Save Ayumi

Trigger word: Suicide. Please do not read if you are depressed.

'Yoshiki...' Miki thought. 'He's finally going to be happy...with his girlfriend...but this had to happen, didn't it..?"

Miki watched Yoshiki desperately trying to get both of them up.

'I won't be able to see him much even if I live...' She looked at Ayumi. 'But she'll be able to...'

"Yoshiki...you won't be able to save us both." Miki said.

"DON'T SAY THAT!" He shouted. "DON'T GIVE UP NOW! HOLD ON!"

Miki looked at him with sad eyes. Yoshiki noticed her look, and gritted his teeth.

"NO, MIKI! I'M GOING TO SAVE YOU BOTH!"

Yoshiki's face was covered in tears, and his look on his face was so...desperate.

'I hate to die now...but I can't afford to let Yoshiki have a worse life...'

"Miki." Ayumi said, trembling.

Miki looked at her.

"Don't give up. We're the only hopes left...in his life..." She said quietly.

'But he can't save us both...we'll all die...'

"Ayumi." Yoshiki managed to calm down a bit. "Can you climb up? I think it'll be easier if we both lift Miki up..."

Ayumi nodded. She climbed up Yoshiki's arm. Yoshiki groaned. He was exhausted; his power was reaching his limit.

"AHHH!" Ayumi screamed. She slipped and accidentally let go of his arm.

"NOOO!" Yoshiki screamed. He quickly reached out his arms and grabbed Ayumi's.

They could hear the emptiness of the endless pit. Ayumi panted and wheezed. She started to hyperventilate.

'This is bad...' She thought. She felt Yoshiki's grip slowly loosening. Yoshiki was panting heavily. He tried his hardest to pull them up, but it seemed to pull them further in.

'I guess...this is the end of me...' Miki thought, loosening her grip. Yoshiki noticed this.

"MIKI! No, no, NOO!"

She looked up to him. Yoshiki was crying madly. Miki felt her tears running down.

"You know you can't save us both... Goodbye, Yoshiki, my dear brother..." She said slipping slowly down. "Don't blame yourself...please, this is for your own good...it's my choice, so blame me..."

"NO! DON'T! NO NOOO!" Yoshiki was screaming, and gripped her hand with all might, but her small hand was slipping away.

Ayumi looked at her with widened eyes, shocked. Then Ayumi tried to grab her other hand too, but Miki avoided her.

"Why..? Why..?" Ayumi said, crying too.

"Take care of my brother...please..." She said.

'This is all I can do for him. I couldn't do anything when our parents disowned him, but now I can finally do something for him...'

Miki was finally in midair. Seemed like the air coming from the hollow hole was slowing her fall.

"NOOOOOO!" Yoshiki screamed. "MIKI!"

"MIKI!" Ayumi screamed.

"YOSHIKI!" She felt her tears lift midair too. "I'LL- I'LL MISS YOU!"

She cried and weeped, tears flying up.

"I LOVE YOU!" Yoshiki screamed.

"ME TOO-!" Miki said.

Yoshiki and Ayumi were almost out of sight. Everything went so slow for her. It was almost peaceful. Everything was quiet, and she was flying.

'So this is how death feels like...'

She looked around. She felt the dark emptiness surrounding her. She closed her eyes and smiled.

She heard a loud thump. She opened her eyes, and saw that she was flying upwards.

'What happened..?'

She was floating above ground now. She could see Ayumi and Yoshiki. Yoshiki was crying, shouting her name. Miki flew to them, and patted his back.

"Don't cry, Yoshiki..."

She saw Ayumi looking at her direction.

"Miki..?"

"You can see me..?"

"Miki!" She said. Yoshiki spun around and looked up, but he couldn't see anything.

"Miki's right there... She's patting your back..." Ayumi said.

"You can see her..?"

Ayumi nodded.

"Don't be sad, Yoshiki, I'll be watching over you..."

Ayumi told Yoshiki what Miki said. Miki felt herself lifting up, without her will.

"Don't go..." Yoshiki said.

"Take care..." Miki managed to say, before shimmering away.

