Kathy grabbed a towel drying off the red rain that had fallen onto her from outside. It was odd since the rain had some odor, but usually it doesn't. Kathy just looked out as it covered the window, and her wishes to leave the town.
Kathy then looked at the furniture and all the blood around the house. She wanted to scream so bad but all she could do was stare at where the trail was leading, into the back room. She walked in and then that's when she screamed. Two Shibito hung upside down from the ceiling were crying in pain, Josh sat in a chair and desk with the machete next to him. Josh looked up at Kathy and smiled, "They won't die…"
Kathy backed away still watching him, "What's… what's wrong with you. Have you gone insane?" she asked.
Josh smiled and laughed. He stood and struck the machete through one of the shibito heads. "I've been insane, this trip just let's me show you how bad…" He then twisted the machete with it still in the face of the shibito.
Kathy ran out of the house into the red rain and rain more and more away from the house she entered. The images she saw wouldn't leave her mind making her want to vomit instead of running for her life.
Kathy stopped after twenty minutes feeling exhausted and looked up to see Lina wandering around the area. "Lina!" She yelled to her running toward Lina. Lina turned and smiled when she saw her best friend and then gave each other a hug.
After the hug Lina looked at Kathy and said, "I know a way out, we have to wait till the third day though ok?" Lina said then watched as an odd woman came up behind Kathy. "Whose that?" Lina asked as Kathy turned around.
The woman held up a gun and shot Lina to the ground, "I'm Yao Hisako, Or right now people call me Jun," She said with a smile. "Now child, come with me," She told Kathy.
Kathy fell from fright and Jun walked to Kathy and picked her up. "It's time, time for the awakening of the god…" Jun told herself while walking with Kathy.
Chapter 25
Jun: Day two, 4:00
Jun lead Kiki to the hospital and sitting in a room meant for patients. Jun was nervous and praying that she would live, Kiki was sitting on the bench trying to get the images out of her mind being a ten year old and all. Nightmares were all that was left for the little girl now since she had been in it for a whole day.
Jun told Kiki to stay where she was and to hide if someone was about to come in. Jun locked the door behind her and looked around, it was about time she found something to defend herself and the moment was about now.
Jun walked into another patient's room and looked on a table to find nothing but papers. She started to read through them even though they didn't seem important:
"Tests had included the possibility for alien activity on earth. Impossible for us to kill without flame caused by relics we have hidden here for Miyata to give to others that are needed of them."
"Tests have proven decapitation or a shot to head does not work, Head either regrows or reattaches itself. If head doesn't reattach then head dies, but the body still gets new head."
"Alien god is related to some cult like religion, one that has that has that woman in it. She hasn't aged on bit, but yet everyone knows Hisako is not someone to be dealt with."
Jun left the room and papers and then into a courtyard where two shibito were crawling around. She sprinted across the yard and into the other entry closing the door. At the side of the door was a riffle and it had ammunition in it and beside it. Jun picked it up and looked at the hallway as the girl she warned from before came out of the shadows with blood teared eyes and a spade in her hands. "You… you didn't save me…" The girl said raising her spade.
Jun quickly shot the shibito girl with the riffle and ran into the courtyard. Once there she shot down the two crawlers and looked back as the girl opened the door. "Why won't she stay down like the rest?" Jun asked herself shooting the girl shibito and walking back to where Kiki was.
Before she opened the door darkness started to fill her eyes, and a loud siren like noise could be heard. "So you're the one to revive the next god of paradise?" A woman voice came from around Jun. Jun looked to find a woman in a priestess gown.
The woman touched Jun's shoulder and smiled, "I'm Hisako Yao, and you're nobody now…" and then Jun's body fell to the ground. It raised back up and she knocked on the door.
Kiki went to the door and found Jun holding a riffle. Jun said, "No, you're not the one for the god…" She said before walking off and leaving Kiki alone. Kiki watched her go off and then fainted from some odd smell coming from the patient room. Chemicals were spilled on the floor, and Kiki's mom stood there laughing more and more.
Chapter 26
Josh: Day two, 9:00
Josh left the house where he hung the shibito upside down and was outside in the red rain. "Ah now it rains blood…" He said figuring out that the red rain was actually blood rain. Josh let himself tasted the blood from the sky and smiled liking the taste of this new element of fear.
Josh walked on cutting shibito up on his way feeling like bloodshed was the only answer to making all this go away. There was no fear inside Him like most of the other people but instead he had excitement and fun from cutting up the shibito. It was endless fun because they'd just come back again and again.
After cutting up two shibito's he found some odd woman walking around with a riffle and a girl in her arms, Kathy. Josh walked toward her and watched as the woman turned, dropped Kathy on the ground, and shoot the riffle at him. It was oddly fast giving him no time to run so he got shot in the stomach, making him fall to the ground.
Josh woke up four hours later and looked next to him seeing Lina in a patient's bed with him, and Jacob putting that odd red water in them. "What the hell?" Josh asked.
Jacob looked at them, "Good, you're awake, now I can give you this…" He said handing Josh the second relic he had. "Now this is the second day so it will be rain and angels, but on the third climb the tower the shibito build so that you can escape…" He said before walking off.
Josh watched him and put the relic away and found his machete next to him. "Well this is a bit awkward, Jacob gives me some stupid piece of shit, and yet I know a way out too…" He said before walking outside.
Once outside of the room he looked to see Ashley shibito coming up some stairs with a spade in her hand. He cut the spade in half and chopped Ashley in half like it was nothing. "Now then, I think I'll wait for the next day, and then climb that tower Jacob mentioned.