Prolouge

II

Yuki and Pommy were having a tea party with Sakura and her teddy bear, Sonny. They giggled about how boys had cooties all the way to whether Justin Beiber was cute or not. Typical 6 year old conversations.

A young boy rushed into the room, "Sakura! Sakura! You won't believe what happened!"

Sakura was a little annoyed that he disturbed a good tea party between her and her new bff. "Kiyo, what is it?"

Kiyo tried to catch his breath, "You know the guest that came here today? Sister Gumi is taking them to the top floor!"

Sakura dropped her plastic tea cup in shock, "W-What?"

Yuki didn't get what was going on. What was bad about the top floor? Was there something big and scary lurking up there? Were there monster up there just like the ones under her bed? Or in her closet? Yuki was getting herself scared just thinking about.

She immediately held Pommy to her side for comfort, "Um….What's wrong with the top floor?"

Sakura then realized, "That's right, you don't stay here. Well, it's not really the top floor that everyone here is scared of…it's who stays up there."

"Who?" Yuki was getting more curious and scared at the same time.

Kiyo added more suspicion "Yea, they say that there are two monsters living up there, planning ways to eat every kid here!"

"M-Monsters?" the dark haired 6 year old was now trembling very hard as she hugged Pommy in her arms as hard as she could.

"Kiyo!" Sakura scowled.

"What? It's the truth!"

"You're scaring her!" Sakura glared at Kiyo, but then her attention went back to Yuki seeing how she wasn't taking the "monsters upstairs" rumors very well. "Don't listen to him, they're not monsters. They're orphans just like us. They're names are Rin and Len Kagamine"

Yuki gave a sigh of relief. "So they're normal?"

"Well, they look normal, but…." Sakura had to hold on to her teddy bear, Sonny, in order to make herself comfortable in telling this story "you just get this weird feeling whenever you're around them….a very bad feeling. You know how when it's bedtime, and it's really dark everywhere and you keep staring at your closet because you have this big feeling that the boogeyman is going to come out of it?"

Yuki nodded.

"It kind of feels like that...except bigger. They look like they couldn't do any harm, but something in the bottom of your heart just tells you that something isn't right about them….it's hard to explain. There are a lot of rumors about them."

"SOOO many rumors, most of them are probably true." Kiyo added.

Sakura continued, "There are so many kids here, so we're separated into rooms that could hold about 25 beds to sleep in. Well, I heard one rumor that one Halloween night, Rin and Len were sleeping in one room close to the west wing with 23 other kids. They say that around 3am, people could hear children screaming, but when the nuns checked, all of them were still sleeping. But the next day…."

Sakura was hesitating to continue but Yuki and Kiyo were anxiously waiting for her to finish.

"Go on!" Kiyo urged.

"They had a doctor come in to check the children, he said something about them being in coma, I don't know, but if you would have seen them, you would have thought that they had their souls sucked right out of them. They were still breathing, but if you look in their eyes….nothing was there. And then at 3am that night, they all died…at the same time. It was all over the news. The scary things was that Rin and Len were the only ones in that room who didn't go through that at all and plus, Halloween is their birthday." Sakura concluded.

"…Whoa." Yuki was still trembling with Pommy in her arms.

Kiyo nodded, "I heard that the police came to ask them questions about what happened, Rin and Len said that nothing had happened because they were sleeping. But for some reason, when the cops kept asking about the deaths, they would laugh at it like the whole things was funny to them."

Yuki looked horrified; nothing was ever funny about death. It was either scary or sad, nothing else.

"I think that's why the nuns made them stay up on the top floor, so that incident would never happen again." added Sakura.

"Do they stay up there all day?" asked Yuki.

Sakura shook her head, "No, they have to come down for class time and meals….but all the kids just try to stay away from them."

"Why wouldn't they!" Kiyo shouted, "I'm telling you. They. Are. Monsters. They try to act like they're the perfect angles, but everyone knows that there is something up with them! Even the nuns! "

"Kiyo, come on. They might be kind of weird, but they're not monsters!" Sakura scowled.