"Yoshiki..." Ayumi said. "She's gone... She's up there now..."

Ayumi hugged Yoshiki. Yoshiki leaned his head on her shoulder and cried.

"Why...why did this happen..."

"I don't know..."

"Why does nothing good happen in my pitiful life..."

Ayumi couldn't answer. Ayumi helped him up, and they went to his home. Yoshiki laid on his bed, his eyes red from crying. Ayumi came in the room.

"Ayumi..." He said with his cracked voice.

"Yoshiki..."

"I'm going to revenge...on whoever did this to Miki..." He said, his voice getting filled with anger.

"But-"

"Don't try to stop me..."

"I'm just worried about you..."

Ayumi laid on his bed too, and cuddled him.

"I don't think I can live if I don't get my vengeance..."

"Let's think of other ways, please..?"

Yoshiki shook his head.

"No... I'm sorry..."

Ayumi started crying. Yoshiki put her head on his chest.

"I'm sorry..."

Satoshi opened his eyes. Where was he? He looked around to see that he was in a hill, not too far from his house.

"What...happened..?"

"Kehehehe.."

He turned around to see himself, darkened.

"We promised to be never alone," the Darkening said. "Now we aren't."

"What did you do?"

"Just did what you couldn't've done." The Darkening cackled.

His laughter seemed to vibrate the air.

"Look who's coming up." It said, grinning.

Satoshi saw a tall figure running up.

"Yoshiki!" He shouted. He smiled but soon found himself being strangled by him.

"HOW DARE YOU?!" Yoshiki roared.

"Yo-Yoshiki- what-stop!" Satoshi chocked.

"I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" He screamed.

Satoshi saw that Yoshiki was crying. He was completely filled with anger and sorrow.

"C-can't br-breat-he..." Satoshi gagged.

"Yoshiki!" A familiar girl's voice came from behind. "No!"

Yoshiki finally let go of Satoshi and threw him to the ground.

"Keke, you got the wrong guy." The Darkening appeared again. He had a kitchen knife with him.

"What- what do you think you're doing!" Satoshi yelled at it, recovering his breath.

"I'm doing what you wanted me to do." It said, cackling more. It swiftly glided to Ayumi, and tried to stab her throat. Ayumi screamed in horror. Yoshiki grabbed the Darkening's wrist and threw it off.

"Stop it! This is not what I want!" Satoshi screamed.

"You're right..." The Darkening seemed to calm down a bit. "This is not what you want..."

"This is what I WANT!" It smiled. Its mouth's edge reaching widely on his chin, it seemed inhuman.

It charged at Yoshiki, knife pointed right at him.

"NOOOO!" Ayumi and Satoshi screamed.

Splutter.

Yoshiki collapsed on his knee, then fell completely. A pool of blood was spewing out from his throat.

Yoshiki could have dodged that moment, but he didn't. He had no will to.

"YOSHIKI!" The two screamed.

That morning, their were people gathered around a horrific scene. Cops were not letting them in.

There were three corpse in total, and a black liquid that formed a pond.

One corpse had blond hair, bleached, most likely. It was facing front to the ground, and there was a stab wound on his throat.

The other corpse was right next to his corpse. Blue hair, very short. She was facing the corpse next to her. She had been stabbed on the stomach. Her was formed a smile, so they assumed it was suicide. They figured the two corpses were a couple.

The last corpse was hanging from a tree, rope tight around his neck. The corpse had brown hair, and was shorter than the first corpse. It was a clear suicide. His face was covered in tears, so they thought he suicided in guilt.

The black liquid gave out a eerie atmosphere, so they decided not to touch it.

The weirdest thing was, that nobody knew who they were. Did they even exist in the first place? The case was closed down pretty quickly, ended as all suicide.

Some people around the scene said they heard cackles when they were around the black puddle. They tried to examine it, but the puddle evaporated right away when they touched it.

The people didn't have a clue about their tragic stories.

But it seemed like nobody did survive when they did the Sachiko Ever After charm. Even if they were in or out of Heavenly Host. They died soon either way.

END