VS: Thanks to my first two reviews Chou and James Firebrand
Chapter 2, Drain:
"You're Neku, you started out as a moody little emo, then you fell for your first friend Shiki. You didn't care when a young girl died, you were betrayed, killed, and had to save a city you hated. I only hope that you can be as interesting in this game." The girl said to Neku.
Neku looked shocked. "How do you know that about me?" He asked her.
"I had to research your story, Ketsueki is interested in you, and now I am too." The girl said to Neku.
"Who's Ketsueki? And who are you?" Neku aksed.
"My name is Kurohime Sasaki, and you'll meet Ketsueki eventually." The girl, Kurohime, said to Neku.
"Right, well I'll just be leaving." Neku said, then turned around and tried to run away.
Before Neku could get very far he heard a boom and felt pain in his stomach, and he remembered Kurohime had a gun. Neku did his best to hobble away while he bleeding, but Kurohime shot him in the foot, making him fall to the ground. Neku turned over, and saw Kurohime walk over to him and step on his stomach, then point her gun at his head.
"You know, we have your friends for a future entrance free, unless you want to abandon them." She said.
"Bi..." Neku couldn't finish the insult, because Kurohime shot him in the head.
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Ketsueki was watching Joshua, the Composer was preparing for the next Reaper's Game. Kurohime walked into the room, she now had Reaper's wings.
"Neku is in the Game now." She said to Ketsueki.
"You killed Neku!?" Joshua asked. "I didn't want him to be in the Game again."
"So you want go with our plan. Kurohime, if you would…." Ketsueki said.
Kurohime walked up to Joshua, whistling while she walked, then split into three. The clones rose into the air and put their hands together, spider webs shot out of their hands and covered Joshua. Joshua broke free, and then used his lasers to destroy the two clones. Kurohime floated back down, then fell to the ground. Ketsueki dashed towards Joshua, and pointed at him. Red strings that seemed to be made of blood hit Joshua, and started draining him of his energy. Joshua tried to use his lasers to kill Ketsueki, but the lasers barely hurt him.
"I'm draining you of your power so…" Ketsueki said, then punched Joshua in the face.
Joshua stood up, and he made a truck fall on top of Ketsueki. Ketsueki destroyed the truck, and stood up.
Kurohime snuck up behind Joshua,then touched his shoulder, turning him into a stone statue. Kurohime giggled, and then touched the statue and Joshua's arms raised to the side and his legs joined together.
"I guess that makes you the Composer too?" Akihiro asked, since he was confused.
"In a way… The Composer will not participate in this game." Ketsueki explained to his less intelligent partner.
"I wonder how Albatross is doing… Probably making enemies." Kurohime said.
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Albatross jumped off of the roof in front of Kariya and Uzuki.
"Change of plans, turns out I need to kill you. You weren't very useful anyways." Albatross said to the duo.
Uzuki got mad, and shot Albatross with a Force Round. Once it hit Albatross he turned into six albatross noise with purple and blue Noise wings. The Albatross flew at Uzuki, one hit her in the stomach, knocking her to the floor. The other five flew at Kariya, but he created an electric barrier around himself that killed one of the Albatross and blocked the other four. Uzuki shot flowers at the birds, killing a second one. The other four birds circled around her, cutting her with their wings, before flying into the air, two dive-bombed Uzuki while the other two went after Kariya. Kariya and Uzuki dodged, making the Albatross smash into the floor. When the birds got up they had merged together to become two larger Albatross Noise. The two both flew down at Kariya, cutting him with their wings, then turned around to cut him again. Kariya charged up energy before releasing six shots that hit the birds. Uzuki shot a homing flower that shot one of the birds, destroying it.
The final Albatross flew into the air, and just floated. Kariya once again charged up energy and threw a big ball of energy that hit the Albatross, causing it to explode in a flurry of black feathers. The feathers floated into the shape of a human, before becoming Albatross.
"You two are a lot weaker than I thought. He'll have no trouble killing you." Albatross said.
"We beat you!" Uzuki shouted.
"Oh really?" Albatross asked rhetorically.
A ball of purple and blue energy formed in Albatross' hand, two rings of energy swirled around it in an X shape. Albatross threw the energy ball at the two Reapers, causing a large explosion.
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"Not this again." Neku said while sighing.
Neku was back to the Crossing, the problem was no one could see him, and he was holding what looked the Player Pin, but the skull now had vampire teeth. Neku looked around, he saw Sota and Nao.
"I thought you guys were erased." Neku said to Sota and Nao.
"That's not a nice way to treat your friends." Sota said. "And I have no idea how we got back." He explained.
"Does anyone not have a partner!?" Neku shouted, he ran from attacking Noise towards the Statue of Hachiko. Neku looked behind him, Sota and Nao were busy fighting Noise and couldn't help him.
"We're partners now." An unfamiliar voice said to Neku.
Neku turned around to kill the Noise, a Dixiefrog and a Mosh Grizzly. Neku took out his Lightning Rook pin and electrocuted the Dixiefrog, then used his Pyrokinesis pin to burn the Mosh Grizzly.
Neku's partner was a boy with black hair and red eyes, wearing an orange hoodie with the hood up, blue shorts, and black shoes. Neku's partner was carrying a crowbar, which he swung at a charging Dixiefrog, destroying it in one swing. The boy ran at the Mosh Grizzly, the Noise swung its claw at the boy, but he blocked with his crowbar. The Mosh Grizzly attempted to punch the boy but he jumped into the air and swung his crowbar down, instead of bashing the grizzly the crowbar went straight through the Noise.
"Thanks for the help, my name's Masaru Nakamura." The boy, Masaru, offered his hand to Neku.
After a pause Neku shook Masaru's hand.
"Are you a Reaper?" Neku asked after seeing Masaru's hood.
"No, I'm a Player. I died from… A fall." Masaru said.
"Well I was killed by a psychopath." Neku said coldly.
VS: So sorry about that, I tried to fix it, so at least there's a fight and Kurohime just snuck up behind the weakened Joshua.