"Well that's because you always see them when everybody else does!" Kiyo defended, "They only act like their real selves when no one can see!"

"R-Really?" Yuki managed to say.

"Yea. In fact, I've seen them as monsters!" Kiyo tried to make her believe.

"Okay then," Sakura skeptically said, "What did they look like?"

Kiyo paused a bit.

"…I didn't exactly see them…But I heard them! I can tell you what happened!"

"Sure you can." Sakura sarcastically replied.

Kiyo was a little irritated that Sakura was such a 'nonbeliever'.

"I can!" Kiyo shouted, "Look, I don't know why, but Rin and Len NEVER come down from the top floor on Sundays, especially when the nuns are forcing everyone to go to the church next door. Well one Sunday, I had a really bad cold, so I was left behind to rest in bed while everyone else went to church. Around 1pm, that's when you would usually hear the church choir singing gospels of the Lord very loudly. That usually goes on for like an hour. Well when it hit 1pm, something loud woke me up from sleep, but it wasn't the singing from the church choir….it was the scary sound that came from upstairs…."

The way Kiyo was talking now, both Sakura and Yuki knew that some type of scary story was coming on.

Sakura was getting skeptical of anything that came out of Kiyo's mouth. He might have been trying to just scare Yuki again.

Yuki, on the other hand, was preparing to hold Pommy even closer. 'Pommy' was never a fan of scary stories.

"Here's what happened," started Kiyo.

Kiyo was sleeping peacefully in his bed, constantly breathing through his mouth since his nose was too stuffy. The whole building was in silence since everyone was at church.

The bells of the church started to ring, signifying that it was now 1:00. As the ring of the bells ceased, the angelic voices of the church choir echoed through the walls of the orphanage. And certain ears caught the sound quickly.

It wasn't long enough until something let out a horrible scream which woke up Kiyo in an instant.

Kiyo quickly grew fear for whatever was screaming. At first, he thought there was a monster on the loose in the orphanage. He didn't know if it was a wild animal or some type of creature. Whatever it was, it wasn't human and Kiyo was not brave enough to go find out what exactly it is.

The screams grew louder, and Kiyo swiftly pulled the covers over his head and whimpered in his pajamas. Over and over he prayed that the monster shouldn't find him. He desperately wanted the noise to stop, but it wouldn't.

It went on like that for 30 minutes so far. Kiyo was still in under the covers, but he noticed some things about the screams.

The screams started as soon as the church choir started singing.

The screams were still going on as long as the church choir kept singing

The screams sounded like it was out of agony or torture.

There was more than one monster screaming.

More importantly, the screams were coming from upstairs.

Specifically the top floor.

After all that time that Kiyo spent in the covers, he mustered up the courage get out of bed. He knew those two Kagamine kids were up there, so maybe they needed his help.

Kiyo's fear then transformed into determination. If he was going to be the one to save this orphanage, then so be it. However, if he was going to save anybody, he was going to need a weapon.

Luckily, he was able to find a baseball bat in the orphanage's toy chest. He swung the bat around a bit so he could get a good feel of how he was going to attack the monsters. He was ready to be a hero.

He firmly walked towards the stairwell. But before he took a step, he took one deep breath and put on a face of determination as any hero would do before going on a daring journey. He bravely walked up the stairs with a bat firmly grasped in his hands.

The more Kiyo was going up, the more he could feel in his gut that he was going near something really evil. But he wouldn't let his determination fade.

He finally got to the top floor where at the end of the hallway, was the double door entrance to the room. The screams were still as loud and horrendous as ever, and Kiyo thought that his ears were going to bleed at any minute. But still he paced forward.

Whatever monsters were inside that room, they were going ballistic. Kiyo could hear things being thrown against the wall, nails desperately scratching the floor, banging against the door, everything just to put out the sound of the singing church choir. Kiyo could hear it all.

Just looking at how something was violently banging against the doors on the other side, Kiyo could feel that his determination was faltering little by little.

In fact, the bat was now trembling in his hands. The hair-raising fear was coming back full force. How in the world was he going to fight off those monsters? They could use his bat as a toothpick if they wanted too. Kiyo regretted coming up here.

He was now standing a few inches away from the doors. Even though there was lock on it, Kiyo was still afraid that the monsters can just bust the doors down and eat him alive. Maybe, he should go back to his bed while he still had a chance.

But what about those poor Kagamine kids? Weren't they still up here too? He couldn't just leave them behind.

Kiyo was stuck between a tough dilemma and the terrible racket behind the doors plus the singing of the choir weren't exactly making it easy for him. The noise all together was almost driving Kiyo mad.

Suddenly the church bells rang again, giving the signal that it was time for the pastor to give out the sermon.

The church choir had finished their singing.

The screams of the monsters had stop.

There was just complete silence in the building now.

Kiyo even put his ear against the door, but there was nothing but silence.

No racket.

No screams.

Nothing.

Kiyo was so stunned of the silence that he was beginning to think that the monsters probably disappeared into thin air, but he can't be too sure. He still had to make sure if the Kagamines were ok.

Kiyo knocked on one of the doors, "Hey Rin, Len, are you guys ok?"

No response.

He knocked on the door again, "Hello?"

Still nothing.

Kiyo put his bat to the side and he kneeled down to the floor. He put his head against the floor so he could try to look under the doors. He really couldn't see that much because the room was so dark inside.

His eye tried to search for some sign of movement. Suddenly, Kiyo gasped because an eye was staring straight back at him under the door. Kiyo turned pale white. He was eye to eye with a monster. It had to be a monster, the eye was glowing yellow and it was filled with rage. Even if the eye was the only thing he could see, it felt like that one eye was staring at his very soul. He was about to run away until,

"Kiyo?" a girl's voice called.

Kiyo realized who that could possibly be, "Rin?... is that you?"

And just like that, the eye turned out to be a normal eye. The glow and the rage was gone.

"Yes." Rin answered, "Why are you up here?"

"I came to check on you guys. I heard this terrible scream and it sounded like a scary monster-

"Monster?" Rin giggled, "Silly Kiyo, there's no such things as monsters."

Kiyo was confused now.

"Then…were you the ones screaming and making that terrible noise?"

Rin didn't respond. Instead she just kept staring straight at Kiyo's eye.

….

Somehow, Kiyo could feel that something in the air had changed….and it wasn't good.

"Hey Kiyo, are you all by yourself?" Rin's tone of voice had changed. Instead of sounding more cheery and girly, she sounded dark and grave this time.

"...Yea. Why do you ask?"

Out of nowhere, something very big rammed against the doors. That made Kiyo jumped a bit. He went back to talking to Rin under the door.

"What was that?"

Whatever it was, it wasn't going to stop trying to ram the doors down anytime soon and it had a lot of strength. It kept hitting and hitting the door until even the hinges were beginning to weaken.

"Oh, that's just Len. He doesn't like you very much." Rin said it as if it was normal.

Len?

That was Len?

Kiyo understood if Len was a little bit stronger than him because Len was 3 years older, but no 9 year old should be able to do this much damage to a double door with a lock under seconds!

Kiyo was beginning to panic, "What? Why? What did I ever do to him?"

Rin giggled, "You didn't do anything to him. He just doesn't like you!" Rin's giggle then escalated into a big laughter.

A wicked laughter.

Kiyo was still looking at Rin's eye. The way her eyes were wide and pupils were dialated with madness told Kiyo that maybe the Kagamines were the monsters the whole time.

Kiyo tried scoot backwards and run away, but somehow, Rin's hand was able to slip under the door and catch his foot.

She was still laughing, "Silly Kiyo! All Len wants to do is play!"

Now Kiyo was freaking out. With every huge hit Len was giving to the door, the hinges were beginning to break and Kiyo couldn't get free from Rin.

"Please! Let me go!" Kiyo begged out of fear. He was practically scratching the floor just to get away from the double doors, but Rin had a good grip on his floor.

"PLAY WITH US KIYO!" Rin was now laughing as if she was psychotic.

Kiyo was screaming for help, but no one heard him. Everyone was at church. Len's constant bashing on the door was alerting him that he didn't have much time to live. Besides, the doors can only hold back Len for so long. Kiyo had to think of something quick.

He needed something.

Anything.

A weapon.

That's when Kiyo realized that he brought a bat up here…but it's leaning on the wall a few inches away. He desperately tried to reach for the bat even though Rin was pulling him back at every attempt.

But finally, his fingers reached it and he grabbed it with full force.

"LEAVE ME ALONE!" He raised the bat and hit Rin's hand as hard he could and she immediately brought her hand back under the door.

Kiyo could hear Rin giving out a shriek of pain, but it sounded very….inhuman.

That even made Len stop ramming the doors…for a moment.

Apparently, Len is the protective brother type because after that small moment of silence, Len started bashing the doors twice as fast and hard until the doors, itself, were beginning to break.

"KIYO!"

Kiyo knew most definitely sure that was Len giving his regards. No one has ever said his name so viciously.

He was in disbelief to hear that Rin was still able to come back laughing as if she never was attacked, "Kiyo, it's not nice to hit people like that... I won't forgive you."

He took this moment to run away as fast as he could back downstairs to his bed. He pulled the covers over his head again and vowed to never go back up there again.

"…Heheheheh…" Sakura tried to laugh it off even though she knew that the story had completely freaked her out. Good thing she was already holding Sunny.

"That same night, I had a very bad nightmare that I was being chased by two ferocious dogs. One of them bit my foot. When I woke up, I saw this." Kiyo removed his sock to reveal bite marks on his foot.

Sakura was left speechless, "….Oh my gosh. Kiyo, why didn't you tell me this before?"

"You wouldn't believe me. None of the kids would. I tried to tell the nuns, but for some reason, they didn't even want to hear a single word about it. So I just kept it myself this whole time."

"Hey Kiyo?"

"yea?"

"You're going to have to calm down Yuki."

She was right. The way Yuki was on the verge of tears and almost in the fetal position with her teddy bear proved that all this talk about monster orphans was a bit too much for her. Great, now he feels guilty.

"…Hey kid" he tried to find the right words to say, "Don't worry, as long as you have nothing to do with them, you should be fine. I mean, hey, you don't even stay here. So you're probably safer then all of the orphans here combined."

Yuki sniffed, "..R-Really?"

Kiyo smiled seeing that Yuki was turning back to normal, "Yea, really."

"Pommy feels a lot better now!" Yuki cheerily said.

Sakura was relieved that Yuki wasn't scared anymore, but then, Yuki's bright smile turned back into a frown again.

"Mommy, daddy and Miku-ne are going to the top floor…"

That statement was enough to cause all three children to be silent with fear.

Yuki boldly stood up, "I have to go warn them!" and she ran out of the room to go to the stairwell.

"Yuki, wait!" Sakura took her teddy bear, Sonny, and ran after Yuki.

Kiyo watched as both girls ran out of the room. He rubbed the bite marks on his foot and said to himself, "I have a very bad feeling about this…"

I guess that's a bit of a preview of how intense things will get in the story (believe me, it's gonna go beyond that!), but what do you think? Did Kiyo's story serve as a good warning to you guys? Can you figure out what exactly Rin and Len are? Should be easy (well, atleast I think so...)

btw, Yes. Rin and Len's birthday is on Halloween in this story. I CAN NOT have their birthday being 2 days after Christmas. In future chapters, you'll figure out why that would be an abomination to their characters.

Next chapter is where the story actually starts! The prologue has officially ended!

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